TRIGGERnometry - Trump Assassination Attempt: Why I'm Not Surprised - Konstantin Kisin

Episode Date: July 16, 2024

I woke up on Sunday morning to the news that President Trump had been shot in an assassination attempt. Adapted from Konstantin Kisin's Substack: https://substack.com/home/post/p-146639877 Konstantin's Twitter - https://x.com/KonstantinKisin Join our exclusive TRIGGERnometry community on Locals! https://triggernometry.locals.com/ OR Support TRIGGERnometry Here: Bitcoin: bc1qm6vvhduc6s3rvy8u76sllmrfpynfv94qw8p8d5 Buy Merch Here: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/shop/ Advertise on TRIGGERnometry: [e-mail] Join the Mailing List: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/#mailinglist Find TRIGGERnometry on Social Media:  https://twitter.com/triggerpod https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod/ https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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pretend that what they see with their own eyes must never be uttered out loud, describing the obvious reality is a worthy thing to do. That being the case, what is the self-evident and truth of the last 48 hours. I woke up on Sunday morning to the news of President Trump had been shot in an assassination attempt. My phone was bursting with notifications, a mixture of concern and unprintable memes. Like many, I experienced a range of emotions, from shock to the relief of the assassination failed, to concern for the future of an America in which this sort of thing can happen. What occurred at the Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, had, and may still have, the potential to be one of those singular moments in history which changes the

world forever. One need not reach for the overused example of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand which sparked the outbreak of World War I. Every significant revolution in modern history, from the French to the American to the Russian, was a product of events that no one could have predicted having the outcome they did. Likewise, the unanticipated and still not fully understood consequences of the collapse of the Soviet Union, the terrorist attacks on 9-11 and the global financial crisis, continued to plague us to this day. Preoccupied with these history, were these historical precedents, my busy mind took many hours to settle, and it was only when it did that I realized the sad truth. There was one emotion I hadn't experienced. Surprise. Obviously, I don't mean

that I had prior knowledge of the attack, or that I was aware of some sort of conspiracy to murder President Trump. I mean only that for some time now, we've lived in a society in which this sort of thing could conceivably happen. To be clear, this video is not an attempt to blame the assassination attempt on my favorite political complaint, as politicians and commentators of every stripe have done over recent days. Republicans tried to present recent comments by President Biden in which he argued that enough time has been spent on debates about his mental acuity as the motivating factor for the attack. Apparently, we're supposed to believe that Biden incited the shooting when he said, we can't waste any more time being distracted, I have one job

and that's to beat Donald Trump before adding, it's time to put Trump in the bullseye. Taylor Green, whose main achievement is to demonstrate that a low IQ is no impediment to success in politics, when further, tweeting that the Democrat Party just tried to murder Donald Trump. Many Democrats, on the other hand, have for once abandoned their pretense of being the party of good people. YouTuber Destiny, who you might remember from a recent debate on trigonometry, had a full mask-off moment when he celebrated the death of Corey Comparatore, a man whose only crime was to be in the crowd. Comparatore was killed when he dived on top of his daughter to protect her from the gunfire with the only thing he had, his body.

A person in the crowd cheering for and supporting a traitor caught astray, I'm so sad, please, Destiny tweeted. Medi Hassan, meanwhile, spent the last few days using the attack to score political points, retweeting things like this to his one and a half million followers. Naturally, all of this is abominable behavior in and of itself, and even more so when it concerns an event in which a man died and several others were seriously injured. But to focus on this would be to conceal a more fundamental and self-evident truth. The way we talk about our political opponents is simply criminal.

In this instance, the right will justifiably paint the rhetoric, jokes and military metaphors deployed by the left as the cause of the assassination attempt. The left will deflect by citing Donald Trump's suggestion that the problem of Hillary Clinton could be solved by the Second Amendment and his other irresponsible comments. Both will be right because, as with most issues nowadays, whatever the case you want to make, the evidence is all there. The real question for someone who doesn't believe that jokes and metaphors make people shoot politicians is, what is the context in which an attempt on the life of a presidential candidate is not a surprise? Like you, I know nothing about the would-be assassin

Thomas Matthew Crooks. I heard someone on TV described the 20-year-old as a nut job. Is that the most logical explanation, I thought to myself? After all, in a political climate in which Trump has been described as Hitler, fascist, Nazi, dictator and so on, would, Would it really be crazy to assassinate him? I know that you and I are emotionally well-regulated, sensible people who never took these allegations seriously, whether we like Trump or not. But not everyone out there is emotionally well-regulated, sensible, or educated about history. What if you were a 20-year-old man?

What if, like most 20-year-old man, you were seeking a mission worthy of your life? What if you're emotionally dis-regulated? What if you lack the judgment IQ or plain common sense to disbelieve the people on your screens who who kept screaming that he's a Nazi? What if you actually thought Trump was Hitler? In that situation, as a patriot and a dedicated citizen who wanted to go down in history, would you not be duty-bound to grab a rifle, climb on a roof, and pull the trigger? After all, how would history remember a man who managed or even attempted to eliminate Hitler?

Do we not make movies about men like Colonel von Staffenberg who did just that? To be clear, I make no claim as to the shooter's actual motivations. I'm merely attempting to process the shock at my own lack of surprise at the assassination attempt itself. The self-evident truth is that we have ceased to love our neighbor. We may never know what the true reasons for the shooting of President Trump were, but what we do know is that it is time for this type of politics to end. Because if it doesn't, something else will.