As a famous author told us, "Once is happenstance; twice is coincidence; three times is enemy action." I would suggest that, in the matter at hand, the first time was enemy action. What we are witnessing now is a doubling down on the chosen strategy. In Butler it was a nerdy weirdo with a cheap AR clone and a red dot sight laying out in plain sight on top of a roof. In Florida we had a self-styled "Ukrainian freedom fighter" hidden in the bushes and an AK with a telescopic sight. I should imagine the next time--and mark my words, there will be a next time--the assassin will probably be a much more skilled operator equipped with something far more accurate and lethal. God help us and protect Trump because the people who are supposed to do that hate him and us as well.
I've hunted quite a bit and shot weapons all my life. A 300 yard shot with a scope is not easy even for an experienced non sniper shooter. What still bothers me is the story where an agent spotted a barrel sticking out of the bushes 300 to 500 yards away. That's three to five football fields. The agent is lying. The chances are greater than zero that the shooter was setup and the agents knew he was there. Their reaction was for show. Shooting a pistol at a small target 300 to 500 yards away is also for show. You'd be damn lucky to hit a house that far away with a pistol. So why did the SS do it?
Appreciate this info from someone who has expertise with firearms.
I have to say, these incidents all show incompetence--whether the incompetence is in the (supposedly) sincere effort to 'protect' Trump, or in the conspiracy to set up a stooge and facilitate them getting access to Trump, and then presenting a ridiculous narrative for what happened.
They are showing a level of incompetence that is astounding to normal people. But it is another piece of evidence that our opponents--the treasonous Marxist Left-- plain and simple, embody alot of stupidity. We still must be ultra alert and active against them, but we should not be paralyzed by fear, nor intimidated, nor overly impressed with our opponents.
The fact of their original stupidity is their decision in the first place to throw their allegiance to totalitarian Marxism, instead of to the amazing freedom that America has always embodied.
I vote for the second option in which you succinctly state…
“…these incidents all show incompetence……[a] conspiracy to set up a stooge and facilitate them getting access to Trump, and then presenting a ridiculous narrative for what happened.”
“Layered incompetence is intent,” Dan Bongino.
Their playbook wears thin. We won’t be fooled again……
I don't want to get into a ballistics/sniping/hunting debate, but I, too have had a lot of experience with both long and sidearms. First of all, from the blurry photo that was posted, I believe the weapon depicted was not an "AK," but rather a Russian sniper rifle, (SVD Dragunov variant) or possibly even a semi-auto version of their squad auto, an RPK. Both are commercially available. Although bearing a strong resemblance to the AK, they are ballistically superior. Both of them are quite capable of hitting a man-size target at 500 yards, including head shots. Parenthetically, I routinely hit an eight inch metal gong at 600 yards with my .25-06 hunting rifle at the range (although I would never take such a long shot at game due to ethical hunting restraints). I don't disagree with the possibility of a "set-up," as you suggest, but can not eliminate the other possibility, viz., that the assassin was acting unilaterally based on his obviously deranged mental state as evidence by his internet postings. After all, since the democrats and their slavish stenographers in the media have decided to call Trump "Hitler," and "a threat to our democracy" who "must be stopped at all costs" (their rhetoric, not mine) it is not difficult to imagine that there are others--perhaps many others, judging by the "X" and TikTok traffic--who take that as a green light to eliminate the "threat." As far as the pistol shots, it is not clear to me what distance was involved. It is certainly possible that the agent was a lot closer to the assassin than the assassin was to his intended target, sort of like an advance scout would be ahead of his squad. Perhaps you now more than I do, so again, no intent for argument. Just spitballin' as the expression goes.
I wonder if Melania and Barron Trump could file a lawsuit against specific Democrats who have been using rhetoric to encourage assassination attempts. There must be some legal grounds to do this.
Even if later found to have no grounds, it is a type of lawfare WE can use that would draw attention to the vile and inflammatory rhetoric on the Left.
Don't care if there are legal grounds or not. Good idea. Maybe we need a class action suit of citizens......about 75 million of them, suing the SS and Dem party.
I doubt many agents fire their service weapons on mission. Range practice isn’t the same as offensive action and the guy hadn’t started shooting yet. A second’s hesitation means you miss maybe. And are hand guns all that accurate at that distance?
Reading some of the local law enforcement material - he was a life long criminal and thug, not a deranged nutcake. Readily susceptible to direction, but not nutso.
Maybe they hit what they wanted to hit..........or miss. That perp had a hundred brushes with the law and the FBI was well versed in his actions. So was Lee Harvey Oswald.
2 Chronicles 7:14 if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land
Unless those agents have the eyes of an Eagle they could never see a barrel that far away. How high above the target would you have to aim to hit a target that far away with a pistol? Those bullets drop a lot that far out.
Who says they wanted to hit him? I am not sure if the agent fire was from handguns or rifles. Accounts seem unclear. Frankly, Trump is making himself a target by playing golf in the open. In any regard, the Dems are inciting this behavior, and clearly it is coming from Dems in congress and Dems in Hollywood as well as the media. They all want Trump dead and they don't care if we know it or not.
As I posted earlier the advance agent was probably within 100 feet when spotting the barrel of a gun.If one checksthe specs on hole yardage for this course versus where PDJT was playing you can narrow the data quickly.
Thank you for your viewpoint, Stephen Wolf! Your expertise is appreciated, and gives us a better understanding of what is real. This info clarifies a great deal of the issues in question. Stay safe!
When I was in the military we shot iron sites out to 300 meters regularly. Granted, not easy with an M16A1, but we did it. Marines shoot a 1000 meter course.
There are pistol competitions out to 600 meters. I'm guessing that zero SS participate in them.
Shooting accurately is a skill we all need to work on because it would suck to have Barbecue's buddies get too close.
My son and I regularly used to shoot 100 yards with pistols. Now I'm helping a friend to learn to shoot. He struggles at 25 yards.
If the agents were returning fire with handguns, it's a laughable distance. If they had rifles, and knew how to use them, maybe. But to see just a rifle barrel sticking out of the trees or brush at 300 plus yards with the naked eye is a stretch even for someone with very good vision. Looks to me like Trump is still getting the "B" team assigned to him.
THANK YOU, JAKE! Your expertise will turn this event into the SET-UP it actually was. WHY is the SS so willing to be CRIMINALS FOR DEMOCRATS???? Now we all know where we stand with our Government Protective Services. Now we will double down to get TRUMP ELECTED and HARRIS IN PRISON SO WE CAN BE SAFE AGAIN IN OUR OWN COUNTRY. NOW I WANT HARRIS TO BE REMOVED FROM THE UNITED STATES AS A THREAT TO EVERY CITIZENS' SAFETY. She can go be a Disgraceful drunk in any other country who will have her. She has just LIT UP THE REPUBLICAN BASE IN THE USA. WE ARE DONE WATCHING HER STUPID AND ARROGANT BEHAVIOR, WE WILL GET HER OUT OF OUR BUSINESS AND COUNTRY!
The same people who recruited Crooks. I want to know how an assassin was in position at precisely the time President Trump was on the course. I used to live in Palm Springs FL very near to Trump International, although it hadn’t been developed at the time. It is between very busy highways and Palm Beach International Airport. The Palm Beach Sheriff’s headquarters are right next door. There’s no way a random guy just showed up there and got onto the course. Many of the fairways run right next to the highway in public view - why is he still playing there after the last attempt on his life?
It’s so in your face at this point. They know we know who they are and they’re rubbing it in.
Yeah, we need an investigation that goes on for years and determines nothing in the end, just like the GOP investigations of Hunter and Joe and family. All for show. Fifty commonsense citizens who cherished the constitution could figure this stuff out in a week and get something done for less than a thousand dollars. Bring back Gitmo and use it's "resources".
IT HAS TO BE A TOTAL INSIDE JOB, LOOK AT THE MOUNTAIN OF EVIDENCE, LIES OF HOW THE CRIME WAS SET UP, INCOMPETENCE, AND MISSED SHOTS.... WE ALL KNOW WE HAVE NO PROTECTION FROM ANY DEMOCRAT, ANYWHERE. PRESIDENT TRUMP MUST BE MORE CAREFUL, AND HIRE MORE GUARDS. WE NEED HIM ALIVE AND WELL! KILLING AN ACTIVE SHOOTER DOES NOT SEEM TO MAKE A DENT IN THE SNIPER MENTALITY.
I'm not sure the left realizes what happens if Trump is actually assassinated. It will become kill a politician or high ranking bureaucrat a day game. DEMOCRATS - JUST STOP. You're going to lose, and probably lose the House and Senate. And then some of your higher up govt types are going to be unemployed as well. And well ABC you may have all your broadcast licenses put up for auction.
But you will still be alive. This nazi rhetoric BS needs to stop. Harris - shut your mouth, it probably wouldn't hurt her campaign if she talked even less than she already has. Quit lying about Charlottesville.
Nothing ever happens to them. They literally have got away with their COMMIE CON and all the murders, forever. JFK! Trump should have released ALL of it when he was in office.
WHY didn't he? I think that is why they went to Mar a Lago....among all the other shit he has on all of them. ESPECIALLY RINO WARMONGERS CHENEY-GRAHAM and the gang.
I do think times are a bit different. Remember, Nov 2020 was an op, but no one understood it at the time until lots of time passed and more information came out. This time, the MAGA crowd assumes everything is an op, assumes the left is really trying to assassinate Trump, and assumes their federal government is the enemy.
Let's hope we don't have the opportunity to test out either of our hypotheses.
I believe you are right. But it wont be offensive in nature. I view it as defensive when the government goes beyond their legal grounds and violates the constitution. But it will be something very significant, like firearm confiscation that starts it. Then comes a limited Marshal Law followed by Civil War. The left will not be able to stop it either. They have no idea what they are causing by their actions. It's out of control now.
The truth is painful but needs to be said. We see the Dems openly calling for Trumps death in so many ways because they know the GOP is a paper tiger. Did they get Hunter? Joe? Jim? Did they do anything about the corruption with the J-6 committee? Did they do anything about the blatant open borders? Trump seems the only one that actually wants to accomplish anything. I refuse to give the GOP a dime this election cycle and I told them so. Until they do more than just bluster and talk tough, screw them. The GOP mascot should be changed to a pic of a bull making a cow pie. All talk, not action.
Too late for any redemption on the lefts part. They unleashed this and no longer control what is happening so they go along with it. This will take decades to fix.
Amen brother. But they DO want him dead because that is the final option available to the left after all else fails. There is far more at stake here that we realize I believe, and we realize a lot.
Who has been financing his travels? The initial reports made it sound as if Routh was ‘in the neighborhood ’ not within 500 yards of POTUS Trump. As if it was a nothing burger being blown up. This time we’d better have reports revealed abt him, his wife and associates. Sure.
I still don’t understand why the little teen assassin’s parents haven’t been charged. It’s as if he was hatched, no family at all. Hastily cremated…who was he really? It’s because of these holes in the narrative that no one believes a single claim that comes out Democrat DC.
I think Trump is polling so far ahead of Harris—by tens of millions of registered voters—the Deep State knows they can’t manufacture enough votes to install her.
The Dem base is not the enemy. They are just useful idiots. The enemy is the Deep State. They want a divided country. And they want Trump dead.
I don’t know what to do other than focus on my family and friends, pray for the country, and pray for Trump.
Except they set up an another guy they (probably) knew couldn’t complete. That weapon is not known to be accurate. Seemed pretty cavalier and amateur set up. Left his weapon? Got in his truck and just drove away? All the Feds knew him: he lobbied the Hill into support Ukraine and wanted to testify to a House committee and was in propaganda videos. They didn’t find this guy through the gaming world like Crooks.
Meanwhile we are watching season 1 of The Old Man (with Jeff Bridges , Lithgow and Joel Grey) which seems pretty on point: the CIA never forgets or forgives. Season 2 ready also. In case anyone wonders.
Never heard of that show. It's real? If so, what network, Prime? (that is all we get) We just finished watching a very interesting series that has several seasons and I think was made in the 20-teens called Continuum. Deals with time travel and Evil Corporations and 'Good' anti-Corporatists (aka Antifa??). I'm curious to see where the story line goes....
It’s an FX series @13.99 /season available through Prime.
FX used to be SciFi way back when and we love SCiFi but I couldn’t follow that one. And it’s so dark in filming (I admit I like scenery)- I couldn’t make sense of it.
You mean you think Continuum is 'dark' in terms of depressing or in terms of 'lighting'? 🤣
Like I said, we just finished the first 10 episodes of Season 1 so my jury is still out until I see more of where this Continuum show goes in terms of ideology. And time travel story lines do tend to get a little confusing to follow!
You know, Cookie, I wonder about that term "deep state" more and more. On the surface it appears that there is a very institutional bias problem with the federal government but I sometimes wonder if that may be by design rather than in actuality. Depending on who you talk to, there are roughly 1.5M federal employees and who knows how many federal contractors. But the way the government is structured, it would only take a small fraction of that number of people in well placed positions to create the appearance of a deep state and control the larger number and their actions. The CIA is experienced at it and trains at it daily. Might be time we really look at who is running our far too large and cumbersome government and who is really behind this subversion. I suspect it is a very small select number of people in positions of control thru out the government that are doing this. And I would bet it is an equal number of people involved outside the government as well. What we think we see is not always correct. When the government at the federal level is so large there is no way to efficiently control it.
Very, very, very astute, Reddog. I think you are right. The number of people orchestrating this is not actually very big at all. Tens of thousands, maybe. But we are 350 million strong (citizens).
“Apparently, the golf game was not preplanned—it was a last-minute decision. Who leaked the info so the killer could be there?”
THAT is the $64,000 question. It was not in his public calendar so only a handful of people, amongst them his security detail would have know about it. That already stinks to high heaven.
Perhaps also they were expected to have “taken out” the assassin, a’la Matthew Crook, not let him flee, but failed in that also.
I’d expect an “Epstein event” in Mr. Routh’s not too distant future.
Interestingly, the ABC employee -former/current (?) with the affadavit about how the debate was rigged in favour of Kamal died in a single-car crash on the weekend. Affadavit out there on X. Hmmmmm.
I've no knowledge or insight, but I'll guess that Routh has been tracking/following Trump for a while, probably from afar so as not to be spotted, as Crooks apparently was. Learning Trump's movements, his security detail and the lay of the land makes for opportunities, even of spur of the moment. Such a perp can be both thoughtful and impulsive, careful and reckless.
In circa 2004, I played golf behind President Ford (near his 2nd home in Colorado) and observed his security detail leading and trailing his play. Long out of office, he wasn't a likely target--except for grandiose, attention-seeking headline hunters--which probably includes someone like Routh.
Great twofer today Big D. None of the poll answers resonated today. The only thing I want to hear from A-Walz and Cackles is “we lost,” followed by silence.
BTW, saw a short clip of A-Walz standing next to a blonde woman speaking at his rally and waving her arm while chanting repetitively. No wonder he called JD Vance weird - he’s married to a lunatic. “Democrats always accuse you of what they’re doing / are.” I long for the return of insane asylums, especially for the political crazies.
How dare you say such a scurrilous thing about the woman who opened her windows so she could better smell the smoke from the conflagration set by rioters in Minneapolis! She's a paragon of virtue, not to mention good mental hygiene. Just like her husband, the would-be warrior.
Just when you think things can’t get any worse, more bizarre or out of control yesterday happens.
Republicans have wanted Biden gone for some time but I don’t recall any plot to shoot the dumb shit. We wanted him removed legally. Democrats, not so much. Anything goes.
The fact that they keep trying shows Trump is the one very different person and they should rightly fear he will bring justice to those needing it.
Meanwhile, the media chant the same refrain--"tone down the rhetoric" (From Lester Holt). The creep Alexander Vindman's SIL said--no worries, no ears were hurt.
These people are below algae in their morality and rhetoric. And it IS their rhetoric that inspires creeps like Crooks and Routh, with likely more waiting for their chance to disrupt our country and "make history" for the wretched Dems/MSM/infotainment complex.
Of course they want Trump dead. They are pushing useful idiots in Harris and Waltz and they have no plan B other than jail Trump or eliminate him with some tool. These are not people with souls.
I fear you are right. And consider what would happen if such a plan were to succeed. It would severely damage our country in ways even worse than the Left already has. Some say that chaos is what the Left wants, expecting that we would then seek a "strong" central gov't to "protect" us. But that rests on their assumption that we'd capitulate. Unlikely imho. Pray!
But no, if we are speculating that this is all an (off the books) 'op' then no, the rhetoric of the useful idiots on the left has NOTHING to do with it, aside maybe from giving it some 'cover'.
Thank you for the info on the FBI Field Director in Miami being rabidly anti-Trump. How much lower can the FBI and CIA sink in the opinion in the opinion of rational Americans? As a child I admired the FBI so much I wrote a school report (without Ai or Google) on them. It meant enough to me I remember it at age 70! Another great line: This is the year of the Cat and you are a mouse! Note, a mouse, while considered cute by some, is a small rodent (still considered vermin), characterized by continual growing incisors to gnaw, bite, damage, and spread germs. Hmmm…a new mind visual!
mine don't seem to get it that i don't enjoy their company anymore. always smiling and wanting to discuss the weather, sports or some such nonsense. the deflection is so obvious even a naive old man like me can smell the bs a mile away. like they actually don't know what the hell is going on. just leave me alone.
That's the rub in this divided country. It breaks us apart. I know many Democrats whom I like; but not their politics. Unfortunately when they bring up politics I have to stick it to them and because there is no logic to their stance things devolve quickly and I lose "friends". As an acquaintance of mine said one time long ago, "Outside of family you are lucky to wind up with more than five true friends in your life". True.
I have. You're right. Ask them what her accomplishments were as VP. Ask them what commonsense policies she supports that are not anti-constitutional. Ask her what experience she brings that gives her the ability to run this government. Don't hold your breath waiting for answers. It's all "Trump bad". That's all they know. Dems aren't running on anything. They are running on anit-MAGA.
Water and oil just don't mix. Back in the 60's neighbors were all good friends, but politics was taboo and never discussed. But once the Democrats came out of the closet and their agenda, everything changed over time. Our nation will never be united again. Democrats vote in lockstep, Republicans are a Rhino disaster.
I thought that September 11, 2001 would do it but even that catastrophe couldn’t bring us together. And it has just gotten worse. I doubt that even a nuclear attack could do it now.
This is no longer a case where this is just a difference of opinion, we are in full fledge ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers’ mode. Among the various clips before the SpringField council, was the one of the parents of a child killed by a can’t- drive Haitian, lamenting the fact that his child wasn’t killed by a white dude because then his son wouldn’t be used to shame these poor/poor people who probably don’t give a damn about them or the kid. There is absolutely no common ground there.
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I again would say we cannot turn our backs on Democrats. We must continue engaging with them. If each of us on the Right (millions of us) can awaken or convert JUST ONE Democrat, it is game over for the Marxist Left.
And we CAN awaken them. I think the reason they are avoiding us recently is they have no answer for what's happening or any argument we would make. Their cognitive dissonance is at a peak. If commenter Tanto doesn't mind, I am copying a line from his comment today: "There are so many alarms going off at once that you have to be comatose not to hear them. "
We should continue to push--I believe many Dems have had enough and are at a breaking point. Let's keep engaging with them and providing them with a bridge across to the sane side. This is how we can contribute to this being resolved peacefully, instead of by a violent civil war.
But if you do not approach them with kindness, you are going to be useless in this effort. This is not a time to preen over the fact that "You were right and they were wrong." Put our country ahead of your emotions. Try to realize they are people, and they have made a bad mistake by limiting their information-intake to the Left media. Reach out with sympathy, with humor, with respect. Please keep trying! Do the math--if each of just connects with ONE redeemable Democrat, it is game over.
Yes, TPG, yes. Scott Adams is advocating that everyone who is a Republican who knows someone who doesn't vote but is leaning toward voting for Trump, help that person register to vote. Hey, it can't hurt.
I hate these people so much it is really REALLY HARD for me to put my emotions aside. I'm like a leftist, except on the right, and without any weapons and a strong sense of right/wrong & the rule of law. 🙄
Your feelings are completely understandable, and even justified, Gail.
But I do sense fear underlying the hate-- fear that the Left is stronger than us and will triumph. So (and I'm just musing here), you won't be able to get rid of the hate til you get rid of the fear.
So how does one get rid of the fear? Again, just musing, but perhaps truly dissecting the fear. What are the premises the fear is presenting? (That those people are inherently evil intentioned and capable of harming us?) Examine the premises-- is everyone on the Democratic Left inherently evil? An accurate answer is No. Some are; but most are are ignorant and misled. They lack spiritual self-value, so they are trying to feel valuable / superior by and have been seduced by the Left to believe that being Leftist is being intelligent and morally righteous. Etc. That's just an example of starting to dissect the fear.
And at the same time, perhaps you are undervaluing your own strength. You ARE stronger than them--you have had the courage to face our country's situation and stay abreast of the news as the sordid picture comes clearly into focus. You have love of country and have shown service to it (you were a delegate to the Republican convention!) And so on. You have been strengths and virtues that they have not themselves developed. Perhaps you should feel pity more than fear.
Am just musing here; but don't undervalue yourself. YOU CAN connect with and help to red-pill even just ONE person on the Left (the math...if each of us does just ONE).
In the immortal words of Yoda (insert smiley face icon): “Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.” — Yoda
TPG, bless your heart, I agree with you in my hearty but believe the reality is we are way past that point. The Dems are a fractured party like the GOP in some ways and the people running the Dems are hard core card carrying communist wanna-be's. Old school Dems are the silent people voting for the party and keeping out of the spot light. They are not running anything today.
But Reddog--we have no choice--we HAVE to stay engaged with Democrats and wake up as many as we can. BECAUSE--even if this leads to Civil War, at some point it will end, and even if we win, we will be in the SAME position--the country can't go forward on reliable ground til a good chunk of Democrats wake up and reject everything to do with Marxism, DEI, etc, etc. What are you going to do? Just shoot all the Democrats? (Although that is probably what the Left plans to do with the Right if they win.)
And if we do this work sooner than later (like NOW), the increase in votes for Trump will help make it "too big to rig" and some degree of civil war will be averted.
It’s hard to imagine having a pleasant casual dinner out with them now. They couldn’t stop whinging about Obamacare when they fired us as friends, but what would they be like now?
"Reuters said, “Fact Check: No evidence of Haitian immigrants stealing and eating pets in Ohio.”
Right. There is no evidence of election fraud in 2020 either because the courts refused to hear it. Democrats are magicians with the truth. They make it disappear.
The lies and fraud are happening right before our eyes as Comrade Come-allah laughs all the way on her journey to the Whitehouse.
Read on CFP earlier this morning that the shooter's son has said that although both he and his father hated Trump, he didn't think his father even owned a gun and he was unaware he had even more than a couple of traffic tickets - gee whiz, I read last night that dear old dad had a very lengthy rap sheet!
Yes. One of his prior criminal offenses was owning a machine gun. Also read he was on probation, but somehow moves freely to FL and Ukraine (and also DC I believe, hmmm) from Hawaii.
Don... you were clearly pissed off when you wrote today's column and that is good. The "cut and paste" routine is out in full force today as I will send your excellent column off to many people. Almost all of them will not comment. Deportation is key to returning this country to proper law and order... of course along with a controlled border or borders. Canada is porous too but not anywhere near the extent of the southern border. Keep doing the good work and watch your six as they say. Trump is doing that. I hope he stays alive for the election and then quickly clears the swamp. TERM LIMITS PLEASE.
Wild Bill Donovan would be ashamed of his creation. My hunch is the CIA of 1963 is much closer to today's version than it's original inception 20 years prior.
CFP headline: "Trump tackled by Secret Service agents while putting on 5th hole. All 4 shots were fired by SS agents, after seeing rifle muzzle through fence."
I'll bet Trump still sunk the put and took a birdie for the hole. . . .
Actually, he is said to have said something like, "I was even, and had a birdie putt." Not an exact quote but close Sean, (gas bag) Hannity apparently spoke him afterward.
I didn't hear that Hannity spoke to Trump, but Lindsay Graham (who sure seems like a GOPe mil-indus estab to me, but what do I know) was ON with Hannity late last night (coulda been a re-air from earlier in the day, IDK) and Lindsay said Trump called HIM and told him his golf score up to that point. 🤣
Lyndsay Graham is NOT on our side................Trumps side. He is a RINO and Hannity is a fool. He is so wrapped up in his breaking news flashes he can't see or can't admit he is being used by the RINO's.
I'm not a fan of Lindsay's either but TRUMP seems to keep him close!! Perhaps b/c Trump knows / believes he's a good DC inside operator and that Trump can use Lindsay to his benefit. That is the only logic I can think of.
Another manufactured crisis, the hits just keep on coming. Ever wonder where this started? And when it ramped up to warp speed? I never knew much about Cloward-Piven until someone gave me a lecture on it. Then the high priest of Obamaism defined it in one sentence. More if you're interested; just click my button.
Interesting. I had not heard of this but I am SURE there are TONS of attempts that are foiled that we never hear anything about at all. In fairness, I'm sure that goes for idiot FJB, Kackles, and others before them on both sides.
I want to know who recruited Routh
As a famous author told us, "Once is happenstance; twice is coincidence; three times is enemy action." I would suggest that, in the matter at hand, the first time was enemy action. What we are witnessing now is a doubling down on the chosen strategy. In Butler it was a nerdy weirdo with a cheap AR clone and a red dot sight laying out in plain sight on top of a roof. In Florida we had a self-styled "Ukrainian freedom fighter" hidden in the bushes and an AK with a telescopic sight. I should imagine the next time--and mark my words, there will be a next time--the assassin will probably be a much more skilled operator equipped with something far more accurate and lethal. God help us and protect Trump because the people who are supposed to do that hate him and us as well.
I've hunted quite a bit and shot weapons all my life. A 300 yard shot with a scope is not easy even for an experienced non sniper shooter. What still bothers me is the story where an agent spotted a barrel sticking out of the bushes 300 to 500 yards away. That's three to five football fields. The agent is lying. The chances are greater than zero that the shooter was setup and the agents knew he was there. Their reaction was for show. Shooting a pistol at a small target 300 to 500 yards away is also for show. You'd be damn lucky to hit a house that far away with a pistol. So why did the SS do it?
Appreciate this info from someone who has expertise with firearms.
I have to say, these incidents all show incompetence--whether the incompetence is in the (supposedly) sincere effort to 'protect' Trump, or in the conspiracy to set up a stooge and facilitate them getting access to Trump, and then presenting a ridiculous narrative for what happened.
They are showing a level of incompetence that is astounding to normal people. But it is another piece of evidence that our opponents--the treasonous Marxist Left-- plain and simple, embody alot of stupidity. We still must be ultra alert and active against them, but we should not be paralyzed by fear, nor intimidated, nor overly impressed with our opponents.
The fact of their original stupidity is their decision in the first place to throw their allegiance to totalitarian Marxism, instead of to the amazing freedom that America has always embodied.
I think Secret Service incompetence is a feature, not a bug.
I vote for the second option in which you succinctly state…
“…these incidents all show incompetence……[a] conspiracy to set up a stooge and facilitate them getting access to Trump, and then presenting a ridiculous narrative for what happened.”
“Layered incompetence is intent,” Dan Bongino.
Their playbook wears thin. We won’t be fooled again……
I don't want to get into a ballistics/sniping/hunting debate, but I, too have had a lot of experience with both long and sidearms. First of all, from the blurry photo that was posted, I believe the weapon depicted was not an "AK," but rather a Russian sniper rifle, (SVD Dragunov variant) or possibly even a semi-auto version of their squad auto, an RPK. Both are commercially available. Although bearing a strong resemblance to the AK, they are ballistically superior. Both of them are quite capable of hitting a man-size target at 500 yards, including head shots. Parenthetically, I routinely hit an eight inch metal gong at 600 yards with my .25-06 hunting rifle at the range (although I would never take such a long shot at game due to ethical hunting restraints). I don't disagree with the possibility of a "set-up," as you suggest, but can not eliminate the other possibility, viz., that the assassin was acting unilaterally based on his obviously deranged mental state as evidence by his internet postings. After all, since the democrats and their slavish stenographers in the media have decided to call Trump "Hitler," and "a threat to our democracy" who "must be stopped at all costs" (their rhetoric, not mine) it is not difficult to imagine that there are others--perhaps many others, judging by the "X" and TikTok traffic--who take that as a green light to eliminate the "threat." As far as the pistol shots, it is not clear to me what distance was involved. It is certainly possible that the agent was a lot closer to the assassin than the assassin was to his intended target, sort of like an advance scout would be ahead of his squad. Perhaps you now more than I do, so again, no intent for argument. Just spitballin' as the expression goes.
I wonder if Melania and Barron Trump could file a lawsuit against specific Democrats who have been using rhetoric to encourage assassination attempts. There must be some legal grounds to do this.
Even if later found to have no grounds, it is a type of lawfare WE can use that would draw attention to the vile and inflammatory rhetoric on the Left.
Don't care if there are legal grounds or not. Good idea. Maybe we need a class action suit of citizens......about 75 million of them, suing the SS and Dem party.
As a floger I can tell you an agent one hole ahead would be very close to the perp,why I questioned no injury from an {eagle eyed }shooter.
I doubt many agents fire their service weapons on mission. Range practice isn’t the same as offensive action and the guy hadn’t started shooting yet. A second’s hesitation means you miss maybe. And are hand guns all that accurate at that distance?
Reading some of the local law enforcement material - he was a life long criminal and thug, not a deranged nutcake. Readily susceptible to direction, but not nutso.
Maybe they hit what they wanted to hit..........or miss. That perp had a hundred brushes with the law and the FBI was well versed in his actions. So was Lee Harvey Oswald.
God help us.
2 Chronicles 7:14 if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land
Unless those agents have the eyes of an Eagle they could never see a barrel that far away. How high above the target would you have to aim to hit a target that far away with a pistol? Those bullets drop a lot that far out.
Who says they wanted to hit him? I am not sure if the agent fire was from handguns or rifles. Accounts seem unclear. Frankly, Trump is making himself a target by playing golf in the open. In any regard, the Dems are inciting this behavior, and clearly it is coming from Dems in congress and Dems in Hollywood as well as the media. They all want Trump dead and they don't care if we know it or not.
As I posted earlier the advance agent was probably within 100 feet when spotting the barrel of a gun.If one checksthe specs on hole yardage for this course versus where PDJT was playing you can narrow the data quickly.
Thank you for your viewpoint, Stephen Wolf! Your expertise is appreciated, and gives us a better understanding of what is real. This info clarifies a great deal of the issues in question. Stay safe!
When I was in the military we shot iron sites out to 300 meters regularly. Granted, not easy with an M16A1, but we did it. Marines shoot a 1000 meter course.
There are pistol competitions out to 600 meters. I'm guessing that zero SS participate in them.
Shooting accurately is a skill we all need to work on because it would suck to have Barbecue's buddies get too close.
My son and I regularly used to shoot 100 yards with pistols. Now I'm helping a friend to learn to shoot. He struggles at 25 yards.
If the agents were returning fire with handguns, it's a laughable distance. If they had rifles, and knew how to use them, maybe. But to see just a rifle barrel sticking out of the trees or brush at 300 plus yards with the naked eye is a stretch even for someone with very good vision. Looks to me like Trump is still getting the "B" team assigned to him.
THANK YOU, JAKE! Your expertise will turn this event into the SET-UP it actually was. WHY is the SS so willing to be CRIMINALS FOR DEMOCRATS???? Now we all know where we stand with our Government Protective Services. Now we will double down to get TRUMP ELECTED and HARRIS IN PRISON SO WE CAN BE SAFE AGAIN IN OUR OWN COUNTRY. NOW I WANT HARRIS TO BE REMOVED FROM THE UNITED STATES AS A THREAT TO EVERY CITIZENS' SAFETY. She can go be a Disgraceful drunk in any other country who will have her. She has just LIT UP THE REPUBLICAN BASE IN THE USA. WE ARE DONE WATCHING HER STUPID AND ARROGANT BEHAVIOR, WE WILL GET HER OUT OF OUR BUSINESS AND COUNTRY!
How could you see a barrel in a bush at that distance? I agree. Doesn’t seem likely.
The more fearful they are, the more dangerous they become.
that guy with three islamic names? aksing for a friend.
I'm not even convinced he's at the head of the snake.
But If he's not, IDK who is.
The Davos cabal
You must mean Davos. I'm sure Betsy de Vos had no part in this.
He could mean deviants or possibly fans of the band Devo.
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It took 3 tries to convince spell check I wanted to chane the spelling Davos
In that case, you are absolved, my son.
You mean George and Klaus?
The same people who recruited Crooks. I want to know how an assassin was in position at precisely the time President Trump was on the course. I used to live in Palm Springs FL very near to Trump International, although it hadn’t been developed at the time. It is between very busy highways and Palm Beach International Airport. The Palm Beach Sheriff’s headquarters are right next door. There’s no way a random guy just showed up there and got onto the course. Many of the fairways run right next to the highway in public view - why is he still playing there after the last attempt on his life?
It’s so in your face at this point. They know we know who they are and they’re rubbing it in.
I believe the lastest would-be assassin was recruited by one of the alphabet agencies, just like Crooks.
Yeah, we need an investigation that goes on for years and determines nothing in the end, just like the GOP investigations of Hunter and Joe and family. All for show. Fifty commonsense citizens who cherished the constitution could figure this stuff out in a week and get something done for less than a thousand dollars. Bring back Gitmo and use it's "resources".
IT HAS TO BE A TOTAL INSIDE JOB, LOOK AT THE MOUNTAIN OF EVIDENCE, LIES OF HOW THE CRIME WAS SET UP, INCOMPETENCE, AND MISSED SHOTS.... WE ALL KNOW WE HAVE NO PROTECTION FROM ANY DEMOCRAT, ANYWHERE. PRESIDENT TRUMP MUST BE MORE CAREFUL, AND HIRE MORE GUARDS. WE NEED HIM ALIVE AND WELL! KILLING AN ACTIVE SHOOTER DOES NOT SEEM TO MAKE A DENT IN THE SNIPER MENTALITY.
The solitude, focus and peace of GOLF is WHY he is still TRUMP! VERY ALIVEl and HAPPY! Which is why they want to take that away from him.
The misery people, HATE OUR HAPPINESS more than they hate themselves. Which is ALOT.
Well put Beyond !
He was out there hunting the caddy shack gopher.
I'm not sure the left realizes what happens if Trump is actually assassinated. It will become kill a politician or high ranking bureaucrat a day game. DEMOCRATS - JUST STOP. You're going to lose, and probably lose the House and Senate. And then some of your higher up govt types are going to be unemployed as well. And well ABC you may have all your broadcast licenses put up for auction.
But you will still be alive. This nazi rhetoric BS needs to stop. Harris - shut your mouth, it probably wouldn't hurt her campaign if she talked even less than she already has. Quit lying about Charlottesville.
Nothing ever happens to them. They literally have got away with their COMMIE CON and all the murders, forever. JFK! Trump should have released ALL of it when he was in office.
WHY didn't he? I think that is why they went to Mar a Lago....among all the other shit he has on all of them. ESPECIALLY RINO WARMONGERS CHENEY-GRAHAM and the gang.
Such iIcky people.
I'm not convinced Trump supporters will do anything but cry and be more depressed than we were in Nov 2020.
What did we do then, when we all KNOW the "results" were fraudulent? J6?
What a funny way to 'insurrect' without a single participant carrying a weapon.
Were they going to have an insurrection with stern glances?
No, conservatives NEVER "DO" much of anything but pray, cry and complain.
A fair supposition.
I do think times are a bit different. Remember, Nov 2020 was an op, but no one understood it at the time until lots of time passed and more information came out. This time, the MAGA crowd assumes everything is an op, assumes the left is really trying to assassinate Trump, and assumes their federal government is the enemy.
Let's hope we don't have the opportunity to test out either of our hypotheses.
What do you mean, "assumes"? Plenty of evidence out there if one looks for it.
Good assessment, Jim.
Paul Ryan.
I don't think any of us will take any defensive or offensive action until the regime in power is going door to door taking guns.
I believe you are right. But it wont be offensive in nature. I view it as defensive when the government goes beyond their legal grounds and violates the constitution. But it will be something very significant, like firearm confiscation that starts it. Then comes a limited Marshal Law followed by Civil War. The left will not be able to stop it either. They have no idea what they are causing by their actions. It's out of control now.
The truth is painful but needs to be said. We see the Dems openly calling for Trumps death in so many ways because they know the GOP is a paper tiger. Did they get Hunter? Joe? Jim? Did they do anything about the corruption with the J-6 committee? Did they do anything about the blatant open borders? Trump seems the only one that actually wants to accomplish anything. I refuse to give the GOP a dime this election cycle and I told them so. Until they do more than just bluster and talk tough, screw them. The GOP mascot should be changed to a pic of a bull making a cow pie. All talk, not action.
I pray that the Ds lose to not only to be soundly beaten, but to come back to their right minds.
too late for that, they are loving their pretend power.... addicted to it now.
Looks like it, Gayle.
Too late for any redemption on the lefts part. They unleashed this and no longer control what is happening so they go along with it. This will take decades to fix.
You are right, Jim. (Referring to your original comment.) The Left would be BEGGING to have their own leaders targeted. Another very dumb move.
Amen brother. But they DO want him dead because that is the final option available to the left after all else fails. There is far more at stake here that we realize I believe, and we realize a lot.
Yes-- we have been slow all along to grasp the magnitude of the treason, and we probably are still right now somewhat naive.
But it's not because we're stupid; it's because we are in substance oriented to good, and this type of evil is alien to us.
Good Pose, Jim!
That's a rhetorical question, right?
As do we all!!
Who has been financing his travels? The initial reports made it sound as if Routh was ‘in the neighborhood ’ not within 500 yards of POTUS Trump. As if it was a nothing burger being blown up. This time we’d better have reports revealed abt him, his wife and associates. Sure.
I still don’t understand why the little teen assassin’s parents haven’t been charged. It’s as if he was hatched, no family at all. Hastily cremated…who was he really? It’s because of these holes in the narrative that no one believes a single claim that comes out Democrat DC.
Apparently, the golf game was not preplanned—it was a last-minute decision. Who leaked the info so the killer could be there?
interesting - clearly the deep state wants him totally out of the picture
. . . by any means necessary is their motto
No longer a motto-it is their religion- Just as deadly as From the River to the Sea.
I think Trump is polling so far ahead of Harris—by tens of millions of registered voters—the Deep State knows they can’t manufacture enough votes to install her.
The Dem base is not the enemy. They are just useful idiots. The enemy is the Deep State. They want a divided country. And they want Trump dead.
I don’t know what to do other than focus on my family and friends, pray for the country, and pray for Trump.
Except they set up an another guy they (probably) knew couldn’t complete. That weapon is not known to be accurate. Seemed pretty cavalier and amateur set up. Left his weapon? Got in his truck and just drove away? All the Feds knew him: he lobbied the Hill into support Ukraine and wanted to testify to a House committee and was in propaganda videos. They didn’t find this guy through the gaming world like Crooks.
Meanwhile we are watching season 1 of The Old Man (with Jeff Bridges , Lithgow and Joel Grey) which seems pretty on point: the CIA never forgets or forgives. Season 2 ready also. In case anyone wonders.
Never heard of that show. It's real? If so, what network, Prime? (that is all we get) We just finished watching a very interesting series that has several seasons and I think was made in the 20-teens called Continuum. Deals with time travel and Evil Corporations and 'Good' anti-Corporatists (aka Antifa??). I'm curious to see where the story line goes....
It’s an FX series @13.99 /season available through Prime.
FX used to be SciFi way back when and we love SCiFi but I couldn’t follow that one. And it’s so dark in filming (I admit I like scenery)- I couldn’t make sense of it.
I'll look for The Old Man on Prime.
You mean you think Continuum is 'dark' in terms of depressing or in terms of 'lighting'? 🤣
Like I said, we just finished the first 10 episodes of Season 1 so my jury is still out until I see more of where this Continuum show goes in terms of ideology. And time travel story lines do tend to get a little confusing to follow!
What streaming platform is that on?
FX available on Prime.
Thanks!
You know, Cookie, I wonder about that term "deep state" more and more. On the surface it appears that there is a very institutional bias problem with the federal government but I sometimes wonder if that may be by design rather than in actuality. Depending on who you talk to, there are roughly 1.5M federal employees and who knows how many federal contractors. But the way the government is structured, it would only take a small fraction of that number of people in well placed positions to create the appearance of a deep state and control the larger number and their actions. The CIA is experienced at it and trains at it daily. Might be time we really look at who is running our far too large and cumbersome government and who is really behind this subversion. I suspect it is a very small select number of people in positions of control thru out the government that are doing this. And I would bet it is an equal number of people involved outside the government as well. What we think we see is not always correct. When the government at the federal level is so large there is no way to efficiently control it.
That’s actually how I’ve always understood the term.
Very, very, very astute, Reddog. I think you are right. The number of people orchestrating this is not actually very big at all. Tens of thousands, maybe. But we are 350 million strong (citizens).
“Apparently, the golf game was not preplanned—it was a last-minute decision. Who leaked the info so the killer could be there?”
THAT is the $64,000 question. It was not in his public calendar so only a handful of people, amongst them his security detail would have know about it. That already stinks to high heaven.
Perhaps also they were expected to have “taken out” the assassin, a’la Matthew Crook, not let him flee, but failed in that also.
I’d expect an “Epstein event” in Mr. Routh’s not too distant future.
Interestingly, the ABC employee -former/current (?) with the affadavit about how the debate was rigged in favour of Kamal died in a single-car crash on the weekend. Affadavit out there on X. Hmmmmm.
For real? Do you have a link?
No, the claim is now false and was pushed by MTG.
MTG is well meaning but she is out of control and out numbered. She needs to rein in her mouth.
Weird.
it's been 20 hrs now and still no one on a national level has voiced that concern as far as i can tell.
Exactly! Too many suspects, where to begin!?
Warning shots? Warning to all of us?
They truly go crazy when he owns them, and has the winning news cycle story:TRUTH!
And TRUTH HAS SET US FREE!
I've no knowledge or insight, but I'll guess that Routh has been tracking/following Trump for a while, probably from afar so as not to be spotted, as Crooks apparently was. Learning Trump's movements, his security detail and the lay of the land makes for opportunities, even of spur of the moment. Such a perp can be both thoughtful and impulsive, careful and reckless.
In circa 2004, I played golf behind President Ford (near his 2nd home in Colorado) and observed his security detail leading and trailing his play. Long out of office, he wasn't a likely target--except for grandiose, attention-seeking headline hunters--which probably includes someone like Routh.
Yeah, kind of like the Uni-bomber who was brilliant but nuts.
Who is the mole and is that person in the Trump camp?
One of Trump's employees whom the FBI turned or someone in DHS?
The list is probably too long for this column.
Hmmm, where did you hear that information?
It’s pretty much everywhere and confirmed by the Trump team.
Great twofer today Big D. None of the poll answers resonated today. The only thing I want to hear from A-Walz and Cackles is “we lost,” followed by silence.
BTW, saw a short clip of A-Walz standing next to a blonde woman speaking at his rally and waving her arm while chanting repetitively. No wonder he called JD Vance weird - he’s married to a lunatic. “Democrats always accuse you of what they’re doing / are.” I long for the return of insane asylums, especially for the political crazies.
How dare you say such a scurrilous thing about the woman who opened her windows so she could better smell the smoke from the conflagration set by rioters in Minneapolis! She's a paragon of virtue, not to mention good mental hygiene. Just like her husband, the would-be warrior.
Forgot about that one, because I try not to pay attention to what stupid people or mentally defective people (no small overlap there) say.
Just when you think things can’t get any worse, more bizarre or out of control yesterday happens.
Republicans have wanted Biden gone for some time but I don’t recall any plot to shoot the dumb shit. We wanted him removed legally. Democrats, not so much. Anything goes.
The fact that they keep trying shows Trump is the one very different person and they should rightly fear he will bring justice to those needing it.
Meanwhile, the media chant the same refrain--"tone down the rhetoric" (From Lester Holt). The creep Alexander Vindman's SIL said--no worries, no ears were hurt.
These people are below algae in their morality and rhetoric. And it IS their rhetoric that inspires creeps like Crooks and Routh, with likely more waiting for their chance to disrupt our country and "make history" for the wretched Dems/MSM/infotainment complex.
Of course they want Trump dead. They are pushing useful idiots in Harris and Waltz and they have no plan B other than jail Trump or eliminate him with some tool. These are not people with souls.
I fear you are right. And consider what would happen if such a plan were to succeed. It would severely damage our country in ways even worse than the Left already has. Some say that chaos is what the Left wants, expecting that we would then seek a "strong" central gov't to "protect" us. But that rests on their assumption that we'd capitulate. Unlikely imho. Pray!
I believe algae has value.
But no, if we are speculating that this is all an (off the books) 'op' then no, the rhetoric of the useful idiots on the left has NOTHING to do with it, aside maybe from giving it some 'cover'.
It is hard to believe that there are not,, at least, willful ignorance. And we KNOW there is malice from many of these folks
He better bring justice and he better clean house. Start with the FBI.
Thank you for the info on the FBI Field Director in Miami being rabidly anti-Trump. How much lower can the FBI and CIA sink in the opinion in the opinion of rational Americans? As a child I admired the FBI so much I wrote a school report (without Ai or Google) on them. It meant enough to me I remember it at age 70! Another great line: This is the year of the Cat and you are a mouse! Note, a mouse, while considered cute by some, is a small rodent (still considered vermin), characterized by continual growing incisors to gnaw, bite, damage, and spread germs. Hmmm…a new mind visual!
This is not Robert Stack's FBI, Julie.
No, it's Bennie Hills.
The short version of who Kamala Harris really is: You can't put lipstick on a pig,
And you won't get pure motives or results from someone who prostitutes themselves. Looking at you, Kamala.
I used to have friends that are democrats.
mine don't seem to get it that i don't enjoy their company anymore. always smiling and wanting to discuss the weather, sports or some such nonsense. the deflection is so obvious even a naive old man like me can smell the bs a mile away. like they actually don't know what the hell is going on. just leave me alone.
That's the rub in this divided country. It breaks us apart. I know many Democrats whom I like; but not their politics. Unfortunately when they bring up politics I have to stick it to them and because there is no logic to their stance things devolve quickly and I lose "friends". As an acquaintance of mine said one time long ago, "Outside of family you are lucky to wind up with more than five true friends in your life". True.
Ask them to say why they support Cumala without mentioning Trump. They can't do it.
I have. You're right. Ask them what her accomplishments were as VP. Ask them what commonsense policies she supports that are not anti-constitutional. Ask her what experience she brings that gives her the ability to run this government. Don't hold your breath waiting for answers. It's all "Trump bad". That's all they know. Dems aren't running on anything. They are running on anit-MAGA.
My so-called Democrat friends won’t even meet up for lunch with me lately. Are they nervous?
Water and oil just don't mix. Back in the 60's neighbors were all good friends, but politics was taboo and never discussed. But once the Democrats came out of the closet and their agenda, everything changed over time. Our nation will never be united again. Democrats vote in lockstep, Republicans are a Rhino disaster.
It will take a national emergency of catastrophic portions to unite us now, similar in scale to WWII.
I thought that September 11, 2001 would do it but even that catastrophe couldn’t bring us together. And it has just gotten worse. I doubt that even a nuclear attack could do it now.
This is no longer a case where this is just a difference of opinion, we are in full fledge ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers’ mode. Among the various clips before the SpringField council, was the one of the parents of a child killed by a can’t- drive Haitian, lamenting the fact that his child wasn’t killed by a white dude because then his son wouldn’t be used to shame these poor/poor people who probably don’t give a damn about them or the kid. There is absolutely no common ground there.
Family is no guarantee of that.
Yes, I've done the count, Azca.
Democrat voters are either stupid or evil. Why would I waste time with either.
The people they are voting for ARE evil communist that threaten my way of life. So their voters are my enemy.
Many are brainwashed in college.
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I again would say we cannot turn our backs on Democrats. We must continue engaging with them. If each of us on the Right (millions of us) can awaken or convert JUST ONE Democrat, it is game over for the Marxist Left.
And we CAN awaken them. I think the reason they are avoiding us recently is they have no answer for what's happening or any argument we would make. Their cognitive dissonance is at a peak. If commenter Tanto doesn't mind, I am copying a line from his comment today: "There are so many alarms going off at once that you have to be comatose not to hear them. "
We should continue to push--I believe many Dems have had enough and are at a breaking point. Let's keep engaging with them and providing them with a bridge across to the sane side. This is how we can contribute to this being resolved peacefully, instead of by a violent civil war.
But if you do not approach them with kindness, you are going to be useless in this effort. This is not a time to preen over the fact that "You were right and they were wrong." Put our country ahead of your emotions. Try to realize they are people, and they have made a bad mistake by limiting their information-intake to the Left media. Reach out with sympathy, with humor, with respect. Please keep trying! Do the math--if each of just connects with ONE redeemable Democrat, it is game over.
Yes, TPG, yes. Scott Adams is advocating that everyone who is a Republican who knows someone who doesn't vote but is leaning toward voting for Trump, help that person register to vote. Hey, it can't hurt.
I hate these people so much it is really REALLY HARD for me to put my emotions aside. I'm like a leftist, except on the right, and without any weapons and a strong sense of right/wrong & the rule of law. 🙄
Your feelings are completely understandable, and even justified, Gail.
But I do sense fear underlying the hate-- fear that the Left is stronger than us and will triumph. So (and I'm just musing here), you won't be able to get rid of the hate til you get rid of the fear.
So how does one get rid of the fear? Again, just musing, but perhaps truly dissecting the fear. What are the premises the fear is presenting? (That those people are inherently evil intentioned and capable of harming us?) Examine the premises-- is everyone on the Democratic Left inherently evil? An accurate answer is No. Some are; but most are are ignorant and misled. They lack spiritual self-value, so they are trying to feel valuable / superior by and have been seduced by the Left to believe that being Leftist is being intelligent and morally righteous. Etc. That's just an example of starting to dissect the fear.
And at the same time, perhaps you are undervaluing your own strength. You ARE stronger than them--you have had the courage to face our country's situation and stay abreast of the news as the sordid picture comes clearly into focus. You have love of country and have shown service to it (you were a delegate to the Republican convention!) And so on. You have been strengths and virtues that they have not themselves developed. Perhaps you should feel pity more than fear.
Am just musing here; but don't undervalue yourself. YOU CAN connect with and help to red-pill even just ONE person on the Left (the math...if each of us does just ONE).
In the immortal words of Yoda (insert smiley face icon): “Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.” — Yoda
You are helping to keep everyone calm, TPG.
TPG, bless your heart, I agree with you in my hearty but believe the reality is we are way past that point. The Dems are a fractured party like the GOP in some ways and the people running the Dems are hard core card carrying communist wanna-be's. Old school Dems are the silent people voting for the party and keeping out of the spot light. They are not running anything today.
But Reddog--we have no choice--we HAVE to stay engaged with Democrats and wake up as many as we can. BECAUSE--even if this leads to Civil War, at some point it will end, and even if we win, we will be in the SAME position--the country can't go forward on reliable ground til a good chunk of Democrats wake up and reject everything to do with Marxism, DEI, etc, etc. What are you going to do? Just shoot all the Democrats? (Although that is probably what the Left plans to do with the Right if they win.)
And if we do this work sooner than later (like NOW), the increase in votes for Trump will help make it "too big to rig" and some degree of civil war will be averted.
It’s hard to imagine having a pleasant casual dinner out with them now. They couldn’t stop whinging about Obamacare when they fired us as friends, but what would they be like now?
I have all the real friends I need. I don't need friends who are anti-constitutional or crazy.
Are they no longer your friends, or are they no longer Democrats?
yes
Ever notice how the old school Democrats no longer talk politics these days? It's because their party is gone, replaced by communists.
"Reuters said, “Fact Check: No evidence of Haitian immigrants stealing and eating pets in Ohio.”
Right. There is no evidence of election fraud in 2020 either because the courts refused to hear it. Democrats are magicians with the truth. They make it disappear.
The lies and fraud are happening right before our eyes as Comrade Come-allah laughs all the way on her journey to the Whitehouse.
Read on CFP earlier this morning that the shooter's son has said that although both he and his father hated Trump, he didn't think his father even owned a gun and he was unaware he had even more than a couple of traffic tickets - gee whiz, I read last night that dear old dad had a very lengthy rap sheet!
Yes. One of his prior criminal offenses was owning a machine gun. Also read he was on probation, but somehow moves freely to FL and Ukraine (and also DC I believe, hmmm) from Hawaii.
A machine gun??!!
My understanding (from my hubby) is that one must pass a very in depth background check to be able to own one of those legally.
And interesting that Routh's long record did not trigger more scrutiny about his movements. Heck they are following Tulsi Gabbard around.
The FBI was well aware of him. Guess that means he was an asset.
And pay a tax. But pretty durned hard to get one legally without a purpose. And clean clean slate.
You have to get a Federal license for any machine gun. That is why he got arrested.
This was very interesting info /NO ??Smell s to high heavens.
Must be a real close family, eh?
Don... you were clearly pissed off when you wrote today's column and that is good. The "cut and paste" routine is out in full force today as I will send your excellent column off to many people. Almost all of them will not comment. Deportation is key to returning this country to proper law and order... of course along with a controlled border or borders. Canada is porous too but not anywhere near the extent of the southern border. Keep doing the good work and watch your six as they say. Trump is doing that. I hope he stays alive for the election and then quickly clears the swamp. TERM LIMITS PLEASE.
You're right, Azca, but we've got illegal Venezuelans in my Montreal neighbourhood.
The CIA of 2024 is nothing like the CIA of 1963. FJB
Wild Bill Donovan would be ashamed of his creation. My hunch is the CIA of 1963 is much closer to today's version than it's original inception 20 years prior.
I suspect they are...but now we're on to them.
No, its worse.
The FBI couldn't spot a sniper on a shed roof who was in full view of a lotta folk at the Trump rally..
But they magically spot a sniper whose hiding in the bushes because some eagle eyed goon saw a rifle barrel sticking through a fence
Common who you trying to kid. This is a plain message to Trump that we'll keep trying to knock you off unless you demur to Kamalot.
yup, you nailed it. The agents knew the guy was there. The shooter will probably soon commit suicide like Epstein.
Amen to that.
CFP headline: "Trump tackled by Secret Service agents while putting on 5th hole. All 4 shots were fired by SS agents, after seeing rifle muzzle through fence."
I'll bet Trump still sunk the put and took a birdie for the hole. . . .
Actually, he is said to have said something like, "I was even, and had a birdie putt." Not an exact quote but close Sean, (gas bag) Hannity apparently spoke him afterward.
I didn't hear that Hannity spoke to Trump, but Lindsay Graham (who sure seems like a GOPe mil-indus estab to me, but what do I know) was ON with Hannity late last night (coulda been a re-air from earlier in the day, IDK) and Lindsay said Trump called HIM and told him his golf score up to that point. 🤣
Lyndsay Graham is NOT on our side................Trumps side. He is a RINO and Hannity is a fool. He is so wrapped up in his breaking news flashes he can't see or can't admit he is being used by the RINO's.
I'm not a fan of Lindsay's either but TRUMP seems to keep him close!! Perhaps b/c Trump knows / believes he's a good DC inside operator and that Trump can use Lindsay to his benefit. That is the only logic I can think of.
I'll bet Trump wanted to hole the putt after the shots too:)
Another manufactured crisis, the hits just keep on coming. Ever wonder where this started? And when it ramped up to warp speed? I never knew much about Cloward-Piven until someone gave me a lecture on it. Then the high priest of Obamaism defined it in one sentence. More if you're interested; just click my button.
I would have voted for “Biden but younger”, but Camel-uh is also stupider, which is really saying something.
3rd attempt. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Donald_Trump_Las_Vegas_rally_incident
somehow this attempt never made it into the "news" cycle
Interesting. I had not heard of this but I am SURE there are TONS of attempts that are foiled that we never hear anything about at all. In fairness, I'm sure that goes for idiot FJB, Kackles, and others before them on both sides.
Thank you👍