- Oct 20, 2022
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Phew - I’m sorry then.It doesn’t apply to you. I was using your comment about de-escalation to illustrate my comments.
(In that case I agree with you wholeheartedly )
Phew - I’m sorry then.It doesn’t apply to you. I was using your comment about de-escalation to illustrate my comments.
Unfortunately it will become an iconic photo. If I'd taken it the sense of achievement I'd feel would be severely tainted by how it has enabled Trump to portray himself.Without wanting to diminish the seriousness of this, and whatever our views on the politics and personnel - I think we have to admit that this is some photo. I can see this being regularly shown for decades to come.
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If you're going to get shot anywhere then the top of the ear is perfect place. I'd like to see the wound. Very suspicious and could've easily cut his ear with a razor when he hit the deck
Firstly, I'm all for the right to peaceful protest. And, I agree that there were probably plenty there peacefully but you have to accept that they were there because of the false rhetoric of Trump. He was/is in a very high position of influence and he misused that for his own agenda. It is an unbelievable understatement to say 'It was disappointing at how little Trump did to cool things at Capitol Hill' when you consider that some were seeking out Mike Pence with a view for retribution.Trump’s words undoubtedly encouraged participation, but every individual who took part in that protest and the riots took that decision individually.
Trump’s words were heard by millions and amplified by press reports and social media. There are those who chose to participate in the manner of a peaceful protest, and there are those who participated seeking violence in a spirit of aggression against their own state.
It’s really important not to conflate those who attended in a spirit of peaceful protest, believing that a wrong had been committed, with those who committed acts of violence and criminal damage. Not everyone there committed criminal acts.
You have to stand up for the right to protest, even when you fundamentally disagree with the POV of those doing the protesting.
You and I would be the first to complain if a protest for a cause we believed in had a couple of hundred dickheads smashing windows and fighting the police, as it would pull focus from the legitimacy of the protest, and instead the reporting would all be about the crowd control.
It was disappointing at how little Trump did to cool things at Capitol Hill, he seemed to me to revel in the outright show of “strength”, but Americans have seen that as well as we did and still seem to want to vote for him.
Do I think that’s a sane or sensible choice? No. However it is still a choice. Trump is undoubtedly aided by the fact that the alternative candidate appears to be in the throes of a marked physical and cognitive decline.
If I were an American citizen I would be looking for a candidate outside of both major parties. I’m not, and Americans have to sort their own mess out. I can’t imagine how exhausting it must be to stay that angry for that much of the time. America pretty much owns us, we are effectively renting our own country back from them, so I hope for an outbreak of cordiality, goodwill and sanity soon, but I’m not holding my breath.
TLDR - f***ing hell
You’d trust anyone on Earth to graze your ear while you’re moving your head around on stage?Probably staged
I think you can see in the footage he appears to swat at his ear, like you would if a mozzie was buzzing around.My guess is that his ear got bashed against something when he dived to the ground, and that's why it was bleeding. It wouldn't be from the bullet of a powerful sniper rifle, because if it was, he wouldn't have got up.
No, he put his hand up to his ear before he dived to the ground.... or maybe that's when he took the opportunity to slice his ear with the small razor blade he'd deftly secreted in his palm on queue with the sound of the gun shot he'd been waiting for....My guess is that his ear got bashed against something when he dived to the ground, and that's why it was bleeding. It wouldn't be from the bullet of a powerful sniper rifle, because if it was, he wouldn't have got up.
I've only watched the clip once and can't be arsed to go back to find it but doesn't he reach for his ear prior to ducking?My guess is that his ear got bashed against something when he dived to the ground, and that's why it was bleeding. It wouldn't be from the bullet of a powerful sniper rifle, because if it was, he wouldn't have got up.
Hate to defend Farage here but I can see his point. A gun and a milkshake are very different but MPs here have been killed before.The odious Farage giving an awful interview on Sky about this, managing to move in the same sentence from an assassination attempt on the former president to the throwing of a milkshake and other drinks at him in the recent GE campaign, and highlighting how "our politics" is tainted.
No Nigel, the USA is f*cked because they have guns. People only throw things at you in the UK - no one else - and that's because you are a c*nt.
Yep.The odious Farage giving an awful interview on Sky about this, managing to move in the same sentence from an assassination attempt on the former president to the throwing of a milkshake and other drinks at him in the recent GE campaign, and highlighting how "our politics" is tainted.
No Nigel, the USA is f*cked because they have guns. People only throw things at you in the UK - no one else - and that's because you are a c*nt.
There obviously weren't enough guns readily available to innocent bystanders as more guns would have solved the problem.Yep.
Astonishingly gun crime is quite frequent in the States because guns are freely available. Incredible really.
Indeed it could be but thank goodness he is only a c**t and not a c**t with any real powerHate to defend Farage here but I can see his point. A gun and a milkshake are very different but MPs here have been killed before.
He is indeed a c**t. But he's not far wrong. It was a milkshake last time - next time it could very well be something more serious.
Has a wayward firework been ruled out?
And yet all they managed to do was make his ear bleed
I feel he was going to win anyway, Biden’s a mess.That photo wins him the election.
To think this was the first thoughts of some posters is incredibly concerning.
This is what social media has done to us.
Probably nearer three feet.Lucky escape. Just missed his brain by a matter of yards.