Okay, today's edition is going to start with this article, A Soldier to the End: The Story Behind ‘The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant’.
I knew the facts about Grant and how Mark Twain admired him so much he
wanted to make sure his financial future was secure, but there's a lot
more to this story, and there's a lot of emotion to this story I wasn't
aware of, and the author captures it. Unlike all the articles I publish
or link I don't have any particular point I'm trying to make by
presenting this piece, I just thought it was inspiring, and perhaps
that's my point. We can always use some inspiration.
This week
news has been consumed by the assassination attempt on Donald Trump's
life, and the outrageous conduct of the Secret Service. I have two
pieces on this discussing all the aspects of that event, including the
speculations. As a result of posting the discussions on the potential
of a second shooter a friend of mine asked if I thought this was another
"grassy knoll" scenario. I don't, certainly not at this point.
The speculation of a second shooter is predicated on.....
speculation! While that's where all investigations have to start, there has to
be far more evidence than is being presented now. Also, if there was a second shooter then the kid would have been
the patsy, and the second shooter would have been a real shooter, and I
have no doubt a real shooter wouldn't have missed at that distance.
From that distance it would take about a second for the bullet to
reach it's target, and his shot would have focused on the center of his
head, and a slight
movement wouldn't have mattered, and after the kid missed, that would
have meant there was time for a second shot before he was covered.
Here's what I do believe. Before this plays out I think we're going to be surprised at what
went on with this and I'm convinced the Secret Service and the
FBI, at least at the leadership level, have deliberately been remiss in their duties in hopes he will be
killed.
The fact of the matter is no one trusts the FBI.
Local law enforcement is even refusing to work with them over their DEI
hires and what they perceive as the FBI's concept of "law enforcement"
is now politically driven versus legally driven. And for the same
reasons the Congress doubts any credible investigation by the FBI or the
DHS, who are heading up the investigation.
The four rules of life
always apply. People will always be people. The patterns of life
repeat over and over again. Everything is the basics. Culture is
king. And I do wish more people read history books.
Then
there's Kamala. Break out the popcorn folks, this is going to be a
clown show, a four month situation comedy playing out daily exposing the
corruption and stupidity of the Democrat party, the media, Joe Biden,
Barack Obama, the Deep State, their billionaire donors, Kamala Harris, and the lack of depth of quality, the radical character, and serious lack intelligence and corruption of the Democrat party as a whole.
The Democrats are very poor judges of character - How hard was it by 2015 for the political class to know, at the core of their beings, that Joe Biden was a despicable man?
Everyone in Congress knew it. They all knew he was a pathological
liar, a greedy SOB for whom money was his singular motivation for
everything he said and did. They all knew he was a racist. Long before
he attempted to humiliate the great Clarence Thomas, he was mentored by
Robert Byrd,
once an “Exalted Cyclops” of the KKK. Biden was terrified of his
children going to school with blacks, which is why he adamantly opposed
bussing. But, even after two previous attempts to become president and
failing, once for plagiarizing
Neil Kinnock’s speech, he was selected by the Democrat party to be
installed in order to prevent Bernie Sanders from becoming the Democrat
candidate in 2019......
Watching Kamala and the
nitwit brigade embracing, justifying, and defending the disaster Joe
Biden and his administration has been to America, will be both
outrageous, and hilarious. And it starts with their insane claim he's
the greatest President since George Washington.
Well, in all six seasons of I love Lucy, Ricky never really exactly said
that to Lucy, but, does it matter? It's become another one of those
legendary misquoted catchphrases that fits the bill for so many
situations....soooo....."Kimberly, you got some splaining to do!!"
I initially thought it was ironic hackers
can break into the most secure sites on the planet, but the FBI
couldn't break into Crook's phone. Well, they finally did, but it took
"advanced, unreleased technology from digital
intelligence company Cellebrite to access the phone". Where in the
world did Thomas Matthew
Crooks get that kind of technology to protect his phone. He certainly
didn't get it from Verizon. As Shakespeare said, "Something is rotten
in the state of Denmark".
The
efforts to prevent discovery are in place as Senator Hawley recently
discovered when he tried to visit the site and the FBI told him to leave
they didn't want him there. Not the usual treatment of a sitting
Senator who chairs investigative committees.
Hawley: Briefing with Secret Service Director ‘Did Not Go Well’ — ‘She Was Not Well-Prepared’ Neil, what we know about this is that there were 62 minutes, 62, between
the time that the Secret Service identified the shooter as a person of
interest, somebody acting suspiciously, and the time he started firing
shots at the president...........How did they allow this to happen?
Why did they allow a good American to be killed? Why did they allow
Trump to go on stage knowing they had a potential shooter? It’s
outrageous......Here's what we know....maybe.... since yesterday's facts become today's
falsehood. The lies are everywhere and at every level. That's one of
the things we know that's not a maybe, so let's start with this fact that's indisputable. The left is at war with America, and Donald Trump is in the way. All of the lawfare attempts to destroy Trump have failed or are failing, therefore:
"many correctly anticipated
that an assassination attempt would occur. While some people believe in
coincidences,...... I think that it was all too convenient for the presumed nominee to die
just two days before the party convention, leaving the Republican Party
in disarray and paving the way for Biden to secure a second term. A
great deal of circumstantial evidence indicates that the Democrats
were yearning for his demise.
They tried to withhold the Secret Service
protection from Trump, and gave him inadequate security, at best. Joe Biden suggested that “It’s time to put Trump in a bullseye.” In addition, the Democrats directed an immense campaign of
demagoguery and lies against Trump, shamelessly insinuating that his
comeback would result in economic chaos, inflation, and an existential
threat to “democracy.” The mainstream media, whose opposition to Trump
is a permanent part of the current political landscape, featured images
of Trump resembling Hitler on the cover of magazines."
Is that part of a Deep State Conspiracy? I'll tell you what, we'll come back to that, but let's start with the assassin.
Thomas Matthew Crooks
Initially
everything we thought we knew about him has not been entirely accurate.
First, initially I didn't give any credence to this being
bigger than Thomas Matthew Crooks, a troubled young person, but that's
changing rapidly. Initially
it was claimed he had no mental issues, but now it's being reported he
had mental issues and may have been on medication.
The FBI’s Initial Call on “No Mental Health Issues” Appears to be Wrong It was just 48 hours ago that the FBI assured the American public
that the would-be assassin, Thomas Matthew Crooks, did not have any
mental illness problems. This, of course, is odd because most of the
recent shooters had mental illness problems and were being seriously
medicated with prescribed psychiatric mind-altering drugs. Today, however, an “Exclusive” by the Daily Mail
reports that family friends find that mental illness may have been in
play. For example, according to unnamed family friends, he (crooks) was
“increasingly disturbed young man who grew his hair long, isolated
himself from friends and became plagued by mental health disturbances
that led some to believe he was either bi-polar or schizophrenic.”
As
the story unfolds there's a lot of disturbing facts emerging indicating
planning, technology, and potential connections, and unexplained
security reactions.
First
he was spotted behaving suspiciously early on, and nothing was done, even after his parents called
police about him. He flew a drone over the site earlier, here, and here. The Secret Service flew no drones over the site on the day of the shooting. He hid his rifle in advance. He had two cell phones and and 3 encrypted accounts overseas.
As I've already discussed, the encryption of his cell phone was so advanced the FBI couldn't crack
it and had to get help from a tech company with unreleased new
technology.
How did he get such advanced technology? Bombs were
found in his car. Where did the bombs come from? And now it's being
claimed there were least three different weapons fired during
Trump shooting. One by Crooks, one by the Secret Service sniper,
and, another by an unknown shooter. Furthermore there are serious
doubts any investigation conducted by the FBI or the Secret Service can
be trusted.
Evil
and incompetence are sometimes indistinguishable. But the people are in
no mood for obfuscation or lies.
He goes on to ask these questions, all of which need answering under oath.
If authorities identified a man with a rifle on
that roof, why did they
allow Trump to go out there and speak? They knew at
least 7 minutes prior to the shooting that a suspicious person was on a
roof, with a rifle just 150 yards away.
If the SS says they
are shorthanded........It's been reported that many of the 'agents' were not
Secret Service at all, but Homeland Security, not familiar with Secret
Service protocols. As Trump was being rushed to his car after the
shooting, about a dozen men in SWAT garb appeared out of nowhere. Where
were they prior to the shooting?.....You can reasonably take
away three elements: Unless the Secret Service is utterly incompetent,
And We Have Another Brutal Development on the Trump Assassination Attempt - The latest development shows a gross allocation of resources regarding
local law enforcement. Plenty were deployed, though not stationed at the
most critical points. This allowed shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20,
to move unmolested outside the perimeter........Yet, the predominant question right now is why the rooftop where Crooks
was perched, less than 200 yards from the stage, was left unguarded
despite being flagged as a security vulnerability. .............Cheatle
explained that the absence of a team on the rooftop where Crooks
was perched was due to security concerns for the physical safety of the
agents because the roof was sloped. Whoever signed off on that being
made public should be fire—no one believes it because its facially
untrue.
And the story keeps getting more sordid by the day:
The question that must be asked and answered is this. When the Secret Service sniper saw him on the roof with a rifle why didn't they shoot? We now know there were a full 26 minutes to prevent the assassin from shooting at Trump.
It's also reported "at least one sniper/spotter team had the assassin
in
their sights for some three minutes but were denied clearance to
shoot". If that's true, then who refused permission to shoot, and why?
Is this failure by the Secret Service just blatant incompetence on the part of the Secret Service, or was it more?
Did the Secret Service look like highly trained competent professionals, or did they look like the Keystone Kops as a result of their embrace of DEI? More here, and here.
Truthfully,
while I despise this whole corrupt embrace of DEI by both government
and industry, and while it may have been a component in this mess, I
don't consider that a critical factor. Yeah, saying that shocks me
too. The real question is, Who green-lit the Trump shooting?:
Now ask yourself, cui bono? Who benefits most from Trump being
removed from the picture? The entire Democrat Party, sure, but who would
have the power to authorize such a nefarious scheme? A Deep State
operative in one of the alphabet agencies? One of the puppet masters
pulling decrepit Joe Biden’s strings? What about the Biden crime family
itself? Who would benefit more than Trump’s corrupt, floundering
opponent Joe? Or perhaps wife Jill, who is determined to keep her
husband in the Oval Office no matter what? Perhaps even their
convicted-felon son Hunter, whose fortunes (and a presidential pardon)
are directly tied to Dad’s?
Insurrections and the Leviathan StateJohn F. Di LeoWhy does the government
of the United States no longer serve the American people or follow the
clear dictates of the Constitution? .........
Thursday marks the 30th anniversary of one of the deadliest
terrorist attacks to be carried out in the Western hemisphere. The
bombing of the Argentine Israeli Mutual Association building on July 18,
1994, claimed 85 lives and left a trail of scandal in its wake which is
still having repercussions to this day. No one has ever been held
legally accountable for the incident, though it has become increasingly
apparent over the past three decades that the attack was planned by the
Iranian regime and carried out by its Lebanese proxy, Hezbollah.
Did
you know that? No? Well, don't feel bad, I didn't either. Why?
Simple, that's not a song the media wanted to sing. He goes on to list
more attacks over the years, and after they attempted to assassinate him
he stated:
After I’d undergone surgery to remove
the bullet and repair my shattered jaw, I have no other enemy but the
Iranian regime. In fact, I have the distinction of being among the first
European politicians to be included on that regime’s formal enemies
list, on account of my long standing support for the coalition of
pro-democracy opposition groups known as the National Council of
Resistance of Iran (NCRI).
As head of the International Committee In Search of Justice, I have
been heavily involved in efforts to bring to justice the Iranian
officials involved in the mass execution of political prisoners in 1988,
which primarily targeted members of the NCRI’s main constituent group,
the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK).
When Democrats Incite an AssassinationJ.B. ShurkDemocrats have made political assassination look like some twisted form of civil ‘justice.’ ............
When will Democrats be held responsible for their Trump-hating rhetoric? July 20, 2024By
Eric Utter - The
unhinged young man who tried to take Donald Trump’s life at a recent
campaign rally may well have been acting on his own. But, even if that
proves to be the case, he likely thought his actions were an effort to
“save our democracy.” How could he not, after the Democrat-Media Complex
has, for the past several years,
incessantly stated that Trump must be stopped -- by any means necessary
— to “save our democracy”? Trump has countless times been referred to
as “Hitler,” a villain, an extremist, and, of course, “a threat to
democracy. Our democracy
Apparently
Kimberly is going to testify before Congress today, well, "Kimberly,
you got some splaining to do!" And given her propensity to lie, this
should be interesting.
Update: Here's the First report on ‘preliminary findings’ of Trump assassination attempt published by Ron Johnson’s office by Olivia Murray with some interesting observations, and questions regarding the potential of an accomplish, and "Lastly,
just some food for thought: Someone in the comments stated that CNN had
never live streamed a Trump rally until Butler—whether or not this is
true I’m not sure, but I couldn’t find any evidence to the contrary."
