The Trump Shooting
Regarding the attempt on Donald Trump’s life, let us whittle down some scenarios…
It was a fake bullet and Trump had a squib
The whole thing was staged and Trump was “in on it”, faking the blood with a judiciously-squeezed squib. However, in this case, how did bystanders get injured and killed? (Or didn’t they?) Obviously, this is the stupidest and least plausible scenario.
It was a real bullet but staged and intended to fail
This would require the powerful being sure that they could stage this without killing Trump. Presumably he himself wasn’t in on it, since he surely wouldn’t agree to be shot, especially so close to his head.
Any scenario in which the powerful staged it but intended it to fail (eg. either of the scenarios above) requires confidence that they could pull it off, and also motivation. What would the motivation be? To boost Trump in the November election? But he was certain to win that anyway, so this “stunt” was entirely unnecessary, as well as being perhaps the most risky method you could possibly choose to boost a candidate.
The shooter was acting alone and intended to kill Trump
Everything was real, the shooter was a lone wolf and the security force were taken by surprise. Thankfully they (though not brilliant) did manage to get things under control in time to save Trump’s life. So it was just some lone nutcase and there was no conspiracy at all! This would be the “competence crisis” explanation - everything is normal, there’s just a diminished ability to do things (eg. personal security) that we used to be good at; nothing to see here except dysgenics. This hinges on whether you can believe that a security force, operating at this level, could be this incompetent. I personally find that implausible. This leaves us with only one scenario…
It was staged by powerful forces who wished Trump dead
The shooter was part of an orchestrated high-level effort to kill Trump. (Plenty of means, plenty of motivation.) However, given that the plan meant the shooter’s own certain death, is it likely that he colluded in this way with powerful forces? More plausible is that he acted independently, believing he was defying power (which would take him out in a blaze of glory), and meantime, they made sure to keep security lax so that a shooter would have opportunity.
All the better if they can somehow encourage people to become that shooter. Their owned establishment media could frequently put out messages that Trump is a threat to democracy, a threat to decency, a threat to America, a threat to civilisation, and that the mentality “by any means necessary” is becoming not just understandable, but wise. With enough of this vague but persistent messaging, you just need to have lax security at a few events and, sooner or later, some angsty rube will take his chance (one of the many that you’re providing).
Conclusion:
The shooting was real. Trump wasn’t in on it. The shooter was a lone wolf allowed by certain powers to have a shot at killing him. Those powers may or may not have known in advance about Thomas Matthew Crooks specifically, but that isn’t required. What is required is either incompetence or malice. I believe there isn’t enough incompetence, but more than enough malice.
Summary:
At least one powerful faction want Trump dead and they sabotaged security in an attempt to get him killed, and indirectly (and possibly directly) goaded an incel dork nerd into doing the deed.
While it is important to bear in mind wider contexts, it is also important to take something at face value and see where the evidence leads. The alternative is to be guided by pre-determined conclusions, which themselves may be guided by anything, including how you want to see yourself or how you want others to see you.
For example, there is the person who is determined to be more awake to deception than anyone else - more savvy than thou, there’s no fooling him, etc. As I wrote to a friend, regarding a mutual acquaintance who believed that the “assassination” was entirely fake, a psy-op to trick everyone:
I think he has fallen into the trap of thinking that everything is more complicated and more of a deception than it appears. I disagree. I think some things are exactly what they look like.
I believe you couldn’t possibly fake what happened at that Trump rally. I believe he was supposed to get killed. I believe the secret service either let it happen or made it happen, but Trump moved his head and the shooter wasn’t experienced/competent enough to factor that in, so the plan failed.
[Our mutual acquaintance] exhibits a mentality quite common among people who get “red-pilled” after the age of 30. They think that, because they were tricked about one thing, EVERY SINGLE THING is a trick. It’s a form of over-dosing. The person becomes obsessed with never getting tricked again, which means being more savvy than other people who consider themselves savvy. It becomes a sort of competition to believe less and less of the obvious or authorised, and more and more of the obscure or esoteric.
Then there is the type who has a certain worldview that he wants to defend. An event happens. This person requires that Event E be explained by belief B so that worldview W is not threatened. E, regardless of actualities, becomes fodder for B in order to reinforce W. This probably applies to 95% of the human species: interpreting things such as to reinforce their present worldview.
A similar type is the one who has a certain creed he is selling to others. It’s not so much his worldview at stake but his creed, the product that he wants other people to continue buying. That creed could be a religion or an ideology, or a personality cult based around him - the rabbi who leads the circle, the guru who can’t be wrong, the e-celeb who pwns every rival, etc.
There are three different things:
the event
your interpretation of the event
what you say about the event to other people
The relationships between these three things are rarely straightforward. All sorts of factors can pollute and distort. It requires humility, maturity and real diligence to expunge interfering factors from one’s mental and social processes.
The most common interference is like this:
My pronouncements about N will have consequences. Therefore, regardless of my interpretations of N, my pronouncements should be guided by the consequences I want to effect.
In other words:
I will say this, not because I think it’s true, but rather to make a certain impression and/or to get a certain reaction.
Of course none of us are immune to this. I too struggle to be objective. However, when an event happens and people immediately use it to reinforce exactly the things you would expect them to want to reinforce… well, it’s all just a bit tiresome.
In the meantime, the God-Emperor lives on, and old memes check out:
Excellent article. I think there might be one other possibility though, but it is a bit more conspiratorial than your conclusion, so I figured I'd just throw it out there for posterity.
The is also the idea that the shooter himself was outright groomed or contacted by someone from the "deep state," likely some FBI operative, and given the money and further motive to do the shooting. From everything I've found about the shooter, he doesn't exactly seem like the sharpest tool in the shed, and while the security was purposefully lax, I think someone would have had to tell him where to go and help him plan it, otherwise he likely would have been caught. He was seen before the shooting in the area with a view finder, something that snipers use to help determine the distance of their shots. Even though I know a fair bit about guns despite not sadly owning any, I didn't even know those were a thing, so I find it unlikely that some bluepilled moron would have the presence of mind to bring one along, let alone know about it.
I think this incident is akin to the Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping case, if you've heard of it, where several FBI agents managed to convince a couple unstable people who happened to have right-of-center politics to kidnap the governor of Michigan. By themselves, the culprits had no thoughts to kidnap her, but after enough convincing and given material support by the feds, they tried and were immediately arrested, allowing the government and media to smear the right yet again with a crime the government itself instigated. Someone influenced this guy, someone was whispering in his ear, and should Trump be re-elected, I think we may just find out some fed just "happened to have met" the shooter months prior to the infamous day.
We definitely lived through a moment where history stood on the edge of a knife. What I find most interesting about this whole mess is that, beat-for-beat, the United States republic has very much resembled the Roman republic. Similar problems at similar times. If you trace Roman history, Trump is a figure that very much resembles the Gracchi brothers:
-A surplus of [slave] labor drove down Roman incomes and damaged the middle class
-The poor were forced to sell their land to wealthy land-owners
-Cities became havens for a new renter class
-Gracchi brothers elected Tribunes of the plebs on the promise of land [economic] reform
-The attempts by the Gracchi brothers to force through reforms resulted in the ruling elite first framing them as dictators, then attacking them through the legal system, then when that didn't work, simply arranging an assassination.
The interesting part of all this, is that Donald Trump lived... by what can only be called divine intervention, he survived the assassination attempt. This will mean, for the first time in modern history, we're off-script. A massive global Republic that's going through the same stages as we've seen before in history, but this time the reformist faction survives. If Trump lives long enough to take office again, we're going to be in completely uncharted territory from a historical perspective. I'm very excited to see it and really hope that they don't succeed in a future assassination attempt some time between now and next January. We're living through incredible times. I need to write an article on the beat-for-beat reenactment of the Roman Republic -> Roman Empire that we're going through in the US... along with the fact that we are now, some how by the grace of god, spectacularly off-script.