Shots fired at Trump during rally

GWB had like 90% approval rating at that moment. Truly unified country.

What did he do with this “mandate? He took that approval and leveraged it into not one, but TWO wars, and with the Great Recession went out the door as arguably the most failed President in the modern era (that is until Trump entered the chat combining W’s ineptitude with Nixon’s criminality).

 

Are you expecting a Republican bloodbath like we witnessed the summer of 2020 right after George Floyd died of Covid and ascended to heaven ?

 

The SS has had at times a drunken fratboy culture for years. Wheels up rings off for foreign trips for the advance crew who often drank to excess and partied all night - it was common. Do you remember the international embarrassment when some SS refused payment to prostitutes in Colombia? And then tried to cover it up. Using prostitutes (foreign nationals) on overseas trips was common and risky and against SS rules. Do you remember when 2 drunken SS supervisors crashed their government car into a WH barrier? Hiring women may improve some of that.

 

Carol Leoning OTOH has been reporting on the SS for many years. Her book Zero Fail about the SS is very informative.

 

Apparently the merit criterium has not always been met at the level of officers or the level of managers. If females can do a better job I fully support that.

 

Gun culture.

 

he is a master at plausible deniability

 

I agree in theory. Unfortunately, it's hard to do in practice at a time when one of the candidates running tried to arrange a coup to hold power and worked his supporters into such a frenzy that they attacked the Capitol. People should be worked up this time.

 

Crooks’ parents, Matthew and Mary Crooks, née Frizzi, are certified behavioral health counselors, according to state licensing records. Neither responded on Sunday to multiple requests for comment from The Independent.

‘I don’t know what to say’: Family of Thomas Matthew Crooks struggles to make sense of Trump shooting (msn.com)

 

wish some of the parents would stop buying their kids Xbox and Nintendo switch and get a membership at a bjj/ boxing/Muay Thai/ martial arts gym. Teaching your kid to take care of themselves at a young age will prevent 99.9% of bullying on its face and that’s not even getting into confidence, discipline, self respect and respect for others, focus etc

 

from his uncle:

Interesting response. Essentially 'as an adult, I'm not going to give a damn about my child nephew unless he puts in the effort for it to happen'. Wonder what the dynamic was in that larger family.

I say this as someone who has a bunch of family who all give a damn about each other and make it a point to maintain relationships, and also with a wife who grew up with a bunch of family who doesn't give a damn about each other and has that type of attitude with where they really have no interest in actually being a part of the children in the family's lives unless the children are pretty much plopped in their laps and it has been quite destructive.

 

You need to caveat this as “physical” bullying. Most of what kids do is psychological and no amount of BJJ is going to stop that, particularly with girls.

 

Almost all kids play Call of Duty and dont shoot up anyone. If you are like me (or my kids) when you were young you played army and shot your friends with everything from your finger, sticks, toy guns, BB guns, air soft, nerfs, water guns, etc. My wife used to yell when my kids were young: "why do you turn everything into a gun?!". Boys.

I think the real issue is weapons today can be super effective and people have a blueprint since Columbine. Imagine if we didnt secure planes and airports after 9/11?

 

my experience has been it goes far beyond physical.

 

don’t disagree. My point was more
Toward the ‘fire and forget’ parents who raise their kids via Nintendo and Xbox. If they are going to do that, Take that same money and drop them off at a good quality gym( yes there are real shitty ones)…. Use that Xbox money for a new Gi etc and your kids will be a lot better off.

 

Dude was going to blow up his car as a distraction perhaps, cops say.

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-n...n-07-15-24#h_e3460ca6a9c728a74f4109ed4123de0a

A search of the shooter’s car revealed a receiver with wires going into a metal box that contained possible explosives in the trunk of his Hyundai Sudan found parked on the Butler Farm Show Grounds.

Investigators are trying to determine whether a remote control connected to a possible explosive device in the shooter’s car was part of the assassination plot.

One theory investigators are examining is whether the shooter intended to detonate the explosives in his car as a distraction tactic, drawing attention and security personnel away from his firing position and towards the explosion, law enforcement sources tell CNN.

The fact that the shooter was detected by citizens and confronted by a local police officer trying to reach the rooftop may have caused him to speed up his plan and skip over the distraction device, sources are theorizing.

 

im reading he parked a mile away and walked with a rifle ????? wtf

 

Walking stick. Rifle. Give them a break, it’s hard to tell the difference.

 

Hmm. I wonder if people just thought he was a Trump supporter demonstrating his 2A rights?

 

It's actually kind of a brilliant plan. Nobody in that crowd is gonna bat an eye at a dude in camo carrying an AR-15.