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It’s probably not a good idea to start two articles in a row with the phrase: “I wasn’t going to write about [insert issue] but…”. All I can promise is that I’ll try not to make a hattrick of it. I really wasn’t going to write about the meaning of Trump’s ear getting nicked by an incompetent sniper, or possibly getting smeared with ketchup, depending on which side of the narrative you’re on. You see, the most surprising thing for me about the whole event was how little I cared.

So much so that, for a very brief spell, I was concerned about how little I cared. What did my apathetic reaction to such a significant political event say about my mental state? What was wrong with me? After a brief rootle around in my seemingly shallow conscience, I found the answer to why I cared so little – the whole thing didn’t matter in the big scheme of things. I had done an intuitive (and therefore instantaneous) probability assessment of its meaning in my head, conditioned by my jaundiced view of the world, and concluded that it just did not matter. So, I convinced myself it was perfectly legitimate not to care.

Nevertheless, after less than a day of carefree indifference, I was shaken out of my slumber by a strange reaction to the event from a spiritual authority. I still don’t care much about the event itself, but now I’m compelled to explain why it doesn’t matter whether or not Trump’s seemingly incompetent assassin made a pig’s ear of it. In other words, I’ve been forced to care about why I don’t care! And who can I blame for this hall of mirrors that I’m trapped in? A ‘holy’ man by the name of Archbishop Vigano.

Archbishop Vigano has been relentlessly excoriating his Vatican bosses, calling them out for the unabashed Satanists that they are. He has used his pulpit to preach against the evil forces behind the covid build-back-better scam and the Ukraine war, to name just a few of the schemes that have beset humanity in the last four years. He has, in short, been a thorn in the side of one of Satan’s numerous official representatives on Earth, the Catholic Pope, and has consequently been excommunicated for “associat[ing] with US conspiracy theorists”, although the technical churchy term for his spiritual transgression is “guilty of schism”.

So imagine my surprise when a certain Telegram Channel that I dip into every now and again for light sustenance endorsed the following message from His Eminence, the right-on, holy man Vigano:

"We are deeply grateful to Our Lord who saved this brave warrior, who did not lack the strength to stand up and invite his supporters to fight… I urge all Catholics, American patriots and people of good will to pray Our Lord [sic] in this time of great threat looming over the world. I express to President Trump and his family my spiritual closeness, assuring them of my prayers."

Loose use of the pronoun ‘we’, I thought, but then Catholic archbishops, even when excommunicated, are perhaps entitled to invoke the royal ‘we’. I’m not sure what the rules are about that. In any event, I can pinpoint with a high degree of precision the moment at which I recovered my capacity for caring. It was the moment I realised I had been hoodwinked into subscribing to a MAGA channel that endorsed Trump as a ‘brave warrior’. My personal phone was being used as a conduit for Trumpian propaganda! How had I let things slip? Would I have to conduct an enquiry to learn lessons?

A man purportedly steeped in the teachings of Christ had cast a supposedly compassionate eye over an event in which an innocent bystander had just taken a bullet intended for a billionaire grifter and Zionist cult member. In 2016, combining worshipping mammon skills with his showbiz repertoire, Trump unexpectedly landed the role of the presidency of the US-NATO empire, where he went on to help the transnational deep-state lock down the entire global population and inject billions with a toxic substance.

After some consideration, our ‘holy’ man concluded that it was right and proper to direct his prayers to the billionaire system stooge who, well-versed in the art of seizing photo opportunities, had the megalomaniacal and somewhat implausible presence of mind to defiantly punch the air seconds after the bullets had flown past his ear, assisted by his security entourage who also implausibly assisted him in seizing the photo-op moment, seemingly oblivious to the risk that more shots could have been fired while exiting the stage. I could have said “fleeing to safety” instead of “exiting the stage”, but theatre language seems more apposite.    

Suffice to say that the holy man’s compassion appears to me to be misdirected. Let’s put to one side the not-so-holy lens through which he viewed this event, and turn to the question that consumed a lot of mental and emotional energy in the immediate aftermath of the shooting.       

Was this a staged event?

There are three possible scenarios to explain what took place. The first is a genuine failed attempt by the deep state to remove a stone from its shoe. The second is a staged deep state spectacle of a botched assassination attempt for political capital designed either to benefit Trump, or to deliberately condition us to accept that nothing is real – that nothing you see can be trusted. The third is that some Trump-hating schmuck decided it would be far more preferable to go down in a hail of bullets than see Trump reprise his role as head of the US-NATO empire.

As an interesting aside, which scenario you lean most towards is probably a reasonable indicator of your emotional and political position (they’re much the same thing). Scenario one is dominated by MAGA cap wearers and conservatives in the My Freedom movement. Scenario two is for the Believe Nothing cynic. The third camp is heavily populated by Biden and Starmer voters – normies. Irrespective of which camp has probability on their side, I am positing that the positions might serve as a rough-and-ready proxy for world view.

To explore which scenario is the most likely, you could complete the minimum number of hours of immersion in video footage required to become one of the 3 billion experts in the forensic examination of the Trump assassination attempt. There are lots of red arrows indicating the line of sight from the sniper to Trump and from the secret service snipers to the sniper. Pictures of the three roofs, one of which was used by the shooter, that the secret service snipers had a clear view of but which seemed better policed by concerned members of the public than by the police. There’s Trump clutching at his ear immediately after it was shot, but apparently avoiding getting any blood on his hand. Then there’s the mystery woman who has the air of someone attending her 78^th Trump rally, exuding baffling ennui while filming on her phone, as unfazed by gunfire as a fish is by water. It’s all very interesting and a lot of it informative.

Some of the ‘analysis’ subverts the gravity of the situation with an unintentional comedic recognition of how ridiculously unbelievable the whole event was. Try keeping a straight face while watching this video representation dramatically claiming to show how Trump dodged the bullet just seconds before the shot. To be sure, there’s much wrong with it but perhaps the most problematic issue is the superimposition of a fictional red sniper’s cross-hairs over Trump’s head purporting to show his head moving into, then out of the centre of the crosshairs in a split second. That account on the platform formerly known as Twitter claims to offer “Unfiltered Unbiased Verified 24x7 Breaking News” and has 1.5m followers. Let that sink in.

I’m going to offer a quick-and-dirty probability assessment of each scenario, using a high level motive, means and opportunity assessment of each scenario. And since The System is the prime suspect in the first two scenarios and has more means and opportunity than you can shake a stick at, the first question we should ask is: does Trump pose a threat to The System? That speaks to motive.

Trump’s record on the issues that could bring him into conflict with The System demonstrates that he is as much of a threat to it as RFK Jnr is to a world-class opera singer. He, like his new-found pal RFK Jnr, has sworn the obligatory oath of allegiance to Israel. He followed the script of the Pandemic Play written by New World Order Productions Inc. and Whitney Webb calls him Papi Warp Speed – a moniker I fully endorse. It appears that Trump has now teamed up with his fellow Zionist pal, Booby Kennedy (another moniker that I fully endorse from Dr Shiva) to rebrand himself as a vaccine sceptic.

Why hasn’t Trump lost any of his support base despite being at odds with them on the biggest earthquake to hit the American economy and civil liberties in a century? Because no-one else has demonstrated the ability to replace him as an effective lightning rod for white working class rage directed at the liberal professional managerial class. And so he gets a free pass on all of the covid tyranny that he endorsed. The white working class has chosen a pro-system billionaire who hasn’t worked a day in his life, to lead the charge in the American class war. Well may you scratch your head in confusion and disbelief.

Trump might have been a threat to The System in 2016 when he accidentally won the presidency, but by March 2020 he’d learnt his lines. The System didn’t need to get rid of him last weekend and, funnily enough, it didn’t. I won’t pretend to be an expert on high-profile assassinations by the US deep state, but history tells us they’ve got pretty darn good at it. It’s the last resort after all else has failed, so there’s got to be a great deal of attention paid to execution of the plan. Yes, a botched hit-job is not an impossibility, but if the best the CIA could do was to muster up a 20-year old kid with a shaky trigger finger, then we should take heart – The System might just be on its last legs.

A hot war with Russia or Iran to serve as a staging post for the next phase of the New World Order seems to be an urgent imperative for the global criminal syndicate. Much is being made of Trump’s meetings with factions in the EU, led by the Hungarian president Victor Orban, who don’t want war with Russia. But Trump is irrelevant to the process. His election campaign funding has already bought his policy agenda and his cabinet. If you want to believe that a US presidential candidate can change anything, the moment at which hope meets reality is when the candidate starts announcing their team. Trump has chosen as his running mate JD Vance, an Ohio senator and protégé of Peter Thiel, Silicon Valley billionaire and co-founder of US defence contractor Palantir. Whitney Webb describes Palantir as “the engine on which the surveillance state runs”.

Vance is in Thiel’s pocket, and Thiel was reckoned by Newsweek to be one of the two most influential figures at Bilderberg. Thiel funded Trump’s campaign in 2016 and influenced Trump administration appointments then. He’s influencing them again now. Since 2022, one of Thiel’s focus areas has been to support Trump-aligned candidates. Thiel and Silicon Valley don’t just have ties to the deep state. They are deep state. Compare Whitney Webb’s cold, data-filled analysis of the Trump-Thiel-Vance triangle to the wishful thinking of Reclaim The Net, an activist site dedicated to protecting individual liberty online. Pro-freedom conservatives have decided that they need a hero and they’ve vested their hopes in the Trump-Vance ticket.

A surprising number of freedom advocates refuse to let these unpleasant facts get in the way of their belief that Trump, ably assisted by Vance – a venture capitalist sucking at the teat of a Silicon Valley deep state, adrenochrome injecting billionaire – is going to stick it to The Man. Seemingly blind to the reality that The System is bigger than any Trumped-up saviour, they can’t see that a star rises in The System because that star is The System. It is axiomatic that anyone going inside The System to purportedly fight it will either be turned or spat out if they’re not for turning. A clear signal that a ‘saviour’ has been turned comes with the swearing of the oath of allegiance to Israel. Zionism is the most ridiculous and debased ideology on offer today, so if you’ve hitched your wagon to a ‘freedom fighter’ who, by some unfortunate twist of fate,  just also happens to be banging the drums for the apartheid and genocide cult, you really ought to stop and do a double take. Because fighting for freedom and supporting genocide and apartheid are entirely compatible values, right?

RFK Jnr was a saviour in the making, right up until the moment he threw Roger Waters under the bus. In truth, he’d already shown his true colours long before the pseudo pandemic when he demanded jail time for ‘climate deniers’. That’s right. Booby Kennedy believed in free speech for he but not for thee. He later tried to defend that indefensible position by comparing ‘climate denial’ to criminal negligence or fraud, arguing that if perpetuating ‘climate denial’ caused similar harms to society as the tobacco industry, then jail time was in order. That argument is of course the alibi that all tyrants have relied on – arrogating to themselves the power to determine what ideas fall inside or outside the public good and then punishing the dissenters. Needless to say, ‘climate denial’ is as idiotic a thought-terminating cliché as ‘conspiracy theorist’. Let’s be clear: despite his legal sophistry, RFK Jnr was effectively advocating for the arrest of Nobel Physics laureate Dr John Clauser and numerous other scientists who argue in good faith that climate alarmism is a crock.   

I’ve digressed with the Kennedy-bashing but the point is an important one – there will be no saviours with huge egos pontificating from a podium. And in fact the tragic irony is that the real political heroes die pretty quickly once they threaten The System in any effective way. Trump is a long way off approximating anything like real heroism. It’s relatively easy to kill one man or woman who acts as a lightning rod for the voice and hopes of millions. There is a well-oiled machine dedicated to it and Colonel Fletcher Prouty, an insider, has written about it. It’s much harder to kill millions, dare I say billions, who quietly disobey The System’s psychopathic commands so, if you’re looking for a hero, the best place to start is the mirror: ask yourself how you can be a System refusenik.

All the evidence I can see points to Trump being a deep state asset, not a liability, and if you’re a MAGA cap wearer, you probably want to think about changing the first ‘A’ in MAGA to an ‘I’ [i]. If Trump isn’t a threat to The System, that reduces the relative probability of scenario one – there’s no deep state imperative to remove him. Scenario one seems to me to be very short on motive. The odds of scenario three are also pretty slim – an amateur 20-year-old kid strolling up onto a roof in clear view of the secret service snipers and being given free rein to take a shot, with members of the public pointing him out to the police? While scenario three has plenty going for it in terms of motive, it’s too low on means and opportunity. To be sold on means and opportunity for scenario three, you have to suspend reality and enter into the security services incompetence theory. There were just three barn roofs that needed access restriction or minimal surveillance and, just like 9/11, there was a failure of imagination.

The elimination process leaves scenario two as the frontrunner on the balance of probability – a staged deep state spectacle of a botched assassination attempt for political capital designed to benefit Trump. It doesn’t have to be true, but it’s the best theory available.

Assassination and The System

If we want to take an optimistic view, there is only one thing bigger and more powerful than The System – humanity on the rare occasions it unites against it.  That’s why the reaction to the Trump event is more important than the event itself – it tells us whether humanity is collectively growing up. If Trump had been killed, it might have proved two things – that he was a threat to The System and that it could spit him out to neutralise the threat. But that doesn’t mean The System automatically wins. Humanity can snatch victory from the jaws of defeat if it uses that moment to unite against The System.

On a less positive note, however, history has shown that humanity has been incapable of uniting when The System neutralises its threats. JFK, MLK, RFK and Malcolm X got spat out in a single decade 60 years ago. A few truth-tellers pointed us to the true meaning of those assassinations and yet humanity buried its head in the sand and kept voting, kept buying, kept baying for wars of terror, kept hoping for Change, kept two metres away from their fellow human beings, kept wearing their masks, kept taking their jabs.

But don’t despair just yet. We’re in the middle of an awakening, and it’s important to remember that it’s our collective reaction to the curious incident of the shooter in plain sight, more than the event itself, that counts. Colonel Fletcher Prouty, a seasoned insider who wrote The Secret Team, explained The System in 1989:

“The book I wrote, called The Secret Team, is autobiographical. It explains my nine years work in the Pentagon in this kind of business. Actually I had been in intelligence type work long before I came to the Pentagon … All this period, beginning way back in the ‘40s, it was clear that even though I was working close to men like Winston Churchill…you would see that they would be carrying out some kind of instruction. I’ve worked in a room… with Allan Dulles, with John Foster Dulles right there, and listened to the two of them talking about how we’re going to do this or how we’re going to do that. And then I’ve seen John Foster Dulles pick up the telephone and call somebody overseas. And you’d realise they’re taking input, taking instructions. They’re not the top men. There is a high cabal – the words that Churchill used – that runs things. Now, we’ll never describe those people. They’re greatest strength is their anonymity and they know that…So the closer you get to this type of operation, and the more years you spend in this kind of operation, you recognise that there is a secret team that even governmental structures do not encompass. It’s a very powerful large organisation. The people at the top are faceless. We will never know them. And I don’t put people like Ronald Reagan or Winston Churchill or Franklin Roosevelt at the top. There are people above them.” [emphasis added]

Biden, Starmer, Trudeau, Macron, Von Der Leyen are definitely all taking instructions. I’m pretty sure Trump is too. The faceless invisible Man is like society’s dark subconscious. Until we collectively acknowledge his existence, he’s just going to keep running the show. His continued survival depends on our denial. And just as there are three scenarios for the curious incident of the sniper in clear view, humanity is also divided into three camps. There’s a camp that wants a hero to save us from The Man and thinks that The Man tried, but failed, to kill the hero. Then there’s a camp who knows there are no heroes and that the only way to disempower The Man is to acknowledge his existence and then walk away from him. And then there are those who steadfastly refuse to see The Man’s strings tugging away at his puppets on the stage.

I am taking heart from people’s reaction to this event because, although huge swathes of the My Freedom movement are aghast at Trump’s supposed near miss, enough people can see that this was another glitch in the matrix. Even more people outside the West are bemused. School children in Africa posted video send-ups of the attempted Trump assassination, not out of callousness but because even children can see how ridiculous America and the entire West has become.

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[i] The ‘I’ is for Israel