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.
Reminds Me of the Secret Service Agents that were pulled off of the platforms on the rear bumper of the car just before they let JFK be Assassinated in Texas.
Walking tall M-A-G-A man,
They hate on him in his homeland,
They come to snuff the Trumpster,
HE AIN’T GONNA DIE NO!
The surge of patriotism and commonsense after 9/11 did not last a week. By Friday, leftists were loudly complaining that they did not like seeing U.S. Flags being proudly displayed - especially on the fire trucks!
“There are few things in life more exhilarating than having been shot at without result’’.- Winston Churchill.
Yup.
There is voting. It’s just limited to those meeting at the Bohemian Grove right now.
I had a subscription to NR back in the ‘90s until I wised up. Nice to see them throw us a bone now and then, however much they resent the necessity.
To add to the theory: it appears the SS agent on Trump’s right was a short woman,i.e. not in the way.
Seemed pretty damn scary to me but the author of the thought probably had the feeling after being somewhere safe over a snifter of brandies. The one thing that I recall was the bee hum by me and my mind and body doing its thing. Once you hear the buzz you never forget it. I believe we have a Churchill type running. I doubt he had a snort over his survival but I celebrated it. Rush used to say you try to take “the King down?” Don’t miss. Regards. :-)
Taking down a "lone assassin" (to all appearances) is like finding a lone termite in your home: Where there is one, there are others.
Regards,
Not if he’s your lone assassin and you dust him. The SS (I love the SS tag, it reminds me of something. A collar device maybe) let him up there and the rules of engagement said let him shoot first. Then kill the termite. The SS seems inept when its to their convenience. Regards to you.
Not quite sure what you are implying here (that the assassin was intentionally taken down, in order to prevent his interrogation, which would have revealed that he was working in concert with others?), but we otherwise seem to be on the same page here.
Let me re-iterate: Even if this gunman were indeed the textbook example of a "lone assassin" - some crazed hermit à la the "Unabomber" working completely independently - in today's world, it is logical to assume that he is merely the "tip of the iceberg," and that there are others like him out there.
Apart from that, there may also very well be organized groups.
Probably not saying anything here that many other FReepers are thinking, but nonetheless wanted to be explicit.
Regards,
It’s argued who said it first
A lengthy investigation
Emerson popularized it here
Omar in The Wire recently
Thinking outloud....The suspect could have been a mental case who was told he'd be in the history books and super famous if he did this...Or they'd whisk him away and send him into exile with riches. All along never knowing he was going to get taken out within seconds of doing the deed. Pure speculation....
National Review went to the Devil after William F. Buckley died.
I believe you’re correct. The left bred this/these termites and the masters that run them are using them. The SS groomed Soros in the 1940’s and he helped them kill Jews. This trash running our country is no different. IMO. Regards
Later
Democrat Bennie Thompson, ranking member, House Committee on Homeland Security
Democrat Bennie Thompson introduced the absurdly named "Denying Infinite Security and Government Resources Allocated toward Convicted and Extremely Dishonorable (DISGRACED) Former Protectees Act (HR 8081)" on April 19, 2024.
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