I am profoundly grateful that Trump was not killed or seriously injured

[GaYellowDawg]

I do not, never have, and never will support any kind of political violence. NEVER. This was a tragedy. If I did thoughts and prayers, they'd go out to the victims.

I am grateful that the Secret Service was able to dispatch the shooter and get Trump to safety.

I don't care right now about the implications for the election. I just want to condemn this in the strongest possible terms. I hope all of us can do the same.

[Kali]

1. I'm not that honorable

that asshole is directly responsible for a lot of death, sickness, disruption and destruction. I wish he was dead.

[Lower_Jumper]

10. Wow

I just joined this site. I don’t know if I need to be here. This is a twisted post.

[Kali]

13. ok

have a nice day

[Lower_Jumper]

16. Just to be clear ...

You are wishing a person was killed. Am I getting that right? A former President of the United States.

[SunImp]

35. It is definitely wrong to wish for Trump's Death

But you have to understand that his policies & inactions have led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. If he was a better President way less people would have died from COVID, George Floyd protests wouldn't have any problems, he wouldn't be leading in Drone strikes & we would be less fearful of climate change. I don't blame the original poster for wishing ill will on Trump because like me he probably has some love ones who unfortunately believed in Trump's lies & may have distanced themselves from them or died from COVID.

[Trueblue Texan]

53. I don't believe it is wrong to WISH for Trump's death...

I wish the fucker would die, but only of natural causes. And I pray it will be painful. But I do not wish Trump or anyone else to die from political violence.

[agingdem]

108. Death by bullet...no

Death by flesh eating disease/massive coronary/lethal stroke…yes

[Wuddles440]

137. I too share your sentiments.

This vile monstrosity has inflicted tremendous pain and suffering on humanity throughout his miserable life and especially so since he entered the political arena.

[we can do it]

37. "And there was great pressure on me having to do with guns. We did nothing. We didn't yield," Trump said

[Blue Full Moon]

45. Thoughts and prayers

[Blue Full Moon]

77. Karma

[SoFlaBro]

38. When it comes to that Orange Turd, I don't give a squirt of piss either way. Not advocating, just don't give a shit.

[triron]

91. So you condemn project valkyrie?

[True Dough]

107. "I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters."

-"When the looting starts, the shooting starts."

-To the Proud Boys: "Stand back and stand by."

-The comment was a reference to phone calls [Gen. Mark] Milley made to his counterpart in China toward the end of Trump’s term, including after the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, that were meant to give “reassurance” to the U.S.'s chief adversary.
Trump described the calls as a “treasonous act” for which “in times gone by, the punishment would have been DEATH!”

-Trump Says Police Violence Against Journalists Is ‘Actually A Beautiful Sight’

-Trump calls for police to shoot shoplifters as they leave the store

I hope your condemnation of that Orange Shit Stain was just as song as your protestation in this thread!

[Dem4life1234]

114. And he

Did not give a flying dick when they almost hanged his VP.

Never forget Jan 6



He's a hateful POS

[Hope22]

42. You must feel it when he tries to incite violence against us day after day.

And January 6th. That had a to shake you up.

[Xipe Totec]

52. It would be a tragedy for us if any violence was visited on DJT

The last thing we need is a martyr.

As much as I oppose everything he stands for, I want him to live through a humiliating political defeat and then be convicted and spend the rest of his life in jail for the crimes he has committed.

The whole point of democracy is to resolve conflict without violence.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

138. He was already a martyr to MAGA.

Also seen as a god figure.

[dem_4_lyfe]

79. I agree. I thought "we" were better than this. Better than the violent republicans.

[bdamomma]

98. Welcome to DU

Yes, speak your mind.

[niyad]

121. They want us dead, threaten us at every turn, especially orange TRAITOR**.

So. . not caring if they live or die is NOT a moral equivalency, but thanks for trying.

[reACTIONary]

92. Welcome to DU....

... be sure to speak your mind without fear.

[Dem4life1234]

112. Bye

Save your sympathy.

We are tired.

[Dem4life1234]

115. Save your fucking tears

[John Shaft]

120. Yes. TSF is a twisted and sick fuck.

[orange jar]

11. Wishing for death is different from wishing for someone to shoot him.

The former is vague and includes natural causes; the second turns us into a banana republic.

[Kali]

17. never wished for a shooter

but if there is one...

[Lower_Jumper]

25. I'm quite sure the SS will be interested

in what you are posting.

I doubt I’m the only one bold enough to be saying this, but if I am, so be it!

[ms liberty]

28. No, because Kali didn't threaten the convicted felon and rapist

Kali just expressed pleasure at the thought of the convicted felon and rapist being unalive.
She's not the only member here who will express joy at that monster's demise.

[canetoad]

30. I certainly will

Express, if not pleasure, total indifference.

[niyad]

56. I have a bottle of good bubbly on chill for that happy occasion!

[canetoad]

67. I'll join you

In a cyber-celebration.

[niyad]

73. Yours will be one of my first pours!!!

[Lower_Jumper]

32. Oh. I didn't realize that there were people

who wished, and hoped for, the demise of another human being.

Is it ok if I root for the demise of someone you know? Is this how that works? Can I applaud the death of one of your family members? Is it ok on this site to wish for prison rape of people we don’t like?

I’m new here and just want to know what this site is about after seeing some of these posts.

[ms liberty]

34. Yes, you are new. Enjoy your stay.

Do you like pizza?

[Xavier Breath]

44. With one small mushroom, no doubt. n/t

[niyad]

55. Snicker

[niyad]

60. That one has been interesting since its first post. Looks like my intuition

was correct.

[reACTIONary]

94. No violation of the TOS ....

.... the one's who he is objecting to are on much shakier ground.

[ms liberty]

110. You're the one who mentioned TOS, not me.

And the poster I replied to was talking about the Secret Service, not DU's TOS.

[reACTIONary]

116. LOL, being tombstoned, you know, having a pizza delivered...

... is what happens for a violation of the TOS. That is what you were suggesting wasn't it? I suggest you be more kind and open minded toward new comers.

[ms liberty]

123. And I suggest you're welcome to put me on ignore if you don't like what I post

[reACTIONary]

135. My own personal preference is...

... to respond to posts that I don't like.

[GenThePerservering]

63. Sea lioning nt

[TommyT139]

64. There certainly are

For instance, if you take a cursory glance at some more recent threads, you'll see that rethugs are already fomenting violence.

Alas, Trump getting hit with shards of teleprompter glass -- yes, he's lying about being "shot" -- is already something he's lying about. He wasn't shot, but he sure got one of his followers killed. That person's family deserves condolences. Trump deserves only condemnation.

[triron]

75. How about Adolf Hitler?

[MustLoveBeagles]

78. They gave their opinion

I don't agree with it personally. I don't think political violence is ever okay.

[niyad]

39. So you are saying you are going to report this poster? Interesting. Very interesting.

[Hope22]

43. Hello officer Mike!

Welcome back!

[niyad]

61. Wave to agent mikey!!!

[niyad]

70. "Agent Mikey" was our snark about whoever in the intel groups might have been

observing our discussions, starting back in chimpy's days. So we would acknowledge them periodically.

[thebigidea]

83. Not really. it was a conspiracy theory started by lunatic grifter Bev Harris

It wasn't a joke or snark. She claimed it was a specific individual.

[niyad]

122. Well, I have been using that phrase, or something similar, for the last 50 plus years,

long before this harris person (whoever she is), and it means exactly what I said it means, to me, at any rate.

[orleans]

87. omg! thank god you showed up here a week ago to totally call out du members for their heartlessness and coldness against

hitler wannabes and sharing your deep assumptions of the secret service and various shit you believe they are interested in. it's almost as if you are PSYCHIC!!!

[niyad]

124. . . .

reminds me of the little gadflies that we used to collect, wayyyyy back.

[GenThePerservering]

141. Nobody here is that important, including yourself. nt

[ShazzieB]

29. Good point!

[triron]

21. Me too

[BigDemVoter]

59. I agree.

I may not clap if something happened to him, but I certainly am aware of the harm they would bring to millions should they worm themselves back into power.

I haven't forgotten how they gloated when Paul Pelosi was attacked with a hammer.

I also am horrified about the number of women who have and who will die because of this idiot's justices on the Supreme Court. They don't give a shit if women bleed to death in hospital emergency rooms, because doctors are too afraid to provide the care they need. And they don't give a goddamn about EMTALA laws

No, No. . . I might not clap, but I am not going to grieve, and I certainly DO care about who wins this election.

And one last thing. . . It's sad people died at this rally. But I have enough violence going on in my own community to worry about. Cheeto and his minions don't believe in ANY form of gun control. When there is no gun control, gun violence tends to increase.

[bdamomma]

106. and remember

he was very quick to ask about shooting BLM peaceful protestors during George Floyd protests. And he has already said he will order the National Guard to squash any peaceful protestors. Project 2025 is his mantra.

[orleans]

90. first thing i thought was: missed. too bad. nt

[bdamomma]

95. Wasn't it said

when he is around people die???? We've seen a lot of that, Pandemic, Insurrection and now this. And that fist in the air??? is that his rallying cry? or that he survived?

[Ahpook]

100. I don't want to hear this

He is a fucking monster, but let's let him lose the election. He will and hopefully go into obscurity.

I think a larger problem in our country is the fact that this fucking asshole was ever POTUS and being considered again. Trump is merely a symptom of deeper issues within a corrupt system.

His sorry fucking ass would have been laughed out of any potential run from the start if we had a healthy, productive country.

Come on!

[Dem4life1234]

111. What gets me

He is a fascist, we should not care about them.

Best fucking believe if the shoe were on the other foot, they would not give a damn about us.

He would never offer condolences if his opponent were harmed.

All I can say, that shooter was a lousy shot.

No I will not have sympathy for a racist, hate mongerer.

[BigDemVoter]

118. I get it.

Just like I get it when I hear people say that they wished Adolph Hitler had been killed before he took power. Sheesh. I wouldn't have shed any tears over Cheeto. If he does, indeed, win, we'll see what a disaster that turns into. This is unprecedented. He was not a normal president. The man is a monster. He is surrounded by monsters. He has been given immunity to do what he wants.

To tut-tut because some of us wouldn't cry over his death is misplaced. It isn't as if we are stating that we wanted to do it. He has called for violence against his political rivals. There's nothing wrong at all in stating the obvious; what goes around comes around.

And for the record, I care GREATLY about the implications of this election. Otherwise, why in the FUCK would I be a member of DU???? Cheeto is not innocent.

[gopiscrap]

119. I'm with you

[we can do it]

2. Not me

[Mme. Defarge]

3. My sentiments as well.

Aren’t there adequate security protocols at these events?

[MustLoveBeagles]

4. I don't condone political violence

[liberal N proud]

5. He incites violence, then plays victim when he is the target

I am struggling with anything more than thoughts and prayers.
I also remain suspect that this isn’t something that was staged. I just don’t trust trump and the MAGA cult.

[mvd]

6. While I believe in nonviolence and..

therefore can’t condone it, Trump elicits no sympathy from me at all.

[ShazzieB]

33. That's qbout where I am.

I can't condone, much less celebrate, an attempt on anyone's life. But if there was ever a person who asked, no, practically begged, for something like this to happen to him, it's TSF.

Tonight, he just received a taste of the virulent hate, anger, divisiveness, and hostility that he has been sending out into the world for years, especially the years since he lost the 2020 election. I'm not at all surprised that some of it finally came back to bite him.

“Be not deceived, God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” - Galatians 6: 7 (King James Version; spelling modernized).

[GenThePerservering]

7. The only reason I care that he wasn't shot/killed

is that it would make his sorry ass a martyr.

Beyond that? Sorry, not sorry.

[ecstatic]

8. I feel bad for the audience member who died but that's it. nt

[Doodley]

27. OMG. I had not heard that.

[niyad]

40. That person was a trumphumper, at one of his Bund rallies, so no sympathy from me.

[Polybius]

51. Sick comment

[niyad]

65. Quite possibly. But then, trumphumping authoritarian lovers are also sick.

According to the F'n, murdering, orange, RAPIST, TRAITOR** and his cultists, I am a nasty woman. Oh well. . . .

[Polybius]

82. Suppoters can always change

The innocent person was not breaking any laws.

[niyad]

125. We do not actually know that the person was, in fact, innocent. They were,

after all, at a Bund rally for their would-be god-emperor-fuhrer, so "innocent" ("presumed" except in the strictest legal sense) is not a word that I generally associate with them.

And kindly spare me any more moralizing. I simply DO NOT CARE what happens to any of them.

[Polybius]

131. Not care and wishing are two different things

Are you glad that the person at the rally minding his own business was killed, or do you simply not care?

[soandso]

139. Something here

about the guy you're hating on:

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, a Democrat, said in a press conference Sunday that the father of two "died a hero" after diving on top of his family. "He dove protecting his family. Took a bullet for them," Shapiro said.

"We lost a fellow Pennsylvanian last night ... I just spoke to Corey's wife and his two daughters. Corey was a girl-dad. Corey was a firefighter. Corey went to church every Sunday. Corey loved his community. Corey loved his family. He was an avid supporter of the former president and so excited to be there last night with him in the community," Shapiro told the outlet.

Allyson Comperatore, paid tribute to her father, calling him "a real-life superhero."

"He was the best dad a girl could ever ask for. My sister and I never needed for anything .... He could talk and make friends with anyone.

"He loved his family. He truly loved us enough to take a real bullet for us", she wrote, noting that her family has lost "a selfless, loving, husband, father, brother, uncle, son, and friend."

"And I will never stop thinking about him and mourning over him until the day that I die too. July 13th will forever be a day the changed my life. I will never be the same person I was less than 24 hours ago," she wrote.

"Dad I love you so much there aren't enough words to express how deep that love goes."

Comperatore's sister paid tribute to her brother on social media saying:

"He was a hero that shielded his daughters," adding, "My baby brother just turned 50 and had so much life left to experience...Pray for my sister-in-law, nieces, my mother, sister, me and his nieces and nephews as this feels like a terrible nightmare but we know it is our painful reality."

https://www.newsweek.com/corey-comperatore-identified-victim-killed-trump-rally-pennsylvania-fire-chief-1924979

He was a firefighter and I have a special place in my heart for people who go into burning buildings to save others.

I agree with @Polybius. Why? Because to foment such intense hate for anyone we don't know is irrational and devoid of empathy and only diminishes us. You've painted him as a monster and Nazi while the articles about him say just the opposite and what a good person he was and how much he helped others.

Unless we can all get to someplace where we can stop dehumanizing those we don't agree with, we, as a country, are headed for only misery. Look at Europe and their hundreds of years of history of violence and wars against each other. I don't want to see that for us and I would hope that you don't either. I don't claim to know the answers, only that we humans HAVE to find a way out this downward spiral.

[snpsmom]

9. If he had been

I would have viewed the coverage in the same way that I view images of Mussolini strung up after WWII. They are the same to me.

[Sunsky]

12. Thoughts and prayers.

[beaglelover]

14. Agree 100 percent. I don't like the guy but I don't want him dead.

[2 Meow Momma]

15. I remember JFK, RFK, MLK, and Reagan and how traumatizing the events were.

I can empathize with the people that are trumpsters and I’m sad that political violence happens here.

This is not the way.

[orange jar]

18. Political violence toward one side permits violence toward the other.

It should never be tolerated. Ever. Political violence is as much of a threat to democracy as Trump's policies are.

[GenThePerservering]

20. Trump and his apparachiks have been pushing a profoundly violent agenda

I'm surprised this hasn't happened earlier.

IAC, when these magats start caring about dead schoolchildren, I'll start caring about their head thug. Live by the sword...die by the sword and all of that.

[Ontheboundry]

23. Welcome.to the dark side of DU

Some of these people are no better than the MAGA folks in the way they view humanity

[Ontheboundry]

58. Going?

I've been reading this site for about 10 years. The slide into the mid has been accelerating.

However, there is still enough solid stiff being posted I read on

[raging moderate]

81. Yes. When you fight monsters, take care that you do not become a monster.

Nietzsche was right.

[thebigidea]

84. ok let us know when we try take away healthcare or social security for millions of people

Internet snark is not equivalent to the evil the GOP perpetrates.

[hadEnuf]

113. So the same old "we shouldn't be like them" attitude?

The same "we shouldn't be like them" attitude that gave us GW Bush, 9/11 and the Iraq war?

The same "we shouldn't be like them" attitude while the GOP blocked and stonewalled SCOTUS judges?

The same "we shouldn't be like them" attitude that gave us the monster Donald Trump?

The same "we shouldn't be like them" attitude while Trump has terrorized the whole country over his sore loser election claims for 4 years?

And now "we shouldn't be like them" while we are looking at the REAL possibility of a fascist style government run by the return of the monster Trump, where the checks and balances are gone, along with the systematic removal of virtually every program that has ever helped anybody?

I dare to say that the "we shouldn't be like them" attitude just ain't working!

[demosincebirth]

31. We are not Saints. We are selfish and self-centered

human beings, just, trying to do the right thing.

[edisdead]

24. Don't condone the violence.

But I am still rooting for the heart attack.


He actively tries to male people’s live worse and has killed people in the process.

[Doodley]

26. How many lives will be lost because Trump wants to take healthcare away from millions of people? How many lives because

he would prevent women access to abortions, healthcare or even birth control? How many lives will be ruined, and families btoken up deporting 11 million people living in America. No need for sympathy for that SOAB.

[niyad]

41. How many died, or now suffer from long covid, because of his deliberately

FUCKED UP response to the pandemic?

[proud patriot]

46. Well said kick and rec

[TheDemsshouldhireme]

47. Kudos to the original poster

Some of the responses on here today, make me truly ashamed to be part of this site. Makes me realize there are loons on both sides. Political violence shouldn't be hard to condemn, not hard at all. Should be a layup. But apparently some people weren't raised right I guess.

[Upthevibe]

48. GaYellowDawg............

Thank you.............

[Trueblue Texan]

50. I concur. nt

[AverageOldGuy]

54. I'm seeing a couple of reports . . .

. . . that Trump was hit by flying glass from the teleprompter, not a bullet. Not that is matters much, but, there it is.

[Ocelot II]

57. I can't imagine what kind of chaos would have ensued if he'd been killed.

While I sure wouldn't miss him, I don't think political assassinations are the way to go in a democracy.
And the blowback would have been crazy. I think his followers would have tried another 1/6, only worse. It's clear that plenty of them have no problem at all with politically-motivated violence, and I hope Biden's Secret Service detail does a better job than Trump's apparently did.

[reACTIONary]

102. yes, and the shooter was...

... outside of the security parameter on a roof top. I'm not into fire arms, but he must have had some sort of long range sniper rifle.

[sop]

105. I deleted that post after reading the shooter was outside the secured area. From recent reporting:

1h ago, Investigation, By Josh Marshall

"As far as we know, what happened today is that a gunman, on a roof of a low building (apparently one story) outside the rally security perimeter, shot at Donald Trump and either hit him with a grazing wound to the ear or, according to other reports, shattered the teleprompter plexiglass and shards of plexiglass struck his ear. Sort of same difference, slightly different modality."

"It appears this person was firing at a relatively long range, estimates I’ve heard of 200 or 300 yards. The gunman would presumably need to plan in advance and find a rooftop from which he or she could get a direct line of sight to the stage. It’s apparently a low building in an area that is very flat. So you couldn’t assume you’d have a direct line of sight from a one story building. There’s some advance work required. Not everyone can shoot at that distance. (An AR-15 style weapon has reported been recovered at the scene.) So this isn’t a situation like getting a handgun and going into an unsecured environment which almost anyone can do. This requires planning in advance and some level of firearms knowledge. Not everyone could do this."

"From our records the Trump campaign announced this event on July 3rd. So the date and location was known for at least ten days. That’s a relatively short window of time."

"No particular message here, just my effort to think through the amount of advance work required, the time available to do it, and the kinds of skills required to make the attempt."

"Late Update: Newer reports from CNN’s Evan Perez say that the building in question was more like 150 yards from the stage and apparently a building, unsecured, right outside the security perimeter. Don’t want to get ahead of ourselves. But there are going to be some pretty big questions why that rooftop wasn’t secured."

[reACTIONary]

117. tnx for the update!

[niyad]

127. That last sentence was exactly what I was wondering.

[et tu]

69. if cf 45 starts

channeling vinnie van gogh i'll have to barf-

[LeftInTX]

71. He gets a bunch of glory and his wound is about as serious as a popped zit.

Wish it could have been serious enough that he would have missed the convention...

But now, he got hit with a glass shard.

So, he gets all this drama. Fist bump. Macho guy, survives shooting. Gets all the attention. And it turns out he was hit with a glass shard, but of course he's telling everyone it was hit with a bullet.

[hay rick]

80. It's not as serious as, say, bone spurs.

[LeftInTX]

88. Not even that serious. A popped zit.

“President Trump looks forward to joining you all in Milwaukee as we proceed with our convention to nominate him to serve as the 47th President of the United States,” said Trump campaign advisers Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita and Republican National Committee Chair Michael Whatley and co-chair Lara Trump in a statement.

Was hoping for at least a sick day or two or three or four....

[soandso]

140. It was a bullet

Some CNN photographer got an amazing, one in a million photo of the bullet whizzing at Trump's head! You can easily find it with a search. Some local politician's son also got a graze wound across his neck.

[OverBurn]

72. I've made jokes today about the failed attempt, but I really don't want it this way, I did wanted him to drop dead.

I will not apologize for that, still feel that way. Today hurts democracy in the long run. The sides already hate each other. This ain't gonna help. Unfortunately it may help him get more votes.

[Pinback]

74. As I've said here before, I don't want Trump dead

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(and martyred). I want him defeated and powerless.

I am sorry for the victim who lost his life (and for his friends and family) and for the shooter who wasted his, and I am grateful there was no more carnage.

And I am sorry for those who will live with the trauma of being present at a murder scene — an experience far too many Americans have every year.

[LostOne4Ever]

76. I oppose all political violence!

We must NEVER allow that to be the norm!

[orangecrush]

85. "Dispatch"?

"I am grateful that the Secret Service was able to dispatch the shooter and get Trump to safety."

Does that mean the same thing as riddle with bullets?

[reACTIONary]

103. Yes, of course it does.

[GaYellowDawg]

132. Well, DUH

"Riddle with bullets" is the appropriate fate for an assassin.

[NJCher]

86. I agree with the posters who say it's best

that he not go due to an attempted assassination. No point in giving the other side anything to work with.

The best way would be something like having a heart attack after he sits down to a big bucket of KFC.

[LeftInTX]

89. Wish they would have shot him in the butt!!

[True Dough]

101. Nobody wants to see

that splatter from his diaper!

[LeftInTX]

104. And...he wouldn't want to show his face afterward!

Wish it would have been at least a humiliating even.
Guy survives an assassination attempt. At first he appears to have been shot with a minor injury. Instead the wound is no more serious than a razor nick, yet he gets to brag that he survived a gun shot. "Hey I'm super man!"

[True Dough]

109. Yes, he made sure to repeatedly pump his fist in the air

He will milk this incident for all that he can. The huckster gets another moment in the sun. Damn!

[niyad]

126. You nearly owed me a keyboard!

[Warpy]

93. DU is great, mobody has wished for that

I just want to know who the squirrel with the gun was.

Killing political opponents is what they do in Russia.

The far right did it to the left here in the US in the 60s. It didn't work. We're still here.

[niyad]

128. Of course, some of us, with nasty, cynical, suspcious little minds, wonder. . .

[Warpy]

130. Hey! Quit speaking my language

I stopped wondering when I heard the shooter was dead but that he'd killws one person and injured two others.

That made it more real than a typical media stunt would have been.

[Ligyron]

96. Trump foments political violence all the time.

Karma.

[artemisia1]

97. Well said. /nt

[BlueTsunami2018]

99. You're far more gracious than I.

I am not even close to “profoundly grateful” about this. This is a person I despise with every fiber of my being, a person who has nothing but the worst intentions for the country, who has already done profound damage to the country, who would not hesitate to kill every last one of his perceived enemies if he could.

And I’m supposed to be thankful that he’s not hurt or dead?

That’s a bridge too far for me.

[cheezmaka]

129. A friend of mine would have been GLAD to see him shot....

Her mom died during covid because of his narcissistic attitude. As bad as I would like to see him out of the race. I'd rather see him lose badly...

[BrightKnight]

136. I could live without all of the chaos and drama that surrounds him. nt