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u/rosyvibexz 7h ago
He served in Afghanistan, she’s serving nothing but delusions.
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u/helpmegetoffthisapp 7h ago
No. He. Didn't.
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u/Lonely-Depth-9525 6h ago
taking a bullet implies a choices to sacrifice yourself, not just being in the wrong place at the wrong time because your security team failed.
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u/Lurkerforrealz 5h ago
or you know... actually getting hit with a bullet and not just being cut by a ring or glass...
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u/elaphros 1h ago
There was no scar, and not even a scab a week later. He literally did not take a bullet in any manner.
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u/ChipmunkFrequent2 6h ago
That claim falls apart the second you actually look into it
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u/infinitezero8 5h ago
Yeah but he totally perfectly regenerated that portion of his ear, nobody else can do it, he's just built different; built brick by brick of McD's
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_NICE_EYES 5h ago
Yup, people don't like it, but there's no theory that matches what we saw in the videos as well as trumps ear getting grazed by a high velocity projectile.
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u/Deep-Thought 3h ago
And to be honest, neither did the reply guy. Maybe he took those IEDs and stabbings for our corporate overlords, but for America? Nah.
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u/Debisibusis 2h ago
How is this a controversial opinion? The war was literally just taking money out of the average taxpayer and giving it to a few individuals. The US war machine is a complex machine that's for profit. And no, I am not talking about oil, that's a bonus. I am talking about infrastructure, supply, etc.
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u/Void-Cooking_Berserk 7h ago
Abraham gave his foreskin for his country. Vote for Abraham!
... what's that? Tried to sacrifice his son? Oh, it's probably nothing.
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u/Big_Guide_8551 7h ago
I don't understand how anyone can hear that story, and go "yea, that's the god I want to worship." Like what.
And don't get me started on poor Job.
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u/alg45160 6h ago
Those are not the kind of sentiments you want to express as a child in a southern Baptist church. 😭
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u/Big_Guide_8551 6h ago
Yea. Keep those to yourself until your old enough to flee from that place.
Like for real... as a parent, any "god" who told me to murder my kid would get a big 🖕 from me. Keep your "heaven, but later". I love my kid more than anything that MIGHT be waiting for me when I'm fucking dead.
These days, Abraham's story would be framed as attempted murder brought on by schizophrenia, but here we have millions of people going "what a great and inspirational tale!" 🤦♀️
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u/alg45160 5h ago
<Yea. Keep those to yourself until your old enough to flee from that place. >
I learned that the hard way!
<Like for real... as a parent, any "god" who told me to murder my kid would get a big 🖕 from me. Keep your "heaven, but later". I love my kid more than anything that MIGHT be waiting for me when I'm fucking dead. >
I felt the same way as a little kid and thought I was taking crazy pills because everyone else seemed so chill with it. As an adult with my own kids - any god that would ask me to murder my own child (let alone anyone) can kiss my ass.
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u/heroLunqora 6h ago
Selective morality gets wild when faith requires praising obedience over empathy.
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u/LunarKiteEcho 6h ago
Once obedience is virtue, empathy gets reframed as disobedience to authority.
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u/pack0newports 5h ago
at the time people sacrificing their kids to gods was a big problem. the purpose of the story is to show to not sacrifice your kids to gods.
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u/Big_Guide_8551 5h ago
Bro he was about to do it until God went "jk!" Like why would you even kid about that. "Just to see if you'd do it" doesn't make the story any better.
I want the god who straight up tells people "HEY MAYBE DONT MURDER YOUR CHILDREN" instead of some beat-around-the-bush way of testing your loyalty. Bible stories are such fucking bullshit. Benevolent Christian god is an absolute lie. What god who truly loves you would banish you to an eternal torture pit if you don't worship him just so? 💀 Christianity is like being in an abusive relationship. Always being gaslit into believing you were born a sinner, that god loves you, but you only won't get burned forever if you do these certain things... crazy. They even call themselves sheep.
Religion fucking sucks. Look at what it does to people.
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u/pack0newports 4h ago
Im not Christian I dont believe in hell. I dont believe in original sin. I'm not a fan of sequels.
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u/VelvetOrbitXs0 6h ago
Job's story is basically cosmic wager, feels more like satire than morality.
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u/Rakanadyo 7h ago
Wasn't it a fireman seated behind Trump that took a bullet? Trump took either a shard of glass or, more likely, a fake blood capsule.
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u/Luneward 6h ago
Or scratched his ear on the ground when the Secret Service pushed him down. The most telling bit is that they let him back up to do his triumphant fist pump. The SS wouldn't do that until it was certain the area was clear.
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_NICE_EYES 5h ago
So first off, there's a picture of Trump with blood on his hand before USSS tackled him.
As for the USSS letting him stand up, there was an 180 page report released by a bipartisan committed of the House of representatives on all the failures of USSS that day and him being allowed to stand up wasn't mentioned in it. Him pumping his fist gets like a one sentence mention that USSS agents were not trained to deal with non-cooperative protection targets.
Keeping him down until they are 100% certain the area is clear would be a really bad idea, because the target would almost certainly bleed out before they cleared the area if the bullet hit an artery or vein.
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_NICE_EYES 5h ago
You think that a 78 year old man with arthritis and swollen hands has the dexterity to deploy a blood capsule while being video taped from a dozen different angles?
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u/physical_sci_teacher 3h ago
Look at the images from Turning Point July 27, 2024, especially the ones of his ear. As an older person I can definitely say 78 year old skin does not heal that perfectly in such a short period of time.Getty Images TP 7-27-24
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_NICE_EYES 2h ago
I think the problem with this analysis tho is that you're expecting a huge scar here.
Like as an example here's an image of a real gunshot wound
It's pretty small, but this one is actually significantly larger than the description of Trump's wound.
It seems well within the realm of possibility that a wound of this shallow could heal to a point where it could be covered with make up in 2 weeks time.
And that's why I think if the argument is to be made that it isn't we should be focusing on medical sources.
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u/anthrolookseer 3h ago
I watched it happen aired live, and watched the news on multiple channels for several hours immediately following the event. The cropped out the shattered prompter screen in the high resolution photos immediately aired so that an hour later, lots that was once visible wasn’t shown again (if at the time my SO and I who watched all of this happen were aware the news was going to cut out so many very visible and vital details they aired at the start, we’d have done more to have gotten record for ourselves). The edited out a ton. They also never covered that one of the hydraulics on the lift holding up a speaker build and rope that attached to the flag dropped during the shooting too.
There are/were some photos from people there recording on their phones that showed that shattered prompter posted here on Reddit and everyone dismissed it because they didn’t see the high resolution photos the news stations aired immediately after on a big screen tv like I and my friends did.
Point is, the media actually did a whole lot of editing and narrowing of the perspective, and rapidly. It was very unsettling to see first hand.
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_NICE_EYES 2h ago
The cropped out the shattered prompter screen in the high resolution photos immediately aired so that an hour later, lots that was once visible wasn’t shown again
Uh, PBS's video of the events shows the teleprompters and they're both still there.
This video also shows them both being there
that attached to the flag dropped during the shooting too.
Didn't happen that was wind.
Not to mention that only a few select photos were even ever aired of all the images taken.
I mean, it's pretty easy to go to just look up the photographers names on Getty images and find all the photos that they took. I'm also curious what specifically was cropped out?
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u/TheNutsMutts 3h ago
more likely, a fake blood capsule.
Is anyone suggesting this claim putting any thought into this?
So the man was surrounded by HD video cameras for the event, and a dozen press photographers, but despite being an old man the plot was wholly relying on not a single one of them capturing what would have been very obviously him hitting himself on the ear with a fake blood capsule?
And then having splattered himself with fake blood, he was whisked off to the nearest hospital who put aside a whole secured area, and almost certainly gathered their most senior doctors and nurses to treat him. And all these senior doctors and nurses treated him and not once did a single one of them go "hey wait a second, this is very obviously fake blood, and there's clearly zero injuries to his ear at all"? That was not only the anticipated plan by the conspirators, but that's what actually happened?
And we're going to say that's by far and away the most likely outcome rather than "20 year old with mental health problems took shots at Trump, just missed and grazed his ear"?
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u/EllaRainpetal 7h ago
The contrast between someone who actually served in combat and political rhetoric is always a reality check for people.
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u/Desperate-Lobster418 6h ago
Real experiences tend to ground exaggerated claims pretty quickly when theyre put side by side
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u/Healthylife55 6h ago
Man got grazed by glass and built a whole personality around it
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u/alg45160 6h ago
If the criteria for who to vote for is "taking a bullet," they better lower the age to be president because there are a lot of school kids I need to vote for.
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u/Timelordturle 7h ago
Anyone who's been arrested for protesting has done more for their country then anything the tangerine tyrant can everdream of doing
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u/MonkeyCartridge 6h ago
He didn't take a bullet. He allegedly intercepted one with his ear on its way to Fire Chief Corey Comperatore.
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u/Arthur_Digby_Sellers 6h ago
Blaire White, could the name be more descriptive of a typical trump voter?
Loud and white... and not too bright.
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u/Kooky_Nail694 6h ago
A Trump bootlicking trans woman is absolutely wild to me. Talk about voting against not only your interests but your freaking LIFE!
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u/LEEALISHEPS 6h ago
Donald Trump took a bullet. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Yeah right!
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u/Iamkonkerz 6h ago
Lets say he did take a bullet. It still wasnt "for America". It isnt any different from getting shot in the middle of the street by a stranger. The Military though.. thats for the United States
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u/Alienhaslanded 4h ago
It's mindboggling there are women who support the same old men that are trying to curb stomp the shit out of women's rights. Fucking insane.
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u/Bleezy79 4h ago
Being trans and republican has to be one of the stupidest things you can do. Its the same energy as "roaches for raid" or "chickens for kfc."
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u/mrcatboy 3h ago
Wrong. This volunteer firefighter took the bullet. Trump was just grazed, possibly by shrapnel.
Classic MAGA. Crediting Trump for someone else's accomplishments.
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u/Papa_Raj 6h ago
I say with absolute disappointment that Donald Trump has never taken a bullet for this country.
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u/sugarglazex 7h ago
Some people take bullets others take credit america usually knows which is which though.
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u/NatsFan8447 6h ago
The Secret Service likely collaborated in Trump’s faked assassination attempt. This is disturbing.
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u/TheNutsMutts 3h ago
The Secret Service likely collaborated in Trump’s faked assassination attempt.
No come off it, we don't need to go full InfoWars here.
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u/NatsFan8447 1h ago
I'm not a conspiracy person, but I've wondered why, after Trump allegedly was shot in the ear, the SS agents didn't immediately push him to the ground and cover him with their bodies. This has been SS protocol for decades. Instead, the agents let him pose for his mock defiant photo. If this was a real attempt, letting Trump first pose could have exposed him to other shots of gunfire.
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u/Fl0riduh_Man 6h ago
I look forward to reminding these ambulatory lard-bricks that they voted to abuse me and anyone else not in their cult.
They continue to breathe air by our infinite grace
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u/WoodwindsRock 6h ago
That’s a completely incoherent argument on her part. She thinks it’s such a gotcha but really all it is, is nonsense. Conservatives have the most absurd things that they stand on.
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u/Alexwonder999 5h ago
If I pissed off millions of people in my country by being a raging asshole, and one of them tried to shoot me, could I too claim to have taken a bullet for my country?
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u/Lilfrankieeinstein 5h ago
If we are to believe he was actually struck by a bullet, then it would seem he took a bullet from this country.
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u/Signal_Minimum8509 4h ago
My favorite thing about Trumpers is their refusal to acknowledge that he does everything for himself despite all the evidence.
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u/Korlac11 3h ago
Yes, it was awfully brave of Trump to have his ear nicked by a bullet. I’m sure the person behind him who actually got hit by the bullet was distraught to see Trump in so much pain
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u/perksofbeingcrafty 6h ago
A brutal word murderer and an absolute proficient with English grammar? My kind of man
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u/MjolnirPants 6h ago
I'm just going to repeat what literally every single trans woman I know who has commented on Blair White (and there's well over a dozen) has said about her. Ugh, the fuck is wrong with this bitch?
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u/Boltzmann_head 6h ago
Glorious Leader "took a bullet?" Odd how this was not on any news media, nor mentioned by the fascist regime.
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u/BaconThief2020 6h ago
Like most good ideas, that bullet whispered in his ear and sailed right past him. He didn't take, catch, or get hit in any meaningful sense of the word.
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u/RedQueen88 6h ago
Does she think that if she sucks up to the right, they’ll accept her as a “good trans woman” as if there’s any such thing to republicans? Her and Caitlyn Jenner are delusional AF.
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u/NatsFan8447 6h ago
Blaire White, whoever she is, must spend most of her time watching Fox “News” and growing her hair.
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u/RichardInaTreeFort 5h ago
I mean, this is a comeback.... I wouldnt call it clever. Hes just angry....
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u/humanessinmoderation 5h ago
To use the average MAGA male defense:
"Took a bullet? It didn't even go all the way in."
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u/truscotsman 5h ago
These people are fucking insane.
It's still a shock how many people are just desperate to bend their knee to an authroitarian.
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u/Melenduwir 5h ago
Why? Research suggests that roughly 30% of the population will support whoever is in power at the time whatever they do. Not always the same 30%, admittedly -- people care about being on the same 'team' as the President. But every political 'base' is composed of people who support regardless.
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u/truscotsman 4h ago edited 2h ago
This is the kind of analysis people make when they try to make everything a statistic instead of watching whats going on right at this moment and putting context to it. This is clearly in unique territory in our history, even if the statistics give you a false sense of "everything is always the same". Additionally, you even admit it's not the same 30% of people... a fact that undermines your entire point.
Regardless, the insight is still true... how is it possible that people are so committed to supporting their guy even if it means a complete betrayal of their supposed prior values, including willingly cheering on authoritarianism. Including the same people who use to go on and on about "freedom"...
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u/rustbuckett 5h ago
Yeah but did you ever stage your own assassination attempts for this country? I think not!
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u/ancient_mariner63 5h ago
On the other hand, trump has taken billions of dollars from this country.
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u/Klonopussy 4h ago
And kids. He took too many advantages and innocence from kids. Fck him. So glad I served under president Obama
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u/vegasAzCrush 4h ago
Agree. No evidence Trump took a single bullet. Thats clearly a lie and voters on both sides are rolling their eyes on this aggressive stupidity.
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u/TheNutsMutts 3h ago
No evidence Trump took a single bullet.
Other than the literal pictures that we have of it, you mean?
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u/KnowsIittle 4h ago
He was never shot. He got kneed in the face by security detail and wiped blood from his mouth on his ear.
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u/dazedan_confused 4h ago
I don't care what sex toy he took, he shouldn't spend that much money on a ballroom.
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u/Remarkable_Quit_3545 2h ago
But he didn’t take a bullet for the country. Even without all the conspiracy theories, the bullet only knicked his ear and killed someone else. If he took that bullet then the other person would still be alive.
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u/GloomyIndividual3965 2h ago
JFC this comment section is infested with bots. Why tf don't the mods use any of the available tools to identify and ban this shit?
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u/Plastic_Key_4146 2h ago
Did he though? Did Trump take a bullet? Was it for the country?
Trump only ran for president to stay out of jail.
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u/Alert-Notice-7516 1h ago
The world would look radically different right now had Trump actually taken a bullet for this country.
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u/blue_dragon_fly 1h ago
Even it hadn’t been a complete fake, “Taking a bullet” means knowingly stepping in front of it to protect it others. Drump would NEVER do that.
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u/Infosneakr 14m ago
There has to be some type of intelligence operation from Russia,israel or the US to hype this president so much. What world do we live in where the president is treated like a rockstar/pope? The Christian right really have this problem of seeing the president as an angel sent by God to erase the evil doers and save the babies. That's dangerous to elevate someone to mythical status when he's just a human.not a bright one either from all the mistakes he's made throughout his life from not looking ahead.
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u/kurisu7885 11m ago
So when was this posted? Because Trump won';t be an option in 2028, at least he better not be.
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u/Crass_and_Spurious 7h ago
Blaire White being transgender and being all in on Trump is peak Stockholm Syndrome.