dawnnikol
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Post by dawnnikol on Jul 16, 2024 12:41:34 GMT
I cannot quickly find the post about the bandage on TFG ear. I would think it is hard for a bandage there. It may also have the larger coverage to avoid contact and/or germs. Nurses are commenting that the common types of ear dressing for his wound would've been more similar to one of the following:    |
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dawnnikol
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Post by dawnnikol on Jul 16, 2024 12:46:59 GMT
He was prolly too busy golfing (he was photographed). That video of him golfing was just uploaded that day but taken from another day apparently. Don't ask me about the timing of uploading that shit, but that's how the Senator from UT started his weird rant. |
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Post by pinklady on Jul 16, 2024 13:50:08 GMT
That Kotex was yet another con and guess what, the stupid people fell for it. The Kotex wasn’t needed earlier in the day just for show on TV.
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dawnnikol
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Post by dawnnikol on Jul 16, 2024 14:19:42 GMT
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Post by iamkristinl16 on Jul 16, 2024 18:15:16 GMT
So this is the first time he was aware of what an AR-15 is?? |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jul 16, 2024 18:25:27 GMT
Security had been ramped up on Saturday because there were credible threats coming out of Iran about a possible assassination of TFG.
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Post by Laurie on Jul 16, 2024 18:41:20 GMT
That seems on brand for Trump to only care about himself and not even care about his supporters. I understand that Trump is busy with the convention, but he couldn't take 15 minutes to call the widow of one of his supporters, shot at his rally? He probably will now in order to look good. I read yesterday morning that he would be attending the funeral. However, can't verify the accuracy. |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jul 16, 2024 18:44:08 GMT
He probably will now in order to look good. I read yesterday morning that he would be attending the funeral. However, can't verify the accuracy. Oh, how I wish he doesn't!!!! |
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dawnnikol
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Post by dawnnikol on Jul 16, 2024 18:58:02 GMT
So this is the first time he was aware of what an AR-15 is?? I mean, I hear it's a big gun? FFS. I'm trying to stick to just the facts about this shooting, but for him to say that?  |
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Post by mom on Jul 16, 2024 21:10:12 GMT
Security had been ramped up on Saturday because there were credible threats coming out of Iran about a possible assassination of TFG. Good Morning American interviewed the Secret Service Director and they are reporting ‘heavily armed law enforcement’ were actually in the building as the shooter was climbing up the side and on the roof. WTF |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jul 16, 2024 21:20:29 GMT
One of the local LE who popped his head over the edge saw the guy in the roof..
We will probably keep hearing things piece by piece for days/months...
Who knows, maybe years..
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jul 16, 2024 21:22:16 GMT
Smart..
The type of military-style rifle used in former President Donald Trump's assassination attempt over the weekend — and numerous other mass shootings — is being given away as a raffle prize at the Republican National Convention.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jul 16, 2024 21:25:56 GMT
Only the best.. Thomas Matthew Crooks as a likely MAGA supporter and among those who were avid hunters and enjoyed " gun-related lifestyle indicators." According to a report from the U.K.'s Channel 4, "The information was compiled as part of a secretive project aiming to identify millions of gun owners in America who could be targeted with pro-gun rights messages in the lead-up to the 2016 election campaign."Crooks was on the list, as were his family members, the report said. www.rawstory.com/trump-shooting-thomas-matthew-crooks/ |
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Post by breetheflea on Jul 16, 2024 22:15:17 GMT
Only the best.. Thomas Matthew Crooks as a likely MAGA supporter and among those who were avid hunters and enjoyed " gun-related lifestyle indicators." According to a report from the U.K.'s Channel 4, "The information was compiled as part of a secretive project aiming to identify millions of gun owners in America who could be targeted with pro-gun rights messages in the lead-up to the 2016 election campaign."Crooks was on the list, as were his family members, the report said. www.rawstory.com/trump-shooting-thomas-matthew-crooks/So if he supported MAGA why did he shoot Trump his bigly leader? Unless it was to get Trump even more attention (and he missed on purpose) or to start a civil war (if he killed him.) |
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Post by mom on Jul 16, 2024 22:16:17 GMT
Only the best.. Thomas Matthew Crooks as a likely MAGA supporter and among those who were avid hunters and enjoyed " gun-related lifestyle indicators." According to a report from the U.K.'s Channel 4, "The information was compiled as part of a secretive project aiming to identify millions of gun owners in America who could be targeted with pro-gun rights messages in the lead-up to the 2016 election campaign."Crooks was on the list, as were his family members, the report said. www.rawstory.com/trump-shooting-thomas-matthew-crooks/I mean, so am I probably and the husbands of many Peas. But Im not going to shoot at anyone. |
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Post by mom on Jul 16, 2024 22:17:04 GMT
Only the best.. Thomas Matthew Crooks as a likely MAGA supporter and among those who were avid hunters and enjoyed " gun-related lifestyle indicators." According to a report from the U.K.'s Channel 4, "The information was compiled as part of a secretive project aiming to identify millions of gun owners in America who could be targeted with pro-gun rights messages in the lead-up to the 2016 election campaign."Crooks was on the list, as were his family members, the report said. www.rawstory.com/trump-shooting-thomas-matthew-crooks/So if he supported MAGA why did he shoot Trump his bigly leader? Unless it was to get Trump even more attention (and he missed on purpose) or to start a civil war (if he killed him.) I've seen some videos online and doubt very seriously he actually supported Trump, especially in the last few years of his life. |
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Post by Merge on Jul 16, 2024 22:24:17 GMT
So if he supported MAGA why did he shoot Trump his bigly leader? Unless it was to get Trump even more attention (and he missed on purpose) or to start a civil war (if he killed him.) I've seen some videos online and doubt very seriously he actually supported Trump, especially in the last few years of his life. Perhaps he considered Trump not far enough right? |
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Post by mom on Jul 16, 2024 22:27:45 GMT
I've seen some videos online and doubt very seriously he actually supported Trump, especially in the last few years of his life. Perhaps he considered Trump not far enough right? No, the videos I saw last (I will look and see if I can find them again) were very much pro-Biden and anti Republican/Conservative/Trump. |
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Post by mom on Jul 16, 2024 22:37:44 GMT
Ive got CNN on, and they are reporting that the shooter was initially flagged as suspicious when he went to thru the gun screening machine -- he did not have a gun but he did have a rangefinder (a tool that is used by hunters that measure distance).
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Post by iamkristinl16 on Jul 16, 2024 22:46:57 GMT
Only the best.. Thomas Matthew Crooks as a likely MAGA supporter and among those who were avid hunters and enjoyed " gun-related lifestyle indicators." According to a report from the U.K.'s Channel 4, "The information was compiled as part of a secretive project aiming to identify millions of gun owners in America who could be targeted with pro-gun rights messages in the lead-up to the 2016 election campaign."Crooks was on the list, as were his family members, the report said. www.rawstory.com/trump-shooting-thomas-matthew-crooks/Wouldn’t he have only been about 12 years old then? |
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Post by aj2hall on Jul 16, 2024 22:58:00 GMT
I think it's still too early to draw conclusions about the shooter's politics. There's conflicting information. This journalist makes a really good point that more important than his politics might be social isolation and possibly, an angry young man. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/16/opinion/trump-shooter-radicalization-men.htmlThe would-be assassin, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, is something of a cipher, leaving little trail online. When he was 17, he made a $15 donation to the Progressive Turnout Project, which as Ryan Grim reports, is “one of those spammy PACs that carpet bombs your inbox, delivering emails with splashy colors and wild fonts and using every trick in the book to convince people to give small amounts of money.” But when he was 18, Crooks registered as a Republican, and according to The Philadelphia Inquirer, his classmates remember him as right-leaning. “The majority of the class were on the liberal side, but Tom, no matter what, always stood his ground on the conservative side,” a student in his American history class told The Inquirer.
The reporting that has emerged so far describes him as an outcast, not an activist. A classmate told CBS News that he was bullied relentlessly. Another told The Wall Street Journal, “People would say he was the student who would shoot up high school.” He appears to have had a passion for gun culture; he reportedly wore camouflage or hunting gear to school and wanted to join the rifle team, though he was rejected as a bad shot. He joined a local gun club, and when he was killed on Saturday, he was wearing a T-shirt for Demolition Ranch, a gun-nut YouTube channel.
The rise of post-ideological terror is clearly a political issue, stemming from social isolation, hopelessness and anomie among young men, coupled with the easy availability of guns. But it’s an issue that our politics is proving wholly unable to reckon with. In her new book “Black Pill,” the journalist Elle Reeve described the miserable men who congregate in the darkest corners of the internet, talking themselves and one another into apocalyptic action. Some men just want to watch the world burn.
We don’t yet know if Crooks was one of these men. But so far, the absence of a clear rationale for his hideous and history-making act has been uncanny, and Ware’s framework offers a way to understand this disturbing lacuna. There’s certainly no indication, as of this writing, that Crooks’s motives can be slotted into our partisan battles. It’s a truism, by now, that widespread American entropy and despair led to Trump’s rise. Those same forces may have incubated the failed man who tried to make him a martyr.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jul 16, 2024 23:03:33 GMT
And Democrats are accused not being fair, not trying to make things better. But the Firefighter's wife won't speak to the President because her deceased Republican husband would not want her too. Tell me how she speaks to her neighbors and those she meets elsewhere? Or maybe she doesn't? How are we supposed to get along? She admits she has no ill will toward Biden. Presiden Joe Biden tried to call the family of the man who was killed by a would-be presidential assassin’s bullets at a rally for former president Donald Trump, but the wife of the Pennsylvania man won’t take the call of compassion from the nation’s leader.“I didn’t talk to Biden. I didn’t want to talk to him,” Helen Comperatore told the New York Post. “My husband was a devout Republican and he would not have wanted me to talk to him.”She added: “I don’t have any ill-will towards Joe Biden. I’m not one of those people that gets involved in politics. I support Trump, that’s who I’m voting for but I don’t have ill-will towards Biden. “He didn’t do anything to my husband. A 20-year-old despicable kid did.” www.nj.com/politics/2024/07/trump-hasnt-even-called-but-wife-of-man-killed-at-trump-rally-wont-take-bidens-call-heres-why.html |
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Post by peabay on Jul 16, 2024 23:08:03 GMT
And Democrats are accused not being fair, not trying to make things better. But the Firefighter's wife won't speak to the President because her deceased Republican husband would not want her too. Tell me how she speaks to her neighbors and those she meets elsewhere? Or maybe she doesn't? How are we supposed to get along? She admits she has no ill will toward Biden. Presiden Joe Biden tried to call the family of the man who was killed by a would-be presidential assassin’s bullets at a rally for former president Donald Trump, but the wife of the Pennsylvania man won’t take the call of compassion from the nation’s leader.“I didn’t talk to Biden. I didn’t want to talk to him,” Helen Comperatore told the New York Post. “My husband was a devout Republican and he would not have wanted me to talk to him.”She added: “I don’t have any ill-will towards Joe Biden. I’m not one of those people that gets involved in politics. I support Trump, that’s who I’m voting for but I don’t have ill-will towards Biden. “He didn’t do anything to my husband. A 20-year-old despicable kid did.” www.nj.com/politics/2024/07/trump-hasnt-even-called-but-wife-of-man-killed-at-trump-rally-wont-take-bidens-call-heres-why.htmlI'll be honest: I'd have said the same thing about Trump if something had happened to my someone in my family during his Presidency and he tried to call me. I wouldn't have wanted to speak with him. And I wouldn't have. |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jul 16, 2024 23:22:16 GMT
There is a difference. She said she has NO ILL WILL toward Biden. She is putting the blame on her DH,.
She used party affiliation to say no. Not that Biden was a bad person, not honorable or any such thing. But Ok can't talk to the other party because they are the other party. TFG divide will never go away until we talk.
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Post by mom on Jul 16, 2024 23:32:44 GMT
There is a difference. She said she has NO ILL WILL toward Biden. She is putting the blame on her DH,. She used party affiliation to say no. Not that Biden was a bad person, not honorable or any such thing. But Ok can't talk to the other party because they are the other party. TFG divide will never go away until we talk.While in theory I agree. But I think, in this case, she is saying her DH would not want her to talk and she is honoring that. And honestly, Im not sure that the day after my husband dying I would feel up to make any decision myself on the issue. Maybe she will want to talk later when emotions aren't so high? I dont know. But I can't blame her if the loyalty she feels towards her husband is higher than her need to to talk the other party and prevent division. If the roles were reversed, and Trump called my DH to talk about my death, my DH would not take his call. He wouldn't take Biden's call either --- he knows I dislike both of them and I am sure his loyalty to me would override any need for unity the day after my death. |
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Post by onelasttime on Jul 17, 2024 0:03:36 GMT
And Democrats are accused not being fair, not trying to make things better. But the Firefighter's wife won't speak to the President because her deceased Republican husband would not want her too. Tell me how she speaks to her neighbors and those she meets elsewhere? Or maybe she doesn't? How are we supposed to get along? She admits she has no ill will toward Biden. Presiden Joe Biden tried to call the family of the man who was killed by a would-be presidential assassin’s bullets at a rally for former president Donald Trump, but the wife of the Pennsylvania man won’t take the call of compassion from the nation’s leader.“I didn’t talk to Biden. I didn’t want to talk to him,” Helen Comperatore told the New York Post. “My husband was a devout Republican and he would not have wanted me to talk to him.”She added: “I don’t have any ill-will towards Joe Biden. I’m not one of those people that gets involved in politics. I support Trump, that’s who I’m voting for but I don’t have ill-will towards Biden. “He didn’t do anything to my husband. A 20-year-old despicable kid did.” www.nj.com/politics/2024/07/trump-hasnt-even-called-but-wife-of-man-killed-at-trump-rally-wont-take-bidens-call-heres-why.htmlThis woman was rude not to accept the call. She embodies the current Republican Party. Having said that I wouldn’t take a call from trump for the simple reason he does not respect the American People and he never has. He’s in it for what he can get personally. However if a Republican President like “W” or Bush Sr. called even though I disagree with them on ideology I would appreciate the fact the President of the United States called to offer their condolences. IMO people need to stop thinking they can equally compare trump to the current president or any of our past presidents. Yiu can’t as he is in a class of his own. |
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Post by cmpeter on Jul 17, 2024 2:10:57 GMT
Her husband was just murdered in front of her and her child...I'll cut her some slack.
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Post by pantsonfire on Jul 17, 2024 2:17:39 GMT
Her husband was just murdered in front of her and her child...I'll cut her some slack. Seriously. I sure as heck wouldn't want to talk to anyone I wasn't close with. They witnessed their husband/dad die. |
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Post by iamkristinl16 on Jul 17, 2024 2:34:55 GMT
I thought it was a little telling that she said her husband wouldn’t have wanted her t talk to Biden, but I did appreciate that she said she held nothing against him and didn’t blame him at all.
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Post by peasquared on Jul 17, 2024 2:55:28 GMT
I like that she admitted Trump hadn't called.
I guess we would never have to make the decision to talk to Trump or not. He wouldn't even call in the first place.
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