That Thing That Keeps Happening
I don't see an easy end to leftist violence in America
So that thing that keeps happening—it just happened again. A rabid leftist tried, and failed, for the third time in two years to kill Donald J. Trump, the President of the United States of America.
The third time that we know of. There was also an incident with a drone during the 2024 campaign that was hushed up; and we’ve all forgotten, too, about Nikita Casap, the Moldovan teenager who murdered his mother and stepfather, took their savings and tried to buy a drone he could use to drop a bomb on Trump at one of his rallies. He was going to escape to Ukraine afterwards, or so he thought, with the help of Satanists from the Order of Nine Angles.
The mind boggles, really.
At this rate, we could be on course for a half a dozen assassination attempts—ten assassination attempts?—by the end of Trump’s second term. That’s got to be some kind of record, and not the kind of record a president seeks if he can help it; although President Trump, man of great spirit that he is, is taking it pretty well.
I don’t think we can continue to rely on God almighty or the spirit of Shinzo Abe whispering on the wind, “Donuraldo, turn your head!” milliseconds before impact, or just the preternatural luck of maybe the luckiest guy in the world, to stop the unthinkable from happening.
Let’s be real. If people keep taking shots, the law of probability says someone will finally hit the mark.
One thing we obviously can’t rely on is the Secret Service. What a bunch of amateurs. Their security cordon at the Washington Hotel was defeated by an audacious bit of Naruto-running on the part of gunman Cole Thomas Allen. Watch the video: It’s inconceivable that such a thing could happen.
Except it isn’t. A man with a shotgun, a handgun and two knives just Naruto-ran through a Secret Service checkpoint manned by multiple agents, started shooting and injured one of them before being taken down himself.
What next? Perhaps the fourth would-be assassin will moonwalk past the Men and (lamentably still) Women In Black, grab his crotch and shout “EEE-HEE!” before opening fire?
Hold on, I’m just placing a bet on Polymarket. Be right back…
But seriously, at this stage, if you don’t laugh, the only other option is to cry.
What a sorry fucking mess.
Someone—I think it was Mike Cernovich—said the time for games is over. Trump needs to be surrounded by the biggest badasses in America, by tattoo-covered skullcrushers visibly armed to the teeth and visibly tattooed. Delta Force, Navy Seals, Blackwater, the British East India Company—it doesn’t matter. I couldn’t agree more. Trump needs a retinue of spandex-clad Macho Men toting M-60s, bazookas and flamethrowers around him at all times. The vibe needs to be “Viking chieftain,” “warlord of the post-apocalyptic wasteland”—something like that.
Mainstream commentary on this third attempt has been predictable in its emphases and its conclusions.
My favorite assessment came from Robert Reich—little Robert Reich, tiny Robert Reich, so small he could fit in a kangaroo’s pouch Robert Reich.
In an opinion piece for The Guardian, Reich blamed… you guessed it, Donald Trump! for the attempt on his own life.
Reich lamented the days when he was Labor Secretary and “the Washington press corps and Washington officials basked in each other’s celebrity” at the Correspondents’ Dinner; when the most uncomfortable thing about the night was wearing a child’s tuxedo and having to exchange pleasantries with people who’d said you’d be better as an extra in Return of the Jedi than a member of Bill Clinton’s cabinet.
“Trump has changed much of this,” Reich says, by bringing “grim hostility” to journalism, taunting hacks with names like “piggy” and barring outlets he doesn’t like from the White House.
“There is a close relationship between the Trump era and violence,” Reich opines, before stopping himself briefly to say “the violence of the Trump administration” is “no justification for Saturday’s attack.”
But then he completely contradicts himself and just says it: Yes, Trump is responsible.
“He has changed the script in Washington. He has ushered in an America that is more divided, distrustful and hostile; an America where political opponents are enemies to be overcome and destroyed instead of debated and challenged at the ballot box.”
Barry Soweto, a man I’m told was once the President himself, although I can’t be sure, was quick to condemn the violence. But conspicuous in its absence from his public non-statement was any mention of how the gunman was obviously a radical leftist like the other two—and indeed more or less all the perpetrators of political violence in America today.
No matter.
We know exactly what they’re doing—Robert Reich, Obama, the Democrats, the mainstream media—and why they’re doing it. We’ve seen these triangulations before. The script is written. They don’t want the violence to stop. They want it to work.
