Posted on 07/14/2024 12:21:04 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
If you secretly admire Trump, now’s the time to admit it. Shock your coworkers. Scandalise the wife. Today a grace period descends over politics in which even people who’ve labelled him Hitler and called for him to be removed must grit their teeth and say, “I-guess-he’s-kind-of-admirable.”
Try awesome. Like Moby Dick or the Terminator, Trump is a force of nature. Think of all this man has gone through in eight years. He’s been been impeached (twice), accused of rape, arrested, condemned in court, labelled a traitor, survived Covid and now shot in the ear. Who can doubt he will win in November?!
In the United States, every assassination attempt is a tragedy but every near-miss is a triumph – because Americans are schooled in what could’ve been. Lincoln. Kennedy. King. This time, the target got back up. Trump punched the air, he yelled “Fight!”, and the crowd chanted “USA! USA!” American patriotism is not defined by easy success but victory over adversity, the survival of the pioneer wagon against almighty odds. Remember: Rocky lost in the first movie, he didn’t win till the second. And in the fourth he single-handedly brought down the Soviet Union.....
This time, the plan failed. The man in the arena fights on. The photographs are astonishing: the bullet zipping through the air; Trump on the floor, as if in prayer; then elevated by security, crowned by the Stars and Stripes fluttering over their heads. The latter image looks, in composition, similar to the famous shot of soldiers raising the flag at Iwo Jima in 1945. America revives, Trump survives. And lashed to the great whale are his opponents, drowned by the very beast they have tried to harpoon.
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I was watching the rally. While I’ve never seen anyone shot in the head, his reaction looked purposeful, like he ducked, not collapsed. I the first few seconds I was filled with hope and thank God, he stood strong.
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Betting Markets Have Trump Surging After Assassination Attempt, Biden Collapses
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaDV3CAUwkc
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