On the one hand, I find it kind of concerning and a worrying sign of an uptick in conspiracist thinking that so many people think the various assassination attempts were faked.
I don't believe that they are - it's just not weird to me that in a country that has more guns than people and with an extremely unpopular president who keeps doing evil shit, that there'd be a few one-in-several-million people who make and carry out some half-baked plans.
But it is kind of funny that so many people's response is "🙄 He's obviously just faking for attention"
#i am well aware that it SOUNDS silly but it's SO hard ro look at it all and NOT think it's a big ol con? #like; if it was really real wouldn't SOMEONE have been shot by now if not killed (besides the shooters) (tags via @aniseandspearmint )
I know the last few years have felt like an eternity, but a guy in the audience did die at the 2024 attempt in Butler, PA, and two other people were shot and seriously injured. That's very much a thing that did happen. There were articles about it at the time, even, because Trump was characteristically self-centered about it and didn't really acknowledge anyone but himself.
US presidents have a lot of security, and they keep getting stopped by security.
Doing political assassinations is actually pretty hard? Famously a BUNCH of shit went wrong with the plot to assassinate Franz Ferdinand that kicked off WW1, and they very nearly failed at it.
There was a guy who had a plan to assassinate Biden during the 2024 debate but he showed up at the wrong place, fucked around for a few hours, realized he had the wrong place and was too late, and went back to his hotel room - and then got arrested. It just wasn't as big of a news story.
A lot of people who try to commit assassinations or acts of terrorism are pretty bad at it, and most of them are not the most stable or hinged of individuals. People whose lives are going great don't GENERALLY decide to do something that will most likely get them murdered by law enforcement.
#I also feel like maybe people don't understand how difficult shooting a target actually is #people on TV and movies give a false impression of how hard it actually is to hit something that moves #a lot of would be assassins IRL don't have experience w guns #just because America has a reputation doesn't mean people can actually shoot #so the old 'but if it isn't a conspiracy why do they keep missing' thing is out (tags via @zetabrarian)
Yes. Thank you. Also trying to do that in a stressful situation where you have very limited time.
Let us remember that people tried to unsuccessfully assassinate Hitler at least twelve times AFTER the invasion of Poland (there were also people who tried to assassinate him prior). Each time something happened to either prevent him from being in the spot they planned to kill him or something else went wrong. It happens! It happens a lot!
I am far more willing to accept the idea of Trump bumbling around dodging bullets like Mr. Magoo than I am the idea of this administration successfully pulling off a conspiracy without a single person leaking it accidentally on a Signal chat with a journalist or something.
