Separate Moan Thread About The Election

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      At least 2 people have reportedly died so I suspect it was the real deal. It would be a hell of a good shot to deliberately hit his ear from 130 yards.
       
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        This is exactly the sort of rhetoric that has infected our world (not just politics) in recent years...

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          I find it strange that the people who come up with this are the lefties, and don't they put themselves above all this, goody two shoes and all that.

          They are supposedly the good guys, it's the ones on the right that are nasty ones, or so I thought.
           
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            Crikey! Looking at those two photos - it was the same make up artist!
             
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              In fairness, I think those on the extremes of either left or right have the propensity to be vile. The problem is that nowadays, if you are remotely right leaning, you are automatically "far right" and not entitled to your opinion (even backed up by the press/media to a large degree), yet those on the left appear to get away with it.
               
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                Another Tom Lehrer fan. :thumbsup:
                 
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                  So ... phone footage from a number of unrelated individuals viewing from different angles shows security knew about the shooter on the roof at least two minutes before any shots were fired. And yet it seems no one either intervened or thought to move Trump from the stage, even though he was in a clear and direct sightline.

                  Now ... does that not seem a tad odd?
                   
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                    Very. It is even worse if it is true that his closer security detail had been shuffled/altered fairly late on in the process of setting things up for the day, because Jill Biden needed additional security.
                     
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                      Ah, that's a potentially interesting extra dimension, @Fat Controller. Stranger and stranger ...
                       
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                      I can't remember where I read it, but if I see it again I will try and get a screengrab or link.

                      The sad thing is, given that US politics seems to be even more of a cesspit than our own, it wouldn't even surprise me.
                       
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                        Indeed! The powerful in the US will quite literally stop at nothing. And there is rarely any effort to rein them in.
                         
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                          The really worrying thing is that there is little attempt to hide it anymore.
                           
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                          I agree. Shocking contempt for the voters.
                           
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                          Have you got any proof, without it its just another conspiracy theory.
                          Fake news, internet clap trap.:biggrin:
                           
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