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An Observer (Teresa L)'s avatar

Thank you for the real critical thinking that few are doing on this event at this time. Everyone is reacting emotionally with no cool heads looking at this whole thing as you do.

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DogsLife's avatar

We'll never know for sure, like every other op - that's the point. Before we can possibly pull the ends together, whoops! there's the next op. But, like you, I noticed the hand that he put to his ear, while standing, showed no signs of blood, the blood was too red to be real, and would not have stopped that quickly without immediate and continued pressure, especially with the amount of adrenaline that would have been pumping through the body at that moment. I've read that it's possible he had slapped on a "prosthetic" ear, complete with wound and blood. The concern of grabbing his MAGA hat along with the shoes is insane, in such a moment. Ridiculous - before any emergency medical evaluation of injuries, they're bothering with shoes and ballcap? Why?

The Iwo Jima like photo immediately glared at me. I'd like to see the original transposed over this one. And already there are tshirts with that provocative image, of course.

As I began I'll end: we'll never know who put this on, but IMO, it's too ridiculous to simply ascribe incompetence. It will however serve any number of purposes. Now there's a list to work on!

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