and if that's the level of "impactful" he's aiming for, Donald needs at least 39 more failed attempts to catch up.

Likely fewer; while historians have reportedly documented at least 42 known plots against clerical error Heidler, Trump actually has reportedly more than 3 against him:

Butler, Pennsylvania: Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, fired from what the FBI called an "AR-style 556 rifle" at a Trump rally. He grazed Trump's right ear and killed an attendee, and was later killed by a Secret Service sniper. A subsequent Senate report faulted Secret Service planning, communications and leadership.

West Palm Beach, Florida: Ryan Wesley Routh was spotted with a rifle at Trump International Golf Club while Trump was playing on the course. A Secret Service agent fired at Routh, who fled and was arrested. He is now serving a life sentence.

June 2016: A 20-year-old British national tried to grab a police officer's gun at a Trump rally in Las Vegas, later telling agents he meant to kill Trump.

September 2017: A man stole a forklift in North Dakota and aimed it at the presidential motorcade, planning to flip the limousine.

September 2020: A dual French-Canadian citizen mailed Trump a letter containing deadly ricin.

July 2024: A Pakistani national was arrested and later convicted of running a murder-for-hire plot on behalf of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to kill Trump. Months later, an Iranian charged with attempting to kill another U.S. citizen said he'd also been directed to kill Trump.

February 2026: Secret Service killed a 21-year-old who brought a shotgun and a gas canister to Mar-a-Lago while Trump was back in Washington.

Source: Axios

And that is precisely why Trump historically reminds me NOT of Lincoln and NOT of Kennedy but definitely that other historical figure.

Apparently the DOJ is now determined to add James Comey to the list of Trumpian attackers based on a single freaking tweet of a photograph, which is hysterical on its face considering Trump himself called for the hanging deaths of multiple congresspersons and Senators (also illegal) in plain English in multiple tweets:

“It’s called SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL,” Trump charged in a post on Truth Social. “Each one of these traitors to our Country should be ARRESTED AND PUT ON TRIAL. Their words cannot be allowed to stand - We won’t have a Country anymore!!! An example MUST BE SET.”

The president then reposted 16 Truth Social posts, including one that advocated for hanging the Democrats, like “GEORGE WASHINGTON WOULD.”

“This is really bad, and Dangerous to our Country,” he wrote later.

“SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!” he said in a separate post.

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/11/20/congress/trump-democratic-lawmakers-sedition-00661504

There would generally be a five-year statute of limitations to prosecute Trump for crimes of threatening death (in plain English) to the multiple members of Congress via his own communications on his personal social media, and you would think these hypocrites could "do the math."

In closing, I hope everyone lives long and prospers. :)

Alois Schicklgruber had a perfectly valid reason for changing his name to heidler.

Of course. Around the age of 39 (19 years after his step-father's death), Alois wanted to secure legitimacy, and the man who raised him after his mother died (actually his step-father's brother) and additional family members made testament that the deceased Heidler was actually his paternal father. After his mother died, Schicklgruber was raised (alongside the mother of his future third wife, Klara) by his step-father's brother. Was the deceased Heidler his actual paternal father? Unknown, but we do know that Heidler married Schicklgruber's mother. Some argue that the Heidler who raised him was his paternal father, but if either of the Heidler's was his paternal father, then upon his second wife's death, he definitely married a family member.

"Hitler" was likely just a clerical error.

Seems so.

i see your point though.

:)

Alois Schicklgruber had a perfectly valid reason for changing his name to heidler. "Hitler" was likely just a clerical error. i see your point though.

so... yet ANOTHER assassination attempt. almost like the guy isn't all that popular...

Trump claims he has studied such incidents and that the "most impactful people" in history are the ones targeted; he then compared himself to Abraham Lincoln and John Kennedy, demonstrably proving his inability to connect dots that the failed attempts on Drumpf's own life more closely historically resemble the many assassination attempts made on the son of the bastard named Alois Schicklgruber at birth.

I have not yet read the so-called "manifesto" of the idiot who attempted to shoot people at the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner, but I did hear that Trump referred to him as having "a lot of hatred in his heart." Did the idiot's "manifesto" claim "a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again" or something similarly stupid like that?

In knee-jerk fashion, Caroline Leavitt blames people comparing Trump to Hitler as the reason for the assassination attempts; so they're again blaming JD Vance. Typical.

Republicans not running for reelection acquire demonstrably more "courage" and cojones than the Castrated Caucus.

No great loss there, actually, as John Phelan was an unqualified billionaire investor and political donor of Donald Trump's who had zero military experience whatsoever. He can now return to private equity and need not concern himself with Trump's desire to use taxpayers' dollars to honor himself with ships.

In other news, Phelan is being replaced by Hung Cao, an immigrant from Vietnam who would (if he was a Democrat) be referred to as a "DEI hire." Cao is an underqualified nutjob who ran in Virginia for Congress in 2022 (loser) and for Senate in 2024 (loser) on a platform where he made bizarre claims about Monterey, California being overtaken by witches and how he would protect the commonwealth from same. Cao has also compared abortion to the Holocaust and claimed to be an "African American" because he lived in Niger in West Africa as a child (his father was an agricultural specialist for USAID).

But Hung Cao has promised to build those Trump ships.

I don't think they are either. It's still super early into the whole situation, plenty of time for things to come out if it happens to be the case.

Chris Wright admitted the absolute fact that the price of gasoline could fall sooner but might not fall until later, and Donald Trump and others in his administration insisted on painting themselves into a corner and continuing to gaslight Americans. Trump is a con artist; same BS, different day.

i doubt it. they're just not competent enough for a false flag of that level.
JL

I'm not one to push conspiracy theories, but that whole thing really stinks of something that was staged. For someone to have gotten where they did in a situation like that suggests a laughable ineptness in the security in the first place. The apparent lack of concern by Trump's people (originally trying continue on with the event like nothing happened) and some suspiciously convenient statements revolving around the situation all make it seem like there wasn't any real concern that anyone was in danger. And of course this would fit in with Trump's modus operandi. Anything to distract from his latest scandals or failures. Right now, there's obviously the Iran war boondoggle that he desperately needs a distraction from, and in this particular case, it also gives him a very conveniently timed excuse to push back against the lawsuit currently stalling his ballroom construction.

The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators.
article 1 section 4 clause 1

elections are a concurrent power. the Constitution grants Congress the right to regulate the "Times, Places and Manner" of congressional elections. gerrymandering would fall under the "places" banner.

That of course seems like a good idea. Except that:

* The U.S. Congress has no Constitutional authority to determine a state's voting districts; and,

* The "conservative" Supreme Court majority ruled that, while gerrymandering for racist motives is not acceptable, partisan gerrymandering is absolutely AOK.