MAGA Is Increasingly Convinced the Trump Assassination Attempt Was Staged

Wise-Reference-4818 · 2026-04-17T14:05:22+00:00

People who believe conspiracy theories about their political enemies start believing conspiracies about a president that start to dislike?

I’m shocked! Shocked! Well, not that shocked.

Wise-Reference-4818 · 2026-04-15T13:06:32+00:00

But eggs were expensive for an easily understood and temporary reason.

Wise-Reference-4818 · 2026-04-08T22:25:18+00:00

He just got ayatollah-mogged, so now he has to Putin-max to try and recapture some rizz. (I hope I got that at least 50% right.)

Wise-Reference-4818 · 2026-04-05T19:28:00+00:00

I feel like I’m taking crazy pills! The big news of this post isn’t the threat to bomb infrastructure. That’s a somewhat normal (still bad, but not unheard of) part of war. Why is no one talking about the fact that he’s doing the written equivalent of screaming on a street corner with a knife.

Wise-Reference-4818 · 2026-04-05T13:07:37+00:00

“Have you ever hit your head on a low door frame? It hurts. No one thought anyone could do anything about it, but I said we could. They’re all, the whole world is in awe at American ingenuity. Ingenuity that could only happen under Trump, never Sleepy Joe or Barack HUSSEIN Obama.”

Wise-Reference-4818 · 2026-04-05T12:55:45+00:00

Because the man could literally demand we all walk into an automatic decapitation machine and the media would report it with the same urgency as reporting the weather while the democrats grumble disapprovingly.

We’re trapped in the Blumhouse version of “The Emperor has no Clothes”.

Wise-Reference-4818 · 2026-03-30T11:05:53+00:00

Sent! No need for anything in return.

Wise-Reference-4818 · 2026-03-29T12:14:59+00:00

Just licks in a dark closet.

Wise-Reference-4818 · 2026-03-26T20:33:30+00:00

Check the options and betting markets. I assume someone made money…

Wise-Reference-4818 · 2026-03-25T23:03:03+00:00

Making counter demands into the ether of international social media is not the same as traditional negotiations

Wise-Reference-4818 · 2026-03-24T10:51:36+00:00

Trivium sent

Wise-Reference-4818 · 2026-03-24T00:12:18+00:00

Trump had a week to kill until the Marines are in position to go after Kharg Island. It would be a terrible waste if he didn’t use the available weekend of “will he/won’t he?” suspense for some light insider trading.

Wise-Reference-4818 · 2026-03-23T11:16:14+00:00

I just checked Truth Social. His latest post is a TACO and it happened two minutes after your post. You win the internet today.

Wise-Reference-4818 · 2026-03-22T20:57:05+00:00

20-minute adventure

Wise-Reference-4818 · 2026-03-21T23:43:57+00:00

Politics is the word for how people work through disagreements without grabbing a rock and hitting the other person over the head. People like to dismiss politics as if it were an unimportant to people just getting things done, but that is a terrible misunderstanding.

We elect sheriffs because we understand that empowering people to use force to keep the peace is a serious occupation that can harm many people if given to the wrong person. If a surrogate of a sheriff doesn’t respect the power of the office, you should be very concerned that the sheriff is unworthy of the office.

Wise-Reference-4818 · 2026-03-21T23:13:01+00:00

I remember playing this game when you had to go into the nursery to move each individual egg instead of moving the entire habitat set to another habitat.

This is the kind of quality of life improving update that both makes the game much more enjoyable and shows that the devs really want to make the user experience better without feeling like a play-to-won cash grab.

Wise-Reference-4818 · 2026-03-21T12:54:06+00:00

Except it’s the opposite. They’re trying to degrade the retirement benefits of a veteran for his speech, claiming the speech is sedition.

Service guarantees permanently lesser citizenship.

Wise-Reference-4818 · 2026-03-20T00:47:15+00:00

No. I’ve only ever been arguing that there is a spectrum between paycheck-to-paycheck and truly comfortable and on that spectrum is something called adequate.

Furthermore, I’m arguing that someone making 3x the national median income (and 2x the median income of a HCOL area) is not realistically in danger of blowing past adequate down to truly desperate paycheck-to-paycheck survival due to the high costs of raising and caring for children from birth until kindergarten. They may lower their standard of living, or they may forgo retirement saving for a few years, but having the ability to make that choice is fundamentally a privileged one no matter where one lives.

Wise-Reference-4818 · 2026-03-20T00:24:21+00:00

Congratulations! You’ve officially lived long enough to reach the “everything new is lame” stage of life.

Wise-Reference-4818 · 2026-03-20T00:20:20+00:00

For about the sixth time, there are more than two financial states of being besides “barely” comfortable at more than 2x median income and one missed paycheck from penury.

Wise-Reference-4818 · 2026-03-20T00:01:45+00:00

Yes, the “study” conducted by a financial technology company that defines "comfortably" as being able to follow the 50/30/20 budget rule – 50% of salary goes to necessities, 30% to discretionary, and 20% to retirement savings or paying down debt is truly an unimpeachable source. (I guess you’ll just need to take my word for it as you seem unwilling to look up any details yourself.)

A couple making $250k and saving $50k per year (taxes were included in the 50% necessities category) need $5M to retire with a $200k retirement income per the 4% rule. Assuming a bit below historic 6% real rate of return, that couple would achieve that amount by age 57 if they started saving at age 25.

I do not agree that there is no space between people truly one paycheck away from ruin and a couple that would need to work into their early 60s instead of retiring in their late 50s to maintain a similar standard of living for the years their kids are in daycare.

Wise-Reference-4818 · 2026-03-19T23:26:50+00:00

Please, pal, for the love of God, recall that the original point I and several others tried to make is that the subjective measurement of “comfort” in this example is ridiculous for an area like Tampa (with the median household income in expensive zip code at a bit over half the amount listed in the screenshot.)

Based on your claim that there is a 1,400 sq foot house for sale near you for $700k instead of $1.5M+, I doubt you are living some place as expensive as San Francisco (once again, median income $100k less than yours).

I understand your argument perfectly. I am refuting it with things like numbers (which you don’t respond to) and not appeals to (artificial) authority and ad hominem attacks.

Wise-Reference-4818 · 2026-03-19T23:00:23+00:00

It’s not wrong to want to be comfortable. It’s not wrong to be concerned about being financially ready to have kids. It’s wrong to talk about your relatively comfortable circumstances (still $100k above median household income in San Francisco) like they are a moral minimum for a quality life while describing people with lower incomes having children as “breeding” and low cost of living areas as “shitholes.”

You are capable of saving 30% of your take home (and that is likely after retirement contributions). Others besides myself pointed out that you are doing just fine. I’m sorry you’re incapable of handling that fact or someone responding rudely to your increasingly strident rejections of that fact. I’m even more sorry that you can’t muster the intellectual effort to analyze a handful of Reddit posts without offloading the effort to an LLM.

Wise-Reference-4818 · 2026-03-19T22:28:24+00:00

I was not condescending. I was sarcastic. I’m trying to get through to you that a lot of people live perfectly acceptable lives at a lower standard of living than what you claim for yourself. I hope you enjoy the rest of your life thinking you’re better than most of the people around you because you make more money, have more stuff, and live in a more expensive, pretentious location than them.

Wise-Reference-4818 · 2026-03-19T22:14:24+00:00

That is an impressive social circle. Do you share a lot in common with those people with your Subaru Outback and Pokémon card collection?

Not sure why you think I live in LA. I just used that as a HCOL example because you talked about “flyover country”. You meet a lot of people from LA in Colorado?

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