You don't have to believe in the most elaborate theory of predictive programming—the idea that our elites seed information about their plans for the future, deliberately, because it fulfils some vital function in their twisted Moloch-worshipping religion—to understand that our elites often do signal their intentions, and sometimes they do so well in advance. That means months, even years, ahead of schedule. And they use modern electronic media in all their forms to do it.

Maybe there are some people in government and the deep state who really do have some fully developed, esoteric theory about the cosmic significance of programming people's minds for nefarious ends. After all, there are some very weird people with very weird art on their walls in Washington DC—*COUGH* TONY PODESTA *COUGH*—but you only need to see that sometimes, in order to make a plan work, it's necessary to prepare people for it in advance. By preparing people's minds, you can ensure they react in the right way. Whatever nasty thing it is you want to get them to get used to is less of a shock, and that means their behaviour is more predictable and therefore manageable. That's the idea, anyway.

Just look at what happened with the attempt on Trump's life, last month in Butler, Pennsylvania. Ever since Trump walked down that escalator in 2016, we've been told that Trump is Orange Hitler and that his plan is to create a thousand-year Orange Reich in which libtards and Mexicans are systematically hunted and exterminated (or just forced to leave the US for Canada or Mexico); in which women are made to surrender control of their bodies to MAGA-hat wearing hordes of "Christian nationalists;" and in which the world is going to be engulfed in the flames of nuclear war when Trump decides—big baby that he is—that some world leader hasn't showed him the respect he deserves as president and former host of The Apprentice.

The aim of course was to make Trump look bad and mobilise popular opposition to him, but the ceaseless rhetoric about Trump being a threat to democracy, an avowed enemy of the American founding and its ideals, also served another, much more sinister, purpose: to legitimise any and all means, including murder, to stop him.