There is not one true explanation. It’s many explanations. Some apply to some people more than others.

And the reality is, that there are people, like my wife and I, who have financial security, who would no longer have it if we had kids. We don’t want to give up our lifestyle for the financial uncertainty of kids.

Desperate backpedalling to try to restrain the beast she unleashed.

Greed and smugness?

The North American car companies went through this once in the 70s and 80s with Japanese companies. They clearly don’t fucking learn.

I asked ChatGPT and it told me I don’t believe that.

What a nonsensical point.

Since you like links;

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

“form of argument that attempts to establish a claim by showing that following the logic of a contrary proposition or argument would lead to absurdity”

I need to add

You are setting up a false equivalence. There is a vast difference between a baseless, unprovable fantasy (like alien clones) and evaluating a public figure’s actions based on a well-documented history of psychological projection.

When someone constantly accuses their opponents of staging events and has a documented history of projection, it creates a lack of trust. The reason people question the narrative is because of that history, not because they are entertaining fantasies about the Matrix or alien clones. Equating a discussion about someone’s known behavioral patterns to science fiction doesn’t address the core issue of trust.

More than one thing can be true.

Trump could have staged it.

He could be taking advantage of the situation to push an agenda.

Both can be true at the same time.

The reason so many people are quick to believe is because Trump has a history of projection where he accuses other people of doing things that he himself would or has done. And Trump and his followers have accused so many others of false flag or staged events.

CONSTANTLY

So when you have a history of a guy who’s face shows up under “psychological projection” in the dictionary, constantly accusing others of things, you can credibly believe that he would do those things himself.

I’m not saying this was a staged event, and I have no idea of the reality. But I 100% believe this is a thing he would do.