Thank you to everyone for your thoughts and prayers yesterday, as it was God alone who prevented the unthinkable from happening.... Our love goes out to the other victims and their families. We pray for the recovery of those who were wounded, and hold in our hearts the memory of the citizen who was so horribly killed. In this moment, it is more important than ever that we stand United, and show our True Character as Americans, remaining Strong and Determined, and not allowing Evil to Win. I truly love our Country, and love you all, and look forward to speaking to our Great Nation this week from Wisconsin.
ADDED: What's great here, rhetorically, is the combination of love and fighting. No one can forget his fist pumping and repetition of "Fight! Fight! Fight!" less than 2 minutes after he "felt the bullet ripping through the skin." But as his antagonists call for shared love — and an abandonment of fighting — he brings the love into his fight message, merging love and fighting. Notice that he isn't calling us to fight against any human being — indeed, he calls all Americans to fight on his side. The enemy is "Wickedness" and "Evil."
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Another real life story to burnish the legend. Can you believe there were imbeciles who wanted Barabbas instead?
That's leadership. It isn't fake sentiments, like we have been hearing from the lying corrupt Politicians on the left.
Brilliant
As somone noted online (Jim Treacher, I think), Trump's raised fist was one of the most American things we've ever seen.
In one year we are either a Christian nation again or we are in a civil war.
There is only one way this ends peacefully now.
I don’t think the leftists realize how much things have changed since they missed. They are learning quickly though.
Another moment of legend. Can you believe some people wanted Barabbas instead?
With proper capitalization, punctuation and syntax, there is a zero-point-zero chance that Trump wrote that, or even conceived it.
This is the Black Swan event that will change everything.
Even those of us who thought Trump had great courage, underestimated him.
That brought me to tears. We’ve all witnessed the wickedness from the left, directed at Trump for the last eight years - and still he doesn’t give up! Whether it was worth it will be determined in November.
And by the way Chuck - go F yourself
Chuck said...
With proper capitalization, punctuation and syntax, there is a zero-point-zero chance that Trump wrote that, or even conceived it.
As if Biden is responsible for ANYTHING posted his social media accounts. GFY, Chuckhole.
An innocent US citizen was killed because of leftist HATE.
Chuck said...
With proper capitalization, punctuation and syntax, there is a zero-point-zero chance that Trump wrote that, or even conceived it.
These people are toxic to a free society.
Compare that to Biden's mealymouthed statement last night.
In a culture of politics ruled by craven weasels, it would appear that Trump stands pretty much alone.
That "other shoe dropping" we've been waiting for? The sound of the dime traveling down the pay phone? (we're old enough here...)
That was yesterday.
Let's see how this ripples. The ripples are large. Remember that there is no such thing as a good tsunami.
More Trump hate from Chuck.
I'm speechless. When I got up this morning I tried to measure the distance between the top of my ear and the side of my head. The distance was less than that little steel rivet that holds the end of the retractable to the steel tape. And so there's still a chance. "Now thank we all our God/With heart and hand and voices/Who wondrous things has done/ In whom his world rejoices."
chuck, we already know how hateful you are, you don't have to prove it everyday. Like others here have said...Fuck off.
Trump is a leader. He loves this country, and the people who want America to be the best. Let the haters hate. They are the problem.
Has "Dark Brandon" been officially retired?
Is Trump still Hitler?
Has the "existential threat" evaporated?
Let's ask Chuck who can't even take ONE day off - you asshole.
@Chuck There are times when I think you can't possibly outdo yourself, but you continue to prove me wrong.
I am mystified you continue to post here. What is your point? We already know you're a lefty tool.
Yes, someone wrote the Trump message and put it out publicly at this moment without any input from him. He was unable to conceive of making a patriotic message while sitting with his bandaged ear. He needed to call his Communications Coach before he could do any of that. Some nebbish did it all without his approval.
"With malice toward none, with charity for all.... " But when I re-read the whole Second Inaugural speech last night, it gave me pause. I recommend a quick refresher before begging for Civil War II. The pain and loss and woe reflected in those brief words is saddening.
Maybe there is some way that events will assist this nation, if led by PDJT, to resolve the great divide without killing huge numbers of our fellow Americans.
You stay classy Chuck. For your type of class.
We are facing wickedness and evil. Some of it aggressive. Some of it passive, cloaked in its own, fake moral righteousness.
You can see the evil in the X montages of Democrats and liberal media figures calling for this to happen.
They weren't even using dog whistles.
Here's an idea about how Wisconsin conservatives can fight. How about getting people to guard each ballot drop box. Record and identify everyone who uses it to drop ballots.
The really frisky ones could engage in civil disobedience and vandalize or destroy the boxes.
The not for profits can get together to ensure vote integrity by having poll watchers at every precinct and counting place. Have an army of well trained lawyers available to challenge every suspect rule change and anomalies.
wildswan said...
I'm speechless. When I got up this morning I tried to measure the distance between the top of my ear and the side of my head. The distance was less than that little steel rivet that holds the end of the retractable to the steel tape. And so there's still a chance. "Now thank we all our God/With heart and hand and voices/Who wondrous things has done/ In whom his world rejoices."
I posted on the where were you thread about our buddy who died in Afghanistan. The bullet struck a glancing blow on his skull shattering it and causing his brain to swell to the point his brain died quickly.
The bullet hit Trump’s skin but not his skull. Even a glancing blow from a bullet with those ballistics is fatal.
We are so lucky.
Look for months of tut tut journalism over Trump's use of "intemperate language" in the moments after he survived an assassination attempt, and that only by a random puff of wind or turn of the head.
Old men are usually pretty indifferent to death so it's not exactly courage anymore.
There's a few posters on this site who should get a door knock from the FBI or some Gov agency.
That's some serious display of mental illness.
Trump should be thanking the spectators who drew attention to the shooter causing the shooter to rush his shot. Not so lucky for the attendees wounded and killed.
Do the Dems force Biden out of the race now? Does anyone want to take over for him in what appears to be a cataclysmic election cycle? Who wants to be McCarthy in this election cycle? Maybe they will throw Kamala into the volcano but no one else with any sense is going to steer this bus.
Go back and listen to Trump’s speech the night of his election - after it was clear that he had won. I remember that he spoke of unification and centrism. But apparently beating Hillary was an unforgivable offense preventing any cooperation at the center. So the attacks began. We’ve been told Trump was a Putin stooge, a white supremacist, a conniving crook, an insurrectionist, and a fascist. The fact that for years he had been a frequent fill-in on late night talk shows and other New York City originating TV shows was totally forgotten. The man who David Letterman would have on frequently and repeatedly was now a monster and an enemy to not just the left, but to Democracy itself and the entire world.
Go back and listen to Trump’s speech the night of his election. They never gave him a chance. Beating Hillary was unforgivable.
That guy on stage there? That's the guy we want going head to head with Putin and Xi, not some guy who can barely walk, and zones out frequently, and, not to put too fine a point on it, hasn't put a long coherent thought together publicly in quite some time.
Imagine if it was Biden standing there... he would have no clue he was being shot at. Just wave his hand like a fly had just bit him on the ear then babble about President Harris or President Putin...
Secret Service would have had to carry him off stage while he wet his pants.
Trump is going to win. And win big.
There's no way Trump wrote his own statement.
"In one year we are either a Christian nation again (sic) or we are in a civil war."
America is not and has never been a Christian nation. We are a nation with many Christians, (and many who claim to be Christians who are not), but that is not the same thing at all, and our founders did not and had no intent to establish a Christian nation.
The Biden family - horrible human beings. Liars, cretins, international money grubbers - using shell companies to hide it - and then low and behold don't even pay their fair share in taxes.
BillieBob Thorton said...
Trump should be thanking the spectators who drew attention to the shooter causing the shooter to rush his shot. Not so lucky for the attendees wounded and killed.
From everything I've read the shooter was well outside the rally venue and the people trying to get security's attention were inside. I doubt it had any impact. The miss was mostly likely a sudden movement by Trump or gust of wind.
Robert Cook said...
There's no way Trump wrote his own statement.
7/14/24, 8:59 AM
It's unlikely Trump would stay long enough to pump up the crowd like Bull Moose Teddy, too, yet here we are.
But then, spineless cowards like you are always going to be envious of real men.
No comments about the shooter being a registered Republican? It makes sense, given the increasingly dangerous rage of the right. Crooks probably thought Trump wasn't fascist enough.
Robert Cook said...
There's no way Trump wrote his own statement.
Another idiot posting more bullshit.
Nobody f'in cares what you think, Cookie. That's assuming you actually think, for which there's damm little evidence.
Steve said...
Do the Dems force Biden out of the race now? Does anyone want to take over for him in what appears to be a cataclysmic election cycle? Who wants to be McCarthy in this election cycle? Maybe they will throw Kamala into the volcano but no one else with any sense is going to steer this bus.
Pretty sure they just take the L at this point.
They have to be unsure if god intervened or not. I am unsure if god intervened or not. Seems the most likely hypothesis given what happened.
And they are going to have to tone back the "threat to democracy" bullshit.
I don't think taking that risk would be a good plan.
But then again I thought it was a joke when I saw the notification. I have seriously overestimated these people again.
Was it glass from the teleprompter or a bullet "ripping through his ear"....
I'm given to understand that today and for a very limited time, Team MAGA is shocked—shocked!—to learn that we currently live in a world of normalized political violence, and would like very much to know who is to blame (HT-Casablanca). I'm kidding, of course. They've already decided who is to blame. It's the same culprit they hold at fault for every other real and imaginary problem in their lives: Everybody except them.
Robert Cook said...
"In one year we are either a Christian nation again (sic) or we are in a civil war."
America is not and has never been a Christian nation. We are a nation with many Christians, (and many who claim to be Christians who are not), but that is not the same thing at all, and our founders did not and had no intent to establish a Christian nation.
You are a stupid and historically illiterate person.
There is no reason to be polite to people like you anymore.
Achilles, agree completely.
Jim Geraghty from NRO was already speculating that Harris, for example, would take a pass in order to keep her options open for 2028. It would have been one thing if she'd won the primary, or if Biden had resigned earlier this year even but the chances of her turning the election around even before the attempt on Trump's life were dicey.
The safest thing for the Democrats is to let Potatohead take the L.
Robert Cook said...
No comments about the shooter being a registered Republican? It makes sense, given the increasingly dangerous rage of the right. Crooks probably thought Trump wasn't fascist enough.
This was addressed. He was 20 and this is likely his first election. He has donated to democrat causes and probably registered Republican to vote for Haley in the primary.
You are just a piece of shit. Just get fucked Cook. There is no more polite space for people like you to spout your violent eliminationist crap.
Pretending that Trump incited this attack displays your evil to everyone. Pretending Trump is a "threat to democracy" pretending he is a criminal pretending that his supporters are violent is what brought us here.
When you admit Trump is a legitimate candidate with policies that he and his supporters believe will make this country better for americans you can be addressed as a decent person. Until then you are a murderous piece of shit trying to incite a civil war.
Rich is doing yeoman's work in his GOTV campaign for Trump. You have to hand it to him.
"he isn't calling us to fight against any human being"
Unlike his opponents.
Achilles said...
Pretty sure they just take the L at this point.
They have to be unsure if god intervened or not. I am unsure if god intervened or not.
7/14/24, 9:09 AM
No chance. Aside from their father being the devil, these people don't have a reverse gear. And they've just made Donald Trump that much more likely to kill them outright, forget a trial.
Merrick Garland is going to make aliyah when this is over. Will Netanyahu cheerfully turn him back to face justice, or will they stick together?
They said the same kinds of things after a liberal "lone wolf" attempted to assassinate Fico in Slovakia a few months back.
But Fico himself has been guilty of using emotive language in the past. He claimed the country’s outgoing progressive President Zuzana Čaputová was an “American agent” and accused her — without any proof — of acting in the interests of the US financier George Soros, a frequent target for conspiracy theories. - CNN
Anybody who looks at the situation in the context of the color revolutions that seem to crop up everywhere we don't like the government, but not in places where we do, knows that both accusations are very likely true.
Chuck's shtick has jumped the shark. Permaban.
https://x.com/cabot_phillips/status/1812479165402124579
This is a nice opportunity to see that Robert Cook is not only an amusingly deluded clown but an actual POS.
High praise from Ann Althouse for Trump’s writing and well deserved.
Did Trump write it--or did a staffer? Who cares? The point is that Trump believes it. He's proved himself to be a tough old bird. And in hard and perilous times tough old birds are good--even if they sound like Cotton Mather. And I'm not saying the Cotton Mather part like it's a bad thing. It's not. There is Evil in this world, and always has been and ever will be. Call that a tragic view of history--or just simply realism.
I posted this earlier. PA is a closed primary state. It is possible the would be assassin registered Republican to help select the opposition.
"You are just a piece of shit. Just get fucked Cook. There is no more polite space for people like you to spout your violent eliminationist crap.
"Pretending that Trump incited this attack displays your evil to everyone."
Ahem...I am a piece of stardust, as are we all.
I have never promulgated "eliminationist crap," much less "violent eliminationist crap." That seems to be a evergreen compulsion of the right. In addition, I have not stated or suggested or even thought that Trump incited the attack.
Perhaps you should respond to comments that have been made rather than those you invent in your head to justify whatever hostility you feel a need to express out loud, (such as your angry retort to my accurate statement above that the Founders never intended to establish a Christian nation--and didn't--and it never has been one).
Isn’t it being reported that he registered Republican but donated money to progressive or Democrat political groups? Supports the idea that his registration wasn’t aligned with his beliefs.
"But as his antagonists call for shared love — and an abandonment of fighting..."
The left takes a shot at Trump and now, want a cease-fire? Where have I heard that story before?
Chuck: Oooooo…so close!
Robert Cook: Crap! He turned his head just as the round was dispatched.
For the bug-eyed lefties, someone finally had the balls to bring the pew pew…but didn’t account for wind at the range of a 7 iron.
- Krumhorn
Robert, the shooter donated to ActBlue on the day of Biden's inauguration. Public records are a wonderful thing.
doctrev said...
No chance. Aside from their father being the devil, these people don't have a reverse gear. And they've just made Donald Trump that much more likely to kill them outright, forget a trial.
Merrick Garland is going to make aliyah when this is over. Will Netanyahu cheerfully turn him back to face justice, or will they stick together?
I don't know man.
They have tried everything against Trump. Everything. Trump is being protected by something outside of this world.
You cannot make this story up. Even a fictional book with a hero like this would just draw eye rolls for being too formulaic and sappy. That picture with agents holding him up and blood on his face and that flag in the background and his fist driven into the air yelling fight and the crowd chanting USA USA USA.
...
At this point you are obviously the villain in the book and you are going up against someone with plot armor. Not only that everyone reading the book just reads the next page because they are waiting for the hero to stop holding back, go super saiyen, and curb stomp the villain.
Have you looked at the comments on the Biden X post "condemning" the assassination attempt?
It isn't Trump they should be afraid of. The line has been crossed. They are looking at a bear that is hungry 50 feet in front of them. For the love of god drop the candy bar and shuffle away.
Chuck, and Cookie, break their silence to claim, without evidence that heroic future President Trump did not write the glorious message..
"Robert Cook: Crap! He turned his head just as the round was dispatched."
I didn't say that. Are you making up shit or did you quote something someone else said?
This is why you guys are so pitiful. You think the thoughts in your head don't have to be validated against reality.
Hafta wonder what the Biden/Harris, Pelosi,Schumer etc. team is thinking now.
With all the radical far right militias, white supremacists, and gun freaks the left constantly warns us about, bound to be some who want to take a shot to "even the score".
For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.
Isaiah 41:13
I've long found this verse, and the idea that God is holding my right hand particularly reassuring.
John Henry
Lots of libs reminding us today that Jesus turned the other cheek.
I like to remind them of the Jesus that overturned the money changers tables and kicked some ass.
FullMoon said...
Chuck, and Cookie, break their silence to claim, without evidence that heroic future President Trump did not write the glorious message..
Exactly.
And they do it to deflect from the Trump is a criminal/fascist/hitler/threat to democracy shit they have been spouting for years.
There is no polite space for people who promote assassination and civil war.
Cut Chuck, Rich, Lonejustice, Cookie, Freder, and Inga some slack- it has been a horrible last 18 hours for all them. Sort of like watching the lottery drawing and getting the first four numbers right only to miss the last two by one digit each.
I think that the near random capitalization says that Trump wrote it.
“Fear not - I Am….”
“I have shown you many good works…..For which of these do you [shoot] me?”
Needs a “Trump is like Jesus” tag.
JSM
I wonder if he will attend church today?
I didn't say that. Are you making up shit or did you quote something someone else said?
This is why you guys are so pitiful. You think the thoughts in your head don't have to be validated against reality.
No, Cook, you didn’t say that, but I could hear you thinking it as the subtext for what you did say. It’s entirely on you, under the circumstances, to ensure that the tone of what you do say does not clang out unintended subtext.
- Krumhorn
Achilles said...
It isn't Trump they should be afraid of. The line has been crossed. They are looking at a bear that is hungry 50 feet in front of them. For the love of god drop the candy bar and shuffle away.
7/14/24, 9:55 AM
I wonder if we're thinking of the same bear. You can see the American population ready to rise up- which is a point of concern. But my view is different. The Pharisees have a dim realization that their contract is coming due. They can feel the ceilings collapse on them. The flames licking at their flesh. Faced with the eternal fire, are you surprised they would do ANYTHING to avoid it?
A BLAST FROM THE PAST
"Ann Althouse said...
Sorry I participated in make this all about Chuck.
That is not a good way for the comments to go and it happens far too often.
Please keep the comments alive by not just getting into a back and forth with Chuck. He has a way of demanding that other people answer his questions that makes you want to react, but it's a game that works to switch the topic to him and when you see yourself caught up in it, you want to write a post like the one I'm writing now, complaining about it. It's a vicious cycle. I'm not going to do it again, but maybe my talking about it openly can help others resist becoming agents of the overpromotion of Chuck. Please normalize him.
4/25/18, 9:43 AM "
In Chuckhole's case, it's the claim that Biden somehow was conducting a master class on foreign affairs when everybody knows he turned carefully crafted talking points into gibberish. As noted above, the counterclaim that Trump had *no* involvement in an eloquent and well-prepared statement put out under his name is ludicrous.
As for Cookie, again, nobody cares about the perfectly predictable reaction of a bitter and inconsequential unreformed Stalinist.
How about getting people to guard each ballot drop box. Record and identify everyone who uses it to drop ballots.
This would certainly elicit a prosecution from a Soros DA.
Cook said… “Ahem...I am a piece of stardust, as are we all.”
Yes, but WE are golden and you’re still a piece of dookie brittle.
Ref guarding the drop boxes: One guy doing it would get a prosecution from a Soros DA. Humdreds of people doing it would overload a city’s prosecutorial resources.
And have every one of the box watchers wear a PRESS vest while livestreaming their activities - including any harassment by police, BLM, SEIU, etc - and you have a nice piece of First Amendment lawfare to tie up the courts.
Speaking of grass roots constitutional enforcement, I am worried about MAGAs deciding Trump sites need more security and showing up to supplement the outer perimeter.
It doesnt really help the security effort, as even cops that appreciated the help would have to sort though real MAGAs vs assassins in red hats.
Might help the Rand Paul type situations of BLM/Antifa/SEIU attacking the guaranteed-unarmed Trump supporters on their way to/from the sites….
JSM
Was it glass from the teleprompter or a bullet "ripping through his ear"....
You can’t have looked at the clip if you are raising that question. The teleprompters are in front of his speaking stand. At the time he is hit Donald Trump was facing to his right, and he was hit in his right ear. If you have any theories as to how glass from teleprompters (which appear to be intact in later parts of the video, BTW) could take a U turn in midair and hit Trump on the other side of his head, I’ll be glad to listen.
On second thought, no I won’t. Any seconds of my time I spent listening to your twaddle are seconds of my life I won’t get back. So just toddle on along, idiot-child. Grownups are talking.
But, of course, my "tone" in no way "clanged out" such "unintended subtext." It's all in your head.
Oddly, I heard your tone in my head, and it sounded clanged-y to me under the circumstances. As I said earlier, that’s on you if the tone of your comments clanged out unintended subtext such as Damn! He turned his head.. Someone with your ideological views that are usually not entirely unintelligently expressed would be expected to have that awareness.
- Krumhorn
Cook, I’ll show you how it is done. Biden’s comments on tv last night immediately after the shooting were surprisingly good and with no teleprompter.
….for example, you could have simply said It was a terrific statement Trump released whether or not he actually drafted it. Good on him and his team.
Instead, you clanged out unintended subtext.
- Krumhorn
The left is relentless, they will never stop. Their goal is total and complete control and domination. Comments by resident leftists confirm their hatred for anyone who disagrees with them.
"If you have any theories as to how glass from teleprompters (which appear to be intact in later parts of the video, BTW) could take a U turn in midair and hit Trump on the other side of his head, I’ll be glad to listen."
The "Magic Teleprompter" theory. Look forward to decades of frame by frame analysis of the video as the government tells us not to believe our lying eyes.
"Oddly, I heard your tone in my head, and it sounded clanged-y to me under the circumstances."
I'm not responsible for whatever is clanging around in your head. That's on you!
"The left is relentless, they will never stop. Their goal is total and complete control and domination. Comments by resident leftists confirm their hatred for anyone who disagrees with them."
Complete projection.
"Cook, I’ll show you how it is done. Biden’s comments on tv last night immediately after the shooting were surprisingly good and with no teleprompter.
"….for example, you could have simply said It was a terrific statement Trump released whether or not he actually drafted it. Good on him and his team.
"Instead, you clanged out unintended subtext."
Well, again, this reveals what you perceive. I didn't state Trump didn't write his own comments as a dig at him. After all, I assume few politicians, especially at higher levels, write their own comments. I was expressing skepticism at those who purported Trump wrote his comment. I was digging at the ready gullibility of his admirers. The comment that prompted my remark was at the head of this blog post:
"'We will FEAR NOT, but instead remain resilient in our Faith and Defiant in the face of Wickedness.'
"Wrote Donald Trump, in Biblical prose, this morning, on Truth Social."
I mean, please.
Trump's statement does remind me of P.T. Bridgeport.
With proper capitalization, punctuation and syntax, there is a zero-point-zero chance that Trump wrote that, or even conceived it.
Writing and public speaking are two completely different skills.
It might be interesting to give Trump and Biden paper and pen and have each of them write a letter of condolence and hope like the one referenced here.
Then give them a stage and an audience of thousands and have them talk passionately for an hour without a script or teleprompter.
We could do this as part of the golf challenge - make it an all-day thing. Give the Biden team a chance to stage of iconic photo of their own. Surround him with all the flags they want, then have Hunter nick him the ear from a 100+ yards.
Oh, and Chuck, I think there's a zero-point-zero chance that you're anything other than inextinguishable, lithium-fueled, flaming asshole.
If I didn't strongly believe in being "nice" to everyone, I'd write what I really think of you.
our founders did not and had no intent to establish a Christian nation.
But most were Christian and were not shy about mentioning God and the value of God's guidance and blessings.
'We are not fighting again men but principalities and powers of the air'
Chuck said...
With proper capitalization, punctuation and syntax, there is a zero-point-zero chance that Trump wrote that, or even conceived it.
Robert Cook said...
There's no way Trump wrote his own statement.
I see the hive mind has sent out the orders.
Chuck, Cookie, show some brains, and just take a hearty cup of STFU for a while. You're not going to admit the truth, which is that right now your side looks like the complete shit that it is.
So just do yourselves a favor, and STFU
1. Trump standing up with his fist raised and blood streaming down his face is the most badass moment I have ever witnessed in politics.
2. Were the words in the Truth post Trump’s? I don’t know but I suspect the sentiments are his. A little less wind and we’re are having a different conversation today. Surviving something like that tends to refocus the mind on the larger picture. It would be a great thing if this allowed him to truly find the Lord.
3. At this stage, arguing about the politics of the shooter is ridiculous.
In his book American Sniper Chris Kyle describes his longest shot -- a full 1.2 miles -- as "God blew on that bullet."
Thinking of how easily the hit on Trump's ear could have been a fatal hit on his temple, it's hard not to think that God blew on that bullet, too.
Hard to be an atheist some days.
Are we a Christian nation? No.
Are we a christian nation, Yes.
rhhardin said...
Old men are usually pretty indifferent to death so it's not exactly courage anymore.
I take it you're speaking from personal experience here?
Oh, wait, no actual man, as opposed to whiny piece o fshit, would ever write the trash you're writing.
Trump really wants to win in November, and then be President for another 4 years. Even someone as fundamentally stupid as you are should be able to grasp that.
And that getting assassinated to prevent that.
So yes, Trump had everything to lose by refusing to be dragged away before he reassured the crowd, and the country, that he was ok.
GFY, RH. For you, teh hearty cup of STFU should be the rest of your life, not just a couple of days
Robert Cook said...
No comments about the shooter being a registered Republican?
PA is a "closed primary" State.
That means you register for the Party whose Primary you want to vote in.
Given that the scum bag donated to Act Blue on Biden's inauguration, the high likelihood is he registered GOP so he could vote against Trump in the 2024 primary.
Then he decided to be a good Democrat, and murder the "real Hitler" who was a "threat to democracy!!11!"
And the Secret Service "Protective Detail" followed their "you can't shoot at a sniper until he first shoots at Trump" rules of engagement, and didn't even bother to set up to shoot the shooter until after he started firing.
Looks like he's not the only Democrat who wanted Trump to die
Rich said...
I'm given to understand that today and for a very limited time, Team MAGA is shocked—shocked!—to learn that we currently live in a world of normalized political violence
Rich, please do detail ALL the "political violence" engaged in by "Team MAGA" over the last 8 years.
Then we'll do the same for "Team Left". Except it won't be possible for us to list off of it, because that would wipe out the good Professor's blog. Since the ratio's something on the order of 1 for "Team MAGA" to 100+ for "Team Left"
imTay said...
I think that the near random capitalization says that Trump wrote it.
+1
Yeah, lefties… despite everything you’ve said and done over the last 8 years, you’re the “good guys”.
They are deluded af.
Yeah lefties… despite EVERYTHING you’ve said and done over the last 8 years, you’re the “good guys”.
They are deluded af.
You guys are misunderstanding Chuck. The enemy is "Wickedness" and "Evil." He took that personally.
Cook describes the comment about the left and power as " projection "as if Republicans wanted to take control to leave you alone. Of course he could mean the Uniparty, but I doubt he knows much outside stuff published in The Nation or Mother Jones.
At the time he is hit Donald Trump was facing to his right, and he was hit in his right ear
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was it same bullet captured in photo behind Trump head with flightpath in reduced momentum?
so even aiming for temple wind-shifted shot would have caught him middle of skull
"And the Secret Service 'Protective Detail' followed their 'you can't shoot at a sniper until he first shoots at Trump' rules of engagement, and didn't even bother to set up to shoot the shooter until after he started firing."
What?! Are you suggesting the Secret Service had the shooter in their sites before he took his shots...and they didn't shoot first to prevent a possible assassination because of..."rules of engagement?" That's preposterous...or criminal.
"Are we a Christian nation? No.
"Are we a christian nation, Yes."
I'm curious to know what marks the distinction for you? That is, what do you mean that we are a christian nation, other than that we are a nation of many Christians, (and self-proclaimed Christians who aren't)?
It's kind of funny how Chuck said that the "capitalization was perfect."
Maybe for the 18th century, it was perfect.
"our founders did not and had no intent to establish a Christian nation."
But most were Christian and were not shy about mentioning God and the value of God's guidance and blessings.
Robert Cook, I think it's true that the founders didn't explicitly intend to set up a Christian nation; they went out of their way to build a structure that included religious freedom. But I think it's less obvious that they didn't intend to set up a Judeo-Christian nation.
For example - how do you square the concept of a Creator who endows humans with rights with, say, Buddhism? How do you square the concept of all men's [sic] being created equal in the eyes of God with, say, Islam?
They were all, every one of them, the product of a long Judeo-Christian history and culture, even if they themselves were deists or agnostics or atheists. Even Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris now admit that their New Atheism owes its conception of morality to the Judeo-Christian waters in which they swim. Dawkins even calls himself a "cultural Christian" now.
And certainly many of the founders, I'm going to go out on a limb and say the great majority of them, did explicitly agree with John Adams's view that "Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other," at least insofar as the "moral" part... with American morality's being unquestionably based on Judeo-Christianity, regardless of any American's particular profession of faith.
Meme on FB posted by a 'woke' relative:
"I'm beggin' y'all to care like this when it's a third grade classroom instead of an ear."
Keeping it classy. Never mind the three others who were shot and the fact that it was an attempted assassination.
Robert Cook said...
"And the Secret Service 'Protective Detail' followed their 'you can't shoot at a sniper until he first shoots at Trump' rules of engagement, and didn't even bother to set up to shoot the shooter until after he started firing."
What?! Are you suggesting the Secret Service had the shooter in their sites before he took his shots...and they didn't shoot first to prevent a possible assassination because of..."rules of engagement?" That's preposterous...or criminal.
https://x.com/susancrabtree/status/1812462982661841170
Here’s my reporting on why the Secret Service did not shoot until AFTER the shooter engaged and some context about the House Republicans’ investigation already underway (months before Trump’s assassination attempt) into whether the agency’s DEI policies are affecting its readiness.
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But a source within the Secret Service community tells RealClearPolitics that the agency rules of engagement in this situation are to wait until the president is fired upon to return fire.
“You want to take a shot then find out the guy was holding a telescope?” the source suggested. “The Secret Service is by nature reactive…and you better be right when you do react or you’re f-----d.”
The Secret Service protocol requires that a counter sniper aware of a potential shooter to radio directly to intelligence division team to respond and investigate. In this case, the investigation may have been cut short by the shooter firing his weapon, so the counter sniper then fired as quickly as possible in return.
I do not conclusively say that a sniper had eyes on the guy before he shot. But if no one at the Secret Service had any eyes on a guy with a rifle on the roof of the only building within 200 yards of the Presidential candidate, then either the incompetence is too breath-taking for words, or else the Biden Admin has been seriously cutting short Trump's protective team.
Or both, of course.
And I do claim that unless Susan Crabtree's sources are flat out lying to her, the SS ROE are complete and total crap
"I think that the near random capitalization says that Trump wrote it."
I assumed it was written for him, at least a draft, and wondered at the mind that thinks it's some kind of gotcha observation that politicians have writers. But after Tim's observation, I'm thinking Trump may well have written it.
"What?! Are you suggesting the Secret Service had the shooter in their sites before he took his shots...and they didn't shoot first to prevent a possible assassination because of..."rules of engagement?" That's preposterous...or criminal."
I'm reserving judgement, but this sequence of events needs to be explained.
New Tom McDonald video dropped after the assassination attempt.
"Borders are open to people with felonies, Biden can’t stop ‘em, he don’t have the energy
Y’all wanna kill the man trying to fight for a better tomorrow by making him Kennedy?
I tried to give y’all a chance, like "maybe the left isn’t nuts", I was wrong
Y’all are exactly as crazy as every conservative person I know said you were all along"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL9apblSQ-s
Will we notice any changes in Trump or Biden from yesterday forward? Escaping death is extremely powerful, I imagine, in either life - physical or political.
Robert Cook said...
"The left is relentless, they will never stop. Their goal is total and complete control and domination. Comments by resident leftists confirm their hatred for anyone who disagrees with them."
Complete projection.
Is Trump a threat to democracy?
What?! Are you suggesting the Secret Service had the shooter in their sites before he took his shots...and they didn't shoot first to prevent a possible assassination because of..."rules of engagement?" That's preposterous...or criminal.
Yeah, I pick criminal on the part of the bug-eyed lefties. Put yourself in the shoes of a Secret Service countersniper. You pull the trigger on what appears to be a threat...and it turns out to be some assclown on a nearby roof who wants to watch the event but couldn't get a ticket. It sure looked like a rifle, he states in the after-action report and in testimony in his later criminal trial two years following his termination from the agency. Why take that risk?
No law enforcement officer can afford to be wrong under any circumstances so you just have to wait for the incoming before acting. Is it really that "preposterous", or are you blind to the corrosive impact you lefties have had? Or has that impact been intentional?
- Krumhorn
Who will give the batsignal when Republicans are to pounce?
Wisconsin is an open carry state so they can't do anything about it if somebody's walking around the soft perimeter with an AR. Apparently they can't do anything about someone climbing a roof with an AR either.
The cabal gave that nut a rooftop and he missed Trump. What's next a false flag? If I were Joe, I'd stay home for a long time.
https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1812584348375290240
Appears to show SS sniper noticing the shooter, and doing nothing
Complete projection.
I've been reading you here for what, 10-15 years now? You have always come across and frequently presented yourself as a socialist/fascist. You have never been in favor of anything or anyone that might result in less power in the hands of the state. You have never been against anything or anyone that might result in more.
Your motto is the same as Marx's "Control of the economy by the state" Albeit Marx did claim that the state would act in the interest of the citizens. We've seen how that has always worked out time after time. There are some people that think that genocide, particularized, class and general mass murder are "in the interest of the citizens".
Your motto is also the same as Mussolini's definition of fascism
Everything within the state,
Nothing outside the state,
Nothing against the state.
Which is really no different from Marx, above.
So fuck off with how much you "care(tm)".
John Henry
Robert Cook said...
"Are we a Christian nation? No.
"Are we a christian nation, Yes."
I'm curious to know what marks the distinction for you? That is, what do you mean that we are a christian nation, other than that we are a nation of many Christians, (and self-proclaimed Christians who aren't)?
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
The foundational concept of our nation is that Government is not the source of our rights.
God is the source of our rights.
We are a christian nation.
You are a totalitarian scumbag and historical illiterate who justifies assassination of political opponents.
This CNN lady is big mad about "fight, fight, fight"
it's not the right "message" to send
these people are idiots
https://x.com/RealSaavedra/status/1812317905935020049
"'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.'
"God is the source of our rights.
"We are a christian nation."
"...their Creator..." does not refer to or identify any specific "creator." It could just as easily be Zoroaster or Odin or any other of the countless "gods" humankind has created and believed in as real throughout our existence. It could simply refer to all faiths.
"...their Creator..." just as easily (and more likely) serves as a bit of rhetorical poesy, a shorthand way of stating that all humans are of identical nature and equal worth, each of us worthy of equal rights under the law. It is a means of refuting the idea of some humans being more worthy and others less worthy. It is a rejection of monarchy, a support for the idea that all humans have the right to self-determination, neither enhanced nor limited by one's caste or economic status.
This passage in no way supports the falsehood that we are a "Christian" or "christian" nation. We are a christian nation in only one meaning: of all in America who have any religious faiths, those who claim Christianity as their faith are more numerous than any others. One day that could change as the population and demographics change.
"You are a totalitarian scumbag and historical illiterate who justifies assassination of political opponents."
Um...can you fact check any of these assertions, provide any supporting evidence (especially for the third one)? I think your own unconscious impulses are bleeding into what you (incorrectly) perceive in others. It's called projection.
"You have always come across and frequently presented yourself as a socialist/fascist. You have never been in favor of anything or anyone that might result in less power in the hands of the state....etc., etc., blah blah blah."
Ha! All that's your perception/projection. Don't put your mess on me! (Hey, sounds like a lyric from a song!)
You think the thoughts in your head don't have to be validated against reality.
That this line has been written by a Far Leftist is beyond delicious.
You and yours, and your "ideas" have failed precisely because of this.
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