The party of conspiracy theories is finally catching on to this one. 😮💨
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Well, the previous theory they held was that God redirected this bullet away from the great and holy warrior Trump and into an evil and unrepentant volunteer firefighter at his rally.
But even they are finding that harder to believe every day.
More like Devil saved Trump
The devil may be evil but professionals have standards. Perhaps Trump is protected by a god who is also a rapist like Zeus.
The Greek gods did quite enjoy playing with the mortals for their own, often sadistic, entertainment. Trump is probably their favorite comedic character in the currently ongoing production.
I'm pretty sure the only chill gods in Greek mythology are Hephaestus, Hades and Persephone, and weirdly enough Dionysus since he is just the god of sex, drugs, and rock and roll also crippling madness.
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They watch out after their own kind.
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They think he staged his own fake assassination, while also blaming Jews and remaining staunch Trump supporters. So just the usual incoherent cultish mumblings, not any actual insight or any movement away from him.
Blaming TEH JOOOZ is never too far off when discussing conspiracy theories.
What I hate about some of these people waking the fuck up about Israel with the bullshit America-Israel attack on Iran, is that for some of them, it only validates their feelings on Jews because they are too stupid to separate some Jewish cabal notion from matters of foreign policy for nations like the United States and Israel...sigh.
Unfortunately you seem to use something called 'your brain' to conjure your own reasoning of the world around you. The average conspiracy theorist does not do this. The average conspiracy theorist believes that they're the main character and everyone else is just drifting through life waiting to bear witness to their glory.
I actually don't really care if the assassination attempt was staged or not...
(For the record, I don't believe it was, because I don't believe this group of chucklefucks could successfully execute such an event without totally cocking it up somehow or accidentally texting their plans to the New York Times.)
...because I know for a fact that Trump has done so many horrifying things right out in public where we can see them that if there was any functional justice in the world he'd already be locked up for the rest of his miserable fucking life. Faking an assassination attempt wouldn't even be in the top hundred worst things that he's done.
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I thought it was obvious from the video that he nicked his ear on the secret service person's belt buckle on the way down when they were piling onto him? It explains the paltry amount of blood that appears only after he's down, not to mention the optimal healing time. No bullet did that.
I don't believe it was staged. Everything that came after, yes, lies upon lies, exploiting the situation to its maximum potential, absolutely. But a real rifle was fired, a real bystander was killed, and Trump's secret service really was incompetent enough to let it happen. No need to invent anything when the obvious truth is damning enough.
Given how pivotal it was to his campaign, I think it's worth considering how such a thing could be pulled off if it was planned:
People that want to tell stories to drive history need the right characters. Modern information technology makes that easier than ever.
Find a kid with firearm access who's into something embarrassing online. Preferably someone who wouldn't shoot the president, so a supporter. Tell him you know what he does in secret and you'll tell everyone, including police, if they don't co-operate.
Tell them to go to the chosen firing position and to shoot into the crowd behind the candidate. Tell them you'll provide protection and a getaway. Tell them there will be a magazine loaded with blanks for them to use at the firing position (they're live rounds).
When the shots are fired, secret service ties off the loose end without any interaction from the planners, and the kid never even has a name for who put him up to it.
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Occams Razor may have nicked his ear also? Wait a second, same thing. But yeah 100% this comment above.
The regime took a situation, spun the bejesus out of it. And umm, that is what was offered up. Poor kid could have received some therapy. Turning him into target practice was way way more cost effective and therefore practical. 🤮
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No of course not, gunshot wounds to the ear heal up completely with no scar tissue in like 48 hours all the time. One of the ER techs asked Grok.
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Damn! I can't see fucking shit out of this thing
okay, yes. it was. but why would they start thinking this now?
Personally, I think the registered republican kid just had the foresight to think "hey, won't this bankrupt moron who was friends with Epstein ruin any chance of small government Republicans ever having control again?" Like, it makes perfect sense to want to kill Trump, it doesn't need to be a conspiracy.
Yeah, I'm with you on that (like, if it were a fake attempt, wouldn't you want the shooter to not be a Republican?), but there are enough weird things around the shooting that it should give anyone pause.
The big one that I haven't seen a compelling answer for is how someone managed to get on a roof within comfortable plinking distance of a former president running for reelection and then fire multiple shots before getting dusted. "Incompetence" is the only answer we've been given, so I'm not surprised that conspiracy theorists are flocking to this.
Not to mention, the skill needed to wing his ear (or hit the glass that winged his ear) at that distance without wanting to kill him in the process, it would probably be beyond the capability of a marksman this young.
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It’s hard to conceive they are thinking on their own. Perhaps someone is leading them to parrot someone else’s thinking.
I think the (hilarious) trump Jesus photo did more damage to maga than Iran war did. And Iran war fucked up maga.
All that was left were mostly religious wing nuts.
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Oh they're finally catching up? Wait until they hear about the Epstein files
I watched a YouTube video where someone tried to recreate the shot that apparently sliced his ear so slightly that all it did was bleed a little...and they failed every time.
Simply due to the pressure wave created by the passing bullet, there was no possible way that bullet just knicked him without also doing noticeable damage to the rest of his head. That side of his face would have been bruised and swollen, and his entire ear would have been pulped.
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Some of the president’s biggest supporters are now claiming, without evidence
Something that will surely be ignored here.
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so they shoot a kid until the body was destroyed just to make it look more real
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I just think it’s weird there’s just next to nothing known about all these assassins. They just stop talking about them and aren’t interested once they find out they’re also MAGA. If they were a Dem they wouldn’t shut up about it I’m sure.
I enjoy the occasional conspiracy theory content for entertainment - it's fascinating psychology to me. If I could get a PhD in it, I could do a 200-page thesis this weekend.
Between this and ol' neck-hole, the T voters started off really just salivating ready to get out their guns and start mowing down anyone left of alt-right Rwanda-style. When the obvious profile of "nut with a gun" pointed the finger back at people like them with mental health issues and guns, it forced a lot of what it normally forces - some sort of delusion of "DeepState-CIA-Massad-FBI-Unilever-SCJohnsonWax-Soros wanted (insert name here) dead because of (insert batshit crazy thing here)."
They have such a level of group-think and us-vs-them bias that it's genuinely incomprehensible that someone "on their team" could do anything bad to anyone. Self-reflection and wondering things like "oh....should we have gun regulation?" is tantamount to self-castration to them. That's not an exaggeration.
As a group, under-educated rural voters that trend towards conspiracy mindsets (for 20-40 years, long before MAGA was a thing) have spent so long gaslighting themselves into thinking that nothing bad can happen IRL with no conspiracy behind it unless it fits into their "when do we get to use the guns?" Turner Diary (which was rope, but that's not important) genocidal moment, nothing else is possible. Only conspiracies and the terrible atrocities of liberals happen. Nothing else. Ever.
So when the Butler, PA guy doesn't fit the "Evil Satan-worshiping Urban Youth DemoRAT with a gun!" model, the default position is "See? ThEy almost succeeded!"
Then fast-forward a year and once the Epstein stuff comes back around, which makes the whole house of cards wobbly, they've dug themselves into such a deep hole mentally, there's no coming back from it. Just throwing one MAGA personality into the pit after the next because they're all connected to Israeli money, so they're burning their own talking heads faster than new ones can rise up the ranks. So at this point, everything to them is a psyop, everything is false flags and mind control and the CIA because the reality that Republicans and wealthy people are huge shitbags doesn't fit their 2 allowed modes of thinking.
Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
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Yeah, I wouldn't rule it out immediately given how this chickenshit POS jumped up, and the Secret Service let him, for his very convenient photo-op, and then these dumbasses started selling shirts of it.
His actions in this case seem quite the contrast to the way he reacted to that bald eagle....
I still don't understand the way his ear healed up - does he have any sort of scar there?
In any case, no matter all the details, it served its purpose and probably helped to get this completely unqualified asshole back into office again.
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On Telegram, prominent QAnon promoter MJ Truth asked his 100,000 followers: “How does everyone feel about the narrative surrounding the Butler Assassination Attempt on Trump?”
The overwhelming majority of the hundreds of replies, almost all of whom remain Trump supporters, said they believed the incident had been staged and that the truth may never come out. “The truth will come out 60+ years from now when we're all dead and nobody really cares anymore … just like JFK!!!!,” one follower wrote.
There you go.
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Because it was
I liked when the camera people were rushed into the proper spot and the flag was lowered so it'd be in the frame when he reappeared
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That shit was CLEARLY staged, planned, stage managed, etc, whatever.
HIS EAR?? Anyone remember how fast that shit healed? I get a hangnail and it's there for like 3 weeks
The photo op that was VERY OBVIOUSLY intentional?
The video of his aide shuffling in a WHOLE ASS GROUP of photographers literally THE SECOND shots were fired?
The lady behind Trump that doesn't even flinch, just films it all?
THE SHOOTERS NAME IS CROOK
And the fact that Trump, the biggest coward in history, draft dodger extraordinaire, rose back up from a circle of protection while he’s just been shot at?? Please. He’d rather those “ idiot security “ people take the hit and die before he risked being hit. I feel if he were in actual unplanned danger he’d be shidding and pissing all the way to the car without a second thought for a photo op.
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Recently I also came across this argument: Trump in general thrives of beef. He will bring up some disagreement from 50 years ago at the drop of a hat and holds onto it forever.
The (2 so far?) assassination attempts? Not a word. Doesn’t seem to give 2 shits about being shot at.
Odd at the very least.
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Two things stand out that scream staged.
The photographer were ushered into position just under the president right as the US flag was lowered into position in order to get the iconic photo of him with arm raises surrounded by secret service and the flag.
Also somehow the official whiteboard photographer caught a pic of the bullet in mid flight just a foot behind his head
I know journalists like to go to war zones and such but running towards the target of a shooting with no protective gear is not gonna happen. They also just kind of shimmied into position... There wasn't any real panic
Also the pic of the bullet is just too much... There's no way
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I don't think it's staged , but if it were, I think it would be very interesting why they didn't choose one of their usual targets for fearbaiting (trans, immigrant, leftist) to be the assassin.
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The shooting was definitely real. The furthest down this conspiracy rabbit hole that I'm willing to go is entertaining the idea that the bloodied ear could have possibly resulted from colliding with SS hip mounted service weapon when he was "tackled" for cover.
That said, no one needs to tell the conspiracy prone MAGA base any of this. He's spent at least the last decade and a half curating and exploiting the most conspiracy prone (nicest language I can use) people in this country into his following. He deserves worse than this bed he made.
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It was an obvious and clumsy hoax from the moment it happened. It was so obvious, that even MAGA decided to back off, and let it die down. Normally they'd be screaming about it every chance they got, but it went silent within a week.
Trump tried to bring it up a few times during speeches and such, trying to get sympathy, but nobody picked it up, because they don't want to shine a light on it. The dumbest MAGA motherfuckers bought it, but NOBODY else did. And now even MAGAs are finally admitting that it was a hoax, demonstrating that the whole thing is finally starting to come apart.
And if it was a hoax, then blowing off the head of that scummy MAGA firefighter in front of his entire family was MURDER! So who greenlit this operation? Who planned it? Who supervised it? Who knew about it before, and after? Because ALL those people are on the hook for First Degree Murder charges.
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Is the shroud of Trump's bedtime stories of their own projected hopes and dreams finally being pierced by his unparalleled incompetence?
The one thing that doesn't make sense to me about this is why wouldn't they plant evidence that the assassin was a leftist or at least a liberal? Wouldn't that make more sense if the goal was to increase the odds of Trump's victory? Though it's possible that they just didn't bother or tried to but were too incompetent. Either way, I'm not going to say for sure if it was staged or not until we get definitive evidence, but it is plausible.
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Good. Maybe they can take that Jan 6 rage and head his way. They started this; seems only fair they clean up the mess they made, and I know it would go a long way towards me personally starting to look at them as human again.
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It wasn't staged, but he definitely wasn't shot, the guy behind him was shot and the blood spray hit his ear.
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