The Presidential election has now been reduced to two very powerful images. The current President Biden staring blankly into space at the Great Debate and the once and future President Trump with a bloody face, fist held high and Old Glory flying just behind him.
America has a collection of images that resonate down through the ages – Iwo Jima, Flag on the Moon, Plane hitting World Trade Center – to name just a few. The photo of Trump has just joined them. It is of a man who faced a moment of crisis and acted superbly and without fear – the behaviour we expect in a President, although rarely get these days. Biden’s sad image already is being consigned to the dustbin of history.
It should also be noted that, as well as Trump, two men were injured and one hero was killed. Corey Comperatore was shot in the head when he threw himself over his wife and daughters to protect them. He was just a regular guy, a volunteer fire chief in his small town, but a man capable of extraordinary heroism and love for his family.
Americans are wrestling right now with “How on Earth did we get to this point?” When faced with such a tragic and momentous event as a Presidential assassination, it is good to first check in with the experiences and judgement of experts. In this case, it would be folks who have also been shot in an assassination attempt and survived.
First up is Republican Representative Steve Scalise, who was shot (along with four others) on a baseball field in 2017 by a Democrat activist at a time when Democrat politicians were engaged in vitriolic attacks on Republicans after Trump had won the 2016 election.
“For weeks Democrat leaders have been fuelling ludicrous hysteria that Donald Trump winning re-election would be the end of democracy in America,” he tweeted hours after the Trump assassination attempt. “Clearly we’ve seen far Left lunatics act on violent rhetoric in the past. This incendiary rhetoric must stop.”
Then there was Robert Fico, Prime Minister of Slovakia, shot just this May and now on his feet again. He commented on Facebook:
The political opponents of Donald Trump try to shut him up and when that fails, they antagonise the public so much that some loser picks up a gun… And now we will witness speeches about the need for reconciliation, appeasement and forgiveness.
Scalise and Fico definitely have a point as their assassination attempts were both linked to gunmen with political motives responding to incitement from politicians and media. But so far Trump’s shooter has been revealed as just a local youth who borrowed his father’s gun and then picked up 50 rounds of ammunition from a gun store on his way to the Trump event. And we should always be a little cautious with the stochastic terrorism argument used extensively by the Left, i.e., the use of communication vehicles that can incite random folks to carry out terrorist acts in unpredictable ways. The argument has been used in the U.S. to dampen down free speech, as even the most innocent comments can be cited as stochastic, as well as being used only against folks to the right of Che Guevara.
But Scalise and Fico are right that Trump has been viciously attacked. Since 2015 the Democrat Party and the mainstream media have waged a virulent war against Trump – the worst attack on any politician in the country in modern times. Political demonisation – Russian conclusion, etc., morphed into impeachment (twice) then lawfare – or the manipulation of court systems against Trump with silly cases – and now assassination. All the while covering fire is provided by pundits, politicians and media that Trump is a fascist, indeed a reincarnation of Hitler. More thoughtful folks notice that Hitler started a world war and killed 12 million folks, including six million Jews, in concentration camps, while Trump in his Presidency started no wars and has killed zero of his country’s citizens.
Here are some more examples from X: “greatest threat to our democracy”, “genuine threat to this nation”, “literally a threat to everything America stands for”. So what, you might think, these are just unhinged loners frantically typing in a basement somewhere. But you would be wrong as these are from Biden’s social media account.
More definitive blame can be laid on the Secret Service agents responsible for security. They ignored two of their basic protocols for this situation. They did not “secure the perimeter” as the shooter got off six rounds from a roof only 130 yards away. And although Trump got the image of the decade, this should not have happened as he should have been manhandled off that stage and into a getaway van in two seconds. Instead, we saw secret service agents fiddling about for what seemed forever before Trump was away from danger. And why would you have three short women agents trying to cover a six foot guy and so leave his head exposed for further shots? You had one job…
Neither the Head of the Secret Service, Kimberly Cheatle, nor her boss, Alejandro Mayorkas, Head of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), has resigned. Par for the course as the Biden Administration’s view is that everything it does is always a complete success. Mayorkas actually came out and stated this week he has “100%” confidence in Director Cheadle and her agency. One doubts the House committee hearings into the assassination attempt starting next week will share his opinion.
Also of concern is that the Biden Administration has doled out Secret Service protection to any candidate not named Biden in a manner similar to feeding gruel to Oliver Twist. Last year Robert Kennedy Jr. was not given this protection when running for the Democrat nomination, despite the fact his name alone (he is the son of assassinated Robert Kennedy) brings out the crazies. It was still denied when he announced a run as an independent candidate. The Trump campaign reportedly asked Homeland Security (DHS) several times for beefed-up security according to Representative Mike Waltz and was denied. DHS has denied this and said it had beefed-up Trump’s security instead, although footage of the assassination does not provide any visual evidence of that. It should be remembered in April this year nine Democrat congressmen went one better than the DHS’s frugal security approach for non-Bidens and sponsored a bill in the House to deny all “convicted felons” (a.k.a. Trump) Secret Service protection completely.
Both the Kennedy and Trump problems seem to have been resolved. RFK Jr. got secret service protection this week, while Trump appeared at the Republic National Convention on Monday surrounded by 10 big lads looking like extras from a Guy Ritchie movie. Remarkable what an assassination attempt will do.
The fallout from the assassination attempt will linger long in this country and it will reflect badly on Biden and his administration. In the short term, the investigations into atrocious failure of the Secret Service under Biden’s watch will horrify potential voters. In the long term, the Democrat establishment and associated media have enjoyed four years of trashing Trump to ensure he will not be elected again. The bills are now coming due.
Unless anything extraordinary happens, the debate pretty much doomed Biden’s race against Trump, while the assassination attempt has killed off all excitement on election night. The result may well be declared for Trump (assuming a “fair and legal and good election”) as soon as polls close, whether Biden or any other Democrat runs.
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Yes, it will be a telling comment on the 2020 election if somehow all the late postal votes don’t delay the results being declared this time round for weeks.
I hear on GB News some guy in a bright purple jacket say that America should not be “isolationist” under Trump and Vance. Putting your country first is not “isolationist”. Not letting NATO and the UN take the piss out of you is not “isolationist”. Stopping China flood your country with everything from turbines to children’s balloons is not “isolationist”. Not letting UN and WEF climate socialism tell you how to live your life is not “isolationist”
I only wish we would be more like America under Trump but unfortunately we are headed in the very opposite direction to the rest of Europe who are now seeing the mass immigration policy and phony climate junk science for what it is. We have now voted into power the biggest bunch of globalist lackeys and given them a massive majority with which to impoverish us and in Miliband the biggest danger to prosperity with his pretend to save the planet anti human garbage.
I’ve already heard a woman on the BBC saying how climate change has caused mass migration. I asked for evidence and said I would report to oFcom. I didn’t of course because they’re in bed together and consider climate ‘settled’ science.
You should report them because in the real world there actually is no increase in the frequency or intensity of any type of weather event. So what are these migrants actually fleeing from? Propaganda is such a powerful tool. It manages to convince the vast majority of a population that something is occurring when it isn’t.——— .People are not stupid as such, it is just that they are too busy with work and family life and don’t have the time to investigate every issue. They think that scientists and TV News are reporting on things on their behalf and warning them of danger. ———Nope they aren’t. They are filling their heads full of politicised crap.
Top o’ the hat.
Cheers.
Not defending this Cheatle woman at all but the more that comes out about events on Saturday the more it’s looking obvious that no way was she the brains behind this evident ‘inside job’ and nor can her total incompetence ( and of her entire team plus local police force ) be exclusively to blame, and that’s what we’re meant to accept, that it was just a string of cock-ups from a dumbass, DEI-obsessed woman, and that’ll be the end of it. Her boss was in on it and I’m convinced the orders to allow this hit came straight from the Biden mob HQ. She’s just the one who’s going to get hung out to dry, vilified by the public, held to account and her taking full responsibility is just part of the plan. More here in this mini clip;
Dan Bongino: “I was also told that the Secret Service Director has been given instructions from the Administration and the DHS Secretary that if you want to keep your job, you’ll keep your mouth shut about this.”
https://x.com/RealMacReport/status/1813376994983493860
Edit: I would even say it was a deliberate strategy to have those short women bodyguards ‘protecting’ Trump. One was even at the front, so he stood up to do his fist pump and a second shooter could’ve hit him. Why was the male bodyguard at the back? This isn’t all about the SS being uber woke and DEI, those females were all part of the plan to deliberately ensure Trump was more vulnerable.
What do we know about the SS that shot the shooter, some say he was told not to fire but decided to just fire anyway, this is hearsay at the moment.
Mark Steyn made a point about security not always being up to scratch going back a decade or so.
“In on it? Or just crap beyond belief? Everything that’s emerged in the last twenty-four hours takes me back – twenty years, to the 2004 campaign, when the then First Lady, Laura Bush, came to New Hampshire to do an event at the Lebanon Opera House. For the benefit of non-American readers, I should explain that this is not an opera house in the sense of La Scala or Covent Garden. It’s a municipal government office with a modest auditorium on the upper floor. Come the big day, the Secret Service lads were everywhere …yet they left the Lebanon Clerk’s office in the basement wide-open. When the New Hampshire lady organising the event notified the agents of “this obvious problem”, she was told that “advance” had covered it.
So out front there was the usual chaos, with Granite Staters backed up down the street waiting to shuffle through the metal detectors. But, if you just walked round the back of the building, you could enter through the open and unguarded door of the clerk’s office and take the open and unguarded elevator up to the floor of the event, where the door opened on the other side of the Secret Service screening process. So anyone could access the “secure” area unimpeded.
Because the clerk’s office had been determined to be “beyond the perimeter”.
The New Hampshire organiser was not happy about this, and, after surveying the scene, rustled up a couple of off-duty Granite State copper types she recognised on the street to guard the elevator at both ends. Bonus insight into cumbersome yet ineffectual federal security theatre:
I have never taken the Secret Service seriously since. So I am not surprised to learn that a fellow can take an AR-15 to a Trump campaign event without going through security and climb up the roof to a position with a clear line of sight to the target’s head – and that, even as multiple members of the public point this out, the minutes tick by.
So to come back to my opening question: Just the usual crapness augmented by a bit of good luck on the would-be assassin’s part? Or something worse?
On Saturday, America came within an inch and a second of crossing a very dark Rubicon. As Trump reveals to Michael Goodwin in The New York Post:”
I’ve seen 3 separate videos of different witnesses saying there was a second shooter on the water tower, which ( lo and behold ) despite it having a clear line to Trump’s stage, was not covered by snipers or local police officers. Chris Martensen’s analysis of where we know the bullets made contact seems to back this up as they couldn’t all possibly be from the one shooter on the low building. Unfortunately he keeps further evidence of why he’s positive there was a second shooter on the second part of the vid I shared for his paid subscribers. But this sort of thing can be sourced elsewhere but I don’t have time to go search for it myself, but if anything randomly comes my way via the algorithms on Twitter, for instance, I’ll be sure to share. There’s only so many hours in a day to go sleuthing around.
But like Chris says in the vid, let’s really hope nothing ‘mysterious’ happens to these eye witnesses ( unless they’re paid off to keep silent, of course ) speaking out because certainly the ‘official narrative’ from any MSM source hasn’t mentioned a second shooter at all. Why would that be? They’re already in deep enough shit as it is, what’s one more would-be assassin between friends? They can’t look any worse than they already do.
Wow – that really is interesting – I hadn’t seen any reference to a second shooter at all (on my twitter feed)
Maybe on the grassy knoll?
We still don’t know what really happened to JFK. We won’t know what happened here either.
JFK was murdered by the CIA. We all know what happened to JFK. He was going to shut down the Cold War, the assassination of Castro, leave Vietnam and cancel the moon fraud. Can’t have that can we, bad for business.
It is irrefutable the event was a catastrophic failure in security. The SS is responsible for the safety of the principal, she is head of the SS, it’s her job to make sure it is so, the responsibility is hers and she failed.
She should resign or be fired. That’s the way things are to supposed to work, those accountable are held accountable, failure is punished not rewarded.
There comes a point when there’s so many ‘failures’ that you can no longer deny the bleeding obvious and become suspicious as hell. But don’t take my word for it, I recommend watching the Chris Martensen vid because he at least scrutinizes all the available data, as opposed to relying on conjecture. Absolutely this woman should be fired, and I find it very strange they aren’t doing that and then depositing a big fat pay check in her bank account for keeping up her end of the bargain to keep schtum about all the behind the scenes shady shenanigans she must be privy to. She even says in that interview that the buck stops with her, because she was told to admit that, in my opinion. Then they won’t be looking elsewhere for accomplices.
I mean, if Trump had actually been killed would we expect to see the person in charge of the security still in their job, refusing to resign? Or is it somehow okay because just some Joe Public got killed instead? It’s obvious we are being steered towards looking at her and only her to take full responsibility and the consequent fall for how things panned out. But to think all of this is down to one single person is naive in the extreme.
“It is irrefutable the event was a catastrophic failure in security.”
How do you know it wasn’t an inside job, with the SS being in on it? We can’t just default to the cockup theory and what seems to be the mainstream narrative of security failure.
Yes, although it was a failure of significant proportions as far as the effective protection of a presidential candidate (and former President, to boot) maybe the real ‘failure’ was that said candidate is still there and stronger than ever. In other words, the ‘failure’ was planned, but the plan failed.
There are some very nasty evil things happening at the present time, and the Democrats were desperate. They will be even more so now; I wouldn’t rule out a plot to remove Trump permanently, an ‘inside job’. If they failed the first time, are they going to have another go?
When you compare to Hitler that is kind of giving the green light because, anyone that stops Hitler has saved millions of lives. But I am a free speech absolutist but there is no consistency, the Left always wants its cake and to be able to eat it, and throw their toys out if they don’t get what they want.
Look at King Charles, if he wasn’t a WEF stooge and just like Welby, all for Globalist woke antidemocratic policies, but an upholder of the Constitution and sees himself as treasonous for not putting the British people first, how long would he last against the establishment, especially the MSM who would be attacking him at every opportunity.
It’s just another kind of PsyOp, and we know how easily and effectively people ( including those who really should’ve known better, such as doctors ) were duped and brainwashed during 2020. We’ve all lived through the consequences of that. But I’m not a free speech absolutist because where does the ‘free speech’ part end and the propaganda/hate campaign begin? We’ve seen how effective the hate campaigns can be in various countries, including the way ‘right-wing’ political party members are treat and demonized, the violence and vitriol they’re experiencing either by the media, people online or people on the streets, in a supposed ‘free and democratic’ society that is meant to embrace and uphold the right to free speech. Right-wing parties are treat much like we ‘unvaccinated’ were treat. We were hated, othered and lies were said about us, based on complete BS, because it was a carefully crafted agenda. They need people to turn against each other because it suits the needs of those orchestrating the whole thing.
I think the problem is not about too much free speech, but not enough. Just a few National Newspapers have a great reach over others like The Light Newspaper, and of course social media censorship with the exception of X and all the vitriol they get for being over the target.
The Light Newspaper being the underdog that is.
I don’t care how long Chuckles might last, he swore an oath but refuses to uphold it.
Coward and traitor.
Free speech does not include incitement. Under Common Law one person’s freedom may not be exercised at the expense of another’s.
If exercising your right to free speech there are consequences to others, you can in Law be held to account.
That principle does not abrogate freedom of speech, but freedoms are not infinite and come with responsibilities.
Not sure what you are saying here, JXB. Are you saying that you can say whatever you want (and no-one can bring a legal action against you) unless there are consequences for others? For example, I could say something that someone finds humiliating or offensive. I would argue that I should have that right under law, but do you agree? Or are you simply saying that incitement to violence should not be permitted? In which case I would agree with you.
Who gets to decide what is defined is ‘incitement’….That is the issue with that. Libel laws cover damage to reputation of business where proof is needed that speech could (has) caused a loss. Incitement is treating people like Drones who don’t have free will and gives Government excuses to restrict free expression for what they decide is the greater good.
I think incitement to violence isn’t protected under the US Constitution – so the US courts clearly are able to define it. I agree with your free will point – but the inciter could still make the argument he is not responsible, he simply couldn’t argue that he is definitely not responsible because of his First Amendment rights.
But I assume you agree that the law should not try to prevent anyone from making humiliating or offensive comments?
That is correct, I rather someone online sending abuse than the Government deciding what I can and cannot hear.
I’ve a lot of respect for Christ Martensen. He was one of my go to people during the scamdemic, so I highly recommend this 50min video where he unpacks the whole thing. Like any intelligent person at this point, he’s scoffing at the fact we’re being treat like we’re stupid and are expected to believe this was just a case of incompetence on a grand scale by many people screwing up their personal responsibilities on the day, because all the evidence we do have points to an inside job. Also, was there even a second shooter?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YUoBcp1me0&ab_channel=PeakProsperity
It looks, sounds and smells like an inside job. I don’t believe the “lone gunman” mantra being pushed by the American authorities. As Christine Keeler said in different circumstances “they would say that, wouldn’t they.”
When Trump erupted onto the scene in 2015 and started acting like a bull in a China shop I distinctly remember thinking that whether justified or not, regardless of the extent to which his assertions were true or not, he was whipping up a storm. Not just by his words but with his tone and his overtly confrontational approach.
That is of course typical of revolutions, They are loud, messy and often violent.
What I’m not yet convinced is what we are witnessing is much of a revolution. So far all we have is a lot of anger and acrimony, But in terms of course correction? What we have actually seen since 2016 is more deficits and bigger debt, more illegal immigration, more climate policies, more extreme social liberalism, more censorship, more overseas conflict.
One might try to argue that it’s all the last 3 years of Biden (which may be partly true, although only partly) but it isn’t much of a revolution if the next guy can come along and make things even worse than they were before in just 3 years.
As much as I admire Trump for his balls and his relentlessness I have little faith that he is going to change much. Firstly because although his salesmanship is second to none, his track record executing is somewhat less impressive. Secondly and more importantly, I don’t see him committed to a radical reduction in the size of the state, which is the change that enables all other change,
That takes years and strong popular support which I don’t see. Nor do I see Trump interested in it, nor does he much of a track record doing that.
The powerful lobbyists will be a hard nut to crack let alone Wall Street, IMF, BIS, Blackrock etc etc.
He might not change much long term, but don’t be so sure about that. All over Europe people are voting against the Liberal Progressive Political Class that have been trying to impose their mass immigration, climate, sustainable, race and gender crap on us.
Are they?
Spain, France and the UK have all voted in left wing governments in the last year. Germany is governed by the SDP and Greens.
So in four out of the five biggest nations in Europe the left are in government.
Add to that the technocratic bureaucracy that actually runs everything through a massive web of institutions, all captured and in the hands of socialists.
The rise of “right wing populism” or whatever you want to call opposition to the technocratic agenda is perhaps the most exaggerated media story since covid.
It’s deliberate of course, designed to frighten the normie population and jolt them into voting against “the far right” and keep everything completely unchanged.
“What we have actually seen since 2016 is more deficits and bigger debt, more illegal immigration, more climate policies, more extreme social liberalism, more censorship, more overseas conflict.”
I am not sure about your “since 2016” take on these things – pre-Covid, all of these things had improved under Trump.
My take (FWIW) is that Trump was a bit naive first time around (in his appointment of advisers, mainly) and was also severely hindered by things like the Russia Collusion Hoax and impeachment proceedings etc. I think this time around he will appoint people like Vivek Ramaswamy and maybe RFK Jr who are both highly capable and recognise that many of the institutions are corrupt and need to be dismantled.
I think you are right about Trump being lead up the Garden Path.
https://rumble.com/v4iuf0l-it-wasnt-fauci-how-the-deep-state-really-played-trump.html?playlist_id=watch-history
I doubt Trump will go as far as you or I would like and doubt he has the support. I’d be happy if he significantly cuts immigration as that is hard to reverse.
King Charles wants a rise in living standards, how does that fit in with the Great Reset. Full of s*it.
He is indeed.
Free speech except incitement to hatred and violence.
A persistent ‘nudge’ of demonisation, vilification, of someone, talk of ‘elimination’, putting a bullet in him, putting a bullseye on him qualify.
Prosecution for incitement has to pass three tests: was it the speaker’s intention to incite; was the language capable of incitement; did it in fact incite hatred violence.
Not easy to prove, but maybe some of the more egregious cases deserve a Court case.
Not sure what you mean by “incitement to hatred” – but we should be very careful indeed about disallowing hate speech, because that is a backdoor to enabling censorship. I should be allowed to say “I hate Biden and encourage you to hate him too” and I should be allowed to say, for illustration, “I think trans people are sick” and “Islam is a disgusting religion”, etc
“There Can Be Only One Winner Now”. But who will be that winner? The article implies that Trump is almost a dead cert. Why does the author ignore the evidence showing that Trump needs oodles of luck to move back to the WH?Trump is against a mighty powerful syndicate of vested interests, namely the mega-donors to both parties. They make big bucks thanks to Biden, who provides cheap labour at home with his open border policy, and abroad with Chinese cheap labour (see Musk).
They are assisted by a hard core of “progressives” within Biden’s pseudo-Democratic Party (the fanatically pro-Palestinian “squad” is growing daily in numbers, Obama is not officially part of it yet), an anti-Trump media and the new voters’ mentality of not voting for a party but against another, in this case, against Hitler/Trump (this for a man with three Jewish grandchildren and a firm supporter of Israel).
Americans are beyond salvation, all doped with (Chinese imported) opioids, anti-depressants and a huge range of mind-blowing substances.
Moreover, the anti-Trumpers have another four months to try their Plans B C ….X Y Z, starting with another “pandemic” (see DS and Pfizer working overtime producing Covid jabs), a war here and there, a climate catastrophe, a Truss-like Wall Street collapse and a better trained shooter.
Perhaps, Mr Morrison should reconsider.
No, “unless anything extraordinary happens” (see my last paragraph).
Please accept my sincere apologies, I was carried away.
Trump has already had one term and I don’t remember democracy coming to and end, although I think the jury is still out on the legitimacy of the parts of the last election.
It occurs to me that, due to the rhetoric of people like Biden, Clinton, Harris and their MSM support pack, since 2015, this loser who turned his careless anguish onto the Republican movement overall, not caring about any collateral damage and targeting Trump specifically, will likely have been exposed to and captured by TDS since the age of eleven…
Kash Patel’s documentary will explain how the Deep State has been militarised against the Right.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/highly-anticipated-steve-bannon-documentary-premiere-rnc-government/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=highly-anticipated-steve-bannon-documentary-premiere-rnc-government
CIA DoD. Rona was an example. They did target Red States apparently with poisoned batches of the quackcines. The stolen 2020 election. 160 mn registered voters. Apparently 95% voted. Meanwhile back in reality no more than 120 mn legal voters will actually vote. Brain busting maths tell me that Biden and the Deep State committed a 40 mn vote fraud.
Will Bird Flu be used to do a Rona repeat and election theft? If you can’t kill Drumpf, make sure he loses pace the VP of Dominion?
All over the world. The triumph of spectacle over substance is complete. They are slling Trump for President t shirts now all over Asia. And even in the poorest communities people have mobile phones. The empire of illusion reaches its apotheosis in that picture. Powerful and irrversible.
“we saw secret service agents fiddling about for what seemed forever before Trump was away from danger. And why would you have three short women agents trying to cover a six foot guy and so leave his head exposed for further shots?”
They had one job ….. and it was botched. So they didn’t know what to do next.
No one now believes this was a lone Wolf attack. Troubling that the deep state may have had a hand in the attempt. Nothing else makes sense.
Trying to make sense, understanding, of what happened –
So he goes to a town that is not his hometown (how familiar was he with it?),
walks along with a rifle (and maybe a ladder) and rangefinder,
just happens by luck to find a building with a direct line to Trump where the roof is unoccupied with no surveillance by the Secret Service/Police
and finds a way to climb to the roof where no one sees him climbing to the roof
and then nothing is done to stop him??