He’s right. Violence like this will only beget more violence. We need to be clear on our side that we don’t endorse anything of the kind.

So absurd. It’s always the right championing things like insurrections, coups, civil wars, imprisoning/murdering their political opponents, etc.

Well, when the tone police pipe up with their “but tha both sides [democratic] rhetoric!” - Democrats need to tell them that: yeah, the Republicans need to stop whipping up so much violence.

Pro. Jection.

LOL, all of these are dopey, but CRT?

How is that not something that a lot more people know? That’s nuts.

I’m not sure who this illusion of security and safety existed for prior to this? I’m Gen X - but the hangover of all the assassinations that came before my time lived on, even before the attempt on Ronnie Raygun. John Lennon was shot dead. Bud Dwyer committed suicide on live television. There were pre-Columbine school shootings of course, but that one really made an impression on Gen X and millennials for sure (to the point that earlier ones almost seem to have been memory-holed). Then there was 9/11 and it seemed like everything and everyone was a potential target - and in some cases, that was literal (Beltway sniper).

And for a few decades now, kids are run through drills to prepare for an active shooter on the grounds of their schools.

There are times when I’m at a major public event, or just shopping at a big box store, or a convenience store, or even just driving around…and wonder about the possibility of an active shooter. And I bet I’m not the only one. I don’t let it consume me…but thoughts arise.

The stuff I mentioned above covers things that happened at impressionable ages for every generation from Boomer down to Alpha, and any Greatest Generation still alive also have watched all this and it’s not like they are impervious to it. So I’m not sure who is living in this comfortable bubble…

Yes, this. Virtually everyone condemns this and shooting at a (Republican) candidate has zero systemic support. Meanwhile, the right still has not stopped gaslighting about, lying for, and outright supporting the insurrectionists (and the related coup attempt).

Keep in mind, this was something put up on New York Post very shortly after, so…in addition to being the New York Post, it’s also one of those cases where early information is wildly incorrect.

Careful not to point out anything about Elon Musk and how supporting him is supporting things like donnie and Project 2025, lest you be accused of being in some kind of “bubble”, LOL.

(Apparently I hit a nerve the other day. :) )

It’s not well-supported, but: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strauss–Howe_generational_theory

Yeah, I see that all the time for people that don’t even have to think about being targets - read: xtian white cishet males that are cons…this was someone that would definitely be in the crosshairs of the Project 2025 types. Repeating Bullshit Mountain style propaganda about “the economy”.

The economy won’t mean shit if you are a political prisoner or made a second class citizen…or even worse.

TBF, an earlier version of a New York Post story mentioned it was thought to be a BB gun, so…

Could chalk it up to just a bunch of RWA (right wing authoritarians) being scared of how Daddy might react to being told no.

Who knows. Someone that would take it upon themselves to do something like this could have all kinds of flawed thought processes, as well as mental illness.

I mean, the Republicans have a habit of constantly casting each other out for various forms of apostasy, real or imagined, and declaring the apostate a “RINO”. With the way they talk about non-Republicans, that unperson is then a lower lifeform not worthy of empathy…if that’s the kind of thing that led to this, it wouldn’t be that surprising, I guess. I mean, look at how they view Liz Cheney. Liz. Cheney.

This is the dumbass that thinks he’s owed advertising dollars. Another donnie-level good-at-bidness guy, clearly.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/elon-musk-threatens-to-sue-major-companies-over-advertising-boycott-racket-targeting-right-leaning-media/ar-BB1pOCGq

Did Elon mean to say he’s fully engorged after this?

Exactly right.

When he yells “fight”, what does he mean to fight for? Fight against freedom? I wonder the same thing when it comes to Qbert and Empty-G. Fight? What are they fighting for, exactly? More tax cuts for billionaires? More special privileges for xtians?

I was told today that someone we know is going to vote for donnie - because “economy”. What. The. Actual. Fuck. They said that the economy was better under donnie. I just can’t even. And this is someone that will be a target under fascist rule.

It is incredible that such an act can take place in our Country.

Is it though? There have already been 290 mass shootings in this country this year, so far. And this shooting does not even count among them.