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    In previous such cases they advertised the scenarios via news & movies/TV shows in advance.

    Anything on the radar now?
    What are official sources showcasing as an easy target nowdays?

    Trains/railroad attack?
    Air traffic control attack?
    Congress attack so they can just disband it?
    Attack on protesters?

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      What do you need to live? Water.

      What are the great lakes full of? Water.

      Lake Superior thinks it’s above the rest, a clear target for an attack on the nation’s water supply… By blowing up Lake Superior!

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      My current bet is on a widespread organized mass assassination attempt on multiple lawmakers. Hit them all at the same time, so their security can’t see the pattern and put them under protection before they’re killed. Off a bunch of democrats, then use the ensuing chaos to seize control and “postpone” the midterms.

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    Whatever happened to, “If I were President, the war would never have happened”

    Or is that just a talking point he made up.

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      No no that’s Russia and Ukraine, which is Biden’s fault.

      This is Iran, which is also Biden’s fault.

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      What, the most mentally stable and thoughtful US president ever is lying??? That would never happen. Daily

      For 9-10 years now?

      My condolences to the people living in the dystopia everyone else saw coming.

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        I feel less and less sad for people in the USA as time goes on because of exactly what you say. How did they not see it coming? HOOOOOW? And how did a third push for it, a third sorta try to help, and the other third maybe or maybe not just still doesn’t even know what’s happening?

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          At the time of the election I lived in Utah, for those who don’t know Utah is a heavily republican state. Outside SLC county, the state is majority conservative. My family voted for Harris, but honestly there was never a chance Utah as a state would go blue since the 1970s. In the end, for those that live outside the swing states (the purple states that decide elections) there is little chance of influencing the election. I’m both trans and bisexual, I fear for the state of this country. I didn’t want this :/ I’m on Medicare and Medicaid and the budget bill would stop my access to gender-affirming care. I wouldn’t be able to be on HRT, and I would probably have to live without the surgery I’ve wanted for so long.

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            There are 1.765 million registered voters in Utah. Trump got 883k votes. Kamala could have carried the state by nearly 200k people if they bothered to vote.

            Unlikely, but still possible. If people in deep red states decided it was worth it to still got out and vote blue, even if they were going to lose.

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      I’d go the opposite way. I don’t think he’d care what the excuse is. I think he’d do it if a brown person set his shoes on fire tbh.

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        I’m declaring war on Iran because the Ayatollah fucked up my McChicken ☝️ and we don’t like that 👐 they say sir how do you fuck up a McChicken and I tell them it’s too much sauce and you can’t do that

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    I seriously doubt that will happen. The current administration has shown zero indication that they give two fucks about what the people want.

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      Meh, I don’t think there’s a need for conspiracy for 9/11 to be a legitimate terrorist attack. It gives too much credit to Bush and his ilk and down plays the political blowback of the US’s interventional history in the Middle East.

      The term “never let a good crisis go to waste” has been around for a while.

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        Just as a random btw:
        wiki/The_Lone_Gunmen_(TV_series)

        In the pilot episode, which aired March 4, 2001 (exactly six months and one week prior to the September 11 attacks[5]), rogue members of the U.S. government remotely hijack an airliner flying to Boston, planning to crash it into the World Trade Center, and let anti-American terrorist groups take credit, to gain support for a profitable new war following the Cold War. The heroes ultimately override the controls, foiling the plot.

        Tom Clancy also wrote about hijacking a Boeing & flying it into Congress.

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          And Coup’s album cover depicted the twin towers exploding a few months before the attacks.

          Are we suggesting the band and this show were somehow connected with the government…or the government planned their attack in a few months/weeks after witnessing these works?

          The fact is that since they were built the towers were signals of the American empire and were obvious targets for terrorist organizations, especially after the first attempt to bomb them.

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      Inside job gives them too much credit, imo.

      Fact is they already knew about Bin Laden and simply decided “you know, what if we just turned around for a second and, well, if something were to happen…?”

      And to do that? A tiny budget cut here, a little policy shift there, and… kaboom!

      Not so much that they planned anything themselves regarding the attack, they just lowered their guard enough to let it happen.

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    Why does Trump need an actual terrorist attack. He can just show up on TV, flash an AI generated face-melting re-edit of a scene from the TV show 24, announce “We are under attack and must respond immediately”, and fire up the bombers.

    At this point, I bet you that you could show Trump a deep fried still-image meme and convince him that we need to strike back.

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    Trump starting a war to distract from his criminality and failed presidency and boost his ratings is 100% on my bingo card. Multiple times.