"It's insane": Lawmakers who were at WHCD shaken by shooting

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32. One of my suspicious thoughts was...

... that she had overheard something about shots being fired and assumed it referred to pointed digs in his speech and picked up the coinage.

But that is something out my generalized suspicion of how far authoritarian regimes are willing to go to consolidate power -- and how incompetent these people would be about planning and discussing the engineering of of such an incident.

My first thought on hearing about last nights events was "too well timed with all-time polling lows to be real."

My second thought was "there I go, I am officially a conspiracy nut."

Whether Butler, or this latest "incident" was, or was not LIHOP (intentionally lax security inviting crisis) or somehow engineered (mentally unstable people or members of a resistance CAN BE, and HAVE BEEN intentionally radicalized in the service of the counter-resistance), we will likely never know. So, absent exposure, asserting "staged" makes one a "conspiracy nut."

I had been kicking my "nuttiness" a bit when I came across Figarosmom's post with Richard Teresi's latest. Even if my gut instinct is wrong, when viewed "through the lens of historical pattern recognition," that gut instinct is NOT CRAZY.