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Showing Original Post only (View all)The conspiracy theories make us look bad [View all]
Why is it so hard to accept that someone tried to shoot Trump? Why do so many of you need to concoct convoluted theories to explain it away? WaPo has an article about it. The internet is awash with it. They are calling it BlueAnon. BlueAnon, like QAnon.
Minutes after Saturdays shooting at a Trump rally in Butler, Pa., liberals began flooding social media platforms with conspiracy theories. They claimed the blood on former president Donald Trumps ear was from a theatrical gel pack; that the shooting was a false flag, perhaps coordinated by the Secret Service in collaboration with the Trump campaign; that the scene of a bloodied Trump raising his fist under an American flag was #staged.
When did the Secret Service start allowing the President under duress to tell them to wait, then stand up to be seen by the crowd fist-pumping? one user posted on X. Can you blame me for thinking this is fake?
The shooting threw into overdrive a phenomenon dubbed BlueAnon a play on the right-wing conspiracy theory QAnon that refers to liberal conspiracy theories online. As more Americans lose trust in mainstream institutions and turn to partisan commentators and influencers for information, experts say they are seeing a big uptick in the manufacture and spread of BlueAnon conspiracy theories, a sign that the communal warping of reality is spreading well beyond the right.
The good-versus-evil paradigm of QAnon has really taken hold of the anti-Trump movement and youre seeing two sides that feel like they are fighting a battle between good and evil, said Mike Rothschild, author of The Storm Is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult and Conspiracy Theory of Everything. Its coming from major leftist and liberal resistance influencers who believe that Trump is so devious that hed fake his own assassination attempt in order to help his campaign.
When did the Secret Service start allowing the President under duress to tell them to wait, then stand up to be seen by the crowd fist-pumping? one user posted on X. Can you blame me for thinking this is fake?
The shooting threw into overdrive a phenomenon dubbed BlueAnon a play on the right-wing conspiracy theory QAnon that refers to liberal conspiracy theories online. As more Americans lose trust in mainstream institutions and turn to partisan commentators and influencers for information, experts say they are seeing a big uptick in the manufacture and spread of BlueAnon conspiracy theories, a sign that the communal warping of reality is spreading well beyond the right.
The good-versus-evil paradigm of QAnon has really taken hold of the anti-Trump movement and youre seeing two sides that feel like they are fighting a battle between good and evil, said Mike Rothschild, author of The Storm Is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult and Conspiracy Theory of Everything. Its coming from major leftist and liberal resistance influencers who believe that Trump is so devious that hed fake his own assassination attempt in order to help his campaign.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/07/14/blueanon-conspiracy-theories-trump-rally-shooting/
All this stuff is an embarrassment. Do you really want to be equated to the QAnon followers? Please, don't be like them. Something bad happened. It's not that complicated. Other presidents have had assassination attempts before. It happens. Guns proliferate, and the killer was a conservative with lots of rounds of ammunition. It's a miracle that more politicians haven't been killed. Lord knows lots of school children have been.
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What-aboutism is the weakest excuse for CTs. "Conceivable" includes "realisticly almost impossible". . . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Jul 16
#10
Rest in Peace. Also, not even tRump would put himself in rifle sights of 20 yo troubled man. . . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Jul 16
#11
"Just asking questions!" cloaks the real agenda: seeking confirmation, avoiding unconfirming info. . . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Jul 16
#13
CT that DNC/Establishment/Hillary rigged the 2016 primary gave Trump the idea of rigging and used it
betsuni
Jul 16
#6
And he says the same thing about Joe Biden who has close to 50 years of honorable service
Rhiannon12866
Jul 16
#7
Really? Hadn't noticed those conspiracy theories. How deep did the Post have to dig to find them?
Pompoy
Jul 16
#8
There was one prominent on the DU Greatest page, so no digging needed
muriel_volestrangler
Jul 16
#12
I remember being chastised here for saying Russia helped him get elected in 2016.
Scrivener7
Jul 16
#15
Oh yes, Russian interference was a hoax because Russia was nice and Democrats bad; hacking Democrats'
betsuni
Jul 16
#24
After decades of them spraying shit all over reality, I will not defend Trump nor stamp out anti-Trump rumors.
GreenWave
Jul 16
#19
This. I'm really not going to worry if my distrust of the convicted felon "looks bad" to someone.
Scrivener7
Jul 16
#29
It's totaly dumb but the right is pushing conspiracys on this 1000000 times more.
Quixote1818
Jul 16
#23
It's funny how they can literally say or do anything with zero repercussions....
BlueTsunami2018
Jul 16
#32
I don't want to feed this ridiculous conspiracy stuff. But I saw an arial photo of the fair grounds
doc03
Jul 16
#33
Discounting everything you don't like as conspiracy is what makes us look bad
Blue Full Moon
Jul 16
#41
Showing sympathy to a CONVICTED criminal/sex abuser that tried to overthrow the government is what's really BAD
tenderfoot
Jul 16
#44