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[–] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't know what parts of the assassination attempt were staged or what parts, if any, were real beyond the very real death of the attendee on the sidelines.

But what I do know for an absolute fact is that cartilage does not regenerate, as anyone with a knee or hip replacement can tell you.

But hypothetically -- just for any science haters that may be lurking -- let's claim the impossible and assert that cartilage does somehow miraculously regenerate. It sure as fuck doesn't regenerate in 72 hours, which is roughly how long it took before the impossibly unbloodied bandage came off to reveal a perfectly "healed" ear.

[–] Netux@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 2 days ago

Best explanation I've seen is he cut his ear on a secret service guy's button. Zoomed in pic showed blood on it.

[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 3 days ago

It's all projection

[–] BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I still like bringing up he'd have next to no ear even with a graze from 556. He wasn't shot, wasn't even hit, I don't know where the blood came from but it certainly was not bullet related.

[–] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

When professional wrestlers want something to seem like a big deal, they use a concealed razor blade to cut their face. Just the surface, nothing deep, and then they can pop up with blood all over their face. Also we know Trump has been part of wrestling matches and staged events with professional wrestlers before. Doesn't seem like a big leap to say he knows how to get a little blood for show.

[–] DaMummy@hilariouschaos.com 3 points 1 day ago

His secretary of education is also Linda McMahon, wife of Vince McMahon, owner of WWF/WWE

[–] BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 days ago

I've made that same conclusion as well.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 29 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The folks insisting the bullet that grazed Trump was faked never seem to explain why the guy directly behind Trump died a few minutes later.

Like, we're getting into

territory

[–] Macchi_the_Slime@piefed.blahaj.zone 24 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I thought by "faked" people usually meant "the guy never meant to actually hit him," not "he didn't shoot a real bullet," or did I miss something in that discourse?

Like I thought that the idea for this theory was the bullet was supposed to just hit the teleprompter so he could be like "There was an attempt on my life," and either it or a piece of glass from the prompter grazed his ear.

[–] meathorse@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I'm with you there, real bullet, except the teleprompter was a lucky hit or perhaps rigged to shatter. Only meant to create a scene and never to hit Trump. His hand went immediately to his ear, likely with a pin, piece of glass or a ketchup packet from McDs to make it look genuine.

Shooter was likely a trumpet promised millions for his guilt if he ended up hitting anyone in the crowd, or perhaps found on the dark side of the Internet and blackmailed into doing it to avoid prison for whatever he got caught doing. Either way, he was gunned down before he could be arrested and pardoned/paid out (or talk).

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I thought by “faked” people usually meant “the guy never meant to actually hit him,” not “he didn’t shoot a real bullet,”

A shot at 300' by an amateur hobbyist is crazy to make on a good day. I'm partial to the theory he missed Trump entirely and they just whipped up the "grazed in the ear" thing in the moment. I'm partial to the theory that someone in the SS detail just let this guy through in the hopes he'd solve everyone's problems. But the idea that he deliberately grazed Trump? That's insane. An impossible shot to make on purpose.

Like I thought that the idea for this theory was the bullet was supposed to just hit the teleprompter so he could be like “There was an attempt on my life,” and either it or a piece of glass from the prompter grazed his ear.

I mean, we get all the info on these people third and fourth hand. But I tend to trust the journalism TrueAnon puts out and the background they ran on Thomas Matthew Crooks indicates he was absolutely some dipshit future high school shooter who ended up at a Trump rally rather than a graduation day ceremony.

[–] Macchi_the_Slime@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

On yeah it's insane to think they planned for him to get grazed in any version of this. Seems like the most plausible version of the "it was faked" theory is that the dude was supposed to be there, get off a shot and like hit something nearby at most and Trump getting injured at all was a total accident.

But yeah I'm only talking hypothetically about the theory. I agree it's way more likely that things just shook out like you said.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

It's also a suicide mission for the guy taking the shot.

Not unbelievable that someone set him up to take the fall. The FBI was all the way up in the Tsarnaev Brothers' business before the Boston Bombing, for instance. But to let him actually take the shot with a live round in a real gun?

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

There’s a punnet square of options with fake shooter and fake blood and whose blood. I’ve always found the idea that trump was struck by the skull fragments of the actual victim firefighter, and it was this man’s blood dripping down his face, to be the funniest option

[–] Macchi_the_Slime@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 days ago

I hadn't heard that particular one before, that is a funny one yeah xD. Especially knowing how much of a germaphobe he is.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 points 3 days ago

Wait really? Can I have a link/article?

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 4 points 2 days ago

I've felt from the beginning that his assassination bullshit was a clumsy hoax, so when he said she did it herself, it was just one more reinforcing piece of evidence for me.

[–] pjwestin@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Please stop with the assassination conspiracy theories. A false-flag might be somewhat plausible if there were just shots fired at the rally; it would certainly be possible to convince some mentally unstable MAGA chud to shoot wildly into the crowd, and then have Trump fake his injury. But we have a photograph that actually catches one of the bullets passing by his head. There's no way he risked someone missing him by inches to fake an assassination.

[–] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 4 points 2 days ago

We have photos showing something between the camera and him... Many people were saying it wasn't the bullet but glass from the teleprompter, etc.

We do not know what distance that object actually was, and our brains are tricked by optical effects very easily. You can just look at some of the "military UFO" videos where zoom and parallax make things look like they're odd shapes and moving at supersonic speeds when they're not.

Is it plausible it was real? Of course. But there's also a lot of "evidence" that doesn't seem to corroborate that as well, like the miraculously healing ear cartilage (that isn't something that regenerates). And Secret Service not removing him from the stage immediately, AND letting him back up for a photo op. Everything needs to be examined with skepticism, especially with an administration we know for a fact lies about everything. Why would we accept it at face value?

[–] opus86@lemmy.today 3 points 2 days ago

This man raped children and then killed them. That's why there aren't women coming forward to accuse him. How did the FBI know about this years before he ran for president and not do something about it? That is the question.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

No way would Trump ever risk his safety in the line of fire.

The chances of that bullet going just a little to the right would have ended him.

[–] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago

Considering there doesn't appear to be any actual damage (which there would be... Your ear doesn't just grow back), it seems more likely there was no real bullet anywhere near him and it was just something like a blood pack used in movies and stage performances so there was blood at the time. Also why he knew it was safe to get up and fist pump the air for photos. And why the Secret Service kept him on stage and let him do that.

[–] butwhyishischinabook@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Can we not? Why is BlueAnon welcome here? Someone was killed by that bullet, it just wasn't Trump. Why is it so hard to believe that the police are too incompetent to do their job and that the right is full of maladjusted, violent people prone to poorly attempting assassination? Y'all sound dumb af.

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Is it so far-fetched to assume it was a real bullet that missed and he turned into a drama queen?

[–] butwhyishischinabook@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Of course not, that's definitely what happened. But like half the comments here are people saying he faked his own assassination attempt.

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Oh, yes, those are silly. It's not so far fetched that some right wing crazy would take a shot at him.

TBH I'm surprised it was only twice.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 points 2 days ago

There may have been a bullet, but his ear was never touched by one.

[–] JayK117@aussie.zone 2 points 2 days ago

Any time they make a statement about their opposition just mentally add "... It's what I would do", saves so much time.

[–] keyez@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

His assassination attempt was staged and they pay people to be at rallies and sent people to J6 everything they say is projection or what they want to do. Also probably telling the 2024 election was stolen.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I still secretly believe this about the Congressional baseball game shooting (that Trump/Russia were involved). And not for nothing, but it's a long case to make. Too many weird things happened especially in those first 24 hours.