Path: ...!news-out.netnews.com!postmaster.netnews.com!eu1.netnews.com!not-for-mail X-Trace: DXC=dY7F]Kmf9PfPooF4PSM31jHWonT5<]0Tm@GOK[m5A6Wb3[L8B6BE9jmW2?m7IThPPhA4E8D=l@QKnIIQdOBLlTgml X-Complaints-To: support@blocknews.net Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2025 11:19:05 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: Tuesday Night Dinner Plans? 4/08/2025 Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking References: <4bfa48b3e6384964d57512e81fe70896@www.novabbs.org> <0c_LP.2071484$eNx6.1581899@fx14.iad> Content-Language: en-GB From: Graham In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 43 Message-ID: <6803db0b$5$13$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 X-Trace: 1745083147 reader.netnews.com 13 127.0.0.1:46109 Bytes: 3379 On 2025-04-19 8:14 a.m., Dave Smith wrote: > On 2025-04-19 7:15 a.m., Janet wrote: >> In article , > >>>>> Same facts. Different interpretations. >>>>> >>>> Thomas Matthew Crooks attended Bethel Park High School. >>>> He attempted to join the school's rifle club, participating >>>> in "preseason", but was such a bad shooter, he was considered >>>> "dangerous", being rejected from the team and asked not to come back. >>> >>> I don't think it was staged. You're not going to shoot your guy in his >>> ear with a bullet or even with shrapnel. That's way too dangerous. >> >>     If I was staging a fake assassination in public/ on TV, >> it would feature gun shot sound effects, a small >> squashable fake capsule of red liquid taped behind an >> ear/hidden in thick hair, a lot of blanks for the sound >> effects and several professional actors (in the crowd and >> on the roof). > > > Shot in the ear?  Isn't that the question.... whether or not he was > shot?  For all we know, the guy with the bad aim only needed to shoot a > couple people in the audience near Trump so there were real bullets. > That would be the cue for Trump to reach up and crush the red dye pack > to make it look like he was bleeding. > > It was interesting to see the video again yesterday and to see a couple > guys in tactical gear and automatic weapons come and guard the front and > the left side while all the photographers were allowed to stay.  I would > have expected them to push those guys back to secure the area. Nope... > they wanted lots of photos of the alleged attempt. > > I am not usually into conspiracy theories but this one stinks.  It looks > to me like it was staged, and so badly staged that it is pathetic to see > how it was used to garner support for that jerk. > > > > I think he was seeking notoriety by trying for a head shot instead of the more mundane chest shot.