They’ll get him eventually

It was a freak petrol fight accident…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_murder

a concept used to describe an unnatural death that is believed to occur due to social, political, or economic oppression, instead of direct violence.

harder to believe the CIA failed to assassinate him

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_assassination_attempts_on_Fidel_Castro

The 1975 Church Committee claimed eight proven CIA assassination attempts between 1960 and 1965. In 1976, President Gerald Ford issued Executive Order 11905 banning political assassinations. In 2006, Fabián Escalante, former chief of Cuba’s intelligence, stated that there had been 634 assassination schemes or attempts.

They eventually got him at age 92 with the oldest CIA trick in the book - waiting until he dies of natural causes.

They’ve got concept art in the article.

It’s no more illogical than any school shooter who ends up killing themselves halfway through a spree

This guy is no less logical than the Columbine or Sandy Hook shooters

All written accounts of God are produced by humans for an audience of other humans.

In the same way that we might describe a storm cloud as “angry” or a sunny day as “cheerful”, one might apply emotional descriptors to an omnipotent divine force in order to personify an impersonal and abstract entity.

Past that, assuming you believe that a divine being is above humanity, why wouldn’t they have emotions? Emotions are a feature of sentience and God is supposed to be a super-sentient creature. If anything, it would experience these emotions more intensely and intricately than its creations. The human rage of a shout or the despair of a cry becomes the earth-splitting eruption of a volcano or the suffocating deluge of a flood.

At the same time, it is the overwhelming longing for companionship that drives a God to form life from the void of space. The intense joy in the creative act leads this fundamental superhuman force to tirelessly build an entire universe. The deep and profound pride and love which brings them among their creations clothed in their own form, willing to endure the humiliation of this avatar form in order to enlighten and elevate their divine progeny to their own level.

Absent these primal emotional urges, why would a God choose to be a God at all, and not simply languish within the darkness for eternity, content to the echoing silence of dead space?

A philosopher is just a biologist who nutted.

Are we going to war with Iran today?

Even if this wasn’t Donald Trump specifically, half the allure of the “Government is covering up the aliens” is that it’s a government cover-up. Why would anyone believe the folks who spent decades obscuring this information are going to just document dump it “very soon”?

What’s the fun of a conspiracy if it’s just headline news?

A French soldier who ​was part of international ‌Forces stationed in southern Lebanon was killed, ​President Emmanuel ​Macron said on Saturday, adding ⁠that evidence ​suggests Iran-backed armed group ​Hezbollah was responsible for the attack.

What’s French for Gulf of Tonkin Incident?

There’s no hard evidence. But some anonymous White House staff have reported the existence of an Erika Kirk body pillow at the Naval Observatory.

there isn’t any profit

Isn’t Speak With Dead going to be easier to cast?

Oc

The kid was told to shoot into the crowd

At the crowd behind Trump, but not at Trump? And then he got near enough to the mark that he shattered the teleprompter which was right in front of Trump? And kill a guy just off his shoulder?

Come on, dude. Is it really so hard to believe someone sincerely wanted this guy dead?

I’m more inclined to believe this was a deliberate hit job (by, say, the FBI or CIA… or OUN-B) that failed than a fake hit job that succeeded.

Gas isn’t even that expensive

We were under $3 in January and now we’re grazing $5. That’s a significant change for any business that considers fuel a major part of operating costs (like the airline or trucking industry).

It’s that we use so god damn much of it for our car only infrastructure to work

I’ll spot you that - for daily commuting - gas costs probably aren’t a big part of the household budget. But it’s a highly visible price, thanks to stations hosting the number in big bold digits updated daily.

The real cost of this war-induced supply chain disruption is going to be downstream of commuting, though. Agriculture, shipping, and high energy cost manufacturing (steel and aluminium manufacturing, for instance) consume enormous amounts of fossil fuels. Also, increasingly now, Cloud Compute costs, which will impact a bunch of downstream IT businesses.

We’ll see the number go up at the pump and then we’ll see it go up everywhere else.