Who here thinks Elon is gonna state that the assassination attempt was faked?
this post was submitted on 05 Jun 2025
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That would be glorious. Still hate his guts but it would be great.
It would be nice if there was a real investigation into it. There are just too many inconsistencies for me to accept that it was a real attempt.
When in doubt, always remember that most people aren't actually good at their jobs, especially when shit goes wrong.
Cops are hired based on their ability to follow orders, and specifically not for their ability to solve problems.
Also, the little shit shooter was kicked out of his highschool gun club for being a terrible shot.
Any other inconsistencies come from people trying to cover their asses after the fact.
Taking a shot at Trumps ear seems pretty risky.
Well, one conspiracy is like JFK... a second shooter who was not aiming at him and tRump just got blood splatter on his ear or put it on himself. The kid who was allowed on the roof may not have had any real bullets.
But I'm like Occam's razor, the simplest explanation is the kid just missed.
The kid surely missed or Trump wouldn't be here, but he didn't took a bullet in his ear, that's for sure. A wound like that would take months to fully heal.
The Steve Bannon, the one that was convicted of multiple cases, including a federal contempt of Congress and a state-level fraud conviction? Oh you go tell your boss, you know the one found guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records.
Steve Bannon, the one who has openly stated the strat is to "flood the zone," thereby rendering media coverage useless.
But of course this headline is important and we should all pay attention to it.
You can literally taste the schadenfruede in the air today.
Why does this feel like highschool?
This is super shitty that this is where our government is at right now but at least I can make some popcorn this news cycle
Counterpoint. Musk was the sacrificial lamb, just like Thiel did to him at Paypal. Tesla was the most popular electric car company in the world. Their whole business model was based on reaching net zero. What if this was all done on purpose to stop adoption of electric vehicles. Fossil fuel industry is a huge player in this. Copenhagen Atomics is set to deploy their first thorium salt nuclear reactor in 2027. That plus electric cars means no need for fossil fuels. As it stands, in two generations, our planet will be basically uninhabitable due to climate change. The whole techno dystopian future big tech want with their freedom cities would be way easier to pull off, if the environment outside is totally inhospitable. Wouldn't that make sure forced adoption of brain implants like neuralink, or Meta, or Valve's brain chips a much easier sell? If it was that, or imminent death from exposure and air pollution. Peter Thiel is a transhumanist who believes we can ascend humanity through merging with machines.
Curtis Yarvin said that he would virtualise non-useful people as a humane alternative to genocide. Doesn't that make generative AI make way more sense? You don't want to adopt the surveillance state in your head, fine, live out the rest of your life as you slowly die of dehydration and hunger. If Trump is impeached we get Vance, whose entire career was created by Thiel. It all makes too much sense. Meta are now a defense contractor, Britain has said it will rebuild its military using "outside contractors." Palantir already have Israel and America. Big Tech want control of the world's armies, fighting proxy wars on their behalf. Once your military requires their systems, they can turn them off if any opposes them. This is all starting to turn the gears in my head.
Probably simpler maths than that: the many hundreds of millions that have been flowing from the gulf states and the domestic oil industry can’t compete with musk’s contributions and his terrible polling closed the deal. More money, more better.
Deport him!
*them
All republicans.
Yes. Please kick him out of this country.
Nazi calling for Nazi blood.
Nothing is absolved. Bannon is still swine.
Please tell me when they put out hits on each other.