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The left has finally gotten what it has longed for since Donald Trump announced his first candidacy for president in 2015: a bloodied Trump being led off a stage. But they didn’t get what they want most of all, for he is still alive.
Early Saturday evening, Donald Trump was speaking at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania when shots rang out. Trump turned, grabbed his ear, and then ducked behind the podium as Secret Service agents rushed to surround him. Moments later, he stood up and was being ushered quickly off the stage when he stopped the agents, saying: “Wait!” Then, his face bloodied, he raised his fist in defiance and said to the crowd, “Fight!”
Sound advice, succinctly stated. It is clear that if we don’t fight now, the forces of evil that so desperately want to destroy Trump will destroy us as well, as he has long warned, and the nation will be enveloped in authoritarian darkness.
Unless he was wounded more seriously than he initially appeared to be, Trump should be able to continue his campaign without serious difficulty. But nothing else should go on as usual. Amid all the tumult and confusion occasioned by this shooting, there is one certainty: this will lead to no introspection among the political and media elites. There will be no consideration whatsoever of how leftist rhetoric and media propaganda contributed to a climate of hatred that led to this happening. Yet this time, they must not be allowed to blame this shooting on Trump himself, or January 6, or climate change, or whatever new idiocy they may devise.
The New York Post is saying that law enforcement authorities have identified the shooter as a 20-year-old registered Republican, Thomas Matthew Crooks. If this is accurate, it will be the only detail the establishment media ever tells us about Crooks. But it may be a psy-op. Investigative journalist Paul Sperry noted some information that could be more illuminating of Crooks’ mindset: “NEW: FEC database shows a Thomas Crooks of 2506 Milford Dr., Pittsburgh, Pa., gave $15 to the Dem fundraising platform ACTBLUE on Jan. 20, 2021. The donation was earmarked for Progressive Turnout Project, which endorsed Biden and claims ‘Donald Trump is a threat to our democracy.’” Where could anyone have gotten that idea?
Even worse, an eyewitness stated that he pointed the shooter out to Secret Service several minutes before the shots rang out and was ignored. That’s either gross negligence or collusion, but we may never know which. Beyond that, there is no doubt: this shooting was the direct and unmistakable result of the left’s nine-year-long determination to destroy Trump. The left has been working to destroy Trump since he announced his candidacy in 2015. The left hamstrung his presidency with false charges of Russian collusion that wasted tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions, of taxpayer money. They impeached him twice on false charges.
They even sent agents provocateurs into the crowd at the Capitol on January 6, 2021 in order to frame him for a nonexistent “insurrection.” They have made misdemeanors into felonies and multiplied one offense into 34 by charging him for each of its constituent elements in order to saddle him with bogus felony convictions so that they could howl that he was a “convicted felon.” They lied to the world that he was a rapist over the unsupported claims of a woman who couldn’t even remember what year the traumatic event supposedly took place.
Old Joe Biden has long been one of the chief offenders. He has repeated lied about Trump’s statements and positions, even in the recent debate. On September 1, 2022, Old Joe Biden notoriously warned that “Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.” Never before had an American president ruled his principal opponent, and the supporters of that opponent, outside the bounds of acceptable political discourse. Never before had a president politicized and weaponized the Justice Department to go after his opponent.
Yet Biden, the destroyer of the republic, and his fellow Democrats have repeatedly warned that Trump will destroy “our democracy,” hoping Americans will forget that Trump was president before and left the White House voluntarily on January 20, 2021. Less than two weeks ago, Biden’s campaign team claimed yet again that Trump was on January 6, 2021 “encouraging a violent mob to attack the Capitol.” This despite the fact that Trump told protestors to proceed “peacefully and patriotically.”
And on and on and on. The New Republic’s June 2024 cover features a Photoshop blend of Trump and Hitler. And all along, leftists dreamed of doing more. Just days ago, New York Times columnist John McWhorter said: “I wish somebody would kill Donald Trump.” He was just the latest in a long line. Remember Kathy Griffin holding a mockup of Trump’s severed head. Remember Madonna saying: “I’ve thought a lot about blowing up the White House.” Remember Johnny Depp asking: “When was the last time an actor assassinated a president?”
In March 2024, longtime Democrat strategist James Carville said to Anderson Cooper: “I mean, to be candid, Anderson, President Biden is not the best attack politician I’ve ever seen in my life, and I’ll leave it at that. But there are a lot of people to do what I call ‘the wet work.'” That’s a common euphemism for assassination, and so Cooper responded: “Sounds like a mob hit.” Carville conceded the point: “Well, it’s kind of, but it’s paid TV and stuff like that. But yes, that’s a CIA term. Take a guy out.”
That was just the latest example of the left’s legitimization of political violence, and most notably of the Marxist group Antifa. Antifa is a violent, insurrectionist organization, not simply an “idea,” as Biden and others have claimed. Its premise is that government can’t be trusted to protect us from Trump’s fascists and trains its members in weapons and military strategies. This is an organization that the Democratic Party protects. During the George Floyd riots of 2020, the political and media elites coddled and even applauded the rioters. On Saturday evening, the world saw what kind of climate this created.
When the assassination attempt took place, Donald Trump was leading in the polls and — Democrat cheating aside — looked as if he had a good chance to return to the White House on January 20, 2025. Totalitarians that they are, leftists knew they had one more option. On Saturday, the world saw what it was.
And so now it should be abundantly clear that for all the media and Biden regime talk of “right-wing extremists,” the real threat of violence comes from the left, and always has. In a sane political system, Joe Biden and many others would be charged with inciting people to murder Trump. Though they will face no consequences, they still bear the responsibility. America must do everything legally possible to remove the cancer of the left from the body politic, or the parasite will most assuredly kill the host.
Old Fogey says
God bless President Trump and may we try to forgive the dead cretin who shot him and killed a bystander at that rally.
Cat says
No I’ll pass on the forgiveness right now.
Algorithmic Analyst says
Thanks Cat !!!!!
THX 1138 says
Some things can be forgiven, some things cannot.
Of course, if we were immortal (which we are not) and lived forever in some heavenly dimension after our bodies died, then everything could be forgiven. Life then would be a delightful comedy, all’s well that ends well.
“I looked up “forgiving” in the dictionary and here is what it says: to grant free pardon for an offense. In other words, someone did something wrong, and you take the attitude that well, it’s in the past, I have no negative feelings. As far as I am concerned, morally it didn’t happen. I certainly think that for lesser things, this is possible. As long as it doesn’t imply something evil in the person and it’s not something major. For example, someone told me a secret and I inadvertently told the wrong person. The person was annoyed but they let it go. They decided it wasn’t deliberate. It wasn’t a major thing and the person didn’t think I was evil. So I asked the person if they would forgive me and they said yes.
But if we are talking about a big event and especially something that involves evil, then to forgive is to give a license to evil. The idea of forgiving your enemy is possible only if you want to sacrifice your values. If you think life is worth throwing away, which is what the Christians did when they started preaching that. One of the worst evils of Christianity is this idea of forgive your enemy. To turn the other cheek is a license to corruption. It makes a virtue of sanctioning evil. You can’t have a more corrupt morality than that. That’s what I think about the Sermon on the Mount. It amounts to: don’t judge evil and don’t protest what it does to the good. You can’t beat that for moral corruption. The Bible has more things in it that are more corrupt than just about anything else. Or as corrupt for sure as anywhere else.” – Leonard Peikoff
Intrepid says
Just gotta get in a dig at Christianity, don’t you. The article is not about forgiveness or your religious picadillos.
But this is a special day. Trump survived by divine intervention….God made the shooter a lousy shot. Trump will win in a landslide now. After all the leftist talk of assassinating Trump after the immunity ruling some stupid kid took them up on it.
Kilt Lifter’s all around for your mention of Christianity.
You are possibly the biggest insufferable shmuck in the country. Must be a horrible day for you.
THX 1138 says
Trump survived by divine intervention? Really?
Then by your same mystical, Christian, logic your Christian God made the shooter a perfect shot when he killed the individual in the stands.
What a special day it was for that poor individual. Maybe he wasn’t enough of a Christian for your God to care about making the shooter miss him too.
Divine intervention collateral damage anyone.
Intrepid says
Since he wasn’t aiming at the guy who was killed your comment merely shows what a simplistic, bitter, stupid fool you are. But you never miss a chance to bash God.
Oh yeah, God does not miss either. I’d keep that in mind when you go meet your maker. You do have a maker don’t you? Or were you conceived in a lab somewhere with jellyfish sperm.
BTW, two Kilt Lifters for me due to the twice mentioned Christianity. And Trump is going to Milwaukee today and then on to the Convention.
God but it does suck to be you. Not much works out for you does it.
Kynarion Hellenis says
Your comment is logical, but theologically unsound.
For example, did God fail to care for His own Son, the LORD Jesus Christ, when He allowed sinful men to kill Him in a most shameful and painful way? What about the many Jewish prophets who were murdered by their own people? What about the Christian martyrs, also?
Steve says
And those killed on 9/11 were also by divine intervention.
Algorithmic Analyst says
We may be immortal, or we may not be, but no one has been able to prove it one way or the other, despite thousands of years of attempts by the best minds. That is what bugs me most about THX’s baseless assertions.
John Galt says
Sorry, but the shooter was not a loosy shot, as the bullet would have hit Trump in exactly a fatal head shot had Trump not turned his head in the direction of the shot. It could have been the effect of police and other LEO’s running to the shooters location that got Trump’s attention just as he pulled the trigger. The first shot was dead on, but then he apparently sprayed the others as the lawmen came for him. I hope God had something to do with it, as we need some divine intervention with the evil we are facing.
Rob A says
Keep in mind that some people are just natural born assholes. They cope with the vagaries and hardships of life by being an asshole because they have no other coping skills. Their lot in life is to be odious miserable f**ks 24/7/365.
Kynarion Hellenis says
Forgiveness does not mean forgetfulness, nor does it require you to feel as though the offense never happened. We forgive for our own sakes, so that we do not become bitter. Forgiveness makes possible the restoration of relationship should the offender show sorrow and repent. Forgiveness is unilateral. Relationship is bilateral.
We forgive because we have been forgiven by God, and we wish to be like Him. The Beatitudes are about God, and how we are to be like him. Hence Matthew 5:48’s impossible call to be perfect, even as our Father in heaven is perfect.
The Beatitudes should be harmonized with Ecclesiastes 3: 1 – 8. There is a time to kill. There is a time for war. There is a time to hate. The same God of Matthew 5 is also the God of the rest of the Bible.
General principles: The Bible speaks as a unified whole. The Beatitudes show only one facet of God’s character, which is not limited to a few verses of Matthew 5. Never take your theology from atheists who hate that which they claim does not exist.
Firewagon says
A scary prayer that few look deeply at, as it is prayed in rote fashion almost absentmindedly, asks therein to: ‘Forgive Me My Trespasses As I Forgive Those Who Trespass Against Me!’
Then again, perhaps I’m ‘reading too much into’ that prayer?
Jynarion Hellenis says
It is a very scary prayer. I like to pause there, confess, and ask for more grace.
Kent says
Dear THX 1138:
It is sad that you refuse to give the Bible its due.
You, as an uninformed atheist, no nothing of the “Whole Counsel of God” because you refuse to study scripture. Instead you choose to cherry pick Bible passages rather than learn to read and understand the Bible as a unified whole.
I give praise to ‘Kynarion’ below because she understands the Bible.
I echo the admonition below:
“Do not take Biblical counsel from atheists”
Kent
Kent says
Correction:
At this point, Kynarion is ‘above’.
groovimus says
“…if we were immortal (which we are not)….”
So ‘scuse me, but materialists somehow have supposedly impeccable reasoning why they are smarter than the highest trained philosophers of the ancient and classical periods from every civilization throughout history. They are now in the driver’s seat in Western academiat, and claim that “science” is their faith and Darwin is their godhead.
Problem is, if you are familiar with science by training, as I am, what you notice after thinking for a couple of decades is that there is no empirical evidence for the obliteration of the person at death. As such the belief in personal annihilation is as much a faith as any other religion. As much as these modern faith-based believers would want you to believe like them, you wonder if they are lying when they say they prefer oblivion to continuence of consciousness at the physical demise, or if the cogninitive dissonance has corrupted their logical process and so delude themselves they are about the truth.
They say that fear of death is the basis of all religion. I say their fear of the Source of their consciousness is their basis for deluding themselves is the source of their religion. I have the backing of untold hordes of philosophers over the millenia, of all civilizations and cultures, even the tribal ones; they have the backing of a 19th century philosophical non-scientist with an agenda.
MuggsSpongedice says
I see your God Bless POTUS Trump but I fold at forgiveness – yes YESHUA tells us to forgive and repent of our sins – I do this as instructed but deep down – forgiveness for the devil is not included and this is a devil possessed deranged lunatic – insanity plea – yes – anyone who murders anyone in premeditated cold blood is insane and possessed but must pay for their deeds – and this SOB demonic antifa perp paid for his crime and is now in hell awaiting JUDGEMENT – The same JUDGEMENT we all face here or in Paradise – where we go after here if we don’t end up in hell awaiting JUDGEMNT – if you are using the BIBLE for adjudication and personal accountability –
Deborah says
Wonderful rerun of the last nine years, Mr Spencer. Respect and Kudos to you! I will never forget the image of Trump rising from the floor with blood streaming down his face, raising his fist in defiance and calling out ‘Fight Fight Fight’ as the American Flag waved behind him. Bannon said Trump was protected by God’s Armor and many called him our “Warrior President”. He is definitely that and more. A man like this comes along once in a generation, if we’re lucky, and I’m honored to still be here to witness this good and courageous man at this most important time in our history. Trump has an uncanny connection to Patriotic Americans from all walks of life. As Kipling said, “He can talk with crowds and keep his virtue, or walk with Kings …nor lose the common touch”. MAGA stands strong with Trump, OUR WARRIOR PRESIDENT. God bless him and keep him safe always. ( July 13th 2024 will go down as a massive failure of security and proof our Country is falling apart at every level. November cannot come soon enough! )
Hardball1Alpha says
This changes everything…
MuggsSpongedice says
10-7-2023 Israel changed everything for me – this old USA born Jew – now this changes things again for this USA born Jew who called on YHVH and YESHUA if They are real prove it to me and no matter what show me the truth in 1986 – there is no doubt where in Bible prophesy we are and that we are in a vile demonic coup d’etat we are in from the pLandemic and it’s controls and engineered shortages to ruin our lives and make life more difficult and challenging then the theft of the 2020 election and 2022 Arizona election -and how this engineered inflation and open borders and not prosecuting criminals and lawfare has us all scared and pissed and now yesterday – a Manchurian candidate struck changes everything once again – I hope this time Americans and freedom loving people globally will say Never Again – Israel’s motto – and not take the gaslighting and turn every county, state and nation MAGA Red!
Wiley says
MAIN SUSPECTS
1) Obama and puppet Biden (gotta have my 4th term!) Those same thugs who denied RFK Jr. secret service protection during his campaign…
2) DoJ’s Garland and FBI’s Wray -dept of Injustice
3) Hillary Clinton (Bodybag Foundation)
4) Soros – the definition of Evil
5) CCP’s dictator Xi (boss of all the above)
I WOULDN’T RECOMMEND HAVING BIDENS FBI INVESTIGATING THIS. MOST LIKELY THEY WILL “DISCOVER” IT WAS DONE BY SOME CONSERVATIVES WHO THEY ALSO WANT TO TAKE DOWN.
Snuffy Carter says
The FBI goons had orders to engage (shoot) the suspect if necessary when they invaded Trump’s house two years ago.
WhiteHunter says
They missed that opportunity–with orders to “shoot to kill” DJT and his wife and son if they “met any resistance” (like, “Uh, I don’t see why you need to go through Melania’s lingerie drawer…”) ONLY because, by chance (and the Will of God in His Infinite
Wisdom and Mercy), Trump and his family happened to be away from Mar-A-Lago at the time.
THIS was their Plan B.
Thank you, Father, for protecting this great and good man, and saving our great but undeserving republic, again.
Rob A says
Your list of suspects failed to include:
1- the liberal MSM
2- the entire deep state (e.g., the IRS also hates as does the Dept. of Education among others)
3- Never-Trump RINOs and faux conservatives. They hate and despise Trump every bit as much as the dems and the MSM.
DetroitOtaku says
You forgot BlackRock.
Floyd Looney says
Karl Marx: “When our time comes we will make no excuses for the terror”
You cannot live in harmony with these people
Snuffy Carter says
Alex Jones’ prediction: the deep state will now shoot Biden and blame the shooting on MAGA people.
Rob A says
You can if they’re all at ambient temperature 6 ft underground!
james Yanchek says
This is WHY they wanted to put him in prison.
Just like Putin put Navalny in prison.
They tried to take away his Secret Service detail, just in hopes that something like this would happen..
James O’Keefe published Killary’s receipts from 2016 where she paid violent thugs to start violence @ Trump rallies.
The Democrats started the Civil War, they started the Ku Klux Klan, they created the Jim Crow system.
They are monsters, they care about NOTHING but power.
Rob A says
Why do you think they’re also called “demoncrats”? They’re all doing the devil’s bidding. The path to totalitarian tyranny was clear and wide open once they eliminated Trump.
They failed. Now it our turn (we the people) to respond to them……….
JUAN DELA PINGA says
The left is violence and death.
HPJ says
And that is, talking about millions of dead people they left in their wake in the past century.
Stephen Triesch says
My prediction of the media spin: “Republican opposition to gun control comes back to haunt them.”
Deborah says
“To ban guns because criminals use them is to tell the LAW-ABIDING that their Rights and Liberties depend NOT on their own conduct, but on the conduct of the Guilty and Lawless”. Lysander Spooner
And “A Free People ought not only be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient Arms and Ammunition to maintain a status of INDEPENDENCE from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include THEIR OWN GOVERNMENT.
George Washington”.
Thomas E. Warwick says
We all knew the Communist Democrats would try this sooner or later. The Deep State has been building this for years.
Rob A says
America is no longer a free country and hasn’t been in decades. The deep state does not and cannot exist in a free country. It needs and must have totalitarian control to function properly. At present, the deep state in our country is growing unabated (e.g., the resent explosive growth in armed IRS agents.)
At some point in the not to distant future, the deep state is going to make it crystal clear to everyone that the notion of freedom that we the people think we have is just al illusion that they can easily disabuse us of at their discretion.
And just to be clear, the democrat party pathway to totalitarian control is via the deep state, It’s why they have been strengthening the deep state over the past few decades while undermining the US Constitution by selectively ignoring it or perverting its meaning
John Galt says
No doubt at all after they killed JFK, then Robert Kennedy, i.e., by their agents.
Birder says
And they attempted to do in Reagan and, for sure, did in Lincoln way back when!
Kasandra says
It’s been relentless, hysterical, amped up, rhetoric from the Left since he came down the elevator in 2015. It’s disgraceful and no doubt the Dems and their media lackeys will absolve themselves of any responsibility or blame. They are despicable and irresponsible.
David Ray says
Good point.
The same assholes that so hyperventilated over Sarah Palin’s district map having cross hairs, also used cross hair analogy.
But selectively saw “incitement” from her.
It was a practiced thing back then, but after a nut bag shot Gabby Giffords (and a Republican judge among others) the left seized on Palin’s benign chart.
(The drama-queen accusation against Palin was so fevered, that it led to legal suits.)
Contrast that with Chickenshit Schumer’s “You will reap the whirlwind!” threats against Gorsuch & Kavanaugh that DIRECTLY led to leftist punks attacking & pounding the doors of the Courthouse.
(The press dutifully shrugged it off.)
DC says
I made this post 12 hours before the assassination attempt…………
DC says
July 13, 2024 at 8:06 am
If the Deep State wants Biden to go……….he’ll go……..one way or the other.
If the Deep state wants Biden to stay………he’ll stay.
But here’s the MAIN THING……..
The Deep State will NEVER allow Trump back in the White House.
Whether the criminals at the FBI/CIA incarcerate Trump or assassinate Trump………there will be no Trump in the White House in 2025.
Banastre Tarleton says
Trump is the catalyst that triggers civil war …The DEms will not have Trump as president anymore than the south would have Lincoln
Reader says
I think you mean “hatred for Trump” is the catalyst, not “Trump is…..”
Birder says
They “did in” Lincoln too-fyi!
RAM says
Trump needs a security detail that reports to him.
BLSinSC says
Absolutely – you CANNOT TRUST the current Administration with YOUR LIFE! I have NO law enforcement or military background, but I have enough COMMON SENSE to know that you ESTABLISH A PERIMETER of SAFETY! WHY were those rooftops only 130 yards away NOT GUARDED? Makes no sense that a PROFESSIONAL Security Team would ALLOW a BLIND SPOT that close to the stage. It also begs to question WHY PRESIDENT TRUMP was not “temporarily moved” while the COMMOTION of those people pointing out a PERSON WITH A GUN was PRESENT?? So many ILLOGICAL ACTIONS by SUPPOSEDLY PROFESSIONALS!!!
CharlieSeattle says
We understood that in 2016.
CharlieSeattle says
In the rally video the SS sniper team in overlook behind Trump was looking AT THE SNIPER but did nothing.
What was that open roof in the prime shooter position left vacant?
As False Flags go, the DNC/FBI/CIA/DOD/SS set up was poorly done.
John Galt says
Professionals that are not woke and DEI infected, thus 4 women in his detail and otherwise inadequate numbers of protection.
Rob A says
Trump should absolutely NOT trust the FBI or the Secret Service. They allowed that shooter to try and assassinated Trump.
Watch how they try and close ranks in the coming days and disavow any pre-knowledge of an assassination attempt on Trump.
PLEASE PRESIDENT TRUMP. DO NOT TRUST THE FBI OR THE SECRET SERVICE!! They’re deep state. You are their enemy!!
Alex Gofen says
Yes, the left, the Antifa, the dems – but not only they! The FBI provocateurs on Jan. 6, 2021. But not only FBI, CIA, and similar.
It was the entire Congress on Jan. 6, 2021, which hid in cellars, playing the FBI games, instead of going out to meet their constituents!
It was the entire Congress on Jan. 6, 2021, with the Republican majority, which finally certified the election stolen from themselves!
There were plenty of republicans, which adhered and still adhere to the “insurrection” libel.
And now we learn about the Security service and police who ignored the people pointing out at the assassin climbing the roof with a rifle!!!
Mic Lawler says
This has to be more than a lone Antifa kook. I’ve only been to one Presidential Candidate’s speech; Bill Clinton’s sppech in Ailmington DE when he was running for his first term. With all of the police snipers postioned on the roof tops watching and security that I didn’t see anyone try to get at him would have been toast. And that was during a safer, more covil period of time in our country.
Now you’re going to tell me that some Antifa punk had the logistical support to get in position to assassinate President Trump without help from the inside of one of our vaunted intelligence agencies? I ain’t buying it.
Here in the USA the official story for every assassination or assassination attempt is that is was the work of the mysterious lone gunman. Whether JFK, his supposed assassine, RFK, MLK, President Reagan or the superman Las Vegas shooter for that matter it’s alway the maladjusted, disgruntled, pernicious lone killer. Forget logic, forget evidence (you didn’t see what you saw)
Too many powerful and evil psychopaths & sociopaths want to see President Trump dead from the degenerate sociopath communists democrats and their funders to pernicious globalists here and abroad who not only loathe and despise him and us as well.
Snuffy Carter says
To your point about security back in the Bill Clinton days – Clinton showed up at a county fair to make a speech. A relative of mine lived in the foothills surrounded by trees about 3 miles from the fair. Military helicopters were flying over my relative’s house scouting the treetops in an effort to look out for bad guys – not quite the same security that we saw yesterday for Trump.
Kevin T Kilty says
CNN as of three hours ago was still reporting on my Microsoft Edge feed, that Trump’s speech was interrupted by the Secret Service. Such idiocy we have to put up with.
The only short term, non-violent solution to this problem, is to send the Democrats into the political wilderness for a time — They need to introspect and we should give them the opportunity to do so.
Floyd says
Joe Biden was uncharacteristically coherent today when saying words on TV regarding Donald Trump being shot. Do his handlers give him days off from the medications?
MuggsSpongedice says
FJB and the vile demonic global coup d’etat that rigged and stole the 2020 election and installed FJB and look where we are at and the world is at!
Cat says
There was No excuse for this lapse in security. When rally goers were shouting that a man with gun climbed on a roof, there was no response from cops or Secret Service. So some or all of the security team is compromised.
Chris Shugart says
If you’re going to try and kill the king, you’d better not miss. This is a testament to the inept incompetence of our so called govt in charge. I wouldn’t order a sandwich from these losers. On the other hand, Trump was lucky. But history is filled with moments of good fortune that changed history.
THX 1138 says
“Philosophy determines essentials, not details. If men act on certain principles (and choose not to rethink them), the actors will reach the end result logically inherent in those principles. Philosophy does not, however, determine all the concrete forms a principle can take, or the oscillations within
a progression, or the time intervals among its steps. Philosophy determines only the basic direction—and outcome.
In order to grasp the role of philosophy in history, one must be able to think philosophically, i.e., see the forest. Whoever sees it knows that history is not the domain of accident….
At this moment in history, the West is mutating again. The reason is that Kant as a cultural power is dead. Kant is dead in academic philosophy; the subject has effectively expired under his tutelage. He is dead among the intellectuals, whose world view is disillusionment (they call it the “end of ideology”). He is dead in the realm of art, where nihilism, with little left to defy, is turning into its inevitable product: nihil (this is now being called “minimalism” and “postmodernism”).
Kant is dead even in Berlin and Moscow. As of this writing, although it is too early to know, communism seems to be disintegrating.
The collapse of a negative, however, is not a positive. The atrophy of a vicious version of unreason is not the adoption of reason. If men fail to discover living ideas, they will keep moving by the guidance of dead ones; they will keep following, by inertia, the principles they have already institutionalized. For the nations of East and West alike today, no matter what their faddish lip service to a “free market,” the culmination of these principles is some variant of dictatorship, new or revised—if not communist, then fascist and/or religious and/or tribal. Force and faith on such a scale would mean the fate of the ancients over again.” – Leonard Peikoff, “Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand”
Intrepid says
Nobody cares about your take or Lenny Puke-off’s gibberish take on Philosophy, Kant, or Aristotle.
Rob A says
Now is not the time for abstract sophistry. It’s not germane to the issue under discussion.
virginia macdonald says
I think we just witnessed a miracle.
Snuffy Carter says
Trump just said the same thing this morning – that God saved him.
john blackman says
the MSM have finally got their wish , their only disappointment is that the shooter was a bad shot . as all of the uninged on tic toc and u toob have displayed having been egged on by the democrats for years . cackloharris of [ the violence should not stop and will not fame ] will give free rein to violence and the perpetrators will escape justice . the liar in chief was giving the red light to trump being in the cross hairs along with all his violent rhetoric he has been spouting for years [ just in case you missed it ] the unifying president . that everyone is shocked from both sides of the isle is nothing but a fiction . no one has addressed the hatred for one man in 8 yrs . unabated .
David Ray says
Also remember that the DEI VP contributed to the Minnesota Freedom Fund and encouraged others to donate to it.
Take note that the rioting AntiFa scum rarely had to tap that bail-out fund, because they were routinely let out free of charge anyway.
We have Jan 6th Patriots rotting in a 3rd world gulag (cloudy water. worms in salad. etc) going on 4 years for walking inside of a rope-line.
Contrast that with the AntiFa trash that tried to burn people alive inside the Hatfield Courthouse.
Not only did they do very brief jail time (they WERE granted bail), they also had the case against them conveniently dropped.
(Also; the only person known to call for arson on Jan 6th was John Earle Sullivan – a BLM punk.)
Sarah says
The left is in high gear, pushing their rapidly crafted talking points about toning down the rhetoric (there are already members of the GOP on this bandwagon) while ignoring the unidirectional nature of what happened, criticizing Trump supporters, putting out puff pieces about assassination attempts in American history, etc. Countdown to finding out the shooter was a conservative and maybe even a MAGA supporter (and things that make you go: Hmm) and more ramping up about the need to tone down the rhetoric. And before you know it, in less than 24 hours they’ll pull a 10/7 on us when they made/make Israel the agressor and the bad guy even though it was Israel that was attacked.
By any means necessary is the crede of the left and we’re seeing it play out in real time.
May G-d watch over us because what’s coming down the pike is so dark and so evil it’s hard to even wrap one’s mind around it.
Snuffy Carter says
5 year old Johnny goes to secret service school:
Teacher: “Johnny, today we will study Presidential security. What would you do if the President was giving a talk and 400 feet away from his podium there was a building with a nice level roof with a direct line of site to the President’s podium?
Johnny: “I would put at least 2 secret service agents on that roof; armed with rifles.
Teacher: “Correct. You get an A in today’s case study. Now go down the hall and kick the commiee bitchh that is running the Secret Service out of her office – you now have her job – because she left that roof unguarded today so that Trump’s shooter could fire away unabated.
David Ray says
Hilariously good point. 🍻🇺🇸
Alex says
Trump is gonna take this election and the numbers he wins by will make history….
They have tried everything..from bringing phony charges against him to attempted assassination.
And to really get pointed about he, Trump makes an appearance walking down his plane steps, after the most horrifying event of his lifetime…Unassisted and waving to everyone.
BIden should take notes.😁👍
Trump is gonna take that Oath in Jan. 2025 and the democrat party and its’ supporters are gonna cry….most will jump off cliffs and building to end their pain.
Snuffy Carter says
I think this is not over yet – there is plenty of time left before the Nov. election – Alex Jones predicts that there will be more assassination attempts – perhaps a traitor inside Trump’s camp could try poisoning Trump’s food.
John Galt says
We can only hope that they do jump off high bldgs, and cliffs, and that they are in much pain. All deserved.
Judith says
This is on Joe Biden, but it won’t keep him awake at night.
FDTS says
It won’t keep him awake during the day, either.
Rob A says
That’s for sure! Staying up until 8 PM and eating ice cream while watching reruns of Gilligan’s Island and The Love Boat is quite exhausting for Joe Biden! He needs his sleep!
THX 1138 says
“According to Newsweek:
CBS News reported that Crooks had a rifle and had fired on the former President from a position a couple of hundred feet away from the venue in Butler, [PA] citing anonymous law enforcement sources. The shooter was identified through his DNA, as he was not carrying any identification at the time, the FBI said.”
Identified through DNA? That quickly, that fast?
Does the FBI have DNA on file on every American? Are they surreptitiously collecting DNA on everyone?
I thought DNA tests took weeks to months.
Intrepid says
That’s your big concern? DNA Tests?
BLSinSC says
How would YOU explain IDENTIFYING someone so quickly from his DNA if you didn’t ALREADY have HIS DNA to COMPARE?? THAT is the POINT – not that they DID it – but they HAD HIS DNA BEFORE!!
Intrepid says
I don’t explain it, don’t have to explain it, and I don’t care to explain it. If you want to get all exorcised about my post that is your business.
BTW, he reads Newsweek and thinks that CBS are legitimate news sources. Do you still think they are news sources?
Typing in all caps does not make you smart, just obnoxious.
MuggsSpongedice says
actually, DNA results can be fast but I don’t think it was DNA I think someone who knew this demonic possessed lunatic antifa punk identified him and no doubt there was planning and this was an atifa Manchurian candidate
Snuffy Carter says
Reminds me of Sandy Hook – a young shooter that is somehow brainwashed, drugged, and then turned loose to kill – I want to see blood test results on Trump’s shooter – I think every young shooter since Patrick Purdy (1989, Stockton, Cal.) was found to have drugs inside his system.
Deborah says
You’d be amazed at the detailed Dossier the deep state had on Lee Harvey Oswald almost immediately after he shot President Kennedy in Dallas way back in 1963 ! Same with Sirhan Sirhan who shot RFK and etc. etc. Right down to all the jacked-up School Shooters, except for the Tranny Shooter in Nashville in 2023, who is apparently a BIG SECRET and her “manifesto” a Major Cover Up. Our Open and Transparent GOVT in action….
Intrepid says
I believe this assassination attempt just won the election for Trump. The iconic photograph isn’t going away. Almost as poignant as the flag raising photo as Iwo Jima.
I fully expected something like this. Two observations:
1) Where was the bullet proof glass that always is present in front of Trump at his rallies? Reminds me of the removal of the bubble top on Kennedy’s limousine. It’s almost as if the Secret Service knew there would be someone on the roof.
2) Why was the Secret Service so slow to react after the shooting. Were they giving the shooter time for another shot? I hope Trump ditches Biden’s Secret Service losers and hires his own protection.
God Bless President Trump
Trump ’24 MAGA
Banastre Tarleton says
Trump needs GENERAL FLYNN as VP to deter this in the future
With Flynn as VP no Dem or Deep Stat-er would want Trump assassinated
Snuffy Carter says
Agree 100%. It saddens me that Flynn’s name is not being mentioned right before the RNC convention starts. Besides Ben Carson, I think Flynn is the only VP candidate that has not slandered Trump at one point in the past. After yesterday’s shooting, Trump now needs a war time consigliere as his VP. Flynn fits that bill – he was the only one to advise Trump to declare martial law for a short time after the 2020 election in order to stop Biden from stealing the white house – Biden’s nightmare in America and around the world could have been prevented.
John Galt says
Flynn should be appointed as head of the Defense Department or the CIA. Both need a deep house cleaning and he is just the man for the job.
Rob A says
The DoD, CIA, IRS, NSA and the FBI needs an industrial strength enema ASAP!
Intrepid says
Excellent points. Flynn’s been on my VP list forever.
pie says
i do not see many civil options for america. congress has failed to implement the checks and balances, law enforcement is manned by non citizens, the border is wide open to all manner of criminal, everyday a citizen is assaulted by an illegal, election process is compromised. every non progressive is a target. time to batten down the hatches. ears and eyes open mouth shut. close your social media accounts immediately. withdraw your market investments and re-invest only in tangible. food, water, shelter, gold, guns, ammo ,… do not be the victim, be the coiled spring ready for action. i remember mom telling me the ss would come at night to dispose of entire families for any dissenting opinion in ww2 germany.
Snuffy Carter says
George Washington: “Right on, pie. That’s why the founding fathers and myself gave Ameria the 2A – for times like today.”
MuggsSpongedice says
This picture of bloodied injured President Trump will replace the booking mug shot.
After being pissed and texted people multiple texts about this as it was unfolding and I was totally calm and at peace when I watch a Trump rally I’m filled with hope and joy that this is the hope and the promise – and those pop, pop, pops, were not a vehicle backfiring but in this scenario that should have cleared all threats, that sound can only be gun fire then the POTUS went down and Secret Service so damn slow to respond failed at their protection detail – and so damn close that only highly electronic measuring devices can measure any cm or mm difference could have been the end of our last hope to have a living Constitution that is on life support right now! In the final analysis I can only thank YHVH for HIS Devine Intervention to deflect President Trump or deflect the bullets – damn – but so tragic for MAGA people to be slain and injured on what was yet another beautiful MAGA Trump rally. I like other people had plans after watching the rally. In fact I resigned myself that I could not watch the Trump rally yesterday then company coming over yesterday cancelled so woo hoo – I can watch the rally and then the sins of our nation and ourselves in our selfishness and division that we have allowed ourselves to be dumbed down by and go along to get along is not the way of YHVH’S WILL and we are suffering for allowing this vile demonic coup d’etat we are in from the pLandemic and its controls and the theft of the 2020 election and 2022 Arizona election and the intentional destruction of USA by the treasonous stooge puppets of the vile coup d’etat we are in to be sworn in to fuck us and screw us into submission and into the ground – civil war will be coming if they succeed because we will have no choice but to save our Constitutional Republic!
Honest Canuck says
Too much heat on Biden and the dump Biden movement so the media neeeds a new bone to chew on. I I was wondering what method the left lunatics were going to use to shut down the elections in the USA and starting a civil war seems to be their choice . God bless Trump and the USA.
Rob A says
By the way:
I’m reading on a number of websites that for all intent and purposes, the dems and their radical left comrades just gift wrapped the November election and handed it to Trump!
The “demon-brats” (democrats for you folks in flyover country) are going to be gnashing their teeth and whining like petulant brats and screaming like banshees in the coming days and months until the election.
In a way, the dems, liberal MSM and the far left have hoisted themselves on their own petard.
Good!! I’m loving it! Time for a refill on the popcorn!!
John Galt says
Not so quick my friend. The Demoncraps have a plan to unleash their storm troops on us, just like 2020, when they set antifa and blm out to burn and destroy, with numerous assaults and even murders. Now they have millions of military aged men, and tens of thousands of Chinese men, to set out for chaos, rioting, destruction, and assaults and murders, especially against those opposing the Demoncraps and the corrupt regime. Yes they will be gnashing their teeth, but still attempting to kill Trump and likely RFK, with Tucker Carlson also on the hit list. These cretins are beyond evil and totally corrupt and immoral. Lock and load, and train like your life depends on it, as it very well might.
Rob A says
No sweat. I’m a strong proponent of the 2nd amendment. I’m certain you understand what that means and what it entails. If the demoncraps want to “party” then cut the bullsh*t and let’s dance!
Banastre Tarleton says
TRUMP NEEDS GENERAL FLYNN AS VP ..IT WILL NOT MAKE HIM ASSASSINATION PROOF, BUT IT WILL HELP DETER THEM
Rob A says
FWIW:
Some in the foreign press in other countries are suggesting that America came within a few millimeters of an all out civil war. America is already on the verge of an all out civil war. Had Trump been killed then that would’ve been the spark that set it all off. Neither congress or the current president could’ve prevented it.
In the ways that matter, the actions, and inactions, of all 3 branches of the government, the federal bureaucracies (aka “deep state”) and their media acolytes are the very reason America is on the verge of an all out civil war
Snuffy Carter says
I feel the same way – if Trump is ever killed, then it’s open season on the left.
Rob A says
That is to say, if Trump is ever killed, there would be no restraint on going after the left and exacting a measure of retribution. “Si vis pacem, para bellum”
Alex says
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