Last update: 2024-09-18

Dave Weigel

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National politics reporter at semafor.com. Alum: WashPost, Bloomberg, Slate, Reason. Author of “The Show That Never Ends.”

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Top 5 Most Liked Skeets (14 days)

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Feels like an area where Vance's age hurts him. There's a generation gap here; I graduated HS in 2000, and Columbine was a freak, horrifying event. We didn't grow up with mass shooter drills, nor did people older than me. If you're over 40, "nothin' we can do about mass shootings" sounds crazy.

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Right - I've seen people who should know better (maybe I'm generous) asking how only Trump is ever targeted. There have been similar incompetent attempts to attack Harris and Biden. They just got "another kook foiled" coverage, not "God saved Trump from another bullet" coverage.

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Racist Twitter basically has the run of the place, only question imo is the convert-to-recoil ratio when normal people see this shit.

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No matter how many times I hear it, "he got married on the Tiananmen Square anniversary" stuns me as a dumbass attack line. You know what the CCP never wants to talk about? Tiananmen Square 1989. You know what you can't find photos or stories about on the PRC internet? Tiananmen Square 1989.

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Very funny imo that Snowden re-emerged to suggest that the Mar-a-Lago attempted Trump assassin might be a CIA asset, right before we learn he's a kook with endless legal problems who wore a pink shirt to hide in green bushes.

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Top 5 Most Reposted Skeets (14 days)

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Right - I've seen people who should know better (maybe I'm generous) asking how only Trump is ever targeted. There have been similar incompetent attempts to attack Harris and Biden. They just got "another kook foiled" coverage, not "God saved Trump from another bullet" coverage.

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Feels like an area where Vance's age hurts him. There's a generation gap here; I graduated HS in 2000, and Columbine was a freak, horrifying event. We didn't grow up with mass shooter drills, nor did people older than me. If you're over 40, "nothin' we can do about mass shootings" sounds crazy.

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Racist Twitter basically has the run of the place, only question imo is the convert-to-recoil ratio when normal people see this shit.

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No matter how many times I hear it, "he got married on the Tiananmen Square anniversary" stuns me as a dumbass attack line. You know what the CCP never wants to talk about? Tiananmen Square 1989. You know what you can't find photos or stories about on the PRC internet? Tiananmen Square 1989.

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This is an interesting thread. Unfortunately, there are a bunch of crazy people in America, and a ton of guns. There are frequent threats against politicians; most criminals are stupid and get caught before they act. That's what happened here, yet it got 48 hours of NATIONAL TRAGEDY AVERTED ink.

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