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[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Guys - the fuckin monster is out. It doesn’t matter what the RNC wants, or Fox News corporate leadership, or soft, misshapen supervillains like Mitch McConnell and Ted Cruz. Your time is ending. There are MILLIONS of people who just want to take control and kill Democrats and anyone else in Washington who stands in their way. They have their own insane news networks and social media and their own organization and funding now, presumably a lot of it not from the US.

You can stand up in your little control center and give orders about what they’re supposed to be doing. Some of the ones who are aligned with you may even pay you some level of attention, but you can feel your relevance is diminishing. Soon enough, the movement will turn on you, too, in a very very real way, if you don’t get on board with it.

Like the man said: You called down the thunder, well now you got it.

[–] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 1 month ago

Trump's message is to get out of legal trouble and exact his revenge. Getting hit by a piece of glass will allow him to push a dangerous message. All the media companies will milk the speech.

[–] Rapidcreek@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

Oh good. They're going Full Dipshit.

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

I highly doubt that these folks won’t try to take advantage of the shooting at the convention.

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago
[–] ChihuahuaOfDoom@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

So they're trying to pretend it didn't happen?

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 5 points 1 month ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


MILWAUKEE — Speakers at the Republican National Convention have been given specific advice about how to handle their speeches in the wake of Saturday’s attempted assassination of Donald Trump: Change nothing.

Trump did not want to show signs of weakness or signal that the shooting affected the long-planned convention, according to seven people who are either set to give RNC speeches or their aides.

“Only thing that we were told is they are going to figure out who they want to talk about it,” said a scheduled speaker, Matt Brooks, the executive director of the Republican Jewish Coalition.

There was a sense, according to the people interviewed by NBC News, that Trump and the convention organizers did not want the appearance of being weak in the face of the assassination attempt.

NBC News reported Sunday that in the day since the assassination attempt, there has been renewed energy and a sense of enthusiasm among many Republicans attending the event.

“What was already going to be a significant moment of unification behind President Trump will now become the most unified and vocal support for a presidential nominee this nation has ever witnessed,” said Trump-endorsed Miami-Dade County Commissioner Kevin Cabrera.


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[–] kikutwo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

That's because nothing is going to change.