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A quarter of Americans think that the assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner was staged (www.independent.co.uk)
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[–] shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You can tell it was staged because of how it was

[–] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 days ago

Some people don't think it be that way, but it do.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I can tell from the, uh, fuck. People don't have pixels. I'll come in again.

I can tell from the hog drippings around the target. Way too many hog drippings for a real assassination attempt.