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It's an inside show job.

You would think Trump would have his own security advisor watching as the SS cannot be trusted. But yet they had huge holes that day.

Not to mention that he stood up afterwards, contrary to the shock of being shot and contrary to security protocols and training.

It's a big WWE wrestling show and remember Trump worked there, where he learned his audience stoking skills.

But of course we will never know what really happened because of the piles and piles of confusion injected into the story.

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I dont' believe your take, but, I can see how it is.

If I were him and RFK J, I definitely would have my own security.

Do you doubt someone wants Bumper dead?

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No, of course. I was afraid for him before, but then we saw how he just continued the same crap.

I will watch when I have time...

Anyway, what happened was really illogical and improbable.

How many simultaneous mess ups can happen in one situation?

What if there was another shooter him standing would be bye bye. But he stood... Cause god protected him? And the secret service let him stand?

I'm sure they teach presidents, politicians etc to stay down. The same secret service that dropped the ball he now trusts to stand up with? See the big issue there, if it was a setup instead of a show...

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There were ZERO mess-ups. I was thinking that it was a LIHOP, but now I think it was a MIHOP.

Can you predict what you would do if you almost got your head blown off?

AND, the Secret Assassination Service picked him up. Then Bumper did a very typical bumper thing---he took advantage of the situation.

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"Can you predict what you would do if you almost got your head blown off."

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Once again, we're pretty much on the same wavelength here, apart from my abiding Grammar Nanny wince that you didn't close the quoted sentence with a question mark. ❓ 😖

But I want to add a concurring opinion in support of your rhetorical question: I'm pretty much a hobbit by temperament, i.e. non-athletic, non-competitive, and inclined to avoid violent or even strenuous activity, from contact sports to military service.

That disclaimer made, I have read umpteen non-fictional accounts of persons involved in tumultuous and traumatic activities, from authentic riots to battlefield combat. I have also read great and truthful works of fiction written by authors with direct personal experience of shooting and being shot at, e.g. "The Red Badge of Courage", "War and Peace"; I just finished the impressive "Birds Without Wings", which contains harrowing accounts of brutal violence and mayhem.

I notice an escalating trend in our era of video-saturation and social media: an inclination to watch videos of various violent events, and instantly assess the behavior, motives, and attitudes of the people being recorded based on extrapolation from momentary snapshots.

Thus, just to grab a recent example: I've seen comments bumptiously insisting that the Trump shooting is obviously fake-- because the crowd in the background seemed to be mostly calmly staring at their mobile (aka "smart") phones during the shooting instead of directly reacting to the gunfire. The assumption is that since the crowd did not instantly and collectively panic and perhaps run amok, there "obviously" was no gunfire-- ergo, the whole thing was staged and faked.

But both credible non-fictional and authentic, realistic fictional accounts reliably relate that a given person's actions in the moment do not conform to a simple, commonsensical response. I'll mercifully skip detailed personal anecdotes to substantiate this conclusion, and just say that, for instance, I'm confident that at the Trump rally, after the gunfire many people didn't realize what happened for quite a while.

Some may have noticed "firecracker" sounds, or even understood immediately that something was dreadfully amiss when they saw Trump and onstage security suddenly going down in a heap. But I have no doubt that as the reaction rippled through the crowd, people were asking, "What's happening?", or variations like "What just happened?"

And to directly address the related issue of the target's response: while there may be typical responses to being shot at, in reality gunshot victims exhibit a range of idiosyncratic responses. Some victims, if they're not wounded to a point of incapacity, may scream, fall down, and curl up like a bug. 🐞 Others may display an adrenalin-fueled energetic reaction; I believe it's fairly commonplace that some victims don't even realize they've been shot for a significant interval, and/or until they are informed by third parties that they've just been shot.

Although a natural-born "truther" type, recently I've begun to despair of what I refer to as "hyper-truthers" who gravitate towards isolated "key" visual evidence in support of a preconceived theory of the event, citing now-clichéd or stock components: "crisis actors", the use of theatrical paraphernalia to simulate bleeding, etc. Bah! Humbug!

Thus endeth the concurring lecture. 😠

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Thanks, Nanny. I am more careful in my posts than I am in my comments.

I always appreciate editing to help me grow my writing skills.

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You should watch the video I posted if you have time.

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Agree 100%. The whole thing looked staged and similar to a boxing, wrestling match. When Twump stood up with his fist in the air, blood streaming down his face and the flag behind him in a bright blue sky, I thought I would vomit. When I saw the photos of the blood, I thought whose blood looks like that? Very bright red. Blood is normally beet red in color . If you look at recent photos of Twump’s ear after the bandage has been taken off, there is no sign of any wound or scabs. Twump’s personal “doctor” said the wound was 2 cm. That is almost 1 inch, should be fairly noticeable. No evidence of it in recent photos.

And the gauze on his ear looked like an ad for” My Pillow Guy”. Ear wounds are not dressed like that.

One of the best comments I read about the performance:

“ Honey, that was a DRAG performance done badly, the three minute reveal while the backing dancers circled her to apply the blood … SASHAY AWAY !”

I imagined Columbo investigating this and pictured Twump squirm as his story completely unraveled.

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Aug 2Edited

From: https://amp.marca.com/en/lifestyle/us-news/presidential-election/2024/07/18/669960cdca47416e6c8b4577.html

Martina Navratilova on Trump ear bandage: There's absolutely no need to dress an ear wound like this.

Navratilova responded to a post on Twitter featuring a picture of Trump with the bandage and a caption questioning its need. The post cited a trauma nurse who claimed there was no need for such extensive dressing unless the injury was severe.

"Of course - this is obviously a PR stunt - the day after the shooting he had no dressing on his ear... not even a band-Aid," she posted.

Martina isn’t a doctor, but I suspect she knows a thing or two about wounds.

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I feel like they did the stupid bandage on purpose to create conspiracy vibes, even though they could have faked it better with makeup or whatever...

It reminds me of how shitty the propaganda was around many things, like Jamie Foxx could have been deep faked playing pickleball but we got some blurry video from a distance.

When I wrote this article, I didn't expect it to get this stupid. I thought they would up their quality 😂

So nowadays I wonder if this uncertainty of any facts is on purpose to somehow make people dumb again? (It's not working though!)

https://robc137.substack.com/p/looking-behind-the-curtain-of-oz

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It does seem like they are trying to make us stupid. But I think people are beginning to wise up. For me personally , it all started with George Bush in 2003 when he marched us to war with Iraq, all based on lies. The man could not put a sentence together and his brain was fried from years of drug abuse. They even had a desktop 365 day peel off calendar of “Bushisms”, absurd things he actually said. Then came Obama with his “Hope and Change “ smoke and mirrors. And then Twump with his sideshow MAGA mantra. And now Genocide Joe sponsoring a livestream genocide in Palestine being committed right in front of our eyes. And we’re told it isn’t a genocide but that the fake state of Israel has a right to defend itself. I feel the pressure cooker lid is about to blow off from all the lies we’ve been told for decades. America isn’t great. It never was, and it never will be. The whole foundation of America from its inception is based on lies, land theft, genocide, kidnapping. Because of these roots America and Israel are the most hated countries in the world. Martin Luther King said said so truthfully in 1967 ,”the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today — my own government”.

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Deep State hates Trump because he is less controllable than Harris or Biden, which could make him less likely to start WWIII. I don't like Trump and I'm definitely not voting for Deep State and so I'm writing in my dog.

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The only thing missing is the tiny car into which all the clowns try to pack themselves. Can this be anything other than the "Empire" collapsing into itself like a black hole? We should all be happy that we are able to watch this clown show unfolding before our very eyes. Please pass the popcorn...and...the butter...the REAL butter, none of that industrial lubricant shit!

BTW this is the most entertaining newsletter on Substack!😁

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Aw, thanks, I try!

Much love & Peace

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Thanks Cindy - I think you're right - I just watched the video you recommended and it seems clear that Crooks was deliberately allowed to shoot at Trump, and that this deep-state assassination attempt failed. Now Google search engines try to hide that there was ever an assassination attempt on Trump - that is a big clue - also the insider trading - some rich & powerful people know the day before that Trump would be probably killed. And a third big factor - CNN was right there filming! CNN never goes to Trump rallies, but they were there to catch the big event that was pre-planned. Trump's policies and his resurrection of populism in the U.S. and his public repudiation and mocking of everything the globalists love - climate change, Covid, the mainstream media, The World Trade Organization, the U.N., the WEF, the bloated Pentagon budget, and on and on - they saddled him with phony Russiagate, lawfare, etc., but he kept on going, seemingly unstoppable.

As a life-long Democrat (until Obama) I think that it is essential that we all vote in elections and to never vote Democrat (obviously) and (especially in California) to vote for Republicans to try to break the death-grip the Democrat party has on our government with its complete subservience to the globalist agenda of enslaving humanity. The only populism and freedom we have now is coming from the Republican party, mainly thanks to Trump, though of course the old-guard Republicans hate him and his populism - it's all very fragile it seems.

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"Lone Gunman" and "No Motive" lead me to believe the Crooks kid had a handler--maybe soon hypnosis and brain-washing involved. So far as I know he's still a blank slate. The whole incident is full of bizarre details, like the white van, the bike, the backpack--oh, can't forget about that "sloped roof." Who gave the order? Probably some "Deep State" guy in the shadows, although the CIA is always a good guess. Whatever the case, we're not get a straight story.

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