A 20-year-old “lone gunman” with a blank social media history, overseas bank accounts, and encrypted communications, was allowed to come within millimeters of murdering Donald Trump — even though law enforcement had spotted him some 20 minutes before they let Trump take the stage. This in a country where memes mocking Hillary Clinton have sent a man to prison. Reports keep emerging that a cell phone which visited the shooter’s home also made visits to buildings near FBI offices. Which could totally be a coincidence. Maybe Donald Trump tried to kill himself. Because Vladimir Putin told him to. As one of my favorite journalists put it:

There is a non-negligible chance that elements of the federal government, including the Secret Service, were in on the assassination attempt that nearly took President Trump’s life

Everything in politics should take a back seat to this dark reality until we get the full truth

— Darren J. Beattie 🌐 (@DarrenJBeattie) July 22, 2024

BREAKING.🚨

The heads of the Secret Service, FBI, and Homeland Security have all declined to testify in the House on the shooting of former President Donald Trump.

The Trump assassination plot cover-up continuespic.twitter.com/abkpUeImVj

— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) July 23, 2024

If Elon Musk hadn’t bought X, we wouldn’t know any of this — any more than we knew that Hunter Biden’s laptop wasn’t Russian disinformation. The feds keep trying to force Musk out. Now you understand why.

The Spider Monkeys Keep Hurling it at the Wall

The head of the Secret Service, after yapping like a chihuaha in front of an outraged Congress, now seems ready to resign — to slink off into the desert as the scapegoat, and carry our questions to die out there with her.

A week after the shooting, the “vigorous fighter” Joe Biden whom our entire political class vouched for as hale and healthy before he melted down on TV in the debate catches “COVID,” and vanishes. A dubious note appears on X that he apparently didn’t write, and might not have signed, withdrawing from the presidential race — but remaining in office, since that’s not really as challenging. Few puppets break a sweat.

And suddenly we have a new presidential nominee in Kamala Harris, a person who polled at 1% in the Democratic primaries in 2016. Instead of facing an open convention, she is swamped overnight with $81 million dollars and all the delegates needed for nomination. Now leaks about Biden’s health keep veering between dire and vapidly cheerful — as if those in charge cannot agree on what to do with poor Uncle Fredo. There’s little chance at this point that Biden will serve through next January, whatever is wrong with him. Pray for his soul, what remains of it.

So Kamala Harris will clinch the nomination, then inherit the presidency, and run as an incumbent. (If you think she’ll be easy to beat, I have a used 2022 Red Wave in fair condition I could sell you … .)

The United Soviets of America

As a columnist at the excellent, non-partisan Unherd asks:

Has America just experienced its own version of the 1991 coup in the Soviet Union, where Mikhail Gorbachev was confined to his dacha, with all lines of communication cut, and pressured to sign a letter declaring a state of emergency? Did the staffer who published the news of Biden’s resignation act on orders from Biden himself? Or did someone else make that call? Every hour that Biden doesn’t publicly dispel these rumours adds to the feeling of unreality. Needless to say, this is not exactly a healthy state for the “world’s greatest democracy” … .

[W]hile America isn’t quite yet at the same level of crisis as the Soviet Union in 1991, even acknowledging that is to damn the US with some very faint praise indeed. It’s true that renditions of Swan Lake aren’t yet playing on an endless loop on CNN and MSNBC, urging the Soviet citizens of America to remain calm as the tanks roll up Pennsylvania Avenue. But faith is surely starting to wane.

But all isn’t just chaos, and we don’t face a bunch of elderly, nostalgic, alcoholic Soviet generals. Instead our opponents operate with astonishing efficiency and ruthlessness, as X sage Cynical Publius explains:

I have to give the Democrat Party leadership credit where credit is due.

They are savage.

Absolutely savage. Michael Corleone settling all the family business savage. Arya Stark getting revenge on the Frey clan for The Red Wedding savage. The Death Star destroying Alderaan…

— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) July 24, 2024

I See a Red Pill and I Want to Paint it Black

At this point I’m tempted, in a literal Screwtape way, to shrug and say: “Sorry, I’ve got nothing.” Especially when I see how hapless most of America’s rightful defenders are proving, as conservative Christians in Congress respond to the Trump murder attempt and the Harris coup d’etat with … strongly worded notes.

And it becomes really hard to see how, without a bunch of really heavy-handed, 1950s Technicolor The Ten Commandments-level miracles, we avoid our country’s destruction — at the hands of the people willing to lock us in our homes, close our churches, steal our elections, imprison our dissidents, infiltrate our churches, open our borders, and blow off our candidates’ heads on television. If they did all that with a tough guy like Trump out there fighting for us, what would they dare in his absence? We came within millimeters of finding out, ten days ago. If Trump loses, we will.

The black-pills are raining like pennies from Hell, and a serpentine voice keeps hissing, “When you eat of them your eyes will be opened.”

You will “see” that there’s no point in fighting. That the Principalities are just too Powerful, and God has left us to reap the fruits of our lazy sins. Maybe we blew past the “You Are Now Leaving Nineveh” sign and didn’t spot the one reading “Welcome to Sodom. Just Population: 9.”

I, for One, Welcome Our New Assyrian Overlords. Their Invasion Was the Freest and Fairest in Our Country’s History.

That black-pill you bit into reveals that you’ve got nothing left to lose. That the Whole Thing was already doomed by some decision in the past, which you had nothing to do with — perhaps before you were born. Some flaw in our Constitution, or shade of the Reformation, or perhaps something much deeper.

One thought finally raises your spirits a bit. Maybe it’s really just … totally meaningless. Nothing is “bad” or “good.” It’s just whatever evolves, what random material processes generate, in one of the billions of empty timelines snaking through the godless Multiverse. So, it doesn’t really matter what the tyrants do or don’t do, and what happens to any of us. Soon enough our tiny sparks will drown in Darwin’s toilet, and none of it will matter. So why not just crawl into that bottle over there, or take a few more pills? You can rest as Joe Biden is resting, with that same vague, crooked smile.

And that, my friends, is the agenda of our enemies, the real platform they’re running on. That’s the unseen magnet which lines up all their otherwise baffling contradictions. It explains how Queers for Palestine join hawkish NeverTrump neocons to help black Baptist pastors and gay Jesuits sell child castration to pro-Sharia illegal aliens smuggled in by Mexican cartels. It all coheres and makes sense once you understand the message they’re selling: Curse God, and die.

We must pray, really pray for the strength to answer, “No!” in thunder.

What embers can we use to kindle the fire we’ll need? Here are some glimmers of hope, some crumbs of lembas bread in Mordor, suggesting that maybe the Ring will make it to Mount Doom after all, and that eagles might spy us in time:

• They missed. Trump lives, imperfect as he may be. The Enemy didn’t plan on that, we’re certain.
• Men like Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon are willing to go to prison rather than play little squalid parts in the pornographic psychodrama conceived by our elites. While several January 6 dissidents are dead, hundreds of others still fight, still gather to sing in prison, and when they emerge ought to be embraced as national leaders. Let’s elect some of them to Congress.
• Other victims of the Deep State power-grab that hit high gear in 2020 are still out there and fighting, heroes like constitutional scholar John Eastman, attorney Sidney Powell, election fraud fighter David Clements, and General Mike Flynn. A nation with thousands of patriots like them and their supporters, and millions of private firearms, won’t be so easy to crush. Especially when the other side can’t shoot straight.

 

John Zmirak is a senior editor at The Stream and author or coauthor of 10 books, including The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism. His newest book is No Second Amendment, No First.