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'Trump rushed from White House correspondents' dinner after suspected gunshots heard'

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mumofoneAloneandwell · Yesterday 01:52

Surely he's not pulling this trick again?

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mumofoneAloneandwell · Yesterday 14:28
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Fair play to you @RingoJuice

You sure are... tenacious... in your support of the orange man

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LiviaDrusillaAugusta · Yesterday 14:33

dottiehens · Yesterday 14:27

Ridiculous! Why do people criticise MAGA types is they are on board with similar conspiracy theories?

It’s only a conspiracy theory if it has no basis.

Believe what you like, if it really happened then it’s quite a series of events.

And Trump is an unhinged motherfucker - it’s hard to discount anything when it comes to him

LiviaDrusillaAugusta · Yesterday 14:38

And it’s certainly easier to believe than people ‘spontaneously’ deciding to wreck the Capitol and that the vote was rigged.

Tinytimmy123 · Yesterday 15:02

juldan · Yesterday 14:01

@RingoJuice

What are you on about? The shooter is American so what does he have to do with immigrants being free to leave and “leftist enabling their worst elements?”

Ringojuice has been carping on about the threat from the gun totting left when Kirk and trumps shooters ( present one i have no idea) have all been maga. Not one tweet about the ear clipper. She fears for her own existence its so bad....while living elsewhere...China, likely the middle east and the UK by the sound of things...while simultaneously belittling immigrants who dont speaky de lingo in the USA...im sure she is fluent in Chinese and Arabic.

Then there is her insistence we butt out of having an opinion on trump because we're from europe, while this American is tenaciously populating a UK based website pontificating about how the UK needs to be improved and advocating for the antifree speech administration, that currently has one pedo, 2 alcoholics, a far right loon, and a supposed christian spokeswoman as their front line...rubio doesnt count because he cant fill trumps shoes...literally. The UK may have many issues and not have the money or the army of the US but it appears to have developed a harder line when it comes to having a pdfile for an elected leader.

TessSaysYes · Yesterday 15:04

And when will Americans learn to shoot straight. All those hours on Call of Duty for nothing!🤣

JustSawJohnny · Yesterday 15:11

'Lucky', isn't he?

The ear-grazing bullet caught him huge sympathy and additional votes in the run up to the election.

Republicans are down in the midterms and Oh look! Another near miss!

Interesting that the meal just carried on after the supposed attempt in his life.

I'm not buying it.

EasternStandard · Yesterday 15:17

LiviaDrusillaAugusta · Yesterday 14:33

It’s only a conspiracy theory if it has no basis.

Believe what you like, if it really happened then it’s quite a series of events.

And Trump is an unhinged motherfucker - it’s hard to discount anything when it comes to him

Why would the profile of the person who did it be part of a staged event? And the other person too who got shot.

juldan · Yesterday 15:17

Tinytimmy123 · Yesterday 15:02

Ringojuice has been carping on about the threat from the gun totting left when Kirk and trumps shooters ( present one i have no idea) have all been maga. Not one tweet about the ear clipper. She fears for her own existence its so bad....while living elsewhere...China, likely the middle east and the UK by the sound of things...while simultaneously belittling immigrants who dont speaky de lingo in the USA...im sure she is fluent in Chinese and Arabic.

Then there is her insistence we butt out of having an opinion on trump because we're from europe, while this American is tenaciously populating a UK based website pontificating about how the UK needs to be improved and advocating for the antifree speech administration, that currently has one pedo, 2 alcoholics, a far right loon, and a supposed christian spokeswoman as their front line...rubio doesnt count because he cant fill trumps shoes...literally. The UK may have many issues and not have the money or the army of the US but it appears to have developed a harder line when it comes to having a pdfile for an elected leader.

I agree. Funnily enough I don’t remember having 100+ consecutive threads about Biden’s presidency. People might have created an odd thread about him being sleepy or disoriented, but mostly we left American politics to Americans as it did not affect our lives so much.
This shitshow is affecting negatively people all around the world so not sure why Ringojuice is surprised that we have an opinion on that.

Puzzledandpissedoff · Yesterday 15:17

fabstraction · Yesterday 03:41

Some of the worst of MN on display...

Ain't that the truth Sad

And no I can't stand the man either, but I don't express hope that he'll be killed and if this concerned anyone else the thread would almost certainly have been pulled. Looks like the mods are okay with calls for murder as long as it's someone disliked, which seems a shame

ElenOfTheWays · Yesterday 15:22

PomplaMouse · Yesterday 06:15

Were you saying similar when Trump had Iran's head of state assasinated a few weeks back?

Wrong post quoted

ElenOfTheWays · Yesterday 15:25

Wearenotborg · Yesterday 06:16

Stormtrooper school of shooting innit?

Except Trump is more Darth Vader than Luke Skywalker

maftaz · Yesterday 15:28

I'd be happy enough if he was taken out..... by his own party supporters, by Congress, by the Senate, you know - by the normal democratic means of ousting a tyrannical, mad, dictatorial Leader. Why that's not happening is beyond me quite frankly. No one has to die or be killed in the process.

Aluna · Yesterday 15:33

ElenOfTheWays · Yesterday 15:25

Except Trump is more Darth Vader than Luke Skywalker

Darth Vader has a dark gravitas. Trump is more like Basil Brush.

TemperanceWest · Yesterday 15:39

Aluna · Yesterday 15:33

Darth Vader has a dark gravitas. Trump is more like Basil Brush.

What a terrible thing to say. Poor Basil 🦊.

Tinytimmy123 · Yesterday 16:05

Puzzledandpissedoff · Yesterday 15:17

Ain't that the truth Sad

And no I can't stand the man either, but I don't express hope that he'll be killed and if this concerned anyone else the thread would almost certainly have been pulled. Looks like the mods are okay with calls for murder as long as it's someone disliked, which seems a shame

I havent called for anyone to be killed. Unlike trump who seems to encourage it, endorse it and gloat on it when it happens.

Would I be sorry if he died, yes, because he would have evaded real justice for all the evil he has injected into this world. If I had a wish it would be that the name trump would go down in perpetuity as a sullied name that no-one would want to be aligned with ( akin to the German dictator) because he and his family( kushners included) have filled their pockets, and continue to do so, on the back of abused women and children, cancer stricken children, the disadvantaged, the sick and needy just so they can have generational wealth.

Will I be glad when he is no longer here? Absolutely! But my greatest hope is that he gets his just desserts before he leaves this world. He deserves no respect of any kind and although those sycophants around him are trying to hide underneath his skirts, they are as sullied and have the same blood on their hands as him.

As for finding humour in the likely fake Butler episode, the golf course man and now this ...he is the maker of his own narrative....why else would the consensus immediately ( i was awake and saw it all roll in) assume/conclude its a bs assassination attempt. No-one did it for Kennedy, Reagan, Pope John Paul the second......just trump.

RingoJuice · Yesterday 16:10

Ringojuice has been carping on about the threat from the gun totting left when Kirk and trumps shooters ( present one i have no idea) have all been maga

These are vile lies. We know Crook donated to leftist organizations and we also know a lot more about Kirk’s shooter, who is a hicklib if I ever saw one.

Funny you celebrate a man being shot at, or wish for a good leftie assassin,

… but oh no, jk we didn’t do it. LOL.

Not one tweet about the ear clipper. She fears for her own existence its so bad....while living elsewhere...China, likely the middle east and the UK by the sound of things...while simultaneously belittling immigrants who dont speaky de lingo in the USA...im sure she is fluent in Chinese and Arabic

I actually am fluent in Chinese. I know you want to paint me as some uncultured rube. How inconvenient for you.

I have gone through immigration systems in a number of countries and literally know people who’ve been deported for this or that reason. So I have zero respect for people that do it illegally.

So yes, I have a dim view of migrants who can’t speak the local language.

Then there is her insistence we butt out of having an opinion on trump because we're from europe

Never said you can’t have an opinion. But I draw the line at wishing death on him.

while this American is tenaciously populating a UK based website pontificating about how the UK needs to be improved

I am allowed to have an opinion on this, having experienced it and married in.

Locutus2000 · Yesterday 16:18

Christ, the standard of discourse on these threads. Half of it might as well be bots arguing with each other.

TopPocketFind · Yesterday 16:18

The news reports say that Trump wasn't the target.

Wearenotborg · Yesterday 16:39

ElenOfTheWays · Yesterday 15:25

Except Trump is more Darth Vader than Luke Skywalker

Definitely. Or emperor palpetine

juldan · Yesterday 16:43

RingoJuice · Yesterday 16:10

Ringojuice has been carping on about the threat from the gun totting left when Kirk and trumps shooters ( present one i have no idea) have all been maga

These are vile lies. We know Crook donated to leftist organizations and we also know a lot more about Kirk’s shooter, who is a hicklib if I ever saw one.

Funny you celebrate a man being shot at, or wish for a good leftie assassin,

… but oh no, jk we didn’t do it. LOL.

Not one tweet about the ear clipper. She fears for her own existence its so bad....while living elsewhere...China, likely the middle east and the UK by the sound of things...while simultaneously belittling immigrants who dont speaky de lingo in the USA...im sure she is fluent in Chinese and Arabic

I actually am fluent in Chinese. I know you want to paint me as some uncultured rube. How inconvenient for you.

I have gone through immigration systems in a number of countries and literally know people who’ve been deported for this or that reason. So I have zero respect for people that do it illegally.

So yes, I have a dim view of migrants who can’t speak the local language.

Then there is her insistence we butt out of having an opinion on trump because we're from europe

Never said you can’t have an opinion. But I draw the line at wishing death on him.

while this American is tenaciously populating a UK based website pontificating about how the UK needs to be improved

I am allowed to have an opinion on this, having experienced it and married in.

@RingoJuice
That about the language of the Middle Eastern country you live in now? Are you fluent in that as well? Do you speak the local dialect with no accent? If not, you should be packing your bags right now.
What are you even doing there? As a staunch Trump supporter shouldn’t you be in the US campaigning 24/7 to make sure the mid terms go the right way?

LakieLady · Yesterday 16:47

juldan · Yesterday 13:24

@RingoJuice

And yet you have no problem with ICE. They have detained multiple American citizens including indigenous people as well as people with American visas.

I suppose you would have no problem if the local equivalent of ICE detained you “by mistake “ , treated you inhumanly and then revoked your right to stay there without any reason.

This poor woman was held for around 6 weeks, despite having a valid visa:

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks

Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, it can happen to anyone’

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/21/karen-newton-valid-visa-detained-ice

Tinytimmy123 · Yesterday 16:48

Thought he had demolished all their nuclear plants and armaments last year...a roaring success apparently...now he has done it again...but still threatening their civilisation...no wonder noone trusts anything he says or does.

RingoJuice · Yesterday 16:52

juldan · Yesterday 16:43

@RingoJuice
That about the language of the Middle Eastern country you live in now? Are you fluent in that as well? Do you speak the local dialect with no accent? If not, you should be packing your bags right now.
What are you even doing there? As a staunch Trump supporter shouldn’t you be in the US campaigning 24/7 to make sure the mid terms go the right way?

They insist on taxing me wherever I am, so I participate in the political process.

And I don’t want leftists to destroy my country (because their father’s country is a total disaster show and looks determined to do a managed decline sadly).

Tbh the Gulf countries will never, ever give an immigrant actual citizenship (ie family books). Which is so funny to me, because their nationalities are, what, maybe created 100 years ago at most?

But they protect it far more than, say, America with a 250-year-old pedigree and England, which is almost 1,000 years old and nowadays you all pretend to not know what an English person is 😆

dottiehens · Yesterday 16:53

maftaz · Yesterday 15:28

I'd be happy enough if he was taken out..... by his own party supporters, by Congress, by the Senate, you know - by the normal democratic means of ousting a tyrannical, mad, dictatorial Leader. Why that's not happening is beyond me quite frankly. No one has to die or be killed in the process.

So I take you agree with the dictators Trump has taken down?

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