Speaking of Trust: The Week that Strained All Credulity
Nothing is Quite What it Seems.
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Tonight’s program is devoted to figuring out what happened Saturday. Please note that I had a technical issue in the third segment (the one with my gritty analysis); I recorded it twice and it happened twice and I cannot record it a third time tonight. The audio is choppy with lots of little dropouts, but the data is there.
I need to get some R&R and get back to wrapping the Trust Yourself readings.
I mention the Brasscheck video. Here it is. As I may have mentioned, I don’t care that he’s a Trump supporter unless that biases his analysis — and don’t see it doing so. I am interested in his breakdown of the three potential scenarios he sees, which is exactly the kind of approach I use.
I’ll be back another time with my planned tributes to labor organizer Jane McAlevey and sex advice radio star Dr. Ruth Westheimer. The STARCAST below gives my analysis of the charts from Monday night. I give a succinct version at the end of the third segment with its choppy audio.
Good night, good weekend and please heed the Cap New Moon. This will affect all of us, especially the unstable or those who are on the edge.
— efc
Read Jane’s obituary in The New York Times.
Finished, first time i've done one of your shows in one segment.
Glad to see you do see some things unaccounted for by Ken McCarthy ("Brasscheck."). Particularly the "circle and move' maneuver by the USSS which ... takes a break, in violation of the rules, so that Trump can do a pose. But you leave an aspect of that unaddressed: How did Trump *know* there wasn't another shooter out there, if he wasn't in on it? I forgot who said this, but he/she said that a trained military person would have a hard time even standing up after a near-miss or even limited impact, let alone pose like that. Unless absolute safety was guaranteed!!
Domcrin makes a really good point in an earlier comment.
"The wound to that part of Trumps ear would have absolutely gushed blood but no sign on his hand or shirt collar, just some paint marks across his cheek. "
If the blood wasn't fake, why did the bleeding stop so fast? Even if this was a cut inflicted by a razor-like dart? I've accidentally touched the edge of a razor blade, with a tip of a finger, and had bleeding which lasted not only 90 seconds (the time he was down) but 5 minutes. There should have been a lot more blood on his ear and indeed collar and beyond. One can argue there is no blood on his hand because his ear didn't start bleeding right away, not my experience with razor blades, but this doesn't explain the lack of stains or the limited amount of blood.
All the perspectives you presented were by Republicans. You stated that they are the only ones to talk about the matter critically, that Democrats complained about the shooter missing. Eh? The only perspectives are Democrats and Republicans? How about the many people who think this entire thing was a show, people like Tim Truth and Ryan Cristian (The Last American Vagabond)? How about Kit Knightly of Off Guardian (problematic for sure), who wrote this item,
https://off-guardian.org/2024/07/17/trump-assassination-attempt-the-stories-so-far/
Trump Assassination Attempt – The stories so far. Are we witnessing the birth of a new meta for propaganda narratives? Kit Knightly, 7/17/24. Conclusion:
"Meanwhile the “left”, fresh from four years of demonizing “anti-vaxxers” and “election deniers” can suddenly be hoist by their own petard and called “assassination deniers” by the right. It can be argued that supplying the “Left” with their own “conspiracy theories” is a potential stroke of genius, because now any social media crackdown on “extreme language” or “denial” (or whatever they choose to call it) can hit both “sides” equally and be spared accusations of bias, and will always be supported by one side of this fake divide.
Both “Left” and “Right” are also pretty clear right now on whose stock has risen most as a result of this – Trump. Obviously. It makes him look tough and brave, paralleling the shooting of Ronald Reagan in 1981. It’s given him an iconic image that speaks wordlessly to the deep heart of America – bloody but unbowed, fist-raised in defiance.
And, if you believe the Deep State pulled the trigger, it also furthers Trump’s (unearned & increasingly ridiculous) reputation as some kind of threat to the establishment. Combine this with Biden’s disastrous debate performance, the (mysteriously halted) talk of taking him off the ticket, and anonymous Democrat insiders reportedly “resigned” to defeat and it’s not hard to see this might be part of the groundwork being laid for a second Trump term.
Barring future developments of course. Oh, and it’s also helping to heat up divisive “civil war” rhetoric.…which might be the entire point. How better to finally take down the old empire & instate the new “improved” version a little further east?"
So much pantomime you could figure several stories out in the melee. Most significant but least noticed points in this pantomime: The iconic photo of Trump fist pumping, how the flag appears from nowhere. How the photographer was allowed to photograph at the point when every single person was told to get down.
The police marksmen on the roof fires the only heard gun shots just at the point of Trump touching his ear.
He fires 3 shots, the gun moving on recoil but shooting wildly off target on the shots 2 & 3.
The wound to that part of Trumps ear would have absolutely gushed blood but no sign on his hand or shirt collar, just some paint marks across his cheek.