If I may also suggest, put Ernst Jünger’s The Forest Passage on your reading list to help think about what comes next.
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I’m very much afraid of what comes next - nothing good. I am beginning to think there really is no way Trump can avoid “the steal” and that would finish our country, at least as we’ve known it.
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The country, as we’ve known it, was finished long ago. One can’t continue to live in the past. All empires fall and the GAE is no exception. The only interesting questions are how and when. Good or not, it’s coming.
If you live in a region governed by kooks, I respectfully suggest you get out with all speed. Whether Trump ever takes office or not, the end result is the same; it only changes the when and, possibly, the how.
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Yes, that was rather obvious – standing beside the SUV, fumbling with weapons and sunglasses, and conveying an impression of mild panic. They looked chunkier and less physically fit than I would have expected for elite Secret Service agents guarding the life of a Presidential candidate. What would those ladies have done if they had been guarding Hillary! Clinton back when she collapsed in New York and had to be man-handled into the vehicle?
To be fair to those ladies, they are stuck in a DIE-focused decaying organization where they got put into a job for which they were neither suited nor trained simply because of their gender. Kimberley Cheatle has a lot to answer for – but she will presumably skate free.
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Thank you for the recommendation.
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Agree regarding their fitness. So unfit that Biden wouldn’t swim naked in front of them.
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I didn’t realize the theme for the evening was German writers lol
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Ha!
Well, they did seem to have a handle on the whole political-extremism-and-despotism thing, given that they lived through some interesting times.
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Ms Cheatle is herself a DEI hire. As Mr Musk noted, her previous job was guarding Cheetos.
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And if you read the rest of her Wikipedia entry, you see her jobs before that (from 1995 to 2018) were in the Secret Service at various levels. Not to say that makes her any good, but she had more depth of experience than that.
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Donald Trump Assassination Fallout:
Unmasking disinformation trends on social media in the hours following the Pennsylvania rally shooting. A Cyabra Report on July 14 2024
Debunking the fake “Trump staged the shooting” narrative.
link busted
edit: There is a download link at the bottom of the article text, above the comments at Disinformation from the Trump Assassination Attempt
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1995 to 2018:
She was involved in the evacuation of Vice President Dick Cheney on the September 11 attacks, and served on Joe Biden’s protective detail during the Obama administration, when she was assigned to the Vice Presidential Protective Division.[3] In 2017 and 2018, she served as deputy assistant director. She also served as special-agent-in-charge in the Grand Rapids, Michigan, office. She became the first woman to serve as assistant director of Protective Operations, a department tasked with protection of the president and dignitaries, and managed a budget of over $133.5 million.[4]
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I wonder if she has seen Joe swim naked
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There’s a horrifying thought. Scarred for life.
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The link doesn’t seem to be working for me. I’m getting the following error:
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In that case, there is a download link at the bottom of the article text, above the comments on Disinformation from the Trump Assassination Attempt
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Thanks! 