Friday 13th of December 2024

tens of millions of people want him out and tens of millions of people want him as next president....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l97750ijaeE

Larry C. Johnson Updating his Analysis on How Trump SURVIVES ASSASSINATION

 

MEANWHILE:

BY Chris Hedges

 

The assassination of Trump would not remove the yearning of tens of millions of people, many conditioned by the Christian right, for a cult leader. Most of the leaders of the Christian right have built cult followings of their own. These Christian fascists embraced magical thinking, attacked their enemies as agents of Satan and denounced reality-based science and journalism long before Trump did. Cults are a product of social decay and despair, and our decay and despair are expanding, soon to explode in another financial crisis.

The efforts by the Democratic Party and much of the press, including CNN and The New York Times, to discredit Trump, as if our problems are embodied in him, are futile. The smug, self-righteousness of this crusade against Trump only contributes to the national reality television show that has replaced journalism and politics. This crusade attempts to reduce a social, economic and political crisis to the personality of Trump. It is accompanied by a refusal to confront and name the corporate forces responsible for our failed democracy. This collusion with the forces of corporate oppression, which have impoverished the working class, fostered endless war, militarized our police, created the largest prison system in the world, licensed corporations to exploit the most vulnerable and transferred wealth upwards into the hands of a billionaire class, neuters the press, Trump’s critics and the Democratic Party.

Our only hope is to organize the overthrow of the corporate state that vomited up Trump. Our democratic institutions, including the legislative bodies, the courts and the media, are hostage to corporate power. They are no longer democratic. We must, like resistance movements of the past, engage in acts of sustained mass civil disobedience, especially strikes, and non-cooperation. By turning our ire on the corporate state, rather than Trump, we name the true sources of power and abuse. We expose the absurdity of blaming our demise on demonized groups such as undocumented workers, Muslims, African-Americans, Latinos, liberals, feminists, gays and others. We give people an alternative to a bankrupt Democratic Party — whose presidential candidate is in clear cognitive decline — that is a full partner in corporate oppression and cannot be rehabilitated. We make possible the restoration of an open society. If we fail to embrace this militancy, which alone has the ability to destroy cult leaders, we will continue the march toward tyranny.

https://scheerpost.com/2024/07/14/statement-from-chris-hedges-on-attempted-trump-assassination/

 

WE WOULD SUGGEST THAT THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX (MIC — THE DEEP STATE CRONIES) WOULD BE UPSET BY TRUMP INDICATING HE WANTS TO SHUT DOWN THE UKRAINIAN CONFLICT AND MAKE A DEAL WITH RUSSIA.... HENCE THE MIC TRYING TO GET RID OF TRUMP BY WHATEVER MEANS... INCLUDING BOGUS COURT CASES.... TRUMP IS FAR LESS "TYRANNICAL" THAN JOE BIDEN...

 

MEANWHILE:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeYJnrFNIis

Trump didn’t drain the swamp, he appointed the worst reptiles

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYGZe0yrnNQ

Trump’s Assassination Attempt: What Does Zelenskyy Have To Do With It & Why!?

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0D4sQOedjfo

Waltz: Secret Service agents had a ‘headquarters’ and ‘resource’ issue

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pD1HjoPmIc

Trump's wife writes letter to America [TRUMP SHOOTING UPDATE]

conspiracy?....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cA3ueMsAcTM&t=776sLarry C. Johnson & former FBI HRT Sniper Chris Whitcomb on the Failed Assassination of Donald Trump

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JbBtoujjQY

Fury unleashed on secret service after ‘catastrophic failure’ to protect Donald Trump

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYs0YkXuH1o

Security expert, former presidential advance team member: 'Shock that it actually happened'

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiI7uIxAlOI

'NOT ACCEPTABLE': Retired SWAT snipers on what went wrong at Trump rally

 

 

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VERY narrow escape....

 

BY Tarik Cyril Amar

 

The attempt on Trump’s life saw not one but two narrow escapes

Imagine if the would-be murderer succeeded in taking out the Republican candidate. What sort of chaos would that have triggered?

 

If you say “Fort Sumter,” most Americans would recognize the place where their Civil War began in 1861. When that war was over four years later, between 752,000 and 851,000 soldiers were dead (not counting civilians), the equivalent of 2% of the US population on the eve of the war. If not for the Civil War and its role in it, Fort Sumter would be one quaint historical monument among many others, but it would hardly have the name recognition it now has.

The small town of Butler, a rural county seat in the state of Pennsylvania with less than 14,000 inhabitants, may just have missed its chance to acquire a similar dark fame. Because it was during a campaign rally on the grounds of the Butler Farm Show – basically, an agriculture-themed amusement park – that former and most likely future American president Donald Trump escaped death by, quite literally, a hair’s breadth: One of several bullets fired by would-be presidential assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks tore through Trump’s right ear. Others, tragically, severely injured and, in one case, killed members of the audience.

Crooks, who was killed by security forces, used an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle, a powerful and, in the US, easily available weapon that in more reasonably administered countries would be off-limits to private individuals. He also got astonishingly close, shooting from the roof of a building a mere 120 to 150 meters away from where Trump was speaking on a raised stage

A member of the audience has claimed that, minutes before the shooting, he alerted police about a man climbing on a roof with a rifle and that, nonetheless, they failed to take action quickly enough. Such statements, especially if they turn out to be true (there seems no reason to doubt them), will fuel so-called “conspiracy theories,” that is conjectures about some sort of official collusion in the attack. Full disclosure: My personal guess as to how Crooks could get so close? Sheer cack-handed incompetence, as mainstream US media are admitting. But quite a few Americans, in particular among Trump supporters but not only, are bound to consider that explanation naïve.

That brings us to the fact that it was not only Trump who had a very lucky escape in Butler. It is the whole of the US that has also gotten away much more lightly than might have been the case. Imagine, for a moment, a plausible counter-factual: Given by how little – literally just millimeters – Crooks failed to land a lethal shot to the head, what would America look like today if Trump had not survived?

Initially, it is fair to assume, there would be a state of deep, nationwide shock. Yet, while many Americans would be genuinely stunned and sincerely aggrieved, others – let’s be honest – would quietly and even not so quietly rejoice, namely those who have consistently demonized Trump as well as his supporters and voters, including, under the media hysteria known as “Russiagate,” as “traitors” selling out to big bad Russia. Put simply, if Trump were dead today, the victim of an assassination, America’s massive political, cultural, and moral polarization would not magically vanish in a great national moment of grief-driven kumbaya.

Instead, the intense tensions in US society would only get worse. At the core of that intensifying stand-off would be one simple and therefore powerful narrative: that Trump was killed because he was bound to win another term and that his killing was not the work of a lone shooter but the deep state and establishment, especially its liberal or – in party terms – Democratic wing. In that situation, it would not matter if such a narrative was true or not. What would matter, to disastrous effect, is that many Americans would believe it. And any mainstream media attempts to disprove, ridicule, or, in effect, criminalize that belief would not diminish but confirm it.

Where would such an escalation of polarization lead? Consider some recent, well-established findings. A major survey and study by a group of political scientists – pre-published in 2022 under the title “Views of American Democracy and Society and Support for Political Violence” – has found that half of Americans agree to some extent, including 13.7% strongly or very strongly,” with the statement that “in the next few years, there will be civil war in the United States.”

The study also detected substantial minorities who openly admitted (the real numbers are bound to be higher) that they were ready to engage in political violence themselves to threaten or intimidate,” injure,” or even kill a person.” 18.5% of respondents believed it was at least somewhat likely that within the next few years” there would be a situation where they believed political violence was justified” and they would be armed with a gun.”

36% of respondents to the Views” study – 56% of Republicans and 22% of Democrats – agreed that the traditional American way of life is disappearing so fast that we may have to use force to save it”; and 18% found that because things have gotten so far off track, true American patriots may have to resort to violence in order to save our country.”

If a belief in a coming civil war – and a readiness to fight in it – are disturbingly popular, so is deep skepticism about the realities of the current political system. Almost 70%, with very similar results for Democrats and Republicans,” agreed that American democracy only serves the interests of the wealthy and powerful.” Frankly, who can blame them for being realistic?

Yet that is not all. The 2022 study also explored how far Americans endorse views associated with the anything-but-realistic QAnon” ideology, which is, of course, radically antithetical to the current political order: 22.7% agreed – 9% strongly or very strongly – that a group of Satan-worshipping pedophiles” are in control. 29.7% agreed – 10.1% strongly or very strongly – that a storm coming soon” will sweep away the elites in power and restore the rightful leaders.” 43.4% agreed – 19.3% strongly or very strongly – that the US is living in what the Bible calls ‘the end times.’” It is of particular importance regarding reactions to an attack on Trump that 32.1% believed that the 2020 election was stolen from” him and that Joe Biden is an illegitimate president.”

As a result, the 2022 study authors extrapolated that more than 50 million American adults consider violence to be at least sometimes justified in general to achieve political objectives” while more than 60 million could at least sometimes justify violence ‘to preserve an American way of life based on Western European traditions’ and nearly 20 million could justify violence to stop people who do not share their beliefs from voting.”

Six million Americans would be willing to damage property and between 4 and 5 million to threaten or intimidate someone, injure them, or kill them.” Between three and five million are ready to commit violence against others because they are representatives of social institutions: government officials, election officials, health officials, members of the military or police”; Three million to engage in politically motivated violence against others because of differences in race/ethnicity or religion.” Keep in mind, all the while, that these figures are based only on those uninhibited enough to let a pollster know about their readiness to commit what are after all crimes; these are undercounts by definition.

The View study authors concluded that there is a high level of support for violence, including lethal violence, to achieve political objectives” and the prospect of large-scale political violence in the near future is entirely plausible.” They also, it is true, pointed out that there are still large majorities who oppose political violence. But for a modern society, there can be no doubt that their findings point to an alarmingly big trend.

No counter-factual can replace reality as it actually unfolds. We will never know what exactly would have happened if Donald Trump had been murdered. But it would be complacent to discount the very real possibility that such an assassination, in a country as polarized, embittered, and awash in arms as the US, could have led to massive, armed riots, to secessionist tendencies gaining the upper hand in various regions, and even to a loss of control by a central government profoundly distrusted and even hated by many Americans.

Ultimately, such a murder could have played a trigger role even in a slide into civil war. Think that’s far-fetched? Just recall: In Europe in 1914, it was one prominent assassination as well that detonated a situation of tension and distrust into all-out and devastating war. When enough combustible material has been amassed by irresponsible elites and dysfunctional policies, the final spark initiating the conflagration can turn out to be surprisingly small. That rule holds inside countries as much as between them.

https://www.rt.com/news/601064-trump-america-assassination-escape/

 

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secret services balls-up....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXh7byozUBk

Chad Wolf: This was a 'complete security failure'

 

SEE ALSO: https://yourdemocracy.net/drupal/node/35992

 

 

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you're (not) fired....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOyKXbhzU-8

Ray McGovern on the Failed Assassination of Donald Trump

 

 

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