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Culture War Roundup for the week of July 8, 2024

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A bullet went through his ear. Donald Trump was an inch away from being shot in the face on live tv.

Looking at pics of his ear I suspect it was glass or some other fragment. There's hardly any actual tissue damage.

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The teleprompters were intact after the shot. This theory doesn't hold, unless you have evidence for some other source of broken glass?

The flying bullet has been captured in a picture just before it hit trump.

The flying bullet has been captured in a picture just before it hit trump.

I think that photo captured the first shot, which missed Trump, just after it passed behind his head. Trump also said he heard a whizzing sound right before he was hit. It may have been his reaction to that first miss which saved him from a clean head shot on the second attempt.

Just after, actually, assuming it's the picture where the bullet is on the right side of the picture.

The glass fragment from a teleprompter is the stupidest cope I have ever seen. What angle of shot has glass flying PERPENDICULAR from the OTHER side. Trump faces the camera, a teleprompter is there, the shot comes from the right and everyone turns to the right. Please tell me what magic teleprompter in front of Trump can be shot so that the direction of shot comes from that other side.

Stop repeating the desperate cope of dangerhairs trying to downplay this. It was an assassination attempt, a bullet clipped his ear. This theory doesn't pass the smell test or reality test and anyone repeating it has their baseline credibility lowered in turn.

In the early hours it wasn't that crazy as it's not uncommon for some addresses to be made behind various glass screens, and the blood pattern made it look like it could have been a glass fragment, but since then as it's I think clear he wasn't meaningfully surrounded by such protection it's dumb to still repeat such if you've been updated or looked more closely. I think it's now clear the blood was actually from dripping down his face while on the ground rather than a spray from shrapnel.

The glass fragment from a teleprompter is the stupidest cope I have ever seen.

I've already encountered 'It's a false flag so Trump gets elected in a commie plot to bring the revolution' in the wild.

The glass fragment from a teleprompter is the stupidest cope I have ever seen.

Have you seen the 'Trump has friends in Hollywood, this was all faked via special effects to boost his popularity' takes yet?

I've seen 'its all AI', which is automatically false because there aren't photos of trump with a billion plastic bottles turned into rocketships by african kids yet.

There isn't much tissue damage because it missed

Trump posted to Truth claiming it was a bullet wound. Watching the video it seems the most likely explanation—reaching for his ear is the first thing he does, only gunfire can be heard over general din, and I don't see how glass could have reached him in the middle of the huge platform.

I want to thank The United States Secret Service, and all of Law Enforcement, for their rapid response on the shooting that just took place in Butler, Pennsylvania. Most importantly, I want to extend my condolences to the family of the person at the Rally who was killed, and also to the family of another person that was badly injured. It is incredible that such an act can take place in our Country. Nothing is known at this time about the shooter, who is now dead. I was shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear. I knew immediately that something was wrong in that I heard a whizzing sound, shots, and immediately felt the bullet ripping through the skin. Much bleeding took place, so I realized then what was happening. GOD BLESS AMERICA!

Looks to me like a through-and-through with a small caliber round on the upper part of the right ear near his skull.

It looks like thetes damage to both the front and back of the top of his ear (swear I used to know the words for the bits...)

If it's a bullet wound, it's one for the history books.

Don't tell me about things that almost happened.

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Things that really happened include "culture war temperature just spiked". That's an update regarding P(Boogaloo) and the related P(WWIII).

How is it an update regarding P(WW3)? It’s very unlikely to have been a state actor, that’s not how they would approach this kind of thing.

Oh, I'm not suggesting a state actor had Trump shot. The issue's that, as I said, P(Boogaloo) and more generally P(chaos in USA) is related to P(WWIII), because the USA is load-bearing in the world order.

America goes up. Pax Americana can't be maintained while America is busy committing messy suicide. All over the world, people make their moves.

What a bizarre comment.

Saturday night comments are more likely to be drunk trolling. Totally not speaking from experience of course.

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