president.

At least that’s what I’m reading here on DU.

Getting to the truth requires verifiable facts, not molecules of information from which speculative meaning is extrapolated.

So can everybody else.

And speculation can take more than one form.

Less harmful speculation : “I wonder if…?” “I would like to know more about…”

Harmful speculation: “I don’t know, they haven’t told us, so it must be X”

But you do you.

But it does spread misinformation and further sow mistrust, which actually advances Trump’s agenda.

I prefer to stay firmly rooted in the reality-based community.

Scroll through the DU threads since the incident and count the number of AA denialist, Kooky CT nonsense-spreading threads.

Now count the number of threads on Epstein, gun violence.

Distraction achieved.

Your speculation. You can't prove it.

They are not part of the reality based community and we shouldn’t expect their actions to be based on reality or truth.
There was no social media back in the days of the Ford administration to propel lies or conspiracies, causing people to doubt their motives and actions.
What we have now is fertile ground for doubt.
Therefore we can expect nothing other than speculation and confusion.

We had an actual working government then compared to today.

Describe how that technology might have been applied in each of the Trump incidents.

Your question reveals that you are unaware of any technological advancement in the past half-century.

Tell you what--spend some time getting yourself up to date, and then get back to us.

People want to think they're staged because Trump grifts from these. But Trump grifts from everything.

Look at the event in Florida? Those things happen to almost every president. (And Trump wasn't even president at the time) Someone is always trying to get close with a firearm.


It happens.

weren't.

Only, as Rudy once said, theories that they were staged.

And theories alone is good enough for a lot of folks, whether it is election deniers or assassination attempt deniers.

But that still doesn’t make either Kooky CT true.

so craven that he started a war for no reason that killed thousands? Was Ford responsible for the unnecessary deaths of hundreds of thousands of people because he hogtied the response to Covid? Was Ford best friends with a guy who raped hundreds of children? Was Ford a rapist?

Gosh. He wasn't any of those things. So I guess the comparison doesn't make much sense.

I don’t think the dinner incident was staged. But I absolutely understand why people go there with him. He’s is a serial liar, and proudly evil, cruel and corrupt. So of course the perfectly normal, natural reaction from many people is going to be to question EVERYTHING. He’s earned that a million times over.

act like lunatics and just did their jobs. They kept him covered as they hustled him out of the area in case there were more shooters. Unlike what they did in Butler.

And he didn't stage any fake heroics. Like he did in Butler.

or trying to overturn an election...maybe getting his SS to drive away with the VP so he couldn't certify election results. Silly, kooky, Pence why in the world wouldnt he trust Trump's SS?

Do you believe that report was the whole truth and nothing but the truth?

Did you notice that after the attempts on Ford’s life, nobody was talking about the Warren report? (Well, except Mae Brussels)

How convenient

Just one more manipulated distraction by the deep state…

COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS.

1979, HSCOA CONCLUSIONS:

BOTH JFK AND MLK, Jr., WERE ASSASSINATED "LIKELY" AS RESULTS OF CONSPIRACIES.

"NOBODY WAS TALKING ABOUT THE WARREN REPORT"??????

United States House Select Committee on Assassinations - Wikipedia https://share.google/ELKoEaP7zE8Dp2wqS

It took three years after the assassination attempts on Ford for the commission to release its report, so the staged attempts served their purpose- to delay and distract the public from that topic.

I am using the same logical constructs as the Trump AA denialists.

I’d say the evidence is getting pretty strong for a false flag operation (actually two false flags).

They are going to have to rewrite the history books.

You offer proof of your answer.

Their shtick is to mock and belittle and deride and insult anyone who reaches a conclusion other than the one that the cheerleaders prefer.

with insults and derision toward those who disagree. And history has conclusively disproved the position he was defending on those past topics.

If all the evidence points to one direction, refusing to believe that is clinging.

nor to the WHCD "assassination attempt."

But please go on with your bad self.

Just like people swear it doesn't apply to flat earth and Bigfoot or Obama being a Muslim from Kenya, etc etc.

The people you accuse of clinging have facts and evidence and logic. You have a feeling that you're clinging to and that's it. But as you said, keep on with your bad self. Because clearly you aren't open to changing your mind because your gut feeling is all that matters.

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

Not surprising, TBH.

The cheerleaders are saying "we have a series of facts and purported facts, given to us as part of The Official Story. Even though The Official Story has a number of holes and fails to address reasonable objections, we must believe The Official Story and attack anyone who doesn't swallow it as eagerly and as uncritically as we do."

The more skeptical among us, in stark contrast, say "The Official Story is full of holes, and in many ways it is directly at odds with observable reality. Therefore we question it, notwithstanding the personal attacks by The Cheerleaders."

The Trump AA denialists cannot cope with the uncertainty and lack of complete information following critical incidents such as this Saturday’s, so they simply make stuff up without a shred of evidence, and fill in their gaps of knowledge and understanding with speculative declarations presented as the absolute truth.

And they scold anyone who's less eager to accept The Official Story as matter of faith.

If you answered "No," please provide your proof.

The proof is there, if you’re just willing to look for it…

so of course the attacks on Ford had to have been staged. The only consequential thing Ford ever did was pardon Nixon; otherwise he was kind of a nobody. Since he was not consequential, Squeaky Fromme and Sara Jane Moore had to have been Deep State plants, or something. Also, James Garfield was allegedly assassinated after only a few months in office, so that must have also been staged since he never had a chance to become consequential. He lived the rest of his long life under an assumed name in the south of France. Nobody knew this until now.

…to paraphrase the late, great Scoop Nisker, “if you don’t like the truth, go out and make up some of your own”.

I'll provide proof that the Ford assisnation attempts were real when you provide proof they were NOT real.

But I’ve been reading on DU for the past two days, over and over again, that the assassination attempts on Trump are presumed to be staged unless they can be definitively proven that they weren’t , so I thought the same standard of proof applied to all presidential assassination attempts.

You are painting everyone with.

Just the folks spouting Kooky CT Nonsense.

Disney's attempt at animatronics.

Much higher tech nowadays, with even worse results.

Although he is a good example of a Song and Dance Man.

Found! on Fine Art America.

Sometimes, the internet works OK.

I don't get into conspiracy theories.

I did point out though that donnie who plotted a coup attempt would be above anything. Anything.
That's it. That's not unreasonable to say given the historic significance of a president plotting against the peaceful transition of power (before and after 1/6 - essentially he spent the entire time after that election plotting and attempting shit)....
yet my comment yesterday was responded by not well thought out sarcasm and a lot of straw men.

Oof.

So, while he might wish something to happen, the laws of physics, logic, and his 50+ year record of failures repeatedly get in his way.

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...some people don't read and then reply... not a good look.

Next time read and then reply. The irony is that I was specifically calling out this very behavior from yesterday.

different Supreme Court, different media………

At Least,, that seems to be the case with AA denialists.

just about anything to improve his career situation. I only thought of Ford as kind of boring. But that was also kind of meme back then. And Chevy Chase playing him as falling down or over things.

I don't personally think the shootings of Trump were faked.

So, no answer for what was asked.

Was it staged to make it appear Lee Harvey Oswald was the shooter? Was Jack Ruby ordered to silence Oswald? Were the shooters on the grassy knoll real, or fake? So many questions...

Occam’s Razor applies to Both the Ford and Trump attempts, but the denialists won’t acknowledge that.

she has written a book. manson might have wished he had cultists as loyal as trump's .

Proof? Every other White House occupant except the felon was sane - not perfect, not the greatest human beings, many may have had big egos, but they weren’t complete, raging, reckless psychopaths who flaunted narcissism to this extreme and constantly made everything all about themselves.