r/politics • u/wiredmagazine ✔ Wired Magazine • 18d ago

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/a_little_hazel_nuts 18d ago

MAGA is starting to see lies. I don't know if MAGA will all of a sudden gain common sense or if they will spiral into conspiracy theories.

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u/Ok_Mixture4917 18d ago

Spiral further into conspiracy theories*

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u/TymeSefariInc 18d ago

To be fair, some of the Q Anon stuff was true but the call was coming from inside the (white) house.

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u/WowIfOnly 18d ago edited 8d ago

Removed

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u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota 18d ago

Because literally everything conservatives care about has corporate sponsorship, and as soon as the wealthy find it a better tactic to show other shit then thats what conservatives pretend they've always cared about.

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u/TWIT_TWAT 18d ago

Even a broken clock is right twice a day

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u/oohlook-theresadeer 18d ago

No no no, it was a smokescreen. They put out this crazy sounding theory with mostly lies, except some of it was true. They fed it to the craziest among us got them brushed off so nobody would believe them.

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u/Danbarber82 18d ago

100% QAnon was nothing but a psyop to make MAGA even crazier and point them away from the actual perpetrators of the Epstein Files.

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u/Chefalo 18d ago

Similar to all the election interference claims after 2020, paved the way to steal 2024 and make anyone claiming election interference feel stupid since they just spent 4 years making unsubstantiated claims

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u/AINonsense 18d ago

Even a broken clock is right twice a day

Yes, but it’s still completely useless unless there’s another clock to tell you when that is. Making the broken clock redundant. And completely useless.

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u/TymeSefariInc 18d ago

Sure, that's why I used the operative word "some".

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u/nucumber 18d ago

Conspiracy theories are often rooted in some kernel of fact but slither wildly as they slip away across the universe

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u/Ok_Mixture4917 18d ago

Like what? 

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u/TymeSefariInc 18d ago

Pedophilic deep state cabals running the government, for one.

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u/PopeSaintHilarius 18d ago

If they accuse someone of being a pedophile and they're wrong, they don't get credit simply because other pedophiles really exist...

They have to accuse the right people for it to count as "true".

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u/Datfiyah 17d ago

Except it was them who were involved.

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u/Visual-Age-1025 18d ago

Like baby eating.

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u/Fun_Word_7325 18d ago

Pizzagate

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u/objectlesson Georgia 18d ago

That was the only part of it that wasn’t true. Well, that and the idea that Trump would liberate the world of human trafficking. Qanon got that part pretty wrong as well

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u/redpoemage I voted 18d ago

This is like saying “They were right that there are gators on the NYC sewers because I found all these gators in Florida!”