Respect for not pivoting on Sunday night.

Aphex Twin / Bright Eyes Mashup - Jack Conte YouTube video by Jack Conte

Anyway

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There's a certain level of relationship with the Internet that I feel I have that involves listening to the music written by the founder of Patreon way before he thought of inventing Patreon.

"A fiddle is a violin you spilt beer on" I am living my life incorrectly that I didn't come up with that quote holy shit

Like there's a dude playing violin live to "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" how bad could anything really be

Idk man. I got into an argument I absolutely had no business getting into today, and then the Mariners lost, but now I'm having a great time at my usual karaoke bar, is today really that bad?

If Google Was A Guy (Full Series) YouTube video by Dropout

Does it look like this

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I'm excited for the Mariners season to start! Any day now.

Just saw seven cop cars speeding southbound down 3rd Ave so that's fun

If you were doing a bit and I took it too seriously then cool, I hope you don't think I'm trying to be an asshole here, I just think there's a preponderance of evidence that a 20 year old kid shot at Donald Trump and probably did nick his ear.

I'm not a listener but I had a great time at that watch party at that energy drink headquarters whenever that was, I remember having good conversations with you and Dave Clark. I mean I follow you and Aaron 'cause I like you. I just think you're wrong about this one.

Like, I have fully moved on with my day at this point and now you're talking to a former podcast listener (I'll admit that I didn't know Aaron was back on Nos Audietis, did he not leave for a bit?) and aggressively accusing me of being "uppity about facts" for, reasons?

My dude, why are you escalating this. Legitimately. Why.

Do you think I have a desire to take you down or something? Did you just check back in on this thread and your adrenaline got pumping and now you're being hostile as a result?

Like you're right that every source I'm citing has issues and there's mud in the water here but like, idk man, a dude did in fact die, that's pretty firmly established.

I'll concede that I have met Jeremiah in person exactly once and you used to do a podcast with him so I have no idea and you probably do but still.

Idk man I'm not trying to scold anyone I just feel like "he definitely wasn't shot" is a statement that deserves at least a little pushback.

Like, as I said in my second reply, I'm fine with joking about it, I got that you were joking about it, but then Jeremiah replied with something that very much did not seem like a joke.

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This did not read like a joke at all.

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I can tell at this point that this has become a public social media fight where we're more concerned with making the right dunks to get likes than we are with actually talking about this so I'm backing off but I've said what I needed to say, it is not established fact that Trump wasn't shot.

And I'm saying a diverse group of people with different incentives, some of whom would very much benefit from discrediting the whole thing, seem to agree that he was struck by a bullet.

You can think whatever you want but it is clearly not established fact that he wasn't shot.

Yeah no I got you were joking hence my other response where I said I'm fine with joking about it but then Jeremiah came in with "isn't it established fact that he wasn't shot?" which it very much is not.

You and that other person are right that I don't know, but I mean, I think he was.

We have an apparatus by which we establish truth and believing Donald Trump did not get struck by a bullet or bullet shrapnel on July 13 2024 requires believing so many parts of that apparatus are actively lying to you and at that point I don't know how you're participating in society.

Joe Biden's FBI director would give his political opponent's assassination attempt credibility when lying about it was an option?

The New York Times' analysis of the video was all bullshit?

Nobody who isn't just saying shit on social media wouldn't say something about him not getting shot?

Like "I see that the New York Times analyzed the video and the FBI director testified under oath but I just don't get the *vibe* that he actually got shot" is like, anti-vax levels of "I did my own research and came to my own conclusion" conspiratorial thinking

I don't know man I think the truth matters? Do you?

You're saying that believing that Joe Biden's FBI director Christopher Wray lied under oath to a bipartisan congressional committee is the *less* crazy position?

He had a lot of photographers at a campaign rally? What a conspiracy

Speculation Swirls About What Hit Trump. An Analysis Suggests It was a Bullet An absence of medical records or official accounts has stirred confusion, but a Times video and trajectory analysis indicates a bullet, not debris, wounded the former president.

The line in the Wikipedia article that says he got struck by a bullet has three citations man

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www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

taskforce-kelly.house.gov/media-center...

Attempted assassination of Donald Trump in Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

Like I'm all for "ha ha what if he actually wasn't shot tho" but come on Jeremiah you have a blue checkmark what are you doing here

Do you think Joe Biden's FBI and ATF covered up that Trump staged his own assassination attempt

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Didn't someone actually die?

It is April 20th at 11:13 PM and I just installed our portable air conditioner