• the_crotch
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    4 months ago

    I’m actually shocked. I dispise trump but I still thought that image of him holding up his fist and shouting “fight!” was p badass. I thought for sure that, plus sympathy, would give him a big push. I’m relieved it didn’t.

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      4 months ago

      How far away was the dead guy behind him while he was standing triumphantly with a fist in the air?

    • Justin@lemmy.jlh.name
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      4 months ago

      Trying to provoke a civil war scares moderates. You don’t want to be badass after an assassination attempt, you want to be stable.

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      For me, the coolness of “fight!” fist pump was completely ruined by him first making sure that he had his high heel shoes on.

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        That’s a good point. I dunno how he even ended up shoeless to begin with

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      There might be validity to the theory that everyone who wanted to vote for a “tough guy” already was before the shogt