• Passerby6497@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Trump getting shot is the literal high point of his campaign. There will not be another event that had so much potential to turn his campaign around. If that demented diaper shitting fucknugget can’t even get a sympathetic bump from getting a ballistic ear piercing, his campaign is doomed. Especially since his rhetoric change didn’t last 20 minutes.

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      The weakest point of the Trump campaign is Trump himself. He’s a known quantity, and given the biggest shake-up in the last 40 years of presidential campaigns, he wasn’t able to keep up the “unity” facade for a single speech. Just a poor and certainly beatable politician.

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      I don’t think anyone honestly believes he was shot.

      His ear would be fucking gone.

      He got it scratched and as unhealthy and old as he is, he has to be on blood thinners. A small scratch blleds like crazy, and the majority of his voters are probably on blood thinners so they know

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            3 months ago

            I’m aware of that Rule but in this case there’s actual research showing that this is disinformation being intentionally pushed by known bad actors.

            I’ll remove the offending 2nd sentence but it doesn’t change anything.

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            3 months ago

            Downvoted for referencing the community rules? This community is fucked. Truly fucked. I’ve already unsubscribed, but this is forcing my hand to outright block this shit hole.

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        This is just nitpicking. Being barely grazed still falls under the overarching umbrella of “gunshot wound”, even if it doesn’t conjure the same mental image as we’d normally have.

        If a soldier on a battlefield gets barely nicked and goes “I think I got shot!” nobody is going to argue about the details.

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        3 months ago

        I thought it was confirmed he was only grazed by a glass shard from a teleprompter, not the actual bullet?