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'Staged Theatrics to Get the Votes of Idiots': Clownish Professor Declares Trump Shooting 'Faked'
RedState ^ | 7/16/1947 | Mike Miller

Posted on 07/16/2024 11:58:04 AM PDT by Signalman

OK, so here's the thing. Regardless of which side of the political spectrum trots out unfounded conspiracy theories, I disdain them. My thoughts are much stronger, but we'll just leave it at that for now.

That said, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones ain't got nothin' on a University of Virginia associate professor who claims the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump on Saturday was a "staged event for suckers." Yeah. Sethunya Mokoko made the incredulous claim, based on zero facts.

Within minutes of the attempt on Trump's life, the "staging theory" went viral and was eagerly embraced by many on the left. Actress Amanda Seales, for example, claimed on social media that Trump used fake stage blood and sound effects to stage his assassination attempt. Nuts? Of course. (See: "left-wing loons.")

That s**t was more staged than a Tyler Perry production of 'Madea Runs for President.' I lived in Harlem long enough to know that gunshots do not sound like making popcorn on the stove.

Moreover, Mokoko "explained," as noted by George Washington University Law Professor and Fox News senior legal analyst Jonathan Turley, that the assassination attempt was just a ploy to get the votes of “idiots.”

He [Mokoko], however, is available to offer sage-like clarity that the Secret Service, local police, and the Trump campaign conspired to fake the assassination, kill a bystander, and seriously wound others to get the sucker vote. He is not alone in this theory while others on the left are simply bemoaning that Thomas Matthew Crooks missed.

In his tweet, Mokoko said that security 'ignored [Crooks] because trump & secrete service staged theatrics to win idiots’ vote.'

So let me get the conspiracy down. The Secret Service allowed a kid who flunked out of the high school shooting club as a bad shot to fire multiple rounds at the former president from a sloped roof at 130 yards in the hope that he would only wing him?

He is not alone. Within minutes of the assassination attempt, the staging theory was going viral and has been picked up by many on the left. For example, actress Amanda Seales took to social media to claim that Trump used fake stage blood and sound effects to stage his assassination attempt.

Rational? Of course, not. Whacked-out conspiracy theories never are.

Ironically, as Turley noted, Mokoko claims in his bio that his focus is on “teaching students to appreciate and value social justice rhetorics across media; to become rhetorically listening writers, readers, and viewers; and to understand how global rhetorics shape and define agency and identification.”

"Social justice rhetoric?"

I have no idea what the nut-job associate professor meant, but I'm pretty sure that declaring an attempt to kill a former president of the United States "faked" doesn't qualify as "social justice rhetoric."

Incidentally, Amanda Seales "forgot" to explain how Corey Comperatore, 50, who served as the fire chief for Buffalo Township in Pennsylvania, was killed by a "fake" bullet.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: amandaseales; failedassassin; fakedshooting; jonathanturley; mikemiller; mokoko; redstate; sethunyamokoko; thomasmatthewcrooks; uofvirginia; virginia
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To: Signalman

Here is the bio on his webpage:

Sethunya Mokoko is a scholar, writer, and filmmaker from Lesotho whose research focuses on the rhetorics of storytelling across media and cultures. Mokoko’s work specializes in teaching students to appreciate and value social justice rhetorics across media; to become rhetorically listening writers, readers, and viewers; and to understand how global rhetorics shape and define agency and identification. His research and teaching commitments involve rhetorical theory, composition studies, cultural rhetorics, business writing and creative writing.


21 posted on 07/16/2024 12:14:47 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: Signalman
'Staged Theatrics to Get the Votes of Idiots':

Ironic, considering that his own BS 'theatrics' will be believed by many on the hard left.

22 posted on 07/16/2024 12:14:49 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: NorthMountain

This photo explains completely all I need to know about this “professor”. The name is just “icing on the cake”.


23 posted on 07/16/2024 12:15:00 PM PDT by glennaro (2024: The Year of The Reckoning, lest our Republic succumb to the "progressive" disease of the Left)
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To: Signalman

Those of you who have any connection to Clemson should not give them a dime until this person either apologizes or is required to defend his utterances in a public forum in which open debate is the order of the day.


24 posted on 07/16/2024 12:15:05 PM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: Signalman

this is exactly the same as what Alex Jones did that cost him $1 billion

People need to start suing these liberal wackos.


25 posted on 07/16/2024 12:16:19 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

Sethunya Mokoko is a scholar, writer, and filmmaker from Lesotho


Only one response: deport!


26 posted on 07/16/2024 12:17:00 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: NorthMountain

Of course he thinks it was staged, he doesn’t know how anything works. If that guy survived a SHTF event, he’d be extremely sick or dead within a week without electricity or any knowledge of systems or machinery.


27 posted on 07/16/2024 12:21:31 PM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: Signalman

When President Trump is back in office he needs to get a law passed that only funds STEM degrees with federal dollars. All the bullsh*t degrees should be exposed to market forces and disappear.


28 posted on 07/16/2024 12:23:03 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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To: Signalman

Sethunya Mokoko,nothing else needs to be said.


29 posted on 07/16/2024 12:28:00 PM PDT by dblshot
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To: Signalman

I have no problem with people having an opinion. It’s the American way. So I pose a scenario for him. You let me get on a roof over 100 yards away with a new .22 rifle and let me try to hit you where it won’t do any harm to prove a point. And don’t fear, I shot expert marksman for the military using .22 inserts in M16’s for 18 of my 21 years in the military. (Raised on a ranch, had a rifle in my hands early for rabbits and squirels) I didn’t get the first two years because first term airmen don’t qualify at basic other than hitting the target enough and I didn’t shoot my final year with my papers in.

I’d love to see you pose for me so I could clip an ear, or a nose, without going into your brain if I could do it anymore. And that would prove you have conviction in what you said. It would also prove you are a monday morning quarterback idiot. Nobody is that stupid...except maybe you. Slither back into the classroom. The real world is unsafe for you.

wy69


30 posted on 07/16/2024 12:30:10 PM PDT by whitney69
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To: Signalman

Biden and his Secret Service is part of the conspiracy then I’m sure.


31 posted on 07/16/2024 12:33:28 PM PDT by MNDude
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To: Signalman

Tell that to the families of the dead and wounded attendees!


32 posted on 07/16/2024 12:42:09 PM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH! )
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To: Signalman

Tell that to the families of the dead and wounded attendees!


33 posted on 07/16/2024 12:42:09 PM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH! )
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To: glennaro

The name predicts the picture

The picture predicts the name.


34 posted on 07/16/2024 12:42:27 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: mikey_hates_everything
But he's an educated man. A professor. He's important. A societal elite. Just ask him.
35 posted on 07/16/2024 12:44:03 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: NorthMountain

A professor who doesn’t think, either. Those were real bullets as others were actually injured and killed. Really? Who has, and who would, ever stage something like that?


36 posted on 07/16/2024 12:58:19 PM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: Signalman
This dude belongs in chains, breaking rocks, and singing mournful laments.

37 posted on 07/16/2024 1:08:41 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: Signalman
"Sethunya Mokoko"

I guarantee you this cotton picker's real name is something like "Leroy Brown".

38 posted on 07/16/2024 1:25:04 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: Signalman

Another member of The Democrat Party Organized Crime Syndicate trying to get noticed by the bosses in the crime syndicate so he can get promoted.


39 posted on 07/16/2024 2:28:41 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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To: Signalman

Another member of The Democrat Party Organized Crime Syndicate trying to get noticed by the bosses in the crime syndicate so he can get promoted.


40 posted on 07/16/2024 2:28:42 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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