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     Dear Hitler, “Joe Biden” wrote his personal note of condolence Saturday night. So sorry to hear that you were inconvenienced by loud noises in PA, where I grew up in the black church. Chris Wray tells me that fine people may be behind it. Will keep you in the loop. Get well soon!

     Here’s some more consolation: The New York Times reports this morning that the FBI is looking into the attempt on Mr. Trump’s life as “possible domestic terrorism.” One must ask: are they trying to shed new light on this event, or just blowing more smoke up America’s ass — because that has been the FBI’s specialty for at least the past eight years. We’ll know if they take the definitive step of labeling the act a “hate crime.”

     The weakness of narrative-tweaking is beginning to show. The amazing part is that only the elite thinking class of Americans fell for it, exactly the demographic that hangs on every word in The New York Times. The Deplorables out there in Flyoverland delivering Froot Loops to the Piggly-Wiggly and driving fork-lifts around the Amazon warehouse apparently never bought the narrative bullshit generated by the Media-Blob Industrial Complex. You’d hate to suppose that thinking is overrated. Or is it just a certain kind of thinking?

     Try as you might to locate some malign, overweening, scheming cabal behind all the trips laid on our country, the truth is probably much simpler: set out on a journey defined by one lie, and then tell a lie to cover the first lie, and then another, and pretty soon you’re lying all over the place about everything until reality gets obliterated. This is exactly what started in 2016 when Hillary Clinton sought to cover up her email and private server scandal with the Russia collusion hoax.

     Have you forgotten how entrenched the FBI, CIA, and other agencies dug themselves in on that? It began as dumb-ass insinuation that Donald Trump was a Russian agent, but the FBI turned itself into fantasy factory when they ran with the story. They manufactured one sub-plot after another, most of it comically absurd, like the entrapment of General Flynn for having a conversation with the Russian ambassador — as if foreign countries send ambassadors here for some other purpose than communicating with our government officials. Tell me, you Harvard grads who devour The New York Times every morning with your turmeric and wheat-grass detox smoothies: should an incoming White House National Security Advisor not speak with envoys from other lands?

      So, following the election of 2016, scores of government officials from Barack Obama and Joe Biden on down set out to wreck Mr. Trump’s turn in office, and ran one hoax after another to disable and dislodge him, and each hoax was a battery of lies begetting more lies. The style of thinking behind all that is called unprincipled. Many of these lies entailed crimes, some of them gigantic frauds perpetrated on the citizenry such as the ballot-stuffing operation that jammed “Joe Biden” into office — and which you were not permitted to speak of on penalty of cancellation and prosecution.

     By 2020, “Joe Biden” had racked up enough bribes from foreign lands that he was susceptible to blackmail and thus to manipulation. That his mind was failing through his entire term only made that easier. Both “Joe Biden” and the Neocon gang at State and the CIA were implicated in a web of crimes in Ukraine, and war there was one way to cover all of it up, so they made sure that war happened. The lies and hoaxes continued to multiply, accompanied by huge, destructive pranks — the George Floyd riots, the drag queens in the kiddie classrooms, the wide-open border, the FBI-instigated J-6 riot — and the Democratic Party was embroidered in that whole tapestry of degenerate politics along with the Deep State blob.

      In short, the Democratic Party appears to be guilty of programmatic treason against the people of the United States. They know that a reckoning awaits if Mr. Trump manages to return to office. They’ve known it for years. But two recent Supreme Court decisions really amped up their fears: 1) Trump v. the United States establishes presidential immunity from prosecution for acts involving his core constitutional duties; and 2) Loper Bright v. Raimondo establishes that the federal bureaucracy can no longer rule over citizens unchecked by the courts. Both of these would make it much easier for a President Trump to disassemble the Deep State. And of course, that may lead to the investigation and prosecution of Deep State personae who abused their positions — possibly even prison. . . a discomfiting prospect.

     The Democratic Party’s cover got blown on June 27th when Joe Biden had to go live in a debate and displayed his mental incompetency for all to see. That shock to the system forced a scramble to replace “JB” pretty late in the election cycle, since now just enough voters may be indisposed to re-electing an obvious human wreck. But the switcheroo effort seems to have lost traction. And the party may have muffed its blackmail leverage over “Joe Biden.” After all, his briberies are all well-cataloged by the House Oversight Committee, including the vast bank records of the many shell companies set up to receive the bribe money.

      Is it possible, though, that “Joe Biden” holds blackmail material over his party confederates? After all, he’s still president. He has access to things you’d never dream of and, demented as he is, he has plenty of help close at hand from Hunter, Dr. Jill, and the Lawfare posse for sorting it out. He probably knows a thing or two about his old pard Barack Obama, too, that would make some folks uncomfortable. So, looks like “JB” is fixing to hang in there as his party’s nominee, and whoever doesn’t like it can go suck an egg.

      After the stunning events of Saturday evening, it also looks like candidate “Joe Biden” would go down in flames against Donald Trump on November 5, stuffed drop-boxes and all. Not a few Democratic Party bigshots have already made noises about leaving the country if that happens, possibly to nations lacking extradition treaties with the USA. Many others must be gobbling Xanax like Tic Tacs now that Donald Trump has survived the ultimate affront to his existence. You know the old nugget of wisdom: if you come at the king, you better not miss. Ooops.


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1,229 Responses to “Shocks to the System”

  1. malthuss July 15, 2024 at 9:23 am #

    DT should avoid going out in public.

    The government gave him an AA female agent.

    • cowbell81 July 15, 2024 at 9:28 am #

      The would be taking a page from the Basement Biden playbook, exactly what they would want him to do. Trump draws record crowds and has excellent stage presence. Kowtowing to the domestic terrorists of the left should not be done.

    • mary.m July 15, 2024 at 9:52 am #

      No, he needs to hire his own security team. The secret service not only didn’t cover the roof just 599′ away with a clear line of sight to the podium, they left in place a ladder with direct access to the rooftop.

      Current meme:
      Why wasn’t the Secret Service on that roof?

      Because no need to have both the Secret Service & CIA there.

      • mary.m July 15, 2024 at 9:52 am #

        No, he needs to hire his own security team. The secret service not only didn’t cover the roof just 500′ away with a clear line of sight to the podium, they left in place a ladder with direct access to the rooftop.

        Current meme:
        Why wasn’t the Secret Service on that roof?

        Because no need to have both the Secret Service & CIA there.

        • neurodoc July 15, 2024 at 10:27 am #

          One of my patients is retired from the secret service; he tells me that his buddies still in the service are saying that an SS officer had the perp in his scope (that’s a rifle scope for those of you in blue states 🙂 ) for a full 3 minutes and was told to stand down until after the perp had fired multiple shots. Kinda weird but not surprising given who runs the secret service now (look HER up, she’s a DEI psychotic).

          • Socrates-Detroit July 15, 2024 at 12:33 pm #

            @neurodoc I heard that also, and saw a video (that I had a hard time following) supposedly showing the delay.

            “The SS agent should have neutralized the threat, and Trump should have been secured”, as you say.

            What if Thomas Matthew Crooks (TCM) was NOT the actual shooter?

            What if he was played and set-up to be the fall guy?

            What if he was the target of a Security State psychological operation? Early accounts portray him as kind of a loner, maybe bulled. That might be an ideal candidate for a fall guy..

            What if the shots directed at Trump came from ANOTHER SHOOTER, maybe in the “Security Detail”, who was in a position to target the President because he ostensibly needed to have a field of view to neutralize potential threats in the crowd that the security detail next to Trump may not be able to address?

            While, or a split second after this potential OTHER shooter got off 4 rounds, the Secret Service took out TCM, before TCM ever fired a shot.

            Did TCM have a scope? Was his weapon conducive to hitting a target at xx feet with “iron sights”?

            Did TCM have the skill? 20 years old, had not been in the Army or Marines, supposedly a lousy shot in High School. And this is a high-stress shot, not a paper target….

            If TCM was the actual shooter, it was a “near hit”, not a near miss. Just 2-3 inches… if Trump had not turned his head?

            I’m NOT saying I believe there was a 2nd shooter. I really don’t know. But I think I raise some good questions.

          • Prospero July 15, 2024 at 12:57 pm #

            Are we expected to believe the SS thought that the presence of Thomas Matthew Crooks on a nearby roof, armed with a rifle aimed at Donald Trump, wouldn’t be a problem as long as he didn’t fire his weapon? Crooks then proceeded to do his bang, bang, shoot, shoot thing and promptly had his head blown off. Killing the assassination patsy is a long standing tradition of assassination teams because their dead patsy can’t talk.

            It will be interesting to see how the ongoing “investigation” explains how Trump’s first serious assassination attempt was allowed to proceed without interruption. Tragically, one man died while shielding his family and two other audience members were wounded while the intended target ended up with a pierced ear. Obviously, Trump is a marked man and there will soon be more attempts to kill him.

          • Vegan Shark July 15, 2024 at 1:46 pm #

            neurodoc,

            Could you enlarge your trademark smiley face a bit? My eyes aren’t what they used to be and I have to squint to see it. Mucho thanks.

          • Islander July 15, 2024 at 6:39 pm #

            “Killing the assassination patsy is a long standing tradition of assassination teams because their dead patsy can’t talk.”

            An obvious point, but one that I haven’t seen mentioned much even in the alt media.

            My first thought: How convenient! Again!

            Doesn’t some play have the plot that while a shot is going off as part of the drama on stage a shot comes from offstage, or somewhere in a side box that actually kils someone. Or, a shot comes from the audience that actually kills the actor on the stage whose acting job is to act dead . . . except he is actually dead . . .Or, the “stage” gun is accidentally actually loaded (cf. Alex Baldwin) . . .

            Myriad scenarios, once you create a stage . . .

            Of course,
            “All the world’s a stage . . .”

          • River July 15, 2024 at 7:45 pm #

            It seems to me that there were too many screw-ups for it to simply be an SS ‘epic failure’ vs a planned op… (I agree that the woman running the SS is off her rocker – apparently her goal is to have the SS force comprised of 30% women… I mean, if there’s any job that requires being hired for one’s physical condition instead of DEI, it’s SS. – I was actually embarrassed for the short, obese SS women who obviously had no idea what they were supposed to do in said situation.)

            Jonathan Gilliam’s interview on Fox highlighted the utter incompetence of the SS on the 13th.

            Even the guy from the BBC interview stated that if he had been walking around with a rifle in that very same area he’d have been taken down… (then again, maybe not on that day…)

            I don’t believe that Trump was somehow in on it. He may fall into the narcissist category but that just makes him think that he’s the only one who can get this country back on track. I doubt that he’d go along with allowing people in the crowd to get killed/injured just so that he could potentially look good (esp when he was already on track to beat Biden).

        • Socrates-Detroit July 15, 2024 at 10:31 am #

          I would have presumed that, given his wealth PLUS his following, former President Trump would have hired some one trustworthy to watch the “watchers”.

          We have no way of knowing.

          This looks like negligence to me, leaving an open shot to a Presidential candidate, let alone a former President.

          How many open shots have they left up BEFORE July 13, hmm?

          Negligence at a minimum. CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE.

          • Jarek July 16, 2024 at 12:12 pm #

            If they wanted Trump gone, he’d be gone. If they wanted to kill him that day, then the second shooter would have been a pro who wouldn’t have missed, either one of the Federal snipers or a completely unknown professional from farther out.

            If you want to apply the JFK scenario, apply it but do it fully. And since it doesn’t fit, discard it.

        • cbeard July 15, 2024 at 11:28 am #

          I’ve read articles that said the building was 148′ from the podium.

          • mary.m July 15, 2024 at 5:09 pm #

            135 meters, not feet.

      • Paula D July 15, 2024 at 10:58 am #

        RFK was shot by his security officer, Thane Eugene Cesar, from behind.
        JFK had SS, but they were told to stand down.

        When the Deep State wants to get you, they have seven ways to Sunday to do it.

    • hmuller July 15, 2024 at 10:00 am #

      Trump needs to dump the secret service entirely and use private security – for obvious reasons

      • malthuss July 15, 2024 at 10:02 am #

        thats a smart outlook.

        no AA hires.

        • Vegan Shark July 15, 2024 at 2:01 pm #

          malthuss, that is an excellent idea. But would Trump’s own praetorian guard be legally permitted to occupy all the locations needed to protect him? Would he, a private citizen currently, have the authority to tell the SS to make itself scarce? Visualize a turf war between competing bodyguard units.

      • Jarek July 15, 2024 at 12:02 pm #

        As Sky News (the new and international Fox news) put it, Fumbeling Fumbalinas. The protocol is for large men to provide body cover for the President – typically large men like Trump at 6 foot 3. The little Fumbalina at 5’4″ provided a perfect head shot if there were another shooter there, assuming the whole thing was real at all which is wasn’t.

        Why not go all the way? Make it all Fumbalinas, say Black, Lesbian dwarfs? Have other teams of other kinds of Fumbalinas. All Fumbis all the time.

        • hmuller July 15, 2024 at 12:09 pm #

          The black, lesbian, dwarves have already been allotted the WH Press Secretary position.

    • AreC July 15, 2024 at 11:29 am #

      Why did she take her sunglasses off? First thing I noticed about that shot after the def Iwo Jima vibe it gave off

      • hmuller July 15, 2024 at 11:59 am #

        That image haunts me. It’s too perfect to be pure coincidence.

        • Qwibqwib July 16, 2024 at 12:00 am #

          Do you think the original was too perfect, as you say?

      • Jarek July 15, 2024 at 12:04 pm #

        She wanted to look cool for the moment. Imagine all the guys at Iwo Jima mugging for the camera.

        Is there anything more horrible than smiling on cue? Cheese!

        • hmuller July 15, 2024 at 12:14 pm #

          Jarek, viewing that perfect Iwo Jima photo op restaged with a bloody, defiant Trump under an American flag of distress (upside down) – it’s all just too perfect. What do you think?

          • Jarek July 15, 2024 at 1:42 pm #

            It’s all too perfect. Even as Trump was being put in the car, he again raised his unbloody hand. Is trying to show us that it’s fake? Is it a cry for help?

          • Ron Anselmo July 15, 2024 at 2:03 pm #

            H – the flag is fine, displayed horizontally, or vertically (as in this case), the union is always in the upper left corner of the viewer. It is surprising though how many people wear shirts that improperly display the flag vertically.

            When you point it out to them, you get that blank stare. When you tell them it’s because their shirt was made in China, you get that same blank stare.

    • GoldenRoad July 17, 2024 at 2:50 pm #

      The cesspool here is filled the biggest lot of racist misogynists afraid to go out of their houses without being covered in tin foil. Which is alright because they’ll all be dead way sooner than me thankfully.

  2. teddyboy46 July 15, 2024 at 9:24 am #

    To me it is JFK and Lee Harvey Oswald, all over again.

    • MiTurn July 15, 2024 at 9:58 am #

      Good comparison, except Oswald had sniper training. This dead 20-year-old wannabe leftist hero hadn’t.

      • Paula D July 15, 2024 at 11:41 am #

        I think he means the patsy is killed to keep him quiet, not that LHO actually did the shooting.

        I may be wrong with that interpretation.

      • J.Gan. July 15, 2024 at 4:32 pm #

        False, LH Oswald received no “sniper” training in the Marines. He learned to shoot, and had “maggie’s drawers” which means he was not a particularly good shot, but could pass for what the Marines required for being qualified on the rifle range. There was also no evidence Oswald fired any rifle on Nov 22. Parafin tests done on him did not alert for not having fired any gun at all that day. Oswald did work for a branch of US intel, likely CIA since he had received Russian language training. Normal Marines, in basic training, are not exposed to Russian language, ever.

    • Vegan Shark July 15, 2024 at 2:20 pm #

      It’s tempting to see it as a re-staging of the JFK/LHO scenario. But would it play in Peoria? In 1963 the American public generally trusted government agencies and official explanations. But that was some 60 years ago, and several generations have arrived since. Today’s population is far less apt to buy the “story” — if anything, skepticism is now the norm.

      Of course some dim-bulb conspirators might not realize the changed context and think that what sorta worked once might again. Plotters can be clever without being smart.

  3. NickelthroweR July 15, 2024 at 9:25 am #

    Greetings,

    I do not live far from where this assassination attempt occurred. I can tell you that the people around me are livid. If there were any Biden supporters in this region then they’ve gone into hiding. Also, don’t think that we were not unaware of how CNN, USA Today, and ABC News reported the event – the screenshots of it were being passed around before the liberals in NYC even knew the event had happened. They tried to play it off as if nothing but a loud noise had spooked Trump and he had to be rushed offstage. Those screenshots have blackpilled any fence sitters there were out there.

    You can’t report like they did unless they were in on it.

    • Not_GeorgeT July 15, 2024 at 9:54 am #

      “You can’t report like they did unless they were in on it.”

      Wouldn’t by any chance happen to be hinting at the 3-letter agencies running those media outlets ?

    • Paula D July 15, 2024 at 11:01 am #

      I saw the purported order sent to all media outlets telling them to downplay it.
      They pretended that loud noises scared Trump and they didn’t mention the word “assassination”.

      It was uniform, except for CNN, who reported that SS rushed Trump off the stage after he “fell down”.

      I just tried to look something up, and ABC is still reporting that “Trump says someone shot him”.

      If that order wasn’t real, there had to have been another, because it was too coordinated to be random.

      • NickelthroweR July 15, 2024 at 2:37 pm #

        Who gave the order to downplay it? Was it the same group that gave the order to assassinate Trump? It must be so, right?

        • Paula D July 15, 2024 at 5:42 pm #

          If I run across it again, I’ll see if they are identified.

          But yeah, the coverup always comes immediately after the operation.
          They are planned together.

    • GoldenRoad July 17, 2024 at 2:51 pm #

      Yeah drove through there two days ago3 0 miles north of Butler. Hard to find a mouth with more than 5 teeth.

  4. RaymondR July 15, 2024 at 9:27 am #

    Prior to the assassination attempt, the two candidates were fairly even in the opinion polls. That could change now. Also, the attempted murder might encourage many more people, otherwise apathetic, to get out and vote in November.

    Finally, it wasn’t just DJT who dodged the bullet, but all America.

    • cowbell81 July 15, 2024 at 9:29 am #

      We are presently on a fine line of history, a very fine line.

    • malthuss July 15, 2024 at 9:36 am #

      FAKE POLLS.

      • Not_GeorgeT July 15, 2024 at 9:57 am #

        Martin Armstrong consistently has the ‘Joe Biden’ operation in single digit approval.

        Fake polls become a necessity, to the point they’re a way of life on this part of the planet.

      • MiTurn July 15, 2024 at 11:00 am #

        Fake polls, fake media, fake leaders.

        • Jarek July 15, 2024 at 12:08 pm #

          Fake assassination attempt. Trump is the deep state candidate now. He has promised to say the course in Ukraine, Gaza, and Taiwan. That’s what they want. He stayed the course on the Vax. They know he will do what needs to be done. If not, he goes.

          The one salient fact: The Deep State snipers waited for the patsy to get in place and take his shot. Obviously he had been given blanks to play with.

          • abbybwood July 15, 2024 at 12:48 pm #

            Tell that to the family of the firefighter chief who shielded his daughter and had his brains blown out, and to the families of another two individuals who are now in critical condition.

            No need to put SS agents on the perfect building. The CIA already had it covered.

          • GreenAlba July 15, 2024 at 12:56 pm #

            A blogger I read regularly agrees it was fake, agrees Trump is in cahoots with the Deep State, but also thinks Trump is seriously afraid of Kennedy, electorally speaking, and that this was also an attempt to up-stage the RFK Jr with a Kennedy-style Deep-State ‘assassination attempt’.

            The Iwo Jima thing is a bit embarrassing, like a geriatric rock musician.

          • C.O.Jones July 15, 2024 at 1:24 pm #

            Cui bono?

            The course we’ve been on will be blamed on Biden until he is replaced. He refuses to leave so how can he be replaced?

            Cue the all-conquering superhero who survives assassination attempts – you know, the man of steel.

            He will be swept into office and what will be the result? Stasis.
            Stay the course in Ukraine, tweet to your Blackrock masters who own the stock market just how wonderful a job you are doing. He will accomplish exactly nothing and blame it on “being rolled” or being betrayed by the swamp rats he appoints.

            Get some RINOS in congress to blow hot air at the secret service like Rand Paul did at Fauci and be content that will complete the “investigation.”

            Crank up WWIII and “move along, nothing to see here, it’s yesterday’s news.” Deep state victory.

          • Socrates-Detroit July 15, 2024 at 1:35 pm #

            Cui bono? Had this crime succeeded

            1. NUMBER ONE is the Warfare State/Military Industrial Complex that wants to keep this war in Ukraine going. While Trump is a wild card, no one else is going to reassess US policy here. NO ONE.

            And right now, even more than the COLOSSAL sums of money America is wasting, the US government and deep state, working at the behest of the nefarious forces of evil (big capital, the establishment) is constantly escalating while America fixates on “other news”.

            Laugh if you want, but there is a real chance of WW3 breaking out. And the PTB don’t care.

            2. The Democratic Party. Biden has imploded. The talking heads tell us that, even though Biden “may be” mentally unfit, “at this late date, there are many “challenges to replacing him as nominee at this late date”. So, if the OTHER party has to replace THEIR candidate, well, it evens out.

          • Uncle Abraham July 15, 2024 at 2:43 pm #

            Conjecture stated as fact without verification or even common sense. A sign of fantasy thinking from mental disorder.

          • C.O.Jones July 15, 2024 at 2:55 pm #

            “NUMBER ONE is the Warfare State/Military Industrial Complex that wants to keep this war in Ukraine going. While Trump is a wild card, no one else is going to reassess US policy here. NO ONE.”

            Yes, the deep state wants the war to continue and Trump would be just as successful at stopping it as he was draining the swamp.

            Saturday was a win-win for the deep state. If the shooter is successful, Biden marches on to victory and it’s business as usual. If the shooter fails, Trump is swept into office and it’s business as usual.

            Try to disabuse yourself of the notion that Trump is going to accomplish a damn thing. He was impotent and inept in his first term. What makes anyone think the second term would be different? Has he suddenly gained the intelligence required to vet appointees? “I’m Donald Trump – vote for me, I’m a lot smarter than I used to be!”

            TRUMP IS THE DEEP STATE.

          • mary.m July 15, 2024 at 5:25 pm #

            In which case, I’d guess the shot at Trump was a warning. Disobey orders & the real sniper won’t miss.

            Very little would surprise me these days.

          • Paula D July 15, 2024 at 5:43 pm #

            RFK, Jr. has already said he will reassess the Ukraine war, as well as the Deep State.

            He is a much bigger threat to them than Trump.

          • C.O.Jones July 15, 2024 at 7:05 pm #

            “RFK, Jr. has already said he will reassess the Ukraine war, as well as the Deep State.” – Paula

            I remember RFK saying he would “negotiate an end to the Ukraine war.”

            That’s a lot different than arming up Zelensky and sending him huge US taxpayer dollars which is what Trump did before the war even started.

            Would Trump dare admit that was a mistake? No. His ego will not permit it. On with the war, this is it!

            Mayorkas announced today that RFK Jr. would get secret service “protection.” Imagine being a fly on the wall for that conversation:
            “Bobby – Alejandro here – Good news! We’ve decided to go ahead and provide you with secret service!” protection.”

            “Good news for who? It didn’t work out so hot for Donnie Rothschild now did it? I’ve been paying for my own security and having the DEI secret service around just means my security guys will have to protect against your inept clowns. No thanks!”

          • Mac July 16, 2024 at 1:22 pm #

            Yeah, sure, Jarek. “When I turn my head, you shoot off the top of my ear. Okay?”

        • malthuss July 15, 2024 at 12:14 pm #

          and real problems.

        • nancyd July 15, 2024 at 12:45 pm #

          Ain’t that the “truth.”

    • Ron Anselmo July 15, 2024 at 10:41 am #

      Ray R – yes, 48-47, with 4% undecided is very close. Fairly even. as you say.

      Because polls are in percentages, think of it this way, in terms of 100 people.

      Do you honestly think that if you line up 100 people, 47 or 48, would vote for Biden?

      Please say no.

      • RD3 July 15, 2024 at 11:14 am #

        “Do you honestly think that if you line up 100 people, 47 or 48, would vote for Biden?”

        It depends where you are. In Massachusetts, 92 out of 100 would vote for Biden.

        • Ron Anselmo July 15, 2024 at 11:20 am #

          RD3 – you can’t be serious. If so, WTF is the matter with those people?

          • RD3 July 15, 2024 at 11:34 am #

            Biden won every county in Massachusetts in the 2020 election and 82% of the vote in Suffolk County, where Boston is located. So, I might have exaggerated, to a very small degree.

            What normal people in middle America can’t understand is how degenerate and horrible New England really is. It is and always has been a cancer on the Republic. Many of these people have now dispersed outward into North Carolina, Virginia, Florida, etc. infesting these areas with their vile depravity with them.

          • Paula D July 15, 2024 at 11:42 am #

            Wasn’t Boston the place where USP delivered the extra ballots at 3am?

          • hmuller July 15, 2024 at 12:06 pm #

            RD, reading Lovecraft stories I sense the old New England families are into incest and Satanism. Just look at the Bush family (and the pervs even claimed to be Texans).

            Is that what you’re talking about in ref: ” degenerate and horrible” beyond what decent people can imagine.

          • Cankerpuss July 15, 2024 at 12:07 pm #

            Ron, they have no reason NOT to vote for Biden. They are wealthy, pampered, have great government and university jobs with pensions. Life is good for them. Why vote any other way?

            That’s the only thing that makes any sense to me. Nothing has caused them to re-think their way of doing things because, for them, life is hunky-dory.

          • Jarek July 15, 2024 at 12:10 pm #

            The epicenter of the evil is Innsmouth, just north of Salem. Don’t look for it on the map. You won’t find it.

          • Not_GeorgeT July 15, 2024 at 12:28 pm #

            These Northeast states have been the petrie dish for the dismantling of the former Republic.

            The elections are rigged if necessary. Many times it is not necessary because, in MA, 70% of the incumbents (all woke democrats, one-party state) run unopposed.

            They get to move up the ladder by doing what they are told and waiting for thier ‘turn’.

            A few years back Shiva ran a write-in campaign.

            He only carried Hampden County. Hampden county is the only county in MA using paper ballots.

            ME has ranked-choice voting. The result is Janet Mills, a triumph for third-string players.

            VT is a socialist paradise

            RI is almost a carbon copy of CT & MA.

            Add in NY & NJ.

            NH is a free state (mostly, and mostly north of Concord) but Southern NH is a Boston suburb.

            MA is experiencing an out-flow of skilled workforce (taxpayers) estimated at 50K/year. Also, with an unfriendly business environment, companies are leaving, contributing to the outflow.

            Illegal invaders are running rampant, aided by the governor and legislature.

            Just a small expansion on RD3 comments, it’s worse than space here permits.

          • mary.m July 15, 2024 at 5:01 pm #

            There’s a reason they call them Massholes. I’ll leave it at that.

          • RD3 July 15, 2024 at 8:33 pm #

            New Englanders are the type of people who forcibly integrate your school at the point of a bayonet because their kids all go to private boarding schools. Similarly, they’ll flood your town with illegals and call you a racist bigot if you resist, but when you load up a bus of third-world pygmies and ship them to their town, they throw a fucking fit and get rid of them as soon as possible.

            I harbor a dream, deep in my soul, that one day, decent folks can completely and devastatingly reconstruct New England. Inshallah.

  5. vengeur July 15, 2024 at 9:31 am #

    So we’re expected to believe this 20 year old wimpy nerd who lives with his parents figured out exactly where a flaw in the Secret Service’s protection was???

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    • Graham July 15, 2024 at 9:52 am #

      Definitely NOT!

      This guy is seen in a recent Blackrock commercial.

      Hmmmm

      • MiTurn July 15, 2024 at 9:59 am #

        I’m glad someone got a screenshot of his Instagram personal page that had him self-identifying as an Antifa member, before it was deleted.

    • Not_GeorgeT July 15, 2024 at 10:02 am #

      Yup, another ‘lone wolf’ goes off the rails, conveniently terminated at the end of his usefulness.

      It’ll come from the 3-letter agency made into an empire unto itself by JEH beginning with a fear campaign in the 1930’s, transforming a backwater agency into the gestapo we have today.

      Script doesn’t change, only the characters.

  6. Zoltar July 15, 2024 at 9:37 am #

    On July 13th, 2024, the failing US Empire came within two inches of being thrust into C W II.

    In The Fourth Turning, Neil Howe and William Strauss point out that at each of these critical junctures in this nation’s history a Gray Champion has emerged to lead the United States through an existential crisis. Writing in 1997, the authors cautioned that at the next Fourth Turning our society might not produce a Washington, or a Lincoln, or an FDR, and that the character of the individual would be critical.

    If there can have been any doubt, on Saturday Donald J. Trump rose up on stage moments after being shot, face streaked with blood, defiant fist raised, and settled the issue: for better or worse, he is our Gray Champion.
    Setting electability aside, if Senile Joe drops out tomorrow, the Democrats have any number of interchangeable substitutes available – all similarly woke, and identically owned by AIPAC and the Corporate State.

    But after Saturday we must face the fact that, at this juncture in our nation’s life, there is no substitute for Trump, no alternative Republican with either the balls or the inclination to fight The Blob and attempt to reverse the current, disastrous trajectory.

    Howe and Strauss recall that the Gray Champion isn’t necessarily obvious. Neither Lincoln nor FDR appeared capable of saving the country before becoming president, yet both rose to the occasion and shouldered appalling burdens of responsibility.

    The current Democratic narrative about Trump idiotically pretends that we have no basis for anticipating how he will behave as president, after he already occupied the Oval Office for four years.

    On the other hand, he does seem to have emerged from the crucible of eight years of obstruction, vilification, and legal persecution as a changed man: less naive, and more determined. Dare we hope that he is the leader we need today? If the Uniparty doesn’t succeed in killing him first, we will soon find out.

    • Bill of Rights July 15, 2024 at 9:53 am #

      Thank you for taking the time to explain a bit of how the book applies today Zoltar.

      • Not_GeorgeT July 15, 2024 at 10:07 am #

        If I could get a thumbs up emoji inserted here I would.

      • Ron Anselmo July 15, 2024 at 10:48 am #

        Second.

    • Groundhog July 15, 2024 at 10:26 am #

      Lincoln didn’t “save” the country. He instead destroyed our first republic. FDR didn’t save anything either. The Axis powers were in no position whatsoever to invade and take down the USA. And FDR didn’t “beat” the Germans. The Russians did that.

      • neurodoc July 15, 2024 at 10:30 am #

        Groundhog: you are speaking truth that few know and fewer want to hear. Thanks.

        • OG Is Nuts July 15, 2024 at 10:41 am #

          If that’s the case, why was Stalin screaming for a Second Front in 1942? Who was going to open that second front if America didn’t ? Britain ? (LAUGHS)

      • OG Is Nuts July 15, 2024 at 10:43 am #

        Groundhog having no American intervention in the Eurpean theater has been gamed out a multiple amount of times, and if America didn’t intervene, the Germans would have had much more time to develope some pretty nasty “wonder weapons”

      • oldandtired July 15, 2024 at 10:52 am #

        Was Lincoln the Founding Father of “The Blob”?

      • Cankerpuss July 15, 2024 at 11:01 am #

        Lincoln officially destroyed “state’s rights” and empowered the Federal leviathan we currently enjoy. Lincoln overthrew the separation of powers designed by the founders.

      • cbeard July 15, 2024 at 11:38 am #

        A hat tip to Groundhog for the truthful post.

      • Target_on_my_Back July 15, 2024 at 9:14 pm #

        But FDR did do something. He confiscated everyone’s gold.

    • Jarek July 15, 2024 at 12:14 pm #

      He is the Uniparty pick. Biden is too far gone and there’s no time to pick someone else. The Democrat wing screwed up, so they’re going to with the Jersey reds. Carrot and stick. 100 million from the Adelson widow is the carrot, the stick is what he’s been getting. But all that suddenly disappeared. Did you notice?

      Now an apotheosis! Trump loves this kind of stuff. It’s just like his debut in pro-wrestling with Vince McMahon. In wrestling, heroes become villains and villains, heroes, all the time.

      • mary.m July 15, 2024 at 5:11 pm #

        Something we agree on.

    • Vegan Shark July 15, 2024 at 2:37 pm #

      Neither Lincoln nor FDR appeared capable of saving the country before becoming president, yet both rose to the occasion and shouldered appalling burdens of responsibility.

      Bollocks. Lincoln damn near destroyed the country by signing on to northern fanaticism for his own political gain, at an unthinkable cost in American lives. As for FDR, he maneuvered the US into a world war and set in motion the monstrous growth of federal government that we live under today.

      • Not_GeorgeT July 15, 2024 at 5:56 pm #

        Jefferson Davis opined the Southern Secession should have been settled in the courts, not on the battlefield.

        • jim e July 18, 2024 at 8:30 pm #

          Jefferson Finis Davis

    • C S July 16, 2024 at 1:18 am #

      Excellent comment. I agree.

  7. VeryVer July 15, 2024 at 9:40 am #

    Best sentence ever:
    “The Deplorables out there in Flyoverland delivering Froot Loops to the Piggly-Wiggly and driving fork-lifts around the Amazon warehouse apparently never bought the narrative bullshit generated by the Media-Blob Industrial Complex.”

    • MiTurn July 15, 2024 at 10:02 am #

      Hat tip to JHK for such a fine essay that he probably wrote on the fly, as he probably had a prior one ready for today. News happens fast and JHK responded. Maybe he can give us a two-fer and publish his original article too.

      • Socrates-Detroit July 15, 2024 at 10:37 am #

        Excellent essay.

        If America was as great as I once believed when I was a kid, a rather long time ago, if people still read print newspapers, today’s essay would appear in the editorial or op-ed section of this morning’s print newspapers.

        This essay would have appeared in either the Detroit Free Press or the Detroit News.

      • Paula D July 15, 2024 at 11:04 am #

        He said on one of his podcasts that he gets up at 4am and writes the day’s essay.

        • Jarek July 15, 2024 at 12:15 pm #

          Are you still writing? How is your brother leftist, kdog?

  8. H2power July 15, 2024 at 9:42 am #

    There are no coincidences anymore. Things just don’t add up. Kid missed targets by 20 feet.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13634063/Trump-shooter-Thomas-Matthew-Crooks-rejected-high-school-rifle-team.html

    • Paula D July 15, 2024 at 11:44 am #

      Lee Harvey Oswald also flunked his shooting tests in the Marines.

      • Uncle Abraham July 16, 2024 at 11:56 am #

        Not true. Oswald passed his Marine marksmanship testing at expert level, and excelled at shooting rapid rounds such as occurred at Dealy Plaza. The evidence against Oswald is so abundant and overwhelming that one has to purposely blind themselves to believe he didn’t shoot JFK.

        • Paula D July 16, 2024 at 1:11 pm #

          And yet, when expert marksman were asked to replicate his feat, they were unable to do it.

          Go make yourself useful, and feed your seeing dog.

          • Uncle Abraham July 17, 2024 at 12:22 pm #

            Replicated it was indeed. You assume I have the self awareness to recognize if I were blind, but obviously you don’t possess the same quality.

    • Jarek July 15, 2024 at 12:16 pm #

      Do people really believe that the Deeps were depending on these people? If so, they don’t understand what a patsy is. You don’t expect the patsy to hit anything or at least not the right thing.

  9. SpeedyBB July 15, 2024 at 9:43 am #

    Folks, I added this interesting link to the testimony (opinion) of a Canadian super-sniper to the tail-end of Friday’s blog. I think it is worth carrying here, particularly as the gentleman is firmly convinced the attempted killing was an inside job – either part of a conspiracy or a sloppy, careless “hungover-at-Dealey-Plaza-and-not-giving-a-shit” passive lapse … (with Landslide Lyndon Johnson hands-off, uninvolved but quite aware of what was going on around him).

    (Reaches down to “tie his shoelace” at the moment the shots are fired. Lady Bird: “Lyndon, what are you doing?”) (Snicker)

    h??ps://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/veteran-holding-sniper-world-record-speaks-on-trump-shooting/ss-BB1q0cGV?cvid=d139f0f6729d4e71bbd761a4d7e98726&ei=54#image=1

    • Not_GeorgeT July 15, 2024 at 10:32 am #

      Speedy, thanks for the link to the slide show.

      The points made are all valid.

      I have some question why the officer on the left looked away from the glass just before the shots.

      It was offered it was to verify what was out of FOV for what he had dialed in. There are other solutions if this was an issue, plus there were two of them on the roof.

      It needs to be brought up as part of whatever ‘investigation’ transpires.

      The Canadian’s point about being able to get within zeroing range is well-taken.

      Given standard zeroing for a dmr is 200 yds, also a common zeroing point on many ballistics charts it raises further questions about what was really going on.

      I always want these situations to marinate before rushing to conclusions.

      This one is odorous and it’s not a pleasant one.

      • stelmosfire July 15, 2024 at 11:20 am #

        According to Eric Prince (Blackwater founder) the sniper who brained Crooks was not the one seen in the news. It was another SS sniper 488 yards away from the assassin.

        x.com/realErikDPrince/status/1812538250931642534/photo/3

        • Not_GeorgeT July 15, 2024 at 7:14 pm #

          Thanks for the link. At first I thought it was the #2 to the right of the tripod guy. He didn’t move until after. Then saw something about 488 yds by USSS. Was looking for corroboration, which your link provided.

          The extraction was addressed in the link as well. Too many people running around without purpose. This raises a huge # of questions.

          The investigation? Don’t hold your breath. Expect finger-pointing. Fox inside the chicken coop.

      • Jarek July 15, 2024 at 12:20 pm #

        Focus on the salient point and then extrapolate on that basis: The SS or CIA snipers let Crooks get into place and fire (blanks I assume). Only then did they take him out.

        Obviously it’s an inside job. Trump is the Deep State candidate now and no champion of the people – if indeed he ever was.

        • stelmosfire July 15, 2024 at 12:47 pm #

          Jarek, an AR rifle like the shooter had will not really cycle with blanks. It needs an adapter as it is gas operated.

          • Jarek July 15, 2024 at 1:47 pm #

            Maybe that’s not the rifle he used. Or maybe they gave him an adapter! The kid was a sacrifice. Hopefully they gave him some nice things during his final months.

  10. fugeguy July 15, 2024 at 9:43 am #

    Normal playbook (for dealing with rogue candidates):

    1) Discredit
    2) Put in Jail
    3) Kill

    What’s next?

    Unfortunately, for us, I think they will try to burn this sucker down rather than relinquish power.

    We will find out soon.

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    • Cankerpuss July 15, 2024 at 10:58 am #

      The fire has been kindled. We are now waiting for the conflagration.

      • Not_GeorgeT July 15, 2024 at 11:20 am #

        The tinder delivery was interrupted on Saturday.

        Begs the question what will next be done.

        Some people worry about nukes from foreign lands. Why would any somewhat sane group from any country get in the way of the implosion happening here.

        • abbybwood July 15, 2024 at 12:58 pm #

          So, Putin’s friend, Victor Orban of Hungary, goes to Moscow on a peace mission to meet Putin, next stop Zelenskyy, next stop NATO meeting in D.C. and his final lap?

          A meeting with Donald Trump at Mara Lago.

          If anyone doesn’t think this riled up the PTB, think again.

          • SAM July 16, 2024 at 12:39 am #

            abbybwood,
            Excellent. Did Orban pass a message to Trump…From Putin?

          • Not_GeorgeT July 16, 2024 at 1:50 am #

            He also made a ‘surprise’ visit to Beijing.

            An adult from the EU in the room.

          • Paula D July 16, 2024 at 1:12 pm #

            The Deep State took down Flynn for speaking with the Russian ambassador in Dec., after the election but before the inauguration.

            Will they use the same playbook to go after Trump for meeting with Orban?

      • Jarek July 15, 2024 at 12:22 pm #

        Nuclear. The Democrats couldn’t get their shit together so the Capstone is going with the “Republicans” this time. Trump will do as bidden as he did on covid. His funny ideas about American sovereignty and traditional values have been beaten out of him. Should they come back, maybe he’ll get a real shooter next time.

        • Uncle Abraham July 16, 2024 at 12:09 pm #

          All baseless speculation.

          • Jarek July 16, 2024 at 12:16 pm #

            You all love America because you control America. If you didn’t, you wouldn’t.

          • Uncle Abraham July 17, 2024 at 12:24 pm #

            Jarek, I control nothing. And everything, because I’m one with the Controller. That’s how it works.

  11. draupnir July 15, 2024 at 9:57 am #

    People in the crowd saw the shooter on the roof and drew the attention of the police. I hear a cop even climbed on the roof, but stood down (probably ordered to do so). This was an iinside job, and is becoming recognized as such by more and more people. God had his hand on Donald J. Trump that day. I hear the shooter had explosives in his car, too. What other mischief was planned? I bet it involved major loss of life among the attendees.

    • MiTurn July 15, 2024 at 10:03 am #

      Hard to believe that a cop would stand down, as you wrote. I hope that this, if true, becomes definitively ascertained. That would be indicative of an inside job for sure.

      • JohnAZ July 15, 2024 at 10:13 am #

        Or absolutely total incompetence by a second rate SS force. Remember that Dems in Congress tried to take SS security away from Trump.

        • draupnir July 15, 2024 at 10:16 am #

          Apparently, there was a ladder leaning against that building. That can’t have been overlooked.

        • oldandtired July 15, 2024 at 10:38 am #

          How many SS in Trump’s detail were hung over? Or still drunk from the night before?

          • Not_GeorgeT July 15, 2024 at 11:27 am #

            How many are DEI hires?

          • draupnir July 15, 2024 at 12:36 pm #

            The contingent guarding Kennedy in Dallas had all been out catting around until the wee hours the night before and were pretty badly hung over when he was shot. There’s even a theory that one of them was actually the accidental shooter, though that has been hotly denied.

        • Yirgach July 15, 2024 at 12:49 pm #

          Trumps team has been asking for additional security for weeks and were rebuffed by the DOJ. The SS team with the campaign was understaffed and overworked. The finger pointing has already shifted to the Butler Pa police. Ha!

      • Suzie July 15, 2024 at 10:25 am #

        Don’t you remember Uvalde? Practically the whole force stood down while children were being slaughtered.

        • Ron Anselmo July 15, 2024 at 11:02 am #

          Yes, Suzie – “run from the shots”, not to them. Cowards, especially in the defense – or non-defense – of children. Inexcusable.

          Oh, if I was a parent who lost a precious child…Problem is, we did lose precious children, and none of the cowards paid the price. Also, inexcusable.

        • Paula D July 15, 2024 at 11:07 am #

          Thank you, Susie. I was going to bring up Uvalde.

          That was infuriating. Don’t forget that they stopped a cop whose wife was in the classroom from going in to rescue her, also.

          They handcuffed him, and she died. I think he died of grief a few months later, leaving their children orphans.

        • Paula D July 15, 2024 at 11:08 am #

          Their excuse was “We didn’t have orders”.

          Clearly, they had orders.

          • Not_GeorgeT July 15, 2024 at 11:29 am #

            “Clearly, they had orders.”

            Yup

          • Ron Anselmo July 15, 2024 at 11:30 am #

            Yes, Paula – it’s getting near time that we have a “talk” with both the order-givers and the order-followers. The sooner the better.

      • abbybwood July 15, 2024 at 1:00 pm #

        There is an article about this at the Daily Mail.

      • Mac July 16, 2024 at 1:27 pm #

        Mi- I assume the local cop retreated because he was outgunned. He could have stood down and alerted the scene by firing his pistol in the air.

    • mary.m July 15, 2024 at 10:14 am #

      I did read a reasonable explanation for security not engaging when he climbed the ladder: given their positions, the perp would have seen & heard him coming before his eyes reached roof level, never mind got in position to take any action.

      So better to withdraw & call in report.

      • Paula D July 15, 2024 at 11:09 am #

        That doesn’t sound reasonable to me.

        • mary.m July 15, 2024 at 11:15 am #

          So security should have climbed up, reached for gin & been killed on the spot before he could call in location?

          That “unreasonable” explanation iirc came from retired cia.

          • stelmosfire July 15, 2024 at 11:33 am #

            So a police officer climbs the ladder and pops his head over the roofline. He comes face to face with the muzzle of a rifle. He has an instant to drop below the roofline or have his head removed.Instead he calls in the shooters position and the shooter is engaged by a SS sniper at a distance of 488 yards and dispatched. Unfortunately the assassin had a couple seconds to pop off a few rounds. All of which missed there mark.

          • Paula D July 15, 2024 at 11:47 am #

            Why would security had to climb the ladder? That’s the part that sounds unreasonable.

            This is America. No one is questioning the cop sniper blowing away the suspect after the shots fired. I assume that he could have shot him before, also.

            I may be wrong about that. EF says they can’t.

          • Socrates-Detroit July 15, 2024 at 12:10 pm #

            @paula @mary

            I find Larry Johnson at sonar21 dot com credible and interesting. Perhaps you (or any CFNer) might also.

            I watched a video of his with Nima yesterday.

            While we can’t always believe what we hear, or even what we see, we’ve already seen quite a bit.

            At face value, what I’ve seen read, it appears to be AT LEAST a case of negligence on the part of the Secret Service (or whoever is responsible for ensuring that a potential assassin does not have a clear shot).

            I am inclined to consider it CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE, because I suspect this is not the first time this has happened, but it is the first time someone exploited the lapse in security and attempted to assassinate (by shooting) former President and presidential candidate Donald Trump.

            If one plays the odds, if you leave an open shot or two, some one, either a lone wolf or nut OR a professional with nefarious intent working at the behest of some one else, will take that shot and do your dirty work, US Federal Government Security State, with absolutely NO connection to the Security State. The Security State/Administration/CIA/FBI will accomplish their objective with no connection to the crime. However, they need to open the door and hope some one comes through.

            My first guess is that, unfortunately, that is what happened–criminal negligence.

            However, I don’t know. It’s just a guess. We are just chatting here, united only in our being at this place at this time, for our own reasons.

            Reading the commentariat here, mostly good, sometimes bad, does stimulate the thought process.

            Maybe opening the door is not enough for CIA/FBI/NSA/deep state. Like I was taught, if you want something done, and done right, you do it yourself. Maybe the door needs to be opened for YOUR shooter.

            It appears one Thomas Matthew Crooks (TMC) is dead. The authorities will dissect the electronic and paper trail of his life, his friends, and so forth. The picture so far is not one of an especially impressive or accomplished young man. Is it?

            And the picture painted so far is a bit of a “loner” who “was bullied” according to another young man.

            At face value, if true, that works! We have a disturbed young man, case closed. Yay!

            Not so fast… a disturbed young man is a pretty easy mark for the CIA/FBI psychologists, isn’t he? What if you make contact with TCM at his place of work, or coffee shop, whatever? You commiserate about life, become his pal, and plant a “seed” in his brain using psy ops, maybe slipping a drug in his food or drink to help the process.

            And TCM is now a lone wolf! And you know where he is going to be–because you’ve helped him figure out how to pull off the perfect caper, and help him “show everyone!”

            So, YOU, Mr/Ms CIA/FBI know where your boy TCM will be. And perhaps you have planted ANOTHER shooter, somehow.

            According to accounts, TCM was not a “born” shot, and didn’t make the rifle team in school. All the more reason to put him down ASAP, before he gets off any rounds and shoots random people and complicates the subsequent investigation..

            So TCM shoots–or better yet, the other, ACTUAL PRO CIA assassin/disciplinarian shooter fires 3-4 rounds and a split second later, TCM is shot dead. “We got the shooter, case closed”.

            I am NOT saying I believe that. But is the scenario I just described plausible?

          • Q. Shtik July 15, 2024 at 12:42 pm #

            reached for gin & been killed on the spot – mary.m

            ===========

            Some typos are very funny.

          • mary.m July 15, 2024 at 5:42 pm #

            Soc, I also follow Larry Johnson, but don’t do podcasts due to limited internet time, so I missed his & his guest’s assessment. I have read others though.

            I agree with criminal negligence on part of SS, but don’t discount cia op.

            Crook does seem like the perfect patsy. Earned a $500 math & science award, so nerdy, misfit, bullied outcast.

            And I think tptb, or at least a faction of them, have settled on Trump.

          • Paula D July 15, 2024 at 5:47 pm #

            I did watch that video, SD. I referenced it earlier.

            And I think your scenario is very plausible.

      • Not_GeorgeT July 15, 2024 at 11:49 am #

        There’s this tool called a radio (should be equipped with an emergency activation button).

        No need for a report.

        Should get immediate action.

        Should have GPS-based location identifier, and a voter-comparator system of repeaters which would indicate the location of the signal based on signal strength factoring in signal obstructors.

        Essentially hit the button, immediate attention to your location.

        This isn’t new tech.

        • OG Is Nuts July 16, 2024 at 9:19 pm #

          Obviously these morons haven’t seen Die Hard. McClane kills his first terrorist, steals his smokes, and WALKIE TALKEY

      • abbybwood July 15, 2024 at 1:09 pm #

        No.

        Better to ascertain he is not on the SS team/detail and blow him away before his finger touches the trigger.

        Here is what the “new” SS protocol should be: Come within 500 yards of an event with Trump with a rifle and you will be taken out.

        Crooks was seen walking across an open field with the rifle. And he was seen climbing onto the roof of the building. And he was seen bear crawling with the rifle by numerous civilians and he was seen by an officer who climbed the ladder who was told by Crooks, “Get down or I’ll blow your head off.” (So naturally he got down like a good coward would).

        Head of SS, some moron DEI hire by Biden in 2021 whose prime expertise was head of security for PepsiCo!

        She should be hauled in today and fired. The fat chick SS agent who couldn’t figure out how to re-holster her damn gun should be next to go.

        Seriously. Keystone Cops or Inside Job?

    • oilie July 15, 2024 at 10:58 am #

      A guy on Fox News last night said that a local cop tried to climb up to the roof by going up the back of another cop. He was confronted by the shooter and fell off when he tried to duck. Don’t know if that happened but this was told to counter the story that any cop had stood down.

      • mary.m July 15, 2024 at 11:17 am #

        Since a ladder to the roof was reportedly left in place, seems unlikely.

      • Jarek July 15, 2024 at 12:26 pm #

        Yes. Different stories are being spread. Classic. Create a jumble and get people off the main point: They let the sniper get into place.

    • Jarek July 15, 2024 at 12:25 pm #

      No. The Deep State had their hand on Donald Trump that day. They gave him his own JFK moment with a patsy but no real shooter targeting him. Somebody targeted some other people in the crowd though. Since Pat only had blanks I assume, then it must have been someone else. But who!?

      • abbybwood July 15, 2024 at 1:17 pm #

        I saw a video of Crooks (obviously taken from a social media posting) Saturday night.

        He says, “I hate Republicans and I hate Donald Trump.” Then he pauses, adjusts his glasses, smiles and says, “And just so you know. You got the wrong guy.”

        The video on YT that some guy posted was titled, “Trump Shooter Speaks From the Grave”. A few hours later it was scrubbed.

  12. TPTB-USA July 15, 2024 at 10:04 am #

    There has been a lot of chatter about Israel being in charge of running our government, and this am, talk of “Joe Biden” dropping the lawfare cases against Trump.

    Did Joe Biden just make a backroom deal with DJT, or did Israel just submit orders to both of them?

    “the Mossad shot him in the ear to take him to god-king level.” ~ Jarek
    kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/the-cover-your-ass-olympics-2/#comment-887260

    Who is running the show?

    For a hint, watch for peace to break-out throughout the world, and see if Agenda47 is modified or ditched.

    • JohnAZ July 15, 2024 at 10:08 am #

      Omigod, there are nuts on this blog. I cannot believe it, but I should have figured that jarek or OG would have tried to blame the Jews.

      BTW, does a polluted Seine river count as chemical warfare?

      • OG Is Nuts July 15, 2024 at 10:34 am #

        Why do you think I have reborn myself as OG Is Nuts, John?

      • Cankerpuss July 15, 2024 at 10:57 am #

        I don’t know John AZ. How many of the uber billionaires bent on owning and controlling everything are Jews? Bezos, Zuckerberg, Bloomberg and more?

        Just saying….

        • Paula D July 15, 2024 at 11:12 am #

          Bezos isn’t Jewish.

          You can’t just Jewtrans everyone you don’t like.

          • Cankerpuss July 15, 2024 at 12:12 pm #

            More evidence not to believe everything you read on the internet. According to the site I was reading, Bezos was Jewish.

          • Jarek July 15, 2024 at 12:31 pm #

            Good Paula! Jews at only 3% of the population are 40% of the Billionaires. Nothing to see here.

            This is your mind on estrogen and Marxism.

            They are very good businessmen. No doubt about that whatsoever. And if they bought America fair and square, who are we to complain, right? Who sold us out? Our own financial elite who didn’t identify with us at all thanks to the teachings of Masonry and the snobbery engendered by their elite schools, lifestyle, etc.

          • Ron Anselmo July 15, 2024 at 2:11 pm #

            Janos – blacks at 13% of the population are 70% of the NFL Players.

          • Jarek July 16, 2024 at 12:19 pm #

            Ron: So because Blacks dominate basketball, Jews don’t dominate finance? Is that the argument?

          • Ron Anselmo July 16, 2024 at 2:36 pm #

            Nope.

            The argument is that Jews, making up 3% of the population and 40% of the billionaires, is because they excel at finance, not because they are Jewish.

            Same reason blacks, making up 13% of the population and 70% of the NFL Players, is because they are better athletes (excel at football), not because they are black.

            Who mentioned basketball?

        • malthuss July 15, 2024 at 4:26 pm #

          bezo jew? he didnt know his biological father growing up.

        • Uncle Abraham July 16, 2024 at 12:15 pm #

          How about all billionaires are human beings. Just can’t trust humans, can you? Stop being tempted to be a racist and understand that God is good and man is not. That’s the whole point of this show. And from this vantage point, there’s hope, because God made the way for us to become as He is through His Personal manifestation and Spirit.

          • Jarek July 16, 2024 at 12:21 pm #

            Do you admit we are human? Because your scripture (the Talmud) does not.

          • Uncle Abraham July 17, 2024 at 12:26 pm #

            The Talmud is trash, Jarek. Where are you getting that I give it any credence?

    • Suzie July 15, 2024 at 10:27 am #

      You really, really need to get out more and in touch with reality.

      • OG Is Nuts July 15, 2024 at 10:35 am #

        Hey Suzie: Are you OG’s lying cheating girlfriend?

    • TPTB-USA July 15, 2024 at 10:40 am #

      Correction: I think Jarek was quoting Anglin?

      • Jarek July 15, 2024 at 12:34 pm #

        Yes. I was feeding into Trump’s glorification until brought back down to reality by OG and Anglin. OG’s non-bloody hand (like the non-bloody sacrifice of the mass) gave me ears to hear Anglin. Start small, with the hand. That will engender doubt. Then thinks about the snipers letting the patsy sniper get into place. That will engender complete disbelief. Than Anglin will explain it all and take you home.

        • TPTB-USA July 15, 2024 at 1:19 pm #

          So, how do you see Agenda47 playing out?

          Will Trump modify or ditch it shortly, or just not take any action if elected?

        • Jarek July 15, 2024 at 1:53 pm #

          I’d say he’ll do what he’s told or he’ll “go”. Surely he knows now if he didn’t know before. What was done to him could have been far worse. He’s more popular in Israel than Bibi. The Capstone probably gets a kick out of him and thinks he can be used again.

          If he plays along, the Trump family will be smiled upon. Maybe even becoming a Capstone family – the greatest honor of all.

          • TPTB-USA July 15, 2024 at 2:23 pm #

            So, you basically agree with the opinion that “Israel” is in charge of running our government?

            Do you think “Israel” is the capstone, or do you believe that the capstone is running “Israel”?

            Do you think “Israel” and the capstone embrace the 2030 Agenda, and if so, don’t you view that being at odds with Agenda47?

          • Jarek July 15, 2024 at 4:03 pm #

            There are non-Jews in the Capstone, but the Capstone is a pyramid unto itself. I’d say the Jewish banking families are on top there.

            In the West. In Global terms? Yet to be decided. Maybe the Chinese will come out on top. Maybe their pyramid will subsume the Western one, or their Capstone the Jewish Capstone.

          • malthuss July 15, 2024 at 4:11 pm #

            only 3%..or 2%? and how many go to services?

    • Yirgach July 15, 2024 at 12:40 pm #

      Look at who is never mentioned but lurks in the dark corners – China is running the show. Congress knows, the DoD knows, they are all scarred shitless.One it is not and that is Israel.

      • TPTB-USA July 15, 2024 at 1:23 pm #

        So, China is the capstone (unless you don’t believe in the capstone), and the recent about face on China by “Joe Biden” is just “noise”?

        • Yirgach July 15, 2024 at 2:33 pm #

          Plausible deniability.

          • crudgemudgeon July 15, 2024 at 3:55 pm #

            Yirgach, this recent about face (election year) from Joe Biden™ is only because he feels the need to cover his ass.

          • Yirgach July 15, 2024 at 4:37 pm #

            I think we meant the same thing in different ways.

      • TPTB-USA July 15, 2024 at 2:45 pm #

        Is it your opinion that China is in charge of running Israel as well?

        • malthuss July 15, 2024 at 4:12 pm #

          First USA, then Africa, then the rest of ‘greater China’ [the globe].

        • Uncle Abraham July 16, 2024 at 12:20 pm #

          You’re obsessed with Israel because you despise the God of Israel. That’s a tough row to hoe.

          • TPTB-USA July 16, 2024 at 1:38 pm #

            Guess again.

            Israel’s influence of US policy & the Israeli lobby
            youtube.com/watch?v=O125hGt9qt4

            … and more detailed revelations that I have seen in the last month, but am unable to spot.

          • TPTB-USA July 16, 2024 at 2:52 pm #

            Bingo!

            Rep. Thomas Massie on the Israel Lobby, foreign agents, every Congressperson has an “AIPAC guy”
            youtube.com/watch?v=x5pSz7A0KhU

            … direct from a horse’s mouth.

          • Uncle Abraham July 17, 2024 at 12:31 pm #

            “We’re not allowed to be highly critical of the State of Israel….” What are you guys smoking? Watch the news and listen to the imposter President and his policy cronies and controllers like Barack Obama. But you can’t see for looking, so forget it. God will have to work a miracle for you, and He will.

          • TPTB-USA July 18, 2024 at 1:33 am #

            “… every Congressperson has an “AIPAC guy” and you can’t smell the stink?

            There are a few people here who discuss “the capstone”, and I am interested in getting a handle on it.

            “Joe Biden” is implementing the 2030 Agenda, and it is my view that they are trying to arrange piece in the Mid East. But, the way he straddles the fence, and as you say: is not “highly critical of the State of Israel” leads me to believe that there is something to the influence Israel has over the US.

            “Joe Biden” has invested a lot of time and money trying to cobble together peace deals, and it appears, as is typical, that they have F*** things up again. My read is that Iran has continually sucker punched “Joe Biden”. They made a deal with Saudi Arabia that was too good for the Saudi’s to refuse, but it appears likely that it will be ditched. And taking into account Macgregors assessment of the regional players, it looks to me like Netanyahu is the monkey that is driving the bus, “Joe Biden” has a seat at the back of the bus, and regional leadership is in a huddle in the middle of the bus considering their next move.

            I have come to the conclusion, that in order to make sense of the nonsense, as Massie points out, that there is significant outside influence.

            “Joe Biden” being somewhat at odds with Israel would imply that Netanyahu, at a minimum, does not fully embrace the 2030 Agenda.

            I view the 2030 Agenda as a NWO agenda, so I can only assume that there are at least two factions in Israel, and I see evidence of this in the US as well (look no further than “Joe Biden”).

            So: Who is running the show?

            … and like Socrates-Detroit, I am concerned about Trump being bought and paid for; although, if that is the case, I see no justification for it, and feel that would speak to his character.

          • TPTB-USA July 18, 2024 at 9:28 am #

            Uncle Abraham, while I have you on the phone, why do you think that for at least the last four years that “Joe Biden” has been deceitful, lied to US, conducted lawfare against his opposition, and damaged the US with so many of his actions?

      • Vegan Shark July 15, 2024 at 6:07 pm #

        Look at who is never mentioned but lurks in the dark corners – China is running the show. Congress knows, the DoD knows, they are all scarred shitless. One it is not and that is Israel.

        No. China is not behind the crime. Nor are Israel, Russia, Jews, the FBI, the CIA, the Deep State, the Democrats, or the mil-indy complex.

        The deception goes much deeper than that.

        You want to know the real conspirators? Cup your ear and I’ll whisper to you.

        Aliens. Not the army of proles sauntering through the former border to stake their claim on America’s generous welfare establishment, but interstellar aliens. Little green men lusting after white women. Their base on the dark side of the moon is carefully camouflaged to look like rock dust, protecting it from the prying eyes of earthlings.

        Surely it won’t be long before there are as many theories of who tried to whack Donald Trump as there are for the JFK stunt. But you, dear readers, deserve to know the truth.

    • TPTB-USA July 15, 2024 at 8:16 pm #

      STAND DOWN – Let it Happen
      armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/civil-unrest/stand-down-let-it-happen/

      • TPTB-USA July 15, 2024 at 9:13 pm #

        What do you view as being the justification for the unrelenting hostility against Putin/Russia?

        “Both “Joe Biden” and the Neocon gang at State and the CIA were implicated in a web of crimes in Ukraine, and war there was one way to cover all of it up, so they made sure that war happened.” ~ JHK

        “I think that BRICS is the corral that the countries fleeing the collapse of the US are being herded into. Once we collapse, and pull our puppets down with us (western Europe and the English-speaking countries), we will be swept into that corral too. A basket of broken countries ruled by global overlords.” ~ Blackbird

        **

        My 2 cents is that it relates to the 2030 Agenda, where this group view that the resources of the world belong to all the citizens of the world, including future generations, and Putin has decided he is not going to adopt the 2030 Agenda (in its present form) path for Russia.

        **

        Offer-up your opinions.

        • TPTB-USA July 15, 2024 at 9:40 pm #

          I’d also add …

          “all nations must participate” ~ Klaus Schwab

          … otherwise, arbitrage can siphon off the wealth of a nation, and I would suggest that no one knows how to do this better than George Soros.

  13. JohnAZ July 15, 2024 at 10:05 am #

    I may sound like a broken record but:

    Anyone consider that this may have been a mob hit, like JFK was? The key here is who got to the kid.

    • mary.m July 15, 2024 at 10:36 am #

      Well we know there was a Blackrock connection. Trump wants to get us out of Ukr. That would cost Blackrock & others that bought chunks of Ukr from Z.

    • Jarek July 15, 2024 at 12:40 pm #

      One big difference: They meant to kill him and they did. And they got away with it. Is any such competence in place here? No, right? Why? Because they didn’t want to really kill him.

      See how easy it is?

      Ely said that he was a good marksman in his day and could have grazed a man’s ear at that distance with a good rifle 90% of the time. Do you really think they took a chance with a patsy of either killing him or alternatively, grazing his ear? With global empire at stake? The mind reels. People still don’t believe in Conspiracies even at this late date.

      One of the agents put Ketchup on Trump’s ear in the huddle while Trump was yelling about his shoes. But he forget to put in on Trump’s hand – the hand of glory! Or is this no mistake but another Satanic clue?

  14. liber8tor July 15, 2024 at 10:06 am #

    Joe sez,” I had no idea Thomas Matthew Crooks would crawl on the roof at 3:17 pm wearing shorts and a white T-shirt”.

  15. MiTurn July 15, 2024 at 10:08 am #

    “Not a few Democratic Party bigshots have already made noises about leaving the country if that happens, possibly to nations lacking extradition treaties with the USA.”

    I believe it and have suggested as such in a prior posted comment. Where would they go? Lebanon? I can foresee them citing their fear for their own safety in the upcoming tyrannical state under Trump and warning others — trannies, gays, illegal immigrants (hopefully), socialists, Marxists, rabid abortionists, etc. — to do likewise.

    That’d be great!

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    • JohnAZ July 15, 2024 at 10:09 am #

      Used to be Canada, maybe now China?

  16. tom clark July 15, 2024 at 10:09 am #

    Well, the fist pump will look good in future history books.

    • JohnAZ July 15, 2024 at 10:10 am #

      Forever!

      • OG Is Nuts July 15, 2024 at 10:37 am #

        That picture of the pumped fist will be right up there with the flag raising on Iwo Jima. ( I’m sure that OG thinks THAT picture was a FALSE FLAG. Nyuck Nyuck Nyuck))

        • MiTurn July 15, 2024 at 11:04 am #

          And it was easy to lip-read his words to the crowd, “fight, fight, fight!”

          • Q. Shtik July 15, 2024 at 1:02 pm #

            his words to the crowd, “fight, fight, fight!” – MiTurn

            ===========

            The first time I read about this it was “USA, USA, USA.”

          • Paula D July 15, 2024 at 5:49 pm #

            The crowd started chanting “USA, USA”.

          • mary.m July 15, 2024 at 5:52 pm #

            @Qshtik — the first videos I saw I couldn’t hear Trump. But there was one where I could hear Trump through the crowd. He was yelling fight fight fight.

            The crowd responded yelling USA USAUSA

          • Jarek July 16, 2024 at 12:23 pm #

            The Harvard song so loved by Hitler. Trump’s been reading the Mein Kampf under his bed. Poor Melania!

        • Jarek July 15, 2024 at 12:42 pm #

          Yeah, that picture will soon be changed to give equal time to Blacks and Women. No joke, son. They made a statue at the Twin Towers showing a diverse group when in reality, it was all White guys.

          • RD3 July 15, 2024 at 3:13 pm #

            Like a Jeep commercial where a white guy, a black guy, an Asian guy and a Hispanic guy are all going camping together?

        • R Montanari July 15, 2024 at 1:30 pm #

          Actually, OG, it was a reenactment of the earlier flag raising to provide a photo op.
          We all wish you were as smart as you think you are.

          • OG Is Nuts July 16, 2024 at 9:27 pm #

            The iconic photograph of the flag-raising on Iwo Jima was not staged. On February 23, 1945, during the Battle of Iwo Jima, six Marines planted the U.S. flag at the summit of Mount Suribachi. Journalist Joe Rosenthal captured this moment, which became famous worldwide. However, what many people don’t realize is that this photo shows the second flag raised that day. The first flag was raised earlier by a 40-man combat patrol led by 1st Lt. Harold G. Schrier. They carried a U.S. flag taken from the USS Missoula, and it was raised around 10:30 a.m. local time. So, while the photo is real, it depicts the second flag-raising on Iwo Jima12.

            Wrong dickhead. Go jump in bed with your buddy OG

  17. King of Comedy July 15, 2024 at 10:09 am #

    I read with great amusement yesterday the various tinfoil dissertations on the Orange Man’s brush with the great beyond and it’s remarkable the level of inside knowledge and geopolitical insight that is available to people who by all appearances rarely leave the house.

    Of course, one of the leading figures of the Shut-In Illuminati is our own Mr. FrontHole. His routine satanic-messages-on-records-played-backwards analyses of world events would embarrass an incel with acute paranoid schizophrenia combined with equally acute acne vulgaris. This is curious given his (for a Canadian) high IQ of 72 but it has come to light that Mr. FrontHole has for years been performing a variation on the Nakba which puts him in a trance-like state, inducing visions that may well explain his unconventional take on events.

    Mr. FrontHole has perfected a technique whereby he takes the Zionist balls all the way in his throat, cutting off the supply of oxygen to his brain. In this oxygen-deprived state, Mr. FrontHole is able to “pierce the veil” of appearance and see that to which cud-chewing gullible normies are oblivious. It’s not all up-side but Mr FrontHole feels that having to clean Jew-pubes out of his teeth on a regular basis is a small price to pay for this Special Knowledge (Special-Ed Knowledge?).

    I for one can’t wait to read his next exposition on the reality behind the reality. We can all use a good laugh in these turbulent times.

    For my money, we were an inch away from the gloves coming off for keeps. They will have to come off eventually anyway but it was that close on Saturday.

    King — You gone. Don’t let the door smack you on the ass on your way out. — JHK Admin

    • JohnAZ July 15, 2024 at 10:11 am #

      Look Left, young man.

    • Cankerpuss July 15, 2024 at 10:29 am #

      I’m ashamed to admit that I wasted 30 seconds of my life reading this comment and I came away not knowing what the hell this guy/gal just said.

      If anyone can interpret, I would appreciate your help.

      • ZrCrypDiK July 15, 2024 at 10:39 am #

        3 inches! I know, maybe not the King of Comedy, but funny (had a laugh)…

      • Q. Shtik July 18, 2024 at 12:08 pm #

        I don’t understand it either, Canker, and thus I don’t understand why Jim is banning him. Oh well, the older I get the dumber I get.

    • Cavepainter July 15, 2024 at 10:31 am #

      Reflexively I thought to request “translation”, then realized that would only draw more Kabbalah-esk esoterica. Who is Mr. FrontHole?

      • OG Is Nuts July 15, 2024 at 10:46 am #

        The illustrious OG, the “Christian” fornicating Canuk nut job

  18. dilbert113 July 15, 2024 at 10:11 am #

    The election ended on Saturday, in Redding Pennsylvania, with the failed assassination attempt on Donald Trump. The election ended, Trump won. Now, it is all over but the shouting.

    • RD3 July 15, 2024 at 11:28 am #

      Where is “Redding Pennsylvania” and what happened there on Saturday? Trump was shot in Butler, PA. “Reading, PA” is 275 miles to the east of Butler, PA. Butler, PA is closer to Buffalo, NY, Cleveland, OH, and Columbus, OH than it is to Reading, PA.

      • RD3 July 15, 2024 at 11:37 am #

        Pennsylvania stops somewhere between Harrisburg and Reading. Everything to the east of that is basically New Jersey and should be annexed by New Jersey. If we were able to lop off that part of the state, Pennsylvania would be be Alabama.

      • Jarek July 15, 2024 at 12:57 pm #

        Drove though it. A state of incredible beauty. The deep forests and the high hills. With the friendliest people in the nation.

        Trip said the Appalachians continued underwater to the British isles. Truly we are home when there. Further south the people become implacably hostile to outsiders. Why? Genetic drift? Abuse by outsiders? Climate?

        • RD3 July 15, 2024 at 2:41 pm #

          Yes. The Appalachians are beautiful. That is my home.

          Grady McWhiney said that Southerners were tougher and more irascible than Northermers because they came from warring and sheep herding people in Northern Ireland and Scotland. They were accustomed to great depredations and spending long periods on their own, having to provide for themselves, while Northerners were primarily descended from yeoman farmers and city folks.

          I think much of the good humor and kindness in the peoples of Western PA is an Eastern European characteristic. There are many, many Poles, Slovaks, Serbians, etc. in these areas, as well as lots of Irish and Italians. Another defining characteristics is that the people are generally obsessively clean and proud of homes and yards. The same characteristics exist in eastern Ohioans and those from Western New York.

          • RD3 July 15, 2024 at 3:10 pm #

            “deprivations”

        • mary.m July 15, 2024 at 5:56 pm #

          I was born in Reading, PA. It is a beautiful state but I can’t handle the heat & humidity

    • abbybwood July 15, 2024 at 1:25 pm #

      Too bad Biden can’t resign today and just swear DJT in a few minutes later.

      Imagine the Blue Heads exploding! Especially all of those posting on X Saturday and Sunday videos screaming, “You idiot! How could you miss?! Why was your aim so bad! Damn! Damn!! Double damn!!!”

  19. tucsonspur July 15, 2024 at 10:12 am #

    It was not the time for Trump. It was not the time for his final destination. The threat of death rode the rhetoric of the Left and finally found but missed its intended victim while sadly claiming another.

    Joe Biden offered us a shit sandwich of unity between two slices of sleaze. He himself harbors the specter of death, wearing the death mask while still alive, smeared with that grotesque grin-grimace.

    He and the Obama clan wish to stretch that mask all across the face of America, pulled tight at its edges by murdering migrants.

    Call it what you will. Fate. Destiny. The Hand of God. Trump, the Golden Gladiator of Gotham, lives. Let it prove to be a truly ‘divine intervention’.

    • Cankerpuss July 15, 2024 at 10:26 am #

      And those eye slits that cover cold, soulless, empty black eyes.

      These people are evil. The dregs of humanity. They are the shit of the shit sandwich.

      And how many Americans still worship them?

      • Jimpa July 15, 2024 at 2:17 pm #

        I had the strangest experience last night watching Biden at 8 PM. I was looking up from my reading glasses at the TV., Biden looked normal. When I looked with my reading glasses his eyes were black slits, his skin was drawn and wrinkled and his throat skin was sagging. I looked without the glasses he looked normal, with the glasses he looked just evil. It was like the movie ” THEM” , and no, I am not making this up. It was freaky, and I told others in the room who were there. I gave the glasses to my wife, but it didn’t work for her because they are prescription? Anyway, just wild.

        • RD3 July 15, 2024 at 2:30 pm #

          A buddy of mine is on the SWAT team. When Biden was in town, they were asked to help. My buddy was near Biden for several minutes, just feet away. He said that Biden looked like a corpse and that his his skin was like pale tissue paper.

          • GoldenRoad July 17, 2024 at 2:57 pm #

            That’s called 82 man – my old man looks that way, and so does Trump under the guy makeup.

  20. JohnAZ July 15, 2024 at 10:15 am #

    Trump’s classified documents case dismissed by Judge Cannon saying Jack Smith is not officially assigned as prosecutor.

    Hahahahahahaha! Next and last stop, DC and dismissal of the election case.

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    • MiTurn July 15, 2024 at 11:06 am #

      Will Jack Smith be the first to go into self-imposed exile?

      He oughta.

      • Perplexed July 15, 2024 at 12:52 pm #

        I heard DrJill was going out of town for some event.

    • Jarek July 15, 2024 at 12:59 pm #

      All things now work in Trump’s favor. What changed? Was it his acceptance of their terms, sweetened by a sweet hundred mil?

      • OG Is Nuts July 15, 2024 at 1:09 pm #

        Yeah Jarek. The sweet hundred million was laundered through your buddy OG

  21. Cankerpuss July 15, 2024 at 10:24 am #

    I really don’t have much to say about the assassination attempt of Mr. Trump. Other than to say that I am not surprised. The Democrat/uniparty cabal in charge of everything in this shit hole of a country are the dregs of society. Death does not phase them.

    I thank God that Mr. Trump survived this and came away only with a damaged ear.

    My heart goes out to the brave fire fighter who lost his life, from what I have heard, protecting his family.

    If this doesn’t awaken the porn and drug addled American public to the sickness and depravity that has become American politics, well, then I don’t know what will.

    It will only continue to get worse until the people correct themselves inwardly and right their own lives first. I don’t see that happen. Americans love their sinful lives. They don’t want to give them up.

    • Groundhog July 15, 2024 at 10:50 am #

      It will continue – until it cannot. When it cannot will be the time when the dollar is abandoned by the rest of the world and the currency is left to wander off on its own. That’s when the USA changes to an official third world shithole plagued with so many problems that the recent immigrants all pack up and go back home where life will be more predictable and more pleasant. The collapse of the US middle class and the abandonment of suburbia will be an event for the history books. The country that emerges out of the chaos will be a collection of states and different nations, we’ll go back to the setup that existed here before Europeans arrived. We’ll be like Africa, with borders everywhere and with hostile tribal elements occupying different sections of the country. The car culture will be gone and transportation will be slow and difficult with bad dirt and gravel roads used by bicycles, motorbikes, a few cars, trucks, donkeys, horses, and even oxen sharing space. There won’t be nearly as many people about because food will be grown the hard way and the old fashioned way, and only a limited amount of people can occupy the land that way. The ones who got weeded out died from either starvation, disease, or violence. Everything we’ve dished out to the world during the last half century will be given right back to us in an epic and deadly ass kicking.

      • mary.m July 15, 2024 at 11:22 am #

        “Everything we’ve dished out to the world during the last half century will be given right back to us in an epic and deadly ass kicking.”

        This.

      • Cankerpuss July 15, 2024 at 12:16 pm #

        Your comment gives me anxiety, but, is this really a bad thing?

        Just this weekend I attempted to go do some fishing at an area with high alpine lakes to get out of the heat and enjoy some nature. I was disgusted when I arrived. So many damned people. I barely found a fishing spot but then I had people on paddle boards rowing their boats right through my fishing line and other peoples’ dogs sniffing around in my tackle box. Another guy fishing nearby had to blast his rap music on his I-phone at full volume.

        After an hour of this I couldn’t take it anymore and packed it up and drove home.

        Too many people, too little consideration for others. What you say terrifies me but I think the Earth would be a much better place if what you describe actually happens.

        • Cankerpuss July 15, 2024 at 12:17 pm #

          Oh, and I also had to watch two obese lesbians in bikinis swim in the lake with their little adopted black girl.

          • Cankerpuss July 15, 2024 at 12:18 pm #

            And I am in Utah for God’s sake.

          • Jarek July 15, 2024 at 1:02 pm #

            You’re not fully human if you don’t adopt a non-White kid. Or at the very least listen to rap. The fish like it?

          • RD3 July 15, 2024 at 1:03 pm #

            Doesn’t that bimbo Trump put on the supreme court have a whole basketball team full of them?

          • Q. Shtik July 15, 2024 at 1:22 pm #

            I also had to watch two obese lesbians in bikinis swim in the lake with their little adopted black girl. – Canker

            ==========

            Hahahahaha

            That’s the cherry on top of your little story.

          • Cankerpuss July 15, 2024 at 6:09 pm #

            Jarek, I don’t think the fish liked the rap music because they sure as hell weren’t biting. Of course that could have been because of the fat lesbians splashing around and shouting at their little black daughter accusing the poor thing of not loving them enough. Who knows?

          • Q. Shtik July 16, 2024 at 11:34 am #

            I’m guessing the two lesbos had numerous tatts too.

          • GoldenRoad July 17, 2024 at 3:00 pm #

            Oh I used to love it when they had segregated lakes and water fountains. Jesus do you ever read the site you write?

        • Groundhog July 15, 2024 at 1:36 pm #

          @ Cankerpuss A long long time ago in my youth I enjoyed fishing, but I was never very good at it. I never had any really good fishermen around to teach me all the tricks and secrets and knowledge as to how to figure out where the fish are in the first place. I was always fishing randomly and in the wrong spots. I also got bored easily and remember times of going out and getting skunked, bored, and gettin’ nothin’. So I found things to do that were more exciting. Decades later a few times I did do some great salt water fishing on charter boats, but that’s a whole different ball game.

          My guess is the crowd there that was annoying you will be gone if a major war erupts in the mid east and fuel becomes rationed or unavailable. Then your fishing trips will be done Asian style. You’ll be riding a new Honda 125cc Super Cub that gets up to 188 mpg and tops out at 50 mph. This bike is built to carry stuff, and that includes fishing gear. It can climb mountains, not real fast, but it will do it with ease. The computer controlled engine regulates the fuel injectors to compensate for changes in air pressure at higher altitudes. There’s room enough on the bike for hauling whatever you need for keeping the fish cool while yer riding back home. All those other people who were bugging you up there? Well, they won’t have the fuel available to drive their cars to your fishing spot in the first place. They’ll find something else to do closer to home.

          • Jarek July 15, 2024 at 1:56 pm #

            What kind of music do the fish like? Classical or rap? Plants like classical. See “The Secret Life of Plants”.

          • RD3 July 15, 2024 at 2:27 pm #

            Fish mostly like Prog rock.

          • RD3 July 15, 2024 at 2:42 pm #

            Phish mostly like jam bands.

          • Cankerpuss July 15, 2024 at 6:10 pm #

            I like it, Groundhog. I really like it. Will it happen? Nothing ever seems to happen other than crazy people expanding to and ruining our most pristine spots of nature. The Wasatch Front and Uinta mountains in Utah are ruined.

          • Soul Forensics July 15, 2024 at 6:47 pm #

            “Phish mostly” — RD3

            Ha ha!

            They’re not all apolitical, though. They also like Country Joe & The Fish.

        • GoldenRoad July 17, 2024 at 2:58 pm #

          Ha – you mean too many people without consideration for you. Maybe you are looking for way more consideration than you deserve? Or maybe you get what you give.

      • malthuss July 15, 2024 at 4:18 pm #

        planned depopulation, worldwide as White lands go yellow-black-brown.

        I listen to Greg Mannarino on you tube.

      • Soul Forensics July 15, 2024 at 6:52 pm #

        “The car culture will be gone and transportation will be slow and difficult with bad dirt and gravel roads used by bicycles, motorbikes, a few cars, trucks, donkeys, horses, and even oxen sharing space.” — Groundhog

        Basically, India pre-globalism. Except, instead of humble, aesthetic Hindu shrines on backstreets, it’ll be skulls on spikes like fields of corn.

  22. Ishabaka July 15, 2024 at 10:27 am #

    J.F.K., R.F.K., Reagan, Trump. 2 wounded, 2 dead.
    Secret Service 0 for 4.
    Defund the FBI and the Secret Service.

    • MiTurn July 15, 2024 at 11:11 am #

      Don’t forget Squeaky Fromme (Mason Family) and President Ford. She got within an arm’s length of Ford (!) and fired her gun, but forgot to pre-load a round. Click.

      SS everywhere except there….

      • mary.m July 15, 2024 at 11:23 am #

        Took me a moment, but “Manson”, not Mason.

        • MiTurn July 15, 2024 at 12:17 pm #

          Oops. Thxs.

        • malthuss July 15, 2024 at 4:18 pm #

          Charlie never killed anyone.

      • Jarek July 15, 2024 at 1:04 pm #

        To be fair, it’s very hard to stop someone who is willing to spend their own life in the attempt. Even a complete amateur.

        A professional who can kill at great distance? Impossible. That’s why our officials mostly do what they’re told or get out.

    • RD3 July 15, 2024 at 11:41 am #

      Wallace too. He had secret service “protection,” but that didn’t prevent one of Nixon’s men from shooting him from point blank range.

      • Ron Anselmo July 15, 2024 at 12:21 pm #

        Shot, because the Gov’nor was true…

        • RD3 July 15, 2024 at 12:52 pm #

          He certainly was true, but he didn’t quite understand that you aren’t allowed to carry a torch for middle Americans, or you wind up shot…

        • Jarek July 15, 2024 at 1:05 pm #

          Didn’t he cave later, embraciing Blacks?

          • RD3 July 15, 2024 at 1:13 pm #

            He was feeble and infirm in his final years. His wife abandoned him and he seemed melancholy.

          • Jarek July 15, 2024 at 1:58 pm #

            Lindbergh’s wife hated his principled stance and inwardly took the side of his enemies, the enemies of America. Such is Woman.

          • Ron Anselmo July 15, 2024 at 2:19 pm #

            Such are most women. Janos, you’ve not been doing your homework.

          • Jarek July 15, 2024 at 3:02 pm #

            Gentle women of the jury, he said most. He’s far closer to me than being one of your lap dogs. I claim this soul! He just needs to learn hierarchy, how to be a wolf again.

          • Ron Anselmo July 15, 2024 at 3:58 pm #

            Janos – review the chapter on Absolutes.

            Remember that we can use adjectives to generalize, without making absolute statements, and still get our point across sufficiently.

            I will grant you, that in this instance, there’s far more bathwater than babies, but don’t throw them all out.

            The good ones, clamor for the alpha wolf, not just any wolf.

          • Jarek July 16, 2024 at 2:02 am #

            Ron: Great writing demands a certain exaggeration and lack of precision.

          • Ron Anselmo July 16, 2024 at 2:59 pm #

            Janos – I’ll buy that.

  23. ZrCrypDiK July 15, 2024 at 10:28 am #

    “with your turmeric and wheat-grass detox smoothies”

    Haha! I think you left out juicing 12+++ carrots or sum such. Turmeric? Isn’t that poor man’s saffron?!…

    • mary.m July 15, 2024 at 11:33 am #

      Re turmeric & saffron, no. Both Indian cooking spices, but very different flavor.

      Turmeric is high in the biochemical compound “curcumin.” It has powerful anti-inflammatory, anti-tumor properties.

      I stocked up during the plandemic, jic, but never needed it. Am taking it 3x/day now during heat & humidity to assist with allergies. My breathing has improved a lot as a result.

      • ZrCrypDiK July 15, 2024 at 1:05 pm #

        Poppin turmeric R U?!? heh!

        • mary.m July 15, 2024 at 10:01 pm #

          My drug of choice.

    • malthuss July 15, 2024 at 4:19 pm #

      color wise yes.

    • Soul Forensics July 15, 2024 at 6:57 pm #

      The worst is comfrey. That shit reeks. Anyone who drinks comfrey tea hates life, including all joyous people.

  24. ront July 15, 2024 at 10:36 am #

    While reading an article about Crooks being a Blackrock ad, I noticed that the report stated: “Thomas Matthew Crooks, the 20 year old shooter who tried assassinating President Donald Trump at his campaign rally…”
    The statement doesn’t invite what should be obvious questions to be explored, curiosity or analysis by saying TMC is SUSPECTED of being involved. Plus, he is killed, thus, unable to be questioned as part of an investigation.
    One brainwashing technique perpetrated by much of the media outlets and academia is to not urge readers or viewers to think critically or analyze situations, rather it DELIVERS CONCLUSIONS TO BE ASSIMILATED.
    Let us take notice of this technique and not fall prey to it.

    • anmariwakaranai July 15, 2024 at 11:13 am #

      In my big extended family, 10% see the psyops, 90%, the best educated mind you, quote cnn talking points verbatin.
      “HE WAS A REPUBLICAN”, don’tchya know?
      Must be the pot/soma/ativan/full jabberwocked boosted/ 24/7 teevee & media mind control working.

      Winning! 🙂

    • stelmosfire July 15, 2024 at 11:43 am #

      Funny name “Crooks”. It could also be applied to all the Congress critters.

    • ZrCrypDiK July 15, 2024 at 11:53 am #

      I saw that d00d on the roof, in camo, dead as a door-nail – that’s really all the evidence I needed – heh!!!

  25. JimHogue July 15, 2024 at 10:43 am #

    The FBI must be cooking up yet another pack of lies to explain why the shooter was allowed to climb up a roof with a rifle while the men in blue did nothing. The MSM is waiting for orders on that one while we-the-people learn the facts. Trump must know that the shooter was ushered in and protected until he wasn’t. See the Candace Owens report.

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    • B_NOLA July 15, 2024 at 11:36 am #

      After their “investigation” the FBI will probably charge Trump with failure to obey a LEO order by not immediately running off-stage and pumping his fist instead.

  26. CouchPotatriot July 15, 2024 at 10:45 am #

    “Unfortunately, for us, I think they will try to burn this sucker down rather than relinquish power.” – Fuge

    Absolutely correct – the burn this sucker down part has been in progress for quite some time. My guess is that if “Joe Biden” can’t salvage this election for themselves, then they will toss Trump a hot potato hand grenade of a collapsing economy and ready made global warfare. Oh, wait, we’re already there.

    JHK makes some interesting statements this morning regarding newly established legal grounds which may help Trump clean out the Deep State – but make no mistake – if any hidden hands feel genuinely threated with prosecution for high level crimes – Trump won’t luck out a second time against assassination.

    Even Hillary Clinton stood down when the Abedin/Weiner laptop threatened to expose her crony capitalist frenemies. Remember, Trump never won or lost the presidency – it’s all rigged – he knew it then, he knows it now.

    The Deep State is a deeply entrenched network of extravagantly wealthy criminals – definitional monarchs of monetary power, influence, and whatever the fuck else they seek.

    Trump is no King, he’s a Pied Piper. He’s literally just a sign on a building. If Trump takes a shot at them, and he already did during his first term – he better not miss a second time, and he will.

    Bigger than that, I believe a fate much more certain and darker than assassination awaits Trump, and I think that will be a legacy of enormous hype that ends in crushing disappointment and ruin for everyone in middle-America regardless of how they vote. The details are just too hard to pin down. I mean, JHK has been doing an excellent job trying to help us all do just that for 14-years of my life – but is he ever accurate with predictions?

    • Groundhog July 15, 2024 at 11:13 am #

      What the USA needs right now is leadership that tells the country the truth about our position at the moment and what our future is likely to be. Politicians cannot do something like this because all they can say is how much better things will be for everyone if they get elected. They cannot run as a candidate telling the nation that we’re fucked already and that have a very bad future in store for us – they cannot say that even if it’s the absolute truth. America wishes to hear bullshit and delusions, they want to hear the sort of garbage that they are used to hearing from school teachers and tv. They DON’T want to hear facts spoken like the only way we’re going to get out of this mess is to rebuild our industries and get back to doing hard core and exhausting blue collar labor (that requires years of training to get really good at). The current generations of US males are dope added pussies used to living a soft and comfy existence. Give them a nail apron and send them up on a hot roof nailing down shingles all day long, or put them in a crew pouring concrete for 12 hours straight – and see how these pussies do. Some of them, especially after their vaxxes, will literally die if they stress themselves like that. Their bodies are so weak and corrupted they are basically nothing but useless feeders that will be unable to find a way to survive in a new world.

      Nobody will give Trump the time of day, let alone the presidency, if he tells us to quit college, stop the drug usage and drinking, roll up our sleeves and rebuild our homes and factories into a system that can provide the average person with a decent living. We’ll be having to do this after the rest of the world decides to stop loaning us money, and that day is coming and there’s not a damn thing Trump can do about that. Why is Trump risking his life to help a nation that actually seems to deserve a horrific ass kicking?

      • Q. Shtik July 15, 2024 at 1:39 pm #

        addled not added

        • Groundhog July 15, 2024 at 2:40 pm #

          Hmm. I’ve got spellcheck on this thing but no grammar check. Firefox maybe has a grammar checker add-on?

          • Q. Shtik July 16, 2024 at 8:50 pm #

            This was not a grammar issue.

  27. elysianfield July 15, 2024 at 10:53 am #

    Orders to stand down. ROE requiring shots to be fired before returning fire.

    Believe nothing you see, hear, or read on the Internets….

    • MiTurn July 15, 2024 at 11:16 am #

      So a civilian laying on a roof, armed with a rifle pointed in the direction of the former president, cannot be shot until he fires first?

      Um…

      • OG July 15, 2024 at 12:35 pm #

        Trump is a defiant HERO. Do not be a buzz-kill with thoughts!

      • OG Is Nuts July 15, 2024 at 1:13 pm #

        Well the Democrats abandoned launch on warning and their official policy is to wait for a NUDET before unleashing the hounds (the nuclear triad)

    • Paula D July 15, 2024 at 11:16 am #

      Is that true for the Secret Service also?

      Because if it is, what’s the point?

      Although I was watching a Brazilian interviewing an American, and he asked “But why did they kill him?”

      And the American said “Because they all are armed.”

      LOL, that clearly wasn’t the Brazilians point. He had just been talking about an attempt on Bolsonaro that happened in his state, and how they had caught the guy, and had mentioned the attempt on Fico, where the perp was also apprehended. He was puzzled by the instant exectution.

      A more accurate explanation would have been “Because dead men tell no tales.”

    • R Montanari July 15, 2024 at 11:21 am #

      ROE. Like at Ruby Ridge and Waco. Gotta love the DoJ. They get to have it both ways.

    • ZrCrypDiK July 15, 2024 at 11:22 am #

      Echoing my poast from last week – stand down, stand back, stand by.

      These guys do have something to say about that dark soul – it is disturbing to me. Like I said – no capital punishment (death penalty) – I can barely kill weeds, and ‘they’ R gunna be all over me in about a month or so !!!

  28. Cankerpuss July 15, 2024 at 10:53 am #

    The assassination of Trump brings to me an even greater fear for the future of our once great United States of America. I have no doubt that they are intent upon eliminating the former President from the possibility of re-acquiring the Presidency. I believe they are terrified of what he will do if he returns to that office as he will now be all the more wise in regards to the political grift and sewage that has become the District of Columbia (I refuse to call it Washington because George Washington does not deserve to have a place of such filth and corruption bearing his name).

    There is a greater problem that that this assassination attempt brings. Think about it. What we have is a bereft of good and righteous people running for public office in this country. So we end up with the Clyburns, the Cortez, the Shiffs, all scum, all grifters, all of low intelligence with the gift of the forked tongue only. I myself have been encouraged by others to run for County Commission positions or school board but I want nothing of it. Not because of what it will do to me but what my innocent family will have to endure at the hands of the opposition. Knowing personally the Mayor of my community I can testify that the Mayor’s children and grand-children endured constant harassment from the families of the friends of the Mayor’s opposition. And this is a small Utah community. Why would any good soul who loves their family want any part of politics?

    In national politics good people who would do right to abide by the Constitution, balance the budget, reduce federal oversight and much more are targeted by the media and the evil cabal of the District of Columbia and have their name dragged through the mud by the opposition. They are accused of having done atrocious thing by people they do not remember. Or, stupid decisions made as a hormone crazed teenager or college student are brought back to haunt them 30 years later. No longer are they able to share their message with the potential voters about what they will be in political office, now they spend their campaign trying to clear their name and restore their reputations. And for what?

    Now we have an assassination attempt on a multi-billionaire. If anyone could afford to provide protection for himself, it would be Mr. Trump. But what does this assassination attempt now do to any good and righteous person who was even considering a run at public office? Can they afford private security? Not only do they now bear the danger of having their good name corrupted by the lies of the political opposition but now they bear the danger of having their lives and the lives of their family members taken. Mr. Trump may survive this and he may regain the White House but he only has 4 years and then he is done. What then? What comes after that?

    How many evil souls out there today are depressed because Mr. Trump survived this attempt wishing the bullet was two inches to the right of his left ear? They don’t care about the damage this has done to an already sick and waivering American political system.
    Only the dregs of humanity will want anything to do with politics. Only the dregs of humanity will want to enter the District of Columbia. Only those who comply with the system will be guaranteed that they or their families aren’t killed.

    Here’s an example. Representative Thomas Massie, probably one of the most courageous members of our corrupt Congress, the only one who, as far as I know, prohibited the Israeli cabal from providing him with a “babysitter” by prohibiting them from entering his Congressional office, recently had his 50 year old wife of sound health pass away suddenly. Don Jeffries has an excellent write up on what this good man has had to endure ever since he entered the political shit stew of American politics.

    After all of the constant lies thrown at us, eventually the only thing that makes any sense are the conspiracy theories. Mr. Trump has survived this attempt at his life. But what has this done to the future of American politics and how much worse will it make the system for future generations?

    We are finished as a nation. There is no other way to described this. Like Mr. Trump, we dodged a bullet this weekend and the storm has been dissipated for a few days. But this is not the end. The American soul is dark, corrupt and filthy. Just like the souls of at least half of the American public.

    • ZrCrypDiK July 15, 2024 at 11:12 am #

      d00d, they are *ALL * on the dole – bought and paid for whores as well. THAT is the grift. And it’s totz legit – Citizens United!

    • stelmosfire July 15, 2024 at 11:52 am #

      How many evil souls out there today are depressed because Mr. Trump survived this attempt wishing the bullet was two inches to the right of his left ear?

      This is what were dealing with. Check out the lunatic at 7:20

      youtube.com/watch?v=mh75C7zAbQo

    • Breck July 15, 2024 at 12:45 pm #

      Cankerpuss, recently, in a talk he gave before Australians in Melbourne, Tucker Carlson talked about the very sacrifices that you cite. His conclusion, regarding what must be done to have liberty in the political life of a commonwealth, is that such sacrifices are unavoidable. Otherwise, one must accept slavery. Each man and woman must make their own choice in this matter: either liberty or slavery.

      • Cankerpuss July 15, 2024 at 12:49 pm #

        Agreed.

      • Jarek July 15, 2024 at 1:11 pm #

        Adams: Take care our legacy, posterity. You will never know what it cost us.

    • Uncle Abraham July 16, 2024 at 12:22 pm #

      Do something about yourself, Cankerpuss, since you can’t do anything about anyone else. Come out of your black hole of despair by admitting you too are a perpetrator, not just a victim, and get right with your Maker.

    • GoldenRoad July 17, 2024 at 3:01 pm #

      We were finished when the boomers took all the could for themselves and expected us to thank them for it.

  29. Pitcher July 15, 2024 at 10:54 am #

    Remember those old WWE Championship Matches where one of the wrestlers would slice themselves and get all bloodied up? Was that old trick used by DJT? I don’t deny that a couple of men died during this production run, but that is to be expected as the competition ampls up in Reality TV-Land. Someone posted a few videos of Trump back in the 2016 Republican primaries where he goes on the offensive against the House of Bush. Recent link as well mentioned Autism rates. The Empire is a cancer is this version of empire is the consequence not of genetics but generations of poor dietary and lifestyle choices. Patient continues to refuse nutrition consult.

    • MiTurn July 15, 2024 at 11:19 am #

      “Was that old trick used by DJT?”

      So did the Donald also fake the bullet wake whizzing by his head too?

      • Jarek July 15, 2024 at 1:14 pm #

        Who fired it? Was it aimed at him? Satanic ethics demand that clues be given. The Baldwin trial provides the main clue: Blanks for the Patsy!

        To drive the point home, the Baldwin trial ended abruptly a couple of days earlier because the presence of real ammunition among the blanks had been hidden by the prosecution.

        • ZrCrypDiK July 15, 2024 at 6:59 pm #

          “Satanic ethics demand that clues be given. The Baldwin trial”

          Haha – Rust/Dust? That flop of a movie?!… I heard they found the foundery chick guilty *FINALLY* . How do you hire such an incompetent?!… Never put a woman in charge of munitions!

    • gantech July 15, 2024 at 11:35 am #

      Anybody to think that was a fake bullshit thing how about the dead guy and how much are two critically wounded explain that to their children

      • OG July 15, 2024 at 12:06 pm #

        Right. The Deep State would NEVER kill an innocent Trumpster in order to further its agenda lest they would have to explain their murderous actions to the victim’s children.

        Good thinking.

      • OG July 15, 2024 at 12:08 pm #

        “We can’t leave Viet Nam now! We have to keep dying because otherwise our many dead died for nothing. Hyuk, hyuk, hyuk.”

      • Breck July 15, 2024 at 12:50 pm #

        We don’t know if the bullets that killed and injured the bystanders were the same as the one that nicked Trump. Or even if any bullet did. I want to see Trump’s ear. When I first heard about this incident I expected that Trump would have half an ear, or at least a good part of it gone. I want to see the ear wound.

        • abbybwood July 15, 2024 at 1:39 pm #

          I read where it keeps bleeding and he has to keep a dressing on it.

          Hey docs! Ever hear of cautery? It works!

          • Paula D July 16, 2024 at 1:26 pm #

            Or silver nitrate.

          • Ron Anselmo July 16, 2024 at 3:03 pm #

            Or crushed marigold – a coagulant used in Civil War poultices in the field, to stop or stem bleeding.

          • ZrCrypDiK July 16, 2024 at 9:04 pm #

            good luck finding a Marygold flower… His ear looks fine – white bandage, no blood.

      • Jarek July 15, 2024 at 1:19 pm #

        They can’t think. They won’t! Not about the most important things. They’ll think about how to get make money or get a good deal. As Ramakrishna put it, rice and banana knowledge.

        Trump is willing to listen – now. Thus his ear was spared.

        • ZrCrypDiK July 15, 2024 at 7:06 pm #

          Yes they will think *HARD* about 8.5-9 billion population growth, and 3 orders magnitude consumption per capita – JANUS/OG!!!

          Where is Carlos Estevez when you need that TIGER BLOOD !!!

          • Jarek July 16, 2024 at 2:08 am #

            East Asian porn is all about “white tigers”.

          • ZrCrypDiK July 16, 2024 at 9:07 pm #

            Janus – srsly – east asian?

            Yeah, well they R the only economy now-a-daze…

    • OG Is Nuts July 15, 2024 at 1:15 pm #

      You just balked, Pitcher……join OG in the showers.you’re playing the Blue jays

      • ZrCrypDiK July 15, 2024 at 7:08 pm #

        OMFG do U remember the blue jays back in ’87 – hahaha!!! Talk about totally pathetic. I remember they had that one guy who could steal bases…

  30. gantech July 15, 2024 at 11:18 am #

    CIA + LBJ = JFK

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    • CouchPotatriot July 15, 2024 at 12:03 pm #

      “What the USA needs right now is leadership that tells the country the truth about our position at the moment and what our future is likely to be. Politicians cannot do something like this because all they can say is how much better things will be for everyone if they get elected.” – Groundhog

      We agree, GH. You got me thinking, though, about all these intelligent, professionally trained, deeply studied alternative media voices I follow. (Douglas MacGregor, John Mearsheimer, and so on).

      There are plenty of guys on the sideline who call the game pretty accurately and fairly as far as I can tell. Why don’t they run for office? It seems like their messages might resonate with a great number of voters, but I guess the answer to my own question is – they are not psycho/sociopathic/narcissistic ENOUGH to lie in the ways seemingly necessary to persuade the run of the mill dumbfuck voter.

      Nope, they need a Trump or Biden to convince the heard about which direction to panic.

      I mean, I’m not sure what’s left to fleeced out of the country anymore. Maybe some natural resources and whatnot, but what’s so substantive about the American citizenry that’s worth saving or restoring? The land is still immensely beautiful, but the culture is complete garbage.

      • TPTB-USA July 15, 2024 at 12:24 pm #

        Re: “run of the mill dumbfuck voter” ~ CouchPotatriot

        Who is the VP of America?
        armstrongeconomics.com/uncategorized/who-is-the-vp-of-america/

        • ZrCrypDiK July 18, 2024 at 11:29 am #

          Fast food grubbin, cell phone junkin’, gas guzzlin. NO COMPROMISE!

      • Cankerpuss July 15, 2024 at 12:25 pm #

        “There are plenty of guys on the sideline who call the game pretty accurately and fairly as far as I can tell. Why don’t they run for office?”

        See my lengthy diatribe above.

        Why would any good person who just wants to do things according to law want to run for public office and have their names and reputations destroyed, their families humiliated and possibly their lives taken?

        • OG July 15, 2024 at 12:31 pm #

          Not to mention they WOULD NOT garner AIPAC support.

          AIPAC support is the ONLY path to DC.

          • Cankerpuss July 15, 2024 at 12:45 pm #

            Thomas Massie barred AIPAC from his Congressional offices. A short time later his wife, a middle aged healthy woman, dies of an allergic reaction to something in her food.

            A conspiracy theory?

          • RD3 July 15, 2024 at 12:48 pm #

            Ask Cynthia McKinney about it…

          • Jarek July 15, 2024 at 1:22 pm #

            Yes. No way out be through. Football! We have enemies within? No!!!!!!!! It’s ok in football. I like football. BRH nods his shaggy head.

            Ely oils his beloved rifles. They speak to him in the night. But of what?

          • OG Is Nuts July 15, 2024 at 2:47 pm #

            Just like Jesus is the only to way Heaven, right Dr Fornication?

          • Socrates-Detroit July 16, 2024 at 9:02 pm #

            I’m very saddened to learn of the passing of Congressman Thomas Massie’s wife.

            I like Congressman Massie. May her memory be eternal.

          • ZrCrypDiK July 18, 2024 at 11:33 am #

            “Thomas Massie” wasn’t he that coal barron (millionaire) from WV? Karma’s a bitch?!…

      • ZrCrypDiK July 15, 2024 at 7:19 pm #

        “they are not psycho/sociopathic/narcissistic ENOUGH”

        d00d – haha!!! You guize making me “A LAUGH” .

  31. Paula D July 15, 2024 at 11:22 am #

    The Democrats constantly call for censorship, based on the grounds “Lives are at stake.”

    Someone posted a video from 11 days before where the talking heads showed Democrats calling for Trump’s assassination, based on their misunderstanding of the Supreme Court decision.

    Where did they get the idea that SCOTUS ruled that presidents could commit murder?
    From the lying media. This is a clear case of “misinformation” leading to death.
    But you know that the media will not “be held to account”.

    I would add the Floyd riots to the list I just started.

    .youtube.com/watch?v=IFjXC3hHk_s

  32. Paula D July 15, 2024 at 11:33 am #

    Speaking of Amazon, and Bezos, (who was raised by a Cuban “refugee”, so is probably Catholic or a reasonable facsimile), he is a multi-billionaire who makes his money on the forklift drivers who do the actual work.

    There was a tornado around here that wiped out an Amazon warehouse, and a worker talked about it the next day on Facebook. I saved it so that people can know how lousy they are treated.

    “I’m on the phone with Amazon ERC and they’re telling me I’ll be marked as a missed shift even though the state police just told me to go home. Then he got the nerve to get smart with me and say if I want the points removed, I need to go back to the site and speak to HR. There is no HR or management office…. It’s buried and the building is surrounded by emergency management and cops. All I know is they better pay me and relocate us to DLI5 or something. The whole weird thing is all week building maintenance and different crews have been in there watching us doing inspections on the equipment and started hiring for the safety committee yesterday…….
    The “tornado safe” areas aren’t there anymore. My manager said she’s waiting to hear from upper management about if they’re going to transfer us out or terminate us. Nothing is in our employee app and no one has said anything to us from DLI4. My friend works across the street and they told her to come in. She was there then they sent them home stating business will resume tomorrow. They’re currently towing cars from DLI4 to STL4 where my friend works. As of right now I’m still marked as a no show for last night and scheduled for tonight. For a company that has all these policies and high standards for us….they clearly don’t have anything for this.”

    • Cankerpuss July 15, 2024 at 12:28 pm #

      Jeff Bezos and all other mega billionaires are leaches. They may have started something but now they are leaches, sucking in their billions on the backs of everyone else and not doing a damned thing to deserve it.

      This is what is wrong with capitalism unchecked, just as Jarek always argues. Unchecked capitalism results in a few people controlling and having everything.

      Thanks again for the clarification on Bezos’s religion.

      • Paula D July 15, 2024 at 5:54 pm #

        No problem, CP. Jarek’s fellow travelers are out in force on the internet nowadays, and I’m not a bit surprised that you read that somewhere.

      • Socrates-Detroit July 16, 2024 at 9:06 pm #

        Spot on. Unchecked capitalism leads the West back to feudalism.

        That’s one reason the Founders sought checks and balances in the federal government. The did not want any ONE entity, government or private, to expand and devour the others.

    • Jarek July 15, 2024 at 1:30 pm #

      So only physical labor is real, Puala? Don’t need men of genius like Bezos? Classic Marxist worship of the workers.

      But otherwise I agree with her. To whom much is given, much is asked. Bezos has been given much and much must be required of him. What you DON’T do is allow profit driven geniuses to run rampant. And yes, they do collude with each other. That started early on. Adam Smith thought the system would keep them in check. Utter nonsense. They became they system. And will be the system until the military caste does what it must do.

      The working class is worthy of respect, not Marxist glorification. Hitler never forgot to show deep respect to them. One warm Spring morning when they were supposed to just be having a breaking ground ceremony and photo op, Hitler dived in and started digging. His shirt was soon stained with sweat. Everyone was shocked until they realized: He’s teaching us. They joined in. A glorious moment.

      • Paula D July 15, 2024 at 5:58 pm #

        Men of genius. Ha!

        You think that a man who sells used books on the internet became a billionaire because of this genius idea?
        Sure, Jarek. Getting a cut of the sale of a $2 used book, in a country where very few people ever read, and those that used to no longer do, is in no way a believable scenario for instant wealth.

        OG, did you see this? You need to add this to your GLT test.

        And I note that Jarek was finally forced to agree with me, much as it goes against his entire being.
        Thanks, Cankerpuss!

        • Jarek July 16, 2024 at 2:09 am #

          We’re both Socialists – that’s why you hate us so much.

    • ZrCrypDiK July 17, 2024 at 10:09 am #

      Actually, I heard he was inherited money, and got real lucky w/ bitcoin.

  33. holdfastspike July 15, 2024 at 11:57 am #

    The Democrat party and its media propaganda machine of fear, race baiting and hate must be dismantled. the Democrats and its deep state terrorist operatives are the greatest enemy America has faced since the Confederacy.

    • Groundhog July 15, 2024 at 12:19 pm #

      ” deep state terrorist operatives are the greatest enemy America has faced since the Confederacy.”

      Utter nonsense. All the Confederacy wished was to be left alone and be able to trade freely without tariff restrictions. The Confederacy was never an enemy of the USA. Had the Confederacy instead fought to take over Washington – THEN and only THEN would the confederacy have been a threat. The North was the aggressor and Lincoln was a dictator who destroyed the first republic. The one we have now is a roach trap nation held together by military force, that’s been the situation ever since after 1865.

      • Cankerpuss July 15, 2024 at 12:42 pm #

        With the election of Abraham Lincoln the Federal Government now had the ability to pass the Morrill Tariff, a tariff that particularly punished the south in favor of the north’s industry. The south, having had enough of this financial extortion chose to depart, peacefully, the fake “union” of states. The Civil War was all about the Federal budget and you can bet if half the country was taking its money and walking away, the other half would be hurting.

        “If it be not slavery, where lies the partition of the interests that has led at last to actual separation of the Southern from the Northern States?… Every year, for some years back, this or that Southern state had declared that it would submit to this extortion only while it had not the strength for resistance. With the election of Lincoln and an exclusive Northern party taking over the federal government, the time for withdrawal had arrived…. The conflict is between semi-independent communities [in which] every feeling and interest [in the South] calls for political partition, and every pocket interest [in the North] calls for union…. So the case stands, and under all the passion of the parties and the cries of battle lie the two chief moving causes of the struggle. Union means so many millions a year lost to the South; secession means the loss of the same millions to the North. The love of money is the root of this, as of many other evils…. [T]he quarrel between the North and South is, as it stands, solely a fiscal quarrel.” –Charles Dickens

        • RD3 July 15, 2024 at 12:57 pm #

          “The Northern onslaught against Southern slavery is a specious piece of humbug designed to mask their desire for the economic control of the Southern states.”

          – Charles Dickens

        • Jarek July 15, 2024 at 1:32 pm #

          Good old Chuck Dickens. The same exact quote could explain the war on Russia in the Ukraine.

      • messianicdruid July 15, 2024 at 12:43 pm #

        I would add to your last line “and bankrupt”.

      • holdfastspike July 15, 2024 at 2:39 pm #

        the nothing that just spilled out of your hole has anything to do with my statement. the United States of America and its continuation as republic was at threat of being overthrown by the democrat’s confederacy. and now the democrat party is the greatest threat we as a nation of States have faced since that time. absolutely nothing to do with slavery, tariff, or trade, what side someone is on or anything but this threat. they revolted and seceded from the United States. the reasons are irrelevant. so I say again, “Something that doesn’t get spoken about enough is the root cause of evil in America. The Democrat party and its media propaganda machine of fear, race baiting, and hate must be dismantled. The Democrats and their deep state terrorist operatives are the greatest threat America has faced since the civil war.” period, end of conversation.

        • Groundhog July 15, 2024 at 6:12 pm #

          Nope, wrong again. The Confederacy had no plans whatsoever to rule the North. You seem unable to give up the garbage they dumped in your head when you went to school. Somehow you have it in your mind that the United States is a roach motel that nobody can escape from once they join. That’s not freedom – that’s tyranny. The South was forced at gunpoint to rejoin the Union. That’s not freedom – that’s tyranny.

          • Jarek July 16, 2024 at 12:28 pm #

            Why are the people of the Southern Appalachians so implacably hostile to outsiders?

            I asked RD and he said it was because of their Scotch-Irish heritage of herding sheep. Isolation. Not farmers who lived in villages in other words.

    • Groundhog July 15, 2024 at 12:50 pm #

      …..but ditto on everything else you wrote. I realize I’m a pest in here when I like to point out that there are two sides to every story. And after 1865, the only story being told us has been the Union version. The victors of a major war always write the newspapers and the history books. We weren’t exposed to the other side of the story, the Southern side.

      In a true civil war, we see two sides fighting for control of one nation. A recent example is the Spanish civil war that led to Franco being Spain’s leader. In civil wars, two groups are often contending for control of a capitol city. When Emperor Constantine won his famous battle at the Milvian Bridge, he was involved in one of Rome’s civil wars where two different wannabe emperors are fighting for control of the capital city of the empire. If our civil war had been a real civil war, the capture and sacking of Washington DC would have been the only aim of the Confederacy. The Confederates would have taken Washington, arrested Lincoln and a sizeable portion of the Republican party leadership, and cleaned house. Everyone associated with Union leadership would have been fired and prevented from running for office again.

      But the US Confederacy had no such ambitions or plans. The South had no desire to be managing and leading the Northern states. All the South wanted was the *very exact* same thing the colonies wanted when we rebelled against the rule of King George III. The colonies simply wished to be left alone and to have complete self determination. We didn’t like George III ruling over us, and the South didn’t like the North engaging in unfair taxation via tariffs. The colonies didn’t like George’s taxes, and the South didn’t like the North’s unfair taxation. And it was a holy event when we rebelled against England. But it was a demonic event when the South took the liberty to do the very same thing with the North. It’s ok for the Union to leave England, but NOT ok for the South to leave the Union.

      Why? Because the Union is Holy, and Lincoln was really the second coming of Jesus. We built a marble temple for our new Jesus in DC. We just didn’t recognize it at the time.

      • holdfastspike July 15, 2024 at 2:41 pm #

        irrelevant diarrhea.”Something that doesn’t get spoken about enough is the root cause of evil in America. The Democrat party and its media propaganda machine of fear, race baiting, and hate must be dismantled. The Democrats and their deep state terrorist operatives are the greatest threat America has faced since the civil war.” period,

        • Cankerpuss July 15, 2024 at 6:22 pm #

          I agree with your thoughts on the media but I disagree with referring to Groundhog’s comment as irrelevant diarrhea. Groundhog’s comments are just as relevant as your thoughts on the media propaganda machine.

          Knowing our true history is of vital relevance.

          Thanks for your comment, Groundhog.

        • ZrCrypDiK July 17, 2024 at 12:11 pm #

          So MSNBC is liberal and progressive?!… Haha – they are an owned corporation, just like CNN or FOX. What is in the best interests of those multimillionaires/billionaires? Tax breaks/welfare for the rich, and complete/total deregulation.

  34. Breck July 15, 2024 at 12:01 pm #

    Call me a ‘Doubting Thomas’.
    I want to see that ear wound.

    • OG July 15, 2024 at 12:12 pm #

      Me too.

      Trump’s magic ear that, as luck would have it, had ZERO cameras on it until AFTER over a full minute hidden from sight.

      In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
      – President Franklin D. Roosevelt

      • Breck July 15, 2024 at 1:09 pm #

        The question can be settled once and for all. It’s called Evidence.

        What we never got was an un-retouched photo of JFK’s head. We never had his brain examined because it was stolen…from the NATIONAL ARCHIVES!

        So let’s just settle this now. Show us the ear.

        • OG July 15, 2024 at 1:26 pm #

          Exactly! Why have we not seen Donald Trump’s magic ear since Saturday’s staged photo op?

        • elysianfield July 15, 2024 at 4:07 pm #

          Breck,
          The Archives tried to hide his brain, so they marked it Abe…Abe Normal.

        • MiTurn July 15, 2024 at 7:30 pm #

          24/7 fact check….

      • Land of the Banned July 15, 2024 at 2:26 pm #

        Have to agree. And when you stop and think about it, how hard would a grazing shot like that have been to pull off? Certainly a lot harder than a direct cranium shot. I think we’ll be hearing a lot more about this “incident” over the coming weeks and months. Won’t venture to guess the reason(s) behind it, which could go in all sorts of directions, but something is very definitely amiss with the whole thing.

    • Jarek July 15, 2024 at 1:34 pm #

      Slaves in old Israel would have an awl pushed through their ear lobe. Is that what we will find?

    • Soul Forensics July 15, 2024 at 7:32 pm #

      “Call me a ‘Doubting Thomas’.
      I want to see that ear wound.” — Breck

      All you ear fetishists sound like Vincent Van Gogh’s 18-year-old cleaning lady.

      ” ‘When I started looking into Vincent van Gogh, nothing made any sense,’ said Irish art historian Bernadette Murphy in a recent interview. ‘There were inconsistencies repeated incessantly in every book.’

      There was only one thing to do, she decided: Ignore everything out there and start all over again.” — Virgie Hoban

      Wise procedure. But on the interwebz, everyone’s an instant expert.

      140 years later, Murphy solved the controversy.

      • ZrCrypDiK July 17, 2024 at 12:23 pm #

        d00d he cut off his own ear to give it to a lover/muse?!…

  35. kellycat July 15, 2024 at 12:13 pm #

    TRUMP NEEDS TO JUST MOVE INTO THE WHITE HOUSE NOW.

    HE WON THE ELECTION AND HAS THE BULLET TO PROVE IT.

    The “shooter” was most probably just a decoy because just by his photo he looks to be diminished intellectually. (retarded).

    He had no social interaction on the internet nor any background at all which for a twenty year old quite different.

    Like Oswald, the current shooter de jour, was a “PATSY”. DISTRACTION, set up.

    just my opinion….

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    • OG July 15, 2024 at 12:23 pm #

      just my opinion….

      And what a fine, thoughtful opinion it is! Thanks for sharing it.

      ***
      I agree. The 20 year-old kid that SS left a ladder and stood down for until AFTER he shot was a PATSY.

      ***
      “Gee whiz! And golly! Our Secret Service sure are a bunch of bumblers. Hyuk, hyuk, hyuk.”

    • Jarek July 15, 2024 at 1:36 pm #

      Well said. Trump caught the imaginary bullet that was fired at him. He put it in a golden jar that will be kept on his desk. An urn holding the ashes of his manhood…..

      • ZrCrypDiK July 17, 2024 at 12:35 pm #

        “The “shooter” was most probably just a decoy because just by his photo he looks to be diminished intellectually. (retarded). ”

        Yeah, he totally looked like Trump Tard. Gun Nutter fo sho.

  36. socialisthater July 15, 2024 at 12:23 pm #

    I don’t consider JHK a “raging conservative”–far from it. But, JHK hit the nail on the head on this outstanding blog entry with these two sentences as the coup de grace, ” In short, the Democratic Party appears to be guilty of programmatic treason against the people of the United States. They know that a reckoning awaits if Mr. Trump manages to return to office.”

    Exactly. The Democrat Party is absolutely treasonous to its core, and ANYONE who continues to support ANY Democrat politician is an enabling accessory to that treason. The security breach on so many multiple levels to allow an assassin to get that close to murdering President Trump is so multi-layered and massive that it becomes almost impossible to believe that it wasn’t engineered by the Obama/Hillary Hag/Soros Democrat scum cabal. And, of course, the very Democrat-weaponized agencies that have been targeting conservatives will be “investigating” the security lapses. You know, the same folks that can’t figure out how cocaine got into what is supposedly the most secure building in the United States, and who spewed that the absolutely authentic Hunter Biden laptop was “Russian disinformation.” They don’t dare find out or disclose what happened because it would implicate their Democrat scum employers.

    Anyone who believes anything that the Democrat scum says is actual truth can only be ignorant, stupid, or brainwashed–or some combination of all three.

    Finally, as far as the Democrat scum propaganda arm that is the mainstream media goes, who is already trying to somehow blame conservatives for the assassination attempt on President Trump, I have only two words for you: FUCK YOU.

    • Cankerpuss July 15, 2024 at 12:30 pm #

      I agree whole heartedly with your comments but as I was reading I kept thinking “and are the Republicans any better?”

      Think uniparty…..

      • CouchPotatriot July 15, 2024 at 12:41 pm #

        Exactly,

        Look at what the Republicans did during the 90s and early 2000s. I don’t mean their leadership class, I mean their constituents. Look at all the lies cronyism, and corruption the Republican voter condoned.

        Then the pendulum swung to the left side of crazy beginning with Clinton. Fuck ’em all

        I don’t mind righteous indignation, but don’t let anyone of the hook for their complicit duplicity.

      • OG July 15, 2024 at 12:43 pm #

        Divide & Conquer

        Frick v Frack

        Saturday TV rasslin’.

    • Breck July 15, 2024 at 1:11 pm #

      “In short, the Democratic Party appears to be guilty of programmatic treason against the people of the United States. They know that a reckoning awaits if Mr. Trump manages to return to office.”

      Really? We’ll see. For all his “toughness”, Trump has really acted like a wussy. He wants to be liked so much, he can’t bear to hand people their ass.

      • OG July 15, 2024 at 1:23 pm #

        Operation Warpspeed.

  37. CouchPotatriot July 15, 2024 at 12:28 pm #

    If Trump’s rallies were huge before, wait till you see what they’re gonna become. Expect outside the venue to be just as packed as the inside. The perimeter of the events will now be surrounded with private citizen gun toting guards just hoping that some Antifa sissies show up to “protest” or take another pot shot at Trump.

    It’s gonna be an exciting Fall.

  38. GhostOfHam July 15, 2024 at 12:33 pm #

    I liked the droll

    “In short,” roll on of 4 more paragraphs.

    The Dickens, you say.

  39. Socrates-Detroit July 15, 2024 at 1:10 pm #

    “WHY SO MUCH HATRED FOR PEACE? WHY, BECAUSE PEACE ISN”T PROFITABLE!”

    “What connects the assassination attempts against President Trump, the Slovak Prime Minister, and the unnatural alliance against LePen”

    This is today’s headline from my favorite newspaper, ESTIA.

    estianews.gr

    And it has three pictures underneath: Bloodied Pres. Trump, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, and French politician Marine LePen

    I look forward to reading the article on the online edition tomorrow.

    Meanwhile, on MSM dot com, one Douglas Schoen posited that

    Opinion: Only an ‘October Surprise’ can swing the presidential election.

    • Breck July 15, 2024 at 1:13 pm #

      7 ways from Sunday Soc.

    • Jarek July 15, 2024 at 1:38 pm #

      Trump will initiate a campaign of warp speed in Gaza, Ukraine, and Taiwan.

      We will be crushed! We will have to destroy the planet in order to save it.

      • Socrates-Detroit July 15, 2024 at 2:22 pm #

        I think Trump was and is wild card.

        I considered the possibility that this might be staged, but I’ve discounted that now. It was too close to be a false flag.

        I believe some one tried to kill Trump.

        I don’t know how this will affect Trump personally.

        Trump was a wild card before. He has done pretty well and has pretty good instincts (when it comes to his personal gain) and knows how to appeal to common people (unlike the depictions in the mass media, he can be and often is polite and thoughtful).

        I think there is a good chance he will pull the plug on Project Ukraine. If he does not ease up on Ukraine, then we know is fully controlled.

        I think there is less chance he will adopt a more conciliatory approach to China. It’s possible he might stop antagonizing the Chinese in Taiwan. That would be good.

        He’s too invested in the anti-China rhetoric. And while I may be anti-war, the Chinese are, of necessity, preparing to take the battle to the US internally if it comes to that. China is tricky–the US and China still need each other, Trump is better able to build on that than others.

        I see NO chance that Trump will deviate from prescribed Israeli Lobby policy. Miriam Adelson gave him and the Republicans the Israeli Lobby seal of approval, with $100 million. After the shooting, Bill Ackman, an ardent Zionist, came out and publicly endorsed Trump.

        The Israeli Lobby has already won the election, no matter what.

        Only if events shock enough Americans into waking up, or worse, if events show the US military and government to be impotent, will US policy in Palestine/Israel change.

        @Jarek @OG @CFN I hope you, everyone, watches JHK’s podcast with LTC Murray. Murray covers a lot of ground–the more context one has, the more interesting and informative LTC Murray is. (and no, I don’t agree with him 100% by any means, but I found it an excellent podcast, and you will too).

        • Jarek July 15, 2024 at 2:57 pm #

          Is LTC Murray a Zionist as so many of these guys are?

          • Socrates-Detroit July 15, 2024 at 6:44 pm #

            @Jarek

            I cannot really discern. He may be. He may be anti-zionist. I don’t have a quick answer. He’s pretty short, he’d probably be offended and curse me out if I guessed wrong. He is an (understandably) angry man. Intelligent and angry.

            Actually, the easy answer is, JUST LISTEN TO THE PODCAST.

            If he is a Zionist, so what? He did not discuss Palestine.

            Zionists, just like Communists, Republicans, and Democrats, and even Na-zis, do tell some truths. NO ONE always lies, though the Zionists lie a lot more than most and get away with it because they have “a lot of influence”. That’s why the Israeli government can get away with so much. Even VP-select Vance is on board with Israel: “we can’t destroy the idea of Hamas (very good JD), but we should allow Israel to destroy Hamas military capability”.

            Even if he is Zionist, or overly pro-Israel, LTC Murray has many interesting, potentially useful observations and insights.

            He seems to be coming from a “traditional”, “Christian” (nominally–American Christianity has several gaps and contradictions that I’m not going to discuss), maybe small town place. He did a tour in Iraq. He cited Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, as if they may be the “vanguard” of the “resistance”. When the system breaks down, these are the people who will have the skills and guns to provide order and security.

            I tend to think folks like that are more likely to be “Zionist” than not because of their misguided interpretation of scripture, starting with the English-language Scofield Bible. (the idea of a Jewish state in Palestine was popular with some English Protestants in the 17th century; maybe THEY are the real seed of modern Zionism, not Theodor Herzl?)

            On the other hand, LTC Murray asserted clearly that the Rothschilds have controlled money for four hundred years; he cited the insightful book “Pawns in the Game” by William Carr, which provides lots of info on how big capital seeks global domination thru financial manipulation, and foments wars toward that end; LTC Murray asserts that Bush SR (George HW), as VP, had an improper sexual relationship with under-age boy scouts that was covered up. These types of comments are associated with anti-Zionist views.

            LTC Murray notes that, in general, the US military is in poor shape, a sentiment, my (now limited) contacts in the DoD have told me. But LTC Murray notes that the US/NATO Air Force is still potent. He also notes the vaccine could affect readiness, and the main motive of mandating it was to surface and expel the independent thinkers–the refuseniks.

            My comments do NOT do this podcast justice. Y’all (see, I can be good ol’ boy, lol) need to take an hour away from the commenting and listen to the podcast.

            There is a LOT that he doesn’t address. When America implodes, what happens to our fine Air Force? Our nuclear deterrent? What’s left of the Navy?

            Why don’t you listen and give us your take? I would definitely appreciate it.

          • Paula D July 16, 2024 at 1:38 pm #

            I don’t know about the Boy Scouts, but there was a brief flurry of news reports about orphans from Boys Town being taken on a midnight White House tour, back in the late 80s or early 90s.

            That did get covered up. And as usual with rich people’s crimes, they are called “scandals” in the media, instead of crimes.

            So the entire pedophilia ring in Nebraska, which involved top Republicans, pillars of the community, and law enforcement, as well as the Lincoln Savings and Loan president, using boys from Boys Town as well as one girl who got pregnant by the sheriff, and was the only one who did prison time, (for “perjury”), was covered up and forgotten.

            A man who was investigating the crimes was killed in a small plane crash, along with his son.
            That puts a damper on investigations, especially when he was carrying evidence in the plane.

        • Uncle Abraham July 16, 2024 at 12:28 pm #

          God is a Zionist. Allah is the anti-Zionist. Pick your side, those who haven’t.

  40. Jarek July 15, 2024 at 1:39 pm #

    The large White hand – unstained with blood. But within the clenched fist, the virtual bullet. Women are fantasizing about Trump again. Time for another pussy hat march – trans women too.

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    • OG July 15, 2024 at 1:48 pm #

      What? Blood stains hands? Really? Serious?

      Yesterday, here on CFN, I was fending off yahoos who claimed that blood does not stain hands. I shit you not.

      ***
      Most people get so invested in their pre-existing beliefs that they will fight tooth-and-nail against the truth. Most of those people will take the mark.

      “Wakey! Wakey! Folks.”

      • Soul Forensics July 15, 2024 at 7:41 pm #

        “Yesterday, here on CFN, I was fending off yahoos who claimed that blood does not stain hands. I shit you not.” — OG

        What makes you so sure that Trump actually touched his ear?

        • OG July 15, 2024 at 10:21 pm #

          Ummm … because it was supposedly shot.

          • Soul Forensics July 16, 2024 at 12:02 am #

            So you’re presuming that he actually touched it just because it was shot?

            That dawg don’t hunt there, OG.

            What happens immediately after someone’s shot in the leg or arm? They reflexively put their hand near the wound, but they don’t touch it. Why would they? They’re not gonna stanch the blood (which takes a few seconds to leak out anyway) by putting their finger in the dyke.

            Two months ago, at night, I tripped over a declension in the pavement on a side street. To brace for the fall, and to avoid smashing my face against the pavement, I put out my hands reflexively, and my right hand palm and the last two fingers of that hand were scraped and bloodied.

            I immediately and reflexively put my left hand over my right, but I didn’t touch it. Blood oozed out, then congealed.

            Fortunately, I was only four blocks from home. Once there, cold water, a few bandages, and that’s that. Never once touched it.

    • MiTurn July 15, 2024 at 7:34 pm #

      “trans women too.”

      Oxymoron.

  41. CouchPotatriot July 15, 2024 at 1:49 pm #

    “Why would any good person who just wants to do things according to law want to run for public office and have their names and reputations destroyed, their families humiliated and possibly their lives taken?” Canker

    I don’t know Canker, I’m not sure it’s a moralistically black and white question for a political candidate to ask themselves as you suggest. Aspiring for power requires certain guile – and then vying not to lose your power probably warps the shit out of someone’s personality even further. My opinion is that “good” people aren’t necessarily covetous of power and the limelight, and they can take it or leave it with ease.

    Until the Trump attempt, and despite the instances of assassination throughout history, has public leadership really been that dangerous of a profession?

    We don’t have a government packed with fucking half-dead geriatrics because the job is particularly stressful or dangerous.

    Only when systemic corruption becomes so blatant and widespread does being a politician become risky.

    I think old hands have studied human behavior and societal governance systems for so long that they’ve mastered individual and mass mind control – what’s another term? – Mass Psychosis Formation.

    This science was perfected by the end of the 20th century and that’s why media outlets were consolidated and echo chambered during the Clinton years. Control the messaging to conceal the agenda. Simple.

    The marketing wizards understand the sociology, demographics, and regional characteristics of the nation so precisely and scientifically that they fully understand how to slice and trim messages and how to shape information and thus knowledge. I once thought O’bummer was the supreme genius of our age at this type of political marketing, until I met Trump.

    On the one hand, I believe it’s fairly well known that political office seekers often have sinister, hidden drives and motives (i.e., pathological lying, psychoticism, self-absorption/delusion, sexual perversion, etc.). Those types of characters equal a lesser percentage of the population but these people often find their way into positions of leadership, or prematurely dead, or in jail.

    On the other hand, the status quo ante voter – thanks to the relentless dumbing down efforts of the government via the public and private school system – has become much easier to manipulate and fool over the last 50 or so years.

    Isn’t it interesting to meet the typical partisan voter and – without ever asking their political affiliation – within minutes of dialogue to know exactly how and what they think and worry about. You can nearly complete their sentences for them if you know what TV channels /media they consume. Brainwashing isn’t really all that mysterious or difficult to perform.

    The alternative media and internet has corporatized, consolidated, and commercialized in much the same manner… So enjoy freedom of thought and expression for as long as it lasts – which won’t be for much longer.

    TPTB are losing their stronghold, so a great reset of some kind feels on the way, as you’d agree. However, The Matrix will simply be rebuilt and the human batteries re-inserted. Or maybe just Mad Max.

  42. Roundball Shaman July 15, 2024 at 1:50 pm #

    One inch. One little inch. That’s the minuscule difference between taking out life of an American President or seeing his fist raised with the defiance of survival and then seeing him heading to America’s Beer City to receive his Party’s nomination. State funeral… or nomination speech to rally the faithful? Two wildly divergent roads. Brutally binary and unforgiving. The literal difference (and distance) between life and death.

    That’s the hairs-length difference between America breaking open into raging flames or America just slipping back into its usual sickly partisan zealotry… covered over by politician’s empty words about coming together.

    Think of the all the ripple effects that the end result of one inch… one way or the other… would be having today… tomorrow… and decades to come. It is mind blowing to consider and comprehend.

    America is in an uneasy truce period when political blowhard-blusterers and frantic fanatic fervor are taking a brief break. But rest assured… all this will be back — and very soon. Why? Because nothing has fundamentally changed to the sickness and social dysfunction within our Nation.

    All that has happened is that by the grace of God a very famous man’s life has been spared … and as a result everybody takes a momentary step back. But all the anger and distrust and dysfunction is still there and is as flaming and embedded as ever. The deep rot that has settled into the body of America still festers. And everyone can feel it. And has for a long time now.

    Resident Biden’s words are empty and vain. He went from saying just a few days ago… ‘It’s time to put Trump in a bullseye”… to what he said after the attempt on President Trump’s life… “There’s no place in America for this kind of violence.”

    OK, Mister Resident… which is it? Cross hairs? Bullseye? or is it now ‘Can’t We All Get Along?’ Rodney King-style. And you remember how well THAT went on the streets of LA, right?

    The great thing about politicians: Say what feels good in the moment. What panders the most. And in the next moment… go ahead and say the exact opposite. Where are real Statesmen when you need them? Not around these parts. Real Statesmen haven’t been around for generations. Traded all that in for selling your office to the highest bidder and fully insulating yourself from the American People.

    While there was a great deal of immediate reaction after the attempt was made on Mr. Trump’s life… there was at the same time a surprising lack of strong reaction in parts of the Nation as as well. Why? The American psyche has come to expect things like this. We shouldn’t… but we do.

    The open wound and scar on the Body of America from the killing of JFK has never healed over. It won’t, ever. This remains a festering pain in the stomachs and and spirits of many Americans. And then this happened to Dr. King and Robert F. Kennedy in short order. And so, part of America has now become numbed to such sickly and cowardly acts against our leaders. Part of our history that has come to dull some of our senses.

    With all the hatred now on open display – much of which stoked by US Incorporated State Media – is anyone surprised that an attempt on Trump’s life was made? How could anyone be.

    In America we don’t discuss any more. We don’t resolve any more. We don’t treat others with respect any more. We choose to demonize and dehumanize and act like immature spoiled infants who demand their way all the time. And when we don’t get what we want… we yell and scream and act out. Just like disquieted babes.

    One inch. Sometimes it’s the difference between having a big accident or just driving away untouched. Sometimes it’s the difference between getting the big hit in the deciding game of the World Series or grounding into a game-ending out. Sometimes it’s the difference between grabbing a tree branch along the shoreline when you’re caught in the current of a raging stream or just being washed away for good.

    One inch. One little inch. Sometimes the literal difference between life and death. Sometimes the difference between a Nation still holding itself together in a shaky tense and forced assemblage… or completely coming apart at the seams.

    One Inch that History will never forget.

    One inch to hold America together… at least for a bit longer.

    • Jarek July 15, 2024 at 2:08 pm #

      Imagine how RFK must feel. The nod has gone to Trump. They used him to steal the glory and the legacy of JFK. Is it logical? No. Logic doesn’t win elections. But there’s an “emotional logic” to it. Reagan won when he got mad and told people to shut up or said, “I’m paying for this.”.

      The King survived the attempt on his life. The hand of God is upon him (or that of the Deeps who see themselves as gods).

      • MiTurn July 15, 2024 at 7:36 pm #

        “Imagine how RFK must feel. The nod has gone to Trump.”

        Excellent point. Could the Donald use him in his new administration? Granted, he’s a Dem running as an Independent, but really the Donald is an Independent running as a Republican.

    • SteveK9 July 15, 2024 at 2:09 pm #

      Over almost a century, Jews became our elites, ‘and that has made all the difference’.

    • OG July 15, 2024 at 2:32 pm #

      You are a very skilled writer, RBS, You bring up a wealth of valid points and brilliant analysis. And you do so eloquently.

      But part of America has now become numbed to such sickly and cowardly acts against our leaders?!!!

      Lee Harvey Oswald? James Earl Ray? Sirhan Sirhan? These random little people changed the history of the most powerful nation on earth? Ya think?

      Patsies one and all.

      C’mon, man. You’re scaring me! You’re starting to sound like a GLT 0.

      • Roundball Shaman July 15, 2024 at 2:50 pm #

        OG: “Lee Harvey Oswald? James Earl Ray? Sirhan Sirhan? These random little people changed the history of the most powerful nation on earth? Ya think? Patsies one and all.”

        Of course these men were patsies. Have to hide the true perps at all costs. And of course our history has been changed in grotesque and twisted ways that have created entire illegitimate time lines of successive events for all of us to experience.

        But as we know – the Hidden Hand must always spin fairy tales about events to have something to sell to the public and then off-load such to Wikipedia to be our codified gospel History of our Times. Cover up par excellance.

        There are two parts of America that I am referring to. One is the part of America that has seen these events from before (people who were watching in the early Sixties) and that out of being traumatized have become a bit numbed to this because it hurts too damn much to relive this stuff again and again.

        And another part of America referenced is – the Grand and Glorious Blue Wave – that just doesn’t care a bit about what happened to President Trump in Pennsylvania… or who are simply disappointed about how the event turned out.

        When people experience too much pain and dissonance we begin to shut down part of ourselves. It’s a reflex.

        • OG July 15, 2024 at 4:36 pm #

          Whew! That’s a relief. I knew that you are smarter than believing the official hogwash.

          ***
          Do you know your GLT? Do you care to share it with the group?

      • tom clark July 15, 2024 at 3:28 pm #

        A reminder that my GLT is now 1, OG.

        • OG July 15, 2024 at 4:38 pm #

          Thx, tom. I have adjusted the record thusly.

          May I ask? Which of the 10 has moved you from 0 to 1?

          ***
          We currently have 15 public GLT scores:

          10 – OG, Jarek, tuco22, JimInFlorida2.0, SSL, C.O.Jones, Zoltar, Ron Anselmo
          9 – getsome, RD3, jim e
          5 – JAZ
          2 – Ely
          1 – Gus, tom clark

    • Ron Anselmo July 15, 2024 at 2:41 pm #

      RS – very eloquent and thought-provoking, as usual for you, on the difference one inch can make.

      Not meaning to detract in any way from your well-articulated thesis, but it reminded me of an old Richard Pryor bit:

      Pryor: “I’m leaving bitch! I’m gonna’ find me some new pussy!”

      His Girlfriend: “If you had another inch of dick, you could find some new pussy right here!”

      One inch indeed.

      Jim may bounce me, but it’s an all-time favorite (of mine), so couldn’t resist.

      • Cankerpuss July 15, 2024 at 6:31 pm #

        At least yours made sense, Ron. King of comedy was nothing but vulgar inane babbling.

      • Soul Forensics July 15, 2024 at 7:51 pm #

        By changing the “metric”, the saying, “give him an inch, he’ll take a mile” becomes a painful result.

    • Roundball Shaman July 15, 2024 at 7:53 pm #

      The ultimate irony in life is when someone intends harm (or at least some kind of ill will) toward you and somehow this very act against you ends up doing you some good.

      Of course no sane person would want anyone to attempt harm on President Trump. And it was the ultimate tragedy for the person at the rally who lost his life – and those around him who are bearing that pain.

      But for Trump himself… the ultimate irony here is in how much this act of utmost attempted harm against Trump is doing exactly the opposite for him in the larger social sphere and boosting his political chances.

      Most all of us can point to one or more times in our lives when someone tried to harm us in some way. (The ways and circumstances can be many.) Yet more than once… something positive ended up coming back to us as a direct result of someone’s attempted harm to us. A positive effect from a ‘negative’ cause.

      We don’t (and won’t) know the true motivation of the shooter or the larger web that spawned that act. The intent of these perps was clearly to do great harm. But the immediate result? Trump ends up not being harmed but helped — at least at this point in time.

      Quick Karma at work here? The bad intent (the ‘negative’) of those behind the assassination attempt failing and karma yet to somehow fall back upon them? And Trump’s often-professed pledge to reign in the Dark State and fight for forgotten Americans?… that the Dark State was really coming after true Americans and that he was just in the way? (the ‘positive’?).

      The Darkness fails and ends up doing the polar opposite of their intent? Makes one wonder.

  43. SteveK9 July 15, 2024 at 2:02 pm #

    Congratulations for NOT pointing out that you were predicting for quite some time, that the Democrats would not run ‘Biden’. The fact, that he may resist their attempts to dump him, does not detract from calling it.

    I hate people who constantly say something along the lines of ‘I thought of it first’ … so thanks.

  44. CouchPotatriot July 15, 2024 at 2:11 pm #

    “Most people get so invested in their pre-existing beliefs that they will fight tooth-and-nail against the truth. Most of those people will take the mark.” – FOG

    Do you really believe that Trump would stand up there knowing that someone was going to spray .22 caliber bullets at him and into the crowd – all for a PR stunt?

    I love a good conspiracy theory – but do you honestly think it less likely that a dorky 20-year old was somehow coerced or encouraged to make a move on Trump? Moreover, that it’s entirely plausible that the SS sniper was directed to let the kid get off a shot or two before taking him out.

    You’ve fixed your whole argument on the bloody ear thing with ZERO supporting evidence. I’ve seen the same photos and it honestly looks like a legitimate, superficial wound.

    Why is it so difficult to think that Trump just wasn’t that seriously wounded, that much of the blood was smeared, smudged, and wiped away as 10 fucking people smothered him?

    Cheezus, FOG, you are up to something but I have no idea what.

    • OG July 15, 2024 at 2:54 pm #

      Ears bleed like stuck pigs, CrotchRot. A tiny clip with barber scissors and an ear will bleed and bleed and bleed. The ear is so flimsy that there is nothing for your natural blood to clot and be protected from the constant rush of yet more fresh blood.

      With the amount of blood that we are to believe that Trump lost from being grazed in the ear with a bullet, we’re also asked to believe that that battlefield-like injury was all clotted up just fine in 60 seconds (and with no Quikclot (or even pressure of any kind!) (on account of that wouldn’t do for the photo op at the end of Jim’s essay this morning)).

      Sorry, Trumpsters. All doubt has been removed. All those masonic hand-signs are not quirks. He’s in on it.

      Operation Warpspeed.

      Abandon all hope, ye who enter.

      ***
      Whatever you do, no matter how bad things get, don’t take the mark.

      • Paula D July 15, 2024 at 6:04 pm #

        Your ear is made of cartilage. It doesn’t have a massive blood supply, but that doesn’t matter, all blood coagulates when it hits the air, no matter what body part it came from.

      • Soul Forensics July 15, 2024 at 8:06 pm #

        OG, when I was young, I was a passenger in a jeep which crashed into a parked car on a thickly foggy night.

        Immediately after the crash, we checked to see if everyone (four of us) were OK. Outside of one with a head cut, things seemed fine.

        Then I felt a tingle in my right calf. I rolled up my pant leg, and there was a wide open gash half a foot long and almost an inch wide, with absolutely no blood from it.

        (The doc who gave me stitches said the cold night and my being athletic helped the blood to congeal before oozing or pouring out.)

        I have other blood (or lack of blood) stories to relate that would also be appropriate here, but I’ll leave them for now.

        Also, from Medical News Today: “A cut or wound MAY cause bleeding from the outer ear.” (bolding mine).

        • OG July 15, 2024 at 10:18 pm #

          Talk about irrelevant!

          • Soul Forensics July 16, 2024 at 12:06 am #

            How so?

          • OG July 16, 2024 at 1:09 am #

            Your experience of a leg cut in a car accident vis-à-vis Trump getting shot in the ear?

            Think about it.

          • Uncle Abraham July 16, 2024 at 12:47 pm #

            You’re not worth listening to. I suggest everyone ignore this person’s comments from now on. I will.

  45. Jarek July 15, 2024 at 2:16 pm #

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/judge-tosses-trump-documents-case-135928486.html

    All things move in “our” favor. The Dems blew with their fumbling around. Too much personality cultism. The worship of “Ruth” opened the door for people they didn’t like. Bryer stepped down as requested. But who is going to make Pelosi step down? Biden was actually defying them. And Kamala is an utter idiot. The Deep State made the right choice for what they want to do.

    The Democrat militia (the antifa) will be ordered to remain quiet. Some will disobey and will be treated very differently this time. Watch.

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    • MiTurn July 15, 2024 at 7:40 pm #

      “The Democrat militia (the antifa)…”

      That explains it. Moronic is as morons do.

  46. Jarek July 15, 2024 at 2:22 pm #

    Barnhardt

    Sources tell NBC News that the roof where the shooter was located was a “well known, high priority vulnerability” identified in a security walk through the day before. They confirm that the counter sniper did not need approval to shoot, and did NOT follow prior protocol. pic.twitter.com/gXMm5Hj8tM

    — Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) July 15, 2024

    Now, this video isolation of a woman who clearly knew what was coming, and when it happened, she didn’t even flinch; while everyone around her was ducking and covering for their lives, she was calmly erect, rolling video.

    This video of a woman located behind Donald Trump during his attempted assassination is HIGHLY suspicious.

    Her body language & behavior seem to indicate she knew that something was coming. pic.twitter.com/L4sEHArSrA

    — Dominic Michael Tripi (@DMichaelTripi) July 15, 2024

    And, I would add that Trump’s Secret Service crew appeared to be stacked intentionally with women, who are, by definition, intrinsically functionally incompetent for such work.

    At this point, the question should be if they will try again in Milwaukee.

    Jarek: Ann usually teaches me. But I’m ahead of her on this one. Rare!

    • OG July 15, 2024 at 3:09 pm #

      Yep. Butler was obviously a choreographed black op event.

      I especially liked the 5’4″ SS woman right facing Trump in their protective huddle around him. She’s perfect for photo-ops in the real world or headshots if they were not lying to us and would, therefore, be unsure on the existence of a second shooter.

      • elysianfield July 15, 2024 at 4:03 pm #

        OG,
        You just don’t get it , do you? She was protecting his knee caps….

  47. Q. Shtik July 15, 2024 at 2:33 pm #

    JHK, I have to ask, wasn’t embroidered supposed to be
    embroiled?

    • Q. Shtik July 16, 2024 at 11:28 am #

      I take it back. After a couple more readings of the sentence I can see the sense of embroidered.

  48. CouchPotatriot July 15, 2024 at 2:36 pm #

    Excellent write up, Roundball Shaman.

    I ask sincerely, please share your imaginings about how a Civil War II in America would unfold. Who would fight whom?

    Will it be citizens against the Federal Govt. Or would it be something more like Proud Boys vs. Antifa? Ha-hah, like that battle wouldn’t end quick.

    I’m well aware that there are something like 3 million or more military vets who are pissed about where the country is headed. But if they mobilize, where are they headed?

    I haven’t seen the new Civil War movie with Kirsten Dunst, so I genuinely struggle to imagine how moderate Americans would respond to the crisis.

    • MiTurn July 15, 2024 at 7:43 pm #

      ” please share your imaginings about how a Civil War II in America would unfold. ”

      Of more interest would be how civil war is avoided as states instead choose to secede from the Union and form new smaller republics. Looks like Texas is already hedging its bets.

  49. docmartin July 15, 2024 at 2:51 pm #

    That faggot lefty piece of shit “ Destiny “ should meet his destiny at the end of an ever tightening rope after a good month of humiliation and physical torture .

    • Soul Forensics July 15, 2024 at 8:15 pm #

      If that scum was a MAGA supporter (or, as they like to say, ‘far-right winger’), he would’ve been cancelled and charged already, then convicted and fined and/or jailed.

  50. Yirgach July 15, 2024 at 2:57 pm #

    Today’s post of The Automatic Earth featured a painting by Salvidor Dali entitled “Swans Reflecting Elephants.” Quite beautiful, if you like Dali.

    The artist described this as a product of his “paranoia-critical method” which he described in a 1935 essay “The Conquest of the Irrational” as a “spontaneous method of irrational understanding based upon the interpretative critical association of delirious phenomena.”

    Seems to pretty much reflect the Biden Regime world view.

    See XXX.theautomaticearth.com/2024/07/debt-rattle-july-15-2024/

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  51. CouchPotatriot July 15, 2024 at 3:15 pm #

    Let’s hear from an expert, FOG.

    Not some crackpot on bitchute.

    Larry C. Johnson & former FBI HRT Sniper Chris Whitcomb on the Failed Assassination of Donald Trump – YouTube.

    • OG July 15, 2024 at 4:21 pm #

      Hey CrotchRot!

      I’m almost 27 minutes into this 59:34 vid … Interesting … but when does he disprove anything that I’m saying?

      • gustafson.robert.22 July 15, 2024 at 4:40 pm #

        Definitely completely disproves the dirt-dumb video you posted very enthusiastically yesterday with the guy saying first shots were fired by the visible roof snipers…………………………………… (lol)

        • gustafson.robert.22 July 15, 2024 at 4:42 pm #

          The countersnipers

        • gustafson.robert.22 July 15, 2024 at 4:50 pm #

          Which was the video’s basis for a “there was no real bullet near Trump’s ear” line of purported thinking.

          • OG July 15, 2024 at 6:00 pm #

            Right. The fog of war. The first 24-48 hours contains as much bs as it does truth.

          • gustafson.robert.22 July 15, 2024 at 6:05 pm #

            Then why latch on to certain items so completely with such messianic certainty so soon? What is undesirable about approaching all things tentatively and with balanced testing before committing to any one thing, later, and with better evidence?

          • OG July 15, 2024 at 6:27 pm #

            Because I know an obvious black op when I see one.

            You, on the other hand, still straddle fences from the 1960s!

          • Soul Forensics July 15, 2024 at 8:20 pm #

            Gus rightly skewers OG’s conviction based on hasty judgement. OG AGREES with him, then doubles down with, “I know an obvious black op when I see one.”

            Are your molar fillings sending dark messages to your brain, OG?

          • Soul Forensics July 15, 2024 at 8:25 pm #

            Also important to add than anyone wildly speculating on the whys and hows of major events within three hours of said event is doing so for one major reason: it pays them to get the jump on others who are a mere half-hour behind in their rivals’ takes on Bitchute or other media venues.

            The NYTimes et al, of course, have their own get-out-ahead-of
            -the-story takes.

          • OG July 15, 2024 at 10:17 pm #

            Either Trump was in on it or he was not.

            After watching the footage many, many times, I am convinced that he was in on it and will never view Q’s goalline-moving promises.

            SF does not respect my methods yet my track-record remains outstanding.

            ***
            SF tried to tell a 22-year Bay Street veteran what Bay Street is like … even though he’s never been there and obviously has no clue what happens there!

            I shit you not.

          • Soul Forensics July 16, 2024 at 12:16 am #

            “After watching the footage many, many times, I am convinced that he was in on it.” — OG

            You realize, of course, that this is a non sequitur, as well as a tautology?

            And then the wild off-topic but predictable deflection instead of addressing the point I made.

          • OG July 16, 2024 at 1:07 am #

            Call it what you will, SF, Butler is as phoney as a $3 bill.

            And we still await you taking your L like a man for trying to tell a 22-year veteran what Bay Street is like. Until you address this long-standing issue, you’ve zero credence commenting on my subject choices over the course of mere minutes.

            ***
            I just commented on how we had reached a win-win truce, SF.

            You are like a house fly.

    • gustafson.robert.22 July 15, 2024 at 4:45 pm #

      youtu.be/cA3ueMsAcTM?si=0-ytb3OezHaFg5Az

      Couch’s vid link

      • Yirgach July 15, 2024 at 5:17 pm #

        I can’t believe these Johnson and Whitcomb are so far out in left field that they missed the Ponytail Brigade!

        Yeah, US SS dong a superb job!

        So disappointing!

        XXX.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/ponytail-brigade-utter-humiliation-gaggle-female-secret-service/

        • gustafson.robert.22 July 15, 2024 at 5:24 pm #

          Master the basics before you move on to the esoterics or you risk bullshit.

          • OG July 15, 2024 at 6:02 pm #

            And road-blocking thousands of Americans into a kill zone instead of simply allowing them to escape is normal.

    • Yirgach July 15, 2024 at 4:58 pm #

      In his first video just after the event, Larry claimed the rifle used was “a 22 or 22 magnum”. He was close but a .223 is not a .22.
      Larry is extremely experienced and intelligent, he fell down on this one…

      XXX.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5pkyf_0zUo

  52. jim July 15, 2024 at 3:30 pm #

    “If you come at the King you better not miss.”

    The psychological/emotional consequences of this miss (along with his fist pump) makes him much more powerful and also much more dangerous to our elites.

    I believe that we haven’t seen anything yet, the totalitarians are sharpening their knives and the populists will no longer back down.

  53. Alfred July 15, 2024 at 3:50 pm #

    It was the “bullseye” comment that makes them culpable.

    Biden basically called for his assassination, although he probably didn’t know it at the time. He’s an old man who wouldn’t stand up under cross-examination anyway.

    While pondering the young man’s age (if true) it occurred to me that he would have been only twelve years old when Trump was elected in 2016. He’s been indoctrinated. There’s a generation of them who have heard nothing except that TRUMP is Emanuel Goldstein, that’s he’s an existential threat to democracy.

    I don’t think they’re done.

  54. elysianfield July 15, 2024 at 4:02 pm #

    Vance selected for VP. A nothingburger in my opinion.

    Also, “Vance” sort of rhymes with “Pence” if you are a bit into your cups, or whatever….

    • Jarek July 15, 2024 at 4:07 pm #

      Vance: I don’t care about Ukraine. Or has he changed his toon too?

    • Yirgach July 15, 2024 at 4:14 pm #

      But would he be good insurance ala Kackles?

    • tom clark July 15, 2024 at 5:58 pm #

      Another ideologue with big aspirations. “I pledge allegiance to the king of the US of Amerika”. Birds of a feather flock together.

      • C.O.Jones July 15, 2024 at 9:34 pm #

        Yes, tom clark – Vance went from calling Trump “an idiot” and “reprehensible” in public to being his running mate.

        In a private text, Vance called Trump “an American Hitler.”

        So there is that….

  55. Kornado July 15, 2024 at 4:07 pm #

    You’ll see him in your nightmares,
    you’ll see him in your dreams
    He’ll appear out of nowhere but
    he ain’t what he seems
    You’ll see him in your head,
    on the TV screen
    And hey buddy, I’m warning
    you to turn it off
    He’s a ghost, he’s a god,
    he’s a man, he’s a guru

    You’re one microscopic cog
    in his catastrophic plan
    Designed and directed by
    his red right hand

    nick cave, excerpt from ‘red right hand’

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    • OG July 15, 2024 at 4:25 pm #

      Good call!

      youtube.com/watch?v=RrxePKps87k

    • Kornado July 15, 2024 at 4:59 pm #

      I posted yesterday, perhaps pontifically, that I felt in my gut this theory that Trump had to be in on it, but that he was caught captive to do so, as per the DS showing him enough, and with enough explanation to why, he has to do their bidding now and yes you will be next pres and we’ll give you some bones to score on; your family will be okay.

      I wouldn’t know forensics or weapons or law enforcement like i could draw a perfect circle, but i guess my theory was that i didn’t feel right based upon instinct.  What does Tucker Carlson say, trust your gut, for his hyena laugh and weird defense for smoking cigs, he’s quite intuitive.

      ‘Overton Window” is a dumb phrase to explain though what that could look like, such a personal current ethos but by jesus we all feel need to cling to a belief system to go with our pointless lives.

      What about the hat and shoes?  How come it looked so silly up there on the stage post bang bang?  All the SS chicks, doesn’t it look fucking staged somehow?  Photo op triangulation?  Based on the madness we’ve experienced these past 4 yrs, should anything be beyond possibility?

      I’ll go nuclear so bring it on, what if Trump got so swole, authority got really pissed, and said he crossed the line, now he has to be an example, to ‘signal’ globally to ‘those’ that HERE IS WHAT HAPPENS.Trump knew he had to take a bullet like the black eye club, pow!  Prompted by his last line and turn…

      I’ve been wrong plenty of times, I was wrong variationally i think, on Trump.  I see him now as a Tragic Figure, with all the annoying but intriguing complexity.  Even and maybe especially if we learn he knew but had to.

      FREEDOM!!!!!

      • CouchPotatriot July 15, 2024 at 7:20 pm #

        No, Trump’s not a tragic hero – a willing Patsy and not more.

        “I’ll go nuclear so bring it on, what if Trump got so swole, authority got really pissed, and said he crossed the line, now he has to be an example, to ‘signal’ globally to ‘those’ that HERE IS WHAT HAPPENS. Trump knew he had to take a bullet like the black eye club, pow! Prompted by his last line and turn…” Kornado

        Plausible indeed, but the more tragic underpinning story is that a 20-yo brainwashed kiddo and some brainwashed supporters were coerced toward a premature end and untold damages for merely attending the Big Show.

        Trump already signaled that he was down with the DS, (e.g., corporate tax cuts, Light Speed COVID euthanization, all hail Israel!, and on and on. There’s nothing complex about Trump.

        It’s a more poignant, somber narrative to watch as helpless sheep are led to pointless slaughter, when there is already plenty of red meat and veggies on the table.

        Blessings to you and yours – Kornado.

        • Kornado July 15, 2024 at 8:06 pm #

          Thanks for the response.

          We’ll see in time how this sorts out, life feels sickly.

  56. elysianfield July 15, 2024 at 4:18 pm #

    Well, ladies and germs;

    Another Eulogy;

    “This gentle giant will be remembered for his quiet strength, easygoing nature and heart of gold,”

    Yes, they brutally murdered another “Gentle Giant with a heart of Gold”

    I/m getting damn sick and tired of the killings…and just a couple of days after the assassination attempt.

    To the Streets!

    https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2024/07/15/Winston-silverback-dies/5561721021511/

    https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2024/07/15/Winston-silverback-dies/5561721021511/

    • Paula D July 15, 2024 at 6:08 pm #

      Covid, my ass.

  57. malthuss July 15, 2024 at 4:32 pm #

    can someone repost the statement that ‘shooter scrubbed from youtube?

    I cant find it above.

  58. OG Is Nuts July 15, 2024 at 4:34 pm #

    Another Fine FOG Fairy Tale With No Medical Backing

    Ears bleed like stuck pigs, CrotchRot. A tiny clip with barber scissors
    and an ear will bleed and bleed and bleed. The ear is so flimsy that there is nothing for your natural blood to clot and be protected from the constant rush of yet more fresh blood.

    Let’s see some medical evidence for this statement instead of anecdotal stores. Your move, Fornicator

    • OG July 15, 2024 at 4:53 pm #

      Ears bleed like a stuck pig, OIN. I thought everyone knew that.

      Ears don’t bleed the amount of “blood” that Trump supposedly had on his ear (complete with photogenic face smears) in 60 seconds but then clot up just fine instantly. And without pressure? Give your head a shake.

      I don’t work for you. I Googled ear bleeds but couldn’t find the perfect link.

      People can believe that his ear bled that amount and then quit 60 seconds later sans Quikclot or even pressure if they like. It’s a free country. You have right to be gullible and stupid.

      • RD3 July 15, 2024 at 8:45 pm #

        In all fairness, his blood is mostly french fry oil and burger grease. It is possible that they simply congealed instantly.

  59. OG Is Nuts July 15, 2024 at 4:43 pm #

    A grazed earlobe typically does not bleed heavily. When a bullet grazed former President Donald Trump’s right ear lobe during an assassination attempt, it caused only a minor wound1. Security personnel quickly controlled the bleeding using direct pressure and cleaned the wound to prevent infection. Surgical treatment involved suturing the laceration with fine, absorbable sutures to ensure minimal scarring and an optimal cosmetic result. Antibiotics were administered to prevent infection, and pain management protocols were implemented. Mr. Trump was discharged with instructions for wound care and follow-up appointments to monitor the healing process1. However, individual responses may vary based on factors such as wound location and severity. If you experience a grazed earlobe, seek medical attention promptly to assess the situation and receive appropriate care. ?

    Learn more

    1

    gilmorehealth.com
    2

    nbcnews.com
    3

    abc.net.au

    • OG July 15, 2024 at 4:57 pm #

      Oh! It’s his ear lobe now? Yesterday it was the top of his ear. When did they change that detail?

      ***
      If ear lobe is the new story … and ear lobes don’t bleed much … how come there was all that blood?

      ***
      The official story is bogus. They’re painted into a corner. Either there is too much “blood” or not enough.

      ***
      Lies always fall. The truth is God’s gold standard.

    • Jarek July 15, 2024 at 4:57 pm #

      It was the top of the ear, ace.

      • OG Is Nuts July 15, 2024 at 5:01 pm #

        Then show us the medical evidence that a grazing wound to the top of an ear bleeds like a stuck pig,

        • OG July 15, 2024 at 5:26 pm #

          There was all that “blood” that we saw, right? In 60 second and then it clots up fine and stops “bleeding”?

          Wanna buy a bridge?

          ***
          You can’t have it both ways, SFB. The official story has either too much “blood” or not enough “blood.” In no real-world incident is there that much “blood” in 60 seconds but the no more. It’s ridiculous.

    • OG July 15, 2024 at 4:59 pm #

      Look at the pictures! Look at the pic at the end of Jim’s essay. Trump’s ear lobe is not even near the wound, shit-for-brains.

      • OG Is Nuts July 15, 2024 at 5:04 pm #

        i don’t see any scriptual references saying that shit for brains won’t inherent the kingdom of GOD, fornicator

        • OG July 15, 2024 at 5:11 pm #

          Right. Just ignore the whole point about your stupid ear lobe bs, SFB.

          “When proven stupid yet again … lash out!”
          – SFB’s m.o.

          • OG Is Nuts July 15, 2024 at 5:28 pm #

            I guess your constant sin of fornication renders you incapable of reading FOG.

            OG Is Nuts
            July 15, 2024 at 5:01 pm #
            Then show us the medical evidence that a grazing wound to the top of an ear bleeds like a stuck pig,

            Like I said FOG. If I do have shit for brains I’ll still have a ring side seat watching you get dealt with for fornication. In case you need it further explained 5:01 PM comes before 5:11 PM. I know your basic reading and writing material revolves around crayons crayons, but I’m doing the best I can (with shit for brains).

          • OG July 15, 2024 at 5:42 pm #

            OK … I’ve only got anecdotal evidence that ears bleed more that other parts of the body. My gf knows it as a fact after 35 years of hairdressing while I saw a few nasty cut ears in my many decades of playing, coaching, officiating ice hockey.

            It’s a tough Google … but I did find this:

            Some serious injuries bleed very little. On the other hand, cuts on the head, face, and mouth may bleed a lot because those areas contain a lot of blood vessels. Abdominal and chest wounds can be quite serious because internal organs may be damaged, which can cause internal bleeding as well as shock.

            ***
            You’ve made your point abundantly clear about you judging my life. Enough already.

            1 Judge not, that ye be not judged.

            2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

            3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

            4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?

            5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.

            6 Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.

            7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:

            8 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.

            – Matthew 7:1-8

          • Soul Forensics July 15, 2024 at 8:33 pm #

            “Some serious injuries bleed very little.” — OG with an unattributable quote.

            OG, without admitting it outright, takes the L.

          • OG July 15, 2024 at 10:11 pm #

            It’s a tough Google … but I did find this

            Ummm … Google is the attribution.

            ***
            Ears bleed worse than other areas of the body. Many people know that. I’m taking no L on this until someone provides authoritative evidence to the contrary.

            ***
            Speaking of never acknowledging an L, tell me again how Bay Street works, silly man.

          • Soul Forensics July 16, 2024 at 12:23 am #

            “Ears bleed worse than other areas of the body.” — OG

            Source for that?

            And it’s a vague statement. Are we talking about inner ear infections? Burst blood vessels in the ears, where blood leaks out of the ear canal? Concussions? Hematomas?

            Or, in Trump’s case, nicks to the helix?

            Perhaps you should be focusing on the latter. That’s what’s called being ‘relevant’.

  60. CouchPotatriot July 15, 2024 at 4:58 pm #

    “I’m almost 27 minutes into this 59:34 vid … Interesting … but when does he disprove anything that I’m saying?” – FOG

    YOU’VE never proven anything you’ve said regarding the event, my friend. It’s just a lost of empty claims.

    If you’re just expressing a hunch or a suspicion that’s one thing – some conspiracy theories can never be proven due to lack of discovery or access to info – but it seems that you’re *working* awfully hard to push the “Trump was in on it” angle for some unknown reason.

    I find you to be an intelligent person, a good writer/typist or whatever, so it’s just weird watching someone dig into a pretty weak claim as deeply as you have.

    So again, are you honestly saying that he was willing to stand up there and play William Tell for a few shots, then on the fly decided to use a ketchup packet from his last McDonald’s visit to squirt all over his ear?

    I’ll entertain any conspiracy claim you make if I find it compelling.

    I’ve drawn the conclusion from numerous vids of onsite footage and sound that bullets actually flew past the man’s head, his ear was nicked, he bled significantly – and more than likely – this was not a Deep State orchestrated hit but simply a terribly embarrassing exposure of SS incompetence and negligence.

    Let’s wait and see if Trump actually gets taken out. I don’t believe he will but who the heck am I.

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    • OG July 15, 2024 at 5:09 pm #

      I must have misunderstood you, CrotchRot. I had thought that you were presenting an expert in order to debunk my case.

      ***
      So again, are you honestly saying that he was willing to stand up there and play William Tell for a few shots, then on the fly decided to use a ketchup packet from his last McDonald’s visit to squirt all over his ear?

      No. That’s a strawman. What I’m saying is:

      Shots flew but none got that close to Trump. He then dove, unhit, and had Hollywood “blood” applied to his upper-ear – complete with photogenic face trickles.

      ***
      … but it seems that you’re *working* awfully hard to push the “Trump was in on it” angle for some unknown reason.

      It is not unknown. I’ve been very clear on my reason:

      I have now determined that Trump flashes all those masonic hand symbols because he is playing his role. He is one of them while I’m sticking with Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

      • CouchPotatriot July 15, 2024 at 5:27 pm #

        Ok OG,

        I’ll let you be you, man. if you come up with some better vids and discourse about the event, please share.

        • OG July 15, 2024 at 5:32 pm #

          I surely will, CouchPotatriot.

          Respect. I appreciate you!

      • Soul Forensics July 15, 2024 at 8:38 pm #

        OG, have you ever heard Christopher Hitchens’ excellent and often relied-upon statement: “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”?

        The onus is squarely on you to prove (not conjecture ridiculously — kudos to CouchPotatriot’s last hilarious post) that Trump was in on this entire (albeit entertaining) Get Smart op.

        • OG July 15, 2024 at 10:05 pm #

          I am familiar with Chris Hitchens, SF.

          “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”

          Perhaps. It depends on the goal of the claim.

          That is, yes, to convince Gus of black ops existing, “extraordinary evidence” is indeed required.

          If, on the other hand, I merely want to publish the truth, I can make whatever claim that I deem appropriate.

          Trump stood up with Hollywood “blood” for his perfect psyop photo op on Saturday in Butler.

          God knows the truth. God will evaluate my writing.

          ***
          Tell me again how Bay Street works, SF. Hahaha.

    • BackRowHeckler July 15, 2024 at 7:31 pm #

      It’s no simple task to protect anybody, especially in a country like the US where half the population is armed to the teeth. The Fuhrer’s life was protected by an entire SS Division, the Liebstandarte SS, as well as a 500 man Wehrmacht security detail headed up by Erwin Rommel; still, he had many close calls, even before Operation Valkerie. Hitler admitted at one point that if somebody really wanted to assassinate him they probably could.

      My opinion is this young Crook chap, for whatever reason, maybe voices in his head told him to do it, decided to grab his fathers gun and take a shot at the former President. It’s as simple as that, no big conspiracy, no false flag, no ‘Deep State’ involvement.

      (Crook is an unusual name. The only other Crook I know of is General George Crook, Civil War General and exemplary indian fighter)

  61. gustafson.robert.22 July 15, 2024 at 5:19 pm #

    Whatever happened to Trump riding forth with the white hats to reinstate his presidency… we’ve moved on to various cyborg Trumps plotting fake shootings and flashing Satanic hand-signals, I guess.

    • OG July 15, 2024 at 5:30 pm #

      I don’t know about “we” but I sure have.

      I’ve relied on my Q hopium for far too long. I was having more and more and still more doubts. Now Butler, PA is the last straw.

      We’re FUBARed.

      • gustafson.robert.22 July 15, 2024 at 5:36 pm #

        Could this be a little “equal and opposite reaction”, OG? Are you perhaps ricocheting from extreme to extreme?

        • OG July 15, 2024 at 5:46 pm #

          Of course you would react that way, Gus. You are a pendulum that has reached equilibrium. Motionless.

          Me? I’m dealing with new information. It has confirmed long-standing suspicions and doubts. Now the dam has broken.

          Trump is in on it. We are FUBARed. God is our only hope.

          • gustafson.robert.22 July 15, 2024 at 5:50 pm #

            We’re all on our journeys.. waving at each other at intersections of various orbits.

          • OG July 15, 2024 at 5:52 pm #

            Indeed!

          • Soul Forensics July 15, 2024 at 8:47 pm #

            “Me? I’m dealing with new information.” — OG

            Gus, as usual, makes a good, well-considered point. You switch stories like a maid switches bedsheets in a Mexican flophouse, depending on what fires your depleted dopamine stores on alt media.

            And what fires it up more, like any addict who needs a bigger and better fix because the previous amounts no longer suffice?

            More and more outrageous claims. And your bitchute pals
            — good gawd, just read the mouth-breathing comments in the streams under those videos — are good marketers, and know just what buttons to push.

            “God is our only hope.” — OG

            Who is “our” here? And “hope” for what, specifically?

      • C.O.Jones July 15, 2024 at 9:47 pm #

        “We’re FUBARed.”

        Steady now, OG.

        Alex Jones has become unhinged – don’t join him.

        He said today that “they” are going to truck bomb Trump at the RNC and immediately kill Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk and all the governors. Alex is frothing at the mouth, kinda funny, kinda sad.

        Q ? Seriously?

        • OG July 15, 2024 at 10:27 pm #

          Yep. I was a big hopium addict. Derek Johnson, SG Anon, Juan O Savin. The works.

          Like all addicts, deep down inside I knew that it was a false high, a temporary escape from reality.

          ***
          They are good at weaving their NESARA/GESARA story with real news. They are good at what they do.

          • C.O.Jones July 16, 2024 at 12:52 pm #

            The girl who cuts my hair was a big Q fan.

            She didn’t like it when I told her Q was a psy-op. She has recently come to see that I was correct and asked me how I knew. I wanted to ask “How did you NOT know?”

            Look at the facts.

            Today.

            Trump has chosen as a running mate a person who publicly derided Trump as an idiot and called Trump reprehensible.

            Do you remember Trump’s white house chief of staff John Kelly calling Trump an idiot? Of course, Kelly was later fired and labeled deep-state.

            Do you remember the man Trump appointed Defense Secretary – one “Mad Dog Mattis” calling Trump a moron? He was later one-upped by National Security Advisor Rex Tillerson who called the man who appointed him (Trump) a “fucking moron.” Both were labeled deep-state and fired. Same thing with Priebus, Mnuchin, McMaster…

            I’m not saying these people were not deep-state and I’m certainly not defending them. I’m merely pointing out that Trump as chosen Mike Pence with a beard as his running mate – a man who called Trump names including “American Hitler” and who pushed mask mandates and advocated firing nurses who didn’t take the vax.

            Now I ask you: If that is not deep-state, how would you define deep-state?

          • C.O.Jones July 16, 2024 at 1:07 pm #

            OG, please allow me to clarify my question:

            If appointing deep-state people and choosing them as your running mate(s) is NOT promoting the deep-state, what is?

            Promoting people who have a deep-state agenda – big pharma and MIC – is at its core, deep-state.

            When Trump publicly claims he’s going to drain the swamp and end the deep-state, I see a guy setting fire to city hall while loudly proclaiming he is going to put out the fires at city hall.

            His actions are incompatible with his words yet he is believed.

            People who call him on his behavior are labeled as being afflicted with TDS.

  62. Kornado July 15, 2024 at 5:30 pm #

    Infighting notwithstanding, I contend any way it really happened, there are too many funny points to indicate things are fucked up. Why not still question.

  63. OG Is Nuts July 15, 2024 at 5:41 pm #

    Hey FOG: I’m correcting the typo in your last posting:

    OG
    July 15, 2024 at 5:30 pm #
    I don’t know about “we” but I sure have.

    I’ve relied on my Q hopium for far too long. I was having more and more and still more doubts. Now Butler, PA is the last straw.

    We’re FUBARed.

    CORRECTION TO FOG’s 5:30 PM Post:

    I don’t know about “we” but I sure have.

    I’ve relied on my opium for far too long. I was having more and more and still more doubts. Now Butler, PA is the last straw.

    We’re FUBARed.

    Much much better. What’s this “we” stuff FOG? Your Pretty Boi PM has your frozen wasteland totally under control. Better hope we doesn’t freeze your bank account……though it might cause you to repent and turn from your fornicating ways

    • OG July 15, 2024 at 5:51 pm #

      You really are a silly person.

      I keep wanting adult debate but instead have my faith repeatedly disrespected.

      Are you without sin, SFB? If not, shut the fuck up.

  64. Night Owl July 15, 2024 at 6:13 pm #

    Trump 2.0 may be the last great circus for the country.

    With the selection of J.D. Vance (a globalist who founded Palantir, pushed the Covid Hoax, and on a Bilderberg steering committee), we see that Trump has either learned nothing or is simply part of the Big Show.

    No one is coming to save you.

    More true now than ever.

    😀

    • OG July 15, 2024 at 6:29 pm #

      Yes. Sad but true.

    • CouchPotatriot July 15, 2024 at 6:47 pm #

      “…we see that Trump has either learned nothing or is simply part of the Big Show.” – Night Owl

      Exactly! He’ll just update and refresh the DS, like spraying potpourri in the shit house after a takin’ a hearty poo – He’s not qualified to unclog a toilet, drain the swamp, etc. Why do intelligent people have such a hard time seeing this about him?

      Is he better than Biden? Yes, only because I believe that Biden has been closer to corruptive power for much longer than Trump.

      Regardless, why do I have to chose between a shit salad and a turd sandwich? The left vs. right media slant their coverage of the issues to fling poo on their opponents – the way UFC Fighters trash talk before a match.

      So why again is he better than Biden? Because he’s rich? Because he’s a marketing wizard? Because he enacted some temporary dictates and some token legislation? Because he likely fucked a teenager on Epstein Island. And beyond that, he’s an ordinary womanizer who pronounced and unhealthy fascination with his own daughter. Oh, and he’ll suck the dick of the sleaziest Zionist imaginable on cue.

      I can only base my opinions about Trump’s character on my own observations and values. I know much of the media bullshit about him is bogus. I know the “Joe Biden is decent man” is also bullshit.

      Prosecute, assassinate, or otherwise pitchfork all of them. We’re waaay overdue for a revolution.

    • gustafson.robert.22 July 15, 2024 at 7:25 pm #

      A real sign of the times that this moron became the era’s on-stage hero.

      • CouchPotatriot July 15, 2024 at 7:39 pm #

        Truly, Gus.

        I was born in ’77, if you’re older than that, who is an example of a genuinely honorable elected official who led the country lawfully – and for We the People? I can’t name a single one within my lifetime.

        JFK? He had a shady rise to power and plenty of skeletons in his closet just the same.

        Why is it that billions still must be led by a handful of zealots in the so called modern age? Ridiculous. Maybe it’s just the human condition.

        We are not the pinnacle of Creation, just a bunch of flies crawling upon the dung heaps of history.

        • RD3 July 15, 2024 at 8:42 pm #

          Ron Paul, Jim Traficant, Larry McDonald, Jimmy Duncan, Jesse Helms

          There aren’t too many.

          • CouchPotatriot July 15, 2024 at 9:10 pm #

            And none of the names you mentioned, as far as I’m aware, actually ever made it into The Club. I’m asking about actual presidents – RD3.

            There’s a distinct reason why certain political voices are faded so easily. They don’t play the game – and that’s the direct proof that genuine reform of our system isn’t possible. My take anyway. Thanks for dropping a note.

    • Soul Forensics July 15, 2024 at 8:55 pm #

      Owl,

      Good to see you posting again.

      When Trump fingered Mnuchin as his Sec-Treasurer two months ahead of inauguration in Nov 2016, it told me all I needed to know about his seriousness re “cleaning the swamp”. At least Obama, before him, waited until January to go full scumbag.

      • The Man They Call Zazelle July 15, 2024 at 10:06 pm #

        It doesn’t matter who gets put in. Walk-On-Water-Jesus would just get stoned and nailed to the cross.

        To paraphrase Night Owl, myself and others, it’s about getting off this runaway train and creating, or trying to create, parallel systems that abide.

        • elysianfield July 16, 2024 at 10:59 am #

          Zaz,
          Got deer problems in your garden? Old country wisdom dictates that…”you plant one for therin, and you plant one for urine….”

          You are then guaranteed to get the urine.

          • The Man They Call Zazelle July 17, 2024 at 10:45 pm #

            See down-thread, here:

            July 17, 2024 at 10:43 pm

    • The Man They Call Zazelle July 15, 2024 at 9:51 pm #

      Who’s Gonna Save Me?

      “No one is coming to save you.

      More true now than ever.” ~ Night Owl

      Damn straight, and anarchistic too, Night Owl.

      How’re your plants growing over there?

      I just have a simple community garden plot for now, but it’s doing very well, minus some strawberries, maybe beans, by the deer, but so what. I’m about to give it some water…

      Blue Sky Mine

      youtu.be/Ofrqm6-LCqs?si=m7MyKw2ke9vj6Lp8&t=140

      “And if the Blue Sky Mining Company won’t come to my rescue
      If the sugar refining company won’t save me
      Who’s gonna save me?…”

      Bill Mollison: “The first time I saw a review of one of my permaculture books was three years after I first started writing on it. The review started with, ‘Permaculture Two is a seditious book.’ And I said, ‘At last someone understands what permaculture’s about.’ We have to rethink how we’re going to live on this earth & stop talking about the fact that we’ve got to have agriculture, we’ve got to have exports, because all that is the death of us. Permaculture challenges what we’re doing and thinking, and to that extent it’s sedition.

      People question me coming through the American frontier these days. They ask, ‘What’s your occupation?’ I say, ‘I’m just a simple gardener.’ And that is deeply seditious. If you’re a simple person today, and want to live simply, that is awfully seditious. And to advise people to live simply is more seditious still.

      You see, the worst thing about permaculture is that it’s extremely successful, but it has no center, and no hierarchy.

      Alan: So that’s worst from whose perspective?

      Bill: Anybody that wants to extinguish it. It’s something with a million heads. It’s a way of thinking which is already loose, and you can’t put a way of thinking back in the box.

      Alan: Is it an anarchist movement?

      Bill: …You won’t get cooperation out of a hierarchical system. You get enforced directions from the top, and nothing I know of can run like that. I think the world would function extremely well with millions of little cooperative groups, all in relation to each other.” ~ You Tube interview

    • Socrates-Detroit July 15, 2024 at 10:07 pm #

      @Night Owl

      Thank you for sharing these important points about JD Vance that we are definitely NOT going to get from the MSM.

      I will assume you are correct the as a venture capitalist he helped found Palantir, and he is a Bilderberger (that’s an older flavor of Davos/WEF globalism)

      I certainly appreciate it your post.

      From what I’ve seen, I think JD Vance is one of the better Senators (in the RELATIVE sense). I like how he comes across. I never liked George Herbert Walker Bush–globalist CIA snake (and according to LTC Murray on JHK’s podcast, pederast!)

      A VERY cursory internet search, guided by google (the blob) indicates Vance did NOT like Trump in 2016, but he changed.

      Will Vance be another George HW Bush to Trump’s “Reagan”? We will see.

      • The Man They Call Zazelle July 16, 2024 at 2:32 am #

        Death Of A Resume
        theburningplatform.com/2018/12/05/poppycock-death-of-a-resume

        “There are a few in every high school. They vie for class valedictorian, collect honors and awards, and run every school club worth running. Some of them are athletes, rounding out the college applications. They manage both charitable work and part-time jobs. Resting their heads on their pillows after busy, meritorious days, they dream of acceptance letters from elite institutions, the golden tickets to the good life in America.

        They get their letters and some go on to lead productive, admirable lives. Some build ostensibly impressive resumés while pursuing prestige, power, and pelf, on the way abandoning principles, idealism, integrity, and honor. Perhaps the holes in their souls are filled by whatever self-satisfied, ego-driven pleasure is derived from the elite’s embrace. Perhaps not. In their waning years, they do have a questionable consolation: imagining the fulsome tributes and eulogies and their lengthy and impressive obituaries when they die…”

      • Night Owl July 16, 2024 at 10:03 am #

        Sure thing, Soc.

        I think this announcement in combination with Trump’s continued refusal to denounce the poison shots he helped foist on the country and world puts the nail in the coffin on any discussion of whether Trump is really going to accomplish anything worthwhile. He did some good, but is too flawed, IMO.

        It begars belief that he has chosen Vance, if he is indeed fighting the forces he claims to be fighting.

        I noticed Elon (still quite a questionable individual himself) is now donating several million per month to the RNC as well. How one even acquires such funds lawfully is a discussion probably not worth having.

        Also, hello to all you mentioned me. I’ve been rather quiet, but only because sadly I think there ain’t much good to say lately.

        Zaz–the plants were doing well until we had 3 weeks of uninterrupted rain. I think we have had about 3 sunny days this summer and spring.

        The New Normal continues.

        • The Man They Call Zazelle July 16, 2024 at 7:26 pm #

          That’s how it was for our plants last summer. Hope it dries up for you soon.

        • Ron Anselmo July 17, 2024 at 5:01 pm #

          Owl – always nice to see you chiming in, your comments are always value-added.

          Cheers.

  65. Paula D July 15, 2024 at 6:15 pm #

    I thought this was interesting. Apparently this doctor did an analysis of Biden’s cognitive function a couple of weeks ago, and was going to do one on Trump, but now feels Trump passed on Sat.

    True story. It took a minute for Trump to realize he’d been shot, but then he did the correct thing and dropped for cover to the floor. When he realized he was OK, he got up. Thinking of his fans, he raised his arm to let them know he was OK, and then he told them to fight on.
    That shows cognitive function, as well as sound thinking under pressure.

    Meanwhile, Biden has to be led around by his wife, and can’t quite comprehend why people are around him, and what they are saying.

    .youtube.com/watch?v=F263W-JzZ-w

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    • Socrates-Detroit July 15, 2024 at 6:59 pm #

      Great vid Paula, thanks for sharing!

  66. CouchPotatriot July 15, 2024 at 8:06 pm #

    “Of more interest would be how civil war is avoided as states instead choose to secede from the Union and form new smaller republics. Looks like Texas is already hedging its bets.” – MiTurn

    I’ve heard about Texas seceding since before the Rick Perry days never happened yet plausibly could; however, Federal dollars deeply subsidize all states. Is there truly a separation between the Fed Govt. and any given state? – I believe not.

    However, If the Fed Govt’s overarching power is somehow, suddenly significantly diminished – then your premise that Civil War 2.0 seems highly likely, and then warring factions between middle-America and regional warring and zoning makes perfect sense.

    But absent financial implosion or a nuclear explosion, what convinces you that Superbowl-level couchpotatriotism does not continue ad infinitum?

    Thanks for weighing in.

    • RD3 July 15, 2024 at 8:39 pm #

      Do the math on the federal government subsidizing all the states. How is that even remotely possibly? It’s not. It’s just a MSM talking point that is endlessly repeated every time the topic of secession comes up. Every state would be better off with no federal government. The blue states would be the hardest hit initially because nothing is more subsidized than big business. Poor people in Mississippi receiving welfare or food stamps pales in comparison to the real welfare loafers like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, etc.

      • CouchPotatriot July 15, 2024 at 9:52 pm #

        I’m not sure, RD3, I don’t know all the numbers and stats, but I know that illegal migrant influx and the rise of variously disabled other *parasitic* lower class populations is quite costly for the crony state gov. budgets to accommodate. But why haven’t the “underserved” revolted yet?
        .
        Hence the ceaseless rise of taxes, inflation, downward regulation of individual rights and privacy, etc. – just to subsidize them all.

        I fully agree with you that phony geniuses such as Husk, Bozo, Fuckerberg, Gapes, and so on receive their unfair share of Federal and State social welfare as well. In other words, the tentacles of Big Govt. are ubiquitous.

        The only solution is to burn it all down. Reform is a pipe dream at this stage. Trump is the Pied Piper we all want to follow, but such a rude awakening awaits.

  67. Kornado July 15, 2024 at 8:29 pm #

    When Jan. 6th happened, I hadn’t been redpilled yet all the way just doing lines. I saw the footages of people meandering inside the Capital and thought man what a bunch of dummies, cause I figured they had all busted in and should know they’re all being recorded.

    It took awhile for me to fully realize how they set up the whole event to seem like such a hopeless humiliating situation. Oh no! those terrible MAGANS are storming the castle! And we only have that one fat black cop in the hallway to stop them!

    Just curious about the parallels of that kind of vulnerable state liberals felt from that event, and the frustration from the details of Trump’s Saturday experience to his supporters.

    You’re a Trump supporter or at least you are becoming increasingly aware of the evil coming from the Dems. All the shit that doesn’t add up and such negligence…or intentional…You seem him get up with fist raised and you chuckle, thinking God is on this motherfucker’s side.

    I don’t know, i recall Trump could play 4-d chess.

    • CouchPotatriot July 15, 2024 at 8:34 pm #

      One too many beers today, my reggin’ – Cheers!

  68. CouchPotatriot July 15, 2024 at 8:31 pm #

    I fucked up here:

    “However, If the Fed Govt’s overarching power is somehow, suddenly significantly diminished – then your premise that Civil War 2.0 seems highly likely, and then warring factions between middle-America and regional warring and zoning makes perfect sense.” – ‘tater

    What I should have wrote is that Civil War seems unlikely to be avoided by righteous states seceding from the union to form separate Republics.

    That seems an archaic perspective to have considering that states are so reliant on the Federal Government in the modern age. Maybe in the 1800s secession was more feasible. Apologies for the syntactic, grammatic blunders.

  69. The Man They Call Zazelle July 15, 2024 at 9:17 pm #

    If the presidents are always going to be at risk of getting shot, they might as well cut out the middleman and have The Blob run things.

    Or, failing that, go with an anarchic (opt-in/opt-out) government.

  70. The Man They Call Zazelle July 15, 2024 at 9:21 pm #

    I’ve said this previously, both here and elsewhere, that Civil War 2 is unlikely, (or would be a very short affair) once all the grocery and big box stores like Walmart get knocked out.

    The Civil War 1 generation wouldn’t have had as much infantilistic dependence on that kind of thing.

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  71. OG July 15, 2024 at 9:43 pm #

    You switch stories like a maid switches bedsheets in a Mexican flophouse, depending on what fires your depleted dopamine stores on alt media.
    – SF

    No I do not. This story only. I’ve now lost faith in Q after Trump’s black op in Butler. And it took about a year from first doubts to, finally, Butler, PA.

    That’s it. That’s the only “story” that I’ve “switche{d]” in over 4 years on CFN.

    Either name more “stories” that I “switched” or take it back, SF.

    ***
    “Flip-floppers” are unnecessarily given a bad name.

    “How dare you evolve with more information!”

    ***
    Tell me how Bay Street works again. Hahaha.

    • OG July 15, 2024 at 9:48 pm #

      “God is our only hope.” – OG
      Who is “our” here? And “hope” for what, specifically?

      – SF

      “Our” is mankind and “hope” is His salvation.

      • OG Is Nuts July 15, 2024 at 11:00 pm #

        Which if once saved if always saved, you’re gonna have some ‘plaining for your fornication at the Bema Judgement seat FOG

        • OG July 15, 2024 at 11:06 pm #

          Of course I will, OIN. We all will. We’re all sinners. Even you.

    • OG July 15, 2024 at 10:30 pm #

      Gus, as usual, makes a good, well-considered point.
      – SF

      Gus was caught red-handed inexplicably lying to cover-up holes in the official story of Lahaina 8/8, SF. He was so embarrassed of his corruption being undoubtedly exposed that he rage-quit CFN like a little girl.

      He has been forgiven and welcomed back … but puhlease!

    • Soul Forensics July 16, 2024 at 12:51 am #

      “That’s it. That’s the only “story” that I’ve “switche{d]” in over 4 years on CFN.

      Either name more “stories” that I “switched” or take it back, SF.” — OG

      The overriding story you promote on this site is the story of your own self-righteousness, which is all too familiar with most Sunday Christians.

      You violate your precepts every time you swear at your many detractors here, and every time you succumb to pride over humility, which, again, is often.

      So we get either Christian sin or phony humility: (“I’ll pray for you” immediately after you insult someone.)

      We also get your colossal hypocrisy as someone earning your filthy lucre from Bay Street for decades, and, when I challenged you on it, giving the pathetic excuse that you weren’t involved in its inner workings.

      You’re also a flip-flopper by omission. More than once I’ve challenged your positions and internal contradictions, and heard nothing but crickets. The Jael-Sisera story in Judges is just one example. At least a real flip-flopper will admit to his switches.

      • The Man They Call Zazelle July 16, 2024 at 1:27 am #

        ^ ^ Project-a-licious!

      • OG July 16, 2024 at 1:28 am #

        Huh? So aside from you going on about all sorts of shit, you cannot actually point to a single switch in my 4 years here.

        I will accept your apology.

        ***
        The Jael-Sisera story in Judges is just one example.

        I don’t even know what this is let alone what I did wrong about it.

        ***
        We also get your colossal hypocrisy as someone earning your filthy lucre from Bay Street for decades, and, when I challenged you on it, giving the pathetic excuse that you weren’t involved in its inner workings.

        You are doing it again, you stupid asshole. I know how the Bay Street inner-workings are. I worked in the guts of them for 22 years! The problem is that Bay Street does not work like your little brain thinks that it does (notwithstanding you being acquainted with scumbag retail brokers out in the sticks).

        I was there for 22 years and you have never been there. Ever. Do you not realize how stupid you are acting right now?

        • OG July 16, 2024 at 1:30 am #

          I’m a flip-flopper on the Jael-Sisera story in Judges … even though I don’t even know what that is?

        • OG July 16, 2024 at 1:34 am #

          The overriding story you promote on this site is the story of your own self-righteousness

          I’m sorry that that’s your take-away, SF. I thought that I wear my heart on my sleeve and the fact that I am a struggling soul was evident for all to see.

          Yes, I am quick to anger. Yes, I am lustful. Yes, I was a drunkard.

          Yes, I am a sinner.

          Self-righteousness? Hardly!

        • OG July 16, 2024 at 1:49 am #

          You’re also a flip-flopper by omission.

          I may be the only man ever accused of such a ridiculous chick allegation. Ever.

        • The Man They Call Zazelle July 16, 2024 at 2:42 am #

          Might be the sockpuppet, OGIN. Means, motive, opportunity:

          July 12, 2024 at 2:09 am

          kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/in-it-to-spin-it/#comment-886604

  72. The Man They Call Zazelle July 15, 2024 at 10:02 pm #

    When I was Crooks’ age of 20, I was not busy shooting people. I was lifeguarding at a small outdoor pool.

    Where are the kids? Where are their parents? What are they doing?

    • tom clark July 15, 2024 at 10:40 pm #

      Daddy was buying Jr. a gun.

  73. OG July 15, 2024 at 11:13 pm #

    “I cut my outer ear just now by accident and it keeps bleeding, what do I do?”

    Cover the cut with a kleenex and put pressure on it. It should take about 8 minutes for the blood to clot.

    quora.com/Why-do-cuts-on-ear-lobes-bleed-so-much

    • OG July 15, 2024 at 11:27 pm #

      Of course, it’d be reasonable to believe that this cut in this incident would be far less severe than having one’s ear shot with a bullet. Right?

      Therefore, one would reasonable expect that a gun-shot wound to the ear should expect even longer than 8 minutes for all of the clotting of all the destroyed capillaries. Right?

      Yet Trump’s magic ear did it in 1 minute and with no pressure whatsoever!

      ‘That dog don’t hunt.”

      • Soul Forensics July 16, 2024 at 1:03 am #

        As I mentioned upthread, where on the ear is the cut, how deep, etc.

        ” “I cut my outer ear just now by accident and it keeps bleeding, what do I do?” ” — OG

        Poor argument based on the availability as well as confirmation bias fallacies.

        • OG July 16, 2024 at 1:12 am #

          And yet Butler remains as phoney as a $3 bill.

        • OG July 16, 2024 at 1:15 am #

          I keep addressing your posts, SF. When will you accept your L for ridiculously trying to tell a 22-year Bay Street veteran what Bay Street is like even though you’ve never been there and obviously have no clue as to what happens there?

      • stelmosfire July 16, 2024 at 8:14 am #

        OG, did you watch Paula’s video? Perhaps you disagree with the Dr? He’s not a hairdresser but he plays one on TV. check from the 1:40 mark

        youtube.com/watch?v=F263W-JzZ-w

  74. Q. Shtik July 15, 2024 at 11:44 pm #

    I thought the square bandage stuck on his ear like a post it note just didn’t look right. Why can’t they bring out the attending physician and a photo of his ear.

    This thing has the odor of a false flag concocted by Trump himself. For what motive I can’t rightly say. To capture the sympathy vote?

    Trump raising a fist and shouting fight fight fight was just all too perfect.

    If Trump dreamed this up maybe he is a genius.

    • The Man They Call Zazelle July 16, 2024 at 12:14 am #

      I had thought of a round bandage, coloured black by a fat felt-tip marker, and attached to a black string around his head as though he was a pirate who simply turned his eye-patch around his head and over his ear.

    • OG July 16, 2024 at 12:45 am #

      You’re right, Q. Butler is as phoney as a $3 bill.

    • gustafson.robert.22 July 16, 2024 at 1:07 am #

      I see Trump reaching to his ear as Crooks’ bullet grazes the upper outside tip of it and feeling pain. Hand comes away without blood really because it’s the instant of injury. He drops down immediately. Blood begins pouring pretty profusely from the small, surface top-right-ear graze injury, down his cheek as his face is pointed at the ground. Secret Service begin checking him down there, and toweling the blood. Much of it is toweled from his cheek during the minute on the ground, but it’s still spitting out fresh blood. As a couple fresh drips make it outside the wiped ear and cheek area down toward Trump’s mouth, SS gets word that the shooter has been shot. They stand Trump up. He has the recent drips down his face and blood wipe marks on cheek and still bleeding ear. They towel the ear again as he stands, does the fist pump. The blood is starting to slow a little from time and wiping, maybe even some medicine, but not fully clotted. They go to the car.

      What do we see that’s incongruous with a realistic injury scenario like this?

      • OG July 16, 2024 at 1:19 am #

        The ladder.

        The unsecured rooftop < 150 yards from the lectern.

        The 5'4" SS woman positioning herself so that their protective huddle is a protective farce with its easy headshot … but perfect photo op.

        SS don't shoot Crooks until after Crooks has fired.

        This incident has a card in the 1990s Illuminati card game.

        etc., etc., etc.

        • gustafson.robert.22 July 16, 2024 at 1:35 am #

          You concede there’s no good evidence of faked physical injury then?

          Of course the ladder and Crooks getting to the roof are suspicious.

          The issue of his not being sniped before he could fire is pretty well explained by countersnipers not being sure enough who he was and whether he was a good guy with local police maybe, or bad, until the actual shots into the crowd. Then they immediately took him out.

          • gustafson.robert.22 July 16, 2024 at 1:38 am #

            I’m not saying a possible identification issue eliminates all possible issues with countersnipers waiting to fire, but it’s plausible.

          • OG July 16, 2024 at 1:41 am #

            I concede nothing.

            Ya think?

            “Those bumbling (but loveable) nincompoops! They’re gonna be the death of us all some day. I swear!”

          • OG July 16, 2024 at 1:45 am #

            “Yes! Yes! Our country is ran by bumbling nitwits and not evil fucks, Gus.

            Now a quick drink of water, pee and back to bed-bye, Little Mister!”

          • The Man They Call Zazelle July 16, 2024 at 2:48 am #

            OG, as I was watching something related, it showed Trump getting shot again and his hand seemed to go up and back down too fast for there to get blood on it.

            You have your theory/hypothesis, and that’s fine. It’s if you start believing it as fact that might worry some of us for you. But again, that’s ok, too, as long as you don’t expect everyone to conform to it.

          • TPTB-USA July 16, 2024 at 3:34 am #

            My daughter claims there was blood on Trump’s fingertips when he went down after being shot.

          • stelmosfire July 16, 2024 at 8:25 am #

            It looks like Trump slapped at his ear as if he’d been stung by a wasp until he heard the sound of the shot arrive a half second later.

          • stelmosfire July 16, 2024 at 8:31 am #

            I’ve never been shot at but I’ve read that a bullet going by sounds like an angry hornet.

          • stelmosfire July 16, 2024 at 8:37 am #

            A .223 round is spinning almost 300,000 rpm out of the muzzle which I find amazing.

          • JohnAZ July 16, 2024 at 1:23 pm #

            Just think, if the Snipers shot the kid first.

            Was he going to shoot? Who would know?

            Just be glad he missed and we still have a choice in November.

            I wonder if this took away a little invulnerability from Trump and confidence in the SS?

          • Q. Shtik July 18, 2024 at 12:30 pm #

            Of course the ladder and Crooks getting to the roof are suspicious. – gustaf

            ==========

            I’ll say!

            I read that the perp bought the ladder earlier the day of the shooting. How did the ladder get to the building and placed so the perp could climb to the roof? Did he bring it on the roof of his car and set it up against the building himself? Was it delivered by UPS? How long, or tall, was the ladder?

            Why is it that these journalists for the NYT never seem to ask the obvious questions?

          • TPTB-USA July 19, 2024 at 1:06 am #

            Q, aren’t you being a bit too critical of the DEI crowd?

            Squirrel, look over there!

      • Night Owl July 16, 2024 at 10:11 am #

        I would have to agree. Nothing looked off to me during the shooting, and there are plenty of close ups of the damaged ear along with Trump on the ground right after the shots. He looked positively terrified.

        What would the point of staging the event even be? Increased support?

        He’s got the vote stitched up; the only question is whether it would be enough to overcome another potential theft. But no one can answer that.

        With the selection of Vance he’s (whether intentionally or unintentionally) derailed himself anyways.

        • Jarek July 16, 2024 at 12:39 pm #

          The fallen hero who rises up is common in Western mythology. You don’t understand this part of the human psyche. Trust me, it’s political gold.

    • elysianfield July 16, 2024 at 10:52 am #

      …et tu Sctik?

  75. benr July 16, 2024 at 12:03 am #

    My goodness OG has made himself so obnoxious he has a fanboy club.

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    • OG July 16, 2024 at 12:42 am #

      I know, right? Anybody can post comments on CFN but a brand new handle of OG Is Nuts is kick-ass respect! That’s CFN HOF-worthy.

      I told my son about “OG Is Nuts” this evening. He didn’t miss a beat: “Well, maybe he’s onto something.”

      It cracked me up. My son is a pretty funny guy.

      ***
      Of course, the most important recent CFN post is upthread – about a simple cut of the ear should clot in about 8 minutes (with pressure) while Trump had his all clotted up (a gun-shot wound, mind you) in just seconds over 1 minute (without pressure).

      Art of the Heal

      • elysianfield July 16, 2024 at 10:50 am #

        OG…clever.

      • OG Is Nuts July 16, 2024 at 11:10 am #

        Cite medical sources to back up your statement. Oh wait…as well as being a fornicator, you’re a doctor too, right?

      • JohnAZ July 16, 2024 at 12:11 pm #

        Uh. OG, try researching something before talking about it. The wound caught the edge of the ear,making a notch as evidenced by the still photos I identified way back. Grazing bullet wounds,in the research I did, can self-cauterize and do not bleed much. Also, do you know any females that have had that area pierced for earrings, it very rarely bleeds at all.

        Your conjecture is just plain wrong.As I said, go back to Bibi where you have credibility.

        • The Man They Call Zazelle July 16, 2024 at 4:32 pm #

          John, I actually looked up two things yesterday for fun; cauterize temperatures and bullet temperatures. They are close but I thought not bulletproof enough to comment about it. Still, if we consider the spinning bullet too, the length of the rifle barrel, the kind of gun and bullet-heat typical for it as well as the ~130 yards distance…

          Mind you, we’d have to run it by OG of course and have him enter the details properly into his forensics lab to be sure… Maybe include wind-speed and air-temperature for the day as well as Trump’s ear perspiration…

  76. C S July 16, 2024 at 1:21 am #

    Another excellent piece, JHK. Thank you very much.

  77. Jarek July 16, 2024 at 2:28 am #

    Maybe the agent cut Trump’s ear a bit while in the huddle. Trump was wearing a simple a band aid over it today. Doesn’t look very serious. But it could have been ketchup too.

    Truly he is King of the Desert Show Men. We’ve been snowed.

    • gustafson.robert.22 July 16, 2024 at 2:36 am #

      It might be possible, but there’s no evidence for it, and no evidence that contradicts the simpler explanation of a real bullet graze, which all available evidence fits.

      • gustafson.robert.22 July 16, 2024 at 2:54 am #

        I don’t have any kind of deep respect for Trump, but I think he is actually above faking something like this.

        He’s too dumb or numb to see or care how much of a tool to greater powers he consistently is, but he’s above faking an assassination attempt like this. It would offend his simplistic sense of personal honesty and self-worth.

        • JohnAZ July 16, 2024 at 12:03 pm #

          Jarek and OG share a common trait. They invent shit to try to “prove”their conspiracy theories. Both have egos that must be assuaged. BUT both have the right to express that opinion.It is up to everyone to make up their own minds. It is also up to them to respect the opinions of others and stop the name calling.

          • MiTurn July 17, 2024 at 8:38 am #

            JohnAZ,

            To understand these traits, look up Graham’s Hierarchy of Disagreement.

            It’ll explain their “reasoning.”

      • Jarek July 16, 2024 at 12:44 pm #

        So the Deep State wanted to take Trump out and so gave an untrained kid a rifle to do it? Does that make any sense, Gus?

        No, right? Ok, so the kid acted on his own? So why did the Snipers ignore him for several minutes? Who left the ladder there for him?

        My scenario alone fits the facts – incredible though it be. They rely on the ever present normalcy bias of normies. And I’m afraid when it comes to things like this you’re a normie – despite your extreme environmentalism.

        • JohnAZ July 16, 2024 at 1:17 pm #

          Your scenario? Made up on day one with almost no real facts. For once, just wait and see and then judge. The video this morning is pretty damning towards the SS.

        • gustafson.robert.22 July 16, 2024 at 1:50 pm #

          You have me pegged pretty correctly, Jarek. I’ve always pushed back against extreme capstone stuff. In my mind, these capstone views are often ratcheted to elevated places as surrogates for, avoidance-aides toward, the core (ecological) problems of contemporary civ, overshoot and oil and growth dependence. Not that Great Reset/Zionist/capstone perspectives aren’t real and relevant, just over-weighted.

  78. SoftStarLight July 16, 2024 at 3:09 am #

    Delivering fruit loops to the piggly wiggly :0). i’m continually in awe.

    • Ron Anselmo July 16, 2024 at 3:20 am #

      From piggly wiggly, I can Door Dash them to you.<3

      • SoftStarLight July 16, 2024 at 3:25 am #

        awww <3 ty

      • elysianfield July 16, 2024 at 10:49 am #

        Ron,
        When I was 14, I leveraged my white privilege to obtain a cushy job at Piggly Wiggly in San Antonio…bagging groceries for 15 cents an hour.

        • SoftStarLight July 16, 2024 at 12:06 pm #

          i thought you were black, EF?

          • elysianfield July 16, 2024 at 2:16 pm #

            SSL,
            No. White as the driven snow. Sometimes I use the possessive sense in describing my offers.

        • Ron Anselmo July 16, 2024 at 12:10 pm #

          E – Those were the days, my friend. Running full grocery carts to the cars for cute middle-aged women in short skirts, for tips. Did I say those were the days?

        • Jarek July 16, 2024 at 12:46 pm #

          Is Cracker Barrel racist?

          Old Scientology saying: You can always write to Ron.

          • Ron Anselmo July 16, 2024 at 2:18 pm #

            Hubbard, for those that might be confused.

  79. TPTB-USA July 16, 2024 at 3:14 am #

    Perhaps the clams are headed for the dinner table?

    tradingeconomics.com/argentina/stock-market

    Assassinations & Markets – Divided We Stand
    armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/politics/assassinations-markets-divided-we-stand/

    “We can see that where McKinley was assassinated, in the case of Teddy Roosevelt, he was shot but not seriously injured. The major problem we face here is that the ECM is pointing to a recession REGARDLESS of who wins. This is a global situation, for even a Trump victory will not prevent European leaders from starting a war with Russia. They lack the debt structure to survive.”

    ****

    So, will this be a rush to escape other currencies and markets (US$, gold, and US markets all head higher)?

    • SoftStarLight July 16, 2024 at 3:38 am #

      To some degree i also feel like i’ve gone into recession regardless of who has won. I’m literally doing everything i can right now to not let ears and walls get on my nerves. What those European leaders need to be told is that they can start their little war with Russia and ain’t nobody coming to help them this time. Eventually the leaning tower of Pisa will fall. Place your bets accordingly.

    • Ron Anselmo July 16, 2024 at 10:04 am #

      It will be used as a cudgel, to get countries to globally adopt CBDC, not a single CBDC – maybe 12 or 15 total – but all “interoperable”. That’s the key – interoperability. Global trade stays seamless, as conversions are made immediately between different CBDC’s.

      When everything is “taken” in the Great Taking, everything encumbered in any way, will be asset-stripped and everything burnt to the ground.

      People will be offered a choice to get on the CBDC train. If you adopt CBDC today, you’ll get 100% “value” in digital credits. Refuse and this could be a 10-year work out, to make you whole.

      Most will adopt and get on the train, going into slavery and under control like never before. Those who refuse to adopt will be dissidents and hunted down over time. They’ll need a parallel means of exchange and operate in a parallel society – dissidents and outcasts, but free.

      I’ll eat dirt before I get on the train.

      All aboard!

      • TPTB-USA July 19, 2024 at 1:00 am #

        Ron, I assumed that China had established their CBDC.

        Not so.

        Unravelling China’s CBDC Dilemma: Exploring Factors Hindering Widespread Adoption and Lessons for India
        esyacentre.org/perspectives/2024/1/25/unravelling-chinas-cbdc-dilemma-exploring-factors-hindering-widespread-adoption-and-lessons-for-india

        Regarding interoperability: Won’t China be concerned with foreign sanctions, or is this a non- issue concerning a CBDC?

  80. cowbell81 July 16, 2024 at 10:21 am #

    A lot of talk upthread about the eat shot, interesting theories. My thought on this from overnight….has Trump lost any hearing capability in that ear? Does he have ringing or diminished hearing loss on that side? Nothing has been said on this.

    As to the Hitler-Trump comparison. I wonder how long it will take before some liberal makes the statement that even Hitler survived several foiled assassination attempts.

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    • SoftStarLight July 16, 2024 at 10:34 am #

      Yes, they’ve already gone there.

    • CouchPotatriot July 16, 2024 at 10:59 am #

      “I wonder how long it will take before some liberal makes the statement that even Hitler survived several foiled assassination attempts. – Cowbell

      The Hitler-Trump comparison carries as much weight – and is as unoriginal and empty – as the Putin-Hitler comparison. The partisan lemming doesn’t invoke the meme, the corpo-media do.

      That’s how easy it is to trigger a brainwashed partisan, call their programmatic opponent Hitler. They’ll immediately retreat into their ideological bunkers or right off the fuckin’ cliff without hesitation.

      I wonder how long it took for the some righty to create memes about O’bummer being akin to Hitler? Trick question.

      More Cowbell please!

      • SoftStarLight July 16, 2024 at 11:09 am #

        i actually see lots of partisan lemmings (maybe some paid ops?) on X invoking such memes.

      • JohnAZ July 16, 2024 at 11:19 am #

        Do people really think that the damage the Left has done to this country will be undone and corrected by just going along with the Deep State? To do his job, Trump is going to have to be a big bad wolf, an ass kicker, unafraid to clobber the Left. No deal making, no compromise, go for the goal line.

        • gustafson.robert.22 July 16, 2024 at 11:32 am #

          Good luck.

          • CouchPotatriot July 16, 2024 at 1:54 pm #

            Luck is about it all comes down to for all of us at this point.

          • gustafson.robert.22 July 16, 2024 at 7:20 pm #

            Yup.

      • Groundhog July 16, 2024 at 11:42 am #

        “I wonder how long it will take before some liberal makes the statement that even Hitler survived several foiled assassination attempts.”

        – Cowbell

        Better yet, I wonder how many centuries it will take before the world gives up its fascination with and all encompassing fear of Hitler and his Nazis. It’s over 8 decades since Hitler’s death and the USA still has troops in many areas on the planet that were formerly Nazi. We sent troops overseas to fight Hitler and those troops still remain in those places, I reckon in order to prevent any future Hitlers from emerging.

        The entire identity of the United States is still bound up by Hitler obsessions. We’ve really not moved on from WWII, we’re still occupying and giving advice to Germany and Japan. We think it is our job to roam about the world as a punishing parent/policeman. It’s our job to take down heads of state and replace them with people more to our liking – you know – because Hitler etc. etc. We’ve been running about the globe for over 80 years now with our hair on fire, yelling “Hitler might be in there somewhere. We must be sure Hitler can’t come back, so we are now bombing your country. It’s for your own good!”

        • SoftStarLight July 16, 2024 at 11:50 am #

          kill the paradigm, please

        • JohnAZ July 16, 2024 at 12:22 pm #

          The same could be said of Russia, right? 1991, 33 years ago the USSR capitulated and the USA immediately started screwing Russia over.

          I do not know who to believe any more. The Neocons tell us that Russia is the Big enemy, but NATO has expanded in Europe, not Russia. Now NATO is fractionating with Hungary and Turkey calling bullshit on the US dominance. Ukraine is so obviously a USA shill, a Biden shill even, that Europe is starting to choose sides.

          One thing that I hope happens soon. BRICS+ is firming up quickly with dozens of countries wanting to flip off the USA. We better find our who are friends are and are not and do something about it. Trump, probably is going to inherit a legacy from Biden of the continuing growth of BRICS+. I hope it comes up as a debating issue in the campaign.

          The last insignia I have seen is BRICS20.

        • GreenAlba July 16, 2024 at 1:09 pm #

          ” It’s over 8 decades since Hitler’s death and the USA still has troops in many areas on the planet that were formerly Nazi. We sent troops overseas to fight Hitler and those troops still remain in those places, I reckon in order to prevent any future Hitlers from emerging.”

          And yet, America brought over 400 rather nasty Nazis over in Op, Paperclip, to man its agencies. And the US (and UK) don’t seem to be worried by Ukrainian Nazis. Boris Johnson recently personally addressed a bunch of Azovs and lauded them to the skies for their bravery. So it’s really about ‘their’ Nazis and ‘our’ Nazis. ‘Our’ Nazis are fine. Nothing new under the sun.

          • Groundhog July 17, 2024 at 12:04 pm #

            “So it’s really about ‘their’ Nazis and ‘our’ Nazis. ‘Our’ Nazis are fine. Nothing new under the sun.”

            There’s a funny scene in the hit movie “The Right Stuff” – if I remember correctly. A lot of it about the Apollo program. In the movie, somebody in the press was interviewing NASA staff if they were worried about the existence of German V2 project rocket scientists having joined sides with the enemy, the Soviets. In other words, the Russians were getting help and advice from scientists who’d already worked in the field for years. Was this a threat or a potential problem? In the movie, the NASA guy answered the press by saying “Our Germans are better than their Germans!”

        • Jarek July 16, 2024 at 1:48 pm #

          He said, My spirit will rise from the Earth and the world will know I was right.

          It’s happening, Herr Hog. They are terrified. One person said that Spandau was reduced to rubble and then ground down to bits. Anything that let it be a spot of pilgrimage or even allow for souvenirs. The Man of Light, Rudolf Hess, lived there for many years you see….

          • Groundhog July 18, 2024 at 2:12 pm #

            “He said, My spirit will rise from the Earth and the world will know I was right.”

            Who are you talking about? Who is “He” and “I”? If you are talking about some Messiah – which one?

        • Paula D July 16, 2024 at 2:25 pm #

          The entire identity of the US is bound up with Hitler comparisons. That is correct.

          And yet, the US can send hundreds of billions of dollars to a country which worships Hitler and his local collaborators, who enthusiastically participated in murdering those they considered subhuman, without more than a few Americans noticing, let alone protesting it.

          It shows the power of propaganda to shape minds.

          We are doomed.

          • Paula D July 16, 2024 at 2:28 pm #

            Hundreds of billions of dollars and beaucoup weapons, to boot.

            And Congress, and the Canadian Parliament, stand up and cheer for the Nazi Banderists, without a peep of protest from the msm or most of the public.

            And the EU complains when Orban tries to negotiate a peace deal, saying “He doesn’t speak for us. We want more war.”

            They are even talking about taking away Hungary’s 6 month chair of the EU!

            So the legacy of the nazis is not over. It has risen again.

          • Ron Anselmo July 16, 2024 at 10:25 pm #

            Paula, you promised. Well, sort of. We’ll come out of this – not unscathed – but we’ll come out of it. Have faith.

          • Paula D July 16, 2024 at 11:37 pm #

            I know, Ron. I faltered.

        • Soul Forensics July 16, 2024 at 3:35 pm #

          The only proper response to a Liberal putting out the Hitler-Trump comparisons is laughter.

          Hasn’t anyone heard of Godwin’s law?

          • Groundhog July 17, 2024 at 12:22 pm #

            Godwin’s law emerged on the internet forum scene in 1990. That was back in the days when home computers were networked via regular phone lines into a whole slew of home based BBS systems. In the mid to late 80’s you’d dial in to another publicly available computer via a 1200 or 2400 baud modem hooked into your landline telephone wire. Some BBS systems you could dial into were networked together into larger systems (still using land line phone wires) like fidonet, and that gave the home computer user a much broader reach with more people in the forums. This was during the era before the internet became commercially available. One of the first big systems the person with a home computer could dial into was Compuserve.

            And what was happening before the internet was available to the average Joe? Trolling on BBS’s and people fussing and fighting with each other over politics and religion. And people using those early forums noticed Hitler’s name and the Nazis eventually making it into the debates. It was only a matter of time, the longer a debate raged the more likely it was that somebody was gonna call somebody else a Nazi. Or somebody was going to start Hitler discussions and derail the original thread.

            And that’s Godwin’s law.

    • OG Is Nuts July 16, 2024 at 11:26 am #

      The operative word here Cowbell is TALK. No medical substantiation…just gum flappin’

    • OG July 16, 2024 at 12:03 pm #

      has Trump lost any hearing capability in that ear? Does he have ringing or diminished hearing loss on that side?

      I doubt it. The Hollywood fake “blood” is complete harmless. By design.

      • JohnAZ July 16, 2024 at 12:22 pm #

        Bullshit, OG, you are grasping at straws.

        • OG July 16, 2024 at 5:49 pm #

          Nope. Black op. Photo op. 100%.

  81. JohnAZ July 16, 2024 at 11:07 am #

    Listening to Fox this AM

    Pelosi and Schiff actively working to get Biden off the ticket.

    Insider polling is causing the Power Dems to panic, they know that the Dem program under Biden, the Woke Mob, has failed and it is beginning to accelerate.

    They have their hands full, dump Biden, grab a sacrificial lamb for this year, work on control of the Congress to limit Trump, and re-work Dem. Goals for 20236 and 2028. Schiff has stated he fears a wipe-out.

    This morning, a video showing the shooter on the roof is focusing the blame game on the Secret Service and the FBI is saying they fear further copy cat activity.

    No shit. You think? You think the nuts on the Left are going to stop? Or the Right for Biden for revenge?

    Some criticism is being directed at Biden’s Mob for appointing SS agents with Woke dominance, namely a woman director with instructions to hire 30% women. This is not over.

    • SoftStarLight July 16, 2024 at 11:27 am #

      There is no equivocation between the “left” and “right”. The “left” has always been far more violent and most assassinations are instigated by the “left”. If anything does happen it will essentially be a cabal psyop. That may be what they do to try to try to justify suspending the election or returning the narrative to going after anti-regime people.

      • Groundhog July 16, 2024 at 12:09 pm #

        Ah, left and right. These two political groups date back to the French Revolution. The left was against the monarchy and the Roman Church, the right was in favor of the traditional and more feudal social structures in place at the time. In France, the “left” was busy for a while chopping off the heads of its supposed enemies and in general conducting a reign of terror. It seems the spirit of rebellion and the dreams of setting up popular republics first developed in the US colonies and then spread to France. Elements in France were inspired by the US colonies giving George III the boot, and they decide to use force and bloodshed to set up a new French republic. This republic lasted until France got sick of it and Napoleon emerged to create order out of leftist chaos.

        Not only France was affected by the spirit of rebellion. For example, many people in the Balkans, and for various reasons, wished to rebel against Hapsburg rule. Countries like Orthodox Serbia didn’t like being ruled and influenced by Catholic Hapsburg’s. So a Hapsburg archduke gets assassinated in Serbia and the out-of-control dogfight called WWI is on. I’m guessing the person who shot the archduke was of leftist/anarchist background, he belonged to a mysterious political group called “The Black Hand”. If I remember correctly.

        Another famous Hapsburg, empress Sisi or Elizabeth of Austria, was murdered by some weird anarchist dude that was determined to kill a blueblood. Unfortunately the sad and wandering empress became a target for him. She’d been unlucky and had been at the wrong place at the wrong time.

        • SoftStarLight July 16, 2024 at 12:16 pm #

          It seems like the left/right paradigm was created to weaken nation states generally. That and political parties. If a country wants to have a more peaceful society then it would need to ban and outlaw political parties.

          • JohnAZ July 16, 2024 at 12:24 pm #

            Yup.Except SSL, there will always be Haves and Have-nots that want to steal from the Haves. Never peace.

          • SoftStarLight July 16, 2024 at 1:16 pm #

            That wouldn’t be such an intense problem in a society where the wealth doesn’t accumulate to just a few individuals in such an extreme way.

          • Groundhog July 16, 2024 at 11:01 pm #

            ” If a country wants to have a more peaceful society then it would need to ban and outlaw political parties.”

            The first president of the USA was very skeptical of political parties and considered them dangerous and disruptive.

      • Jarek July 16, 2024 at 12:53 pm #

        The right is often better for War. In any case, the Democrats fumbled the ball and the Deeps are going with Trump. The illegals will get a chance to show their loyalty by fighting overseas. Automatic citizenship.

        • SoftStarLight July 16, 2024 at 1:14 pm #

          i don’t want to believe this. When you say the Democrats fumbled the ball what are you referring to or thinking in that regard?

          • Jarek July 16, 2024 at 1:33 pm #

            They should have moved on the Biden situation many months ago. It’s very late to switch nominees, and they are still not united on this.

            If you accept the idea of the Deep State, accept the idea that it has a left and a right hand. In the United States, that’s basically if not really, the Democrats and the Republicans. The Democrat Left leads, and the Republican Right follows at a discrete distance.

            So perhaps they like the Left better because it is where they are taking us. Individual rights and wealth are going to be for them alone. We get the Communism part. But since they’ve bobbled the ball, why not turn to trusted servants on the “right”? Scum like Romney, Mike Johnson, Graham, etc? Alas now Trump as well.

            They let Obama do some nice things for Blacks. Maybe they’ll let Trump do some nice things for America? Getting rid of twenty million illegal immigrants? Naw, they need those soldiers.

            The long term objective was to have 400 million people here by 2050. There well on their way to that. Whites are slated for despised, minority status. Anything Trump does will not be overtly pro-White. That’s baked in the cake.

          • SoftStarLight July 16, 2024 at 3:28 pm #

            What do you make of Lindsey Graham trashing JD Vance literally like a day before he praised him for being Trump’s pick. Allegedly Vance is hated by all the “right people” according to some pundits. Is this just part of the show or do you think there is even just a tiny possibility we might ever be pleasantly surprised?

          • Jarek July 17, 2024 at 12:36 pm #

            That seems to be par for the course in every election. Do they believe in anything, really?

            In any case, perhaps a good sign. Lindsay is the worst of the worst.

          • TPTB-USA July 18, 2024 at 10:16 am #

            Will current revelations usher-in the draining of the swamp?

            Talk of Obama and Pelosi being royalty in charge of the democrats.

            Jarek, do you see anything that would set Trump down a moral path?

    • stelmosfire July 16, 2024 at 12:17 pm #

      “Some criticism is being directed at Biden’s Mob for appointing SS agents with Woke dominance, namely a woman director with instructions to hire 30% women.”

      If I had Secret Service protection I’d want guys built like the Raiders front line. Years ago the state police around here had a 6 ft. height requirement. I’ve seen some female troopers lately that were maybe 5′ 2″. These women are just a liability when some muscle is required fighting with a drunk. I started at the FD when there were no women on the job. The women showed up in the 90’s. We’d get a drunk on the ambulance and they’d ask me to ride in the back. Of course I would oblige but it was bullshit.They also requested and received hydraulic lifts for the large O2 bottles and hydraulic stretchers.I did like the stretchers, especially when we had a land whale to transport.

      • Soul Forensics July 16, 2024 at 3:40 pm #

        Ha ha! Transporting land whales. I feel your pain.

  82. OG Is Nuts July 16, 2024 at 11:28 am #

    “Two natures beat within my breast
    The one is foul, the one is blessed
    The one I love, the one I hate.
    The one I feed will dominate.

    • gustafson.robert.22 July 16, 2024 at 11:31 am #

      Hmm.

    • SoftStarLight July 16, 2024 at 11:48 am #

      try balance

      • OG July 16, 2024 at 12:00 pm #

        With a name like, “OG Is Nuts,” it’s pretty clear that he feeds his demons on the regular.

        Hate is a malignant malady.

        • SoftStarLight July 16, 2024 at 12:09 pm #

          well, you can’t know what love is if you don’t know what hate is

        • OG Is Nuts July 16, 2024 at 12:15 pm #

          Hate? Laughing. I guess you feel nothing but love for BibiYahoo

          • OG July 16, 2024 at 12:20 pm #

            Aaaah. Now we see your true mission, OIN. You are a Zionist shill.

            ***
            Bibi-gun is a war criminal that needs be apprehended … but of course I love him and have just prayed for his corrupted soul.

          • Soul Forensics July 16, 2024 at 3:43 pm #

            “but of course I love him and have just prayed for his corrupted soul.” — OG

            And right on cue, more patronizing bullshit from our prayer-in-chief.

          • OG July 16, 2024 at 5:48 pm #

            Or perhaps simply an honest reply from an honest man.

            Truly.

      • Jarek July 16, 2024 at 12:55 pm #

        In other words, a balance between good and evil? Or there is no evil?

        • JohnAZ July 16, 2024 at 1:09 pm #

          A balance or a choice?

        • SoftStarLight July 16, 2024 at 1:17 pm #

          yes, a balance between the two forces

        • Jarek July 16, 2024 at 1:40 pm #

          You are very far from Christianity now, meine Frau. And any of the other higher religions, as well as the old Paganism of Europe.

          ALL accepted the reality of Evil and saw it is as something to be shunned and destroyed within one’s being.

          But yes, some confused members of these religions see evil where there is none. Or become hypocrites or puritans, condemning others but not themselves. And they shouldn’t condemn themselves to begin with – only the evil in and of itself.

          • SoftStarLight July 16, 2024 at 3:26 pm #

            yes, i believe that too

    • JohnAZ July 16, 2024 at 12:27 pm #

      A very succinct version of Jesus’ message,

      Nice!

  83. OG July 16, 2024 at 11:34 am #

    I remember, mere months ago, when I was talking up gold ownership here on CFN. It then dipped below $2,000 and I took some serious flack and, even, slagging here on CFN.

    Gold is up $37.54 to $2,460.03 this morning.

    Will those ridiculing me mere months ago now praise me for being correct?

    Time will tell.

    ***
    FYI – That is a 23% return in mere months.

    • gustafson.robert.22 July 16, 2024 at 11:48 am #

      Now we just gotta get bitcoin tanking.

      • OG July 16, 2024 at 12:01 pm #

        Why?

        • gustafson.robert.22 July 16, 2024 at 12:04 pm #

          Gold last man standing

          • Soul Forensics July 16, 2024 at 3:46 pm #

            Gold and Bitcoin don’t compete with each other, Gus.

            Gold and Bitcoin are almost on the same team, both against the U.S. fiat dollar.

          • gustafson.robert.22 July 16, 2024 at 7:22 pm #

            They share a market a bit.

    • TPTB-USA July 16, 2024 at 11:53 am #

      OG, so now you admit that you were pimping gold.

      Answer me this: Who ridiculed you for promoting gold ownership?

      • OG July 16, 2024 at 11:59 am #

        I’ve been bullish on gold since last century. I’d hardly consider being correct as an admission.

        But, I guess, if all people promoting an ultimately correct investment strategy are “pimps.” But that’s sure a strange slagging for being correct with good advice.

        I don’t remember the assailants. I merely remember the slaggings.

        ***
        People crack me up. They are generally so very small.

        • cowbell81 July 16, 2024 at 12:08 pm #

          I certainly always approve of the gold investment concept. It is much better than holding fiat US Dollars. Just checked and gold is currently right near $2460 an ounce! I say, $2500 here we come!!!

          Now speaking of silver, that has been holding right at $30 an ounce. There are still great gains to be made there!

          • JohnAZ July 16, 2024 at 12:54 pm #

            I don’t know. If a partial the SHTF happens, gold might make a real deal and be accepted as legal tender. However if the SHTF as bad as WMBH, or worse, Gold is a rock and inedible.

            I donor know the right answer,I am not at this point interested in gold. Maybe if I dug it up.

          • JohnAZ July 16, 2024 at 12:58 pm #

            Saying that though, BRICS+ is investing in gold as part of its destroy the USA battle.

            I don’t know, I guess it depends in how far back in the Stone Age we go.

            Also, God loves Gold and considers it Holy.

        • OG Is Nuts July 16, 2024 at 12:18 pm #

          In your case it’s obvious ‘slaggings” is Canuck slang for “shaggings”..Have you committed fornication lately Mr. “Christian?”

          • OG July 16, 2024 at 12:23 pm #

            My God! That, of course, is none of your freaking business.

            Did your mother not raise you right? My word!

            ***
            Judge not, that ye be not judged.
            – Matter 7:1 [KJV]

          • JohnAZ July 16, 2024 at 12:29 pm #

            Honestly, OG, how does it feel to have someone chase you around like you have been doing forever.

          • gustafson.robert.22 July 16, 2024 at 12:36 pm #

            Canuck vs canuck violence

          • JohnAZ July 16, 2024 at 12:49 pm #

            Hmmm,Gus

            Regina vs. San Diego????

        • TPTB-USA July 16, 2024 at 2:01 pm #

          I’ve been bullish on precious metals from a time likely prior to your birth, but I have learned that an objective assessment is worth far more than all the precious metals in the world.

          Don’t take it personally. That which we are dealing with here is a dumb keyboard and a monitor.

          Shouldn’t the objective of social media be to civilly discuss the issues in a manner that an individual can form an opinion from an objective assessment?

          • TPTB-USA July 16, 2024 at 3:42 pm #

            … and I would suggest that a big picture assessment is: that a civil, inclusive, objective discussion would very likely be beneficial to Jim’s bottom line.

    • elysianfield July 16, 2024 at 2:10 pm #

      “FYI – That is a 23% return in mere months.”

      OG,

      Or…or the devaluation of the dollar has occurred…God knows what happens to Canadian Duck money.

      • TPTB-USA July 16, 2024 at 2:19 pm #

        It’s comments like these that make this waste of time worth something.

      • OG July 16, 2024 at 4:20 pm #

        The G7 will all go down with the US$, imho.

        • TPTB-USA July 16, 2024 at 5:21 pm #

          In the past, Armstrong has promoted that the EURO and YEN were in worse shape, so unless they can bastardize the currencies in unison (which they may have done under Biden’s watch), I anticipate that they will suffer first.

          • OG July 16, 2024 at 5:31 pm #

            Armstrong is the MSM of economics. Armstrong has normalcy bias. As we’ve discussed before, Armstrong’s economic philosophy and outlook is ceteris paribus.

            I suspect all fiat will more-or-less crash together. It’ll be a hairy month or so as the dominoes are everywhere.

          • OG July 16, 2024 at 5:43 pm #

            “hairy month or so” referring to the aftermath of BRICS pulling the pin on the US$ one day.

            This crash is going to make 1929 look like a tiger-tape parade.

          • OG July 16, 2024 at 5:44 pm #

            *ticker-tape parade

            See? I’m not perfect.

          • TPTB-USA July 16, 2024 at 6:31 pm #

            My 2 cents is that the US$ being the key currency, and wars on another continent, give the US$ the advantage.

            Also, I suspect that US$ loans for international mega projects will create demand.

            Where does the money flow that wants to get out of the EURO and YEN?

  84. OG Is Nuts July 16, 2024 at 12:26 pm #

    Galatians 6:1…….I won’t be tempted in that way because I am an asexual aspie.

    • OG Is Nuts July 16, 2024 at 12:27 pm #

      It is my duty as a “brother” to point out your blatant sinning and implore you to stop. (Galatians 6:1)

      • OG July 16, 2024 at 4:24 pm #

        And it is my duty to tell you to mind your own freaking bee’s wax.

        You’ve pointed out Galatians 6:1 to me. You’ve performed your brotherly duties.

        ***
        I love my gf very much. We have a healthy, monogamous relationship that involves worshipping God with prayer.

        I am prepared to face God with all of my sins and ask His forgiveness. You have done all that you can, Brother, now PFO.

  85. CouchPotatriot July 16, 2024 at 12:27 pm #

    Right on the mark, Groundhog! The contemporary American identity is based entirely on a myth – that the west defeated the Nazi’s, when it was really the Russian’s and several smaller nations who accomplished the crux of German defeat.

    The Americans dropped a few bombs, made a few Hollywood movies, and fear-infused its culture into accepting the dumbest binary think imaginable. West good – East bad – durpa durpa.

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    • SoftStarLight July 16, 2024 at 3:25 pm #

      i think its actually derp derp

  86. JohnAZ July 16, 2024 at 12:47 pm #

    Biden has continued using his bullshit rhetoric about Trump days after Butler.

    He has no choice. Nothing will change. He has absolutely no positives to run on, in every way possible, the condition of the USA has deteriorated because of the action of this administration.

    This election represents a chance for the US population to stop the derogatory power grabs of the Left.

    Oh, yeah, Left vs. Right always gets pulled up by someone. It IS Left vs. Right. The Deep State is buried deeply (pun depended) in the Left now. Dem. vs. GOP has very little meaning in DC with a few exceptions. The Deep State is after one thing, preservation and expansion of its power. The GOP (RINOS) are just people that believe in that expansion, ie socialism with all the evil it brings.

    Left vs. Right IS exactly where we are at. If Trump comes in on the Left, pro government, the war is lost. USA becomes a member of the Socialist world. So far, he is telling a good anti Deep State story, I just hope he doesn’t cut a deal.

    • SoftStarLight July 16, 2024 at 1:19 pm #

      i feel like its more globalists versus nationalists rather than left and right

      • Ron Anselmo July 16, 2024 at 2:11 pm #

        Exactly, Dreamy.

  87. CouchPotatriot July 16, 2024 at 12:50 pm #

    “If I had Secret Service protection I’d want guys built like the Raiders front line. Years ago the state police around here had a 6 ft. height requirement. I’ve seen some female troopers lately that were maybe 5? 2?. These women are just a liability when some muscle is required fighting with a drunk. I started at the FD when there were no women on the job. The women showed up in the 90’s. We’d get a drunk on the ambulance and they’d ask me to ride in the back. Of course I would oblige but it was bullshit.They also requested and received hydraulic lifts for the large O2 bottles and hydraulic stretchers.I did like the stretchers, especially when we had a land whale to transport.” – Saint Mo

    Aww man, I just love your comments, Mo – comic GOLD! You’re never pretentious, never a staunch ideologue, just the regular type of male figure I grew up with.

    I remember watching a police traffic stop video of a small female officer encountering a large black driver. Long story short, the man decided not to cooperate and comply, instantly dropped the chick to the asphalt, and pounded the poor gal’s face into total hamburger helper. It instantly ended her career. At least she survived…?

    Need further proof that the Elites could not give a single shit about preserving or stabilizing American society? All we can do is laugh as DEI policy and “gender equality” continues to permeate our social institutions.

    On the other hand, when we get sociopathic, deeply masculinized pant-suit wearing females occupying top leadership roles – watch the fuck out – Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.

    • JohnAZ July 16, 2024 at 1:05 pm #

      Just evidence of a Leftist world gone crazy.

    • SoftStarLight July 16, 2024 at 1:24 pm #

      i would’ve also taken my sunglasses off for the photo op ;0)

  88. JohnAZ July 16, 2024 at 1:00 pm #

    Well, they got Menendez for the same shit Biden did in UKraine.

    Hmmm.

    • SoftStarLight July 16, 2024 at 1:23 pm #

      Setting precedents?

      • Ron Anselmo July 16, 2024 at 3:13 pm #

        Nope, sitting presidents.

        • SoftStarLight July 16, 2024 at 3:21 pm #

          Hmm, so you think Biden was after Menendez?

          • Ron Anselmo July 16, 2024 at 4:22 pm #

            Nah, just a little word-twist. (very little)

  89. Jarek July 16, 2024 at 1:04 pm #

    Saw a story about big anti-tourist demonstrations in Barcelona. They were spraying Americans with water pistols. Apparently the whole city has been turned into a pricey tourist trap and the actual residents are being pushed out.

    Have the small “pensi’ons” (sp?), kind of like long term motels run by families, a thing of the past? Do normal people not profit at all by this, except as low paid workers?

    One can only sympathize if so. But alas the human comedy! Graffiti seen: Tourists out. Refugees welcome. The Left is a curse, always latching on to every issue in order to distort and destroy.

    • JohnAZ July 16, 2024 at 1:06 pm #

      Jarek, they have been after the cruise ships for a long time.

    • SoftStarLight July 16, 2024 at 1:25 pm #

      Its probably gentrification and then maybe all the hotels are big corporate now?

      • Jarek July 16, 2024 at 1:43 pm #

        That’s my guess, but I don’t know for sure. I had a friend who lived in these little places – the bohemian lifestyle. I doubt that’s possible now even if some still exist in less expensive parts of Spain.

        • TPTB-USA July 16, 2024 at 2:13 pm #

          Isn’t that just human nature gaming the system?

          So, we either eliminate human nature, recognize that the system is played-out, and/or come up with a better system.

          The problem for US is that it will not be our turn to dictate to the world the new format for life.

          • Jarek July 16, 2024 at 3:01 pm #

            Yes, that attempt was National Socialism and to a lesser extent, Fascism. As Pinochet of Chile said, Of course one treats people who know how to make and do things very well.

            Equally of course, one does not let them savage the nation for their personal, corporate, or class profit and power.

            The Italian Occultist, Evola, was scheduled to lecture in Nazi Germany, but it was cancelled. Even though a Fascist, they differed on their idea of race and on other things. What can one say? It was War and Germany was fighting for its future. One can only hope things would have loosened up later had they survived.

          • TPTB-USA July 16, 2024 at 5:09 pm #

            Jarek, your detailed replies are always interesting and thought provoking.

            Would you agree that there is no ideal system, so aren’t the key components: a moral group of people treating each other with dignity and respect?

            I suspect hard times and a game reset create the conditions, but eventually the system is gamed to perfection, at which point you “spray Americans with water pistols” (just like Trump, it could be worse).

          • Jarek July 17, 2024 at 12:45 pm #

            There are better and worse systems since man actually has a nature – a fallen one but not totally ruined as the Calvinists believe.

            Any system that glorifies man is thus worthless. But no system will work apart from human goodness. As Whitman said, produce great personalities, the rest follows.

            Now which is better? A lax system which lets kids stay out on the streets all night? Or one where they are under a strong discipline?

            And which is better? A lax system like libertarianism or liberalism, or one that demands human excellence – or else?

            Most will always need fear and shame – those guardians of the world as Buddha put it. The men of iron. The men of silver must rule them. The men of gold must guide the men of silver. See Plato’s “myth” (it’s a fact) of the metals. As Krishna says in Bhagavad Gita, The Four castes are by Me. They are not arbitrary social designations.

          • TPTB-USA July 18, 2024 at 9:52 am #

            I guess the way I see it is that I want a format for life that allows freedom, and due to the current format for life being played-out (gamed to perfection), there are no rules.

            media.licdn.com/dms/image/C5612AQGpy_Er6e1IUw/article-inline_image-shrink_1000_1488/0/1632403422433?e=2147483647&v=beta&t=-wRZNMNiWihuefI4H_wEPWTbuNEL6wg4XrVXAjemdKk

            Who among us is qualified to play God?

            The best format for life I can think of is an environment where a moral group of people chose to treat each other with dignity and respect. So, individually, we need to seek out and associate with such individuals, groups, societies, and nations.

            Is the 2030 Agenda a solution?

      • GreenAlba July 16, 2024 at 5:31 pm #

        “Its probably gentrification and then maybe all the hotels are big corporate now?”

        It’s also the AirB’n’B problem. We have it here in Edinburgh too. Short-term lets make far more money than renting to normal working people, so you get a massive housing crisis. Also, having raucous young holiday-makers in a normal block of flats can be annoying to ordinary residents.

        They were already complaining in Barcelona 7 or 8 years ago, saying ‘go home, tourists; welcome, refugees. I presume they’ve now got enough refugees as well at this point.

    • Soul Forensics July 16, 2024 at 3:53 pm #

      Spain has been Brazil for a long time. Ridiculously expensive beachside mansions for a few, scraps away from the Mediterranean for the rest.

  90. CouchPotatriot July 16, 2024 at 1:06 pm #

    “Left vs. Right IS exactly where we are at. If Trump comes in on the Left, pro government, the war is lost. USA becomes a member of the Socialist world. So far, he is telling a good anti Deep State story, I just hope he doesn’t cut a deal.” – JAZ

    John, you’re a decent, smart, insightful, experienced man. Why is it that you cannot see that Brand Trump is and always has been for sale?

    If his first term campaign rhetoric and ensuing regime actuality doesn’t give you reason for skepticism, then nothing will.

    On another note, my squash and cucumbers are doing better in the dappled afternoon sunlight than I expected. There’s something to this food forest idea. I was worried that my veggies wouldn’t get enough sun this year due to the enormous trees covering my yard.

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    • SoftStarLight July 16, 2024 at 3:20 pm #

      Zazelle will appreciate your garden update. He might be working in the garden as we type or he might be on a bike ride somewhere.

  91. SoftStarLight July 16, 2024 at 1:36 pm #

    Dan Bongino said the President Trump should’ve never been on the stage in the first place because they were aware of the shooter like 30 minutes prior to the rally. Dad was in the Secret Service before.

    • SoftStarLight July 16, 2024 at 1:36 pm #

      Not Dad lol, Dan

    • gustafson.robert.22 July 16, 2024 at 1:52 pm #

      Where does he get 30 minutes?

      It was just over a minute from the ladder climb to the shots fired.

      • SoftStarLight July 16, 2024 at 3:18 pm #

        i’m not exactly sure. I also heard that the shooter was actually mingled into the crowd for a while prior to breaking off and going that that building.

        • SoftStarLight July 16, 2024 at 3:18 pm #

          to that building. can’t write today :0/

      • Jarek July 16, 2024 at 3:56 pm #

        New video became available. See the Barnhardt link down the page.

  92. CouchPotatriot July 16, 2024 at 1:49 pm #

    “Do people really think that the damage the Left has done to this country will be undone and corrected by just going along with the Deep State? To do his job, Trump is going to have to be a big bad wolf, an ass kicker, unafraid to clobber the Left. No deal making, no compromise, go for the goal line. – JAZ

    As if the ongoing damage done to the country hasn’t been done by a deeply rooted Uniparty – a kakistocracy of Elites comprised of deeply interwoven and entrenched handlers who don’t give a fuck about you or me.

    Rationalize away the damage that Republicans did to the nation during the Bush I and II years – I dare ya.

  93. Jarek July 16, 2024 at 1:55 pm #

    The Story of the Haman’s ears cookies!

    Jewish people have been getting ready for Purim — the Jewish holiday that begins on Saturday night — by baking hamantaschen cookies, triangular treats made of dough with poppy seeds or fruit jam in the middle.

    Asked what the dessert signifies, many celebrants would quickly answer that they’re in the shape of the triangular hat supposedly worn by Haman, the villain of the Purim story in the Book of Esther. But there’s more history than that to the cookie — and clues can be found in its name.

    Early versions of the cookies were more commonly known as oznei Haman, meaning “Haman’s ears.” The late Jewish food historian Gil Marks’ Encyclopedia of Jewish Food traces that phrase — but not the cookie — to the Roman scholar and poet Immanuel ben Solomon (c.1261-1328) who, thanks to “a misinterpretation arising from the medieval Italian custom of cutting off a criminal’s ear before execution,” argued that Haman’s ears had been cut off after he was hanged, at the end of the Purim story.

    Marks traces the first record of oznei Haman as something to eat back to a 1550 satirical Hebrew play that was produced for a Purim carnival in Mantua, Italy, and “is the oldest extant Jewish play,” drawing from both religious stories and Italian dramatic traditions. The script contains a play on words in which one character thinks that the Biblical story of the Israelites eating manna in the dessert is saying that the Israelites ate Haman; another character responds with an interpretation that it must mean that Jews are commanded to eat oznei Haman.

    Rabbi Cheryl Peretz, a dean at the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies of American Jewish University, says by connecting Purim treats to manna, the play, while satirical, resonated with audiences because it touched on an issue that still comes up today of “how you renew customs and traditions in meaningful ways in a contemporary world.”

    Sometime in the 18th or 19th century in Germany and Eastern Europe, a triangular pastry pocket filled with poppy seeds often called Mohntaschen — mohn meaning meaning poppy seed, and tasch meaning pocket — came onto the scene. The word became a pun around Purim: oznei Haman plus mohntaschen created hamantaschen. The name caught on thanks in part to Eliezer Ben?Yehuda, often called the “father of modern Hebrew,” for his efforts to promote the ability to speak the language in the modern world, according to Aaron Panken, President of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion

    Whether the story behind the cookies is based on true historical events depends on whom you ask. Jewish-food guru Joan Nathan, whose next book is the upcoming King Solomon’s Table: A Culinary Exploration of Jewish Cooking From Around the World, notes that the Purim story is based on “history in Iran, then Mesopotamia, in about the 8th century B.C.” and that “Ahasuerus the king might have been based on Xerxes.” Jonathan Brumberg-Kraus, a professor of religion at Wheaton College in Norton, Mass., says that that although the actual story is believed by critical scholars to be fictional, “the setting in the Persian court is historically realistic.”

    The idea of naming a pastry after someone “wicked” is to “turn it into something sweet,” as Peretz explains, who notes that such an instinct is particularly important to some this year as, in her circle, many critics of the Trump administration are “talking about how we’re living through the story of Purim.”

    A more universal interpretation, perhaps, is the central role that pastries and food in general play in Jewish holidays.

    Between the fact that the name hamantaschen is a pun and the carnival atmosphere of Purim festivities, it reflects the best of Jewish humor. The tradition “forged by life in exile and a vital element in dealing with it,” wrote Gil Marks, “particularly manifests itself on Purim, a time when joking and frivolity is encouraged.”

    Jarek: These sound really good. Can gentiles make these too? Or are these only made at Purim? Will Zar make them for the cafe if it can be done without giving offense?

    Iranians are still “our” enemies! We want to eat their ears to soothe our fears. Our colonial forebears wore triangular hats. Hamans?

    • CouchPotatriot July 16, 2024 at 2:33 pm #

      Jarek,

      You’re too smart and yet equally obscure to limit yourself to this blogsite. What is your official domain address and publicly scrutinized body of work to be referenced?

      Whuh, your contribution equivocates to just random remarks made here in the instantly forgettable CFN archives?

      Better yet, aren’t you simply one of JHK’s many talking hemorrhoids to be tolerated, just like me?

      I’m here blowing of steam due to a beloved pet’s need for post-surgery attendance, yet you’ve been here daily for nearly two decades – bestowing your all encompassing Knowledge on a small minority of readers who don’t fucking matter – who are you really?

      Asking for a friend.

      • cowbell81 July 16, 2024 at 2:41 pm #

        “bestowing your all encompassing Knowledge on a small minority of readers who don’t fucking matter” –CouchPotatriot

        Wow, really??? I think we are now heavily being watched and monitored here by the Deep State, especially after the events of last Saturday. Everybody best be most mindful of their p’s and q’s.

        • Jarek July 16, 2024 at 2:51 pm #

          Bravo. We are very important people.

        • Ron Anselmo July 16, 2024 at 4:17 pm #

          Cowbell81 – please stop with the self-censoring bullshit. When you self-censor, their job is done. Get it? Fuck them.

          • Ron Anselmo July 16, 2024 at 4:20 pm #

            “Everybody best be most mindful of their p’s and q’s.” ~ Cowbell81

            ^This^

      • Jarek July 16, 2024 at 3:05 pm #

        Good luck with your pet. They are better than people in so many ways. Hopefully we will regain their purity on a higher turn of the evolutionary spiral.

        • anmariwakaranai July 18, 2024 at 10:04 pm #

          Those pastries are the bomb jar. Last time I was in Vancouver, you could still get one, ONE?, ok a box at Granville Island Market.

          Pretty easy to make though. Frozen pastry, jar of poppie seeds, go!

          Maybe just add honey and cut them to size…..
          Acddictive!

  94. gustafson.robert.22 July 16, 2024 at 1:59 pm #

    Jarek: “So the Deep State wanted to take Trump out and so gave an untrained kid a rifle to do it? Does that make any sense, Gus?

    No, right? Ok, so the kid acted on his own? So why did the Snipers ignore him for several minutes? Who left the ladder there for him?”

    Those aren’t the only two choices. I’m not sure the true Deep State is that threatened by Trump. Maybe mildly, but extremely?

    Why not a more vanilla Democrat semi-organized but small-scale effort? The level of organization that would rely on a weak shooter and weapon.

    The countersnipers may have been waiting for a certainty about who the kid was. The biggest question is the ladder and police presence and reaction at that building, which was involving the local law folks.

    • Jarek July 16, 2024 at 2:18 pm #

      We’re dealing with the future on the world, Gus. This is a matter for pros. But I admit they are not gods, and weird shit happens. But if they had access to Federal snipers, then this was no small thing. The weak shooter was a feint and the ladder a tell.

    • OG July 16, 2024 at 5:23 pm #

      I’m not sure the true Deep State is that threatened by Trump. Maybe mildly, but extremely?

      Hahaha.

  95. Jarek July 16, 2024 at 2:14 pm #

    Barnhardt

    Okay. It was an inside job. Authorities had eyes on their sperg patsy for a HALF HOUR.
    I wonder if the Deep State had someone hold the ladder as he climbed up? I’m only half kidding.

    https://modernity.news/2024/07/15/police-officer-reported-suspicious-behavior-of-gunman-30-nearly-30-minutes-before-shooting/

    “Channel 11’s Nicole Ford confirmed that Beaver County’s ESU team had eight members at the rally, including snipers and spotters. According to Ford’s sources, one of them noticed a suspicious man on a roof near the rally at 5:45 p.m., called it in and took a picture of the person,” states the report.

    Another law enforcement officer saw Crooks on the ground and called in the report with a picture prior to 5:45pm, according to the report.

    So, the DNC has announced that they are essentially conceding the “election” to Trump, all pressure on Biden to quit will cease, and Trump will be “elected” in November.

    And yesterday Trump announced that he will be hard-pivoting to a “unity” platform focused on compromise and splitting the difference on… everything.

    So, the status quo ante shall continue apace.

    Golly, why do I have this overwhelming feeling of being played?

    Exit question: has Trump been a Deep State player all along, OR has the Deep State made it clear that the next time, BARRON won’t be so lucky?

    Welp. We’ll find out. Good and hard, I reckon.

    I sincerely hope that my cynicism is misplaced and that my gut feeling here is just gas.

    Jarek: She’s getting there. But she still thinks he missed or something. As if they would put their future in the hands of a nerd who didn’t make the rifle team. They didn’t put their future in Oswald’s hands – they relied on pros. This time they didn’t want to kill, only make it look like an assassination attempt. So it’s both like and unlike the JFK assassination, right? Now admit it: I’ve lost you. You’ve never trained your mind and you get lost easily. As if things ever repeat exactly.

    Lesser minds wanted to repeat the Biden coup again this time. More mature minds said, Wait a minute. They’re watching. And he’s gone downhill. You want to repeat exactly but things are no longer the same.

    The constant (and there are constants – I’m losing you again, right?) is the use of a “patsy”. The patsy is never trusted to hit or miss. He is a sacrifice. A lamb, a feint.

    So you’ve chosen Trump (he was great on covid so why the hell not?) and you’re going to risk your candidate by giving the kid a real gun and/or real ammo? If Oswald managed to make the shot it would have been fine because they wanted him dead. But they weren’t depending on that, ok? But they didn’t want Trump dead – that’s the difference, ok? So they must have given poor Crooks blanks for ammo. The Baldwin case provides the clues that Satanic ethics require. Or from another pov, letting Baldwin go with this evidence was a magical act that paved the way to success in the Trump false flag to follow. The blanks were the key.

    Who injured and killed the people in the crowd? Who knows? Perhaps the same guy who took down Crooks. I’d say not though. Too obvious. They can muddy the trail better than that.

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    • OG July 16, 2024 at 4:47 pm #

      Thank you.

  96. Paula D July 16, 2024 at 2:35 pm #

    Coagulation, in physiology, the process by which a blood clot is formed. The formation of a clot is often referred to as secondary hemostasis, because it forms the second stage in the process of arresting the loss of blood from a ruptured vessel. The first stage, primary hemostasis, is characterized by blood vessel constriction (vasoconstriction) and platelet aggregation at the site of vessel injury.
    Clotting is a sequential process that involves the interaction of numerous blood components called coagulation factors. There are 13 principal coagulation factors in all, and each of these has been assigned a Roman numeral, I to XIII. Coagulation can be initiated through the activation of two separate pathways, designated extrinsic and intrinsic. Both pathways result in the production of factor X. The activation of this factor marks the beginning of the so-called common pathway of coagulation, which results in the formation of a clot.
    The extrinsic pathway is generally the first pathway activated in the coagulation process and is stimulated in response to a protein called tissue factor, which is expressed by cells that are normally found external to blood vessels. However, when a blood vessel breaks and these cells come into contact with blood, tissue factor activates factor VII, forming factor VIIa, which triggers a cascade of reactions that result in the rapid production of factor X. In contrast, the intrinsic pathway is activated by injury that occurs within a blood vessel. This pathway begins with the activation of factor XII (Hageman factor), which occurs when blood circulates over injured internal surfaces of vessels. Components of the intrinsic pathway also may be activated by the extrinsic pathway; for example, in addition to activating factor X, factor VIIa activates factor IX, a necessary component of the intrinsic pathway. Such cross-activation serves to amplify the coagulation process.
    The production of factor X results in the cleavage of prothrombin (factor II) to thrombin (factor IIa). Thrombin, in turn, catalyzes the conversion of fibrinogen (factor I)—a soluble plasma protein—into long, sticky threads of insoluble fibrin (factor Ia). The fibrin threads form a mesh that traps platelets, blood cells, and plasma. Within minutes, the fibrin meshwork begins to contract, squeezing out its fluid contents. This process, called clot retraction, is the final step in coagulation. It yields a resilient, insoluble clot that can withstand the friction of blood flow.

    • OG Is Nuts July 16, 2024 at 3:04 pm #

      Could you explain how this affects the Trump wound, Paula. Please do it simply; SFB is asking doncha know

      • Jarek July 16, 2024 at 3:07 pm #

        Trump appeared at the Convention with a gauze pad attached by tape. Things you could get at any pharmacy. He’s treating this serious wound himself. What a man!

      • OG July 16, 2024 at 5:09 pm #

        Well, SFB, it means that a tiny cut on the upper ear will take approximately 8 minutes to clot. 8 minutes if pressure is applied throughout, of course.

        “Well, what’s that got to do with anything?” your little brain may dully ponder.

        You see, the Donald’s ear was “shot” with a sniper bullet, bled a significant amount (yet absolutely none on his hand or his white dress shirt collar) and was all clotted up rickety-boo in 1 minute without pressure!

        President Donald J. Trump’s Magic-Bullet Ear

        The Art of the Heal

        ***
        Many of you get so pissed off at me for always being right.

        Remember: I’m irrelevant. It’s those evil fucks doing this bs to us that is the problem here.

        Don’t get your shit in a knot about my arrogance. Eyes on the prize.

        • OG July 16, 2024 at 5:19 pm #

          *tickety-boo

        • OG Is Nuts July 16, 2024 at 7:09 pm #

          That last statement Eyes on the prize is a paraphrase of Scripture . How about this paraphase: Fornicators et al shall not see the Kingdom of God. Of course you don’t believe that fucking your girlfriend without marriage is a form of fornication, do you?

          • OG July 16, 2024 at 7:36 pm #

            Your burning desire to discuss my most personal, private matters is completely unacceptable, SFB. My sex life is not for discussion here, Creepozoid.

            Either quit it or I must ask Site Admin how long I must endure such beyond-the-pale interrogations from an obvious troll.

            ***
            I have no interest in discussing theology with you, SFB. You see, I do not discuss theology with assholes. It’s just one of my things.

            ***
            Typical Zionist shill. Ad hom ad nauseam.

            Of course, back here in the real world, President Donald J. Trump’s Magic-Bullet Ear remains impossible to explain … except, of course, the truth: false flag black op.

            OIN is a distraction while I am irrelevant.

            The evil fucks goofing on us – that’s the topic that needs addressing here.

          • C.O.Jones July 17, 2024 at 8:04 pm #

            I was tempted to say the level of discourse in the CFN comments has certainly taken a turn for the worse but that would be understatement.

            It’s in the toilet.

            Is this the best we can do?

  97. cowbell81 July 16, 2024 at 2:38 pm #

    The Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle actually said that they didn’t put someone on the roof because it was slanted and that made it too dangerous for a Secret Service agent. Unbelievable. She’s obviously beyond incompetent, and criminally negligent, at best.

    Given her level of incompetence as a DEI hire she was probably quite worried someone might fall off the roof and get an ouchy. Don’t you know, slanted roofs are terrible for walking on in high heels!

    • OG July 16, 2024 at 4:39 pm #

      So instead on putting SS on the slanted roof, they left a ladder to it.

      Makes sense … if you’re knee deep in a black op.

    • elysianfield July 16, 2024 at 7:15 pm #

      It looked like a 12/2 pitch. Bitch is history.

      • OG July 16, 2024 at 7:26 pm #

        If by “history,” you mean, “handsomely rewarded for a job well done,” then, yes, she is indeed “history.”

        ***
        “Can’t ya see it, man? They’re goofin’ on us, man! It’s all a giant goof now! It’s all a giant goof.”

      • elysianfield July 16, 2024 at 8:21 pm #

        Saint will back me up on this;

        Fire Captain, “Saint, get up on the ladder and vent that
        roof.”

        Saint replies; “No can do, Cap, it’s a 2/12 pitch…my
        union rep sez…”

        Fire Captain “You’re right…let the damn thing burn…

        • stelmosfire July 17, 2024 at 8:01 am #

          EF, I’ll tell ya. Venting a roof with plywood sheathing and a fire ax is a fools errand. Best thing that ever came down the pike was the chainsaw with carbide chain. Of course the AA hires could never start the damn things. “Hey Big Guy, could you start this saw for me?”

    • malthuss July 16, 2024 at 7:32 pm #

      AA HIRE

  98. getsome July 16, 2024 at 2:49 pm #

    Superb commentary James Howard, per usual.
    So let me get this to where I can digest it; Trump is onstage, awaiting a piece of metal traveling at supersonic speed, to “just” nick his ear – or is it miss entirely and he cuts his ear himself, or the secret service cut it, or Melonia did it before hand and he rips the scab off or……… It does, however KILL a person, but ignore that for now, as you all do.
    How is the timing coordinated? How does trump know where to stand and how to move his head in conjunction with the shooters planned shot? What signal was there (any umbrella opened just before)?
    I’m fairly good with a rifle, much better with pistol. ANY of you fuckheads want to stand
    just 20feet away and let me shoot at your ear?? No?
    The amount of movement from heartbeat, breathing, nervous movement (you) MOST likely results in a fatal wound. From what I’ve just read on your take as this was fake, it would be NO loss at all. Nuff Said.

    • OG Is Nuts July 16, 2024 at 3:09 pm #

      I guess you don’t believe in divine intervention, do you?

    • OG July 16, 2024 at 4:36 pm #

      Uhhh … the “signal” was when Trump turned to his right to look at the over-sized graph.

      The shooter shot no where near Trump.

      Trump then put his right hand to his ear after the shoots … and then removed it BLOODLESS.

      Trump then dove like a gopher.

      SS obliterate all views of him.

      SS put Hollywood fake “blood” on his ear.

      SS stand him up.

      Photo op.

      Bob’s your uncle.

      • OG July 16, 2024 at 4:37 pm #

        Talk about having ZERO imagination. I mean, Geez!

        • OG July 16, 2024 at 7:01 pm #

          Strange. getsome is a published GLT 9.

        • OG Is Nuts July 16, 2024 at 7:16 pm #

          Well ladies and germs you see what OG The Fornicator Believes:

          Uhhh … the “signal” was when Trump turned to his right to look at the over-sized graph.

          The shooter shot no where near Trump.

          Trump then put his right hand to his ear after the shoots … and then removed it BLOODLESS.

          Trump then dove like a gopher.

          SS obliterate all views of him.

          SS put Hollywood fake “blood” on his ear.

          SS stand him up.

          Photo op.

          It’s up to you dear reader to decide whether this soul who’s on his way to the lake of fire is imaginative or just plain nuts.

          What isn’t hard to agree upon is that since he is fucking his girlfriend without the benefit of marriage he is a fornicator in clear Biblical terms. Now you can believe what the Bible says or not, But OG the Fornicator claims he does. Either he can’t admit that he is a fornicator as well as a nut bar or he really doesn’t believe that He is a Christian and that “Christians” can still fornicate at see the kingdom of God. Repent OG or you might find yourself looking for your shoes someday

          • OG Is Nuts July 16, 2024 at 7:17 pm #

            * really DOES believe

          • OG July 16, 2024 at 7:22 pm #

            Your faux concern for my soul is creepy, SFB.

            ***
            Regardless of me, Trump is in on it.

  99. Jarek July 16, 2024 at 2:54 pm #

    Rep Mike Kelly

    This flag was flying during President Trump’s Butler rally. You’ll see that it’s not the effort of man, but an effort of nature. The full American flag was twisted by the wind into this angelic shape with stars on one wing and stripes on the other. A truly divine creation.

    Jarek: You dumb Mick. It’s a Blood Eagle. The screaming cry of a great Warburg. Take a look, volks. We’re going to be the blood eagle in the Viking sense. We’ll be the sacrifice to Odin that enables a future for White children.

    • SoftStarLight July 16, 2024 at 3:14 pm #

      like, what’s happening right now lol

      • Jarek July 16, 2024 at 3:54 pm #

        Opposites often sound the same. White children are being sacrificed to the dark gods of pleasure and ideology or even literally sacrificed to Satan.

        The Death of America will put an end to much of this. “Odin” was just part of my metaphor but of course many of us, including children, will die in the conflagration.

        Trump said he would end the war in Ukraine before taking office. So we’ll know soon enough if I’m right or not. Hope I’m not. Or maybe he will because the Elite have come to their senses and want to concentrate on Iran or something. In that case, it will all come to the same thing.

        • OG Is Nuts July 16, 2024 at 7:18 pm #

          Care to quote chapter and verse to back yourself up, Jarek?

        • SoftStarLight July 17, 2024 at 3:20 am #

          the heckler’s veto has worked. Maybe the attempt was a humiliation ritual as you alluded to before. But something is not right.

    • chola3 July 16, 2024 at 8:16 pm #

      I read A.Anglin too. Only guy I trust to tell what is in his mind.

      But even before reading him, I know it is a drama.

      First the dementia guy doing the fuhrer speech. Now the stale IwoJima stuff by a business man whose argument with Hillary was whether to deal with Russia or Iran first.

      Now “providence” has helped Trump live for greater purpose.

      Only thing i can think of is, Republicans are going to line up for their destiny in Ukraine and Levant.

      You think the ruskies and the Aryans of Iran have not anticipated something like this?

      Whitey will face his destiny: FAB3000.

  100. MrMangoOnMyShoulder July 16, 2024 at 3:20 pm #

    What a fucking mess. More to come, sadly.

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    • SoftStarLight July 16, 2024 at 3:30 pm #

      i know its really crazy! Have you ever experienced a moment where you felt like maybe your perception or your reality was totally divergent from everyone else’ and so you started having a little panic attack?

  101. MrMangoOnMyShoulder July 16, 2024 at 3:20 pm #

    Getting close to “Katy, Bar The Door.”

  102. cowbell81 July 16, 2024 at 4:19 pm #

    Wow! I think the Congressional Committee needs to investigate actress Lea DeLaria in light of her comments jake leading up to the attempted assassination:

    httpsXX://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics-news/lea-delaria-biden-assassinate-trump-1235937794/

  103. malthuss July 16, 2024 at 4:20 pm #

    J A R E K
    beside supporting Israel, supporting Zelensky and being in office the
    lockdown, what else does he like or would do that is bad?

    • malthuss July 16, 2024 at 5:55 pm #

      what is wrong with Trumps policies?

  104. OG July 16, 2024 at 4:26 pm #

    Honestly, OG, how does it feel to have someone chase you around like you have been doing forever.
    – JAZ

    It’s hardly the same, JAZ. I often argue what you post with facts, logic and analysis while OIN is nothing more than a transparent troll.

    • OG July 16, 2024 at 4:31 pm #

      And, like I posted yesterday, him having the handle OG Is Nuts is kick-ass mad respect!

      • Jarek July 16, 2024 at 5:00 pm #

        If I met a girl with that tattooed on her body, I’d suspect the worst and extricate myself from the situation.

        • OG July 16, 2024 at 5:10 pm #

          Interesting.

          • OG July 16, 2024 at 5:16 pm #

            I was thinking that maybe the CIA’s AI flagged me and ‘OG Is Nuts’ was sent here to stomp me down. I’m paranoid like that.

            The more he posts, though, I can’t believe he made CIA.

            He’s pretty much 100% focused on two divorced 59 year-olds sharing some companionship.

            He’s obviously none too bright.

    • OG Is Nuts July 16, 2024 at 7:20 pm #

      So I’m a troll for pointing out you’re a FORNICATOR, OG?

      • OG July 16, 2024 at 7:46 pm #

        No. You’re a troll for constantly pointing out that I’m a FORNICATOR, SFB.

        Enough already. We’ve got your point. You believe that my love of my gf will damn me to Hell while I believe that God may forgive me of my sins and have my name in His glorious Book of Life.

        Perhaps you are right. Perhaps I am. Regardless, I don’t want to discuss my sex life with you any more. Anything short of that is trolling, right Site Admin?

        ***
        SFB – Let’s hear about your sins.

  105. cowbell81 July 16, 2024 at 4:50 pm #

    Haven’t heard much about security threats at the RNC convention, but someone was apparently shot to death:

    httpsXX://nypost.com/2024/07/16/us-news/police-shoot-suspect-armed-with-knives-near-rnc-sources/

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  106. OG July 16, 2024 at 6:11 pm #

    “Let me get my shoes.”
    – DJT [70 seconds after being “shot”]

    What sense does that make? I heard one reporter say, “The shot must’ve knocked his shoes off.”

    Huh?

    ***
    Since it makes no sense whatsoever as to how/why his shoes weren’t still on his feet … I suspect that him saying that was some masonic signal.

    • Soul Forensics July 16, 2024 at 9:55 pm #

      In OG’s disordered mind, “let me get my shoes” equals “masonic signal”.

      The ghost of Ray Walston called. He’d like his antenna back.

      • Soul Forensics July 16, 2024 at 10:00 pm #

        But I can’t keep these stories straight. That wasn’t Trump anyway, according to OG, since he was fake Trump with the pulled down cap and unbuttoned white shirt.

        So what happened to fake Trump? Did they just drive/fly him home, with a nice bonus for a well-acted fist pump? And which Trump landed in NJ that night? Have the Bitchute boys worked those details out yet?

        • Soul Forensics July 16, 2024 at 10:10 pm #

          Many years ago, the newspaper did a feature on a guy from my home city who was a dead ringer for Steve McQueen. Story was under his photo — black leather jacket, and sitting astride a motorcycle.

          If OG’s fake Trump is a thing, what I thought about ringer McQueen is the same for how I feel about a possible fake Trump: what the hell is the actor (Trump) doing risking his life for a few grand when he could be banging babes every night at any red state nightclub?

          These are questions the Bitchute super-journalists never seem to ask.

          • OG July 17, 2024 at 12:12 am #

            Fake Trump never risked his life in that fake assassination attempt, SF.

            Your strawmen are lameass.

      • OG July 16, 2024 at 10:13 pm #

        I suspect does not equal “equals.” D’uh!

        Reading comprehension is not your strong suit. Obviously.

        FYI – Masonics are all about shoe symbolism. Search out “red shoes” if you dare.

        ***
        I don’t know where the fake Trump goes when he’s on the bench. I’ve no idea.

        It’s the real Trump at the RNC. D’uh!

        I told you before Butler: you can always tell the fake Trump by his open buttoned white dress shirt and a red MAGA pulled down low on his brow.

        It’s not that difficult to keep these stories straight. Perhaps you’re none too bright, SF.

        • Soul Forensics July 16, 2024 at 11:26 pm #

          What’s to stop Real Trump from unbuttoning his shirt and wearing a ballcap?

          • Soul Forensics July 16, 2024 at 11:34 pm #

            Fake Trump is a mason? Why would TPTB want an actor to know too much? As an insider who’s not really “one of them”, he could spill the beans.

            Maybe Fake Trump just has a shoe fetish. Shades of Imelda Marcos. First thing he thinks of after that tense, elaborate hoax is — “I need a shoe change!”.

            Maybe it IS a Maxwell Smart op. (I was onto something.) The ole shoe phone! (“What’s that, Chief?”)

          • OG July 17, 2024 at 12:10 am #

            Real Trump never wears a white shirt unbuttoned (no tie) and red MAGA cap pulled low on his brow because that would screw up the comms.

            ***
            You’re really not very good at this, SF. Actors read lines. They could easily tell fake Trump to say that bit about his shoes without him knowing too much. You know … a script.

            D’uh!

            Or maybe fake Trump is a mason. I don’t know.

            ***
            You deflect like crazy … but, when you’re finally done attacking me, we still have “Let me get my shoes.” to deal with. That happened no matter how little you respect my methods.

          • Soul Forensics July 17, 2024 at 1:58 am #

            “Real Trump never wears a white shirt unbuttoned (no tie) and red MAGA cap pulled low on his brow because that would screw up the comms.”– OG

            What are “the comms”?

            Maxwell Smart: “Missed me by that much.”

            Why would a bit time actor (with a latex mask on a hot day? and how does one project a loud voice for an hour through that, and still sound like Trump?) who just has to deliver a few speeches need to be a mason? You said it, not me, so your equivocating is another flip flop (quote below):

            “Or maybe fake Trump is a mason. I don’t know.” — OG

            So which is it? He gives a masonic code quote — “get my shoes”, which you originally said was a Masonic tip off. And now you’re saying “maybe”.

            How’s this. “Maybe” you should stick to one story for more than half an hour.

  107. Greg July 16, 2024 at 6:33 pm #

    During the Republican Convention, I’d love to hear a suitably updated version of a joke that was told at the RC of 1968, when it was Nixon vs Humphrey. Johnson, who defeated Goldwater in 1964, had announced earlier in 1968 that he would not seek re-election. Here was the joke (paraphrasing):

    “They said that if I voted for Goldwater, there’d be riots in the streets, we’d be mired in a terrible foreign war, the economy would be in shambles. Well, I did vote for Goldwater, and sure enough…(crowd bursts into laughter)

  108. OG July 16, 2024 at 6:59 pm #

    People be like, “He’s right! There’s absolutely no way that Trump’s ear bled that much and then clotted and stopped all in one minute. It is impossible. It is ridiculous. We are being lied to. If we’re being lied to about this, then …”

    [RED ALERT!!! RED ALERT!!!

    DANGEROUS REALIZATION!!!

    “Commence rational thought shutdown, Captain?”

    “Yes! Rational thought shutdown immediately!”]

    “That OG sure is arrogant and annoying! I sure hope Trump saves us from those awful Democrats. Oh good! Cheetos are on sale again next week! I need to find a really good GIPHY to properly portray my love of Cheetos.”

  109. OG Is Nuts July 16, 2024 at 7:06 pm #

    I was thinking that maybe the CIA’s AI flagged me and ‘OG Is Nuts’ was sent here to stomp me down. I’m paranoid like that.

    The more he posts, though, I can’t believe he made CIA.

    He’s pretty much 100% focused on two divorced 59 year-olds sharing some companionship.

    He’s obviously none too bright.

    If you’re fucking the other 59 year old OG you’re committing fornication. Then again you don’t believe the Bible so why should you heed this counseling as required by Galatians 6:1.

    • OG July 16, 2024 at 7:15 pm #

      Whatever, Dude. Your burning interest in my bedroom has gotten downright creepy.

      You’ve did your best, brother. You’ve made we clearly aware of Gallatians 6:1. You did all that you could and I thank you for your concern for my soul, brother.

      As always, I will make my own decisions from here on out.

      You have done all that you can. It is now time to move on.

      ***
      Judge not, that ye be not judged.
      – Matthew 7:1

      So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.
      – John 8:7

      • OG July 16, 2024 at 7:17 pm #

        Oh … and … Bibi-gun the Nutty Yahoo ran 10/7 as a false flag black op to justify his horrific war crimes.

        ***
        Let us pray for his corrupted soul.

      • OG Is Nuts July 16, 2024 at 7:28 pm #

        Like all your other pronouncements OG The Fornicator, you’re a hypocrite as well as a nut bar. You claim that you’re a Biblical Christian, and yet when confronted with a besetting sin that the Bible clearly states is something that someone who is truly saved would not engage in…you laught it off through deflection. 2 Corinthians 13:5: Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?2 Peter 1:10-11Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:

        For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ

        • OG July 16, 2024 at 7:41 pm #

          I never laught [sic] anything off or deflected anything, SFB. I simply told you to mind your own fucking business, sinner.

  110. OG Is Nuts July 16, 2024 at 7:37 pm #

    Your faux concern for my soul is creepy, SFB.

    ***
    Regardless of me, Trump is in on it.

    Creepy or not OG your continued fornication is clear evidence you’re not a Christian. Your refusal to acknowledge your behavior is a sin, repent and either marry the woman or stop fornicating with her is ,proof positive that you were never washed in the the blood of the lamb. Now I won’t pretend that this blog is exclusively populated by born again Bible believing Christians but there are some. If they know the Bible and believe it they’ll agree with me that OG is not only a nutjob but Biblically speaking will never see Heaven. You’ll have to make the choice if someone who’s wrong about his soul is right about his interpretation of the latest “events”

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    • OG July 16, 2024 at 7:39 pm #

      Ummm … Christians sin, dipshit. If Christ only chose those who did not sin, He’d be lonely.

      • OG Is Nuts July 16, 2024 at 9:07 pm #

        You are are a fornicator. I Corinthians 6:9-10 says, “Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God” An unrigheous person is a not a Christian. A fornicator is unrighteous. You are a fornicator. Therefore you are an unrighteous person as well as a nutbar and will not inherit the kingdom of God. Why not call Paul the Apostle who penned that verse a dipshit? Too bad you won’t get the chance to because you’re destined to spend eternity in the lake of fire. I hear they’ll be plenty of conspiracy theorists there so you’ll not lack for company. I’m sure you and Alex Jones will be having a “gay old time”

        • OG July 16, 2024 at 9:21 pm #

          Why not call Paul the Apostle who penned that verse a dipshit?

          Umm … because he’s not trolling me on CFN. D’uh!

          ***
          You’ve made your point. You believe that my healthy, monogamous relationship with my gf will damn me to Hell. Got it. Anything else?

          ***
          What about your sins, dipshit? Methinks we’ve got a pot-kettle sitch going on.

          You know that your name appears in His glorious Book of Life, do ya? How could you know that? Especially with your lifetime of sinning? Don’t be so sure, dipshit.

          Wouldn’t it be ironic if you were in … until you started trolling me?

  111. OG July 16, 2024 at 7:52 pm #

    “OG fornicates, therefore Trump’s ear really could clot in only one minute and without pressure.”

    I see what you did there.

    • OG Is Nuts July 16, 2024 at 9:09 pm #

      Oh God won’t condemn you being a nutbar, OG. There’ll be plenty of nutbars in Heaven. I see you admit you fornicate. That’s a good first step. Now either marry her and explain to her why continued fucking puts your soul in mortal danger. I’m SURE she’s a Christian and will understand.

      • OG July 16, 2024 at 9:11 pm #

        Or … you fuck off and mind your own bee’s wax.

        • OG July 16, 2024 at 9:12 pm #

          Regardless, I can be a sinner AND provide useful facts, logic and analysis. D’uh!

    • MiTurn July 18, 2024 at 6:32 pm #

      I propose that the Admin remove both OG and OG is nuts.

      Enough already people. Go duke it out elsewhere.

  112. CouchPotatriot July 16, 2024 at 8:24 pm #

    “Wow, really??? I think we are now heavily being watched and monitored here by the Deep State, especially after the events of last Saturday. Everybody best be most mindful of their p’s and q’s.” -Cowbell

    Ma’am, I hope to unequivocally assure you that EVERY social media user for at least the last 20 years is actively being monitored, surveilled, profiled, and screened as to their potential threat level to The Powers That Be.

    Sock puppets aren’t merely a pejorative means for dismissing a disagreeable or unsavory interlocutor, they are a necessity for identifying threats to said Deep State.

    The shitheads here who always talk past their targeted adversary and always decline to engage point-for-point are a dead giveaway of sock puppetry.

    If you’re not someway mentally retarded – then sincerely ask yourself – why wouldn’t a diligent authoritarian entity or well paid Nanny seek to get the jump on any problematic shenanigans which could potentially dismantle The Operation?

    What’s the point of a sheep dog if the sheep were capable of defending themselves from wolves?

    Btw, do you ever bother to read the constantly updated privacy terms and marketing intentions associated with your unquestionably “permitted” everyday use of “free” web technology? I thought not.

    Click – register – confirm identity – forget. Sleep. Pay any Federal taxes lately? Idme.gov already gots your deets, and you had no choice but to comply.

    There are at least two agents – at minimum – occupying this blog and gauging, profiling, anticipating, and calculating the ramifications of statements made here.

    The obscure and ever twirling dialogic engagements between certain commentators on CFN are obvious proof of the types of psychological, likely predictive evaluations underway.

    But – Cowbell – If you’re not personally doing anything wrong or planning anything malicious – what do you have to worry about anyhow?

    Peace and comfort unto you – my fellow couchpotatriot.

    • OG Is Nuts July 16, 2024 at 9:14 pm #

      There are at least two agents – at minimum – occupying this blog and gauging, profiling, anticipating, and calculating the ramifications of statements made here. OOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHH another nutjob unsubstantiated statement.

      Ma’am, I hope to unequivocally assure you that EVERY social media user for at least the last 20 years is actively being monitored, surveilled, profiled, and screened as to their potential threat level to The Powers That Be.

      And what pray tell do you base your unequivocally assurance? Loose tooth filing? Rattling aluminium foil in the backround?

      • OG July 16, 2024 at 9:22 pm #

        You are a very rude and silly person.

      • CouchPotatriot July 16, 2024 at 9:33 pm #

        Really bruh?

        You set your sights on me? You can’t imagine the probability that agents are checking this blog? – let alone the broader webosphere for threats?

        It doesn’t get any dumber than that, yet – YOU as a matter of CFN record – surely can’t be easily dismissed as dumb.

        Hey my guy, if you’re a bit drunk and just wanna take a wild swing – I’ll forgive ya and take a knock to the nugget. I’m your friend even if you don’t want me to be.

        But if you ain’t got nothin’ betta than the slobbery slur you led with, hit the mattress my dude – she’ll luv ya despite the pissy sheets.

        • stelmosfire July 17, 2024 at 8:15 am #

          I hear that the NSA monitors all electronic communications and keeps tabs on all of us from their giant info center in Utah. I don’t think they do. Just paranoia. Why all the hoopla about trying to crack the shooters phone? Which took them days. They could of just pulled up his data card and read it in minutes.

          • OG July 17, 2024 at 12:13 pm #

            “If the bad guys really are doing what Edward Snowden assures us that they are doing, then they’d’ve blown their cover to frame their patsy. Pretty sure.”

            I’m not sure that I like your police work, there elmo.

  113. OG Is Nuts July 16, 2024 at 9:15 pm #

    This blog is living proof that Occam’s Razor should be the 11th Commandment.

    • OG July 16, 2024 at 9:23 pm #

      Free speech. What’re ya gonna do?

  114. Paula D July 16, 2024 at 9:24 pm #

    This is the best roundup of Things That Make You Go Hmmmm that I have found.

    I learned things that I didn’t know, like that Jill Biden and Kamala Harris both scheduled events in Penn the same day, and the most experienced SS agents were pulled for them.

    I also learned that the cops had seen the shooter 30 minutes before the event, but then “lost him”.

    It reminded me of Boston after the Marathon bombing, when they shut down the entire city to look for one armed teenager. Because, you know, ”safety”.

    But an armed 20 y.o. is seen 30 minutes before a political rally involving a man whose death has been called for for 8 years, but they lose him, so security shrugs its collective shoulders and says “Meh”?

    ://arngrimr.substack.com/p/trump-assassination-attempt-separating

    • OG July 16, 2024 at 9:33 pm #

      The authorities bungling up everything (but being so darn loveable) is as American as roasting Lahainaians.

    • gustafson.robert.22 July 16, 2024 at 10:15 pm #

      The authorities are screwing up, intentionally or not here,

      but these reports of Crooks acting suspiciously 30 minutes before the shooting also point to gross incompetence on Crooks’ part. He only succeeded in getting shots off by some act of God, or malfeasance.

      How does his being spotted 30 minutes before make this seem like MORE of an inside job? Even if he was some intended patsy, he almost muffed that role irrevocably, it would seem. How does that fit with any very organized plotting?

      • OG July 16, 2024 at 10:24 pm #

        They’re all in on it, Gus. They have Masonic lodges and members everywhere. The Masons run everything.

        Crooks did exactly what they needed from him. No more and no less.

        The plot was carefully crafted. They haven’t pulled off such a spectacle since 9/11/2001. Almost 23 years. Every detail is planned and all contingencies are in place.

        They are not bumbling idiots as we’re asked to believe, Gus. That’s just their cover. Really, they are the very best of the very best at running black ops.

      • Paula D July 17, 2024 at 10:19 am #

        How does holding the event even after their cover was blown point to incompetence?

        The patsy doesn’t have to be a mastermind. It’s obviously better if he isn’t.

        But the fact that he screwed up and showed himself, and the official response was “Carry on”, proves that they were in on it, imo.

        And they clearly got away with the plot, even if they didn’t manage to kill Trump. Shit happens. He turned his head at just the right time.

        But they released their FUD and their bodyguard of lies, and it is all working as intended, even if Trump is still alive.

        If people here are swearing that Trump planned to be shot at, but was sure the shooter would miss, and had a pack of ketchup handy…..then you know that the assassination plot may have failed, but the coverup is going as planned.

        • gustafson.robert.22 July 17, 2024 at 10:28 am #

          It seems like a plot involving the PA police units is possible. But it doesn’t seem to me like the Secret Service guys were necessarily involved, or that this could have been a top-notch plot because the shot from that distance was easy. It seems like Crooks was the actual shooter.

          How do you I explain the choice of shooter and the miss, Paula?

        • gustafson.robert.22 July 17, 2024 at 10:35 am #

          Do you see it as a small-time plot, or some full deep state operation?

        • Paula D July 18, 2024 at 1:32 pm #

          Crooks is their usual choice for a patsy. Young, lonely, bullied at school, awkward, and I wouldn’t be surprised if he was on SSRI drugs, considering his parents.

          Perfect patsy. But I think there was probably another shooter. They wouldn’t want to rely on the boy.

          But Trump turned his head and the shot missed. I doubt that was part of the plan. I think they meant to kill him.

          Did you read the article I linked? A woman who sells merchandise at every Trump rally arrived on Friday to set up, and noticed immediately that there was something different. She says that usually they block all line-of-sight options with objects, like cranes. But she assumed they would fix that on Sat. They didn’t

          Pulling his usual SS detail, allowing a clear shot, claiming that they delegated the sniper building to the local cops, allowing an armed man to wander around for 30 minutes, ignoring the people screaming that there was a sniper on the roof, allowing Trump to continue speaking….no, this was not incompetence, this was a set-up, imo.

          And it had to be the deep state, not the local cops, because the whole “His SS detail needed pulling because they were tired and Jill Biden and Kamala Harris also had gigs in Penn” narrative could not have been pulled off by local cops.

          Also, it is the job of the SS, not local cops, to protect the president and secure the scene.

          If there is a protocol, and the protocol is always followed, and then one time it is not followed and a “lone nut” is allowed to shoot because the protocol was not followed, how can anyone say it was ”incompetence”?
          Incompetence is when they don’t know how to do things right, not when they know, but they don’t.

          • Ron Anselmo July 18, 2024 at 10:37 pm #

            Nice, Paula. Thank you. See? We’re not doomed.

  115. OG Is Nuts July 16, 2024 at 9:35 pm #

    Actually, OG, it was a reenactment of the earlier flag raising to provide a photo op.

    We all wish The iconic photograph of the flag-raising on Iwo Jima was not staged. On February 23, 1945, during the Battle of Iwo Jima, six Marines planted the U.S. flag at the summit of Mount Suribachi. Journalist Joe Rosenthal captured this moment, which became famous worldwide. However, what many people don’t realize is that this photo shows the second flag raised that day. The first flag was raised earlier by a 40-man combat patrol led by 1st Lt. Harold G. Schrier. They carried a U.S. flag taken from the USS Missoula, and it was raised around 10:30 a.m. local time. So, while the photo is real, it depicts the second flag-raising on Iwo Jima.

    Go home and get your shinebox you dumb Wop

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    • CouchPotatriot July 16, 2024 at 9:56 pm #

      “Blahh-budda-blubuhduhhh” – OG’s impersonator Is Nuts.

      Go to bed, mah reggin.

  116. Q. Shtik July 16, 2024 at 9:52 pm #

    Excuse me, I’m watching the Repub Convention, with the sound muted. I try never to listen to politicians. At the moment I’m seeing one speaker after another kiss Trump on his brown eye while not long ago they were never-Trumpers. It’s rather sickening.

    • CouchPotatriot July 16, 2024 at 10:15 pm #

      Go to bed, gramps.

      Be grateful that you will not have to endure what’s coming.

      Muting – or covering your ears while repeating Happy Words – is fukin’ childish.

      Spend your limited time remaining – Anal Retentively – pointing out my typo *errerrs. Find solace in your happy space. Freezer meat.

      • Q. Shtik July 18, 2024 at 9:46 pm #

        Go to bed, gramps. – Couch

        ========

        I love the word gramps and the way you have used it…dripping with contempt. No other Grandfather-derived word: Grandpa, Grandad, Grandpop, can give off that pejorative sense like gramps. Gramps is always invoked with contempt. One doesn’t lovingly call their Grandfather gramps.

    • Q. Shtik July 16, 2024 at 10:52 pm #

      Also, the square white thing on Trump’s ear looks reedik.

      Uh, wait a minute, Rubio just came on to French kiss Trump’s bunghole. I assume all these speakers are auditioning for cabinet positions.

    • SoftStarLight July 17, 2024 at 2:59 am #

      Why are you torturing yourself, Q? Are you a masochist lol?

  117. gustafson.robert.22 July 16, 2024 at 10:28 pm #

    Trump looks like an absolute effeminate dork in that monster, for-the-cameras ear bandage.

    • CouchPotatriot July 16, 2024 at 10:39 pm #

      Gus,

      Did Brand Trump ever *genuinely* encapsulate the image of noble masculinity and heroic triumph?

      I grew up, thankfully, with mentors who did – Trump doesn’t even come one inch close to their understated legacies.

  118. vengeur July 16, 2024 at 11:12 pm #

    Wow! Some really brave macho guys here!!! If THEY were a former President who got shot at and it grazed their ear, THEY wouldn’t even wear an bandage! I’m impressed!! LOL!

    • CouchPotatriot July 16, 2024 at 11:26 pm #

      Pffffffttttttt….

      Fukin’ dork.

    • gustafson.robert.22 July 16, 2024 at 11:37 pm #

      The fist pump was pretty badass, and he’s already ruined it with this ear cast.

      • gustafson.robert.22 July 16, 2024 at 11:38 pm #

        The fist pump was pretty SUPREMELY badass, I meant to type.

      • CouchPotatriot July 17, 2024 at 12:07 am #

        An ear cast?

        Whut a fukin’ bitch move.

        UFC fighters walk around with ugly ass swollen cauliflower ear like a badge of honor.

        Further proof that Brand Trump is a PR stunt no matter the circumstances.

        And yes, he most definitely got shot/grazed, no ketchup packets involved.

        The fist pump photo op is akin to a fame junkie recognizing a quick opportunity to fly a cardboard sign outside of Wal-Mart, only to capture the split-second attention of a gullible do-gooder willing to contribute frivolous donations.

        Never make eye contact with the cardboard sign-holding junkies.

        • OG July 17, 2024 at 12:20 am #

          And yes, he most definitely got shot/grazed, no ketchup packets involved.

          A ludicrous claim followed by a strawman.

          A minor cut on an outer ear can be expected to clot in 8 minutes with constant pressure.

          Trump’s ear bled enough for what we were all shown … but clotted up tickety-boo in 1 minute without pressure!

          Minor clip: 8 minutes w/ pressure

          Gunshot wound: 1 minute w/ no pressure

          “I don’t like your police work very much, there ‘tater.”

          • CouchPotatriot July 17, 2024 at 12:46 am #

            OG,

            I wasn’t pickin’ on you personally. Why the funk are you startin’ crap again with me?

            I have a different opinion than you. I don’t think you lesser for believing otherwise – even though I say sarcastic shit in opposition.

            I may verbally wound you but would never physically harm you for your position.

            I simply don’t agree with the same story you prefer.

            Believe what you want.

            Beers my friend.

          • OG July 17, 2024 at 11:01 am #

            It’s not personal, CP. I like ya just fine … and would gladly have a zero-alcohol soda water with a lime while you enjoyed a brewski.

            But the physical world doesn’t just run on feelings.

            Your “ketchup packets” strawman and Trump’s magic-bullet ear need addressing as we seek the truth of 7/13.

            You blithely claiming that his ear bled that amount and then magically clotted in a minute is ridiculous. And to do so with such certainty is truly atrocious police work (notwithstanding your feelings).

            You just say, “I have every right to believe that his ear bled that much but then perfectly clotted (without pressure, mind you) in one minute” like it is, “I can cheer for the San Diego Padres if I like!”

            The truth matters, CP.

            ***
            So … either explain Trump’s seemingly impossible The Art of the Heal or admit that your theory, delivered with such certainty and a tacked-on ridiculous strawman, has a giant, unexplained hole in it.

            The truth matters.

          • JohnAZ July 17, 2024 at 12:54 pm #

            CP, you do not have to. OGs hypothesis has no credibility at all. I have already shown info about bullets cauterizing wounds, which OG promptly ignored.

        • stelmosfire July 17, 2024 at 9:55 am #

          “UFC fighters walk around with ugly ass swollen cauliflower ear like a badge of honor.”

          Yea , I hear those knarly things are real chick magnets.

      • SoftStarLight July 17, 2024 at 2:54 am #

        lol, ear cast

  119. CouchPotatriot July 17, 2024 at 9:15 am #

    “I hear that the NSA monitors all electronic communications and keeps tabs on all of us from their giant info center in Utah. I don’t think they do. Just paranoia. Why all the hoopla about trying to crack the shooters phone? Which took them days. They could of just pulled up his data card and read it in minutes.” – Saint Mo

    We learned from Eddie Snowden that the NSA data mines and sweeps up EVERYTHING, only to sift and sort as red flags or intriguing factoids are identified. In general, the data means pretty much nothing unless a certain marketing directive or social messaging angle is used to weaponize or interpret it.

    I have no idea how sophisticated or refined their ability has become to make retroactive assessments or predictive analyses about this, that, and the other, but I believe it’s infinitely naive to dismiss their interest in collecting such data as simple paranoia.

    If fact, it’s in their top interest to make data collection as discrete an non-stimulating as possible; however, in recent years I’ve noticed how obvious it’s become that every personal access and interaction with the World Wide Web is gate kept (i.e., subscription based, COOKIED, encrypted, two-step verified, etcetera, etcetera.)

    Virtually every website I use today requires me to accept the monitoring of my actions. I have the illusion of choosing which cookies to accept or reject, but not really because there are “strictly necessary” cookies I cannot unselect.

    To your point, I don’t disagree that the NSA cannot yet predict exactly when you’re going to fart – but that you will eventually fart due to your specific dietary habits and body chemistry is very useful information for darkly motivated fart sniffers.

    • stelmosfire July 17, 2024 at 9:50 am #

      I wonder how much difference using a VPN and Tor browser makes?

      On a different note I see Potatohead is proposing a bill to put term limits on the SCOTUS. I propose that in the same bill there will be term limits imposed on all the Congress critters. ZOOM!! Well that bill ain’t passin’.

      • JohnAZ July 17, 2024 at 12:48 pm #

        Term limits do not exist for other judicial positions. You know why? Because they are not to be swayed by short term political bullshit, that is why. Judges are supposed to be unbiased supervisors of the judicial system, not the bunch of quacks we have all over the country.

        Putting term limits on will just destroy what little credibility the judicial system has.

        • JohnAZ July 17, 2024 at 12:49 pm #

          Yeah, what you said about Congress.

      • ZrCrypDiK July 17, 2024 at 3:59 pm #

        You know, I mangled to walk to the corner store this morning, and I swear all I thought was about the snipers on every corner… Good thing I’m whitey mcwhitester – literally 99.9999% white. But I always hoped I had sum indigenous blood…

    • JohnAZ July 17, 2024 at 12:51 pm #

      Think if they are using AI to do their data searches. They could monitor every web site in the world, real time.

  120. CouchPotatriot July 17, 2024 at 10:24 am #

    “I wonder how much difference using a VPN and Tor browser makes?” – Saint Mo

    Good question, and I must admit I have no idea what a Tor browser even is and am too goddamn damn lazy to look it up.

    My ignorant ass opinion is that a VPN is just the new “must have” anti virus software.

    I’ve always played the game and purchased a new Webroot subscription or something similar for, gosh, as long as I’ve been using a computer. The software almost never detects a virus or hack attempt.

    On the rare occasion it does, I never really have any clue about the nature or origin of the reported threat or attack. Again, I’m too stupid and lazy to spend the time to investigate such things.

    Parallel to this, Microsoft no longer allows me to access *my* computer or One Drive files without submitting a pass key before I can even see my frickin’ desktop interface. I don’t even own my outlook email archive. They tell me so in frequent updates to Terms and Conditions regarding their interest in protecting my privacy – Ha!

    And talk about paranoia – after I wrote my earlier post today mentioning ID.me – I received a junk email from ID.me.gov. I don’t actually remember ever receiving contact from The Entity since the time I had to register and submit to the biometric scan to complete my tax return a couple years ago. Should I spooked? Are they sending me a subtle message?

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    • cowbell81 July 17, 2024 at 10:37 am #

      That is always creepy when you mention something and then a short time later get an e-mail or other pop-up advertising for it. This has happened to me before. I have since disabled all Internet use and connections from my cell phone so that it can now only be used to make phone calls, send text messages, and take pictures.

      As for the Tor system, from what I recall an Internet savvy friend telling me about it, Tor is the ideal method for engaging on the dark web. That is where you can really start to get your freak on!

      • CouchPotatriot July 17, 2024 at 10:58 am #

        “I have since disabled all Internet use and connections from my cell phone so that it can now only be used to make phone calls, send text messages, and take pictures.” – Cowbell

        Good onya, lady! It takes tremendous discipline to do such a thing, and sadly because of what I do for a living I can’t divorce myself from using mobile internet.

        Unfortunately, it’s not just a convenience I can live without. My phone always knows where I am, even when I don’t.

        Funny comment about the Dark Web, btw, yet another phenomenon about which I know nothing. Enjoy your day, miss.

        • CouchPotatriot July 17, 2024 at 11:33 am #

          “Your “ketchup packets” strawman and Trump’s magic-bullet ear need addressing as we seek the truth of 7/13.” – OG

          How is your blood gel packet absent any physical evidence and the cleverly rationalized blood clot controversy somehow a superior level of detective work?

          I definitely want to see Trump’s naked ear post-event photos/video. Call me kinky. But even that can be doctored.

          If Trump is indeed in on the PR stunt – why wouldn’t he just pay a doctor to gently anesthetize him and take a hole punch to his ear? We’re never going to reach 100 percent certainty about anything.

          OG, I have to admit that I initially was skeptical about the blood and considered the claims within the two videos that I noticed you shared, but the two clowns speculating about “what really happened” cited no substantive evidence and their cynical interpretations didn’t stand scrutiny.

          I want to believe you, OG – show me more credible discourse please.

          You yourself make strong rhetorical claims – periodically – and because you’re a trained writer – likely an ID.me.gov agent – but you fuck up a lot too – possibly on purpose – not that I care much for pedantry.

          Enjoy your shift my friend. I gotta bail to Canon City to meet a client pretty soon, and I still haven’t watered the garden or given my stinky little dogs a bath. Chiweenies.

          • OG July 17, 2024 at 11:55 am #

            How is your blood gel packet absent any physical evidence and the cleverly rationalized blood clot controversy somehow a superior level of detective work?

            Ummm … because it matches reality while your certainty is in something that does not.

            ***
            If Trump is indeed in on the PR stunt – why wouldn’t he just pay a doctor to gently anesthetize him and take a hole punch to his ear?

            “Your honour, do not look at the evidence of what has transpired. Surely if my client were guilty, he’d’ve committed a far better crime than the one he has … er … is accused of.”

            Why, on God’s green earth, would Trump intentionally mutilate himself when goofing on the public is their main m.o. anyway?

            ***
            I want to believe you, OG – show me more credible discourse please.

            This happens all the time.

            “Yes, you have shown me the smoking gun. Shot ears do not clot in one minute and without pressure. The official story is indeed impossible. But I’m going to ignore where that logically leads and, instead, demand that you provide us with still more smoking guns.”

            ***
            Actually, I am not a trained writer, CP. My education is in Economics and Computer Engineering but I do appreciate the compliment.

            I will never forget the best advice that I ever heard about writing: “To become a good writer, read.”

            ***
            I “fuck up a lot”? Oh ya? Can you please provide an example or two or three of when I fucked up?

          • gustafson.robert.22 July 17, 2024 at 12:18 pm #

            Pressed, I will say OG is no operative, but it would make some sense, and if he is, he’s quite good, skillful and effective.

          • JohnAZ July 17, 2024 at 12:34 pm #

            I gave you information on every single bullshit item you brought up. You bring up your twaddle , I will disprove it.

            All you lukewarm Trump “supporters”, the man is going to win, not because he was shot, but because of his reaction to it.

            The man is a warrior.

          • ZrCrypDiK July 17, 2024 at 6:13 pm #

            “Your “ketchup packets” strawman and Trump’s magic-bullet ear need addressing as we seek the truth of 7/13.” – OG

            Well, at least he let go of that body double hoax – I mean, totally sad/too bad.

        • JohnAZ July 17, 2024 at 12:42 pm #

          Yep, good job. You are giving up a proven addiction.

  121. OG July 17, 2024 at 11:21 am #

    CNN Laments “Conspiracy Theories” Spreading In Aftermath Of Trump Assassination Attempt

    shtfplan.com/headline-news/cnn-laments-conspiracy-theories-spreading-in-aftermath-of-trump-assassination-attempt

    The former president had barely been hit before the internet was abuzz with all sorts of unsubstantiated explanations for what had, or had not, occurred, wrote CNN. Because heaven forbid that humans have the right to question the mainstream media and the masters who rule over them. Why can’t those pesky slaves just believe what the masters’ mouthpieces tell them to and stay in line?

    The ease at which false rumors and conspiracy theories rapidly spread on social media threatens the public’s ability to sort truth from fiction. It sometimes influences their behavior and further divides an already fractured America.

    The deluge of disinformation surrounding the Trump shooting shows, once again, that this problem isn’t going away anytime soon. With less than four months until Election Day, the leading social media platforms appear resigned to let the status quo fester. – CNN

    People thinking for themselves and formulating their own opinions is not to be accepted in totalitarian regimes hellbent on complete control over the masses.

    The incident was not staged. The US Secret Service has now described it as an assassination attempt and the Department of Homeland Security has acknowledged it as a “failure” of security. Still, on Monday, the false claim continued to circulate. – CNN

    When reading its article, CNN comes off as a petulant child upset that other humans don’t believe the official narrative that it’s pushing.

    ***
    Here’s a clue for the clueless: If CNN is jumping up and down like a petulant child once again, they are lying once again.

    • OG July 17, 2024 at 11:30 am #

      Denouncing someone as a conspiracy theorist has been one way the ruling class shuts down those who speak up and speak out against them. In fact, the “fact checkers” are now saying that the ruling class didn’t coin the term to force those with ideas and opinions that run counter to the masters to shut up.

      CNN has a solution. And, you guessed it, it’s shorter leashes for the slave class, especially those who don’t particularly want to be slaves in the first place.

      The situation calls for more rigorous regulation of social media, said Laura Edelson, an assistant professor of computer science at Northeastern University and the co-director of Cybersecurity for Democracy, but it also offers a lesson for mainstream journalists: Don’t just report what we do know, but also report the outstanding unanswered questions so that the public won’t fill in the gaps with junk information. – CNN

      Just take over the narrative and make sure no one has the ability to question the official narrative and that all slaves are properly programmed to accept one message as the ultimate truth. The slaves are not to ask questions. They are to accept the narrative and obey.

      ***
      When I was a child (back in the 1970s), we pitted the poor citizens of the USSR who were only allowed to know and speak of official word. Tass and Pravda were the authoritative word and anything free speech beyond their government shilling was illegal.

      Welcome to the USSR!

      • OG July 17, 2024 at 12:00 pm #

        *pitied

      • JohnAZ July 17, 2024 at 12:29 pm #

        Amerika, OG, what we have been afraid of.

        Watch out this fall between No. 6 and Jan. 20, I will guarantee Biden is already planning how to sabotage Trump if he wins.

        • ZrCrypDiK July 17, 2024 at 10:10 pm #

          Something going wrong around here!!! This OG guy isn’t even using that alt-alias to talk to himself NE-moarz!!!

    • Soul Forensics July 17, 2024 at 3:29 pm #

      You left out an important point in the above.

      The Bitchute boys, just like CNN and the WaPo, also create their ‘official’ narratives which, when questioned by actual considered truth-seekers you condemn (since they don’t immediately believe your ridiculous, specious reasoning), similarly collapse in a puddle of contradictions, internal inconsistencies, hilarious a priori fantasies, and point A to point Z non sequiturs.

      On that last note, I notice that you failed to respond to my latest response to you upthread. So I’ll ask again:

      Have you flip-flopped yet again on the ‘truth’ regarding Fake Trump’s belonging to the Masonic club? That is, is he back in?

  122. OG July 17, 2024 at 11:39 am #

    International Bird Flu Summit discussing “mass fatality management plan” to be held in Washington, D.C. before election

    naturalnews.com/2024-07-16-bird-flu-summit-mass-fatality-management.html

    An International Bird Flu Summit has been scheduled for October in Washington, D.C., prompting concerns that another “plandemic” could be in the works.

    An official brochure for the event, which will take place from October 2 to 4, says that it will focus on “a highly virulent strain” of the virus that has the ability to infect humans.

    The H5N1 strain of bird flu has been getting increasing air time in the media lately, with some sources claiming it could have a death rate of between 25 and 50 percent. The CDC recently confirmed a fourth human case of the virus in the U.S. linked to a multistate outbreak involving dairy cows. However, all of the cases so far have involved people who work on dairy farms with infected cows. The person in the latest case only experienced eye symptoms and made a full recovery.

    One of the “breakout sessions” planned will focus on the topic of “Mass Fatality Management Planning,” while another session, “Global Influenza Surveillance Networks & Delivery of Vaccine & Antiviral Medication” will discuss “vaccine optimization” and “equitable access,” among other subjects.

    ***
    There is no rest for the wicked.

    • stelmosfire July 17, 2024 at 12:10 pm #

      “An International Bird Flu Summit has been scheduled for October in Washington, D.C.”

      Good place for the summit as D.C. has no shortage of shit-birds. Maybe we get lucky and they’ll all catch the flu.

      • JohnAZ July 17, 2024 at 12:21 pm #

        No sweat, Elmo, I believe they have an mRNA vaxx for bird flu. No problem.

    • JohnAZ July 17, 2024 at 12:25 pm #

      The probable purpose of the conference does not involve the flu. It is how to intensify public fear with a flood of bullshit statistics so the lemmings come to take their shots. They want control.

      • OG July 17, 2024 at 12:35 pm #

        Attaboy, JAZ! You’re one of us cool kids now!

        ***
        Another worrying topic they intend to address is “Surveillance and Data Management.” The organizers note in the description that the session on this subject will “Discuss strategies for enhancing surveillance systems, early warning mechanisms, and rapid response protocols,” which sounds a lot like the digital health passports that were used to keep unvaccinated people out of all manner of stores and venues during the COVID-19 pandemic.

        • JohnAZ July 17, 2024 at 12:39 pm #

          It took awhile of watching actual data for me to catch on to what and who were the bad guys and their purposes,

          It destroyed the last bit of faith I had in Washington, DC, especially the $Deep State.

          • OG July 17, 2024 at 12:58 pm #

            Attaboy, JAZ! Welcome!

            ***
            Many people hip to the jive are dismissive and rude to the unawakened. They seem to forget that they, too, were once asleep.

            It is important that the truth be protected and nourished. People still sleeping need to be gently aroused from their slumber and then poured a cup of fresh coffee.

          • ZrCrypDiK July 17, 2024 at 10:24 pm #

            Why on earth would you have faith in the electoral duopoly… Too bad Bernie didn’t run independent in 2016/2020 – we would have swept those mofoz.

    • GreenAlba July 17, 2024 at 12:31 pm #

      “[…] with some sources claiming it could have a death rate of between 25 and 50 percent.”

      I wonder if they will roll out Neil Ferguson’s latest computer model, sponsored by Bill Gates. Apparently the widely asserted ‘covid vaccines have saved millions of lives’ was nothing more than a calculation based on one of his patently insane models.

      Meanwhile, Meryl Nass has pointed out that no-one ever, in the world, has been made ill by eating a chicken, egg, cow or anything else infected with bird flu.

      • C.O.Jones July 17, 2024 at 8:19 pm #

        By the way, the same prophylactics effective for Covid are effective for bird flu, too – vitamin C, zinc and hydroxychloroquine.

        Sleepy Joe just recused himself from society, citing a fresh diagnosis of Covid-19 as his motivation.

        How can this be? Our beloved president is on video record as saying if you get the shot, you can’t get Covid. He’s also had several jabs on video.

        After spiriting away to his beach house in Delaware, what are the odds he’s never seen in public again?

        100:1 he takes a sudden turn for the worse and drops out of the “race.”

  123. Paula D July 17, 2024 at 12:19 pm #

    The shoe question has been answered, but it definitely brings up more questions, number one being WTF????

    Trump gets shot, Secret Service covers his body, and in the midst of the turmoil, take the time to take off his shoes and throw them off the stage.

    What The Actual Fuck???? Why did they do that?

    No wonder our overlords want to shut down the free flow of Unapproved Information on the internet.

    .dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13637723/Incredible-new-footage-shows-immediate-aftermath-Trump-shooting-shoes.html

    • OG July 17, 2024 at 12:29 pm #

      Thank you for this Paula! I had not yet seen this interesting angle.

      ***
      I wonder if perhaps the fake Donald is a little bit taller than is the real Donald and, therefore, his heels were removed to bring him a little closer to the SS that surrounded him.

      ***
      Note: “I wonder …” I’m not saying, “Definitely.” I’m merely “spit-ballin'” here.

      • JohnAZ July 17, 2024 at 12:35 pm #

        You certainly are, bullshitting to fit your “hypothesis”, as usual.

        • OG July 17, 2024 at 12:51 pm #

          Ummm … spit-ballin’ is an effective method at discerning the truth, JAZ. Criticizing the search for the truth is bizarrely motivated.

          Try spit-ballin’ yourself, JAZ. You “think” that “Donald Trump” was shot in the ear by a sniper’s bullet, had his wound miraculously clotted tickety-boo in 1 minute without pressure while the SS removed his shoes because …

          How does these facts fit your “hypothesis”?

          I’ll tell you how:

          “Trump is good and I’ll fight anyone who says otherwise!”

          You can actually see the gerbil on the exercise wheel.

          ***
          Trump is in on it.

          Operation Warpspeed

          Sad but true.

          • JohnAZ July 17, 2024 at 1:14 pm #

            Bullshit!

          • Soul Forensics July 17, 2024 at 3:37 pm #

            Which is it, OG. First, “get my shoes” was Fake Trump (or is still only possibly Fake Trump or real Trump?) sending a Masonic code. And now it’s “hey, it’s possible, just spitballin’ here! Don’t shit down my neck! do they have to increase fake Trump’s height to make the body double seem legit?”.

            Are you a connoisseur of grade B sci-fi movie lore, OG?

      • ZrCrypDiK July 17, 2024 at 10:29 pm #

        srsly? body double?!?

    • stelmosfire July 17, 2024 at 1:47 pm #

      It’s obvious in the video the AA hire swept the shoes off the stage so nobody would trip on them.They were probably just got knocked off in the scrum.I didn’t see anybody remove Trump’s shoes. I mean Potatohead trips over his own shadow so it kinda makes sense.

      • Soul Forensics July 17, 2024 at 3:39 pm #

        You’re asking for evidence there, StE. OG don’t swing that way.

      • ZrCrypDiK July 17, 2024 at 10:49 pm #

        “I mean Potatohead trips over his own shadow” d00d you just made me cry! /wink

      • Paula D July 18, 2024 at 2:05 pm #

        A tripping hazard? OK, that made me laugh. Plus, the stage is cluttered with equipment and wires and people laying around with their legs out. The SS agent is worried about shoes? So she throws them out where other people can trip on them?

        On the other hand, we are talking about people who can’t climb a sloped roof, so…….

        • MiTurn July 18, 2024 at 6:37 pm #

          Nor tall enough to take a bullet.

  124. OG July 17, 2024 at 12:44 pm #

    I gave you information on every single bullshit item you brought up. You bring up your twaddle , I will disprove it.
    – JAZ

    I must have missed it, JAZ. You provided information on why a minor clip of the outer ear can be expected to clot in 8 minutes with constant pressure but “Donald Trump’s” magic-bullet ear clotted in 1 minute and without pressure?

    Please post that again. Thank you.

    ***
    I understand, JAZ. Trump feels like our only hope. Admitting now that Trump, too, is in on it is essentially abandoning all hope for a human solution to this mess.

    But the truth is the truth, JAZ. Trump is in on it and God is our only hope.

    • JohnAZ July 17, 2024 at 1:01 pm #

      The info is that bullets can cauterize wounds, especially graze wounds. Also, females get “shot” through that part of the ear putting in earrings with no bleeding. You just make this shit up, 8 minutes, 1 minute, it is as I said, bullshit. Why don’t you for once just listen to what is being investigated and keep your unqualified opinions to yourself.

    • Soul Forensics July 17, 2024 at 3:43 pm #

      “God is our only hope.” — OG

      Who is “our”? And what does “hope” accomplish? And hope for what, exactly?

      And why would God assuage your fears now when He (apparently) has already stoked them your entire life, with no sign of easing the emotional and spiritual burden?

      And why are you on CFN 24/7? It doesn’t seem that you’re doing much praying.

      • OG July 17, 2024 at 5:04 pm #

        “Our” is mankind’s. Hope is for eternal bliss (only better). To live in God’s Kingdom.

        First of all, I dispute that fourth question as I have no fears. I face the future with steely resolve.

        Having said that, God won’t “assuage” anything now. We’ve seven years of Trials & Tribulations before any assuaging takes place.

        If you look at the date/time stamps of my posts, you’ll see that I’ve allowed myself plenty of time to do things beyond regularly being right on CFN.

        ***
        You argue like my ex-wife, SF. You make-up, in your own little head, dumb wrong things and then question me based on you assuming that your dumb wrong things are correct.

        Definitely cut soy out of your diet. Completely. Cold turkey.

        • Soul Forensics July 17, 2024 at 5:19 pm #

          “Definitely cut soy out of your diet.”

          This is the level of discourse from someone who can only flail, ad hom, and deflect.

          ————-

          So you now speak for mankind. Talk about grandiose and arrogant. You certainly don’t speak for me or most people I meet, read, or revere.

          You can talk about “God” all you like. But He’s not a convenient Team OG stock figure for you to lean on, like a well-oiled crutch just before Christmas dinner.

          “Eternal bliss” is either realized in this lifetime, or is not realized at all. Have you even had intimations of bliss in your life? If not, then why are you even concerned about it? People like you who are filled with fear and panic about unGodly actions see evil everywhere. Baby steps. You should first seek to calm your nervous system down, and simply function in society without thinking you’re going to leapfrog spiritual progression by shooting straight to heaven because you made a cynical deal with your supposed God (in your specific image).

          Similar to point one above, God’s Kingdom is within your own heart and soul, or is nowhere. You thought it was in some vague Heaven afterlife? People who think that rely on this supposed afterlife because they hate this life.

        • OG Is Nuts July 17, 2024 at 8:59 pm #

          New Testament meaning of fornication
          In the New Testament, the word translated as fornication comes from the Greek word porneia which includes: pre-marital sex, adultery, incest, homosexuality/lesbianism, and bestiality. New Testament fornication includes any sexual behavior before marriage or outside of marriage. Examples of fornication can be found in 1 Corinthians 5:1 where a male has sex with his step-mother, with a prostitute (1 Corinthians 6:13, 15-16), and with someone outside of marriage (1 Corinthians 7:2; 1 Thessalonians 4:3).

          Hebrews 13:4 clearly reveals that fornicators and adulterers are different. That is, fornication does not include adultery.

          Marriage is to be held in honor among all, and the marriage bed is to be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers God will judge. Hebrews 13:4 (NASB)

          This verse reveals that God will judge those who commit fornication and adultery. How does God judge fornicators and adulterers? 1 Corinthians 6:18 is a good place to start. It teaches that fornication has a greater negative impact on people than most other sins. When I have counseled couples, I have found this to be true. Often this sin is committed by couples before they were married and later they struggle in their marriage. Listen to 1 Corinthians 6:18,

          Flee immorality. Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body. 1 Corinthians 6:18

          Anyone who practices fornication repeatedly and without guilt or remorse does not pocess God’s spirit. The man, OG who practices fornication repeatedly without guilt or remorse is kidding himself and attempting to fool the rest of CFN. He THINKS he’ll see eternal bliss and live in God’s Kingdom. The only place he’ll be experiencing anything is no where near God’s Kingdom and as far removed from being blissful as East is from the West

  125. elysianfield July 17, 2024 at 12:46 pm #

    CFN’rs, take note:

    Jim Rickards provides the rationale for the Vance pick;

    https://dailyreckoning.com/trumps-hillbilly-vp/

    Makes sense. Interesting that Vance named his second child after…Rammin’ Sammy….

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    • JohnAZ July 17, 2024 at 1:05 pm #

      Have you watched Hillbilly Elegy, or read the book. The idiots are going after him for inexperience, he has overcome much more than just giving blowjobs. or ignoring assignments that have been given to her.

      • JohnAZ July 17, 2024 at 1:13 pm #

        Or supporting legalized murder, or letting criminals out of jail or paying their bail. Or supporting perversity or’or;or.

      • OG July 17, 2024 at 3:07 pm #

        I’m only 6 minutes into Hillbilly Elegy and have already seen Hollywood fake “blood.” It’s everywhere!

    • Socrates-Detroit July 17, 2024 at 2:05 pm #

      Excellent article @Elysianfield, thanks for sharing.

      Also, I watched Hillbilly Elegy on Netflix last night.

      Excellent movie.

      I liked Vance before. Those of you who want Trump to win should tell your friends to watch the movie, before the word gets out who it is about.

      The profit motive at Netflix is strong: last night, under “What People are Watching”, Hillbilly Elegy was at the top.

      It is a real good movie–and even better if you’re a Democrat and don’t know who the protagonist is.

      Vance is as good as it gets when it comes to VP candidates.

      • Socrates-Detroit July 17, 2024 at 2:08 pm #

        Unfortunately Vance and Trump, like Biden and RFK Jr, will continue to spend billions of our tax dollars to supply Israel with the bombs that are killing the Gazans, and to provide diplomatic cover for Israel, as the Israelis continue to bomb and starve the people of Gaza, and to arbitrarily shoot, imprison, torture, and rape Palestinians in general.

        This is enshrined in Chapter 10, Section 3 of the Republican Platform:

        Republicans will strengthen Alliances by ensuring that our Allies must meet their obligations to invest in our Common Defense and by restoring Peace to Europe. We will stand with Israel, and seek peace in the Middle East. We will rebuild our Alliance Network in the Region to ensure a future of Peace, Stability, and Prosperity. Likewise, we will champion Strong, Sovereign, and Independent Nations in the Indo-Pacific, thriving in Peace and Commerce with others.

        It’s amazing how money and power can rationalize industrial mass murder.

        I don’t think Trump or Vance, let alone RFK Jr or Biden would simply pick up the phone and call Netenyahu and tell him to stop it now. That’s what Reagan did.

        So unfortunately, Trump/Vance will not be getting my vote. Neither will RFK Jr for that matter.

        • OG July 17, 2024 at 2:43 pm #

          AIPAC has solidified much power in DC since the Reagan Administration.

          • Socrates-Detroit July 17, 2024 at 3:12 pm #

            According to antiwar dot com, Vance was on Sean Hannity on Fox last night. Strike 1.

            Vance said the Biden “did nothing about Iran”. Strike 2.

            Vance said Biden wasn’t helping Israel enough and had “done nothing to help Israel”. Strike 3

            Thank you, JD, for helping me out.

          • OG July 17, 2024 at 3:43 pm #

            youtube.com/watch?v=Sj7Ma2zRetY

          • ZrCrypDiK July 18, 2024 at 4:05 am #

            That guy was on France 24. So bizarre, not reading subtitles…

        • JohnAZ July 17, 2024 at 4:56 pm #

          They probably won’t need it.

  126. Jarek July 17, 2024 at 12:56 pm #

    Crooks shot Trump’s shoes off. He decided not to kill him but just show that he could have if had wanted to. The across the ear/bow, was just a warning to Trump to listen to the Masonic Elders and their superiors, the Elders of Zion.

    • OG July 17, 2024 at 2:40 pm #

      ebay.ca/itm/265727039890

    • Soul Forensics July 17, 2024 at 3:49 pm #

      So Crooks was an incompetent, easy-to-sway patsy for days, according to you and OG, but now he’s a crack shot who could thread the needle on a grazed ear (or is it still no shot at all, and CIA ear gel?)?.

      I can’t keep the speculations straight more than two minutes on this board.

      • OG July 17, 2024 at 4:27 pm #

        I never commented anything about Crooks and his patsy days and his patsy ways, SF. Maybe you can’t keep things straight because, just like a chick, you just make shit up in your head and then lash out with these fabrications later. Maybe you can’t keep things straight because, for whatever reason, God gave you a modestly intelligent chick brain.

        Sad but true.

        ***
        It always was the BLOODLESS right hand and the perfect convenience of ZERO cameras on a supposedly shot presidential ear.

        What a pathetic display of a strawman argument, SF.

        NOBODY accused Crooks of intentionally grazing fake Trump’s head with a sniper bullet from almost 150 yards, you corrupt swine.

        You really should be ashamed to have your corruption so easily displayed.

        • Soul Forensics July 17, 2024 at 5:06 pm #

          This is what happens when you spin stories quickly and spasmodically. Like a compulsive liar, you can’t even remember what you said.

          I was talking to Jarek specifically. He initially said that Crooks was an incompetent patsy who couldn’t shoot, and wondered why the Capstone would ‘target’ such a one to be the shooter. But now, the story shifts, and he was such a pro, he shot with pinpoint precision such to specifically blow Trump’s shoes off, at which point Fake or Real Trump spoke a Masonic code phrase that alerted some undisclosed operation, all while Trump’s ear was squirted with red gel, and all from an otherwise Keystone Kops security system that somehow managed to nevertheless get that part of the op carried out with remarkable precision and timing?

          Is that about right? Or did I miss yet-another late-breaking news item from some guy uploading his drug-besotted sci-fi fantasies onto Bitchute from his mom’s disused basement rec room? And is your mouth open while your lips move when listening to/watching the videos?

          • OG July 17, 2024 at 6:56 pm #

            Wow! I see. You mix my interpretation and investigation with many other interpretations and investigations and toss it all into a shit salad – and then serve it sans dressing!

            I have been consistent since the morning of 7/14:

            “Trump” was not aimed at with live ammo.

            “Trump” was not hit with live ammo.

            There is no pictures or video of “Trump” hit … until

            “Trump” was concealed from view for one full minute.

            “Trump” had Hollywood fake “blood” applied during the SS operation that performed its tasks exceptionally well.

            “Trump’s” right ear did not bleed as much as we saw but then clot and quit bleeding all in one minute because that is impossible.

            The official story claims that Trump’s shoes were off, we can hear him say, “Let me get my shoes,” we see an SS lady boot one of his shoes (and what’s looks like an insole) off the stage immediately before “Trump” was escorted off the stage (down the staircase).

            Given the Illuminati’s “red shoes” sick practices, I wondered if, perhaps, anyone knew on CFN knows anything about this reference being Masonic on account of Trump regularly flashing known Masonic hand signals and the fact that the Masons are the local soldiers of Lucifer. That is, I was merely performing sound intelligence gathering vis-à-vis his shoes bizarrely being off his feet.

            ***
            I’ve been consistent with everything above since the morning of 7/14, SF. The rest is just your estrogen-soaked brain craving drama like any other chick.

          • Soul Forensics July 17, 2024 at 9:30 pm #

            I know what you said. You still refuse to answer any of the internal contradictions I brought up. Since you keep avoiding those questions, I’ll keep repeating them.

            Is it Real Trump or Fake Trump on that platform? You flip-flopped on that, and (AFAIK now) have thrown your hands up and said “maybe”.

            If it’s Fake Trump, why would he be concerned with Masonic symbols to his ‘protectors’ when supposedly off-mike?

            No evidence that blood would have automatically poured out of a nicked helix.

            No evidence that he actually touched his ear. (His hand went close to his ear, but his head was turned such that only his other ear was shown to the only camera angle we have.)

            I could go on, but what’s the point? You’ll simply deflect and ad hom, like the panicked pussy you are.

      • JohnAZ July 17, 2024 at 4:53 pm #

        Then look at the pictures and listen to the commentary and make up your mind with observation.

      • Jarek July 17, 2024 at 7:57 pm #

        He’s getting hysterical. Regular intellectuals can’t stand conspiracy theory. They want to strive for preemeninence in the accepted narratives and world view – not upend them.

        Because good and bad conspiracy theory (truth and falsehood) are equally hateful to him, he can’t tell when I’m joking – as in about shooting Trump’s shoes off.

        As far as Conspiracy Theory in and of itself: I invoke Sturgeon’s Law. A friend of Sturgeon (who was a science fiction writer) complained that 90% of it was garbage. Sturgeon replied, Ninety percent of everything is garbage.

        • Soul Forensics July 17, 2024 at 9:45 pm #

          “He’s getting hysterical.” — Jarek

          Tone policing as well as emotional mind-reading over the internet. I’m quite calm. Harsh words and content-based attacks can occur with firm yet composed demeanor. Weak ad hom.

          “Regular intellectuals can’t stand conspiracy theory.” — Jarek

          What’s a “regular intellectual”? A contradiction of nomenclature. An intellectual, by definition, pursues many angles of an issue before settling (if it’s possible in any individual case) on a conclusion.

          And why do you falsely posit that I “can’t stand conspiracy theories”? I believe in many. We’re talking about only one here. Do you yourself believe that a conspiracy should be the default position of any and all political events? Though the times tempt one to conclude that, it’s still a false base, and proceeds from total ideological obsession and emotional hysteria.

          So now it’s a joke re Trumps’ shoes. You see, you get to have it both ways. When (especially) OG proceeds with his hilariously entertaining “proof” from hour to hour (or even sooner), forgive me if I take everything that’s said in this vein as being dead serious based on the sources it comes from.

          You’re right about Sturgeon’s law. Which, ironically, should be instructive for (especially) OG.

          A better law to invoke here is Brandolini’s. I’m guilty of not abiding by its admonition, and will try to learn my lesson in the future, but, in my defense, I mostly break it for my own entertainment.

      • ZrCrypDiK July 18, 2024 at 4:08 am #

        d00dz deader than a doornail, correct? Hardcore Trumper, correct? Just a ‘tad’ bit suicidal?!…

    • The Man They Call Zazelle July 17, 2024 at 5:51 pm #

      He coulda shot a pea off the tip of his nose if his head was sideways and brought it back to him, from the ricochet, on a paper plate with melted butter and salt from the popcorn stand.

  127. Jarek July 17, 2024 at 1:04 pm #

    Barhnardt

    Infanticide and Sodomy: mere “spots on the wall”. Canaanites, Sodom and Gomorrah unavailable for comment.

    NBC News: “The Republican Platform no longer calls for a Federal abortion ban and no longer defines marriage between one man and one woman. Is this a sign your father (Donald Trump) is moving to the center?”

    Eric Trump: “My father has ALWAYS been there on those issues. That’s… pic.twitter.com/Cuy0GxdW0L

    — Jon Root (@JonnyRoot_) July 16, 2024

    NBC News: “The Republican Platform no longer calls for a Federal abortion ban and no longer defines marriage between one man and one woman. Is this a sign your father (Donald Trump) is moving to the center?”

    Eric Trump: “My father has ALWAYS been there on those issues. That’s reflective of my father and what he believes in… and my wife Lara who runs the RNC and what she believes in. At the end of the day, this country has holes in the roof and you’ve got to fix those holes and stop worrying about the spot on the wall in the basement.”

    Jarek: He’s not the stone which the Builder rejected, but just another brick in the Wall.

    • JohnAZ July 17, 2024 at 1:10 pm #

      Jarek, a really dumb statement. Are you going to vote for Biden as your alternative and have the same bullshit continue on. Do you get off, like OG, at picking up on little points? Hey, support the guy or go vote for the idiocy that is there now, It is Biden versus Trump, period.

      • JohnAZ July 17, 2024 at 1:11 pm #

        I certainly am using the word “bullshit” a lot. It just seems to frame what is going on this country so-o-o well.

        • ZrCrypDiK July 18, 2024 at 10:03 am #

          The electoral college duopoly – no choice!!! Can U imagine, one of them looses the popular vote by 10 million, yet wins the electoral college. That is just simply sick and twisted – our state of affairs.

      • OG July 17, 2024 at 2:38 pm #

        They’re playin’ ya like a fiddle, JAZ.

        Saturday TV Rasslin’

        Frick v Frack

        Divide & conquer

        PB&J

        ***
        Trump does not have magical clotting powers, JAZ. Trump is in on it.

        Operation Warpspeed

        Did you really think that the Deep State would risk giving you a valid choice?

        C’mon. You’re better than that.

        • JohnAZ July 17, 2024 at 4:22 pm #

          Holy cow, OG, I used to read your opinion closely even though I would disagree with you. On this one, you are stupid. Dumb and ignorant. You brag on being sensible, you have really blown it on this one. Everyone, do not try to present data to OG, if he does not agree with it,, it is a waste of your time.

          • JohnAZ July 17, 2024 at 4:24 pm #

            You call OG is Nuts a troll? You are the one that is acting as one. Go ahead, root for Biden,vote for him, you are only showing your ignorance again.

          • SoftStarLight July 17, 2024 at 4:44 pm #

            It’s fair John, but there is also a burden on you. You have to prove that they aren’t just wearing reversible jerseys. i prefer too to have tidy distinctions but i’m less certain we have that luxury.

          • OG July 17, 2024 at 6:41 pm #

            You are so invested in your anti-Gimme stance that you can’t see the forest for the trees, JAZ. You can’t see that Trump and Biden are merely the opposite sides of the same coin.

            “Heads: they win; tails: you lose.”

            Operation Warpspeed.

            ***
            As soon as I say anything negative about Trump, you assume that I’m rooting for Biden. I can tell you that Creepy Joe is a total scumbag but you can’t comprehend someone opposing both of them. You cannot see beyond your brain-washing.

            They’re both in on it, JAZ.

            Wakey, wakey!

            ***
            Trump does not have a magic-clotting ear regardless of how arrogant I am, JAZ.

            No upper ear bleeds that much and then just stops all in one minute and with no pressure. It’s ridiculous but a fantastic photo op.

            Does it not hurt your head to think that your hero must have a magic ear lest you face the truth that he is in on it?

          • JohnAZ July 17, 2024 at 9:57 pm #

            No, SSL, I do not have to prove anything.

            Trump has to prove he is going to drain the swamp.

            It is a simple equation, there is no way I can vote for Biden, he is a known quantity, he is destroying the country.

            Si I will vote for Trump without question. If he is phony and is as bad as some of the folks here think, America is done.

            With one, it is a present certainty, with the other we will see.

            Not reversible jerseys yet by any stretch of the imagination.

            IMHO, give Trump a Congress for four years and he will tear the Deep State apart.

          • OG July 17, 2024 at 11:49 pm #

            “The Deep State” is bigger than POTUS and Congress, JAZ.

            Americans are always shocked to find out that they don’t run the world because they’ve been brain-washed their whole lives that they do.

            POTUS and Congress do what they are told, JAZ. That’s true of both Demonrats and Repukelicans. Everybody in DC has “their AIPAC guy.”

            Sad but true.

            ***
            The least that you could do is wake-up and not endorse it.

          • ZrCrypDiK July 18, 2024 at 10:13 am #

            You bloody ear story does have a ring of truth to it. I had a squirrel fall out of a tree and shed my right ear – it was bleeding non-stop for 10+ minutes…

            But then, I’m not on a diet of fast food burgers, 3 times a day, 7 days a week. I’m guessing that could clog up your arteries and ‘stuff’ …

    • jim e July 17, 2024 at 3:07 pm #

      Remember this, it’s a UNIPARTY. They all wear the same jacket but they all are reversible so they are different?

      “Madam President: Kamala Harris vs Michelle Obama
      Telegraph readers back former first lady as the only Biden alternative who would beat Trump.” Telegraph

      “Speaker Mike Johnson calls on Secret Service director to resign after assassination attempt on Trump
      Johnson was joined by other top Republicans who said Kimberly Cheatle should step down.” Peacock

      The stone that the builder refuse
      Will always be the head cornerstone…

      You’re a builder, baby
      Here I am, a stone
      Don’t you pick and refuse me
      ‘Cause the things people refuse
      Are the things they should choose
      Do you hear me?
      Hear what I say! Robert Marley

      • SoftStarLight July 17, 2024 at 4:38 pm #

        i’m a rose quartz heart stone, you can use me for your building too lol!!

  128. Q. Shtik July 17, 2024 at 1:28 pm #

    A woman named Kimberly Cheatle is the head of the Secret Service. The NYT quotes her as saying “There was local police in that building — there was local police in the area that were responsible for the outer perimeter of the building,”

    Where I come from we would say “There were.

    • stelmosfire July 17, 2024 at 1:54 pm #

      Could’ve been worse. “They was police in dat building.”

      • Ron Anselmo July 17, 2024 at 3:21 pm #

        Popo.

        • SoftStarLight July 17, 2024 at 4:25 pm #

          lol, big time popos!! No talk to.

    • Soul Forensics July 17, 2024 at 3:56 pm #

      Just saw a pic of her for the first time. Cheatle looks like an overweight drug-addled soccer mom.

      • OG July 17, 2024 at 5:25 pm #

        Now he’s havin’ a go at overweight drug-addled soccer moms!

        Is there any demographic that you like?

        • The Man They Call Zazelle July 17, 2024 at 5:41 pm #

          His own.

          • OG July 17, 2024 at 5:53 pm #

            Everybody loves their own brand, don’t they?
            – Fat Bastard

        • Soul Forensics July 17, 2024 at 6:50 pm #

          You like overweight drug-addled soccer moms?

          To each their own.

          • OG July 17, 2024 at 11:42 pm #

            I love all of God’s children.

    • ZrCrypDiK July 18, 2024 at 10:21 am #

      Q U gotta be wut – 86+ by now?!? Hehe, I used to rLy like pool – but I saw the gambling involved, and peepz lives ruined…

      • Q. Shtik July 18, 2024 at 1:36 pm #

        Q U gotta be wut – 86+ by now?!? – ZrCrypDiK

        =========

        No, I’m 4 months and 3 days short of my 84th birthday.

        I was never a big gambler although I once beat a 60 year old guy named Pete the Greek in a game of 3-cushion billiards for $25. This was when I was 18 years old and $25 was a large sum of money. Pete and I each handed Earl Newby (the owner of the pool room at 10th and Chestnut in Philly) our $25 and Earl put it in his left front shirt pocket behind a pack of cigarettes.

        During the match I experienced something incredible that I had not experienced before or since. It was “tunnel vision.” It was as though I was looking through an opening about the size of a quarter and everything outside that small round opening was just blackness.

        In this same pool room, in the same era (late 1950s) I watched two superior pool players play 9-ball for $1,000 a rack.

    • Q. Shtik July 18, 2024 at 1:00 pm #

      there was local police in the area that were responsible for the outer perimeter of the building,” – Q.

      ==============

      The grammatical error that I imply Ms. Cheatle used could only have been more perfect than if she had been 100% consistent by ending her sentence as follows:

      “in the area that was responsible for the outer perimeter of the building”

  129. OG July 17, 2024 at 2:26 pm #

    Pressed, I will say OG is no operative, but it would make some sense, and if he is, he’s quite good, skillful and effective.
    – Gus

    I am an operative for the truth. I merely seek the truth (no matter how painful it is).

    ***
    “We’re on a mission from God.”

    youtube.com/watch?v=-4YrCFz0Kfc

    • cowbell81 July 17, 2024 at 3:43 pm #

      I honestly don’t think America can handle the truth anymore. There is a reason why Trump decided not to fully release the Kennedy assassination documents.

      In other news, has anyone here seen the recent video of Biden making a “surprise” visit to a grocery store in the Las Vegas area after his NAACP event? Here is a link to the YouTube clip – creepy as heck:

      httpsXX://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWzkL4HPDis

      Note the Blue Bell Ice Cream cooler behind him. Surprised he didn’t make a b-line for that.

    • JohnAZ July 17, 2024 at 4:51 pm #

      Want an example of egomania? Just read this guy. The new Messiah? The second Coming?

  130. SoftStarLight July 17, 2024 at 4:18 pm #

    I don’t know what to make of it though i do have theories and thoughts but CNN is trying to say that the deep state is really not super organized and as such doesn’t quite exist in the way people think but maybe it kinda sorta is there. And it seems like the CNN type people are freaked out about Vance, Musk and Thiel. They aren’t even really focused a whole lot on Trump. So this could be the movie but if so suddenly the freakout is that Vance is more populist and nationalist than Trump. So we know they absolutely do not want anyone who is actually a populist or nationalist or both near power. So far from what parts i’ve watched there is a ton of energy at the RNC but i am personally underwhelmed. Too much sentimentality and sappiness from a time that is no longer. Sorry but Raegan hasn’t been in power for like 40 years so can we kinda move on down the road?

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    • JohnAZ July 17, 2024 at 4:49 pm #

      Move down the road,

      Toward What. SSL?

      What do want besides nationalism ( America First) or populism ( For the people)?

      Socialism? Globalism?

      • SoftStarLight July 17, 2024 at 4:56 pm #

        seriously extreme nationalism with a secure social safety net for citizens.

        my fear..the Republicans don’t really want that. Mike Johnson said that America needs to resume its leadership position in the world. He is a pure globalist and i’m completely sick of people like him and they still infest the Republican Party.

        • Groundhog July 17, 2024 at 5:49 pm #

          What Mike Johnson doesn’t understand is we are a maritime/aerospace power, and that type of power is rapidly being made obsolete by advances among our “enemies” in missile guidance technology and rocket engine technology. More than likely what’s going to happen is we make a big show of naval force using the “fuck around and find out meme”. We experience an entire carrier group being sent to the bottom under a massive hailstorm of sophisticated guided rockets. This will be an event as shocking as Sept 11, and it will kick off a global realization that most of our military hardware is obsolete and the rest of the world can breathe easier, we’re a dog with a lot of bark that’s lost most of it’s teeth. There will be great crying, wailing, and gnashing of teeth about lost sailors. The rest of our naval forces won’t be to keen on being the next group to be tossed into a rocket launched meat grinder. Morale won’t be very good – in spite of all the lgbt+ stuff going on in the navy.

          • SoftStarLight July 17, 2024 at 6:57 pm #

            we can’t even protect our own borders so it really does make zero sense that we bother being in other places around the world. We have already allowed our mortal enemies to walk into the front door and they’re sitting at our kitchen table. i have to cook for them and im tired.

          • JohnAZ July 17, 2024 at 8:54 pm #

            Yes, exactly to both of you.

            Groundhog, remember what the navy faced in the battle of Okinawa with the Kamikaze planes. It was one of the things that was used to justify The Bomb.

          • ZrCrypDiK July 18, 2024 at 10:56 am #

            “so it really does make zero sense that we bother being in other places around the world”

            No! That is empire resource wars – the last of peak resources have been diminished, so we must make sure to steal all we can get our filthy paws on… By force, of course.

        • JohnAZ July 17, 2024 at 9:48 pm #

          SSL

          Jarek loves to bring up the Kalergi conspiracy. I would suggest you read the Wikipedia of it. It IS scary.

          I believe that it may be the basis for the World organizations promoting globalism today, a world full of negroid-caucasian interbreeds with no national identities.

          Note what we are seeing today.

      • Groundhog July 17, 2024 at 5:39 pm #

        So all of us are in need of an “ism”, and some think we are only in need of an “anity”. But we must have *something*.

        Here’s something new and untried for the USA. How about “mind-our-own-business-ism”?

        • SoftStarLight July 17, 2024 at 6:50 pm #

          won’t work..monsters and demons never adhere to “mind-our-own-business-ism”. But honestly, for me personally, i believe in minding our own business as much as we can, but we are a community. Are you not a commenter here along with all of us here within CFN? In some ways can we really mind our own business completely when we come across one another so often?

  131. SoftStarLight July 17, 2024 at 4:51 pm #

    Adam Schiff says its time for Biden to pass the torch.

    its over.

    • cowbell81 July 17, 2024 at 5:05 pm #

      Wouldn’t it be too late to get the Biden name off the ballot in many states, such as Ohio? Biden on the ballot is a sure thing for Trump, who know how it might go sideways with an uncertain replacement.

      I love all the drama in the Democrat party though. All the confusion over their candidate perfectly aligns with how confused they are in society at large with respect to gender, sexual orientation, religion, Israel, etc.

      • SoftStarLight July 17, 2024 at 7:03 pm #

        i too love watching them implode. I think legally they will have a difficult time replacing Biden. Not that i expect the Democrats to bother with laws. But the strong point with any replacement is simply talking about everything the Democrats have been willing to do, including voiding the vote out of 57 million primary voters, to achieve a win politically. iow, there’s nothing they won’t do for power, including bringing the world into a nuclear conflagration.

      • Paula D July 18, 2024 at 2:13 pm #

        If Democrats showed anything in 2020, it is their complete disregard for election laws.

        If they want him off, and it certainly appears that they do, they will simply break the laws and put someone else on.

        Whaddayougonnadoaboutit?

  132. Rulo Deschamps July 17, 2024 at 5:35 pm #

    Reading comprehension, please: I haven’t written, or in any way endorse today’s WSJ opinion column by Kimberley Strassel. Just sharing as food for thought here at CFN, so fellow commenters in the peanut galleries can ponder without shelling out the 4 shekels a month this costs:

    “The GOP’s “Forgotten” Convention
    Donald Trump’s reveal of Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance as his running mate, in retrospect, should have been anything but news.

    Kimberley A. StrasselJuly 17, 2024 4:20 pm
    All Things with Kim Strassel provides newsy analysis of the workings of D.C. (and beyond). Kim’s giving the inside track on both the overhyped and overlooked events of the week.

    The GOP’s “Forgotten” Convention

    Donald Trump’s reveal of Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance as his running mate, in retrospect, should have been anything but news. The party’s release the week prior of its platform—dedicated to the “Forgotten Men and Women of America”—made clear this campaign is gearing everything toward one key demographic this election: the working class.

    That’s ultimately what earned the “Hillbilly Elegy” author the nod. Vance’s bestselling memoir of cultural dysfunction helped propel him to the Senate, where he’s since adopted an economic nationalism directed at the laboring classes. Trump has become convinced this is the electoral path to victory and that Vance’s story and style will help win the ticket enough working-class voters to prevail in key battlegrounds. The GOP nominee was unabashedly honest about Vance’s microtarget role in a Truth Social post in which he promised his running mate “will be strongly focused on…American Workers and Farmers in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Minnesota, and far beyond.” (Take the “far beyond” as afterthought.)

    Trump remained undecided until the final hours, but the convention agenda was already screaming for Vance (or fellow populist Marco Rubio). From its platform promise to remake a party of “Industry, Manufacturing, Infrastructure and Workers,” to the inclusion of “everyday American” speakers, to its first-ever (and cringeworthy) prime-time address by a labor-union boss (Teamsters head Sean O’Brien), the RNC is pitching everything for the vote of Average Joe.

    Is it the smart play? Vance certainly brings upsides. You don’t go from author to senator to vice presidential nominee in 18 months without talent. His assets:

    Youth. At 39, Vance is 20 years younger than Kamala Harris; half the age of his now-boss; and 42 years younger than Joe Biden. Some voters might consider a bit too young and green, but in a race that now features Biden’s steep decline, any nominee unburdened by on-call health specialists gets marks.
    Smarts. The Yale Law School grad has proved himself intelligent, articulate and able to handle pressure. Though a veteran of but one campaign, it was brutal fight that provided a thorough vetting under a withering press assault.
    Bucks. A final point in Vance’s favor was the potential for his tech-venture background to bring in campaign cash. That’s already paying off with the Tuesday announcement that Marc Andreesen and Ben Horowitz will back the Trump campaign, and an expectation of more Silicon Valley titans to fall in line.
    Department of Conventional Wisdom. For all the hype, Vance is unlikely to add to the common-guy pitch. Trump is himself a juggernaut among non-college-educated voters, who are more than a decade into an exodus from the Democratic Party. It’s Trump’s jam, and polls suggest he was already set to increase notably his share of white working-class voters, and continue the party’s sizable inroads with working-class black and Hispanic voters. Most of these converts are voting for a return to a Trump agenda that brought them economic advancement—and that nostalgia has no connection to Vance. Trump would’ve gotten their vote regardless.

    Not that Vance will hurt the ticket; it’s more a question of lost opportunity. Trump does have a deficit with an extremely important constituency; moderate and suburban voters who lean right economically but remain wary of his character. Those voters might also make all the difference in close-run states (they did in 2020), and a more traditional GOP figure like Nikki Haley or Glenn Youngkin or Doug Burgum might have won them over. Who’s the forgotten electorate now?

    Scoping the Secret Service

    Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle faces a subpoena from House Oversight Chairman James Comer, after the committee accused the Department of Homeland Security of scuttling a Tuesday closed-door Secret Service briefing about the attempted assassination of Donald Trump.

    Cheatle was already set to appear for a hearing next Monday, but the committee then said DHS “took over communications” and refused to confirm this week’s member update, forcing Oversight to compel her attendance. Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas now risks getting pulled into this fray.

    Sources familiar with the investigation provided me a rundown of what have since Saturday become the committee’s biggest questions. Did the the Secret Service have any intelligence into shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks? (His lack of an arrest record doesn’t mean he wasn’t on file.) What pre-op went into this event, namely how was a nearby building in a wide-open area left outside “the perimeter” and unprotected? And the biggie: Was there a misallocation of resources? How many agents were on this appearance? Were they enough? If not, why not? Were they overstressed, diverted or relying too much on outside teams?

    The committee will soundly reject any suggestion this was a failure of local law-enforcement partners. Sources note the Secret Service alone retains the mission of protecting leaders and candidates and bears responsibility for ensuring its sites, personnel and affiliates are prepared. Mostly, sources stressed the urgency of answers and fixes. Lawmakers aren’t just shocked that an apparently solo and amateur 20-year-old nearly took out a former president. They are alarmed that this happened with more than three months of campaigning to go in a highly charged campaign, and even as the Secret Service takes on new obligations with the protection of candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

    Still a Way to Go, Joe

    How long was that Biden campaign reprieve from threats to Joe’s renomination? The length of a convention opening. By Tuesday, Democrats had briskly moved on from the Trump assassination attempt to a new panic about their leader, with reports that “dozens of House Democrats” were organizing a letter to protest efforts to crown Biden nominee in an early virtual roll call as soon as July 21.

    The White House has worked to seize control during the crisis, with Mr. Biden responding to the assassination attempt on Sunday and giving an address on Sunday. But the party is highly aware of the boost this is giving Mr. Trump and of its own sinking chances at keeping the White House. Take it from a longtime star White House apologist, Rep. Adam Schiff: If Biden “is our nominee, I think we lose,” the Senate candidate said at a weekend fundraiser.

    By the numbers:

    The total years a Supreme Court justice might be allowed to sit under unknown Supreme Court “reforms” a desperate Biden is threatening to unleash to revive his flagging campaign. Fact: Term limits would require a constitutional amendment.

    Number of counts of which New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez was this week found guilty in a federal trial on bribery and extortion, as Washington Democrats anxiously wait to see if he continues to seek re-election as an independent and potentially throws the Garden State in play.

    The number of four-legged speakers on the RNC convention stage so far this week. West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice, running for Senate, appeared with his famous canine, Babydog. Short on policy, long on happy pants, Babydog earned chants of her name and later wild applause when Justice translated her prediction of a GOP House, Senate and White House in November. Babydog herself made no endorsements.

    (Un)Quote of the Week:

    “the stakes of this election just got even higher…Let’s be clear: A Trump-Vance ticket would undermine our democracy, our freedoms and our future.” —Democratic National Committee Chairman Jaime Harrison, days after bipartisan worries that continued claims of electoral apocalypse risk further violent attacks on politicians.

    Book Nook:

    Are you kidding? I haven’t even read my kids’ texts this week. It’s a convention! But it’s as good a time as any to join the masses and read (or reread) “Hillbilly Elegy”—if only to see the many and varied ways Vance has changed policy views since 2016.”

    • Socrates-Detroit July 17, 2024 at 7:26 pm #

      Interesting piece that conveys how the ESTABLISHMENT wants to package this and move on:

      An “apparent” lone wolf…..

      Nothing about WHO would benefit most from Trump’s death.

      And who might that be? The military-industrial complex is one. Of course, the WSJ is one of their mouthpieces, so nothing to see here…

      The Democratic Party. In the wake of the disastrous Presidential debate, where prominent Democrats and donors want Biden to step aside, Trump’s departure would it a LOT easier to ease out Biden. I think they realize too many people who would vote Democrat or vote against Trump are going to NOT vote for Biden, and may not vote at all.

      Certain elements of the deep state. Another Republican is likely to “unify” and sweep things under the rug–because the Bush/McConnell/Rubio/Niki Haley types feed from the same trough of slop as the Democrats.

      • JohnAZ July 17, 2024 at 8:21 pm #

        Yes S-D.

        Think of these things.

        Who could convince the kid to commit suicide and why?

        Today, reports of how really bad the secret service coverage was is coming to light. Reports of watching Crooks up to 3 hours prior to his shooting, then one hour, then ten minutes.

        Dozens of people pointing out the shooter minutes before he set up and took the shots.
        No SS reaction.

        The SS chief saying they gave the building to local police to cover. The local cops say that is BS. They hadn’t covered the building on the inside of the building.

        The ladder he went up was in place and noticed before he was discovered.

        The SS chief stated that SS did not post sentries on the perps building because the pitch was too much, yet the pitch on the roof the sniper was on was higher.

        I almost have the feeling that the SS paved a path for Crooks to access the firing position. I will guarantee you that everything is being done right now to block the investigation. The shit is going to hit the fan.

        How did they convince the kid?

        • Paula D July 18, 2024 at 2:26 pm #

          They told him that they would protect him. They didn’t tell him that patsies are taken out immediately.
          He’s only 20, he probably hadn’t learned that yet.

      • Jarek July 17, 2024 at 8:44 pm #

        If they wanted him dead, they would have used one or more pros. Ask Ely about how far away one of these guys can kill. There is little to stop them. Now these guys are precious, both to themselves and to others. They don’t want them caught and traced back to them. Thus the patsy.

        You really think they were counting on this poor punk to change the world?

        Study the JFK case, always bearing in mind that they did want JFK gone but didn’t want Trump gone. How do I know? Because he’s still here.

        • JohnAZ July 17, 2024 at 8:48 pm #

          Just wait, Jarek, more info is coming every day.

        • JohnAZ July 17, 2024 at 8:50 pm #

          The Biden administration is fully capable of bungling an assassination attempt.

          • OG July 18, 2024 at 1:23 am #

            What? Are you saying that Trump was not in on 7/13’s “assassination attempt” but “Biden” was?

          • ZrCrypDiK July 18, 2024 at 4:02 pm #

            I heard that guy was gunna try and snipe Biden too!!! DC is a small city.

        • gustafson.robert.22 July 17, 2024 at 11:49 pm #

          Anything happens was perfectly planned. Evidence for this? The fact that it happened.

          Mmmmkay.

          • OG July 18, 2024 at 1:25 am #

            In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
            – President Franklin D. Roosevelt

    • Paula D July 18, 2024 at 2:25 pm #

      I think that Vance was an excellent choice, even if the WSJ thinks that a Deep State swamp monster would have been better.
      Trump has been there, done that. This is a signal that he has learned at least one lesson.

      Biden has called in sick for the rest of the campaign. He’ll be in the basement if you need him.
      If they can take out Jill, they can get his resignation easily. I doubt they’ll kill her, though. If they wanted to do that, they would have assigned her the B team, instead of Trump.

      Will the media swillers notice that Biden is fully “vaxed” and boosted, but has just contracted covid for the third time?
      Will they still line up for their Safe and Effective combo flu/covid/RSV shot this fall?

      Ha! Of course they will. As a great meme pointed out, those who are sneering at Trump wearing an “unnecessary” bandage over his ear wound are the same ones who wore a mask for two years.
      They’ll line up for their shot, including for RSV, which everyone in America has already had by the time they are two years old, and then they’ll brag about it.

  133. The Man They Call Zazelle July 17, 2024 at 5:38 pm #

    Anarchism is participatory… it’s based on the assumption that any authoritarian or any structure of authority and domination has to justify itself– none of them are self-justifying– whether they’re in individual relations, or international affairs or the workplace or whatever… They have a burden of proof to bear, and if they can’t bear that burden– which they usually can’t– they’re illegitimate and should be dismantled and replaced by alternative structures which are free and participatory and are not based on authoritarian systems…

    Go back 150 years… beginnings of the industrial revolution… At that time, the mills were being formed around Boston. They were bringing in working people, what were called factory-girls– young women from farms. Irish workmen from Downtown Boston… had a very free and lively press at the time, which they, themselves, ran. This was before the period of commercial press-domination and the general press was much more diverse, and much more free and much more lively than it’s ever been since. Quite the peak period of freedom-of-the-press in the US and also in England. And the press is quite interesting. It was written by the participants- their assumptions are what are relevant here- they just took for granted that wage labour was virtually the same as slavery. They had no influence from European radicalism– never heard of Marx, nothing of this– it’s just the ordinary assumptions of people who think reasonably about the world. Wage labour is illegitimate, it’s like slavery.

    This is right around the time of the civil war. Northern workers in the American Civil War fought under that banner; that wage slavery is like chattel slavery. In fact it was even the position of the Republican Party. It was a fairly mainstream position. You’ve even got editorials in the NY Times about it, believe it or not. And they also took for granted that the industrial system is totally illegitimate. It’s just a form of feudalism to which people are driven by essentially violence or starvation, and has to be overcome. Those who work in the mills should own them is taken for granted. The feudalistic industrial system was destroying their culture…

    These are understandings about the nature of freedom and domination that have been lost. So it’s not pure progress. How far they’ve been lost is an interesting question. My suspicion is that they’re right below the surface. And when the issues arise– right now– working people in the counterpart of the mills will recognize the relevance and accuracy of these, basically anarchist, positions…” ~ Noam Chomsky

    • Paula D July 18, 2024 at 2:36 pm #

      The assumption of Chomsky, and of Marx before him, was that it would be the industrial workers who would overthrow capitalism.

      But that has never happened. The only successful revolutions have been mostly peasants uprisings. And as he points out here, those straight off the farms were the ones who recognized slavery when they saw it, no matter if they were paid with money as wage slaves, or room and board as chattel slaves. But he thinks that there is some sort of human intuition that tells us this, “right below the surface”.
      Yeah, no. There isn’t.

      By the time a couple of generations have lived as wage slaves, they think it is normal. Humans are very adaptable. If dad and granddad both went out and got jobs, then that is the natural and normal way of humanity.
      Never mind that it is only 150 years old, and that there are still humans today who live in tribes and don’t “go to work” for The Man everyday.
      Those people simply don’t exist. And neither did your ancestors. It has ever been as it is today.

      The Flintstones shows us that even prehistoric humans got up every day and drove to work. Also, the Jetsons showed us that it would be like that in the future, also. So it must be true.

      • MiTurn July 18, 2024 at 6:45 pm #

        Marx was a man of his generation. His relevancy died out a century ago. Today, he’s a prop.

  134. The Man They Call Zazelle July 17, 2024 at 7:38 pm #

    A One-Size-Fits-All Government Fits No One

    So what’s your optimal government then?

    You.

    And/Or Your People who willingly get on-board– with the freedom to truly divorce

  135. elysianfield July 17, 2024 at 7:42 pm #

    CFN’rs,

    I am in a bit of a crisis. For the last several years I was comfortable, certain even, that the game was over for the USA. So many variables, all of them turning negative…wars, rumors of wars, corruption, political ascendancy of the Marxists among us, The aggressively anti-2nd Amendment moves of state, local and federal agencies. Once it was decided that there was no hope, then, as the stoics amongst us would recognize, you can achieve a peace of mind…no surprises, no outrage too outrageous, a done deal, in other words.

    However, in the last several weeks, what has occurred?

    The Trump ascension to Godhead. Billionaires funding Marxist causes backing the Republicans. Many naysayers turning to Trump as the victim.

    The ATF reigned in by the Supreme Court.

    NATO telling Poland that they do not support further Polish efforts in the Ukrainian war that would be seen as a further provocation.

    Rumors that Premier Xi may have had a series of strokes, with no heir apparent in the wings.

    Popular culture becoming more…combative of the Woke agenda.

    Hope? Anathema to an untroubled mind.

    Certainly we have a myriad of major issues that will not go away…Several generations lost to the Marxists. A fully corrupted financial system that refuses to die, the rule of law badly stressed, Immigration failures and the follow-on issues they will inevitably bring. And then, of course, there are the Canadian Anarchists….

    I am vaguely discomforted. My worldview at risk.

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    • The Man They Call Zazelle July 17, 2024 at 8:09 pm #

      “The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.” ~ Karl Marx

      See also:

      July 17, 2024 at 7:48 pm

    • Jarek July 17, 2024 at 8:10 pm #

      Don’t worry. The King is coming. Your King. John’s King. The Antichrist. John doesn’t even care about abortion anymore, only the triumph of Masonry and Zionism.

      • Groundhog July 18, 2024 at 10:57 am #

        A King is coming to fix all this? So deep down, Jarek, in spite of all his fancy talk, is really a monarchist?

      • elysianfield July 18, 2024 at 5:54 pm #

        Jarek,
        MY king is coming? Excellent? I need protection for that, you know, tongue thing.

    • beantownbill. July 17, 2024 at 8:48 pm #

      Have no fear, ef. humans are experts at fucking things up.

    • stelmosfire July 18, 2024 at 6:53 am #

      “Rumors that Premier Xi may have had a series of strokes”

      I can’t find it right now but I saw a picture of Xi recently. He was in a chair next to Putin. It looked like they were in a care facility being spoon fed soft food ( oatmeal?) by two candy stripers.They were drooling all over themselves and wearing depends. There was an empty chair next to them. Biden’s perhaps?

  136. The Man They Call Zazelle July 17, 2024 at 7:48 pm #

    Well Within Earshot

    Remember the good ol’ days when dictatorships captured the media, the legal system, if there was any, and eliminated, or tried to eliminate, the opposition, sometimes legally, or via mysterious circumstances, such as poisonings or car/plane crashes or disappearances?

    We’ve come a long way, Baby.

    useful idiot
    noun
    plural useful idiots
    : a naive or credulous person who can be manipulated or exploited to advance a cause or political agenda

    ‘It is one task of the KGB [in 1982] to apply its skills of secrecy and deception to projecting the Soviet party’s influence. This it does through contacts with legal Communist Parties abroad, with groups sympathetic to Soviet goals, with do-gooders of the type that Lenin once described as ‘useful idiots’ … .~ The Wall Street Journal ”

    ~ Merriam Webster Dictionary, online

  137. Kornado July 17, 2024 at 7:49 pm #

    I’ve been following the post trump assassination attempt since it occurred through the usual video podcasts like JHK and blog, cursory with mainstream media, and my own percolations.

    Maybe you’ve seen one of my few posts where I heavily consider the idea that the blob got to Trump and they convinced him to do this.

    I haven’t seen a compelling reason against the possibility that he is captive, especially considering the ability that it could be true (what changes?).

    Unless you’re a Trump sycophant or somehow on this blog without the most robust conspiracy objective character, despite those that just spout vindictiveness like candy, and others who could be bots? or agents or AI keeping track, and learning?

    Psychopaths aren’t programmed to be binary like us programmed citizens, they ARE.

    There is so much signaling going on, details to people out there, that’s what a lot of the imagery seems to me.

    • The Man They Call Zazelle July 17, 2024 at 8:12 pm #

      A Different Kind of Connecting-The-Dots

      “According to him, the dystopia of the… Matrix trilogy is already here: the technological-industrial ‘machine’ is already running the world, a world where individual humans are but insignificant little cogs with barely any autonomy. No single human being – neither the most powerful politician, nor the most powerful businessman – has the power to rein in the system. They necessarily have to follow the inexorable logic of what has been unleashed.” ~ G Sampath on John Zerzan

      “…it is clear that the existence of a centralized state vastly increases both the profit and the prevalence of violence. The fact that the violence is masked by obedience in no way diminishes the brutality of coercion. All moralists interested in one of the greatest topics of ethics? the reduction or elimination of violence? would do well to understand the depth and degree to which the existence of a centralized state promotes, exacerbates and profits from violence… as we can see from countless examples throughout history, violence always escalates until civil society is utterly destroyed. Because the state so directly profits from violence, eliminating the state can in no way increase the use of violence within society. Quite the contrary… eliminating the state will, to a degree unprecedented in human history, eliminate violence as well.” ~ Stefan Molyneux

      “Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of the government.” ~ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

      “Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.” ~ Noam Chomsky

      “Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.” ~ P.J. O’Rourke

      “Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they’ve told you what you think it is you want to hear.” ~ Alan Coren

      “The measure of the state’s success is that the word anarchy frightens people, while the word state does not.” ~ Joseph Sobran

      • Kornado July 17, 2024 at 8:24 pm #

        I like the Poudhon quote

        • The Man They Call Zazelle July 17, 2024 at 11:50 pm #

          Covers a fair bit of ground.

      • JohnAZ July 17, 2024 at 8:38 pm #

        To Alan Coren “ after they’ve told you what they think it is what you think it is what you want to hear.” They would not give up the difference in power.

        Otherwise, excellent choices.

      • Jarek July 17, 2024 at 8:46 pm #

        More Nahum Goldman

        “All social strata and social formations created by traditional society must be annihilated, individual men and women must be uprooted from their ancestral environment, torn out of their native milieus, no tradition of any type shall be permitted to remain as sacrosanct, traditional social norms must only be viewed as a disease to be eradicated, the ruling dictum of the new order is; nothing is good so everything must be criticized and abolished, everything that was, must be gone.

        After destruction of the old order, construction of the new order is a larger and more difficult task. We will have torn out the old limbs from their ancient roots in deep layers, social norms will be lying disorganized and anarchic so they must be blocked against new cultural forms and social categories naturally re-emerging. The general masses will have been first persuaded to join as equals in the first task of destroying their own traditional society and economic culture, but then the new order must be forcibly established through people again being divided and differentiated only in accordance with the new pyramidal hierarchical system of our imposed global monolithic new world order.”

  138. tucsonspur July 17, 2024 at 8:17 pm #

    I don’t particularly care for Vance, once a never Trumper but now his ass kisser in-chief. A marine veteran who was a war correspondent in Iraq for six months and who then went over to the Public Affairs section of the 2nd marine aircraft wing. Semper Fi until we die! Yeah, right.

    Hill Billy Vance goes to work for Peter Thiel as a ‘venture capitalist’, and writes his book, ‘Hillbilly Elegy’. Gets tech billionaires to back him and thus climbs the ‘hill with the bills’.

    He himself once said that he never really accomplished anything. Well, ‘he’ did now, and his hairy rat face will now be plastered all over media for who knows how long.

    Vance is not really in the vanguard, never was. A real ass kissing, phony, hill billy game player, with little substance and a lot of suck up.

    Nikki Haley would have been better. It was evident from Trump’s reaction to her speech that she was no hiney hugger, no busser of the buttocks.

    • Jarek July 17, 2024 at 8:19 pm #

      Venture capitalist? Where did he get the money for that? Didn’t he come from poverty?

      • JohnAZ July 17, 2024 at 8:34 pm #

        Jarek, has there EVER been anyone you have liked?

        • Jarek July 17, 2024 at 8:36 pm #

          Do you know where he got the money to do this or not?

          You’re an asshole but it’s not your fault. You’re a casualty of the mental war waged against our People. You’re not right in the gulliver.

          • JohnAZ July 17, 2024 at 8:59 pm #

            I consider it a compliment that you consider me an asshole, if I thought anything like you I would be ashamed of myself.

            I have always thought it typical that when you run out of things to say, out comes the name calling.

    • JohnAZ July 17, 2024 at 8:33 pm #

      Right now, TS, who cares, What ever it takes to take power away from the Leftist assholes in the Deep State.

      Vance appeals to the rust belt working class, the states that are going to win the election.

      • OG July 17, 2024 at 11:06 pm #

        … who cares, What ever it takes to take power away from the Leftist assholes in the Deep State.
        – JAZ

        You Americans are so naive.
        – Steve Martin

        FYI, JAZ: The Deep State works fine under either party.

        Operation Warpspeed

        • JohnAZ July 17, 2024 at 11:31 pm #

          That is what scares the Deep State so much about Trump, he is a new party getting ready to tear down the Leftist agenda of the Uniparty of the Deep State.

          I watch the convention signaling unity and realize that a third of the GOP wishes the assassin did not miss.

          The country is no longer split Dem and GOP, it is split Red and Blue, big controlling government versus small government, USA global domination versus no more proxy wars.

          I wonder what George Conley, Mary Trump, and Liz Cheney are cooking up now.

          The US divide is no longer between Dem and GOP.

          • OG July 17, 2024 at 11:40 pm #

            But … take a step further back and look again, JAZ. They all work for “the Deep State.” It is merely Saturday TV Rasslin’ with pretend feuds.

            Trump did not have a chunk of his ear blown off with a bullet last Saturday. There is NO WAY that that wound could possible clot in one minute without pressure, JAZ. Only fools would believe that.

            Erego, Trump is in on it. Trump is working for the clampdown.

            Frick v Frack

            “The Deep State” owns both sides, JAZ. D’uh!

  139. Jarek July 17, 2024 at 8:18 pm #

    Nahum Goldmann quotes

    The Jews might have had Uganda, Madagascar, and other places for the establishment of a Jewish Fatherland, but they wanted absolutely nothing except Palestine, not because the Dead Sea water by evaporation can produce five trillion dollars of metaloids and powdered metals; not because the sub-soil of Palestine contains twenty times more petroleum than all the combined reserves of the two Americas; but because Palestine is the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa, because Palestine constitutes the veritable center of world political power, the strategic center for world control.
    — Nahum Goldmann

    I hardly exaggerate. Jewish life consists of two elements: Extracting money and protesting.
    — Nahum Goldmann

    There has been Anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?

    Jarek: Just found out about this guy. He has an illumined mind. There is no need for hate. Their job is just to get rid of us. Ben Gurion talked this way about the Palestinians. This is equivalent to Aryan Dharma. Action without hatred. The karma yoga taught by Krishna on the battle field.

    Yes, Nahum. Why would we accept that? We don’t and won’t. But alas, so many do because of your propaganda war.

    • JohnAZ July 17, 2024 at 8:28 pm #

      There job is to get rid of us?

      Hmmm, didn’t Mein Kampf specify the plan of Hitler to kill the people of Europe, especially Eastern Europe, and replace them with German Aryan people? Starting with the Jews.

      Uh, yes it did. Hitler did not hide anything, he drove toward his goal from day one of his ascent to power.

      • Jarek July 17, 2024 at 8:34 pm #

        So you accept that they are trying to get rid of us as per the Kalergi Plan (which helped pave the way for the rise of Hitler)?

        • JohnAZ July 17, 2024 at 9:15 pm #

          Had to refresh, ie the Kalergi plan.

          Just another Mein Kampf, another eugenics fool who thought the natural flow of things was going to destroy European nationalism and create a negroid-Caucasian master race that would destroy European national identities. Under the ruling of the Jews.

          Hmmm, which Jews, Jarek? The poor bastards that ended up in Israel, or maybe the Rothschilds or the Soros or even the Schwabs?

          Kalergi thought the immigration would evolve a master race, unifying Europe. Hitler wanted the same thing using the German people using military means.

          Think about the globalists today, aren’t they pushing the Kalergi plan? The Leftists of the world want that negroid-Caucasian master race, through immigration in Europe and America and the politics of the EU and the Biden Administration.

          Is BRICS+ a Kalergic movement or just the opposite, promoting individual cultures. Is Trump a Kalergic believer? I do not think so.

          Finally, who is the capstone of the Kalergic conspiracy? Not just Jews, but every Mob in the history of the world.

          Power!

          • Jarek July 17, 2024 at 10:38 pm #

            Uh, wrong. He wanted to create a mixed, slave race with the Jews as the Master race. He had a series of the Jewish girlfriends and wives. Post-coital hypnosis added on to his hated of his White nobleman father? He himself was half White/half Japanese.

            And yes, the Jews liked his ideas every much.

          • JohnAZ July 17, 2024 at 11:08 pm #

            Jarek, if you bring it up, it would be nice if you knew what you are talking about. I am not wrong, nor are you.

            Kalergi thought the melding process which you correctly point out, was going to happen naturally if the borders were taken down, that national identities would just fade away.

            Hitler believed the same thing, not with hybrids but with Aryans.

            Both were wrong. Europe right now is trying to reclaim its nationalities from the Leftist EU and WEF.

            We have to get rid of the Dems here before the same effort can be done.

          • JohnAZ July 17, 2024 at 11:20 pm #

            I did omit that Kalergi’s edition of the master race was going to be negroid-Caucasian, but said it later.

          • OG July 17, 2024 at 11:23 pm #

            If all that you have is a hammer, then all problems look like a nail.

            ***
            JAZ “thinks” that if free people just toss out the “Lefties” and bring in the “Righties,” then the Deep State will be shit-of-of-luck.

            And, yet, he calls me a “fool”!

          • JohnAZ July 17, 2024 at 11:33 pm #

            Well, OG, only a fool like you would expect voting for Biden would help out.

            Talking about, “want to buy a Biden bridge”

            Or an OG bridge.

          • OG July 18, 2024 at 1:01 am #

            … only a fool like [OG] would expect voting for Biden would help out.

            I don’t expect that voting for Biden would help out, JAZ. And I never said anything of the kind.

            Rather, you are so brain-washed that you hear criticism of Trump as an automatic endorsement of Biden.

            I keep telling you that I oppose both Biden and Trump but you simply cannot overcome your brain-washing so you counter with, like Thomas Matthew Crooks on the “too steep” roof, blanks.

  140. JohnAZ July 17, 2024 at 8:22 pm #

    Biden has Covid, poetic Justice? Or a target?

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    • beantownbill. July 17, 2024 at 8:38 pm #

      Or an excuse to not speak in public.

      • JohnAZ July 17, 2024 at 9:16 pm #

        Yeah, back into the basement.

  141. beantownbill. July 17, 2024 at 8:36 pm #

    There’s an enormous amount of bullshit flying around about the assassination attempt. I see two camps commenting on this: Those that think Trump knew about this in advance and maybe even helped plan it; and those that think the whole thing wasn’t real.

    To my mind, I think Trump had nothing to do with the attempt. It makes little sense that he would allow someone to take a shot with an AR rifle toward his head. As far as fake blood, there were real pictures that showed no blood on his hands and none on his ear just before he was hit, but some pics showed blood on his ear as soon as he was hit, with no red substance on his hands.

    After the debate, Trump was definitely in the driver’s seat re the election. There is no reason he would need sympathy to rise in the polls.

    However, the Dems and the media are trying to gaslight us. I believe the account of the action is not accurate, and probably there was a plot to take Trump out.

    Rather than go into detail and take up space here, I would recommend reading Chris Martenson’s posts on the Peak Prosperity website.

    • Kornado July 17, 2024 at 8:52 pm #

      beantownbill, I like your comment, because you express it in an objective enough favorable way.  I presented Trump as a tragic enough figure, in that, they convinced him to comply on a level I wouldn’t put myself past. I love Chris Martenson, have followed him since his first podcasts of Kunstlercast, He is the ‘furin cleavage’ man.  But it did annoy me he said doubters of the already ‘conspiracy’ event trans another i guess, was being a ‘moron’..I have no skin in anything, i’m just a guy living day to day, but man my brain’s buzzing overload.

    • JohnAZ July 17, 2024 at 9:23 pm #

      You see two camps, I see another emerging, the Left wing zealots that are going to try to kill Trump now that Lawfare has failed and their candidate has started to fail.

      Trump had nothing to do with it. As I have said before, you think Trump the germaphobe is going to conspire with someone to shoot at him? Even thinking that is ludicrous. Want to find out who, start with the SS chief. She cannot be that stupid.

      • Kornado July 17, 2024 at 9:35 pm #

        how is it ludicrous if your other option is more trial and prison, humiliation, he’s the grand narcissicist, easy to convince himself this was the right thing to do and play the part well…we might get a couple years under him that are fun before we all burn…yeah to him i say.

        • Kornado July 17, 2024 at 9:35 pm #

          yea

        • JohnAZ July 17, 2024 at 11:40 pm #

          More trial and prison, not on your life, it is all going to be thrown out and Biden, who is just as guilty, will be sweating, if he lasts that long.

          Narcissism, yep, how could someone put up with the shit a president does without firm belief he is right.

          If Trump cannot get the job done, we are finished anyway.

          Hope becomes hopelessness.

          IMHO, I believe the future global situation depends on what Trump does with BRICS+.

          • OG July 18, 2024 at 1:18 am #

            Can’t you see? Trump works for BRICS.

          • Paula D July 18, 2024 at 2:36 pm #

            Does with BRICS?

            What do you think he should, or could, do with BRICS?

      • beantownbill. July 17, 2024 at 9:37 pm #

        You could be right, but never underestimate how stupid a person can be. Personally, I think she’s at least an accessory after the fact.

        • Kornado July 17, 2024 at 9:38 pm #

          can’t both us still be sort of true

          • beantownbill. July 17, 2024 at 9:43 pm #

            Yes.

      • OG July 17, 2024 at 10:48 pm #

        you think Trump the germaphobe is going to conspire with someone to shoot at him? Even thinking that is ludicrous.

        Strawman.

        Trump was never shot at.

        • JohnAZ July 17, 2024 at 10:57 pm #

          You are bordering on insanity, OG. I guess that dead fireman and two injured people in the same locale as Trump are other figments of your vivid imagination. That the picture with Trump and an obvious bullet freeze framed behind his head is another fake. Every piece of information that is available calls you a fool.

          Believe what you want, fool, Trump is going to win this fall. If another of your phantom assassins doesn’t get to him.

          • OG July 17, 2024 at 11:18 pm #

            Your guesses are brutal, JAZ. Hint: if you don’t have a fucking clue, stop guessing.

            So the pros picked off a couple of people in the stands to make fools like you think everything’s on the up-and-up. What of it? They killed 3,000 Americans on 9/11, thousands more on 8/8, what’s a dead fireman and a couple injuries to scumbags like these guys?

            I’m told that a camera that can record a speeding bullet in flight is not the camera with the settings that someone uses taking pictures of a stationary man at a podium. I don’t know if that is true but it sure sounds reasonable to me. Shutter speeds for the two types of photography are at complete opposite ends of the spectrum.

            Regardless, I do know that a pro on PhotoShop could have that bullet on that perfect blue sky before morning coffee break.

            Trump’s in on it, fool.

            Ears don’t lose a chunk yet clot tickety-boo in one minute without pressure, fool.

            ***
            JAZ likes to name-call but then complains about name-calling.

            He’s a bit of a Mama’s boy.

          • JohnAZ July 17, 2024 at 11:41 pm #

            Eff you, OG. I am done with your insanity.

          • OG July 18, 2024 at 12:14 am #

            OK, JAZ.

            Indignation is psychologically so much easier than is truth-realization.

            You refuse to address Trump’s Magic-Clotting Ear because you can’t possibly.

            Check-mate.

            ***
            Cling to your Mommy-state psychological blanky, Mama’s boy, and let the men take care of the men troubles.

          • stelmosfire July 18, 2024 at 12:15 pm #

            OG: ” I’m told that a camera that can record a speeding bullet in flight is not the camera with the settings that someone uses taking pictures of a stationary man at a podium.”

            Well you’ve been told wrong.Your information sources are shit for the most part.

    • OG July 17, 2024 at 10:47 pm #

      As far as fake blood, there were real pictures that showed no blood on his hands and none on his ear just before he was hit, but some pics showed blood on his ear as soon as he was hit, with no red substance on his hands.

      Ummm … the SS put the Hollywood fake “blood” on Trump’s ear while they had him out of sight for an entire minute, Bill. Trump’s hand having no “blood” on it supports the “conspiracy theorists” as if the official story were true, he undoubtedly would have gotten blood on his hand and on the white collar of his white dress shirt.

      I am amazed at how many strawman keep popping up hare. It’s really very simple:

      Trump turns to his right to address the over-sized chart. This is the signal for the “festivities” to begin. Crooks thinks that he’s trying to shoot Trump but really is a patsy firing blanks. Trump is supposedly hit (taking a chunk off of his ear) and immediately put his right hand to his right ear. He then removed his hand from the supposed gun-shot wound that took a chunk of flesh from him <b<bloodless! Trump then dove like a gopher. SS “protected” him (i.e. covered him from the cameras) and applied the Hollywood fake “blood” on his ear. They then stood him up. Perfect photo op. Bob’s your uncle.

      Further, you weren’t supposed to think about how ridiculous losing a chunk of ear to a bullet could possibly clot tickety-boo in only one minute without pressure!

      Argue against that sequence of events rather than strawmen, ok?

      • stelmosfire July 18, 2024 at 12:16 pm #

        I already said this but an AR will not cycle blanks without modifications. Again your wrong . As usual.

  142. OG July 17, 2024 at 10:29 pm #

    The Doctor Bandaging Trump’s Ear Said Trump Might Live to 200

    ca.yahoo.com/news/doctor-bandaging-trump-ear-said-131544443.html

    Precious little is publicly known about the medical treatment that Donald Trump has received since a gunman injured the former president in an assassination attempt over the weekend. But one man in the know is Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX), Trump’s former White House physician.

    In an interview Monday, Jackson said Trump was missing “a little bit at the top” of his ear in the wake of the shooting. “I went up and dressed his ear this morning,” Jackson told right-wing media figure Benny Johnson. The white bandage on Trump’s ear has become so much of a talking point at the current Republican National Convention that some attendees have even started bandaging their own ears to show their support to the wounded presumptive nominee.

    ***
    There you have it, ladies & gentlemen! The magic clot to end all magic clots! A minor cut at the top of the ear of a regular person requires 8 minutes with constant pressure to clot while President Trump actually loses a chunk of the top of his ear[!] but then clots it tickety-boo in 1 minute with no pressure.

    Yep. Pretty sure. Nothing fishy about that.

    Wanna buy a bridge?

    • OG July 17, 2024 at 11:32 pm #

      JAZ calls me “insane” and a “fool” yet JAZ spent his career in health care and JAZ knows that a chunk of ear blown off with a bullet cannot possibly clot tickety-boo in a single minute without pressure. JAZ knows that the official story is impossible and ridiculous.

      But JAZ can’t address Trump’s Magic-Bullet Ear because there is only one logical conclusion: Trump was not shot in the ear, this was a false flag black op and Trump is in on it.

      JAZ would rather die than face that obvious truth.

      ***
      God bless you, JAZ. You’ve caught glimpses of “the Deep State” vis-à-vis the clot shots. May the truth reveal itself to you.

      • JohnAZ July 17, 2024 at 11:42 pm #

        May you just shut the eff up, for once.

        • OG July 17, 2024 at 11:57 pm #

          I will “just shut the eff up, for once” after you’ve addressed the ridiculousness of Trump’s Magic-Clotting Ear.

          You can’t ignore Trump’s Magic-Clotting Ear like it’s World Trade Centre Bldg 7.

          The fact that the official story is completely impossible means that they are up to no good, JAZ. D’uh!

          Wakey, wakey!

  143. The Man They Call Zazelle July 17, 2024 at 10:43 pm #

    “Zaz,
    Got deer problems in your garden? Old country wisdom dictates that…’you plant one for therin, and you plant one for urine…’

    You are then guaranteed to get the urine.” ~ elysianfield (upthread)

    Absolutely and is what the permaculturists say too.

    One anecdote goes something like if the beetles eat your potatoes, then your potatoes were not supposed to be there. Maybe some other plant was supposed to be there and the potatoes planted elsewhere, if at all.

    Nevertheless, some of my arugula has small holes here and there that have been chewed and back at home when I wash them, I say to myself that we share our food with our fellow creatures.
    Maybe we even ‘Eat zee bugs.’ to paraphrase Klaus Schwab, but at least they are our bugs to eat, not bugs that Schwab says we are to eat.

    I plant a diverse garden and not really in rows for many of the plants. We have some gardeners, however, who plant the same crop in rows in their entire plot. One gardener planted nothing but beans. The deer here like the beans, so they devastated their crop. In my garden’s case, not yet, but I don’t have many bean plants to begin with and they are broken up into separate areas among the other plants, like garlic, basil, tomatoes, spinache, squash, beets and so on.

    Another gardener in the plot next to mine planted a row of peas with a small trellis (if that’s the right word) for the peas to climb. Sounds nice but the trellis happens to be on the sunny side, so it casts a shadow over the rest of their garden after a certain hour. Maybe that’s ok for most plants though.

    In any case, gardening has of course its own strategies and knowledge and learning requirements. They are ongoing processes, but fun once or if one really gets into it.

  144. JohnAZ July 17, 2024 at 11:49 pm #

    I hope JHK is noticing that his commentary section is turning into an anti-Trump conspiracy rag. The bullshit pens are flowing over.

    • OG July 17, 2024 at 11:53 pm #

      Ummm … ears with a chunk blown off the top do not clot tickety-boo in a minute without pressure, JAZ. To believe that his magically did is childish.

      You’re like the 6 year-old child who saw Mommy putting the presents under the tree but yet still believes in Santa Claus.

    • OG July 18, 2024 at 12:08 am #

      Throughout all of mankind’s history, JAZ, people in power have conspired while other people conspired against them.

      Always. Forever and ever.

      In fact, history is nothing more than conspiracies and reactions to conspiracies.

      ***
      Did you “think” that this human constant suddenly just ceased with absolutely no fanfare?

      Talk about dull!

  145. gustafson.robert.22 July 17, 2024 at 11:56 pm #

    I’m coming to realize that the two casualties in the stands behind Trump were victims of a remote DEW weapon in special bullet-simulation-ray mode.

    This is the only logical explanation.

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    • OG July 18, 2024 at 12:03 am #

      Really? I thought you were better than that, Gus.

      ***
      FYI – A small cut on the upper ear will take 8 minutes to clot (if constant pressure is applied).

      President Trump’s ear, on the other hand, supposedly had a chunk blown off with a bullet but it clotted tickety-boo without pressure in just one minute.

      I know, now you’re thinking, “Wait! What? That dog don’t hunt!”

      And well you should, Gus. Well you should.

    • SoftStarLight July 18, 2024 at 12:02 pm #

      lol :0)

  146. The Man They Call Zazelle July 18, 2024 at 12:02 am #

    Are You an Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You! – Based on David Graeber’s Essay

    youtu.be/r6-027_d_8Y?si=_5yshFuepNJoDu2C

  147. OG July 18, 2024 at 12:45 am #

    I know what you said. You still refuse to answer any of the internal contradictions I brought up. Since you keep avoiding those questions, I’ll keep repeating them.

    I’m not avoiding your questions, SF. I’ve answered them already. You, apparently missed my answers and then lash out at me for your negligence exactly like the chick that you are.

    Is it Real Trump or Fake Trump on that platform? You flip-flopped on that, and (AFAIK now) have thrown your hands up and said “maybe”.

    No, I have not flip-flopped on that issue one speck. I’ve been saying (since June) that you can tell the fake “Trump” because fake “Trump” always wears white dress shirt unbuttoned (no tie) and a red MAGA cap pulled low on his brow.

    That is, 7/14’s false flag black op was the fake “Trump.”

    If it’s Fake Trump, why would he be concerned with Masonic symbols to his ‘protectors’ when supposedly off-mike?

    First off, he wasn’t off-mike – we heard him say, “Let me get my shoes.” Duh!

    Who supposed that he was off-mike? Just you and your estrogen, little girl.

    Secondly, fake “Trump” would be “concerned” in delivering his lines in the script as all actors are. It is their job. D’uh!

    Lastly, I’m merely gathering information vis-à-vis the bizarre shoe situation.. Given that Trump does regularly flash Masonic hand symbols and the elite’s sick practice of red shoes, I suspect that the otherwise inexplicably ridiculousness of his shoes being removed from his feet may be explained by Masonic signalling (since that is what they do).

    That is, I’m seeking info and input from others because, as a very successful investigator, that’s how I investigate.

    No evidence that blood would have automatically poured out of a nicked helix.

    A minor cut on the upper ear will clot in 8 minutes with constant pressure yet Trump’s magical ear clotted tickety-boo from a chunk of it being blown off with a bullet in 1 minute with no pressure.

    That there is some very intriguing evidence (even if you don’t like me, little girl).

    No evidence that he actually touched his ear. (His hand went close to his ear, but his head was turned such that only his other ear was shown to the only camera angle we have.)

    True. But 1) How many people wouldn’t touch their ear after having a chunk blown off of it? That’s outlandish. And even more so when one considers his right hand got, at least, ridiculously close to his supposed shot ear.

    And 2) Yes, the false flag black op was choreographed “such that only his other ear was shown to the only camera angle we have.”

    “Well, isn’t that convenient?”
    – The Church Lady

    Credit where credit is due: they are good at their job.

    I could go on, but what’s the point?

    I don’t know? Is it that time of the month again for you?

    You’ll simply deflect and ad hom, like the panicked pussy you are.

    Wrong. I answered your each and every question – yet again.

    ***
    The smoking gun is Trump’s Magic-Clotting Ear, SF. That’s the World Trade Center Bldg 7 of this false flag black op.

    ***
    You’ll simply … ad hom, like the panicked pussy you are.

    Irony, anyone?

    • OG July 18, 2024 at 1:02 am #

      *7/13’s false flag black op …

      • Ron Anselmo July 18, 2024 at 2:02 am #

        7+1 = 8 +3 = 11

        • Ron Anselmo July 18, 2024 at 2:04 am #

          9+1 = 10 + 1 = 11

  148. OG July 18, 2024 at 1:52 am #

    “I don’t like the implications of examining Trump’s ear having a chunk shot off of it but then, magically, clotting tickety-boo in just one minute (and without pressure!) so, in order to protect my fragile psychology from the truth, I will simply ad hom OG. Problem solved.”
    – CFN brainiac

    You can ignore reality but you cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
    – Ayn Rand

  149. SoftStarLight July 18, 2024 at 4:24 am #

    Some interesting thoughts for your morning. Apparently “Joe Biden” has tested positive for covid and will be isolating himself in Delaware for the next few days all the while continuing to do the tough big boy work he must attend to. The public has been assured he is fully boosted up and totally protected from covid. He even tweeted from his X account “I’m sick”. Seems completely normal and totally routine.

    • tucsonspur July 18, 2024 at 4:41 am #

      Will he stay or will he go now? The pressure is on. Last poll on Fox had Kamala tied with Trump if election held now. Can you imagine? Hard to believe.

      Well, the future always unfolds. See ya.

      • SoftStarLight July 18, 2024 at 4:46 am #

        You still watch Fox? Fox is Biden’s news network. Apparently Dems have internal polls showing Kamala is even less popular than Joe. Thus their flailing at the moment.

        • tucsonspur July 18, 2024 at 6:18 pm #

          Yes, I confess. Biden’s network? Jeez, I know that at times they were unfriendly to Trump, Cavuto in particular, but I really can’t believe that Fox is controlled by the Left.

          Maybe those poll numbers are put out to avoid complacency, avoid overconfidence.

      • Ron Anselmo July 18, 2024 at 9:41 am #

        Heel’s-up Harris can’t even complete a sentence. Just like her boss. If she thinks she has any chance of being the next president, she’s bumped her head too many times under Willie Brown’s desk.

        • OG July 18, 2024 at 10:07 am #

          In the aftermath of 9/11, Willie Brown claimed that he was warned not to fly that Tuesday.

          As far as I know, no enterprising reporter ever followed up on that seemingly impossible tidbit.

          • Ron Anselmo July 18, 2024 at 11:14 am #

            I can believe it. The airline short sellers were also very prescient as airline stocks went off a cliff on Monday, for no discernable reason. Shined up their crystal ball, they did.

          • OG July 18, 2024 at 11:57 am #

            I remember, in 2001, waiting for the SEC to report its findings on its investigation into the off-the-charts American and United Airlines’ equities short-selling immediately before 9/11 (and handsomely cashed-in immediately after).

            After weeks of delays, the SEC eventually announced that they could not identify who it was that had profited from this right-off-the-charts airline stocks short-selling!

            What a blatant lie! Individual people made tens of millions of dollars short-selling airline stocks (with, obviously, the most heinous inside information ever) but nobody knows where the tens of millions of dollars in trading profits went?

            Just a mystery … notwithstanding the transactions, I guess!

            ***
            I’ve been fighting the pompous, lying, murderous, criminal scumbags ever since.

          • Ron Anselmo July 18, 2024 at 2:03 pm #

            Good for you, OG. Stay in the fight.

  150. tucsonspur July 18, 2024 at 4:33 am #

    Sometimes John, not often, thank God, I was forced to eat liver as a kid. Having to accept Vance as VP is tantamount to that experience, but I’m not about to go Hannibal Lecter on him and ‘eat his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti’.

    Vance has all sorts of investments in different companies, tech start-ups, etc., but where did his ‘seed’ money come from? As J notes, he was supposedly a hayseed from the hills.

    I found this:

    ‘a lot of it is And in 2020, JD Vance launched his own venture firm, called Narya Ventures, alongside Colin Greenspon. He stayed until 2022, when he decided to run for office. Before he left, though, Narya raised more than $93 million from investors including Thiel and Google’s Eric Schmidt.

    Vance only served on one board during his time with the company—AppHarvest, a food production company operating indoor farming in Appalachia. The company went bankrupt in 2023, two years after Vance had left the board.

    Overall, according to Pitchbook, Vance was listed as lead partner on nine deals: In 2018, he was an investor in Losant, an enterprise IoT platform; Engage Talent, a recruiting company; DemandJump, a marketing strategy company; Aatmunn, an industrial technology firm; Lumenari, a now-defunct materials discovery company; and The Minte, a housekeeping company that has since been acquired. The following year, he led deals in AppHarvest and Chassi, an AI firm.’

    Big bucks for lead partners it seems.

    On to Yale:

    When J.D. Vance applied to law school, he viewed it as a pathway out of his chaotic upbringing in working-class Middletown, Ohio.

    Then he won a spot at his dream school. Yale Law not only accepted him for the fall of 2010, but also offered a nearly full ride.

    Over the next three years, Yale dramatically influenced the trajectory of his life, leading to important connections, a job in venture capital and marriage to a classmate.

    Even his memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy,” was partly the outgrowth of a paper he wrote in a Yale class. And he leveraged the story, which chronicles his childhood and the alienation of the working class, into a best seller, a movie deal and a political career — winning election to the U.S. Senate in 2022, at age 38.

    TS

    I guess his job in venture capital paid really well. Schmoozing, raising money (begging?), successful wife-attorney, building up on other people’s money, that’s the ticket. Some people just have the hustle.

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    • SoftStarLight July 18, 2024 at 4:55 am #

      When they deport 15 million people perhaps we can talk. i’m agnostic in this. Maybe it is just lip service but he made a point in his acceptance speech to say that America is not just some idea. It is an actual nation. And of course while he didn’t say it directly he implied us. I can’t remember any other politician actually saying that. So if anything it allows for the Overton Window to move. Trump said he wanted Israel to stop killing people so who knows. Maybe that’s just lip service too.

  151. SoftStarLight July 18, 2024 at 4:41 am #

    You may wish to peruse the Bloomberg interview with Trump. While there were many issues discussed for which there are no significant changes there are a few interesting points that may pique your interest. Apparently DJT is a Taiwan skeptic. They’re a rich country that took our chip industries away. Xi isn’t all bad and we can have a more convivial relationship with China. Taiwan is awfully far away. TikTok shouldn’t be banned. The EU is an adversary.

    • Socrates-Detroit July 18, 2024 at 10:40 am #

      @SoftStarLight

      On the surface, that sounds very promising.

      I think Trump has generally good instincts.

      Unfortunately, I tried to access your article and hit a paywall.

      • SoftStarLight July 18, 2024 at 11:33 am #

        Oh yes, I was actually listening to Alex Mercouris walk through the article. You can also look up various summaries of the interview but i get that that is not like hearing it from the horse’s mouth.

  152. OG July 18, 2024 at 10:47 am #

    I awoke this morning half expecting JAZ or SF or even OIN to provide some ridiculous “explanation” on how “Trump” could have possibly had a chunk of his right helix blown off of his head by a bullet, bleed a lot from that flesh-tearing wound but then be all clotted-up tickety-boo in just one minute (and with no pressure!) for the photo op.

    Crickets …

    ***
    For the longest time I ignored all of Trump’s masonic hand signals. Psychology is funny. Once one believes that Trump will do battle on our behalf (and will slay ‘the Deep State’ dragon), blinders go up and critical thinking shuts down. Just as they have planned.

    I am a recovering hopium addict. You too can see the truth. You too can quit hopium cold-turkey and face the obvious truth:

    Trump is in on it.

    • SoftStarLight July 18, 2024 at 11:28 am #

      Sounds like you may be making more of the injury than what it actually was. At least what we are told. He didn’t require stitches and Eric Trump said it was a basically a flesh wound.

      • OG July 18, 2024 at 11:46 am #

        The Doctor Bandaging Trump’s Ear Said Trump Might Live to 200

        ca.yahoo.com/news/doctor-bandaging-trump-ear-said-131544443.html

        Precious little is publicly known about the medical treatment that Donald Trump has received since a gunman injured the former president in an assassination attempt over the weekend. But one man in the know is Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX), Trump’s former White House physician.

        In an interview Monday, Jackson said Trump was missing “a little bit at the top” of his ear in the wake of the shooting. “I went up and dressed his ear this morning,” Jackson told right-wing media figure Benny Johnson. The white bandage on Trump’s ear has become so much of a talking point at the current Republican National Convention that some attendees have even started bandaging their own ears to show their support to the wounded presumptive nominee.

        ***
        “Flesh wounds” on the upper ear do not “bleed” as much as the “blood” that we were shown and then clot up tickety-boo all in one minute without pressure, SSL. To believe so would be ridiculous.

        • SoftStarLight July 18, 2024 at 11:59 am #

          How much blood were you shown? I only saw a bit of blood on his face and of course blood on the ear but not that much.

          • SoftStarLight July 18, 2024 at 12:01 pm #

            I also notice that they are removing images from online. Strange if it was all supposed to be part of the movie. Wouldn’t they want to promote such an interesting chapter. ?

          • OG July 18, 2024 at 12:24 pm #

            The pictures show more than enough “blood” to know that an upper ear cannot possibly “bleed” that much and then completely clot tickety-boo all in one minute without pressure, SSL.

            A minor cut to the upper ear will take 8 minutes of constant pressure to clot.

            But Trump’s magic ear has a chunk blown off of it with a bullet yet it clots tickety-boo without pressure in one minute?

            Ya think?

            ***
            I don’t like your police work, there SSL.

            “They are scrubbing pictures from the internet so obviously they are NOT up to no good.”

            Although this is the first that I have heard about them now scrubbing the internet of Butler, PA pictures, of course, a more reasonable conclusion is that they ARE up to no good (and too many pictures on the internet will debunk their magic ear conspiracy theory).

          • SoftStarLight July 18, 2024 at 12:30 pm #

            Eric Trump, his son, said that he had a flesh wound on his ear. Where are you getting it that a chunk of his ear was blown off?

          • gustafson.robert.22 July 18, 2024 at 12:44 pm #

            From ‘is ass

          • SoftStarLight July 18, 2024 at 1:09 pm #

            Time for a nice walk and some quiet time, Og!!

          • OG July 18, 2024 at 5:59 pm #

            It’s right in the posting at the start of this very thread, SSL and Gus! It’s from Yahoo! News.

            In an interview Monday, Jackson said Trump was missing “a little bit at the top” of his ear in the wake of the shooting.

            ca.yahoo.com/news/doctor-bandaging-trump-ear-said-131544443.html

            Holy sheep shit!

            We’re trying to find the truth here, right?

            If so, you must both smarten up.

        • stelmosfire July 18, 2024 at 12:24 pm #

          OG I’ll repeat this post because you never answered upthread. I guess it did not support your “Ears bleed a lot” statement.

          OG, did you watch Paula’s video? Perhaps you disagree with the Dr? He’s not a hairdresser but he plays one on TV. check from the 1:40 mark

          youtube.com/watch?v=F263W-JzZ-w

          • OG July 18, 2024 at 12:29 pm #

            I am not avoiding any evidence/opinion whatsoever, elmo. I never have and I never will.

            I, therefore, resent your accusation of corruption on my part as I seek the truth.

            The fact of the matter is: I never saw your post upthread.

            I will watch Paula’s video and comment … but not for several hours as I’m now going to walk around Wascana Lake.

          • Jarek July 18, 2024 at 12:53 pm #

            In Rosemary’s baby, the alien said (through her), I long to trod the shores of orange lakes cool.

            Is Trump (orange man) Rosemary’s baby?

          • OG July 18, 2024 at 4:44 pm #

            Interesting note: Rosemary’s Baby was set in the Dakota Building (right across from Central Park – on the west side). John & Yoko lived there and John was shot at its gated entrance. AFAIK, Yoko still lives there.

            ***
            Who here believes that Mark David Chapman acted alone?

        • OG Is Nuts July 18, 2024 at 12:26 pm #

          It might be helpful if you found a wound specialist to substantiate this theory of yours,

          • OG July 18, 2024 at 3:03 pm #

            Indeed. In fact, that’s why I keep putting this out there – in search of experts.

            In the meantime, here’s what we’ve got so far:

            A minor clip to the outer ear will result in bleeding for 8 minutes with pressure while “Trump” had a chunk blown off of his right ear with a bullet and we’re to somehow believe that it magically clotted tickety-boo in one minute and without pressure.

            That is, the official story is obviously complete bull shit.

    • Soul Forensics July 18, 2024 at 2:32 pm #

      “I awoke this morning half expecting JAZ or SF or even OIN to provide some ridiculous “explanation” … crickets.” — OG

      While you slept fitfully for 3 hours last night, then woke up, checked Bitchute for your latest dopamine hit, crashed your way to the computer, and began banging keys like a demented monkey, I was sleeping peacefully for 6+ hours before waking up, fucking my wife, then cooking breakfast. I’m now pausing for a few minutes before playing golf to respond to you …. only to let you know that, as a respondent, I’m acting on Brandolini’s law. Hahahaha!!

      • OG July 18, 2024 at 3:04 pm #

        fucking my wife

        Classy.

        • Soul Forensics July 18, 2024 at 8:46 pm #

          What would you call it, pussy?

          • OG July 18, 2024 at 11:13 pm #

            I’d keep it to myself like a gentleman.

            There are ladies present, bud. Smarten up.

  153. SoftStarLight July 18, 2024 at 11:36 am #

    It also makes a lot of sense that the cabal wants people to think that they are basically gods and that there is absolutely nothing that anyone anywhere can do to make a change or difference in the world. What a better way to psychologically beat down the population into apathy and indifference. To always say that every single person everywhere is part of the plot.

  154. SoftStarLight July 18, 2024 at 12:20 pm #

    Axios is saying that Joe Biden will announce this weekend that he is not seeking reelection.

  155. OG Is Nuts July 18, 2024 at 12:24 pm #

    Nutbars like OG are a threat to Kunstler,Patreon support. I wonder if he realizes that. .

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    • OG July 18, 2024 at 3:11 pm #

      Now would that not, indeed, be ironic? I mean if my free speech threatened Jim’s free speech site.

      ***
      This is a good time to mention that I buy Jim a cup of coffee each month. It’s the least that I can do. I believe that anybody reading this should seriously consider doing the same.

      ***
      “I don’t like his free speech! All this logic about ears with bits blown right off of them with a bullet don’t clot tickety-boo in one minute (and without pressure, no less) makes me question reality. I’d rather cling to my Mommy-state psychological blanky and have Jim ban his investigation.”

      You’d’ve made a good Soviet, comrade.

  156. Jarek July 18, 2024 at 12:40 pm #

    That gauze pad on Trump’s ear is a total loser. They should have put a prosthetic ear over his real ear to hide it. Or just say they were doing that since there is no real wound at all.

    Or remove Trump’s ear in actuality. Say the wound went gangrenous. Put on a prosthetic that is larger than his real ear. The bodhisattvas are depicted with very large ears so as to hear the cries of the suffering.

    And also he should wear one White Glove like Michael Jackson in memory of the moment.

    • SoftStarLight July 18, 2024 at 12:58 pm #

      i also recall that Trump is vain. He may prefer the gauze to having cameras zoom very close in to look at his ear and the wound. You know that the entire media would do it and then people would endlessly debate the wound in every possible way as is kinda already occurring.

      • Jarek July 18, 2024 at 1:04 pm #

        I’m vain too. Nothing looks worse than that taped on gauze pad. They’re humiliating him.

        • SoftStarLight July 18, 2024 at 1:09 pm #

          Is it really that bad? i do know that some of his supporters are sporting gauze pads on their ears in support. To me that is pretty crazy but people tend to be so lol. In all fairness Trump is in grandpa territory so its not like a young strapping candidate who suddenly looks weak and wounded.

          • Jarek July 18, 2024 at 1:23 pm #

            Will you not do the same? I’m too vain but I will share in your sacrifice in some small measure.

          • SoftStarLight July 18, 2024 at 1:27 pm #

            lol, you’re so silly

          • Jarek July 18, 2024 at 4:04 pm #

            You could gussy the gauze pad up with gems as befits your feminine nature.

          • SoftStarLight July 18, 2024 at 5:37 pm #

            Yeah! i could gussy the gauze pad with sparkly purple and pink sequins. Are you trying to tempt me to do just that because it actually sounds cooler now lol. And when people ask me i’ll tell them “well you see, i’m a political enemy, so my ear got clipped lol”.

          • Jarek July 18, 2024 at 7:09 pm #

            Nobody understand women better than me.

          • Ron Anselmo July 18, 2024 at 10:15 pm #

            Yes Grasshopper.

        • anmariwakaranai July 18, 2024 at 11:09 pm #

          Jar didn’t get the memo. The adhesive on Post Its and bandages are full of pfas, forever chemicals.

      • Jarek July 18, 2024 at 1:12 pm #

        Why not a real medical bandage that makes it look serious? Or a flesh toned bandage that downplays the whole thing? But no!

        Trump is Burt Lancaster in the Contender. Too old to keep boxing, he begs his manager not to make him go into pro-wrestling, fake as the day is long. In end he submit, dons the Indian bonnet and starts running around the ring whooping.

        • OG Is Nuts July 18, 2024 at 1:19 pm #

          Why not a real medical bandage that makes it look serious? Or a flesh toned bandage that downplays the whole thing?

          Isn’t that medical question right up Dr OG’s alley?

          • Jarek July 18, 2024 at 1:24 pm #

            Calling Dr Moe, Dr Larry, Dr Curley.

          • stelmosfire July 18, 2024 at 2:23 pm #

            Calling Dr. Fine Calling Dr. Howard

            youtube.com/watch?v=0cW7F6VlQc8

          • OG July 18, 2024 at 4:00 pm #

            I’m not a doctor, OIN. Yet they’re all jabbed and I’m not.

          • OG July 18, 2024 at 4:05 pm #

            But good to see that you’ve moved from the gutter to about Grade 7 or 8.

            Are you AI?

            Or the King of Fellatio?

            ***
            Since you ask … the “post-it note” bandage is undoubtedly some comm that makes us look like the stupid sheep that we are while giving them extra jollies thinking about it the next time they rape a toddler.

        • SoftStarLight July 18, 2024 at 1:24 pm #

          Ok, well i’ll keep it in mind as things move forward. Certainly anything is possible. The whys and all of that i don’t know. Why even wear a bandage? Presumably its to let it heal without risking infection.

    • stelmosfire July 18, 2024 at 2:20 pm #

      Perhaps a golden ear like Tycho Brahe’s golden nose. He lost his in a sword fight.

  157. Jarek July 18, 2024 at 1:20 pm #

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/17/asylum-seekers-in-dublin-reportedly-attacked-by-people-with-knives

    At last Captain Midnight appears. Thank you Sweet Mountain Jesus. There’s no voting your way out of this one, lads. The caches. The caches! Dig them up. Your little armalite is waiting.

    Did not Christ say if you do not have a sword, sell your cloak and get one? For Ireland is sword land which will go to the strongest. As Bin Ladin said, If you see a stronger horse and a weak one, you will like the strong one better. The Irish girls will go with the guys who win the street fights. Expect no loyalty from most of them but to Darwin. And even if you aren’t personally all that strong, if you win they won’t be around any more in the end. And you did your part. And you look good in your uniform.

    • Groundhog July 18, 2024 at 2:05 pm #

      Jarek, you worry way too much about immigrants and asylum seekers. Here’s how things might develop. The USA and NATO manage to get themselves into a full scale ground war in Ukraine and after a year of fighting, NATO’s entire operation gets tossed into the very same meat grinder that’s eaten up the Ukrainian troops, with catastrophic losses for the West. We send our navy to the mid east at the same time at it gets sent to the bottom with horrific losses of ships and sailors. Chaos and economic catastrophe follow in Europe and living conditions become so bad that the “invaders” pack up and go home. The European Union collapses and Western Europe returns to the setup it had back in the 1960’s with nations and borders. After the collapse of the EU the United States breaks apart under the load of the same post war chaos that took down the EU. Illegals in the USA pack up and head south for better living conditions.

      We then become the DSA – the disunited states.

  158. Jarek July 18, 2024 at 2:01 pm #

    As that Son of Eire, Biden, said, It will be decided in the Battle Box, both there and here. The divide between politics and war is breaking down bigly.

    • Q. Shtik July 18, 2024 at 2:41 pm #

      Did he really say battle box? Really? Wow!

      • SoftStarLight July 18, 2024 at 5:38 pm #

        Yep lol, he meant to say ballot box but seems Trump was dancing in his head like a sugar plum.

  159. messianicdruid July 18, 2024 at 2:05 pm #

    Why would the head of the Secret Service attend the RNC Convention after what just happened on Saturday?

    • SoftStarLight July 18, 2024 at 2:31 pm #

      Are you feeling somewhat exhilarated by these tense clashing energies lately?

      • messianicdruid July 18, 2024 at 5:32 pm #

        I’m not reaching that, I suppose because the distractions are arriving beyond my pace.

        I think she must have been told she had to go and let the conservatives blow off some steam for the TV.

        • SoftStarLight July 18, 2024 at 5:39 pm #

          she actually met with Trump personally

          • messianicdruid July 18, 2024 at 6:43 pm #

            I assume that event was untelevised.

  160. OG Is Nuts July 18, 2024 at 2:14 pm #

    Talking about bandages…….Biden’s dementia is so deeply set that he seems to have forgotten the mask protocol associated with COVID. Care to comment on that, Dr OG?

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    • OG July 18, 2024 at 3:26 pm #

      Masks are just for masonics goofing on us, OIN. We all know that.

      ***
      One, of course, needn’t be a medical doctor to understand that if a minor clip to the outer ear will clot in 8 minutes with constant pressure, then having a chunk of the outer ear blown off by a bullet cannot possibly clot tickety-boo in only one minute and, especially, without pressure.

      D’uh!

  161. OG Is Nuts July 18, 2024 at 2:18 pm #

    Calling Dr Moe, Dr Larry, Dr Curley.

    It’s calling Doctor Howard Doctor Fine, Doctor Howard ,dipshit

    • SoftStarLight July 18, 2024 at 2:25 pm #

      when are y’all going to lock horns lol?

    • stelmosfire July 18, 2024 at 2:26 pm #

      Exactly!

      youtube.com/watch?v=0cW7F6VlQc8

  162. Q. Shtik July 18, 2024 at 2:36 pm #

    Our host and others here at CFN have been predicting a big stock market decline/crash almost forever.

    Big market declines generally happen for two reasons:

    1. the market has advanced too much and has become “over-bought” and is now ready to decline until it reaches “over-sold.”

    2. serious threat of war

    The price of gold often rises in the face of war or political chaos. Gold hit a new all-time high today of $2,480.

    The key market averages hit all-time highs a couple of days ago (implying an over-bought condition) and are now headed down.

    Perhaps stock market and gold price action is telling us Jim’s prediction is finally about to come true.

    • elysianfield July 18, 2024 at 2:50 pm #

      Q,
      Jim Rickards notes that the Friday before the attempted assentation, somebody or some group actually shorted DJT’s stock…12,000,000 shares.

      Boy, do they ever have egg on their faces now!

      https://dailyreckoning.com/murderous-bastards/

      We do not yet know who shorted the stock…I expect it was just bad luck, or they hit the wrong key on the computer…

      …Had a hunch…lost a bunch!

      • elysianfield July 18, 2024 at 3:13 pm #

        If I understood the recorded conversation with the person who runs that particular fund that shorted the stock; “A clerical error”

        Yeah, a 120 million dollar loss on a clerical error…”I CAN ‘SPLAIN EVERYTHING…”

        • Ron Anselmo July 18, 2024 at 4:40 pm #

          E – he “fat-fingered” it. Nothing to see here, doncha’ know.

      • OG July 18, 2024 at 3:20 pm #

        In 2001, the SEC told us that there was absolutely no way of knowing who made tens of millions of dollars with their completely off-the-charts short-selling of American and United Airlines’ equities in the days leading up to 9/11.

        That is correct: the SEC blatantly lied right to our faces* and the profiteers profiting on inside information of the biggest terror attack on American soil ever went down the Orwellian Memory Hole.

        *As if there were no transaction records to determine who short-sold then covered their shorts. As if Wall Street does not keep records of transactions (even though mandated to do so – by the SEC, no less!).

        ***
        Wanna buy a bridge?

      • OG July 18, 2024 at 3:50 pm #

        Thanks for this link, EF.

        I believe that I know the meaning and implications of this “clerical error” news.

        But I’m going to kick back and let JAZ and SF and OIN give us their brilliant analysis first.

        I will then publish my analysis of what this means. It is significant in our investigation and will, no doubt, SHOCK several CFNers.

        • ZrCrypDiK July 18, 2024 at 4:12 pm #

          You know, it took me *FOREVER* to link this tune – but I hope you all enjoy!!!

          ww.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp1gLMeqzeY

          • OG July 18, 2024 at 4:33 pm #

            That was a lot of fun! Thank you.

    • TPTB-USA July 18, 2024 at 6:48 pm #

      I have in mind Q that you picked the last correction bottom.

      What tea leaves are you dissecting to tell you how this will play out?

    • ZrCrypDiK July 18, 2024 at 6:57 pm #

      Q talks truth – don’t put it in bitcoin/etc – pure gold – 24 karat if possible!!! But I still believe in the silver dime breakfast/lunch!

  163. anmariwakaranai July 18, 2024 at 4:20 pm #

    thelampmagazine.com/blog/how-i-joined-the-resistance

    JD Vance , from Chris Hitchens to Catholicisim, a deep dive.

    • anmariwakaranai July 18, 2024 at 7:02 pm #

      In his own words.

  164. OG July 18, 2024 at 4:26 pm #

    OG I’ll repeat this post because you never answered upthread. I guess it did not support your “Ears bleed a lot” statement.
    OG, did you watch Paula’s video? Perhaps you disagree with the Dr? He’s not a hairdresser but he plays one on TV. check from the 1:40 mark
    youtube.com/watch?v=F263W-JzZ-w

    – elmo

    First off – thanks for this link, elmo! Good work!

    1:40 is very interesting (cartilage, don’t bleed profusely). It is always good to hear from an expert.

    Start at 2:30, however. “He knows that he’s been hit with something. He clutches his ear. [He then displays his right hand completely bloodless.] And then he goes down.”

    Note: At 2:35 we dispel SF’s reasonable doubt about Trump touching his ear or not. “He clutches his ear.”

    ***
    You’ve given up on that QuikClot angle, right?

  165. Jarek July 18, 2024 at 4:57 pm #

    A short story short on facts but long on truth. Fiction used to tell the truth rather than facts stiched together into a lie.

    Bracken: Professor Raoul X

    It was late June and I was sitting in a café seven hundred miles from home, doing a little web surfing. There was plenty of room at mid-morning, so I could sit at the end of the coffee bar with my laptop. I was scanning the breaking news about the new mass-shooting. Like most people I was morbidly fascinated with the deranged young man who was the killer. That is, the trigger puller. But I was looking over his shoulder for something else: signs of a guiding hand.

    Why? Because I know something about the subject.

    You see, being a guiding hand is my life’s avocation. My secret avocation, that is. Outwardly I’m a tenured professor of sociology at a Mid-western university. A life-long bachelor, so my summers are my own. Ostensibly for writing, research, quiet reflection, bungee jumping or what have you. My summer hobby is traveling and meeting interesting people. Everything I do on these road trips can be explained under the rubric of field research, but even so I pay with cash and move like a ghost. I’m old school. It’s a harmless quirk. Nobody cares.

    I suppose if you polled my students, they’d declare me to be left wing, but not a rhetorical bomb-thrower. Am I closer to Karl Marx than to Ayn Rand? Well, naturally. Progressive politics were part of my upbringing and education. And of course that is also the best way to get along in academia, and I do like to get along.

    No question my academic career has been lackluster. That does not concern me. I have no wife or significant other to be concerned with my apparent lack of greater ambition or wealth. Seeking publication for papers that a few academic gnomes might eventually peruse does not interest me in the least. Writing some groundbreaking tome that will be reviewed in the New York Times and read by millions is not a realistic aspiration. I am no Jared Diamond in the rough. I won academic tenure, and that was enough. I have a house and a ten-year-old Beamer. I enjoy my little comforts. A small circle of friends, none close. I’d be the first to admit it’s been a mediocre life—outwardly.

    But my secret life has been anything but mediocre. I have engineered extraordinary events, but truth be told, there is little joy in secret celebration. So I am creating this document, properly encoded and hidden, to save for posterity. When my unsurpassed run is finally over, due either to my natural demise or other more precipitous causes, my secret history will conjure itself from millions of computer screens unfiltered, unspun and uncut. The truth will be known. This is my story, and no one can take it from me. My name will ring down through the ages, when my complete story is told!

    But not yet. There is more secret work to be done.

    I did not drive seven hundred miles to ponder my life’s ledger and tap on a keyboard. What interested me was the creature standing on the other side of the white coffee shop counter. The gaunt, long-haired young man by the espresso machine could have been taken for a college student in a college town. Really not too bad looking in person. Pushing six feet, skinny. Gray-blue eyes, a little too closely set. Decent complexion for his age. Maybe a few days since his mouse-colored hair had been washed or properly brushed, but overall he was quite presentable. Duncan it said on his plastic name tag. I already knew that his last name was McClaren. I wasn’t in this picturesque college town by accident. I was here to meet him, but he didn’t know this.

    Duncan McClaren was one of the most promising prospects I’d run down in years. My own students unknowingly provide me with many of my leads. We have free-ranging discussions, in and out of the classroom setting. From practice I know how to guide them toward a discussion of the weirdest people they’ve ever known. Duncan went to high school with one of my female students. His first name was mentioned casually by the student, tossed off her lips and promptly forgotten. Duncan sometimes heard voices, she said. Talked to himself. And he could not stop talking about whatever obsessed him at the moment. He cut right into conversations among people he hardly knew, and went off onto bizzaro-world tangents. And what really set him off was the country’s most famous talk radio host.

    Following that disclosure I did my own internet research. There was only one Duncan listed in her year at her high school. As a professor, I stay on the cutting edge of internet trickery. A critical part of my secret avocation involves doing internet research without leaving digital fingerprints. My students constantly come up with what they believe to be new ways to cheat or plagiarize without detection, so I’ve become somewhat of an expert at internet security. I do not take risks. I’m a very careful person. Typing this secret history and hiding it inside my computer is perhaps the biggest risk I’ve taken.

    In the course of my background investigation I learned that he had been expelled or otherwise ejected from high school numerous times. He’d been arrested and he’d been to juvenile boot camp. There were a number of sealed records and denied files, both medical and legal. But reading between the lines of what I could access, it was a safe guess that there had been serious drug use and there had been family violence. Rumors of arson at a very young age. His family had money and pull, and he was accepted for admission to an out-of-state institution of higher learning. His brief transcript was telling. His GPA for three completed semesters was made up equally of As and Fs. He had not finished his second year. No reason was given.

    Since dropping out of college Duncan had been adrift for a year, hitchhiking around the country, supporting himself mostly as a dish washer or at other menial short-term jobs involving limited social interaction. On his own walkabout journey of self-discovery, to give him the benefit of the doubt. He was for the moment a barista in this New England college town, and I arranged for our paths to cross.

    It’s always an intense moment, my first close look at a subject I’ve known only as an internet phantom. Duncan came over to take my order: regular coffee, with cream and sugar. When he filled my cup I laid a few dollars on the counter.

    Duncan tapped the bills and said matter-of-factly, “So, somebody still believes in paper money.”

    I looked directly at him and replied, “For some things, yes. Like paying for coffee.”

    He returned my gaze, his eyes narrowed to slits and he said, “Smart. Fly under the radar. Render unto Caesar—while you can. But it’s all just a matter of time. Just a matter of time.” He slowly nodded his head, as if agreeing with himself.

    To release his floodgates all I had to ask him was, “What do you mean?” Then I listened attentively to a five minute diatribe covering many tediously familiar theories and a few original ones. A thirtyish female with a severe hairstyle, whom I guessed was the café’s manager, edged over and tried to redirect my waiter. “Dunc,” she said breezily, “You’re not bothering this man, are you? No more talking about that bank stuff, right?”

    Holding the full pot of hot coffee he slowly turned his entire body and fixed an icy glare upon her, but said nothing. He held his stare, boring into her with flat eyes. His arm seemed tensed to hurl the burning-hot brew at her. Her smile wilted, she turned and walked away. “She doesn’t understand,” said Duncan when she was gone. “Her mind is closed to the reality around her.”

    “Does that bother you?” I asked him.

    “I’m used to it. Ninety percent of humanity is closed off to reality.”

    I laughed and said, “I think you’re giving humanity too much credit.”

    He smiled in a peculiar way. One side of his mouth went up markedly while the other side remained nearly flat. “Yeah. Probably. Look, I have to serve some other humanity or I’m going to get canned. I’m on thin ice around here.”

    Twenty-year-old Duncan, who had a post-graduate’s demeanor and a startlingly high IQ, had never held a job for longer than a month. He could operate independently in society as a functioning adult in most situations. He could shop for himself and drive a car. He’d briefly kept an apartment in college. But he could not hold a conversation without promptly veering into the Bush-family CIA dynasty, the truth about 9-11, the Jewish bankers, right-wing talk radio and God help me, the Queen of England.

    Duncan was a bug. A raving lunatic. Yet in his outward appearance and mannerisms, he was as normal as you and I. But what does one’s outward appearance signify? The faces we show to the world are mere avatars, are they not? Who truly knows our inner hearts, our souls if you will? No one. Certainly not a God who doesn’t exist. So am I normal? Define normal. A sophomoric tautology. Yes, outwardly I can easily pass as normal, and I have for most of my forty-seven years. But inside? Honestly, what a question. Who wants to be no more than a random semi-conscious insect in a hive of billions?

    Not me. No, I’m not normal, and have no desire to be.

    Normal means average, and let me assure you, I’m way above average. Average people don’t make it their life’s work to ferret out certain types of borderline personalities and convert them into useful tools. As far as I know, I’m the only human toolmaker of my kind. No semi-sentient insect brain resides within my skull, making me a slave to laws, traditions or norms of so-called acceptable behavior. I operate outside of the rules of the hive, and I enjoy a freedom mere insects can never know. So what, you say? I’ll say what. By my actions I have personally changed the course of history, and I will do so again.

    Can you say the same thing? What “normal” hive insect can claim to have done that?

    Have there been others like me? I tend to think so, but it’s an area of pure conjecture. A familiar example. Most Americans dismissed the story of James Earl Ray’s mysterious helper, known only to him as “Raoul,” as a self-serving fantasy. I always thought that Raoul was more flesh than fantasy. James Earl Ray’s actions and travels before and after Memphis make me believe that he had assistance of the kind that I have given to some very special people.

    If you take a ‘Parallax View’ of history, you might allow the possibility that rogue government agencies or other cliques could also be grooming likely candidates, but I tend not to believe in elaborate conspiracies. Could it happen? I suppose. But in my experience, no conspiracy involving a large cast of characters can remain a secret for many years.

    On the other hand, the temporary private relationship between a mentor and a singular student, that relationship can indeed be kept a secret. My writing this secret history in freedom instead of in captivity proves that this is so. And even if one of my human tools is someday arrested alive, his mad barkings will be disregarded. His minor side-story of a mysterious helper, if heard at all, will be disregarded as just another in his cornucopia of delusions.

    Converting a certain type of lunatic into a useful tool is not too difficult when you understand the dynamics that are in play. Practice makes perfect, and I’ve had a lot of practice. Good candidates for a direct action mission are often quite intelligent, at least as measured on certain scales. They can navigate by themselves between cities, and arrive at a place and time without causing alarm to the general population.

    But in my experience the best candidates for a guiding hand are not true “loners.” They often seek friendship and employment, and they may even succeed for a while. But the men who interest me invariably sabotage their social relationships by compulsively discussing their paranoid obsessions. Each human rejection adds heat to their simmering rage. Yet still they crave human companionship, and simple affirmation of their delusional belief systems. This makes them soft putty at my touch. These men, deftly guided, become my arrows. To the world, these arrows seem to plunge at random from the clear blue sky. Sometimes they do, but not always!

    It’s not hard to convert a lump of inchoate anger into an arrow. At first all I do is offer them a receptive ear, and confirmation that they are not alone in their beliefs. Our dialogues lead me toward the best approach to take. I adapt my temporary cover story to fit my current subject’s preexisting delusional views. In the past I’ve pretended to be a liaison from the CIA, from Mossad, from Al Qaeda. I’ve posed as a former leading member of the Trilateral Commission, now working against their globalist designs. Sometimes I’ve convinced them that their medications are part of a conspiracy to chemically lobotomize them, robbing them of their most brilliant insights.

    After a few private conversations I eventually steer the subject to “doing something really important.” Hypothetically, of course. At least at first. Then we play a conversational game of, “If I could, I would.” A good prospect will soon be describing the precise medieval tortures, punishments and execution methods merited by his worst enemies. Once I have tapped into his personal fantasy realm of gory revenge, it’s “game on,” as they say in the vernacular.

    At that point it really doesn’t matter to me who or what is the focus of the subject’s hate, or what group he blames for his own shortcomings or for the ills of the world. Left, right, capitalism, socialism, religion, nationalism…in truth I stopped caring very much about them long ago. When an action will advance the cause of social justice that’s great, but generalized mayhem is also a worthy end in itself. “The worse, the better,” in Lenin’s words. Create the pre-revolutionary conditions. Some days I still half believe the old dogma. But at least I’m not just another insect in the hive.

    I slid my empty cup away, and awaited the return of my barista. In a minute I’d be commiserating with him, discovering that we were practically soulmates, rare men of true vision. Posing as an out-of-town business visitor, I’d ask him the best place in the area to eat. It would turn out that he and I shared similar culinary and beverage tastes, fancy that! And I’d gladly spring for lunch or dinner if he’d agree to be my local guide. Then we’d discuss further his hatred for the Jewish bankers who run the world, and the right-wing talk radio hosts who are their willing accomplices and mouthpieces. At least, in the world according to Duncan McClaren.

    Right-wing talk radio was very much on my mind, because one of the icons of that loathsome industry was going to be passing through the region two weeks hence. Ben Rafferty wasn’t the king of right-wing hate radio, but he was one of the rising princes, nearly up there with the big three. Currently he was on a national book tour, promoting his latest toxic spill of racist hate-speech. Oh happy day, his entire schedule, with bookstore locations, dates and times, was available online.

    I’d discovered some other useful information in an interview Rafferty had given to a pro-gun blog. The talk host traveled without an armed bodyguard, due to the vagaries of conflicting state gun laws. This was particularly a problem when flying into New York or New Jersey. It was just too damn hard to stay in compliance with a thousand local gun laws that could cause you to be imprisoned over a technical firearms violation. So instead of an armed bodyguard, he had some kind of karate guy for protection. An ex-soldier who had been wounded in one of America’s wars of imperialism. Poor Ben Rafferty, who never saw an assault rifle he didn’t want to French kiss, couldn’t have a gun during his East Coast book tour. Beautiful.

    The imminent proximity of Duncan McClaren and Ben Rafferty had brought me seven hundred miles to this coffee shop. With a little stroking and massaging of Duncan’s twisted and deformed ego, I hoped to convince him that his empty life could at long last have genuine meaning. He could make a real difference! He could change the world! He could accomplish something important, and be remembered forever. I already had an untraceable pistol to provide him, if he proved receptive to my guiding hand. Oh, the mayhem potential, when one of the leading right-wing haters is finally knocked off! Mayhem-fest, indeed. Mayhem squared. Mayhem cubed!

    Radio talker Ben Rafferty meant nothing to me, but he had millions of rabid right-wing followers who clung to his every screech and scream for three hours a day. After Duncan McClaren approached the book-signing table, pulled out his pistol and gave his miserable life meaning, Rafferty’s fans would rise en masse in blind rage. And a few of his most rabid fans, feeding their own dark fantasies, would predictably strike out in violent reprisal against progressive leaders. Secondary explosions, if you will. A chain reaction, possibly my greatest work ever.

    Duncan returned to my end of the bar when he saw my empty cup. While he poured my refill I quietly said, “You know, you’re right about those Jewish bankers and how they control talk radio. They’re all in New York, right? I mean, most people have no idea what’s going on around them.”

    His eyes widened and a half-smile formed on his lips. He set the coffee pot down and leaned on the counter until his nose was a foot from mine. One eyebrow raised in expectation above the high side of his demented grin. He glanced back down the counter to see who was in earshot and then said, “You know about the Illuminati, right?”

    Did I ever.

    I smiled.

    This plan might actually work. I’d know better after a long conversation with Duncan McClaren in a dark restaurant. Duncan might be my masterpiece, the one to light the fuse of Civil War Two. And if he does, eventually I want the world to know who handed him the matches, the gun and Ben Rafferty’s book-signing schedule.

    But for now just call me Professor Raoul X, a guiding hand of history.

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    • messianicdruid July 18, 2024 at 6:02 pm #

      Sounds a lot like the Secret Six.

    • ZrCrypDiK July 18, 2024 at 7:24 pm #

      d00d Janus, it’s just gun nuttery – they have the bloodlust taste, and a gun.

  166. OG July 18, 2024 at 6:13 pm #

    Trump unveils “Trumponomics” plan for low taxes, high tariffs and JPMorgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon as Treasury Secretary – oh, and Jerome Powell and the Fed are here to stay

    naturalnews.com/2024-07-18-trumponomics-low-taxes-high-tariffs-jpmorgan-powell-fed.html

    Before getting shot at in Butler, Penn., at his recent rally, Donald Trump laid out his “Trumponomics” plan for 2025 and beyond.

    Speaking to Bloomberg in an exclusive interview, Trump outlined the core tenets of his “Make America Great Once Again” platform. One major plank is the massive bilateral sanctions Trump plans to impose as a way to eliminate the federal income tax.

    While admitting that he doesn’t “love sanctions,” Trump told the story of the late 20th century president William McKinley who raised enough revenue through tariffs to avoid the institution of a federal income tax. Trump’s plan includes abolishing the federal income tax using the same method.

    At the same time, Jerome Powell will still be allowed to finish out his term as chair of the private Federal Reserve banking cartel, which ends in May 2026.

    Trumponomics also includes:

    – Decreasing the corporate income tax to as low as 15 percent
    – Terminating the ban on TikTok
    Appointing JPMorgan Chase head Jamie Dimon to head up the Treasury Department
    – Stopping all protection of Taiwan against Chinese aggression
    – Punishing Russian President Vladimir Putin for invading Ukraine

    ***
    Well, there you have it! Trump/Vance will put leave the foxes in charge of the henhouse.

    Any questions?

    • TPTB-USA July 18, 2024 at 6:38 pm #

      Are these original Trump thoughts, or is someone passing him instructions (and if so, who)?

      • OG July 18, 2024 at 6:45 pm #

        Of course it’s impossible for us mere mortals to know the give-and-take between Trump and the Illuminati … but my understanding is that it is the Illuminati that calls the shots.

        • TPTB-USA July 19, 2024 at 12:43 am #

          Do you think the Heritage Foundation and Project 2025 is the equivalent of the CFR, and that the Illuminati are directly involved, or pass them the orders?

          Or, is it your opinion that the Illuminati pass “DJ Trump” the orders directly?

    • tucsonspur July 18, 2024 at 6:44 pm #

      Punish Putin? Wonderful! Don’t count on it.

      Trump will help us deplete our resources faster than anybody else, with his drill, drill, drill mandate. We can joy ride for another decade or two!

      Then, beg, borrow, or steal.

      Like most world leaders, he doesn’t have a clue about what’s to come, or just doesn’t care.

      Good, he won’t raise taxes on the poor or the middle class!

    • ZrCrypDiK July 18, 2024 at 7:37 pm #

      “Trump plans to impose as a way to eliminate the federal income tax.” so whose gunna pay for his mil ind complex?!? Such absuridty.

  167. TPTB-USA July 18, 2024 at 6:33 pm #

    More and more indications that “Joe Biden” has decided to ditch Joe Biden, while I think they were hoping to run him past the point of early voting to lock those votes in prior to pulling their rabbit out of the hat.

    Sure looks like an insurmountable amount of damage control they need to contend with, while there are signs that Kamala may be human after-all.

    • tucsonspur July 18, 2024 at 6:55 pm #

      With the Obama clan guiding her, Kamala could do it. Never, never, underestimate your opponent.

      Just think, we could have another ‘slobbering love affair’ like we did with Obama, only this time with a black female. Millions upon millions of nitwits will swoon again at the prospect, overcome by the dark force.

      Jig fever may be back in spades.

  168. MiTurn July 18, 2024 at 6:50 pm #

    Whew, I made it through the last comment. My observation? The 80/20 is well entrenched. 80% of the comments are made by 20% of the commenters.

    Most not worth reading. A few, yes and insightful. The majority? Petty feuds.

    Need to clean ’em up JHK?

    • jim e July 18, 2024 at 8:03 pm #

      Lurleen Burns Wallace (born Lurleen Brigham Burns; September 19, 1926 – May 7, 1968) was an American politician who served as the 46th governor of Alabama for 16 months from January 16, 1967 until her death on May 7, 1968. She was the first wife of Alabama governor George Wallace, whom she succeeded as governor because the Alabama constitution forbade consecutive terms.

      • jim e July 18, 2024 at 8:19 pm #

        Precedent means “something done or said that may serve as an example.”

  169. Kornado July 18, 2024 at 7:15 pm #

    admin, just say no links, check out miles davis ‘venus de milo’ from birth of the cool’ was my link to my post, nearby east st louis upbringing..sans change cool for america you’ re welcome said, cold turykeying heroin, just a bad lousy flu locked up in his childhood home for awhile interim his later incredible stages.

  170. Socrates-Detroit July 18, 2024 at 8:21 pm #

    @jarek @OG @CFN

    Here is ANOTHER fly in the ointment.

    Keep in mind, this is the internet, where sometimes, perhaps often, anything goes and nothing matters…

    James Rickards, who I like edits, dailyreckoning dot com.

    When Bill Bonner edited/wrote it, I used the dailyreckoning every day, just like I read every JHK’s CFN.

    Today’s July 18 reckoning, written by one Sean Ring, says that “allegedly Austin Private Wealth shorted 12 million shares of DJT stock on FRIDAY”.

    Had the assassination succeeded, and the stock plummeted, it would be a nice profit. However, on Monday, DJT, which closed at 31.25 Friday, spiked to 46.00 Monday before trending down. It is now at 37.xx. That’s still a pretty big loss, over $60 million.

    Allegedly, this is the firm of the old Bushes and James Baker. Scary, eh?

    Oh, plot thickens. For those of you willing to go down the internet rabbit hole (like me)

    here is (supposed) call from a concerned American, one Jason Goodman to one Alex Wagner, about Austin Private Wealth shorting 12 million shares of Trump Media stock.

    x.com/lazygrappler/status/1813782622008676718

    Wagner contends it was a “reporting error”, a clerical error. But Wagner also inquires about what PACs or Lobbys Austin Private Wealth supports. The answer may surprise you. I am very surprises myself, right now, so much I felt compelled to post this.

    You see, I can understand the Bush neocon connection. But Goodman’s direct question blows may away.

    Maybe it is all staged…

    You can google Austin Private Wealth.

    You can find on finbold dot com this quote

    Austin Private Wealth also clarified that the trade was made on June 28, disclosed on July 12, and then modified after the error was caught on July 16 – an event that itself ignited suspicion prior to the statement’s release.

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    • Socrates-Detroit July 18, 2024 at 8:40 pm #

      Five days letter, I do NOT believe some 20-year-old loner hatched up this attempted assassination all by himself.

      No, this is brazen conspiracy, that is attempting to harness the power of the internet and social media, to pin this on a brainwashed kid.

      If that kid was the actual shooter, the plotters hoped for a lucky shot. They almost got. An amateur shooter, with an AR-15, with iron sights, taking the most stressful trigger pull possible, and actually hitting the person is like you or me getting a hole in one in golf. But, if the kid makes the shot, you take out the kid, case closed.

      This appears to be the “official story”.

      Plan B is that kid didn’t know, but he was a decoy all along. There was a REAL professional shooter B somewhere, further away, somewhere “secure”, where prying eyes could not see, and where he could quickly slither away unnoticed, with a clear escape route. He opened fire immediately before the kid, and the kid was immediately neutralized, without getting off a single shot.

      Plan C–you folks tell me.

      This story of the stock shorting has really got my attention now. Of course some one is behind this–and MANY entities want Trump gone.

      The other rumor tonight is that within the next 24 hours, Pres Biden will make some big announcement–maybe resign. We will see if that has legs. That would definitely take the UBER spotlight off Trump, where it has been since Saturday.

      Another subtle sign the establishment is dissing Biden. I don’t have cable, and watched Vance on NBC last night, on “free” TV.

      At one point, NBC split screened to Biden landing and deplaning in Delaware. Biden looked AWFUL!

      WHY did NBC show us Biden, during the RNC? Why portray him like that?

      • OG July 18, 2024 at 9:58 pm #

        Oh, plot thickens.

        Indeed, Thanks for this information, Sox. Good work!

        This is further confirmation on what EF posted this morning.

        Personally, this time I’m waiting for the undoubtedly brilliant analysis of this game-changing information from JAZ or SF or, even, OIN before I weigh in with my thoughts.

        ***
        I am kicking myself, though. I posted earlier today about the SEC covering-up the short-selling of American and United Airlines’ equities immediately before 9/11 and how their coverup (over 22 years ago) gave me the steely resolve to fight these evil fucks … but then it never occurred to me that it would happen again vis-à-vis Trump Media and Technology Group equities and the 7/13 “assassination attempt” in Butler, PA. D’uh!

      • TPTB-USA July 18, 2024 at 10:54 pm #

        I’m running with elysianfield’s assessment of the kids kill shot, and Plan F, where there was a second shooter, and his shot was the signal for the kid to open fire.

        Various Fox News and a couple other sources have discussed a second shooter suspect that LE lost track of.

        But, wouldn’t a ballistic assessment pinpoint the location of that shooter, or at least the line of fire?

        Is some type of a drone shot a possibility (Paula D linked a discussion where SS snipers hesitated because trees obstructed their line of sight to the kids original shooting position)? A tree drone?

        **

        “Biden looked AWFUL”, and is playing us again (a lot of juggling pins they have to keep in the air because of all the potential criminal prosecutions).

        • Socrates-Detroit July 19, 2024 at 9:44 am #

          @TPTB

          @elysianfield I did not see your earlier post about shorting the stock.

          @TPTB

          I have a hard time believing the plotters, and those in the Secret Service/CIA/FBI, would entrust such a high pressure shot to TMC (Thomas Crooks).

          It’s plausible, but based on what media tell us about the kid, TMC, no military experience, no history of being a good marksman, using an AR-15 with iron sights… that’s like betting on some one who is NOT a golf pro to birdie a hole in golf.

          Maybe the story they are feeding us is correct?

          Maybe it was a massive security, and coincidentally a lone wolf appeared and tried and got a near hit, foiled only Trump turning his head?

          I don’t think we will ever know. However, last night at least, former President Trump, in HIS account of what happened to the GOP convention (and the nation) seems to accept that TCM was the shooter.

          • TPTB-USA July 20, 2024 at 11:10 pm #

            Socrates-Detroit, no matter how we slice or dice this, things don’t seem to add-up.

            At the convention, Trump claimed that his hand was covered in blood. My daughter told me that when Trump went down (we were watching the event when it happened) he had blood on his finger tips, but I have in mind (I think others have discussed this) that his fist bump hand was not bloody.

            You about get your head blown off, and in the chaos, you are going to worry about cleaning the blood off your hand?

            Trump the bs artist?

            The only thing that makes sense, is that We are being played in one fashion or another.

          • TPTB-USA July 21, 2024 at 1:12 am #

            The following are links to Paula’s and elysianfield’s posts that appeared to offer a logical explanation.

            Paula D
            kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/shocks-to-the-system-2/#comment-888280

            elysianfield
            kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/the-cover-your-ass-olympics-2/#comment-887318

            kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/the-cover-your-ass-olympics-2/#comment-887403

            I will add that my daughter has made comment that the kid was skilled with the weapon. If interested, I’ll press her for more details.

  171. jim e July 18, 2024 at 9:09 pm #

    While technically the U.S. dollar could collapse, it’s backing from the largest economy in the world and its status as the global reserve currency, makes that highly unlikely

    • jim e July 18, 2024 at 9:11 pm #

      it is a Flat Earth.

      • jim e July 18, 2024 at 9:16 pm #

        O.G. may disagree but if he reads his Bible carefully…

        • jim e July 18, 2024 at 9:24 pm #

          His work on rockets and missiles helped NASA land a man on the moon. His involvement with the German Nazi Party during his early career and in World War II cast a shadow on his legacy. He is considered by many as the preeminent rocket engineer of the 20th century, serving as the Director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center

          • jim e July 18, 2024 at 9:25 pm #

            In Huntsville, Alabama.

          • jim e July 18, 2024 at 9:29 pm #

            His tombstone reads Psalms 19:1

          • jim e July 18, 2024 at 9:38 pm #

            I have had several bullets miss me and my thought was they are firing blanks.

          • jim e July 18, 2024 at 9:42 pm #

            I am bullet proof.

          • jim e July 18, 2024 at 9:46 pm #

            Bullet Proof.

          • jim e July 18, 2024 at 9:48 pm #

            Therefore, I do not own a gun.

          • jim e July 18, 2024 at 9:50 pm #

            Bicycles are the CURE.

          • jim e July 18, 2024 at 10:04 pm #

            Smedley Butler

          • jim e July 19, 2024 at 12:07 am #

            I had the fastest crossing time in our state for a few years on a bicycle.

          • jim e July 19, 2024 at 12:08 am #

            11.39.10

          • Jarek July 19, 2024 at 12:41 am #

            Who is Jack Parsons for fifty.

          • jim e July 19, 2024 at 12:54 am #

            Exellent addition Jarek.

  172. Soul Forensics July 18, 2024 at 10:26 pm #

    “I love all of God’s children.” — OG

    Radiating sweetness and light! That’s our OG.

    Not that it applies, since you’re a hypocrite, but if what you said above were true, here’s an instructive poem for you:

    —————–

    SICK

    I am sick, because I have given myself away.
    I have given myself to the people when they came
    so cultured, even bringing little gifts,
    so they pecked a shred of my life, and flew off with a croak
    of sneaking exultance.
    So now I have lost too much, and am sick.

    I am trying now to learn never
    to give of my life to the dead,
    never, not the tiniest shred.

    — D.H. Lawrence

    • OG July 18, 2024 at 11:23 pm #

      God bless you, SF. You really do care.

      ***
      I just went scrolling upthread but saw that you have not yet provided us with your “thoughts” on Auston Private Wealth, reportedly, short-selling 12,000,000 Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. (DJT-NASDAQ) shares before 7/13’s “attempted assassination” in Butler, PA.

      When can we expect them?

      • Soul Forensics July 19, 2024 at 12:37 am #

        “When can we expect them?”

        I haven’t read/listened to/watched that angle.

        This may be hard for you to understand, but not everybody is on red alert 24/7 fast-clocking on twitter or Bitchute feeds to catch every breaking “story”.

        I have a life to lead, and it’s a very interesting and meaningful one. In order to be on red alert 24/7, I would not only have to sacrifice my life, and the lives of others I interact with, but I’d also be a reactive wreck, spiraling into any number of apocalyptic scenarios.

        My tack is to wait until things settle, which could take weeks, months, or (sometimes) years, depending on the complexity and amount or lack of detail on the issue. (I referenced another ear controversy far upthread, that of Vincent Van Gogh. It took over a hundred years for one intrepid investigative historian to solve the case.)

        As against what Jarek and you think, I’ve never said the conspiracy angle on this event was wrong. In totality, my posts have been clear on my conclusion, which is that I DON’T KNOW.

        • OG July 19, 2024 at 1:05 am #

          Well that’s very unfortunate for us, SF. And quite surprising, too. I had thought that a man of your intellect could fashion an opinion on spot.

          I mean: if true, this is a solid indication that some people knew of this “assassination attempt” at least days and perhaps weeks in advance.

          Nothing, eh? Just baaaaing with the rest of the herd?

          So … why are you here? Just to throw insults at me?

          See … we discuss current affairs here at CFN. It’d be pretty dull around here if we all “wait until things settle, which could take weeks, months, or (sometimes) years, depending on the complexity and amount or lack of detail on the issue.”

          In fact, using your “tack,” we still couldn’t talk about JFK let alone Butler.

    • jim e July 19, 2024 at 12:15 am #

      Women in Love, and Lady Chatterley’s Lover

      • jim e July 19, 2024 at 12:18 am #

        after 50 years i have still not returned the book on his life…

      • jim e July 19, 2024 at 12:25 am #

        the book was banned in the UK for 11 years,

  173. OG July 18, 2024 at 11:33 pm #

    Lou Dobbs, Conservative Pundit and Former CNN Host, Dies at 78

    variety.com/2024/tv/news/lou-dobbs-dead-cnn-host-1236077441/

    Lou Dobbs, the conservative political pundit and longtime host of “Lou Dobbs Tonight,” on CNN and then Fox Business Network, has died. He was 78.

    “It’s with a heavy heart that we announce the passing of ‘The Great Lou Dobbs,’” reads a post on Dobbs’ X account. “Lou was a fighter till the very end — fighting for what mattered to him the most, God, his family and the country. Lou’s legacy will forever live on as a patriot and a great American. We ask for your prayers for Lou’s wonderful wife Debu, children and grandchildren.”

    ***
    RIP

  174. BackRowHeckler July 18, 2024 at 11:38 pm #

    Meanwhile, in the City of Leeds, N England, it seems like Bangladeshis, Africans, Gypsies, and Pakistanis — the entire population of the city apparently, not a white face to be seen — have teamed up to set the place on fire. Police cars and city buses were set alight, shop windows smashed and businesses looted. Not sure what triggered the uprising, but the police were filmed running away from the alien mobs. Fire services were not responding to the burning vehicles and buildings. Labor has been in only about a week and already the UK is wobbly.

    • jim e July 19, 2024 at 12:42 am #

      Dogs and firehoses? let us not get southern…

      • jim e July 19, 2024 at 12:48 am #

        Computer generated images (CGI) were just getting going… Long before the Manned Moon Landing.
        The dogs and fire hoses were sent around the world.
        Would Disney have any knowledge about this?

        • jim e July 19, 2024 at 12:50 am #

          OG is not Nuts.

          • jim e July 19, 2024 at 1:00 am #

            It is all Political Theater. Do votes matter? YES! JURY DUTY…

          • jim e July 19, 2024 at 1:03 am #

            I live off nothing ($200 a Month) and I can thank my hard ass Marine Corps father form making me TOUGH>>>

          • jim e July 19, 2024 at 1:05 am #

            What is health care? Managed Neglect? All Females demand it? I have escaped it for over 30 years…

          • jim e July 19, 2024 at 1:06 am #

            Obama care with Michelle is our next Faucci…

          • OG July 19, 2024 at 1:08 am #

            Atta boy, Jimbo! You’re a good man. Get yourself to bed. Call it a night.

            God bless you.

          • jim e July 19, 2024 at 1:09 am #

            Jury duty pays real gud…

          • jim e July 19, 2024 at 1:12 am #

            Hey My Freind!
            How are you on the FLAT Earth? It is Somewhat biblical?

            The firmament in the Bible is a dome-shaped expanse of sky that separates the waters above from the waters below12. God created the firmament on the second day of the creation account in Genesis12. The firmament is part of the cosmic design and is above the atmosphere of Earth2.

          • jim e July 19, 2024 at 1:21 am #

            I am not quite ready for bed. You call him jesus? That is not his name.

          • jim e July 19, 2024 at 1:24 am #

            Let me reduce the argument. Is Pot Legal? Not in Alabama.

          • jim e July 19, 2024 at 1:27 am #

            Did I tell you that I saw Bob Marley and Hunter S. when they came to my town?

          • OG July 19, 2024 at 1:35 am #

            I’m with you on God’s firmament, Jimbo.

    • GreenAlba July 19, 2024 at 7:37 am #

      brh – the term Starmergeddon has been coined, although not specifically regarding rioters in the streets of Leeds (I don’t know what they’re cross about either) …

      Starmer is Blair’s sock puppet, just like Blair is the WEF’s sock puppet.

      Udate: just went to the Guardian and found this:

      “A local restaurant owner said the chaos was linked to children being taken into care, adding that some people in the community responded by setting fires and “throwing stones”.

      “Police said they were called to an address in Luxor Street at 5pm on Thursday where they found an “ongoing disturbance” involving agency workers and children. More people started to arrive and the agency workers and children were taken to a safe place.”

      UK Column has done years of sterling work investigating the use of the social care system in the UK for child trafficking and abuse networks. Mothers who have spoken up after the removal of their children have been jailed or treated as mentally ill.

      Interestingly, the police in Leeds have advised people to stay in their houses. Where have we heard that before?

  175. TPTB-USA July 19, 2024 at 1:27 am #

    The current situation doesn’t look to be a Left vs Right issue any more, but a right and wrong issue.

    Polish MP Calls Out Ursula belongs in Prison for Destroying the EU on behalf of the WEF
    armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/europes-current-economy/polish-mp-calls-out-ursula-belongs-in-prison-for-destroying-the-eu-on-behalf-of-the-wef/

    Where is the cancel culture?

    MIA?

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  176. OG July 19, 2024 at 1:32 am #

    Here is a very different angle than is mine:

    DEALEY PLAZA 2.0: WHO ORDERED THE STAND DOWN? — Guy Gotslak [SGT Report]

    bitchuteXcom/video/H9aIgamLEV5V

    Shawn from SGT Report and Guy provide mounting evidence that the Deep State really did try to assassinate Trump, but divine intervention saved the day.

    ***
    So … “our” guy is in bed with Jerome Powell and Jamie Dimon? With friends like that, who needs enemies?

    So … that’s “our” guy?

    Doubts.

    ***
    Everybody just needs to take a chill pill, Daddy-o!

    I’m just trying to get to the truth here. While SF likes to wait decades to never get the truth, I grab the bull by the horns.

    ***
    The big break-down on the SS did it but Trump wasn’t in on it:

    Nobody running a black op of this magnitude would be dicks-in-the-wind fail-safeless if the planned kill shot missed Trump.

    If Butler really was SS but not Trump, he’d be dead. 100%. IMHO.

  177. jim e July 19, 2024 at 1:36 am #

    JHK has said that Joey was not going to make it to the start line for over a year now. I think that Mr. Kunstler is correct.

    • jim e July 19, 2024 at 1:58 am #

      oil depletion is a horror to the greatest of all countries that God has blessed.

      • jim e July 19, 2024 at 2:06 am #

        His Name Is Not Jesus!

        • jim e July 19, 2024 at 2:11 am #

          yah

      • jim e July 19, 2024 at 2:13 am #

        idolatry?

        • jim e July 19, 2024 at 2:16 am #

          Trump? Biden?
          Votes do not matter.
          It is already decided.
          Michelle!

          • jim e July 19, 2024 at 2:23 am #

            OG Is now a goodtime to pick on you? Or should I take your advice and go to bed?

          • jim e July 19, 2024 at 2:25 am #

            i am not into hopium.

          • jim e July 19, 2024 at 2:28 am #

            i would have never seen it if it were not for our fearless leader… JHK.

      • Groundhog July 19, 2024 at 7:31 am #

        At the moment, the greatest of all countries that God has blessed is Russia – not the failing and collapsing USA. Russia was founded a 1000 years ago as a Christian nation. Today, the Russian Orthodox Church is thriving and enjoys state support – which really pisses of the secular West.

        The USA has on its dollar, below the pyramid with the eye in the triangle on top – “New Secular Order”. What do people think that actually means? Any ideas? I think Jarek thinks he knows. This new secular order of ours believes in absolute separation of church and state – and of course that means *no monarchies”. These “secular orders” have an average lifespan of around 250 years, NOT a 1000 years, and our republic is now experiencing disorder instead of order. The evangelical crowd watching all this are sitting around with their thumbs in their asses, thinking the rapture or rupture of the church is soon going to save them and the 250 year limit won’t apply to them. Evangelicals want war in the mid east thinking that means Jesus is coming soon in order to take them skyward. Whatever. In the meantime, these Western Christians think it’s their duty to attack Christian Russia, well, you know, because Putin is the new Hitler. So eventually a world war develops between the woke West and Christian Russia.

        Who wins? The outcome of the situation between NATO and Russia will determine just which nations are blessed and which ones cursed. Since Russia never developed a massive car culture, she still has a lot of oil underground, she’s not blown it all out her tailpipes. Oil depletion will be a horror to the failing US empire. It won’t be a problem for Russia – at least not yet.

        • Groundhog July 19, 2024 at 7:35 am #

          I was responding to jim e’s statement

          “oil depletion is a horror to the greatest of all countries that God has blessed.”

          Another observation. Why didn’t God lead the Israelite’s over to a place to settle like the oil fields of Saudi Arabia? Why did God lead Israel to a land of little oil? Wasn’t God thinking about the future?

        • GreenAlba July 19, 2024 at 7:46 am #

          Russia is not quite as blessed as you may think.

          edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/putin-calls-for-full-scale-implementation

          The NWO is not going to miss Russia. Putin was hand-picked by Kissinger, allegedly.

          • GreenAlba July 19, 2024 at 7:48 am #

            The Russian people may stand up better than the west, of course. Do they have an Orthodox equivalent of Archbishop Vigano? Who knows?

          • Socrates-Detroit July 19, 2024 at 10:23 am #

            @GreenAlba

            Vigano is a Catholic, but on many matters, he holds “traditional”, or ORTHODOX views on several issues.

            These views the norm among Orthodox hierarchs (Bishops, high clergy).

            Orthodoxy has always been painted out of the landscape in MASS culture and media in the West. In past eras, some Western elites (aka the English aristocracy) were knowledgeable.

            It’s not an accident. The West is descended from Catholicism. The Catholic Church sought to impose its opinions on the Orthodox Church; next best thing is to ignore it.

            It’s similar to the situation in Palestine/Israel. The West was woven this fantasy story of a “people without a land, for a land without people” (Palestine), painted over the real story of the VIOLENT expulsion of the native Palestinians by European (and American) Jews. And in the aftermath, the West promotes the Zionist story that the Israelis are fighting for survival.

            You see how these things work?

            Now, living in a nominally “secular”, “free” society, even though I live in the West, up until today, I can freely state these inconvenient truths in the US.

            Tomorrow?

            We will see.

        • Socrates-Detroit July 19, 2024 at 10:14 am #

          @groundhog

          OUTSTANDING COMMENT, thank you!!!!

          I’ve only connected the dots in the past few years, starting BEFORE the Russian “Special Military Operation” to liberate the oppressed Russian-speaking Donbass region.

          The proxy war in the Ukraine is described as being between “West” led by US (indeed, the US precipitated it) and Russia.

          No, it is not West vs Russia.

          It is the latest phase of the Schism of the Church (1056), when the Roman “Catholic Church” broke away from the Christian Church, and those who remained faithful to Christianity adopted the “Orthodox” moniker.

          This perhaps the most violent phase since 1204, when the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade, having failed to recapture the Holy Land, attacked, looted, and ransacked Constantinople, which was then the greatest city in the world (at least the European/Western World).

          (Many claim that this was a mortal blow to the Eastern Roman (aka Byzantine) Empire, which hastened its erosion and demise until finally, in 1453 it fell to the Ottoman Turks).

          Generally speaking (as in 90% plus), white people who use LATIN letters are of the West–Catholics, and offshoots of the Catholicism, such as Protestantism, Evangelicals, Communism, Capitalism–these are all branches of the Catholic tree.

          White people who write use Cyrillic and Greeks (the only people who use Greek letters, vs Latin and Cyrillic which are used by different ethnicities) are of the Orthodox Church.

          The New Testament is replete with references to how those who love the Lord will suffer for their beliefs.

          And, indeed, the Orthodox have suffered. Not just from the Crusaders in 1204, but much worse, from the Islamic Turks.

          In Europe, to the best of my knowledge, there have only been TWO powerful nation-states that were nominally Orthodox, where Orthodox Christianity was the official religion:

          The Byzantine Empire, which was Orthodox Christian from it’s inception until it’s demise 1100 years later; and the Russian Empire, from inception until the Communist “Revolution”, which the West exported to Russia, a deviate Western pseudophilosophy (based on several truths, yes). Now Russia is back again.

          While Russia fought many wars with Western Powers, from Poland to Sweden on Russia’s road to empire, to France and Germany later, the latter wars were bigger wars, where the Westerners were also fighting among themselves. Britain, Prussia, and Austria also fought Napoleonic France, and we all know about WW1 and WW2.

          @Groundhog, I loved your comment, and I just wanted to add some historical context to it. Thank you again for your brilliant comment!

  178. jim e July 19, 2024 at 2:37 am #

    Mr. Hawkins, this is our come to jesus moment. What is his name that his blessed mother gave him? A name above all others?

    • jim e July 19, 2024 at 2:47 am #

      it is not jesus and Q. would probably agree.

      • jim e July 19, 2024 at 2:54 am #

        “My Sweet Lord” is a song by English musician George Harrison, released in November 1970 on his triple album All Things Must Pass.

  179. jim e July 19, 2024 at 3:02 am #

    oil depletion is a horror to the greatest of all countries that God has blessed

    • jim e July 19, 2024 at 3:06 am #

      Let the Smart market tank and then get into real living.

      • jim e July 19, 2024 at 3:18 am #

        that is when you meet someone like Louis Sauzedde

  180. gustafson.robert.22 July 19, 2024 at 4:11 am #

    Perhaps we have a plot from the Bushes and neocons, and a third shooter, who missed.

    Which would be a blow to those who believe the Deep State can’t miss.

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  181. messianicdruid July 20, 2024 at 10:01 pm #

    Groundhog wondered, “Why didn’t God lead the Israelite’s over to a place to settle like the oil fields of Saudi Arabia? Why did God lead Israel to a land of little oil? Wasn’t God thinking about the future?”

    He did. “Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as beforetime,”

    They were in Palestine when this was promised. The problem is simple: the nation was divided [
    God did it ] and afterward the northern tribes were known as House of Israel and the southern tribes were known as House of Judah.

    The northern tribes were carried away in captivity by the Assyrians. Eventually they migrated north and west [ through the Caucasus Mountains becoming known as – guess ] and have been [ ate being ] regathered in America [ am-el-rica ].

    godskingdom.org/studies/books/who-is-an-israelite/chapter-3-the-breach-israel-and-judah/

    Our Saviour is repairing the breach.

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