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2024-07-16 Government Corruption

by Mark Steyn
[StrynOnline] Death at the Trump Rally

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.

What's the old line? When seconds count, the police are minutes away? Not at a Secret Service event: even when the police are on site in massive overwhelming numbers, they're still minutes away. Here are fifty-two seconds of members of the public yelling that "he's on the roof":
Read the rest at the link

As always with Mr. Steyn, every word is golden.

Posted by badanov 2024-07-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11140 views ] Top

#1 Law enforcement spotted Trump shooter nearly 30 minutes before shots fired, NBC affiliate reports
WPXI reported that a member of Beaver County, Pennsylvania's emergency services unit noticed a suspicious man on a roof near the rally at 5:45 p.m., called it in and took a picture of the person.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-07-16 00:15|| 2024-07-16 00:15|| Front Page Top

#2 County Officer Warned Of Seeing Man With Rangefinder Before Trump Was Shot

Posted by SteveS 2024-07-16 01:09|| 2024-07-16 01:09|| Front Page Top

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

The safest thing is to always suspect the worst.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2024-07-16 13:08|| 2024-07-16 13:08|| Front Page Top

#4 But then, we must embrace the power of "and". I mean, if they weren't totally crap, their plot would have succeeded.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2024-07-16 13:13|| 2024-07-16 13:13|| Front Page Top

#5 excuse me, but why is nobody criticising the male police officer who climbed the roof

saw the shooter who then pointed the gun pointed at him

and in response, climbed down again.

Didn't shoot him

Didn't tell anyone?

The pile on is onto any woman in the frame. Paul Joseph Watson piled on to the woman bodyguard shielding Trump's body with her body, saying she was allowing his head to be exposed! She was one of six secret service all surrounding and shielding him with their bodies!

You know what is stupid about turning everything to your pet hate, in this case, hatred of women DEI appointees? (which plenty of women are highly competent and deserve their jobs because they are good at them)

it means you yourself become incompetent because you blame what you hate instead of the real culprits and incompetents

Posted by anon1 2024-07-16 17:44|| 2024-07-16 17:44|| Front Page Top

#6 my comment above is not on Mark Steyne, who is golden, who is a legend, who is fair in his assessments and is a wonderful wordsmith.

Posted by anon1 2024-07-16 17:45|| 2024-07-16 17:45|| Front Page Top

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