What is truly appalling and scary: while the staged Butler event required relatively few people to prepare and keep secret, The WHCD staged assassination attempt required a boatload of collaborators, which shows that staging a false flag operation by trump’s regime is now an easy feat
As for the “assassin”: a black/mixed race man who not only survived but seemed unharmed after allegedly carrying a cache of weapons aimed at the defenseless guests. Really.
A giddy, happy bunch of highest regime operators surrounding their leader in a press conference not even an hour after? Because that’s what you look and act like after someone just tried to kill you.
A perfect delivery of one of the many reasons why this was staged: so he can force the judge who halted the WH construction to be overruled.
Not to mention completely changing the subject of a lost and disastrous war
Plenty of government in the US *is* orchestrated, and “media” doesn’t address it well: prices, access to healthcare and education, low wages, policy on civil rights, the environment, military action, data mining, prediction markets, denial of prenatal care, on and on. The US gov has been captured by business and extreme ideologues. They *do* have a plan to keep poor people poor and make rich people richer. There is a plan to collect people’s information and make money from it. There’s a plan to suppress all forms of energy but oil. Need I go on?
Making Americans question their own eyes is part of the plan. “We’re protecting women” by killing them if their pregnancy goes south. “We’re creating the Golden Age of America”by creating historic memory holes in our institutions. “We’re ensuring the future of America” by building detention centers all over the country and deporting brown people.
The current gov has done such a good job of distracting us and suppressing info, we talk more about the people being oppressed than the ACTUAL OPPRESSORS. No wonder everyone behind that podium last night was smiling.
Count me among those who believe the entire thing was staged. We have a madman using chaos as a weapon, to distract from various other things such as the impending pardon of Ghislaine Maxwell. Additionally, removing firearms from civilian hands would make their authoritarian agenda easier to move forward, wouldn't it?
We don't have a tool problem. We have a human heart problem that's being exacerbated by a self-serving malignant narcissist. It doesn't make sense to throw away our last ditch tool to set things right. If the nonviolent protests don't work and he refuses to accept the outcome of the midterm elections, what other options do we have? Stronger language? Bowing down and hoping to go unnoticed? Or doing what we must to remove these clowns from power?
Excellent Paul, thank you. The ballroom should not be built. May it be a symbol in the pushback to Trump and his way of dealing with violence by threatening more and protecting himself.
In another time, your well constructed factual essay would have been construed as hyperbolic satire. Satire is clinically dead now. It will take a long time before it revives.
Thank you for this article. Excellent points are made. I believe Butler was staged. And the man in the bushes at the White House was staged too. Why does the media treat that like an assassination attempt?
Great post today. Really encapsulates what it’s like.
& you know what's cheaper than the ballroom? The felon not going to the WHCA dinner ever again.
What is truly appalling and scary: while the staged Butler event required relatively few people to prepare and keep secret, The WHCD staged assassination attempt required a boatload of collaborators, which shows that staging a false flag operation by trump’s regime is now an easy feat
As for the “assassin”: a black/mixed race man who not only survived but seemed unharmed after allegedly carrying a cache of weapons aimed at the defenseless guests. Really.
A giddy, happy bunch of highest regime operators surrounding their leader in a press conference not even an hour after? Because that’s what you look and act like after someone just tried to kill you.
A perfect delivery of one of the many reasons why this was staged: so he can force the judge who halted the WH construction to be overruled.
Not to mention completely changing the subject of a lost and disastrous war
Plenty of government in the US *is* orchestrated, and “media” doesn’t address it well: prices, access to healthcare and education, low wages, policy on civil rights, the environment, military action, data mining, prediction markets, denial of prenatal care, on and on. The US gov has been captured by business and extreme ideologues. They *do* have a plan to keep poor people poor and make rich people richer. There is a plan to collect people’s information and make money from it. There’s a plan to suppress all forms of energy but oil. Need I go on?
Making Americans question their own eyes is part of the plan. “We’re protecting women” by killing them if their pregnancy goes south. “We’re creating the Golden Age of America”by creating historic memory holes in our institutions. “We’re ensuring the future of America” by building detention centers all over the country and deporting brown people.
The current gov has done such a good job of distracting us and suppressing info, we talk more about the people being oppressed than the ACTUAL OPPRESSORS. No wonder everyone behind that podium last night was smiling.
Count me among those who believe the entire thing was staged. We have a madman using chaos as a weapon, to distract from various other things such as the impending pardon of Ghislaine Maxwell. Additionally, removing firearms from civilian hands would make their authoritarian agenda easier to move forward, wouldn't it?
We don't have a tool problem. We have a human heart problem that's being exacerbated by a self-serving malignant narcissist. It doesn't make sense to throw away our last ditch tool to set things right. If the nonviolent protests don't work and he refuses to accept the outcome of the midterm elections, what other options do we have? Stronger language? Bowing down and hoping to go unnoticed? Or doing what we must to remove these clowns from power?
"... but I’ve done a lot."
Yes, and none of it was good for anyone but you and your cronies.
That ballroom is literally the newest bright shining (gilt) object. Perhaps a replacement for young tender flesh?
Franklin Graham already made that claim this time
Excellent Paul, thank you. The ballroom should not be built. May it be a symbol in the pushback to Trump and his way of dealing with violence by threatening more and protecting himself.
In another time, your well constructed factual essay would have been construed as hyperbolic satire. Satire is clinically dead now. It will take a long time before it revives.
Thank you for this article. Excellent points are made. I believe Butler was staged. And the man in the bushes at the White House was staged too. Why does the media treat that like an assassination attempt?