“The Secret Service has failed, but we don’t yet know whether they failed to protect Trump, or failed to kill him.”

Somewhere, Diogenes is wandering around, eternally, with his lamp, trying to find an honest man.

So, when someone from one of these organizations tells us that they’ve examined an issue, and are telling us the objective and complete truth of of the matter, you’d have to be a very unwary fool to give what they say much credence.

Whatever the explanation emanating out of this leftist monolith, it cannot be trusted to be the truth, or, perhaps, anywhere even close to the truth.

If they tell you it’s “X” it’s very probably actually “Y,” if they tell you someone or some organization is thinking about or is doing something nefarious–its all projection–and it is these Leftists and their organizations which are thinking about or doing something nefarious.

So–as with many other such incidents over the last few decades, if not going back many decades earlier–I doubt if we will ever have any real certainty that we have found out the actual truth about this attempted assassination.

The FBI has jurisdiction to investigate this matter? We have more of a chance of getting real information from 4Chan than from the government and the press. We are living through the Era of Lies and Disinformation.

We will never know what really happened. People are still arguing about JFK’s assassination over 60 years later.

On top of all the other conveniences for people who would want Trump gone is the fact that he wasn’t officially on the ballot yet and had not announced his Veep. Vance is making all the right people lose their minds, which means he’s become assassination insurance overnight.

If it had gone off as planned (by one person or many), it’s quite likely some neocon warmonger like Haley could have been nominated. And now the Biden Administration has claimed that Iran had a plot to kill Trump… a good excuse to go to war with Iran, get everyone to rally ’round the flag had they been able to pin the assassination on them. At that point, it’s immaterial who’s President if Nikki Haley were the Republican nominee.

Again, all idle speculation, but there has been an absolute breakdown in how things are supposed to work. The US Secret Service failed as badly as it’s possible for them to fail. There is literally no worse way for them to fail. If nothing else, it’s a campaign slogan… “Biden runs the country as well as he runs the Secret Service.”

Meanwhile, Trump, who seems to have survived by the grace of God and nothing less is hitting it out of the park over and over since Saturday. His behavior at the scene of the shooting, picking Vance, claiming to rewrite his speech (let’s see how that goes), and leaking a phone call (with plausible deniability) that he’s reaching out to RFK, Jr. and supporting his causes. He’s doing everything right for a change.

He’s a smart guy who made a lot of mistakes the first time around and I have a feeling that this presages the fact that he’s learned the lessons he needs to learn.

His second term will be transformative.

Going off a bit to the side. The idea of a highly skilled professional bureaucracy replacing political cronies to run the government was a core belief brought to us by Wilson and the early progressives, better than a century ago. I think that we are seeing with the FJB Administration the end result of this – a highly politicized often incompetent bureaucracy. A guy can keep his job there, while openly stealing luggage, by wearing a dress and makeup. Indeed, the easiest way for guys to cover for their incompetence is just that – wearing dresses. Or being Black. Etc.

The intersection that intruded into my thoughts just now is the recent demise of Chevron Deference. It was built on the assumption of agency expertise. But how can it be maintained, when the bureaucrats in the agency are both highly political and incompetent? No wonder the Bump Stock ban fell, when it was implemented in response to orders by President FJB. It wasn’t based on agency expertise, but political pandering, and, thus, was in the prevue of the Legislative, not Executive, branch.

My point here is that the FJB Administration may have ushered in the beginning of the end of the Progressive Era, by their gross incompetence, while significantly politicizing the entire system. Agency after agency is shown to be ever more incompetent as their top management has become ever more politicized and corrupt.

I’m not one for jumping into conspiracy theories, but here, the idea that it happened through multiple levels of Secret Service failures feels more like a conspiracy theory. You have to strain and get creative to explain it. If you begin in the Jamie position and desperately hope there was no intent to allow a killer access, you have to struggle to explain how that could be.

So Althouse sets the stage for the conclusion that “conspiracy” actually satisfies Occam’s Razor.

I do think, however, that Huxley above (@ 5:59 pm) has a good take on this that bears repeating; that in Vegas, the house doesn’t conspire against an individual player, but it has no problem rigging the odds.

Shall we call this a “soft conspiracy” of sorts that sets a stage and then just allows events to take place? A system of referent power, which Salena Zito discusses way back in 2013:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/05/19/obamas_incredible_referent_power_118468.html

The problem that I, and I suspect most people, have is those doing the investigating are the same people/agencies that the conspiracy theory identifies as the perpretrators (See Eeyore @ 11:03 am, above). Whether that theory is accurate or not, it creates a fundamental Catch 22: The “perpretators” investigate themselves and conclude no underlying conspiracy which then becomes part of the conspiracy itself.

And, sadly, this all fits hand-in-glove with Huxley’s observation about rigging the odds, Zito’s discussion of referent power, and Althouse’s observation above.

Hopefull the evidence about July 13th will be more conclusive than we expect.

A lot.

Of the many things were were told by the Democrats and the MSM that were just “conspiracy theories,” the example which comes to mind is the widely publicized statement by “51 former high ranking intelligence officials” attesting to the fact that the “supposed” incriminating information on Hunter Biden’s laptop was just “Russian disinformation.”

Turns out, it was legit, and no such thing.

Thus, when I’m told that, to imagine that the Trump assassination attempt was a setup, is to believe in a wild, and utterly far-fetched conspiracy theory, I’m sorry, but I’m of the “if it walks like a duck” school, and I see a whole lotta ducks walking around, leaving a stinking mess of white shit all over the place, and setting up quite a racket.

Far too many lapses and “coinkydinks” here.

btw, Macron seems to be in denial, about the scale of his loss of influence or so he has relayed to Attal,