Exactly. And also, recognizing that it's not likely a deep state conspiracy doesn't negate the possibility of, let's say, smaller or limited 'conspiracy'. Do you know what I mean?

Like it's some sort of set up that involved taking a shot at Trump but isn't about the politics or Trump (other than that he's a target), etc.

And, of course, this is purely speculative, but here's an example:

Maybe this is suicide by cop. Maybe the guy is depressed and wants to go out in a blaze of glory and he's ramping up online about doing so the way many mass shooters have done. But somebody in one of these forums dares him to take a shot at Trump because he's a target that will get you killed immediately, there's more "status" to being taken out by secret service than local cops, and there will definitely be fallout above and beyond what mass shooters typically get so...."legendary infamy".

You have to admit, that's a reasonable take based on what info we have.

Technically, it's a conspiracy because it's a 'secret' plan involving multiple people to do break thr law or cause harm.

It's NOT a deep state conspiracy and NOT a government or political conspiracy.

And it only got as far as it did because the Trump detail is the shit detail or the punishment detail. Also reasonable, because of his morally egregious behavior and because he travels a lot doing these rallies, which keeps the agents away from their own lives for long stretches of time.

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It's valid to challenge nonsense about deep state Q-Anon type of quackery.

But. We don't want to let the looney tunes and their quackery trick us into instantly disregarding any and all types of conspiracies in play which may be valid just because they're promoting an Attack of the Baby-Eating Demonic DemonRat because they're Lizard People Aliens trying to Power DC with the BLOOD of Babies shipped secretly in Wayfair Alien ships to Kill BabyJesus Come Again in Donald Trump type of narrative.

The latter is lunacy. Clearly.

The former is speculative, but reasonable.