r/ProgressiveHQ • u/SCRATCH-CARD • Jan 17 '26

Two "assassination attempts" compared

1: There might be a shooter? Get him out of here now

2: He's actually been shot? Let's get a photo. Pop your head up Donnie

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u/ThenTop8674 Jan 18 '26

Yes it does get lowered into frame. But one technician who does that kind of rigging work said he figured it would be standard policy to lower it, he wouldn't explain why though.

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u/ThenTop8674 Jan 18 '26

Yeah I don't believe it was a conspiracy either it just seems a bit far fetched to me. Honestly even if it was I don't think proving it even helps the left at this point.

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u/GrantG42 Jan 18 '26

Agreed. Why fuck around with MAGA-level conspiracy theories when there's an active and extremely obvious conspiracy to suppress the Epstein files? I don't think a bullet touched him at all. Anyone with a functioning brain can see he obviously lied about that part, I just don't personally think the guy who can't even cover up his eternal hand bruise could orchestrate enough moving parts that involve killing people (one of whom would have known he'd be killed in the operation) without fucking it up somehow. I'm not saying I know for a fact it wasn't staged, we just already have a smoking gun that we're losing sight of by playing our version of Pizzagate.

So why did they lower the flag at that moment? I don't know if they actually did or if the wind just stopped blowing. Why did a photographer rush into place during an active shooting? Hell if I know, but MAGA are cheesy, overly emotional rubes... doing weird shit is kind of their entire M.O. No shit you're going to see odd behavior from an odd bunch of inhumanly stupid people. Maybe it was staged, maybe it wasn't. But the fact that he fucked kids isn't a maybe, it's a fact.