Excited for the veep debate
xanax versus opioids
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Just a black hole of despair since I learned trump was 2" away from being dead.
Just completely unfair that this is all going to happen because of some wind or because he turned his head.
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I’ve been having the same vague sense of despair but it’s just the combo of everything; I’m not sure how to think about the assassination attempt and its result. I’m still not entirely convinced that Trump being six feet under by November changes much of anything, except the possibility that there’ll be someone much more competent winning in a landslide and implementing Project 2025, who’s also eligible to be prez for 8 years, on top of everything else.
I wonder what sort of loyalty oath Vance agreed to, and whether it’s in writing.
https://x.com/lefttwick/status/1812930253750509885
That’s why Vance is the worst pick out of them. All the others had some affiliation with the GOP mainstream. Vance was the one who most molted off his GOP mainstream carapace and is now the most alt right without being strictly white supremacist. Guy lacks the shame, however little Pence had, to not go full authoritarianism.
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Observing the rise of fascism in real time it hit me that we really focused on the wrong thing from WW2. So much focus on Hitler, but we should have spent more time focusing on the craven shits that enabled him along the way.
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In Nevada, my intensive outpatient treatment group has come to the consensus that the shooting was staged by Trump. They believe the dead bodies are real but that Trump arranged for the shooting to happen.
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I’m there with you. I called in sick because I was too on edge to work. Might do it again tomorrow.
Yeah I guy I know on FB posted, “Staged? Yes or no?”
I laid out all the common sense reasons why something like this would be impossible to stage. I saw in notifications that he replied to me, but he deleted it before I read it.
He’s now engaging with a bunch of loopy crunchy lefty types and going down deep rabbit holes. Sigh.
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With the news today I decided to think about something pointless and stupid.
There’s some magic-bullet speculation going on:
https://x.com/maklelan/status/1812676699869573357
This dude has partially walked back his idea that this bullet could not have hit Trump. He’s not a ballistics guy, fwiw, and neither am I. BUT there’s still something weird about the picture of the bullet whizzing by.
I heard an NPR interview with the photographer where he said the shutter speed was 1/8000 second. And it’s not hard to find velocity vs distance information for a bullet from an AR. It’s about 2600 ft/sec at 150 yards. So the bullet would travel about 0.33 ft (4 inches) during the exposure. But if you look at the picture, my guesstimate is the streak length is about a foot.
Earlier I joked that it was partially composed of vaporized Trump ear, and maybe a trail of blood and cartilage does explain why it’s so long. But otoh, if it is the bullet that hit Trump, why is the twitter guy’s idea wrong?
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All this news about the FBI trying to figure out this guys “motive” is starting to grind my gears. Are they thinking this is a carjacking gone awry or something?
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Includes vid stitch of the shooter crawling on roof with Trump speech
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I was talking to my son about the nature of conspiracy theories and why people come up with them, and it really applies to this case. This whole sequence of events is really implausible-seeming and people are desperate to have a way to wrap their arms around it. “Wild shit happens sometimes” is very unsatisfying when you’re desperate to really nail everything down.
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Yea. People want there to be A Reason why Trump didn’t get killed that is something other than random luck, because otherwise you have to accept the fact that he truly did just get insanely lucky, again, and that the world truly was an inch or two away from looking way, way different today. It fucks you up to think about.
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the way his head turns exactly half a second before the shots were fired in the only direction he could face and still be alive would not have been possible to stage
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Yeah imo if you’re doing the conspiracy route it’s “simulation” or bust.
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