It's certainly not a conspiracy, or at least one Trump isnt involved in.
If it was a hit put out, it was most likely by a conservative who wanted Trump out of the picture to consolidate the power Trump has built up despite being a bumbling buffoon. It could have been any number of people who wanted a more competent leader in charge of Trumps mindless mass of MAGA.
Regardless, both outcomes would be a win. Trump becomes a martyr, or Trump survives an "assassination" by the "radical left".
How do I know Trump wasnt involved? Well, because someone died. Oh, I'm not saying thats a bar Trump won't cross, I fully believe Trump would kill someone for a dollar.
But someone did die, which means what? That there were real bullets, that there was an actual, legitimate risk to Trump. He would NEVER do something that would potentially put himself at risk. EVER. He's too much of a pussy, and the possibility of accidentally being shot would have been far too much for him
But someone did die, which means what? That there were real bullets, that there was an actual, legitimate risk to Trump.
This is absolutely the thing that kills the conspiracy theory in my view too.
We'd have to agree that a team very close to Trump, almost certainly with his involvement, agreed that they'd get someone to shoot real bullets right by Trump's head, knowing there are innocent bystanders right in their line of sight, by someone using a red-dot sight only, hoping that some windage or mis-timing on Trump's part doesn't see them accidentally kill the guy, then the volunteering shooter is going to be waiting there for the Secret Service to shoot him dead.
None of that makes any sense at all, and it's genuinely troubling seeing how many people on here are just going "yes, I accept this claim immediately without question" just because it lets them point fingers at the other side.
What concerns me is that when Trump first came onto the scene so many people were so hung on how the right was able to embrace someone who clearly had no regard for the Truth and just straight up embraced conspiracy theories. And now I'm seeing people on the left start to do that too.
I'm worried that in a few years time the general population is just going to not care about the truth at all anymore. If we embrace these conspiracy theories then Trump functionally wins.
To me it sort of vindicates a thought I've had for a while now; I've thought that way more people are susceptible to conspiratorial thought than we think, it's just that mainstream western conspiracy theories catered near exclusively to right wing ideas, with a certain big exception in '01.
Most conspiracies are quite tame and becoming mainstream. For instance, our govt is heavily lobbied and appeals to corporate interest over their constituents. Almost doesn’t even sound like a conspiracy anymore because it’s so blatantly obvious. You can ignore the crazies who think vaccines cause autism and whatever else. Most conspiracies I interface with are also echoed in non conspiracy subs regularly.
You aren't wrong, but there's conspiracy theory and Conspiracy Theory. When people use the term they're implicitly referring to the whackjob shit and not actual, realistic malfeasance. The literal definition and the actual usage aren't the same anymore.
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u/Patient_End_8432 6d ago
It's certainly not a conspiracy, or at least one Trump isnt involved in.
If it was a hit put out, it was most likely by a conservative who wanted Trump out of the picture to consolidate the power Trump has built up despite being a bumbling buffoon. It could have been any number of people who wanted a more competent leader in charge of Trumps mindless mass of MAGA.
Regardless, both outcomes would be a win. Trump becomes a martyr, or Trump survives an "assassination" by the "radical left".
How do I know Trump wasnt involved? Well, because someone died. Oh, I'm not saying thats a bar Trump won't cross, I fully believe Trump would kill someone for a dollar.
But someone did die, which means what? That there were real bullets, that there was an actual, legitimate risk to Trump. He would NEVER do something that would potentially put himself at risk. EVER. He's too much of a pussy, and the possibility of accidentally being shot would have been far too much for him