Posted on 07/16/2024 7:45:22 PM PDT by bitt
President Biden, during his latest rambling, incoherent, bad-tempered and often excruciatingly awkward TV interview, was very clear about one thing regarding Donald Trump’s shooting: Don’t blame me, pal!
In fact, he looked indignant that the interviewer, NBC’s Lester Holt, would even suggest such a terrible thing.
It was extraordinarily insightful to watch Biden working so hard to deflect any attention to his own culpability in raising the political temperature to such scarily dangerous levels that someone would try to assassinate his rival four months before the election.
When asked for his first reaction to the shooting, Biden instantly went on his favorite Trump-bashing greatest-hits rant about January 6, Charlottesville, Nazis, both sides, etc.
Think about that for a moment.
Here is the president of the United States declining to even pretend to care that his immediate predecessor, and current rival for the forthcoming election, just came within an inch of being killed.
No, what was more important to “Mr. Nice Guy” Biden was that he score instant political points to imply that Trump had it coming.
To his credit, Holt was having none of it, and pointed out that just days before the shooting, Biden declared Trump an “existential threat” to America and told donors: “It’s time to put Trump in the bull’s-eye.”
But even when confronted with his use of such obviously violent language, Biden scurried to avoid any responsibility for his shameful rhetoric.
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I actually believe that was a threat from Biden and a ‘go’ signal to those planning to kill Trump. Just my 2 cents.
Joe is hadly alone in that...nor is he the greatest offender
“Cheatle said the roof was too steep? It is an extremely shallow pitch.
Any less pitch and it would be a flat roof.”
That one is a huge detail. In fact it looked to me like it was flatter than the one the SS detail was on across from him.
That one is a huge detail. In fact it looked to me like it was flatter than the one the SS detail was on across from him.”
I get the bullseye and crosshair comments. Remember when Sarah Palin crosshair’s ad and Gabby Gifford was shot. Everyone rallied to Palin’s defense. Palin was talking about putting Gifford’s political district in the the cosshairs to try and win it.
In political speech and even in the workforce it’s meant to center your focus your aim on a specific target, this is where your thought needs to be. It’s that simple.
No one said shoot anybody or anything so this is all pure bullshxt.
The fact that someone may be that stupid or insane otherwise is on that person.
‘“It’s time to put Trump in the bull’s-eye.”
But even when confronted with his use of such obviously violent language...’
Can we no longer use figures of speech, metaphors, hyperbole?
Can we no longer make a Killing on Wall Street or have a financial target or hit the bullseye or bomb out?
Give us ONE actual, in-context quote from Trump using “incredibly incendiary” rhetorical language.
They can’t. Yet there are dozens and dozens of examples of such rhetoric from the left, many of them very direct incitements (e.g. “Trump is a threat to the country”).
Yes, it was much shallower. I looked at videos of both again today. The roof the SS agents were on looked to me to be about a 4 in 12 pitch. That means 4 inches of rise to 12 inches of run. Not particularly steep.
I built houses in CO for many years and a 4/12 pitch is super easy to run around on. In any area that can expect a decent snow load that is the minimum pitch for a house using typical trusses. 6/12 is far more common and even 8/12. 6/12 isn’t bad to walk around on but at that pitch it gets noticeably more tiring to spend a day on and, on a metal roof, you stop taking for granted that your feet won’t slip. 8/12 is where it gets more than tiring it gets hard to stay on if there is any loose dust or dirt on the roof or your shoes.
Now, to the shooter’s roof. I never built or worked on one that shallow but I’m guessing it is at least 2/12 or less.
Maybe I can pull up a good pic of it from a side angle and figure it out by measuring on the screen. I’ll post back to you later if I can do that.
In any case you could let kids run around on it, like kids do, and not worry that they would fall down and then slide or roll off. I did on my childhood house and that was a 4/12. Dad only got at me about it because it’s hard on asphalt shingles. lol
Someone just posted a mime with the two side by side. But I lost where it was. I downloaded it but I can’t upload it back here. If I run across it I will get it to you. :)
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