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ddfelder2's avatar

The title alone has me 🤣🤣🤣 Ok, back to reading…

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Paul Prendergast's avatar

It’s very funny 🤣

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Renee Marie's avatar

Life is stranger than fiction, seriously. I laugh at the absolute insanity of it all.

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Literally Mussolini's avatar

Sometimes all you can do is laugh.

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What I find very unfunny is that rudiments of security were not adhered to by the fricken Secret Service. Why are they allowing a nearby building’s rooftop to be unsecured? There’s no way that rifleman even gets on a nearby rooftop let alone have time to set up fire without dereliction of duty or an outright setup.

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The shooting was fake. Trump didn't get hit. The fireman didn't die. Everybody in the stands behind Trump were the worst crisis actors of all time. Trump's ear healed up perfectly within the week. There's a reason Trump drew people's attention away right before the shot. Why would they carry the supposedly dead fireman away by the legs and arms? Why would they wash down the roof without investigating the crime scene? Why is there no footage of the shooting from behind the podium? Why isn't Trump showing everyone photos of his scared ear? Why are most people believing in something so obviously fake?

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🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Feral Finster's avatar

And just like that (almost) everyone stopped talking about Biden's senile dementia.

Anyway, the only thing that surprises me here is that it wasn't tried long ago.

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Ohio Barbarian's avatar

Don't worry. Biden's senile dementia won't go away. In fact, it will get worse!

Fun times.

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John Day MD's avatar

Maybe it was, but we didn't see...

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Kevan Hudson's avatar

British citizen Michael Sandford tried to kill Trump in 2016.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Donald_Trump_Las_Vegas_rally_incident

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Feral Finster's avatar

I said nothing about a conspiracy.

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martin's avatar

the dnc will exploit what happened to distract from the dementia-issue (maybe milk this even a little more so it stays away the rest of the campaign) or else they wouldn't be 'good' political campaigners. meanwhile the complicity in the genocide (not slowed down one bit) gets even further sucked toward the memory-hole.

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Chang Chokaski's avatar

Can the dementia-issue ever be distracted from? I mean - every time Biden speaks, his every public appearance - hemorrhages "mental-health" issues. I don't think there is any way for Biden (or his supporters) to escape that... but who knows for sure?

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hm, they might invoke 'security reasons' now to keep biden from actual public appearances without teleprompters and any 'unscripted' speech, add some powerful medication, ... plus taking away the spotlight, quelling the recalcitrant donors in the wings, ... i think it will help that cause anyway.

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Feral Finster's avatar

No, you guessed wrong.

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Wizard's avatar

I'm surprised how little I care about what happened, there was a time when I would have been all over /r/conspiracy trying to figure out the truth.

Just don't care.

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Paul Prendergast's avatar

Exactly how I feel. It’s a non story.

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Major Depressive 🎢's avatar

It's Not that I don't care but it was very predictable and will be just another story before long. Meanwhile, Israel has been bombing the fuck out of tent villages and schools in Gaza, escaping the glare of publicity. Refocus on the genocide, it's the real crime and tragedy of our times (among many others).

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John Turcot's avatar

Wizard,

"Just don't care." Sadly, I think you reflecting much of what will prevail in the future, providing there will be a future of course.

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Michael's avatar

It’s huge story. Why care about anything? It’s all connected

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ShastaBetty's avatar

Glenn Greenwald did a stark reminder of just how "Biden is not and has never been a decent person".

https://rumble.com/v56j00a-is-joe-biden-a-good-and-decent-man.html.

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Chang Chokaski's avatar

Good/decent people don't become rulers/heads-of-state (I really hope to be proven wrong). Power corrupts AND corruptible people are more attracted to power. (Why do we get the wrong leaders? Brian Klaas at Science and Cocktails: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_Oab42VZRE)

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ShastaBetty's avatar

Just watched this and it is excellent. I will likely watch again. Thank you for sharing.

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Chang Chokaski's avatar

I also recommend this book: "Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us" (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56899219) by the same author.

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Sam's avatar

That’s a must watch. I was telling people about Biden’s history while he was in the basement talking nonsense.

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INGRID C DURDEN's avatar

the main thing to remember is, that whoever occupies the WH, has to dance along the tunes of the puppet masters. Be it an empty headed or one with one ear (come to think of Van Gogh LOL) does not matter. For almost 100 years now the president has been just a facade. The one who did not want to be that, did not live.

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denny's avatar

Nailed it!

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Adelle's avatar

Are you implying that Trump has a brain unless it's blown off?

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An Mcgreevy's avatar

I am not one given to spiritual experiences living in this grimy world for so long, but I had a visit from George Orwell as I was sitting on my balcony early this am. He has always helped to see things no one wants to pay attention to.

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Paul Prendergast's avatar

Orwell was a phony.

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Kathlean J Keesler's avatar

Thank you.

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lance arrowood's avatar

Yeah, he was a great guy

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Vin LoPresti's avatar

I'd call that a prophetic experience

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Duane McPherson's avatar

I would encourage you not to denigrate another person's spiritual experiences. I take Nancy McGreevy at her word.

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David Korabell's avatar

I fell off my chair when I learned that Trumps injuries were not from a bullet wound but from shards of glass from an exploded teleprompter.

Literally, the message was the medium (to transpose McLuhan).

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jamenta's avatar

US Army Sniper Breaks Down Trump Shooting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Xuv33glHkM

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Terrance Ó Domhnaill's avatar

I just watched this video and, although I was never a sniper like this young man is, I do have some similar training on weapons from my military career. He lays it all out very distinctly, much as I had already thought about based on other reports I had read so far.

I had written an Op Ed earlier today for my own channel to be livestreamed later that will now be revised to reflect what this young man detailed in this interview.

I will be paying close attention to the media from all over the world in the coming days to see how all of this gets spun out.

Will this incident push the MAGA's into the white house and U.S. congress? That may be the existential question on everyone's lips around the world right now and what will that man for the future of the United States and the world at large.

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pretzelattack's avatar

Trump's foreign policy very similar to Biden's, so i don't see it as an existential question. the rest of the world will be dealing with a psychopathic warmonger in any case.

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The Revolution Continues's avatar

Exactly. "Triden" and "Bump" are one and the same on policy. The only way to end the violence in both the US and around the world is to elect a pro-peace/anti-genocide president. Jill Stein is that president. https://jillstein2024.com

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I don't know, but it's as if the propagandists have riled up people to the point that they believe Trump is the epitome of all evil and so it's permissible to take shots at him in a crowd. They've created a full-blown mental illness with TDS. And they're okay with that. Must be part of their plan to manipulate and control us?

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i tried to reply for some reason substack is requiring me to sign in twice--anyway maybe just to destablize shit to the point of declaring martial law. I'm not saying it makes sense, but our "best and brightest" are lost in their own bubble--i dont know what kind of conversations they are having about how to deal with the rest of us, but i take it as a given they don't care what happens to us.

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im not saying they would be dealing with Trump exclusively. they would eliminate Biden or anyone higher up. Since Trump survived, i'm saying they likely would eliminate Biden exclusively, or whoever else gets in their way. Or both of them. I'm saying the goal is destabilization; that doesn't require the elimination of both--Trump is going to win in all probability now, and I would not be surprised to see Biden have an unfortunate stage accident or choke on his meds. Ari Emanuel the well known Jewish billionaire wants to dump Biden, for example. I expect he is representative of the megarich Jewish donor class, and maybe the megarich donor class in general. Biden and Trump are just their tools, and they are replaceable tools.

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So what we have is a 20 year old, barely out of high school, used an AR-15 type rifle (outlawed in many other countries including Australia), who remarkably got close enough to make the shot, and was taken out seconds afterward by Secret Service marksmen.

Two interesting points the expert interviewed here makes:

1) Any trained sniper could have made this shot successfully. i.e. He called it a "chip" shot. Which indicates this 20 year old had probably never trained much at all. And from other reports the shooter had not been "rushed", he had been aiming for a minute or two

2) The Sniper Expert also said he wasn't too surprised the shooter was able to get so close. I think that was the biggest takeaway for me from the interview, that it wasn't too surprising you had someone able to crawl on a roof 150 meters away - at least to the Expert interviewer here. To me, that's one of the biggest surprises of what happened - how could the secret service miss someone climbing on a nearby roof??

My own afterthoughts here: at 20 years old, it's easy to lose yourself in ideology and not think very rationally, even if you don't have a history of any type of mental problems. This guy given initial reports, looked like a fairly ordinary 20 year old, no apparent history of psychiatric problems (as of today) - more will obviously be reported in the future.

And it's an AR-15 yet again. I mean, can we get a little stricter control over these weapons? Who the fuck needs an AR-15, other than mass shooters? And I believe in the right to own a firearm.

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I used to think that. Now that I understand what my government is capable of, I firmly believe we need a 4th branch of government called ‘we the fucking people have guns too’. Consider the constant repetition of ‘the shooter used an AR-15 style rifle’ by the paid propagandists is to make it seem like it’s an epidemic that must be cured by banning all guns (that could enable a resistance). I will sit here in my bomb bunker clutching a bible and gun praying that’s never needed. 😉

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I am not against gun ownership. But I am for more control over who is qualified for certain type of guns, and there needs to be more responsibility imposed on ownership - for a greater level of public safety - for us all.

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Michael's avatar

Yes crazy people should not have access to guns (of course they’ll call anyone suspicious of government agencies too crazy to own a gun). Tough nut to crack

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jamenta's avatar

Freedom - doesn't mean you're free to do whatever the fuck you want in a civil society. Everybody gets to enjoy freedom, but only because we all agree upon certain rules to protect our freedoms. And some of these rules ought to be in regard to the billionaire sociopaths currently running the US into the ground, making money anyway they can - for themselves.

Freedom isn't something where you can be a selfish asshole and drive down a residential street at 100 mph. Freedom means we all respect the freedom of other people we live with who are our neighbors, and agree upon the value of each person's life - and don't exploit them to the hilt - just because you can.

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this guy isn't a Christian Nationalist, dunno how his analysis compares but he thinks the security mistakes were suspicious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6-z0PqTKeU

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Chang Chokaski's avatar

I like his analysis of security lapses and failures, but I wouldn't conjecture conspiracy theories (or false flag events) based on that analysis (like he alludes to in his video).

People often over-estimate the competence level of experts, academics, intellectuals, organizations, corporations, people in power, oligarchs, etc.. People often seem to believe that "if so-and-so person/organization is one of the best in the world" then they must be competent 'always'. The reality is that failures happen all the time. Mistakes happen all the time (sometimes even by the most qualified and experienced people). Add in the element of randomness and unpredictability - and you have multiple points of possible failure in any scenario/event (even high profile ones).

Unfortunately, most people are unable to come to grips with "normal human folly and stupidity", "inadequate preparedness", and "hubris that leads to complacency, shortsightedness, negligence, and errors in judgement" (especially for high profile/intensity events) - and often go in the direction of conspiracy theories to try to resolve the cognitive dissonance between what they observe/experience and their interpretation /conception of how the world works (or should).

In a sense, many conspiracy theories are an attempt to explain the reality in a way so as to "fit-in" with an already believed/ingrained world-view and system - i.e. making unexplainable observations fit/conform to existing belief systems. If narratives have to change for that to happen, then so be it - whatever resolves the discomfort. (Revisionist histories are a good example of changing narratives to fit dominant/socially-acceptable belief systems).

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Trump moved his head. also Brian Berletic thinks the wind was still a factor, and he did receive military training in shooting.

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It will be interesting what is uncovered on this guy. If there are any connections at all to the deep state - any kind of liaisons discovered in his past, look out. But, my current guess is it's just another AR-15 nutjob shooter. But it's only been a day so we'll see. There will be plenty of conspiracy theories. The election though, pretty much over as soon as Trump did that fist pump to the rally and to the rest of us who watched afterwards. Compare that to Genocide Joe Biden's dementia patient routines - and well, yeah.

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jamenta, A fist pump and a face contorted with hatred, ordering people to fight their own - is that what it takes for the American people to vote for a president?!

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I do not like Trump. I think he is a scamster and a con artist and a warmonger and a phony populist, among other things. But he was very clever with the fist pump, right after being shot at - because many people will see that as a show of strength, and it will work very well against a POTUS who refuses to resign because of his obvious dementia. Juxtapose someone who is clearly being selfish for his own aggrandizement, to a person who appears to have heroically survived an assassination attempt. It's all about the optics and the perception. And IMO, it's all over for Genocide Joe. Unless they find some other way to make Trump disappear, it's all she wrote.

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Yes. So those doing the steering - any connections to deep state? Will obviously be investigated now for the next two decades.

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Dude - just go away. The guy being a "christian nationalist" has no bearing on his expertise as a sniper. The interview was done 11 hours ago. Still going to vote for RFK Jr. - Mr. Fish Face?

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You know, it's true, Atheists can be just as retarded as Christian Nationalists ...

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An AR15 shoots .22 bullets. Although only 150 yards, a modest cough is enough to blow .22s off track. A person who’d done his homework would have used a Western 68 or at least a creedmoor

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The purpose of Facebook is mass manipulation and diversion, not information. The medium itself is designed to induce brain death. There is no point in thinking you can awaken people there.

And not least the top leadership of Meta/Facebook includes dedicated Zionists, based on their own history of statements and donations. So no sugar they are shutting down all criticism of Zionism. Don’t patronise their business. Especially as you are their product in the first place.

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gypsy33's avatar

Girl, you are keepin it REAL!

👏👏👏

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Leon Brown, Jr.'s avatar

How could anyone feel anything but deep respect and admiration for Noam Chomsky?

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INGRID C DURDEN's avatar

unfortunately turned into a jab pusher

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Kathlean J Keesler's avatar

Admired Noam for decades Until he clearly stated the unvaxed be isolated from society - www.independent.co. 10/26/21 Oliver Browning I was confused as a senior who refused the jabs. Those times sure were frightfully filled wth mass media disinformation Manufacturing Consent Edward S Herman + Noam Chomsky Was that book published in 1988?

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Cudgel the Clever's avatar

And he was a Khmer Rouge apologist.

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i dont remember that, but he lost me when he pushed for voting for Biden over Trump.

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Ruth Gordon's avatar

Instagram is now not allowing me to download Palestinian news to upload as a reel. Censorship is alive and well

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denny's avatar

Definitely a hoax. Just because they shot a kid doesn't mean he did it. Nothing is real today, but babies dying in Gaza with US weapons. Our government gave Wasrael our money to kill children. Abstain 2024!

We deserve better than Hobson's Choice.

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The Revolution Continues's avatar

People, planet and peace -- vote for the pro-peace/pro-worker/anti-genocide candidate from the Green Party, Jill Stein. https://jillstein2024.com

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Carolyn L Zaremba's avatar

Don't abstain. Vote for the Socialist Equality Party. I always do.

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gypsy33's avatar

Regarding your headline:

Caitlin, are you trying to make your readers piss themselves?

😂

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An Mcgreevy's avatar

Like I said he makes people look at things they’d rather ignore. He was a colossal misogynist along with his ingrained racist thoughts, but at least he thought about them and evolved as he did after his wife died. He was a confused product of a very confused generation who lived in London during the war. But he knew the power of media to control thought.

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The old Soviet Union used to have propaganda in its news such as Pravda which was crude and laughable. Now the western machine is very sophisticated in its lying propaganda by commission and omission served to folks it feels need this to keep on believing. But by cruder organs it believes are read or listened to or watched by people with a lower standard of education.Anyone getting their information from the mainstream media are living in a world which political violence is shocking and unexpected in spite of the fact that the USA is a place where more critical gun violence than just about anywhere else in the world. The US is a violent dystopia posing as peace loving Utopia behind a shield of protective distrtong media . And its war polices are in danger of destroying the entire world.

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Chang Chokaski's avatar

>>"The US is a violent dystopia posing as peace loving Utopia behind a shield of protective distorting media . And its war polices are in danger of destroying the entire world."

Well said Jack Lomax! You nailed it!

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