So, another leftist tried to shoot Trump. Well, we can stop making believe that the Democrats aren’t murderous sociopaths. Of course, they all make the same perfunctory “Political violence is totally unacceptable” statement in front of the cameras but what they mean is, “Better luck next time.”
Well, things are going to get uglier from here on in. So, this clarifies what the whole “No Kings” thing is about. You see Caesar was assassinated because he was toying with the idea of wearing a crown and the Romans had fought a war against the Etruscans to put an end to the monarchy. So, Trump is Caesar and that makes it logical that an assassin will step forward to “free” this country from its dictator.
To my mind this confirms the theory that the Left has weaponized their radical fringe. In addition to the three Trump shooters there is recently the Charlie Kirk assassin and the various transgender school shooters that have plagued us in the last few years. This will be a very dangerous time for people on the Right and strategies to deal with this environment should be planned.
I think one of the better actions would be to continue eliminating as much federal money from reaching NGOs and other avenues that allow abnormal people to exist at the fringes of society. Also, the crackdown on Antifa and Antifa-adjacent organizations is absolutely essential. These organizations are where the most dangerous ideologues are concentrated and provided with support and direction for their malice.
I think the Justice Department should publicize the fact that left-wing radicals are the most dangerous criminals currently operating in the United States and that a concentrated effort will be made to identify the leaders of this movement and hunt down the foot soldiers that have been radicalized based on their social media statements. That will rile them up and should be a good way to get a few of them to pop their heads up out of the sand.
But as I said, cutting off their funding is key. This latest psycho was from California. And California is hemorrhaging money at a phenomenal rate. The Silicon Valley tech bros are scattering to Texas and Tennessee as fast as they can and the next governor may turn out to be a Republican just because the budget has become unworkable and they need a villain to take the blame when the state union pension plans have to be raided. So, if the federal funds are effectively shut off the crazies will have no one to pay for their cross-gender hormones and intersectional studies tuition payments.
But there may not be a cure for what’s going on. The Left has a lot of lunatics and if they try very hard, they will kill some of their enemies. The question seems to be will American voters punish the Left for allowing its crazies to become assassins. That is the real question that will be answered in the mid-terms. If I were Trump, I’d play this thing out in the public square and tar the whole Democrat party with the psycho label.
Sadly we are getting into a situation where one side uses the ballot box, while the other prefers the cartridge box.
What I don’t understand is how this guy ended up without any bullets in him.
Haven’t seen a video showing the timeline from Cole starting his sprint to the take down but I get the feel that it was no more than a couple of seconds.
Equally importantly, how was Cole allowed to parade around the hotel upper floors carrying multiples of weapon while Trump was in the building? Does the SS not understand that security means layers? Their protection apparently ended at the entry foyer to the conference room.
What if Iran got a weapons team to the foyer and had a couple of M72 or RPG’s?
Game, set, match.
Yeah, something stinks about all this. How incompetent is the Secret Service?
A suicide vest full of C4 would have collapsed the ceiling. That ballroom is below ground-level.
Yeah the whole process of Cole’s being in that Hilton with weapons is odd to say the least. Did he bring them from California, home of where may issue means NO unless you are a celebrity’s bodyguard? Did he fly on a plane with weapons checked without declaring them? Or are we to presume a Cal Tech nerd got to the DC area (and DC gun rules make California look loosy goosey) and found an illegal source to source them? Or did he drive cross country with them in his trunk? And yes roaming about the upper floors with a… Read more »
I read that he bought the weapons over the past year or so and took a train from LA to DC. I’ve never travelled by train, but it is probably easier to take weapons on a train than a plane.
I’m sure I’ve been somewhat unfair to the Secret Service. But their job is so critically important that they must be held to an enormously high standard. They should be the ones criticizing their own performance. And that means terminating incompetent personnel.
The Secret Service is not exactly known for their marksmanship.
Recall the agent at the golf course missed the attempted assassin at relatively close range.
It used to be that fire arms ability was fundamental to the “action people” of the Secret Service but I think they are selecting for other characteristics now. Sorta like a microcosm of the nation as a whole.
Yeah. DEI. Secret Service used to be a bunch of large, buff men. Now it seems to be small plump women.
Just discouraging.
And I just ran into this on another blog
https://www.battleswarmblog.com/?p=71330
The link includes video from a camera where Mr. Cole essentially uses the advance stealth technique of running like a son of a gun to get by the Secret Service. There should be some heads rolling in the protective detail after that…
Yes, Trump should hire his own security contractors and have them review the practices and the competencies of the current Secret Service organization. Something is very wrong.