But don't say it out loud

No mixed feelings at all. I am unequivocally sad that we lost Richard Simmons today 😢😢😢

Damn this is how I found out. Extra sad now, thanks.
And Dr Ruth. That lady was such a charming little horn dog.
And Dr. Ruth! 😪
it sounds like he was in a dark place for the last decade or so; if that's true, at least now he's no longer suffering.

Nothing mixed. Fully sad he didn't die and this will cement his win in the coming months. We're fucked.

There's still time for the DNC to swap Biden out for a more electable candidate and energize their own base again, for what it's worth, though at this point I think the DNC wants to lose so they can secure more funding.

Melania was disappointed by 2 inches once again.

Woohoohoohoohoohoo.

I don’t have mixed feelings. No-one should ever, attempt, to assasinate a would be dictator.

Do or do not, there is no try
Yoda
- Yep, we all know Yoda would be disappointed.

Roughly my thoughts today: https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/451/084/544/739/972/original/47d31a58ddc70f80.png

I rather it never happened. But him surviving is the worst outcome.

Yeah... Surviving that basically won him the election.
- Without Trump, who do the republicans have? De Santis? Nah. Martyr means nothing if there's no realistic second choice.
  (Otherwise, the CIA wouldn't have bothered assassinating political candidates in south America)
- They are treating him like a martyr right now.

I have thoughts and prayers for the bullet that couldn't do it's job

Absolutely not. My feeling of disappointment was completely unequivocal.

Not mixed, the attempt does not improve or reduce his ability to run the country. What it does however is increase his chances of winning.

Gives me Reagan and Hitler vibes.

Its disappointing. Good someone had the balls to actually try and show he is serious when he says the 2A is there to prevent fascism. Sad he failed.
That it does probably means that Americans deserve whatever lows their country will fall to.

After thinking about this REALLY REALLY HARD...offing him will do nothing to stop the creep of facism. You have an entire party now aligned with the idealogices that the 3rd Reich had. And it's the entire party. MAGA killed the GOP after they got rid of Cheney. You cut one head off and 3 more will pop up identical to him...with vindication. Its going to be a yearly struggle and I'm afraid we won't be able to hold them back forever.

Killing him potentially turns their party against themselves as they fight each other for the power vacuum it creates
Doing it before he picks a VP furthers that unity divide
After thinking about this REALLY REALLY HARD…offing him will do nothing to stop the creep of [fascism]
Who would step in to replace Trump? Trump has worked hard to discredit anybody who could potentially challenge him. Strongmen often groom a son to take over for them, but only after they've been in power for many years. Trump might want Junior to take over, but I doubt even Trump's hand-picked yes-men would accept Junior at this point.
Instead you'd almost certainly get a power vacuum with various Republican factions trying to take over.
You cut one head off and 3 more will pop up
And those 3 would start snapping at each-other trying to become the dominant head. And, as long as they're distracted snapping at each-other, they're not going to be focusing on us.
IMO, Trump is also the only thing holding this right-wing coalition together. As soon as he's gone the factions are going to turn on each-other. The bad thing is that they've already shown that they're going to get violent when they feel their grip on power is slipping. I'm sure this assassination attempt is going to lead to right-wing violence, and if it had succeeded it would have been a lot more violence.
The most dangerous thing about Trump is that he's he's got almost half the US behind him. There are probably more cruel Republicans, and probably some who would be more effective at implementing their cruel policies. But, not many who would be able to get so much support and keep the coalition together.
The Republican base is getting smaller each year as old people die. It's not a popular platform with the younger voters. If the US can avoid a Trump win this year, the MAGA version of the Republican party will probably fall apart. Then it will be back to the regular corporatocracy that the US has been dealing with for decades. If he does win... well I'm glad I don't live in the US.
- I believe the same. Want it or not, Trump has the charisma that nobody else in the party does. And the luck. My only hope to stop the madness was to have Trump losing the election then dropping dead by natural causes after. That'd be safest way to take all his followers out of the spell. I really don't see any other way for his cult to end. Then the right wing extremists go back to hate in their closets and, if democrats are smart, keep having more moderate candidates like Biden and reign the extreme left as well.

no i wanted that fuckers head to blow up

So real
- thank you sharkfucker420

No mixed feelings here, just heaps of disappointment.

No mixed feelings, I’m absolutely devastated about how much harder saving the USA will be from today.

Not mixed. Just disappointed.

Disappoint in not enough to describe my feelings.
I feel like I'm blocked under a huge building about to collapse at any moment and a huge piece of the support pillar just came off...
...that's how i feel right now.

Pessimistically, I don’t see how the system gets better without full collapse.

But wow imagine a few normal candidates running again. Imagine getting to vote for politics and not in a rule-breaking popularity contest.

That’s a bit drama-queenish.
We had a good thing before Trump ran for president and won.
Once he’s gone things will go back to normal over time.
- Trump is just the logical conclusion of the christo fascist takeover of the Republicans. It will be there when he's gone

My feelings weren't mixed on Trump. I hope the next person has better aim.

I was just plain old sad about Richard Simmons, Dr Ruth, and Shannen Doherty. They all deserve better.

If your feelings weren't mixed you either don't value human life or you don't value democracy.

Edit: a bystander was killed and so was the 20 year old gunman. This is the human life I'm referring to.

is Democracy really just a choice between an evil and a good? the USA needs way more politcal parties than just two.
- The USA needs ranked choice voting
- What? The current events are an attempt on someone's life with the goal of saving what semblance of democracy we have left.
  Did y'all seriously miss the memo? It's pretty obvious what he meant if you haven't been under a rock for the last 24hrs.
Paradox of tolerance: Trump will end democracy and even more lives.
- There is no way to know if he wouldnt have just turned into martyr and help elect someone even worse
- No, the person most likely to end democracy will advocate rolling back freedoms to 'preserve' it, or to punish the wicked people that are considered their political enemies. The most likely person won't be a Democrat, but will almost certainly be a leftist that starts their own populist political party
We aren't running out of humans, and we don't live in a democracy...
- Turns out you don't have to be running out of humans to value human life.
I don't even know the news how can I feel mixed
I don't have to have feelings about something to value it.

I've not looked at the news yet, Lemmy was my first stop. I'm thinking.... earthquake in the Kremlin?

There's a lot of really nice architecture there, it'd be a shame for it to be lost in rubble.

That, or we got disqualified from the Euros final xD

Trump got shot at. Trump fine (hence the meme), shooter dead, couple bystanders dead.

You mean this: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-use-poc-exploits-in-attacks-22-minutes-after-release/ ?

Pretty regular stuff if you ask me

No, there was an assasination attempt on Donald Trumpet.
- I never understand why lemmy downvotes someone who is trying to help by providing accurate information, presumably because they think that there's a very small chance that the person they're replying to isn't being sarcastic.

Yeah, I guess the convicted felon is destined to expire on his golden throne while trying to push out a Big Mac.

Wouldn't it have been hilarious if that's what happened after the fact?

Today was a bad day

I'll say it out loud: On the one hand, dying of cancer sucks. On the other, Shannon Doherty was really mean to her coworkers.

Just realized she passed away yesterday, I only heard about Gene Simmons.
Edit: RICHARD Simmons. Gene is the guy from KISS.
- That was a wild fitness class...

Pretty worried about the comments man. Murdering (or trying to) a candidate of any political party is terrible.

People often talk about going back in time to kill baby Hitler. By all measures Trump would like to be a new Hitler and his most fervent supporters see him as that. Is it surprising people would support such an action to stop him?
- If you unironically think trump would be a new Hitler, I'm either completely underestimating his threat or you're batshit fucking insane.

No mixed feelings.

I wish there was more wind.

I like wind.

Don't you mean less wind?
- Depends on direction
- not sure if information is reliable but someone who knew him talked about he is a bad shot, so more wind for the assist would help

This Rhino must be talking to liberals.

Yes, and the Republicans who miss when their party wasn’t loony tunes.
- Bah. They're Republicans in name only.

Oh no, I wasn't having mixed feelings, I was disappointed that someone took a shot at the king and missed.

What happened? Did we discover another exo-planet?

Some guy tried to shoot Trump. Tried. However, bystander died and FBI killed the shooter.
- FBI or secret service?
Nearly.
- No signs of intelligent life?

I'd say I have no mixed feelings...

We've missed the exit for the third-best timeline that still involves That Guy: the one where Donnie bites the dust before the elections. Unless someone fills the guy's plane with Anthrax or something like that, we're still on track for locking in the USA as a failed state.

(the second best timeline with That Guy would be the one where he simply loses the election. The very best would be where the DOJ makes something stick against him & he's disqualified before the elections.)

Let's also face it, if there's a candidate that's so divisive that someone looks at the massive security apparatus for people like him and still think it's worth trying to assassinate him, that would be grounds - at least for me - to re-evaluate whether the candidate is the right guy.

I'm getting a lot of Palpatine wannabe vibes from the left all of a sudden. Guess it's a good thing Biden kinda looks like him now

Biden doesn’t look like Palpatine at all
- You say that, until we all find out much too late that him and Darth Cheney were playing us all along

Maybe... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SexmfU6b1ik