by JackRiddler » Tue Jul 16, 2024 4:38 pm
once you're ready to question anything presented about this story, on the initial basis that it stinks (and it does), what difference do official or semi-official claims of evidence make anyway?
So the NYT says one of their images captured the bullet. So what? Easiest thing to claim, or to fix.
What can you claim as actually known? Maybe the timeline and motions of people in frame as recorded on video, presuming this can't be manipulated since there were many recordings. (Soon enough the AI should be able to replace the video as shot from different phones in real time but let's assume we're not there yet.)
So I guess that means the distant pops and apparent grazing on the ear, the screams, the Donald Ducking, then all those seconds of Trump unseen on the floor with agents preparing to lift him (and then not doing it), Trump calling for his shoes, them finally lifting him, Trump directing them to wait (and them obeying) so he can pose for the fist and fight-fight-fight message, and the carry-off.
Also, presumably, all that time, starting a bit earlier, of people 150 feet away saying, hey look at that shooter on the roof, aren't you coppers going to do something? And a copper apparently going up and then being scared away, allowing the shooter to get off his shots. Assuming all this is recorded, which I'm not sure it is.
I shall warn that the endless campaign trail is a context in which it would be foolish to completely rule out fuck-ups, accidents, and incompetence. That doesn't mean I'm voting for that explanation, understand? But mere argument from incredulity (i.e., your claiming it's unbelievable they would fuck up like that) is insufficient.
Since it's so popular round here: the cui bono. That would depend on whether it was supposed to happen as it did or whether he was supposed to be dead, wouldn't it now?
And then there's the let's make up invisible but possible tech extras, remote-control guns while the MK patsy attracts the attention, the "agents" actually being the make-up team preparing him for the shot when they lift him, etc. I'll leave that to you, but tell me you can't come up with more than one scenario where it is arranged for Trump's benefit, or else was arranged to kill him and fucked up, etc.
I think though if you go down this rabbit hole all the way the tendency will be to arrive at the idea that whatever happened, exactly as it happened, was what was supposed to happen, was planned to happen that way by the plotters in the first place. There is no grand philosophical reason to favor that, but well, what happened IS what happened, and EVERYTHING else is what DIDN'T happen.
I suppose my first warning should have been about the scenario of the stupid fucked-up semi-brainy and semi-brain-damaged boy-man indoctrinated with a lot of violent ideology and shooting lessons decides Trump's not his friend after all, grabs his AR, goes does this for the glory and sweet release from this wretched boring life, gets lucky enough for the ear-graze but not the kill, and is offed, as he hotly desired. This is not at all implausible. Nor is it too complicated to take seriously (like, say, the 9/11 story -- any version).
We are in so much the VR and fake-everything stage of politics that it's also okay to laugh at the idea, but not to say it's implausible. Because it ain't.
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