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Nobody’s done a Mr. Blonde “can you hear me now” meme yet?

Not sure if this is true, would have no reason to doubt you. But hopefully screen-grabbed his primary voting record and donor history because it's all up in smoke right now. If this is really the guy-all the media can grab now is property records, SSN, and DL#. Most MAGA folks won't believe it, but if his ballot pulls and donation FEC records got culled in the final minutes...that will make for interesting fodder. Also, there's auto dealerships with elevated cams across the street from where he did this. There's no way in the world, he didnt' scope this out ahead of time. Even if he didn't, he'd show up on the day of. I bet you dollars to Mazdas. That footage magically disappears within the next 36 hours. I can't prove that a Mister Ronan Sinatra was there, but I can't prove he wasn't there either.

that watch isn't gold, Jerry! It's not gold!

Well tomorrow (technically now Monday) should be an absolute hoot for security purposes on campus. Yeah, I think I will sit this one out. Glad your son is okay. Between all the events of the last 48 hours, plus the added events and stops...yeah, no.

Well it wasn't too far from Penn State, so there's a football season connection here somewhere. I mean, even Sandusky missed some head by a little bit every now and again.

Where are those teleprompters made anyway? I assume it's a single, secure provider that does all the high-level ones?

You clever girl.

then I'll put you down for some artwork. $180 worth. It's found money, Jerry! I look forward to many years...of the Triangles.

I agree there would be widespread unrest. But "spread" implies location. Where exactly would all this violence occur? Say it happens again, or he loses in a rigged election and MAGA takes up arms, say he dies naturally but is considered by his acolytes to be an act of the deep state. Obviously there's some high value public targets, but otherwise---who exactly are his unrested followers going after and where? This is like the scene in "Good Morning Vietnam" when Robin Williams says, "Well, we're having a hard time identifying the enemy. So we approach people and ask them if they're the enemy. And if they yes, then we shoot them." I get people are geared up for violent retribution on behalf of Trump. And maybe there's some double-secret battlefield plan on the top of some toilet in South Florida, but who exactly is on the other side of this Civil War and where is it happening? They can't just say "revenge for Trump"....wars occur in things called "Places." Places are locations with people and structures and natural formations. When we picked a fight in grade school (at or about the maturity level of most Trump voters), we could shout "The War is On!" but eventually, even our naive asses still had to pick who would fight who, where, and when. After school, down by the soccer field, me and Doug. That's just how fights work. The only other option is just fat, stupid people riding around the back of F-250's just randomly shooting people in parking lots which isn't a Civil War. It's just homicide.

I keep hearing/reading something akin to this. I'm not picking sides, or taking up arms. But can somebody just explain to me like where the Civil War is going to be held? Is like a solid red state like Nebraska invades a solid blue state like Illinois and just gets shredded as they approach Chicago? Are we doing this in random battlefields/national forests? I get the socio-political differences, but nobody has explained the logistics yet. Somebody invades Texas to reinforce it for Trump? Good luck holding a position in 7 major metros with 30 million people between them with 3700 fat dudes in tac vests and lift kits.

Yeah, it's been a few years since I made my way down there when visiting family or in the Loop for business. But there's really just three "areas" you need to avoid. One to the West, one to the Southwest, and one to the South. And again, not because they just shiv you when you appear. But there really is background fire and muggings and all that. But for the most part, if you're just rolling through looking for a place to eat or drink, you're largely left alone. But dudes our age, it's pretty fucking obvious we're not there on gang business. If you mind your business, you're largely left alone. But yeah, sadly---on a monthly basis some collateral damage. I got into a couple of dicy encounters as a young person, but it was because I looked young and Hispanic. Now I'm just a grey haired dude in a dress shirt minding my own business, I feel totally fine looking for a music club or place to eat. I lived just a few minutes from that rough area west of town for 17 years. Still hit up some of the old haunts when I visit family. Chicago is not this vast dystopian warfare-ridden gangland the media wants us to think it is. There are a few square blocks in 3 sections you just don't wander into. Other than that, it's no more dangerous than Round Rock. If people don't know how to navigate it, don't go to those places, stick to where you know and you're mustard. Shit, I lived in San Antonio for a year. To this day, there are huge swatches of that city I won't venture into because it's a total gamble. I've navigated almost every single American city over 1.0mm+, lived in Europe, traveled and worked in Mexico, NW Africa, and Central America. Most freaked out I ever got was a mugging in West San Antonio. Anyway, back to Trump. Can we hold a rally for him in S.A.?

Well, there kinda is a "South Chicago" in the sense there's a "South Austin", both have robust and sexually active moms. But they're just sort of placeholder names of aggregations of neighborhoods for precinct and census purposes. But, East Chicago, IN and North Chicago, IL (partially into WI), and West Chicago, IL (in a totally different county than Cook) are free-standing cities/municipalities with their own mayors, councils, utility setups, and tax bases. Like here in Austin, there's this "Westlake" shit, but that's not an actual town, it's just an area with a high school. There is a little city called West Lake Hills and also Rollingwood, that have their own mayors, councils, police, and tax rolls. The Chicagoland/Tri-State area or MSA has lots of counties and municipalities that have myriad gun laws and access. It's just a weird place to use as a scapegoat for gun violence to me, but 'Murica gonna 'Murica. to tie it back to this thread, I wonder what Trump is going to do to exploit his incident today and Chicago gun violence near his hotel as he commutes to FiServ arena each day next week.

There's literally a city in Indiana named "East Chicago." There's a municipality that has HOA's and utilities that breach into Wisconsin in Lake County, IL...an hour north of Chicago, called "North Chicago" with it's own City Council and tax base. There's a separately codified township called "West Chicago" way the fuck out in DuPage county, again about an hour away from the Loop with its own government and tax base. Sadly, East Chicago sank to the bottom of Lake Michigan around the time of Atlantis. But when the gun folks decry, "What about Chicago?" They have no idea the geography or demography of what happens there. It's just a metonym for ignorance. Now then, what's this I hear Paris, Texas isn't in France?

Guarding Cheetos, Elon? Really? Are you playing the Catskills next month?

Yeah, I repeated in your mom's "basement" last night. Wait, what were we talking about again? Oh yeah, why your protection detail holds you up like a "Participation Trophy" after a literal "Assassination Participation Trophy" guy missed the state title 8 fucking times. What the fuck with this simulation? It was the weirdest ending to a sports-drama movie ever. "Hey, he's gonna lose but say he won. And he's injured. And we're supposed to get him to the trainer's room. But first, for no fucking reason...let's lift him up in celebration despite the very distinct possibility he'll receive a more consequential blow to the head. And he's already slow to begin with, go team!"

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Hey man, not my bag. that's just what Hinkley said before he tried to kill a high-value Presidential target. One think Hinkley and Trump have in common, aside from being on both sides of an attempted assassination. They both wanna fuck 12yo girls.

Agents searching shooter's body, "Hey, wait a minute! This is an auto-insurance policy!"

Like 'Now' Jodie Foster, 'Taxi Driver' Jodie Foster, or like 'Peak Hot-Stealing Home' Jodie Foster?

I'm trying to remember, was it "Airplane II"...where it's Rip Torn and some other guys trying to shuffle somebody away who is hurt...but the media asks for photos so they all pause and smile and scamper off? Every photo/video of SS agents taking away an asset, I've never seen them prop one up for photographs first. There were multiple elevated positions to the South and East of that stage where the real sniper was---not this half ass amateur. And they knew that, but also didn't know it. So they picked a moment after 6-10 rounds to play "Glamour Shots." ???

Leon Czolgosz, a Polish man from Michigan. And his great-grand cousin by Italian marriage's name? You guessed it. Frank Stallone. It's taken months to unpack the identity and motives of Presidential assassins. Even in the modern era, Oswald and Sirhan, and Hinckley took days. As will this. And the full truth will never be known. I come from a family of combat veterans, I've worked with DIA, and I know SS agents. I would never occur to me, were I brave/qualified enough to be an agent, to stop and pause for photos with an injured asset, and hold him up still just because I was comm'd that the initial shooter was down. What the fuck if there's another one, the real shooter with talent? This isn't fucking WWE. Where you pin Hulk Hogan and your tag-team partner is strutting around the stage...you fucking make goddamn sure you don't get got from the other side by Jimmy "superfly" Snuka from the opposite top rope. To put in Trump wrestling terms.

Okay, so forget my first two questions. Due to reliable reports, was an actual rifle at mid-range, using mid-caliber ammo. Not the best shooter in the world, not the worst. Still makes zero fucking sense though, to my third point and as many of you have pointed out, that the SS agents would hoist him up like that after the shots. Even if the agents/LEO's that took the shooter down radio'd back, "Shooter is down" to the agents on the stage...you don't lift up the asset and just freeze in place like Simon Says. You move quickly. "Well, Lobo...they had already taken the shooter out...so it was all good." Yeah, I forget that snipers never work in teams. Totally beyond reality that the first guy gets attention to the West while the real firepower comes from the South or East. this isn't Major Winters level shit, this is Geometry 101. Why in the fuck did they do that? That's so weird to me.

why do I have a feeling that photo of the bullet passing behind Trump's left shoulder is gonna end up being the equivalent of that guy on top of the WTC with the backpack as the jet was approaching impact? Also, rest assured...the identity the SS ascertains off the shooter via DNA won't be revealed for a long while. There a half-dozen car dealerships and an airstrip within a few hundred yards of the rally site. All have elevated security cameras to protect inventory. All would be running on a Saturday afternoon. Would not be that hard to reverse-locate the guy who goes up on to the trailer. But his identity will remain a mystery, and even if disovered-who could possibly know his motives will become the tale. Were I the Secret Service, I'd talk to the manager at Mazda. But that's just me...

I mean, politicians give rallies around buildings every single day. But the access to those buildings is pretty heavily vetted prior to. This is a fucking multi-modal trailer that anybody can just scale in a matter of minutes. And oh wait? It's tan with green trees behind it and the shooter appears to be wearing tan and green? Who the fuck decided to let those trailers just sit out there? Not like there's a fucking electrical ID-scan turnstile to get to a fucking mobile trailer. Even if there was, does "Oh, I'm Doug. I'm dressed like this with this here bag requesting access to the top of the unit for antenna repairs." As usual in America, there's no conspiracies. Only stupid people.

Yeah, I found another clip where you can make it out better. the first two rough cuts I watched right after it came out were ruffled as shit. Still, even my team hears "Shooter is Down", my first instinct as an agent wouldn't be "Okay, I don't know that voice 100 yards away muffled by crowd and ambient outdoor noise, so let me just go ahead and lift up the asset to a standing target position and just assume that wasn't a distraction of covering fire so the real shooter can then hit him easier." It would likely be more akin to their training of "get him the fuck off the stage, if you can't, get the fuck on top of him." I mean this isn't Secret Service 101, this is basic training for JROTC.