Would-Be Assassin Thomas Crooks Was a Trump-Hater, Classmate Claims

The media and Deep State's eight years of Assassination Preparation did the trick.

How many more assassins did they create?

A former classmate of Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old man who attempted to assassinate Trump at a Pennsylvania rally on Saturday, revealed in a recent interview that Crooks had mocked him for supporting Trump and that Crooks did not like Republican politicians in general.
Vincent Taormina told Fox News in an interview, "I brought up the fact that I'm Hispanic and, you know, I'm for Trump. And he said, 'Well, you're Hispanic, so shouldn't you hate Trump?' No. He's great. He was a great president. He called me stupid -- or insinuated that I was stupid." The comments, Taormina said, came during a discussion in 2016 in an English class.
"He just did not like politicians, especially with the choices that we had. He did not like our politicians," he added.
Taormina noted that Crooks was usually silent, except on topics Crooks appeared passionate about, like politics. When those topics came up, Taormina said that Crooks could be "smug [and] arrogant."
"He would just talk, talk and act like he knew everything, especially politics related, and he would say it in a tone that was like, 'I'm better than you,' in a type of way," he said.

Well that doesn't sound like a Woke Progressive MSNBC Addict at all!

He also said that the school was closed due to anonymous threats to shoot up the school. He said he suspected Crooks. He wasn't in school the day one of those threats came in.

The FBI and DHS will continue, of course, to hide all information about the assassin they and their leftwing Regime allies brainwashed to kill the President of the United States.

Former classmate of the Trump shooter recalls the would-be assassin once mocked him over his support of Trump

pic.twitter.com/D09cb2wDnP
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) July 17, 2024

They're all the same. They're all like this.

I'm not sure when this report came in, before or after the attempt.

WOW: The Trump rally assassin’s parents reportedly called police before the rally, reported the assassin missing, and said they were worried about what he was doing.

And he was just walking around the rally for hours, with a gun and range finder, so obvious that Secret Service… https://t.co/ugkNKet9d3
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) July 17, 2024

Trump releases a stirring ad which keeps to the positive, but is pretty bad-ass in delivering that positive message. No reference to the left finally deciding to literally murder him, but you can hear it even if it's never said.

This new campaign video from Trump - goes hard.
Wow. pic.twitter.com/ewl75Vk3qT
— Justin Hart (@justin_hart) July 17, 2024

Below: When Crooks fired his bullet, it was aimed square into Trump's head. But the bullet takes as short amount of time to get to its target.

In that fraction of a second, Trump turned his head.

AR-15 bullets travel at a speed of 3,225ft per second. Crooks was just 390ft away. Wild.

pic.twitter.com/nRdLPWlOJQ
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) July 17, 2024

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:17 PM

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1 Could not someone walking around with a range-finder in an area where the President is going to speak be arrested under suspicion of committing a crime under 18 USC §1751(d)?

§1751. Presidential and Presidential staff assassination, kidnapping, and assault; penalties
(d) If two or more persons conspire to kill or kidnap any individual designated in subsection (a) of this section...

See full text: https://is.gd/w4T3KZ

Even if they don't lay charges, they have 48 hours to hold the guy and investigate, by which point the President is long gone from the area...

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 17, 2024 04:19 PM (O7YUW)

2 I'll go tell the others this thread is live.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 17, 2024 04:19 PM (O7YUW)

3 The left is going full BlueAnon about this. It was glass from a projector. It was staged. Etc.

It's not going to work and is pure copium for the fact Biden will be destroyed. Even fraud can't cover it now, and will just make a lot of people angry.

And the party bosses can't just "remove" him, because then they'll be accused of helping Trump!

Posted by: Agent of a dead Empire at July 17, 2024 04:19 PM (AKKkq)

4 Nooding duties performed.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 17, 2024 04:20 PM (O7YUW)

5 I read where the would be assassins parents called the cops to try and warn them that something was going to happen.

Now we know why the fib was saying they were going to toss in domestic terrorist charges in the case, to keep his parents mouths shut or they would be charged as accomplices. The dad clammed up right off the bat.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 17, 2024 04:20 PM (QNSds)

6 good ad.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 17, 2024 04:21 PM (gKWVE)

7 Shocking.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 17, 2024 04:21 PM (y31cs)

8 He also said that the school was closed due to anonymous threats to shoot up the school. He said he suspected Crooks. He wasn't in school the day one of those threats came in

And in the ensuing investigation, the FBI met their future patsy.
Just like the parkland shooter
Just like the Uvalde shooter
Except they had bigger plans than another red state school shooting for this one.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 17, 2024 04:21 PM (evvc2)

9 Below: When Crooks fired his bullet, it was aimed square into Trump's head. But the bullet takes as short amount of time to get to its target.

In that fraction of a second, Trump turned his head.

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"Just as they planned to give Trump the victim label! Wake up, sheeple!"
-DU, 98.37% probability

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 17, 2024 04:21 PM (GBKbO)

10 Who's that beautiful Fox News reporterette?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 17, 2024 04:22 PM (v6JzV)

11 They are very sure of their moral and intellectual superiority for spewing leftist talking points.
It is very ego driven.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at July 17, 2024 04:23 PM (elaR+)

12 We always suspected this.

But the 'motive' will remain unclear - the FBI

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 17, 2024 04:23 PM (ZBHce)

13 Shaka Zulu got nothin on Trump.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI Expert at July 17, 2024 04:23 PM (2xB3Z)

14 8 And in the ensuing investigation, the FBI met their future patsy.
Just like the parkland shooter
Just like the Uvalde shooter
Except they had bigger plans than another red state school shooting for this one.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 17, 2024 04:21 PM (evvc2)

========

I wonder what it's like to try and keep one of these assets in limbo for months and years.

"Come on, BootyKillVR1, you can hold out for another week."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 17, 2024 04:24 PM (GBKbO)

15 Trump/Vance

Saved money by having to change only two letters.

Great ad, by the way.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 17, 2024 04:24 PM (LQUDu)

16 That the parents called the police when he was missing nigh on what a few hours(?) seems to suggest they knew he had a capacity for violence

good job parenting

apparently they were both counselors too

lolz

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Esteemed Trump-Ho and Searcher of Wagshambas at July 17, 2024 04:24 PM (DBZuM)

17 That is a great commercial. Trumps media team is really good.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2024 04:24 PM (LkLld)

18 "He just did not like politicians, especially with the choices that we had. He did not like our politicians," he added.

I mean...

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 17, 2024 04:25 PM (DRSnL)

19 They will try again.

Posted by: Shaftoe at July 17, 2024 04:25 PM (Rvxb7)

20 Amazing how the Democrats are obsessing over a magic bullet and teleprompter.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 17, 2024 04:25 PM (ZBHce)

21 I really think Trump wearing the MAGA hat saved his life.

Without the brim, he doesn't look up as much, lean his head back enough.
But then, that alone wasn't enough-- he had to tilt his head or the bullet still hits.
But, he tilts to reorient the visor back to block the sun (normal, instinctual when wearing a hat) that's the tilt to the side movement.

That hat, blocking him to read the words at that exact moment, was the reason he both turned and tilted his head at just the exact perfect angle to survive.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 17, 2024 04:25 PM (A+HXZ)

22 How many more assassins did they create?

The one MEELION dollar question.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 17, 2024 04:25 PM (VavZF)

23 Crooks did not like Republican politicians in general.
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He clearly didn't think they were conservative enough!!!

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2024 04:25 PM (lX8VI)

24 @16 the dad probably was extra concerned that the AR-15 he bought 6 months earlier was missing.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI Expert at July 17, 2024 04:26 PM (2xB3Z)

25 Did Crooks not like Mondays also?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 17, 2024 04:26 PM (ZBHce)

26 Crooks did not like Republican politicians in general.
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Look obviously everyone is going to have *some* good qualities.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2024 04:26 PM (lX8VI)

27 In a way, I feel sorry for Crooks.

He was fed a diet of Trump-hatred throughout his adolescence by media and public education, likely taught to hate himself for being a white male, came to see this as his one way of amounting to anything; and although this crime is ultimately on him, he was hung out to dry by Secret Service agents who, from malice or incompetence or both, frittered away multiple chances to take him into custody and resolve the situation without him or anyone else dying.

What a waste.

Posted by: Dr. T at July 17, 2024 04:26 PM (jGGMD)

28 That Crooks kid looks like a serious dork.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 17, 2024 04:27 PM (v6JzV)

29 Pretty good ad.

Still feel like he should have at least used the photo. Maybe not expound on it, just include.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 17, 2024 04:27 PM (y31cs)

30 Crooks did not like Republican politicians in general.
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Look obviously everyone is going to have *some* good qualities.
Posted by: ...
___

Heh.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 17, 2024 04:27 PM (+MMwr)

31 Somewhere in another timeline Trump either didnt turn his head or picked Nikki Haley for VP

Let us all thank God we aren't in those timelines

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Esteemed Trump-Ho and Searcher of Wagshambas at July 17, 2024 04:27 PM (DBZuM)

32 Would-Be Assassin Thomas Crooks Was a Trump-Hater, Classmate Claims

i see reports that morning joe speculated that maybe trump wasn't conservative *enough* for crooks.

Posted by: anachronda at July 17, 2024 04:27 PM (oY6Yp)

33 Snipers are not the only ones who use those range finders.
Of course they're popular with golfers; photographers use them too. Most golfers and photogs don't have a large rifle case, though. I'd like to hear more about the rifle case.

If you start arresting everybody with a 'gadget' for attempted assassination, you're going to get well-known in a hurry. Asking a few questions might not hurt, though. Like with my range bag at the airport: I never object to explaining what those rounds are doing in there.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at July 17, 2024 04:27 PM (zdLoL)

34 Divine intervention? I can believe it.

But the other shots were further off ... or maybe Trump was already down, idk. Still don't know if there were three shots from Crooks, or up to eight some claimed. Audio should be able to tell.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 17, 2024 04:27 PM (Cus5s)

35 Ad leans into the indictments. Interesting.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 17, 2024 04:27 PM (GBKbO)

36 I'm betting the left/Democrats go hard to steal the election now. They can't let this operation get to see the light of day. Like, ever.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 17, 2024 04:28 PM (Q4IgG)

37 22 How many more assassins did they create?

The one MEELION dollar question.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 17, 2024 04:25 PM (VavZF)

TELEFON

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 17, 2024 04:28 PM (LQUDu)

38 10 Who's that beautiful Fox News reporterette?

Harris Faulkner.

Posted by: Lance McCormick at July 17, 2024 04:28 PM (1Idb6)

39 In 2016 Crooke was only 12, I wouldn't give it much importance. Almost all kids that age are politically stupid or unaware. Why isn't anybody saying anything from the last couple years? The silence is deafening

Posted by: Ripley at July 17, 2024 04:28 PM (GUOwU)

40 I wonder if they will try this angle for not being more proactive with Crooks.

You know the bar one must pass to get involuntarily committed.

"We did not think he posed a threat to himself or to the community."

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 17, 2024 04:28 PM (ZBHce)

41 When those topics came up, Taormina said that Crooks could be "smug [and] arrogant."

"He would just talk, talk and act like he knew everything, especially politics related

hmm. almost like he was a 20-year-old or something.

Posted by: anachronda at July 17, 2024 04:28 PM (oY6Yp)

42 I know it's lame, but I’m putting that ad right up there with the "independence day" movie speech.

Posted by: Turn 2 at July 17, 2024 04:29 PM (JfxgE)

43 36 I'm betting the left/Democrats go hard to steal the election now. They can't let this operation get to see the light of day. Like, ever.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 17, 2024 04:28 PM (Q4IgG)

No coup can allow the other side to ever take power.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 17, 2024 04:29 PM (y31cs)

44 Harris Faulkner.
Posted by: Lance McCormick

Thanks. Yowza!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 17, 2024 04:29 PM (v6JzV)

45 Oh a lefty is a smug, arrogant, know-it-all piece of human shit?

Someone find me a fainting couch!

Posted by: ballistic at July 17, 2024 04:29 PM (oqH4h)

46 >>Somewhere in another timeline Trump either didnt turn his head or picked Nikki Haley for VP

I never understood the rumor that Trump was going to pick Haley. He spent the primary trashing her, calling her bird brain and generally hammering her as an establishment RINO which she is. It's one thing to pick someone to help unite the party but the two of them don't even get along.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2024 04:30 PM (LkLld)

47 Still don't know if there were three shots from Crooks, or up to eight some claimed. Audio should be able to tell.

One assumes they're going over the crime scene with a fine-tooth comb, and know how many shots were fired from the brass. Well, one assumes that, but in reality, one is no longer so sure.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2024 04:30 PM (xCA6C)

48 >>> Who's that beautiful Fox News reporterette?

Harris Faulkner.
Posted by: Lance McCormick at July 17, 2024 04:28 PM (1Idb6

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She has appeared to be, over that past few years, a good egg.

Posted by: Turn 2 at July 17, 2024 04:30 PM (JfxgE)

49 I find it amusing when the left assumes we on the right love our GOPe.

They'll never understand just how much we loathe those traitorous jackasses.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 17, 2024 04:30 PM (tT6L1)

50 I know it's lame, but I’m putting that ad right up there with the "independence day" movie speech.

*****************

The first one I hope

The sequel was gay all day

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Esteemed Trump-Ho and Searcher of Wagshambas at July 17, 2024 04:30 PM (DBZuM)

51 Trump winning and taking office in 2025 will be the bigger miracle.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 17, 2024 04:30 PM (+MMwr)

52 I believe pretty much nothing reported about Cooks right now.

I find the fellow student testimonials questionable, at best.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 17, 2024 04:30 PM (GBKbO)

53 If somebody is that smug at 12, they got that way from mimicking mom and dad.

Posted by: runner at July 17, 2024 04:30 PM (V13WU)

54 And in the ensuing investigation, the FBI met their future patsy.
Just like the parkland shooter
Just like the Uvalde shooter
Except they had bigger plans than another red state school shooting for this one.

Just like the FBI had an "insurance plan" to destroy Trump in 2016.

Its pretty weird that the FBI is given the power to do security background checks given their current track record of serial anti-American activities.

If it is true that Xi Jinping is being moved off the game board, how radically different will "American" politics become?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 17, 2024 04:30 PM (rHxhM)

55 It's becoming more difficult to think there isn't some kind of conspiracy behind this.

#1- There is a Deep State

#2- They are at risk by DJT

#3- They have done unspeakable acts before to protect themselves from being held accountable for their crimes.

#4- They are in cover-up mode.

Posted by: Minuteman at July 17, 2024 04:30 PM (LaNzR)

56 >>> 14

========

I wonder what it's like to try and keep one of these assets in limbo for months and years.

"Come on, BootyKillVR1, you can hold out for another week."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 17, 2024 04:24 PM (GBKbO)

The usual duty is rioting and looting every so often. This was a *special* opportunity.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 17, 2024 04:30 PM (VavZF)

57 Dementia Joe actually said we should settle our differences at the bullet box.

Posted by: redbanzai at July 17, 2024 04:31 PM (INH2d)

58 Axelrod's got his crew of losers spamming /pol/ that the sh**ter was a staged asset, too.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 17, 2024 04:31 PM (gKWVE)

59 She has appeared to be, over that past few years, a good egg.
Posted by: Turn 2 at July 17, 2024 04:30 PM (JfxgE)

She guested on RedEye. In the leg chair. Nice pins.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 17, 2024 04:31 PM (y31cs)

60 I might add, if we conservatives loved business as usual, PDT would never have been elected.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 17, 2024 04:31 PM (tT6L1)

61 I find the fellow student testimonials questionable, at best.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I agree. High schoolers.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 17, 2024 04:31 PM (v6JzV)

62 I never understood the rumor that Trump was going to pick Haley. He spent the primary trashing her, calling her bird brain and generally hammering her as an establishment RINO which she is. It's one thing to pick someone to help unite the party but the two of them don't even get along.

The word on the street is that her minions are importuning Trump to make her SoS. The chances of that are slim and none, and slim just went home.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2024 04:31 PM (xCA6C)

63 somebody is that smug at 12, they got that way from mimicking mom and dad.
————-

Dads a registered Libertarian, mom registered Democrat.

Posted by: If the shoe fits at July 17, 2024 04:31 PM (Y8lzz)

64 i think it was 'battle box' but who knows with Joe's decayed neurons.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 17, 2024 04:32 PM (gKWVE)

65 57 Dementia Joe actually said we should settle our differences at the bullet box.
Posted by: redbanzai at July 17, 2024 04:31 PM (INH2d)
----
To Joe "ballot box" could be code for pushups or fisticuffs.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI Expert at July 17, 2024 04:32 PM (2xB3Z)

66 One assumes they're going over the crime scene with a fine-tooth comb, and know how many shots were fired from the brass. Well, one assumes that, but in reality, one is no longer so sure

I assume that they are covering up their shit faster than a cat in a litter box.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 17, 2024 04:32 PM (rHxhM)

67 57 Dementia Joe actually said we should settle our differences at the bullet box.
Posted by: redbanzai at July 17, 2024 04:31 PM (INH2d)

Battle box.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at July 17, 2024 04:32 PM (uBBbP)

68 It's one thing to pick someone to help unite the party but the two of them don't even get along.

******************

I could have seen Trump picking DeSantis despite the catfights but Haley made no logistical sense. She would have been chosen only to please the establishment, nothing more.

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Esteemed Trump-Ho and Searcher of Wagshambas at July 17, 2024 04:32 PM (DBZuM)

69 >>> The first one I hope

The sequel was gay all day
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Esteemed Trump-Ho and Searcher of Wagshambas at July 17, 2024 04:30 PM (DBZuM)

=====

There was second one?

(I know, but to make my point)

Posted by: Turn 2 at July 17, 2024 04:32 PM (JfxgE)

70 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2024 04:32 PM (Zz0t1)

71 49 I find it amusing when the left assumes we on the right love our GOPe.

They'll never understand just how much we loathe those traitorous jackasses.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 17, 2024 04:30 PM (tT6L1)

"If you really did, You'd vote for Democrats, you racists!"

--Average Democrat

Posted by: XTC at July 17, 2024 04:32 PM (UnA8+)

72 I find the fellow student testimonials questionable, at best.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

When the aliens took Crooks into their spaceship, they... abused him. Sexually.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 17, 2024 04:32 PM (gKWVE)

73 60 I might add, if we conservatives loved business as usual, PDT would never have been elected.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 17, 2024 04:31 PM (tT6L1)

=======

I might add, if the Republican Party had given one serious moment to border security, they'd never have had to deal with Donald Trump.

"What does conservativism even mean anymore?" NeverTrumper, lamenting about the rise and embrace of Trump and Vance.

"Honestly. I don't know. I can tell you that it would have been clearer if Republicans hadn't tried to pass amnesty in 2006."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 17, 2024 04:32 PM (GBKbO)

74 Initial reports had Joey saying "battle box"

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 17, 2024 04:32 PM (ZBHce)

75 All of this is NOT true, Ace.

The kid shot Trump because Trump WASN'T CONSERVATIVE enough.

The MEDIA TOLD me so......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2024 04:33 PM (Zz0t1)

76 i think it was 'battle box' but who knows with Joe's decayed neurons.
Posted by: gKWVE

Battle Bots was a cool show. And mmmmmmm...Carmen Electra...mmmmmmmm...

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 17, 2024 04:33 PM (v6JzV)

77 If it is true that Xi Jinping is being moved off the game board, how radically different will "American" politics become?

If he actually had a stroke, it's astonishing that they've been able to keep it quiet, more or less. I don't believe it.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2024 04:33 PM (xCA6C)

78

Battle Box - By: Hasbeenbro

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 17, 2024 04:33 PM (NtVYv)

79 "a".

Geez

Posted by: Turn 2 at July 17, 2024 04:33 PM (JfxgE)

80 62 The word on the street is that her minions are importuning Trump to make her SoS. The chances of that are slim and none, and slim just went home.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2024 04:31 PM (xCA6C)

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Maybe she just wants a nice dinner out.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 17, 2024 04:33 PM (GBKbO)

81 Harris Faulkner.
Posted by: Lance McCormick
________

Never seen more cat-like features. In a good way.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 17, 2024 04:33 PM (Dm8we)

82 "Crooks! There's a satellite dish coming out your a$$!!!"

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 17, 2024 04:33 PM (ZBHce)

83 Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2024 04:30 PM (LkLld)

People who don't quite get Trump make some pretty trash predictions about him.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2024 04:33 PM (lX8VI)

84 Afternoon.

Completely OT but I've fed one of my apartment complex's resident stray cats and that was...not smart.

She started to bring along her buddy who is now at my front door meowing and begging to be let in.

I dumped the ice from my drink on his head to shoosh him away BUT HE'S STILL THERE! Begging.

Fucker.

So...shooter still dead? Democrats still disgracing themselves?

Posted by: Robert at July 17, 2024 04:34 PM (1Yy3c)

85 75 All of this is NOT true, Ace.

The kid shot Trump because Trump WASN'T CONSERVATIVE enough.

The MEDIA TOLD me so......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2024 04:33 PM (Zz0t1)

One of the bullets had "JD Vance for Prez" on it! If only the kid could've waited.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 17, 2024 04:34 PM (KbCG3)

86 Well that doesn't sound like a Woke Progressive MSNBC Addict at all!

------------

I was going to comment earlier that they took Morning Joe off the air on Monday for a reason.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 17, 2024 04:34 PM (2fIO4)

87 "You may never know why he did this."

Posted by: Department of Homeland Security at July 17, 2024 04:34 PM (wzAuc)

88 53 If somebody is that smug at 12, they got that way from mimicking mom and dad.
Posted by: runner at July 17, 2024 04:30 PM (V13WU)

I dunno, some kids are just Secret Kings with girlfriends in Canada.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 17, 2024 04:34 PM (gKWVE)

89 8 He also said that the school was closed due to anonymous threats to shoot up the school. He said he suspected Crooks. He wasn't in school the day one of those threats came in

And in the ensuing investigation, the FBI met their future patsy.
Just like the parkland shooter
Just like the Uvalde shooter
Except they had bigger plans than another red state school shooting for this one.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 17, 2024 04:21 PM (evvc2)

That would make a lot of sense...

Posted by: Nova Local at July 17, 2024 04:34 PM (exHjb)

90 68 I could have seen Trump picking DeSantis despite the catfights but Haley made no logistical sense. She would have been chosen only to please the establishment, nothing more.
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Esteemed Trump-Ho and Searcher of Wagshambas at July 17, 2024 04:32 PM (DBZuM)

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VP picks are about internal party faction appeasement.

Pence was Trump appeasing the GOPe. Haley would have been the same thing.

Vance is vastly different. It's Trump announcing that he has total control of the party at that level, that he doesn't need the old guard, and that they can fuck off if they don't like it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 17, 2024 04:34 PM (GBKbO)

91 I could have seen Trump picking DeSantis despite the catfights but Haley made no logistical sense. She would have been chosen only to please the establishment, nothing more.

The days of Trump having to please the establishment are over. From now on, they'll be begging HIM for jobs.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2024 04:34 PM (xCA6C)

92 I'm betting the left/Democrats go hard to steal the election now. They can't let this operation get to see the light of day. Like, ever.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Amongst many thousands of other things.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at July 17, 2024 04:34 PM (qZEuM)

93 FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge

Thank goodness you're here. I've been wondering about you opinion of okra all day.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 17, 2024 04:34 PM (v6JzV)

94 If somebody is that smug at 12, they got that way from mimicking mom and dad.
Posted by: runner at July 17, 2024 04:30 PM (V13WU)
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I was a very smug Communist at age 12 despite my parents' anguish and lamentations.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 17, 2024 04:34 PM (RIvkX)

95 76 i think it was 'battle box' but who knows with Joe's decayed neurons.
Posted by: gKWVE

Battle Bots was a cool show. And mmmmmmm...Carmen Electra...mmmmmmmm...
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 17, 2024 04:33 PM (v6JzV)
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Maybe Joe did mean this should be settled with Battle Bots. The Trump Bot would be spectacular and gold-plated.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI Expert at July 17, 2024 04:34 PM (2xB3Z)

96 Again, Crooks's social media and internet political postings were all scrubbed either after he was identified but before his name was released or...before he started shooting.

WHO DID IT? ON WHAT AUTHORITY DID THEY DO IT?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2024 04:34 PM (oZhjI)

97 >>The word on the street is that her minions are importuning Trump to make her SoS. The chances of that are slim and none, and slim just went home.

She and Trump are 180 from each other on Ukraine.

In 2016 when Trump was a Russian agent and his own party was helping target him for destruction not many people wanted to work for him. I would imagine he is being flooded with resumes this time and will have a much better cast to choose from.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2024 04:34 PM (LkLld)

98 74 Initial reports had Joey saying "battle box"
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 17, 2024 04:32 PM (ZBHce)

Oh if you haven't watched the Lester Holt interview, go find it and watch.

Biden looked like an idiot, and Holt nearly pounced on him over the bullseye thing.

Chefs kiss.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at July 17, 2024 04:34 PM (uBBbP)

99 It's an EAR. People punch holes in them all the time. the fixation on the wound is pretty funny. Will it need plastic surgery? How will he survive the pain and scarring? I’d bet money his newfound “Zen” is the result of a hefty dose of painkillers.

Maybe he'll drop out of the race, or stop campaigning. He’ll be looking over his shoulder wondering when the next attack might be. He didn’t look too worried though when he paused standing straight up with his head and chest exposed and pumping his fist.

The challenge to the gun-toting public is clearly out there. What challenge? Shoot better than Crooks. We live in a gun crazy nation. Someone will quite likely take up the challenge.

The maxi-pad is bigger today. At no time has any bandage showed blood leaking through.

He was't struck by anything. It's obvious from the leaked call with RFK Jr that the bullet did not actually hit him but rather just got close enough to cause damage.

Either way, he almost died for YOU. He is your redemption, remember? He was chosen by God to save you. So it is written, so it shall be.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 17, 2024 04:34 PM (JCZqz)

100 Amazing how the Democrats are obsessing over a magic bullet and teleprompter.
Posted by: Anna Puma

*JFK & John Connolly have entered the chat.

Posted by: rickb223 All conspiracy theories and spoiler alerts are on the table at July 17, 2024 04:35 PM (f5vQ9)

101 i think it was 'battle box' but who knows with Joe's decayed neurons.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 17, 2024 04:32 PM (gKWVE)

Battle box.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at July 17, 2024 04:32 PM (uBBbP)

Initial reports had Joey saying "battle box"
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 17, 2024 04:32 PM (ZBHce)

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Ace is going to start thinking nobody reads his posts...

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 17, 2024 04:35 PM (DRSnL)

102 Great ad..

Posted by: Inogame at July 17, 2024 04:35 PM (53oGX)

103 >>> 51 Trump winning and taking office in 2025 will be the bigger miracle.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 17, 2024 04:30 PM (+MMwr)

I'm laughing while I can (better than other things), but not forgetting some 'rando' in the stands was murdered in front of his family, or that others were injured. And thinking that yeah, the filth will keep trying until they get what they *think* they want, and things will still get worse before they get any better.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 17, 2024 04:35 PM (VavZF)

104 The days of Trump having to please the establishment are over. From now on, they'll be begging HIM for jobs.

True. Government "jobs" is all they know how to do, otherwise they have no practical marketable skills.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 17, 2024 04:35 PM (rHxhM)

105 The word on the street is that her minions are importuning Trump to make her SoS. The chances of that are slim and none, and slim just went home.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2024 04:31 PM (xCA6C)

Maybe she just wants a nice dinner out.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 17, 2024 04:33 PM (GBKbO)

Foggy Bottom corrupts even the best and brightest and Haley is...neither.

Posted by: Robert at July 17, 2024 04:35 PM (1Yy3c)

106 Maybe she just wants a nice dinner out.

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Im amazed at how many GOPe scumbags completely lost their minds when Trump wouldnt give them the cushy jobs they wanted

Like a 100% complete abandonment of their entire ideology and worldview

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Esteemed Trump-Ho and Searcher of Wagshambas at July 17, 2024 04:35 PM (DBZuM)

107 "You may never know why he did this."
Posted by: Department of Homeland Security

Opposed to Obama's healthcare policy, obviously.
-- Mike Bloomberg

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 17, 2024 04:36 PM (v6JzV)

108 Maybe Joey said battle box unironically because of how difficult it is for him to walk up to it and discern what to do with that paper they gave him.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at July 17, 2024 04:36 PM (vksr6)

109 Willowed:

I think Ace schooled us on this phenomenon, when you think of a reply or something later...had a name in French for the stairway reply IIRC.

Anyway, I can't let this go.

I heard the Beavercountian used to run a real tight ship, but once the staff got bigger it got sloppy.

Instead of the Pulizter prize, they were going for the Putitin prize.

The Beaver would take input from the whole community, get in the groove then have tremendous discharge when you yeast expect it.

"Don't be assholes" said the editor, "This is the Beaver until ih taint".

Posted by: haffhowershower at July 17, 2024 04:36 PM (NMT5x)

110 Vance is vastly different. It's Trump announcing that he has total control of the party at that level, that he doesn't need the old guard, and that they can fuck off if they don't like it.\

The days of Trump having to please the establishment are over. From now on, they'll be begging HIM for jobs.

The end days are upon us.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2024 04:36 PM (xCA6C)

111 106 Im amazed at how many GOPe scumbags completely lost their minds when Trump wouldnt give them the cushy jobs they wanted

Like a 100% complete abandonment of their entire ideology and worldview
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Esteemed Trump-Ho and Searcher of Wagshambas at July 17, 2024 04:35 PM (DBZuM)

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False.

Their entire ideology and worldview was about self-advancement in the government machine.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 17, 2024 04:36 PM (GBKbO)

112 Pence was Trump appeasing the GOPe. Haley would have been the same thing.

Vance is vastly different. It's Trump announcing that he has total control of the party at that level, that he doesn't need the old guard, and that they can fuck off if they don't like it.

Vance, at least to the this point, has been a very good representative of Trump Party which, amusingly, means that 20 years ago before the left fully took over the GOPe he'd be seen as a moderate.

But the FNM will call the man an extremist...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2024 04:36 PM (oZhjI)

113 20 years old, so probably a sophomore in high school during the lockdowns.
Hard age for any geeky kid, made immeasurably harder. Sent him over the edge it did. And many others.

Posted by: From about That Time at July 17, 2024 04:36 PM (4780s)

114 It is essentially a CIA/FBI replay of the most likely JFK scenario: willful neglect followed by snuffing out the shooter and erasing all public details about him. Any indictment would have to name Wray and Burns and "Biden" as co-conspirators, so of course there never will be one.

The Left is a murderous pack of dirtbags and currently is buying off the police state apparatus.

Prediction: the FBI WILL be thrown to the wolves soon enough. Field agents are somewhat complicit but had better keep detailed records and logs to cover their asses whe the SHTF.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at July 17, 2024 04:36 PM (KSNKu)

115 "Honestly. I don't know. I can tell you that it would have been clearer if Republicans hadn't tried to pass amnesty in 2006."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 17, 2024 04:32 PM (GBKbO)
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McCain's "Build the dang wall" totally convinced me!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 17, 2024 04:36 PM (tT6L1)

116 I was a very smug Communist at age 12 despite my parents' anguish and lamentations.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 17, 2024 04:34 PM (RIvkX)
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I always though you was a little funny...

Posted by: Joe at July 17, 2024 04:37 PM (3Fz6p)

117 Also this is pretty cool: https://tinyurl.com/3ty4dnr4

Posted by: redbanzai at July 17, 2024 04:37 PM (INH2d)

118 110 The end days are upon us.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2024 04:36 PM (xCA6C)

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It's about Trump's perception, not necessarily the actual reality.

We'll see how much control Trump actually has, if he wins the presidency, when he starts sending nominees to cabinet posts to the Senate.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 17, 2024 04:37 PM (GBKbO)

119 Gah!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at July 17, 2024 04:37 PM (3Fz6p)

120 Trump will make a YUGE deal about the injured and dead and it will be spectacular as usual.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2024 04:37 PM (lX8VI)

121 Things that make you go Hmm..

https://tinyurl.com/2xkohyqc

Posted by: catman at July 17, 2024 04:37 PM (4HMlb)

122 Read he H8ed all politicians, but he couldn't have been a Trump supporters

Posted by: Skip at July 17, 2024 04:37 PM (fwDg9)

123 If nothing else, at least that assassin is dead.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at July 17, 2024 04:37 PM (/bnxD)

124 >> I might add, if the Republican Party had given one serious moment to border security, they'd never have had to deal with Donald Trump.

Back in 2017, the GOPe could have co-opted Trump easily by just giving in on one or two of his issues. But they couldn’t stomach this DC gatecrasher, not even a little bit.

Posted by: electronic means at July 17, 2024 04:37 PM (rjJqk)

125 >>The maxi-pad is bigger today. At no time has any bandage showed blood leaking through.

I'm telling you Trump needs to keep fucking with them by moving the bandaid around. Like a cat with a laser pointer.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2024 04:37 PM (LkLld)

126 I'm betting the left/Democrats go hard to steal the election now. They can't let this operation get to see the light of day. Like, ever.
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Even though I said there's a limit to the cheat, I also see what's at stake, that they are going to go all out anyway.

Not just this.
But the Russia hoax spying, the whole details of Joe directing the prosecutions.
Bigger: Up to 3 Supreme Court appointments.
Bigger: State legislatures focused, with a WH champion and RNC, pushing vote integrity.
Biggest: 2030 census. 10, 15, 20 EV from blue states to red. Imagine a PA amount of EV now automatically to the R.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 17, 2024 04:37 PM (A+HXZ)

127 Great ad!

They'll bury the politics behind the assassination attempt, just like that trans shooter in Nashville.

Already lefties are all over crowing that he was registered as a Republican. Probably so he could get into GOP events to take a shot.

Posted by: Blago at July 17, 2024 04:37 PM (wMRY8)

128 >>> 8 He also said that the school was closed due to anonymous threats to shoot up the school. He said he suspected Crooks. He wasn't in school the day one of those threats came in

And in the ensuing investigation, the FBI met their future patsy.
Just like the parkland shooter
Just like the Uvalde shooter
Except they had bigger plans than another red state school shooting for this one.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 17, 2024 04:21 PM (evvc2)

Nah, they didn't know he'd get THIS opportunity, but they made sure he had the means for a bunch of different actions.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 17, 2024 04:38 PM (VavZF)

129 Either way, he almost died for YOU. He is your redemption, remember? He was chosen by God to save you. So it is written, so it shall be.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 17, 2024 04:34 PM (JCZqz)

What annoys me about people like this is that there wasn't a single average person who was made worse during Trump's time as president.

Fuckheads like this DU twat likely saw their incomes and 401Ks rise against a backdrop of little inflation.

Their mortgage rate shriveled like Biden's brain.

Everyone benefitted. And they all hate it.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 17, 2024 04:38 PM (KbCG3)

130 Im amazed at how many GOPe scumbags completely lost their minds when Trump wouldnt give them the cushy jobs they wanted

The point of the GOPe is to enrich members of the GOPe. I forget which one of them said it...maybe Confederate Schmidt or MAP Weaver but they said the whole point was creating "generational wealth"

Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2024 04:38 PM (oZhjI)

131 Commenting Present.

Posted by: Barack H. Obama at July 17, 2024 04:38 PM (a3Q+t)

132 "He would just talk, talk and act like he knew everything, especially politics related, and he would say it in a tone that was like, 'I'm better than you,' in a type of way," he said.
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So yeah, the IC wiped his online profile. Totally

Posted by: WisRich at July 17, 2024 04:38 PM (G0vdT)

133 Trump doesn't have to be inaugurated in DC. He can take the oath in a county courthouse or in a ballroom in Mar a Largo. Day One, baby.

Posted by: mrp at July 17, 2024 04:38 PM (rj6Yv)

134 How many more assassins did they create?
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As I noted earlier: Crooks is practically Hoffer's archetype - a frustrated, butt ugly dumb shit, lacking the wherewithal to find fulfillment in faith, family, work or community, who turns to vacuous politics to lend his miserable existence some semblance of """meaning."""

Unfortunately, 21st century Western societies are utterly materialistic while being increasingly unable to make good on the material part. It's a petri dish for these mutants. Millions more Killer Beavises are waiting in the mouldering wings of the American burlesque stage.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 17, 2024 04:38 PM (GykSX)

135 126 Not just this.
But the Russia hoax spying, the whole details of Joe directing the prosecutions.
Bigger: Up to 3 Supreme Court appointments.
Bigger: State legislatures focused, with a WH champion and RNC, pushing vote integrity.
Biggest: 2030 census. 10, 15, 20 EV from blue states to red. Imagine a PA amount of EV now automatically to the R.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 17, 2024 04:37 PM (A+HXZ)

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Giving up the cheat means giving up a lot. A lot more than the presidency. And a lot more than just this year.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 17, 2024 04:38 PM (GBKbO)

136 The graphic of the shot's path is terrific. We are extremely fortunate Trump survived and grieve with the Comperatore family for their loss. Hopefully Messrs Dutch and Copenhaver will fully recover.

Posted by: Oglebay at July 17, 2024 04:38 PM (ogTiX)

137 Maybe he'll drop out of the race, or stop campaigning. He’ll be looking over his shoulder wondering

*************

he literally went golfing the next morning

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Esteemed Trump-Ho and Searcher of Wagshambas at July 17, 2024 04:38 PM (DBZuM)

138 >>> Who's that beautiful Fox News reporterette?

Harris Faulkner.
Posted by: Lance McCormick at July 17, 2024 04:28 PM (1Idb6

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She has appeared to be, over that past few years, a good egg.
__
Many, many years ago, when she was still a local Kansas City TV reporterette, I flirted with her at a bar. She was really nice and had the sense to very gently decline my polite advances. So yeah, she is smart.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at July 17, 2024 04:38 PM (bNf8H)

139 48 >>> Who's that beautiful Fox News reporterette?

Harris Faulkner.
Posted by: Lance McCormick at July 17, 2024 04:28 PM

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She sure puts the Light in MY August.

Posted by: Department of Homeland Security at July 17, 2024 04:38 PM (wzAuc)

140
Thank goodness you're here. I've been wondering about you opinion of okra all day.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 17, 2024 04:34 PM (v6JzV)

We've already established that this morning's art was okra, personified.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2024 04:39 PM (Zz0t1)

141 Willowed:

I think Ace schooled us on this phenomenon, when you think of a reply or something later...had a name in French for the stairway reply IIRC.

L'esprit de l'escalier

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2024 04:39 PM (xCA6C)

142 @138 She was no fan of Trump the last time around.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI Expert at July 17, 2024 04:39 PM (2xB3Z)

143 137 Maybe he'll drop out of the race, or stop campaigning. He’ll be looking over his shoulder wondering

*************

he literally went golfing the next morning
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Esteemed Trump-Ho and Searcher of Wagshambas at July 17, 2024 04:38 PM (DBZuM)

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"See?! He wasn't actually injured!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 17, 2024 04:39 PM (GBKbO)

144 >> Trump needs to keep fucking with them by moving the bandaid around.

He could really fuck with them by making it gold-plated.

Posted by: electronic means at July 17, 2024 04:39 PM (rjJqk)

145 "Honestly. I don't know. I can tell you that it would have been clearer if Republicans hadn't tried to pass amnesty in 2006."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing

Rush Limbaugh's Medal of Freedom>>>>Beau's Medal of Bronze

Posted by: Miklos opines at July 17, 2024 04:39 PM (XIkHl)

146 Whatever James O'Keefe is doing, he needs to stop and get there and do some journalistic activity while people are still willing to talk openly.

Posted by: Roberto at July 17, 2024 04:39 PM (QUC63)

147 "He just did not like politicians, especially with the choices that we had. He did not like our politicians," he added.

I mean...
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 17, 2024 04:25 PM (DRSnL)

He's from the state that ran a stroke victim to the Senate.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2024 04:39 PM (eoQWY)

148 I love the DUmmies talking about bullets and stuff of which they have no knowledge. It's pretty clear no one else on that board does either.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 17, 2024 04:40 PM (tT6L1)

149 Some patriot in the nsa should dive into dhs mayorkis. He knows he's going to swing if Trump gets elected. He's got motive and opportunity.

Posted by: Inspector Clouseau at July 17, 2024 04:40 PM (la6rf)

150 Robert at July 17, 2024 04:34 PM (1Yy3c)

Congratulations! You've been adopted by a cat@

Posted by: goddessoftheclassroom at July 17, 2024 04:40 PM (DBrq6)

151 $&%& DHS sock.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at July 17, 2024 04:40 PM (wzAuc)

152 one of the heads of the beast seemed to have had a fatal wound, but the fatal wound had been healed. The whole world was filled with wonder and followed the beast” (Revelation 13:3).

TRUMP IS THE ANTICHRIST!!!
- the left

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at July 17, 2024 04:40 PM (4CdW9)

153 132 "He would just talk, talk and act like he knew everything, especially politics related, and he would say it in a tone that was like, 'I'm better than you,' in a type of way," he said.
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So yeah, the IC wiped his online profile. Totally
Posted by: WisRich at July 17, 2024 04:38 PM (G0vdT)

Or they can't find the profile he really posts under...

Since he's my kid's age, I can tell you they don't post under anything close to who they are...and they don't care...

Their ID is meaningless to themselves or their lives - that's why they picked it.

And he might not post from his phone, but from his laptop...I'm wondering if anyone has found a laptop b/c I've never heard it mentioned and a college student has to have one...

Posted by: Nova Local at July 17, 2024 04:40 PM (exHjb)

154 DUmmy - It's an EAR. People punch holes in them all the time. the fixation on the wound is pretty funny.

...type... delete.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 17, 2024 04:40 PM (gKWVE)

155 What annoys me about people like this is that there wasn't a single average person who was made worse during Trump's time as president.

I did my duty to the Republic, and Trump destroyed my future in the party!

Posted by: Mike Pence at July 17, 2024 04:41 PM (JCZqz)

156
What annoys me about people like this is that there wasn't a single average person who was made worse during Trump's time as president.

The 1%ers and their media mouthpieces were furious though that the gains among the middle/working classes were higher during the Trump years.

I remember in article in Conde Nast where the author complained he found he had to wait for a table at his favorite Parisian restaurant behind the family of a plumber from Ohio. OHIO! So it was time for carbon taxes or SOMETHING to end this sort of outrage.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2024 04:41 PM (oZhjI)

157 Crooks had an extensive internet/social media presence. Anyone in that age group who is 'passionate' to argue politics and attempt a political assassination will have spewed all over the net.

His deep state inspiration and fellow travelers had it all purged once they had a positive ID on him. As was done many times in the past.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 17, 2024 04:41 PM (cOq4q)

158 We should settle our differences with BattleBots.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 17, 2024 04:41 PM (63Dwl)

159 Things that make you go Hmm..

https://tinyurl.com/2xkohyqc
Posted by: catman at July 17, 2024 04:37 PM (4HMlb)

From another thread within that thread.

https://is.gd/9s6hCE

The agent even ducked down just BEFORE the shot rang out.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2024 04:41 PM (Zz0t1)

160 Everyone benefitted. And they all hate it.

**********

theres a tax guy I watch on YouTube who talked about doing taxes for a trust fund baby woman in her 20s (and likely OnlyFans professional) and showed her how much taxes she saved due to the Trump tax cuts

to which she goes on a rant about how AWFUL Trump was because she was getting back so much of her money

he thought she was joking

he thought poorly

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Esteemed Trump-Ho and Searcher of Wagshambas at July 17, 2024 04:41 PM (DBZuM)

161 *JFK & John Connolly have entered the chat.
Posted by: rickb223

Interesting parallels between the assassinations of JFK and Franz Ferdinand:

1. Both took place on official visits to areas far from the capital of their respective countries;
2. Both took place while the victim was riding in a car, alongside his wife (though Jackie, of course, was not killed or wounded, unlike Sophie Chotek);
3. A governor was present in each case (in Sarajevo, the governor of Bosnia and Herzegovina was a guy named Oskar Potiorek).

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 17, 2024 04:41 PM (v6JzV)

162 I am certain the IC had a plan B in case their assassination failed.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 17, 2024 04:42 PM (evvc2)

163 That the parents called the police when he was missing nigh on what a few hours(?) seems to suggest they knew he had a capacity for violence

good job parenting

apparently they were both counselors too

Experts say that when you have a violence-prone kid, one of the best things you can do for him is to get him an AR15.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 17, 2024 04:42 PM (vtRd1)

164 I give Vincent T. a lot of credit for having the guys to say this . Social media and propaganda ministries onslaught commencing in 3, 2 .....

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2024 04:42 PM (zte34)

165 DUmmy - It's an EAR. People punch holes in them all the time. the fixation on the wound is pretty funny.

Uh huh. Remember when Conyers lied and claimed people called him the N-word?

Well if getting shot is no biggie what the hell about words you assholes?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2024 04:42 PM (oZhjI)

166 141 Willowed:

I think Ace schooled us on this phenomenon, when you think of a reply or something later...had a name in French for the stairway reply IIRC.

L'esprit de l'escalier

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2024 04:39 PM (xCA6C)

'The Spirit of the Staircase.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 17, 2024 04:42 PM (y31cs)

167 It's an EAR. People punch holes in them all the time.
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So what type of rifle do they use at Claire's down at the mall?

Posted by: screaming in digital at July 17, 2024 04:43 PM (iZbyp)

168 The point of the GOPe is to enrich members of the GOPe. I forget which one of them said it...maybe Confederate Schmidt or MAP Weaver but they said the whole point was creating "generational wealth

That would explain the weird self-promotion of Babylon DC radio station WMAL promising that listening to their news and opinion will aid in creating "generation wealth".

I heard those two words and thought "How does one build generational wealth from a government payroll check?" Clearly, if building "generation wealth" is the out in the open stated goal, then corruption and self-dealing is a cultural requirement.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 17, 2024 04:43 PM (rHxhM)

169 We should settle our differences with BattleBots.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Go Old Skool, bro

Posted by: Miklos had Rockem Sockem Robots at July 17, 2024 04:43 PM (XIkHl)

170 Ari Fleischer @AriFleischer 4h
The government’s handling of the shooting now is almost as bad as their security failures that led to it.

The longer they wait to inform the public, the more conspiracy theories will arise. They don’t need ALL the facts, but they need ENOUGH of the facts to explain this.

The WH, DHS and the USSS owe the country an honest, public explanation. Secrecy at this stage will only feed the rumor mill.

It’s time for them to get their story straight and say it.

Posted by: andycanuck (wse2C) at July 17, 2024 04:43 PM (wse2C)

171 Crooks had an extensive internet/social media presence. Anyone in that age group who is 'passionate' to argue politics and attempt a political assassination will have spewed all over the net.

Yep.

Professionally purged.

So...who are the professionals that keeping doing this for leftwing killers?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2024 04:43 PM (oZhjI)

172 The sad part is there wasn't time for the shooter to learn he had failed before the counter-sniper's bullet said hello to his skull.

Posted by: bed head at July 17, 2024 04:43 PM (Y1sOo)

173 >>> 129
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What annoys me about people like this is that there wasn't a single average person who was made worse during Trump's time as president.
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Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 17, 2024 04:38 PM (KbCG3)

But what about all the whammen who were turned into handmaids and the kids who weren't allowed to be trannies?!

Posted by: DUmmies at July 17, 2024 04:44 PM (VavZF)

174 Could not someone walking around with a range-finder in an area where the President is going to speak be arrested under suspicion of committing a crime under 18 USC §1751(d)?

§1751. Presidential and Presidential staff assassination, kidnapping, and assault; penalties
(d) If two or more persons conspire to kill or kidnap any individual designated in subsection (a) of this section...

See full text: https://is.gd/w4T3KZ

Even if they don't lay charges, they have 48 hours to hold the guy and investigate, by which point the President is long gone from the area...
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant
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They still do that for Obama, Clinton, Biden, etc.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 17, 2024 04:44 PM (cOq4q)

175 This is better than any SNL skit

"Shane Gillis as Donald Trump and Adam Ray as Joe Biden appear on Tony Hinchcliffe’s comedy show.

Some much-needed comedic relief after this hectic weekend."

https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/1813223812500234300

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at July 17, 2024 04:44 PM (V6W16)

176 The government’s handling of the shooting now is almost as bad as their security failures that led to it.

The longer they wait to inform the public, the more conspiracy theories will arise. They don’t need ALL the facts, but they need ENOUGH of the facts to explain this.

The WH, DHS and the USSS owe the country an honest, public explanation. Secrecy at this stage will only feed the rumor mill.

It’s time for them to get their story straight and say it.
Posted by: andycanuck (wse2C) at July 17, 2024 04:43 PM (wse2C)
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Cheatle helpfully dug the hole they're in, too.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 17, 2024 04:44 PM (tT6L1)

177 So, hundreds of people at work. Nearly all of them are moonbats. Not a single one has said ANYTHING AT ALL about what happened over the weekend - they're terrified of getting canned for saying something stupid.

I am OK with this, having watched the same assclowns scream about how people should be jailed for using what they say is the wrong pronoun, organize donations to La Raza, etc.

Posted by: somedood at July 17, 2024 04:44 PM (afvrY)

178 162 I am certain the IC had a plan B in case their assassination failed.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 17, 2024 04:42 PM (evvc2)
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Iran.

Posted by: WisRich at July 17, 2024 04:44 PM (G0vdT)

179 Maybe he'll drop out of the race, or stop campaigning. He’ll be looking over his shoulder wondering when the next attack might be.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 17, 2024 04:34 PM (JCZqz)

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Tell me you don't know anything about Trump without telling me you don't know anything about Trump.

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 17, 2024 04:44 PM (DRSnL)

180 So...who are the professionals that keeping doing this for leftwing killers?
Posted by: 18-1

FBI. CIA. NSA. DHS.

Posted by: rickb223 All conspiracy theories and spoiler alerts are on the table at July 17, 2024 04:44 PM (f5vQ9)

181 whoa

@chiIIum
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Shooter used encrypted communications, according to Christopher Wray.

Who was he communication with?

Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2024 04:45 PM (LkLld)

182 I guess they would all volunteer to have their ears pierced by .223 at 350 feet?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 17, 2024 04:45 PM (y31cs)

183 OK I googles democratic underground. Bob's watch list must be the phone book.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 17, 2024 04:45 PM (QSrLX)

184 So what type of rifle do they use at Claire's down at the mall?
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 17, 2024 04:43 PM (iZbyp)

Those fucking ghouls are really pretty sanguine about assassination attempts.

"He wasn't killed ... what are you getting all worked up about?!"

Asswipes, one and all.

Posted by: spindrift at July 17, 2024 04:45 PM (OguvZ)

185 >>> https://is.gd/9s6hCE

The agent even ducked down just BEFORE the shot rang out.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2024 04:41 PM (Zz0t1)

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Am I the only one who hates it when the video is reversed/mirrored? Rhetorical.

Posted by: Turn 2 at July 17, 2024 04:45 PM (JfxgE)

186
@chiIIum
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Who was he communication with?
Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2024 04:45 PM (LkLld)

Christopher Wray.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2024 04:45 PM (Zz0t1)

187 181 whoa

@chiIIum
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Shooter used encrypted communications, according to Christopher Wray.

Who was he communication with?
Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2024 04:45 PM (LkLld)

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I know it's too much to ask for some big inter-agency fight where one decides to take other the other, but could we please have that?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 17, 2024 04:45 PM (GBKbO)

188 The WH, DHS and the USSS owe the country an honest, public explanation. Secrecy at this stage will only feed the rumor mill.

Ari, let me take you through this. This IS the best story they can come up with. That they are all just so incompetent that a random 20 year old can wander into a secure site, get into a shooting position while the SS watches, and shoot the president before anyone actually did anything.

That is their best story so they are sticking to it.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2024 04:46 PM (oZhjI)

189 When you get shot you are not "Injured" you are "Wounded". I wish folks, MSM types, would get that straight.

Posted by: javems at July 17, 2024 04:46 PM (8I4hW)

190 Guy was a reddit troll. I would bet money.

Posted by: Ribbed at July 17, 2024 04:46 PM (iFMeW)

191 So what type of rifle do they use at Claire's down at the mall?

These retards are the type that goes in high to some shady tattoo and piercing parlor to have some smelly knuckle dragger bore holes in various parts of their bodies and attach industrial grommets, washers and deep sea fishing tackle.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 17, 2024 04:46 PM (rHxhM)

192
Am I the only one who hates it when the video is reversed/mirrored? Rhetorical.
Posted by: Turn 2 at July 17, 2024 04:45 PM (JfxgE)

For a reason beyond my knowledge, cell phones do this.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2024 04:46 PM (Zz0t1)

193 "In that fraction of a second, Trump turned his head."

Factor in Crooks' mental OODA loop as well. If Trump moved after Crooks was already committed to the trigger pull, that could add a few more fractions of a second.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 17, 2024 04:46 PM (O7YUW)

194 180 So...who are the professionals that keeping doing this for leftwing killers?
Posted by: 18-1

FBI. CIA. NSA. DHS.
Posted by: rickb223

Ironic. The assassins are all known by three names, and their tracks are covered by three letter agencies.

Posted by: Emperor Palpatine at July 17, 2024 04:46 PM (JCZqz)

195 VP picks are about internal party faction appeasement.

Pence was Trump appeasing the GOPe. Haley would have been the same thing.

Vance is vastly different. It's Trump announcing that he has total control of the party at that level, that he doesn't need the old guard, and that they can fuck off if they don't like it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 17, 2024 04:34 PM (GBKbO)

And like Pence, he is from the Midwest so he appeases geographic balance too.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2024 04:46 PM (eoQWY)

196 I am convinced it was Divine Intervention that saved DJT

Posted by: Skip at July 17, 2024 04:46 PM (fwDg9)

197 Dementia Joe actually said we should settle our differences at the bullet box.
Posted by: redbanzai at July 17, 2024 04:31 PM (INH2d)

Whatever happened to the good old-fashioned pistol duel?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 17, 2024 04:47 PM (vtRd1)

198 When you get shot you are not "Injured" you are "Wounded". I wish folks, MSM types, would get that straight.
Posted by: javems at July 17, 2024 04:46 PM (8I4hW)

They don't want people to think he was shot. They want you to think that he obtained an injury during the panic because there were 'noises' at the rally.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2024 04:47 PM (Zz0t1)

199 REMEMBER!!!

End Wokeness @EndWokeness 4h
Senator Chuck Schumer to Trump in 2017:

If you keep messing with the FBI, CIA, and NSA, terrible things will happen to you:

Posted by: andycanuck (wse2C) at July 17, 2024 04:47 PM (wse2C)

200 Christopher Wray.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2024 04:45 PM (Zz0t1)

It appears he was talking with one Whistopher Cray. With a name so mysterious we will likely never find him too.

Posted by: Christopher Wray. at July 17, 2024 04:47 PM (oZhjI)

201 I return to school (my 34th year) next month.
Be assured, my fellow Morons and 'ettes, that while I allow my students to express their opinions, I will DEMAND that they support their opinions with evidence--I will supply the counterclaims as required.

JSWK: I did this after October 7 with gratifying reults.

Posted by: goddessoftheclassroom at July 17, 2024 04:47 PM (DBrq6)

202 FBI WILL be thrown to the wolves soon enough.

See, this right here is what you do not want, if you think it through. CIA picked up one whole functioning German intel unit, purportedly to use against USSR, in the aftermath of WWII, and it proved porous, two- (at least) faced, and a source of lone wolves.

If you're taking down a conspiratorial cabal, you keep them as close to on the payroll as you can until they are all neutralized. Just handing them a pink slip is an invitation to subterfuge.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at July 17, 2024 04:47 PM (zdLoL)

203 Here's hoping E Musk and his friends spend some of those beaucoup bucks on buying time for this ad on every left progressive TV program out there. Let ABC/CBS/NBC/CNN/MSNBC/LSMFT all enjoy there last profits because soon no body will watch them anymore.

Posted by: From about That Time at July 17, 2024 04:47 PM (4780s)

204 The agent even ducked down just BEFORE the shot rang out.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2024 04:41 PM (Zz0t1)

She was a female Radar O'Reilly, duh.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 17, 2024 04:47 PM (v6JzV)

205 163 That the parents called the police when he was missing nigh on what a few hours(?) seems to suggest they knew he had a capacity for violence

good job parenting

apparently they were both counselors too

Experts say that when you have a violence-prone kid, one of the best things you can do for him is to get him an AR15.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 17, 2024 04:42 PM (vtRd1)

It was dad's...he owned it 11 years...they shot together. Kid asked to borrow it to go shooting that day. I'm betting dad panicked when kid did not come home when he'd regularly be done shooting...thus, the calls.

Posted by: Nova Local at July 17, 2024 04:47 PM (exHjb)

206 >>> 167 It's an EAR. People punch holes in them all the time.
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So what type of rifle do they use at Claire's down at the mall?
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 17, 2024 04:43 PM (iZbyp)

SiD is en fuego!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 17, 2024 04:47 PM (VavZF)

207 the DUmmies know deep in their estrogen soaked hearts they would have fainted, screaming, had they felt their ear get hit by a bullet then pulled a bloody hand away from the side of their face.

Meanwhile, PDT comes up bloodied but unbowed, like a real man should.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 17, 2024 04:47 PM (tT6L1)

208 181 whoa

@chiIIum
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Who was he communication with?
Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2024 04:45 PM (LkLld)
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wtf

Posted by: WisRich at July 17, 2024 04:47 PM (G0vdT)

209 170 Ari Fleischer @AriFleischer 4h
The government’s handling of the shooting now is almost as bad as their security failures that led to it.

The longer they wait to inform the public, the more conspiracy theories will arise. They don’t need ALL the facts, but they need ENOUGH of the facts to explain this.

The WH, DHS and the USSS owe the country an honest, public explanation. Secrecy at this stage will only feed the rumor mill.

It’s time for them to get their story straight and say it.
Posted by: andycanuck (wse2C) at July 17, 2024 04:43 PM (wse2C

The longer they wait the more the stink of cya grows.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at July 17, 2024 04:48 PM (uBBbP)

210 8m
Shooter used encrypted communications, according to Christopher Wray.

Who was he communication with?
Posted by: JackStraw

Christopher Wray

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at July 17, 2024 04:48 PM (qZEuM)

211 The maxi-pad is bigger today. At no time has any bandage showed blood leaking through.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 17, 2024 04:34 PM (JCZqz)
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Scabs and clotting...How do they work again?

/sarc

The DUers are more idiotic than usual.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 17, 2024 04:48 PM (7fElN)

212 165 DUmmy - It's an EAR. People punch holes in them all the time. the fixation on the wound is pretty funny.

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I, for one, have complete confidence in the hot-take wizards who will one day rule over us.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at July 17, 2024 04:48 PM (wzAuc)

213 I'm sure I'm not the first, but I'm getting a serious undiagnosed/diagnosed and untreated bipolar vibe from this Crooks rodent. That whole spouting off like they're some super brain and you're the idiot, well....that's classic manic phase.

Throw in the Dark Triad, and I'm pretty sure I get why Dad was worried when his rifle turned up missing.....

The Feds are going to be busier than a cat covering up crap in quicksand over this one.

Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at July 17, 2024 04:48 PM (a9CYf)

214 So, hundreds of people at work. Nearly all of them are moonbats. Not a single one has said ANYTHING AT ALL about what happened over the weekend - they're terrified of getting canned for saying something stupid.

I am OK with this, having watched the same assclowns scream about how people should be jailed for using what they say is the wrong pronoun, organize donations to La Raza, etc.
Posted by: somedood

Yep. Burn them down to the water line.

Posted by: rickb223 All conspiracy theories and spoiler alerts are on the table at July 17, 2024 04:48 PM (f5vQ9)

215 195 And like Pence, he is from the Midwest so he appeases geographic balance too.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2024 04:46 PM (eoQWY)

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This analysis is nonsense and really needs to stop.

VP's don't have favorite son effects on the ticket. If they did, every VP for decades would be from swing states.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 17, 2024 04:49 PM (GBKbO)

216 So what type of rifle do they use at Claire's down at the mall?
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 17, 2024 04:43 PM (iZbyp)
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With or without powder burns?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 17, 2024 04:49 PM (tT6L1)

217
She was a female Radar O'Reilly, duh.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 17, 2024 04:47 PM (v6JzV)

It actually looks like one of the dudes from the 'fed festival' a while back.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2024 04:49 PM (Zz0t1)

218 Crooks had an extensive internet/social media presence. Anyone in that age group who is 'passionate' to argue politics and attempt a political assassination will have spewed all over the net.

Yep.

Professionally purged.

So...who are the professionals that keeping doing this for leftwing killers?
Posted by: 18-1
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This is something that really eats at me.

Remember when Blasey-Ford's internet history got cleaned up over night as soon as she came forward?

Would love some internal whistle blowers at the social media companies like Meta to come forward.

They clearly have some left-wing crisis team.

Posted by: Blago at July 17, 2024 04:49 PM (wMRY8)

219 Ari, let me take you through this. This IS the best story they can come up with. That they are all just so incompetent that a random 20 year old can wander into a secure site, get into a shooting position while the SS watches, and shoot the president before anyone actually did anything.

That is their best story so they are sticking to it.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2024 04:46 PM (oZhjI)

Yeah, the vast conspiracy is the second most scary version of the story because it means that somebody in the organization is competent. The alternative is that nobody is, and is so poor at the job that they don't even know it.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2024 04:49 PM (eoQWY)

220 181 whoa

@chiIIum
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Shooter used encrypted communications, according to Christopher Wray.

Who was he communication with?
Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2024 04:45 PM (LkLld)

Wray is not going down with the ship?

Posted by: Nova Local at July 17, 2024 04:49 PM (exHjb)

221 As new information leaks out, everything looks more nefarious and absurd.

Again, by the end of this, they will deploy, The Banana In The Tailpipe Defense.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 17, 2024 04:49 PM (XV/Pl)

222 166 141 Willowed:

I think Ace schooled us on this phenomenon, when you think of a reply or something later...had a name in French for the stairway reply IIRC.

L'esprit de l'escalier

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2024 04:39 PM (xCA6C)

'The Spirit of the Staircase.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 17, 2024 04:42 PM (y31cs)

I've seen it referred to as "staircase wit"...

Posted by: Tex Lovera at July 17, 2024 04:49 PM (wtvvX)

223 So...who are the professionals that keeping doing this for leftwing killers?
Posted by: 18-1

FBI. CIA. NSA. DHS.

Did DEA decide to go solo on their own label?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 17, 2024 04:49 PM (rHxhM)

224 >>> 179 Maybe he'll drop out of the race, or stop campaigning. He’ll be looking over his shoulder wondering when the next attack might be.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 17, 2024 04:34 PM (JCZqz)

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Tell me you don't know anything about Trump without telling me you don't know anything about Trump.
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 17, 2024 04:44 PM (DRSnL)

They're a bunch of little chickenshits. Like I said, those little kids in Uganda know more about courage than our leftist twats.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 17, 2024 04:50 PM (VavZF)

225 I wish that Kong had dropped Christopher Wray from the top of the Empire State Building?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 17, 2024 04:50 PM (v6JzV)

226 181 whoa

@chiIIum
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8m
Shooter used encrypted communications, according to Christopher Wray.

Who was he communication with?
Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2024 04:45 PM (LkLld)

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I know it's too much to ask for some big inter-agency fight where one decides to take other the other, but could we please have that?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 17, 2024 04:45 PM (GBKbO)

Democrat Party implosion 5 ... 4 ... 3 ...

Posted by: mrp at July 17, 2024 04:50 PM (rj6Yv)

227 Senator Chuck Schumer to Trump in 2017:
If you keep messing with the FBI, CIA, and NSA, terrible things will happen to you:

Schumer looks like he is into some seriously shady shit.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 17, 2024 04:50 PM (gKWVE)

228 So what type of rifle do they use at Claire's down at the mall?
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 17, 2024 04:43 PM (iZbyp)
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With or without powder burns?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 17, 2024 04:49 PM (tT6L1)

"So, what size stud would you like in your ear? .223, .762 or .50 cal for the hollow ring?"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2024 04:50 PM (Zz0t1)

229 214 So, hundreds of people at work. Nearly all of them are moonbats. Not a single one has said ANYTHING AT ALL about what happened over the weekend - they're terrified of getting canned for saying something stupid.

I am OK with this, having watched the same assclowns scream about how people should be jailed for using what they say is the wrong pronoun, organize donations to La Raza, etc.
Posted by: somedood

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I'm not a fan of cancel culture.

I'll wait for it to stop when the left starts harping on its own side for trying it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 17, 2024 04:50 PM (GBKbO)

230 Those fucking ghouls are really pretty sanguine about assassination attempts.

All the keyboard bravado makes me curious about how many time they've had an ear shot off by a high-powered rifle.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 17, 2024 04:50 PM (vtRd1)

231
Would love some internal whistle blowers at the social media companies like Meta to come forward.

They clearly have some left-wing crisis team.

Posted by: Blago at July 17, 2024 04:49 PM (wMRY

Its called 'the staff'. Aside from X they all jump when the govenment says frog.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2024 04:50 PM (eoQWY)

232 Haley had a decent speech last night, made it clear to her GOP nevertrumper voters to vote Trump. Probably did it to try and snag a cabinet or ambassador position. We'll see if Trump somehow rewards her.

Barn buster speeches last night were Vivek, Hung, that NYC mom Madeline Brame. Is there a list of speakers and times for tonight?

Posted by: LizLem at July 17, 2024 04:50 PM (Eng1Z)

233 A little over 3 months to the election. They're really getting desperate. Plenty of time for another unfortunate "shooting incident." I expect some sort of HUGE October surprise. They still have the Bigger Cheat than 2020 in their back pocket. Gonna be a crazy 3 months. Maybe longer if they try the cheat again.

Posted by: Biergood at July 17, 2024 04:50 PM (PwgSL)

234 Sounds to me as if Biden's insistence on staying in the race may be weakening.

He told BET that he'd get out "if doctors told me I couldn't continue" (words to that effect).

Posted by: mnw at July 17, 2024 04:50 PM (NLIak)

235 I posted this earlier but I think it is worth seeing.

What we are missing is the one mistake the plotters made that blew the whole plan apart. Assume everything we know about that day, but now assume the crowd does not notice the shooter. With that one change the plan succeeds and the only question is why no one was guarding the roof - an easy thing to explain away.

More details on a substack.
https://tinyurl.com/mtf8mzvf

Posted by: PFC Obvious at July 17, 2024 04:50 PM (Zu5Ij)

236 I wish that Kong had dropped Christopher Wray from the top of the Empire State Building?

Naomi Watts > Fay Wray > Christopher Wray

Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2024 04:50 PM (oZhjI)

237 225 Don't know where that question mark came from.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 17, 2024 04:51 PM (v6JzV)

238 >>> 187
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I know it's too much to ask for some big inter-agency fight where one decides to take other the other, but could we please have that?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 17, 2024 04:45 PM (GBKbO)

During and at the DNC? Pretty please?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 17, 2024 04:51 PM (VavZF)

239 This is getting worse by the minute.

@DC_Draino
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Hold up - a new Senate briefing on the shooting revealed that **20 mins** elapsed between the time he was spotted by snipers & when he fired the shots

You’re telling me snipers just watched this guy for 20 minutes and didn’t think to get Trump off stage?!

Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2024 04:51 PM (LkLld)

240 I know it's too much to ask for some big inter-agency fight where one decides to take other the other, but could we please have that?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 17, 2024 04:45 PM (GBKbO)

The USSR always had two spy services, the KGB and GRU so that one could take down the other when needed.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2024 04:51 PM (eoQWY)

241 The left: GUNS ARE THE MOST EVIL THING IN THE WORLD

Also the left: Dude like you only like uh got shot in like the ear. Like...I mean grow up or something

Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2024 04:52 PM (oZhjI)

242 Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at July 17, 2024 04:47 PM (zdLoL)

It isn't a matter of what I want but what will happen. A bunch of emotionally incontinent, D.C.-based leftist dirtbags aren't about to risk being the subject of criticism let alone have their sinecures at risk. The FBI is just low-hanging fruit for a fall guy given everyone hates it at this point. And, yes, I agree there are dangerous, homicidal madmen in those ranks who will be literal lone wolves when the SHTF.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at July 17, 2024 04:52 PM (KSNKu)

243 to which she goes on a rant about how AWFUL Trump was because she was getting back so much of her money

"Y'know, lady, if you want to give that money to the government even though you don't have to, that is allowed."

Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 17, 2024 04:52 PM (hB7mE)

244 Haley had a decent speech last night, made it clear to her GOP nevertrumper voters to vote Trump. Probably did it to try and snag a cabinet or ambassador position. We'll see if Trump somehow rewards her.

_____

I hope not.

And I know nothing about fashion, but that outfit Haley had on was hideous.

Posted by: Blago at July 17, 2024 04:52 PM (wMRY8)

245 Shooter used encrypted communications, according to Christopher Wray.

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So ........... that's it then. Good day, all!

Posted by: The FBI at July 17, 2024 04:52 PM (wzAuc)

246 240 I know it's too much to ask for some big inter-agency fight where one decides to take other the other, but could we please have that?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 17, 2024 04:45 PM (GBKbO)

The USSR always had two spy services, the KGB and GRU so that one could take down the other when needed.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2024 04:51 PM (eoQWY)

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"I don't get it."
-The Cheka

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 17, 2024 04:52 PM (GBKbO)

247 You’re telling me snipers just watched this guy for 20 minutes and didn’t think to get Trump off stage?!
Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2024 04:51 PM (LkLld)

That's what I've been saying the last two days.

Posted by: mrp at July 17, 2024 04:52 PM (rj6Yv)

248 {170} ... The longer they wait to inform the public, the more conspiracy theories will arise. They don’t need ALL the facts, but they need ENOUGH of the facts to explain this. ...

Posted by: andycanuck (wse2C) at July 17, 2024 04:43 PM (wse2C)

"Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus."

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 17, 2024 04:52 PM (O7YUW)

249 OK, but he was 12 years old in 2016.

Clearly he evolved in a Trump-hating madman, but that is a bit early to peg it.

Posted by: sage of scranton at July 17, 2024 04:53 PM (YG7ho)

250 Naomi Watts > Fay Wray
Posted by: 18-1

I think Naomi's hot, but not sure she outranks Fay on the hotness scale.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 17, 2024 04:53 PM (v6JzV)

251 Fantastic ad.

Posted by: Cheri at July 17, 2024 04:53 PM (oiNtH)

252 What we are missing is the one mistake the plotters made that blew the whole plan apart. Assume everything we know about that day, but now assume the crowd does not notice the shooter. With that one change the plan succeeds and the only question is why no one was guarding the roof - an easy thing to explain away.

More details on a substack.
https://tinyurl.com/mtf8mzvf
Posted by: PFC Obvious at July 17, 2024 04:50 PM (Zu5Ij)

The crowd noticing the shooter changes nothing. Trump turned his head for his own presentation purposes, not because he saw the shooter or the crowd reactions.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2024 04:53 PM (eoQWY)

253 You’re telling me snipers just watched this guy for 20 minutes and didn’t think to get Trump off stage?!
Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2024 04:51 PM (LkLld)
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Dan Bongino made this point. He said something along the lines, ,"If you got what appears to be a threat unaccounted for, you keep your guy off the X, the X being the position from which they're speaking."

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 17, 2024 04:53 PM (tT6L1)

254 Barn buster speeches last night were Vivek, Hung, that NYC mom Madeline Brame. Is there a list of speakers and times for tonight?
Posted by: LizLem at July 17, 2024 04:50 PM (Eng1Z)

If Hung Cao can't pull out the VA Senate seat, he'd be a good Defense Secretary...

Posted by: Nova Local at July 17, 2024 04:53 PM (exHjb)

255 All the keyboard bravado makes me curious about how many time they've had an ear shot off by a high-powered rifle.
Posted by: Cicero

I doubt Kyle Rittenhouse gets many death threats.

Posted by: Miklos so suspects at July 17, 2024 04:53 PM (XIkHl)

256 You’re telling me snipers just watched this guy for 20 minutes and didn’t think to get Trump off stage?!

Another data point they are holding on to - when the cops and SS agents called in this guy wandering around SOMEONE was on the other end of the coms and did nothing.

Who was that person.

Let's here him explain why he did nothing...because that's going to be a fun answer

Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2024 04:54 PM (oZhjI)

257 This is getting worse by the minute. @DC_Draino

***********

It's Grassy Knolls all the way down...

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Esteemed Trump-Ho and Searcher of Wagshambas at July 17, 2024 04:54 PM (DBZuM)

258 "Shooter used encrypted communications, according to Christopher Wray.

Who was he communication with?
Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2024 04:45 PM (LkLld)"

I think this makes it much more likely the progs put this kid up to this not the comms thing, but that they're harping on so much crap. Watch them use this to go after:
-consumer encryption (which is irrelevant if he "acted alone", right?)
-laser rangefinders
-ammo purchases without CA style background checks/mail order ammo sales (this "he bought 50 rounds the day of" shit is bizarre if he did it, assuming it's not total bullshit)

... and so on. Watch them start whining he had a ballistics app, too.

Kid was reported missing w/ the gun the night before. He had a phone on him. He could be found if they wanted to.

Posted by: somedood at July 17, 2024 04:54 PM (afvrY)

259 The word on the street is that her minions are importuning Trump to make her SoS. The chances of that are slim and none, and slim just went home.
Posted by: Archimedes

That has 2028 written a over it. Domestically fixes are going to be tougher than international issues.

She can side step the domestic hiccups in 2028

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at July 17, 2024 04:54 PM (FxH7T)

260 239 This is getting worse by the minute.

@DC_Draino
·
4m
Hold up - a new Senate briefing on the shooting revealed that **20 mins** elapsed between the time he was spotted by snipers & when he fired the shots

You’re telling me snipers just watched this guy for 20 minutes and didn’t think to get Trump off stage?!
Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2024 04:51 PM (LkLld)

And didn't report to anyone...do walkie talkies and in-ear comms no longer work?

Posted by: Nova Local at July 17, 2024 04:54 PM (exHjb)

261 OK, but he was 12 years old in 2016.

Clearly he evolved in a Trump-hating madman, but that is a bit early to peg it.
Posted by: sage of scranton at July 17, 2024 04:53 PM (YG7ho)

I was about that age when I saw a Jimmy Carter foreign policy ad. I jumped out of the seat I was in and said "You IDIOT!". I was right.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2024 04:54 PM (eoQWY)

262 I doubt Kyle Rittenhouse gets many death threats.
Posted by: Miklos so suspects at July 17, 2024 04:53 PM (XIkHl)

I'd say you are probably wrong, miklos.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 17, 2024 04:54 PM (y31cs)

263 One assumes they're going over the crime scene with a ~~fine-tooth comb~~ power washer

Edited for accuracy.

Posted by: A. Haig at July 17, 2024 04:54 PM (/y8xj)

264 /sock

Posted by: Oddbob at July 17, 2024 04:55 PM (/y8xj)

265 There’s no way they did not AT LEAST allow this to happen.

Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at July 17, 2024 04:55 PM (Y8lzz)

266 "WOW: The Trump rally assassin�s parents reportedly called police before the rally, reported the assassin missing, and said they were worried about what he was doing."

The parents wouldn't be worried about what he might do at a Trump rally if he was a yuuuge Trump supporter.

Posted by: Gref at July 17, 2024 04:55 PM (5fDan)

267 This shit passed ridiculous two days ago and it's only gotten worse. What is going on

Posted by: jhawk90 at July 17, 2024 04:55 PM (ggOdn)

268 It just keeps getting worse and worse. Possibly, it's purposeful.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at July 17, 2024 04:55 PM (qZEuM)

269
I think Naomi's hot, but not sure she outranks Fay on the hotness scale.

STARE INTO MY EYES

Posted by: Naomi Watts's Pokies at July 17, 2024 04:55 PM (oZhjI)

270 Is there a list of speakers and times for tonight?

*********

I hope to God it's Peter Navarro

He already gave an interview to Breitbart but I dont know if he's doing a speech

Literally just got out of prison today

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Esteemed Trump-Ho and Searcher of Wagshambas at July 17, 2024 04:55 PM (DBZuM)

271 You’re telling me snipers just watched this guy for 20 minutes and didn’t think to get Trump off stage?!

Trump reached over the seat and successfully wrestled and overcame the SS agents so that he could go on to the stage.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 17, 2024 04:55 PM (rHxhM)

272 L'esprit de l'escalier

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2024 04:39 PM (xCA6C)

'The Spirit of the Staircase.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 17, 2024 04:42 PM (y31cs)

I've seen it referred to as "staircase wit"...
Posted by: Tex Lovera at July 17, 2024 04:49 PM (wtvvX)
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I've also seen "elevator wit."

In my case it's 0300 lying awake in bed "Shit. I should have said THAT!"

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Nothing to Contribute to the Debate at July 17, 2024 04:55 PM (Ad8y9)

273 DC Dicksip Sips Dick

@jarvis_best
·
4m
WaPo journo Max Boot was married to an unregistered foreign agent who was just indicted hahahahahaha

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 17, 2024 04:55 PM (IG4Id)

274 I like this Hung Cao guy, but I have trouble getting past the name.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 17, 2024 04:55 PM (v6JzV)

275 Sitting on my trac hoe, taking a break, sipping lemonade. Regarding the thread below, that was outstanding. Thanks Vmom. That lifted me up. The sweat don't seem so sweaty now. Backing to digging and moving dirt.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Invictus Maneo at July 17, 2024 04:56 PM (ek1jo)

276 Oh my! That ad....

Posted by: redbanzai at July 17, 2024 04:56 PM (INH2d)

277 Someone mentioned this on the EMT too:

John Basham @JohnBasham 15h
QUESTION: Since When Did The @FBI Become A Crime Scene Cleanup Organization That Destroys Evidence Before Anyone Else Can INDEPENDENTLY REVIEW THE SCENE?

https://tinyurl.com/45zhhx9d
photo

Posted by: andycanuck (wse2C) at July 17, 2024 04:56 PM (wse2C)

278 The crowd noticing the shooter changes nothing. Trump turned his head for his own presentation purposes, not because he saw the shooter or the crowd reactions.
Posted by: Oldcat

Read the substack. Had the crowd not noticed the shooter would have had time to wait for Trump to stop moving his head. Surely he saw and heard the crowd, and there are reports that a local LEO stuck his head up in response to the crowd. He was rushed.

Posted by: PFC Obvious at July 17, 2024 04:56 PM (Zu5Ij)

279 The Eff Bee Eye who took down President Trump are investigating assassination attempt on Trump

Posted by: Skip at July 17, 2024 04:56 PM (fwDg9)

280 "241 The left: GUNS ARE THE MOST EVIL THING IN THE WORLD

Also the left: Dude like you only like uh got shot in like the ear. Like...I mean grow up or something
Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2024 04:52 PM (oZhjI)"

Also-also the left: we know this is staged because AR-15's disintegrate children, so therefore the head should have exploded.

(This is a real take, you can find dozens of threads on it)

Posted by: somedood at July 17, 2024 04:56 PM (afvrY)

281 >>> 271 You’re telling me snipers just watched this guy for 20 minutes and didn’t think to get Trump off stage?!
==
Trump reached over the seat and successfully wrestled and overcame the SS agents so that he could go on to the stage.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 17, 2024 04:55 PM (rHxhM)

I TOLD you so!!!

Posted by: Madison Cornbread at July 17, 2024 04:56 PM (VavZF)

282 Trump reached over the seat and successfully wrestled and overcame the SS agents so that he could go on to the stage.

Also Trump is in worse health then Biden and can't walk unassisted.

Posted by: Things the left believes at July 17, 2024 04:57 PM (oZhjI)

283 8m
Shooter used encrypted communications, according to Christopher Wray.

Who was he communication with?
Posted by: JackStraw

Christopher Wray
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

Mayorkis.

Posted by: rickb223 All conspiracy theories and spoiler alerts are on the table at July 17, 2024 04:57 PM (f5vQ9)

284 There’s no way they did not AT LEAST allow this to happen.
Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at July 17, 2024 04:55 PM (Y8lzz)

They groomed him. They 'slid into his dm's.' They radicalized him and gave him the means and opportunity.

This was a plan to murder Trump, likely for the last year plus.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2024 04:57 PM (Zz0t1)

285 WaPo journo Max Boot was married to an unregistered foreign agent who was just indicted hahahahahaha
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 17, 2024 04:55 PM (IG4Id)
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Boot is hetero? Oh wait, the sex of the partner isn't mentioned.

Never mind.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 17, 2024 04:57 PM (tT6L1)

286 Weird Son: Dad, can I borrow the AR?

Dad: Why of course Weird Son, I have complete faith that you will be responsible and will not be worried you are off doing something criminal after a few hours.

Posted by: Eleven at July 17, 2024 04:57 PM (Vu7A1)

287 I doubt Kyle Rittenhouse gets many death threats.
Posted by: Miklos so suspects at July 17, 2024 04:53 PM (XIkHl)

I'd say you are probably wrong, miklos.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Ok.

Repeated death threats.

Posted by: Miklos amends suspicion at July 17, 2024 04:57 PM (XIkHl)

288 The crowd noticing the shooter changes nothing. Trump turned his head for his own presentation purposes, not because he saw the shooter or the crowd reactions.
Posted by: Oldcat

They weren't. Trump stop his speech and asked to have a graphic put on the monitor state right. That's what they were looking at.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 17, 2024 04:57 PM (IG4Id)

289 @267

>>This shit passed ridiculous two days ago and it's only gotten worse. What is going on.

What we need now is a joint special select blue ribbon commission to get to the bottom of this.

I would pay cash money to get Trey Gowdy and that other ponce who's on Fox that used to be a congressman to be the GOP chairs, just to add to The Aristocraty Nature to this all.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 17, 2024 04:58 PM (XV/Pl)

290 I like this Hung Cao guy, but I have trouble getting past the name.

**********

Well Ho Lee Fuk

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Esteemed Trump-Ho and Searcher of Wagshambas at July 17, 2024 04:58 PM (DBZuM)

291 I think Naomi's hot, but not sure she outranks Fay on the hotness scale.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

She's got a trans kid that she parades at high profile fashion shows. Don't like her.

Posted by: Tuna at July 17, 2024 04:58 PM (oaGWv)

292 He told BET that he'd get out "if doctors told me I couldn't continue" (words to that effect).
Posted by: mnw at July 17, 2024 04:50 PM (NLIak)
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DOCTOR Jill Biden is the only doctor whose opinion matters....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 17, 2024 04:58 PM (7fElN)

293 The WH, DHS and the USSS owe the country an honest, public explanation. Secrecy at this stage will only feed the rumor mill.

It’s time for them to get their story straight and say it.
Posted by: andycanuck

Well, bless their hearts Ari. That ain't happening

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at July 17, 2024 04:58 PM (FxH7T)

294 DJT was talking when he was grazed by that bullet, no one knew they were coming except mabe the Overwatch who possibly had him in view

Posted by: Skip at July 17, 2024 04:58 PM (fwDg9)

295 "Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus."
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 17, 2024 04:52 PM (O7YUW)
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They can't flashy-thing us all.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at July 17, 2024 04:58 PM (3Fz6p)

296 test

Posted by: Inogame at July 17, 2024 04:58 PM (53oGX)

297 >>> 292 He told BET that he'd get out "if doctors told me I couldn't continue" (words to that effect).
Posted by: mnw at July 17, 2024 04:50 PM (NLIak)
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DOCTOR Jill Biden is the only doctor whose opinion matters....
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 17, 2024 04:58 PM (7fElN)

Bitch.

Posted by: Doctor Anthony S for SCIENCE Fauci at July 17, 2024 04:59 PM (VavZF)

298 "WOW: The Trump rally assassin�s parents reportedly called police before the rally, reported the assassin missing, and said they were worried about what he was doing"..because he took my gun and said he was going to shoot the President.
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fixed it for more context.

Posted by: WisRich at July 17, 2024 04:59 PM (G0vdT)

299 Imagine, for a moment, if it came out during the Warren commission that the SS was watching Oswald get in position, WITH HIS GUN, for 20 minutes before Oswald shot.

Would anyone have accepted it was just mere incompetence?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2024 04:59 PM (oZhjI)

300 I like this Hung Cao guy, but I have trouble getting past the name

paging reddit . . .

Posted by: gKWVE at July 17, 2024 04:59 PM (gKWVE)

301 @148 I love the DUmmies talking about bullets and stuff of which they have no knowledge.

Since you mention it, the muzzle velocity of a 16" AR is not 3225.

We have a lot of people here who know that. But there it is.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at July 17, 2024 04:59 PM (zdLoL)

302 It's funny - every speech Biden gives, one more Dem lawmaker calls on him to resign.

Posted by: El Mariachi at July 17, 2024 04:59 PM (nLFEI)

303 Rules of engagement allow Crooks to shoot first?

Posted by: Goatweed at July 17, 2024 05:00 PM (KRyeA)

304 >>> 299 Imagine, for a moment, if it came out during the Warren commission that the SS was watching Oswald get in position, WITH HIS GUN, for 20 minutes before Oswald shot.

Would anyone have accepted it was just mere incompetence?
Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2024 04:59 PM (oZhjI)

We thought he was a birdwatcher.

Posted by: Kimberly Cheeto at July 17, 2024 05:00 PM (VavZF)

305 redridinghood says it's National Hotdog day so going to put chili dogs on

Posted by: Skip at July 17, 2024 05:00 PM (fwDg9)

306 You know there's audio from the SS where Trump's head remained in tact and they said "SHIT! He missed." Just before shooting the kid.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2024 05:00 PM (Zz0t1)

307 Dads a registered Libertarian, mom registered Democrat.
Posted by: If the shoe fits at July 17, 2024 04:31 PM (Y8lzz)

You know this how? Got a link?

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at July 17, 2024 05:00 PM (JRP2U)

308
When camleface harris claims Senator Vance won't be loyal to our country, is she talking about Canada? Because she's a Canadian.

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 17, 2024 05:00 PM (6ml7Y)

309 "I'm not a fan of cancel culture.

I'll wait for it to stop when the left starts harping on its own side for trying it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 17, 2024 04:50 PM (GBKbO)"

It's not cancel culture if they're not part of my society and never will be. Some genies don't go back into the bottle.

These people are deliberately importing criminals and barbarians and letting them out same-day after they murder and rape in our communities. They're letting the prog brownshirts walk free after brutalizing those who dare wave a sign or attend a speech. They're putting the force of law behind efforts to corrupt and them mutilate our children.

Fuck 'em. War.

Posted by: somedood at July 17, 2024 05:00 PM (afvrY)

310 >>There’s no way they did not AT LEAST allow this to happen.

Sort of like when Biden allowed a Chinese spy balloon to drift across the US taking pictures of some of our most sensitive military installations and did nothing until it was off the coast. Or like when he botched the Afghanistan withdrawal getting 13 or our people killed and leaving billions in military hardware behind not to mention a key military base.

The Biden administration excels at just letting things happen.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2024 05:00 PM (LkLld)

311 Fantastic ad

Posted by: It's me donna at July 17, 2024 05:00 PM (IyPmt)

312 I like this Hung Cao guy, but I have trouble getting past the name.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

You'd prefer Well Hung Cao?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at July 17, 2024 05:00 PM (L/fGl)

313 Rules of engagement allow Crooks to shoot first?
Posted by: Goatweed at July 17, 2024 05:00 PM (KRyeA)

Never before in the history of ever when protecting a president.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2024 05:00 PM (Zz0t1)

314 That's what I've been saying the last two days.
Posted by: mrp at July 17, 2024 04:52 PM (rj6Yv)

=====

Me too! You don't want to shoot the guy, fine. But get Trump the hell out of there.

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 17, 2024 05:00 PM (DRSnL)

315 30 Crooks did not like Republican politicians in general.

He didn't like any politicians, not just Republicans.

Posted by: BonnieBlue is tired of the lies at July 17, 2024 05:00 PM (yQYzs)

316 What we need now is a joint special select blue ribbon commission to get to the bottom of this.

Meh, whoever gets appointed from the left side of that commission will pull a Gorelick and make sure nothing comes out.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2024 05:00 PM (oZhjI)

317 Reuters: Sue Mi Terry, a former CIA and White House NSC employee, was indicted on charges of advocating South Korean policies, disclosing non-public US information, and facilitating access for South Korean officials in exchange for luxury goods

Married to...... Max Boot.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 17, 2024 05:01 PM (evvc2)

318 It's funny - every speech Biden gives, one more Dem lawmaker calls on him to resign.
Posted by: El Mariachi

The political ground is Schiffting

Posted by: Miklos read about that at July 17, 2024 05:01 PM (XIkHl)

319 Sitting on my trac hoe, taking a break, sipping lemonade. Regarding the thread below, that was outstanding. Thanks Vmom. That lifted me up. The sweat don't seem so sweaty now. Backing to digging and moving dirt.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * Invictus Maneo

Was working on the flatbed trailer...bagged out.
Don't seem to have a lot of ambition since Saturday.

Posted by: Some Rat at July 17, 2024 05:01 PM (vJiyU)

320
I've been thinking about this, just how close Trump came to having his head blown off. .223 muzzle velocity ranges from around 2800 -- 3200 fps, depending on bullet weight and other factors. Using the middle of that 3000, the time of flight of a bullet to travel what I'll call 150 yards is 0.15 s. 150 milliseconds.

Now, the time it takes for the thought to move a voluntary muscle to go from your brain to that muscle and cause it to move is on that order. Tens to 100 milliseconds.

So, shooter staring through target decides to pull trigger, Trump decides to move his head.

The timing difference between Trump alive with a nicked ear and Trump with his head blown off is less the 100 milliseconds.

Nope, it's not a stretch to say the Hand of God was involved.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 17, 2024 05:01 PM (w6EFb)

321 I'm not a fan of cancel culture.

I'll wait for it to stop when the left starts harping on its own side for trying it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 17, 2024 04:50 PM (GBKbO)

cancel culture is an oppressive minority destroying people with the cooperation of cowardly companies. It is top down and forced.

Conservative boycotts are individuals punishing people and companies for immoral acts by not dealing with them as individuals. If enough liberals bought Bud Light or saw Disney movies they'd still make money. But they don't and so they pay the price, or fear they will.

These are not at all the same thing.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2024 05:01 PM (eoQWY)

322 Thanks all! I dig the translations too!

Posted by: haffhowershower at July 17, 2024 05:01 PM (NMT5x)

323 277 Someone mentioned this on the EMT too:

John Basham @JohnBasham 15h
QUESTION: Since When Did The @FBI Become A Crime Scene Cleanup Organization That Destroys Evidence Before Anyone Else Can INDEPENDENTLY REVIEW THE SCENE?

https://tinyurl.com/45zhhx9d
photo
Posted by: andycanuck (wse2C) at July 17, 2024 04:56 PM (wse2C)

Lol water on a roof that sloped. That fbi guy better be careful he might fall off.

Wow why would they hose the roof off. Ih yeah to prevent anyone else getting a DNA sample.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at July 17, 2024 05:01 PM (uBBbP)

324 Hung Cao almost won in some deep blue district in VA right?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2024 05:01 PM (oZhjI)

325 *You’re telling me snipers just watched this guy for 20 minutes and didn’t think to get Trump off stage?!**

Well, it was a sloped roof!

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 17, 2024 05:01 PM (Mlhrz)

326
Am I the only one who hates it when the video is reversed/mirrored? Rhetorical.
Posted by: Turn 2

No, you are not the only one.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 17, 2024 05:01 PM (63Dwl)

327 test
Posted by: Inogame at July 17, 2024 04:58 PM (53oGX)
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3.9

Posted by: Bulgarian Judge at July 17, 2024 05:02 PM (3Fz6p)

328 Maybe Joe did mean this should be settled with Battle Bots. The Trump Bot would be spectacular and gold-plated.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI Expert at July 17, 2024

***
Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots! One red (Trump), one blue!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 17, 2024 05:02 PM (omVj0)

329 Fuck 'em. War.

**********

This

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Esteemed Trump-Ho and Searcher of Wagshambas at July 17, 2024 05:02 PM (DBZuM)

330 If someone tried to assassinate me by intentiomally and deliberately shooting me in the head, I'd confidently assume that he hated me.

Posted by: LASue at July 17, 2024 05:02 PM (ZtAny)

331
Lol water on a roof that sloped. That fbi guy better be careful he might fall off.

Wow why would they hose the roof off. Ih yeah to prevent anyone else getting a DNA sample.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at July 17, 2024 05:01 PM (uBBbP)

Roof: Too dangerous for snipers

Same Roof: Not too dangerous for the FBI to wash off with a hose while standing on said roof.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2024 05:02 PM (Zz0t1)

332 Don't like errors and exaggerations. They come back to hurt you.
The father bought the gun a coupla/three years earlier, maybe when the kid was trying out for the school rifle team.

Posted by: From about That Time at July 17, 2024 05:03 PM (4780s)

333 Shooter used encrypted communications, according to Christopher Wray.

Who was he communication with?
Posted by: JackStraw

Christopher Wray
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

Mayorkis.

America needs Mitch Rapp now more than ever.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 17, 2024 05:03 PM (rHxhM)

334 Question for BlueAnon:

If the AR-15 is a WEAPON OF WAR!! why weren't like 100 people dead?

Posted by: Jay in PA at July 17, 2024 05:03 PM (i7Q7S)

335
Married to...... Max Boot.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

Whoa. Shocking.

I had no idea max boot was not a homo.

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 17, 2024 05:03 PM (6ml7Y)

336 318 It's funny - every speech Biden gives, one more Dem lawmaker calls on him to resign.
Posted by: El Mariachi

The political ground is Schiffting
Posted by: Miklos read about that at July 17, 2024 05:01 PM (XIkHl

Correction not resign the presidency just step off the ticket

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at July 17, 2024 05:03 PM (uBBbP)

337 321 cancel culture is an oppressive minority destroying people with the cooperation of cowardly companies. It is top down and forced.

Conservative boycotts are individuals punishing people and companies for immoral acts by not dealing with them as individuals. If enough liberals bought Bud Light or saw Disney movies they'd still make money. But they don't and so they pay the price, or fear they will.

These are not at all the same thing.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2024 05:01 PM (eoQWY)

======

What's going on now, and why it's talked about, is definitely cancel culture. It's LibsofTikTok finding randos who say on social media that they wish the shooter hadn't missed, forwarding it to their employers on social media, and then the employers reacting by firing the employees. A cashier at Home Depot sort of person (really).

It's definitely cancel culture.

However, the left has operated with impunity doing it for years. I will start caring about the left being victims of it when their own side orders themselves to stop doing it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 17, 2024 05:03 PM (GBKbO)

338 >>> 327 test
Posted by: Inogame at July 17, 2024 04:58 PM (53oGX)
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3.9
Posted by: Bulgarian Judge at July 17, 2024 05:02 PM (3Fz6p)

Nein!

2.1

Posted by: East German Judge at July 17, 2024 05:03 PM (VavZF)

339 L'esprit de l'escalier

Posted by: Archimedes at July 17, 2024 04:39 PM (xCA6C)

'The Spirit of the Staircase.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 17, 2024 04:42 PM (y31cs)

I've seen it referred to as "staircase wit"...
Posted by: Tex Lovera at July 17, 2024 04:49 PM (wtvvX)
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I've also seen "elevator wit."

In my case it's 0300 lying awake in bed "Shit. I should have said THAT!"
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Nothing to Contribute to the Debate

Costanza wit.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at July 17, 2024 05:04 PM (L/fGl)

340 Who was he communication with?
Posted by: JackStraw

Cia? Trump against their forever wars

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at July 17, 2024 05:04 PM (U8kCF)

341 If the AR-15 is a WEAPON OF WAR!! why weren't like 100 people dead?
Posted by: Jay in PA at July 17, 2024 05:03 PM (i7Q7S)
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He missed because he didn't hold it sideways, duh!

/DUmmies

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 17, 2024 05:04 PM (tT6L1)

342 If the AR-15 is a WEAPON OF WAR!! why weren't like 100 people dead?

Because we told him to only shoot Trump?

Uh...I mean because our brave first responders.

Posted by: The people that manage the known wolves at July 17, 2024 05:04 PM (oZhjI)

343 Also - I have been saying since mid-2016 that it was inevitable, they have crossed the point of no return for political violence + lawlessness. Sooner or later some leftist goons at a rally, or some illegals in a small town, or even some jackboots with a badge and a dodgy politically motivated warrant are going to kill the wrong people and it will be on.

Assuming they don't kick it off more spectacularly before then, like they nearly did this weekend. I am shocked we've made it this far, to be honest.

Posted by: somedood at July 17, 2024 05:04 PM (afvrY)

344 Damn! Really funny imitation of Trump talking about the assassination attempt.

https://tinyurl.com/93p29xvt

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 17, 2024 05:04 PM (YQeEN)

345 @320

>>Nope, it's not a stretch to say the Hand of God was involved.

Clearly the controlling authority and prime mover of the universe had a heavy hand in sparing Trumps life.

Apparently, he has more work for him to do.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 17, 2024 05:04 PM (XV/Pl)

346 Sue Mi ... was indicted

She was just asking for it.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 17, 2024 05:04 PM (gKWVE)

347 I posted a YouTube short upthread. 50 Cent had a picture of Trump up huge (Trump's head superimposed on Fitty's album cover) when he performed "Many Men" at his concert (Monday night?)

I am thrilled by this.

Posted by: redbanzai at July 17, 2024 05:04 PM (INH2d)

348 I hope to God it's Peter Navarro

He already gave an interview to Breitbart but I don't know if he's doing a speech

Literally just got out of prison today
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Yanky @Yanky_Pollak 1h
Peter Navarro arrives to the Republican National Convention.

https://tinyurl.com/4zfs2s28
photo

Posted by: andycanuck (wse2C) at July 17, 2024 05:04 PM (wse2C)

349 Don't like errors and exaggerations. They come back to hurt you.
The father bought the gun a coupla/three years earlier, maybe when the kid was trying out for the school rifle team.
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Reported he bought the gun in 2013.

Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at July 17, 2024 05:04 PM (Y8lzz)

350 WaPo journo Max Boot was married to an unregistered foreign agent who was just indicted hahahahahaha
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 17

I haven't heard from Boot in a long time.

Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at July 17, 2024 05:04 PM (JLq/1)

351 @MarshaBlackburn
I just got off a briefing with the Secret Service and FBI. I am appalled to learn that the Secret Service knew about a threat prior to President Trump walking on stage.

I have no confidence in the leadership of Director Cheatle and believe it is in the best interest of our nation if she steps down from her position

Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2024 05:04 PM (LkLld)

352 From another thread within that thread.

https://is.gd/9s6hCE

The agent even ducked down just BEFORE the shot rang out.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2024 04:41 PM (Zz0t1)

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Seems to me he went down when the noise started.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 17, 2024 05:04 PM (2fIO4)

353 I'd like to think God was looking out for Trump but it's hard to when another person lost his life there... God wasn't looking out for him ?I wrestle with this

Posted by: It's me donna at July 17, 2024 05:05 PM (IyPmt)

354 When camleface harris claims Senator Vance won't be loyal to our country, is she talking about Canada? Because she's a Canadian.
Posted by: Soothsayer at July 17, 2024 05:00 PM (6ml7Y)

He served. What did she ever do (other than Willie).

Posted by: LASue at July 17, 2024 05:05 PM (ZtAny)

355 Sue Mi Terry, a former CIA and White House NSC employee, was indicted on charges of advocating South Korean policies, disclosing non-public US information, and facilitating access for South Korean officials in exchange for luxury goods

Married to...... Max Boot.
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Huh. Max Boot married to a woman. Unless it's a boy named Sue.

Posted by: screaming in digital at July 17, 2024 05:05 PM (iZbyp)

356 Nope, it's not a stretch to say the Hand of God was involved.

I want to see church pews filled this Sunday.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 17, 2024 05:05 PM (rHxhM)

357 225 I wish that Kong had dropped Christopher Wray from the top of the Empire State Building?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

That was Fay Bainter.

Posted by: Wometco Home Theater at July 17, 2024 05:05 PM (V5BDR)

358 "Reported he bought the gun in 2013.
Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at July 17, 2024 05:04 PM (Y8lzz)"

The timing of this likely puts it in the middle of the Sandy Hook guns/ammo panic, btw

Posted by: somedood at July 17, 2024 05:06 PM (afvrY)

359 However, the left has operated with impunity doing it for years. I will start caring about the left being victims of it when their own side orders themselves to stop doing it.

***********

Also This

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Esteemed Trump-Ho and Searcher of Wagshambas at July 17, 2024 05:06 PM (DBZuM)

360 So what's plan B?

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at July 17, 2024 05:06 PM (U8kCF)

361 >>> 337
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What's going on now, and why it's talked about, is definitely cancel culture. It's LibsofTikTok finding randos who say on social media that they wish the shooter hadn't missed, forwarding it to their employers on social media, and then the employers reacting by firing the employees. A cashier at Home Depot sort of person (really).

It's definitely cancel culture.

However, the left has operated with impunity doing it for years. I will start caring about the left being victims of it when their own side orders themselves to stop doing it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 17, 2024 05:03 PM (GBKbO)

We get cancelled for saying boys and girls are different and not interchangeable, they are *finally* starting to canceled for giggling about an assassination attempt.

Fck them.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 17, 2024 05:06 PM (VavZF)

362 They groomed him. They 'slid into his dm's.' They radicalized him and gave him the means and opportunity.

This was a plan to murder Trump, likely for the last year plus.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2024 04:57 PM (Zz0t1)

Someone claimed a gun range said he'd been practicing at the range for a year or so.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2024 05:06 PM (eoQWY)

363 41 When those topics came up, Taormina said that Crooks could be "smug [and] arrogant."

"He would just talk, talk and act like he knew everything, especially politics related

hmm. almost like he was a 20-year-old or something.
Posted by: anachronda
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I know a 64 year old at work who is exactly like this. I have no doubt he's disappointed the shooter missed

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 17, 2024 05:06 PM (sAmhv)

364 324 Hung Cao almost won in some deep blue district in VA right?
Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2024 05:01 PM (oZhjI)

Yes...and he'll probably almost win the Senate seat...

But I expect he won't...

Posted by: Nova Local at July 17, 2024 05:06 PM (exHjb)

365 However, the left has operated with impunity doing it for years. I will start caring about the left being victims of it when their own side orders themselves to stop doing it.

An amusing example of this - the left spent a bunch of time revealing and cancelling people at the Unite The Right Rally.

The one guy they didn't? The guy who planned it and used to be an Obama staffer. You can find their discussions on leftwing forums where the more connected members tell the randos researching people to leave HIM alone.

Posted by: The people that manage the known wolves at July 17, 2024 05:06 PM (oZhjI)

366
Seems to me he went down when the noise started.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 17, 2024 05:04 PM (2fIO4)

Seemed to me he moved before anyone else did.

I could be wrong.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2024 05:06 PM (Zz0t1)

367 If someone tried to assassinate me by intentiomally and deliberately shooting me in the head, I'd confidently assume that he hated me.
Posted by: LASue

Now do the thought experiment, someone provided them the means to do it.

Posted by: Some Rat at July 17, 2024 05:06 PM (vJiyU)

368 353 I'd like to think God was looking out for Trump but it's hard to when another person lost his life there... God wasn't looking out for him ?I wrestle with this

Posted by: It's me donna at July 17, 2024 05:05 PM (IyPmt)

Some are called home. Some are called to bigger things.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 17, 2024 05:06 PM (KbCG3)

369 If Tom Clancy were writing this script, it would go as follows.

--The Powers That Be tell Biden Inc. that they have to do something about Trump or get out of the race.
--Biden Inc. protest, and say, "We can take care of Trump."
--Jill Biden's people schedule a quick event for her (three days' notice) as a plausible excuse for taking the competent and experienced USSS people off the Trump detail.
--Left in place is Jill/Cheatle's man as on-site commander: and notice that he hasn't been named, and Cheatle is claiming that she was 'in command' of the Trump team's security plan (so his identity is shielded).
--Agent X sets up the perimeter so that Rando Crooks has an open field, literally, to take his shot.
--He misses, barely. Is killed. Dead men tell no tales.
--Two layers of plausible deniability are built in: "The USSS team just happened to be green and have some DEI hires, so of course they fucked up." And of course, "It was just a lone nutter, like Sirhan Sirhan," etc.
--The PTB now tell Biden Inc., "You had your shot and you failed. Now Joe has to go."
--Biden announces that he'll step down if doctors come to him and tell him he has to, "for his health."

Any holes?

Posted by: Beverly at July 17, 2024 05:06 PM (Epeb0)

370 Tonight's speaker line-up at RNC.

https://tinyurl.com/yd8c5ctn

Posted by: Cheri at July 17, 2024 05:07 PM (oiNtH)

371 So what's plan B?
Posted by: dagny, first of her name at July 17, 2024 05:06 PM (U8kCF)

Same as the plan B for Russian sanctions failing in Ukraine.

No plan B.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2024 05:07 PM (eoQWY)

372 360 So what's plan B?
Posted by: dagny

They are just gonna have an SS agent pull out his sidearm and put it to don's temple.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 17, 2024 05:07 PM (evvc2)

373
100 milliseconds, a tenth of a second, is roughly the limit of human time perception. Say "one thousand one", roughly a second. You can perceive that "took some time".

About a tenth of that is the limit of your perception of the significance of the passing of time.

IOW, the timing of Trump turning his head vs the time the shooter pulled the trigger is below that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 17, 2024 05:07 PM (w6EFb)

374 God wasn't looking out for him ?I wrestle with this

God doesn't see death as an evil, unless you have a purpose, his purpose, to fulfill.

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at July 17, 2024 05:07 PM (U8kCF)

375 They groomed him. They 'slid into his dm's.' They radicalized him and gave him the means and opportunity.

Yep. The reason all these leftwing killers are "known wolves" is that the deep state is managing them.

Apply the right social pressure and you can turn a random loser into the next mass murderer/political assassin.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2024 05:08 PM (oZhjI)

376 Any holes?
Posted by: Beverly at July 17, 2024 05:06 PM (Epeb0)

No torrid sex scenes with a hot gal with a foreign accent.

Be better, Bev.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2024 05:08 PM (eoQWY)

377 Say, FBI, how's that 'ol investigation of the plot to bomb the RNC headquarters coming along? Just about ready to make any arrests?

I mean, you have witnesses. You have video. You have all sorts of hard evidence. It's been, what, almost four years?

Any luck?

Posted by: El Mariachi at July 17, 2024 05:08 PM (nLFEI)

378 People on Twitter are sharing old accusations made by Max Boot that Trump and others are foreign agents.

Posted by: Mark1971 at July 17, 2024 05:08 PM (xPl2J)

379 I almost got cancelled for refusing the clot shot

I have zero sympathy for the left losing their jobs

War

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Esteemed Trump-Ho and Searcher of Wagshambas at July 17, 2024 05:08 PM (DBZuM)

380
Why do I suspect we'll learn the SS's attitude towards security at Trump rallies is all these Trump-hillbilly-rednecks for Trump have guns.

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 17, 2024 05:08 PM (6ml7Y)

381 So what's plan B?

==

haven't you heard ? Iranian Plot !

Posted by: runner at July 17, 2024 05:08 PM (V13WU)

382 The problem with Well Hung Cao is two hours later, you're horny again.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at July 17, 2024 05:08 PM (L/fGl)

383 @242 Well you have managed to both miss what I warned of, and endorse the most damaging possible plan of action. You are sure as shit in the right nuthouse. Rawr, rawr, rawr.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at July 17, 2024 05:08 PM (zdLoL)

384 265 There’s no way they did not AT LEAST allow this to happen.
Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at July 17, 2024 04:55 PM (Y8lzz)

It is looking that way.

The shooter likely was Antifa, and because that's just an idea according to his handler Christopher Wray, wasn't on anyone's radar.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at July 17, 2024 05:08 PM (KSNKu)

385 so it starts 4:38 CST

Posted by: gKWVE at July 17, 2024 05:08 PM (gKWVE)

386 They are just gonna have an SS agent pull out his sidearm and put it to don's temple.

That's what I was thinking and wanted to know if I was off base which is why I asked.

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at July 17, 2024 05:09 PM (U8kCF)

387
Seems to me he went down when the noise started.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 17, 2024 05:04 PM (2fIO4)

Seemed to me he moved before anyone else did.

I could be wrong.....
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2024 05:06 PM (Zz0t1

If you look at the video, he flinches, reaches for his ear and hits the pavement in that order. It took seconds after that for his protective detail to, ya know, "protect" him.

Posted by: redbanzai at July 17, 2024 05:09 PM (INH2d)

388 Guy was a politically obsessed know it all with no social media? Facebook would be broke if that got out.

Posted by: Ribbed at July 17, 2024 05:09 PM (Ectld)

389 https://therightscoop.com/angry and rambling joe biden lashes out at dems concerned with his candidacy during-zoom-call

The more that events go south for him the more unstable he will be. I hope he makes a live acceptance speech

Posted by: Skip at July 17, 2024 05:09 PM (fwDg9)

390 New rumor - unrelated to the assassination attempt:

Supposedly, Zelensky, for no particular reason, has suddenly decided that he might be willing to talk to the Russians after all.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2024 05:09 PM (T7iTv)

391 {277} ... QUESTION: Since When Did The @FBI Become A Crime Scene Cleanup Organization That Destroys Evidence Before Anyone Else Can INDEPENDENTLY REVIEW THE SCENE?

Posted by: andycanuck (wse2C) at July 17, 2024 04:56 PM (wse2C)

I'll take a guess: July 26, 1908.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 17, 2024 05:09 PM (O7YUW)

392 This is when the public at large begins to wonder about the integrity and, to be honest, the real intentions of FedGov. Maybe not everybody, but more than there was yesterday or the day before.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 17, 2024 05:10 PM (Q4IgG)

393 Back in 2017, the GOPe could have co-opted Trump easily by just giving in on one or two of his issues. But they couldn’t stomach this DC gatecrasher, not even a little bit.
Posted by: electronic means at July 17, 2024 04:37 PM (rjJqk)

They coopt everyone they can but you assume they just didn't try with Trump because that's what you want to believe. It's dumb by the way.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2024 05:10 PM (lX8VI)

394
I know it's too much to ask for some big inter-agency fight where one decides to take other the other, but could we please have that?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing at the clowns with Preston Sturges at July 17, 2024 04:45 PM (GBKbO)

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Trump needs to deputize the whole 75th Ranger Regiment under office of the White House and have each Company commander report to him personnaly. S2 team can recommend missons to arrest domestic terrorists embedded in the Federal Government.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 17, 2024 05:10 PM (cOq4q)

395
You know what I mean? Like these idiot SS see ALL the Trump rally attendees as gun-totin' Jesus freaks, so, sure, the man has a range finder, big deal, just another typical Trump supporter.

Right? Does that sound too wacky? I don't think so.

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 17, 2024 05:10 PM (6ml7Y)

396 Any holes?

One addition - we'll find out Crooks was a known wolf - some one the NatSec folks knew about.

What won't be publicized is that he'll have had a handler. Nominally to watch him and have him arrested if he becomes a threat but really to manage him - like the guys with the Whitmer kidnapping plot.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2024 05:10 PM (oZhjI)

397 Sue Mi ... was indicted

She was just asking for it.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 17, 2024 05:04 PM (gKWVE)

=====

HAHAHA

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 17, 2024 05:10 PM (DRSnL)

398 386 They are just gonna have an SS agent pull out his sidearm and put it to don's temple.

why we need Jayne-style kevlar MAGA hats

Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 17, 2024 05:10 PM (s3qiR)

399 I'd like to think God was looking out for Trump but it's hard to when another person lost his life there... God wasn't looking out for him ?I wrestle with this

Posted by: It's me donna at July 17, 2024 05:05 PM (IyPmt)

Some are called home. Some are called to bigger things.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 17, 2024 05:06 PM (KbCG3)

The man died protecting his daughter and family with his body, so he seems to have agreed that it was worth not having to bury one of them.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2024 05:10 PM (eoQWY)

400 >>> 379 I almost got cancelled for refusing the clot shot

I have zero sympathy for the left losing their jobs

War
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Esteemed Trump-Ho and Searcher of Wagshambas at July 17, 2024 05:08 PM (DBZuM)

Same here. Shitbags never approved or denied my exemption request, they just ... suspended the requirement.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 17, 2024 05:10 PM (VavZF)

401 The entry screening discovered his rangefinder. He got his rifle with its STEEL barrel into the site how?

I'm sure Queen Cheatle will have an explanation. But her staff has been re-writing the explanation for 72 hours and they still don't have it to where a two year-old would believe it.

Posted by: Gref at July 17, 2024 05:10 PM (5fDan)

402 355 Sue Mi Terry, a former CIA and White House NSC employee, was indicted on charges of advocating South Korean policies, disclosing non-public US information, and facilitating access for South Korean officials in exchange for luxury goods

Married to...... Max Boot.
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Huh. Max Boot married to a woman. Unless it's a boy named Sue.
Posted by: screaming in digital
.......................................
LoL!!

Max Boot. There's a name I haven't heard from in a while.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 17, 2024 05:11 PM (sAmhv)

403 They are just gonna have an SS agent pull out his sidearm and put it to don's temple.

That's what I was thinking and wanted to know if I was off base which is why I asked.
Posted by: dagny, first of her name at July 17, 2024 05:09 PM (U8kCF)

Trump needs to hire his own security and ONLY allow them near him.

Posted by: redbanzai at July 17, 2024 05:11 PM (INH2d)

404 QUESTION: Since When Did The @FBI Become A Crime Scene Cleanup Organization That Destroys Evidence Before Anyone Else Can INDEPENDENTLY REVIEW THE SCENE?

Posted by: andycanuck (wse2C) at July 17, 2024 04:56 PM (wse2C)

I'll take a guess: July 26, 1908.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant

** Golf clap **

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 17, 2024 05:11 PM (rHxhM)

405 Shooter used encrypted communications, according to Christopher Wray.
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Very lone wolfish behavior. The science is settled!

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2024 05:11 PM (lX8VI)

406 Everybody have fun tonight.
Everybody Hung Cao tonight.

Posted by: bed head at July 17, 2024 05:11 PM (Y1sOo)

407 I almost got cancelled for refusing the clot shot

I have zero sympathy for the left losing their jobs

In a just world not only would Fauci and co be in the dock at a new round of Nuremberg hearings so would every Karen HR director that mandated the clot shot.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2024 05:11 PM (oZhjI)

408
Supposedly, Zelensky, for no particular reason, has suddenly decided that he might be willing to talk to the Russians after all.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2024 05:09 PM (T7iTv)

Orban said Trump had a great peace plan... I wonder

Posted by: It's me donna at July 17, 2024 05:11 PM (IyPmt)

409 Any holes?
Posted by: Beverly at July 17, 2024 05:06 PM (Epeb0)

They activated this kid?

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at July 17, 2024 05:12 PM (U8kCF)

410 Nevertrumpers are now a cohort of peeds and spys. Makes sense.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 17, 2024 05:12 PM (IG4Id)

411 Trump needs to hire his own security and ONLY allow them near him.

Erik Prince gets along well with Trump.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 17, 2024 05:12 PM (rHxhM)

412 380 Why do I suspect we'll learn the SS's attitude towards security at Trump rallies is all these Trump-hillbilly-rednecks for Trump have guns.

and since the domestic terrorists are the trump supporters, they clearly don't need to worry about them.

Posted by: anachronda at July 17, 2024 05:12 PM (oY6Yp)

413 Shooter used encrypted communications, according to Christopher Wray."

Just to be clear, Whatsapp is encrypted communication. They could be deliberately obfuscating.

Posted by: Ribbed at July 17, 2024 05:12 PM (Ectld)

414 Seeing reports that Trump will attend the funeral of the man killed at the rally.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 17, 2024 05:13 PM (2UnvF)

415 New rumor - unrelated to the assassination attempt:

Supposedly, Zelensky, for no particular reason, has suddenly decided that he might be willing to talk to the Russians after all.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2024 05:09 PM (T7iTv)

The fact that Russia is capturing towns easily and the new prison soldiers in Ukraine are surrendering in large numbers might have more to do with it. But yes, he might not want to face Trump again after his call was used to impeach Trump.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2024 05:13 PM (eoQWY)

416 " PunchBowl is reporting: Senate briefing on Trump rally shooting just concluded. Top lines, per 2 senators on the call:

--The shooter visited the rally site a few days in advance to scope it out
--62 mins elapsed between the time the shooter was photographed as being suspicious and when he fired the shots
--20 mins elapsed between the time he was spotted by snipers & when he fired the shots
--FBI Director Wray said there’s no known foreign nexus but no established motive as of now. Shooter used encrypted comms and had little to no social media presence

Posted by: illiniwek at July 17, 2024 05:13 PM (Cus5s)

417 What we are missing is the one mistake the plotters made that blew the whole plan apart. Assume everything we know about that day, but now assume the crowd does not notice the shooter. With that one change the plan succeeds and the only question is why no one was guarding the roof - an easy thing to explain away.
=========

Shooter should have worn a ghillie suit.
No one would have noticed him.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 17, 2024 05:13 PM (cOq4q)

418 410 Nevertrumpers are now a cohort of peeds and spys. Makes sense.

this is about us, isn't it?

Posted by: russian hookers at July 17, 2024 05:13 PM (oY6Yp)

419 The shooter has a fake account...somewhere. Check his game consul.

Posted by: El Mariachi at July 17, 2024 05:13 PM (nLFEI)

420
It's either one, or a combination of two or all three of the following:

-- dumb luck
-- grooming
-- incompetence

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 17, 2024 05:13 PM (6ml7Y)

421 Isn't a hung cow technically a bull?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 17, 2024 05:14 PM (2UnvF)

422 Shooter used encrypted communications, according to Christopher Wray."

Just to be clear, Whatsapp is encrypted communication. They could be deliberately obfuscating.
Posted by: Ribbed at July 17, 2024 05:12 PM (Ectld)

normal encryption has a shorter key by law presumably so the government could crack it.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2024 05:14 PM (eoQWY)

423 Zelensky knows the gravy train is about to run out

Posted by: Ben Had at July 17, 2024 05:14 PM (5MvGY)

424 Looks like the rain is *finally* about to get here, seems like it slowed down as it got closer.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 17, 2024 05:14 PM (VavZF)

425
Am I the only one who hates it when the video is reversed/mirrored? Rhetorical.
Posted by: Turn 2

No, you are not the only one.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 17, 2024 05:01 PM (63Dwl)

Don't fucking tell me that the Millennials and Gen Z are sooper genius masters of technology when they can't even figure out how to press a single button on their camera app to reverse the images on their phones.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 17, 2024 05:14 PM (y9nCu)

426 -FBI Director Wray said there’s no known foreign nexus but no established motive as of now. Shooter used encrypted comms and had little to no social media presence
Posted by: illiniwek at July 17, 2024 05:13 PM (Cus5s)

Why did his Parents contact authorities concerned he was going to do "something "?

Posted by: It's me donna at July 17, 2024 05:15 PM (IyPmt)

427 I'd like to think God was looking out for Trump but it's hard to when another person lost his life there... God wasn't looking out for him ?I wrestle with this
Posted by: It's me donna at July 17, 2024 05:05 PM (IyPmt)

The deceased gets special dispensation and a luxury box in Heaven. He died a hero. His job was done. It's awful but so I tell myself.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2024 05:15 PM (lX8VI)

428 good job parenting

apparently they were both counselors too

lolz
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Esteemed Trump-Ho and Searcher of Wagshambas at July 17, 2024 04:24 PM (DBZuM)

Can you imagine having two parents psychoanalyzing your every move, your whole life? Using that enraging psychologist's voice all the time? Not that I want to offer the assassin any sympathy, but a little creeps in.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 17, 2024 05:15 PM (OX9vb)

429
Shooter used encrypted comms...

Why do I suspect this the cocksucking FBI way of saying "VPN?"

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 17, 2024 05:15 PM (6ml7Y)

430 Wait, they have pics from the shooters scope?

How did they get that?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 17, 2024 05:15 PM (XHLnT)

431 The New York Times/Yahoo

Biden Says He'd Consider Dropping Out if a "Medical Condition" Emerged

Posted by: JROD at July 17, 2024 05:15 PM (IlL6s)

432 Uh huh. Remember when Conyers lied and claimed people called him the N-word?

Well if getting shot is no biggie what the hell about words you assholes?
Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2024 04:42 PM (oZhjI)

He's dead, isn't he? -- the left

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2024 05:15 PM (T7iTv)

433 I like this Hung Cao guy, but I have trouble getting past the name"

I'll vouch for him !

Posted by: Will Hung at July 17, 2024 05:15 PM (NtVYv)

434 --FBI Director Wray said there’s no known foreign nexus but no established motive as of now. Shooter used encrypted comms and had little to no social media presence
Posted by: illiniwek at July 17, 2024 05:13 PM (Cus5s)

Comms? so he was talking with someone else?

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2024 05:15 PM (eoQWY)

435 423 Zelensky knows the gravy train is about to run out
Posted by: Ben Had at July 17, 2024 05:14 PM (5MvGY)

Tell me about it!

Posted by: MIC at July 17, 2024 05:15 PM (KSNKu)

436 The shooter has a fake account...somewhere. Check his game consul.
Posted by: El Mariachi at July 17, 2024 05:13 PM (nLFEI)
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HE WAS A CONSUL OF ROME!

Posted by: G. J. Caesar at July 17, 2024 05:15 PM (3Fz6p)

437 >>> 428 good job parenting

apparently they were both counselors too

lolz
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Esteemed Trump-Ho and Searcher of Wagshambas at July 17, 2024 04:24 PM (DBZuM)

Can you imagine having two parents psychoanalyzing your every move, your whole life? Using that enraging psychologist's voice all the time? Not that I want to offer the assassin any sympathy, but a little creeps in.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 17, 2024 05:15 PM (OX9vb)

Clearly they were not of the Bob Newhart school of counseling.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 17, 2024 05:16 PM (VavZF)

438 Wouldn't a Hung Cao be a bull?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2024 05:16 PM (oZhjI)

439 Libs of TikTok retweeted
Tim Pool @Timcast 19h
Idc that Libs is getting people fired

I don't defend communists

You don't get to try to take my rights then demand I defend yours.

I'll defend the rights of those who believe in them
====
"I don't care" BTW.

Posted by: andycanuck (wse2C) at July 17, 2024 05:16 PM (wse2C)

440 You learn in Sunday School not to shoot people, especially President Trump.

Posted by: Eromero at July 17, 2024 05:16 PM (o2ZRX)

441 In a just world not only would Fauci and co be in the dock at a new round of Nuremberg hearings so would every Karen HR director that mandated the clot shot.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2024 05:11 PM (oZhjI)

You have no idea how much vengeance I want with regards to the jabs.

My anger level is pretty high, even according to Horde standards.

Posted by: Stateless at July 17, 2024 05:16 PM (jvJvP)

442 Why would a lone wolf need encrypted communications?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 17, 2024 05:17 PM (XHLnT)

443
Those kinds of questions, the poor other guy who died are well above my pay grade. Well above.

And you know Trump is thinking about that. This guy, my supporter, took a bullet and died, a bullet with my name on it. He missed me by the Grace of God, but yet this innocent supporter dies.

That will weigh on him. And that may well be part of the picture Trump is supposed to see.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 17, 2024 05:17 PM (w6EFb)

444 Can you imagine having two parents psychoanalyzing your every move, your whole life? Using that enraging psychologist's voice all the time? Not that I want to offer the assassin any sympathy, but a little creeps in.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!
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Dad: So, tell me about your mother.

Posted by: screaming in digital at July 17, 2024 05:17 PM (iZbyp)

445 It’s time for them to get their story straight and say it.
Posted by: andycanuck (wse2C) at July 17, 2024 04:43 PM (wse2C)

They're trying but every time they settle on something someone will point out that there's already public information contradicting them.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 17, 2024 05:17 PM (T7iTv)

446 You have no idea how much vengeance I want with regards to the jabs.

My anger level is pretty high, even according to Horde standards.

Its the greatest crime against humanity this century.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2024 05:18 PM (oZhjI)

447 353 I'd like to think God was looking out for Trump but it's hard to when another person lost his life there... God wasn't looking out for him ?I wrestle with this

Posted by: It's me donna at July 17, 2024 05:05 PM (IyPmt)

Some are called home. Some are called to bigger things.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 17, 2024 05:06 PM (KbCG3)

... and then they, too, are called home. We all are, eventually. But the broader idea of evil in the world and what God allows to happen and what He intervenes in is a mystery we mortals probably don't have the capacity to understand.

Posted by: LASue at July 17, 2024 05:18 PM (ZiaCc)

448 Hold up - a new Senate briefing on the shooting revealed that **20 mins** elapsed between the time he was spotted by snipers & when he fired the shots

You’re telling me snipers just watched this guy for 20 minutes and didn’t think to get Trump off stage?!
Posted by: JackStraw at July 17, 2024 04:51 PM (LkLld)

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The fact there was a known potential threat but nothing done to protect Trump is the single biggest data point that this was a set up.

However, there is conflicting reports as to the amount of time the shooter was on the roof. Some say 26 minutes but a report on the local TV station said it was only 6 minutes.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 17, 2024 05:18 PM (2fIO4)

449 POLL: EVERY OTHER DEM CANDIDATE OUTPERFORMS BIDEN

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at July 17, 2024 05:18 PM (L/fGl)

450 I would imagine Tim probably stopped worrying about mentally ill leftists after the second or third time they tried to murder him through Swatting.

Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at July 17, 2024 05:18 PM (Y8lzz)

451 About a tenth of that is the limit of your perception of the significance of the passing of time.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 17, 2024 05:07 PM

--

When you put it that way, I understand. Thank you.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at July 17, 2024 05:18 PM (wzAuc)

452 >>> 441 In a just world not only would Fauci and co be in the dock at a new round of Nuremberg hearings so would every Karen HR director that mandated the clot shot.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2024 05:11 PM (oZhjI)

You have no idea how much vengeance I want with regards to the jabs.

My anger level is pretty high, even according to Horde standards.
Posted by: Stateless at July 17, 2024 05:16 PM (jvJvP)

Yep. And there are others who lost far more. Leaving it at that.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 17, 2024 05:18 PM (VavZF)

453 --The shooter visited the rally site a few days in advance to scope it out
--62 mins elapsed between the time the shooter was photographed as being suspicious and when he fired the shots
--20 mins elapsed between the time he was spotted by snipers & when he fired the shots
--FBI Director Wray said there’s no known foreign nexus but no established motive as of now. Shooter used encrypted comms and had little to no social media presence
Posted by: illiniwek at July 17, 2024 05:13 PM (Cus5s)
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this is unbelievable, meaning believable.

Posted by: WisRich at July 17, 2024 05:18 PM (G0vdT)

454 Why would a lone wolf need encrypted communications?

Uh...moral support?

Posted by: Armand submitting his receipt for "supplies" at July 17, 2024 05:18 PM (oZhjI)

455 'How many more ass'ssins did they create?'
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Who knows. But another question would be:

How many wouldn't bother to report, if they *did* know about one?

My libt@rd sis, for one. She, who wished "somebody would ___ Trump"

Posted by: JQ at July 17, 2024 05:18 PM (njWTi)

456
I once said here that the Most Fucked Up people in the USA are...

psychologists
"therapists"
"counselors"

Tik Tok is literally awash with unhinged goblins who are "professional" "therapists" who have strong opinions and hot takes about Everything.

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 17, 2024 05:18 PM (6ml7Y)

457 Why did his Parents contact authorities concerned he was going to do "something "?
Posted by: It's me donna at July 17, 2024 05:15 PM (IyPmt)

(a) Trained professionals, and/or
(b) He told them what he intended to do.

Based on the report, he almost assuredly did the second.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at July 17, 2024 05:18 PM (KSNKu)

458 Holy shit...

This video clip of Destiny. I am with Kirsche. This is leaving me speechless

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C722aQ6IZHg

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 17, 2024 05:19 PM (ZBHce)

459 Parallax

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 17, 2024 05:19 PM (63Dwl)

460 Dagny, I think they did activate this guy.

Clearly, they did everything they could to help him get a clear shot, with no interference from security.

If they'd used a pro, it would have been too obvious.

Posted by: Beverly at July 17, 2024 05:20 PM (Epeb0)

461
I guranfuckingtee you are more likely to come out of "therapy" more fucked up than you began, because all "therapists" are fcking deranged.

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 17, 2024 05:20 PM (6ml7Y)

462 They play to the fear factor.

>CNBC, Politics, Jul 10, 2024, As NATO meets, leaders look to ‘Trump-proof’ the military alliance

>Washington Summit Declaration issued by the NATO Heads of State and Government participating in the meeting of the North Atlantic Council in Washington, D.C. 10 July 2024

>BBC US allies try to 'Trump-proof' Nato - but is that even possible? 5 days ago By Tom Bateman, BBC State Department correspondent

"Only one US president has been at the Nato summit in Washington this week, but the shadow of another - his predecessor - has loomed over this meeting of the world's most powerful military alliance.
While the host Joe Biden has presided over a message of unity from the group's 32 members, the Nato-sceptic views of his rival for power, Donald Trump, have imbued conversations here with an urgency and an anxiety.
At times the smiles from world leaders in the conference hall have felt fragile. Trump “hangs over every conversation here", said one Eastern European diplomat who asked to remain nameless."
----

BTW:
AP, Election 2024 live updates: Rep. Adam Schiff calls for Biden to withdraw from election.

(Interesting AP photo accompanies article)

Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at July 17, 2024 05:20 PM (NFX2v)

463
You are better off buying a bag of chinese fortune cookies than going to a "therapist."

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 17, 2024 05:20 PM (6ml7Y)

464 somewhere there's hentai of a futanari minotaur, and it is my mission in life to find it

Posted by: Kurt! at July 17, 2024 05:21 PM (gKWVE)

465 Also, the PTB are aware that they'll have many more chances to take Trump out. He really needs his own crack security team to be on the ball.

Posted by: Beverly at July 17, 2024 05:21 PM (Epeb0)

466 {309}... It's not cancel culture if they're not part of my society and never will be. Some genies don't go back into the bottle.
...
Fuck 'em. War.

Posted by: somedood at July 17, 2024 05:00 PM (afvrY)

Something tells me you'll enjoy this post on X by Larry Correia:

https://x.com/monsterhunter45/
status/1813568445482766550

Larry has the evisceration machine in overdrive today. It is a glorious sight to behold.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 17, 2024 05:22 PM (O7YUW)

467 Dad: So, tell me about your mother.
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 17, 2024 05:17 PM (iZbyp)

*snort

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 17, 2024 05:22 PM (OX9vb)

468
This video clip of Destiny. I am with Kirsche. This is leaving me speechless

He's also the guy that pressured his wife to have an "open" relationship and she divorced him shortly thereafter...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2024 05:22 PM (oZhjI)

469

nood

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 17, 2024 05:22 PM (6ml7Y)

470 Things were much better when I was open for business.

Posted by: Pilgrim State Hospital Bldg. 23 at July 17, 2024 05:22 PM (V5BDR)

471 However, there is conflicting reports as to the amount of time the shooter was on the roof. Some say 26 minutes but a report on the local TV station said it was only 6 minutes.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 17, 2024 05:18 PM (2fIO4)

Code word shouted on the priority net - Trump's in SPARE in 15 seconds.

Posted by: mrp at July 17, 2024 05:23 PM (rj6Yv)

472 Seeing reports that Trump will attend the funeral of the man killed at the rally.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 17, 2024

***
He does things like that. On Hannity's radio interview with him on Monday or Tuesday, Vance told how Trump called him at home to ask Vance to serve as his VP. Vance's 7-year-old son was there, and Trump spoke to the boy for a few minutes. Not a photo op, not a campaign move.

Can you imagine F. Joke doing that even if he were compos mentis? Or Madame Pantsuit???

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 17, 2024 05:23 PM (omVj0)

473 Those kinds of questions, the poor other guy who died are well above my pay grade. Well above.

And you know Trump is thinking about that. This guy, my supporter, took a bullet and died, a bullet with my name on it. He missed me by the Grace of God, but yet this innocent supporter dies.

That will weigh on him. And that may well be part of the picture Trump is supposed to see.
Posted by: publius,

That's heavy. (Serious)

Posted by: rickb223 All conspiracy theories and spoiler alerts are on the table at July 17, 2024 05:23 PM (f5vQ9)

474 426 -FBI Director Wray said there’s no known foreign nexus but no established motive as of now.
..................................
Domestic Op, led by the FBI. The motive was to eliminate ORANGEHITLER.

Allegedly....

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 17, 2024 05:24 PM (sAmhv)

475 They aren’t protecting NATO, they are protecting the money we spend on NATO.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 17, 2024 05:24 PM (XHLnT)

476 MAGA Makes Racist Attacks Against Vance's Wife...

https://is.gd/JXWMdJ

-
Shockingly, they're a little sparse on the details

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at July 17, 2024 05:24 PM (L/fGl)

477 404 QUESTION: Since When Did The @FBI Become A Crime Scene Cleanup Organization That Destroys Evidence Before Anyone Else Can INDEPENDENTLY REVIEW THE SCENE?

Posted by: andycanuck (wse2C) at July 17, 2024 04:56 PM (wse2C)

From what I understood, they completely destroyed the crime scene at the 2015 San Bernardino mass shooting involving the Muslims.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 17, 2024 05:25 PM (MoKe9)

478 no established motive as of now
--------

These cocksuckers are the biggest fattest suckers of juicy delicious faggot cock in the world.

Posted by: ... at July 17, 2024 05:25 PM (lX8VI)

479 CNBC, Politics, Jul 10, 2024, As NATO meets, leaders look to ‘Trump-proof’ the military alliance

This is starting to look like "Pink Panther Strikes Again" plot.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 17, 2024 05:25 PM (rHxhM)

480 --62 mins elapsed between the time the shooter was photographed as being suspicious and when he fired the shots
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Firing shots sounds very suspicious to me!

Posted by: andycanuck (wse2C) at July 17, 2024 05:25 PM (wse2C)

481 Shooter should have worn a ghillie suit.
No one would have noticed him.
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Dressed as a cow.

Posted by: andycanuck (wse2C) at July 17, 2024 05:26 PM (wse2C)

482 In that video ad Trump says "When I am re-elected I will totally obliterate the deep state."

I hope that isn't one of those examples of Trump saying something that shouldn't be taken literally.

Posted by: Just reporting at July 17, 2024 05:26 PM (scll+)

483 Can you imagine having two parents psychoanalyzing your every move, your whole life? Using that enraging psychologist's voice all the time? Not that I want to offer the assassin any sympathy, but a little creeps in.
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Very interesting, Dash my lace wigs!

Have you always thought this way about your own parents??

Posted by: andycanuck (wse2C) at July 17, 2024 05:28 PM (wse2C)

484 QUESTION: Since When Did The @FBI Become A Crime Scene Cleanup Organization That Destroys Evidence Before Anyone Else Can INDEPENDENTLY REVIEW THE SCENE?

Posted by: andycanuck (wse2C) at July 17, 2024 04:56 PM (wse2C)

From what I understood, they completely destroyed the crime scene at the 2015 San Bernardino mass shooting involving the Muslims.
Posted by: Ordinary American at July 17, 2024 05:25 PM (MoKe9)

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* Waco's Mt. Carmel compound has entered the chat *

Posted by: ShainS -- Trump 2024, Now #1 With a Bullet! at July 17, 2024 05:30 PM (atICx)

485 3 The left is going full BlueAnon about this. It was glass from a projector. It was staged. Etc.

Posted by: Agent of a dead Empire

It doesn't matter. The fact is two are dead, several injured. All had/have families.

Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at July 17, 2024 05:30 PM (NFX2v)

486 Why did his Parents contact authorities concerned he was going to do "something "?
Posted by: It's me donna

I wonder if the dad found his gun to be missing and they knew that the only one to take it had to be their son? Mental health issues and a missing gun?

Posted by: Cheri at July 17, 2024 05:32 PM (oiNtH)

487 Can you imagine having two parents psychoanalyzing your every move, your whole life? Using that enraging psychologist's voice all the time? Not that I want to offer the assassin any sympathy, but a little creeps in.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!
---
Dad: So, tell me about your mother.
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 17, 2024 05:17 PM (iZbyp)

Dad: So, tell me about your mother. You want to sleep with her, right? Because I don't.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2024 05:33 PM (eoQWY)

488 This video clip of Destiny. I am with Kirsche. This is leaving me speechless

He's also the guy that pressured his wife to have an "open" relationship and she divorced him shortly thereafter...
Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2024 05:22 PM (oZhjI)

I'm not sure who was doing the pressuring, Ms Destiny was an obvious gal on the make for his clout. She took up with an even more dweeby guy than Destiny if such a thing is possible and D couldn't take it. Not sure how much she got since there was no prenup.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2024 05:41 PM (eoQWY)

489 Tonights speaker listing. Scroll down the article a bit. Palm Beach Post
http://tiny.cc/c997zz

Posted by: From about That Time at July 17, 2024 05:47 PM (4780s)

490
Where is Maxi's cute little pork pie hat?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 17, 2024 05:50 PM (xG4kz)

491
Wrong thread.

Still a valid question.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 17, 2024 05:51 PM (xG4kz)

492
I think J'Blowme meant to say "bullet box".

D'Jill made the call.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 17, 2024 05:52 PM (xG4kz)

493 >> Ari, let me take you through this. This IS the best story they can come up with. That they are all just so incompetent that a random 20 year old can wander into a secure site, get into a shooting position while the SS watches, and shoot the president before anyone actually did anything.

It's been my belief all along that they were willing to take the fallout for all the obvious and foreseeable "mistakes" as long as it worked. But it didn't, so they're stuck. And they're scared to death they'll be exposed either soon, or when Trump wins.

Posted by: the dandy at July 17, 2024 06:03 PM (L+5ng)

494 That makes one less Anti-Trump Bolshevik in America

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at July 18, 2024 01:12 AM (FLiOE)

495 JNiwSkyoaFpXKtR

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