• Possibly linux@lemmy.zip
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      I doubt it as many people hate Trump and want him to die. He definitely leaned into the whole victim thing but I’m sure the attempt was real.

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      Like the fact that SS knew about the shooter way before he even set up his rifle? Or the lack of investigation into the guy? I mean they went on and on and on about hunters laptop but an actual attempt on Trump’s life? Never mentioned before this.

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        “lack of investigation” is fairly normal when the person is dead. Anyways, it’s really, really, really obvious the Secret Service decided to let the kid take his shot before they killed him.

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      If it were staged, why would they pick a Republican to be the fall guy, instead of a woke Marxist?

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      I will continue to voice my opposition to this take.

      People in the crowd got hit and one died, there’s a picture of Crooks’ head split open by sniper fire. There is no proof it was a setup beyond how Trump and his campaign leveraged it, which isn’t really proof.

      Clinging onto this theory feels like the same kind of smarmy double speak Holocaust deniers use. “It didn’t happen, but I wish it did.”

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        I wouldn’t bet on a fucking Navy SEAL winging a moving target on the ear at 400-500’. Anyone thinking it was staged has two issues: They watched too many action movies and have never shot a rifle.

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          They definitely didn’t stage it by actually shooting him. If it was staged, he used a blood pack and was not hit. That would track with his ear recovering so quickly.

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            The way the tissue regenerated was miraculous, wasn’t it? No ragged gaps, no scar tissue…

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              It’s hard for me to believe that he was hit by a bullet, but the hypothesis that he was hit by glass from the teleprompter seems plausible. Cuts from sharp objects heal a lot more quickly and cleanly.

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            So then what, an SS sniper shot crowd members dead just to make it convincing?

            Trump is a vain motherfucker, he would have used makeup to touch up his wound once he was tired of parading around his bandaged ear.

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        Fair, and I don’t believe it was staged. BUT, somebody dying doesn’t mean it wasn’t staged. It just means they’re willing to sacrifice some lives to secure power.

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      They gave everyone hope that the shooter just missed, but he was never going to hit, since he shot nothing. That ear scrape was so fake leaving zero scar or scab after just a week.

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      That would be really dumb. What happens if they hit Trump in the head? There are so many factors like wind. With the large anti Trump movement I’m not really shocked someone decided to take things into their own hands. He definitely leaned into the whole victim thing but to say that the entire thing was staged is a bit extreme.

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    BTW, Trump was never hit by a bullet. He hurt his ear when a SS guard rushed to cover him and hit him with his gun holster.

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    Now this MF is building “statues” of himself. How many red flags can they “slip” past?

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    There are plans to create a 9-foot-tall version in bronze in the works, according to the project’s website.

    The site asks for contributions ranging from $10, which will earn donors a vote on the location of where the statue will be permanently installed, to $25,000 to receive a limited quarter-life-size bronze replica.

    Contributors who give $4,500 will receive a 12-inch sculpture. “These sculptures are the same one’s [sic] being offered to big money donors to The Trump Campaign,” the site says.

    Jesus fucking Christ…

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    symbolizes the divine intervention as well as the man and his message of unity and resilience for which America stands

    So, Jesus “giving his own life” (for 3 days) is a huge deal, and a huge sacrifice, but then God kinda “volunteers” Corey Comperatore to die for Trump, without asking?

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      It gets messy when people act like God has an active hand in every single little thing that happens. It’s right up there with “everything happens for a reason”. You know, rape happens for a reason. You just don’t know why yet.

      I like to frame it as free will & sometimes things just…happen. Accidents happen. Free will principle. Sometimes bad things happen because of bad people, sometimes bad things happen because you’re stupid…it just seems to make more sense than an overly involved god.

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    they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.

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    What happened to right wingers? I clearly remember that narcism was universally considered a bad trait especially among conservatives. How are they accepting that?

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        They were always shitting on teens doing anything even remotely individualistic and constantly talking about being humble. That’s how I viewed my parents and grandparents generations between 90s and circa 2010.

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          That’s never actually about humility though, that’s about enforcing heirarchy. Dear Leader gets to be as arrogant as he wants, the kids deserve to get slapped into “their place.”

          The CEOs get their gold toilets, the prosperity gospel preachers their fleets of luxury cars, and the peons are to be humble and obedient.

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      Are we talking about the Canadian Conservative Party? Or am I missing something?

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    There are plans to create a 9-foot-tall version in bronze in the works

    Oh good, that’ll make a beautiful visual as well pull that piece of shit down!