Bulletins and News Discussion from July 8th to July 14th, 2024 - Nevertheless, He Persisted

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Liberals have completely lost their minds saying that the Trump shooting is fake. Really going full BlueMAGA now. Spectators died and there's videos of the shooter's body on a rooftop. It happened.
- i would expect conservatives to say something like this, but libs? what reasons did they give? the fuck?? i know that libs are turd brains but still
  
  Look at Reddit lol, comments with hundreds of upvotes saying that the shooting is staged.
  I think democratic propaganda about project 2025 and democracy being over if Trump wins, combined with Biden's horrifying debate performance and refusal to step down, has broken liberal's brains in a never seen before way. Think about it, liberals are basically sleepwalking into November with the result of a Trump presidency basically being confirmed, and there's nothing they can do about it. Their doomsday scenario is coming true months in advance with nothing that can be done to stop it.
  
  They don’t want it to be real so it isn’t
  
  Libs are claiming that this is to take away attention from the 'New Epstein documents' which themselves are a conspiracy circlejerk because nothing incriminating Trump was actually released.
  
  oh, new documents that tell us what we know already? what's next, it telling us we piss yellow when unhydrated? we can scoff at libs that hype this up but i find it weirdly cute. cute that they think a trump supporter will be flabbergasted at this shocking development
  
  It's just massive cope. They pretty much have to admit now that Trump has this in the bag, but because they cannot deal with accepting that reality, all they have left is BlueAnon conspiracy theories.
  
  Because to liberals, the most valuable human trait is politeness, and there's nothing more impolite than trying to assassinate your opponent.
  They are literally afraid that the shooter is going to be a lib, because only the right are supposed to be the rabid extremists with unformed frontal lobes.
  
  😔
- There's two conspiracy theories:
  Conspiracy 1: Biden knows he's cooked on election day, so by pulling a few strings, he got some handpicked members of the Secret Service to stand down and be maliciously negligent in their duties, leading a lone gunman to slip through the cracks and attempt to assassinate Trump.
  Conspiracy 2: Trump thinks he's going to lose on election day despite all polling evidence to the contrary and frankly common sense, so he somehow found some dude who's really good at shooting and willing to play along except Trump didn't tell the dude that he's going to be the patsy and get mag dumped by Secret Service after the fake shot.
  Libs being libs will of course pick the one that makes the least sense.

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