Do or do not, there is no try

It’s kinda true in the sense that:

• One side hates him because he tried to kill their god.

• Another side hates him because he missed.

• And another side hates him for attempting it in the first place because all it does is make an already very unstable political situation even worse no matter the outcome.

I'm guessing it's closer to 190 nations. (Trump, not the assassin)

then who votes for him ffs?

yeah i suppose that’s better

Oh, you want your news filtered, but you will happily rawdog Becky who may or may not have Clamidia

For sure, but I don't know about that phrasing...

I was glad to see that meme to remember the anecdote. Valuable info in these times.

Wasn't the failed assassin a registered Republican?

Why can't we meet in the middle and find a compromise?

This needs a catchy name, like 'forging the coin'

Inb4 Republican conspiracy that Biden told his secret service to intentionally lapse security in order to assassinate Trump. If you thought Benghazi conspiracies were bad…

The people mad at Nazis are really shrill, just like the Nazis. So they must be equally wrong. Right?

And yes we really are dealing with fascists at the moment, please be serious instead of grasping for some 'juuust becaaause' excuse as to why someone would make the comparison. They are comparable. That's why. The Idiot has openly opined about being a dictator (just a little! just the tip!) after instigating a failed coup that saw every elected member of the federal government besides him cowering in a basement because an angry mob stormed the goddamn capitol. That's not counting the other coup d'etat efforts, like extorting allies for foreign interference, secretly calling governors to just make up numbers, or indeed sending fake electors to make up the numbers himself. The GOP's publicly-stated policy goals include criminalizing queer identities, banning birth control, and seeking revenge on anyone who's not personally loyal to dear leader. I don't give a shit if you might think they wouldn't succeed in these efforts. The fact they want that, and are openly talking about trying to do it, is what makes them fascists.

Failed attempts are enough to escalate things. And with enough attempts, some especially against smaller targets might succeed. It's gonna get intetesting

Umm... Shouldn't the first attempt have been unlikely? This literally proves Secret Service isn't as competent as you believe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_assassination_attempts_and_plots#Assassination_attempts_and_plots

You're correct. You'll notice every president in recent history has multiple assassination attempts listed. The bulk of them don't go very far.

Oh I'm sure that's the case. There are probably many attempts. Having said that, it's shocking this is the only one in recent times that has gotten this close.

I guess Bush had a shoe thrown at him though.

am Finnish, so i responded as such. for Japanese, however, you'd use ō instead. that is not an ö. ou is also acceptable.

Long o in Finnish is oo, ö is pronounced different and could also be pronounced as long öö.

Wikipedia

On 8 July 2022, Tetsuya Yamagami appeared at the northern exit of Yamato-Saidaiji Station, Nara at 11:30 am, where Shinzo Abe was delivering a campaign speech for a Liberal Democratic Party candidate in the upcoming Upper House election. Abe was positioned inside a traffic island of the crossroad, facing away from the train station. Yamagami was situated behind Abe, with a street separating them. Subsequently, Yamagami began to slowly approach Abe, going unnoticed by Abe's bodyguards. Yamagami then discharged a homemade shotgun, seemingly not hitting anyone in the vicinity. Upon hearing the noise, Abe turned his head to look behind him. Yamagami took a few steps forward and fired a second round. Abe immediately displayed signs of severe pain and collapsed to the ground. Abe's bodyguards rushed towards Yamagami and restrained him on the ground.

Yamagami told investigators that his motive had been personal rather than political.[55][56][57][58] After his mother joined the Unification Church around 1991 to 1998,[a][26] she had given the church about 100 million yen (US$720,000), a parcel of land she had inherited from her father, and the house where she lived with her three children; she subsequently declared bankruptcy in 2002. She had continued donating to the church following the bankruptcy. Yamagami's uncle recalled being contacted by Yamagami and his siblings to complain that they had no food at home, electric bills and house rent were often overdue, prompting the uncle to deliver meals and money for living expenses.

Yamagami blamed the Unification Church for his family's financial problems and held a grudge against the group. Researching the church's connections to Abe in the months before the attack, he believed the former prime minister and his maternal grandfather, former prime minister Nobusuke Kishi, spread the church's influence in Japan.

Yamagami is described by some commentators who wrote for The Economist and The Atlantic as one of the most effective political assassins in recent history. The assassination brought the many social issues with the Unification Church under the spotlight again, as well as tumbled the approval of the ruling party. Under the public pressure, the responsible ministry decided to file a dissolution order against the UC with the Tokyo District Court on 13 October 2023, after nearly a year of investigation of wrongdoings.

Why was he imperialist?