Kill-King 13:3

Long Live the New King of Chaos?

(Audio at the end of piece)

“Trump” card from “Illuminati” card game (famous for having predicted events like the death of Lady Di)

“And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?” —Revelation, 13:4

“Take a look what happened—” —Trump’s last words before being clipped by bullet

Victim-King

Just yesterday, I remarked to my wife, “I think I’m going to have to write about Donald Trump.”

Then this morning, I received Neoliberal Feudalism’s latest post, “On the Trump assassination attempt.” So here it is, much sooner than I ever could have imagined. When you take a single step towards the zeitgeist, sometimes the zeitgeist comes all the way to you.

The reason I realized I needed to write about Trump was that I had just read the following passage, from Rene Girard’s Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World:

The rules of what we call “royal enthronement” are those of the sacrifice; they attempt to make the king a victim capable of channeling mimetic antagonism. One indication of this is that in many societies the inauguration of a king is accompanied by collective threats against him, and these are required by ritual just as are the expression of submission and adoration that follow them. The two attitudes correspond to the transference of crisis and of reconciliation that constitute the sacred. The king is at first nothing more than a victim with a sort of suspended sentence, and this demonstrates that the victim is made responsible for the transformation that moves the community from mimetic violence to the order of ritual. In reality the victim is passive, but because the collective transference discharges the community of all responsibility, it creates the illusion of a supremely active and all-powerful victim (p. 48).

The meme is, If you shoot the king, you better not miss.

The lesson of Girard, and of yesterday’s assassination attempt (as I am interpreting it today, at least) is, If you shoot the king, be sure to miss! (But make it look really close.)

What Girard is talking about is, when the time comes to inaugurate the new king, one of the surest ways (besides leveling all kinds of trumped-up charges against him) is: make him seen genuinely endangered.

Easy enough, with the Donald.

Looking at TDS from Both Sides Now

“Donald Trump was saved by God today.” Tweet

Will Trump-Derangement Syndrome become known as the straw that broke the US Empire’s back?

TDS—it should be stressed—cuts both ways: there is hysterical anti-Trumpism, yes, but also hysterical, or at least profoundly delusional, Trumpism. Both are complementary, insofar as they add fuel to each other’s orangey blaze.

Is it more deranged to believe DT is the next Hitler, or to believe he is the new JFK (or Jesus)? That depends partly on how you perceive those historical figures. If I asked instead, is it crazier to think DT will destroy the US empire, or raise it to glory, then the latter delusion would seem to have the edge over the former.

This means that, while anti-Trumpers are considerably more annoying in their derangement, pro-Trumpers—being generally less deranged—may ironically be more wrong.

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I am aware that there’s a more practical sort of Trump-supporter that basically thinks DT is “the lesser of two evils” (DT is running partially on the ticket that Hillary lost on in 2016; irony never ends). For these—of whom my friend James Howard Kunstler is one—I prescribe a milder diagnosis of TNS: Trump Naiveté Syndrome.

Just as a public vending machine will only sell you various brands of junk, the occult engineers of history do not allow for any option they have not already perfected as a possible instrument of social control. (Opting for bottled water is akin to not-voting.)

My best guess—and it’s only that, this is only an OP-ED, not political analysis—is that the Donald will be the next POTUS, whose role it is to preside over the continued collapsing of the US Empire, through the pitting of two Trump-deranged factions against one another, and via whatever sorts of civil war coups and counter-coups may then ensue.

If people fall for it, that is. And if history has taught us anything, it is that the majority of people will believe just about anything they are told, once the stakes are high enough.

And that history is never on the side of God or “the people.”

And that history is designed to work as an endlessly repeating vicious cycle that no one ever learns the lessons of.

The Alleged Assassination Attempt

I have read NeoFeudal’s analysis (though not his more recent series on Trump), and it is tempting to want to defer to his greater research and erudition. Ditto with my wife, who is also better-researched in current US affairs, and also of the opinion that this was a genuine attempt on DT’s life by “the Establishment.”¹

And it sure looks like it! (Crowd footage of the sniper shooting the alleged shooter.)²

I don’t buy into this reading, however; by which I mean, I don’t plan to suspend my disbelief just yet, just as I have yet to be convinced that DT wasn’t always secretly meant to be POTUS, back in 2016 (and maybe in 2024, though not in 2020, evidently). This isn’t to say I think the assassination attempt was fake, only that the aim could very well have always been to miss.

My reasoning, such as it is (gonzo, intuitive-deductive, based on a worldview that’s more metaphysical than political), is as follows:

When NeoFeudal says, quote, “It’s a miracle Trump survived,” and, quote, “It is literally a miracle that Trump is not dead now given how close the shooter was,” I have to wonder if NeoFeudal also believes in magic bullets that turn in midair before killing presidents. If it is literally a miracle, then surely, parapolitical reasoning says, it must have been arranged that way. Unless, that is, NeoFeudal is pushing for a mystical view of Trump, which AFAIK he isn’t.

As a paranoid parapolitical researcher with a heavy leaning towards metaphysics, I don’t believe in miracles when it comes to assassination attempts, any more than I believe in coincidences when it comes to identifying patsies. It seems much more reasonable for me to suppose that, if the shooter missed, it was because he was meant to miss.

NeoFeudal then asks “cui bono—who benefits if Trump had been killed?” Me, I would ask, cui bono from a failed assassination attempt? After all, that is what happened, so we are at least sticking to known facts, rather than speculating about intentions, which are as shifty and changing as Trump’s hair.

NeoFeudal does raise the question of an intended miss since some mainstream pundits are already claiming it was staged to increase DT’s popularity. The irony of this is not lost on me, nor on the blessed mememakers:

NeoFeudal argues that Trump hardly needed to increase his popularity. He may be right (I don’t know enough to comment). But fortunately for me, courtesy of Rene Girard, I have a better theory for why the forces and factions behind DT—which I suggest are also behind the Establishment that hates him—might want to stage such an event.

This has less to do with Trump’s popularity, in the profane sense, than it has to do with his eligibility and efficacy in the role of anointed victim-king.

James Shelby Downard’s “King Kill 33” has made it well-known in conspiracy circles that presidents can be selected in order to be sacrificed; Girard’s nuanced reading of social mechanics suggests that presidents can also be mock-sacrificed, in order to be anointed.

(Part Two)