Posted on 07/13/2024 9:42:31 PM PDT by jeannineinsd
The nation escaped an unspeakable tragedy that would have been profoundly destabilizing for the country by perhaps a few centimeters.
As it is, what happened in Butler, Pa., is godawful enough. A gunman tried to assassinate former president Donald Trump and grazed his ear with a bullet, while killing one rally-goer and seriously injuring others. This was a heinous act of violence and an attack on American democracy.
Trump’s reaction was truly extraordinary and will long be remembered. After Secret Service officers threw themselves on the former president and then picked him up to begin to take him to safety, he insisted on pausing on the stage, with blood streaming down his face, and pumping his fist to the crowd and repeatedly mouthing the word, “fight!”
The video and photographs of the episode will long be symbols of the current political era and of the Trump phenomenon. Trump’s presence of mind and sense of the moment, after having just been nearly killed and perhaps while still in mortal peril, speak to his natural talents and instincts as a politician and populist symbol.
Many of the condemnations of the shooting have included calls for lowering the temperature of our politics. If that is to mean anything, it should include an end to the fevered insistence that a second Trump term would be the equivalent of the Third Reich, which, if taken seriously, justifies any means of resistance up to and including assassination.
Given the collapse of faith in our institutions and the elevated emotions around this event, the authorities must be completely transparent about what transpired at the rally and be absolutely certain that they are putting out only accurate information. The Secret Service officers who jumped on Trump performed ably, but there will inevitably be questions about how, according to early reports, the would-be assassin was able to climb a nearby roof with a rifle undetected by security while bystanders pointed him out.
If the bullet that wounded Trump had traveled a slightly different path, we would have witnessed earlier this evening one of the most horrifying events in American history. It would have deepened the sense of crisis gripping our country and would have had unforeseeable consequences, none of them good. Sometimes the course of history depends on margins just that small.
“A representative Republic is a type of democracy. Will people look this up?”
No, not correct.
A republic, which is what the USA is, is a representative democracy (where voters choose a representative of their locality or state to make policy votes on their behalf at the organized government levels), as opposed to a pure, or direct, democracy (where everyone votes for every issue, and the majority of voters decides).
You bet they failed.
They failed to kill Trump.
I don’t know.
That’s right.
Read what they are saying at DU.
The division is beyond politics. The stalinist authoritarians seem to want a kinetic.
No statute of limitations for murder.
If the fed sniper had a clear shot of the shooter to kill him AFTER he fired, THE FED SNIPER MUST HAVE HAD A CLEAR VIEW OF THE SHOOTER PREPARING TO SHOOT TRUMP. The fed was using a tripod atop a building and had a large caliber rifle with a big scope.
This appears to be a conspiracy to assassinate in which the feds were likely involved. It looks as if the shooter was the patsy and was always going to be killed, whether a successful assassin or not.
I do not trust ANY of the feds. They are a bunch of criminals.
Trump needs to cancel these events since Biden woke SS staff wants Trump dead. People will understand.
Just imagine my surprise when I discovered these journalistic titans were actually deeply influenced by the girly newsgirls on teevee moaning "Trump? He's icky. What's with his hair? So gross. I'm so done with him."
His superiors gave him “rules of engagement “. WTF were they? Don’t shoot till Trump is hit? A unauthorized individual is pointing a rifle at a crowded area. Then you let him fire toward them? This is 🐂💩
I’m thinking of the constant stream of threats, plus all of the assaults occurring over the last 4+ years, especially the violent pro-Palestinian HAMAS terrorist protests.
Dana White said as much and so have others. It is obvious in interviews he had in the '80s and '90s. He's not playing political games or acting a part for the crowd. Trump is exactly what he presents as.
His reaction when he was shot is notable too. No fear, no wincing just grabbed the side of his head and had a sort of wtf? kind of look on his face. Then he recognized the situation almost immediately and dropped.
I think that qualifies as passing a cognitive test. :)
For very good reasons. The people who wrote those documents were well educated in History. Many of them were taught Greek and Latin, and knew the differences between Athenian democracy and the Roman and Dutch Republics. They were deeply aware of what Democracy invariably leads to and that it had to be avoided. The cliche is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
Me too. Maybe a wake call for a lot of the formerly reliably right publications.
It requires very specific answers. There’s no way the closest roof, only 130 yards away, wasn’t covered.
None.
Well start with Article 1 Section 4. It talks about an election.
I hope he’s not tested daily.
Maybe PDJT needs to pay for his own team?
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