Once again, political violence stems from Republican ideology.

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      Imagine you spent maybe a decade at this point carrying water for mr mango mussolini, and because of it family members and friends stopped talking with you…only for you to finally realise, in 2026, that you spent that whole time looking like an absolute loser braindead clown while you defended a treasonous criminal pedo.

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      Seems to me they’re rapidly de-converted MAGAs that are completely lost and isolated (because they’ve been in a cult for 10 years) and full of vengeful rhetoric.

      I have another theory, but it’s admittedly pretty out there.

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          Reading more about this story I don’t think it applies in this case. It really does seem like someone who’s worldview was shattered by the Epstein files, or maybe not…

          For some of these shootings, like the kid who shot and killed one of Trump’s audience members, where Trump got a bloody ear and they lowered the flag behind him for the photo op, I think it was something like that episode of Black Mirror where they got the pedofiles to fight each other to the death. A team of hackers baits online sex offenders into blackmail and threatens to tell their families if they don’t accept their suicide mission (they may actually even promise protection). I believe that kid was told to shoot into the audience behind Trump, and they chose an “ex” (not actually, still current) Trump supporter that they could convince this was for the greater good, because a Trump hater might have actually made the shot on him. All attacks like this have done so far is get Trump a few sympathy points (though we’re seeing diminishing returns now with these things). I believe people like Eric Prince and even Epstein run/ran operations like this.

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            I’d buy that for a dollar.

            And add my own conspiracythat the photo and event, (an assassination attempt) was important for the religious nuts that are following this guy like puppies.

            It’s in their death cult plans that the anti-christ miraculously survives an assassination attempt. A lot of the weird preformative stuff he’s done ticks their boxes of the anti-christ.