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I continue to be surprised by people claiming that God deflected the bullet to save Trump. If surviving assassination attempts is a seal of divine approval and dying is thus a sign that God doesn't care for your politics, then God doesn't come out of it very well. JFK, RFK, MLK, Spencer Perceval, Abraham Lincoln, John Lennon, Ghandi all left to perish by God, whilst He stepped in to save Hitler (a few times). He has at least been pretty consistent on seeing off the liberals and saving the anti-liberals. He also saved Farage in that plane crash and when I had a chance to whack him in a corridor.
The stats are so one-sided that I think the science on this checks out. Not sure it reflects too well on God to be fair, but it seems to me that He thinks the Right are right.
Confusingly he let Reagan take a few bullets, but allowed him to survive. So what message is he sending out there? And what I don't quite understand is that if God has power over the bullets, why did he not prevent it from hitting Trump at all? It has to be taken surely, by this logic that God was very mildly rebuking Trump with that clip around the ear. Either that or He doesn't have full omnipotence or omnipresence and had to do his best and can only be in one place at once - hence his failure to save everyone that day.
I am glad God saved Trump though. I don't think murdering people is a good idea, even if I don't agree with their politics. Again it's surprising how many liberals seem to make an exception to that for people that they don't like. Whilst the assassination attempt might possibly bolster Trump's chances (not sure if it will and he was doing OK beforehand to be honest), if he'd been killed then I think the repercussions would have been much worse. We don't know why the assassin wanted to shoot him, but unless his motivations were to make Trump look Messianic or to foment an uprising of grieving Trump supporters and more violence (a likely result of success or failure) then he was bound to fail.
Maybe it was just to go down in history, which would have been the case had he succeeded, but he won't be more than a footnote given his failure, but again it was the sort of unpredictable action that might well have led to the end of history.
Anyway I don't know what God is up to, but admire Him for keeping us guessing by making His actions pretty much exactly the same as random chaos. That's much harder to counterfeit than you might imagine.
The penultimate gig of the tour at the wonderful Norwich Playhouse and it was another cracking audience and fun show. I met the magnificent Andy Bobbin who did the titles for all the Twitch of Fun theme songs etc. And just as the tour ends I seem to be really hitting my stride with the show, which is pretty much always the way. Andover tomorrow for the last show, but fairly confident I'll be back on the road with it again next Spring.
