Speaking with friends the last couple days about Saturdays attempt, what would America be looking like today had he hit the bullseye?
Would chaos and riots follow? I was suprised by 3/4 of responses, that very bad times and bad things would happen.
It didnt hit the mark, close but not close enough. Would that be a SHTF?
I probably spent too much time thinking what if....But What if?

yes

A sack full of people literally worship the man

There would be a big funeral and that’s about it. Lots of people complaining but still living pretty good.

Yep. big funeral and lots of big talk but zero action. I've seen lots of it right here on this forum.

If that's the case and all that happens, they will try again.

They already arrested another with an AK pistol yesterday in a bag outside convention.

Only with the blessing of the military. There is probably some high level backroom negotiations happening right now

Those “little bites” are given a pass. People aren’t going to throw away everything without a guaranteed gain.

I expect a big funeral

a lot of people would be relived

a lot of people would be angry

then in the morning we would all go to work and make America run again for another day because if we don't it is a matter of time till our families go hungry.

the politicians who take the credit at the top can only clear a few road blocks for the rest of us at the bottom to go make America run again for another day.


as for who the next talking head at the podium is , that would likely change , but would it really change that much , probably not.

I don't think there would be any mass riots

no looting

possibly attempts on other politicians but unlikely by trump followers

the man who rows the boat seldom rocks the boat

there is a mix of Americans that make her run every day but the people who do , don't invite riots chaos and destruction. Those are the freeloaders.

The real problem is Trump's followers that have given themselves hearts and souls to Jesus Christ
They are NOT going to do anything because they believe God alone will punish the wrong doer's
This country isn't in a position to wait for that

If Trump goes down we must all stand up
Or we'll all be on our knees

As the old saying goes....

"If ifs, and and buts were candy and nuts. We'd all have a Merry Christmas."

If that shot had been successful, considering all else that has gone down at hands of current administration against trump, would have been seen as a sanctioned hit. Of course they would disavow any knowledge or involvement.........and warnings to stand down and do nothing to retaliate. With them in charge....and news media covering their backs....they do have substantial resources to deal with guys bent on payback. Could easily spin out of control into full blown civil war. Lucky for all involved, that didn't happen.

But as for motivation of shooter..........what is known? Where is investigation? To my knowledge........crickets. Head of SS has offered a response and excuse about shooter on a roof so stupid as to be laughable. FBI took shooter's phone.......has hacked into it.......still nothing. Kinda like a cargo ship taking down a key bridge under highly suspicious circumstance. That story quickly and quietly went away.

Every moment that goes buy raises doubts. Lucky for them, shot missed to payback has not started. Hopefully won't. Hopefully election goes as is thought it will now, then with new sheriff in town, they can get to the bottom of it and clean house.

There's a lot of truth to this. I think it's obvious that conservatives exercise a lot of self-restraint and want to operate within the bounds of the law. Until their recent epiphany, they told us our president was in complete possession of his faculties. They were gaslighting the entire country. Some were fine with that. Most of us here seemed to know better.

That self-restraint isn't boundless. A lot will depend on what happens between now and election day.

Think of the consequences of Franz Ferdinand being assassinated in 1914

What would have happened if that shot had gone home I don’t like to think about because unlike a lot here I don’t think the American people would have been complacent about it and just gone on with their lives, I travel around a good bit for my job and people are angry very very deeply angry and it has been growing over the last couple of years, think back to when you were a kid and that little guy that was always being picked on till one day something set him off and he just went berserk on his tormentors didn’t care about consequences didn’t care about being hurt just wanted to destroy those picking on him at all costs

A lot of Americans are at that point right now they are sick, tired, fed up and very angry about what has been happening and IMHO all it would take is something to blow the top off to set them in motion admiral Yamamoto is famously quoted as saying after the bombing of Pearl Harbor that he feared all they had done is awaken a sleeping giant the killing of Trump might have just been that trigger

Americans are as a rule lazy and tend to go along to get along till they get POed, why do you think the Dems have pulled all their adds, it wasn’t because they feared Trump getting killed, no I think some of them have come to the realization that a major portion of that anger is aimed straight at them

Did you happen to see the reaction of a lot of those at the rally to the media, frankly I am surprised they settled for name calling and flying the bird at them it’s my firm belief that had Trump been killed that reaction would have been way different




Unfortunately that’s the group that is the most angry and when they get angry bad things happen, think of who rushed to join up after Pearl Harbor it wasn’t the freeloading public or the rich it was the common working man and he was Poed

Those are nice thoughts but we aren’t there yet. I live in a very conservative part of the state. Every invitation to prepare for a little payback is answered with, “that’s crazy”.

Who knows. I guess I would be pretty upset someone would shoot our president - even if it was one I did not like. I would not do anything. I have a lot of faith in our people to do the same. On the other hand I could sure see someone who would get a bad report at the doctors office decide to go out with a bang and try that on someone on the other side of things. We live in such a bad world.