Posted on 07/19/2024 7:02:33 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
A conspiracy theory has run unabated in Democratic circles following the assassination attempt against former president Donald Trump on Saturday. It posits that Trump staged the shooting for a photo op, that the wound on his ear was caused by something other than an assassin's bullet, and that he was never in mortal danger.
It's a baseless conspiracy theory disproven by reams of documentary evidence and eyewitness accounts. And it's a belief held by one-third of the Democratic electorate.
One in three registered Democrats believe it is "credible" that the shooting Saturday in Butler, Pa., was staged and not intended to kill Trump, according to a Morning Consult poll released Monday. The findings show that large swaths of the Democratic base have fallen prey to the phenomenon known as "BlueAnon," a play on the far-right QAnon conspiracy theory that once gripped portions of the Republican base and served as an obsession of the mainstream media throughout the first Trump administration.
But the Morning Consult poll shows that BlueAnon adherents among the Democratic base far outnumber their QAnon counterparts on the right. The poll showed that 34 percent of Democratic voters found it either definitely or probably credible that Trump staged Saturday's shooting, with less than half—45 percent—saying the conspiracy theory is not credible. By comparison, a widely cited 2021 poll found that only 23 percent of Republicans were QAnon believers.
The rise of BlueAnon can be attributed to prominent Democratic activists and liberal media commentators egging on the notion that Trump staged Saturday's shooting.
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Yeah, and TWO-thirds of conservatives KNOW that it was an administrative state job...
blueanon...lol
it’s sad waking up on the wrong side of history...
What’s wrong with the other 1/3?
A friend hit me with this last night.
I told him he was well into the foothills of crazy.
Do not trust that “friend”
Sure it was staged but not by Trump.
So 1/3 are retarded...who would know?
You just cannot reason with, and coexist with, these poisonous morons.
By calling it "staged", they are literally accusing the BIDEN Secret Service of colluding with their opponent... who is already ahead, and trending further ahead (and therefore doesn't need the help)... with a plan that humiliates the Secret Service on a global scale... and includes the loss of life... and is likely to end several careers within the Secret Service.
And THAT'S what they have to force themselves to believe to maintain their position.
What stuns me, though... the polls this week have almost ZERO extra bump for Trump... after being shot in the face... other than the usual +0.5% he's been averaging for the last 2-3 months.
Even more shocking, he seems to have ZERO coattails. While the 8-years-demonized President Trump is now ahead in every Swing State poll, in the Senate Races in the Swing States, just about every single one has the Dem ahead by a solid 5-7%. WTH???
“Hey kid,just take a little bit of ear.”
And 100% of Dems are willfully, woefully ignorant, so I don’t give a rat’s red behind what they think.
Trump didn’t stage anything.
If, which I certainly don’t expect, this was staged, it is because the Deep State/globalist/uniparty wants him in as all the *stuff* goes down over the next 4 years.
But that really makes no sense at all, in that he’s clearly well in the lead, short of massive voting fraud (which may come).
Foothills? Try driving pitons into the rock face!
1/2 of the democrats are idiots, the other half are just plain stupid.
Anyone who remotely thinks we can co-exist or unite with these stupidest of all creatures on earth is living in a fantasy land. You can expect them to get worse.
ONLY one third of lefties believe it?
Yeah, judging by what I’m seeing on (anti)Social Media, I would guess the level of “belief” amongst the usual lefty suspects to be closer to 3/4, if not higher.
Either that, or the nuts and flakes are just disproportionately loud.
The IQ level in the USA is obviously dropping among some groups of people.
Most Dems are stupid, greedy and evil. RINOs are evil and greedy but not usually stupid.
The two groups work well together.
They come to their conclusions never examining any facts. They are a herd mentality.
Many on the left have serious mental problems, but the far left are really out to lunch and have no credibility whatsoever
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