In the last hour there was an attempt to assassinate Donald Trump he appears to be wounded in the ear. There are conflicting reports of if anyone else was killed or wounded (other than the shooters). This is from Byron York
From @AP: 'Butler County district attorney Richard Goldinger said in a phone interview that the suspected gunman was dead and at least one rally attendee was killed.' https://t.co/0he6hafiqW
As I’m tying this the report is one attendee is dead and another wounded. Right now on twitter there are a bunch of leftists complaining “How can you miss” to the point where it is trending on twitter. I have this question for Elon Musk:
question would those lamenting the failure of the assassin to kill @realDonaldTrump to the point where said lament is trending be considered to have violated the hate speech rules of X/Twitter ?
I wonder if those upset that Trump survived are consoled that they managed to kill at least one of his supporters.
Here are the headlines from the MSM at the time I posted this one twitter:
So far @nbcnews@abcnews & @cbsnews are all not calling it an assassination attempt ABC: Trump rushed off stage by Secret Service as possible shots heard at Pennsylvania rally NBC: Secret Service rushes Trump offstage after popping noises heard at Pennsylvania rally
CBS: Trump safe after being rushed off rally stage when possible shots fired PBS Trump rushed off stage by secret service after apparent gunshots heard at Pennsylvania rally CNN: Trump injured in incident at Pennsylvania rally They won't say assassination attempt #unexpectedly
Well I guess when you scream that Trump is a threat to democracy and that he’s Hitler for a year this is not a shock. On the plus side for the media they now have an excuse to stop talking about Joe Biden’s mental health but I suspect this is going to hurt their chances in November even more.
My first thought and it’s actually a rather terrible one, Given the left’s continual Trump derangement fed by the media, academic, Hollywood and Democrats in congress I’m really shocked that it’s taken this long for someone to try to kill him.
I’ll close with this:
The number of leftist lamenting the shooter missing @realdonaldtrump speaks volumes both about the left & what the false rhetoric of them and their allies of the MSM have produced.
As a #catholic I'm required to love my enemies and pray for them, but they don't make it easy
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The White House has put out a statement but Joe Biden hasn’t spoken on it, that makes sense because the last thing democrats need is the contrast between the pair emphasized.
Update 3: Boy was I wrong. Heard Joe Biden’s statement on the radio on the way to supper. I don’t think it could have been more perfect in the situation. Furthermore it was his best public performance and the most presidential thing he has done in a long time.
I don’t think this was a calculation in this moment but I’d say this speech guarantees that he stays on the ticket
“I don’t know enough, I have an opinion but I don’t have any facts so I want to make sure we have all the fact before I make some comment or comments.”
The world would be a better place if a lot of people took that last line to heart.
Update 4: Donald Trump put out a statement on Truth social:
4th Doctor:The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common – they don’t change their views to fit the facts. They change the facts to fit their views, which can be uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs changing
Doctor Who: The Face of Evil part 4 1977
You might recall about four months ago (was it really that recent?) the absolute outcry when NBC signed former RNC chair Rona McDaniel as a commentator. McDaniel as you might remember had a success rate electing GOP candidates and promoting the conservative cause comparable with Luigi Vercotti attempts to get Ron Obvious to jump the English Channel or eat Chichester Cathedral and her popularity with the GOP base corresponded to that success making her seemingly the perfect choice as the GOP voice on NBC. But alas the NBC/MSNBC faithful were having none of it:
She’s no Douglas Murray but the slightest possibility that she might threaten the bubble of silence surrounding MSNBC viewers was simply too much for leftists to bear.
You see the MSM decided a while back that they were going to choose as their niche market the far democrat left and a problem with choosing a group of people who primary pushes are for abortion, homosexuality and transgenderism is such a group tend to shrink.
Furthermore when the loudest members of said group are the most radical you find yourself hitting demands to exclude anything that might contradict said groups thus moving farther and farther into a direction to satisfy them and becoming more and more niche till you find yourself locked in an every shrinking bubble unable to to deal with or even unable to acknowledge any reality outside of said bubble.
And when powerful people with a lot of money and influence you know the ones who decide who is welcome at the beautiful parties with the beautiful people who might give you advancement and on whose word your salary is based it becomes easy to rationalize life in the bubble let it harden around you to keep all that unwanted information out.
At least until June 27th 2024 at 9:05 PM EST when reality takes a sledgehammer to the bubble and the walls come crumbling down.
We’ve been writing about the sheer panic among those who saw, particularly among the media who have guarded the bubble diligently (Drew Holden has a detailed post showing HOW diligently) and are now trying to convince people that they were duped idiots rather than collaborators.
This has been punctuated by people suddenly coming out with a whole plethora of evidence of Joe Biden’s decline that they previous withheld.
All of this has become a problem, because now the niche is split and the media doesn’t know which way to go.
Now let me clarify one thing. The niche isn’t split about Joe Biden’s mental acuity all but the most fanatical or ignorant leftists know he is no longer fit to lead, that’s not in question but as I’ve noted that consideration which would be the primary one if they actually cared about American Democracy doesn’t matter. As Alex Berenson put it:
Put politics aside, ask the right question:
If @joebiden weren't already President, would ANYONE think the husk of a man we saw tonight is the best choice for the job? Any of the governors would be a better choice.
Whatever happens next, the Democrats failed themselves. And us.
But that’s not the debate among the media trying desperately trying to retain credibility while serving their niche a niche which is now split between those who think the Democrat party’s chances of winning in November are better with Joe Biden on the ticket and those who think keeping him on the ticket will destroy their chances of winning.
THAT is the only thing that matters and the media is desperate to be on the “right” side of that argument, that being the side of the argument which will prevail.
This brings us to yesterday’s news conference.
Right now the media is trying to figure out which side (boot Biden, keep Biden) is going to win so they can jump on board it
What the Democrat left and the media really needed was either a commanding Biden demonstrating strength or a slobbering Biden unable to function which would give them a clear direction and reunite their niche. As Frank Fleming put it:
The absolute worst thing for the Democrats is if Biden does just well enough to stay in the race.
It was a lot like the debate, Biden started weak but got stronger and one of his answers on China and chips was actually not bad, however starting on a teleprompter didn’t help and had questioners pre-selected suggests he knew what was coming.
But there were two defining moments that everyone will remember. The first being this:
Biden: "Look, I wouldn't have picked Vice President Trump to be vice president if I didn't think she's not qualified to be president, so we'll start there." pic.twitter.com/ib4WwC27pR
Make no mistake about it: this was not a great press conference, but it was better than his performance at the debate and his interview with George Stephanopoulos. And that’s a problem for the Democrats. From the perspective of Biden’s campaign, that’s good enough for him to stay in the race.
Joe Biden’s campaign is cratering, and this press conference won’t convince the naysayers that everything is fine — and it won’t convince the holdouts that Biden should go. The situation remains at a stalemate, which means the Democratic Party will continue to be divided over what to do about Joe Biden.
In short it’s the worst of all worlds for the media as every day this isn’t resolved is a day when they have to pick a side which is the worst possible situation for the democrats because as long as this election is about Joe Biden, Trump wins.
Prediction: As soon as one side or the other wins the media will pivot to that side and within a day or two of that moment and by end of whatever week it happens you will never know they thought otherwise.
I think the only people in the media left whose opinion on Joe Biden should be considered are Cenk Uygur & Bill Maher as they were the only two people willing to acknowledge Joe Biden’s state before June 27 2024.
Given that Joe Biden is the exact same man today as he was on June 26th 2024 when the entire media/left except Maher & Uygur insisted he was fine and dandy and the utilitarian nature of leftist’s like him, can anybody explain to me what is Joe Biden’s incentive to voluntarily surrender either the Democrat Nomination or the presidency?
It hit me today that Joe Biden mental state being what it is might all the lawfare against Conservatives in general (Bannon, Praying Grandmothers etc) and Donald Trump in particular be a function not so much of the Biden Administration/campaign and it’s mentally failing leader but Merrick Garland himself taking personal revenge on those he blames for keeping off of the Supreme Court?
If the left embracing and protecting people who want them dead has only cost the Democrats ten points among Jews, why would anybody think that the revelations about media lies concerning Joe Biden would make a big difference to an electorate whose lives are not at stake?
Finally Boston fans enjoying a young and dynamic RedSox team surging into the final wild card spot and prepare to surge perhaps even higher should not forget this would not have been possible if the now fired Chaim Bloom had listened to all those folks in the media who wanted him to deal away these prospects who are now making their mark.
Jacob Woodling:Quiet! Brigham Young has twenty seven wives and he hasn’t had half the trouble with them that I’ve had with the two of you! Elizabeth:Then simplify your life, Jacob. Sell me. Jacob Woodling:But Elizabeth: you don’t know what you’ll get. Elizabeth:I know what I’ve had
Paint Your Wagon 1969
The primary plan of the Democrat party for election 2024 was three fold:
Lawfare against Donald Trump to cripple his candidacy (Backfired spectacularly)
Avoid the Biden record and discussion of Biden at all costs (partly successful)
Make the election about Donald Trump (failing)
The lawfare against Trump has been intensive, varied and if nothing else creative. Alas it has run so over the top that the American people have seen it for what it is. Combine this with the Supreme Court not enabling these legal machinations (alas Dems can’t cherry pick the judges on SCOTUS and while Justice Roberts Old Yellowstain alone is enough to send Steve Bannon to jail he’s not enough to change a vote with 5 justices already calling BS on the dems.
On avoiding Biden’s record there has been mixed success here on one hand there has almost been nothing said about the Biden record, at least nothing truthful. Democrats and their media buddies still insist the Biden economy, you know the one that caused my employer to give my shift the choice of either a 10% cut in hours or a voluntary day off today (I took the 10% and am going in for the half day today) is spectacular, still avoid calling him out of Russia, Israel, the rise of Iran and even the depletion of the strategic oil reserve not to mention the rise of antisemitism in leftist enclaves nationwide. The complaint media still has Joe Biden’s back there.
What they CAN’T hide since 9 pm on June 27th is the dementia and being desperate to conceal their complicity in enabling the grift for the last four years have gone all in for the big lie that they had no idea and thus are treating Joe Biden campaign’s insistence that he’s fine with all the credibility that they treat anyone who threatens the power of the left. This has become the only story in the country as the left is in full panic mode. It’s so bad that comics now feel comfortable making Joe Biden jokes and that a true disaster.
The real problem here is that if Biden fails to leave on his own and the left is unable to kill him without plausible deniability (don’t doubt for a moment they wouldn’t) the press is going to have to pivot to protecting Biden at all costs. That’s going to be a neat trick.
But it’s plan C, making the election about Donald Trump that has been the hardest thing. It’s been hampered by two developments, one foreseen and one unforeseen.
The foreseen element is that Trump was president for four years and his record of success compared to the Biden years is in living memory. To use my own example, as I mentioned my own job gave us a choice to lose 10% of our hours this week involuntarily or lose 1/4 of our ours voluntarily, I suspect it’s too make up for the paid holiday last week. During the Trump years when we still had 3 warehouses instead of one in the town where I work and when we still had a 2nd shift a paid holiday meant we were notified that we would have a mandatory 8 hour shift on one of our days off to handle the volume we lost. That’s how busy we always were. Lying about and avoiding the subject has proved effective with Trump haters but not so much with people actually effected by the Biden economy but that was always a tough sell and it was to be expected.
What was NOT expected was Donald Trump making the case that he at only 4 years younger than Biden is cognitive enough to see the situation on the ground and adapt. It’s very hard to get a person in their 70’s to change their style and Trump’s style is to be in the limelight.
But having seen the train wreck he quickly figured out that the best and wisest course of action is to keep doing his rallies that the left media continues to ignore (as they can’t allow Trump to be heard unfiltered) while not making headlines. I would even not be surprised if he is reconsidering his VP choice as some states move closer to his column. A popular GOP figure from Minnesota, Michigan or even New Jersey which is now in play could change everything. I would not even be surprised to see Governor Sununu being considered (to the horror of some of us) to bring NH into the fold.
The democrat media complex could not foresee that Trump. the lover of the spotlight, would have the discipline to do this and this discipline has driven them completely off the rails not only because it proves that even in his late 70’s his cognitive and strategic functions are still on the ball but because it doesn’t allow them to change the subject so the election can be about something other than Joe Biden.
It’s just goes to show that the good Lord works in mysterious ways.
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