kandoh

No, I think that's an accurate description

Sure thing buddy 👍

1. I'm not American.

2. You don't need to be under the US' sphere of influence to exploit current US events for your own political purposes.

3. US media is shown around the whole world, events inside the country are world news. People on every continent are aware that Trump was almost shot.

But fine. Let me pull specific example countries from all over the world (emphasis yours) that I was thinking of:

South America: Argentina with Milei

Europe: Netherlands with Wilders

North America: Canada with PP

Africa: The west African nations moving under Russian influence

Asia: Philippines with Marcos, India with Modi

Let me know if you've never heard of any of the countries or politicians and I will go into more detail about them to educate you, my dear friend.

He didn't need to, which I think is worse. I would rather live in the timeline where Trump had to coup than the timeline where he won 49 states for reelection.

Considering how many different law enforcement agencies are in the US, who don't have comms with one another, yeah

Pretty embarrassing for the secret service. This plus all their other fuckups and shenanigans these past 12 years should lead to some serious reforms.

My main worry is individual rightwingers taking revenge on students/immigrants/queers with a mass shooting.

Other worries:

I'm seeing people in Israel say that the anti-Netanyahu protests there are now 'encourging assassination attempts'. This will lead to a crackdown on any protests all over the world.

The democrats will now roll over and go extremely passive or try to downplay how bad Trump is.

The media refusing to criticize Trump at all from now on.

I would say things were worse under Nixon, Reagan, and Bush only because the majority of the population was onboard with their authoritarianism. In those days we had the beginning of the war on drugs, mass incarcerations, US backed death squads, flooding the cities with crack, trading arms for hostages, torture, begging of forever wars...

The population has become significantly more leftwing over the last 20 years. Even if Trump gains power again, our numbers are large enough that everything they want to do will be a brutal fight against the majority

I don't think what Wraithgear is suggesting is so far out of the realm of possibility that it deserved the 'genius theory' derision.

It's only going to get worse

The right has been very demotivated and nowhere near as enthusiastic as they were in 2016 - 2020. I fully expected a low turn out for conservatives this November.

This is incredible juice in their veins. They were gleefull watching Biden humiliate himself before the entire planet, but this will be in another level. Enough of them may turn out that Trump will be the first republican president to win the popular vote in two decades.

I'm seeing that the shooter was on a rooftop, not in the crowd. Kinda chaos right now so that info may change.