Shoots and Ladders

Steyn Online ^ | 15 July 2024 | Mark Steyn

[Rummyfan]

Let's cut to the chase - the US Secret Service: In on it? Or just totally crap?

Well, I've thought the Secret Service were rubbish not just since we learned of the Cartagena hookers but for at least another decade before that. And increasingly, when it comes to American officialdom - from Kabul to Uvalde - to modify Henry Ford, you can get it in any colour as long as it's bloated, lavishly over-funded and entirely dysfunctional.

And yet and yet... it's hard to believe even these guys (plus their bevy of five-foot-two-eyes-of-blue Keystone chorus girls) could be this crap. Assuming for the purposes of argument that the body on the roof is actually that of the perp, a goofball barely out of high school hatched a plan to have Donald Trump's head explode in close-up on live TV - and, wittingly or otherwise, the world's most flush money-no-object security state did their best to help him pull it off.

In any accountable "public service", the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Secret Service gal would already be gone. By this point after the Argentine invasion of the Falklands, Lord Carrington (Foreign Secretary), Sir Humphrey Atkins (Lord Privy Seal) and Richard Luce (Minister for Latin-American Affairs) had already resigned: see my column of September 17th 2001 expressing in my naïve Canadian way mystification as to why, six days later, all the 9/11 flopperoos had not been similarly dispatched.

Because that's how it goes in the Republic of Non-Accountability, and, if he's harbouring any doubts about his fitness for the job, Mayorkas figures it can wait till someone takes out RFK Jr. This is a depraved political culture.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: noaccountability

[Rummyfan]

A damning indictment. Will any heads roll? I doubt it.

[mewzilla]

So the dead “perp” really was in a Blackrock ad?!

[Right_Wing_Madman]

the US Secret Service: In on it?

Yes. Normal MAGA people with zero training in security spotted the shooter on the rooftop, but dozens of SS agents on ground didn't?

https://x.com/ywnreporter/status/1812648353169060042?s=46&t=oXM3QUNDayEotvdo1W-zQA

[lavaroise]

We’ll know when they either Richard Jewel the witnesses calling cops out or
Avoid interviewing them altogether
Or the no-congressional inquiry is BS since Rhinos will deep state it and shill it, not pu punishing the current head of SS and other DOJ

[no-to-illegals]

It’s the SS and doj biden wants.

[no-to-illegals]

Of course Zer0 helped create biden’s doj

[ClearCase_guy]

I believe there are reports that the Secret Service sniper had the kid in his sights for something like three minutes.

Big rally for the leading presidential candidate.
Man on an unprotected roof overlooking the event.
The man has a rifle.
The man is sighting his rifle in the direction of the leading presidential candidate.

And the Secret Service is authorized to do ... nothing? You have to wait until the bad guy starts shooting before you can attempt to neutralize the threat in any way??

This is BS.
I think the US government killed JFK and I think the US government just tried to kill Trump.

[HighSierra5]

Yep. Blackrock has plenty of dough to recruit and cover up.

[Eagles6]

"At the battle box..." FJB.

[mewzilla]

I think Deep State’s body count is a lot longer than just JFK...

[Chicory]

Gee, just from watching cop shows I know they should climb the ladder almost all the way to the top, pull out their gun, take a couple more steps up, and yell, “Police, drop it, drop it now!” then shoot.

Sheesh!

[mikey_hates_everything]

I hope Trump is just playing nice for now to take no chances in November, but heads must roll. They should have in his first term.

[struggle]

The shooter was Maxwell Yearick. You can match the sewed up gauges in his ears, his freckles, and his jaw. Who knows who this other kid is. There was a ladder and a the rifle was probably placed there as well.

This was planned by people high up and we’ll never find out much about it unless someone talks.

[ClearCase_guy]

I may not understand the specific geography of that roof and that ladder, but it seems like the local cop went up the ladder, saw the guy on the roof, the guy pointed a rifle at the LEO and the LEO retreated down the ladder to ... get help?

It seems to me that one smart strategy could have been ... go down 2 steps, out of sight, draw your weapon, then surprise the bad guy by suddenly appearing again and shooting the man who just pointed a rifle at you.

Running away ... they teach that at the Police Academy?

[Leaning Right]

Steyn knocks it out of the ballpark, yet again.

[circlecity]

Check out this vid. An entire crowd was watching and filming the shooter on the building as he set up.

https://x.com/TestDummy04/status/1812630567046766853

[Enterprise]

The heads which should roll - won’t. Laughably, the SS is blaming the local police. This is what you get when you don’t have mature adults in charge of important assignments.

[Right_Wing_Madman]

The shooter was Maxwell Yearick. You can match the sewed up gauges in his ears, his freckles, and his jaw. Who knows who this other kid is.

The close-up photos of the dead guy on the roof resemble Yearick, not Crooks. Crooks had a fatter face and wider jawline.

But it's possible they were both present. Multiple shooters are preferred for these types of operations, to eliminate a single point of failure. For whatever reason, Crooks has been the designated fall guy, or patsy.

[EQAndyBuzz]

‘Yes. Normal MAGA people with zero training in security spotted the shooter on the rooftop, but dozens of SS agents on ground didn’t?”

This sounds like a crock of crap and we are going to once again be gaslighted into believing something from the government after all their lies?