Ok, seriously, can we not shoot orange man? (or anyone else for that matter)

 Another day, another assassination attempt. But yeah, I get that the guy is a threat to democracy, but can we NOT try to kill him? Doing so isn't in alignment with the norms of democracy and rule of law in the first place. These things exist for good reason, and we saw that reason a bit the last time he was shot at, with his followers rearing to go with civil war 2. The point of civil society is to discourage vigilante violence. Without it, people will just start killing each other. We let the state arbitrate differences because the alternative is people will...do this. ANd we don't want where this goes. Do we want trumpers taking shots at our candidates? Don't do it against theirs. Again, deescalate this crap right now.

Second of all, trump is, to my knowledge, the weakest candidates the republicans can run. If trump dies, whoever he is replaced with could poll higher. So...we're just screwing over our own chances. Im kind of in the camp that "god let trump win so he could lose to a black woman" camp we had the last time this discussion happened.

Third, on the topic of "god", yeah, maybe it's good this guy lives. he might be essential to us getting the best possible time line, even if short sighted thinking indicates otherwise. It could be the only way the dems win is if trump is on the republican ticket. It could be if trump wins the US devolves into civil war, or something in the timeline happens that leads to some sort of major global conflict, or even just, the worst case scenario in climate change. I dont believe god intervenes in politics often, but I actually have come to believe god may protect certain individuals (even evil ones) in order to get the timeline where we DONT destroy ourselves. It's not that god would endorse their politics per se, they might just serve as a villain to ensure that we move the other way, but yeah. You dont have to believe this one, but given how all the trumpers keep going on about how he's "protected by god", yeah, I do have an alternative opinion on that. 

Either way, dont try to shoot trump. Not only does it lead to bad consequences for you, it could lead to disastrous consequences for the country. Vote against him peacefully. We are a country based on the peaceful transfer of power and disrupting that is actually bad. It's bad when he did it in 2021, it's bad if we do it now.