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I also want to point out there were several assassination attempts against Obama that barely made the news...
Were there? I remember several crazoids trespassing on the White House grounds, and one making it into the White House while Obama was not even there, but nothing that came close to an assassination attempt. What am I forgetting?
 

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Quite a bit, but in your defense, most of this barely made the news. People shot at the Oval office among other things.
Okay, we're having a semantic quibble. Yes, I'm aware of the various threats and the plans which were foiled, but only the ricin letter approached what I would consider to be an actual assassination attempt. As in close enough to Obama to be a credible danger. Which is not to say that some of those plans couldn't have succeeded if they hadn't been thwarted by law enforcement, but they were, so we'll never know.
 
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Yet another assassination attempt that missed. His enemies are really bad shots, apparently.

This isn't helping my struggle to stay out of conspiracy rabbit holes.
Well this guy didn't shoot. Sounds like he was hoping to, but the Secret Service caught him, looks like before he could get within sight of the Tangerine Scream. The shots that were fired were by the Secret Service, but they arrested the guy alive this time.
 
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Didn't some yayhoo crash a small plane into the WH during Obama's term?
 

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JD Vance admits he is willing to ‘create stories’ to get media attention
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.
 

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If you have to make up stories about their crimes, maybe the Haitian population in Springfield isn't a problem? I guess "Legal immigrants with right to work take jobs in food processing and start local businesses" isn't the headlines they liked.
 

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If you have to make up stories about their crimes, maybe the Haitian population in Springfield isn't a problem? I guess "Legal immigrants with right to work take jobs in food processing and start local businesses" isn't the headlines they liked.
You are deliberately refusing to understand the full horror of the situation. What kind of meat do you think those food processing businesses are selling?
 

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Okay, we're having a semantic quibble. Yes, I'm aware of the various threats and the plans which were foiled, but only the ricin letter approached what I would consider to be an actual assassination attempt. As in close enough to Obama to be a credible danger. Which is not to say that some of those plans couldn't have succeeded if they hadn't been thwarted by law enforcement, but they were, so we'll never know.
Fair enough. I think the person shooting at the oval office also counts though he wasn't in it at the time. The person apprehended at Mara Lago is probably in the category of foiled long before becoming an attempt as well.
 

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Why is this a fucking news story?

Next story, Trump coughs into a microphone...
Because of the hypocrisy of it all.

Trump tweets AI that Taylor Swift supports him.

Taylor Swift calls out his bull shit and endorses Harris.

Taylor Swift drives like half a million people to register to vote.

Trump suddenly hates Taylor Swift.
 

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Trump suddenly hates Taylor Swift.
I am sure Trump hated Swift for a long time, because she's got 94 mio. followers on X while he's got around 90.7, and even more so Taylor has got 284 mio. on Instagram, were Trumpty only got 26.5 mio!

So given the fragile ego he's got, being beaten by a woman at such length can only mean that he really, really hates her.
 

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Because of the hypocrisy of it all.

Trump tweets AI that Taylor Swift supports him.

Taylor Swift calls out his bull shit and endorses Harris.

Taylor Swift drives like half a million people to register to vote.

Trump suddenly hates Taylor Swift.
Everything up to your last sentence is a story, and has been published. Some may not think it's much of one, but at least you can plot out the narrative, the winner{s) and loser(s), the point of it all.

That last sentence is Trump snarling. And the vast majority of the press genuflecting to that behavior.
 

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Everything up to your last sentence is a story, and has been published. Some may not think it's much of one, but at least you can plot out the narrative, the winner{s) and loser(s), the point of it all.

That last sentence is Trump snarling. And the vast majority of the press genuflecting to that behavior.
Well, like Steven Colbert said at the White House correspondents dinner, the job of journalists is to type.
 
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