Jesus. More material to go sealion my in laws for hours, just asking questions, during the family trip.
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Hey I dont understand what you mean here. Was sealion a typo? Or does that mean something?
I'm not going to jump into the conspiracy theory, but if you get one shot, don't miss. The ear thing was pure campaign magnetism. These fuckers showing up to rallies with gauze on their ears afterward was insane.
I'm 98% sure he just cut his ear while getting covered by secret service, or while getting back up.
2% chance he was cut intentionally as a show.
There 0% chance he was nicked by a bullet.
Or not even cut but a blood bag.
I remember when some dude with a beard overheard me from a booth away at Red Robin and gave me crap for calling it a hoax
I hope you told them to fuck off
Does everything have be a conspiracy with MAGA? I thought is was just a disgruntaled MAGA follower. Did I miss something?
The conspiracy part that imo is legit is that his ear was not hit. I've seen bullet wounds take chunks out of people, and it's not a clean cut where you can just stitch it back together with minimal scarring. The bullet either removes a chunk wholesale, or the tissue is violently torn and leaves a very noticeable scar. He has no missing chunk or scar on his ear.
The problem is it was campaign gold for him to claim he 'took a bullet' for his beliefs, and his followers jumped on that, and now he can't just say, "I wasn't actually shot, I just hurt my ear when SS tackled me tee hee sorrrrrryyyyy", so his followers are running to thinking the entire thing could have been staged. I'm sure some of them who are having buyer's remorse would love to pivot to claiming they were duped by an elaborate conspiracy, rather than having to own responsibility for electing him because they themselves are shitty people.
Thanks. So there are some odd things about it. Interesting.
No shit Sherlock!