@nberlat.bsky.social that partisan divide has come about because the rank and file of the Democratic Party is so strongly opposed to continued support of genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon. Pressure on the Democrats is not misguided; it is the only thing that has worked.
@mpjgregoire a nonsensical comparison
this is just a lie. Ds in senate just voted 40 to 7 to restrict aid to Israel. For the first time basically ever, there is a visible, stark partisan divide on Israel.
Erasing that doesn't help Palestinians. It does help anti-establishment grifters like Cenk Uygur though.
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@evan lol
Regardless, I find it hard to say that this event was "staged" in any meaningful way. I'm a No, but I haven't read the report so I don't have good grasp of the details.
I think it's also fair to say that there are some very dumb and very evil people in Trump's orbit. Maybe somebody thought it was a good idea, took the initiative, and didn't circulate a group memo? Again, I would not put it past them.
I think it's more likely, at least logically, that some other entity tried to organize an assassination, tried to make it look like a lone gunman scenario, and it failed. Goldfish Fanciers, Gnomes of Zurich, SMOF, some other group makes more sense than the people on the same stage with Trump, with guns pointed in their own direction.
@dyckron We don't force a dermatologist to treat back injuries, and we shouldn't force hospitals established on religious principles to provide services contrary to those principles.
I have not been involved in faking an assassination attempt, but it seems very hard to do well. If one of my staff suggested recruiting a depressed young man to try to murder me, and miss by just a little bit, I would probably ask to go around the room one more time for safer campaign ideas.
I will say that if the Trump campaign faked an assassination attempt which resulted in 2 deaths and a half dozen injuries for political gain, it would definitely be in the top 50 worst things Trump has done; maybe even top 20. But I don't think it's unfair to even bring up the question.