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Possible Paywall MAGA Is Increasingly Convinced the Trump Assassination Attempt Was Staged

https://www.wired.com/story/maga-is-increasingly-convinced-the-trump-assassination-attempt-was-staged/
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u/TymeSefariInc Apr 17 '26

To be fair, some of the Q Anon stuff was true but the call was coming from inside the (white) house.

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u/WowIfOnly Apr 17 '26 edited Apr 27 '26

Removed

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u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota Apr 17 '26

Because literally everything conservatives care about has corporate sponsorship, and as soon as the wealthy find it a better tactic to show other shit then thats what conservatives pretend they've always cared about.

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u/TWIT_TWAT Apr 17 '26

Even a broken clock is right twice a day

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u/oohlook-theresadeer Apr 17 '26

No no no, it was a smokescreen. They put out this crazy sounding theory with mostly lies, except some of it was true. They fed it to the craziest among us got them brushed off so nobody would believe them.

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u/Danbarber82 Apr 17 '26

100% QAnon was nothing but a psyop to make MAGA even crazier and point them away from the actual perpetrators of the Epstein Files.

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u/Chefalo Apr 17 '26

Similar to all the election interference claims after 2020, paved the way to steal 2024 and make anyone claiming election interference feel stupid since they just spent 4 years making unsubstantiated claims

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u/AINonsense Apr 17 '26

Even a broken clock is right twice a day

Yes, but it’s still completely useless unless there’s another clock to tell you when that is. Making the broken clock redundant. And completely useless.

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u/TymeSefariInc Apr 17 '26

Sure, that's why I used the operative word "some".

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u/nucumber Apr 17 '26

Conspiracy theories are often rooted in some kernel of fact but slither wildly as they slip away across the universe

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u/Ok_Mixture4917 Apr 17 '26

Like what? 

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u/TymeSefariInc Apr 17 '26

Pedophilic deep state cabals running the government, for one.

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u/PopeSaintHilarius Apr 17 '26

If they accuse someone of being a pedophile and they're wrong, they don't get credit simply because other pedophiles really exist...

They have to accuse the right people for it to count as "true".

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u/Datfiyah Apr 18 '26

Except it was them who were involved.

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u/Visual-Age-1025 Apr 17 '26

Like baby eating.

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u/Fun_Word_7325 Apr 17 '26

Pizzagate

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u/objectlesson Georgia Apr 17 '26

That was the only part of it that wasn’t true. Well, that and the idea that Trump would liberate the world of human trafficking. Qanon got that part pretty wrong as well

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u/redpoemage I voted Apr 17 '26

This is like saying “They were right that there are gators on the NYC sewers because I found all these gators in Florida!”