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-Short Attention Span Theater-
'Guardian angel' theory links Trump's assassination attempt to UFOs
For some people, reality just isn’t real enough.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Conspiracy theorists are pushing the idea that aliens made an appearance at the attempted liquidation of former President Donald Trump
...The Hero of Butler, Pennsylvania...
Footage from the Pennsylvania rally on July 13 appeared to capture unidentified flying objects (UFOs) soaring through the skies.

A disc-like object whizzed in the background of an American flag blowing in the wind shortly before bullets were fired and another appeared like an orb as the Secret Service stormed the stage.

Some social media users have proclaimed the UFOs as 'guardian angels' who protected Trump from the bullets, which the former president corroborated in saying, 'God saved me' days after the rally.

A conventional explanation would be that the objects were drones surveilling the area, but some reports have claimed there 'were no Secret Service drones flying at the time.'
Thomas Matthew Crooks flew a drone around the site a few hours before the rally. Why not others?

Posted by: Fred || 07/26/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11130 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ancient astronaut theorists say, "Yes".

Dunno what kind of drones they might have been but they were moving pretty fast.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/26/2024 11:14 Comments || Top||

#2  For some people, reality just isn’t real enough.

Come on, we're talking the whole Socialist Democratic base.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/26/2024 12:05 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ Hey...I resemble that!
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/26/2024 12:45 Comments || Top||

#4  The 4 living creatures from the book of Ezekiel could fly. Just saying.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/26/2024 14:46 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Secret Service Refused offer of drones before Trump rally in Butler
[MSN-WashingtonExaminer] The Secret Service declined an offer from local law enforcement to use drone technology at the rally where a gunman took shots at former President Donald Trump, an anonymous whistleblower told Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO).

Hawley revealed in a letter published Thursday to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas that the whistleblower said the Secret Service "repeatedly" objected to using a drone that was capable of identifying and neutralizing an active shooter.

The whistleblower said a local law enforcement partner made the drone offers to the Secret Service the night before the rally, according to Hawley. The whistleblower said that after the shooting occurred, the Secret Service "changed course" and asked local police to use drone technology to surveil the scene, Hawley wrote.

The revelation comes after FBI Director Christopher Wray confirmed on Wednesday that Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, flew a drone over the rally site in Butler, Pennsylvania, about two hours before he carried out the shooting. Crooks was able to fire multiple shots into the rally crowd from a nearby rooftop, killing one, critically injuring two, and causing a minor injury to Trump.
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I have been harping on this.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 07/26/2024 07:28 || Comments || Link || [11131 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The one thing conspicuously missing in all the post-assassination-attempt reporting is WHO was in charge at Butler? Granted Cheatle was the buck-stops-here but who was the on-site USSS agent in charge who made all these decisions and non-decisions? And why are they still employed much less not identified?
Posted by: Mercutio || 07/26/2024 9:20 Comments || Top||

#2  Cheatle already stated that Secret Service has no records of radio communications.

It is possible that the denial of the offered was also not recorded.

Wouldn't that be convenient.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 07/26/2024 9:33 Comments || Top||

#3 
who was the on-site USSS agent in charge who made all these decisions and non-decisions? And why are they still employed much less not identified?

I guess we'll never know unless some insider squeals. One approach might be to fire all USSS personnel on duty that day in Butler, the good, the bad, the ugly, the competent and incompetent. With the stipulation that the mass firing might be rescinded if the USSS comes clean with this info. Note that after Pearl Harbor, virtually all high ranking commanders in Hawaii were replaced. Right after 9/11, none was fired.
Posted by: Gromble+Dribble4342 || 07/26/2024 9:40 Comments || Top||




Home Front: Politix
Harris piously condemns flag burning, Hamas graffiti at protest in Washington
[GEO.TV] US Vice President Kámala Harris
Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's former mistress, then a senatrix from California former 2020 Dem presidential hopeful, and Joe Biden's wing nut, Joe's intended successor'...
joined Democratic and Republican leaders in condemning protesters who burned American flags and sprayed pro-Hamas
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
graffiti outside Washington's Union Station on Wednesday, describing the acts as unpatriotic and abhorrent.

The protests coincided with a speech to Congress by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Before he spoke, protesters marched near the US Capitol building, condemning US military aid to Israel during its war with Hamas in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Following Netanyahu's speech, some of the demonstrators gathered in front of Union Station. They hoisted American flags outside the iconic train station, burned American ones and spray painted the words "Hamas is coming" and "Free Gaza" on a large monument.
Posted by: Fred || 07/26/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11129 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


#2  Harris piously condemns flag burning, Hamas graffiti at protest in Washington

wink wink
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/26/2024 8:09 Comments || Top||

#3  Never mind what she says. Just look at the Biden administration's policy. My guess is she'd be even worse than Biden.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/26/2024 11:16 Comments || Top||

#4  The usual model is for the Dem candidate to pander to the crazies in the primary and then come back to the middle in the general. The model now looks as incoherent and low quality as one of Hunter’s paintings.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/26/2024 14:54 Comments || Top||


Hakeem Jeffries says Republicans “are making up” that Kamala was put in charge of the border, then 6 House Dems vote with Republicans to condemn ‘Czar’ Harris’s border failure
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] Then his lips fell off.
They lie, and hope they can get away with it. That’s ok — we have receipts.


Their lips fell off, too.
Skidmark gives us Fox News’ report:
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., accused Republicans of "making up" the title of "border czar" in reference to Vice President Kamala Harris, just before six members of his House Democratic Caucus voted to criticize her handling of the migrant crisis.

"We have a single legislative item that is on the floor today … it’s a fake and fraudulent resolution cooked up, I think, by one of the representatives from New York — continues to embarrass herself regularly — that lies about the vice president," Jeffries told reporters at his weekly press conference.

"She was never assigned the position of border czar. They're making that up, because the extreme MAGA Republicans are in full meltdown."



Twitchy has lots more receipts.

Posted by: Fred || 07/26/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11134 views] Top|| File under:


#2  They lie, and hope they can get away with it.

WHEN YOU REMEMBER A PAST EVENT, YOU’RE ACTUALLY REMEMBERING THE LAST TIME YOU REMEMBERED IT, NOT THE EVENT ITSELF
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/26/2024 12:42 Comments || Top||

#3  Hakeem is full of kaK, But you knew that.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/26/2024 12:57 Comments || Top||


#5  And nobody is buying that it’s the Republicans fault.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/26/2024 14:50 Comments || Top||

#6  "This is just crazy Republican talk - like who'd put Kamala in charge of anything.", sorta thing?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 07/26/2024 16:48 Comments || Top||


Rashida Tlaib: I will never back down in speaking truth to power.
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 07/26/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11137 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Oh I should be impressed?
Posted by: Vinegar+Greque3942 || 07/26/2024 6:47 Comments || Top||

#2 
She is a good example, of what happens when certain masses of immigrants are placed by certain funding parties, in Metro focused areas.

Where they have no intent of being part of the greater US Melting Pot, but will vote (D). All while bringing with them the issues they desperately wanted to get away from, with them here.

Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/26/2024 7:08 Comments || Top||

#3  Ah, I see she's wearing the new swastika.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/26/2024 7:35 Comments || Top||

#4  That's exactly what it is.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/26/2024 8:56 Comments || Top||

#5  I vote we send her to Gaza to personally
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/26/2024 10:08 Comments || Top||

#6  re: #5,

Her and all the pro-palestinian Jew Haters that are protesting across the country. Deport them all to Gaza and make them clear the rubble and fill in the tunnels.
Posted by: alanc || 07/26/2024 11:23 Comments || Top||

#7  ^ is there a Go-Fund-Me link for #5.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/26/2024 13:03 Comments || Top||

#8 

Well, at least, she held up that plaque "Guilty of Genocide" to confess the guilt for those she supports.

Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/26/2024 14:06 Comments || Top||

#9  If Israel is really committing "genocide", they are doing a lousy job of it. I mean, only "39000" deaths in 9 months? C'mon, man! You can do better than that!
There would be no safe spaces, humanitarian food supplies, etc. Israel would go house to house, and simply kill anyone they found. There would be hundreds of thousands dead, not tens of thousands.

On the other hand, haven't Muslims called for the ELIMINATION of Jews? Ridding the world of the Jewish people? Wouldn't that be real genocide?
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 07/26/2024 14:37 Comments || Top||

#10  Whenever I see Talib my mind says, “Derka, derka, derka,” silently.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/26/2024 14:48 Comments || Top||

#11  Frenocide, or, "Are we there yet?"

Pogrom.
"Mom!"
Hamas is like, "Ow!
The Jews won't stop touching us!"
Wow.
"Yahud est delenda!
We'll never surrender!
They've killed two percent of us now!"
Posted by: Pancho Poodle8452 || 07/26/2024 19:26 Comments || Top||

#12  #5 Would she be entitled to Secret Service protection there?
Posted by: James || 07/26/2024 20:39 Comments || Top||


Gov Newsom orders homeless encampments torn down across California: 'No more excuses'
Guess who expects to be Kamala's vice prez nominee?
[FOXNEWS] Gov. Gavin can't be Bee'd Newsom
...mayor of San Franciscoas it transformed itself into Poopville, currently governor of Californiaas it transforms itself into Cinderland...
is ordering Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, officials to dismantle homeless encampments across the state via an executive order.

Newsom announced the initiative on Thursday, with his office stating that the governor has ordered "state agencies and departments to adopt clear policies that urgently address homeless encampments while respecting the dignity and well-being of all Californians."

"This executive order directs state agencies to move urgently to address dangerous encampments while supporting and assisting the individuals living in them — and provides guidance for cities and counties to do the same," Newsom said in a statement.

Posted by: Fred || 07/26/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11138 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Xi is coming to visit?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 07/26/2024 1:55 Comments || Top||

#2 
Is he playing up to a position in the White House?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/26/2024 4:52 Comments || Top||

#3  ..or a 'interesting' convention.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/26/2024 7:36 Comments || Top||

#4  2028
Posted by: Frank G || 07/26/2024 8:16 Comments || Top||


#6  He's starting a pivot. So, yeah: 2028.
Posted by: Secret Master || 07/26/2024 10:47 Comments || Top||

#7  The governor claims that this initiative was spurred by the Supreme Court's decision in Grants Pass v. Johnson last month, which found laws restricting sleeping in public areas did not violate the constitutional restriction against "cruel and unusual punishment."

Newsom could have appealed that lower court ruling with the full weight and legal representation of the state of California a long, long time ago but he did nothing. It was up to little Grants Pass, Oregon, population 39,000, to appeal an obviously flawed lower court ruling and that was fine with Newsom. He and his developer buddies have made fortunes building so-called "affordable housing" for the homeless at half a million bucks a pop. The total cost for California taxpayers has been $24 billion and Newsom will NOT allow an audit to determine how all that money has been spent. And all the while the number of "people experiencing homelessness" grew, proving how ineffective a governor Newsom has been. How many people died on California's sidewalks, freeway underpasses and river beds due to Newsom's neglect? We'll never know. How many businesses had to close because the hobos were sleeping in their doorways and shoplifting with impunity? Who knows? Harris would be a fool to tap this sleazoid for veep but then, that would not surprise me. They're both cut from the same cloth.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/26/2024 11:39 Comments || Top||

#8  ...don't leave out NIMBY in the local governments that obstruct through zoning. SanFran could be hammered IAW with fed statutes but aren't for some 'strange' reason. Affordable housing - trailer parks. You aren't going to see them because of zoning and regulations.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/26/2024 19:27 Comments || Top||




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