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[–] 93 points 6 months ago (6 children)
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  • [–] 37 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    "I'm here to mock presidents and eat food. And we're all out of presidents to mock, because he ran away."

    Edit: typo fix

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  • [–] 30 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Look, once I was at the mall grabbing food at the food court while my wife grabbed a table with our two kids. As I was heading to the table a crowd of people started running toward the food court screaming that there was a shooter (this was not too long after Parkland, which happened to be kind of close to the mall I was at). Huge mass of people diving under tables and all that. And I legit had the thought "what do I do with this Chick-fil-A? Do I drop it? Do I hide with it?" I mean it was expensive. And we're still hungry...

    Anyway, I got to the table where my wife had the kids underneath and by then everything was quiet and I guess someone dropped something at a store, people were jumpy and thought it was a gun shot and the whole thing spiraled from there. Once everyone realized that there was no shooter, we all just... sat down and ate. It was weird. The USA is weird.

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  • [–] 30 points 6 months ago

    "I said this risotto is to die for. Did I stutter?"

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  • [–] 37 points 6 months ago* (10 children)
  • [–] -1 points 6 months ago (8 children)

    you couldn't find more obscure blog to link to?

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (7 children)

    Feel free to provide another source if you like.

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  • [–] -1 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    i can do that, but that doesn't make your choice any less strange...

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    It was in the feed directly after this story.

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    i have no idea what "feed" you are talking about, but if this is honest, non-trolling response, then you should learn to pick your sources better.

    not all news sources are created equal. some employ professional journalists who collect and verify news before publishing them, ensuring to a reasonable degree that what you read is true, and some are.. high frequency dispatch dot com, whatever the fuck that is.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    From context it just sounds like they were saying that a post with that link followed immediately after this one in their lemmy feed. Coming off unnecessarily aggressive.

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  • [–] -2 points 6 months ago

    post with that link followed immediately after this one in their lemmy feed

    again, that has zero effect on relevance or trustworthiness of the source.

    Coming off unnecessarily aggressive.

    and here i am thinking i am quite patient and clarifying. 🤷‍♂️ we live drowning in a sea of misinformation, and when someone gives a source so obscure it doesn't even have record in the mediabiasfactcheck.com, for the event that was covered by every reliable news source, it is important to ask why. "i just copied it from somewhere" does not really cut it.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    You should be able to figure out what feed I'm referring to in context. I'm on lemmy. It's obviously the lemmy feed.

    And what's described is a major news event that there are dozens of high quality sources for. I just threw something up to answer my own question about what even this post was referring to.

    Despite pontificating about sources, you're demonstrating extremely poor critical thinking and source consideration. The first step of research is figuring out just what level of scrutiny is required. This was a throwaway line to quickly answer a throwaway question, and you're going down some weird rabbit hole demanding other sources when quick googling could find any number of sources.

    Try to use better information practices. It's poor form to be demanding additional sources when casual sources suffice for a casual problem. If you want something deeper, you are more than capable of finding it.

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  • [–] -2 points 6 months ago

    you’re demonstrating extremely poor critical thinking and source consideration.

    i do appreciate the lecture on source consideration from a person linking to some totally obscure blog instead of reliable news source... i definitely wasn't ready for "no, you" strategy, so you at least have point for originality 😆

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  • [–] 15 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    No point in being afraid for your life AND hungry. Best fix what you can

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago

    Weirdly relate to Kash Patel's girlfriend who stopped to grab a couple of bottles of champagne and wine before evacuating. I'd do the same. If the world's on fire, might as well dance before the flames.

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  • [–] 63 points 6 months ago* (8 children)

    its because it was staged asf, as some of the reddit sub discussed, the failure of the iran war and the epstein files really has trump grasping at straws.

    plus karoline leavitt low-key said something about a shooting happening a few hours earlier.

    this like 3rd staged attempt, 1st it was alleged assasination, followed by another attempt, and then this.

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  • [–] 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

    Nah.

    Things are definitely going to get interesting in the coming months and a false flag operation is absolutely on the table

    However, I don't think they would bother with something this pathetic at this time. They weren't even shooting at the pres this time. This isn't going to rate a blip and no one will remember it when they go to vote in the mid terms.

    Think more like the 9/11 attacks but with less regard for human life, human suffering, and something that will stoke hatred for years and decades. For example, a dirty bomb in California.

    Edit: Sorry I've changed my mind. Earlier I was thinking the motivation would be Trump's popularity generally. However, if the motivation is to build the ballroom then that changes things significantly. It seems likely that this was staged to substantiate a claim that the ballroom is required for security reasons.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    It's to justify the building of the ballroom that they now "need" to keep everyone safe.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    “What happened last night is exactly the reason that our great Military, Secret Service, Law Enforcement and, for different reasons, every President for the last 150 years, have been DEMANDING that a large, safe, and secure Ballroom be built…

    This would never have happened in my planned Militarily Top Secret Ballroom”

    djt

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    Yeah maybe. This one is still pretty sussy to me though. The press conference 30 minutes later where they're all laughing and chumming it up, showing absolutely no fear or any semblance of distress, coupled with the very unified messaging about how this latest attempt makes the White House ballroom all the more important. I don't actually think this is some elaborate plot to win back the public's favor or even anything sinister, like an attempt at justifying martial law. I think it's very obvious what this was, because they told us directly. I think this is them trying to get that ballroom lawsuit dismissed so that Trump can continue his personal bunker project. Not because he thinks he needs a bunker mind you - because all the other billionaires have one, Trump is too cheap to pay for his own, and he can have this one built on the taxpayers' dime.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah so much of this seems so weird. The USSS response compared to similar incidents with other presidents seemed so odd - they secured the VP first and that staged af picture of them in a very non-tactical stack in the lobby/hallway? The fact the shooter even got past a single layer of security with a shotgun?? And apparently was some kind of IDF supporter, has anyone confirmed that picture?

    If it is staged, I wonder what genius thought to do this in a room literally filled with the world's leading investigative journalists and reporters lmao.

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  • [–] 38 points 6 months ago (16 children)

    I don't know why people think this is indicative of a conspiracy lol. I know people that would get their money's worth in the middle of a warzone lol.

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  • [–] 16 points 6 months ago (7 children)

    I'll be honest if I were him I'd be like "don't worry the guards'll get him" unless he was in the room. There's no way he was getting anywhere with that plan. Besides I'm probably not the target, if he does get by them I'll hit him with a "he went that-a-way" and slurp, honestly 70/30 I'll be fine.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago

    I'd say that was reasonable. If you heard a lot more gunshots go off, and they seem to be slowly getting louder, then maybe worry... but that's sitting here in my comfortable chair a long ways away from any gunshots...

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  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Sorry, I thought you said calzone.

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago

    Lmao yeah staged or not, absolutely this. If he's some foreign correspondent those people don't even flinch at accurate artillery fire. Nothing but respect for war journalists, they're some hard mother fuckers.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    The Charlie Kirk assassination was staged because people didn't hesitate before grabbing the bloodied merch, despite, ya know, the assassination.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago*

    Nah, that's just typical consumerism you expect in the US.

    People's brains are so fried in this country, especially conservatives, it was probably just a lot of dumb assholes who thought "oh if I have a shirt with blood from the assassination it'll be worth millions in a few years!"

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I've seen the videos, I didn't hear gunshots.

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    [–] 7 points 6 months ago

    Survive enough mass shootings and you too will be desensitized.

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    The Epstein files are safe , its a false flag

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    What part of the files is everyone waiting for? The evidence that is not released possible CP or being used in an active case and waiting for court time.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I think the answer we need is why there's no news about this on lemmy frontpage but only a meme.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    So I was at the correspondence dinner eating lobster bisque and yada yada yada, then we had to go home.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    May have had prewarning

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

    Me at the wedding, harvesting drink tickets while everyone else goes and watches the sunset or some shit

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  • [–] [S] 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    There are videos of people stealing bottles of champagne and wine while this was happening too. Grifters gotta grift.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    Everyone ejaculated?

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    This is the Mossad agent in charge of managing the Epstein clients, most of which were invited to that dinner.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago*

    No love this time... One day perhaps...

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    The first and perhaps only time when I find myself relating to a politician.

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    [–] 6 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Guy knows this was all a set up by the Trump administration to give them arguments in favour of building the fucking White House ballroom.

    Honestly, how can a guy armed with knives and guns bypass all security measures and screens to get to that point? And how come he didn't get immediately shot and killed?

    Even that kid on the rooftop that clipped his ear was killed.

    Makes no sense.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    I put my dick in the soup.

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