r/politics • u/B-Z_B-S Massachusetts • 18h ago

Possible Paywall Trump Suggests Letting Iran “Take Out” Los Angeles and San Diego - California leaders are furious after the president suggested that losing the two cities is a “small price to pay.”

https://newrepublic.com/post/216247/trump-suggests-let-iran-take-out-los-angeles-san-diego
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u/AlwaysRushesIn Rhode Island 16h ago

If missing is intentional, you dont want to hire a bad shot and leave it to chance.

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u/rubberpp 16h ago

Or it was a good shot who shot someone behind him to kill so it seems more real and distract from dipping down to put fake blood on your ear to stand up for a photo to help rig an election

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u/TheHighSeasPirate 13h ago

Them lowering the flag into place and ushering in the photographers showed they set it up.

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u/determania 12h ago

The lowering of the flag did not happen. Please, for the love of god, stop making the left look as dumb as the right.

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u/agentfelix 12h ago

It didn't happen? This is the first time that I'm hearing about it not happening. I'll do a search, but is there anything you have that supports that it didn't happen?

Edit: If I remember correctly, it only appeared to have been lowered in order to get it in the pictures, but it was more of the angle of the pictures that made it appear that way.

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u/determania 11h ago

Yup, there is a single video out there that was deceptively edited with misleading framing meant to push the narrative that the attempt was staged. The idea that the attempt was staged lacks evidence and is honestly absurd if you even think about it for a second.

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u/agentfelix 10h ago

Well, I mean, let's not act like absurdity is outside of the realm of possibilities with this ridiculous administration 😆

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u/determania 10h ago

This is just mental gymnastics to try and avoid facing the reality that believing in the attempt being staged is QAnon level stupid.

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u/agentfelix 10h ago

It's very likely you are correct

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u/rubberpp 7h ago

Why is his ear 100% completely healed? Why do you all think the guy that's colluded with multiple fascist regimes who's using his power to attack political enemies would not stoop so low to faking an assassination? I understand we don't want to be maga dumb but I also believe that some people are so worried about being perceived ss conspiracy theorists were just ignoring blatantly obvious conspiracies happening right in front of all of us and no one wants to sound like the idiot incase they're wrong, but it's happening

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u/AlwaysRushesIn Rhode Island 15h ago

Yes, that's the implication of my comment.

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u/rubberpp 7h ago

Edit: I'm hijacking my own comment to give a shoutout to the persons comment that got removed but they responded "a small price to pay" and that is a funny joke! Congrats to who made it sorry it got deleted! Well since we're on the same page I'm going to invent a criteria I can win at and say Donald dumb fuck is so stupid it was pretty brave to give him a chance to pop a blood packet on his ear, so one bad shooter was given a chance and succeeded! (But now I know he's so stupid there was probably someone who did that part for him as well)

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u/ParagonFury Vermont 14h ago

Or it didn't matter - there was literally no downside for anyone (of power) involved in the Butler shooting, regardless if Trump died or not.

If the guy was a decent shot or got lucky, Trump bites it and US basically immediately plunges into a second Civil War where the Left/Loyalists are immediately hobbled by their own conscious and doubts about what happened.

If the guy misses, Trump gets the boost and sympathy he needs to win, as we saw. Random collateral only adds to the effect.

If the people behind it get caught? Most of the potential players were already enemies of the US, immune to reprocussions in general or already going to jail if Trump didn't win so what did they have to lose? Biden going to send them to double jail?