The baseless claim has been repeated after several presidential debates.
  • gheesh@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 months ago

    Maybe if said influencer wanted to locate a cheater, should be looking closer to other ear allegedly shot recently.

    • TheBraveSirRobbin@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 months ago

      You’re not saying there wasn’t an assassination attempt right? Like yeah Trump cheats constantly and at everything he does, but the assassination attempt was real.

      And no he probably didn’t get shot in the ear, but it isn’t some conspiracy theory either, he got hit by some shrapnel

  • forrcaho@lemmy.world
    8·
    2 months ago

    It’s easy to make shit up for people who never consider whether something is plausible as long as it suits their preferred narrative.

    Trump said during the debate that

    • In Democrat-run states, doctors routinely commit infanticide.
    • Undocumented immigrants, despite their need to remain constantly vigilant about not revealing their illegal status, come in massive numbers to the US at the insistence of Democrats and succeed in registering to vote, and voting (for Democrats, of course).
    • Crime rates are plummeting in every other country in the world, because they all are sending their criminals to the US to commit crimes here.
    • Immigrants are kidnapping family pets and eating them.

    Do Trump supporters actually take all that at face value? I … cannot begin to understand how that is possible, but evidently it is.

  • qantravon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    I remember in 2015 there were images circulating after a debate claiming Hillary Clinton was wearing an earpiece, despite the pictures used as proof clearly being from a different event.

  • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
    65·
    2 months ago

    It’s been credibly pointed out elsewhere that Trump pulled a Hans Neimann:

    It’s well known that Donald Trump was using a bluetooth butt plug during the debate […]

    So I assume this is just projection.

    • Billiam@lemmy.world
      61·
      2 months ago

      1. “Credible” according to who?

      2. There’s not a chance in hell Trump lets anything near his ass. He’d consider it too weak and submissive. Besides… What if he actually liked it? 😱

      3. With his garbage diet, that asshole is greasier than a used-car-salesman slathered in lard ice-skating on a Teflon rink. The first time he shit his Depends (like he apparently did during his debate with Biden) any plug would have launched itself out of his asshole so fast he’d have Butler PA flashbacks.

      • TurnpikeRangers@lemmy.world
        15·
        2 months ago

        In case you don’t actually know, it’s a joke/reference to a chess scandal where Hans Niemann was accused of cheating (by using a vibrating butt plug) in a game against Magnus Carlson

      • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
        4·
        2 months ago
        1. Unfortunately it looks like the original reports have been taken down (likely due to government censorship, if you ask my opinion) https://sh.itjust.works/comment/13855770
        2. I would be astounded if Trump has never paid for the services of a Dom.
        3. Hey, easy installation is a plus! I’m sure they’d use duct tape to keep it in place… err… gorilla glue might be more up to the task.
      • BassTurd@lemmy.world
        21·
        2 months ago

        He wears his butt plugs like a reverse chastity belt. Where someone people wear strapons, he wears strapins.

  • AbidanYre@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    Laura can’t even tell a new car tire from an old one. No one should listen to her opinion about anything.

  • Hegar@fedia.io
    13·
    2 months ago

    I wonder how much of this stuff is open-eyed lying and how much is an instinctual identity defense mechanism. There’s definitely a lot of both going on.

    The cult of personality around trump makes his perceived power and competence one of the most important parts of the identity of his followers. Trump being a pathetic incompetent loser is a threat to their entire perception of reality. Believing one more gross improbability is just less stressful to a human brain than demolishing your worldview and starting again. In this way, even trump’s supporters number among his many victims.

    • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
      9·
      2 months ago

      open-eyed lying

      Most of it. Remember when they slowed a video of Pelosi to make her appear drunk and when they cropped a person out of a video while Biden was talking to them to make it look like he was talking to no one? Steve Bannon and his ilk do shit like this and it’s absolutely flat out lies. Lies and dirty tricks are ends justifying the means because they convince themselves they deserve power.

  • Cyrus Draegur@lemm.eeEnglish
    34·
    2 months ago

    And Trump wore a vibrating dildo up his ass that buzzed every time he lied, so at least that explains his behavior.