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    The Boogaloo crowd just got handed exactly what they needed to, in their minds, justify basically anything.

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        This has immense rhetorical power in terms of amping up support. It makes it easier to recruit, justify, pursue goals, etc.

        Put in in Hoi4 terms. If ‘political capital’ can be reasonably simplified into a score, a currency, this is ‘bank error in your favor, have a buttload of free points.’

        …with which you can more easily pursue a wide variety of actions or policies.

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          Nah, he’s still a fascist and when anyone reads up on Project 2025 is not going to change their mind about him over this.

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              Sure, but awareness is spreading like wildfire. People underestimate Americans. Once a critical mass of Americans start pushing in one way, it’s next to impossible to stop them.

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                Oh, I sure hope you are right, and since there’s contradictory hearsay I will only know when it happens anyway

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        Going for a kill shot on their God Emperor, and just nearly missing him but instead probably giving him the equivalent of a minor flesh wound, live on national television, is obviously going to provoke and embolden them more than anything before.

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          Was he supposedly hit in the ear? If so, how did nobody behind him get hit? Given the angle they would have had to shoot from to miss everyone else, it seems like they would have had to be down in the crowd below and it should be obvious who did it.

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            There are now multiple different videos/images of the shooter dead on a roof of a one story building outside of the crowd, of his body being retrieved, of a man saying he pointed the guy out to police before the shooter shot, and that counter sniper fire ‘blew his head off’.

            The shooting angle seems to be relatively flat, either grazing the top of his right ear or possibly taking a small chunk of it.

            At least two people in the crowd behind Trump were hit, one is dead.

            From Kyle Kulinsky’s clip compilation on Youtube an off duty paramedic had his shirt covered in blood and described doing chest compressions on a man with a head wound including exposed gray matter.

            Check his YT for the interview of the guy who saw the shooter on the roof as well.