There exists a subterranean world where pathological fantasies disguised as ideas are churned out by crooks and half-educated fanatics for the benefit of the ignorant and superstitious. There are times when this underworld emerges from the depths and suddenly fascinates, captures, and dominates multitudes of usually sane and rational people, who thereupon take leave of their sanity and responsibility.
Norman Cohn[i]
Once upon a time the communist parties of Europe, under Stalin’s direction, facilitated the circulation of conspiracy theories in the Soviet Union and its satellites. This was intentionally done to feed paranoia and hysteria, blotting out reason. People became demoralized. Many were disoriented. Scapegoating the innocent kept the Communist Party safe. Cohn tells the story of a Russian Orthodox priest who denounced The Protocols of the Elders of Zion from the pulpit after the fall of the Soviet Union. Cohn wrote, “He knew he was risking his life – and so he was: his body was found with the skull smashed in.”[ii]
It is alarming to find that conspiracy theory has become a kind of ideology which continues to gain traction in America and Europe. It fosters a kind of hysteria on the left and the right. The left says that Trump is conspiring at a dictatorship. The right says the “deep state” is conspiring to destroy America (without properly defining what the deep state is). Most think of an elite capitalist conspiracy – of evil bankers, corporations, oil companies, or the nefarious “globalists.” Evil motives are often ascribed to specific individuals, like Donald Trump or Klaus Schwab. Yet the “fascist” or “globalist” structures allegedly supporting these individuals are indistinct. Who exactly is doing all this? Why are they doing it?
Some “experts” claim to have special insights. Professor Barbara F. Walter has argued that the United States is coming dangerously close to a civil war. In a book titled How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them, she says there are identifiable warning signs. In 1994 the U.S. Government created a Political Instability Task Force for predicting what countries might become unstable and fall apart. The Task Force was surprised to find that the two most important factors for predicting a civil war were (1) a bad mix of authoritarianism with liberal democracy; and (2) political party affiliation based on ethnic, religious, or racial identity.
Professor Walter thinks that Donald Trump is following a white supremacist strategy. Blinded by her own leftism, Walter thinks Trump is out to weaken American institutions. She attaches no importance to the illegal mass importation of nonwhites into a majority white country. Her assumption is that anyone who objects is a deplorable. It does not occur to this “expert” on civil war that taxpayers must foot the bill for millions of illegals pouring in; that crime is accelerating; that cities are going broke; that unskilled American workers will receive lower wages because of the influx of unskilled illegals; that this mixing of illegals and citizens is itself an occasion for civil war – where the native feels that he is losing his country to an alien invasion. Professor Walter evidently thinks that anyone who objects to ten million illegals pouring over the border is a white supremacist. In the mind of this professorial Mimsy, Americans are obligated to open their country to all comers. And America’s ruling Democratic elite agrees with Professor Walter. Why should Americans have a nice country, after all? Let’s ruin the country by bringing in an indigent horde from abroad and condemn the native population as racist. (Oh yes, that will shut them up, since laws against “racism” will be enforced.)
Professor Walter, of course, is a classic paranoid who sees Nazis under the bed. MAGA is white supremacist. Trump is like Hitler. And America is threatened with civil war. It’s a very bad situation, to be sure. Professor Walter also worries about the veterans who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan. We have had more than twenty years of returning soldiers, she says. And this “creates a ready-made subset of the population that you can recruit from.”[iii] Alas, our veterans are ready to join the ranks of Trump’s insurgent army. And yet, it is the left that has overthrown the law of the land by opening the border to millions of illegal aliens. By what right do they suspend the laws regulating immigration? And then, to say that Trump wants to overthrow the rule of law! How is this honest?
A Bungled Assassination
Thomas Crooks used a rifle to shoot Donald Trump in the ear. He was aiming for Trump’s head, but he missed. Crooks fired eight shots that left one bystander dead and two seriously wounded. We know little about the shooter, except that he gave money to the Progressive Turnout Project. In other words, the would-be assassin (Thomas Crooks) was a political supporter of the Democratic Party. Contrary to Professor Walter’s expectation, Crooks was not a soldier who had returned from fighting in Iraq or Afghanistan. He was a twenty-year-old college student with an associate degree in engineering science from the Community College of Allegheny. According to the BBC, Crooks graduated “with high honours.”[iv]
I must argue, of course, that Thomas Crooks was not a normal person. Instead of suffering from PTSD after fighting abroad, he was apparently suffering from DEI after being indoctrinated at home. The violent threat, in this instance, was not coming from MAGA. It was coming from a university-trained supporter of the Progressive Turnout Project.
Since Crooks spent most of his life in school, being educated by people like Professor Walter, it is fitting I should comment further on the mentality that Walter represents. As noted earlier, Professor Walter is a paranoid hysteric who thinks white supremacists are running the Republican Party. This is exactly the kind of hysteria, the kind of exaggeration, that starts civil wars. Without realizing it, Professor Walter is a leftwing mirror image of those who predicate themselves on The Turner Diaries. Instead of being a racial bigot, Professor Walter is an ideological bigot, incapable of being fair to conservatives.
What Professor Walter has done to Trump and his followers is what The Protocols of the Elders of Zion did to the Jews. She has created her own blood libel. The MAGA voter is already, in her mind, a terrorist and an assassin ready to start a civil war. Here is an elegant paranoia, with academic credentials. And it is her paranoia that makes Professor Walter dangerous. Why is paranoia dangerous? Because twenty percent of all homicides in America are committed by paranoids. As Dr. Phillip J. Resnick noted, “A crescendo of paranoid fear sharply increases the likelihood that a person will kill his (her) misperceived persecutor. Persecutory delusions are more likely to lead to homicide than any other psychiatric symptom.” According to Resnick the most common paranoid motive for murder is “the misperceived need to defend oneself.”[v]
In this context, we are very lucky that the attempt on Trump’s life failed, since a successful assassination might have ignited a wave of paranoid hysteria on the right. Admittedly, people on the right have suffered from real persecution from elite institutions, especially in the case of January 6. Consequently, there is a rightwing tendency to interpret the assassination attempt on Trump as a “deep state” conspiracy. Adding to this reciprocal rightwing paranoia, Americans have been conditioned, since 1963, to scoff at the idea that a “lone gunman” would attack a president or a presidential candidate. Therefore, some have suggested Thomas Crooks was a victim of MK-Ultra mind control. Others have alleged there was “a second shooter.” This mirrors Democratic paranoia regarding the assassinations of JFK and RFK. What stuck in the craw of many Democrats was the fact that Lee Harvey Oswald and Sirhan Sirhan were communists. This is something the leftist admirers of the Kennedy’s could never accept. Therefore, elaborate conspiracy theories exonerating the real assassins were readily accepted (not because they were plausible, but because they were psychologically satisfying).
Psychologically, many people cannot accept the idea that presidents or presidential candidates can be gunned down by unbalanced assailants. The thought that a lunatic can take the life of an important leader is painful. It is less painful to imagine a meticulously planned assassination conspiracy. A great man should not be the victim of an inferior person. And yet, this is what has happened in history – again and again.
According to Alex Jones, who has infected millions with his grotesquely paranoid worldview, Trump is the target of an elaborate conspiracy that will stop at nothing. Jones says the next assassination attempt on Trump will employ a nuclear device. “I’m sitting here believing we’re about to have a nuclear war,” Jones told comedian Tim Dillon. “They’ve already tried to kill Trump, they’re going to do it again and so I feel guilty literally talking to you and saying we’re about to see the end of civilization.” Jones went on to say, “I’m literally having nightmares every night. I’m literally preparing to die and sitting there watching everybody going and playing golf and watching Netflix thinking it’s all a f–king joke.”[vi]
According to Jones, “They’re going to power-outage us, they’re going to do a cyberattack, they’re going to kill Trump, and I’ll just say that. They are going to kill Trump. I think he’s dead.”[vii] Here is a hysteria so cowardly as to make an old woman blush. Jones needs a dirty sock stuffed into his foul mouth. American audiences have not heard such a crybaby since the execrable Dr. Smith last bemoaned his fate on that old television series, Lost in Space. His staple line was, “Oh the pain, the pain of it all!”
The deep state is not going to assassinate Trump with a nuke. And there is no evidence that anyone hired Thomas Crooks. Most assassinations or assassination attempts are carried out by screwballs. Ten shooters have taken aim at presidents or presidential candidates during the past 200 years. What follows is eight of the ten cases where no conspiracy is indicated:
CASE 1: President James A. Garfield was fatally shot by Charles J. Guiteau on 30 June 1882. Guiteau was a delusional former member of a communistic cult[viii] who had failed as a lawyer and was financially ruined by the many people he cheated as a dishonest bill collector. In 1880, Guiteau believed he was responsible for James A. Garfield’s election victory (which he had nothing to do with). He expected Garfield to reward him. When he was denied an ambassadorship, Guiteau got a revolver and shot Garfield at 9:30 am as he waited to board a train at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington, D.C.
CASE 2: President William McKinley was fatally shot and wounded by Leon Czolgosz, an anarchist obsessed with social inequality. In 1898 Czolgosz suffered a “nervous breakdown,” returned to the family farm where he began reading anarchist literature. On 6 September 1901 President McKinley was having a “meet and greet” at the Pan-American Exposition where Czolgosz got into the receiving line. When it was his turn to shake the president’s hand he put two bullets into McKinley.
CASE 3: Teddy Roosevelt was shot on 14 October 1912 while campaigning for the presidency. He was shot in Milwaukee by former saloonkeeper John Schrank. Schrank claimed that McKinley’s ghost had told him Roosevelt was his murderer and therefore needed to be stopped. The court established that Schrank was insane and he was committed to the Central State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, where he remained until his death in 1943.
CASE 4: On 15 February 1933 President-elect Franklin Roosevelt was shot at by Giuseppe “Joe” Zangara after a speech in Miami. Zangara was an Italian immigrant and unemployed bricklayer. Zangara later said he wanted to kill Roosevelt because he “represented capitalism.” Psychiatrists who later examined Zangara said he had “a psychopathic personality.” The Chicago Tribune called him “a mental defective” and “a maniac.”
CASE 5: On 15 May 1972 Arthur Bremer shot presidential candidate George Wallace. Bremer had no friends in high school, being shunned and ostracized by his peers. When working as a busboy at the Milwaukee Athletic Club he was demoted to kitchen work for talking to himself and marching in tune with the music played in the dining room. He stalked President Nixon, contemplated becoming a mass shooter, and was diagnosed with schizoid personality disorder and paranoia.
CASE 6: On 5 September 1975, Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, a member of the Manson Family, attempted to assassinate President Gerald Ford in Sacramento. Fromme attempted to fire a M1911 pistol at close range, but she forgot to chamber a round before pulling the trigger. Fromme believed that smog was about to destroy the California redwoods and shooting Ford would save the trees.
CASE 7: On 22 September 1975, Sara Jane Moore attempted to assassinate President Gerald Ford with a .38 Special in San Francisco. Moore was divorced five times, was obsessed with Patty Hearst, and worked as an FBI informant. Moore was later described by President Ford as “off her mind.”
CASE 8: On 30 March 1981 John Hinckley, Jr., shot President Ronald Reagan to impress actress Jodie Foster – an obsession he developed after seeing the 1976 film Taxi Driver. Hinckley was found not guilty by reason of insanity on 21 June 1981.
Hysterics like Alex Jones will have nothing to do with this history. A screwball takes a shot at a presidential candidate, and a screwball weaves a conspiracy theory into the event. The crackpot theorist airbrushes out the crackpot shooter. People like Jones never consider the Law of Unintended Consequences because paranoia has no use for such a law. If something bad happens, somebody willed it. A paranoid never stops to think that good motives can cause bad outcomes. At the same time, bad motives can lead to good outcomes. Consider, for a moment, the role of greed in Adam Smith’s “invisible hand,” where businessmen provide unintended benefits to people when they pursue their own selfish interests. Smith suggested that a man, acting in the market, seeking only his own gain, is “led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.”[ix] In other words, outcomes are not always governed by intentions.
In 1936, sociologist Robert K. Merton wrote an influential article titled “The Unanticipated Consequences of Purposive Social Action.” Merton outlined five kinds of unintended consequence: (1) unintended outcomes from ignorance; (2) unintended outcomes from bungling; (3) unintended outcomes from an “imperious immediacy of interest” in which negative consequences are not considered; (4) unintended outcomes from values that destroy themselves (e.g., as when frugality leads to wealth and an end to frugality); and (5) outcomes due to self-defeating predictions.
In the case of Thomas Crooks, we have someone who inadvertently helped the person he was trying to assassinate. By bungling the assassination, by grazing Donald Trump with that first bullet, Crooks strengthened Trump. What kind of conspiracy strengthens its enemies? One can only say: “Help yourselves, bunglers. Go to!”
In my view, the only significant conspiracy of the last hundred years has been that of the communist movement. This movement’s tentacles include front groups, agents of influence, and foreign-based intelligence networks. More than four decades ago I attended a communist meeting where the speaker talked of “taking over the Democratic Party through its left wing and electing a stealth communist president.” Surely, the anti-American trajectory of the Democratic Party can only be explained by the presence of communist infiltrators in its top ranks. Would these infiltrators have engaged someone like Thomas Crooks to assassinate Donald Trump? I do not think so, since persons of this type are notoriously cautious. Even now, the party snakes have slithered into the dark as if to concentrate on internal problems, like their senile party leader. How odd, indeed, that Biden would disappear four days after the unsuccessful attempt on Trump’s life, reportedly contracting Covid-19 only to bow out of the race one month before the Democratic Convention.
According to the Daily Mail, There are rumors that Biden is seriously ill. President Biden posted his decision to withdraw from the race on X instead of making a speech or holding a press conference. Two days later, no explanation has been given by President Biden. The anti-Biden leftist, Glenn Greenwald wrote, “There’s a soft civil war happening in the deep state….”
Meanwhile, Vice President Harris has announced her candidacy and is gathering delegates. Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has also been quietly organizing her bid for the Democratic nomination. Smart Democrats know the party is vulnerable in the wake Trump’s near brush with death because Democratic politicians have been likening Trump to Hitler. They sense a shift in the public mood. People may not want to hear that kind of rhetoric. A Politico.com piece, written seven months ago, reported, “In most situations, comparing a political opponent to Adolf Hitler might seem like an extraordinary step. For Joe Biden’s campaign, it has become part of the routine of running against Donald Trump.”[x]
The Democrats are vulnerable on another score. According to Fox News, 1 in 3 Democrats believe Trump faked the assassination attempt.[xi] This shows that the rhetoric against Trump has created mass hysteria on the Democratic left. Yet, 2 in 3 Democrats do not share this view. One may ask what this portends? The anti-Trump hysterics, at this point, must be very repulsive indeed to the party’s majority. Can the Democrats win voters by likening Trump to Hitler after someone tried to kill Trump with a rifle? Or will this overblown rhetoric finally make the voters queasy with disgust?
The Biden campaign claims that Donald Trump has been “running for president on the promise to rule as a dictator and threaten American democracy.”[xii] Did Thomas Crooks fire eight rounds at Donald Trump because he sincerely believed Trump was planning to be a dictator? Was Thomas Crooks a paranoid hysteric who heard voices telling him to do bad things? The likelihood of civil war, of course, may depend on a related question: Do you hear the voices too?
Links and Notes
[i] Norman Cohn, Warrant for Genocide: The Myth of the Jewish World Conspiracy and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion (London: Serif, 2001), p. xiv.
[ii] Ibid, p. xv.
[iii] ‘They are preparing for war’: An expert on civil wars discusses where political extremists are taking this country – The Washington Post
[iv] Thomas Matthew Crooks: What we know about Donald Trump’s attacker (bbc.com)
[v] From paranoid fear to completed homicide | MDedge Psychiatry
[vi] https://www.mediaite.com/politics/alex-jones-gives-wild-post-trump-assassination-attempt-interview-declares-hes-prepared-to-die-it-aint-a-fcking-joke/
[vii] Ibid.
[viii] The Oneida Community was founded by John Humphrey Noyes in 1848 near Oneida, New York. They believed that Jesus returned in A.D., opening the way for Jesus’s millennial kingdom for anyone bold enough to make a utopian experiment. The sect was communistic, believing in group marriage and communal property. The Oneida Community dissolved in 1881, becoming a joint-stock company that morphed into a silverware company, Odieda Ltd.
[ix] Adam Smith, An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (Indianapolis: Oxford University Press, 1976) p. 456.
[x] https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/19/biden-trump-hitler-00132367
[xi] https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/1-3-democrats-believe-trump-faked-assassination-attempt-i-talked-one-them
[xii] Ibid.
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180 responses to “Do You Hear the Voices Too?”
When it comes to communist (understand Russian KGB communist) methods and operations, nothing is a conspiracy theory – all is considered as possibilities of a potential or actual operation.
And moreover, NOTHING moves in DC without the KGB Kremlin giving approval…(this may seem as far fetched to some, but those who DO UNDERSTAND the level of communist penetration of the US etc. governments, they would know this is the truth). Evil times are here.
@Concerned . Do you have your own blog or maybe substack where you write? I would definitely follow and support your work. I always look forward to reading your replies on here.
Dear Ma’am,
if you truly knew, you would know by the grace of God what to do, but preferable is the point that secrecy is preferred at this time, too many eyes and ears of the dishonest…not to be overall excessively cautious, but the task there is is the service to God first, which of course includes these acts of charity towards the fellow men who may not know or understand the depths of the implications and or evils of communism.
But the most painful experience teaches that, no matter what they may suspect or not, the truth cannot be silenced. At this time there is no need to know these things, but learn the truth is essential.
CONCERNED: I am worried about your sanity. The KGB is a powerful organization, but it does not control everything that happens — in Moscow or in Washington, D.C. Plenty of movement takes place in America’s capital without the Kremlin’s approval. If you were right, 900 Russian soldiers per day would not be dying in Ukraine.
We must guard against the lunacy of seeing a communist behind every action, or under every bed.
Easy now Jeff. Please stop and consider the editing protocols on this blog over time. There is an incentive to blame everything on Russia and China, or else be censored. You have commented that Communists have subverted US government, along with states and local governments. You seem more defensive of corporations, as if to criticize them is to attack capitalism. So, whether you acknowledge that or not, and I would be interested in any qualification if need be, but do you attribute the recent failure of the Secret Service to incompetence, or to infiltration?
I do not censor people for not agreeing with my take on Russia and China. I censor them for very crazy, irresponsible, remarks; for not answering my questions honestly; for not using ad hominem arguments; for arguing dishonestly. I will not tolerate people ccoming here and making personal remarks, or starting religious controversies, are blasting paranoid lunacy all over the discussion board. I want people to give their best, and to think things through rationally. Furthermore, I do not want this site to become a gathering place for lunatics, for people with bad judgment. We all make mistakes; but lunacy is not a mistake. It is a condition. And it discredits those who are too closely associated with it.
As tiresome as it is to explain, I do not defend corporations. Besides, which corporations do I defend? What I do not like is a conspiracy theory mentality that stupidly takes the communist line that all corporations are evil, that rich people want to kill us off. It is popular to demonize corporations today. It is a leftist staple and now it is a staple of the right. Yet a corporation is a private sector entity. It is not dangerous in the way a political movement or government can be dangerous. I make this distinction for those who treat corporations as if they were states in themselves, plotting coups and destroying the environment. There are bad people. Corporations are just organizations that sometimes have bad people running them.
As for the Secret Service, I defer to an expert on that subject — Dan Bongino. He says the Trump shooting reflects incompetence and, of course, degenerative DEI personnel choices. Wokeism is linked to communism, of course, and the management of the Secret Service under Biden comes from that crowd. But as Bongino says, there is no evidence that anyone in the Secret Service was working with Thomas Crooks.
Dear Mr. Nyquist,
the KGB has worked decades to fully take over and infiltrate various western governments, including the US government, and this either by policy and subversion, or both, so the above argument is not to be taken verbatim, but only as an outcome, meaning the results of actions of various policy centers, including the US government, legislature, executive and judicial – and if you consider them as a whole, they are nothing but favorable to the overall KGB design to take over the whole world by communism.
So they don’t need to fully control the whole government, but to have enough controlled opposition members to prevent any successful opposition to take place, to their communist operations. And yes, this way they dictate all that take place in DC.
The hope is that this will suffice for an explanation, confirmed for example by Congressional testimony of Gen. Jan Sejna on the subject of communist (KGB etc.) subversion of government, press, and all else that is influential in the public life.
When you realize that there are no real anti-communist policies of the state, and they are needed urgently, then you will know that the KGB is in charge – they reap the results of their long-term strategy, the target country is crippled, being destroyed.
The U.S. Constitution is fundamentally anticommunist without even having to mention the word “communism.” And all our federal officials are sworn to uphold and defend the Constitution. I think we should remember that there are many legal safeguards still in place, and that we are not living under a police state (yet). Of course, we are beginning to see certain absuses of office, selective prosecutions under color of law. But that is still not a police state. It is something that can still be corrected.
The real problem in this country is the blindness of the people. They do not know what communism is. They do not understand the issues, or the thing that is threatening them. The communists live every day in fear that the American people will begin to notice them, and smell them, and turn on them. In reality there are very few deeply committed communists. However, there is a growing army of useful idiots who would think very differently if they understood what was happening. What is decisive in all this is not the KGB. What is decisive is the wilfull ignorance of the many.
I don’t know if Concerned is saying they “control everything” – however, from what I know about how they operate behind the scenes, using leverage and control over massive amounts of people in power, they do have a large influence network that, in the aggregate, is tremendously powerful.
I would agree with Concerned’s general statement that, on the largest issues, they are capable of wielding incredible influence, which, if not capable of being able to DO what they want, at the very least capable of stopping things they do not want. I think about the incredible opposition to every one of Trump’s policies. Whittaker Chambers talked about the enormous invisible force arrayed against him.
It is something like a great wind – of course a wind can not knock a tree down, but it can channel and guide in a specific direction. There is conceptual space between “they control everything” and “they control nothing”. They have massive influence. Obama populated the government with loyalists. He did not come up with the names of those people, they were given to him. And by who? Most likely the same people who wrote his speeches, which a psychologist wrote a 60-page paper saying they contained “black ops hypnosis” techniques pioneered by Milton Erickson. I am closer to Concerned in that I believe the truth is far darker than we think. Who killed Breitbart? Was it a simple heart attack? Why did his coroner die as well? Why did 3 of Obama’s alleged lovers die, and the mother of one point the finger at him? Why did the boyfriend of Kelly Loefler’s daughter die in a car crash right at the moment that Trump was trying to get Loeffler to come out strongly against the results? There are many times when I have sensed some hidden, powerful force which emerges at certain times.
Communists are the best of the best in terms of the techniques they use. They work by conspiracy precisely so that they can call their detractors paranoid; their agents pose as non-Communists which forces analysts to adopt “some” level of what some might call paranoia, yet the analyst must also maintain enough control to calibrate it correctly. No one will ever get that calibration 100% correct, it is impossible.
We already know how they work, how they work through agents of influence, politicians, behind articles created by the KGB and funneled into Western papers, through ideologies created in KGB labs and then released. I don’t think they control everything, but their influence in the halls of American power is far greater than I think we are led to believe. I just saw an article lamenting how the US Navy only built 3 or 4 of the Seawolves submarines which would have posed a danger to Russia and China, and instead poured money into aircraft carriers which are now vulnerable to missiles like the DF-21D.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/us-navys-seawolf-class-submarine-nightmare-awful-reality-209910
This pattern can be found across all spheres of US military decision-making. This is influence. This is power. They don’t control everything, but I do believe the situation is worse than we think.
I have always emphasized the influence and reach of the communists. But never say that they control everything, or that nothing happens without their connivance. Never say that. We need to be careful in our use of language if we are to be taken seriously.
@Jeff.Nyquist: I think that CONCERNED and Perseus are correct. The global communists don’t have to fully control everything but they can exert absolute power when needed behind the scenes. The communists are practically using global events to camouflage their actual operations. In the case of Ukraine, we are distracted by the event to forget about the open Southern borders and secret military bases along Latin America to facilitate mass migration.
What we should ask is why global elites love communism so much?
The ancestors of these elites were making money from capitalism but their children want to turn the world socialist. Do these elites destroy capitalism out of spite against their parents? I believe that the cause of communism destroying lives today has origins from people having personal struggles. Communism resembles the human tantrum of revolution as seen in the French Revolution. Basically, people just want to tear the world down and live back in the good old days of feudalistic communities.
Our elites are educated in schools. Their ideas were formed by the prevailing materialist and socialist thinking taught in those schools. It may be as simple as that.
A very nice piece of music. Hopefully not a final farewell.
Of concern.
https://www.reuters.com/world/russia-chinese-nuclear-capable-bombers-patrol-near-united-states-2024-07-25/
Irrespective of whether it was a conspiracy or merely a deranged individual, the apparent poor planning with respect to covering all the rooftops in the vicinity of the Trump speech, the lack of communication between the Secret Service and local and state police, and the inept response of the Secret Service agents in protecting the ex-President’s body after the shooting started speak poorly about the preparedness and competency of Federal law enforcement agencies. The same mental sloppiness, combined with DEI initiatives ensuring that the most competent are not hired nor placed in positions of responsibility and authority, infects our armed forces as well.
Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran, along with their Communist and radical Muslim allies, observe the incompetence of the United States government.
I think people have built up the Secret Service into something it may never have been. Imagine all the mistakes that have been made by the Secret Service in the past that nobody noticed. Why would anyone notice such mistakes? Because if nobody tries to kill a president, the mistakes do not come to light.
So it seems Crooks was allegedly supporting the KGB asset Biden…
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/report-gab-founder-andrew-torba-allegedly-finds-evidence/
There are indications from this post linked above, if this is the true account of Crooks (and there is no indication why it wouldn’t be, so far), that he was wearing the mask even when it was no longer mandatory (there were some of his former classmates confirming this), and here in this post it states that he was supporting the tyrannical Biden’s injection mandates…so this is at least some kind of confirmation of his leftist pro-communist ideological conviction and subsequently the motive.
There is still more to come, no doubt, but the overall analysis makes sense more and more now.
CONCERED is losing his mind and THE is trying to pretend that he is normal. This is a bizarre comment section this week. Let’s get back to the norm here as there is already too much confusion in the world.
Your subjective assertion is a badge of honor, but one can easily forgo it anyway…there is no value in it, and God knows the truth.
Calling names without proper respect and decency of manners, and without anything else to offer, yes, it must be that the communists have miscalculated the results, and then the democrats, the pretenders of “righteousness” as their ploy is now, are not happy to be seen for who in truth they are…
So to discredit the facts and ultimately the unfavorable truth is their objective…and not to believe it doesn’t automatically mean that it is not the truth, and it is not enough to just claim that it is not to be believed, just because you says so….
CONCERNED: I do not think CMA was calling you names. I think he was making a painfully honest assessment. In truth, nobody knows who you are. But people know who I am. They know this site. And I have come to suspect that certain lunatics on this discussion board are placed here with the intention of making me look like a nut (by association). This is done by presenting a parody of the rightwing Christian conspiracy theorist. This could be a very effective way of making fun of me and my readers. It might even be an effective technique for deterring people from reading my essays. The looked-for effect goes something like this: “If these are the kind of readers Nyquist attracts, then he is not worth reading.” So it is alarming when a sincere person like yourself begins to sound like a paranoid schizophrenic. When people have that reaction to you, then you are doing harm to the message — and to me, personally.
Being an intellectual outcast puts me at a disadvantage in trying to reach normal people. Whatever errors I make, or difficulties I have in understanding that enemy, I am striving for knowledge and understanding. What I need most of all are partners in that striving. Because the work of combating an enemy depends on understanding that enemy.
I hope you understand this.
No, I was not calling you names. You are obviously someone of very high intellect and contribute well to this site. Today you just don’t seem like yourself and your writing, even to me, as someone whose intellect is on the other end of the bookshelf, seemed like paranoid rambling word salad. So my point was get back to being your old self. Also, for the record, I am a 61 year old woman.
I began this article with a question: “Do you hear the voices too?” I thought it was appropriate to allow certain cameo performances by the usual suspects. And they have obliged me wonderfully.
I personally do not think Concerned is crazy.. their rhetoric has echoes of straight-line old-school Catholic anti-Communist thought that mirrors Veronica Lueken of the Bayside prophecies. I generally find these types quite accurate as to their understanding of the depths of the evil of the Communist threat, whereas almost everyone else downplays it or does not understand the depravity.
Bayside prophecies: http://Www.tldm.org
My only relevant dividing line is whether I think someone is sincere and whether I think they are “directionally” accurate. No one will ever analyze Communist operations with 100% accuracy. There are theories I disagree with, such as Concerned’s theories about Trump being a possible Russian agent, based upon his trips there and business dealings, but the core of the mental framework is accurate in my opinion.
That being said, I completely understand Jeff’s point as well; seeing as it is his blog, he is associated, whether by choice or not, with the commenters’ words, and thus has other factors to take into consideration, as credibility is quite important to a writer trying to reach many with a message.
Concerned isn’t crazy.
Those Bayside Prophecy people used to write to me when I was writing fur WorldNetDaily more than twenty years ago. The material they sent was lunacy. I read prophecies that could not be true, that did not take place, that will never take place. The Bayside Prophecies are not recognized by the Church. In what sense are they even Catholic? But no, please don’t answer that question. I think you must be making fun of Catholics. To say you think someone is not crazy, then compare them to Veronica lueken, is like pouring gasoline on a house fire.
Big thumbs down on Bayside, it’s just as Jeff said, unfulfilled prophecies, ridiculous predictions , I think date setting too.
A good Catholic blogger wrote this:
https://unamsanctamcatholicam.com/2023/08/27/problems-with-the-bayside-apparitions/
“ What you are about to read represents probably the biggest waste of time in my life, though that does not mean it will be a waste for time for you. This is my magnum opus against the false and ridiculous Bayside apparitions.
For the past three years I have spent my spare time reading through every single message of Bayside, going all the way back to the late 1960s. Thousands of them. The monotony. The stupidity. The banality. It was horrendous, mind-numbing work, and many times friends of mine urged me to just drop it and move on to something more rewarding. It is waste for two reasons—one, just wasting my years reading all these banal, stupid messages; and two, the fact that, for those caught up in Bayside, nothing will convince them otherwise. People who are sold out to questionable apparitions are obstinate in their stubbornness and exceptional in their ability to fabricate excuses and work-arounds for all the problems that inevitably crop up when one puts ones faith in something so inherently dumb. So yes, I fear this effort was a waste. But, who knows. God may bring something fruitful from it.”
This is exactly right. The Bayside Prophecies are awful.
First joint Russia-China bomber patrol in NA airspace. Saw many articles about this, apparently the journalists actually find this newsworthy.
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/07/24/politics/norad-russian-chinese-bombers-alaska
China and Russia are together in threatening us. This is what our political culture has been trying to deny for many years. And yet, there it is.
I remember watching a presentation recently by Edward Jay Epstein on Nosenko and Golitsyn. He calls him “a little crazy” and uses as an example Golitsyn’s belief that the Sino-Soviet split was fake.
https://freedomlibrary.hillsdale.edu/programs/cca-i-u-s-intelligence-history-and-controversies/cold-war-espionage-the-golitsyn-nosenko-controversy
Good thing we had Kissinger’s brilliance, Nixon and every President after him, and paragons of journalistic integrity like Epstein to tell us that China and Russia weren’t working together.
One thing I did not know that I learned was that apparently there was some kind of purge at the CIA and MI6, which swept out Angleton, DeMobray, and all the analysts who were mistrustful of Russia and those who believed Golitsyn. It would be interesting to know more about which Americans and Brits orchestrated this purge and whether they had any links to Russia. I would consider this moment to be a watershed moment in Western intelligence and a turning point in history, when their agencies became ten times more blind. A truly impressive feat by the KGB.
It is enough that people wanted to believe Russia and China could be turned into partners and friends — that the threat of nuclear war might end and the world saved. The double agents in the agencies did not need to stick their necks out. Too many people wanted to be fooled.
I think that, in general, people don’t want to believe that something so nihilistic or bleak may take place (someday). Or that other human beings could be so (potentially) evil. I feel this way myself sometimes.
It is an understandable reaction that must be overcome.
Janelle LaTrouvere: is not the unwillingness to face something so nihilistic and evil an example of slovenly thinking? That we don’t want to face the reality of human evil, the human condition, that lies lurking inside each of us? So that it’s just easier to be lazy in our thoughts and deny its reality?
Reality is scary.
Yes.
As usual, I don’t think you’re grasping the concept that Jeff is trying to elucidate. Yet I wasn’t even talking about ‘slovenly’ thinking. I was trying to say that there’s a belief that people are inherently good, and/or have redemptive value. I’d like to believe that myself. That may be naive, but naivety should not be equated with ‘lazy’ thinking, or amorality, in my opinion. ‘Lazy’ thinking seems much more akin to apathy, or obliviousness.
I used one of the articles to show a commenter on another site that yes, in fact, China and Russia are working together. There are many people who believe that they couldn’t possibly work together because they both want to be top dog.
It is unfortunate that so many of our countrymen make this assumption.
Hasn’t it been said that China and Russia’s disagreements, where legitimate, are more of a [competitive] rivalry than enmity?
When discussing this with people who obsess with Pivot-to-Asia, I always ask who China wants to eliminate first: the United States or Russia? Wouldn’t Russia at least be useful in tying down or weakening the US alongside China? Then, after the US is gone, China and Russia would duke it out *only once the US is subdued*?
Ultimately they’re working to close the One Clenched Fist on us, so I don’t always investigate their division of labor, but perhaps I can convince some more folks that reading these articles is worthwhile. I certainly appreciate them!
Thank you.
My condolences on your mother. I’ve been there myself. I’ve been an orphan since 2018.
Jeff, can you please elaborately more on this alleged secret speech of Xi, why you were expecting it, and what you think it portends if true?
Jennifer Zeng says there are reports of a speech by Xi, saying that China will soon be in a Civil — a war with Taiwan. The communists are at a crossroads and almost at the point of no return. They cannot retreat this time, but must boldly advance or risk an anticommunist revolution at home. Russia is also in trouble. Their friends in the West are not able to bail them out. So I have been watching for a decision of the kind. Many have predicted it.
A war with Taiwan? That makes no sense, unless it’s part of a far larger enterprise.
Unless the U.S. collapses into civil war or is otherwise incapacitated, an attack on Taiwan will bring in the U.S., Japan and Philippines to defend Taiwan. The Japanese recognize that a defense of Taiwan is ultimately a defense of Japan. Can the CCP afford to tie up the number of troops needed to invade and occupy Taiwan when these other forces are ready to act? Or would it be smarter to take out the biggest foe first, then attack Taiwan as part of mopping up?
Or is this talk of civil war a warning that unless the CCP acts, and that fairly soon, that it’s possible that China itself will descend into civil war?
War with Taiwan may be coded language for war with the U.S.
I am very wary of conspiracies having fallen down that hole once myself, but a couple things bother my about this. Crooks had three encrypted overseas banks accounts. He managed to fly a drone over a secured area. This is normally impossible for commercial drones, unless older then 2013, which are geolocked and forced to download a map as a well equipped drone is an easy assassination weapon. He managed to make car bomb which was meant to explode. We now know some of his social media posts as well, he was a raging leftist who we can infer his goal was to eliminate as many trump supporters as possible. Given this kid was 20, it’s hard to imagine he pulled all this off on own. To be fair, the car bomb didn’t go off.
Another odd detail is that normally the secret service don’t perform the searches on venue entry, but this time they did. Usually it’s local police.
Then there’s the incompetence post shooting. No details released yet after all this time? Only 4 questions able to asked at the congressional hearing. Apparently all this socials were scrubbed, and we only got them after the FBI requested and site leaked them to the public. Apparently they also couldn’t get into his phone.
I don’t believe that someone grand conspiracy occured inside the secret service by the secret service, but the idea that a foreign government recruited this guy, and one or two secret service agents were compromised seems within reason. All you need is the guy on communication between the local police and secret service to distract from the on ground reports of a shooter. After that the agency itself may cover it up to save face or prevent war if we have evidence of foreign infiltration.
I’m not willing to rule out plain incompetency and failure of basic protocols, but there enough odd details that I’m not willing to rule out foreign efforts as well. I don’t believe we have enough information to say definitely and there still questions here.
A foreign intelligence service might have been in touch with Crooks, if he was fanatically devoted to their cause. But then, they would have realized he was dangerous and a potential loose canon. They would not task such a person as Crooks directly, since the responsible official might be blamed. When did he travel to China or Cuba or Venezuela? Why would a foreign intelligence service task such an inexperienced and untrained person to attempt a mass shooter event in which Trump was the first victim? Such would endanger the implicated country. The connection would almost certainly come out, and the risk of exposure would harm the leftist cause here in the states. It is possible, of course, because stupid decisions are made all the time; but we need actual evidence. Crooks was not psychologically normal. He was probably a difficult person to deal with, as most psychopathic murderers are. We need to be skeptical of all speculations until we have a more complete picture.
Jeff,
Just wanted to comment that I am reading Robert Payne’s book on Lenin. It’s excellent. That whole story on Nechayev and the Revolutionary Catechism was fascinating. I am waiting for his book on Marx that you recommended. I ordered it from a used book seller on Amazon and have been waiting for almost a month; it’s so frustrating, but the book on Lenin is long enough to keep me occupied for a bit longer.
The Marx book was the last one under $100. Abe Books has Spanish editions available for $25. Anyway, it is valuable. Hang onto yours. I also bought his book called TheTerrorists.
By the way i sent you an email on another issue.
LadyFromLibertyGarage: I will look for your email. Payne’s biographies of Lenin and Marx are very good, and are insightful. Once upon a time you could pick up Payne for a few dollars at a used bookstore. People are beginning to recognize the quality.
Hello Jeff :
Do you think we can avoid a politicized investigation of the attack on Trump. And get a complete story, considering all of the evidence, by the FBI and the media ? Or am I being too optimistic ?
Thomas: I am afraid that many too many people want to engage in wild speculation about the assassination attempt on Trump. It has begun to get under my skin because all this chatter is so knee-jerk, so witless. The left is guilty of doing the same thing back on the right, and it’s not healthy. I have a lot of patience with people, but the person who posts as “THE” has sent in about forty posts that merely repeat things that Alex Jones says. There is this notion that he is challenging me and I am afraid to respond. No. It’s merely that he is so tedious. I have argued with people like him for years, and I am done arguing with people who have no feel for the nuances. To just blast people with biased remarks, which have no real thought to them, is offensive. Life is just too short to respond to someone like him. If I make a sensible remark, he comes back with some blockheaded utterance or other. I don’t like insulting people, but there it is. He needs to find someone else to harrass. If there was a conspiracy involved in the attack on Trump, we have not seen evidence that Thomas Crooks was working with other people. When there is no real evidence there is nothing sensible we can say. And yet, so many conservative pundits, like Alex Jones and Mike Adama, are saying things that make absolutely no sense. And people are quite hysterical over all this. What we want is objectivity, sobriety, careful thought. We have some very serious problems in this country without becoming one ourselves.
PS — I have lost track of how many of THE’s posts I have deleted. Over the past year I have deleted hundreds. I think I deleted around forty posts. My first reaction to seeing “THE” is to delete.
Thanks, Jeff.
Here is a careful analysis of the gun shots fired at Trump’s. See whatbyou think. He believes it establishes 2 guns aimed atbTrump.
https://x.com/chrismartenson/status/1816269036768092383
I have listened to three of these sound analyses things, and all three claim completely different things about what the sound recordings show. Which one am I supposed to believe? Not being an expert in analyzing sound recordings, I will leave it for others to sort through.