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[–] shawn1122@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The "Free World" is a propaganda term,[1][2] primarily used during the Second World War[3] and Cold War, to refer to the Allies, Western Bloc and aligned countries. - Wikipedia

For those not familiar with the phrasing. Always feels like being teleported back to the mid 1900s.

I will say it's a solid propoganda term for regions in which many people feel like wage slaves and the antiestablishment fervor is at such a fever pitch that authoritarians are being voted in.

The same region thats financed a genocide in Gaza and has a power center that has an immigration and customs enforcement akin to the gestapo is the free world. Hmm. Might be time to retire this descriptor guys.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 days ago (6 children)

The biggest reason I have my doubts it was staged is I don't think Trump's competent enough to stage an assassination attempt that well. His ear could plausibly have been grazed by a bullet enough to make it bleed like that, but not leave any scarring. His ear looks intact even right after it happened:

If it was staged, it's the most uncharacteristically competent thing he's ever done.

[–] LittleBorat3@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Either fake or debris from the teleprompter hit his ear.

[–] FrChazzz@lemmus.org 2 points 2 days ago

I happened to see a photo of his right side the other day and noticed that there is a little nick in the outer part of his ear cartilage, right about where the darkest red part is on this photo. And there's that photo of the bullet going past his head where he grabs his ear and there's blood on his fingers. I'm guessing that the bullet was close enough that maybe the air around it caused a wound? But there's no way a bullet full-on hit his ear.

Regardless, I agree that it wasn't staged. Just not as bad of a wound for him than they want us to believe (can't say the same for the volunteer fireman, though...)

[–] uberdroog@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Because Roger Stone had no obligation to include the president. It was actually better the less he knew.

[–] FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Doesn’t look like the usual earpiece to me. Or a regular ear.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 1 points 2 days ago

What a substantial and wel worded rebuttal. Regardless, what’s your take then: Oddly shaped ear? Inflammation?

I’ll follow your initial post that he’s too incompetent to pull something like that off, but how much would he be running himself?

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[–] rabber@lemmy.ca 41 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Staged event obviously. Your ear doesn't just miraculously regrow, never mind in 3 days

[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yep definitely. Just look at Evander Holyfield’s ear that was bitten off by Mike Tyson back in 1997. Still missing to this day…

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[–] Iceman@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

We know he was a lousy shoot.

[–] daannii@lemmy.world 35 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Here is what probably happened. Because this guy was a maga. That's been established.

Someone recruited him to fire a blank. They assured him he would just be arrested or maybe do a fake death and give him a new identity. Though they planned to kill him.

They likely told him this would help secure trump the presidency.

And it was honorable.

They probably found him by profiling his social media activity.

Weird how he didn't have much to be found huh? Almost like someone high up wiped his record?

This is what I think. This kid was told to fire a blank. Given a gun and the blank.

Told Where to be. When to do it.

And then killed so he could never talk.

Which means. Trump killed him too. A long with all the other deaths on his hands.

Eventually someone who knows, will snitch. No doubt some shady lawyer was involved somehow.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Nice foil hat, but the ear was barely scraped, not severed, and people behind Trump were critically injured or killed.

Corey Comperatore, are you guys going to call him a crisis actor? This thread reads like an Alex Jones podcast.

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[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Baseless conspiracy is baseless.

More than likely, this young man lapped up Trump's violent rhetoric, then expirenced first-hand the damage his policies were doing. When you've been conditioned to think of political violence as the ultimate solution, and then suddenly realize that your "God-King" is a demented pedophile conman who fucked your whole town out of their money, rights and homes in order to enrich his pedophile billionaire buddies... Well, the rest is history. He took his shot.

I think the guy was a young impressionable idiot, but at least he had some balls, which is more than you can say for most people.

[–] daannii@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (4 children)

It's true that disillusioned fanatics often turn violent. I'm willing to entertain your theory.

I still think the whole thing was staged.

Even if the ear was only nicked, there would be clear scarring.

But no scar. The flag being lowered for the photo op. How quickly the kid was killed yet no one spotted him setting up a rifle until he fired. But knew exactly where he was immediately after the shot was fired, and shot him.

I mean people still aren't even sure where the bullet that hit jfk came from.

After all the stuff with Epstein files. Israel. The crypto scams. The inside trading. 34 convicted felonies.

You really think he wouldn't do what I proposed?

He has no limits. He raped little girls. He bombed a girl's school. He has openly admitted to vote manipulation in the election though many people from both sides deny it could have happened. He literally lies at a 10:1 ratio.

Why would anyone think anything he says or does is true or honorable in any way. ?

Fool you once shame on them. Fool you twice, shame on you.

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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

My friends and I refer to him as "Almost Hero".

Unfortunately, he failed.

[–] WasabiHabit@fedinsfw.app 80 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] DontTreadOnBigfoot@lemmy.world 71 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I do too.

It's absolutely inconceivable to me that USSS let a shooter get that close, that anyone could miss that shot, and that Trump would do anything but shit his pants and immediately save his own skin when faced with an actual threat

[–] BillyClark@piefed.social 65 points 4 days ago

The Secret Service part might make more sense with more context. At the time, Trump had somewhat limited Secret Service because he was not the current president. And he was running his team ragged going to rally after rally, refusing their security recommendations.

They didn't have the time or the manpower to do the job they were asked to do.

Then, this is just my theory, but although the Secret Service is like the best of the best police, I suspect Trump attracts the worst of the best of the best, if you know what I mean.

In every other job around him, Trump manages to fill it with the worst people available. Competent people don't like working with Trump because he constantly interferes with their work. I see no reason why his security would be different.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 35 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I don't know if it was a setup, but I'm confident Trump was not shot. Even an ear piercing leaves a scar. And that part of the ear doesn't bleed much. Also, wounds don't heal three days later.

But as much as any of that, Trump would shit his pants if he were actually shot.

[–] Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 17 points 3 days ago

Well that Depends, he might have shit his pants but as early as The Apprentice, he reportedly would soil himself and need to be cleaned up by an assistant on set that was nicknamed Wet Wipes.

https://youtu.be/W5uqAavJPAo - one of the show people talking about Wet Wipes.

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[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 21 points 4 days ago (19 children)

iirc the shot was 300 yards with iron sights. That's not impossible but it's not easy either. Someone who doesn't shoot often would definitely have trouble with that

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[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 10 points 3 days ago

Obviously, given the miraculously healing ear. Of course he could also be the actual antichrist.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 47 points 4 days ago (5 children)
[–] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 68 points 4 days ago (13 children)

The kid who got the closest to assassinating Trump that we know of. Although, the details are extremely dubious, with some going as far as to say the assassination attempt was staged.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Guy on the roof who died supposedly clipping Trump's ear?

[–] db2@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago (5 children)

The magically regenerating ear.

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[–] Pman@lemmy.org 43 points 4 days ago

We know he was a far right agitator who wanted for there to be a massive right wing backlash against the left if I remember correctly.

[–] FalschgeldFurkan@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago (2 children)

It's crazy to think that we were just millimeters away from a completely different timeline

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

"I went forward in time...to view alternate futures. To see all the possible outcomes of the assassination attempt."

"How many did you see?"

"Fourteen million, six hundred and five."

"How many did he survive?"

"One."

[–] yakko@feddit.uk 8 points 3 days ago

Seems unlikely, this kid was for sure a patsy

[–] better_than_god@lemmy.zip 18 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Isnt this the one that was staged, photo ops and all prepared?

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago

oh sure and two people were shot and one killed with blanks. This is fucking Facebook.

[–] JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Yeah, I can't believe any intelligent person would think this wasn't a totally staged event.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They staged a nick of the ear, then the death of Corey Comperatore and the critical wounding or two others?

The deceased victim was identified as Corey Comperatore, 50, of Sarver, PA. The second victim has been identified as 57-year-old David Dutch, of New Kensington, PA, who is currently listed in stable condition. The third victim was identified as 74-year-old James Copenhaver, of Moon Township, PA. He is also listed in stable condition.

Now tell us idiots how blanks did this.

[–] JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago

Did you know any of those people personally? Have you ever met them & their families & friends? Where are the interviews & sob stories from these people? There's none because it never happened.

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[–] bunkyprewster@startrek.website 13 points 3 days ago

I know that he had "laughably bad aim" when he tried to join his Highschool rifle team

[–] db2@lemmy.world 25 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] notwhoyouthink@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Jfc Kirk gets uglier the less I see him.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 20 points 4 days ago (4 children)

More like he almost doomed the free world and the economy. Imagine if Trump died and an actually competent fascist came in his place. This is the best realistic scenario for America; someone like Putin would already have his opposition in gulags.

[–] gmtom@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I mean that's possible, but also Trump is 100% being managed by the federalist society. He can barely stay awake during meetings, no way he's actually dictating policy.

And that also assumes their was a clear second to take the reins of MAGA that the inner circle would rally behind, power vacuums tend to lead to infighting and without a clear cult leader the low level maga worshipers would likely be in chaos.

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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 points 3 days ago

the greatest enemy of the right wing, and conservatives in generals is each other.

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