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Given all the unhinged leftists who would love to shoot Trump, but will never get near him, how is it that a mentally imbalanced 20-year-old managed to get within easy shooting distance, and very nearly kill him? It’s so tragically and comically OBVIOUS that nothing about this smacks of incompetence. Mistakes of this magnitude do not suggest incompetence. If the Secret Service were truly this incompetent, the entire Biden regime would have been gone by now. It’s no wonder the FBI says it has discovered nothing. We don’t need to investigate the virtually self-evident. All the fools who say, “Trump isn’t presidential, we can’t vote for him,” are just fine with a government that does THIS?

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Eric Trump’s speech was quite good. One disagreement: Success is not enough retribution. Didn’t Trump’s first term teach us that? Retribution matters. Justice for criminals matters. We prosecuted Nazis, and the people who have weaponized our own government against innocent people must pay. You don’t let criminals go. You don’t drain the swamp without eradicating the swamp. It’s time for the tyrants to become afraid.

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I have been keeping up with the propaganda at MSN and CNN. It’s usually a pretty good predictor of what’s going to happen next. Essentially, they’re pushing the narrative that Trump will crush Biden, but Trump (they say) will narrowly lose to a Democrat “younger than Biden,” possibly even Kamala, but preferably Gavin or Michelle. They are confident about fraud working again with just about any other candidate than Biden. No wonder they want Biden out.

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Such a pleasure to watch GOP Convention on a live stream WITHOUT insipid news anchors. I loathe the media.

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The most satisfying retribution? Defund the left’s schools, their FBI, their EPA, everything. Watch them all squirm for survival.

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“Democrats” project their self-loathing onto their country. They feel unworthy of freedom and impose fascism on the rest of us.

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Any government that imposes inflation rather than fighting it is after your freedom.

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Want to end inflation? Cut the federal government by 75 percent. Unleash a free market. Let freedom roar.

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Thank you, President Trump. It wasn’t COVID. It was the China virus. It wasn’t a pandemic. It was the flu.

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America does not need an armed IRS or FBI. America needs armed citizens. Make THEM fear US.

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Trump’s speech is great, but I wish he’d talk about voter fraud. If you see something, say something–raise hell.

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Imagine your grandparents hearing a presidential candidate forced to promise no more men playing on women’s sports teams.

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Top Democrats are saying they’re frustrated by the Biden “doom loop.”

This demented wrecking ball puppet has been a nonstop doom loop for regular, rational people concerned about inflation and the willful destruction of our republic and Bill of Rights.

Welcome to our world, you Commiefascist pricks.

Kimberly Cheatle, the Secret Service Director, had made it her goal to transform the Secret Service following DEI tenets. Project 30×30, where she wants 30 percent female Agents by 2030.

“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.

I mean, what in the world is going on? We have got to find out,” says U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO).

I think we already know.

Imagine using DEI as a basis for hiring your roofers, car mechanics or airplane mechanics. Or your brain or heart surgeon. Do YOU REALLY want them to be a particular gender or race? Or do you just want them competent?

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As Victor Davis Hanson notes, “our Soviet Union” features our own Brezhnev in Joe Biden and our own Pravda in the establishment media that praises the Delaware dullard as “sharp as a tack.”  Our Soviet Union also features Stalinist show-trials, imprisonment without trial, government control of media, deep state agencies deployed against the people, and our very own communist party.

Long before the Russia hoax, the Soviet Union interfered with American elections by running their own candidates of the Communist Party USA, a wholly owned subsidiary of the USSR. The CPUSA candidate in 1924, 1928 and 1932 was William Z. Foster, author of  Toward Soviet America: The Crises and Decline of Capitalism and the Impending Rise of Socialism in the United States. That classic was first published in 1932, when Stalin was planning his career in mass murder. The Soviets also supported proxies in the Progressive Party such as Henry Wallace (1948) and Vincent Hallinan (1952),  but during the 1960s they returned to the CPUSA.

The CPUSA ticket in 1968 was Charlene Mitchell and Mark Zagarell. In 1972, the CPUSA offered the Stalinist Gus Hall and Jarvis Tyner. That Communist duo ran again in 1976, when future CIA boss John Brennan voted for Hall. In 1980, the CPUSA paired Hall with Angela Davis, winner of the Lenin Peace Prize. As in 1980, Reagan and Bush crushed them. From 1988 on, as Marxists.org helpfully explains, voters were “urged to support the Democratic Party,” which now bears the hallmarks of the CPUSA.

The Democrat Party tolerates no anti-Communists such as Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Sam Nunn or Henry “Scoop” Jackson, sponsor of the Jackson-Vanik amendment that made trade with the USSR conditional on the Soviets relaxing restrictions on Jewish emigration. In similar style, the Democratic Party tolerates no social conservatives or libertarian types. Everybody maintains the party line and Democrats regard America as a horrible, racist place – except for their government paychecks and pensions, their bank accounts, stock portfolios, lavish residences and such.

The Party shuns open debate and deploys sulfuric hatred for the opposition in the style of Saul Alinsky, mentor of Hillary Clinton, the carpetbagger who usurped the Senate seat of Moynihan. Obama’s beloved Frank Marshall Davis was a CPUSA stalwart and lifelong admirer of the Soviet Union’s all-white dictatorship. Bernie Sanders is basically a Rip Van Winkle communist, and like Obama, Sanders never saw a Stalinist dictator he didn’t like.

Angela Davis now comes billed as an advocate of “social justice,” and back in 2020 Davis was a big booster of Joe Biden. The Delaware Democrat was “problematic in many ways” but “to vote for ourselves I think that means that we will have to campaign for and vote for Joe Biden.”

The former Communist Party USA candidate has been rather quiet about Biden’s record in office. We’ll see who the Lenin Peace Prize winner endorses in November.

Lloyd Billingsley

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Dear President Trump…

If you didn’t know before, you know now. The Deep State will do everything, including assassination, to prevent you from assuming your rightful role as President of the United States.

1. In 2020, They committed massive voter fraud, cancelling the counting and removing Republican observers in five swing states, during which Biden ‘miraculously’ got a huge ballot boost. Then the Gaslight Media proceeded to declare every assertion that the fraud existed as ‘false, disproven, debunked, and discredited’….in fact, they clearly went to Roget’s Thesaurus to deploy every synonym they could find. Then they judge-shopped to ensure valid evidence of the fraud never saw light of day, including their favorite form of legal coverup, what has come to be known as “SCOTUS Judge Roberts Dodge”, which is to declare that the party bringing the legal action has ‘no standing’.
2. They then criminalized the act of questioning the results of the election, despite people such as Al Gore and Hillary Clinton having long and storied histories doing just that. They even prosecuted you for calling Georgia’s SOS to see if the vote count had any irregularities… which, later, it was proven it did.
3. They prosecuted you successfully in New York for an act committed by a subordinate in which you had ZERO involvement, and in the process, bent the laws in such a manner that your convictions are sure to be overturned. This is due to the denial of your rights and the introduction of novel (and legally improper) procedures and interpretations.
4. Now they have taken the course of the Ultimate Cancellation: Murder. The circumstances surrounding the assassination attempt are that a 20 year old was allowed into your venue with a ladder and a firearm, and a laser rangefinder before that. That shooter was allowed to crawl on the roof of a building (with a firearm) where a shot could be taken, in full view of Secret Service, for over 25 minutes. They tell us now that there were three SS agents in the very building the shooter was perched on. Can we be sure the round that nearly got you came from that shooter? Or could have come from inside the building?Note that Biden had a sinister grin when he said you would be challenged in a way you had never been challenged before. I take this comment as a threat.

You must know that your life is in imminent peril. The Deep State will not stop with this failed assassination attempt.

I strongly suggest that the following actions be taken on your part:

1. Every single Secret Service agent involved in your protection during this event must be barred from ever serving as your SS detail from this point forward. Any additional and new SS Agents must be thoroughly vetted, and — to the extent possible –no agent should be in a position where they can actively harm you. Your private security detail MUST have command-and-control powers.
2. You travel by aircraft quite a bit. See if there can be a module placed on your plane that allows a parachuted escape, in case your plane experiences ‘unexpected failure’.
3. I understand you already have a food tester. Ensure all your food is tested with an eye towards the addition of long-term agents that can kill you in months or years. I suggest some form of lab equipment be used.
4. Have someone around you with a Geiger-counter to detect the presence of radiological agents.
5. Be aware that some nations have employed binary chemical agents to kill political opponents. Try to come up with security to prevent that.
6. Drones can be equipped with deadly agents. Explore and employ anti-drone technology.
7. The shooter had explosive components with him. All people who are to be near you must go through a TSA-like screening.

The Deep State is not done yet, and that includes when you are elected President in November. They have crossed the Rubicon, they will not stop.

Be safe, my President.

Raz A. Mataz

“The truth does not require your participation in order to exist.

Bullshit does.”

— Terence McKenna

Not long after I came to New Hampshire, decades back, a chap in Littleton decided to hold up the local bank. Unfortunately, he made the elementary mistake of rolling the ski-mask down over his face not just for the robbery but also to case the joint. A teller at the bank, strolling back from lunch, noticed the ski-masked bloke standing on Main Street peering through the windows for some length of time, and she thought it rather odd. So, when he entered the lobby to hold up the joint, they were ready for him.

That’s pretty much what happened in Butler, Pennsylvania – except, instead of a perspicacious bank clerk acting swiftly to prevent the crime, there were vast numbers of Secret Service agents who instead let the guy go ahead and commit it.

In the last seventy-two hours, we have learned there were at least three government snipers in the very building whose rooftop the assassin was trying to access. They sat inside and watched him through the windows, as he arrived and peered up at the roof, and then wandered away.

They watched him when he came back and took out a laser range-finder to calculate the distance between the building and Trump’s head, and then left again.

They watched him a third time when he returned with a bulky backpack.

They watched him for the best part of half-an-hour …and then they let him go ahead and shoot the Republican presidential candidate.

When seconds count, the police are half-an-hour away from getting off their butts. The Federalist‘s Sean Davis asks the relevant question:

Who gave the order to do nothing until after the assassin shot Trump, killed an innocent man on that stage, and fired round after round after round after round?

That’s a good way to put it: the Secret Service agents on-site did nothing for half-an-hour because that’s what they were ordered to do, by some fellow somewhere in the bureaucracy in a position to give such an order. Who is he?

There were consequences to his decision: A genuine public servant – volunteer fireman Corey Comperatore – died shielding his wife and daughters because the ersatz “public servants” of the Secret Service allowed his killer to open fire.

They sat back and watched as his killer cased the roof, made his range-finder calculations, returned with the backpack, and then ascended to his position. The Secret Service provided no service whatsoever; they were the Secret Spectators: they did nothing until after Mr Comperatore, Trump and the others had been shot.

Why?

Mark Steyn

Contrary to what the drug companies would have you think, anxiety can sometimes be useful and necessary. Like, for example, when that anxiety triggers a call to sensible action. Let’s say you feel anxious at the sight of an oncoming physical threat. You duck, move, run, or strike out against it. All of these things involve action – rational action that could save your life.

The problem arises when anxiety is based on things for which no immediate action is possible, or perhaps where no action is required. The most common form of this (and I see it every day in my office) is worry over something you can’t control.

The purpose of anxiety is to guard against real and actual dangers, not just perceived ones. And there are certainly enough real dangers out there. But the modern world, made possible by the limited science, rationality and freedom humans have permitted themselves to have, shields us from many dangers we might otherwise face. Put simply, it’s a lot less dangerous to live in a society with automobiles, grocery stores and satellite technology than to eke out an existence in a primitive jungle as a hunter-gatherer.

Danger is an objective term, but also a contextual one. What we consider dangerous in a contemporary society is different from the dangers faced daily by someone unfortunate enough to be born into an impoverished country. The responsibility therefore falls on us to regulate our own anxiety. And regulate does not simply mean control. It means assuming responsibility for gaps that might, at any given moment, exist between our minds and objective reality.

In many cases, the best way to accomplish this is to ask yourself, “What’s the real danger here?” When you’re anxious, your brain is telling you, “Danger, danger!” But by asking yourself, “What is the danger, exactly?” you accomplish two things: First, you determine whether there is, in fact, a clear threat. Usually there isn’t; the brain has simply reacted automatically. Second, if a plan of action is actually required, then you focus on that.

People who worry about things they can’t control should ask themselves, “What form of action is possible for me right now?” If none exists, and all precautions have been taken, then permission must be granted, by oneself to oneself, to let it go and focus on something else. In other words, people who live their lives in a near-chronic state of anxiety are not facing constant or immediate danger. They just feel that they are.

This can be fixed by taking time to reprogram the mind to recognize the degree to which one’s anxiety is out of proportion to objective reality. If you’re living life in twenty-first century civilization, and you feel you’re constantly in danger, chances are (unless you’re an international spy – I don’t know any of them) you’re probably not in danger at all. Yes, you might be uncomfortable. And perhaps you’re in need of some rational planning. But that doesn’t change the fact that most advanced societies require less need to confront immediate, physical dangers. But they do place an added responsibility on the individual to plan and think long range; to anticipate trouble and do whatever needs to be done to prevent it from arriving. Good examples could include bankruptcy, a bad marriage, or having children before one is ready.

The question I am most often asked is, “How can I get rid of my anxiety — and quickly?” If you want to live your life with less anxiety, you’ve got to start looking at things differently. Train yourself to stop anticipating danger around every corner, and instead look for opportunities to grow, survive and plan. It can take a long time and a lot of effort to reprogram your mind to these new habits, yet, in any single moment, you still retain the power to choose whether – or not – to  think rationally.

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