Nobody Cares about yet another assassination attempt

[Innula Zenovka]

The issue isn’t whether it was staged or not, it’s more that no one cares either way, and that so many believe it isn’t far fetched for your government to do such a thing. It’s the total collapse of trust people have of their government, on whatever side your on. It’s the way people aren’t even shocked anymore when a gunman attempts to shoot your elected leader (or enters a school).

Even if Republicans lose the next election, without a dramatic change in how the government works, and who owns traditional media, or maybe I should say, who owns the government, how can all this continue to function when no one believes their own leaders?

I'm not so much worried about the collapse of trust in government as the collapse in critical thinking. I don't trust the US government to tell the truth about anything, but I don't assume they must necessarily be lying, either.

My problem is that that -- at least to my mind -- the false flag theory doesn't seem credible, simply because I can believe "Cole Allen was prepared to go to prison for a long time, and possibly even to get shot, in order to assassinate Trump and other members of the administration" far more readily than "Cole Allen was prepared to go to prison for a long time, and possibly even to get shot, in order to distract people from Iran and the Epstein files and to help Trump get his ballroom built" or "Cole Allen was manipulated, without his knowledge, into what he seriously intended to be an assassination attempt when, in fact, the whole thing was a charade manipulated by secret puppet masters behind the scenes for their ulterior motives".

"The US government is, for its own purposes, opportunistically manipulating the truth about what actually happened" (which seems a perfectly credible account of what we're seeing) does not necessarily mean "The US government was behind the whole thing from start to finish" (which seems utterly fanciful and doesn't stand up to a minute's serious consideration).

 

[Isabeau]

There’s no collapse of critical thinking, it’s never been that great

Appearances are often more powerful than the truth. That’s why propaganda works