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[–] Dr_DOOM_@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

So they're slowly catching up with reality?

[–] obvs@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (9 children)

Well DUH.

Thanks for catching up to the rest of us, MAGA!

Ears don't heal themselves like that.

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Show video of conservatives showing he wasn't hit by bullet to other conservatives. They argue the results. Can't make this shit up.

[–] nexguy@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The best part of the staging is how that guy pretended to explode his brains all over the people next to him.

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

I don't think they're above killing an innocent bystander.

[–] VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

"I think that maybe it was staged," Tim Dillon said on his show last weekend about the assassination attempt. Dillon, who was previously a staunch Trump supporter, went on to share that Trump should now come out and say, “Some people are going to be upset by this, but we staged the assassination attempt in Butler to show people how important it was to vote for me and how far I was willing to go for them.”

Duuuude. Fucking delusional. He staged the attempt to win the election. Full stop.

You don't "show people" a lie. You don't fake a scene for power for other people.

“If you cannot look at this story and use critical thinking skills and have at least some questions, you are the problem and we need you to snap out of it,” Trisha Hope, a GOP national delegate from Texas and former Trump supporter, posted on X about Butler this week.

This one is really key, because this is what everyone that was paying attention was saying when it happened over a year ago.

"The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them." - Mark Twain

Except at this point, you just need to have a nondelusional point of view.

[–] DaMummy@hilariouschaos.com 5 points 6 days ago

Never, ever take anything Tim Dillon says seriously, because Tim Dillon also doesn't seriously mean it.

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

And they'll still re-elect him.

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[–] DaMummy@hilariouschaos.com 4 points 6 days ago

Iranian sleeper cells tried to assassinate him because they're prudes and wanted him to stop talking about Hannibal Lectar.

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