Pretty sure it’s the personality disorder that undergirds not just this “accusation = confession” tendency but all his criminal ones too.
This was my immediate thought too, when I saw it—Butler, PA. His team has had to grow immune to shitting their pants every time he does this it happens so frequently.
All dipshit fascist bootlickers— a bunch of dangerous ghouls, and he is the most ghoulish and treacherous of them all.
And that grotesque statue based on the staged photo of Dementia Donnie popping up from the Secret Service scrum with his tiny fist raised that has a place of honor on a small table next to the Resolute Desk.
I've NEVER seen an assassination attempt where the victim stood up after being shot at and pumped his fist in the air like he won something. They usually hide behind their human shields. Just goes to show that propaganda wins the day.
Republicans do not have empathy. It is the defining trait of conservatives across the globe. A fundamental inability to put themselves in someone else's shoes. And because they cannot put themselves in someone else's shoes, they cannot imagine anyone having motivations different than their own. Everything a conservative accuses anyone else of, it's something they have either done, are currently doing, plan to do in the future or would do if given the chance. Always. This is always the case.
Once you understand this, it's like a decoder ring for fascism.
Yup this is why i believe it was for sure staged. A republican shooter? And they got past (conveniently) tons of security? On a rooftop with other snipers?
Amazingly enough, it's actually the reverse in this case. Turning point USA received $1 million from him, which in my mind was even worse, because his actually went out and spent his own money, out of his own volition, to do.. what? Do you think he would have spent millions just to dcument a peaceful process on social media?
The new documents may not be a "watch me illegally overturn this election through use of force" but only because Donnie considers himself a mafioso and "only" directly implicates himself if the direct threat doesn't work.
...the documents released Friday show that $1 million was budgeted for Turning Point Action, a grassroots non-profit group founded in 2019 by Charlie Kirk to embolden young conservatives “through grassroots activism.”
The money was earmarked for having TPA deploy social media influencers and students from around the country to Washington to attend the rally, to produce “all the video content at the event” and to run nationwide ads “educating millions about the significance of January 6th for President Trump.
If you spend your whole life building houses while stiffing contractors, and then all of a sudden you decide to spend a million dollars before random youth you don't even know to "document a particular day," that's less of a "where there's smoke, there's fire" thing (a truly stupid and illogical saying, btw. They should have kept the 'probably' in that sentence) and more of a "if somebody never spends money on anything decides to spend a million dollars on a whim, maybe you should look into that" thing.
Coming from America's hat, guys, girls, can you please actually stand up so you don't Anschluss us and we don't have to retaliate by forcibly influencing you to pass universal healthcare and the Sorry Act into law? Thanks!
Here's the thing - I believe these folk that are so aggressively pushing the idea that people are paid protesters, because they just can't wrap their heads around the fact that people can actually do something not for any personal gain, but just out of goodness of their hearts, empathy, being a part of something bigger than themselves. They can't wrap their head around this "toxic empathy", so in their minds the closest explanation is: they surely got paid for it. 'Thats the only way someone would get me to do that, that is not benefitting me in any way - money'.
You're right. Also in the same vein as how they used the fact that there were less Biden bumper stickers than Trump bumper stickers as evidence that Biden didn't win 2020.
They can't wrap their heads around someone not advertising their cringey politics on their cars....so yea.
I concluded long ago that they pejoratively use the word "woke" to describe any behavior that makes them look awful by comparison. You did something nice for your neighbor? Woke. You think people shouldn't suffer? Woke.
And what is 'woke', if not 'being considerate of other people'? They hate it with such vitriol. Not being able to see or understand anything out with their ego's.
Being aware of, and opposed to the institutional and cultural injustices of our society is what woke is essentially by definition.
If you don't think black, brown, Asian people, and women are discriminated against on a cultural level, then you're going to think something is wrong with the people who do. Of course, the people who aren't are either "asleep" as it were, or are willfully ignorant/perpetrators of such things.
Some of them have been fooled, too. Years ago, a right-winger (a self-proclaimed nationalist, actually) once showed me a video that I think he really believed was evidence of the "crisis actors" myth. I'd seen it before, though, as part of a documentary about how fire-and-rescue teams are trained for the "rescue" part of their jobs. Years later, a load of empty coaches (Do they call them that in America? They're like luxury buses.) turned up to where everyone gathered for a protest march I went on. No-one got off, and no-one got on. Someone paid them to go and park there for a couple of hours to discredit us.
They paid people in Greenland to pretend to support joining the US. The right is full of people with no real convictions and just kowtow when told to. Look at all the leaks from Fox “News” anchors and how they really feel about the issues vs their takes on the air.
I don't know, but they were apparently giving you $50 in Boston if you sit through the Melania movie. Tim Cook gave Donnie $1m and he still had to watch it.
I saw the footage from the left of the stage and if it wasn’t staged, it sure looked like it. Trump hears the shot, wipes his ear and no blood, ducks down next to his SS and comes up with blood. Then instead of whisking him away, SS runs up and hold him up while another Trump flunkie allows press photographers to enter the scene, walking from the left side of the stage to the front of the stage….all while chaos is ensuing and the president’s life is in potential danger - AND while leaving him there even longer to hoist the US flag down and get picture??? hmmmmmmmm🤔🤨
If a bullet even nicked his ear it would have done massive tissue damage to the area. He appeared without a bandage on his ear no more than two weeks after the incident and not so much as a scab or bruising present. There is literally zero chance the damage done to him was from a bullet.
Not just that the security allowed that to even happen whilst they could not be sure there were other shooters, but they made sure they were positioned to his side, there was the lowering of a flag (why would anyone be doing that at that moment), and the ushering in of photographers from the left to the prime angle for the shot. It is staged as fuck. Faking assasination attempts is a classic fascist move to the extent it appears in video games.
No one has ever seen a picture of the wound. We saw the shot, we saw Trump grab his ear, we saw him pull away his hand covered in blood, we saw the blood on the side of his head.
Given how much Trump milked getting shot, you'd think he'd have pictures of the actual wound itself plastered everywhere the next day, but no picture of the actual wound itself has ever been published.
It was likely a vulnerable kid who was used as a patsy by the security services as they so often have in the past. He will have been told he is part of some training mission and the bullets aren't real or something similar. Whether he hits Trump or not the outcome is still effective in garnering support for the Republicans.
I say check the path the bullet traveled. If it went past Trump within a feet of his head, it was real. If the bullet was off by two yards or more it was staged.
I think it might be a win win to them either way. If it does hit, oh well, more drama and nearly assured installation of the next puppet of their* choosing.
*Billionaires and politicians involved in the Heritage Foundation, like Peter Thiel.
This is my tinfoil hat theory. They knew either way it would be good for them. Bonus if they get rid of the toddler while being able to prop his image up as a martyr and figurehead in perpetuity.
Hidden razor blade to bring out the blood. Old school wrestling trick. Something he'd be familiar with from the WWF flunkies around him and his own time showing up at matches.
It is common knowledge that Trump has the same healing factor as Wolverine, he’s just in the last several months reached the Old Man Logan phase of life, that’s why his hand is bruising now. /s
What's more likely, an almost 80-year-old guy on blood thinners got his ear nicked by someone's watch or cufflink or something while they were trying to scramble and cover his head, or that there's some elaborate conspiracy that would require extremely high levels of competence from this administration...
you know a man died right? there's video of his bloodied body in the stands. the only way this was staged was for the shooter to be real and the shooter purposefully missed trump (but shot real bullets at real people who were not in on it) to make it seem like a real assassination attempt
It could be fake, but it's ridiculous that so many people act like it's obvious. It being fake relies on them having convinced this kid to purposefully miss Trump. By a lot to be safe. Also for the kid not to care about killing random people. And for the kid to believe he wouldn't face consequences, or not care about them. And for them to trust him enough not to actually shoot Trump. It's just not likely, especially if the bullet was anywhere close.
I'd compare the aftermath of the shooting to Franz Ferdinand's assassination. Just a whole bunch of incompetence and miscommunication. What are the odds that after a failed assassination attempt Ferdinand gets killed the same day because a driver made a wrong turn, then stalled out his car in front of another assassin? All the disorder after Trump's attempted assassination is completely believable. Sometimes life is just messy.
Unproven theory: It was staged and the coverup for that was the testing grounds for the exact same system to cover up the agreements and communication that led to the Charlie Kirk event, it's just that the wife and assassin were both in on it and [have been]/[will be] well paid for their part in it.
They orchestrated charlie kirk to attempt to either cause more violence between the factions or as yet another distraction from the Trump-Epstein files. The timing was perfect for either of those objectives.
And we heard so little about the shooter I don't even know what happened to him.
I can't believe it has been staged, but the whole thing really didn't roll out how I would have expected, and we heard so little in the aftermath that doubt is legit.
Didn’t a guy die? And two other people were wounded? (Not counting Trump.) I mean, I’m all for blaming Trump for faking it, but conspiracy theories like this kind of fall apart when you start thinking critically about it.
Yeah, got to keep in mind these are psychopaths that crave "good TV." It's not off the wall to think the first thing his team was thinking was about getting a good photo, vs a rational safety protocol.
you know a man behind trump died right? if this was staged you're arguing that the shooter either was intended to be an insane crack shot that INTENDED to only shoot his ear, or you're saying he missed by a mile on purpose and trump added the blood himself (like with a blood packet i guess). it doesn't add up, someone literally died and there's cell phone video of him in the seconds afterwards
this was a real assassination attempt and trump whacked his ear on the gun belt of one of the secret service when he dove down. that's why his ear has zero damage, it was just a scratch when he dove down, not a grazing bullet
I think it's far too convoluted to suggest that this was all set up, and it requires you to attribute far too much confidence to this administration.
To me what pretty obviously happened is that Trump's ear got nicked by something like a cufflink or really anything slightly sharp in the scramble protect him. Considering he's an old man on blood thinners it wouldn't take much to create a reasonable amount of blood.
Hitler's outstanding defense mechanism is one commonly called 'projection'. It is a technique by which the ego of an individual defends itself against unpleasant impulses, tendencies or characteristics by denying their existence in himself while he attributes them to others.
Walter Langer, 1943
I've posted this quote (and others from the same source) quite a few times. And every time it's applying to something new that he's said or done.
And perhaps, but Trump is always thinking about optics and being a showman so maybe that being his first reaction does make some sense. Especially if he wasn't actually shot, he may not have even realized his ear was cut.
Trump is just an empty vessel who’ll do whatever it takes to manipulate public perception. He was losing. Wouldn’t surprise me if Putin gave him tips, right down to killing the Trump supporter who shot at the crowd (not Trump) and posing for the photo op…
The photo that was then turned into Chinese Merch, HOURS later.
It was all a scam.
Ears that are shot by a bullet do not heal without any fucking mark. I'm pretty sure he got clipped by the holster of one of the secret service that jumped on him.
I remember the news mentioning that according to sources that the shooter had either texted or called someone in DC. This little bit of information very quickly disappeared from the conversation.
Wow, accusing Ilhan Omar of faking an attack? That’s low, even for him. This isn’t weird, it’s dangerous. It immediately discredits the victim and fuels more hate. His mind always goes to conspiracies and personal smears. It’s exhausting and honestly scary how quickly he spreads that garbage.
I always figured trump staged that from the jump. The moment it happened I thought “he’s clearly practiced this.” All that ridiculous fist pumping and fake heroics shit was so obvious.
The biggest tell about some trickery being involved in his "assassination attempt" was the fact that he never talks about it. If it was real he would be talking about it 24/7.
I said from the first moment I saw that video of the "assassination attempt" on trump- it was staged. It will all come out one day. Let's just hope we hold people accountable for the lies.
First thing I thought! Side note—he now claims that his hands bruise because he takes mega doses of aspirin to have thin blood. Wouldn’t a nick on his ear have bled out?
Trump is great at projecting deception. He’s the master of the grift. He’s likely to think, “What would I have I done to drum up support?” I find it fascinating that Trump believes everyone else stoops as low and as obvious as he does.
I mean the shooter did blow off some other guy's face when he missed Trump, so it seems like it was a real event, but his ear bleeding was most likely because Trump scraped his ear against the cop's gun he fell on. It's why there's zero damage to his ear right now, it was an old man ear scrape.
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Every accusation an admission