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AussieManDust's avatar

I've a tshirt that reads I Am A Conspiracy Theorist: my pronouns are Told/You/So...

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Eleanor M Owens's avatar

My sentiments exactly. It’s not that outlandish for instance to indicate that people in power can be corrupt and use their influence to impact media or educational systems. Neither is it out of the realm of possibility to endorse theories that at their core indicate that people with massive wealth can use that wealth for malicious reasons. Several conspiracy theories have been proven to be real these past few years…

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Jake Gless's avatar

Here: I am proposing a hypothetical that explains what actually happened Butler PA waaaay better than whatever the “official narrative” might be.

I think trump’s SS recruited Crooks (he was in a Blackrock promo video when he was 12yo) as a trumpee with no friends to “help out” with their security detail in Butler, as the school roof was “officially outside their perimeter.”

Everyone saw Crooks on the roof and no authorities did anything about it. He was up there for about ten minutes out in the open before he was shot.

I’d been watching trump rallies all summer and he’d been saying they had “something big planned for Butler, you don’t want to miss it.”

What was big? The giant immigration graphic. When trump gave the cue for everyone to turn and look at it (away from looking at anything else) that’s when Crooks & Comperatore got shot and killed.

There is no proof that trump was shot. There is no proof that Crooks had a motive or fired his gun. trump shit himself and cowered when someone ran onstage during his 2016 campaign. He shit himself and cowered when the bald eagle didn’t like him. No way in hell he does that WWE kayfabe fight fight fight for the perfectly positioned NYT photographer if someone were actually shooting at him.

The bullet photo from the same perfectly-positioned NYT photographer is easily replicated with computers. The marks on trump’s right hand are well-documented syphilitic sores that he blames on golfing.

So who shot Comperatore if not Crooks? There is video of a man (sniper?) on the watertower directly behind Crooks during the shooting.

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Political Economist's avatar

If Trump had been president, and therefore had de facto control of the Secret Service, when this happened I would have been more sceptical. But since his political opponents did...that seems to be more the issue.

Trump's pose at the end was certainly a major contributor to people feeling like it was a staged photo opportunity, but in reality by the time he did that he would have noticed shots were no longer being fired.

I've looked at quite a few videos and I have not seen discrepancies.

"Everyone saw Crooks on the roof and no authorities did anything about it. He was up there for about ten minutes out in the open before he was shot."

And that's why it seems likely the SS was involved, whether through omission of commission.

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Jake Gless's avatar

trump hand selects his Secret Security team and they stay with him until he dies. trump’s SS is loyal to him, not the USA.

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Political Economist's avatar

That's not true as far as I know.

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James Filbird's avatar

One of the most important, intelligent and well written articles I’ve read on Substack. That’s why today I started following you.

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