My Take: “We Came Within An Inch Of The Country Coming Apart”
Hearing the news of the Donald Trump assassination attempt, I had a couple of initial reactions to it: Deep emotions relating to my childhood memory of the JFK assassination, and how close we are to our society falling apart.
I recorded a quick reaction to the Trump assassination attempt.
I’ll have this transcribed and will add the transcription later. (added)
“Hearing the news that Donald Trump had been shot with an assassination attempt at the rally in Pennsylvania, I had a couple of initial reactions to it.
I know a lot of people will be talking about this in the coming days, and we still don’t really know enough about the shooter, what his motivation was. It might’ve been just plain old Trump Derangement Syndrome. It might’ve been that he was completely delusional, like Jared Loughner who shot the Congresswoman in Texas. Or it might be some combination. But that doesn’t really matter for the way I reacted.
The way I reacted was at a very core level emotionally. Many people have messaged me that they came to tears when they heard about the shooting before they even knew what the result was. And I felt very much the same way.
It brought out from me one of my earliest childhood emotions, which was the assassination of JFK. I was four years old. It was really my first childhood emotion that I remember. And my mother wrote out for me a short note that I sent to the President’s family and to his children saying how sad I was that they lost their father. As you can tell, even right now, there’s something very core that comes out of me when I talk about that. And the White House at that time did respond.
That’s something that has stayed with me. And whenever we’ve had major assassinations or assassination attempts, that’s something that no matter how much I try to suppress it, it comes out.
But there’s another reaction that I had. One that’s something that we’ve talked about a lot at the website, which is how close we are to our society falling apart. And I’ve often quoted parts of the poem from William Butler Yates about the Second Coming and how “the center cannot hold” and “things fall apart.”
And that’s another emotion I had. We literally came within an inch. Now that’s a common phrase. ‘I came within an inch of doing something’. We literally came within an inch of this country coming apart.
And I think that notion that we’ve talked about a lot at the website, how the relentless pressure from the left on all of us, the capture of institutions, the aggressiveness, the lack of law enforcement, all those other things have really brought our society to a point where there is a very thin reed between society functioning and it coming apart. And that’s the other thing.
I felt that we really were on the precipice and we came within an inch of this country changing forever.
There will be a lot of discussion in the coming days. We’ll cover it at the website. But I wanted to give you my first two initial reactions to the assassination attempt. And thank God it was not successful.”
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I think you’re right, Professor, but I also think we’d be fools to simply let it go. They keep upping the rhetoric and eventually there will be a backlash.
For example, read David Frum’s article today in The Atlantic. There is no “letting go” by this branch of the elite.
Wherever David is Frum I wish he would go back there.
https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/politics/2024/07/14/top-florida-gop-fundraiser-sets-up-gofundme-for-trump-rally-victims/74399296007/
Already over 3 million raised.
One could hope that we did change forever, on Saturday night. However, I’m not confident of that.
Notice that “Morning Joe” is off the air, today, because CBS is concerned that the hosts, a vicious pair if ever there was one, would saying something inappropriate. And a whole lot inappropriate has been said.
Consider Rep Bennie Thompson’s staffer, now fired but no doubt going to be well treated in finding a new gig, saying, “I don’t condone violence but please get you some shooting lessons so you don’t miss next time ooops that wasn’t me talking.” Of course, she condones violence.
What’s the old phrase? Something about butter wouldn’t melt in their mouth? While surely there are some on the Left who think things got out of hand on Saturday night, there are far too many who wish that Crookes had done a better job. They still want Trump dead, and they stll want me dead. I’m not going to forget or forgive.
“The most terrifying force of death comes from the hands of Men who wanted to be left Alone. They try, so very hard, to mind their own business and provide for themselves and those they love. They resist every impulse to fight back, knowing the forced and permanent change of life that will come from it. They know that the moment they fight back, their lives as they have lived them, are over. The moment the Men who wanted to be left alone are forced to fight back, it is a form of suicide. They are literally killing off who they used to be. Which is why, when forced to take up violence, these Men who wanted to be left alone, fight with unholy vengeance against those who murdered their former lives. They fight with raw hate, and a drive that cannot be fathomed by those who are merely play-acting at politics and terror. TRUE TERROR will arrive at these people’s door, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy… but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the Men who just wanted to be left alone.”
I really wish I could give an attribution, but nobody seems to know who said this originally. All I can say is that they’ve been warned, repeatedly and when that backlash comes it’s their fault alone.
“Men who wanted to be left Alone.”
In my case I was a boy who just wanted to be left alone. I was into science, and by 10-11 into geometry, and over time into every thing in math. There were boneheads who insisted on making my life miserable,
I finally had enough after the principal said I would have to take my lumps. I did not want to fight, but finally snapped after her BS, kicking the living crap out of one boy.
After that they left me alone. There are many really stupid people, something which Dems fully exploit, Hillary’s deplorables. They will not be persuaded short of being hurt.
Too bad you could not have beaten the crap out of the principal. But wise decision not to.
We had a teacher at my Junior High who was a truly abusive SOB. Nothing sexual we knew of, but really went over the line with stuff like slamming a yardstick down HARD on someone’s desk, usually in middle of a test, and usually doing it to one of the loner / nerd / weakling kids.
This all came to a screeching halt one afternoon in the teacher’s parking lot. He got the ever-loving snaht beat out of him, lost a few teeth, and suffered several broken ribs and a dislocated shoulder. There were no witnesses of course.
Even the perpetrators didn’t witness the assault.
Who beat that ass?
To Paul: it was a tough school, and he had stepped a bit too far with the weak sibling of a particularly tough kid. He and a couple others attended to the task and no one saw a thing.
My son was 11 or 12. The school bully, the son of a teacher, would not let up. He knew he was protected.
He went after my son, and I told my son that to make him stop, he had to hurt the bully worse than he was hurt.
Gym class. Son was beat up again. He beat the living shit out of the bully, blood everywhere, tears and torn clothing.
I was called by the principal. My son was being suspended and had to attend “restorative justice” classes monthly for the remainder of the school year. Reeducation camp.
I informed the principal that there would be no punishment, and that before I left the school, one of two things would happen.
1. I would call the police and file criminal battery charges against the child, the school, and personally press charges and sue both the parents and the principal. I had a list of parents whose children were already battered by this kid, and I threatened a mass suit, to include medical records from those parents.
2. We would chalk this up to learning opportunity for the bully.
The principal called my bluff. I called the Chief of Police, a family friend, on speaker phone in the principal’s office. The Chief recommended that the principal change his mind, or it would be a pity if the police started strictly enforcing all traffic laws for the teachers and students driving to and from school. It would also be difficult for the parents of the children if they happened to have frequent visits every time a neighbor complained about issues at the home. (The bully lives two streets over from us).
One must fight fire with fire and be willing to burn the other person’s house to the ground.
Son is now an engineer and doing well.
The citations I see claim it was from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn but I could find no direct quote from him.
The revolution will not be televised nor will it resemble a Hollywood movie.
The left should tread lightly, speak softer and surrender their big sticks.
This quote could easily come from Ayn Rand.but probably didn’t. The philosophy is definitely hers.
I don’t know how, but my early experiences hardened me, I turned into one hard nosed SOB, on one hand I go way out of my way to help people, but when someone tries to screw me, hell hath no fury. Now my problem is age, just not what I used to be.
I also remember JFK’s assassination; I was born in 57. I’ve have referenced Yeats poem The Second Coming as being descriptive of where we are today.
I was 13, had an hour of free time in the school library when I heard about it. Apparently, Deep State was already thriving then.
Also born in ’57, was in class (US Catholic Elementary School taught by missionary Irish Franciscan nuns). Announcement over class speakers of the shooting, asked teachers to have us all bow our heads in moment of silence to pray for the president.
My elder sis’s teacher panicked she later told me. This was during the “Troubles” remember, and she was sure this was the signal for all the Protestants to rise up and murder all the Catholics……..
born ’56
was home sick that day … napping on the living room couch… watching some TV
someone broke into the show
and was yelling the president has been shot.
and yelled for my mom they just killed the president.
she came running in from the kitchen.
was crazy.
This week I’m feeling old. The Prof was four when Kennedy was shot. When I was an Instructor at Ft. Sill in ’67 the trainees were asking each other where they were that day and asked “SGT, what were you doing that day?” I told them I drew my weapon from the Arms Room, grabbed my Alert Bag and was on Alert until long after dark. Icing on the cake of feeling old was the 30s to 40 YO guy in the WalMart parking lot Monday who called me “Old Timer”.
I may be almost as old as Quid Pro Joe, but at least I have most of my “faculties”. Yesterday I walked into a room and knew exactly why I was there. It was the bathroom, but still…. 😉
We all know that there will always be losers who attempt assassination. We cannot temper dialogue and coverage to the point at which it does not instigate the most unbalanced minds. We can’t stop public campaigning. What we can do is provide ironclad protection to the major candidates. The sight of short, pony-tailed chicks acting as shields is nauseating. Not covering the rooftop was inexcusable.
When Obama had to cross one street on a visit to India the secret service deployed a quarter million dollar portable tunnel that was air conditioned and lined with television screens!
You’re taking the view that one person did it, a “lone gunman”. Who just happened to have easy and facilitated access to bring a rifle up on one of the nearby roofs.
And they probably got someone young and stupid, but a good shooter, to do it. If the kid were smarter and knew a little history, he would have known that Lee Harvey Oswald did not live long after doing whatever he did to become the alleged killer of JFK.
I’ve commented elsewhere on Patsies. I think this kid, bullied a lot in school and other characteristics, suited the needs of [insert alphabet agency or NGO here] very well.
Yep, we’ve seen it happen before.
Gee, was Oswald also set up as the alleged killer of Officer Tippit in broad daylight?
Was it Tippit? Or Sicknick?
After a while, all the false flags bleed together.
I’ve posted this before, but (unfortunately) it’s appropriate again.
How Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) recruits suicide bombers, according to a Navy SEAL and senior chief in the book The Sheriff of Ramadi:
“Those SOBs go out and recruit kids to do this. Our interrogators were able to get the whole story (from captured AQI recruits). One of them had been sexually abused as a young boy and was told the only way he could reclaim his family honor was to die for Allah in this manner. The senior AQI leaders – the foreigners – won’t do this themselves. They get others to do it. They prey upon kids, young boys and girls who are insecure or have some psychological disorder. Some of them have severe learning disabilities…”
This is the explicit m.o. of the Democrat Party
PowerPoint playbook on the messaging — slide number 6 — with the messaging theme number 1: Violence.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/08/10/left-planned-stage-violence-embarrass-trump/
The first Project Veritas video shows staff admitting Hillary paid for training the homeless, the elderly infirm and the handicapped to start violent fights at Trump rallies as part of a criminal organization of political terrorism.
**Rigging the Election – Video I: Clinton Campaign and DNC Incite Violence at Trump Rallies**
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IuJGHuIkzY&feature=youtu.be&t=9m35s
Well, I’d say the “good shooter” part is questionable, but even money says you’re right about the rest. It’s unlikely that this little turd decided, all on his own, to do this without support.
I continue to wonder about the political “leanings” of the SecretService agent(s) responsible for surveying the areas and trees and buildings outside the perimeter. Did she/he/they consider the vantage points provided from places outside to the podium and the stage? communicate about what they saw? care about what they saw? think that it was only going to be a DJTrump rally? Just wondering!!
The alleged shooter is dead. We will never know if he is a Patsy, or was the real thing. I am cynical enough to think he is the 21st century Oswald or Sirhan.
And, no. I do not own any tin-foil lined hats. I am just a cynical old man who finds virtually anything hard to believe anymore.
Well, a “conspiracy theorist” has come to mean “someone who is just ahead of the news cycle.”
I say that today “Conspiracy Theorist” is more of a realist.
I’m with you, guy. Did you see that mysterious man with the umbrella standing on the grassy knoll?
The SS agent who took him out is named Jack Ruby. Now everything can be wrapped up very nicely. No loose ends.
To EXACTLY paraphrase Lincoln….”A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this country cannot endure, permanently half blue and half red. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved – I do not expect the house to fall – but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other”
We have never pushed to make it all one thing when compared to those that seek to make it all one thing…. one Blue Party, one Blue People, one Blue State.
Biden lit the fire and now tries to put it out. It will take a lot! The hate is palpable. Too many have been brainwashed by disinformation into perverted perceptions of reality. Good luck, President Biden, in dealing with yet another disaster you and your allies have created.
Don’t fool yourself. Brandon is giving lip service to cooling things off, but has never actually done anything toward that end.
Nor will he.
Nor can he; Biden is a vegetable. His puppeteers, starting with “Doctor” Jill, on the other hand…
Obama and crone Clinton gleefully and ceaselessly fanned the flames of Trump-hatred, first. Let’s not let him get away without due blame. Now, that vile and malignant narcissist fatuously and hypocritically lectures Americans to embrace “civility.” Such an utterly wicked and cancerous reprobate.
I think you give him too much credit for trying to put the fire out. He mumbles some lip service about unity and democracy and nonviolence, but doesn’t seem to mean a word of any of it. He’s saying it because he’s expected to, not because he would mind if someone put Trump in the “bullseye.”
His party thrives on pouring gasoline on the fire. It’s their only tactic at this point.
When biden read for the second time on Sunday from the script prepared for him, he bemoaned the attempted assassination of a former USA President and of an American citizen. But … failed to mention that the target is also his Republican opponent in the November election!
Not listened to the video yet, listening another.
Oh wow. An within inch of the country coming apart? What ever gave you that idea. A similar thought didn’t come to my mind until about one minute ‘after I heard, when I finished checking the news.
I have to tell you, Professor, it was a lot closer than “an inch”. Trump won the lottery, basically. I would say that the odds of him surviving that particular shot was 100,000 to 1. He just luckily turned his head to the EXACT angle necessary to have it graze him. If his head had been even a half of a degree one way or the other that shot would have been deep in his head. An inch sounds like a small bit but Trump actually survived by much, much less than that. It was pretty miraculous, really. The shot was coming at the side of his head and he just happened to be in the exact angle, at the exact moment necessary, for it to only graze him.
Because he turned his head as the shot was fired, the bullet was basically parallel to his head, hitting his ear. Any deviation of his head from parallel to the path of the bullet and the bullet would have hit his head more directly. Easy test … turn your head toward the right and put your right finger tips up to touch the top of your right ear. Keep your fingers still and turn your head forward again. Where your right fingertips then touch your head is roughly where the bullt would have entered. I am not sure that it would have been fatal, but definitely a mess.
Could we have a list published of every politician, Hollywood persona, entertainer, TV/Radio personality, and hack that mentioned and supported the assassination of Trump and the murder of any Maga/republicans?
These hateful, evil, deranged individuals must be publicly shamed, censured, and held accountable. They are no better than Stalin.
The first one that comes to mind is our deranged pal Alec Baldwin.
But Mister Gun Safety would never do anything like that.
quote”These hateful, evil, deranged individuals must be publicly shamed, censured, and held accountable. They are no better than Stalin.” unquote
how bout we just hang em
use wire … lampposts work
let em dance.
I am done with reindeer games.
Via X
ErikDPrince
@realErikDPrince
Hopefully, after the tragedy yesterday in Butler, PA, we can all recognize that unaccountable, bloated bureaucracies continue to fail us as Americans.
Donald J Trump is alive today solely due to a lousy wind estimate by an evil would-be assassin.
As the graphics show, the full-value wind of just five mph was enough to displace the unconfirmed but likely light 55-grain bullet two inches from DJT’s intended forehead to his ear.
DJT was not saved by USSS brilliance. The fact that USSS allowed a rifle-armed shooter within 150 yards to a preplanned event is either malice or massive incompetence. There was adequate uncontrolled dead space for a shooter to move into position and take multiple aimed shots. Watching the newsreel, one can hear how proximate the shooter is by the very short time lapse between the crack of the arriving bullet (supersonic) and the boom of the muzzle blast (sonic).
The law enforcement sniper (unclear if USSS) in newsreels was overwhelmed as his face came off his rifle instead of doing his job to kill the shooter. They were clearly watching the shooter but apparently had a no “first shot” policy. The only positive action was an apparent 488yd shot by one USSS sniper, which despatched the assassin, but after the assassin launched at least five rounds, wounding DJT and killing and severely others in the crowd.
In my old business of providing Diplomatic Security in two active war zones, we were expected to execute the basics, or we would be fired. Clearly, USSS failed at the basics of a secure perimeter. Once shots were fired, their extraction was clumsy, leaving DJT highly exposed to follow-on attacks. It looked like they had never drilled together because those responses should be effectively autonomic. Will there be accountability? That’s not the Washington way.
Unserious and unworthy people in positions of authority got us to this near disaster. Merit and execution must be the only deciding factors in hiring and leadership, not the social engineering priority of the day. Sadly nothing in Washington reflects that any longer. DJT is right to question the competence of those protecting him because they failed in almost every way yesterday. Nature abhors a vacuum, and there are always other options.
Most importantly, as Americans, let’s come together and run a proper, valid election so we can get back to what matters: a merit-based society that judges on character and skill. Nothing else.
There were two snipers on that roof and I believe the lower, slightly obscured one, took the shot.
There were? First I heard of it, but then I have been avoiding any and all newscasts about it. I don’t want to see Candy’s, Keith’s, or Wolf’s sorrow over Trump surviving.
I think MajorWood was referring to the “counter-sniper” team. There were 2 of them up there one on a tripod and one prone.
CST is a two-person team: a sniper and a spotter to quote the range
I bet the spotter is also monitoring the gun shot detection and direction finder ala the ShotSpotter system lik Chicago is turning off after the DNC.
“The law enforcement sniper (unclear if USSS) in newsreels was overwhelmed as his face came off his rifle instead of doing his job to kill the shooter.”
The first post of that video that I saw on X was made by someone who thought it depicted a sniper “taking out” the shooter. It did not. It showed a sniper reacting (unprofessionally) to incoming fire. When a well-trained sniper shoots, nothing moves but his trigger finger.
“Once shots were fired, their extraction was clumsy, leaving DJT highly exposed to follow-on attacks. It looked like they had never drilled together because those responses should be effectively autonomic.”
A far cry from the response of Reagan’s SS detail in response to Hinckley’s attack. Uzis appeared out of nowhere, and Reagan was being stuffed into a limo while Hinkley was still shooting, so quick was their response to get Reagan to safety.
In Reagan’s day, the SS comprised qualified people. Now, it’s DEI hires with a DEI hire in charge.
Were I Trump and won the election, I would use very Executive power at my disposal to give EVERY cabinet level agency a pull-through with a wet Army blanket.
Run security clearances on those people that makes a compartmented SI Top Secret clearance seem like a walk in the park.
I’d also use a TRUSTED, PRIVATE outfit to do those checks, Anything else is the fox in the henhouse.
Slightly off the original topic, but I’d assume he would also pull the security clearances of the 51 signatories of the “Hunter’s laptop may be Russian disinformation” lie. Was Anthony Blinken guilty of election interference?
Well one thing I can say for certain, I do not believe there were any “well trained” snipers on that rooftop.
“As the graphics show, the full-value wind of just five mph was enough to displace the unconfirmed but likely light 55-grain bullet two inches from DJT’s intended forehead to his ear.”
So the shot came from the left side of the frame, where his face was, and not the right side, where the back of his head was? (I haven’t seen any of the area maps.)
If so, the sniper was truly a lousy shot to take down that other guy about eight feet in front of Trump’s face.
DEI!
I read yesterday that the secret service people were temps who were borrowed from DHS to handle the event. I believe it was Dan Bongino who said that.
The Left keeps warning us of the ‘stochastic terrorism’ coming from the Right, yet they keep engaging in stochastic terrorism themselves.
That is their MO, to accuse others of what they are actually attempting.
Correction: not “actually attempting”, but “actually doing” – as in inflation being over 9% when Trump left office rather than 16 months later.
Like the genocidal “Palestinians” accusing Israel of genocide.
Before Fort Sumter came Bleeding Kansas. I believe the bleeding has begun but there’s still time to turn it around. Not much inclination that I see on the other side but still time.
I am waiting for the serious succession attempts to begin. Once one state tells DC to sod off, that’s will things will really roll downhill.
“Once one state tells DC to sod off, that’s will things will really roll downhill.”
Been saying for decades that’s how it will start. There will be no war. States will just leave the Union, possibly form a new one for mutual assistance and defense. There will be no public sentiment to war to re-unify the United States. Liberals will quickly realize that fewer conservative States in the Union will actually increase their hold on power, and will acquiesce to the departure of Red States for the advantage it will give them in the remaining States.
The problem is there are no Blue States only Blue cities. When the NYC votes to leave the Union why does the rest of the State want to go with them or vice versa.
I wonder who will go first?
Actually I expect it to be Crazyfornia. I know a blue state seems like a stretch. Just think, since people now see how bad an idea it is to let a Dem be President we are looking at possibly 12 years of a republican, possibly a MAGA republican. That could start the process.
Greater Idaho
Secession sounds good, but what about the $35 trillion national debt? Any state wanting to secede would surely have to take on a portion of that debt.
Agreed. Lots we simply don’t know yet and may never know. What we do know isn’t good. The current divisions run deep, splitting families and shattering friendships. Not sure it is possible to avoid a larger fracture or if could be avoided in a negotiated settlement where each of the main cultural branches go their separate ways. The latter is certainly more preferable to open violent conflict.
Neither of the main cultural branches seems interested in surrendering to the other nor is there widespread support for a negotiated settlement leading to a relatively peaceful division. Unless one of those things changes or one cultural branch gains a lasting super majority then that unfortunate conflict may not be avoidable.
Well-stated, Professor Jacobson.
Too late. Yesterday it went hot, and the left will ramp up because they are pissed yesterday their dreams were dashed. The right will be on a hair trigger now to retaliate to ANY stupidity pushed by the left and it will become a feed-back loop.
Can Trump opt out of SS “protection” and hire more competent private security?
Why not? It’s a “free” country, cough cough
Just has to
Pay for it,
And I would if I were him
I may be optimistic here, but I think his people have likely Made Some Phone Calls.
“We’re done talking about the debate. It’s time to put Trump in the bullseye,” Biden said on that call, a recording of which was obtained by CNN.
npr goes one better by not saying that trump was HIT
ONLY THAT TRUMP WAS THE TARGET while others were hit
and then only quotes trumps post on social media saying that he was hit
to give the impression that trump is saying he was hit
and maybe trump is lying
Because, just as with the debate footage, the MSM is somehow convinced that we can’t see and understand images with our own eyes.
Well, NPR will never be able to quash the historic image of President Trump being surrounded by USSS, with his fist in the air and blood running down his face.
But I’ve heard that they’ve already removed the flag in the background.
Of course now the Left has a perfect excuse for Brandon not to make any public appearances. Too dangerous, they will scream. The irony is that the Donald’s future ralleys will be so well attended that no sniper will be able to get within 1000 yards. They had to do the entire Covid farce to stop his rallys last time. In one second they lost the hearts and minds of so so many who were on the fence. No one likes being lied to forever, and this is a debacle that they simply can’t coverup like 1963 because there are too many independent sources on the interwebz. And everyone they shut down will just turn another thousand against them. Like Pearl Harbor, this was a desperate act by desperate people which failed. They have lost the hearts and minds forever.
“Come out, you coward! Fight me! This ia only a scratch…!”
Okay, a Python reference is out of line, but a similar reply would hard to resist making.
Fine. We just keep running the high light reels of the “cheap fakes”.
Frankly keeping him safe is top on my list of things that need to happen since his end by violence would be the Democrats best chance to win.
“Okay, a Python reference is out of line”
A Python reference is NEVER out of line. Funerals, christenings, church services, anything. There are plenty of times when attending mass I wanted to yell out “Skip a bit, brother!”
“In one second they lost the hearts and minds of so so many who were on the fence.”
Holy… do you REALLY believe that?
“I heard it was a Lone Gunman.” –X
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/what-trump-shooter-was-featured-blackrock-ad-2023/
And apparently the monster had explosives in his car…
Um, let’s wait until we hear this from a credible source.
Credible?
Um, here’s another source
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-14/trump-rally-suspect-had-explosive-devices-in-his-car-wsj
But you do you
That is more credible, thank you.
Yahbut… the real question is:
Did he KNOW he had explosive devices in his car?
Or were they a Lovely Parting Gift from his “handler?”
“Another source”?! This source doesn’t say anything that your first “source” said. Your first “source” says nothing about explosives; it’s all about some alleged ad. Your second source, the reliable one, is all about explosives. Two completely different stories.
The Gateway Pundit has been doing heavy lifting on the real news since the invasion of Iraq. The place has also been plagued by David Brock and his dishonest Nerd Virgins, not to mention other trolls. It’s not nice to talk like a Democrat about people more accomplished than yourself.
What a little “dick”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/watch-george-stephanopoulos-blames-trump-trump-supporters-violent/
Gateway is a credible source
Period
No, it is not. It is a scurrilous lie-sheet run by two cynical frauds, and every word that appears on it must be presumed to be a lie unless it is corroborated by reliable sources, in which case those can just be cited directly and there is no point in citing the lie-sheet.
Just one example of Joe Hoft’s extreme cynicism was when he brazenly claimed that Nancy Pelosi’s former chief of staff was the Chief Executive of Dominion Ballot Counting Systems, that Dianne Feinstein’s husband was a major shareholder, and that Dominion had ties to the Clinton Foundation. All three of these claims were utter fabrications, but not only did he lie but he actually linked to his “sources” which contradicted his claims in multiple ways. He cynically assumed his target audience were either too gullible to actually check up his “sources”, or too stupid to understand how thoroughly they contradicted him.
Jim Hoft was the one who repeatedly insisted that multiple sources with inside information, including one in the prosecutor’s office and one in the St. Louis County Police, had informed him that Darren Wilson had an “orbital blowout fracture to the eye socket”, which was untrue, and posted what he purported to be Wilson’s CT scan, deliberately altering it to erase the evidence that it was no such thing.
These are just a pair of scoundrels and one has to be particularly gullible to pay attention to anything they say.
As for Laura Loomer, she’s just an outright lunatic.
“To quote John Malkovich, “I remember the Secret Service being tougher—and competent!”
Here’s another weird thing, and I
Thought this yesterday
From John Hinderaker’s commentary – https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/07/about-the-assassin.php
ANOTHER THING: I meant to mention this earlier. Reportedly, Crooks was not carrying identification and was identified through DNA. I don’t understand that. How was the FBI or Secret Service able to identify Crooks through his DNA, almost immediately? Crooks apparently didn’t have a criminal record, so why would his DNA be somehow on file with law enforcement? Obviously there is an answer, but I don’t know what it is.
They probably got it from his personal items in his home, which the feds swarmed on pretty much immediately. How they found his home without him having an id on his corpse . . . is puzzling. But let’s not get too caught up in crazy, at least not yet. Things aren’t exactly adding up, but we can wait to find out more before going off the deep end.
Negative. How did the FBI find his home if they didn’t know who he was? Hinderaker might not have mentioned it, but there are only two ways to ID someone via DNA. The first is to have the person’s DNA in a database. The second is by comparing one person’s DNA to another, known, person to see if they’re blood relatives. Not knowing who he was, how did they link him to any persons who might be family who could provide the DNA to use for making the comparison? If you know any such family members, wouldn’t you just have them ID the body?
Until I read a cogent explanation how an unknown person with no ID and no explained reason for already having his DNA in a database, the FBI’s narrative on this point doesn’t pass the smell test.
Fuzzy thinking indeed. You need the DNA to find the home to find the DNA?
It wasn’t hard to id him.
Car keys in pocket. Remote lock fob locking. Wander around until a car responds to the fob. Check License plate. Owner of the vehicle = him or his family, Warrant to search home. DNA match,
At powerline it was suggested they traced the registration of the rifle which lead to his father which led to his home and ID.
Another option was fingerprints in some data base if he had ever been arrested or (?).
Idk
Probably through his car registration.
23 and Me will snap to attention, salute, and yell “yessir!” when the Gestapo comes to call.
That could be a source. Crooks is also young enough that his school may have taken DNA for some “it’s for the chilll-rennn!” excuse.
Who knows?!?
In light of DaveGinOly’s comment, disregard this one. Thanks.
Dave and others: things are not adding up, but time to be patient.
Exercising patience is good advice. Let’s do the same with the story as it unfolds and not blindly accept out of context or incomplete information…. such as DNA evidence being offered as the ID method but no mention as to exactly what database this guy’s DNA was in for a comparison/match…or how that came back so quickly. If someone on scene or nearby was able to ID the body and that’s how they linked him to an address then they should state that as a fact and not leave an obvious question unanswered.
Transparency means exactly that, tell the public what they know as they figure it out and confirm it. No one should jump to conclusions or engage in speculation but that demands the investigation release the info in way that doesn’t leave ambiguities or unconnected dots which create room for the very speculation we don’t need.
See the page you linked to, for a clear answer:
Maybe he did one of those commercial dna testing services and the fbi made a request for them to run their database.
They can id relative out to cousins reliably. That would give you a short list to start you door knocking.
Biden needs to accept his responsibility. He won’t. So fake.
Acting like he is above it, when he spreads hate.
Maybe we need to make his red speech go viral.
Biden isn’t there enough to take responsibility for his toilet habits.
Whoever wrote that speech should have included a mea culpa, even if symbolic. Without that, it’s completely meaningless.
All Democrats have very short memories not just Joe. They have no recollection of ever saying anything even vaguely provocative in the past. They will just ask you What are you going on about. The idea that we have engaged in violent divisive rhetoric is appalling.
“It brought out from me one of my earliest childhood emotions, which was the assassination of JFK. I was four years old. It was really my first childhood emotion that I remember.”
I was in fifth grade at the time. My first thought was terror that such a thing could happen in the USA.
By seventh grade, after two more liberal icons had eaten dirt exactly the same way, I had lost a significant load of patriotic naivete.
When Robert Kennedy was murdered, I felt my heart was ripped out and my soul damaged
If Trump called a hit on Biden, like Biden did on Trump, there would be a line of volunteers 5 miles long.
Your going to love this… connect the dots one might say
They “diverted President Trumps SS to Jill Biden at the “last minute”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/report-secret-service-resources-were-diverted-jill-bidens/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/report-secret-service-resources-were-diverted-jill-bidens/
Cite a real source or it didn’t happen.
The Secret Service says it didn’t happen.
Tell it to Mike Lachance, who writed here and there.
You are no more credible a source, just a know it all.
The article sourced to Susan Crabtree, RealClearPolitics White House & Natl. Political Correspondent – The Hill, Roll Call, Wash. Examiner alum.
Her RCP article states:
“Several sources within the Secret Service community told RealClearPolitics they are furious about the failures and blamed agency management, not the agents and counter snipers on the ground, all of whom they said performed admirably.
Instead, they said, several factors contributed to Saturday’s security lapses, including that first lady Jill Biden was having an event the same day in nearby Pittsburgh, and Vice President Kamala Harris was having another in Philadelphia, taking up some of the local Secret Service resources that could have been used to help protect Trump’s rally.
Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi denied that Secret Services resources were diverted to the first lady’s event from Trump’s but declined to provide answers to several emailed questions about that charge and several other questions being raised about potential security lapses on Saturday.”
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/07/15/secret_service_in_crisis_inflexible_protocols_security_lapses_in_spotlight_151265.html
The know it all swings and misses again.
I wanna know why that “cop” at 3:00- 3:05 is pointing his rifle at Trump’s back as he is getting in the car?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPQR600Navo
The poet’s name is spelled Yeats professor.
Meanwhile, in his belated speech Sunday, the repulsive Biden yapped about unity while repeating every lie and slur against Trump and conservatives (just in an oblique way). There’s insufficient invective that can be heaped on the Biden regime and it’s followers to fully describe their baseness.
I was a senior in college in 1963,. Many people initially assumed that the assassin was a right-winger, since the conservative Barry Goldwater was hoping to be (and was) the Republican presidential nominee in 1964. Then when Lee Harvey Oswald was apprehended shortly after the shooting, everyone was surprised that he was a left-winger who had spent time in the USSR.
Moral: While we haven’t yet heard the end of this current assassination attempt story, initial assumptions may later be supplanted by more accurate information.
We are in dire straits, indeed. On my own website, I am catching it from both sides. The Trump haters are attacking me for pointing out (in response to Jen Psaki) that it was Trump who was almost assassinated, and thus, it is not the Republicans who need to tone down their rhetoric. On the other hand, while admitting that terrible mistakes were made by the USSS, an agency I always admired based on my interactions with them when I was a DEA agent, the conspiracy theorists are attacking me because I refuse to believe that the agents on the ground were in cahoots with the shooter.
God help us all.
I’m thinking God doesn’t want our country to come apart just yet.