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I’m calling for killing the king, should we ever get one in the United States. I’m not saying that the president is a king, I’m just saying that if someone were to become a king, instead of a president, they should be executed.
"Shoot that fucker if he walks near the throne."
Brother Ali
I mean, I publicly say I wish Trumps shooter hadn't missed so badly, and that Trump had caught the bullet with his empty fucking skull. I just wish when his skull gets blown apart, it's on live TV, so I can enjoy having it as my screensaver in uncensored HD.
Assuming it wasn’t staged.
Very little in life is staged. I've worked in a theatre, with professional actors, and it still takes weeks of work to pull off a play.
This also includes some improv work.
So the very first thing you have to acknowledge is that Trump would never do the work needed to pull off anything staged. He can read (sort of) a speech written by someone else, but the smarmy bastard cannot act to save his life.
The next thing here, Crooks was using live rounds. And killed a guy behind Trump. Trump would never allow his own life to be put at risk.
And third, Crooks was a notoriously bad shot. He was kicked out of his highschool gun club over it and some safety violations.
The kid was a mass shooter in waiting who just so happened to come across an opportunity to shoot a former president. And he blew it, just one more failure to add to the pile that was his life.
I have my doubts as well. I had the displeasure of being near him, in person, shortly after it happened and his ear looked fucking fine.
Small cuts can be sealed with medical grade super glue. Also, the thought is that Trump was hit by glass or other debris. Not the bullet itself.
How about his party gets voted out in the mid terms and a new President in 2028? And Donald retires peacefully and alive somewhere in Russia?
You wanna deal with this scumbag for another 3.5 years, I don't. I'd rather drag his fat ass out on the street and hang him for treason.
We were millimeters away from freedom.
As bad as I wanted to see that happen, this problem doesn't go away when one man dies. It's clear that we need to see where this path leads before we learn our lesson. I wish that weren't true, but it is.
Cults of personality fall apart when the leader dies though.
However, I agree that you can't just assassinate your way out of a deep, societal sickness. You have to address the underlying symptoms or it will just flare up again.
The Germans did a remarkable job at addressing their issues and changing their society for the better.
Unlike the US did after the civil war. Or after Trump's first reign and insurrection.
Hopefully they'll learn the lesson there.
Honestly, my country learned its lesson only through a new generation having grown up in the results of the war. Before 68 talking about Nazis still being judges, prosecutors, heads of police etc. wasn't really tolerated in polite society. Policy was always "Don't speak about it, don't acknowledge it, just move along and everything's fine."
Only the gigantic student protests in the late 60s early 70s changed that and created the culture of honest confrontation and dealing with the past. And it is highly under threat now that the post-war generation, the babyboomers are leaving the demographics, because people are forgetting how hard that culture had to be fought for. They had to fight conservatives tooth and nail for it and now it's slowly drifting out of focus.
Strauss-Howe generational theory
What? And make him a martyr?
I want him to cark it at a campaign rally. Pop a blood vessel in his skull, while pushing a little too hard on a constipated shit, only to lose the last shred of a fragment of sanity. To see him collapse onto the ground growling and chewing on the podium.
To quote G’kar… it’s a dream I have.
If your guillotine blade isn't sharp, at least make sure it's heavy.
everything is a blade if it falls fast enough
ASAP. And ideally before they actually become king. Like, if there's gonna be a crowning or whatever ceremony, they shouldn't get to make it. They'll have a prior engagement with a hooded figure.
Trump and Musk should be handled before they reach king status.
They should have never made it this far. obviously a fully corrupt and for sale president is ideal for a lot of powerful people.