• TemutheeChallahmet [none/use name]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      85
      ·
      edit-2
      5 months ago

      The smart thing Democrats won’t do now is only ever mention that the shooter was a Republican in unison on every media appearance and have their framing be that Trump’s rhetoric is so dangerous it’s even hurting him. Dems are too scared of doing things like this that actually work and would force the GOP to exhaust their resources trying to counter message on an issue unrelated to actual governing.

      • VILenin [he/him]@hexbear.net
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        54
        ·
        5 months ago

        Biden has already pulled his ads temporarily, and all the dems that had spent the past 8 years warning that Trump would be the second coming of Hitler who would hang minorities from lampposts are now wishing him a speedy recovery.

        When the next debate starts Biden will probably kneel before him and beg for forgiveness for being too mean to him and inciting violence or whatever.

        • TemutheeChallahmet [none/use name]@hexbear.net
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          23
          ·
          edit-2
          5 months ago

          Yep, it’s old people and people who live in a sheltered world where politics is eternally nice and civil, all the way down. They may consciously be aware Trump is a unique threat, but are fixedly averse to straying from the rulebook of playing nice.

      • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        19
        ·
        5 months ago

        Yup, instead the Republicans will accuse Democrats of promoting violence by fear mongering about Trump and Project 2025. Democrats will of course do nothing to fight those accusations and instead just meekly agree to stop talking about fascism.

      • Evilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        18
        ·
        5 months ago

        He was a registered Republican but he made a $15 donation to Turnout PAC via Act Blue. Ixve seen a lot of articles ig irr he was a registered Republican and focus on the massive $15 windfall he did to turnoutpac.

        That said what is not said ANYWHERE is once you’ve given a single penny ANYWHERE that’s DNC Actblue connected - you get non stop text spams fear mongering how much of an existential threat Trump is to the existence of reality. What that does to an impressionable young doomer man looking down a future knowing his life is going to be worse off in nearly every metric while constantly harassing them.

        Litterally writing into law that these doom and stochastic terror moneybeg spams can not be blocked and exempt from the Do Not Call lists.

        • Philosoraptor [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          16
          ·
          5 months ago

          The donation was on Biden’s inauguration day, and also came from a different zip code than the shooter. Even if it wasn’t a different guy with the same name, I think the speculation that it was a lost bet is a pretty good guess. He registered as a Republican less than a year later, and who donates on inauguration day?