Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.'s Blog, page 347
July 18, 2024
Living With Perpetual Violence
Notwithstanding the near-assassination of former President Trump, I could not help but find a bit of humor in the response of Republicans, Democrats, and mainstream-press commentators to the shooting — the response that says that there is no room for political violence in American society.
Are they kidding? How can any reasonable person not guffaw at that statement? Ever since the U.S. government was converted into a national-security state form of government after World War II, perpetual politi...
Iwo Jima 2.0
The Iwo Jima 2.0 pic, immortalizing the Trump fist surviving an assassination attempt, has taken the world by storm – generating everything from a meme tsunami on China’s Weibo to fresh anime in Japan. Not to mention the deluge of hats and T-shirts.
This carefully composed pic changes everything – in more ways than one. So let’s engage in a first attempt to deconstruct it.
We start with the major losers. The combo running Crash Test Dummy’s teleprompter/earpiece set up is essentially composed by...
‘Lady MacBiden’
I am careful about my words. I don’t throw around accusations, and, for the legal record, I am not here making an accusation. This essay is deliberately written so as to not be an act of defamation or of libel.
Here is my immediate response on Saturday July 13, to the assassination attempt. As I warned you all in my recent essay “What Time It is”, about the incarceration of Stephen K Bannon, the attempt on President Trump’s life on Saturday July 13 was sadly predictable, as we are in the period,...
My Questions Regarding the Trump Shooting
Okay. Okay. Every talking head from every medium in the world has already given their analysis of the Trump shooting in Pennsylvania. I almost decided to NOT write on this because, after all, virtually everything that can be said about it has been said—everyone from the conventional, mockingbird media to the most fanciful conspiracy theorist and everyone in between.
But, alas, here I am writing about the Trump shooting. At this point, I have mostly observations and questions regarding those obse...
Another Psyop Believed by Ignorant and Gullible Americans
“The narrative illusion introduces a “mind virus”, which is a syntactical contagion that spreads through communicative vectors and colonizes the cognitive biases of the targeted individual’s psychology, thus transforming the mental processes of that target.”
~ James Scott, Senior Fellow, The Center for Cyber Influence Operations Studies
Guns are not the most productive weapons used to gain power and control over populations; psychological operations (Psyops) are always preferable and more effect...
Guess Who’s a Secret Agent
This one’s such a doozy I hardly know what to tell you.
I trust you are familiar with Max Boot of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Max is like Bill Kristol: there isn’t a U.S. war in recent decades he hasn’t supported (oh, sure, 20 years later he’ll solemnly inform us that mistakes were made, but that’s about it).
In supporting the Iraq war, for example, Boot cited the US occupation of the Philippines and the gruesome guerrilla war that claimed 200,000 Filipino civilians as evidence that eventu...
July 17, 2024
Two Americans Walking Down the Street and Talking About Politics
“Man that assassination thing with Trump was so freaky,” said Carl while stepping over a woman in a hijab clutching a dead child to her chest.
“I know man! I couldn’t believe what I was seeing,” said Steve, nimbly leapfrogging a large puddle of blood.
“He’s definitely got the election in the bag after that one, right?” Carl asked as the two strolled casually down the sidewalk through mountains of gore and human suffering.
“He’s gotta!” replied Steve. “Did you see that epic photo of him with his ...
On the Astonishing Security Failures Attending the Attempted Assassination of Donald Trump
The attempted assassination of Donald Trump represents one of the most astounding security failures in recent memory. If standards at the Butler rally represent how Trump has been protected until now, it’s amazing he wasn’t killed long ago. Thomas Matthew Crooks was by all accounts an unsophisticated would-be assassin, who raised the suspicion of law enforcement long before he opened fire, who took up his firing position in full view of many spectators who tried repeatedly to warn police, and wh...
Hard About Aye!
No one can say with a straight face that 2024 has not been a strange year, and we’re only half way through it. It’s like sitting on a monster roller coaster waiting to roll out and you’re not sure whether to be thrilled or terrified.
In the wheelhouse of a ship, there is (or used to be) a device called an Engine Order Telegraph (EOT). It’s that dial thingy with the handle and bells and the speeds printed on the face that the bridge officer grabs to indicate course and speed to the engine room. N...
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