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Gunshots at his rally  ???

Looks like it caught his ear....

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c3gwngv2e79o

Looks like he'll seal the Presidency after that. (groan)

Yep pretty much

Mmmmm!

Three people seriously injured but on first viewing none of them in the crowd just behind Trump, not at all suspicious?

You wouldn’t believe anyone would stoop so low as to fake an assassination attempt, but who knows with him 🤷🏼‍♂️

Especially if it wins him the election

I'm kinda surprised really that this doesn't happen more often in a country with near free access to guns and deeply polarised unpleasant politics.

They shot the bloke that did it didnt they?

He’ll win the election now. God help us all (again)

Yup. A 20 year old. Shot dead.

Trump the martyr. Biden the infirm.

Ffs

Martyr- 1. a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion. 2. : a person who sacrifices something of great value and especially life itself for the sake of principle.

Trump is a lot of things I’ll concede. Martyr, nah. A very lucky man, yes 100% Biden, well, as you say infirm. That is being polite. As for the citizens of the USA, not a question of god help them, more like take a look in the mirror and help yourselves.

This has undoubtedly added a whole new layer of confusion and chaos to what is already a cluster fuck of utterly colossal proportions (just what Trump, Bannon and the other MAGA fuck heads want)... But I don't see how this will make someone who wasn't going to vote for Trump, now vote for him. Similarly, disastrous though Sleepy Joe's recent performances have been, is that really going to make a Biden voter switch to Trump? I. can't see it.

The whole thing is just a monumental disaster though and whilst I tend to let most world events wash over me (rightly or wrongly) I find the thought of Trump getting back in to be utterly terrifying.

If it was fake, he's certainly got the background for it, WWE Hall of Famer.

Take a bump, gig the ear with a blade, stand up and pose.

What a performer.

It's not really switching, it's turnout amongst people who mildly support one candidate over another but would otherwise probably not vote.

I truly wouldnt put it past Trump.

Tips off his mate Vince McMahon so he can get a pardon for being under federal investigation.

It may make a waiverer or a biden supporter not vote at all though.

True dat...I just imagined both sides to be entrenched with very few floaters or undecideds...those few could make all the difference in key states of course. Going to be squeaky bum time whatever happens...

Wouldn't surprise me one little bit...

‘If it was fake, he's certainly got the background for it, WWE Hall of Famer.

Take a bump, gig the ear with a blade, stand up and pose.

What a performer.’

And take a few innocent bystanders while you’re at it for good measure. Good grief, I thought I’d seen it all on these forums.

I was half joking tbf but what are a couple of bystanders to the yanks?

human life is hardly valued the same as in this country, is it?

Around 8 shots fired one hits Trump where did the other 7 end up considering there’s people all around him🤔

At least 3 hit other people, killing one and seriously injuring 2.

There's no CT here.

Trump will now be treated AS IF a martyr by the moron element of the republican party.

This bit was odd about the shooter:


I assume then that he was known to police.

I hate all this conspiracy nonsense. If there’s evidence what happened is contrary to what was reported, present it. 

Hadn’t heard that info Batch unless that was an update later on.

I’m fairly confident citizens from the home of the brave and the land of the free May like to have a conversation with you begging to differ. Just bring your gun first.

Problem is, it ranges from the very nutty to things that absolutely did happen and a lot of that involves the yanks.

The CIA invented LSD in the 50s trying to invent a truth serum and illegally experimented on blokes in brothels. Something that solidly sounds like a conspiracy theory only its accepted as something that absolutely happened now and 100 the truth.

How many people have mysteriously died close to The Clintons?

Conspiracy theories can be nuts, but when it comes to the yanks, I'd not put anything past them.

Absolutely there are conspiracies that reflect reality. Watergate being the best example.

But you provide a good example of how most conspiracies are nutty when you claim the CIA invented LSD. I’ve no doubt that’s a claim conspiracy theorists cling on to. But it’s simply not true. It was synthesised by Albert Hofmann in 1938. He had nothing to do with the CIA.

It amazing how many perfectly explainable events/situations are jumped on by CT theorists these days

Flat Earthers are by far my favourites

Flat Earthers are so much fun. I’m happy they exist, despite also being slightly sad they exist

My point was simply that there is nothing MAGA (let's not call them Republicans because they're not) wouldn't do to win the election which I believe is true. That's not the same as putting forward a conspiracy theory, just saying nothing would really surprise me in that fucked up, divided country. They are extremely dangerous people with no moral code whatsoever.

What I don't get with flat earthers is... What is in it for anyone to lie about it? If the earth really was flat, why say it isn't? Makes no sense...

Plus, earth being flat seems to be quite an easy one for a flat earther to ‘prove’
If it’s flat - go find the edge.

There's a sensationally fun theory that there are about 300 years of history that just didn't happen and are made up

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_time_conspiracy_theory

Could of imagined the Democratics taking out Bidon , blaming the Republicans. This would have solved so many issues for them.
However, this situation will simply endorse the views of many that DT is the chosen one.
Suggest DT should go and buy a state lotto ticket in line with the luck he had yesterday.
As for the election. If it was not his already, it must be his now.

A globe doesn't correspond with what's in the bible, and regardless of what religious nuts may say, many passages within it depict the earth being flat. So one of their main areas of inspiration (desperation) is to otherwise prove it's not wrong.

Yes of course, I was forgetting the people who think the Bible is a record of actual historical events😂

Sniper was over 300ft away on a rooftop with a rifle, tripod & scope but not seen by the Seceret Service or law enforcement officers who were there to protect Trump and would have scoped the area and planned for this rally for several weeks🤔

Are you proposing a conspiracy or implying the secret service were ineffective?

I would suggest the latter :D

Is this incident just a symptom of the America that Trump has nurtured?

Really? Which passages?

There are passages that people choose to interpret as suggesting the Earth is flat, but there’s none that explicitly do so.

There's also passages that say you can't eat pigs, rabbits, clams, shellfish, oysters, you can't wear mixed cloth, you can't sow multiple seeds in the same field, and so on, and so on... Do they follow all of this as well?

https://x.com/LeSouness/status/1812345800900378761?t=OeoqqXv5LkwZJvch0dGlpg&s=19

Brilliant.

It’s a load of nonsense. Exodus explicitly condones slavery too. You would have thought god would be more concerned with that moral outrage rather than worrying about what fabrics you can or can’t mix.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ub_ZIDvlq10&t=19s

That's the thing with fictional stories, people will make of what is written in different ways and spout the rhetoric that fits with their argument - a bit like politicians.

Bit annoyed with Jack Black. I’m a big D fan so excuse me for talking about them like I’m on first name terms, but what Kyle said, while distasteful, was not the end of the world. And his apology seemed very sincere. They’ve made an entire career pushing the envelope, as anybody who has watched the original HBO series will know. Feel like he’s been thrown under the bus by a guy who was supposed to be his best friend.

Throw away comment, fucking hell that's shit from Black.

Yup. If you can’t make a throwaway, albeit distasteful comment as one of two members of Tenacious D, when can you?

For me, it’s quite sad. I hope they make up.

KG has had some mental health issues in the past. Hope this doesn't push him off the edge. Apparently all of their 'creative team' is on hold right now, which means no new material from the D. Shame.

Just read about his struggles. Seems mostly to do with feeling left behind by Jack’s success, which he has spoken quite candidly about, and is understandable (Jack is an amazing singer and has formed a pretty unique niche as an actor, but Kyle is an even better guitarist). Fingers crossed this isn’t the end.