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Schumer Suggests That The CIA Might Assassinate Trump

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Posted by Fred 2017-01-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 If anything happens to DJT I pity the Washington elite. It will be ugly.

Posted by jvalentour 2017-01-08 00:30|| 2017-01-08 00:30|| Front Page Top

#2 This fellow is now well beyond disgusting.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-01-08 00:42|| 2017-01-08 00:42|| Front Page Top

#3 I don't think the CIA would do anything that dumb. Now if details about past affairs, purchases, Internet browsing habits or shady dealings were to come to light, that could cause problems.

Posted by gorb 2017-01-08 00:49|| 2017-01-08 00:49|| Front Page Top

#4 Guess Schumer's inside team (re:mole) is becoming real nervous about their viability to keep the info flowing.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-01-08 06:58|| 2017-01-08 06:58|| Front Page Top

#5 Yeah right...like the 60ish rantburg regulars are going to rise up and smash the state. The US government is unbelievably well armed and is more than capable of taking care of any problems you might pose. They'll laugh and tell you to go back to your web browsing and stfu. And you will because your back hurts and you can't see 100 yards to shoot any more. Oh, the rants will be epic but nothing but keyboard warrioring. Let's not kid ourselves, if they bump off Trump you won't be stringing them up from lampposts.

Some bikers will get killed maybe. The great vaunted white rural class is too fat and on Oxycontin to pose any threat. Conclusion: mostly harmless.

Posted by Elmavish Panda1401 2017-01-08 07:00|| 2017-01-08 07:00|| Front Page Top

#6 Ref #5. When you have some free time, I recommend a reading of “Jack Hinson’s One-Man War,” written by Lieutenant Colonel Tom C. McKenney, USMC (Ret). It's a story about an old man who lived along the Tennessee River. I think you might enjoy it.

McKenney's book relays the story of the only naval vessel and troop transport in the history of the Republic to ever hoist a flag of surrender whilst underway, to a single enemy marksman.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-01-08 07:07|| 2017-01-08 07:07|| Front Page Top

#7 The US government is unbelievably well armed and is more than capable of taking care of any problems you might pose.

They said the same thing in Iraq. Didn't make headway till the Anbar Awaking and the locals decided to work with the Coalition.

1 - Don't count on the military. It'll break when its turned on the population.
2 - That's a population full of young vets from the WOT in that Red flyover country.
3 - Where are the govt personnel to live? Among the population. One of the reasons local police/govt are far less effective in other countries going through 'disturbances' because everyone knows where they live.

You've seem to have been checked out on what's going on in the ME about how effective all that government firepower can be beyond potential to applicable.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-01-08 07:48|| 2017-01-08 07:48|| Front Page Top

#8 Glad to see with #5 the liberal propaganda is still effective. Makes destroying them so much easier.

And Schumer, you might want to check your tongue. Lots of people in the government don't like this kind of talk from anyone no matter who they are.

Posted by DarthVader 2017-01-08 09:01|| 2017-01-08 09:01|| Front Page Top

#9 RE: #5

.COM is that you?

Posted by Thomomp Pheatch9037 2017-01-08 10:27|| 2017-01-08 10:27|| Front Page Top

#10 That is not .com, in case the question was serious.

Posted by Raj 2017-01-08 10:47|| 2017-01-08 10:47|| Front Page Top

#11 Sadly, .com died some years ago, Thomomp Pheatch9037.

Posted by trailing wife 2017-01-08 11:34|| 2017-01-08 11:34|| Front Page Top

#12 Dramatic headline much? Then again Dollard has never been known for his subtlety.

Posted by DepotGuy 2017-01-08 12:56|| 2017-01-08 12:56|| Front Page Top

#13 I didn't know, #11 tw. That's so sad. At least I don't have to keep wondering if he'll ever come back.

Posted by Barbara 2017-01-08 13:51|| 2017-01-08 13:51|| Front Page Top

#14 Yeah right..like the 60ish rantburg regulars are going to rise up and smash the state..

Awfully brave, coming from a (likely spoofed) Chinese IP.

Posted by Pappy 2017-01-08 14:14|| 2017-01-08 14:14|| Front Page Top

#15 Pappy - some of us *ahem* have a long track record of being a dick under our chosen nym. Others are new

Posted by Frank G 2017-01-08 15:11|| 2017-01-08 15:11|| Front Page Top

#16 Someone just sent me this by Kevin Williamson at National Review. Pretty interesting.

Excerpt of ending paragraphs: There is very little reason to have confidence that our current intelligence leadership, tied to our current bureaucratic structures, is up to that task. The next time you’re taking your shoes off at the airport, think what a few million dollars’ worth of prevention and bureaucratic reform might have accomplished at the end of the 20th century, and how different the world and this country might have looked had things gone differently. This isn’t a fight about ethanol subsidies or another culture-war campaign about which toilet is used by whom. Some things you have to get right, and this is one of them.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-01-08 15:48|| 2017-01-08 15:48|| Front Page Top

#17 Some interesting comments to #16 from Qwiket, particularly the following from OlduberGoober:

OldUberGoober • 2 days ago
I believe, with no scientific but plenty of practical evidence, that bureaucracies invariably and quickly reach a point where they are spending much more time and effort on the bureaucracy than on their mission. NASA is a prime example of this, bumming rides to orbit on Russian rockets and having their best American successes hiring SpaceX and OSC to do what NASA once did. Mostly they endlessly design the next big thing, but never actually get it to fly. Like most other federal agencies, they are a bureaucracy-shaped rathole we throw money down.

My solution: Every single bureaucracy should be closed and replaced every 25 or so years. One could avoid 'startup shock' by having two competing agencies with staggered terms. There would need to be a strong bias, encoded in law, against hiring people form the previous agency.

It's an ugly solution, but less ugly than what we have now.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-01-08 16:06|| 2017-01-08 16:06|| Front Page Top

#18 Re #11,13. That is a shame. .COM was Rantburg OG. I figured he would come back someday.

Posted by Thomomp Pheatch9037 2017-01-08 16:50|| 2017-01-08 16:50|| Front Page Top

#19 Not to break the above mentioned Rantburg rules but it would be the height of Irony if this fool was found dead by some very interesting circumstances.

The first rule of having six ways from Sunday to get back at someone fatally is that you don't talk about having six ways from Sunday to do it.

Sorry to hear about .com. He was a good one on Rantburg.

Posted by CrazyFool 2017-01-08 17:00|| 2017-01-08 17:00|| Front Page Top

#20 The beauty of an accurately fired metal projectile impacting the skull of a bad guy is, it didn't matter the race, physical condition, male or female gender of the index finger on the trigger, #5. It wonderfully delivers the target to the ultimate point of no return. There are many millions of those patriots here compared to only a hand full of bad guys, so only a fraction of the population will have the honor of shooting, and then unfortunately only once #5.

(Message courtesy the NRA)

Posted by Nero White 3083 2017-01-08 17:48|| 2017-01-08 17:48|| Front Page Top

#21 He will return Barb, to kick the hidden Immans ass when the time comes, look for a 1933 Ford Coupe.

Posted by Shipman 2017-01-08 19:45|| 2017-01-08 19:45|| Front Page Top

#22 #20: Bingo. Very . . . . . elegant.

Posted by Canuckistan sniper 2017-01-08 19:52|| 2017-01-08 19:52|| Front Page Top

#23 Thanks all for updates on .COM. I had wondered - he was an engaging fellow both in person and on the The 'burg, and he knew his dim sum

Posted by Rex Mundi 2017-01-08 21:21|| 2017-01-08 21:21|| Front Page Top

#24 Mr. Schumer has, apparently, forgotten he is not the only one in Fight Club.

Posted by Blossom Unains5562 2017-01-08 22:22|| 2017-01-08 22:22|| Front Page Top

#25 Y'all are very welcome. I only knew PD.com through our interactions at Rantburg, but he was always kind to me, and he coloured how I think about the world.

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