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KT_Elwood
Profile Joined July 2015
Germany1122 Posts
July 14 2024 18:43 GMT
#85301
LoL Magats are at it again.

Biden mindcontrolled local diphsit who steals dad's gun and doesn't even get the job done.

Right!
"First he eats our dogs, and then he taxes the penguins... Donald Trump truly is the Donald Trump of our generation. " -DPB
GreenHorizons
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States23672 Posts
Last Edited: 2024-07-14 18:48:06
July 14 2024 18:47 GMT
#85302
On July 15 2024 03:41 Gahlo wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 15 2024 03:35 GreenHorizons wrote:
People have to understand that Biden's main campaign talking point of this being an election to determine if US democracy continues has been obliterated by this. Because if Trump is going to win and going to be a democracy destroying dictator, then stopping him by any means necessary is rational and arguably justified.

If you want to take assassination off the table then Democrats have to tell people "Trump sucks, but he's not actually a real threat to the US or democracy".

Trump is going to constantly bludgeon Democrats with this while they're reduced to talking about how people need to treat the election less like the existential crisis they've been insisting it was for the last 5 years or so.

Here's the first sign, Biden "pausing" all his ads and such:



EDIT: Meanwhile the GOP is going to be pushing stuff like this saying "Joe Biden sent the orders":


Painfully reductive.

Welcome to US politics where the leading candidate for president is a moronic demagogue?
"People like to look at history and think 'If that was me back then, I would have...' We're living through history, and the truth is, whatever you are doing now is probably what you would have done then" "Scratch a Liberal..."
DarkPlasmaBall
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States45333 Posts
July 14 2024 18:50 GMT
#85303
On July 15 2024 03:35 Agh wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 14 2024 17:39 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:

This isn't worded accurately. It's bad that democracy really is on the line. Trump has been jeopardizing American democracy for years, with his rhetoric and actions, and his supporters are okay with undermining democracy too (which many of them may not realize they're doing, because they may sincerely believe the lies that Trump and other Republican leaders peddle about widespread voter fraud and a stolen 2020 election).

Democrats aren't "convincing themselves" that Trump is a fascist; Democrats are accurately recognizing that Trump is a fascist.


Probably the only time I'll ever post in a politics thread but you have to be an absolute fucking moron to think that their is OR was not fraud for both sides for the election.

The only reason democrats get extra flak was because they had a lot more egregious cases. A personal favorite/highlight were the Georgia county ones where peoples votes were altered despite being public record and viewable. Then when they posted about it on facebook, twitter, etc it just resulted in your account getting removed/flagged/silenced.

But hey censorship is good as long as it fits your desired narrative right?

Any type of infringement or impediment of free speech needs to be smited off of the universe.
Anyone that finds they strongly align with either side is just a sheep on top of being a clown.


I think it's for the best that that's "probably the only time you'll ever post in a politics thread", because of how utterly asinine your post was. Thanks for sharing your conspiracy theories and name-calling though. Extremely insightful.
"There is nothing more satisfying than looking at a crowd of people and helping them get what I love." ~Day[9] Daily #100
Sent.
Profile Joined June 2012
Poland9282 Posts
July 14 2024 18:54 GMT
#85304
On July 15 2024 03:30 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 15 2024 03:18 Sent. wrote:
I expect a temporary bump in Trump's support that should die out before the election but there's a big BUT. This bump, similarly to Biden's poor debate performance, is an opportunity to gain momentum and control what people talk about. There's still a lot of time left and I think Biden should win unless Trump manages to successfully leapfrog from one opportunity to another which should lead to a snowball effect.


Would you mind elaborating a bit on why you think Biden is likely to win?


I think Biden/Democrat victory is the default outcome because they're more capable of attracting people on the fence while the Republican party's strategy is mostly successful at mobilizing those would never vote Democrat anyway. They're turning into something similar to the French far right that has a nearly blind support of 30-40% of the population and next to no chance of convincing the rest to vote for them in high turnout elections.
You're now breathing manually
DarkPlasmaBall
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States45333 Posts
July 14 2024 18:55 GMT
#85305
On July 15 2024 03:54 Sent. wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 15 2024 03:30 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
On July 15 2024 03:18 Sent. wrote:
I expect a temporary bump in Trump's support that should die out before the election but there's a big BUT. This bump, similarly to Biden's poor debate performance, is an opportunity to gain momentum and control what people talk about. There's still a lot of time left and I think Biden should win unless Trump manages to successfully leapfrog from one opportunity to another which should lead to a snowball effect.


Would you mind elaborating a bit on why you think Biden is likely to win?


I think Biden/Democrat victory is the default outcome because they're more capable of attracting people on the fence while the Republican party's strategy is mostly successful at mobilizing those would never vote Democrat anyway. They're turning into something similar to the French far right that has a nearly blind support of 30-40% of the population and next to no chance of convincing the rest to vote for them in high turnout elections.


Thanks! I hope you're right!
"There is nothing more satisfying than looking at a crowd of people and helping them get what I love." ~Day[9] Daily #100
Gorsameth
Profile Joined April 2010
Netherlands22121 Posts
July 14 2024 18:57 GMT
#85306
On July 15 2024 03:54 Sent. wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 15 2024 03:30 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
On July 15 2024 03:18 Sent. wrote:
I expect a temporary bump in Trump's support that should die out before the election but there's a big BUT. This bump, similarly to Biden's poor debate performance, is an opportunity to gain momentum and control what people talk about. There's still a lot of time left and I think Biden should win unless Trump manages to successfully leapfrog from one opportunity to another which should lead to a snowball effect.


Would you mind elaborating a bit on why you think Biden is likely to win?


I think Biden/Democrat victory is the default outcome because they're more capable of attracting people on the fence while the Republican party's strategy is mostly successful at mobilizing those would never vote Democrat anyway. They're turning into something similar to the French far right that has a nearly blind support of 30-40% of the population and next to no chance of convincing the rest to vote for them in high turnout elections.
Except they won in 2016 and were some 40k votes away from winning in 2020
It ignores such insignificant forces as time, entropy, and death
GreenHorizons
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States23672 Posts
Last Edited: 2024-07-14 19:15:29
July 14 2024 19:14 GMT
#85307
On July 15 2024 03:57 Gorsameth wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 15 2024 03:54 Sent. wrote:
On July 15 2024 03:30 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
On July 15 2024 03:18 Sent. wrote:
I expect a temporary bump in Trump's support that should die out before the election but there's a big BUT. This bump, similarly to Biden's poor debate performance, is an opportunity to gain momentum and control what people talk about. There's still a lot of time left and I think Biden should win unless Trump manages to successfully leapfrog from one opportunity to another which should lead to a snowball effect.


Would you mind elaborating a bit on why you think Biden is likely to win?


I think Biden/Democrat victory is the default outcome because they're more capable of attracting people on the fence while the Republican party's strategy is mostly successful at mobilizing those would never vote Democrat anyway. They're turning into something similar to the French far right that has a nearly blind support of 30-40% of the population and next to no chance of convincing the rest to vote for them in high turnout elections.
Except they won in 2016 and were some 40k votes away from winning in 2020

People forget that Trump got ~11 million more votes in 2020 than he did in 2016. More people wanted him to have a 2nd term than wanted to give him a first. I don't believe that will be the case for Biden since his favorables have had a -40% swing since being elected. They are also lower than any president at this point that has gone on to win reelection.

"People like to look at history and think 'If that was me back then, I would have...' We're living through history, and the truth is, whatever you are doing now is probably what you would have done then" "Scratch a Liberal..."
Agh
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States1038 Posts
July 14 2024 19:15 GMT
#85308
On July 15 2024 03:50 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 15 2024 03:35 Agh wrote:
On July 14 2024 17:39 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:

This isn't worded accurately. It's bad that democracy really is on the line. Trump has been jeopardizing American democracy for years, with his rhetoric and actions, and his supporters are okay with undermining democracy too (which many of them may not realize they're doing, because they may sincerely believe the lies that Trump and other Republican leaders peddle about widespread voter fraud and a stolen 2020 election).

Democrats aren't "convincing themselves" that Trump is a fascist; Democrats are accurately recognizing that Trump is a fascist.


Probably the only time I'll ever post in a politics thread but you have to be an absolute fucking moron to think that their is OR was not fraud for both sides for the election.

The only reason democrats get extra flak was because they had a lot more egregious cases. A personal favorite/highlight were the Georgia county ones where peoples votes were altered despite being public record and viewable. Then when they posted about it on facebook, twitter, etc it just resulted in your account getting removed/flagged/silenced.

But hey censorship is good as long as it fits your desired narrative right?

Any type of infringement or impediment of free speech needs to be smited off of the universe.
Anyone that finds they strongly align with either side is just a sheep on top of being a clown.


I think it's for the best that that's "probably the only time you'll ever post in a politics thread", because of how utterly asinine your post was. Thanks for sharing your conspiracy theories and name-calling though. Extremely insightful.


I think the most amusing part is that I can copy paste your message and apply it to your own post. Perhaps you've never thought about debates, arguments, or points in that light?
Along that vein.. Why bother with critical thinking when you can have someone else do it for you?

Sorry my text was able to hurt your feelings. Since you couldn't figure it out I'll point out that the reason I don't post is I'm more than content letting people wallow in their own ignorance.
I may appear to be an emotionless sarcastic pos, but just like an onion when you pull off more and more layers you find the exact same thing everytime and you start crying
KwarK
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States43646 Posts
Last Edited: 2024-07-14 19:16:42
July 14 2024 19:16 GMT
#85309
On July 15 2024 04:15 Agh wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 15 2024 03:50 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
On July 15 2024 03:35 Agh wrote:
On July 14 2024 17:39 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:

This isn't worded accurately. It's bad that democracy really is on the line. Trump has been jeopardizing American democracy for years, with his rhetoric and actions, and his supporters are okay with undermining democracy too (which many of them may not realize they're doing, because they may sincerely believe the lies that Trump and other Republican leaders peddle about widespread voter fraud and a stolen 2020 election).

Democrats aren't "convincing themselves" that Trump is a fascist; Democrats are accurately recognizing that Trump is a fascist.


Probably the only time I'll ever post in a politics thread but you have to be an absolute fucking moron to think that their is OR was not fraud for both sides for the election.

The only reason democrats get extra flak was because they had a lot more egregious cases. A personal favorite/highlight were the Georgia county ones where peoples votes were altered despite being public record and viewable. Then when they posted about it on facebook, twitter, etc it just resulted in your account getting removed/flagged/silenced.

But hey censorship is good as long as it fits your desired narrative right?

Any type of infringement or impediment of free speech needs to be smited off of the universe.
Anyone that finds they strongly align with either side is just a sheep on top of being a clown.


I think it's for the best that that's "probably the only time you'll ever post in a politics thread", because of how utterly asinine your post was. Thanks for sharing your conspiracy theories and name-calling though. Extremely insightful.


I think the most amusing part is that I can copy paste your message and apply it to your own post. Perhaps you've never thought about debates, arguments, or points in that light?
Along that vein.. Why bother with critical thinking when you can have someone else do it for you?

Sorry my text was able to hurt your feelings. Since you couldn't figure it out I'll point out that the reason I don't post is I'm more than content letting people wallow in their own ignorance.

They looked very hard for fraud in the election and all they found was a handful of Republicans voting for Trump multiple times. No races were impacted.
ModeratorThe angels have the phone box
Gorsameth
Profile Joined April 2010
Netherlands22121 Posts
July 14 2024 19:17 GMT
#85310
In all their election fraud lawsuits team Trump not once actually showed evidence of fraud.
What else is there to discuss?
It ignores such insignificant forces as time, entropy, and death
oBlade
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
United States5919 Posts
July 14 2024 19:24 GMT
#85311
On July 14 2024 11:41 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 14 2024 11:26 c0ldfusion wrote:
You people are literal ghouls.


This past January, Trump told the grieving families of an Iowa school shooting to "get over it" and just "move forward".

Trump told them (addressing the entire community & state) in a very somber voice "it's horrible to see that happening... we have to get over it, we have to move forward." This is why you left the "just" out of your quotation marks, because even you knew that would be over the line of dishonest.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-tells-supporters-get-iowa-school-shooting-move-forward-rcna132610

On July 14 2024 11:41 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
A bullet grazed Trump's ear? Get over it. Move forward.

He did that when he asked for his shoes, stood up and said, "Fight, fight."

On July 14 2024 11:41 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
Not to mention the tens of thousands of annual gun-related deaths and hundreds of annual mass shootings that Republicans don't even remotely care about, despite every single one of those gun victims being far less toxic and destructive to America than Trump.

I don't mean to put words in their mouths, but Republicans do care about crime, law and order is one of their key issues, this is a basic thing to know about your opposition, and many of those victims you mention are literal gang members shooting at each other.

On July 14 2024 11:41 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
Trump has way more blood on his hands than what came from his ear.

Name two.

On July 14 2024 11:41 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
I'd much rather beat Trump in an election than have him assassinated, but he's absolutely the last person to deserve any sympathy.

Deserve or not, he doesn't need your sympathy and didn't ask for it, so it's a moot issue. The issue is that disregarding any semblance of principles and morality doesn't give you a moral high ground. If you have to abandon them and resort to assassination apologism to try to stop the alleged "Worst American," (your words), you may have been wrong about your righteousness to begin with - perhaps people voting for someone you don't like isn't really "undermining democracy." Democracy isn't on the line. You're just losing. Don't think you can replace ballots with bullets.

On July 14 2024 20:27 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 14 2024 08:59 iPlaY.NettleS wrote:
On July 14 2024 07:50 farvacola wrote:
My gut tells me it was staged, but we shall see. Something isn’t adding up

More likely just another deranged leftist who saw Trump up +6 vs Biden in latest NYT/Siena poll


That's weirdly cherry-picked. Some polls still have Biden (or other Dem alternatives) barely ahead or tied with Trump in a head-to-head race. Of course, other polls also put Trump ahead, especially when factoring in third-party candidates. https://www.realclearpolling.com/latest-polls/president/general-election

One could have just as easily asserted that it's "more likely just another deranged" conservative who thought Trump would benefit from the sympathy of a failed assassination attempt, since Trump's poll numbers didn't skyrocket from Biden's poor debate performance. It's silly to speculate in these ways, whether it's about the whole thing being staged, or the whole thing being a reaction to a few inconspicuous polls in either direction.

What "another?"

Do you have any single example of a Republican supporter false flag fake assassinating one of their own people and ending up as cherry pie on a roof tile in order to help their poll numbers?

You could assert pigs fly just as easily as anything, the ease with which you can assert something is not related to how relatively likely it is to be true.

Here's my speculation.

The sitting resident of the White House days ago said "We're done talking about the debate, it's time to put Trump in a bullseye." Two days ago he said, "I mean this from the bottom of my heart, Trump is a threat to this nation." Weeks before that he tweeted:
https://x.com/JoeBiden/status/1806745000971296833

The Huffington Post days ago ran with "Supreme Court Gives Joe Biden The Legal OK To Assassinate Donald Trump" as a headline.

CNN posted Trump "fell" and the NYT front page says Trump was hurt at a "shooting."

I personally saw this

+ Show Spoiler +
[image loading]


on Wikipedia during the peak of confusion somehow injected over the page about the assassination attempt.

Lee Zeldin was attacked. Two Republican councilmembers from New Jersey were killed. Maxine Waters said she would take Trump out. The sitting resident said he would take him behind the gym and beat him up. Colorado Rep Woodrow tells us "We don't need sympathy for the devil" after Trump is shot. The assistant to Congressman Thompson who proposed the Secret Service removal bill said if you're going to attempt assassination, please learn to aim. Rep Goldman went on TV and said Trump has to be "eliminated." Madonna thought a lot about blowing up the WH, or so she said in front of cameras in front of a huge crowd. Kathy Griffin - too tasteless to repeat. Rand Paul got assaulted and we heard "Today we are all Rand Paul's neighbor." Pelosi said he was right to attack him. This is 90% one side and it's a reaction to an imagined caricature of Hitler Republicans that coming on 2 generations have been brainwashed into. The same people pushing this shit now wait until the shooter missed and they overplayed their hand to be like "Oh actually let's be civil." Politicians, at least. The media are still all in on Orange Hitler. The Atlantic is recommending Trump use this chance to remind people not to be violent. Perhaps he will set an example by promising not to get shot again?

There's your "deranged leftists" that you could speculate this is another of. There's your "stochastic terrorism." That is made-up nebulous bullshit so Blue people are justified in saying and doing whatever they want against it. Decent people everywhere should be and are ashamed to be associated with this lunacy, and we are happy to welcome you back at any time.

The SS better be on 500% alert because if one 20 year old idiot can get this close, who knows what could happen.
"I read it. You know how to read, you ignorant fuck?" - Andy Dufresne
micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24755 Posts
July 14 2024 19:25 GMT
#85312
Maybe there was a tremendous amount of fraud to favor Biden but team Trump is so utterly incompetent that they couln't find any of it? I mean, it's possible.
ModeratorThere are animal crackers for people and there are people crackers for animals.
KwarK
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States43646 Posts
July 14 2024 19:28 GMT
#85313
On July 15 2024 04:24 oBlade wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 14 2024 11:41 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
Trump has way more blood on his hands than what came from his ear.

Name two.

Trump invited the Taliban to Camp David, treated with them, then surrendered to them. He inked the agreement in which the US agreed to stand aside while they defeated the ANA and then unilaterally withdraw.

Not the worst thing he's done but the idea that he doesn't have blood on his hands is laughable.
ModeratorThe angels have the phone box
TentativePanda
Profile Joined August 2014
United States800 Posts
July 14 2024 19:41 GMT
#85314
On July 15 2024 04:24 oBlade wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 14 2024 11:41 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
On July 14 2024 11:26 c0ldfusion wrote:
You people are literal ghouls.


This past January, Trump told the grieving families of an Iowa school shooting to "get over it" and just "move forward".

Trump told them (addressing the entire community & state) in a very somber voice "it's horrible to see that happening... we have to get over it, we have to move forward." This is why you left the "just" out of your quotation marks, because even you knew that would be over the line of dishonest.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-tells-supporters-get-iowa-school-shooting-move-forward-rcna132610

Show nested quote +
On July 14 2024 11:41 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
A bullet grazed Trump's ear? Get over it. Move forward.

He did that when he asked for his shoes, stood up and said, "Fight, fight."

Show nested quote +
On July 14 2024 11:41 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
Not to mention the tens of thousands of annual gun-related deaths and hundreds of annual mass shootings that Republicans don't even remotely care about, despite every single one of those gun victims being far less toxic and destructive to America than Trump.

I don't mean to put words in their mouths, but Republicans do care about crime, law and order is one of their key issues, this is a basic thing to know about your opposition, and many of those victims you mention are literal gang members shooting at each other.

Show nested quote +
On July 14 2024 11:41 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
Trump has way more blood on his hands than what came from his ear.

Name two.

Show nested quote +
On July 14 2024 11:41 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
I'd much rather beat Trump in an election than have him assassinated, but he's absolutely the last person to deserve any sympathy.

Deserve or not, he doesn't need your sympathy and didn't ask for it, so it's a moot issue. The issue is that disregarding any semblance of principles and morality doesn't give you a moral high ground. If you have to abandon them and resort to assassination apologism to try to stop the alleged "Worst American," (your words), you may have been wrong about your righteousness to begin with - perhaps people voting for someone you don't like isn't really "undermining democracy." Democracy isn't on the line. You're just losing. Don't think you can replace ballots with bullets.

Show nested quote +
On July 14 2024 20:27 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
On July 14 2024 08:59 iPlaY.NettleS wrote:
On July 14 2024 07:50 farvacola wrote:
My gut tells me it was staged, but we shall see. Something isn’t adding up

More likely just another deranged leftist who saw Trump up +6 vs Biden in latest NYT/Siena poll


That's weirdly cherry-picked. Some polls still have Biden (or other Dem alternatives) barely ahead or tied with Trump in a head-to-head race. Of course, other polls also put Trump ahead, especially when factoring in third-party candidates. https://www.realclearpolling.com/latest-polls/president/general-election

One could have just as easily asserted that it's "more likely just another deranged" conservative who thought Trump would benefit from the sympathy of a failed assassination attempt, since Trump's poll numbers didn't skyrocket from Biden's poor debate performance. It's silly to speculate in these ways, whether it's about the whole thing being staged, or the whole thing being a reaction to a few inconspicuous polls in either direction.

What "another?"

Do you have any single example of a Republican supporter false flag fake assassinating one of their own people and ending up as cherry pie on a roof tile in order to help their poll numbers?

You could assert pigs fly just as easily as anything, the ease with which you can assert something is not related to how relatively likely it is to be true.

Here's my speculation.

The sitting resident of the White House days ago said "We're done talking about the debate, it's time to put Trump in a bullseye." Two days ago he said, "I mean this from the bottom of my heart, Trump is a threat to this nation." Weeks before that he tweeted:
https://x.com/JoeBiden/status/1806745000971296833

The Huffington Post days ago ran with "Supreme Court Gives Joe Biden The Legal OK To Assassinate Donald Trump" as a headline.

CNN posted Trump "fell" and the NYT front page says Trump was hurt at a "shooting."

I personally saw this

+ Show Spoiler +
[image loading]


on Wikipedia during the peak of confusion somehow injected over the page about the assassination attempt.

Lee Zeldin was attacked. Two Republican councilmembers from New Jersey were killed. Maxine Waters said she would take Trump out. The sitting resident said he would take him behind the gym and beat him up. Colorado Rep Woodrow tells us "We don't need sympathy for the devil" after Trump is shot. The assistant to Congressman Thompson who proposed the Secret Service removal bill said if you're going to attempt assassination, please learn to aim. Rep Goldman went on TV and said Trump has to be "eliminated." Madonna thought a lot about blowing up the WH, or so she said in front of cameras in front of a huge crowd. Kathy Griffin - too tasteless to repeat. Rand Paul got assaulted and we heard "Today we are all Rand Paul's neighbor." Pelosi said he was right to attack him. This is 90% one side and it's a reaction to an imagined caricature of Hitler Republicans that coming on 2 generations have been brainwashed into. The same people pushing this shit now wait until the shooter missed and they overplayed their hand to be like "Oh actually let's be civil." Politicians, at least. The media are still all in on Orange Hitler. The Atlantic is recommending Trump use this chance to remind people not to be violent. Perhaps he will set an example by promising not to get shot again?

There's your "deranged leftists" that you could speculate this is another of. There's your "stochastic terrorism." That is made-up nebulous bullshit so Blue people are justified in saying and doing whatever they want against it. Decent people everywhere should be and are ashamed to be associated with this lunacy, and we are happy to welcome you back at any time.

The SS better be on 500% alert because if one 20 year old idiot can get this close, who knows what could happen.


I applaud you for taking the time to write this masterclass rebuttal to these craven manchildren who absolutely will not ever be critical of the thoughts being fed to them. It's honestly scary how many people, right or left, feel that this election is life or death for them or others. We are talking about two people who have been president and basically nothing materially changed in anyone's lives across their presidencies (at least because of their presidency). He simply is NOT a threat to democracy no matter how badly people WANT him to be in order to say "I told you so", which is so damn insidious
TentativePanda
Profile Joined August 2014
United States800 Posts
July 14 2024 19:45 GMT
#85315
On July 15 2024 04:28 KwarK wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 15 2024 04:24 oBlade wrote:
On July 14 2024 11:41 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
Trump has way more blood on his hands than what came from his ear.

Name two.

Trump invited the Taliban to Camp David, treated with them, then surrendered to them. He inked the agreement in which the US agreed to stand aside while they defeated the ANA and then unilaterally withdraw.

Not the worst thing he's done but the idea that he doesn't have blood on his hands is laughable.


If you somehow think this is a reasoned counterargument you're very wrong
KwarK
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States43646 Posts
July 14 2024 19:46 GMT
#85316
On July 15 2024 04:45 TentativePanda wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 15 2024 04:28 KwarK wrote:
On July 15 2024 04:24 oBlade wrote:
On July 14 2024 11:41 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
Trump has way more blood on his hands than what came from his ear.

Name two.

Trump invited the Taliban to Camp David, treated with them, then surrendered to them. He inked the agreement in which the US agreed to stand aside while they defeated the ANA and then unilaterally withdraw.

Not the worst thing he's done but the idea that he doesn't have blood on his hands is laughable.


If you somehow think this is a reasoned counterargument you're very wrong

Well, can't argue with that.
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SC-Shield
Profile Joined December 2018
Bulgaria837 Posts
July 14 2024 19:47 GMT
#85317
If Trump isn't a threat to democracy, then what do you say about Capitol attack?
TentativePanda
Profile Joined August 2014
United States800 Posts
July 14 2024 19:49 GMT
#85318
On July 15 2024 04:46 KwarK wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 15 2024 04:45 TentativePanda wrote:
On July 15 2024 04:28 KwarK wrote:
On July 15 2024 04:24 oBlade wrote:
On July 14 2024 11:41 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
Trump has way more blood on his hands than what came from his ear.

Name two.

Trump invited the Taliban to Camp David, treated with them, then surrendered to them. He inked the agreement in which the US agreed to stand aside while they defeated the ANA and then unilaterally withdraw.

Not the worst thing he's done but the idea that he doesn't have blood on his hands is laughable.


If you somehow think this is a reasoned counterargument you're very wrong

Well, can't argue with that.


Didn't mean for you to - I'd never waste my time arguing with someone intellectually bankrupt

User was temp banned for this post.
TentativePanda
Profile Joined August 2014
United States800 Posts
July 14 2024 19:53 GMT
#85319
On July 15 2024 04:47 SC-Shield wrote:
If Trump isn't a threat to democracy, then what do you say about Capitol attack?


I think that calling it an insurrection, or even an attack really, is wildly disproportionate attempt to create hysteria. Which works REALLY well on fools with no capacity to reason. Trump literally just survived an assassination attempt and yet you point to this faux coup as the most recent threat to democracy - craven, you're fucking craven my guy
DarkPlasmaBall
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States45333 Posts
July 14 2024 19:57 GMT
#85320
On July 15 2024 04:41 TentativePanda wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 15 2024 04:24 oBlade wrote:
On July 14 2024 11:41 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
On July 14 2024 11:26 c0ldfusion wrote:
You people are literal ghouls.


This past January, Trump told the grieving families of an Iowa school shooting to "get over it" and just "move forward".

Trump told them (addressing the entire community & state) in a very somber voice "it's horrible to see that happening... we have to get over it, we have to move forward." This is why you left the "just" out of your quotation marks, because even you knew that would be over the line of dishonest.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-tells-supporters-get-iowa-school-shooting-move-forward-rcna132610

On July 14 2024 11:41 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
A bullet grazed Trump's ear? Get over it. Move forward.

He did that when he asked for his shoes, stood up and said, "Fight, fight."

On July 14 2024 11:41 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
Not to mention the tens of thousands of annual gun-related deaths and hundreds of annual mass shootings that Republicans don't even remotely care about, despite every single one of those gun victims being far less toxic and destructive to America than Trump.

I don't mean to put words in their mouths, but Republicans do care about crime, law and order is one of their key issues, this is a basic thing to know about your opposition, and many of those victims you mention are literal gang members shooting at each other.

On July 14 2024 11:41 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
Trump has way more blood on his hands than what came from his ear.

Name two.

On July 14 2024 11:41 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
I'd much rather beat Trump in an election than have him assassinated, but he's absolutely the last person to deserve any sympathy.

Deserve or not, he doesn't need your sympathy and didn't ask for it, so it's a moot issue. The issue is that disregarding any semblance of principles and morality doesn't give you a moral high ground. If you have to abandon them and resort to assassination apologism to try to stop the alleged "Worst American," (your words), you may have been wrong about your righteousness to begin with - perhaps people voting for someone you don't like isn't really "undermining democracy." Democracy isn't on the line. You're just losing. Don't think you can replace ballots with bullets.

On July 14 2024 20:27 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
On July 14 2024 08:59 iPlaY.NettleS wrote:
On July 14 2024 07:50 farvacola wrote:
My gut tells me it was staged, but we shall see. Something isn’t adding up

More likely just another deranged leftist who saw Trump up +6 vs Biden in latest NYT/Siena poll


That's weirdly cherry-picked. Some polls still have Biden (or other Dem alternatives) barely ahead or tied with Trump in a head-to-head race. Of course, other polls also put Trump ahead, especially when factoring in third-party candidates. https://www.realclearpolling.com/latest-polls/president/general-election

One could have just as easily asserted that it's "more likely just another deranged" conservative who thought Trump would benefit from the sympathy of a failed assassination attempt, since Trump's poll numbers didn't skyrocket from Biden's poor debate performance. It's silly to speculate in these ways, whether it's about the whole thing being staged, or the whole thing being a reaction to a few inconspicuous polls in either direction.

What "another?"

Do you have any single example of a Republican supporter false flag fake assassinating one of their own people and ending up as cherry pie on a roof tile in order to help their poll numbers?

You could assert pigs fly just as easily as anything, the ease with which you can assert something is not related to how relatively likely it is to be true.

Here's my speculation.

The sitting resident of the White House days ago said "We're done talking about the debate, it's time to put Trump in a bullseye." Two days ago he said, "I mean this from the bottom of my heart, Trump is a threat to this nation." Weeks before that he tweeted:
https://x.com/JoeBiden/status/1806745000971296833

The Huffington Post days ago ran with "Supreme Court Gives Joe Biden The Legal OK To Assassinate Donald Trump" as a headline.

CNN posted Trump "fell" and the NYT front page says Trump was hurt at a "shooting."

I personally saw this

+ Show Spoiler +
[image loading]


on Wikipedia during the peak of confusion somehow injected over the page about the assassination attempt.

Lee Zeldin was attacked. Two Republican councilmembers from New Jersey were killed. Maxine Waters said she would take Trump out. The sitting resident said he would take him behind the gym and beat him up. Colorado Rep Woodrow tells us "We don't need sympathy for the devil" after Trump is shot. The assistant to Congressman Thompson who proposed the Secret Service removal bill said if you're going to attempt assassination, please learn to aim. Rep Goldman went on TV and said Trump has to be "eliminated." Madonna thought a lot about blowing up the WH, or so she said in front of cameras in front of a huge crowd. Kathy Griffin - too tasteless to repeat. Rand Paul got assaulted and we heard "Today we are all Rand Paul's neighbor." Pelosi said he was right to attack him. This is 90% one side and it's a reaction to an imagined caricature of Hitler Republicans that coming on 2 generations have been brainwashed into. The same people pushing this shit now wait until the shooter missed and they overplayed their hand to be like "Oh actually let's be civil." Politicians, at least. The media are still all in on Orange Hitler. The Atlantic is recommending Trump use this chance to remind people not to be violent. Perhaps he will set an example by promising not to get shot again?

There's your "deranged leftists" that you could speculate this is another of. There's your "stochastic terrorism." That is made-up nebulous bullshit so Blue people are justified in saying and doing whatever they want against it. Decent people everywhere should be and are ashamed to be associated with this lunacy, and we are happy to welcome you back at any time.

The SS better be on 500% alert because if one 20 year old idiot can get this close, who knows what could happen.


I applaud you for taking the time to write this masterclass rebuttal to these craven manchildren who absolutely will not ever be critical of the thoughts being fed to them. It's honestly scary how many people, right or left, feel that this election is life or death for them or others. We are talking about two people who have been president and basically nothing materially changed in anyone's lives across their presidencies (at least because of their presidency). He simply is NOT a threat to democracy no matter how badly people WANT him to be in order to say "I told you so", which is so damn insidious


The repeal of Roe v. Wade has absolutely materially changed people's lives. Also, it's insane to suggest that Trump isn't a threat to democracy just because his attempt at overthrowing democracy failed.

I'll try to respond to oBlade's post when I have significantly more time.
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