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Holy shit how did Sanders get so frostbitten? He needs medical attention!
its because it was staged asf, as some of the reddit sub discussed, the failure of the iran war and the epstein files really has trump grasping at straws.
plus karoline leavitt low-key said something about a shooting happening a few hours earlier.
this like 3rd staged attempt, 1st it was alleged assasination, followed by another attempt, and then this.
Nah.
Things are definitely going to get interesting in the coming months and a false flag operation is absolutely on the table
However, I don't think they would bother with something this pathetic at this time. They weren't even shooting at the pres this time. This isn't going to rate a blip and no one will remember it when they go to vote in the mid terms.
Think more like the 9/11 attacks but with less regard for human life, human suffering, and something that will stoke hatred for years and decades. For example, a dirty bomb in California.
Edit: Sorry I've changed my mind. Earlier I was thinking the motivation would be Trump's popularity generally. However, if the motivation is to build the ballroom then that changes things significantly. It seems likely that this was staged to substantiate a claim that the ballroom is required for security reasons.
It's to justify the building of the ballroom that they now "need" to keep everyone safe.
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She said in the speech Trump was about to have there would be "shots fired" not like literal gun shots lol
its because it was staged asf, as some of the reddit sub discussed
well if some reddit sub discussed that, then it is obviously true... 🤦♂️ 😂
Yeah so much of this seems so weird. The USSS response compared to similar incidents with other presidents seemed so odd - they secured the VP first and that staged af picture of them in a very non-tactical stack in the lobby/hallway? The fact the shooter even got past a single layer of security with a shotgun?? And apparently was some kind of IDF supporter, has anyone confirmed that picture?
If it is staged, I wonder what genius thought to do this in a room literally filled with the world's leading investigative journalists and reporters lmao.
and this is like the 3rd attempt already, with almost no follow up or investigation, plus trump had a press conference immediately after.
I don't know why people think this is indicative of a conspiracy lol. I know people that would get their money's worth in the middle of a warzone lol.
I'll be honest if I were him I'd be like "don't worry the guards'll get him" unless he was in the room. There's no way he was getting anywhere with that plan. Besides I'm probably not the target, if he does get by them I'll hit him with a "he went that-a-way" and slurp, honestly 70/30 I'll be fine.
I'd say that was reasonable. If you heard a lot more gunshots go off, and they seem to be slowly getting louder, then maybe worry... but that's sitting here in my comfortable chair a long ways away from any gunshots...
We don’t really know his target tho, because he was so easily caught. What if he wanted to kill the journalists right in front of his hero Trump as a tribute or something.
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Sorry, I thought you said calzone.
the No Cal Calzone Zone
50 Cal zone
Can you fit NorCal and Locale in there too somehow?
Lmao yeah staged or not, absolutely this. If he's some foreign correspondent those people don't even flinch at accurate artillery fire. Nothing but respect for war journalists, they're some hard mother fuckers.
Polymarket.
The Charlie Kirk assassination was staged because people didn't hesitate before grabbing the bloodied merch, despite, ya know, the assassination.
Nah, that's just typical consumerism you expect in the US.
A lot of dumb assholes who probably thought "oh if I have a shirt with blood from the assassination it'll be worth millions in a few years!"
"I'm here to mock presidents and eat food. And we're all out of presidents to mock, because he ran away."
Edit: typo fix
Any context on this?
EDIT: Oh, I'm guessing this: https://highfrequencydispatch.com/high-frequency-truck-dispatch/trump-rushed-away-from-white-house-correspondents-dinner/
If that really is the context then I fully understand why those two didn't give a damn.
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"I said this risotto is to die for. Did I stutter?"
Look, once I was at the mall grabbing food at the food court while my wife grabbed a table with our two kids. As I was heading to the table a crowd of people started running toward the food court screaming that there was a shooter (this was not too long after Parkland, which happened to be kind of close to the mall I was at). Huge mass of people diving under tables and all that. And I legit had the thought "what do I do with this Chick-fil-A? Do I drop it? Do I hide with it?" I mean it was expensive. And we're still hungry...
Anyway, I got to the table where my wife had the kids underneath and by then everything was quiet and I guess someone dropped something at a store, people were jumpy and thought it was a gun shot and the whole thing spiraled from there. Once everyone realized that there was no shooter, we all just... sat down and ate. It was weird. The USA is weird.
Hooray freedom!
No point in being afraid for your life AND hungry. Best fix what you can
Weirdly relate to Kash Patel's girlfriend who stopped to grab a couple of bottles of champagne and wine before evacuating. I'd do the same. If the world's on fire, might as well dance before the flames.
I've seen the videos, I didn't hear gunshots.
That’s the thing. There weren’t gunshots. This was staged as fuck by dumpy to try to rescue some approval ratings. Fake as shit.
The sad thing is, the magats will eat this shit up
Survive enough mass shootings and you too will be desensitized.
I think the answer we need is why there's no news about this on lemmy frontpage but only a meme.
May have had prewarning
So I was at the correspondence dinner eating lobster bisque and yada yada yada, then we had to go home.
No love this time... One day perhaps...
Me at the wedding, harvesting drink tickets while everyone else goes and watched the sunset or some shit
There are videos of people stealing bottles of champagne and wine while this was happening too. Grifters gotta grift.
Just like the guy who raided Kirk's merch booth seconds after he was shot 🤣
That person was honoring Kirk’s memory and dedication to the grift.
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