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[–] 80 points 4 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 72 points 4 months 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

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  • [–] 64 points 4 months 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.

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  • [–] 35 points 4 months ago (4 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.

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  • It is worse. Cartilage doesn't regrow. Take a look at a pic of someone who has their ear torn or shot. They grow back like shit without intervention.

    There is no way to that he had more than a graze.

    Then again, I'm probably just paranoid. It isn't like he has direct experience with fake blood capsules or the people who use them regularly.

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  • [–] 21 points 4 months ago (12 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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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    100 yds with iron sights isn’t exactly easy.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Does it matter if he used blanks?

    Yes, I'm implying this was staged and he was just used. Maybe he was even told that he was there to protect trump as a secret backup to USSS. There are a lot of mentally ill people that you could convince of anything.

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  • [–] 17 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    He didn't use blanks, he just missed the target. Unless his target was the firefighter behind Trump in which case he did well. Trump got scratched by either shrapnel (possible), one of the SS officers jumping on him (likely) or it was a blood squib (conspiracy). But he did feel his ear before the SS officers jumped him.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago*

    Unless his target was the firefighter behind Trump in which case he did well.

    Anybody remember that line from Shooter?

    You want to take away all suspicion away when you shoot someone? Shoot him when he's standing next to the president.

    Maybe crazy... but....

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  • [–] 48 points 4 months ago (5 children)
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    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.

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  • [–] 17 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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

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    [–] 44 points 4 months 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.

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  • [–] 42 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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

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    [–] 35 points 4 months 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.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (5 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.

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    [–] 20 points 4 months 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.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months 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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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago

    True actually, the maga cult that justifies everything Trump does finally got pierced by Trump starting a war only he would be dumb enough to start.

    Not that the war was the problem, mainly just gas prices went up which is anti American or something.

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    [–] 19 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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

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    [–] 18 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 16 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago

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

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago (9 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.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    Trump was literally on professional wrestling where they cut their ears with razors to fake more serious injuries. Faking an assassination by bleeding his ear a bit is the most plausible scenario. He healed in days with no visible damage because it wasn't a bullet it was a tiny cut. Maybe because he was taking advantage of a legit attempt, maybe because it was staged, I won't comment on that but this had to have been kayfabe.

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    [–] 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months 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.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago

    We know he was a lousy shoot.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago

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

    Unfortunately, he failed.

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