
Yeah, someone apparently took another pop at Dampnut. I find myself oddly “meh” about this one, possibly because bugger all really happened; the gunman got chased off by the secret service before he could get a shot off, so Drumpf and his apologists can’t even claim he “took a bullet” like he did the previous time… not, of course, that he did take a bullet then, some other poor bastards did and it’s become increasingly obvious that Trump never suffered any real damage that time.
I hesitate to call “false flag” in the way my housemate Joe did when he spoke about to me, because that’s the sort of thing they would say (Alex Jones does all the time), but… the timing certainly is interesting. This all comes as the orange one has been on tour with Laura Loomer in the last few days; Laura is one of the biggest pieces of shit involved in right-wing activism, and there’s been many eyebrows raised at her accompanying Trump from the Republicans (Marjorie The Gathering had a particularly hilarious fit of the vapours over Loomer being racist towards Kamala Harris), partly because she’s an obviously revolting human being and a potentially very bad influence on someone who doesn’t need bad influences, but I’m sure it’s mostly because THEY’RE not getting to be bad influences on him as long as she’s in their way…
But the worst thing about Loomer’s presence around Trump…

…is that it’s given Milo Hanrahan a way to desperately become “relevant” again. I was so enjoying not hearing from this tedious cunt, but he’s been insisting on spreading stories about Loomer and Drumpf being, you know, a thing. Quite apart from it being inconceivable that Trump could actually get it up long enough for her to give him a blowie, this is Milo telling the story. You can’t trust him to tell you the sun will come up again tomorrow.
Anyway, the theory has been that this shit with Loomer has been a stunt to distract people from the debate last week, which is believable cos hardly anyone’s talked about that lately, she’s been the real subject of discourse for the last few days… so is this “shooting” also a distraction? To draw people’s attention away from Loomer now? Or from this?
In a stunning admission, the Republican vice-presidential candidate, JD Vance, said he was willing “to create stories” on the campaign trail while defending his spreading false, racist rumors of pets being abducted and eaten in a town in his home state of Ohio.
Vance’s remarks came during an appearance on Sunday on CNN’s State of the Union, where he said he felt the need “to create stories so that the … media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people”.
Asked by the CNN host Dana Bash whether the false rumors centering on Springfield, Ohio, were “a story that you created”, Vance replied, “Yes!” He then said the claims were rooted in “accounts from … constituents” and that he as well as the Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump, had spoken publicly about them to draw attention to Springfield’s relatively large Haitian population. […]
The rumors proliferating out of Springfield have led to bomb threats aimed at local hospitals and government offices. Vance on Sunday told Bash it was “disgusting” for the media to suggest any of his remarks had led to those threats. He also used the same term to refer to the people issuing those threats, though – in a separate appearance on Sunday on NBC’s Meet the Press – he made it a point to blame the media for accurately reporting on them, saying it was “amplifying the worst people in the world”.
So the whole story about illegals coming for your pets was transparent bullshit, obviously, but the racist foghorning worked, and that was the whole point. And J. Divans basically just said it outright. Helpful. Anyway, I don’t personally think this business with the Mar-a-Lago gunman actually is a false flag or similar distraction to take our attention away from the debate or Laura Loomer or JDV or Project 2025 or whatever we’re supposed to not be looking at… just why other people might do so. I do find it curious, mind you, that in both instances so far, the shooters have been Republican voters, which is not really what I’d expect if it were staged, you’d think they’d be more likely to hire a Democrat or independent or, well, anyone other than a Republican. Just waiting for someone to claim Taylor Swift was really behind it…
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