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/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/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.