I want to thank a reader for engaging sceptically and civilly with the conclusions I drew in my previous piece about the attempted Trump assassination. I’m responding with this piece because the reader has prompted me to articulate in more detail the uncertainties that are inherent in my conclusions. As I said in one of my comment responses: no-one, including me, should be fully on board with my arguments!
Once again, your analysis appears to me to be spot-on.
While much of Ritter's military analysis is second-to-none, much of his political analysis is second-to-many.
When it comes to Trump, both Ritter and the Duran gang are guilty of consuming hopium. Nothing wrong with hopium, but it is what it is. And while I hope that Scott, Alex and Alex are proven right, at this point it's pure wishful thinking.
A few more words about Trump. It's hard for me to see how anyone who appointed John Bolton and Mike Pompeo to high level positions, might be a threat of any kind to the MICIMATT complex. Only a fool would bet against the proposition that Trump will do what MIGA money tells him to do. I suspect that Thiel-gang and Adelson-widow money will be pulling a not-inconsiderable number of strings.
“I have not gone too deep into the rigged elections rabbit-hole but I think there’s an even chance that rigging happened.” — The evidence is overwhelming that the 2020 Presidential election was rigged. That is what you'd find if you went down that “rabbit-hole”. Nevermind the endless provable facts, videos and sworn-witness statements, statistics ALONE prove that the election was rigged, beyond a shadow of a doubt.
I agree that it is not so much Trump's being a threat to the system, as it is his unpredictability, that irks the money-power.
Quibble: “– pretty much what he has done all his life, which is a luxury one has if your father leaves you a few billion dollars to play around with.” — I believe “a few billion dollars” is a wild exaggeration. If this is indeed the case, I would change it to “considerable wealth”.
Worth repeating: “The System is programmed to grind saviours down and spit them out. On the other hand, you and millions like you, are the heroes you have been waiting for all your life.”
Hello Red Pill Poet! I'm thinking of doing a quickie for the US elections and wanted to reference rigging of 2020. Do you have any interesting links to stuff that I could use to back up an assertion that 2020 was rigged? I recall seeing a story about an Italian IT intelligence operator who spilt the beans about how he worked on nobbling the vote counting software. (He's probably died suddenly.) Wish I had saved it but didn't!
As ever, more insightful than can be found elsewhere. And a bit of hope thrown in for good measure ! But actually I think you are right with your key point that people need to get their heads out of the hoping-for-a-hero mentally... and act accordingly.
I suspect you've grabbed the real motivation: "to create maximum chaos that the deep state might seek to then harness for control objectives." Recognizing how far these people are willing to go to set the American people against each other is very scary...
Several things make me think the System is not treating Trump as one of its own: 1). The extensive Russiagate hoax, which they never abandoned. 2). Two impeachments. 3). Unending lawfare. 4) Feigning or really intending to kill him.
Thanks for putting out all this wisdom and clear thinking, especially about Zionism.
Some of those things certainly give the impression that he is not one of "them" but they also serve pretty well to sell the idea to the disgruntled masses, whether true or not.
To me, the evidence of his appointments of bankers and CIA people, to deduce who he works for/with, is more compelling. Also, to me at least, the fact that there are mainstream media who support him is also strong evidence that he is Uniparty.
Thanks for sharing how your thinking is evolving! It's very helpful for your audience--this audience member, in particular. Personally, I see the "attempted assassination" as a staged event designed to herd the electorate around the new favored presidential candidate. Ever since 2016 Trump was the disfavored, "outsider" candidate. The sort of boogeyman for Dems and independents: vote blue or the orange monster will come for you. But since they're no longer able to hide Biden's dementia, and Biden wouldn't go quietly, perhaps they made Trump an offer he couldn't refuse, brought him firmly into the fold, and made him their new favored candidate (perhaps after holding their noses).
The broader idea here, regardless of the exact details, is that the calculus around a Trump presidency otherwise shifted from net negative (not controllable enough) to net positive (just malleable enough) for some set of reasons.
This seems plausible to me given that there has been a perceptible shift in the tenor of Trump reporting since the assassination, at least in the immediate aftermath, and the whole "heroic bullet dodging" show basically instantly locked in his electoral win (Americans love a tough guy). Could it be that behind the scenes Trump became the Establishment's boy?
Yep. It's all very strange how things are suddenly falling into place for Trump since his 'heroic' dodging of the bullet. Charges are being dropped and all the big players are behind him. Even Zuckerberg who won't endorse a candidate has effectively endorsed him:
"While declining to endorse Trump, Zuckerberg told Bloomberg that “seeing Donald Trump get up after getting shot in the face and pump his fist in the air with the American flag is one of the most badass things I’ve ever seen in my life.”
He added: “On some level as an American, it’s like hard to not get kind of emotional about that spirit and that fight, and I think that that’s why a lot of people like the guy.”
Sorry this is a separate topic: So you know what’s happening with the real-left website? I have t been able to access it in weeks, I just see an error message. Has it been shadow banned?
I'm aware that there are problems with the Wordpress site. It's being worked on but hasn't been fixed yet. I have no idea what's causing the problem but have no reason to suspect foul play at this stage. I think we'll know more this coming week.
A pair of excellent, and very thought-provoking (as well as honest) articles, thanks.
I, too, was a bit bemused and disappointed by The Duran apparently jumping to conclusions so easily, and by Alexander Mercouris, in particular, being so strongly dismissive of the alternative scenarios. His frequent comparison of the 'Trump raised fist' moment to the true meaning of Greek 'heroism' struck me as OTT and naïve in the extreme.
But then I heard them in conversation with top 'freedom lawyer' Robert Barnes, and found his position (certainly with regard to the whole Thiel / Vance / Palantir connection rather more nuanced: https://www.youtube.com/live/Y8RmAY_Yzp4
The whole thing does look more and more dodgy to me, though, the more I think about it (and I’m trying not to think about it *too* much!). There certainly seems to be more than enough evidence out there already to discredit the ‘lone gunman’ / incompetent protection (mainstream) narrative, ie your scenario 3. But I’m still struggling to accept that it might *all* be complete theatre… not because they couldn’t do it (I know that they can – and they have done… many times!), but because accepting that possibility also means facing the possibility that the entire Trump-enabled narrative of the past eight years has been fake and mere ‘theatre’ as well…
You might well say “of course!” And Trump is an actor, after all. But the whole Trump Derangement Syndrome has been very real among Libtard Dems across the Western World (and quite delicious to watch!), and this has been fuelled by the endless Russiagate fiasco, the increasingly unhinged lawfare attacks, and hysterical media vilification of Trump across the entire Western world.
So although I can accept that he is partly a creation of the Deep State (in that his grotesqueness is a kind of symptom of the bloated excesses of the American Empire), and that in many ways he will provide continuity (Zionism, aggression vs China & Iran, highly dubious appointments), I still think / believe / fervently hope that in other ways he will continue to scare the shit out of some of the neocon / globalist factions of the Deep State – because he is committed to ending Project Ukraine and to disengaging from America’s useless European vassals, as well as pushing back on the immigration scam and generally doing things his way: ‘saying the quiet part out loud’, whether the US or Western political Establishment like it or not.
So while I certainly don’t support him (or see him as some kind of saviour like those Duran boys sadly seem to), I *do* want all the bastard Dems’ (who, like New Labour over here, have brought utter disgrace on the ‘left’) worst nightmares to come true. And I don’t like to think that the thing they have been fearing the most (that ‘Orange Man Bad’ and everything he represents to them) is just some kind of phantom… some complete fraud who never meant anything he said, and who is not even worth them getting so worried about.
So I suppose I’m still trying to keep an open mind about the two realistic possibilities at the moment: that of it being a ‘managed’ event made to look like incompetence, or it being pure theatre. And although there does seem to be increasing evidence pointing to the latter (and here your arguments are helping to persuade me), there's a part of me that's still hoping that’s not the case, because the implications are of a world that is even more fucked-up than I’ve been prepared to imagine.
Thanks Steve. I think I must concede that you have expressed my own doubts more eloquently than I have! As I stated in the second piece, I lean heavily towards Trump being an accidental president in 2016. If you start from that position, while also accepting that the deep state would not tolerate a loose cannon for an indefinite period of time, then you are into very complex and unknowable territory of guessing what has transpired between Trump and the deep state since then, and therefore guessing how much of what we are now seeing is orchestrated and how much is not.
Irrespective of that complexity, the deep state will always win its battles within the system because the system is bigger than any individual, especially an individual who is not Machiavellian enough to grapple with it. However, it is not inevitable that the deep state will win the war because the outcome of the war is determined by exigencies outside the system. So I think the world really is probably more fucked up than you are prepared to imagine right now, but that does not mean the war is lost.
Thanks, Rusere – I think that's very well expressed. And the distinction you draw between the 'battles' *within* the system, in which the Deep State is at a perhaps invincible advantage, and the 'war', that can still be won because its battlegrounds extend beyond the system itself, seems to me to be an important one. And, just as critically, it gives me hope! ;-)
Keep up the great work. I can't think of a single artilce of yours over the last 2-3 years (since I discovered your writing) that I haven't enjoyed reading, and that hasn't prompted me to think far more deeply about what has been discussed.
Once again, your analysis appears to me to be spot-on.
While much of Ritter's military analysis is second-to-none, much of his political analysis is second-to-many.
When it comes to Trump, both Ritter and the Duran gang are guilty of consuming hopium. Nothing wrong with hopium, but it is what it is. And while I hope that Scott, Alex and Alex are proven right, at this point it's pure wishful thinking.
A few more words about Trump. It's hard for me to see how anyone who appointed John Bolton and Mike Pompeo to high level positions, might be a threat of any kind to the MICIMATT complex. Only a fool would bet against the proposition that Trump will do what MIGA money tells him to do. I suspect that Thiel-gang and Adelson-widow money will be pulling a not-inconsiderable number of strings.
“I have not gone too deep into the rigged elections rabbit-hole but I think there’s an even chance that rigging happened.” — The evidence is overwhelming that the 2020 Presidential election was rigged. That is what you'd find if you went down that “rabbit-hole”. Nevermind the endless provable facts, videos and sworn-witness statements, statistics ALONE prove that the election was rigged, beyond a shadow of a doubt.
I agree that it is not so much Trump's being a threat to the system, as it is his unpredictability, that irks the money-power.
Quibble: “– pretty much what he has done all his life, which is a luxury one has if your father leaves you a few billion dollars to play around with.” — I believe “a few billion dollars” is a wild exaggeration. If this is indeed the case, I would change it to “considerable wealth”.
Worth repeating: “The System is programmed to grind saviours down and spit them out. On the other hand, you and millions like you, are the heroes you have been waiting for all your life.”
Hello Red Pill Poet! I'm thinking of doing a quickie for the US elections and wanted to reference rigging of 2020. Do you have any interesting links to stuff that I could use to back up an assertion that 2020 was rigged? I recall seeing a story about an Italian IT intelligence operator who spilt the beans about how he worked on nobbling the vote counting software. (He's probably died suddenly.) Wish I had saved it but didn't!
I'll have a look in my archives and get back to you at your POBH's proton account. Wiil that work?
Yes. I think there's a way to DM that way. I've used it once before.
As ever, more insightful than can be found elsewhere. And a bit of hope thrown in for good measure ! But actually I think you are right with your key point that people need to get their heads out of the hoping-for-a-hero mentally... and act accordingly.
I suspect you've grabbed the real motivation: "to create maximum chaos that the deep state might seek to then harness for control objectives." Recognizing how far these people are willing to go to set the American people against each other is very scary...
Several things make me think the System is not treating Trump as one of its own: 1). The extensive Russiagate hoax, which they never abandoned. 2). Two impeachments. 3). Unending lawfare. 4) Feigning or really intending to kill him.
Thanks for putting out all this wisdom and clear thinking, especially about Zionism.
Some of those things certainly give the impression that he is not one of "them" but they also serve pretty well to sell the idea to the disgruntled masses, whether true or not.
To me, the evidence of his appointments of bankers and CIA people, to deduce who he works for/with, is more compelling. Also, to me at least, the fact that there are mainstream media who support him is also strong evidence that he is Uniparty.
Thanks for sharing how your thinking is evolving! It's very helpful for your audience--this audience member, in particular. Personally, I see the "attempted assassination" as a staged event designed to herd the electorate around the new favored presidential candidate. Ever since 2016 Trump was the disfavored, "outsider" candidate. The sort of boogeyman for Dems and independents: vote blue or the orange monster will come for you. But since they're no longer able to hide Biden's dementia, and Biden wouldn't go quietly, perhaps they made Trump an offer he couldn't refuse, brought him firmly into the fold, and made him their new favored candidate (perhaps after holding their noses).
The broader idea here, regardless of the exact details, is that the calculus around a Trump presidency otherwise shifted from net negative (not controllable enough) to net positive (just malleable enough) for some set of reasons.
This seems plausible to me given that there has been a perceptible shift in the tenor of Trump reporting since the assassination, at least in the immediate aftermath, and the whole "heroic bullet dodging" show basically instantly locked in his electoral win (Americans love a tough guy). Could it be that behind the scenes Trump became the Establishment's boy?
Yep. It's all very strange how things are suddenly falling into place for Trump since his 'heroic' dodging of the bullet. Charges are being dropped and all the big players are behind him. Even Zuckerberg who won't endorse a candidate has effectively endorsed him:
From: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/mark-zuckerberg-donald-trump-kamala-harris-b2584866.html
"While declining to endorse Trump, Zuckerberg told Bloomberg that “seeing Donald Trump get up after getting shot in the face and pump his fist in the air with the American flag is one of the most badass things I’ve ever seen in my life.”
He added: “On some level as an American, it’s like hard to not get kind of emotional about that spirit and that fight, and I think that that’s why a lot of people like the guy.”
Sorry this is a separate topic: So you know what’s happening with the real-left website? I have t been able to access it in weeks, I just see an error message. Has it been shadow banned?
I'm aware that there are problems with the Wordpress site. It's being worked on but hasn't been fixed yet. I have no idea what's causing the problem but have no reason to suspect foul play at this stage. I think we'll know more this coming week.
Thank you very much for this reply! I appreciate you taking the time.
Thanks also for all of your research and writing. I’ve learned much from you, and had my worldview reshaped as a result
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A pair of excellent, and very thought-provoking (as well as honest) articles, thanks.
I, too, was a bit bemused and disappointed by The Duran apparently jumping to conclusions so easily, and by Alexander Mercouris, in particular, being so strongly dismissive of the alternative scenarios. His frequent comparison of the 'Trump raised fist' moment to the true meaning of Greek 'heroism' struck me as OTT and naïve in the extreme.
But then I heard them in conversation with top 'freedom lawyer' Robert Barnes, and found his position (certainly with regard to the whole Thiel / Vance / Palantir connection rather more nuanced: https://www.youtube.com/live/Y8RmAY_Yzp4
The whole thing does look more and more dodgy to me, though, the more I think about it (and I’m trying not to think about it *too* much!). There certainly seems to be more than enough evidence out there already to discredit the ‘lone gunman’ / incompetent protection (mainstream) narrative, ie your scenario 3. But I’m still struggling to accept that it might *all* be complete theatre… not because they couldn’t do it (I know that they can – and they have done… many times!), but because accepting that possibility also means facing the possibility that the entire Trump-enabled narrative of the past eight years has been fake and mere ‘theatre’ as well…
You might well say “of course!” And Trump is an actor, after all. But the whole Trump Derangement Syndrome has been very real among Libtard Dems across the Western World (and quite delicious to watch!), and this has been fuelled by the endless Russiagate fiasco, the increasingly unhinged lawfare attacks, and hysterical media vilification of Trump across the entire Western world.
So although I can accept that he is partly a creation of the Deep State (in that his grotesqueness is a kind of symptom of the bloated excesses of the American Empire), and that in many ways he will provide continuity (Zionism, aggression vs China & Iran, highly dubious appointments), I still think / believe / fervently hope that in other ways he will continue to scare the shit out of some of the neocon / globalist factions of the Deep State – because he is committed to ending Project Ukraine and to disengaging from America’s useless European vassals, as well as pushing back on the immigration scam and generally doing things his way: ‘saying the quiet part out loud’, whether the US or Western political Establishment like it or not.
So while I certainly don’t support him (or see him as some kind of saviour like those Duran boys sadly seem to), I *do* want all the bastard Dems’ (who, like New Labour over here, have brought utter disgrace on the ‘left’) worst nightmares to come true. And I don’t like to think that the thing they have been fearing the most (that ‘Orange Man Bad’ and everything he represents to them) is just some kind of phantom… some complete fraud who never meant anything he said, and who is not even worth them getting so worried about.
So I suppose I’m still trying to keep an open mind about the two realistic possibilities at the moment: that of it being a ‘managed’ event made to look like incompetence, or it being pure theatre. And although there does seem to be increasing evidence pointing to the latter (and here your arguments are helping to persuade me), there's a part of me that's still hoping that’s not the case, because the implications are of a world that is even more fucked-up than I’ve been prepared to imagine.
Thanks Steve. I think I must concede that you have expressed my own doubts more eloquently than I have! As I stated in the second piece, I lean heavily towards Trump being an accidental president in 2016. If you start from that position, while also accepting that the deep state would not tolerate a loose cannon for an indefinite period of time, then you are into very complex and unknowable territory of guessing what has transpired between Trump and the deep state since then, and therefore guessing how much of what we are now seeing is orchestrated and how much is not.
Irrespective of that complexity, the deep state will always win its battles within the system because the system is bigger than any individual, especially an individual who is not Machiavellian enough to grapple with it. However, it is not inevitable that the deep state will win the war because the outcome of the war is determined by exigencies outside the system. So I think the world really is probably more fucked up than you are prepared to imagine right now, but that does not mean the war is lost.
Thanks, Rusere – I think that's very well expressed. And the distinction you draw between the 'battles' *within* the system, in which the Deep State is at a perhaps invincible advantage, and the 'war', that can still be won because its battlegrounds extend beyond the system itself, seems to me to be an important one. And, just as critically, it gives me hope! ;-)
Keep up the great work. I can't think of a single artilce of yours over the last 2-3 years (since I discovered your writing) that I haven't enjoyed reading, and that hasn't prompted me to think far more deeply about what has been discussed.
Huge thanks Steve.