Oddbean

What would it look like if there was a powerful clique, made up of terrible people working together via relationships built on "mutually assured destruction" (which is also what they openly promote as a form of foreign policy). And there was also a self promoting billionaire who was close to some of these people but was ultimately viewed as unfashionable or as an outsider by the mutually corrupt clique. And in an effort to worm her way into the top position of power, one of the most unlikable women on the planet, steals the democratic nomination after promoting the unfashionable billionaire as a political opponent because she knows how many people in her clique would donate to her campaign to keep him out of office. Doing this allows her to run the most expensive campaign in US history. Amazingly she still loses to the self promoting billionaire who spent less than 1/4 of what she did. So the clique, which has been in power for decades, had a wildcard overseeing their halls of power who was not shy about embarassing them (he literally sat the women raped by Bill in the front row). So they go after him in every way they possibly can. Accuse him of being a loose canon even though he was arguably the most peaceful & diplomatic president in a long time (while they try to promote more war). Accuse him of being a traitor while they are funnelling tax dollars to themselves through other coubtries. They attempt to weaponize the justice system against him while he is in office. Then they cheat & make a bunch of short sighted gambles to steal the last election. They wait & again attempt to attack him with the justice system just before the next election cycle. All of this fails & now they are stuck with a losing ticket & no other clear avenues to attack Trump... So now they try to kill him because they have run out of options. I don't even like the stupid mf, but if you can't see the insane corruption for what it is then idk what to tell you...

I suspect lots of people would become very disillusioned and the election would probably have the lowest voter turnout of all time. The establishment would try to go on as if everything was normal, but we would probably be a lot closer to an unofficial (or official) break up of the country. If, on the other hand, Trump is elected it may unfortunately keep more people hopeful & engaged than might otherwise be the case. The right is stupid, but not actually unhinged, the way the left has demonstrated they are... Shit... They're probably going to shoot Biden next.

Hmm I didn’t consider that his death would lead to a low voter turnout. I thought they’d rally toward the next republican for sure. If it did cause disillusion, that would be bad for the entire political system and the legitimacy of government. Who do you think did this? Random act of violence or someone with power?

I thought about that a lot but I can’t wrap my head around the logic of it. They’ve done similar things before but what do they have to gain from this? I don’t think they’d get someone who would miss that many shots if they really wanted him dead. They also had two shooters which is crazy.

I think incompetence & luck are far more prevalent than people successfully playing some sort of 4d chess. Corp media already being weird...? Seems to be suppressed on fbook https://image.nostr.build/9dc1b6b77b26a31b06ae3d84070e10917d06b01e5fba0c5cc364bd4499fd3670.jpg

The more I think about it, the more it seems like your theory was correct. The fed doesn’t care who the president is, but they care about the president’s stance on bitcoin. If trump went to the Bitcoin conference, it would rally the price and hurt the dollar. It could’ve been an actual attempt to kill or just a warning. If trump still ends up going, then this theory is probably wrong.