Everyone ejaculated?
The first and perhaps only time when I find myself relating to a politician.
Look, once I was at the mall grabbing food at the food court while my wife grabbed a table with our two kids. As I was heading to the table a crowd of people started running toward the food court screaming that there was a shooter (this was not too long after Parkland, which happened to be kind of close to the mall I was at). Huge mass of people diving under tables and all that. And I legit had the thought “what do I do with this Chick-fil-A? Do I drop it? Do I hide with it?” I mean it was expensive. And we’re still hungry…
Anyway, I got to the table where my wife had the kids underneath and by then everything was quiet and I guess someone dropped something at a store, people were jumpy and thought it was a gun shot and the whole thing spiraled from there. Once everyone realized that there was no shooter, we all just… sat down and ate. It was weird. The USA is weird.
Hooray freedom!
Survive enough mass shootings and you too will be desensitized.
So I was at the correspondence dinner eating lobster bisque and yada yada yada, then we had to go home.
“I said this risotto is to die for. Did I stutter?”
May have had prewarning
No point in being afraid for your life AND hungry. Best fix what you can
Weirdly relate to Kash Patel’s girlfriend who stopped to grab a couple of bottles of champagne and wine before evacuating. I’d do the same. If the world’s on fire, might as well dance before the flames.
Holy shit how did Sanders get so frostbitten? He needs medical attention!
I RAN would’ve been enough
Oh is funny because dumpy can’t run!
- fouad
I’ve seen the videos, I didn’t hear gunshots.
That’s the thing. There weren’t gunshots. This was staged as fuck by dumpy to try to rescue some approval ratings. Fake as shit.
The sad thing is, the magats will eat this shit up
I don’t know why people think this is indicative of a conspiracy lol. I know people that would get their money’s worth in the middle of a warzone lol.
Lmao yeah staged or not, absolutely this. If he’s some foreign correspondent those people don’t even flinch at accurate artillery fire. Nothing but respect for war journalists, they’re some hard mother fuckers.
I’ll be honest if I were him I’d be like “don’t worry the guards’ll get him” unless he was in the room. There’s no way he was getting anywhere with that plan. Besides I’m probably not the target, if he does get by them I’ll hit him with a “he went that-a-way” and slurp, honestly 70/30 I’ll be fine.
When there’s that many people in a room you have good odds that someone will be in the way in front of you.
Nah he’ll be shuffling off somewhere surrounded by 6 armed guards, actually running for the exit with him probably puts you in closer proximity.
We don’t really know his target tho, because he was so easily caught. What if he wanted to kill the journalists right in front of his hero Trump as a tribute or something.
His alleged manifesto specifies his targets in order of highest to lowest priority (Trump being highest, then Vance, and other high ranking official excluding Kash) and the guests were non-targets but if they got killed in the crossfire it wasn’t a big deal since they’d go to dinner with a pedo-rapist-murderer.
Yeah sure lol, that’s more probable. Gonna go with Occam on this one.
I’d say that was reasonable. If you heard a lot more gunshots go off, and they seem to be slowly getting louder, then maybe worry… but that’s sitting here in my comfortable chair a long ways away from any gunshots…
Polymarket.
Sorry, I thought you said calzone.
the No Cal Calzone Zone
50 Cal zone
Can you fit NorCal and Locale in there too somehow?
The Charlie Kirk assassination was staged because people didn’t hesitate before grabbing the bloodied merch, despite, ya know, the assassination.
Nah, that’s just typical consumerism you expect in the US.
People’s brains are so fried in this country, especially conservatives, it was probably just a lot of dumb assholes who thought “oh if I have a shirt with blood from the assassination it’ll be worth millions in a few years!”
its because it was staged asf, as some of the reddit sub discussed, the failure of the iran war and the epstein files really has trump grasping at straws.
plus karoline leavitt low-key said something about a shooting happening a few hours earlier.
this like 3rd staged attempt, 1st it was alleged assasination, followed by another attempt, and then this.
Yeah so much of this seems so weird. The USSS response compared to similar incidents with other presidents seemed so odd - they secured the VP first and that staged af picture of them in a very non-tactical stack in the lobby/hallway? The fact the shooter even got past a single layer of security with a shotgun?? And apparently was some kind of IDF supporter, has anyone confirmed that picture?
If it is staged, I wonder what genius thought to do this in a room literally filled with the world’s leading investigative journalists and reporters lmao.
and this is like the 3rd attempt already, with almost no follow up or investigation, plus trump had a press conference immediately after.
Nah.
Things are definitely going to get interesting in the coming months and a false flag operation is absolutely on the table
However, I don’t think they would bother with something this pathetic at this time. They weren’t even shooting at the pres this time. This isn’t going to rate a blip and no one will remember it when they go to vote in the mid terms.
Think more like the 9/11 attacks but with less regard for human life, human suffering, and something that will stoke hatred for years and decades. For example, a dirty bomb in California.
Edit: Sorry I’ve changed my mind. Earlier I was thinking the motivation would be Trump’s popularity generally. However, if the motivation is to build the ballroom then that changes things significantly. It seems likely that this was staged to substantiate a claim that the ballroom is required for security reasons.
It’s to justify the building of the ballroom that they now “need” to keep everyone safe.
“What happened last night is exactly the reason that our great Military, Secret Service, Law Enforcement and, for different reasons, every President for the last 150 years, have been DEMANDING that a large, safe, and secure Ballroom be built…
This would never have happened in my planned Militarily Top Secret Ballroom”
djt
its because it was staged asf, as some of the reddit sub discussed
well if some reddit sub discussed that, then it is obviously true… 🤦♂️ 😂
She said in the speech Trump was about to have there would be “shots fired” not like literal gun shots lol
“I’m here to mock presidents and eat food. And we’re all out of presidents to mock, because he ran away.”
Edit: typo fix
Me at the wedding, harvesting drink tickets while everyone else goes and watches the sunset or some shit
There are videos of people stealing bottles of champagne and wine while this was happening too. Grifters gotta grift.
Just like the guy who raided Kirk’s merch booth seconds after he was shot 🤣
That person was honoring Kirk’s memory and dedication to the grift.
Any context on this?
EDIT: Oh, I’m guessing this: https://highfrequencydispatch.com/high-frequency-truck-dispatch/trump-rushed-away-from-white-house-correspondents-dinner/
If that really is the context then I fully understand why those two didn’t give a damn.
you couldn’t find more obscure blog to link to?
Feel free to provide another source if you like.
i can do that, but that doesn’t make your choice any less strange…
It was in the feed directly after this story.
i have no idea what “feed” you are talking about, but if this is honest, non-trolling response, then you should learn to pick your sources better.
not all news sources are created equal. some employ professional journalists who collect and verify news before publishing them, ensuring to a reasonable degree that what you read is true, and some are… high frequency dispatch dot com, whatever the fuck that is.
You should be able to figure out what feed I’m referring to in context. I’m on lemmy. It’s obviously the lemmy feed.
And what’s described is a major news event that there are dozens of high quality sources for. I just threw something up to answer my own question about what even this post was referring to.
Despite pontificating about sources, you’re demonstrating extremely poor critical thinking and source consideration. The first step of research is figuring out just what level of scrutiny is required. This was a throwaway line to quickly answer a throwaway question, and you’re going down some weird rabbit hole demanding other sources when quick googling could find any number of sources.
Try to use better information practices. It’s poor form to be demanding additional sources when casual sources suffice for a casual problem. If you want something deeper, you are more than capable of finding it.
you’re demonstrating extremely poor critical thinking and source consideration.
i do appreciate the lecture on source consideration from a person linking to some totally obscure blog instead of reliable news source… i definitely wasn’t ready for “no, you” strategy, so you at least have point for originality 😆
From context it just sounds like they were saying that a post with that link followed immediately after this one in their lemmy feed. Coming off unnecessarily aggressive.
post with that link followed immediately after this one in their lemmy feed
again, that has zero effect on relevance or trustworthiness of the source.
Coming off unnecessarily aggressive.
and here i am thinking i am quite patient and clarifying. 🤷♂️ we live drowning in a sea of misinformation, and when someone gives a source so obscure it doesn’t even have record in the mediabiasfactcheck.com, for the event that was covered by every reliable news source, it is important to ask why. “i just copied it from somewhere” does not really cut it.
