I just learned from this book that being a US president is the most dangerous job in the entire US. Industrial fishing is second. The odds of being assassinated: 1 in 11. That doesn't count the 17 (in 2022; 18 in 2025 now) who survived. - ThreadSky

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kristadb1.bsky.social • 2 days ago

I just learned from this book that being a US president is the most dangerous job in the entire US. Industrial fishing is second.

The odds of being assassinated: 1 in 11.

That doesn't count the 17 (in 2022; 18 in 2025 now) who survived.

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mightybattlecat.bsky.social•2 days ago

Huh. I feel a lot less insane for spending eight years low-key worried Obama was going to get assassinated.

kristadb1.bsky.social•2 days ago

Apparently, it's normal to worry.

mightybattlecat.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yaaay I'm normal! Wait. No.

kristadb1.bsky.social•2 days ago

"The more an underclass peacefully approaches... equality, the more violent and resentful the over class grows."

"To be clear, white Americans don't resent growing poorer. They resent losing their comparative superiority to non-white Americans."

hganshorn.bsky.social•2 days ago

This dynamic also plays out between men and women

kristadb1.bsky.social•2 days ago

"No American president of either party, now and for the foreseeable future, can be an icon of unity, only of division."

kristadb1.bsky.social•2 days ago

It's rather terrifying to read about the impact of a presidential assassination of either party in today's environment, esp because how this plays out initially was 100% how it played out with the attempt on Trump.

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