TV imitating life, or my seeing too much of something innocent. The quote in the title is from Slow Horses, an Apple TV series. I consider it one of the best series on streaming media. The series is in its fifth season, demonstrating staying power and indicating that it is regarded as excellent entertainment by others, as well.
The first episode reminded me of the attempted assassination of President Trump. Some people that I talk to think that it was all planned and that the young person was set up to guarantee a Trump win. They tell me that if he was shot in the ear, why has he never shown us the scar that the bullet or whatever hit his ear? It was all too convenient.
In the first episode, a gunman shoots eleven people and then is assassinated by maybe the people who convinced him to shoot all those people, and it was made to look like an attempted assassination.
Could it happen here now? Stay tuned, oops forgot the rapture happens today. Will people start disappearing, or maybe be found in Houston’s bayous? Well, if it does happen, at least we’ll all go together. Some would venture to state that the anti-Christ is where the rapture has him to be.
Wild Mother – the online alias of a woman called Desirée – lives in the mountains of Colorado, where she posts videos to 80,000 followers about holistic wellness and bringing up her little girl. She wants Donald Trump to win the presidential election.
About 70 miles north in the suburbs of Denver is Camille, a passionate supporter of racial and gender equality who lives with a gaggle of rescue dogs and has voted Democrat for the past 15 years.
The two women are poles apart politically – but they both believe assassination attempts against Mr Trump were staged.
Their views on the shooting in July and the apparent foiled plot earlier this month were shaped by different social media posts pushed to their feeds, they both say.
I travelled to Colorado – which became a hotbed of conspiracy theories about the 2020 election being stolen – for the BBC Radio 4 podcast Why Do You Hate Me? USA. I wanted to understand why these evidence-free staged assassination theories seemed to have spread so far across the political spectrum and the consequences for people like Camille and Wild Mother.
Dozens of evidence-free posts I found suggesting both incidents were staged have racked up more than 30 million views on X. Some of these posts came from anti-Trump accounts that did not seem to have a track record of sharing theories like this, while a smaller share were posted by some of the former president’s supporters.
For Democrat Camille, Trump’s team orchestrated this to boost his chances of winning the election.
Wild Mother – who already follows QAnon, the unfounded conspiracy theory which claims Donald Trump is involved in a secret war against an elite cabal of Satan-worshipping paedophiles – wants to believe Trump’s own team staged the attack in order to frame his supposed enemies in the “Deep State”.
The Deep State is claimed to be a shadowy coalition of security and intelligence services looking to thwart certain politicians.