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March 29, 2016 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin
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The Assassination of Donald Trump
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I think it's time to get a lot of misinformation about Donald Trump's political campaign straightened out, try and unravel a few narratives, and take a look at whether Donald Trump is going to survive his own bid for the presidency.
As Donald Trump's campaign to become the GOP candidate for the presidency continues, and he continues to be successful, in fact the clear frontrunner, it really seems to be exacerbating everything.
Violence at political rallies is obviously nothing new, and in the case of Donald Trump, I think it's almost inevitable, given the hyperbole and hysteria regarding his bid for the candidacy.
And of course, there is always a narrative spin on all of this, from all sides.
Naturally, the regressives and the establishment are laying all the blame on Donald Trump, and naturally Donald Trump supporters are laying all the blame on protesters.
To be clear, there has been violence done to protesters at Donald Trump rallies by Donald Trump supporters that was not initiated by the protesters.
There was this example from last December of a Black Lives Matter protester who was beaten at a Trump rally, and then a protest in North Carolina where a Trump supporter went up to a protester who was being escorted out and punched him in the face.
And at a separate rally, there was another example of a black Trump supporter who beat a man who was wearing a KKK hood in protest of Trump.
This is of course not indicative of the average Trump supporter.
These people were individuals, they were acting on their own initiative, and this is what they did.
Not someone else, it's what they did.
And in the case of the first clip, not only was the man who threw the punch charged, but five police were disciplined over a failure to act after the supporter sucker punched the protester.
Of course, the accusation is that Donald Trump has been inciting people to do this.
And there is some truth to that accusation.
For example, he said that he would pay the legal fees for the man who sucker punched the protester because he obviously loves his country.
Now, I don't think this is actually Donald Trump saying I want you to beat people.
I don't think he's saying initiate violence.
But he is tacitly condoning if someone were to react in kind.
And I'm not making a judgment on that.
I think if someone hits you, you do have every right to hit them back.
However, the protester did not punch first.
Trump claims that he doesn't accept responsibility and doesn't condone violence in any shape.
And this does not appear to be the first time that he has offered to pay the legal fees of one of his supporters for beating up a protester.
This is not something that is new to Donald Trump.
He has done this before many times, so when he says, I don't condone violence, that's a lie.
However, I have yet to see him encourage his supporters to go to rallies for other candidates and initiate violence, which is what has happened to Donald Trump.
With the most obvious case being the rally he held in Chicago that had to be called off because of violence initiated by Black Lives Matter protesters.
I think it's very important to pay attention to the language used when describing the protests in which Donald Trump supporters have started the violence, which is very clear and unambiguous that Donald Trump protesters initiated the violence, compared to the language used when dealing with non-Trump supporters initiating violence at a Trump rally.
This is a perfect example.
Trump Chicago rally called off amid protests and violence.
No one's causing the protests, they're just happening spontaneously, compared to the Trump supporter charged after sucker-punching protester.
There's no ambiguity there whatsoever.
They almost always use the phrase broke out.
Violence broke out between Trump supporters and the police or protesters.
Things happened.
They just happened.
It's not that these protesters initiated the violence.
It just occurred.
It was beyond their control.
Unless, of course, it was done by a Trump supporter and then it was done with malice of intent.
And that's when the media isn't outright lying about the Chicago event, saying that Trump cancelled the rally because his supporters became violent.
Of course, the media pushing an agenda is nothing new and it happens on every side of the fence.
Take for example Michelle Fields, a former reporter at Breitbart.
She claimed that she had been roughed up by Donald Trump's campaign manager.
She says that her claim is substantiated by a two-and-a-half-minute audio recording of the event.
Mr. Trump, you went after the late Scalia for affirmative action.
Do you still, are you still against affirmative action?
Thank you.
Hey, Ben.
What?
Come on, Ben.
Holy shit.
Yeah, he just like threw it through.
I guess that he just did that.
That was so hard.
Was that boring?
Yeah, like what threat were you?
That was insane.
You should have felt how hard he grabbed me.
Oh my gosh.
I've never had anything back from the campaign.
Can I put it in my story now?
Yeah, go for it.
That's really awful.
That's so unprofessional.
He really just like almost almost.
He literally went like this and was like grabbing me down.
Like, I don't even want to do what he just did to me.
Oh my god, they're like, who spooked me that no one would do that?
What threat were you?
Nothing.
I was asking about affirmative action.
And he probably knows you, right?
Yeah, I don't understand.
Like, that looks horrible.
If you're going after a Breitbart reporter, like, the people who are like the nicest to you?
She then went on to file charges against Trump's campaign manager.
And then, for some reason, without having any real evidence of what happened, Breitbart's senior editor Ben Shapiro decided to completely back her on this, which I find baffling.
I mean, he's a very intelligent man, and you would think he would wait until he had some real evidence before making a decision.
But instead, he decided to back her without question, and then this video came to light.
This is the video evidence of Michelle being just pulled backwards, not violently, by the campaign manager because she was standing in the way.
She wasn't thrown to the floor, she wasn't assaulted, and any claim that she was is clearly a lie.
Shortly after, Michelle Fields and Ben Shapiro both resigned from Breitbart and apparently announced this news through BuzzFeed, of all places.
Well, I realized that my company didn't have my back.
I can't stand with a company that won't stand for me.
They knew the truth from the very beginning.
My editor, as soon as it happened, had spoken to Corey.
He told me that Corey had admitted to it and I was getting an apology.
So I stayed quiet.
I wasn't going to make a big deal about it.
Look, it's bruises, whatever.
It's fine.
I thought I'm not going to make a huge deal.
And that didn't happen.
I never got the apology.
Instead, they embarked on this smear campaign against me.
So they knew the truth.
My company knew the truth.
And they're siding with Donald Trump.
And I have to say, you know, when this happened, my Washington editor, Matthew Boyle, was telling me, oh, don't worry, this is going to be great because Donald Trump's going to give us so many exclusives now because they're going to feel like they have to do it because of what they did.
This is how my company was looking at this.
Instead of saying, wow, what happened?
Are you okay?
Let's defend you.
They were thinking that this was a good thing because we would get more access to Donald Trump.
Ben, why did you resign?
I resigned because the fact is that Breitbart has unfortunately become a Trump provda site.
And the problem for me is that once you, as any news organization, any media organization, once your loyalty to a political campaign trumps your loyalty to your own reporters, I'm out.
That's not something I can back.
That's not something anybody decent should back.
And I'm disgusted by the fact that my mentor, Andrew Breitbart, started this organization to fight bullies.
And in my opinion, this organization has turned into an organization that actually promotes bullies.
So that's why they decided to leave.
And Trump's campaign manager has actually been charged with the alleged battery of Michelle Fields.
Personally, I don't think Michelle even felt like she was assaulted, judging by her audio of the situation.
She sounded like an entitled brat, and I think she's on the make.
And I think that Ben Shapiro jumped into this with both feet first because, and I know this is going to sound weird, but I think he's having an emotional reaction to Trump and the popularity of Trump at Breitbart, which, I mean, does have an incredibly strong pro-Trump bias, but that just puts them in the same boat as every other mainstream media organization of having a pro-candidate bias.
I mean, every single one has a massive bias for certain candidates.
So there's nothing unusual about that.
So when the mainstream media isn't going after Trump or his campaign staff, there are all sorts of people from the establishment attacking Trump.
And you've probably seen it a hundred times.
So I'm not going to go through too many, but I am going to go through the ones I found most interesting or amusing.
There was a Facebook post written by US Senator Elizabeth Warren that went viral, in which she basically calls Donald Trump a loser multiple times and then denounces his character instead of attempting to address any of his policies.
But then, why would I expect any different?
Nobody seems to be attempting to address his policies.
They all seem to want to address his character, failing to understand that his character is not a weakness, it is his strength.
The Economist decided to rate Trump's presidency among the top 10 global risks, putting the dangers of a Trump presidency ahead of a China-US military confrontation in the South China Sea, the UK leaving the EU, and putting it on par with jihadi terrorism, destabilizing the global economy.
Needless to say, this seems ridiculous and hyperbolic, and is certainly not putting people off from voting Donald Trump.
And apparently, Donald Trump is not popular with Jewish leaders who plan to boycott him.
But the thing is, you've got to remember that Donald Trump, he's not part of the Illuminati.
I know this because Newt Gingrich tells us so.
And now they're faced with a very real prospect of Donald Trump becoming the leader of the party, and it absolutely drives them crazy.
They just cannot imagine sharing, well, because he's an outsider.
He's not them.
He's not part of the club.
He's uncontrollable.
You know, he hasn't been through the initiation rights.
He didn't belong to the secret society.
And I think that they don't see him.
They have no idea how to relate to him.
Your first thought is probably, Newt, stop being such a conspiratard.
But there are secret societies that American politicians are members of.
These are the sort of things that Alex Jones talks about, but they do exist.
We can't just dismiss them on that.
I mean, Mewt is literally telling us that he doesn't belong to these, and therefore the establishment is scared because they cannot control him.
Now, this is, again, quite important, I think.
And I know that sort of thing, but oh, this is crazy conspiracy talk, but, you know, we'll get to this a little bit later in the video.
There's still a lot of ground to cover.
I was most shocked by this headline on the Huffington Post of all places.
Comparing Trump to Hitler is the worst kind of hate speech.
It's actually a really amazing article where the author goes through and gives objective, rational reasons why Trump is not Hitler.
And he's not.
So I'm very impressed, actually, that the Huffington Post would have the gall to run this.
And while we're on the subject, let's remember that Bernie Sanders is not Hitler either.
He's obviously Lenin.
For the sake of brevity, I am leaving out just mountains of anti-Trump rhetoric that you will find all over the internet comparing him to Hitler, to Satan, to whoever.
And I've left it out because it's pointless.
None of it has done any good for those people opposing Trump.
If anything, it has only made Trump the underdog.
If anything, it has made him more popular with his supporters, who are overwhelmingly white and working class.
So naturally, an identity politician would turn around and attack them.
Not that they don't already, but they would specifically target them as Trump's base.
Take for example the National Review's Kevin Williamson, who believes Donald Trump's appeal to the working class is immoral because that demographic's way of life deserves to die out.
If you spend time in hard scrabble, white upstate New York or eastern Kentucky, or my own native West Texas, and you take an honest look at the welfare dependency, the drug and alcohol addiction, the family anarchy, which is to say the whelping of human children with all the respect and wisdom of a stray dog, you will come to an awful realization.
Now, I'm not saying that these people don't want to improve their lot in life.
In fact, I imagine they do, which is why they're voting for Donald Trump, because he is promising them jobs.
But this is the worst way to approach anything like this.
Poor white people are literally the disdain dripping off this, just this paragraph.
I find it absolutely revolting.
And of course, the white.
The fact they're white.
The focus on race.
My God.
Do the regressives love to talk about race.
Now, there was this picture going around a while ago of a woman who was thought to be a Bernie Sanders supporter, posing at a Trump rally in a Trump shirt, doing a neo-Nazi salute.
It turns out this is not the Bernie Sanders supporter everyone thought it was.
It is actually a Trump supporter.
However, she claims that she is obviously not a neo-Nazi supporter and was demonstrating that they didn't even know how to do the salute correctly, and was in fact showing them how it was supposed to be done.
I have no idea whether she's being honest.
It's just worth pointing out that she isn't the Bernie supporter everyone thought she was, and she claims she's not a neo-Nazi.
So using this woman as an example of anything is probably not accurate.
But since we're on the subject, let's talk about the race baiting that's been going on, and black Donald Trump supporters who are the people who have to put up with this shit the most, because they are the ones being used by the regressives and the mainstream media as a tool with which to try and attack Donald Trump.
But people seem to forget, there are working class black people as well.
There are working class black people who want jobs, who wants to be able to get ahead in life.
In fact, listen to this chap.
I just saw the lie!
my people i don't want i'm voting for trump because i want jobs not welfare i don't want to be a slave anymore I want to work for my own money.
I want to.
I want to pay for my own stuff with my money that I made.
I don't want handouts.
I don't want handouts.
I want freedom.
I want actual freedom.
I want you to get woke and I want to give you something to listen to that will kind of change your mind about this.
It won't.
I promise you it will, my brother.
I promise you it will, my brother.
I agree.
What he needs to do.
I am a woman.
What do you see this treatment to do?
Well, you have to see the man who's going to be able to do that.
When you went through the self-prescription system, your culture was already taken away.
So you had no idea to know how great you really are as a black man.
You don't know.
You don't know that.
It ain't your fault.
I can only imagine how unbelievably insufferable that must have been for that chap there in the Trump hat who's just like, look, I just want to work.
I want to get a job.
I want to buy a house.
I just want to get on.
I don't want to be part of your creepy cult.
And honestly, it looks like he understands that they're part of a cult, doesn't it?
I mean, that seems to be what they're trying.
And what's weirder is they seem to have been negging him, which is like a PUA term for giving people sort of backhanded compliments, kind of put them down and undermine their confidence in order to get them to agree with what you're saying so you can make them feel good.
It really looks like that to me.
And I'd really like to hear other people's opinions on this.
Because, I mean, maybe I'm misinterpreting it, but my God, you know, you don't know how great you are.
You're actually a slave or asleep.
And it's like, you've got no future.
Oh, shut up.
Just shut up.
The next clip I'm going to play is the account of a black police officer who went to a Trump rally.
And you can see for yourself whether he felt that he was, I don't know, being discriminated against because of his race or something.
What's going on, Facebook?
It's B. Tatum.
I'm making this video to give you guys some insight on my experience at a Donald Trump rally.
The reason that I wanted to go is because I don't want to believe what other people tell me because sometimes through media, through other people, it can be very disingenuous, or you could be talking to or getting a perspective from somebody who is very, very uninformed.
So I had an opportunity.
Donald Trump came to Tucson, Arizona, where I live and came and did a rally here.
And I had an opportunity to go, so I went.
Some people probably would disagree with that, but you know, the Lord on my side, so I'm okay with going there because I know I'll be all right.
Went in there.
Very, very shocking.
I wasn't expecting what I saw.
I had no idea that I was going to leave that event with the thought process and experience that I obtained.
I just had no idea.
Starting from the beginning, went to the walking in the line, waiting to get in.
Saw a couple people peacefully protesting.
They had signs up.
You know, it actually gave me an opportunity to read the signs.
I looked at them.
I took pictures of them.
I was able to see their point of view.
When you get closer to the door, I couldn't take pictures.
I couldn't do video because they were pushing us through because people were verbally violent at the door, yelling, saying, F Donald Trump.
I mean, being outrageous.
Very, very uncomfortable feeling.
I mean, people are directly yelling at me as if I'm a criminal.
And all I'm trying to do is just hear what the man have to say.
I didn't wear anything supporting Donald Trump.
I was very neutral with this black shirt and khakis on.
When I got inside, you know, it was peaceful.
Initially, the shocking thing is that everybody seemed to be peaceful.
There wasn't a lot of hatred and maliciousness going on and lashing out at the protesters.
Initially, there was nothing like that.
And I didn't get that impression at all.
But the thing that stood out to me was these protesters.
I mean, from the door, and then some of them snuck inside.
And a funny thing that I don't know, the media don't cover this, but Donald Trump actually paid for to rent that facility to make it a private event.
Therefore, by law, he reserved the right to keep people out at his discretion.
So he's not violating constitutional rights when he was kicking people out.
And I could say this point blank: that he didn't randomly kick people out.
A lot of times, it wasn't really him that was even addressing these people.
Before he ever came out, they made an announcement and said, you are not to harm protesters.
You are not to get in a physical altercation with them.
That the security staff will escort them out.
And that was another thing that I didn't see portrayed.
I don't see portrayed in the media is that they gave a disclaimer and said, don't hurt these people.
You don't need to do this.
So moving forward, during the event, I mean, these people were acting a fool.
I'm talking about cussing and screaming.
You guys have seen some pictures.
There was somebody wearing a Klu Kus Klan hat saying, F. Donald Trump, flipping people off.
The group that I posted were yelling F. Donald Trump in front of these kids.
Yeah, families down there.
I seen this one lady covering her daughter's ears because these people are just outlandish and out of control.
And I'm a police officer and I have been through a lot of dramatic situations.
And I have to be honest, I felt very uncomfortable there.
I mean, there were a lot of police officers there or whatever, but I personally felt uncomfortable.
I felt like at any moment with the climate of these protesters, this wasn't the people that was involved in Trump's rally.
It was these protesters that at any moment, I could get sucker punched by somebody because they're just outrageously screaming and yelling and not really saying anything but hateful slurs.
The slurs are, of course, that Trump is a racist.
He's a racist.
He's a racist.
He's a racist constantly.
And it doesn't affect people who support Trump.
It's not affecting his popularity because, believe it or not, Trump doesn't appear to actually be a racist.
He's a nationalist, sure.
But he doesn't actually seem to be saying that people from other nations, people from other races, are inferior.
If anything, he begs them up.
He's always talking about how Mexico and China are killing the U.S. They're doing so well.
That's not the statement of a racist.
And ask a black person to tell you what Trump has said against blacks.
You always have division.
Has Donald Trump said anything about blacks that upset you?
Well, he said that.
What did he say?
The only thing I remember he said about blacks was he said, blacks love me.
And I don't believe that for a moment.
But he hasn't said anything bad about blacks, all right?
Not bad.
Okay.
So then maybe he's not a racist?
I don't know.
No, he's definitely a racist, though, in my opinion.
Just not against blacks.
Well, against blacks.
Blacks?
But wait, I want to understand this.
If he's racist against blacks, what did he say that would make you say that?
Because he lied when he said that blacks love him.
He lied.
What proof do you have that blacks love him?
Love him for what?
But that's not a racist statement.
It's a lie.
He's saying something that's not true, okay?
All right, but specifically racism, though.
Because this is a pretty bold sign.
So I'm asking, just from racism, Scanlane, has he said anything about blacks that are that's racist?
I don't know everything he said.
I mean, I guess, I mean, he's talking right now.
I don't know what he's saying, okay?
Any possibility that he hasn't said anything racist against blacks?
No, that's impossible.
He had to.
He had to.
At one time or the other.
So there we have it.
Donald Trump must be a racist because the mainstream media says he's a racist.
I've seen dozens of videos of progressives, not just people like this chap, actually, you know, college students who run around saying, oh, he's just an arsehole.
He's a racist.
He's this.
And no one can ever really say what he said against black people.
Because as far as I can tell, he's never said anything against black people.
I mean, if there is something he said, I'm simply not aware of it.
But the most precious moment about all of the mainstream media racebaiting regarding Donald Trump and his supporters was this.
Just, you know, pause the video.
Go and pour yourself a glass of something.
Roll a joint.
Spark up and just kick back and enjoy this.
This is the intellectual equivalent of a good blowjob.
One thing that Katrina just didn't tell you was that David Duke says, I don't endorse Donald Trump, but people should vote for him.
So Duke is indeed endorsing him and telling people to vote for him.
And the real big question here is, why?
If you're Donald Trump, why would a KKK white supremacist guy want people to vote for you?
That's the question that Donald Trump needs to be asked.
Well, the question is also being asked.
A lot of attention has been placed on his candidacy, Donald Trump, in the media.
Now you have reports saying, listen, what about his supporters?
What are we learning about his supporters, the new people truly, that he is, to his point bringing into the fold?
Gabe Gutierrez, actually, Jacob, one of our reporters, and I don't want to quote the wrong reporter here, was just out of the Trump campaign.
I think we have the sound and my team will have to tell me where they spoke with some Trump supporters.
Let's play what they said.
David Duke and people like that, they come out of out from under the rocks all the time around this time of this year.
It got nothing to do with Donald Trump.
We're all Americans.
I think we need to stop with all the racist stuff and the race paying.
Like me and my friend right here, we just met today and we was talking.
You know, we got to start with the racist stuff and this, that.
We all Americans, man.
And nobody pay baby people.
Um.
Um indeed.
Um.
Um.
Oh shit.
Yeah, the black people supporting Trump know what the KKK is like.
This is what they're like, they're a tiny, redundant organization that Black Lives Matter and progressive media blow way out of proportion.
Way out of proportion.
It's ridiculous.
And that is just the death knell to the Donald Trump, the racist against black people narrative.
It's done.
It's over.
If the black people supporting Donald Trump aren't interested in discussing race, they're more interested in discussing what he's actually offering and they don't care about the KKK, that's good enough for me.
Anyway, returning to Trump's Chicago rally that was shut down by protesters, Trump himself thinks that these protesters can be traced back to Sanders.
And I don't think that's accurate.
I'm no expert on Bernie Sanders, but I really doubt that it's within his character to do such a thing.
Of course, I think there are other politicians who it's completely within character for them to do.
Which is why, when you find, say, an anti-Trump Craigslist protester advert, where protesters will be paid $3,500 a day for protesting, it's not that surprising when this ends up getting linked back to Hillary Clinton.
Paul Horner claims that he was given $3,500 to protest Donald Trump's rally in Fountain Hills, and he went and got interviewed for it, and he got the part. as an actor.
This is apparently a screen grab of the advert that has since been deleted, according to ABC News.
It should also come as no surprise that this is also apparently funded by billionaire ghoul George Soros, but he'll get a video of his own at some point in the future.
And you might be thinking, well, how dare you impugn Hillary's honour this way?
She's so upstanding and moral.
Well, you know, the problem is that all of the allegations surrounding her, if you haven't seen the Wikileaks releases of her emails, I'll link her an article in The Rationalist that was done by Nicholas Goroff, who's been investigating this.
She is awful.
But not only that, there are plenty of allegations from people who say that they are paid Hillary shills to go on the internet and denigrate Bernie Sanders or Donald Trump or whoever the opponent of the day is.
If it was anyone other than Hillary Clinton, I would be inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt.
However, read through Hillary's emails.
She is the most Machiavellian schema you have ever seen.
And the thing is, we know the Russians do exactly this.
They literally pay bloggers to go to popular forums and post under various pseudonyms pro-Russian propaganda.
And I honestly think that Hillary Clinton's campaign, probably not her personally, but her campaign managers are undoubtedly paying people to do the same thing.
False flags, propaganda, and subversion are not new in politics.
The only difference is the means.
Oh, and don't forget that Anonymous is on the case.
Having been fully infested by regressives, Anonymous is well on its way to, oh, we're going to take down Trump.
What are you going to do?
We're going to hack Trump.
How are you going to do that?
Google.
We're going to use Google.
All of the info we have on Donald Trump is from Google, because we're hackers.
And don't forget the numerous regressive hashtag campaigns from the SJWs of crush Donald Trump and don't date someone who votes for Donald Trump or however it went.
I don't even, they're fucking idiots.
I mean, these people are so pathetic.
They're the sort of people who get triggered by Donald Trump's name.
Oh yes, by writing Trump 2016 in chalk on the floor, students are freaking out.
But this kind of brings me back to the point I want to make about the, in fact the overall point, about the hysteria surrounding Donald Trump.
There is so much misinformation, there is so much exaggeration, there are so many outright lies being told not just by the establishment who is actively threatened by Donald Trump, but by ideologues who infest our academic institutions.
Listen to this.
During the protest they chanted, you aren't listening, come speak to us, we are in pain.
Then they entered a building screaming, it is our duty to fight for our freedom.
It is our duty to win.
We must love one another and support each other.
We have nothing to lose but our chains.
Which just happens to be one of the last lines of the communist manifesto.
And these people do think of themselves as revolutionaries.
They are ideologically driven and they think they are completely justified in everything that they do.
So it doesn't come as a surprise to me that Donald Trump's son was sent an envelope containing a threatening letter and white powder presumably meant to make people think it was anthrax.
Does anyone care?
No, they're too busy running around calling Donald Trump a bully.
I'm sure many of you know that I'm a big lover of history.
And if there's one thing that I think history can teach us about radical populist politicians is that they get assassinated.
The establishment is not afraid of using dirty tricks.
In fact, it will try every dirty trick in the book to silence these people before it comes to an assassination.
But if they are directly threatening their livelihoods, and I think in many cases Donald Trump is, he's saying I'm bringing jobs back from China, I'm bringing jobs back from wherever, and I'm going to make sure that these people have to manufacture things in America.
You can fucking bet that the business interests that want their manufacturing in China are not going to take kindly to this.
They undoubtedly stand to lose millions, if not billions of dollars because of what Donald Trump is promising.
Jobs for regular Americans.
That's not profitable for an international corporation.
That's not profitable for the people who are looking at this from the top down and don't care about the average working person.
In addition to this, we have got zany, psychotic ideologues who are running around screaming that Donald Trump is the reincarnation of Hitler and he needs to be dealt with in whatever way possible.
I mean, this is an amazingly scary position.
If I were Donald Trump, I would be terrified.
I would be genuinely afraid that someone is going to try and kill me.
Because this is what happens.
Let me give you a few examples.
The first one being an American politician called Huey Long from the 30s, who was assassinated because he was running on a radically populist platform of overthrowing the Federal Reserve and the rich and calling for a share of our wealth to the regular person.
Needless to say, when he announced his presidential bid, he was shot by a doctor.
He wasn't shot by some fucking loser who had dropped out of the system.
He was shot by someone who had a career and a future, which makes me think he must have been part of some conspiracy and forced to do this.
Ancient Rome is another place where we can see really strong examples of what happens to populists who threaten the status quo.
The Gracchi from Rome are a great example of this.
Again, populist reformers who wanted land redistribution because all of the land, the wealth, had been concentrated in the hands of the aristocracy.
They ended up getting murdered in the street, both of them, Tiberius and Gaius.
And finally, an example from Democratic Athens.
Alcibiades, a massively popular and charismatic man, but also insanely populist and dangerous, who almost ruined Athens multiple times and was eventually assassinated by the Spartans once they had defeated the Athenians because while Alcibiades lived, the Athenians would think they could still win.
They knew he was dangerous because of the cult of personality that populists end up creating.
When you have huge numbers of the lowest classes on your side, that is a very powerful political force.
Whether you can vote or not, it doesn't even matter if you're in a democracy.
And these people have to be killed because it's unlikely you can actually defeat them on their own terms.
Because they are coming for the power of the elites.
Whoever is in charge is going to lose that power.
And so obviously they have to do everything they can to preserve it.
And this means killing the people who threaten them.
So when I'm watching a video of a Trump rally and this happens.
The president, I guess I have to do it myself.
I know it's not.
Oh, oh, oh!
Don't get him!
My first thought is that this is obviously an assassination attempt.
And I imagine that's probably the first thought of the Secret Service as well, given the way that they responded.
These tweets are from the Twitter timeline of the guy who jumped over the rail.
Currently in line for rally.
Never been more scared in my life.
Why would you be scared of going to a Donald Trump rally?
And I could not put down my sword when justice was my right.
Sounds like fucking zealot, doesn't he?
If I can get good thoughts and prayers from my timeline, it would be appreciated.
I'm at this you-know-what rally, bounced to you-know-what.
Tell me that doesn't sound like someone crazy who's thinking about doing something insane, like murdering Donald Trump.
Tell me, tell me that's not the sort of thing you can reasonably infer from what this guy's saying and what he appears to have tried to do.
Now, it turns out that this guy is actually a regressive SJW and he wasn't armed.
He apparently was thinking to take Donald Trump's platform away from him, which A, he's got no right to do, but B, he had no possible way of doing so.
I think that that sounds like nonsense.
But again, he wasn't armed.
And so, okay, you know, fine.
He wasn't armed.
He was just an idiot doing something stupid.
But you can't tell that until after the fact.
He could have easily been armed.
Why could he have not had a knife or a gun?
And given the hysteria surrounding Donald Trump and his campaign, why would anyone think it's surprising if someone did make an attempt on Donald Trump's life?
And for some reason, CNN decided to give this potential attacker a sympathetic interview, which is nothing more than a signal to other people saying, look, if you attack Donald Trump or attempt to, we're on your side.
Well, you know, Papi, there have been, obviously, a great many protests that have taken place within Donald Trump rallies, but this is the first person we've known of to actually sort of charge the stage, and it seemed to raise protests to a new level here, and that's what I wanted to find out about.
22-year-old Tommy DeMassimo is a college senior.
He goes to school here in Ohio.
He's bright, he seems intelligent, but he's obviously very politically active.
And what he wanted to do, he said, was to deny Trump the stage.
But I asked him, what were you really trying to do?
Listen to the response.
What were you thinking?
I was thinking that Donald Trump is a bully.
And he is nothing more than that.
He is somebody who is just saying a lot of bold things.
He's making bold claims.
But I can see right through That and I can see that he's truly just a coward and he's opportunistic and he's willing to destroy this country for power for himself.
Why did you do what you did?
I was thinking that I could get up on stage and take his podium away from him and take his mic away from him and send a message to all people out in the country who wouldn't consider themselves racist,
who wouldn't consider themselves approving of what type of violence Donald Trump is allowing at his rallies and send them a message that we can be strong, we can find our strength and we can stand up against Donald Trump and against this new wave he's ushering in of truly just violent white supremac ideas.
Were you, if you had made it to that stage, were you going to attack him?
No, not at all.
There would have been no point.
Donald Trump is six foot three.
I'm five foot nine, maybe.
You know, he's a giant man surrounded by thousands of followers, 12 Secret Service, and a former Ohio State offensive lineman.
That would have accomplished nothing.
But can you see how people might have perceived that you?
Of course.
And I wasn't expecting there to be as much Secret Service as there was there that day.
From what I had sort of seen, there hadn't been that much or hadn't been that much in a contained area.
So I thought my chances of getting up on stage and getting to the podium would have been better.
But again, it was more important for me to show that there are people out there who aren't afraid of Donald Trump.
He says scary things.
He lets his people do scary things.
He's threatened Mexico, Islam, you name it.
And yet I'm unafraid.
And if I can be unafraid enough to go take his podium away from him, then we all can be afraid enough to not let this man walk into the White House.
None of these reasons are justification to do anything to Donald Trump other than vote against him.
But these people aren't going to let that lie.
The establishment doesn't mind them doing what they're doing because the establishment wants Donald Trump gone.
This doesn't seem to have been lost on Donald Trump either because apparently he wears a bulletproof vest at the recommendation of the Secret Service after a massive number of death threats.
According to some slightly more conspiratorially minded sites, I don't know whether he wears these bulletproof vests or not.
But if I was Donald Trump, I would certainly be wearing a bulletproof vest because you never fucking know, especially given the climate surrounding this election.
And the thing is, it really looks like this is a cycle of history repeating.
Democracies and republics are like spinning tops.
When they're spinning really fast and everything's serving the people, they're great.
They're fantastic.
But when private and corporate and moneyed interests start gaining a foothold and warping the system so that the people are not being served by that system, you end up getting radical populists who wants to reform the system and then these people get shot.
Donald Trump is not a dictator.
He's not going to become a dictator.
Nothing like that will happen.
Donald Trump is the symptom of a system that is spiraling out of control and Trump is a manifestation of the will of the people in that system to regain that control.
Now, the corporate interests have two choices.
They can let this happen or they can kill him and ensure that they get overthrown by the next person who takes Donald Trump's place, who isn't going to be a buffoon who's kind of likable.
going to be a Julius Caesar who's going to end your Republic.
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