199 thoughts on “July Games”

  1. Morning All
    what a messed up world we live in! my DIL’s father (an kindred Trump supporter) came over to me yesterday afternoon and quietly told me the news about the attempt. I quickly got up and we went into the outer room and talked. glad it was not worse news!
    this is what you get when you demonize a person–and it has to stop.
    other than that, the trip was exhausting. Mom’s brother (her next door neighbor) went into the hospital shortly before we got there (by ambulance–so it was not something small). Her cousin’s wife just passed and another cousin has cancer raging through her body.
    she kept Mom busy and laughing as best we could, but when we were getting ready to leave, she was getting sad again.
    I admonished both my children to call her more often–they can all spare a few minutes to talk–if not actually visit. they will regret it someday if they don’t.
    on the way home, we hit a torrential downpour and hubby couldn’t see well enough and we missed an exit. sigh
    made it back home here around midnight.

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      1. Morning Filly!
        i really thought we should have pulled over to ride out that torrential rain, but hubby was right–driving thru it was better. once we were a few miles from the exit we missed the rain subsided all together.

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        1. The wind is still really blowing here this morning, dark skies to the west…..hot (82 already) and muggy…..had to take my Trump flag down before it broke!

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  5. formal invitation, hearings…that’s all congress can muster

    TheseTruths

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    Wolf

    July 14, 2024 01:19

    BREAKING: Emergency Hearing Called — Secret Service Director Called to Testify Before House Regarding Assassination Attempt on President Trump

    The U.S. Secret Service is set to brief the GOP Oversight Committee following an assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania.

    The news was announced by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) on social media, stating that the committee had been informed of the incident and would hold an emergency hearing as soon as possible.

    “Secret Service has responded to GOP Oversight and will be briefing us ASAP. We have also notified Secret Service that we will be holding an emergency hearing ASAP to uncover what transpired at President Trump’s rally. The Secret Service Director is being called to testify. Date will be announced soon,” Anna Paulina Luna wrote on X.

    Rep. James Comer, Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, announced on his social media account that he “have already contacted the Secret Service for a briefing and am also calling on Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle to appear for a hearing. The Oversight Committee will send a formal invitation soon

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  6. TheseTruths

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    Wolf

    July 14, 2024 01:19

    BREAKING: Emergency Hearing Called — Secret Service Director Called to Testify Before House Regarding Assassination Attempt on President Trump

    The U.S. Secret Service is set to brief the GOP Oversight Committee following an assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania.

    The news was announced by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) on social media, stating that the committee had been informed of the incident and would hold an emergency hearing as soon as possible.

    “Secret Service has responded to GOP Oversight and will be briefing us ASAP. We have also notified Secret Service that we will be holding an emergency hearing ASAP to uncover what transpired at President Trump’s rally. The Secret Service Director is being called to testify. Date will be announced soon,” Anna Paulina Luna wrote on X.

    Rep. James Comer, Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, announced on his social media account that he “have already contacted the Secret Service for a briefing and am also calling on Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle to appear for a hearing. The Oversight Committee will send a formal invitation soon

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  13. Feisty Hayseed

    Feisty Hayseed

    July 14, 2024 12:47 am

    Mexican man charged with killing two children in Wisconsin is in US illegally

    Local media reported that the victims are the suspect’s wife and children

    A Mexican man accused of stabbing three people, including two children who died of their injuries, is in the U.S. illegally, federal authorities confirmed to Fox News Digital on Friday.

    Victor Manuel Gomez-Acosta, a Mexican illegal immigrant, was charged with two counts of first-degree intentional homicide, attempted first-degree homicide and operating under the influence after being arrested in Abbotsford, Wisconsin.

    The Colby-Abbotsford Police Department said that two children were found dead at the scene with stab wounds, while an adult woman was also stabbed but was given medical care. Gomez-Acosta was found inside the residence and was apprehended. He was later transported to a medical center after police found self-inflicted stab wounds.

    According to WQOW, the victims are Gomez-Acosta’s wife and daughters. The outlet, citing the criminal complaint, reported that the children were found in one of their bedrooms. One had been stabbed 16 times and the other 20 times. His wife was reportedly stabbed approximately 17 times, with one of the wounds cutting her vocal cords.

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mexican-man-charged-killing-two-children-wisconsin-us-illegally

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  14. Troublemaker10

    July 14, 2024 12:48 am

    Taylor Budowich
    @TayFromCA

    President Donald Trump has authorized this account as a place for donations to the supporters and families wounded or killed in today’s brutal and horrific assassination attempt.

    President Donald Trump has authorized this account as a place for donations to the supporters and families wounded or killed in today’s brutal and horrific assassination attempt.https://t.co/GXypBRjKIL

    — Taylor Budowich (@TayFromCA) July 14, 2024

    —

    Support For Butler PA Victims – President Trump Authorized

    https://www.gofundme.com/f/president-trump-seeks-support-for-butler-pa-victims?attribution_id=sl:6fd67e75-cc16-4f69-b2d0-a5e64d3878a0&utm_campaign=pd_ss_icons&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link

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  16. California Joe

    July 14, 2024 1:26 am

    Clown World…

    A hundred plus cops, sheriffs, state police and Secret Service there but not one cop posted on the only rooftop in the vicinity and only 130 yards from the President in clear line of sight.

    The roof conveniently even had a ladder!!! What am I missing?

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  17. JWoo

    Since our MSM is so bad – I often go to other country’s websites to
    see what sort of propaganda they are pushing. Japan is just
    regurgitating Reuters. This one from Al Jazeera… was interesting…
    reactions from other global leaders:

    More world leaders react to Trump shooting

    • Argentina’s populist right-wing leader Javier Milei blamed the
      “international left” for the shooting, saying that it had resorted to
      “terrorism” to impose its agenda.
    • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he and his wife
      Sara were “shocked” by the shooting. “We pray for his safety and speedy
      recovery,” he added.
    • Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni sent her “solidarity and… best
      wishes for a speedy recovery”. She added that she hoped “the next few
      months of the electoral campaign will see dialogue and responsibility
      prevail over hatred and violence”.
    • Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he was “deeply concerned by
      the attack on my friend, former President Donald Trump”. He condemned
      the incident and said that “violence has no place in politics and
      democracies”.
    • Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva condemned the attack,
      saying it had to be “vehemently repudiated by all defenders of democracy
      and dialogue in politics”.

    Full article – https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/7/13/donald-trump-live-news-ex-us-president-walked-off-stage-after-shots-heard

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  18. mass psychosis

    mass psychosis

    July 14, 2024 2:15 am

    Announcement: a lawsuit is being filed against the Wisconsin Election Commission and ERIC. 

    To rid our state of the filthy liars and cheaters such as David Becker and the others associated with ERIC. Who unlawfully pad state voter registration lists with liberals.
    This is going to be fun, buckle up Patriots.

    –Peter Bernegger

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  19. California Joe

    California Joe

    July 14, 2024 2:19 am

    Ronny Jackson
    @RonnyJacksonTX

    My nephew was injured at the Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Thankfully his injury was not serious and he is doing well. My family was sitting in the front, near where the President was speaking. They heard shots ringing out — my nephew then realized he had blood on his neck and something had grazed and cut his neck. He was treated by the providers in the medical tent. Thank you to all those that have reached out to check on him.

    Please join my family and me in praying for all who were injured and the life lost.

    The President and the survivors are lucky to be alive.

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  21. MacPepper

    July 14, 2024 3:37 am

    Disturbing news story out of Orange County California…what are organized criminals up to?

    More than 50 guns stolen from gun shop Saturday morning by 10 men who rammed store with vehicles. This is second big gun heist in SoCal in two weeks. Keep your head on a swivel:

    Orange County Register article: https://archive.is/Q8AEM

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  22. nwtex

    July 14, 2024 4:34 am

    Haven’t read or watched the utube so ummmm dunno ….

    ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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    Trump Secret Service protection could be removed under Bennie Thompson proposed legislation

    -snipped-
    WASHINGTON – Democratic Congressman Bennie Thompson from Mississippi, the Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, introduced legislation that would remove Secret Service protection from anyone convicted of a felony and sentence to prison.

    https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2024/04/21/trump-secret-service-protection-could-be-removed-under-rep-bennie-thompson-legislation/73406474007/

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  25. nwtex

    July 14, 2024 6:09 am

    Defiant Biden tells donors: ‘We’re done talking about the debate’
    Biden delivered a forceful message in a private call with his National Finance Committee, which includes hundreds of top Democratic donors and bundlers.

    07/08/2024

    -snipped-

    “I have one job, and that’s to beat Donald Trump. I’m absolutely certain I’m the best person to be able to do that. So, we’re done talking about the debate, it’s time to put Trump in a bullseye,” Biden said.

    “I’m telling you, I’m not going anywhere folks. I’m in this to the end, and I’m going to beat Trump. I promise you.”

    https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/07/08/congress/defiant-biden-tells-donors-were-done-with-the-debate-00166834

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  27. h/t Marica

    Victor Davis Hanson

    @VDHanson

    Assassination Porn and the Sickness on the Left If we were leftists and we were to use leftist tropes to editorialize the recent attempt on Trump’s life, then we would frame the assassination attempt in the following way: We have witnessed for years blatant exceptions to the once common custom that we don’t normalize the imagined killing of any president or presidential candidate and thus lower the bar of violence. But the Left constantly makes Trump an exception. Now, it as if the imagined killing of Trump had been mainstreamed and become acceptable in a way inconceivable of other presidents. (Do we remember the rodeo clown who merely wore an Obama mask during a bull riding contest and was punished by being permanently banned by the Missouri State Fair authorities?) So since at least 2016 there has been a parlor game among Leftist celebrities and entertainers joking (one hopes), dreaming, imagining, and just talking about the various and graphic ways they would like to assassinate or seriously injure Trump: By slugging his face (Robert De Niro), by decapitation (Kathy Griffin, Marilyn Manson), by stabbing (Shakespeare in the Park), by clubbing (Mickey Rourke), by shooting ( Snoop Dogg), by poisoning (Anthony Bourdain), by bounty killing (George Lopez), by carrion eating his corpse (Pearl Jam), by suffocating (Larry Whilmore), by blowing him up (Madonna, Moby), by throwing him over a cliff (Rosie O’Donnell), just by generic “killing” him (Johnny Depp, Big Sean), or by martyring him (Reid Hoffman: “Yeah, I wish I had made him an actual martyr.”). Or should we deplore the use of telescopic scope imagery, given that the Left blamed Sarah Palin for once using bullseye spots on an election map of opposition congressional districts, claiming that such usage had incited the mass shooting by Jared Lee Loughner? Yet, recently POTUS Joe Biden was a little bit more graphic and a lot more literal. In a widely reported call to hundreds of donors last week, Biden boasted, “I have one job, and that’s to beat Donald Trump. I’m absolutely certain I’m the best person to be able to do that. So, we’re done talking about the debate, it’s time to put Trump in a bullseye.” “In a bullseye?” At least, Biden did not go back to the full Biden beat-up porn of the past (e.g., “If we were in high school, I’d take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him”/ “The press always asks me, ‘Don’t I wish I were debating him?’ No, I wish we were in high school – I could take him behind the gym. That’s what I wish.”). Then there is the question of the Secret Service and one’s political opponents. Given the tragic history of the Kennedys, why in the world did the Biden administration not insist that third-party candidate Robert Kennedy, Jr. be accorded Secret Service protection? Because his candidacy was felt to be disadvantageous to Biden? And why just this April would the former head of the January 6th Committee and 2004 election obstructionist Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) introduce legislation ridiculously entitled, “Denying Infinite Security and Government Resources Allocated toward Convicted and Extremely Dishonorable (DISGRACED) Former Protectees Act” to strip away Secret Service protection for former President Trump and by this April current leading presidential candidate? Had Thompson’s bill passed, would that not have been confirmation for a potential shooter to feel his task was just made much easier? But in a wider sense, if the common referent day after day on the Left is that Trump is another Hitler (cf. a recent The New Republic cover where Trump is literally photoshopped as Hitler), then it seems reckless not to imagine an unhinged or young shootist believing that by taking out somewhat identical to one of the greatest mass murderers in history, he would be applauded for his violence? So is their logic, shoot Trump and save six million from the gas chambers? After all, The New Republic defiantly explained their Hitler-Trump cover photo this way, “Today, we at The New Republic think we can spend this election year in one of two ways. We can spend it debating whether Trump meets the nine or 17 points that define fascism. Or we can spend it saying, “He’s damn close enough, and we’d better fight.” Well, New Republic, recently someone took you up on your argument that Trump was “damn close enough” to Hitler and so he likewise chose to “fight”— albeit with a semi-automatic rifle. If ad nauseam, a Joy Reid is screaming about Trump as a Hitlerian dictator (“Then let me know who I got to vote for to keep Hitler out of the White House”) or Rachel Maddow is bloviating about studying Hitler to understand Trump, then finally the message sinks in that a mass murderer is about to take power—unless…. Finally, the idea, if true, that bystanders spotted a 20-year-old on a nearby roof with a gun, a mere 130 yards from Trump, and in vain warned police of his presence, is surreal. Is it all that hard for the Secret Service to post a few agents on the tops of a few surrounding buildings closest to the dais, or at least coordinate with local law enforcement to do the same? That is a no brainer. Whoever made the decisions concerning the proper secret service security details for presidential events should be immediately fired.

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    1. SMDH – supposedly, the prosecution withheld from the defense info about the police taking additional rounds from the set – this was a pay-off and we both know it!!!

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  31. “A PsyWar Assassination Attempt — Only Mid-July, but Fifth Gen Warfare Battle Lines are Hardening”

    ROBERT W MALONE MD, MS, JUL 14, 2024

    EXCERPT: “Credit where due: Photographer @evanvucci who risked his neck to get this shot. This will be in “100 photos that changed the world” books for generations to come.

    Jill and I are in Athens (Greece) at the moment and were woken up in the middle of the night by our phones buzzing like bees.

    There had been an assassination attempt on the life of President and candidate Donald Trump. I stayed up until 6:00 AM, going back and forth with Justine Inserlake and posting/crossposting breaking news on “X”. Suffice to say, alternative media ran circles around corporate media, while the same corporate media seemed bound and determined to validate the thesis that it remains “Mockingbird” controlled by the CIA/Blob.

    The photographic and audio record of the series of events is amazing. All on “X” and analyzed literally within minutes.

    During a Trump rally in Pennsylvania, (an Antifa-affiliated shooter named Mark Violets? Or was it Thomas Matthew Crooks?) climbed up on top of an unprotected building with a long rifle at a range of less than two football fields from the podium. This was noticed by people in the crowd who attempted to alert Police and Secret Service. Apparently to no effect. Apparently a single shooter. The shooter then had an unencumbered straight line of sight to the President as he was speaking, and took multiple shots before Police snipers (not Secret Service) took out the shooter- but not before he killed one Trump supporter, critically injured two others, and hit President Trump in the ear lobe.Very suspicious. If true, at best, it would seem to be incompetence. At worst…

    Name of Thomas Matthew Crooks per the NY Post….”

    NF: He goes on to post a lot of what we’ve already seen but here are a few:

    RFK jr’s son provided a succinct, spontaneous summary of the situation.

    https://www.malone.news/p/a-psywar-assassination-attempt

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              1. she was in the mood to clean so I was up and down the steps about 50 times Friday–but we through away a lot of junk!
                I cleaned the top of EVERYTHING in the main floor–she can’t reach and she can’t use a step stool. so up and down and up and down. but it made her so happy. cleanliness is very important to her.
                and she talked almost non stop…lol. but we have fun

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              3. you know…i posted a while ago (iirc) about a recent song that changed my attitude–“Till You Can’t. It’s all about taking chances, making choices, because regret is an awful thing to live with. I told both my kids yesterday to call MomMom—talk for 5 minutes.

                “So take that phone call from your mama and just talk away
                ‘Cause you’ll never know how bad you wanna ’til you can’t someday
                Don’t wait on tomorrow ’cause tomorrow may not show
                Say your sorries, your I-love-yous, ’cause man you never know”

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  32. “Bastards: Like you, I am feeling a mix of anger, sadness, and shock at what happened to Donald Trump last night. And the Left’s reaction to the assassination attempt will only exacerbate those emotions.”

    JULIE KELLY, JUL 14, 2024

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “I am in London for a long weekend—had the privilege of attending the men’s semi-finals on Friday—and was hoping to take a few days off but obviously the events of yesterday demand some attention.

    The attempted assassination of Donald Trump is shocking but unfortunately not surprising. Some, including Tucker Carlson, warned this would happen. All of us at some point privately have worried that after an unsuccessful decade-long effort to destroy Trump, someone would resort to the only option left—killing him in cold blood in broad daylight.

    And that almost happened at around 6:15 on Saturday night. A bullet grazed the former president’s ear leaving him bloodied on the right side of his face. A spectator was killed along with the shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania according to the FBI. Two others were seriously wounded.

    A defiant Trump emerged from a scrum of Secret Service agents, who quickly descended on the former president to protect him from additional fire, and pumped his fist in the air while saying, “Fight. Fight.” After a stop at a local hospital, according to reports, Trump returned to his home in Bedminster, New Jersey.

    The GOP convention begins Monday in Milwaukee.

    Congressional Republicans promise a full investigation into the U.S. Secret Service; some spectators told reporters they had alerted law enforcement about the presence of a sniper “bear-crawling” on a rooftop roughly 150 yards away from the stage. The FBI immediately took over the investigation into the shooter, a move that doesn’t inspire confidence among Trump supporters who have little to no faith in the politicized agency.

    As law enforcement points fingers and scrambles to get answers, Trump supporters and rational-minded Americans in the middle are reeling from the reality of the near-assassination of a former president and GOP presidential candidate, a man beloved by millions of Americans. Many of us couldn’t sleep last night.

    And no matter how conciliatory Democrats including Biden and Barack Obama appear to sound right now, their tone won’t last. Further, it will not be shared by the ignorant, brainwashed, bloodthirsty, vengeful voters of the Democratic Party.

    Yes, the news media is primarily to blame for continuing to fuel this increasingly dangerous political climate. So too, of course, is Biden himself and everyone who works for him, particularly Attorney General Merrick Garland and his handpicked special prosecutor, Jack Smith. (Ironically, Smith is demanding a partial gag order on Trump in the Florida documents case, asking Judge Aileen Cannon to prohibit Trump from making critical statements about law enforcement involved in the case. “Trump’s repeated mischaracterization of these facts in widely distributed messages as an attempt to kill him, his family, and Secret Service agents has endangered law enforcement officers involved in the investigation and prosecution of this case and threatened the integrity of these proceedings,” Smith wrote in May. The motion is still pending.)

    But if anyone is expecting an olive branch from Biden voters, forget it. Some already are perpetuating a conspiracy theory that the attack was “staged” by Trump. Others are denouncing the faux expressions of sympathy by Democratic Party leaders; social media posts lament the fact the shooter missed.

    This post garnered 415,000 likes—and the responses to it underscore what we are dealing with on the other side of the political aisle:

    And I realize this is purely anecdotal but overhearing a few Americans here in London this morning supports the idea that Democratic voters will remain as vicious and unbowed as ever. Two shriveled-up harpies from the East Coast loudly mocked the assassination attempt, questioning how anyone could feel bad for Trump and lamenting what a bad person he is. Another couple somberly discussed how “decent” it was for Joe Biden to contact Trump and worried how the optics of Trump raising his fist in front of the American flag would help him politically.

    So if anyone is hoping that this assassination attempt will represent an inflection point, as Democrats love to say, and create the circumstances to bridge the widening chasm between the voters of both parties, I write to disabuse you of that hope. The media won’t change; Biden quickly will resort back to form.

    If anything, the tone will worsen between now and November, potentially reaching a full-blown crisis if Trump wins the election.

    I will have more thoughts, just like everyone, on this and reporting about the role of the Secret Service in both this event, the raid of Mar-a-Lago, and January 6. But for now, I think it’s best to keep sending prayers to the Trump family, the loved ones of the man killed and the two rally-goers wounded, and prepare for the worst in the months ahead.”

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  33. interesting…maybe because i don’t have an x account, but none of the tweets claiming to have pictures of the would be assassin allow me to see the tweets.

    “Tweet does not exist…”

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  34. from an American Thinker article…
    how did they have his dna already?
    FTA
    CBS News reported that Crooks had a rifle and had fired on the former President from a position a couple of hundred feet away from the venue in Butler, [PA] citing anonymous law enforcement sources. The shooter was identified through his DNA, as he was not carrying any identification at the time, the FBI said.

    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/07/who_is_thomas_matthew_crooks_not_much_is_known_at_this_time_but_a_disturbing_picture_is_starting_to_emerge.html

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  36. the old “bomb threat” allow them to clear the neighborhood so no one sees them retrieve/destroy incriminating evidence

    Eric C.

    July 14, 2024 9:29 am

    🙄

    ”AR-style weapon”

    Law enforcement “swarmed” home of shooter, evacuated neighbors because it was an “emergency” – they were investigating a “bomb threat” —> we don’t want to operate in public view, bomb threat makes it easy to get rid of neighbors for their “safety”.

    https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/law-enforcement-swarm-home-of-trump-rally-shooter-thomas-matthew-crooks-in-bethel-park/

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  37. Eric C.

    Eric C.

    July 14, 2024 9:20 am

    I was trying to find out what AGR Internationl Inc does (the company whose building the shooter shot from) but their site was down (at least when I tried).

    The CEO and majority shareholder is Henry M Dimmick Jr. Nothing immediately stuck out when I searched his name; however, he was listed on a PAC donation to Friends of Marci Mustello ( https://www.campaignfinanceonline.pa.gov/Pages/ShowReport.aspx?ReportID=364947&isStatement=0&is24Hour=0 – page 19)

    This is what one of Mustello’s primary challengers in the last election had to say:

    “Back in 2020, Republican Ryan Covert came within 742 votes of defeating Mustello in the Republican primary. This year, he’s trying again. 
    “I don’t just feel that she is a true Republican. I feel like she’s more of a left-leaning Republican, and I don’t think that is the proper representation for the 11th District. I think it’s a Christian conservative family value kind of district, and I don’t feel she kind of represents that,” Covert said.”

    https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/marci-mustello-challenged-republican-primary-ryan-covert-butler-county/

    When you look at the true north view on Google Earth, there could be no more of a perfect scenario for an attempt: the slight angle of the roof providing cover while getting into position with the angle of the building providing perfect view to the target, his clothing was almost perfect to camouflage with the building material while looking like “normal” clothing – I.e. not wearing a trench coat on a 110 degree day to conceal a weapon (took forethought and prep). Probably not his normal attire (the t-shirt) and needed to be ordered ahead of time with the layout of the event known as—> that particular building (color) for the perfect angle.

    So many questions to be answered.

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    1. outhouse counsel

      outhouse counsel

      July 14, 2024 9:37 am

      Reply to  Eric C.

      .

      Shooter doesn’t live in Butler. How did he know before driving(?) a hundred or so miles what was the layout of the area, what would be the layout of the rally, where to set up, that this roof would be available — and that he could get on it… No one from police or SS noticed a guy with a rifle just outside the venue? Where was his car? or did someone else drive him. Smells.

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  39. Just The News: “A now-deleted Facebook post by a staffer of Mississippi’s lone Democrat congressman appeared to support the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump on Saturday.

    The deleted post by Jacqueline Marsaw, a field director for U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Mississippi, said “I don’t condone violence but please get you some shooting lessons so you don’t miss next time ooops [sic] that wasn’t me talking.”

    The Mississippi Republican Party’s X account said Thompson should “FIRE his field director for condoning the attempted assassination of President @realDonaldTrump !!!” The post also said state Democrats “must repudiate these despicable statements.”

    Trump was wounded in the ear and rushed off the stage Saturday at a rally in Butler, Pa. by U.S. Secret Service agents and other law enforcement officers.

    In a post to X after the shooting, Thompson said “There is no room in American democracy for political violence. I am grateful for law enforcement’s fast response to this incident. I am glad the former President is safe, and my thoughts and prayers go out to everyone involved.”

    Thompson is the author of the Denying Infinite Security and Government Resources Allocated toward Convicted and Extremely Dishonorable Former Protectees Act. House Resolution 8081 would strip Secret Service protection for anyone convicted of a state or federal crime and sentenced to a year or more in prison.

    With Trump having already been convicted in May of 34 counts in New York of falsifying business records related to hush money paid to porn actress Stormy Daniels, the bill by the ranking Democrat on the House Committee on Homeland Security is clearly aimed at the former president.

    The bill introduced on April 19 has yet to receive a committee hearing or a floor vote.”

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    1. absolutely!

      if they can arrest (or attempt to as in jackass smith) the President for “incitement” to insurrection–why can they not arrest these people AND the MAGGOT for incitement to MURDER?????

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  40. Just The News: “The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has publicly identified the suspect in the assassination attempt of President Trump at his rally in Butler, Pa.

    “The FBI has identified Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, as the subject involved in the assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump on July 13, in Butler, Pennsylvania,” the agency said in a statement on Sunday. “This remains an active and ongoing investigation.”

    Less than two hours before the announcement, Kevin P. Rojek, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Pittsburgh Field Office, said at a press briefing that the bureau was not yet “prepared at this time to provide the identity” of the potential shooter. “There was no identification on the individual,” he said, explaining that has prolonged the identification process. He said officials still had to “run his DNA and get biometric confirmation.”

    Pennsylvania State Police Colonel Chris Paris and Lt. Col. George Bivens also attended the briefing. “Too early to say” if it was a lone wolf attack, Bivens told reporters.

    Rojek said the motive has not been determined yet. He added that it’s his understanding that the shooter was outside of the secured perimeter at the rally. He acknowledged it was “surprising” that the shooter was able to take 4-5 shots but a full investigation will provide more detail about how the incident unfolded.

    Rojek was asked why no one from the Secret Service was at the briefing on Saturday evening. In response, he said a representative from the agency was not available to attend.

    The FBI has setup a website, FBI.gov/butler, for the public to upload audio and video files that could be helpful to the investigation. The officials confirmed that one male rally attendee was killed and two other men were critically injured.” 

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  41. Just The News: “The White House perimeter and Lafayette Square are closed to public access after the assassination attempt on former President Trump at his campaign rally in Butler, Pa. on Saturday.

    The areas that the public can normally walk to view the White House close-up are blocked off as of Saturday evening prior to President Biden’s early return to Washington from Rehoboth, Delaware. 

    Lafayette Square across from the White House is closed to the public with caution tape as well as gates with signs that said, “restricted area.”

    The closest the public can get to the White House is the sidewalk in front of Lafayette Square, which is far from the fence in front of the White House where tourists normally take photos.”

    Lafayette Square closed

    Lafayette Square closed off to public

    White House blocked off

    Public access to White House perimeter blocked

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  42. Just The News: “The Homeland Intelligence Experts Group convened by the Department of Homeland Security, disbanded under a settlement with America First Legal, called President Biden an “ineffective messenger” for the group’s surreptitious campaign to convince the public that supporters of former President Trump are the bulk of “domestic violent extremists.”

    The disclosure was made in AFL’s latest dribbling out of screenshots of the internal meeting notes from the group, which included two Obama administration proponents of the Trump-Russia collusion hoax, CIA Director John Brennan and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.

    Previous disclosures in the #DeepStateDiaries series showed the group proposed a reboot of September 11, 2001-style messaging against domestic wrongthink, called the “religious” and members of the military comparable threats as Trump supporters, and brainstormed how to convince parents and teachers to report students to the feds as potential extremists as a matter of “public health.” Members also referred to a Biden White House “classified implementation plan” against domestic wrongthink.

    The September 2023 meeting notes, which redact the names of each speaker, record discussion of who might be the “right messengers” for the group’s narrative. “This has to come from the White House” to “restore faith in the government,” one participant said. “Each agency cannot defend itself” against outside criticism. That’s probably not Joe Biden, though, another participant said, “particularly with who his opponent is.”

    A group member, whom AFL speculated was “likely from DHS” because the speaker referred to Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas as “S1,” said “the other guy has been forceful,” referring to Donald Trump. The group should find messengers from “both sides of the political aisle” who “do not capitalize … yet” on the “appetite to politicize everything.”

    The group discussed copying the private sector’s approach to “crisis communications” by deploying “influencers,” but that DHS should outsource it to private groups. Suggested groups include the National Sheriffs Association, state and local leaders and even the popular “All In” podcast hosted by venture capitalists because “[a]ll Republican candidates” have appeared on that show.”

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    1. If you watch the video he is speaking with his head forward and in the seconds before the shot, he turns it back to the right – had he not moved his head, it could have hit him in the side of his head = dead!

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  46. R Green

    July 14, 2024 10:52 am

    “All my support and solidarity to President and candidate Donald Trump, victim of a COWARDLY assassination attempt that put his life and that of hundreds of people at risk. 

    The desperation of the international left is not surprising, as today it sees its harmful ideology expire, and is willing to destabilize democracies and promote violence to screw itself into power. In fear of losing at the polls, they resort to terrorism to impose their retrograde and authoritarian agenda. 

    I hope for the speedy recovery of President Trump and that the elections in the United States are held fairly, peacefully and democratically.” – Javier Milei

    https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2024/07/14/argentinian-president-javier-milei-rants-about-trump-assassination-attempt-complicity-of-the-media-n2176831#google_vignette

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  47. Jenevive

    July 14, 2024 10:52 am

    Posted on Melania Trump official Twitter page

    Melania Trump

    July 14, 2024

    I am thinking of you now, my fellow Americans.

    We have always been a unique union. America, the fabric of our gentle nation is tattered, but our courage and common sense must ascend and bring us back together as one.

    When I watched that violent bullet strike my husband, Donald, I realized my life, and Barron’s life, were on the brink of devastating change. I am grateful to the brave secret service agents and law enforcement officials who risked their own lives to protect my husband.

    To the families of the innocent victims who are now suffering from this heinous act, I humbly offer my sincerest sympathy. Your need to summon your inner strength for such a terrible reason saddens me.

    A monster who recognized my husband as an inhuman political machine attempted to ring out Donald’s passion – his laughter, ingenuity, love of music, and inspiration. The core facets of my husband’s life – his human side – were buried below the political machine. Donald, the generous and caring man who I have been with through the best of times and the worst of times.

    Let us not forget that differing opinions, policy, and political games are inferior to love. Our personal, structural, and life commitment – until death – is at serious risk. Political concepts are simple when compared to us, human beings.

    We are all humans, and fundamentally, instinctively, we want to help one another. American politics are only one vehicle that can uplift our communities. Love, compassion, kindness and empathy are necessities.

    And let us remember that when the time comes to look beyond the left and the right, beyond the red and the blue, we all come from families with the passion to fight for a better life together, while we are here, in this earthly realm.

    Dawn is here again. Let us reunite. Now.

    This morning, ascend above the hate, the vitriol, and the simple-minded ideas that ignite violence. We all want a world where respect is paramount, family is first, and love transcends. We can realize this world again. Each of us must demand to get it back. We must insist that respect fills the cornerstone of our relationships, again.

    I am thinking of you, my fellow Americans.

    The winds of change have arrived. For those of you who cry in support, I thank you. I commend those of you who have reached out beyond the political divide – thank you for remembering that every single politician is a man or a woman with a loving family.
    10:30 AM · Jul 14, 2024

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  48. “Wakey, Wakey Wizards, Warlocks and the War of Stories”

    BURNING BRIGHT, JUL 14, 2024

    EXCERPT: “Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.”

    In this publication, I attempt to put works down that will stand the test of time, and so, aren’t beholden to the current story cycle. And yet, sometimes we’re simply offered up too good an opportunity, as the current chapter is the most fresh, and, in my view, obvious encapsulation of what I mean when I refer to the Info War as one made of and informed by a living convergence of Actual and Narrative Deployments.

    More so, because the current chapter, as defined by the header image to this piece—one you’ve all seen a hundred times over already—is undoubtedly one that won’t just stand the test of time, but will help to define it.

    What happened? Who’s responsible? Opinions will vary because the stories will. What are the net effects, however? That is a question worth pondering, and whose answer, in this case, is as obvious as it is far-reaching. These effects can be known because they can be projected, mapped and analyzed not through Game Theory, but through Narrative Structure.

    What is the story being told, in other words? What are the central themes on display? Who are the central characters, and what do they represent? After all, it is my firm belief that he who wins the story wins the war.

    And so, in the immediate aftermath of an apparent assassination attempt against the man who has come to define not just a political or cultural movement in the modern era, but, for many, a spiritual awakening, I asked a rhetorical question:

    Can you make a martyr out of a man without killing him?

    The Deep State is about to find out … because the story of Trump the Martyr has just been consummated after eight years of accelerating threats by the System of Systems, culminating in this month’s Panic Pattern wherein the Collective Mind has been spinning in a surreal, kaleidoscopic void of the establishment’s indecision and lack of control over the one vector—the one puppet—they were meant to control completely.

    And yet … the story isn’t for them. It’s for those watching. Those afraid—before now—to stand up and speak. Impeachment. Conviction. Assassination Attempt. All in the midst of the Deep State’s Biden Panic Pattern.

    This Story in a war made of them, is being translated for the widest possible audience. Why? Social Permission. Who’s got it now that didn’t have it before?

    How many of your phones began buzzing, lighting up with fresh inquiries or exclamations, shocked proclamations and projections, theories and implications … and from those who typically let the sleeping conspiratorial dogs that define your psyche lie lest they disturb their own codified comfort in the throes of the liar’s sleep?

    Millions of cases of accelerated awakening, and more.

    And all amidst the backdrop of a menagerie of Mind-Movers either given the green light for full endorsement, or else due cause for capitulation, from Elon Musk to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to the faux sympathy statements out of the scions of the very Deep State who stood to benefit from the dark else-world reality that stands as a fading shadow on the mirrored back of the image that began this piece, and so many others.

    It was never about the super PAC, or the donations—the measly actuals pale in comparison to the narrative of the two most enigmatic figures in the American cultural zeitgeist—if not the world—seen ‘organically’ and fully aligning, even if SOME saw it coming from a long way’s off.

    (See ‘Narrative Pincer’ and ‘The Bridge’ for reference and a deeper reading of the Trump-Musk theater of the Info War.)

    How do you bridge the gap in an organic way, while provoking a mass inflection of public mandate? ……”

    https://burningbright.substack.com/p/wakey-wakey

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  49. “Trump Indicted For Inciting Assassination Attempt

    U.S. · Jul 13, 2024 · BabylonBee.com

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    U.S. — Former President has been indicted by a federal judge in Pennsylvania for inciting an assassination attempt that nearly killed him.

    “Trump is clearly at fault for someone attempting to murder him with a rifle,” said Judge Paul Stephenson. “He brought this on himself, and we will ensure justice is done.”

    According to sources, the motion to indict Trump was filed roughly thirty seconds after the failed assassination attempt. “It was obvious by that point that Trump had caused a man to fire several bullets at him,” said District Attorney Jan Marsh. “If Trump were not literally Hitler, no one would have tried to kill him in the first place. It’s time we in the legal system go after Hitler and not the people trying to murder Hitler.”

    At publishing time, Trump had been indicted again for Secret Service shooting the would-be assassin.

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  50. “CNN: ‘Clumsy Trump Hits Head On Bullet'”

    MEDIA · Jul 13, 2024 · BabylonBee.com

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    U.S. — CNN announced today that in a shocking incident, former President Trump clumsily hit his head on a bullet, causing an unfortunate disturbance at a Pennsylvania rally.

    “What a klutz, that Trump! Probably worse then Biden,” said Anderson Cooper. “Look at all that blood from smacking his face on a bullet. Boy, I bet he feels sheepish.”

    CNN reported Trump smacked his ear on the harmless bullet at incredible velocity, causing a loud sound like a gunshot. “The helpless little bullet never saw it coming,” announced Cooper. “Trump then fell over, forcing several Secret Service agents to dive on top of him to cover for his stumble. An embarrassing day all around.”

    At publishing time, CNN had updated its report to announce that a person was attacked by Secret Service as a “shooter” in a vain attempt to cover for Trump’s clumsiness.

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