My Doctor Strange-Trump Commentary

 Why is the 13 July 2024 assassination attempt on Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, with 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks firing eight shots from an AR-15-style rifle...grazing Trump's ear....killing one attendee....and injuring two others....in a state of confusion...even a year later?

First.....no real motive...no clear ideology or manifesto; mixed signals suggest a "lone wolf" with eclectic online activity.  It's like Crooks woke up and needed to resolve a problem.

Second....there's systemic lapses by the Secret Service (USSS)....which suggest either massive questions of incompetence vs. intent.  I watched one  guy discuss this....suggesting well over 20 different 'failures'.  As he stated....you could expect 2 or 3....but when you  get to 5 or more....it gets into one-in-ten-thousand odds. At twenty...he figured it was a one-in-ten-million odds that all could happen on the same day....same event.

Third....if you start counting conspiracy theories.  I would suggest it's up around 300 of these now existing.

Fourth.....it's just odd....it was mid-summer of 2025 before a final report occurred, and all we can say....Trump survives an incident that in 10,000 cases....should have resulted in 9,999 deaths. It's like one of those Marvel movies where Doctor Strange has reset the clock 9,999,999 times....to get the one outcome where Trump survives.

Four Things That Changed

 When  I left the 'farm' in 1977....I went off on a adventure (that's really the only way to view life today).  Over the past 20 years, I've come to recognize four evolutions/changes going on, and their effect on society.

First, through the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s....no one really openly discussed their politics, their religion, their economic 'woes'  or their 'affairs'.

Somewhere along 2004....I started to notice that trend dissolving. People seemed convinced that if they confessed their politics, religion, financial screw-ups, or sexual hijinks...you'd want to step into their 'circle' (join their club), and there seems to be no positive or plus-up to this.

Second, most all news outlets/social media platforms....seems to have gathered up a agenda around 2010, and serve more to being a propaganda-unit than anything else.

Third, Covid delivered a massive blow to 'trust'.  If you sound like a BS-artist....I'll mute you in a heartbeat.

Fourth and final....you end with a gut-feeling of living around a cult-group.  Yeah, there's this feeling of being around Manson family members, Children of God folks, or Maharishi Mahesh Yogi people.  You'd like to ask them questions....like how they got this brain-washed, but it's better that you sip through your coffee quickly and get back on the road.

If you tried to piece all of this together.....it reminds me of the summer of 1860...leading up to April of 1861....where the Civil War starts.