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Jul 17Liked by eugyppius

Let's also compare the proficiency of the police team sent to raid Trump's Mar-a-Lago home with the police team to protect Trump on the campaign trail. I'd like to see a photo of these 2 teams standing side-by-side.

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I’d guess there would be a severe male to female ratio disparity. 🧐

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Great idea. Not to mention the FBI raids on the homes of pro-life American citizens.

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Or the Roger Stone raid, with CNN just happening to be there at the same time

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Me too.

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Jul 17·edited Jul 17Liked by eugyppius

If we had not had horrors of idiocy like the Uvalde school massacre while law enforcement milled around inside the school waiting for it to be safe enough for great big men to walk into the puddles of drained lifeblood of little children, one might imagine official maleficence here.

It's just more proof of when morons are in charge, terrible terrible things are enabled to happen.

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And that's exactly why Trump is going to win. He showed courage under fire. Something desperately lacking in the home of the so-called brave.

Great post SCA

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Yes. I knew he was going to win when I saw that photo Saturday night. This is really the time for a great quote from Teresa of Avila, who I'm particularly fond of since her grandpa was a Jew.

"Let nothing upset you; let nothing frighten you. Everything is changing; God alone is changeless…"

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He will win if the ballots are counted honestly.

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As long as he gets to run against the demented old fool. If he ends up running against a Kamala Harris/Taylor Swift ticket, the Democrats could win.

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Maybe, if Taylor heads the ticket...

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Liked.

2-1

(Her friend, the mystic St. John of the Cross, is worth reading.)

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Limiting my reading in that subject area as I do, I'll stick with Meister Eckhart as my other big fave.

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The New Testament is pretty amazing and The Source. It must be read after one request understanding.

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I got all the understanding necessary.

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I have to check out Eckhart.

Have you read Thomas Merton?

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He was all trendy in my younger years so yes. Not really my type of guy.

With Teresa and Meister Eckhart, once you've made allowances for the foundational errors (and in her case a great deal of crazy), the rest is great...

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This is the version I know:

Let naught disturb thee

Naught fright thee ever

All things are passing

God changeth never

Patience e'er conquers

With God for thine own

Thou nothing dost lack

God sufficeth alone!

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The right translation is everything, isn't it? I like the one I posted much better. The simplicity of the framing is to me so beautiful.

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Any ideas why in the photo his shirt is not full of blood. Ear cuts tend to bleed massively.

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He immediately took cover face-down on the ground for a few seconds before he stood up and was photographed. In that position, the blood would flow down his face as shown in the photos.

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It was fake.

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Do we see the back view?

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You'd think Trump would be showing everybody the cut on his ear. Nope.

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Any ideas why in the photo his shirt is not full of blood. Ear cuts tend to bleed massively.

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The photo was shot before the rally. At no time did everyone get into that position during the live event. I've been banned from YouTube 3 times for commenting "Where is the blood on the palm of Trump's right hand?" They're all trying to memory hole this. They've moved onto 24/7 Kamala news. Trump isn't coming to save us. Biden was a screwup to create a super strong mandate for Trump.

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2020 proved to the world that there is little to no brave here.

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Never. Truer. Words.

And they'd do it all over again.

God save us if the last 2 generations had to protect us if our sovereignty is at stake.

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The entire thing was fake. Everyone in the stands behind Trump were crisis actors. See YouTube video Roll Up, Roll Up the Trump Circus is in Town. Also see the video with Teabag in the title on that same channel. Worst acting of all time. There were only 500 or so people at the rally. Most likely everyone interviewed afterwards were crisis actors. Trump's ear was perfectly healed at the rally the following Saturday. The iconic photo was pre-shot. They made a valiant effort to recreate a close enough facsimile on the day of the fake shooting but the female SS agent/makeup artist nearly fell off the stage. And there's no blood on the palm of Trump's right hand. Also see sagehana.substack.com article with Iconic Picture in the title.

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The question isn't just how in the hell that roof 150 yds away was unguarded;

The question is also how this gunman KNEW it was unguarded

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A bigger question is why weren't they using a drone(s). This is 2024. They use them by the tens of thousands in Ukraine, they even weaponize them. A 12 yr old kid with a $300 drone would have spotted that guy in a minute. A whole lot cheaper than having dozens of these high priced tactical police sitting on their butts @ probably $200/hr each.

Do they never use drones? Are they that stupid and backwards?

Or in just this one case, somebody, told them not to use drones? Which would be VERY suspicious.

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There is drone footage with a closeup of the cretin on the roof. The drone footage is probably from a private individual since the Feds aren’t particularly forthcoming with information on anything, ever, so it wouldn’t have been released by them yet. Which also raises the question of the security implications of private drones flying all over during these kinds of events.

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There was a very early report that Trump's detail had requested drone support but been denied. (This is part of the report that Mayorkas denies happened). It's equally possible that Crooks could have used a small drone (though I know of no reports of that).

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My thought too. Well he had been walking around for about 30 minutes, presumably to find a vantage point. But it seems odd he went to so much trouble - rifle, ammunition, improvised explosives (in his car) - just on the off-chance a suitable opportunity would present itself. Some accounts talk of a ladder being used to get on the roof.

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The Epstein suicide narrative is more believable

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lol, like

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Indeed, he got onto the roof via a wall mounted service ladder at a different part of the building, then clambered over to his firing position. Such ladders are normally secured with a simple gate/lock to dissuade teenager shenanigans, which I suppose wouldn't be too difficult to break. Still, this whole thing stinks.

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One would think that at an event like this a police officer would be stationed at a wall-mounted ladder on the building already considered the primary threat... especially as the police were staging there!

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One would think someone here would realize the entire thing was faked. Just look at the clown show in the stands behind Trump. Most are bored out of their minds. One is even laughing. I'll give you a hint. It's the woman in a light beige shirt leaning over 90% at the waist on Trump's left. Our right. She's low in the crowd right beside the woman who is the assistant director of the FBI.

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Someone said that ladder doesn't show up in older photos of the building.

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The more recent reports are that no ladder was found. But check out this video of Crooks pacing around in the background. Look behind him, at all the exposed ductwork and the pipe running up the building exterior to the roof. You don't have to be Spiderman to get on top of that roof. To me, it looks as if it would only take a few seconds, for a tall, skinny kid. There may be similarly easy access points on the other side of the building.

https://x.com/UpwardNewsHQ/status/1813628879292055766

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If the police snipers saw him for 3 minutes he for sure saw them. How did he know he could get a shot off?

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"knew"?...he took a risk..and got the shots off..

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CNN reports Crooks purchased a 5-foot ladder at Home Depot on Saturday morning.

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That ladder is much longer than 5 feet. I compared to my 3 ladders and according to the rungs, its 9-10 feet. I want to see him fit that in his car.

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False Dilemma/logical fallacy...he didnt have to have any prior knowledge..all he had to do was walk around..which is exactly what he did.

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The answer is that none of them were guarded, Crooks could easily observe this, and no doubt having previously recce'd the area, could have his pick of sites to shoot from.

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Because it was fake.

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DEI = "Morons in charge".

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I.

Am in 100% agreement with everything. You've said except when you said that the morons are in charge. I believe that's unnecessary and it's extremely insulting to Morons everywhere, these idiot brain dead rat turd bastards do not have enough intelligence to be considered morons. In my opinion,

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The thing is, "moron" has great mouth feel. And "idiot," equally lovely word that it is, creates a slightly different feel. One must always choose words with precision.

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Once again, 100% agreement 😀

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The proper pronunciation: https://youtu.be/_NYFq7ZJg4c

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An acceptable variant fer shure.

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In that case it also deserves some precision in pronunciation: “Moe-ron” seems to be appropriate.

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Oh God no. "MoR-on" with that hard, hard R and linger on it for a beat.

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And a southern drawl. "He must be some kind a morr-on"

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If you want to hear it in its full glory it must be old Brooklyn Jew-voice.

"What is he a moron?"

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“Moridiot”.

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I will never forget the one cop stopping to get a squirt of hand sanitizer.

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Go fuck yourselves- oh wait, you did. Want help? Call Chauvin.

Defend yourselves and your fetching spawn.

👋🏻 Bye.

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Triggered!

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The trolls are out in force for this one. eugyppius is over the target here!

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founding

I just wish they were better writers.

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As well as better thinkers...

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Yep. But listen, any actual triggering I need full immunity up front, blanket, in fact blank immunity. And $10M.

An hour. Each.

18 months in advance.

And you’ll be willing to pay.

Anything.

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You get nothing except scorn and derision from anyone reading your tripe. Now go back to your comrades at Sturmabteilung and tell them you suck at trolling.

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Colin - 👋🏻 that’s all.

And the SA’s been gone since the 1930s.

But cheer up; you’re up.

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I take it back, you're not a faggot, you're a *turbo-faggot*

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Smoking, drinking and injecting simultaneously--kid, you got some admirable dexterity there.

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Save your dexterity for the ferals.

Have fun, you faithless chickenhawks 😆

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Faggot

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Cover up for a set up.

Read this. Probably best take I've read:

https://thefederalist.com/2024/07/16/bidens-team-deliberately-kneecapped-trumps-security-to-allow-an-assassination-attempt/

One millimeter away from civil war. That's not hyperbole here in the US.

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I personally can’t get over the fact that he got his shots off before they took him out.

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The excuse that I heard from one MSM outlet was that it's official Secret Service protocol to wait until the shooter opens fire. I'd like to see some documentation or hear from former SS personnel if that's actually true, and if so, WTF?

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According to Dan Bongino, who is former Secret Service, that isn’t the official protocol. It is probably more along the line that the police snipers were supposed to be on the roof but wimped out and stayed inside the building that caused the delay. Not to mention that comms between the feds and others is usually pretty darned hampered. They’re never on the same frequencies, which would be super helpful. SS Sniper: “Hey we’ve got a gunman on the roof where you locals are supposed to be. Is that you?”, Local: “Nope not us, we’re inside in the A/C”. SS: Cool Thanks. <Blam-o>

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Your explanation of discoordination between agencies would be a plausible explanation ...

if the person on the roof WEREN'T AIMING AT THE PRESIDENT.

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You and I like to think of him as "the president."

Certain others? Not so much.

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Thanks for pointing this out. Correct would have been "the former president."

Despite the fact that ex-presidents retain the title, e.g. "President Obama", "President Bush", "The President" refers only to the current, officially presiding president.

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yeah, roof too hot bro; anyone dumb enough to go up there can have it

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Wimped out ?? Nah. A convenient excuse. Someone who was supposed to be on the roof, or their commander, let Crooks know that the roof would be available and conveniently stayed inside. This person will probably end up dead in short order, just like Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald.

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Exactly! “We wait until the assassin kills our protectee, then we shoot him.”

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That's a really stupid protocol if you're goal is to "protect." wow.

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I've heard that's not the case, but only when there's a clear danger to the primary person they're protecting--if they couldn't see a gun but could only see his head, say, that's not a clear danger (it could have been someone who snuck up to watch, and they can't just go around shooting civilians in the head). If it's true that the building was supposed to have other snipers on it, the SS snipers might have been trying to determine that it wasn't a local police sniper getting to his post late. Etc.

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What a load of shit, let’s see that happen with Biden 🙄

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Jul 17·edited Jul 17

The explanation presented in this article makes the most sense out of what I've heard. The USSS sniper had to confirm it wasn't the SWAT team, as that is where they were supposed to be. Just another layer of incompetence.

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the radio communications among security need to be released

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the red-haired guy w/ the visor yelling about some dude on the roof might have been the best communicator at the rally

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Very good point. Now I'm rethinking this.

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Had to confirm it wasn't the SWAT team, as Crooks was aiming at the president?

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Maybe the last thing they wanted was eyewitnesses. The deep state should not be elected to operate as dog catchers.

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Everyone has a (remarkably high quality) cellphone camera on them these days. In a crowd that size, there's going to be dozens of "Zapruder films" of an event like this. Is there a way to temporarily disable all the cellphone cameras in a certain area?

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Any assassination attempt in a public place made today is going to have more footage uploaded to the internet in seconds than ever before in history.

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Great comment. I believe there is a method to shut down digital devices. If not, there must be more films.

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Chris Martenson did the best analysis. Actually that first sniper team had a big tree in line of site between them and the position of the sniper. Only the second sniper team further back had a line of sight to see him but we have no info as to when they spotted him. Most likely it was them that shot the sniper.

Somebody needs to go up on those roofs with a riflescope and get a direct view of those positions and see what it really looks like.

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This is the million-dollar question.

Apparently, he was speaking for only about ten minutes before the shooting. Someone with an IQ over room temperature should have said, "There's someone out here with a RANGEFINDER 😳 we want to talk to; keep the asset in the car until we find him."

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Because they want him dead. Next question. They’ve arrested him, convicted him, tried to jail him, and his numbers & fundraising keep going up. They’re out of other options.

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They do have the break glass in case of emergency option - a new Pandemic.

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It looks as though there was no coordination or planning of the event with local law enforcement. The fact that the "calvery" had to ram a chain link fence because they couldn't get through indicates a huge issue.

Was it a "comedy of errors" or intentional plan?

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who knows right? the speculation will never end because the US government is built on lies at this point.

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Well, that makes sense.

It’s a red region, after all.

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And one attendee is dead and others seriously injured

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(and it appears he was a better character than Trump 8 days a week, just sayin)

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I've read various sources online which explain that local and secret service security have staked out areas to manage and that they are NOT in direct communication with each other. This means that local security teams who were alerted had no way of communicating this further up the chain. Also the team assigned to directly protect Trump will not have worked together before.

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Local chief released a statement denying he had ANY security responsibilities at all. That was all USSS. He did traffic control, end of story.

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The ladder, the ladder the ladder. And he went through security with a range finder but not the gun. The gun was already there. He had help.

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Update, I found another photo with 2 ladders! Is the bigger one from SWAT? The little one from the shooter? I’m hearing a SWAT sniper didn’t show up for work? and the first person to shoot the suspect was a local sharpshooter? Very confusing with no one in government actually trying to get the info together. Apparently, the shooter was scoping the grounds the day before. Now they say the phone was used for encrypted comms. But also hearing with the ISP address you can unlock everything? Normally, someone is explaining what they know, but since Las Vegas, we get bupkis..

HTTPS://x.com/elonmusk/status/1813595907042210115

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But I thought the building that he used was outside the security perimeter.

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This is where reporting is confusing. He must have gone through some security because CNN reporting again, said he went through an metal detector holding a range finder. That immediately red-flagged him. He then later was seen using the range finder (used to help calculate distances) to LOOK at the actual SS snipers, they watched him do it and they reported back to folks on the ground that this guy was to be watched carefully. Anyway, the ladder was exactly the right height, he obviously used it, how did he know it was there, it’s highly unlikely he brought it from Home Depot. Is it possible that police left the ladder there? Yes, but then why did the other police officer tailing him shimmy up an air conditioner to get to him when there was a ladder available? How did he know there was a ladder there? Where did he practice his firing? I was at the range today (I’m a beginner) and that is not a long distance for a sniper, but for a regular person, it is. He nearly hit him. He had the right equipment. Why don’t we have a better look at his gun? I”m expecting it to be kitted out with sniper gear, special scope, barrel, etc. Who trained with him?

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And thank you for even better photos than what Daily Mail showed. This very clearly shows that he used the ladder to get in position. Can they dust the ladder for prints, or is that also too high tech?

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I counted the number of rungs on the ladder (8) and it appears that is a 9 foot ladder. I just bought a 6 foot one and it barely fit in my large SUV. It is definitely not a 5 foot one and that type is not telescoping. Sorry I’m commenting so late, I was away!

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A taller ladder could fit on a roof rack, but, yeah, it's suspicious. He'd be carrying a gun AND a big ass ladder.

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"The FBI told us almost immediately that while it couldn’t open the assassin’s phone, it knew he acted alone. That’s kind of strange, when you think about it. They told us almost immediately that they identified him by DNA, despite him having no criminal record. They also said they found explosives in his car. Why didn’t they just identify him by his plates or registration or next of kin? That’s pretty weird, too."

He could have stolen the car, so there's that. But how soon did they actually ID him (I didn't see it until the next day, I was traveling) and how long does it take to do a DNA search? If not DNA, what was it -- fingerprints?

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you're bringing up the most important point:

the lack of trust in our institutions has put us in a situation where the burden of proof is on them.

why are they lying?

we know the answer

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Yep. Even if it turns out that he was just a lone wolf, no-one will buy it because the FBI and HS will screw up the investigation and make themselves look completely underhand and suspicious.

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How about fingerprints on the ladder?

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That civil war would not last a day.

They are prepared to crush us as violently and as brutally as necessary.

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You're assuming everyone in the armed forces would side with totalitarianism.

Even if they carpet bombed...they'd still have to fight guerrilla warfare.

It would be brutal...but eventually patriots would prevail .

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No, I don’t think the army would be much involved. They’ll use primarily local police force. Cops obey whomever pays their wages, with very few exceptions.

We saw what happened in Australia and in Canada with the truckers and other patriots. I would like to believe we would put up a better fight in America. But sadly we are no longer capable of it either.

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I still wonder where all those jackboots came from that broke up the truckers' protest in Ottawa. There was rumors that they weren't all from Canada.

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UN Forces.

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UN?

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Yes. UN. They have mercenaries because they do intend on setting up a global gov.

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Police forces, (and much of the military), have been systematically purged of "right wing extremists". You know, the ones who might be reluctant to shoot to kill their neighbors. And replaced by bullies and compliant sheep, led by psychopathic DEI hires, whose only qualification is their loyalty to the regime.

But all is not lost. A common characteristic, shared by virtually all of our would be lords and masters, is that they are cowards. Personal, physical cowards. And in many, if not most, are incompetent. Add the inevitable tendency of the totalitarians to eat their own, and we have an enemy who can hurt us, perhaps badly; but an enemy that will self destruct. An enemy who cannot win.

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Cannot win? I wish that were true, but I am very dubious. Lenin won. Mao won.

Totalitarians win all the time. It used to be unthinkable that it would happen in America. Unfortunately, those days are gone.

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"Lenin won. Mao won."

Respectfully disagree, air dog. The cultures in which those totalitarians prevailed differed significantly from that which still (sort of) exists in America. Both had long histories of autocratic rule by hereditary elites. China, for several thousands of years, and Russia for many centuries. America, on the other hand, was born in freedom. Rule by an elite oligarchy is not yet 'hereditary'.

Yes, the totalitarians have been, and are, working frantically to destroy that which is good in America. After all, is that not what totalitarians ALWAYS do? Create social and economic chaos so that the people embrace anew, “firm” leadership – that will “restore order”. This cycle has been repeated throughout history.

But, perhaps, it has never been attempted in a nation in which half of the population, (a well armed half of the population), occupies 80 percent of the land mass, and pretty much controls access to food, water, and energy. Can they destroy our standard of living? Yes, of course they can. For many, they already have. Can they destroy the social fabric that has evolved in the last 250 years? Certainly! Compare life in any 'urban shithole' today with the same community in your grandparent's time.

Maybe we're witnessing the big push. Maybe our would-be lords and masters have determined that the possibility of a Trump election means they have to move NOW. If so, expect massive 'civil unrest', leading to postponement of the elections. Or a shooting war. Or both.

But I believe that we deplorable white supremacists, (of ALL races and creeds), will NOT go quietly into the dark.

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Mao and Lenin were fighting revolutions against other totalitarians, promising their supporters a better future. They only proved to be even worse totalitarians once they achieved power.

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Second Amendment says things might not go so well for the would-be totalitarians, which is why it won't happen anytime soon.

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200 years ago, it would have gone badly for a totalitarian. Even 60 years ago.

But that was then. This is now. The population has grown soft. 20% of us are immigrants, mostly from third-world countries with no inclination to fight for freedom. The government controls the vast majority of the guns and police, and can even control our communication with each other - internet, cellular, etc.

Sure, there are a few thousand patriots with guns. It will not matter. Not in the slightest. I wish it did, but it doesn't. Of course, the totalitarians would prefer to complete their takeover without great violence. But they intend to complete it, one way or the other.

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Can we at least hope for reasonably intelligent totalitarians who want to be popular?

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You're right. This will probably end exactly like Nam, or the Stan.

The people will win, and the fedguv will run away.

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I will note that if it really hits the fan it may end up like Chris Dorner vs the LAPD 2.0. One man cost a lot of money, time and fear before he got put down. If Dorner showed up today he would have a lot more sympathizers and people willing to hide him.

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Dorner? He had a personal (employment-based) ax to grind. Nobody much cared about his cause, one way or the other. I don't see why it would be any different today.

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Dorner predated the Defund-the-Police movement. It's a very different environment with the institutional trust in police lower than then.

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To be honest...I am torn

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I disagree. Trust and faith in the establishment can only decline so far before the loyalty of those forces is no longer a given. At some point they refuse to obey. It happened in East Germany and in Romainia rather abruptly.

There were two recent events that bolster that claim.

1) After Trudeau order the trucker protest clearer it took a few days to find monties willing to do the job. The local forces sided with the truckers.

2) Biden never called in the National Guard over the border crisis in Texas. It was speculated by pundits that he didn't because he wasn't sure they would take his side if the Governor gave them conflicting orders.

The fact of the matter is that the people who become professional wielders of violence are usually conservative. They didn't like the vax mandate and they don't like the nonenforcement measures against crime in sanctuary cities or the woke policies in Biden's rainbow armed forces.

Sure, for your everyday events they will eat some crow to keep the paychecks coming, but if push comes to shove and everyone knows a civil war is looming, then they are going to develop a lot more clout and autonomy.

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2) Yes, that's because there was another legitimate seat of government giving the orders: that of the State of Texas. That's a far cry from a disorganised rebellion of "The People".

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1) And the Trucker protests achieved precisely nothing because the people involved were too disorganised and not a hardened elite willing to do what is necessary. Brave, intensely well-meaning, and the only non-cowards out there — no question. But they had Ottawa by the balls for days and days and were cucked by the "peaceful protest" fiction that we were all inculcated into believing since grade school.

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Au contraire mon ami. The Trucker Protests effectively ended the worst of the COVID restrictions, both in Canada and the US.

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Wow, I didn't even know that about the trucker protest. Your post is in agreement with everything I have observed about police and military forces. They can only be pushed so far. At some point there is a risk that they will turn their guns on their masters. This is why Hitler feared his own Brownshirts, and why Stalin feared his generals.

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I just read the Federalist article and it's excellent. Thank you!

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NOT one millimeter... a few maybe, or a centimeter, or an inch, but not one millimeter. sorry to nitpick, but i keep hearing this. inaccurate and dramatic. one millimeter difference would have just meant a bit more Trump ear pinna tissue saved or lost

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I can appreciate obsessive nitpicking.

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Language. It's important. I invoke George Orwell.

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you got everything figured out. i'll make sure i proof all your post.

the fact is, is you and me both are speculating because our government will lie because it never "rules" against itself.

have fun bro. not everything is concrete

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don't waste your time. i never claimed to have anything figured out.

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Tilt your head one millimeter and have bullet trajectory changed one millimeter and it's certain profound brain damage...and quite possibly death.

What's your point?

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So actually it's a net neutral distance.

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just what i said (possibly nitpicking, as I said), the "one millimeter" thing that we've heard a million times already is inaccurate and dramatic. Do we need more drama?

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Call it inch. Did you enjoy your post?

I'm not really in to pedantry.

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Great article! Thanks!

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Makes sense, right?

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I agree they just let it happen, banana republic tactics, pathetic

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I’m not so sure kneecapping Trumps security is necessary.

If you’re spread too thin to start and you have confused or no orders at all from higher…

That’s just the numbers.

Which are a far lesser problem than the so called Chauvin effect, which has been building since the 1990s. If you spend 3 decades undermining, demoralizing and investigating, doxxing, imprisoning police and soldiers (I am a military veteran) then the last details aren’t as important as the Principle;

Trust is betrayed.

Anyone who shoots before it’s no questions self defense is risking jail. Why not let them shoot first?

Or get out of the way and let someone else handle it.

You the spectators will never be satisfied, so why bother?

After decades of this, you the people got what you wanted, and certainly deserve.

Moreover as no one can turn their backs on you, how to defend?

Now you just have to take your lumps or defend yourself.

And Trump can afford better security than a skeleton crew.

Can you?

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What are you asking?

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Fake. Fake. Fake. Show us Trump damaged ear. Otherwise it's fake. Now you know there truly is a Uniparty.

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As Fletcher Prouty--the ultimate CIA insider from its inception--said: assassinations don't just happen; they are ALLOWED to happen. Too many convenient coincidences here, and the coverup is already in motion. A millenial shooter with no online footprint? How convenient. Jill Biden and Kamala in Pennsylvania to draw resources away from Trump? How convenient. And so on.

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Every single "error" just happened to go against Trump.

Sound familiar...like with all the fuck ups during the scamdemic.

You'd have to suspend disbelief to believe this was an accident.

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yep

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This. Exactly. When there is 1 or 4 errors, maybe but when there are 50, I can only assume that someone had something to gain. And in this case, there were many who stood to gain. Biden (who could get investigated for financial crimes with his family), the FBI (which could be gutted, and their crimes of hiding intel), the CIA (which loves profitable wars which could go away) and even Igor Chudov noticed that the attempt came after Trump questioned vaccines in general (Big Pharma?). I think we can just include Blackrock and huge groups like that because there could be some trust busting in the future with Trump too.

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And the glaring blatant decision to leave the roof with the best line of sight completely undefended. That stands out. The director did not make that decision herself but the slope roof remark covered up for whoever did. IF this was a deliberate stand down, there was someone on site that day who was in on it, if only to misdirect and cause confusion. But I do find it plausible that the counter snipers might have hesitated to shoot a friendly. They could have easily understood that to be a friendly position.

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Agree on the possibility of letting the sniper shoot firs (although if that is protocol, it's asinine)--but that was not the only option. Trump should never have been allowed to remain on stage with an identified threat out there.

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There should NEVER be "rules of engagement" when your job is literally to take a bullet for POTUS

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I cannot understand how this is actual protocol because even normal city police can fire the moment they spot a weapon if in danger. So, for example, a man approached Biden with a weapon drawn, I bet they aren’t going to wait for him to fire. If you watch the Reagan attempt, (which was super professional and amazing responses), he got out only one or 2 shots and he was down. They put him down immediately. That meant the moment they saw him draw his weapon they were already pulling out guns and aiming.

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there's no way that is protocol.... have to let the shooter shoot FIRST...?! LOL...

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It appears it wasn't too sloped for the shooter.

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One of the most recent photos that demonstrates very clearly the line of sight was posted yesterday:

HTTPS://x.com/SeanParnellUSA/status/1813240829919539633

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There is still the 3 eye witness reports of a shooter on the water tower. Why is no one talking about the water tower, a perfect location? Chris Martenson's analysis is the one sniper couldn't account for all the shots. There had to be another shooter.

Beyond incompetence; The Shooters & The Water Tower - Peak Prosperity:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YUoBcp1me0

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Look at Robert Malone's Substack; he took that theory apart quite thoroughly.

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The key point that fellow misses, is that when you have witnesses who say important stuff like that, even if it is hearsay, there should be media on that like bees on honey, and nail that down, false or true. Instead of pretending it doesn't exist, or explaining it away with hand-waving arguments. That's the state of our media.

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Do you have a link? I don't see that in this article... https://substack.com/home/post/p-146666036

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He's written one more recently than that; IIRC, the water tower is pictured at the top of the article.

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I looked at that. It is a good analysis but he does make some glaring errors. Martenson did say right at the beginning that eye witness testimony is not reliable and should be taken with a grain of salt.

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"One of my superpowers is I just dive deep in when things are fast-breaking." What are his other SUPERPOWERS?

This is a promotional piece; apparently you have to subscribe (pay) to see his analysis of the water tower and argument for 2 shooters.

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No pay. Available right on YT. I think he raises good questions, although a little loose on some things. But his basis of why isn't there more info is spot on.

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Superpowers?!? Jesus, talk about a laser focus on trivialities. Yes, people say meaningless crap like that all the time, I do, you do, your point is?

And yeah, that's how he makes his living, Market & Trend Analysis, so like tens of thousands who do the same or even eugyppius here often you want to see or read the full article you have to subscribe.

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My point is what I said. Pay if you want. I didn't find his superpowers impressive enough in this 49 minute teaser to pay, so I won't. Cool.

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I don't pay either. It's mainly for people investing in the Market to predict trends. He's done tremendous reporting on Covid, early on declaring it was bioengineered, vaxx lies, covid alternative treatments etc (him also being a medical doctor).

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These reports are spurious, hearsay, not direct eyewitnesses.

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No they weren't, there was one eyewitness. Hearsay is welcome. You just must follow up on the hearsay, it directs you to a potential eyewitness.

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Maybe you have a different video but the one I saw, the people interviewed are reporting what other people said to them, not what they saw themselves.

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".... first crack of the gunfire and I just screamed it's the sniper it's the

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sniper and he was firing down toward the water tower that's firing down toward the water tower [firing down from the

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water tower I think she meant to say but um maybe I'm interpreting too much, listen in first] first crack of the

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gunfire and I just just screamed it's the sniper it's the sniper and he was firing down toward the water tower

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that's what we're hearing and yeah and then at that same exact moment there was

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a spray from the right side of the stage.."

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I'd like to know (that's "know", not "be told") date of Mr. Trump's people first discussing this rally location w. Butler, Jill's people w. Pittsburg, Kamala's with Phila. Who got first dibs?

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It was announced about 2 weeks ago. USSS now say Crooks reconned it on 7 July and again on the morning of the attack.

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Nitpick - at 22, Crooks would be a Zoomer (Gen Z) wouldn't he?

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Like 9/11. Or 10/7. Or...

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Sounds like something Nancy Pelosi and her minions cooked up....

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Just flashed on a vision of a drunk/high guy in underwear on the roof, attempting to take out Trump by throwing a hammer at him.

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Jul 17·edited Jul 17Liked by eugyppius

Good analysis, but I can't agree with you that the pathetic excuses being made by DHS, the Secret Service, local law enforcement, et. al. indicates no conspiracy--because surely, you assert, they'd have better alibis.

I think the explanation is different. It was a conspiracy at the highest levels of the regime, but they didn't take into account the huge community of retired special forces, special operations and experienced security operators who are now on X / Twitter. During the JFK assassination, the regime simply had to have the NYT and Washington Post and network news (most disgracefully Dan Rather). on board in order to successfully squelch the truth. In fact, dozens of witnesses who tried to speak the truth anyway, without any access to mass media, were murdered.

This time, the cat was out of the bag within minutes after the assassination attempt, and all the President's horses, and all the President's men couldn't put the genie of truth back in the bottle.

I'm copying in an institutional insight by this reader https://substack.com/@glissmeister512390 which he made in the comment to a different Substack:

"Perhaps the cock up is the cover up.

Bureaucrat protagonists tend to wage war by omission, by selective withholding of due process, of selective withholding of a duty of care; a withholding of a procedure or a requirement. They are masters at confecting plausible deniability and trivializing allegations of their wrongdoing.

It would be good to know the relative elevation of the occluding tree, the density of its canopy and the impact upon the cross view of the ridgeline of the roof available or not available to the overwatch defensive sniper team.

If their view was totally blocked by the tree, who then made the head shot that killed the assassin?

The fact Harris and Dr. Doctor flooded the zone drawing away significant DHS/SS resources is a major tell. The more you look at the withholding, the delays and the untimely degrading of their duty of care... well, not only do actions speak louder than words, inactions speak louder than actions.

Everything wrong with the Butler site security was a product of upper management and executive decisions to constrain, delay and delimit a reasonable quality of resources flowing from the Biden Administration.

Such apparently was indeed fit for purpose and professionally imposed. The purpose being served, however seems very difficult to concede. Ironically, there is the appearance that the cockup was all quite competently done in Butler that day, if the professional institutional purpose was to abandon the duty of care that was Trump's protection to the successful infiltration of an assassin.

The assassin's bullets may have failed to kill Trump, but the creation and preservation of conditions that selected-for defective protection to enable a successful infiltration by an assassin was 100% successful.

This was no accident. All the disruptive anomalies arose from deliberate actions/inactions that directly eroded the duty of care. To what purpose? Cui Bono?

"6 ways from Sunday" was the Shumer quote. Dr. Doctor and Kamala are just two more useful idiots on the chessboard."

BTW have you wondered why CNN and all the other media was covering an obscure rally in Butler, PA when their standard policy is to ignore and deny coverage to Trump? It's pretty obvious, isn't it, that they were tipped off in order to provide the expected live coverage of President Trump's head being blown apart?

There are already far too many data points for reasonable people to remain agnostic about the presence of conspiracy: the data all reinforces one another, revealing a clear pattern that points to only one answer: malice aforethought and a deliberate attempt by the United States Government to murder their chief opponent President Trump and thwart the will of the American people (again).

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Exactly. If you had planned it, you’d need a good cover story. Incompetence has been used before cough 911 cough. No one got fired for that massive “fuck up” either.

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I should have read your comment before posting the same response.

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Great minds, etc. :)

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She has an anti-alibi. A terrible but fake deliberate confession so she takes the fall and insulates what actually happened.

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"Dr. Doctor and Kamala are just two more useful idiots on the chessboard"

Neither of them would be within yards of a chessboard.

Now, a cheeseboard...

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I don’t want to believe! I don’t want to believe! I don’t want to be…..

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Jul 17Liked by eugyppius

All I can say is that if I were trying to arrange a clear field for an assassin, making sure security was fucked up would be job one.

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How the fuck did the agents stationed in the building where the assailant setup shop on the roof not hear a guy walking on a corrugated metal clapboard roof?!

I worked my way through college being a roofing grunt and trust me you can hear everything under a roof like that. Even rain is cacophonous.

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Jul 17Liked by eugyppius

And why no drone coverage? One would expect such a command center to have a drone feed.

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All. Of. It.

Maybe they were keystone cops for a reason?........

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We gave all of our drones to Ukraine.

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That's the first thing I thought of also when I learned LE was inside of the building. How do you not hear someone moving on the roof of a metal building when you're inside that building?

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