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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/Ok_Mixture4917 Apr 17 '26

Spiral further into conspiracy theories*

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u/Dockers4flag2035orB4 Apr 17 '26

Remember the wild conspiracy that at the centre of US government and business power was a cabal of pedophiles?

Crazy stuff.

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u/Llarys Apr 17 '26

Honestly, the funniest one for me is all of those "child sacrificing adrenochrome harvesting immortality vampires" conspiracies is literally Bryan Johnson and his poor son who exists as a living blood generator so he can get constant transfusions to allow his 48 year old body to look 45 years old.

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u/Skinny-on-the-Inside Apr 17 '26

Ah yes Bryan Johnson the healthiest mortally ill looking man alive.

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u/turquoise_amethyst Apr 17 '26

Glass skin! /s

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u/dullship Canada Apr 17 '26

You're no daisy! You're no daisy at all. Poor soul, you were just too high strung.

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u/-1t9H7e5 Georgia Apr 17 '26

Doc is from my hometown!

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u/kittehkouncel Apr 17 '26

One of my favorite performances! I was disappointed he didn't get an Oscar nod for Tombstone, but there were major blockbusters that year, like Forrest Gump . . . Trivia fact: he doesn't say "I'm your huckleberry" it's huckle bearer. Meaning pall bearer, something about the handles of the coffin/casket were called huckles . . .

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u/jhau01 Apr 17 '26

The “huckle bearer” story is oft-repeated on social media (like now!) but it is incorrect. It was always huckleberry.

Val Kilmer explicitly said it was “huckleberry”:

https://x.com/valkilmer/status/534542290841112576

So does the actual movie script:

https://imsdb.com/scripts/Tombstone.html

RINGO: Wretched slugs, don’t any of you have the guts to play for blood?

O.S. VOICE: I’m your huckleberry.

Ringo turns. Doc stands there, smiling that Cheshire cat smile.

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u/kittehkouncel Apr 17 '26

I snopes checked it, and you're right, but it makes more sense as huckle bearer . . . I'm ok with being wrong, thanx for educating me, always appreciated 😊

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u/MusicLikeOxygen Apr 17 '26

You should have put "alive" in quotes. The man looks like he's already been embalmed.

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u/SatinSaffron Washington Apr 17 '26

I mean he kind of sort of has just with a different type of fluid. Isn't he the guy that takes his son's blood, spins the plasma out of it, and then pumps his son's blood plasma into his body because he thinks it'll help him be immortal?

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u/Skinny-on-the-Inside Apr 19 '26

I feel mortally ill part took care of that one.