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Why is a Secret Service agent too short to shield Trump assigned to his detail and why are THEY the one between him and the shooter, crowding out taller SS agents?
Assassination attempt on US Presidential Candidate – women most affected – they teach SS teams to put the shortest person in harms way and then duck for their own protection apparently
6:35:58: Both snipers watching shooter roof, forward one with binoculars.
6:36:28: Rear sniper watching shooter roof with spotting scope as forward one turns slightly.
6:36:31: Both snipers watching shooter roof again.
6:42:14: Snipers in shooting position, aiming at shooter roof.
6:42:53: Shots ring out.Video Shows U.S Secret Service Spotting and Watching Shooter Prior to Shots – Doing Nothing, Then Flinching with Inbound Bullets
Can anyone explain this sniper’s reaction? It looked like he couldn’t believe what he was seeing…….pic.twitter.com/mHvc4Ib2GB
— Spitfire (@DogRightGirl) July 14, 2024
The Biden drama is so overdone
-the total denial for 4 years when we were all saying the 2020 Biden CAMPAIGN was elder abuse. In 2019.
-the onoez he has mental issues!!!! …with a sudden new NPC Update after 4 years of overtly advertised problems
-the over the top misnaming of Zelensky and Harris in case anyone was too thick headed to get it any other way
This is all leading up to a drama in which we get a new candidate. We can do some math here to determine who.
The awfulness of “Joe Biden” should be our yardstick. Somebody thinks “Joe Biden” needs to be made AS awful or MORE awful than some other thing before it is revealed:
–Procedural awfulness. Obama as a VP pick, blue square people smugly knowing he’s the real president in this scenario and smugly triumphantly denying it
–personal awfulness. Hillary Clinton.
They seem to think the currently attained level of awfulness is enough. Just repetition at this point to establish it more firmly. If Hillary thinks this is more awful than her, she’s delusional.
Ahhh yeah. Midwest Great Lakes area, permeated with all those other lakes – Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan.
A working class guy gets a little shack-ish house, with its own little el cheapo dock. Maybe an A-frame maybe not. Aluminum rowboats, pontoon boats, canoes, fishing, spiders, campfires and cookouts with fish, hotdogs, marshmallows, mosquitoes, frisbee and wollyball, tag in the woods at dusk, swimming out to the raft made of oil drums, catching frogs and releasing them.
Just took a look on zillow. Holy #%#% they sure have filled up a lot of the north woods lakes with those monstrosities.
I watch walkthroughs of mansions on youtube every so often and my conclusion is, the rich primarily exist to make more living rooms. Possibly their ultimate, true purpose of existence.
As soon as they can, they add another 3 or 4 living rooms to their house, then make sure each bedroom is also a living room. Eventually the bathrooms and the closets are ALSO living rooms. Tour of Will Smith’s double decker bus! Cool! I’m in, what fantastic things will I be shown. Oh. Living rooms.
And then of course they need to have 4, 5, or more homes. To proliferate living rooms even further. Sorry, my bad – seating areas.
If you are rich and want an extra home with a view of a lake, THIS is how you do it: (I don’t understand how this is 8.5 mil)
for pop-out, which I recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfjKkbFgNgI
Trump Puts Spotlight On Rubio At Florida Rally Amid VP Speculation
Former President Trump referred to Mr. Rubio more than a dozen times throughout his speech, at times hinting that the senator could be his choice for a running mate.
Would you, I don’t know, like to skip all this pussyfooting around, inferences, insinuations, roundabout formalities and just… continuously kick me in the crotch and insult my mother from now until election results get officially posted? Would you rather just do that? Would that help streamline the efficiency of your operations in any way, sir?
(Wait no – Trumpian Diplomatic 5-D Chess – Rubio and Zelensky will have so much in common)
We Were “Deceived & Gaslit For Years”, All In The Name Of “Democracy”; Then “Poof”, It Collapsed Overnight
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/we-were-deceived-gaslit-years-all-name-democracy-then-poof-it-collapsed-overnight
https://www.southfront.press/poland-about-to-participate-directly-in-ukrainian-conflict/
Poland is about to take a dangerous step in the Ukrainian conflict. Vladimir Zelensky stated that under the terms of a recently signed pact between Kiev and Warsaw, the NATO country could use its military forces to detain Russian missiles and drones in Ukrainian airspace.
Just a few questions for you, Mr Kinzhal and you can be on your way. Carrying any out of state fruit with you? Will your stay in Ukraine concern business or pleasure?
Such a situation could be considered by the Russians as a case of direct participation, leading to an open war between Russia and a NATO country.
Yeah, yeah, that’s one way to look at it. But on the other hand, what if I could shoot and you couldn’t shoot me back?
And I remember from University that a thing exists more fully if it exists in both the mind AND actuality. It would be the most bestest thing evar if I could shoot and not be shot -, definitionally, you see. Shooting and not being shot CAN’T be bestast evar if it doesn’t exist both in my mind AND actuality – no sir, only existing in my head? That wouldn’t compute. No, sir. Go back to school and study elementary logic if you do not believe me.
The pact, according to Zelensky, establishes the necessary conditions for Warsaw to have positions inside Ukraine and directly participate in the role of air defense, thus helping Kiev overcome one of its current main strategic difficulties. For a long time, the airspace in the conflict zone has been almost completely controlled by Russia, which has made Ukraine’s Western-supplied tanks and military vehicles easy targets for Russian drones, missiles and aircraft. Kiev is doing its best to try to solve this problem, as it is impossible for one side to achieve any military gains without a strong air defense capacity.
Well, THAT should go well.
Death Throes of the Republic: (Dan Carlin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7eujY56cQ8
This is only part 1 of a multi part series, each episode being about 4 hours. (link to more on the description) Works its way through the Gracchi brothers (The Kennedys, sort of) Sulla, Marius, and so on.
Well worth listening to if you’ve got a roadtrip, maybe a bunch of yardwork or housework or something.
The amazing thing that I get out of various history books, podcasts, etc is how things got so much better after Augustus won at Actium. All that was required for things to work a lot better and for people to be a lot happier was for all the things weighing people down, stopping them, to STOP stopping – the bounce-back was almost instantaneous.
But where do we say the troubles started? Maybe with the Social War? 91BC?
No, it should be put at the first Gracchi reform – say, around 137 or 139 bc when the secret/anonymous ballot was instituted and the first land reforms were being worked on. The problem-solving is the first confirmation of significant problems.
Actium was 31 bc – so 108 years to get to the point OF stopping the stopping.
The Market (or history) can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent (or live to a ripe old age) Do we regard the in-between time as mere dilly-dallying? Just a matter of when somebody fixes things, be it 1 year or 100? The actual bounce-back taking almost no time at all? I’d like to think so.
This Week In US Aviation: Boeing 757 Loses Wheel, 737 Aborts Takeoff Due To Tire Failure, Near-Miss In Syracuse
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/week-us-aviation-boeing-757-loses-wheel-737-aborts-takeoff-due-tire-failure-near-missStranded Astronauts On ISS Still ‘Confident’ In Issue-Plagued Boeing Starliner
https://zerohedge.com/technology/stranded-astronauts-iss-still-confident-issue-plagued-boeing-starlinerWilmore and Williams blasted off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force on June 5 and docked with the ISS one day later. Both astronauts were expected to spend just a week aboard the ISS and return to Earth by June 14.
However, five separate helium leaks in the Starliner’s thruster system and five failures of its reaction control system thrusters, critical systems for safely orienting the spacecraft into Earth’s atmosphere, were detected.
Right, right.
I remember when the leaks were detected …ON THE GROUND.
I remember when they said “There’s leaks, but we’re launching anyway.”
AOC files articles of impeachment against Justices Alito, Thomas, alleges ‘unchecked corruption’
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/aoc-files-articles-impeachment-against-justices-alito-thomas-alleges-unchecked-corruptionJust the two conservative Supreme Court justices a few months before the next election, eh?
Right after you do something about all your fellow Democrats’ unexplained millions and millions no doubt.
Liberal is Thomas Jefferson. The Founding Fathers were liberals who understood a certain degree of willing savagery may be required to maintain it. Liberalism is ALL the Bill of Rights including both 1st AND 2nd Amendments. I just cannot find hardly any Liberals anywhere, current year.
Sheep who went along with whatever they heard the majority or TV say mouthed some of the words of Liberalism, but interpreted it into “Be nice no matter what.” They just wanted to avoid being shamed by the group if not be popular.
I’m still reading through Will Durant’s The Story of Civilization. It not being the first history I ever read, I quite clearly recognize every time he counterfactually effusively tries to credit non-European civilizations with advancements and achievements. It’s the impulse of generosity from a person who believes their own civilization is totally, utterly predominant, such that they can even give anything away for free if they wish
A bit reminiscent of Dawkins, one of the Big 4 New Atheists. wishing in his very old age for the fruits OF Christianity, feeling at the end we missed out on…. something. You cannot chop down the tree and have just the fruit-bearing branches continue to levitate in midair bearing fruit. Just like science was emergent from values. You take away the values-foundation built over thousands of years and you get junk science and junk medicine. As we saw in the past few years.
The “just be nice” in which people who felt they were part of an invulnerable dominant culture and civilization felt that ANY bending over backwards would be virtuous – since we cannot lose anything, we would only be continuing to EXTEND our accomplishments and virtue, no? – dovetailed nicely into current-year wokeists, who think that “there shall be no civility” and “there shall be no discussion” is the cheat code to go into God Mode in the computer game.
“Hold them to their rules” means no rules for me, irrational, double bind rules for thee. No discussion, but plenty of “make this a conversation” as a simulacra-of-discussion. But the fat kid who sits in his basement only playing video games on god mode never even gains the mental-emotional fortitude that a normal gamer develops.
So you have people who just want to avoid any shame or guilt, want to not be unpopular, and believe they are in a totally unshakeable dominant, victorious civilization, therefore feeling free, as if on God Mode, to give away absolutely anything. Paired with Wokeist-Marxist-Frankfurt Skool losers that think dispensing with all civility, all basis of even discussion, is going on God Mode, thinking they’ve found the key to invincibility.
You cannot Grima-Wormtongue your way through everything because it isn’t actually god mode. Eventually people get tired of your master, Saruman-of-Many-Colors and you get to see everything you thought was wondrous and unstoppable laid waste. The Witches in Harvey Weinstein’s acolyte’s Acolyte, even when she, in all her square-headed malevolence, tries to portray good as evil and evil as good, ends up showing us the evil Black Knight out of Monty Python that just cannot stop pushing their luck.
Please for the love of god, stop making Ayn Rand right. “You can ignore reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of ignoring reality” Argh. Makes me want to stab my eye out to have to keep acknowledging this super long-winded hack writer.
The latest Disney Star Wars fiasco…
The Jedi and the Witches are in disagreement over what the education and general life path should be of a little girl who wants to be a Jedi. In the middle of this, the lead witch without warning shows a super angry expression, then turns into a scary bat-bird smoke monster, then begins dissolving the little girl.
The Jedi nearest quite rightly stabs her with a light sabre. For once in Disney Star Wars, being run through with a light sabre actually kills you.
With her dying breath, the evil witch that had already done a hostile possession on someone and told a mother she had zero rights over her own children croaks out that she was “freeing” the little girl, honest. Gaslighting 101. So shame on YOU Jedi, because I secretly was being “good” while to every appearance was attacking. (and probably actually was…)
Then Witch #2 does a hostile possession of a big wookie jedi and uses his body to attack the other Jedi. They manage to subdue him without killing him, then use the force to free him. Losing this battle to enslave the wookie kills ALL the Witches – apparently they were ALL in on it.
You get the sense that the Witches never, ever experienced conflict with a peer opponent before and functioned on the basis of steamrolling arrogance. There Shall Be No Discussion. Either they acted with arrogance because of assumed power disparity or they arrogantly assumed everyone else would be frozen, unable to respond, due to some obligation to be “nice” in the face of awfulness no matter what?
So they keep going with no discussion and get themselves all killed. Glad they’re dead. The show tells you they are the good guys and Jedi are the bad guys. While you can see they’re essentially Sith or worse.
Interestingly, the lead evil witch had a spiral tattooed on her forehead. This tattoo is used in some current-year circles to indicate someone identifies as a unicorn, the spiral intended to indicate a spiral horn. Unicorns being associated with the occult, bahomet, etc.
14% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Lost 75% of whatever viewership remained mid-episode last week. Company says they spent 180 million on this 8 episode tv series, but insiders are leaking figures well above 300 million.
But they’re not done pouring hundreds of miillions of dollars in the garbage. We still have the puke-inducing travesties of Snow White and Captain America: Brave New World coming and that’s just for starters — infinite money coming from somewhere forever!
Deadpool 3 is literally going to save Disney and Hollywood. I suspect there are a great number of movie theatres holding off on closure for Deadpool release later this month. If it flops there will be another wave of theatre closures and with the number left, I don’t think Hollywood will ever recover.
Sadly and fortunately, I think it will be a hit. They found THE winning 2020’s formula, which is to allow depravity and awfulness to invade the heroic trope, but then invade that with meaning and fun. Deadpool 1 and 2 were a guilty pleasure. You forget what it’s like for someone to make a book, movie, toy, gadget, whatever, with the actual purpose of creating delight.
wtf IS a Deadpool?
Has anyone else noticed that Ukraine is, apparently, carpeted from top to bottom with ‘Children’s Hospitals?’ Seems like one can barely launch a potato in the country, never mind a missile, without hitting a ‘Children’s Hospital’.
Seems like hazy, ancient history now, but weren’t the Moderate Terrorist controlled sections in Syria coated with a layer of children’s’ hospitals a decade ago as well?
Seems you think a conservatory student who objects to the authorities that his education doesn’t exist for the purpose of football is wrong? His complaints are ..er, what? You’re trying to paint a picture with no canvas so it’s sort of difficult – you always prefer to argue in insinuations only. Because you’re a coward.
“In the early 90’s during the crumbling of Eastern block countries there was that “rock musician”, a prominent figure of dissent in Hungary at that time, who claimed that communism was preventing him to reach a deserved musical recognition.
Well…..it’s been over 30 years?”The appearance is that you are attempting to dance on my grave? After painting a caricature of your choice and writing “jb-hb” on it?
What’s wrong with you, man? Get a grip on reality at least. At least argue with someone who exists.
haha you use every logical fallacy because – per Marx – it’s “pragmatic”
No it was the opposite. People came from the other side of a 1000 person call center to me or would text or ring me up asking me to come to their cubicle to help. I was invited to be a lead in many a training bay and was a supervisor of a training bay, helping several hundred people. Was repeatedly complimented in skip-levels for being interested in their well-being, informative, and fair.
So consider why you have these mysterious unaccountable oppositeland feelings.
Defensive projection?
I’ll just add, I was careful, in my initial reply to you, to not pick any fight with you, but sort of add to your point. In appreciation of what you’d reported.
You didn’t HAVE to pick a fight in response. Apparently you wanted to be seen doing so. So that’s what you got. And look where you went from there.
In answer to your fly-by – There is no difference between the UConn coach luxuriating in his greater-than-everyone-else fake aretḗ (greatness + virtue) 50m salary and the 70’s Marxist Sociology Professor That Hates You luxuriating in his or her or its superior “virtue,” indoctrinating students in a New Religion at the expense of their debt-enslavement and any education of pragmatic value. While making 6 figures and gold plated benefits. (The superstitious-quasi-religious spiritual coin he/she/it is paid in equals the 50 million the football coach gets – they get to cause well over 50 million in damages to young minds after all)
Jesus takes all the world’s sin upon himself and goes to hell in the place of everyone else, calls THAT forgiveness.
Marxists extend guilt and debt to those who never committed the offense or never engaged in the debt-incurring behavior, call THAT “forgiveness.” Oppositeworld.
Atheists ought to at least be able to meet some minimum cognitive and moral standard that Christians are able to meet. At least! (I say this as a very disappointed leftist atheist libertine)
Hey Ai, what’s University of Connecticut’s revenue from football?
According to the search results, the University of Connecticut’s football program generated approximately $15.2 million in direct revenue in the past fiscal year
Hey Ai, what was that uh, contract about?
Dan Hurley, the head coach of the University of Connecticut (UConn) men’s basketball team, has agreed to a new six-year, $50 million contract
Hey Ai, what’s 50/6?
8.3
15/8?
1.875
I’m getting a little confused here, Ai. Is 8 more than half of 15?
Yes, you idiot.
Over half the value of UConn football is generated personally by its coach!!!!!
Hey, didn’t Aristotle, employee of the Argead dynasty, assure his pupil, Alexander the Great, that royal rule is justified, so long as the aretḗ (greatness) of the ruler is more than the greatness of all his people put together – then his rule is justified? …and that the Argeads’ aretḗ was, Cosmic Covenience er, Coincidence, just so happened to be, greater than that of all Macedonia?
This is like everything everywhere right now. The Argeads of Macedonia were full-spectrum intimidated by Greece. Militarily, culturally, etc. They looked south and saw a bunch of democracies and republics – and whatever Sparta was. For his OWN sanity as a prideful Greek, Aristotle had to find some way to justify being a lackey of culturally inferior Macedonian despots.
Same guy who argued that Democracy kills itself as soon as it realizes it can vote endless benefits on itself. (To reassure the insecure Macedonian royal house, looking south at all those Democracies and their citizen hoplite armies) …when in fact, it has always been autocrats and oligarchies, contemptuous of common people, who throw bread and circuses at them, actively degrade them. Every time!
Long ago, I got a half tuition scholarship for how I played the 1st movement of the Hummel Concerto.
To maintain this scholarship, I had to march in the marching band. Spending half a saturday or sunday I could have spent studying or in a practice room, putting time towards carrying my 22 hours plus hours of required peer recital attendance instead of glorifying a bunch of football players I care nothing for carrying 16 hours of basketweaving and remedial english and math.
Also couldn’t be in Cross Country without the scholarship because it conflicted with Marching Band.
Met with the Dean of Music. I proposed that I run Cross Country and the football players come cheer me on or lose their football scholarships. Followed that up with a proposal that the football players must attend and cheer on all jazz band, concert band, and orchestra concerts or lose their football scholarships. That didn’t go over too well.
Football generates revenue for the school. Great. Might be better to just split the college ball off of education into Minor League Football …but the least you could do is not go around thinking other parts of your school exist FOR the football team.
Dudebro. You are already the football player, getting teh chix. NO. MOAR. GLORIFY ME. CHEER ME ON. WHERE IS YOUR SCHOOL SPIRIT? Oh, okay, then you can go to the next production of Italian Opera, listen quietly and attentively, cheer us on with Bravo! when we indicate it is appropriate – school spirit bro.
I always thought the world was the result of everyone doing their thing, the result being something beautiful. Free play and honesty. The free choice of my fellow human beings being paramount to every interaction – else I lose their contribution! Ah, sophomoric wisdom. still correct even if wrong.
The same sort of folks, lamenting The Homeless, The Housing Market. Medical Expenses etc when you spell out that 20-30 Million extra people affect who has access to resources: “No, that cannot be”
You SERIOUSLY think 20 million less people would NOT affect home availability and pricing? You seriously think 20 million less people being subsidized would leave more resources to help the homeless?
No, that cannot be. They’re living in the housing americans don’t want to live in. They take the subsidies americans are too lazy to take. It isn’t possible that everyone pulls from a single pool of finite resources called reality.
Yeah it’s weird. I do a recent job interview in which I casually mention I’ve manually configured routers and email clients, done a DNS flush, running dual boot Linux on a couple machines, various other things. Nevertheless they continue to act like I must be Boomer instead of GenX. (They asked me “describe your home network” earlier in the interview and I described the various machines and peripherals I have networked together with multiple UPS’s but apparently this too left no impression)
I mention using physical medium for storage and the interview clearly takes a shit. Definitely not getting the job. Open sneering at some length. WHY DIDN’T YOU USE CLOUUUUUUUD STORAGE?!??!? Repeated attempts to, in a mild, professional manner, to answer the motherfucking question, explain why I would at times use physical storage in my own personal control ruthlessly interrupted and prevented. Never allowed to answer the question. They could have just said “interview over” when I said “physical storage”
lol all millennial women interviewing me. Increased sneering at the sentence fragments I got out about data security – against malicious action AND data rot – the very IDEA that safety concerns should inconvenience! I suspect that, with some GenX grey showing in my goatee and being male, they were just waiting for SOMETHING. Hard to tell these days, but that was the feeling.
But no, really you are out there on your own (GenX talking…) and you will have to take care of your own safety and security (GenX talking…) it is your own responsibility and no one else’s. You can luxuriate in Being The Victim if you prefer. Maybe your life is such that there is no data associated with you worth saving?
“What The Heck?!”: United Airlines Boeing 757 Loses Wheel After LAX Takeoff
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/what-heck-united-airlines-boeing-757-loses-wheel-after-lax-takeoffBoeing Shares Drop After FAA Orders Inspection Of 2,600 737 Jets For Oxygen Mask Issue
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/boeing-shares-drop-after-faa-orders-inspection-2600-737-jets-oxygen-mask-issue
