OK, so the shooter had a laptop, good. Now, what are the chances that a lonesome, disturbed young man had no social media activity? Will we finally hear about that?
There’s no longer any need to protect Cheatle’s incompetence, so maybe we’ll start finding out something that will help make sense of this. I’m glad Wray is answering questions and providing important information, so let’s hope more comes out soon.
All the scenarios I can think of that make sense of it:
1. our alphabet agencies are all so incompetent that this is exactly what it looks like: bumbling idiots everywhere.
2. Multiple shooters, one or more of whom are still at large– which information they are trying to keep a lid on until they can apprehend.
3. Inside job.
What are the other possibilities?
(plus any combination of those three)
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What we know of the story right now looks like an evil North Korean propaganda spiel about stupid Americans. And the sad part is that no foreign enemy was involved.
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…that we know of. But yeah, I wouldn’t immediately jump to foreign plot, with dumb white incel involvement.
For devil’s advocate purposes: the most coherent version of the Las Vegas shooting I’ve seen is that it was some inscrutable Saudi internal politics thing that spilled out onto US turf.
So… it seems unlikely in this case but I wouldn’t rule it out entirely with so little information. With almost nothing to go on… hard to rule out anything.
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Does it seem weird for anyone how little information has been offered by FBI and the local authorities? Like, even for say an arson at a local Target, you’d have briefings on Day 1, briefings on Day 2, and so on. No daily press conferences for an event of this magnitude, and the 24 hour news cycle has already moved on.
A president was almost assassinated for fucks sake! Can you imagine this level of media neglect had this happened to Obama or Biden?
I feel like when major events like that happen, we usually have a semi-coherent narrative seeded into MSM by now.
This time… they’re not even trying. Afraid talking about it’ll give the opposition too much free press like back in 2016? Or is there some kind of turbulence happening within the committee that runs BidenInc, and they are too distracted to get around to it?
I’m seeing an impressive number of Trump flags and hats around town. A college town, no less. Before, people were nervous and scared to display their Trump paraphernalia. But now they don’t seem to care anymore. We’ve seen such extraordinary dysfunction from the left that people don’t let themselves being shamed so easily anymore.
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Yeah, this is definitely a change. I think it’s because the silicon valley elite billionaires have declared their support for him. Imagine doing this in a geographical location that is the beating heart of the progressive movement. That pretty much signals it’s somewhat OK to express your support for trump, which would’ve been impossible in the last election cycle.
These new money tech elites are passionate about expertise and they’ve seen how DEI has destroyed every institution it has touched. Something had to give.
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“Here’s the official story so far: a random 20 year old acting completely alone walked within 150 yards of a presidential campaign rally with a rifle, climbed onto a rooftop in full view of Secret Service snipers, set up his shot and fired without anyone intervening and with no help from anyone. This 20 year old is also so politically radical as to attempt an assassination and yet not radical enough to have ever posted any political writings or commentary on any social media site ever in his life. He also wrote no manifesto and left behind no indication about why he did it. His last and only political act, before attempting to kill the Republican candidate, was to register as a Republican. You must believe this and ask no questions about it or else you are a conspiracy theorist. And one thing we know about assassination attempts is that there’s never any conspiring involved.”
And it’s even worse than that. He supposedly flew a drone over the event. There was a van with explosives. His parents knew something was wrong and tried to alert the police. And there’s other stuff.
None of it makes sense. It’s like Putin’s henchmen who keep falling out of windows by the dozen and everybody just stupidly accepts that it’s all completely normal.
I know you’re not a big fan of Tucker these days but his interview with Jack Posobiec (sp?) was very good and very detailed. So much incompetence that it’s indistinguishable from malice.
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It did look to me that the shots came from two different spots but I’m thinking, maybe it’s filmed in a confusing way, maybe there’s another explanation. But nobody’s giving another explanation! I hope people investigate. I hope there are documentaries about it. It’s weird that the mainstream has kind of moved on already, and it only just happened.
Like I said. Usually they manage something at least semi-coherent.
This fails on all counts. And then there’s all the weirdness going on with the current president.
It feels like the currently-in-power side is in shocking disarray right now, after seeming like a completely synched-up and unstoppable propaganda juggernaut for years. Chip blew out in its mechanized brain or something.
I’m guessing this is some behind-the-scenes internal conflict we don’t have the shape of yet, like trying to read the ripples on the water and figure out what’s going on 20 feet down.
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I think the shooting, and whatever’s going on at WH are two faces of the same mongrel creature.
Here’s Brett W musing on the WH half of that
https://x.com/BretWeinstein/status/1815820781089349896
He thinks it’s all a big psyop. I dunno. Plausible, but with so much info being very obviously withheld, who knows?
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It is not a “palace coup” and you do not live in the Soviet Union
https://blog.exitgroup.us/p/it-is-not-a-palace-coup-and-you-do
Interesting opinion.
I grew up in the USSR and I support this message. 🙂
Great link, thank you! Joe Biden did saddle the party with Kamala to solve a situational, short-term issue, and then the entire leadership had to scramble quite entertainingly to wriggle out of the Kamala handicap. They failed to do so and now they are stuck needing somehow to sell her to voters. It’s all quite comical. Unfortunately, many people are lemmings and have already whipped themselves into a frenzy of enthusiasm over Kamala when not a week ago they were willing to die on the hill of Biden as the nominee.
As plausible as anything else I’ve come across!
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…and yeah, it does seem way too disorganized to be the tidy multiarmed plot a lot of people want it to be. What it feels like is that the closet full of people– who all want to run the country, but lack the balls to do it publicly or legitimately– who’ve been running BidenInc for the last four years on duct tape and adderall… are having some kind of meltdown/crisis. None of us know exactly what happened, but… it’s clear something happened, and rather like when the teacher’s out of the classroom unexpectedly, things seem delightfully unconstrained.
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I am still reading things that article links to, and some of them are fascinating! This one in particular, which traces British Intelligence’s links to “charitable” organizations that it uses to intimidate people it doesn’t like, unofficially:
I really like the people behind the EXIT group. They’re trying to build a cancellation-proof community and an alternative power structures, free from the vagaries of the modern DEI state.
To create that freedom, we form alternative institutions: new businesses, new schools, new communities, new markets, and new guards for our future security.
As the old regime hemorrhages talent, we bring that talent together, and build things that will thrive amid volatility and decay.
re: EXIT: I like the concept! If they look like they’re getting anywhere, they’ll be crushed, but if 1000 such coalitions spring up, we’ll be getting somewhere. Seems like something that would make more sense coalescing around a religious community– church, monastery– and probably be more successful when it arises organically through such a community. Best of luck to them, though.
The core group is religious (mormon I think) and most of the members are religious in some shape or form. That is the driving ethos behind this venture. They’re really doing cool things, like how to legally structure parcels of land to build communities such that they have absolute control over whom to let in, and avoid being harassed by the government for “discrimination” etc.
…legally structure parcels of land…
It’s been pioneered by various communes over the years. Most of them failed, but there are some that’ve been around for decades now and still going, such as The Farm in Tennessee. Probably there’s something to be learned from them.
Ever since Dreher got all excited about his Benedict Option idea… I’ve been kind of a pessimist about that whole thing. It seems like a great idea on paper, but then when you go look at communities that he talks about (and some he doesn’t, but which I know about)… almost across the board, they are inaccessible to anyone who isn’t wealthy. Clear Creek TX, Eagle River, AK, that is some pricey real estate if you wanna move to the neighborhood, and good luck finding a job nearby. I’ve Zillowed it.
So… I want it to be a thing, but until I see it happening for real– I’m also skeptical. People seem to have the idea that cancel culture is just about smearing people’s internet reputations and getting them fired. It’s way, way more than that– if you read through what happened to VDARE, say… that’s not an isolated incident. That’s coordinated state warfare against the right, whom they perceive as their enemies, via the courts and banks, and indirectly through their arms the press and nonprofits. Even when “the right” are just advocating good food and fitness, telling people how to look better naked. Don’t dare be any kind of famous and also publicly right-ish.
Health is political now. Food is political. Farming is political. Competence is political. Religion is political. Marriage is political. Family is political. Education is political. Jobs are political. Running a business is political. Fixing your own stuff is political. Saving money is political. *Gardening* is political now, for pete’s sake! Not because anybody involved wants them to be, but because for inscrutable reasons the state is now against these things.
So if we still want to *have* any culture to pass on to our kids, we sure as heck need to be building the resilient legal, social, and community structures that can sustain it. But it can’t just be for rich people, and probably needs to be primarily NOT by and for them, because wealth– and attachment to it– is going to make people far more vulnerable to, say, attack through the banks. See how fast that machine can take out your organization, if it’s mainly the project of three or four wealthy patrons.
So, you know… we need forty of these organizations in every town.
Meanwhile:
unprepared propaganda wing scrambling to delete Harris’ voting history in senate…
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It’s exactly what I’ve been saying in my interview today. I was asked what people around me think about Kamala Harris, and I said they’ll think what they are told because information about her is being aggressively cleaned up as we speak. And the saddest thing is that people will gladly lend themselves to this erasure of memory.
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Absolutely fascinating:
https://x.com/capeandcowell/status/1816599093847711997?t=e95LJCoYaxzAMSEA8VMW9A&s=19
Gosh, I wish they’d do that in my county.
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