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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(116,545 posts)
Thu Jul 18, 2024, 11:31 AM Jul 2024

Jeff Tiedrich - ear-gate: why is the press giving Donald Trump yet another free pass?

on March 30, 1981, some delusional fuckface named John Hinckley Jr. decided that the best way to impress the shit out of his imaginary girlfriend Jodie Foster was to pump a few bullets into then-President Ronald Reagan.

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if you’ve been kicking around this planet long enough to remember Reagan’s near-assassination, you’ll also remember the total media frenzy that surrounded it. reporters were camped out in front of the hospital. doctors and hospital staff gave numerous live press conferences and issued frequently-updated medical reports. when Reagan waved from his hospital window, the press spontaneously orgasmed,

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on July 13, 2024, some dweeby dipshit incel named Thomas Matthew Crooks fired an unknown number of bullets in the general direction of Donny Convict. one of the bullets is alleged to have grazed the tippy tip of Donny’s ear.

that’s all we know about what happened. no medical report, no press conferences. no official statements — just an unconfirmed rumor that Donny spent the weekend playing golf at his New Jersey ex-wife cemetery, and then on Monday he showed up at the RNC with a clownishly-oversized maxi-pad on his ear.

https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/ear-gate-why-is-the-press-giving

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Jeff Tiedrich - ear-gate: why is the press giving Donald Trump yet another free pass? (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2024 OP
There should be a bullet somewhere Arne Jul 2024 #1
I cannot recommend this enough. KatyaR Jul 2024 #2
Would give this 100 recs if I could. A MUST READ! nt allegorical oracle Jul 2024 #3
Any other crime scene orthoclad Jul 2024 #4

orthoclad

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4. Any other crime scene
Fri Jul 19, 2024, 08:41 PM
Jul 2024

would have detailed police reports on the nature of the injury.

But as JT says, Donald is a Very Special Boy.

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