Fucking Hell

Trump shooting latest: 'Shooter and audience member dead' - as bloodied Trump tells supporters to 'fight' after suspected assassination attempt

Why this is bad by lady-raziel:

like i'm gonna be real-- this is not good. they can now frame the left as the violent and dangerous people that they've wanted to all this time. they can now actually claim to be the victims that they've been saying they are this whole time. they can use this as a mandate to crack down on everyone who opposes them. with biden already in freefall this is the galvanizing thing that will make those who were unsure about aligning with the democrats the motivation to swing to the republicans in droves. it will give the already united republicans the "moral" authority to condemn not only the elected officials in the democratic party but characterize the entire progressive movement as violent anarchists based on social media reactions. if we were cooked before, we've just entered the flash fryer.

(Honestly, all of that is why a small, cynical part of me is wondering if this wasn't actually staged by Trump supporters, and the miss was supposed to be by a slightly wider margin. I don't think I'm quite that prepared to be a conspiracy theorist about it yet, though. Much more likely that the shooter was actually aiming to do more damage.)

Not gonna let this stop me

Just sent an email to my dad, asking him to point me to who I should contact to sign up for working a voting booth, or being a voter transporter, or whatever. I'm not up for canvassing or trying to convince people; Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria will absolutely demolish me. But I can help people get to the voting booth, or make sure that the voting booths are staffed. I may ask if there's more behind-the-scenes stuff I can do, as well.