I was practicing guitar when my Dad shouted at me to get my attention. “Trump just got shot,” he said. It felt a little like a gut punch, hearing that, not knowing if Trump was dead or alive, all at once the implications settling in my core like a heavy weight. My dad had seen the shooting live; they took so long to get Trump off the ground my dad said, he started to fear the worst. When I saw a replay of the event though, Trump looking uncharacteristically disheveled, bleeding, raising his fist in defiance, the fight on his face, the hairs on my neck stood to attention and I thought, he just won his reelection in an epic landslide.
Ever since I have been simmering, my general feeling of fury and rage at a regime that has come to see me and my kind as the “greatest threat to democracy”, turning to ice in my veins.
I’ve been quite active on notes about it.
The hot takes have been all over the map, ascribing all kinds of plots, from Trump staging this himself, to the Secret Service ordered to stand down, to it didn’t really happen. Occam’s Razor, or the popularized “the most simple explanation is the most likely explanation,” call someone Hitler enough and people will start to believe it, come to think it is a moral duty to kill him, as likely for those in the Deep State as any prospective lone gunman, anyone suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome. In that sense it is both a lone gunman and a semi-conscious regime plot to incite just such a lone gunman.
This article, I argued back then, was a not so transparent attempt to convince elite that Trump is a Caesarian figure, that the Caesarian treatment should be on the table. Never mind, killing Caesar did not work out well for his enemies, it did not save “democracy” but had the opposite effect.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/11/30/trump-dictator-2024-election-robert-kagan/
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One is given to wonder what would have happened, had they tried and failed to kill Caesar? What wrath would Caesar have unleashed?
After the fake, FBI set-up plot to ”kidnap” Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, the fake, FBI set-up Jan 06 “Insurrection”, after raiding Mar-a-lago, Trump’s residence, under false pretenses - the FBI investigating the failure that was the Secret Service unawares that this guy was climbing a building and setting up to shoot, with a clear line of sight from 150 yards away, when apparently regular people saw him doing it and were screaming about it, is not to be believed. I heard a DHS official say it would take weeks and months, to see if there were any failures. To see if there were any failures? That DHS-man was not asked to resign on the spot says a lot about how they think they are going to memory hole this, nothing to see here people, or try to gaslight us like this is Trump’s fault. In a sane world the heads of the Secret Service, DHS and FBI would have to resign in shame, never to hold public office again. But this is shameless clown world, this deep state regime, thinking itself inevitable, all-powerful and beyond any accountability.
They can’t memory hole this. The pictures of Trump will come to define the age, the one that is now becoming in earnest.
Woe be to Biden. I said recently, about Dem options:
It seems to me they have four options with Biden, they can hope for the best and stay with him as their nominee, they can use digital software and corrupt party officials to outright steal the election, they can remove him legitimately with the 25th Amendment, or they can put Biden down peacefully in his sleep and aim for the sympathy vote, lionize him in memoriam like he was America’s Greatest President. His Admin is cynical enough to put him down like an old dog, but the second option, outright theft, is absolutely worst for this country, if most of the world thinks it was rigged. The least worst option for the country is let him lose, re-focus on destroying Trump, rebuild for 2028, but such is their fear that they might have to answer for their treasonous crimes, they might not be capable of the long game, it seems all or nothing about everything with these people.
I am going to amend that now to, Biden has a 25% chance of surviving to the Dem Party Convention. Maybe 10%.
So as not to dwell on it too much I went to two local street dances Saturday night. Watching so many young people doing that dance young people do, it lifted my spirit. Mine are not a people bowed. I stopped in one of the local bars for a drink and took this picture.
The regime/deep state might want to take a step back. I think you are lucky you did not kill him, he is not Caesar, his wrath will be as NOTHING, as AMERICA’s would have been had you killed him.
But of course too, that is what the enemies of America, foreign and domestic want, for us to tear each other and the nation apart.
For now, my stone-cold fury is turning into something more like calm, curious as I am to see what storm comes next. Something deeply fundamental has changed, though the contours of it will only gradually take shape.
Be strong, keep your eyes, ears and mind open.
My heart breaks to see what has/is happening to the western world. Like many I am working hard to channel my fury productively and remind myself there are way more of us normies then those psycho maniacs. Problem is they are in charge, that has got to change, how, I do not know. Great article by the way! Keep on keeping on🙃
Physical security is no place for a 5 foot tall woman. In the video I watched, a short woman in a charcoal suit found her way to the "stage" and tried to join the (3?) men who had already flanked Trump, she bent down so her face may have been in the men's genital area, extended her arms, and . . . what?, tried to fill some gap? It made no sense to me.