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Biden drops out. Endorses Kamala
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-Land of the Free
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[PeakProsperity] Audio Analysis Is 100% Clear: Trump & Crowd Were Shot At By Two Separate People

There’s zero doubt. Two separate weapons were fired toward Trump and the Crowd. One fired 3 rounds, the other(s?) 6 or 7 depending on how many sniper rounds were fired at Crooks. This indicates a conspiracy to assassinate Trump.
Posted by: Mercutio || 07/21/2024 08:59 || Comments || Link || [11141 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Interesting datum. Local Butler official says cops USSS lying: local cops were on traffic control only, so the news about a local sniper team taking a shot at Crooks is bull, leaving the question of who were the three shooters? Crooks, SS Sniper and ?
Posted by: Mercutio || 07/21/2024 10:14 Comments || Top||

#2  I thought I read there were four (4) sniper teams onsite, two USSS, a local and a state team. The second USSS team, farther away, did the kill shot, one of the locals also fired and missed, and Crooks fired multiple times. That seems to match the initial audio depiction of 3 disparate shooting sounds. Early yet and the failure of the USSS/EFFBEYE to report anything is highly suspicious and can only invigorate alternative theories. Really stupid, I expected more from the USSS, my father was an agent on the FDR/Truman WH details for all of WWII..
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 07/21/2024 15:24 Comments || Top||

#3  'Local' may have meant State or County, not Town.
Posted by: Glenmore || 07/21/2024 16:05 Comments || Top||

#4  Update from Sen Johnson - indicates that there were multiple local sniper teams so the official eems to have been full of it.
Posted by: Mercutio || 07/21/2024 19:06 Comments || Top||


Europe
[RT]Western elites are dysfunctional. Here's proof from the latest NATO Summit
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/21/2024 07:13 || Comments || Link || [11132 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Stoltenberg cautions against ‘prophecies’ over end of NATO
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/21/2024 7:15 Comments || Top||

#2  I have a dream: IMO Western "elites" are a lot like 18th century French nobility. You might call my dream anti-Scarlet Pimpernel.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 07/21/2024 7:39 Comments || Top||

#3  "We will always have Paris NATO."

The only question is whether any NATO members will be countries bordering on the North Atlantic.
Posted by: SteveS || 07/21/2024 10:17 Comments || Top||

#4  One for you Russia Russia Russians...

A sun born of bloody red dawn
Rose over embattled OTAN
As the Russkis attacked
But were beaten right back
By a billion Chinese... and Taiwan.
Posted by: Pancho Poodle8452 || 07/21/2024 17:57 Comments || Top||


The Rise and Fall of the Valkyrie: How Hitler Got Lucky for the Last Time
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Pavel Kiselev

[REGNUM] Eighty years ago, on July 20, 1944, Germans heard the astonishing news through their home radios (which many secretly called Goebbels-Schnauze - "Goebbels' snout") - an attempt had been made on the life of the leader of the German nation, Adolf Hitler. The Führer was alive and well, Goebbels' propagandist emphasized. But for the Germans, who (at least outwardly) had no doubt that "Germany is Hitler, and Hitler is Germany," this was a sudden realization that the threat to the Reich came not only from the "Russian front," but also from within. In fact, the Nazi "thousand-year empire" began to be undermined from within quite a long time ago. Moreover, in the environment that was supposed to become the pillar of National Socialism.

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Posted by: badanov || 07/21/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11134 views] Top|| File under:


Government Corruption
Why Aren't We Getting Public Updates About what happened a week ago yesterday ?
[Hot Air] You have to admit it is bizarre.

The assassination attempt on Donald Trump, in the midst of a contentious presidential campaign against the most famous man on planet Earth, has been almost memory-holed by the federal authorities.

They are saying very little.

Now it's true that for the most part, the media is doing its job digging. They are generally 2 days behind Dan Bongino, but the mainstream media is stretched so thin these days and often staffed by "journalists" who mostly gave up doing journalism when Barack Obama became president that it doesn't surprise me that they are late to the party.

This is more due to their modest competence and the rustiness of their skills than any attempt to bury the facts. They know this is a big story, and are doing their best, however bad that is.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/21/2024 05:39 || Comments || Link || [11139 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Could it be the same reason we still do not have all the facts on what took place on November 22, 1963 ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/21/2024 5:50 Comments || Top||

#2  Because talking about it doesn't look good for them, and it doesn't push their approved narrative.
Posted by: ed in texas || 07/21/2024 7:52 Comments || Top||

#3  No one wishes to discuss....

Plan B: Trump windsurfing with the Obama family at Martha's Vineyard.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/21/2024 8:30 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ I understand Obama invited Biden to paddleboard
Posted by: Frank G || 07/21/2024 10:11 Comments || Top||


#6  /\ Counter-sniper training and site security damn sure aren't 'mission imperatives.'
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/21/2024 13:24 Comments || Top||

#7  Give the FBI Evidence Concoction Team time to do its job.
Posted by: Gromble+Dribble4342 || 07/21/2024 15:01 Comments || Top||

#8  ^ Ha !
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/21/2024 15:22 Comments || Top||

#9  "Ongoing investigation; we can say nothing."
Posted by: Glenmore || 07/21/2024 16:07 Comments || Top||

#10  So now the airwaves will be filled with Biden and Harris/Obama until the DNC. No time for last Saturday.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/21/2024 19:05 Comments || Top||

#11  /\ Memory Hole backed for miles, all lanes.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/21/2024 21:44 Comments || Top||


Trump on 2020 Vote rigging
Posted by: 3dc || 07/21/2024 00:34 || Comments || Link || [11131 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  In spite of the polls and damning reports on Biden this could easily happen again.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/21/2024 2:24 Comments || Top||

#2 
How many have been sued, lost $$ Millions, and or jailed for just saying this about a factually proven massive voter fraud event?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/21/2024 6:31 Comments || Top||



Home Front: Politix
Clarice Feldman: What a Week!
By Clarice Feldman
The three top stories of the week are the Crowdstrike failure which interrupted internet service to millions; the attempted assassination of Donald J. Trump, and the ongoing Democratic coup against President Biden. You may recall that Crowdstrike was the source of the lie that Russians hacked the DNC files, so I have no sympathy for them. Apparently, there is little legal recourse for the victims of this outage, but I can imagine many institutions and businesses will be reconsidering continuing this service.

As for the attempted assassination, it bears a resemblance to the Crowdstrike outage in that it underscores the growing incompetence, lack of resilience, and poor preparation that marks so much of modern life here. Many have linked to a wonderful must-watch video of Ugandan kids reenacting the event. To me, the most amazing thing is that within 24 hours of the event, these kids in apparently a poor neighborhood in Africa, saw what happened, reenacted it with Trump as the hero, and then it was videoed, posted on Tik Tok, and seen around the world without filtering. The ability to instantly see, video, and transmit around the globe is amazing and underscores how rapidly the news business is changing. (It’s another reason why X, the largest free speech platform in the world, is so successful.)

As for the performance of the Secret Service, the number of shooters and the backstory about the attempted assassin itself, there are many questions which require further investigation and analysis. For one thing, there are reports that the Service was shorthanded because it had to assign its best agents to another event that day by Jill Biden in Pittsburgh. Was this a deliberate attempt to draw off agents? One commentator thinks it was suspiciously so.

Read the rest at the link
Posted by: badanov || 07/21/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11129 views] Top|| File under:


Victor Davis Hanson - 'The Biden Titanic'
[American Greatness] Joe Biden’s escalating dementia and the long media-political conspiracy to hide his senility from the public are the least of the Democrats’ current problems.

Biden’s track record as president may be more concerning than his cognitive decline. He has literally destroyed the U.S. border, deliberately allowing the entry of more than 10 million illegal aliens. His callous handlers’ agenda was to import abjectly poor constituencies in need of vast government services without regard for the current struggles of a battered American middle class and poor.

The widespread poverty of a vast new cohort of illegal immigrants could serve as indictments of a "racist," "unequal," and "unfair" America—as if the residents of East Palestine, Ohio or inner-city Chicago had anything to do with the centuries-long corruption and oppression of Mexico and Latin America that daily drives thousands of their own poorest citizens northwards to a society founded on very different ideas than those of their homelands.

Note that the left, neither in Mexico nor in America, never asks why millions of these impoverished people prefer to break into a supposedly racist America. Much less do they even distinguish those principles and values that once made America prosperous, free, and secure from their antitheses that have sadly made much of Latin America mostly poor, without freedom, and insecure.

Biden inherited near-zero real interest rates and inflation at 1.4 percent. Almost immediately, in nihilistic fashion, Biden did to a sound economy what he had done to a secure border. So, he recklessly printed money at a time of spiraling, quarantine-ending demand and supply chain disruption. Middle-class wages never caught up with Biden’s inflation, as prices for key staples are nearly 30 percent higher than when he took office.

The cost of servicing the ballooning national debt at high interest is now nearly $1 trillion per year. The world abroad is aflame, lit by Biden’s inexplicable withdrawal from Kabul, his mixed signals to Vladimir Putin on the eve of his invasion of Ukraine, his deliberate alienation of Israel, his appeasement of Iran and China, and his cuts in the defense budget, coupled with his woke war on mythical "racists" in the military.

Energy prices soared, even as Biden’s green agenda proved unworkable and prompted draining the strategic petroleum reserve and begging foreign oil despots before key elections. The "unifier" Biden by design needlessly alienated nearly half the country, and in his debate, he reiterated why Trump supporters do not deserve his concern. And more ominously and recently, Biden grossly told hundreds of his donors that "it’s time to put Trump in a bullseye"—just days before the attempt on Trump’s life.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/21/2024 07:58 || Comments || Link || [11129 views] Top|| File under:



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