I don’t think you know what that word means. Oneguy answered, you gave him three paragraphs of hyperbole.
You mock others, saying if they don’t act like you, it’s doing the serenity prayer. Constantly clanging alarm bells is part of the problem. Screaming, “we have to do something” might feel like doing something, but it’s nothing.
hyperbole?
I ask for specifics regarding the dismissal of that video and its source.
It is sinister! There’s nothing normal, or Fair-Play about MAGA and their hate mongering, or their recruitment methods - not to mention the internet bots need to know their targets, to better tailor their message to.
So it seems the facts aren’t really in dispute, it’s whether one is Disturbed By It.
Yes the mushrooming pro Gun Fetish is a MAGA propaganda advertising driven thing. The rabid hate mongering can be read in their writings, and heard over Christian radio networks. The hateful ideas these people are being pumped up with is very disturbing.
Creating demographics and lists for the internet goon squad to focus tailored bird whistles for, that’s very disturbing!
There are nasty minds with bad intentions making their lists and fueling their hatred and contrived rage, but again you want to normalize it to white bread blandness.
Your normalizing of it all is most disturbing and a reason to fear we’ve gone over a rather ugly tipping point and the ride is really going to get run.
Given free rein, MAGA guarantees USA’s descending to a bloody Dark Age.
Your attitude blasé, that I find very disturbing.
So again, does anyone care to show where the factual errors were in that video?
Oh about that gun culture,
… The man who shot former president Trump on Saturday reportedly used a DPMS-brand AR rifle purchased by his father.
That brand is now owned by the parent of South Carolina-based Palmetto State Armory, which Trump himself visited during a campaign stop in 2023 — taking photos with the owner and admiring a Glock handgun with his face engraved in the grip. …
Yeah it feels as disturbing as the man visiting fight clubs to pump up his crowd.
He told you. They aren’t connected. The connection is, Republicans sell fear and violent reactions. It came back to bite their leader. It was as likely an event as the next school shooting. It’s the scarey world they want, so they can say they will solve it. The connection is not personal. Cross means nothing to Trump.
I’m not normalizing anything. You are adding to the conspiracy aspect. Asking me to focus on a database that I can’t do anything about instead of my neighbors and family, that I can.
Secret databae? Cambrdige Analytics has been openly flaunting the law for years. OD had access to the “secret”, that’s how they looked up the shooters name and found his score. They could have told you about the “secret” before, but it was a boring story about data. Then the shooting, and they had a sensational story about a “disturbing connection”, one to get you pumped up, one you would feel like you should do something. But what can you do? Copy, paste, and get angry. And then get more angry when others don’t see things your way. Now you’re fighting and that feels like doing something, endorphins released.
Meanwhile, while people actually died, and others are in the hospital from the bullets, Trump had a tee time. He doesn’t care about any of these people. The goal is to have us fighting each other.
So they used the word ‘secret’ and I think that was referring to the product of by their processing efforts, which was sorta secret till it wasn’t. Takes more than that to discredit the overall reporting.
My point the use of “secret” nor not secret is beside the point
it’s what they have been doing with those data bases, and their intention for those insights and mailing lists.
It’s no longer about state/national issues, we have an over the top cult, a vicious lying leader willing to do anything. . . .
Dude if you don’t see what’s been happen these past decades and strategic manipulation, devaluating actual facts and thoughtful constructive debate - to this rabid war mentality. Listening to the stuff coming out of the convention eh? This is for real and now. There is reason for concern and fear.
Tragedy is how 2024 isn’t a regular election anymore, everything has changed - there is a hostile take-over bid, driven by billionaire dark money, a few groups of individual and so on, and yes they have a great many “secrets” - These people really want to destroy our government has we know it - and it over to a private club of billionaires.
And apparently most Americans are too apathetic and self-absorbed to take any of it serious. Their concern doesn’t go beyond paycheck size, price of gas, lower taxes, and they supposedly hate social services of any kind (Unless they are the recipients). Control of Presidency, Supreme Court, and elections - the consequences will be dark and destructive beyond imagining. It’s so much easier to tear down than to build.
I expect you’ll tell me all that is beside the point. Okay, we will find out about Crooks with time, I don’t presume to know what happened, but it was weird and as usual somethings don’t add up. But I’m not investigating so will turn to other concerns. 
It’s not my only point. Thank you for agreeing on minor thing.
You’re just throwing punches in the dark, and it has become tiresome. I suspect you’re looking for some kind of emotional validation rather than discussion.
No I’m just looking at the over situation of our nation in this particular point in time, and I don’t recall when I’ve been as terrified by the constant escalation of the MAGA machine, tactics and objectives, and nonstop hate mongering, which apparently is simply handwaving to you.
I’m also right now literally in shock at what’s going on among our Democratic Leaders, that one is causing palpitations - They are so good at losing contests they should win and at shooting themselves in the feet. This stuff really started going south when that idiot Clinton could keep his dick in his pants, helping blow it for Gore. But how different could things have been had an actually intelligent concern individual been in charge. The chain of irretrievably mistake and counterproductive choices has been like drum beats echoing in my memory.
I mean we have a leader, yes he’s old, he’s also got the best medical attention on Earth, and he has a strong team around him. Besides old, he also has an institutional knowledge and the ability to build a winning team, as they keep telling us about his amazing successes these past four years. What the problem?
Fight over the Vice Presidency! That’s where the attention should be, but instead one Democratic leader after another seems too ready to put the knife in his back. It’s disgusting. And I’m no Biden fan, I have my unresolved issues with the Senator Biden - but for gosh sake this is here and how. Biden has been living his learning curve, we have benefitted for it - what’s with abandoning the captain before the major battle unfolds . The knuckleheads should be rallying around him and focusing on finding the best Vice President possible, as if our lives depended on it. Because baby they do.
I mean we’re in enough trouble with the future, shouldn’t we at least try for some competent leaders - and shouldn’t we be able to come up with a fundamental philosophical grounding strong enough to stand up to the notion of communicated directly God, or being God’s warrior, or that any human can possibly speak for God’s Will. The Bible itself warns us that God is beyond all understanding - take that f’n serious.
Of course, my solution, explicitly recognize that God’s are created from within ourselves.
Just as consciousness in reality the inside reflection of your body communication with itself. They are real but of another dimension called metaphysical.
And the wonders of learning to appreciate that your bloodline have been evolving for half a billion years without exception, every generation a mom gave birth to a child that survived to create its own children.
And that these insights hold the key to understanding oneself as a evolved product of Earth processes, a filament in the pageant of Evolution, which in turn bestows an entirely different mindset towards other creatures and this Earth’s environments and web of life.
Won’t help with this world, but it will help some better understanding one’s self, and thus withstand the unfolding nightmare.
I know this because it’s solid, and science provides all the details for tackling the challenge. Actually, attentiveness to Earth and time in natural setting, living with the days cycles and simply observing and ruminating is also a requirement.
Don’t worry Lausten don’t pay any attention just working it out of my system.
Here we go
But I guess the audience loved it.
Speaks for itself.
I’m extremely bemused at how his crowds go nuts over stupid things. Not only that, I was listening to NPR and he’s, not surprisingly, playing up his ear injury, which came from the glass of the guard thing, not the bullet, but of course, he can’t help himself to not tell a lie. “I shouldn’t be here today!” Crowd, “Yes you should!” rolling eyes Something about praising God from the dotard and I’m rolling my eyes again. He’s about a Xian as anyone of us here. He’s only pretending, so he can’t get votes from the Dominionists and other Xians. Luckily there are Xians like my friend, a former Episcopal priestess. She can’t stand him either and sees him just as I do.
So who knew about the assassination and tried to short selling truth social shares???
Sounds very speculative.
“Between 1 July and 12 July, short positions doubled from 7 to 15 million shares. This represents a record number of shares shorted for DJT stock since its trading debut. Short positions, or ‘short selling’, is a practice in which investors borrow shares of a company and sell them immediately, with the expectation of buying them back later at a lower price. This allows them to profit from falling share prices. The surge in short positions on DJT suggests that some investors expected a significant drop in the value of the shares by 15 July.”
What do we know about trump’s injury?
Oh, nothing because MAGA keeps his medical records secret, no facts, all vague story telling with dog whistles interwoven.
5:15 Heck Trump’s known to dictate the doctor’s medical reports. Oh the power of hiring only sycophants.
I’m waiting to see the official report of where those bullets actually landed, that will be interesting and telling.
Heck, has anyone heard exactly where the killed and injured spectators were sitting? I’ve done a couple google search was rewarded with snake eyes. I find that curious, though my bandwidth is limited, so if anyone else has seen such report on where the bullets landed or the seating position of the victims. Please do share a link.
Some say something fishy is going on. 
Oh it will also be fun once he has to finally take that pad, of a fashion accessory, off. Will he start combing his hair over the ear so that no photographers can get a close up picture of the significant ear lob injury.
Before Stateless has a chance to fact check me,
OKAY, okay not the ear lob, we can see that, perhaps outer ear cartilage would have been more accurate, but sounds like poop, and I couldn’t find a more elegant label for that outer most portion of the ear. I’m already reciting my Hail Maries, or is it Ave Marias.
They probably don’t want to produce the medical records on his ear because he was hit with the glass, not a bullet. Not even grazed by the bullet, but they want to make it out to be more than what it was, wanting sympathy so they can hopefully gain votes. They are all a bunch of sick liars. Always have been and always will be and they are even lying about his ear.
Yeah I hardly paid any attention to the convention, but I did hear one gal interviewed gushing about how amazing he was. Getting wounded by an assassin’s bullet and coming back the next day to attend his convention.
I mean it almost seems choreographed? Just say’n.
Gosh a song just popped into my mind, can’t resist, besides it’s time for a break, I got a blister on my finger.
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Glass from where? Teleprompter???
No, there is a shield they put in front of presidents and people running for president. I can’t think of the name of that, but you have to look closely to see it. That shield is supposed to protect them in case they get shot at and it actually did it’s job in this case. The material, glass or other material is what hit and injured his ear.
How can you miss any of what he said or what his people said? It’s all over the local news and you can’t even get the weather without constantly hearing about it. I have to leave the news off until it’s practically time for the weather or just watch the weather clip in the app. It was pure KKK crap and Nazi crap. He kept telling the same lies over and over in his speech, especially the one “we’re being invaded”, which is a lie. He used the Nazi/Fascist play book- tell a lie long enough and loud enough people will believe it. Even the exact number, Robert Reich mentioned in his last coffee talk, which is the number in the Fascist play book to tell a lie for people to believe it. He had nothing but lies in his speech. That fist in the air that feels like “White Power” is purely Klan-ish and gives me the creeps. I still say he somehow stage it all in order to get attention and get us to stop talking about Project 2025, which he is connected to, despite his lie that he is not.
There’s not listening to the news when it’s pointless.
Besides there are plenty of other chores and such to keep me busy.
Sort of, what will I be present to?
And I do get distracted easily so I gotta watch my news diet.