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I dumped Twitter but clicked on the Demolition Ranch link to see what they're about and scrolled down to see whatever limited posts you can see without an account. It seems to be owned by a right-wing gun nut, seen here endorsing Brandon Herrera who ran for Congress against Tony Gonzales in South Texas in the GOP primary. To be clear, I'm not accusing either of them being part of some conspiracy, but if Nicole's logo is in fact associated with the shooter, it might turn out that he was pissed off at Trump for right-wing reasons. Of course, it could just be a guy that liked Demolition Ranch-branded stuff.

@Nicole44 Google image search of the logo led me to this. https://www.redbubble.com/i/sticker/Demolition-Ranch-Merch-Demolitia-Mono-Logo-2-Essential-by-leticarias/97141896.EJUG5 Demolition Ranch https://www.youtube.com/demolitionranch https://twitter.com/demolitionranch?lang=en https://www.facebook.com/DemolitionRanch/ https://www.instagram.com/drdemolitionmatt/?hl=en

Yes, it is. Here's a link to the location on Google Maps. Look around some. It's incredible they didn't have someone already up there.

Making the rounds where? You say that logo is NOT on the shooter's shirt. What is that logo on? Was it on the shooter's person elsewhere? Are there other relevant details before I end up going down a rabbit hole trying to figure out what it is?

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/07/13/us/trump-rally-shooting-maps-photos.html The rally took place on the grounds of the Butler Farm Show in Western Pennsylvania, about 35 miles outside of Pittsburgh. In a statement, a spokesman for the Secret Service said that one spectator at the rally was killed and two were critically injured, and that the suspected shooter was killed by the Secret Service. An AR-15-type semiautomatic rifle was recovered from a deceased white male believed to be the gunman, according to two law enforcement officials. The gunman’s body was seen on a rooftop several hundred feet away from the stage. Roughly 475 feet

Dump Twitter. Elon's site, which already elevates racists and fascists, is going to get a lot worse. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/07/13/us/biden-trump-election#elon-musk-endorses-trump-moments-after-episode-at-his-rally

Lengthy article about the GQP fucking up the entire election. Unbowed by Jan. 6 Charges, Republicans Pursue Plans to Contest a Trump Defeat Mr. Trump’s allies are preparing to try to short-circuit the election system, if he does not win. The Republican Party and its conservative allies are engaged in an unprecedented legal campaign targeting the American voting system. Their wide-ranging and methodical effort is laying the groundwork to contest an election that they argue, falsely, is already being rigged against former President Donald J. Trump. The campaign involves a powerful network of Republican lawyers and activist groups, working loosely in concert with the Republican National Committee. Many of the key players were active in Mr. Trump’s attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election. But unlike the chaotic and improvised challenge four years ago, the new drive includes a systematic search for any vulnerability in the nation’s patchwork election system. Mr. Trump’s allies have followed a two-pronged approach: restricting voting for partisan advantage ahead of Election Day and short-circuiting the process of ratifying the winner afterward, if Mr. Trump loses. The latter strategy involves an ambitious — and legally dubious — attempt to reimagine decades of settled law dictating how results are officially certified in the weeks before the transfer of power. At the heart of the strategy is a drive to convince voters that the election is about to be stolen, even without evidence. Democrats use mail voting, drop boxes and voter registration drives to swing elections, they have argued. And Mr. Trump’s indictments and criminal conviction are a Biden administration gambit to interfere with the election, they claim. “As things stand right now, there’s zero chance of a free and fair election,” Mike Howell, a project director at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, said at an event this week. “I’m formally accusing the Biden administration of creating the conditions that most reasonable policymakers and officials cannot in good conscience certify an election.” The legal campaign, which has come into focus as Republicans prepare to nominate Mr. Trump at their convention next week, has been quietly playing out in courts, statehouses and county boards for months, and is concentrated in critical battlegrounds. In Nevada and several other states, Republicans have sued to tighten rules for voting by mail — currently a method preferred by Democrats. In Georgia and Arizona, they have filed lawsuits that, if successful, would effectively give local election board members the right to hold up certification and even conduct their own personal investigation into the vote. Republicans say that their only goal is to bolster the system and build trust, especially after changes during the coronavirus pandemic made it easier to vote. “The way we honestly think about this is making sure that every legal vote is counted legally,” an R.N.C. spokeswoman, Claire Fortenberry Zunk, said. “It essentially empowers all Americans, so that at no point in the system would you have someone whose vote is diluted or compromised.” But Democrats, civil rights lawyers and even some Republicans say that the threat is clear: Even if the cases fail, Mr. Trump’s allies are building excuses to dispute the results, while trying to empower thousands of local election officials to disrupt the process. Already, election board members in several states have moved to block certification of primary election tallies, including in a major swing county in Nevada last week. “The fundamental principle of the system — the rule of law, the finality of the results, the ability to challenge an election but then accept the results if the challenges fail — is being stood on its head,” said Ben Ginsberg, a longtime Republican election lawyer who broke with his party over Mr. Trump. Mr. Ginsberg and other election lawyers said they were confident that the system had enough checks and balances to hold, as it did in 2020. Calling the effort “unlawful and undemocratic,” the Biden campaign has put in place a field army of lawyers to counter the Republican moves in every swing state, a level of concerted legal activity that has never happened this early in an election cycle. cont'd

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These fucking people. Trump allies at Heritage declare 2024 election illegitimate in advance A “war game” presented at the right-wing foundation imagined far-fetched scenarios for election interference to justify preemptive measures. Barbra Streisand kidnapped by Hamas. Antifa-BLM protesters taking over a migrant detention facility. The FBI arresting Donald Trump two days after winning the election. These were among the far-fetched scenarios imagined by a simulation of threats to the 2024 election showcased on Thursday by the right-wing Heritage Foundation. The presentation, delivered at the foundation’s Washington headquarters, stated as a given that the Biden administration was already engaged in a sweeping conspiracy to use multiple forms of federal power to influence the presidential election. It did not supply any evidence. “As things stand right now, there’s a zero percent chance of a free and fair election,” said Mike Howell, executive director of Heritage’s Oversight Project. “I’m formally accusing the Biden administration of creating the conditions that most reasonable policymakers and officials cannot in good conscience certify an election.” The report said a key finding was that the sitting president is the greatest danger to the peaceful transition of power, with no mention of Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 loss to keep himself in office. Instead it offered that conclusion as justification for doubting the outcome of the 2024 election and trying to reject anything other than a Trump victory. Trump himself has repeatedly declined to say he will accept the results or rule out a violent response. He has told his supporters that he can only lose through cheating. Howell said the exercise would lead Heritage to file more litigation over election procedures. He also said it should help the public resist “psychological operations” that he claimed were used in 2020 and are being used again. He didn’t say who supposedly ran the operations. “The upshot is that we will see a contested election the likes of which we’ve never seen,” said Adam Ellwanger, a rhetoric professor at the University of Houston-Downtown who helped lead the simulation. “If we see the kind of manipulations that we saw in 2020, I wonder if average Americans who are supporters of the president [Trump] will swallow that so easily as they did in 2020.” The simulation, known as the “2024 Transition Integrity Project,” is technically independent of the Heritage Foundation but included multiple Heritage employees. The full list of participants was withheld, which Howell said was for their safety. Another participant present on Thursday was Josh Findlay, who was until recently the Republican National Committee’s director of election integrity operations. Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts spoke at the end of the event. The Heritage Foundation, a longtime bastion of conservative orthodoxy that has more recently reinvented itself for the Trump era, has become a lightning rod in the campaign because of its role in convening “Project 2025.” That project published detailed policy proposals for every federal agency, ready for the next Republican administration to implement. Some of the most controversial ideas including banning abortion medication, facilitating White House involvement in law enforcement and rolling back legal protections for LGBTQ Americans. As some of those proposals have garnered scrutiny, Trump and his campaign have repeatedly distanced themselves from the effort. Many of the proposals were written by alumni of his administration and are likely to be appointees if he wins another term. The Republican National Committee has its own election integrity operations, including litigation. Attendees on Thursday walked past a mobile billboard criticizing Trump and Project 2025, which the Democratic National Committee positioned outside Heritage’s headquarters. Biden campaign spokesman James Singer called Thursday’s presentation “nothing more than an attempt to justify their efforts to suppress the vote, undermine the election, and ultimately another January 6.” Howell said the election threats project was devised in response to a 2020 bipartisan group of academics, former officials, journalists and others that tried to anticipate and prepare for ways that then-President Trump might try to disrupt the election or the peaceful transfer of power. Their report raised concerns about violence but did not imagine a deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol that temporarily disrupted the formal certification of Joe Biden’s win. Both that effort and the 2024 project used tabletop exercises, also known as “war games,” that assign participants various roles to simulate how they might interact. In the 2024 project at Heritage, President Biden was played by former senator Robert G. Torricelli (D-N.J.). Those war games included contemplating surprise emergencies such as the Streisand kidnapping. (In the war game, she was rescued the next day.) Howell accused the Biden administration of a “coordinated invasion over our southern border for the purposes of impacting this election.” As evidence, he said a camera crew went door to door in an apartment complex outside Charlotte, asking people whether they were noncitizens registered to vote, with 10 percent responding yes. Howell said his team did not verify those registrations. Noncitizen voting is extremely rare. One scenario in the war games involved people flooding the FBI with reports of civil rights violations as a staged provocation for the Justice Department to take over local election authorities. Howell and Ellwanger objected to those observers using a version of arguments that have been consistently made against civil rights legislation since the Civil War. “To put it simply, the federal government should have a very limited role in our election systems. They should be left to the states to decide,” he said.

I swear - everything Republicans do is some crooked con, which gives new meaning to their CONservative ideology.

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Should he resign first?

Are we a house divided? In the DOOM thread, it seems we keep hearing from the same vocal posters. I think we'd all like to know what the majority thinks. If you believe Joe should stick it out and continue to run, answer the first question. Elaborate further, answering only the relevant questions (multiple choice -- click all the applicable responses) about his potential replacement if you think he should drop out. Name your preferred replacement candidate and why. I'm keeping the poll anonymous to encourage participation. You will obviously no longer be anonymous if you choose to elaborate further in the comments regarding your preferred candidate other than Biden or Harris. Edit: Questions #1 & #2 are the first round. If everyone answers the subsequent questions correctly, the sum of Questions #3 & #4 should be equal to the total of Question #2.

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Have you ever watched GoT? If so, picture DC as King's Landing after Robert Barratheon dies, and all the various factions within the Democratic Party as the different houses vying for the throne. Now picture Trump as the Night King and MAGA as the white walkers.

Maybe the Russians will get innovative and refashion them into dragon teeth or cope cages. On the other hand, I do hope to see them try building a turtle scooter at some point.

At some point (hopefully soon), UA forces will stumble upon a trench, pond, or foxhole full of ditched Russian e-scooters. I'm not going to break my self-imposed policy against posting war gore, but the Ukrainians were pissed yesterday and put up a whole bunch of heinous videos on this subreddit yesterday. If you happen to be jonesing to see Russian soldiers get blown apart, bleed out, or set on fire as the result of drone drops, go to this one.

That's kind of how it worked out in France, where they hold elections in two rounds, unless an outright majority is reached in the first one. It gives people a chance a) to think about it and b) build coalitions to block dangerous extremists.

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A hit piece published by the NYTimes where "someone" tipped them off that this Parkinson's specialist had visited the WH eight whole times, neverminding the fact that in that same piece, the NYTimes says the doctor was there to see two other patients. Moreover, the article says he visited the WH more than two dozen times during the Obama administration. They do, however, add a small note to the article that they have no idea how many times the same doctor visited during the Trump administration because that authoritarian asshole kept the visitor logs secret from the public during his four years. Somehow, the rest of the media forgot to report all of that other stuff, I guess. (I wouldn't know since I don't watch well-coiffed cable tee-vee personalities dress up as actual journalists). Parkinson’s Expert Visited the White House Eight Times in Eight Months The White House said President Biden had met with a neurologist only three times in more than three years in office. But it would not say whether the visiting expert was consulting with the president’s physician about his health. An expert on Parkinson’s disease from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center visited the White House eight times in eight months from last summer through this spring, including at least once for a meeting with President Biden’s physician, according to official visitor logs. The expert, Dr. Kevin Cannard, is a neurologist who specializes in movement disorders and recently published a paper on Parkinson’s. The logs, released by the White House, document visits from July 2023 through March of this year. More recent visits, if there have been any, would not be released until later under the White House’s voluntary disclosure policy. It was unclear whether Dr. Cannard was at the White House to consult specifically about the president or was there for unrelated meetings. Dr. Cannard’s LinkedIn page describes him as “supporting the White House Medical Unit” for more than 12 years. His biography on Doximity, a website for health professionals, lists him as a “neurology consultant to the White House Medical Unit and the physician to the president” from 2012 to 2022, which would include the administrations of Presidents Barack Obama and Donald J. Trump. Records from the Obama administration, when Mr. Biden was vice president, show that Dr. Cannard made at least 10 visits in 2012 plus a family tour; four in 2013; one in 2014; four in 2015; and eight in 2016. Mr. Trump rescinded Mr. Obama’s voluntary White House visitors disclosure policy, so records are not available for his four years in office. Dr. Cannard did not respond to repeated requests for comment. In a statement released at 9:40 p.m. on Monday, Dr. Kevin O’Connor, the White House physician, confirmed that Dr. Cannard had seen Mr. Biden three times during the three and a half years of his presidency, but did not directly say whether any of his other visits were related to consulting on the president’s health. Instead, Dr. O’Connor implied that most of Dr. Cannard’s visits were related to treating other people who work at the White House. “Prior to the pandemic, and following its end, he has held regular neurology clinics at the White House Medical Clinic in support of the thousands of active-duty members assigned in support of White House operations,” Dr. O’Connor wrote. Confirming what a White House spokesman said earlier in the day, Dr. O’Connor said that Mr. Biden had seen Dr. Cannard each year as part of his overall annual physical checkup and that the latest examination had found no sign of Parkinson’s. “President Biden has not seen a neurologist outside of his annual physical,” Dr. O’Connor wrote. Dr. Cannard met on Jan. 17 with Dr. O’Connor as well as Dr. John Atwood, a cardiologist at Walter Reed, and another person in the early evening in the White House residence clinic, the logs showed. That meeting came a month before Mr. Biden underwent his most recent annual physical checkup at Walter Reed on Feb. 28. In a six-page letter released after that checkup, Dr. O’Connor said the president’s medical team had conducted “an extremely detailed neurologic exam” that had yielded “no findings which would be consistent with” Parkinson’s, stroke or other central neurological disorders. Dr. O’Connor did not say whether the examination contained common tests for assessing cognitive decline or detecting signs of dementia that are often recommended for older adults. The White House has said in recent days that there has been no reason to conduct further examination since February. Questions about Mr. Biden’s health, and specifically about Parkinson’s, have proliferated since his disastrous debate performance against Mr. Trump on June 27. In interviews with ABC News on Friday and MSNBC on Monday, Mr. Biden said he had the equivalent of a neurological exam every day because of the pressure of presidential duties. The visitor logs, which have also been reported by other news organizations, including The New York Post and The Guardian, indicated that Dr. Cannard’s first recorded visit to the White House during the Biden administration was on Nov. 15, 2022. The records indicate that he was visiting Joshua Simmons, whose title is not listed. Dr. Cannard’s eight more recent visits started on July 28, 2023, when he was listed as meeting with Megan Nasworthy, a White House liaison to Walter Reed. She was listed as the person visited for seven of those meetings, which consistently occurred early, between 7 and 9 a.m. on Fridays, with the exception of the last meeting, which occurred on Thursday, March 28, the day before Good Friday. The logs note a 10th visit that appeared to be for a family tour of the White House. Andrew Bates, a White House spokesman, said that while the president always travels with regular doctors, “he has not seen specialists in Delaware,” where he has private residences. Around the time of the first meetings, Dr. Cannard published a research paper in the journal Parkinsonism & Related Disorders on the early stages of Parkinson's. An array of neurologists who have not personally examined Mr. Biden said they observed symptoms in his public appearances that were consistent with Parkinson’s or a related disease, such as hypophonic speech, forward flexed posture, a shuffling gait, masked face and irregular speech pattern. But they emphasized that a specific diagnosis could not be given without firsthand examination. White House officials said that Mr. Biden had shown no signs of Parkinson’s and that Dr. O’Connor found no reason to re-evaluate Mr. Biden for the disease since his physical in February. Mr. Bates also said the president has never taken Levodopa or other drugs for that condition. In his interview with ABC News on Friday, Mr. Biden declined to agree to an independent neurological and cognitive exam. “I get a cognitive test every day,” he said, meaning that the exceptional challenges of the presidency effectively tested him on a daily basis. Calling into “Morning Joe” on MSNBC on Monday morning, Mr. Biden insisted again that his confusion and halting performance at the debate were an aberration due in part to an infection or other minor ailment, and were not a sign of a larger medical issue. “If there was something that was wrong that night, it’s not like it comes and that’s one night and it goes away,” he said. “That’s why I’ve been out. I’ve been testing myself, testing everywhere I go. Going out and making the case. The night of that debate, I went out. I was out until 2 o’clock in the morning that very night. That very night. It drives me nuts, people talking about this.”