Posted on 09/16/2024 4:42:19 AM PDT by Red Badger
Martin County Sheriff's Office via AP
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Fox News has reported that the alleged suspect in the second Trump assassination attempt is Ryan Wesley Routh, as we reported earlier.
He allegedly aimed a rifle through the fence on the golf course where Trump was. He was about 300-500 yards away. Law enforcement claimed he had an AK-47 with a scope and a Go-Pro camera at the fence. He also had a bag with ceramic plates. The Secret Service fired at him and he fled in a black SUV. A citizen saw him and took a picture of his license which the citizen gave to police. The suspect was later caught on the highway by the Martin County Sheriff's Office. Sheriff William Snyder said the suspect was "calm" and not armed when he was stopped. He is now in custody.
Now there's more information about this man and it's concerning.
According to the Sacramento Bee,
[He had a] criminal history in North Carolina that includes convictions between 2002 and 2010 of possession of weapons of mass destruction, carrying a concealed gun, hit and run, possession of stolen goods and resisting law enforcement, among other charges. He’s registered in North Carolina as an unaffiliated voter. In North Carolina, unaffiliated voters can choose which primary they want to vote in. Routh chose Democrats.
The News and Record had a 2002 report about a Ryan Routh who barricaded himself inside United Roofing and then faced charges including having a "weapon of mass destruction" because they said he had a "fully automatic machine gun."
The News & Observer said Routh was interviewed in 2022 by Newsweek Romania and in 2023 by The New York Times for helping to recruit civilian volunteers to help Ukraine fight the war against Russia.
“If governments won’t send their official military, then we civilians have to pick up the torch and make this happen,” Routh told Newsweek.
You can also see a report on Semafor where they covered Routh in passing and his effort to raise volunteers for Ukraine.
According to the NY Times:
In the interview, Mr. Routh said he was in Washington to meet with the U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, known as the Helsinki Commission “for two hours” to help push for more support for Ukraine. The commission is led by members of Congress and staffed by congressional aides. It is influential on matters of democracy and security and has been vocal in supporting Ukraine.
Routh allegedly has also made small donations to Democrats through ActBlue. He purportedly made 19 donations since 2019, including for individual 2020 Democratic presidential primary candidates including former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX), Andrew Yang, Tom Steyer, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA). He has not donated to Joe Biden or Kamala Harris.
According to what people have seen of what is believed to be his X account, he was a huge supporter of Ukraine and he's also made a lot of bizarre posts, like this one to Elon Musk.
“I would like to buy a rocket from you. I wish to load it with a warhead for Putin’s Black Sea mansion bunker to end him. Can you give me a price please. It can be old and used as not returning,” Routh wrote
You can see more of what appears to be his X account here. I was looking at it as it went down, so thanks to Billboard Chris for preserving it.
According to the NY Post:
He advised Biden, 81, in an April 22 X post when he was still running for reelection, to run a campaign around keeping “America democratic and free.”
He claimed Trump wants to “make Americans slaves against master.”
“DEMOCRACY is on the ballot and we cannot lose,” he wrote, a similar slogan commonly used by President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.
“We cannot afford to fail,” Routh continued. “The world is counting on us to show the way.”
While he had been in North Carolina, he relocated to Hawaii.
What isn't clear is how he knew Trump would be there at that time at the golf course, since that wasn't on Trump's public schedule. That raises even more questions.
But as I hinted in post 127:
"Of course the larger stage, for WWII, was set by the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, but fixing that wasn’t part of the exercise"
A WWII would still happen, Hitler or not. It might have been stylistically different, but Germany suffering under the draconian strictures of the Treaty would have to kick over the traces, much as Japan had to respond to having it's access to rubber, oil, and quinine cut off.
Still a WWII, maybe no 'final solution', maybe no invasion of The Soviet Union, maybe Japan attacks the Philippines as expected, depriving the US of the Pearl Harbor casus belli to enter the fray just yet.
A world war with the western hemisphere on the sidelines until it was too late to make much of a difference.
Would the world be a better or worse place today?
You make some interesting points
First to ww2 was inevitable. I disagree unless the Soviets started it and it looks like they were taken so easily in first months in part because they were in offensive positions, not defensive, and didn’t hurt that Stalin had purged the leadership and finish winter war.
Another thought experiment.
A Hitler like figure rises, takes back the Rhein valley, tears up the treaty and is given Czechoslovakia and then stops.
Perhaps even later gets his “polish corridor “ after entering a self defense pact with Poland
Now to Japan
The sanctions to Japan didn’t start till around 1940 and didn’t really ramp up till
July-august of 1941 in response to invasion of French Indonesia and alliance with Germany and Italy
lol I guess a strongly worded letter would have been more appropriate?😂
Here is another thought exercise
Germany declared war on the US first, what if they hadn’t and take it one step further what if Germany and Italy had not signed the tripartite pact with Japan
As far as I can see Germany gained nothing from this agreement, and perhaps lost some. Would Germany have declared war without this agreement, and Japanese stabbed Germany in the back by signing soviet-Japanese neutrality pact, which freed up vast numbers of men and equipment that arrived just in time to save Moscow and likely later Stalingrad.
Fun ain’t it
Yep!
But then I've always shared Tolstoy's perspective.
"In historic events, the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they have but the smallest connection with the event itself. Every act of theirs, which appears to them an act of their own will, is in an historical sense involuntary and is related to the whole course of history and predestined from eternity." - Leo Tolstoy
The people that sent him are the people that need to be waterboarded.
Don't despair lol, history turns on its heel, and turns on its heels, quite often.
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