When I heard the news of the Trump assassination attempt, and saw him raising his fist with a bloody face under the American flag, have to admit I was a bit dubious. I mean how uncanny to get a photo for the ages just at that moment, and how did the secret service allow him to stand back up?

But it seems like the more likely conspiracy (if there is one) was with respect to the lax job by the secret service. Was it incompetence or something worse?

In any event, I posted my initial take on Twitter basically that even though the democrats have fomented that kind of hate for five years, engaged in banana-republic level law fare and lost their minds with TDS, the iconic photo was too on the nose not to wonder if it were somehow staged.

Got a few former followers outraged by that speculation, assured me I’d be sued by the victims’ family for defamation (a la Alex Jones), etc. (LOL’d at their shockingly poor grasp of defamation law.)

It doesn’t matter to me that my speculation was likely wrong — it’s what earnestly occurred to me at the time, and I owned it as “wondering” if it were staged, never asserted it was.

But it brought me back to the response I got when I questioned 1/6 — how dare you suggest that wasn’t an insurrection! — only from people on the other side.

They wanted me to be used into oblivion, deprived of my property simply for wondering aloud. It just goes to show many people love free speech just up until the point you say something that triggers them. Then, you should be destroyed for it!