My take away from the Republican convention…

@SandWitch I tell ya, I will not be entertaining any more accusations of believing in conspiracy theories after reading the nonsense from loony leftists the past week or so.

@SandWitch Interesting, but when I originally posted the above I was going to include commenting on what I saw as an initial reluctance by friends and family to huddle on the stage at that final bye; but left it out in the interest of brevity. Like both Trump and spouse cautiously stood apart, and likewise everyone else before slowly clustering closer together. Everyone there had to be thinking of a possible assassin, both for him/her self as well as their families.

I'm reminded of a Vietnam experience (was it 50+ years ago?) when a member of our maintenance team opened an access panel on one of the airplanes and a grenade type explosive device fell into his hands. The explosive was rigged to trigger as it fell free from the airplane, but since the team member caught it in his hands it wasn't triggered and didn't explode, and he wasn't killed. The plane was parked in a secure, guarded area. But still?

I imagine that the security guard commander had a special "OK guys, Listen Up!" type meeting with his guards, and security ramped up a bit, BUT from that point on, everyone was a bit reluctant to pop open an access panel.

Once you know you've been targeted it's hard to escape the fact that you may still be in someone's crosshairs.

@SandWitch She is mad because he admited to banging stormy.

@Adrift
Get back in your closet with your flashlight, dad.

@SumKindaMunster
There is no evidence that bullets were fired at anyone at that rally.

@Heartlander
We have to remember that it was a registered White Republican male up on that rooftop with an AR-15 rifle. It was not a Dem, it was not a Russian and it was not a battle-weary, ex-US Marine suffering from PTSD who thought Trump looked like Hitler.

It was a White guy who came from an affluent American family who'd had enough of the Trump brand. There are more registered guns in America than there are registered Republicans or Democrats combined, which means there's a lot of potential cross-hairs floating around in your country looking for their real purpose in life. Just sayin'...

@SandWitch
It's amazing to me how many otherwise perfectly intelligent and rational people had their spirits and sense of reality broken by the election of Donald Trump to the Presidency.

@Adrift But according to Democrats, "Trump lies all the time", who knows if he did or didn't?

@SumKindaMunster
You need to learn how to write without the crutch of a meme, there old boy!

Using a meme as a support mechanism to support an adolescent-style post is considered very passé in the real world.

@SandWitch So, first of all its not a "meme". It's a gif. Meme's are usually static images, this is clearly a video clip.

Secondly, I wholeheartedly disagree. This gif is gold. It clearly captures my sense of shocked disbelief that someone who considers themselves a "mathematical thinker" would believe that the attempted assassination of Trump was staged.

Perhaps instead of disingenuously scolding me for using a gif, you could give me a response as to why you believe Trump's assassination attempt was staged.

Please, I'm all ears.

@SumKindaMunster

My post was scolding you for using a 'gif' as a literary crutch to support your lack of writing style. Stick with what I wrote and save your political posturing for a time when you are able to express yourself without the use of a crutch in support of your adolescent mind.