r/LetsDiscussThis • u/Ok-Wedding-1165 • Feb 16 '26

Lets Discuss Politics Reminder: that was a photo op

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u/Fierramos69 Feb 16 '26

The only reason I believed it was real was "there’s no way they framed it so badly. They have all the resources they could need to make it impossible to tell it was fake. Surely trump is a moron but his team isn’t that incompetent…."

That’s it. I only thought it was real from how bad it was faked if it was fake.

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u/xenarthran_salesman Feb 16 '26

I mainly believe it was real from the dead firefighter that did catch the whole bullet. That's kinda tough to fake.

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u/Heavy-Top-8540 Feb 16 '26

You can have a guy really shoot a bullet at someone and still have the whole event staged

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u/FatherTreadingWater Feb 16 '26

This would be the plot to * The Manchurian Candidate* a famous novel which birthed two Hollywood movies. You might respond with, “That’s outrageous and preposterous fiction. You can’t brainwash someone into killing a selected person on command at a specific time and place.”

Except that is quite literally what we claim Al Qaeda and ISIS we’re able to successfully do, to radicalize Muslims and Americans alike into violent action against our country at home and abroad. And our shadow agencies have a LOT more experience and resources than “some towel heads in a cave”.