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The director of the Secret Service explains the failure of her agency that led to the assassination attempt on Trump as follows:

That building in particular has a sloped roof at its highest point. And so, you know, there’s a safety factor that would be considered there that we wouldn’t want to put somebody up on a sloped roof. And so, you know, the decision was made to secure the building, from inside.

https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/trump-biden-election-2024-rnc/card/secret-service-chief-trump-shooter-s-sloped-roof-left-unmanned-due-to-safety-concerns

There are truly no words to describe this level of lisping, shameless childishness. A country whose secret service agents are afraid of sloped roofs. We have arrived, America. The home of the brave whose bravery stops at a moderately inconvenient roof.

43 responses to “Home of the Unbrave”

  1. cliff arroyo Avatar
    cliff arroyo

    “sloped roof”

    The absolute…. stupidity of the explanations for how this was allowed…. facilitated? to happen are starting to arouse my conspiracy sense…..

    If I were on the Trump detail I’d inspect any vehicle he’s in about 37 times at least……

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    1. Clarissa Avatar
      Clarissa

      Every time I start thinking it might be a conspiracy, I see this confused, clucking hen of a woman, and I’m back to believing they are all really that inept.

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        Anonymous

        A conspiracy would almost be more comforting

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        1. methylethyl Avatar
          methylethyl

          That is why we have conspiracy theories, mostly. It gives us the reassuring illusion that someone is actually in charge of this circus and everything is going according to some plan. Even if it’s an evil plan, somehow that’s still better than accepting that our entire country, even at the highest levels, is run by incompetent idjits.

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          1. cliff arroyo Avatar
            cliff arroyo

            “conspiracy theories…. the reassuring illusion that someone is actually in charge”

            To be clear, I don’t think the attempt was planned by the government…. I do think there was a general agenda by the government to not unduly hamper such attempts…. there has been more than one effort to remove/reduce secret service details assigned to Trump and one assumes other appearances featured “security” arrangements that were just as shoddy and incompetent.

            What they got was their worst-case-scenario… a failed attempt on his life that highlighted their…. planned(?) incompetence.

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            1. methylethyl Avatar
              methylethyl

              Sounds about right.

              It’s not that conspiracies don’t happen: people conspire all the time.

              It’s just that most conspiracies are way smaller and far less competent than we’d like to imagine.

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      2. cliff arroyo Avatar
        cliff arroyo

        “this confused, clucking hen of a woman”

        Apparently…. (putting together different infobits from different sources) she got her job because she’s friends with Jill Biden… who was/is one of the strongest opponents of the idea that Biden should step down because she really, really, really likes being first lady (and is attending policy meetings like Rosalynn Carter and Hillary Clinton before her….)

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        1. Clarissa Avatar
          Clarissa

          That this woman would insist on being called “Doctor” over her PhD in Education was already a sign she was unsuited for a public role. Ego wounds get very ugly when you can feed them by appearing on magazine covers and making decisions that impact human lives.

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  2. methylethyl Avatar
    methylethyl

    But… they had visible snipers on a more-steeply-pitched roof, right behind the podium.

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    1. cliff arroyo Avatar
      cliff arroyo

      “But… they had visible snipers on a more-steeply-pitched roof”

      Welcome to soviet-style rhetoric…. openly false and shameless and counting on people to not notice or care (or have the courage to speak up).

      It doesn’t work in this case (except for those who want it to work).

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      1. methylethyl Avatar
        methylethyl

        I get it, but I HATE it. It’s evil.

        It’s the everything’s-a-loyalty-test game. We say something so obviously false and stupid nobody with two brain cells to rub together and make a thought could possibly buy it, and then your reaction to it determines whether you’re a sycophantic ally or an enemy to be eliminated.

        I’m autistic. I can’t even tell you that you that your new haircut looks nice, if I don’t believe it myself. I do not– cannot– tolerate games where the rules are: tell the truth and you lose. It’s bad enough when the game is “say untrue things to people you dislike, win invisible social points”. There are no subjectively bad consequences for losing that game– you can’t threaten me with low social status, because that’s my default and I’ve accepted it.

        But looking forward… we are headed toward a culture, maybe even a law/court structure, where the consequences for refusing (or being flatly unable) to play the game are far worse than just failing to win social prizes that were never winnable anyway. Now we’re into “burn that pinch of incense to Caesar” or get kicked off of the platforms everyone you know uses to keep in touch, be denied access to any job that will actually support you, face lawsuits or legal harassment every time you say something that’s *obviously true*…

        Worse, the younger generation of people like me… (shudders). Have you seen the stats on FtM transies who are autistic? When I was young, the lie was: dress like us, talk like us, do your hair like us, and be rewarded with acceptance! It doesn’t work of course. No matter how hard you try, you’ll always be an odd duck (but of course, most of us don’t figure this out until age 20-25ish). Now the lie is: take testosterone, cut off your boobs, and be rewarded with acceptance! So now you’re still an odd duck, but you’ve also been permanently mutilated in the pursuit of social acceptance that isn’t attainable.

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        1. Peter Avatar
          Peter

          Yes on your trans comments, which is why Joanne Rowling was so opposed to this because she saw the problems in Scotland.

          It is appalling that it took an independent review before the English health system required gender dysphoria services to adopt the same levels of clinical practice as all other evidence-based medicine.

          https://cass.independent-review.uk/home/publications/final-report/

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            Clarissa

            The UK finally started moving in the right direction. It’s extraordinary the amount of effort it took but finally there are some results.

            We will look at this with horror one day, wondering how such advanced societies managed to be so dumb.

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            1. methylethyl Avatar
              methylethyl

              But we’ve done it over and over again… frontal lobotomies, thalidomide, DES, ‘twilight sleep’, lead in everything… the great wonder is that anybody still believes we’re somehow past that stage of history and won’t keep doing stuff like that.

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            2. methylethyl Avatar
              methylethyl

              Serendipitous quote from a book I am currently reading:

              “One man I worked with had long-standing gender identity issues that were causing him enormous depression, anxiety, and suicidal feelings. He was conflicted about whether to transition and tormented by uncertainty. He was then diagnosed with an ASD. Prior to this he had believed that gender identity had been the all-encompassing challenge affecting everything else in his life (work, relationships, mental health, sexuality), but later came to see that his autism was the main factor and that his gender identity could be explained by the cognitive and psychological impacts of his life with autism. He had previously been trying to find a place for himself on an NT gender/sexuality spectrum. I suggested to him that maybe the autistic gender/sexuality spectrum was different — more androgynous, less dichotomous, more fluid — and that his error had been to attempt to categorize himself using a system that did not apply to him. He found this reframing helpful and was able to make a decision to continue to live as a man while accepting his more androgynous/feminized profile.”

              (from *Women and Girls with Autism Spectrum Disorder* by Sarah Hendrickx)

              This author, and others, have noted the markedly high rate of androgyny in ASD, particularly among women.

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    Anonymous

    There’s been a huge push by Libs of TikTok and others to fire people for offensive social media posts about the assassination. Your thoughts? I’m not a fan, though it feels inevitable.

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    1. Clarissa Avatar
      Clarissa

      I didn’t know this but I’m completely, totally and utterly against this. We already have a censorship police on the left. Why do we need one on the right?

      I’m so disappointed with these people. First, they spy on private text messages that somehow “make students unsafe”. Now this. What a disgrace, God.

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      1. methylethyl Avatar
        methylethyl

        I hate, hate, hate this logic that “they’re winning because they’re playing dirty, so we have to play dirty too…”

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          Anonymous

          I think it’s inevitable that as long as these dirty tactics are available, they are going to be used by anyone who can gain access to them. Obviously I find the behavior despicable but as things function now, any shift in the Overton window (in this case, “it is no longer socially acceptable to wish for Trump to be murdered”) will be accompanied by a corresponding shift in “who gets cancelled.” The optimist in me hopes this ends in mutual disarmament, but I expect it will be more a race to the bottom. This won’t be solved unless employers and other decision makers decide to ignore loud cancel mobs.

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          1. methylethyl Avatar
            methylethyl

            It’s not inevitable that everybody has to retaliate in kind, though. There are better strategies for, not just defeating it, but *making it go away* as an acceptable behavior. The problem is that they require large numbers of internet-gen people to acquire some self-control and thinking-ahead skills.

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            1. Stringer Bell Avatar
              Stringer Bell

              I despise LibsofTiktok and accounts like that. Accounts designed to fill people with despair over the state of the country. Often “reheating” moments from years ago and making it seem like they just happened now. Posting coal 24/7. And taking pride in getting regular people like home depot cashiers fired is just despicable.

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              1. Clarissa Avatar
                Clarissa

                I agree. I didn’t become a conservative to engage in leftist practices. I don’t want a conservative culture of fear to substitute the liberal one.

                I also detest the anti-American messaging that this is a terrible country. It’s a wonderful country. With problems, yes. But miles better than pretty much any alternative.

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              2. methylethyl Avatar
                methylethyl

                It’s one of those “what you contemplate, you imitate” conundrums.

                Once, many years ago now, I needed to lose 35 pounds. I did it by subscribing to a bunch of healthy-lifestyle, low-carb, paleo, etc. podcasts, blogs, whatever I could find, so that there was something I could spend an hour or more every day reading or listening to, that was new content, and stay motivated. I basically brainwashed myself. It worked, too. I lost it, and kept it off until I had kids. That’s a way of making it work *for* you, though it can easily go off the rails if you’re not careful about content.

                But when it’s your newsfeed, and it’s all “OMG look what this jackass said” and “Ew, could the opposition get any more cringe” and “Be offended!” etc. that’s… not motivational. It’s just constantly punching the lever on your disgust/superiority box until you completely lose your concept of normal and good. Your frame of reference gets warped. And behaviors that seemed too awful to contemplate, become… well you’re staring at way worse things every single day. That’s not so bad, right?

                I periodically go through my newsfeed and cull everything that relies on perpetual outrage/disgust for clicks and eyeballs. I don’t want to become that. Also rip out things that post every day, even when they have nothing to say, just to stay on top of the feed. That’s clutter and it’s crowding out better things.

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              Anonymous

              “The problem is that they require large numbers of internet-gen people to acquire some self-control and thinking-ahead skills.” Like I said, it’s inevitable 😂

              Not really, but the mobs aren’t going to stop, people just need to stop listening to them. If the behavior becomes ineffective, it will eventually become unthinkable.

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              1. methylethyl Avatar
                methylethyl

                “Stop listening” isn’t good enough.

                You have to have a better goal to aim for.

                Religion’s very helpful for this. Ready-made frame of reference, roadmap, set of daily practices.

                Dunno if there’s some other way to get at it. The main thing is that… there’s a lot of suck going on out there. You can’t orient your life around it. You have to have something else to orient your life around.

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          2. Clarissa Avatar
            Clarissa

            We should all react with disgust when people around us engage in cancellations. We should reach them that they are acting despicably and that we find them gross. This is about social norms. Somehow everybody has interiorized the norm of not blowing their noses into a curtain or pass gas during formal gatherings. Humans are highly educable. So let’s educate.

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            1. Post Alley Crackpot ckpot Avatar
              Post Alley Crackpot ckpot

              Fine, I’ll talk about my several cancellations perhaps before it’s time …

              But the final straws: the thief in my wife’s company and finding out just how fucked my personal finances are if I try to stay, especially if I have even one more major medical incident.

              And the punitive taxation for leaving in “their good graces” would nearly ensure it as well given the enormous mistake I made while sorting out my Swiss cheesed memory … haha, almost forgot (haha, not really, not ever).

              But getting cancelled once?

              Oh, so lucky for you, they just keep coming for me in America and the UK, and it’s possibly rubbed off.

              One day after being informed by yet another Clique of Karens how you’re being fucked this time around, you realise that the world’s pariahs reach out to each other because they haven’t anyone else.

              And so while they are sorting out just how to fuck you differently with switchblades this time, you reach out and say yes, it’s time for that one last job, but there’s more to it than that.

              At least in this place it’s safe to walk about, to plan for a family, to get away from this malodour of decadence and negativity.

              Go ahead, Cliques of Karens, hate me harder.

              That negativity only pushes me harder as well to help a few of the world’s pariahs and do some good for them.

              But congratulations to the Anglo World’s progressives …

              The people I used to refer to as The Regime?

              We see eye to eye now.

              And with this, the Clique of Karens and their hunting of me comes to an end.

              I will most likely never be able to set foot on US soil again or even as much as overfly it.

              But I think I’d rather have laid a foundation for family at the cost of some personal inconvenience and antagonism than try to continue with a doomed path that only doesn’t seem doomed because people hoodwink you about it for the sake of treasured shared delusions.

              I disagree almost entirely about “home of the unbrave”: if you aren’t asleep, hoodwinked, bribed into complacency, medicated into submission, or sedated after being fucked with switchblades by a caring Clique of Karens, you’d have to be brave …

              Or in shock and utterly terrified, there’s that.

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                Post Alley Crackpot

                Or … perhaps not.

                In my absence, why not take this opportunity to become me by using this identity?

                It’s not like I’ll be using it again.

                Funny how in the end it was your shitty blog software that ended it.

                Crap technology prevailed where politics couldn’t.

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              2. Clarissa Avatar
                Clarissa

                I’m confused. What did I do exactly?

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    Anonymous

    More info on various failures of that day:

    https://www.wpxi.com/news/local/alleged-trump-shooter-spotted-by-law-enforcement-nearly-30-minutes-before-shots-fired-sources-say/Q6GIK5RP6RBY5PHIMYBNXRTEBI/?taid=66958dd316ce8000018d441d&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=trueanthem&utm_source=twitter

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  5. Stringer Bell Avatar
    Stringer Bell

    Is she the director of the secret service or director of OSHA?

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    1. Clarissa Avatar
      Clarissa

      More like a kindergarten teacher.

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  6. Stringer Bell Avatar
    Stringer Bell

    The counterrevolution wins when it gets the true enemy of the people (boomer lady cashiers working at Home Depot) fired.

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      Anonymous

      The replies are disgusting also, very few are pushing back. I hope there’s a gofundme and that she’s eligible for unemployment benefits.

      Sybil

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        Anonymous

        My comment about the gleeful replies refers to LiTT’s first post. Checking the replies to this recent confirmation of the firing I’m happy to see she IS getting (major) pushback. Still disappointing but at least people are coming to their senses. How is this older woman going to get a new job??

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    2. Clarissa Avatar
      Clarissa

      Honestly. Can anybody explain how this is better than some overheated BLM “activist”? I’m not seeing much difference. It’s the same self-righteous contempt for people. The same hounding of scared individuals in their workplace.

      This is painful to watch.

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  7. Stringer Bell Avatar
    Stringer Bell

    So the head of the secret service refuses to resign after this monumental fuckup. This is related to what I was saying earlier about how the current elites are not like old elites. Remember, people used to step down out of a sense of honor and duty? That practice has completely vanished from modern america. She literally said “the buck stops at me” and then “I’ll continue doing my job” as if the buck stops here is just a catchphrase and not a call to action.

    Shameless rent-extracting creatures.

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      Clarissa

      This person wouldn’t understand the concept of honor if her life depended on it. The wholesale promotion of these weaselly, stupid people just because they tick the right boxes is a disgrace.

      In other news, Biden “has COVID.” He’ll probably be stepping down because there’s no way he can last until November. What a travesty.

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        Stringer Bell

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          Clarissa

          I don’t know what genius decided that “Biden isolates with COVID while Trump appears in endless events after surviving an assassination attempt” is a good campaign strategy. It’s like they are trying to make the contrast more obvious.

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          1. Stringer Bell Avatar
            Stringer Bell

            OK, if Biden in his current state doesn’t get at least hospitalized from COVID can we all finally admit COVID was just a cold?

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              Clarissa

              This COVID I had recently was very similar to the COVID I had in 2020. Same symptoms, everything. And everybody reacted completely normally. I stayed at home, the symptoms cleared by themselves. We could have done all this 4 years ago and avoided all the insanity.

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              1. cliff arroyo Avatar
                cliff arroyo

                “We could have done all this 4 years ago and avoided all the insanity.”

                As I keep saying… there was some reason to be concerned in early 2020…. by May (at the absolute latest) it was clear that lockdowns, masks etc were unneeded and there was no reason to throw away decades of established protocols for dealing with contagious illness in favor of a bunch of improvised crazy-people measures.

                Either those in charge were stupid beyond the comprehension of mere mortals or they wanted a pandemic and were going to have one whether or not the disease cooperated. I really can’t think of any realistic third option.

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