Once again, political violence stems from Republican ideology.

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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.

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              Yeah, there’s literally something in there about the anti-christ surviving what appears to be a fatal head wound, but I don’t understand why Theil and the gang would simultaneously be hinting at people like Greta Thorberg (I think that’s her name? (and Ill loose my train of thought if I look it up)) being the antichrist while also putting together these theatrics to make Trump look like the anti-christ? Maybe one story is meant to convert non-believers and the other is meant to manipulate those that already believe, and he knows those two bubbles don’t intersect in the discourse?

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                I think the goal was to get the real loony religous people on board. Like rural south judges, and people like mike johnson and pence and the lady he put on the Supreme Court. Those people that have been planning for Armageddon for their entire lives.

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                  If the rumors about Johnson are true, he’s more like Theil when it comes it religion, it’s a tool, a thread to weave. I think it’s just a lot easier to move money around if enough of the general population thinks it’s in preparation for Armageddon, and defending god’s “holy” land while it’s really just imperialist expansionism by proxy. Huckabee this week said Israel has the right to most of the middle east. They’re planning more long term than for an apocalypse. Always remember, with Huckabee, Bibi, the Ayatollah, they don’t want to die, they want power. Even their apparent self-fulfilling prophecy is false. lol

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                    I dunno man, johnson might just know everything because he’s a Louisiana nut involved with bad people like David Duke the KKK leader/once Louisiana politician, be a POS religious fanatic, and hope he’s being a martyr for the return of Jesus or whoever the fuck it is.

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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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      Well, it’s quite obviously actually. Alot of MAGAs are farmers and those are known for getting up very early in the morning. I’m just saying the line is long and they were first in line.