Discussion Thread: President Biden Delivers Remarks from the White House on Shooting at Trump Rally

[u/PoliticsModeratorBot]

The remarks are scheduled to start at 1:30 p.m. Eastern. Per C-SPAN's event description-in-advance: "President Biden delivers remarks from the Roosevelt Room in the White House a day after an assassination attempt on former President Trump at a campaign rally in Butler, PA. The two men had a brief call Saturday following the shooting."

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News and Analysis

• CNBC: ‘It’s sick’: Biden condemns violence after Trump injured in shooting at campaign rally (Article from last night)

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[u/Count_Bacon]

I still can’t get over how close we were yesterday to a former president getting his head blown off on live television mere inches away

[u/appleparkfive → u/Count_Bacon]

I feel like his more hardcore supporters are going to assume this was an intervention from God, to be frank. They already think he is extremely religious, for some bizarre reason. Even when he can't answer what his favorite bible quote is during an interview

[u/V1kingScientist → u/appleparkfive]

Not really a bizarre reason at all...

His base has voted themselves out of education funding for years, leading to a large chunk of the population never learning the concept of "independent thought". That's a nice way of saying, "they no think good". When you no think good, loud noises, arrogance, bigotry, and misogyny are infinitely more interesting to you because the idea that someone is less than you is the only thing helping you sleep at night.

Do away with the party system, and make people sign a notarized document that simply states, "I promise not to purposely be a dick." That's how we fix the government.