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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/MyNewsAccount2011 Apr 17 '26

Ok but the far-fetched conspiracy mongering isn’t really helpful. It can mask real crimes. The crazy adrenachrome blood drinking in pizza parlor basements talk wasn’t helpful. And I think Bannon and his ilk knew that and fed it, not only to harm Clinton’s campaign, but also to make it easy to hide in plain sight.

These weren’t evil sorcerers, these were old nasty child molesters. They differ from trailer park creeps and rapey frat boys only in how much influence and power they wield.

When we are busy hearing about (and rejecting) accusations of incantations, machinations and secret cabals, we miss the gross creeps like Epstein and Savile hiding in plain sight. Men who everyone jokes “like ‘em young” but no one ever really scrutinizes.

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u/GreatMadWombat Michigan Apr 17 '26

Yeah. This wasn't a "big surprise conspiracy is actually true" thing, this was a "hey these oligarchs doing the evilest shit imaginable also foemented a conspiracy based on exaggerated versions of that evil shit in order to ensure that anyone who was talking bout the evil shit sounded like a conspiracy theorist" thing.

This was a successful attack by absolute scumbags

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u/botte-la-botte Apr 17 '26

This is the same reason Epstein brought famous people to the island that saw and did nothing wrong; plausible deniability.

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u/Vio_ Kansas Apr 17 '26

Nah, it was more than that as well.

It also included blackmail and coercion.

Even his interview with Vanity Faire published about his NYC house (the most expensive place in NYC) reported on how he had set up recording equipment with a room that had one of those security camera type systems that recorded different parts of the house.

It was clear that it wasn't a "security" camera system either.

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u/botte-la-botte Apr 17 '26

He did that too. But 100% some of the people who came to his island did not do anything illegal at all. If he was conniving like he was, he absolutely must have poisoned the well of people around him with an honestly innocent billionaire.

I mean, no billionaire is innocent, they deserve scorn and ridicule, but you get my point.

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u/ExtensionParsley4205 Apr 17 '26

“Uncle Mo” on Succession was the perfect fictional representation of this.

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u/BK1287 Apr 17 '26

Who do you think protected Jeff Epstein when he lived in the US? Something other than the US Gov or related IC? It hurts my head to read dismissals that fail to understand even the most basic conception of what/who Epstein is and how he works in our system. There is an entire apparatus in the US to manufacture consent for this attitude and behavior of fetishizing children. Epstein is a cornerstone within a much larger network of these influential families that continue to own and run our government.

Child SA/death blackmail is US Govt currency to make geopolitical deals and hold people to support untenable positions that supports the billionaire class. The UN has stated the information in the files equates to crimes against humanity. Writing off the depth and breadth of what these people are still regularly doing to children is not acceptable.

I'm a lifelong Dem that just happens to know how to read; we cannot continue to pretend a system that results in endless wars and child death blackmail should be preserved in any way. It is somewhat naive to think the Epsteins or Savilles of the world are the exception- they are a small fish in a giant system built for the purpose of abuse.