If an orchestrated attempt to finally remove Orange Man, then this is a good sign for the rest of us. It doesn't get any more desperate than assassination. You don't assassinate people you can defeat, only the dangerous opponents.
He could be a lone gunman of course. Given the extent of Trump Derangement Syndrome it is in fact likely. Most TDS sufferers are lost. Lost enough to believe he is Orange Hitler hell bent on genociding blacks and gays, which seems to be what many of them actually think.
So either this is the inevitable end state of endless media propaganda against a president they dislike, or a sign of the deep state running out of options. I believe the former as Trump is unlikely to be a real threat once in office.
The actual threat are MAGA supporters subsequently disillusioned by four years of a compromised Trump unwilling to change much. We note he no longer talks about evicting Muslims; just one example from many. He is bound to be a failure again and I would argue this is the real tinderbox. Once the average guy understands voting changes nothing then that revelation could change everything.
I do think he will be a failure second time around. I think he is a threat to local elites but not the Big Shots. Much of illegal immigration exists and has a degree of prominence precisely to give slack for figures like Trump; he can clamp down on obvious illegal immigration while our replacements are flown into airports as"legal" immigrants. Zero effect on the demographic replacement.
That said being shot at probably wasn't part of the deal. And he is not a young man. I would love it if he decided to go for it, full scorched earth. That's what I'd do.
I think the final step would be the targeting of his family. If one of them gets knocked off, then I think all bets are off and Trump will pull a Michael Corleone and "settle all family business". Incidentally the statement Melania Trump released is magnificent.
I'm inclined to agree. Trump was firing people in his first administration based on perceived disloyalty, this time around it'll be a question of self-preservation, not to mention being pissed. I can't imagine that he doesn't go to war with the deep state in a serious way.
if he can survive until the election and they don't completely rig it... then if he doesn't go after the deep state he's a fool. Replace the top people at DOJ, FBI, CIA , NSA, DOD and let them do a deep clean of their departments.
That said think I have a safe starting point, for crossing the rubicon, scorching the earth (of course, as you say, Trump won’t do it).
First a question, what is the lesson of Gorbachev? Answer: ya can’t let a little water out of the dam: it explodes. So the question is are we ready to blow it up: I say no. If Trump was killed yesterday, I venture nothing would happen because the west is a sham demos of apathetic consumers.
But I think there is one thing that could be implemented that would avoid the Gorbachev/Soviet style collapse.
Defund the public university system. Withdrawal all public support, all public funding. They can live on their endowments, and if they can’t live on their endowments, they perish. I think this would be very popular. It would also allow for a robust debate about them as in indoctrination factories. They would be obliged to defend their Fantasia.
The reason we can’t take to the ramparts is that the enemy would be our own children. We send our children off for two decades worth of indoctrination and now suddenly we say: No!? The time is not right.
As a precursor we should defund the public university system, it will be popular and they would be forced to defend themselves, which will be impossible. I think in this way, the whole thing doesn’t come crashing down, yet a practical move to sanity would be achievable. It would remove obfuscation from their bag of tricks.
That said, I wouldn’t mind seeing the whole thing collapsing.
Thankfully, the Cheeto man survived . If anyone wants to put him up on Mount Rushmore I would chip in $100.
I think the university sector will die anyway. Some will linger on for decades. Importantly, they are beginning to lose their appeal to young men. The brighter ones will be forced to find other ways to become educated. No bad thing.
I believe the system is far too corrupt and rotten to the core for any one man like Trump and his team to correct. It is all too far gone. Another Trump presidency will not "save" us and at best kick the can down the road for now.
I think the saviour mentality is the bit we need to kill. There is no political solution. Most take that to mean armed revolution. I take a different view. The groups who actually built the US still exist. They need to begin building anew. We all do. Part of that is learning who to exclude. Liberals for a start.
Totally agree. Start with yourself. I know it is fridge magnet philosophy, but be the change you want to see. Get fit, control the diet, drop the porn and the doomscrolling, then make something. That's how I think it works.
Trump was against a then strong Beast System and still managed to do amazing things. I do not think he was a failure in office. At all. And this time around, he will have the full mandate of the people.
You are witnessing the systematic destruction of the old guard. It may be hard to discern from your perspective but if you step back a bit - you can see we are winning. People are waking up from a long sleep. Wakey, wakey sleepy dreamers. It is all being revealed.
I don't think anyone is waking up. I think the lines were drawn long ago. Maybe a few percent for whom more data or information, or indeed assassinations, may tip them over the edge.
But as we witnessed during COVID, even with information there are a cluster of forces guiding people's thinking, or lack thereof. Most are emotional thinkers too.
I don't think we will win. I think what you may be seeing is them losing, as they were always going to. Basing a culture on sodomy, large scale weather events everyone can see are not changing, and alienating the one demographic that invents everything and fights all your wars was never a winning strategy.
Right, the endless drumbeat of "the end of our democracy" probably wears at the mentally ill. I wholly agree with you on the immigration issue; Trump will produce nothing lasting and merely provide 4 years of entertainment.
In his first term he left us a course corrected SCOTUS. A most significant legacy. He also exposed the utter corruption of the Democrat party and the administrative state. That's not nothing, particularly while being fragged by his own team.
130 yards is not a long shot. I'm not particularly good with a rifle and probably could have made that.
This is all on the Secret Service. It's hard to imagine this level of incompetence. I think it may have been deliberate. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle has been focused on hiring more girlbosses over qualified agents, so incompetence is not totally off the table... But still, if a random like me would know enough to secure a roof 130 yards away, even that is a tough sell.
there is no other honest explanation. Throw in the fact an eyewitness claims to have told the local keystones that there was a guy up on the roof with a gun prior to shots fired and nothing was done about that. This guy is a patsy that will immediately be declared a lone wolf. While this scenario is plausible, i find it highly unlikely. Seems like it would be standard ops to secure all rooftops within a reasonable radius of the venue.
Also, the SS counter sniper cellphone video shows he was focused on that roof. He didn’t move much before taking the shot, so obviously they felt the roof was a threat vector and were scoping it. If it were a threat vector, you have a counter sniper up there. Period. There is no excuse, DEI or otherwise.
Perhaps, but there is nothing to indicate the rooftop sniper was co-opted. A more likely scenario is the local police tasked with that area, what, were avowed lefties and knew a local lefty who was willing to be a martyr for the cause and they let him up there? Far more likely they just sucked at their job like most people do. But it’s possible.
I'm in the UK, and have only passing knowledge of counter-assassination measures, but even to me the Secret Service response was dreadful. They looked like a bunch of amateurs - well-trained amateurs, but completely out of their depth. From the first "On you, go!", there was no one who seemed to be taking charge. When they allowed their principal to stand up and raise his fist, I was astounded! I know the saying goes "Never ascribe to malice what can be explained by incompetence", but enough incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
A man who throws a shot like this didn't really want to kill. I'm not suggesting a conspiracy; I'm saying most men are not real killers. They blink, look away, drop the muzzle, crab the shot. This man probably didn't REALLY want to kill another human being. He was all screwed up to do something but failed at the moment of truth.
This is why, in war, artillery does most of the killing. Men generally suck at it. Those in the know say that, for every 100 AIMED shots (ie, they had a visible target, they had time to aim, and they were not under immediate duress) less than 20 will hit. (SLA Marshall, The Infantry Load And The Mobility Of A Nation.)
Out of ever 100 men, expect less than 15 to be killers of any stripe; the rest will kill, but only when absolutely necessary.
My larger point is that shooting on the range ain't shooting another human bean. And, narrow as the margin was, it may have been the unconscious unwillingness to kill.
You think as he was martyring himself for leftist insanity he decided to shoot Trump through the ear instead of the skull in a 164 yard shot under immense pressure of the inevitable hale of sniper fire, accidentally killing a member of the audience behind him despite his otherwise unwillingness to kill.
So he’s so psychotic he will only kill innocent bystanders but not assassinate politicians. Please reexamine your theory.
It's not a long shot if you aim for center of mass. However the head shot is like shooting a rabbit at 130 yards. Or think of a football one and a quarter football fields away from you, still think you'd probably hit it?
With an optic and a zeroed rifle prone with a bipod, probably a better than even chance. As I said, I'm not a great shot. It would be easy for someone with actual skill. That said if I wanted to do something like that (to be absolutely clear - I don't), I'd use a large caliber like a .30-06 or something and aim center mass.
The point isn't that I'm a great shot, it's that 130 yards is very close for someone who is. You don't even have to account for any drop at that range. It's fucking absurd that anyone got that close with a rifle.
I'm familiar with the bipod & the stability it lends the shooter, here's a short video of me, bipod and iron sights, blowing out the candles on my birthday cake some years back; https://www.ipernity.com/doc/319805/50408362 .
I'm not disagreeing that it can be done, though I don't think such is a better than even chance. I just don't buy that he unconsciously but intentionally missed.
I do agree with your last sentence above, it is quite absurd, if one rules out mass incompetence or purposeful negligence by the security personnel, for the shooter to get that close.
You appear to be better than I am, so I'll defer to your view on the odds of an average shooter making that shot.
We agree on the important part... That this was at best horrible negligence. But that seems unlikely, as there are almost certainly explicit protocols around things like the minimum distance from an elevated position that must be secured.
This flies so much in the face of both common sense and what I presume are written and established presidential security protocols that it cannot be an accident. Particularly considering things like the refusal to give RFK Jr any Secret Service coverage at all. I'm leaning hard toward this being deliberate.
I'm usually all for the "everything is fake and gay" perspective but Trump looked pissed as he was pulled off stage. While I can wholly believe this was another wind-up toy (SSRIs and Psychotherapy are no doubt involved), I'm fairly certain Trump wasn't in on the plans. No doubt, some dark practitioner is in trouble today for flubbing the "sacrificing the King" ritual.
Secret Service always locks down high points like roofs. Wind-up toy gets 3 shots off from what appears to be a roof then the counter-sniper gets him. I'm just surprised the media didn't immediately run with "far right" violence. That's always the knee jerk response. Guess someone had the sense to say "nah, we'll look too ridiculous" before just looping Trump pumping his fist and appearing to chant "Fight!"
I have to say if the shooter has any Antifa ties, Antifa may not enjoy the counter protest next time but then again perhaps the backlash will be the feature.
The media’s first reaction was even worse: “Trump falls after loud noises at rally.” Talking points went out on the JournoList telling them to avoid the a-word.
This was a shocking event, as shocking as the murder of Shinzo Abe. And strangely not the first attempted murder, they've botched the Denmark & Slovenia murders I believe.
Holy crap are they growing brazen! Geeze! Oh and good article, as usual John
Probably not. The 1970s had a spate of assassinations and attempts, kidnappings, bombings, and so forth all over western Europe, but after various security forces co-ordinated (via interpol among others) and the USSR* was told to mind its step, it petered out during the 1980s.
We've simply come round the bend again, to a time of covert conflict between power-mongers.
*The USSR was the main sponsor behind the various groups causing trouble - Putin's old job was liaison and materiels provider for german terrorists, since such projects fell under the remit of the KGB.
No. The NATO false-flag terrorist attacks in Western Europe. The assembled fascists and mafiosi, presumably fed them stories about fighting communists, and then the fascists conducted various terrorist attacks while claiming they were communists. The objective was to sour the public opinion on communists, by making people think communists are terrorists.
In other words, the objective of OpGladio was to incept the following idea into people's minds:
> The USSR was the main sponsor behind the various groups causing trouble
OpGladio was successfull, as for example you fell for it, and as another example it completely demolished the Communist Party in Italy. Italy had a lot of love for communism back in the day but after NATO-helped Mafia killed and bombed tons of people, Italians now claim they never liked communism to begin with.
Trumpenstein's role is as an effigy of The White Man.
Message is clear, show up and we will impeach you, publicly chastise you, and execute you. Response should be 5M armed White Men revisiting J6. With actual evil intent.
Even more than Trump, one was friendly with Putin and the other was banning the niquab and other stuff like that. She’s since tripled down on her policies and proclaiming Denmark a ‘Christian Nation’ and is apparently enraged by the attempt.
As to him, I don’t know. Haven’t heard anything since, only that he’s very anti-left/globalist.
I’ve a post coming out later analyzing these events from the Cultural perspective.
There is no good reason to give Trump's opponents the benefit of the doubt. It is possible that the shooter was a sole, crazed, gunman acting alone, but if so the hysteria incited by Biden etc places a great deal of responsibility on the regime. IMO the blanance of probability suggests that the intelligence services want Trump dead.
If they are desperate enough to attempt to kill Trump now I hate to think of what they have planned for November and after. This botched asassination adds tp the urgency that they would feel over Trump returning to the presidency. They are in way too deep now to moderate anything now.
Bingo. This having failed, they will become extremely dangerous.
One obvious play is to escalate the war to the point that they can use it as an excuse to call off the election, then, in the name of wartime national security, crack down on domestic resistance.
The stakes are now truly astronomic. The regime has turned routine clown show elections into an existential blood feud.
We can all see that the regime is desperate enough to risk nuclear war. They are malicious enough to finance virulent bioweapons research. They have road-tested rule by emergency measures with the COVID lockdowns. And they sponsored pogroms following George Floyd's death and casually rigged a federal election. So there is no good reason to think that they won't escalate now. They'd be fools not to because the likely alternative involves criminal prosecution.
BTW before he died a few years ago Vladimir Zhirinovski predicted that there would not be an election in the US in 2024.
Zhirinovsky was an outspoken, nationalistic Russian politician who was always represented in the Western press as a dangerous lunatic. I expect that he was actually a pragmatist who wanted a functioning society. If I understand things correctly he ended up as a Putin supporter.
Nuclear war with Russia would only occur if NATO troops directly entered Ukraine and destroyed the Russian military, so pouring money into the Ukrainian forces is arguably a way to mitigate that risk.
I think the balance of evidence has swung against the lab leak hypothesis, but in any case I don't think the Wuhan biolab was engaging in weapons research.
On closer look at the video, the ss sharpshooters (who, according to James O'Keefe were not ss but sub-contractors) are looking through telescopic rifle scopes in the general direction of the shooter; then as shots ring out they are startled and look up away from the scope but in the same direction; they then duck down a bit; and the clip ends.
It could be that the sharpshooters were not witting, but set up to kill the shooter while trained in the general direction.
Yes, they got away with rigging the election last time and they’re not going to be able to give that up. Question is, what will their desperate ploy be? I don’t see anything as off limits, including the provocation of a nuclear war.
Time to call out the troops then and paper ballots. One of the exceptions to the Posse Comitatus Act is the troops can be called out in a state to suppress an insurrection. The very definition of an insurrection is stealing an election and trying to assassinate the leading opposition candidate. Just watch and see oh and pass the popcorn.
I don’t think this was a deep state ploy. That said, the Alex Jones take that the deep state will kill Biden to blame it on Trump supporters sounds very plausible.
I think that is what will happen, especially since there have been reports of military age men in uniforms coming through the border; they will create an event and blame us, then the UN will take over after the White House declares a state of emergency.
Always be suspicious of very young men, often unemployed or unemployed, c
Toting around expensive hardware. I know how much all types of firearms and accessories cost. Remember the Uvalde Texas shooter? A teenager with est $4000 worth of guns and accessories? These people had help, you can count on it.
Young, mentally ill men like that are the perfect perpetrators of shootings like this. They're unhinged enough to be "encouraged" to take the shot and can be taken out once their usefulness is up and before any questions can be asked.
I must say it is actually a miracle (atheists can call it a very low probability event) that Trump survived. At that distance, with optics and bipod. On practically stationary target. On top of that he had time to get off multiple shots. Shooter probably lost his cool after first shot and didn't adjust aim properly, just squeezing and sending more in a hope for a hit. But it is still incredible that all he got was his ear.
I am not a fan of Trump at all. He was loud and ineffectual while in the office. But he does have a fighter's spirit and there seem to be a reason why he is where he is. And why he survived today
Now reflecting on a more realistic and somber note. An FPV drone with an RPG antipersonnel charge is a bane and dominant force on the front lines of the Ukrainian war. It can be used from a distance of several kilometers. As a swarm if necessary. Quite a scary prospect actually
I'm only surprised this didn't happen earlier. Long have pundits the world over ruminated on the possibility of something like this going down, but now that it has, they can only claim that it was all orchestrated; to admit that this is what their rhetoric has wrought is obviously untenable.
Any semblance of circumspection will evaporate swiftly, mark my words. The managerial class can feel the inevitability of their loss closing in.
Just imagine how many are despairing right now that this guy -- whatever kind of psychological mess he was -- missed. As you say, it is a dangerous thing to come at "the King" and miss. I am reminded of a famous quote from The Wire's Omar:
"Hey yo, lesson here bey: you come at the king, you best not miss."
Close, but your metaphor could use a slight correction, if I may: It is not the gentle herbivores -- sheep, horses, cattle -- who turn upon their own progeny in a pinch. It is the rodents.
I’ve been hoping to get off this f$*#ing planet since I was able read about the possibility but barring that and also that I’m now too old to have much to lose I am more than willing to assist in the culling. No. More. Holding. Back. Period! Cry Havoc indeed!
I think this was pretty much an inevitable outcome given the last nine years of the deliberate and unrelenting hatred of Trump coupled with the racial/political/social/economic divisiveness that have become the official Platform of the Democrat Party. Since 16 June 2015, Trump has been subjected to nonstop and ever-increasing attacks through the use of politically motivated persecution by the Democrat party, Democrat politicians, and powerful, unaccountable, and corrupt government bureaucrats. They have used every tactic imaginable, from blaming Trump for the riots in 2020, to using corrupt lawyers and judges to prosecute and convict him of an imaginary crime, and by twice using manufactured evidence to impeach him, all while using a compliant and corrupt news media as willing cheerleaders.
Since 16 June 2015, the Democrats have marched in lockstep in broadcasting their nonstop message of divisiveness aimed at Trump all who support him. Over these last nine years, powerful politicians have repeatedly warned the country that Trump is “dangerous” and “a threat”, an “extremist”, and that “he wants to destroy our Democracy”. On 01 Sept 2022, President Biden stood before the entire world and delivered the “Red Speech” in which he raised his fists and furiously proclaimed that “Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our Republic”, that “MAGA Republicans hold a dagger to the throat of our Democracy”, and that “There is no question that the Republican party today is dominated, driven, and intimidated by Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans, and that is a threat to this country”.
Did no one see this coming? After nine years of the constant and unrelenting message of fear and hatred for Trump coming from all levels of Government, the Democrat Party, and the news media, was yesterday’s assassination attempt that unexpected?
They have yet to try reason. Perhaps they are well aware they have no possible intellectul case to present. Violence is the only path to power, and power is the only ethic.
Agreed, the political and media rhetoric would eventually lead to some wacko, a loner, conveniently skilled and equipped with, wait for it ... an AR-15 assault rifle. No shit!?
It's like whoever is writing "the script" is abusing the copy & paste function; so predictable although it's shocking to see it happening in real time. The whole world has witnessed the truth about "power" and it's fkn pure evil 👿☠️👿 !
Abolishment of the fiat, debt slavery, "currency" system and repossesion of everything fraudulently acquired from it including womd would put the capitalist freakazoids out of business permanently.
Trump said he can end the Ukraine-Russian war in one day. Cant have that. Cui bono. Who can they count on to push every war, has delegates and BFF with Miriam Ad elson? This looks a lot like kennedy assasination with SS didn't respond appropriately and kenndy was not going to escalate the vietnam war. They had someone in the wings ready to go who would do what they wanted. Its hard to know what the truth is but the one thing i know for sure they cant have any crazy talk about stopping wars.
At this point they might want to be able to blame the loss on Trump, just as they were previously blaming Republicans fully holding up funding. In effeminate clown world, achieving results is less important than deflecting blame for failure.
Yesterday, a day of utter travesty; also a day of divine miracle. I wiped my eyes many times last night, and many, many times gave Thanks for that miracle.
Today, a day of contemplation and somber reflection. I do not lay blame at the body of the shooter, as he is dead and has paid his price. I lay blame at those who poisoned his pliable mind, over and over and over, with words of hate and malice.
Thank you, sir, for your measured words.
May God continue to Bless this Republic, and may He continue to guide us and grant us His Wisdom.
Still, by Demo standards, your words were quite measured—as has been the response from our fellow compatriots—considering our beloved Donald was spared, only by a few millimeters.
Had the situation been reversed, and a Demo leader had been there, cities would have been ablaze last night, and it would continue for days or weeks.
So, yes, measured. And appropriately so. As the song goes, “…living in a powder keg, and giving off smoke.”
The country has crossed the rubicon now. Doesn’t matter whether one is a Trump fan or not. This corrupt and uncivilised behaviour by those elected to govern on our behalf is beyond the pale
It isn't the first time that a President has been fired upon; it is, however, the first time this has happened when things were already at a high pitch of tension.
Yes I’m aware of that - what’s different this time is people are more aware of the ‘deep state’ and their history of nefarious activities (including past presidential assassinations/or attempted assassinations). Regardless of what the truth is about this situation, it’ll be seen one way by Trump supporters and to be fair to his supporters, they have plenty of circumstantial evidence to justify such a point of view. So for these reasons I think ‘this time is different’ in terms of public reaction. Hopefully I’m wrong.
I don’t believe so. Seems to be a lone lefty plus security failure. Lefties including Biden and Obama are backing down from this. Our side isn’t ready for a war, and it seems they’d rather just keep peacefully replacing us for now.
It’ll certainly be interesting to see how things unfold. The security failure was so blatant (and ignored when supporters raised concerns with police) it’s hard to believe it wasn’t on purpose. I get Hanlon’s razor but the disproportionate amount of stupidity (everywhere) lately leads me to agree with what one analyst said (about monetary policy), ‘there are so many stupid decisions it has to be on purpose”. Interesting and perhaps totally irrelevant is that the shooter appeared on a TV ad for Blackrock.
Carter, I liked your mention of the "lamp posts" as something these warmongering and murderous bastards should fear. I've often "joked" that we have so many lamp posts going to waste all day. But, I don't know about the posts where you live, but mine would not hold (probably) even a single hanged man. Need to think of something else. And, btw, have you ever seen Da Vinci's sketches? Done after several days hanging there. Cheers.
A curious analogy: they’ve been careful to wage indirect war against Russia but avoid direct conflict. In the same way, they’ve tried to attack Trump through all means of treachery but not direct assassination. In the same way they don’t want Russia lobbing nukes into their major cities, they don’t want to push heritage Americans past a certain limit, because we will quickly reassert ourselves as the dominant power in this country if the mind control breaks.
If an orchestrated attempt to finally remove Orange Man, then this is a good sign for the rest of us. It doesn't get any more desperate than assassination. You don't assassinate people you can defeat, only the dangerous opponents.
He could be a lone gunman of course. Given the extent of Trump Derangement Syndrome it is in fact likely. Most TDS sufferers are lost. Lost enough to believe he is Orange Hitler hell bent on genociding blacks and gays, which seems to be what many of them actually think.
So either this is the inevitable end state of endless media propaganda against a president they dislike, or a sign of the deep state running out of options. I believe the former as Trump is unlikely to be a real threat once in office.
The actual threat are MAGA supporters subsequently disillusioned by four years of a compromised Trump unwilling to change much. We note he no longer talks about evicting Muslims; just one example from many. He is bound to be a failure again and I would argue this is the real tinderbox. Once the average guy understands voting changes nothing then that revelation could change everything.
We shall certainly see. Trump was in many ways a disappointment in office, although one must allow for a large degree of naivety on his part.
Once bitten and all that.
I do think he will be a failure second time around. I think he is a threat to local elites but not the Big Shots. Much of illegal immigration exists and has a degree of prominence precisely to give slack for figures like Trump; he can clamp down on obvious illegal immigration while our replacements are flown into airports as"legal" immigrants. Zero effect on the demographic replacement.
That said being shot at probably wasn't part of the deal. And he is not a young man. I would love it if he decided to go for it, full scorched earth. That's what I'd do.
if lawfare and assassination attempt(s) don't make you go scorched earth, what will
I think the final step would be the targeting of his family. If one of them gets knocked off, then I think all bets are off and Trump will pull a Michael Corleone and "settle all family business". Incidentally the statement Melania Trump released is magnificent.
sure hope it doesn't come to violently targeting family
The Rubicon has been crossed. Nothing is off the table.
I'm inclined to agree. Trump was firing people in his first administration based on perceived disloyalty, this time around it'll be a question of self-preservation, not to mention being pissed. I can't imagine that he doesn't go to war with the deep state in a serious way.
if he can survive until the election and they don't completely rig it... then if he doesn't go after the deep state he's a fool. Replace the top people at DOJ, FBI, CIA , NSA, DOD and let them do a deep clean of their departments.
The education system and the media complex are probably more relevant long-term targets, though I suppose they're harder to get to.
Spiff, again I agree with your judgement.
That said think I have a safe starting point, for crossing the rubicon, scorching the earth (of course, as you say, Trump won’t do it).
First a question, what is the lesson of Gorbachev? Answer: ya can’t let a little water out of the dam: it explodes. So the question is are we ready to blow it up: I say no. If Trump was killed yesterday, I venture nothing would happen because the west is a sham demos of apathetic consumers.
But I think there is one thing that could be implemented that would avoid the Gorbachev/Soviet style collapse.
Defund the public university system. Withdrawal all public support, all public funding. They can live on their endowments, and if they can’t live on their endowments, they perish. I think this would be very popular. It would also allow for a robust debate about them as in indoctrination factories. They would be obliged to defend their Fantasia.
The reason we can’t take to the ramparts is that the enemy would be our own children. We send our children off for two decades worth of indoctrination and now suddenly we say: No!? The time is not right.
As a precursor we should defund the public university system, it will be popular and they would be forced to defend themselves, which will be impossible. I think in this way, the whole thing doesn’t come crashing down, yet a practical move to sanity would be achievable. It would remove obfuscation from their bag of tricks.
That said, I wouldn’t mind seeing the whole thing collapsing.
Thankfully, the Cheeto man survived . If anyone wants to put him up on Mount Rushmore I would chip in $100.
Day One: eliminate Dept of Ed.
I think the university sector will die anyway. Some will linger on for decades. Importantly, they are beginning to lose their appeal to young men. The brighter ones will be forced to find other ways to become educated. No bad thing.
The brighter ones already are.
Indeed.
I believe the system is far too corrupt and rotten to the core for any one man like Trump and his team to correct. It is all too far gone. Another Trump presidency will not "save" us and at best kick the can down the road for now.
I think the saviour mentality is the bit we need to kill. There is no political solution. Most take that to mean armed revolution. I take a different view. The groups who actually built the US still exist. They need to begin building anew. We all do. Part of that is learning who to exclude. Liberals for a start.
We cannot fix the system, so we must replace it.
Direct, personal action. Do things in your own life. Don’t wait for others to do them for you. That is the only way we win this.
Totally agree. Start with yourself. I know it is fridge magnet philosophy, but be the change you want to see. Get fit, control the diet, drop the porn and the doomscrolling, then make something. That's how I think it works.
Also allow for a staff that actively lied and misinformed him regarding much and made every possible effort to thwart, slow or stop his efforts.
Absolutely.
Trump was against a then strong Beast System and still managed to do amazing things. I do not think he was a failure in office. At all. And this time around, he will have the full mandate of the people.
You are witnessing the systematic destruction of the old guard. It may be hard to discern from your perspective but if you step back a bit - you can see we are winning. People are waking up from a long sleep. Wakey, wakey sleepy dreamers. It is all being revealed.
I don't think anyone is waking up. I think the lines were drawn long ago. Maybe a few percent for whom more data or information, or indeed assassinations, may tip them over the edge.
But as we witnessed during COVID, even with information there are a cluster of forces guiding people's thinking, or lack thereof. Most are emotional thinkers too.
I don't think we will win. I think what you may be seeing is them losing, as they were always going to. Basing a culture on sodomy, large scale weather events everyone can see are not changing, and alienating the one demographic that invents everything and fights all your wars was never a winning strategy.
I read this this entire thread and article and did not once see the word “Neocon”. The right is always three steps behind…
We will relive this until you get it right or go to Neo-Bolshevik camps.
Israel and the CIA decapitated the Republic in 1963 by assassinating the President JFK. No one was punished for his killing because they are in power.
Israel and the CIA did 911 to create a police state and the War of Terror.
Israel and CIA are two wings of the same genocidal bird. This bird is called Zionism and it sits on the shoulders of the Demiurge.
Spiff: well judged, I concur, You’ve called it accurately I do believe.
Right, the endless drumbeat of "the end of our democracy" probably wears at the mentally ill. I wholly agree with you on the immigration issue; Trump will produce nothing lasting and merely provide 4 years of entertainment.
In his first term he left us a course corrected SCOTUS. A most significant legacy. He also exposed the utter corruption of the Democrat party and the administrative state. That's not nothing, particularly while being fragged by his own team.
Business as usual. That said, an assassination attempt is bound to change the game a little.
130 yards is not a long shot. I'm not particularly good with a rifle and probably could have made that.
This is all on the Secret Service. It's hard to imagine this level of incompetence. I think it may have been deliberate. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle has been focused on hiring more girlbosses over qualified agents, so incompetence is not totally off the table... But still, if a random like me would know enough to secure a roof 130 yards away, even that is a tough sell.
It's ambiguous as hell. These diversity hires can be dangerously useless - just look at Boeing. But OTOH, the whole thing reeks of a setup.
there is no other honest explanation. Throw in the fact an eyewitness claims to have told the local keystones that there was a guy up on the roof with a gun prior to shots fired and nothing was done about that. This guy is a patsy that will immediately be declared a lone wolf. While this scenario is plausible, i find it highly unlikely. Seems like it would be standard ops to secure all rooftops within a reasonable radius of the venue.
Exactly.
Also, the SS counter sniper cellphone video shows he was focused on that roof. He didn’t move much before taking the shot, so obviously they felt the roof was a threat vector and were scoping it. If it were a threat vector, you have a counter sniper up there. Period. There is no excuse, DEI or otherwise.
There's just no way the SS isn't complicit in this--either by consent or default.
Perhaps, but there is nothing to indicate the rooftop sniper was co-opted. A more likely scenario is the local police tasked with that area, what, were avowed lefties and knew a local lefty who was willing to be a martyr for the cause and they let him up there? Far more likely they just sucked at their job like most people do. But it’s possible.
Yes, definitely. But then that makes them complicit by default. They didn't do their job properly.
I'm in the UK, and have only passing knowledge of counter-assassination measures, but even to me the Secret Service response was dreadful. They looked like a bunch of amateurs - well-trained amateurs, but completely out of their depth. From the first "On you, go!", there was no one who seemed to be taking charge. When they allowed their principal to stand up and raise his fist, I was astounded! I know the saying goes "Never ascribe to malice what can be explained by incompetence", but enough incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
A man who throws a shot like this didn't really want to kill. I'm not suggesting a conspiracy; I'm saying most men are not real killers. They blink, look away, drop the muzzle, crab the shot. This man probably didn't REALLY want to kill another human being. He was all screwed up to do something but failed at the moment of truth.
This is why, in war, artillery does most of the killing. Men generally suck at it. Those in the know say that, for every 100 AIMED shots (ie, they had a visible target, they had time to aim, and they were not under immediate duress) less than 20 will hit. (SLA Marshall, The Infantry Load And The Mobility Of A Nation.)
Out of ever 100 men, expect less than 15 to be killers of any stripe; the rest will kill, but only when absolutely necessary.
He didn't throw his shot though. Trump moved his head at the last second.
Maybe...
My larger point is that shooting on the range ain't shooting another human bean. And, narrow as the margin was, it may have been the unconscious unwillingness to kill.
Doubtful.
Not at all.
You think as he was martyring himself for leftist insanity he decided to shoot Trump through the ear instead of the skull in a 164 yard shot under immense pressure of the inevitable hale of sniper fire, accidentally killing a member of the audience behind him despite his otherwise unwillingness to kill.
So he’s so psychotic he will only kill innocent bystanders but not assassinate politicians. Please reexamine your theory.
It's not a long shot if you aim for center of mass. However the head shot is like shooting a rabbit at 130 yards. Or think of a football one and a quarter football fields away from you, still think you'd probably hit it?
With an optic and a zeroed rifle prone with a bipod, probably a better than even chance. As I said, I'm not a great shot. It would be easy for someone with actual skill. That said if I wanted to do something like that (to be absolutely clear - I don't), I'd use a large caliber like a .30-06 or something and aim center mass.
The point isn't that I'm a great shot, it's that 130 yards is very close for someone who is. You don't even have to account for any drop at that range. It's fucking absurd that anyone got that close with a rifle.
I'm familiar with the bipod & the stability it lends the shooter, here's a short video of me, bipod and iron sights, blowing out the candles on my birthday cake some years back; https://www.ipernity.com/doc/319805/50408362 .
I'm not disagreeing that it can be done, though I don't think such is a better than even chance. I just don't buy that he unconsciously but intentionally missed.
I do agree with your last sentence above, it is quite absurd, if one rules out mass incompetence or purposeful negligence by the security personnel, for the shooter to get that close.
You appear to be better than I am, so I'll defer to your view on the odds of an average shooter making that shot.
We agree on the important part... That this was at best horrible negligence. But that seems unlikely, as there are almost certainly explicit protocols around things like the minimum distance from an elevated position that must be secured.
This flies so much in the face of both common sense and what I presume are written and established presidential security protocols that it cannot be an accident. Particularly considering things like the refusal to give RFK Jr any Secret Service coverage at all. I'm leaning hard toward this being deliberate.
I guess he went head shot under the assumption Trump would be wearing body armor.
I'm usually all for the "everything is fake and gay" perspective but Trump looked pissed as he was pulled off stage. While I can wholly believe this was another wind-up toy (SSRIs and Psychotherapy are no doubt involved), I'm fairly certain Trump wasn't in on the plans. No doubt, some dark practitioner is in trouble today for flubbing the "sacrificing the King" ritual.
Secret Service always locks down high points like roofs. Wind-up toy gets 3 shots off from what appears to be a roof then the counter-sniper gets him. I'm just surprised the media didn't immediately run with "far right" violence. That's always the knee jerk response. Guess someone had the sense to say "nah, we'll look too ridiculous" before just looping Trump pumping his fist and appearing to chant "Fight!"
I have to say if the shooter has any Antifa ties, Antifa may not enjoy the counter protest next time but then again perhaps the backlash will be the feature.
The media’s first reaction was even worse: “Trump falls after loud noises at rally.” Talking points went out on the JournoList telling them to avoid the a-word.
It is very telling they all downplayed the attempt as soon as it failed.
It is. It’s very possible they had a local asset and conspired to get him on the roof. Even that sounds very complicated though.
Now they’re saying he’s a “registered republican”. Cause the FBI will get to the bottom of this….
He may have registered as a Republican to vote against Trump in the primary.
I had the same thought. You’ll never hear that in the media.
You called it. PA has closed primaries. You have to be republican to vote against Trump there.
Well, if he's a registered Republican, it was so that he could vote in the primaries against the front runners.
This was a shocking event, as shocking as the murder of Shinzo Abe. And strangely not the first attempted murder, they've botched the Denmark & Slovenia murders I believe.
Holy crap are they growing brazen! Geeze! Oh and good article, as usual John
Yes, Simplicius has pointed this out too, that the assassinations and attempted assassinations are coming in fast and thick.
Not politicians but don’t forget the Boeing whistleblowers, they didn’t survive though.
I'm now worried about Milei.
botched on purpose, as warnings?
Probably not. The 1970s had a spate of assassinations and attempts, kidnappings, bombings, and so forth all over western Europe, but after various security forces co-ordinated (via interpol among others) and the USSR* was told to mind its step, it petered out during the 1980s.
We've simply come round the bend again, to a time of covert conflict between power-mongers.
*The USSR was the main sponsor behind the various groups causing trouble - Putin's old job was liaison and materiels provider for german terrorists, since such projects fell under the remit of the KGB.
I take it you never heard of OpGladio? :)
P2 e Gladio?
No. The NATO false-flag terrorist attacks in Western Europe. The assembled fascists and mafiosi, presumably fed them stories about fighting communists, and then the fascists conducted various terrorist attacks while claiming they were communists. The objective was to sour the public opinion on communists, by making people think communists are terrorists.
In other words, the objective of OpGladio was to incept the following idea into people's minds:
> The USSR was the main sponsor behind the various groups causing trouble
OpGladio was successfull, as for example you fell for it, and as another example it completely demolished the Communist Party in Italy. Italy had a lot of love for communism back in the day but after NATO-helped Mafia killed and bombed tons of people, Italians now claim they never liked communism to begin with.
https://www.amazon.com/Gladio-Natos-Dagger-Heart-Europe/dp/1615776885
thank you for the info. I never know what to think these days.
Trumpenstein's role is as an effigy of The White Man.
Message is clear, show up and we will impeach you, publicly chastise you, and execute you. Response should be 5M armed White Men revisiting J6. With actual evil intent.
Yes, I was thinking exactly this last night--Abe. Eerily reminiscent. And Slovenia and Denmark, yes. The game plan is becoming way too obvious.
Agreed
Slovakia.
Ah thank you for the correction I appreciate it. My bad.
Denmark and Slovenia murders??
Attempts, they failed. One with a gun, and another I think with a knife. Both leaders went out for lunch only to be assaulted, scary stuff.
thx. were both leaders considered anti-left/globalist?
Even more than Trump, one was friendly with Putin and the other was banning the niquab and other stuff like that. She’s since tripled down on her policies and proclaiming Denmark a ‘Christian Nation’ and is apparently enraged by the attempt.
As to him, I don’t know. Haven’t heard anything since, only that he’s very anti-left/globalist.
I’ve a post coming out later analyzing these events from the Cultural perspective.
thanks
Please pardon the wiki link, but it does mention the Slovene leader is a "Eurosceptic", as in not following the MSM POV: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_assassination_of_Robert_Fico
thanks!
There is no good reason to give Trump's opponents the benefit of the doubt. It is possible that the shooter was a sole, crazed, gunman acting alone, but if so the hysteria incited by Biden etc places a great deal of responsibility on the regime. IMO the blanance of probability suggests that the intelligence services want Trump dead.
If they are desperate enough to attempt to kill Trump now I hate to think of what they have planned for November and after. This botched asassination adds tp the urgency that they would feel over Trump returning to the presidency. They are in way too deep now to moderate anything now.
Bingo. This having failed, they will become extremely dangerous.
One obvious play is to escalate the war to the point that they can use it as an excuse to call off the election, then, in the name of wartime national security, crack down on domestic resistance.
Whether that works remains to be seen.
The stakes are now truly astronomic. The regime has turned routine clown show elections into an existential blood feud.
We can all see that the regime is desperate enough to risk nuclear war. They are malicious enough to finance virulent bioweapons research. They have road-tested rule by emergency measures with the COVID lockdowns. And they sponsored pogroms following George Floyd's death and casually rigged a federal election. So there is no good reason to think that they won't escalate now. They'd be fools not to because the likely alternative involves criminal prosecution.
BTW before he died a few years ago Vladimir Zhirinovski predicted that there would not be an election in the US in 2024.
Criminal prosecution if they're lucky.
Who's Zhirinovsky? Name rings a bell but can't quite place it.
Zhirinovsky was an outspoken, nationalistic Russian politician who was always represented in the Western press as a dangerous lunatic. I expect that he was actually a pragmatist who wanted a functioning society. If I understand things correctly he ended up as a Putin supporter.
Ah, yeah. Hardcore nationalist. If I recall he was something of a troll, known for tweaking people's noses.
Nuclear war with Russia would only occur if NATO troops directly entered Ukraine and destroyed the Russian military, so pouring money into the Ukrainian forces is arguably a way to mitigate that risk.
I think the balance of evidence has swung against the lab leak hypothesis, but in any case I don't think the Wuhan biolab was engaging in weapons research.
It appears the SS snipers are trained on the shooter before he fires. 2nd video.
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/07/13/watch-video-shows-sniper-taking-out-would-be-assassin-as-trump-shot-at-n4930660?utm_source=pjmedia&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&bcid=9e3955647517c64fe71c619523abf3d07d8c956de2b39326cb90a57d80dc0fb1&lctg=28451223
Yes, they took down the guy entirely too quickly. Let him get up there to do the job, and were ready to take him out once the kill happened or not.
On closer look at the video, the ss sharpshooters (who, according to James O'Keefe were not ss but sub-contractors) are looking through telescopic rifle scopes in the general direction of the shooter; then as shots ring out they are startled and look up away from the scope but in the same direction; they then duck down a bit; and the clip ends.
It could be that the sharpshooters were not witting, but set up to kill the shooter while trained in the general direction.
Subcontractors to whom!?!?!
It does seem like the shooter was "allowed" to fire off a few shots before being taken out.
This is exactly the theory/ prediction of Martin Armstrong...
Yes, they got away with rigging the election last time and they’re not going to be able to give that up. Question is, what will their desperate ploy be? I don’t see anything as off limits, including the provocation of a nuclear war.
Time to call out the troops then and paper ballots. One of the exceptions to the Posse Comitatus Act is the troops can be called out in a state to suppress an insurrection. The very definition of an insurrection is stealing an election and trying to assassinate the leading opposition candidate. Just watch and see oh and pass the popcorn.
I don’t think this was a deep state ploy. That said, the Alex Jones take that the deep state will kill Biden to blame it on Trump supporters sounds very plausible.
The alternative is girlboss incompetence at a truly shocking level. Which might not be all that shocking really.
I think that is what will happen, especially since there have been reports of military age men in uniforms coming through the border; they will create an event and blame us, then the UN will take over after the White House declares a state of emergency.
Always be suspicious of very young men, often unemployed or unemployed, c
Toting around expensive hardware. I know how much all types of firearms and accessories cost. Remember the Uvalde Texas shooter? A teenager with est $4000 worth of guns and accessories? These people had help, you can count on it.
Young, mentally ill men like that are the perfect perpetrators of shootings like this. They're unhinged enough to be "encouraged" to take the shot and can be taken out once their usefulness is up and before any questions can be asked.
*or under-employed
I must say it is actually a miracle (atheists can call it a very low probability event) that Trump survived. At that distance, with optics and bipod. On practically stationary target. On top of that he had time to get off multiple shots. Shooter probably lost his cool after first shot and didn't adjust aim properly, just squeezing and sending more in a hope for a hit. But it is still incredible that all he got was his ear.
I am not a fan of Trump at all. He was loud and ineffectual while in the office. But he does have a fighter's spirit and there seem to be a reason why he is where he is. And why he survived today
Plot armour so thick it can stop a 155 mm HEAP round.
155mm HEAP. Who uses 155s in anti-armor roles? That's a touch overkill...
Not that I mind overkill the least little bit.
Overkilling is my favorite kind of killing.
Seriously tho...who has 155mm HEAP?
Probably no one, but they should.
Spoken like a true Artilleryman.
Jesus…to use a 155mm in anti-tank role, you’d have to be bore-sighting the bastards.
Not that it wouldn’t be fun, mind.
Underkilling just seems....lame.
Now reflecting on a more realistic and somber note. An FPV drone with an RPG antipersonnel charge is a bane and dominant force on the front lines of the Ukrainian war. It can be used from a distance of several kilometers. As a swarm if necessary. Quite a scary prospect actually
I've been saying this for years.
I was honestly reminded of that scene from Pulp Fiction. Working in mysterious ways, and all that.
I'm only surprised this didn't happen earlier. Long have pundits the world over ruminated on the possibility of something like this going down, but now that it has, they can only claim that it was all orchestrated; to admit that this is what their rhetoric has wrought is obviously untenable.
Any semblance of circumspection will evaporate swiftly, mark my words. The managerial class can feel the inevitability of their loss closing in.
Just imagine how many are despairing right now that this guy -- whatever kind of psychological mess he was -- missed. As you say, it is a dangerous thing to come at "the King" and miss. I am reminded of a famous quote from The Wire's Omar:
"Hey yo, lesson here bey: you come at the king, you best not miss."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6l_9reaLz0 (20 second clip)
Oh, and great piece, as always. Timing is everything when it comes to this kind of stuff.
Their desperation will only increase from here. Backed into a corner, they will grow quite vicious.
The first thing herbivores do when terrified is eat their own children.
Close, but your metaphor could use a slight correction, if I may: It is not the gentle herbivores -- sheep, horses, cattle -- who turn upon their own progeny in a pinch. It is the rodents.
We are still several months out from the election and a lot can happen between then and now.
💯 Another excellent essay. Thank you.
Bushido looks terrific. We need a new civilization 💪🏼💙
We desperately do.
I’ve been hoping to get off this f$*#ing planet since I was able read about the possibility but barring that and also that I’m now too old to have much to lose I am more than willing to assist in the culling. No. More. Holding. Back. Period! Cry Havoc indeed!
I think this was pretty much an inevitable outcome given the last nine years of the deliberate and unrelenting hatred of Trump coupled with the racial/political/social/economic divisiveness that have become the official Platform of the Democrat Party. Since 16 June 2015, Trump has been subjected to nonstop and ever-increasing attacks through the use of politically motivated persecution by the Democrat party, Democrat politicians, and powerful, unaccountable, and corrupt government bureaucrats. They have used every tactic imaginable, from blaming Trump for the riots in 2020, to using corrupt lawyers and judges to prosecute and convict him of an imaginary crime, and by twice using manufactured evidence to impeach him, all while using a compliant and corrupt news media as willing cheerleaders.
Since 16 June 2015, the Democrats have marched in lockstep in broadcasting their nonstop message of divisiveness aimed at Trump all who support him. Over these last nine years, powerful politicians have repeatedly warned the country that Trump is “dangerous” and “a threat”, an “extremist”, and that “he wants to destroy our Democracy”. On 01 Sept 2022, President Biden stood before the entire world and delivered the “Red Speech” in which he raised his fists and furiously proclaimed that “Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our Republic”, that “MAGA Republicans hold a dagger to the throat of our Democracy”, and that “There is no question that the Republican party today is dominated, driven, and intimidated by Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans, and that is a threat to this country”.
Did no one see this coming? After nine years of the constant and unrelenting message of fear and hatred for Trump coming from all levels of Government, the Democrat Party, and the news media, was yesterday’s assassination attempt that unexpected?
I think everyone saw this coming tbh
They started with lawfare and seem to be moving toward warfare.
Unable to win with ballots, whether honest or not, they resort to bullets.
They have yet to try reason. Perhaps they are well aware they have no possible intellectul case to present. Violence is the only path to power, and power is the only ethic.
Their platform is wildly unpopular when stated plainly, so no, reason isn't going to work for them.
Agreed, the political and media rhetoric would eventually lead to some wacko, a loner, conveniently skilled and equipped with, wait for it ... an AR-15 assault rifle. No shit!?
It's like whoever is writing "the script" is abusing the copy & paste function; so predictable although it's shocking to see it happening in real time. The whole world has witnessed the truth about "power" and it's fkn pure evil 👿☠️👿 !
Abolishment of the fiat, debt slavery, "currency" system and repossesion of everything fraudulently acquired from it including womd would put the capitalist freakazoids out of business permanently.
Just an observation from a pragmatic perspective.
Trump said he can end the Ukraine-Russian war in one day. Cant have that. Cui bono. Who can they count on to push every war, has delegates and BFF with Miriam Ad elson? This looks a lot like kennedy assasination with SS didn't respond appropriately and kenndy was not going to escalate the vietnam war. They had someone in the wings ready to go who would do what they wanted. Its hard to know what the truth is but the one thing i know for sure they cant have any crazy talk about stopping wars.
At this point they might want to be able to blame the loss on Trump, just as they were previously blaming Republicans fully holding up funding. In effeminate clown world, achieving results is less important than deflecting blame for failure.
Yesterday, a day of utter travesty; also a day of divine miracle. I wiped my eyes many times last night, and many, many times gave Thanks for that miracle.
Today, a day of contemplation and somber reflection. I do not lay blame at the body of the shooter, as he is dead and has paid his price. I lay blame at those who poisoned his pliable mind, over and over and over, with words of hate and malice.
Thank you, sir, for your measured words.
May God continue to Bless this Republic, and may He continue to guide us and grant us His Wisdom.
Sign of the times that my words here are considered measured.
Still, by Demo standards, your words were quite measured—as has been the response from our fellow compatriots—considering our beloved Donald was spared, only by a few millimeters.
Had the situation been reversed, and a Demo leader had been there, cities would have been ablaze last night, and it would continue for days or weeks.
So, yes, measured. And appropriately so. As the song goes, “…living in a powder keg, and giving off smoke.”
The disciplined application of force will always, in the end, beat the disorganized.
A correction, and apologies to Bonnie Tyler; “…giving off sparks.”
I suspect he was recruited and groomed. Truth will not be forthcoming.
The country has crossed the rubicon now. Doesn’t matter whether one is a Trump fan or not. This corrupt and uncivilised behaviour by those elected to govern on our behalf is beyond the pale
It isn't the first time that a President has been fired upon; it is, however, the first time this has happened when things were already at a high pitch of tension.
Yes I’m aware of that - what’s different this time is people are more aware of the ‘deep state’ and their history of nefarious activities (including past presidential assassinations/or attempted assassinations). Regardless of what the truth is about this situation, it’ll be seen one way by Trump supporters and to be fair to his supporters, they have plenty of circumstantial evidence to justify such a point of view. So for these reasons I think ‘this time is different’ in terms of public reaction. Hopefully I’m wrong.
I don’t believe so. Seems to be a lone lefty plus security failure. Lefties including Biden and Obama are backing down from this. Our side isn’t ready for a war, and it seems they’d rather just keep peacefully replacing us for now.
It’ll certainly be interesting to see how things unfold. The security failure was so blatant (and ignored when supporters raised concerns with police) it’s hard to believe it wasn’t on purpose. I get Hanlon’s razor but the disproportionate amount of stupidity (everywhere) lately leads me to agree with what one analyst said (about monetary policy), ‘there are so many stupid decisions it has to be on purpose”. Interesting and perhaps totally irrelevant is that the shooter appeared on a TV ad for Blackrock.
Carter, I liked your mention of the "lamp posts" as something these warmongering and murderous bastards should fear. I've often "joked" that we have so many lamp posts going to waste all day. But, I don't know about the posts where you live, but mine would not hold (probably) even a single hanged man. Need to think of something else. And, btw, have you ever seen Da Vinci's sketches? Done after several days hanging there. Cheers.
The 60s had successful political assassinations orchestrated by cold-eyed Beltway dons.
We get an amateur rooftop sniper. Who misses.
What's that image on the back of his t-shirt, anyway?
Some gun club, I think.
As to the rest of it … first time as tragedy, second as farce…
A curious analogy: they’ve been careful to wage indirect war against Russia but avoid direct conflict. In the same way, they’ve tried to attack Trump through all means of treachery but not direct assassination. In the same way they don’t want Russia lobbing nukes into their major cities, they don’t want to push heritage Americans past a certain limit, because we will quickly reassert ourselves as the dominant power in this country if the mind control breaks.
Trump Is Being Cycled Into Office, and so shall the USSA Burn for its Jealous God.