Gregg R Thomas

Belle Rose wrote:
Do you think it’s a coincidence that right after that one of his criminal cases got completely dismissed by the judge? Come on people really? Are we all seriously that gullible! 😂

Trump is a remarkable person.  Therefore, remarkable things happen to him.  To me, it looked and smelled 100% real.

Belle Rose wrote:
I think the lack of transparency speaks VOLUMES

What is there to tell?  The bullet went through the top of his ear.

The shooter flew a drone over the site two hours before the rally.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-shooter-flew-drone-venue-hours-attempted-assassination-source-sa-rcna162817

jakelafort wrote:
Gonna be interesting if Trump is elected whether he becomes the vicious dictator and destroyer of American democracy (such as it is) that the democrats have been portraying.

You seem blithely unaware of Project 2025:

jakelafort wrote:
You want to see highjacking go to a mosque and any Islamic nation.

It’s a lot like a religion.  I don’t think it’s a coincidence that a lot of his fan base is Evangelical Christians.

Trump doesn’t need to be intelligent to control people’s minds.  All the ingredients are there in his personality (disorder) – controlling, m…[Read more]

Belle Rose wrote:
the US is the victim of an abusive relationship currently being pulled back into the same abusive relationship with its malignant narcissist of an ex husband only to be beaten up and left for dead…..again

I think it’s worse than that.  He’s hijacked the minds of millions and turned them into his willing bots.  But for them, the…[Read more]

This, more and more, to my mind, he’s appearing to be a troubled suicide-by-cop type who wanted to go out in a blaze of glory, and it probably didn’t matter to him who was speaking there that day as long as they would be important enough to garner the headlines which would write him into the pages of history.

That is what I thought from the sta…[Read more]

Here is an interesting new paper giving insight into the polarisation process.  People think their political opponents are capable of terrible moral infringements.  As opposed to, say, cheating, lying, bullying, vindictive, Machiavellian and self-serving, which is what Trump really is.

https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/3/7/pgae244/7712370

Unseen wrote:
suicide-by-cop

That makes the most sense to me.  Maybe he wanted to make an impact at the same time.

The shooter’s search history reveals that he researched Trump, Biden, and other prominent people as well. His political leanings are confusing, other than that he was a 2nd Amendment fanatic. His high school years were troubled as he was a bullied outsider.

This, more and more, to my mind, he’s appearing to be a troubled suicide-by-cop type who…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:
Spraying the stage with real bullets?  That doesn’t add up at all.

Ir would still count as an attempt on Trump’s life, a failed one, and give him PR almost as good as the PR he’s getting.

Unseen wrote:
Didn’t want an agent to get sunburn?

They said the roof was too steep to put an agent on.  However, they sheepishly admitted it wasn’t too steep for the shooter.

That the plan was to just graze his ear doesn’t pass the snicker test.

Spraying the stage with real bullets?  That doesn’t add up at all.

Simon Paynton wrote:
I don’t know.  Mistakes happen.  I’ve heard the head of the secret service say it was a health and safety issue, why they didn’t put anyone on that roof.  Instead, they secured the inside of the building.

Didn’t want an agent to get sunburn?

Simon Paynton wrote:

Belle Rose wrote:
I think Trump manufactured the whole th…

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Belle Rose wrote:
I think Trump manufactured the whole thing and planned it for sympathy and votes.

I don’t think that’s the case.  He would have had to stand there waiting for a bullet to the ear.  He might have big shiny round balls, but I don’t see anyone doing a William Tell with such confidence.

Also, if Trump had orchestrated it, he w…[Read more]

Belle Rose wrote:
EXACTLY….think about it…..

You’re right, it does need explaining.

Belle Rose wrote:
They are only incompetent if they choose to be. Meaning – they are not incompetent.

I don’t know.  Mistakes happen.  I’ve heard the head of the secret service say it was a health and safety issue, why they didn’t put anyone on that roof.  Instead, they secured the inside of the buil…[Read more]

Simple incompetence could account for why the Secret Service didn’t put a sniper on that roof.  But how did the shooter know that rooftop was going to be empty?  That seems strange.