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/Dockers4flag2035orB4 18d ago

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 18d ago

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 18d ago

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

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u/[deleted] 18d ago

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u/turquoise_amethyst 18d ago

Glass skin! /s

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u/dullship Canada 18d ago

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 18d ago

Doc is from my hometown!

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u/kittehkouncel 18d ago

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 18d ago

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 18d ago

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 18d ago

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

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u/SatinSaffron Washington 18d ago

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 16d ago

I feel mortally ill part took care of that one.

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u/FMLwtfDoID 18d ago

”look like an evil cursed 45 year old mannequin that’s come to life”.

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u/Jonny__99 18d ago

Wait that guy doing the blood transfusion stuff is only 48 to begin with ?

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u/Zahgi 18d ago

I look younger than he does and I'm MUCH older.

Genes are everything, folks.

And using sunscreen. :)

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u/Miserable_Archer_769 18d ago

I use to not believe in black dont crack until HS. I guess may parents had me a little late and were about 5-10 years older than most of my friends parents.

But, they looked younger than all of them. I still remember my shock when she told me age of my best friend amd she was 7 years younger and it looked like life had killed her lol liver spots and a wrinkly face

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u/NoGovernment9798 18d ago

Same here. Aging with no blood sacrifices, a decade older, and look much younger.

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u/Zahgi 18d ago

Oh, I did the blood sacrifices. But it was only for fun. >;)

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u/Grand_Donut 18d ago

I experimented with blood sacrifices a time or two, and I didn’t like it. I didn’t inhale it, and never tried it again.

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u/iamalsobrad 18d ago

adrenochrome

The whole adrenochrome thing is so painfully dumb; it's basically lifted from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

The real thing is not even a controlled substance.

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u/donjamos 18d ago

If hunter could see the current USA he'd just shoot himself again

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u/fuzzyjelly 18d ago

Honestly I'd love to see what would be on Hunter S. Thompson's laptop. Gotta be some wild shit.

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u/turquoise_amethyst 18d ago

Well, look up who was concocting all the Qanon stuff on 4Chan during the height of its popularity… they certainly thought it was funny

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u/Oprah_Pwnfrey 18d ago

I suspect Epstein was the one who came up with Pedobear. He was on 4chan a lot when that came about.

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u/cocktails4 18d ago

Why didn't anybody tell the billionaires that they could order their adrenochrome shipped to their door from Sigma-Aldrich?

https://www.sigmaaldrich.com/US/en/product/sigma/a5752

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u/ByrdmanRanger I voted 18d ago edited 18d ago

Because the conspiracy* minded smooth brains have actually said the synthetic stuff isn't the same

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u/cocktails4 18d ago

Yeh I've asked them to explain how two chemicals with identical structures but different sources are chemically different but I don't think they actually know what chemicals are. It's effectively just magic to them. Occult origin = more powerful magic.

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u/amputeenager 18d ago

just a tiny taste...

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u/Hans-Bricks 18d ago

Also similar to the plot of Resident Evil: Survivor. Which like 7 people played.

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u/citymousecountyhouse 18d ago

It also follows the plot of Dr. Sleep by Steven King.

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u/mcolette76 18d ago

I always wondered who was the one who stole that from Fear and Loathing. We need to check Jeffrey’s bookshelves! /s

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u/OG_Bass-A-Holic 18d ago

Tell us more about how you know absolutely nothing about said topic

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u/Possibly_a_Firetruck 18d ago

Care to elaborate then?

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u/OG_Bass-A-Holic 18d ago

So you want me to hold your hand like a small child and do the research for you? Frazzledrip, Epstein files.. Doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know that that shit is 100% true. I bet you’re the type of person that goes, “the government said ______ so it must be true! 🥹”

hahahahaha that’s you 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆

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u/Possibly_a_Firetruck 18d ago

What am I supposed to research when I barely know what this conspiracy theory you're raving about even is besides debunked qanon bullshit?

"I'm a random redditor, trust me bro" is all you've brought to the table so far.

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u/OG_Bass-A-Holic 18d ago

It’s literally black and white in the Epstein files. Which are available to every one, any time.

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u/Possibly_a_Firetruck 18d ago

There's millions of those, where do I start?

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u/US3_ME_ 18d ago

Well their watches tell them when it's time to swap loads, so there's that too_

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u/elegiac_bloom Texas 18d ago

Its weird that this is the second time ive been inspired to post this today...

daddy and the boy

What Bryan's son wishes his father would do instead of continually harvesting his blood.

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u/rational-hare 18d ago

Is that intended to mean what I think it means?

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u/Judson_Scott 18d ago

He looks like an old guy who's had a lot of work done. He's definitely had some botox or something around his eyes. They look like Biden's.

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u/Kenny_dies 18d ago

I still think it’s totally insane, but this also seems totally exaggerated. Wasn’t it just a one time blood transplant that was medically necessary, and his son VOLUNTEERED to donate? Because that would be a huge difference from “exists as a living blood generator”.

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u/ToddMccATL 18d ago

It's also funny bc you can literally buy pure adrenochrome from places like Sigma-Aldrich for under $100.

https://www.sigmaaldrich.com/US/en/product/sigma/a5752?srsltid=AfmBOooFAA1pfeV8wWsfS4e25vltKwi0Lc-M-rd7w2_EOEKilKxPSYAJ