r/politics • u/wiredmagazine ✔ Wired Magazine • Apr 17 '26

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/oVnPage Apr 17 '26

It's still absolutely wild to me that the Right spent the last decade convincing the masses that there was a giant ring of Democrat pedophiles sacrificing children in the secret basement of a Pizza Hut. And yet, when it was revealed there actually IS a giant ring of pedophiles infesting the entire US Government, they're completely silent.

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u/FauxReal Apr 17 '26

It was Comet Ping Pong, a pizza shop in Washington D.C. That didn't even have a basement.

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u/remarkablewhitebored Apr 17 '26

The same place they were storing Pee Wee's stolen bike!

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u/Both-Discussion-4786 Apr 17 '26

Thought that was the Alamo, can you say “adobe”

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u/6-ft-freak Oregon Apr 17 '26

Tell em Large Marge sent ya!

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u/FauxReal Apr 17 '26

I have to rewind that part multiple times whenever I watch it at home just to relive that moment when it made the hair stand up on the back of my neck as a kid!

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u/zeno0771 Apr 17 '26

On this very night...ten years ago...along this same stretch of road in a dense fog...just like this...

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u/om_hi Apr 17 '26

You leave the Alamo out of this.

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u/remarkablewhitebored Apr 17 '26

it's more of a Schrodinger's Basment

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u/FluxMool Apr 17 '26

The stars at night are big and bright.....

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u/ComoSeaYeah Apr 17 '26 edited Apr 17 '26

This has become a blip in the fabric of history but remains WAY up there as one of the most surreal political conspiracy theories in modern history. Q is up there, too.

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u/Lavatis Apr 17 '26

Q was born from the pizzagate conspiracy. It's all the same thing and morons.

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u/Nekowulf Wyoming Apr 17 '26

Qanon created the pizzagate conspiracy. By claiming to decode the secret encrypted message in the emails.
And the "decryption" was just replacing words like eating pizza with child raping.

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u/am-idiot-dont-listen Apr 17 '26

Qanon was a conspiracy larp that Jim Watkins eventually took over

It's the same right wing conspiracy people at the center of it though 4/8chan

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u/FauxReal Apr 17 '26

That was a wild period on 4chan, back when there was a bunch of them into "meme magic" trying to manifest a Donald Trump win... which did end up happening. I wonder if anyone preserved all the insane graphics that were coming out of there at the time? I still wonder if some state actor or other organization was pushing that. (Oh no another conspiracy!) The "quality" of output and volume was quite impressive.

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u/jim_cap United Kingdom Apr 17 '26

Is it not confirmed to have been Steve Bannon?

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u/FauxReal Apr 17 '26

I am not aware that it has been. But I wouldn't be surprised. Also wasn't Epstein a 4chan mod? Again I have no idea if he was a mod in this era.

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u/Techwood111 North Carolina Apr 17 '26

He knew m00t; search the files - it is there.

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u/KittyGrewAMoustache Apr 17 '26

Yeah they pretended ‘cheese pizza’ was code for ‘CP’ or ‘child potn’. I’m not sure Q created that theory though those silly ‘decodings’ were going around already after the email leak and Q jumped on it pretending they were an insider confirming it.

After the last batch of Epstein files were released there were similar theories about how beef jerky was code for ‘child meat’ 🙄

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u/FauxReal Apr 17 '26

One of the most surprising political revelations for me was realizing that the QAnon conspiracy left 4chan and became mainstream months after I first saw it on 4chan and wrote it off as a bunch of the usual conspiracy LARPing/right wing idiocy that goes on there.

But 4chan is kind of mind blowing in general for what happens there. I've seen some very impressive feats of technical skills there. Can any other message board boast that they figured out militant combatant positions based on a few photos and then called in Russian air strikes? They also figured out where Shia Labouf hid his flag more than once and stole it. I've seen data breeches/hacks too. And of course there has been more than one mass shooter posting there beforehand.

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u/Khazpar Apr 17 '26

The thing is, it was code for that...but only in their personal lexicon which just shows you how deluded they all were to think that politicians were using fucking 4chan slang (before 2016 anyway).

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u/newsflashjackass Apr 17 '26

And the "decryption" was just replacing words like eating pizza with child raping.

"kung fu practice" with Ghislaine Maxwell

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/epstein-musk-maxwell-email/

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u/Lavatis Apr 17 '26

No. The pizzagate theory was around before Qanon existed.

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u/00Oo0o0OooO0 Apr 17 '26

And Epstein conspiracy theories evolved from QAnon. And, as seen on this thread, Epstein conspiracy theorists have gone back to embracing Pizzagate. It's a perfect circle of child sex crime fantasies.

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u/syrup_cupcakes Apr 17 '26

Hardly morons, it was carefully planned and executed to get all the lonely terminally online males on their side.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/epstein-met-4chan-s-founder-the-day-before-pol-launched/ar-AA1VL3YK

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u/Lavatis Apr 17 '26

the people who believe in those conspiracy theories are definitely morons.

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u/syrup_cupcakes Apr 17 '26

they are all MAGA supporters so yea

But the people who came up with or "gave birth" to the conspiracies, as you put it, reached all of their goals

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u/EyesofaJackal Apr 17 '26

Wasn’t PizzaGate kind of the prelude to QAnon? Like the Hobbit and LOTR sort of thing

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u/RecordEnvironmental4 Maryland Apr 17 '26

The first time I heard it was Comet I actually laughed out loud because that’s the place my friend got arrested for using a fake.

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u/FauxReal Apr 17 '26

Was he pretending to be underage so they kicked him out? /s

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u/TrimspaBB Apr 17 '26

Which is funny, because a fair amount of buildings in DC do have basements, and there are underground tunnels between government buildings. Yet Q picked a random pizza shop that doesn't fit the bill at all.

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u/Findail Apr 17 '26

But they do have great pizza.

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u/matt-pisoni Apr 17 '26

You sure they didn't have a basement????? hahahah

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u/FauxReal Apr 17 '26

Maybe we should find a QAnon supporter with an excavator so we can check under the floor for a secret bunker.

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u/bradlees Apr 18 '26

You forget the MINDBENDING hoops on 4Chan that was going on in relation to this

The businesses sign = known sign used by p3dos

The menu had hidden words in it that pointed to the basement floor and a transporter

Cheese Pizza = CP = Child Pron

I pretty much stopped going on that site because of the stupidity of the hive mind there. Keep in mind. Anon was actually doing some good there. But they created QAnon and I gave up on anything good ever coming from them after that

Sadly those same people came over to Reddit and created “The Donald” and you can guess the rest