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And just like that, 35% of Americans are now cheering for Iran.
35? I feel like that's a low ball... though the sad fact is if it happened shit would probably get a lot worse real fast.
That's about how I picture America - 35% now love Iran, other 35% are outraged out of their minds and think that Trump should nuke Iran, and the rest think iRan is a fitness app and instantly blocked that source of ads.
I don't normally like seeing violence / gore. It makes me queezy and upset. I don't click on NSFL links ever.
But I would watch this. If the current potus was assassinated by someone (especially a foreign contract for hire), and it was captured on video, I would watch it on repeat, at various speeds, and I would relish in his pain as he capitulates to the cold clutch of death's grip.
I would save the video and revisit it from time to time as a reminder that sometimes people do get what they deserve.

"Chilling"? Come on
More like "exciting".
We triple dog dare you.
Honestly, I'm not entirely convinced that the bullet missed at all.
Well he was brain dead before the attempt, so it's hard to tell if they missed or not.
I would never have thought that I would ever be on the same page with some religious dictator...
Kind of wish they'd take eachother out tbh
It feels like there are about 100 million of us in the states scratching our necks like Dave Chappelle and saying "y'all still got any of that 'regime change' we been handing out?"


How can we help?
This time it will not miss the target.
I sure hope not!

"chilling"...
I'm tired of the media calling normal human rights heartwarming and news like this "chilling"
An 80 old woman being able to go on retiremen or a child being able to pay for prosthetic limbs because of charity is not heartwarming. These are the real chilling facts.
An action against a President who does not respect international law should be heartwarming although it's drastic
Fingers crossed
People forgetting even if Trump will be or had been assassinated, Vance would just take his place and continue the train. Besides, Iran has been claiming they can do this since forever with nothing to show for it.
The hope is Vance doesn’t have the charisma to keep the cult together.
Neither does Trump. I don't know where the argument that he has some kind of Magic Secret Fascism Sauce comes from. Republicans fucking love idiots and have been rabidly supporting them for decades now, and they'll blindly follow Vance just like they're blindly following Trump. It could be a sentient mop with a bucket hat, they literally do not care. Trump didn't win the election, project 2025 did.
I don’t know where the argument that he has some kind of Magic Secret Fascism Sauce comes from.
Charisma isn't a universal thing, it is about appealing to a large chunk of the population but not the population as a while. In this case he has been the face for the fascist MAGA movement for like a decade now with people who constantly ignore how his policies harm them directly and still support him. He has charisma when it comes to hateful morons who want to hear a fat old white dude spout the racist shit in their heads without any kind of moral compass that would lead to being embarrassed.
They won't follow Vance because Vance doesn't have the same belligerent and arrogant delivery despite saying the same hateful stuff because it is clear Vance is a try hard spineless wanna be grifter and not someone who has been an entitled shit their entire lives because they were born into wealth. Vance isn't the strongman that the Republican party has been stoked to follow.
Don't threaten me with a good time
We double dog dare you to do it.
Triple dog
Promise?
Bet you they can't do it.
What about the governments of Iran and the USA start a deathmatch, one versus one, and then they all explode?
I'll chill the champaign!
Well?
Get on with it!
Chilling? Do you mean arousing?
It is chilling; I'd feel much more chill if it happened /j
Frankly, if I were about to initiate a conflict with the US, I'd rather have Trump running the country, but you do you.
Instead of a bullet make it an ICBM and we are golden! One that could take vance and hegseth out as well.?
This is the worst fucking soap opera relationship ever
I'm gonna say something unpopular: canonising your worst enemies as martyrs isn't gonna end well for anyone
I really, really hope he dies of natural causes on live TV.
If he's assassinated things are going to get much worse.
Wouldn't it be nice to see Trump go down like a sack of potatoes mid self-aggrandizing rant at a press conference or something, and the bonk of his head off the podium to be sampled into a thousand EDM tracks from that moment until the next election?
I think him falling asleep during some televised brief, at a table with a large group, of people would be better.
Hammer in that point he does nothing of use and would have been literally sitting there dead for 20-minutes before anyone noticed.
WTF I love Regime change now!
Chilling as in positive
Oh shit, if this happens, we're about to have an even worse wave of islamaphobia, even worse than the aftermath of 9/11.
It's cooked either way.
Canada, pls save us.
LET ME INNNN!
It’s BS cause real killers don’t call in threats
This will probably be effective on Trump because he's an idiot. Everyone else knows it if you want someone dead you don't tell them about it first.