This is what David Frum was talking about with regard to being susceptible to the plausibility of what are actually conspiracy theories because of the ubiquity of information in the digital age.
Anything’s possible, but a gang that had never heard of the Strait of Hormuz doesn’t have the skills to reliably get stochastic terrorism working precisely in their favor on even ONE occasion. Such an effort would more likely get Trump accidentally killed.
No one was killed. The only hit was on a secret service guy, is my understanding, and the intruder had a shotgun. Tell me I'm wrong, please, or throw up a good source.
Question: How much for security implementation at new ballroom where the guy and his wife seldom stay?
Probably right that the French are more attuned to what's happening in the U.S. than our own body politic is.
Why does Congress let him run wild?
Fascinating, if interested in political science, history, or wondering whether constitutional democracy can work in the long run...
When it comes to war, Congress -- the Article I branch -- has been ceding its clear Constitutional authority & responsibilities for years, decades.
PARTLY because the Executive (Article II) likes to assert itself, but Congressional cowardice & laziness are a bigger share. Let the president do whatever he wants, later you can criticize if it goes wrong. Your fingerprints were never on it. You can talk out of both sides of your mouth while avoiding the responsibilities you're specifically tasked with under the Constitution and subsequent law.
➡️ Look where things stand this very moment:
The President is breaking the law and Congress is allowing it, by doing nothing.
Trump's legal case is pathetic & laughable. The argument begins with a claim that the war ended over a month ago. Uh huh.
Plus: Drone attacks & bombings now being carried out --by all three parties-- are "below the threshold."
Threshold for what? 1) violating the ceasefire; 2) notifying Congress.
That's nuts.
When the Secretary of War and the Desperately-Wants-This-Job Acting Attorney General determine the hostilities are hostile enough,
-- Congress will be notified and the statutory time clock that expired 9 days ago will automatically start over again.
NOTHING in law authorizes, directs, or allows that.
The executive always wants more power. It has nothing to do with party. Both happily exert power when in power. It's about our self-governance and the functioning of the legislative, executive & judicial branches.
Today, neither House of Congress, both now controlled by Republicans, says a word. Neither goes to the Supreme Court to force the President to follow the law. Neither does what the Founders expected.
THIS is "complete and total" abdication. Cult behavior.
A tutorial on submission.
Hasn't always been this way... Worked in both branches when constitutional turf trumped party in warmaking and otherwise. As a member of the executive, I once protested to congressional staff: hey we're on the same side! NO, they said: we're Congress!
Is it me? Why do people take Candice Owens seriously? I've tried to listen to her. She's difficult to follow, and her thoughts are loose and disorganized. They have a delusional quality. My head spins trying follow her. I don't make the connections. Maybe I don't have the special Candice Owens decoder headphones.
Nick Fuentes is not hard to understand. Although, I'm not impressed with his content, I admit he's a master communicater and troll. He rapidly changes his opinions on issues. He'll then chastise,bully, and disengage from his followers for believing in his former theories. Manipulation at its finest. Great article.
Why are we not talking about the extraordinarily lax security at the hotel at the WHCD? April Ryan, a long-time and venerated journalist, told Ali Velshi the next day that she and her husband often stayed at that hotel overnight when attending the dinner. She reported their amazement and concern at the time that the security was very different from what it had been normally in previous years. That night, elevator key cards were working when they shouldn't have and other very typical controls, like uncontrolled access to certain public parts of the hotel, were not in place as they usually would have been. April Ryan, speaking with Ali that morning, remained, to me, upset. My thoughts, after listening to her experience, was that the WH was well aware of this shooter in advance and purposely designed the lax security so the shooter could get close but not close enough to kill trump or members of the cabinet. This should be the story, IMO. I trust April Ryan's take on the situation. I wouldn't put it past the WH to come up with such a plan.
It’s hard to take the Bulwark seriously on issues like this when they leave out any discussion of evidence in these cases.
I can understand the sentiment but it feels a bit patronizing at best to not even acknowledge the weirdness of certain facts like the .306 claim in CK’s killing or the security footage in the WHCD case as just two examples..
I did listen that focus group (the only time I have ever gotten all the way through one).
The thing that stood out the most was that ALL of those people recognized that Trump lies and stages scenes for his own benefit. That sounded like a given for all of them,
with no wish washy debate about whether he would lie to his people. They KNOW he would.
With the resources he has, it's not 100% impossible that he could have created an illusion on that scale. It's also not impossible that he would have thought of staging something, and was restrained by someone smarter.
I do not believe it was staged, because there are enough crazy people with guns in the US to make it almost impossible that somebody wouldn't try. You don't need to create an elaborate explanation for crazy person+gun+ ability to travel to the target's location.
But I also think it is not completely impossible that it was staged. (As in security was oddly weak, so he got in. They had picked up information and knew he was coming. They let him get close enough to be newsworthy but not so close he does any serious harm).You would need a skilled stage magician to set that up, but again, not 100% impossible. More like 99%.
So those those focus group people were not going completely beyond reason in their suspicions.
“I can’t even go to a baseball game and bring in a can of Diet Coke.."; she's not wrong, but everyone going to the game is, well, going to the game. Everyone walking into a hotel is not going to the correspondents dinner. I don't feel were at the point of weapons screening and TSAing the luggage of every hotel guest.
Clearly, the 2024 Pennsylvania shooting ( was there ever such a thing as the year 2024? Is there such a thing as so-called Pennsylvania? The lamestream media and the Democrat Party will make up anything to cover up their constant stream of lies!!!!!) was orchestrated (if there's even such a thing as an orchestra! Who comes up with these words?!?!?! ) by Barack (all caps always and forever!) HUSSEIN Obama! If he wasn't involved then why was there a teleprompter within gunshot range. That fragment of glass that nicked the ear of the single finest, most morally upstanding human since before Jesus (fuck that guy! You think Trump would have allowed a bunch of Ities to nail him to ANYTHING?!?! HE WOULD HAVE DESTROYED THE ROMAN EMPIRE WITH NOUGHT BUT HIS MASSIVE TUMESCENCE! AND THEN ENDED ALL THE WARS THEY WERE ENGAGED IN! INCLUDING THE 9+ WARS HE ALREADY ENDED!
"I do listen to Candace Owens,” she said. “So I’ve been following very closely along with the facts that she’s been able to produce and the people that she’s brought on..."
Candace has got her investigators in Hawaii, and you won't believe what they're finding! Gee, where have we heard that before?
Maybe I'm just naive. I believe the Earth is not flat, that men have walked on the moon, and O.J. Simpson murdered his wife. And Trump and his minions are too incompetent to stage a sock puppet show let alone a fake assassination attempt.
Incompetence didn't prevent them from grabbing the White House. I'd be more inclined to believe this was some lone gunman who found a crack in their security if they'd shut up about the illegal ballroom. But as long as they keep talking about it, especially about charging us for it, I'm going to keep an open mind about the shooting.
Really, they had means, motive, and opportunity. And someone event tackled Wolf Blitzer. The Trump folk seem like they are just stupid enough to try something like that.
But I agree with you, it seems unlikely just looking at this lot.
This is what David Frum was talking about with regard to being susceptible to the plausibility of what are actually conspiracy theories because of the ubiquity of information in the digital age.
Anything’s possible, but a gang that had never heard of the Strait of Hormuz doesn’t have the skills to reliably get stochastic terrorism working precisely in their favor on even ONE occasion. Such an effort would more likely get Trump accidentally killed.
No one was killed. The only hit was on a secret service guy, is my understanding, and the intruder had a shotgun. Tell me I'm wrong, please, or throw up a good source.
Question: How much for security implementation at new ballroom where the guy and his wife seldom stay?
Probably right that the French are more attuned to what's happening in the U.S. than our own body politic is.
Why does Congress let him run wild?
Fascinating, if interested in political science, history, or wondering whether constitutional democracy can work in the long run...
When it comes to war, Congress -- the Article I branch -- has been ceding its clear Constitutional authority & responsibilities for years, decades.
PARTLY because the Executive (Article II) likes to assert itself, but Congressional cowardice & laziness are a bigger share. Let the president do whatever he wants, later you can criticize if it goes wrong. Your fingerprints were never on it. You can talk out of both sides of your mouth while avoiding the responsibilities you're specifically tasked with under the Constitution and subsequent law.
➡️ Look where things stand this very moment:
The President is breaking the law and Congress is allowing it, by doing nothing.
Trump's legal case is pathetic & laughable. The argument begins with a claim that the war ended over a month ago. Uh huh.
Plus: Drone attacks & bombings now being carried out --by all three parties-- are "below the threshold."
Threshold for what? 1) violating the ceasefire; 2) notifying Congress.
That's nuts.
When the Secretary of War and the Desperately-Wants-This-Job Acting Attorney General determine the hostilities are hostile enough,
-- Congress will be notified and the statutory time clock that expired 9 days ago will automatically start over again.
NOTHING in law authorizes, directs, or allows that.
The executive always wants more power. It has nothing to do with party. Both happily exert power when in power. It's about our self-governance and the functioning of the legislative, executive & judicial branches.
Today, neither House of Congress, both now controlled by Republicans, says a word. Neither goes to the Supreme Court to force the President to follow the law. Neither does what the Founders expected.
THIS is "complete and total" abdication. Cult behavior.
A tutorial on submission.
Hasn't always been this way... Worked in both branches when constitutional turf trumped party in warmaking and otherwise. As a member of the executive, I once protested to congressional staff: hey we're on the same side! NO, they said: we're Congress!
"We are at the point where the president’s own voters are doing QAnon-style symbol analysis of his White House. That’s a bad sign!"
For whom is this a bad sign? It seems beneficial for Bulwark readers, who strongly prefer a weakened 47.
Is it me? Why do people take Candice Owens seriously? I've tried to listen to her. She's difficult to follow, and her thoughts are loose and disorganized. They have a delusional quality. My head spins trying follow her. I don't make the connections. Maybe I don't have the special Candice Owens decoder headphones.
Nick Fuentes is not hard to understand. Although, I'm not impressed with his content, I admit he's a master communicater and troll. He rapidly changes his opinions on issues. He'll then chastise,bully, and disengage from his followers for believing in his former theories. Manipulation at its finest. Great article.
Why are we not talking about the extraordinarily lax security at the hotel at the WHCD? April Ryan, a long-time and venerated journalist, told Ali Velshi the next day that she and her husband often stayed at that hotel overnight when attending the dinner. She reported their amazement and concern at the time that the security was very different from what it had been normally in previous years. That night, elevator key cards were working when they shouldn't have and other very typical controls, like uncontrolled access to certain public parts of the hotel, were not in place as they usually would have been. April Ryan, speaking with Ali that morning, remained, to me, upset. My thoughts, after listening to her experience, was that the WH was well aware of this shooter in advance and purposely designed the lax security so the shooter could get close but not close enough to kill trump or members of the cabinet. This should be the story, IMO. I trust April Ryan's take on the situation. I wouldn't put it past the WH to come up with such a plan.
It’s hard to take the Bulwark seriously on issues like this when they leave out any discussion of evidence in these cases.
I can understand the sentiment but it feels a bit patronizing at best to not even acknowledge the weirdness of certain facts like the .306 claim in CK’s killing or the security footage in the WHCD case as just two examples..
Anyone else get that sense ?
I did listen that focus group (the only time I have ever gotten all the way through one).
The thing that stood out the most was that ALL of those people recognized that Trump lies and stages scenes for his own benefit. That sounded like a given for all of them,
with no wish washy debate about whether he would lie to his people. They KNOW he would.
With the resources he has, it's not 100% impossible that he could have created an illusion on that scale. It's also not impossible that he would have thought of staging something, and was restrained by someone smarter.
I do not believe it was staged, because there are enough crazy people with guns in the US to make it almost impossible that somebody wouldn't try. You don't need to create an elaborate explanation for crazy person+gun+ ability to travel to the target's location.
But I also think it is not completely impossible that it was staged. (As in security was oddly weak, so he got in. They had picked up information and knew he was coming. They let him get close enough to be newsworthy but not so close he does any serious harm).You would need a skilled stage magician to set that up, but again, not 100% impossible. More like 99%.
So those those focus group people were not going completely beyond reason in their suspicions.
Up to the edge of the flat earth, but not over.
A focus group of 9 people is evidence of nothing but what 9 people said.
“I can’t even go to a baseball game and bring in a can of Diet Coke.."; she's not wrong, but everyone going to the game is, well, going to the game. Everyone walking into a hotel is not going to the correspondents dinner. I don't feel were at the point of weapons screening and TSAing the luggage of every hotel guest.
Also, I'm not sure I spelled my ethnic slur correctly. Unfortunately I couldn't just blame the Catholics cuz' they didn't exist yet.
I meant to take that last comment further but I just don't have the energy to be that Conservative. Seems exhausting.
Clearly, the 2024 Pennsylvania shooting ( was there ever such a thing as the year 2024? Is there such a thing as so-called Pennsylvania? The lamestream media and the Democrat Party will make up anything to cover up their constant stream of lies!!!!!) was orchestrated (if there's even such a thing as an orchestra! Who comes up with these words?!?!?! ) by Barack (all caps always and forever!) HUSSEIN Obama! If he wasn't involved then why was there a teleprompter within gunshot range. That fragment of glass that nicked the ear of the single finest, most morally upstanding human since before Jesus (fuck that guy! You think Trump would have allowed a bunch of Ities to nail him to ANYTHING?!?! HE WOULD HAVE DESTROYED THE ROMAN EMPIRE WITH NOUGHT BUT HIS MASSIVE TUMESCENCE! AND THEN ENDED ALL THE WARS THEY WERE ENGAGED IN! INCLUDING THE 9+ WARS HE ALREADY ENDED!
Right, like the Cambodian-Romanian war! (I think I actually heard Tramp say that).
"I do listen to Candace Owens,” she said. “So I’ve been following very closely along with the facts that she’s been able to produce and the people that she’s brought on..."
Candace has got her investigators in Hawaii, and you won't believe what they're finding! Gee, where have we heard that before?
Maybe I'm just naive. I believe the Earth is not flat, that men have walked on the moon, and O.J. Simpson murdered his wife. And Trump and his minions are too incompetent to stage a sock puppet show let alone a fake assassination attempt.
Incompetence didn't prevent them from grabbing the White House. I'd be more inclined to believe this was some lone gunman who found a crack in their security if they'd shut up about the illegal ballroom. But as long as they keep talking about it, especially about charging us for it, I'm going to keep an open mind about the shooting.
Really, they had means, motive, and opportunity. And someone event tackled Wolf Blitzer. The Trump folk seem like they are just stupid enough to try something like that.
But I agree with you, it seems unlikely just looking at this lot.