RFK said today that he had previously hired Gavin de Becker’s firm, but now, thank you President Biden, he’ll rely on SS protection.
What, is he crazy? Not only should HE stick with de Becker, Trump should hire him too!
De Becker specializes in keeping people safe. When my daughter was little I read “Protecting the Gift” about keeping children safe, and “The Gift of Fear” , about how people tamp down their knowledge that a person or situation just isn’t….quite right, because of the normalcy bias or just tendency to conform to the social code of manners, and how evildoers so successfully manipulate that. They are truly great books, everybody—and certainly every parent—should read them.
Trump really needs somebody like that on his team. Someone for whom he is a client, not just a job.
Golly, Trump looked SO sad at the convention last night. I pray this hasn’t changed him. We NEED him just as he’s always been.
Absolutely!
The one and only lol
Only one Jim Rickards … even today’s clown world has only one Jim Rickards
Add: great response by zero hedge. My friends used to mock zero hedge for wearing tin foil hats. Not anymore.
The Tin foil hat meme is not as funny as it used to be
I will admit these predictions seem tame, he is usually more entertaining. He likes gold and recommends it. Maybe that’s not so crazy but the opposite, dull.
Eh. If I was 20 years old, right now and with the same attitude I had in the 80s, I’d probably have a bunch of those things. Many aren’t cheap, but if you know crypto a bit, how to scrounge, and how to make a little money under the table? The hardest part is probably the explosives, and those can be stolen. Has anyone said anything about where the van came from?
I would like to see the evidence of the foreign income. I suspect it’ll be possible to backtrace that. Crypto isn’t private, though you can anonymize things some.
Stochastic Terrorism is also a truly clever piece of rhetoric because it creates the illusion of sophistication and rigor. “Stochastic” is not a common word except in the world of probability and statistics (and fields that heavily rely on them). Nobody goes to their grocery store, bumps into an old friend from middle-school they haven’t seen in decades, and says “it’s quite stochastic that I bumped into you today!”
The phrase sounds to the average person as being very academic. Only very intelligent and erudite individuals must discuss complex subject matter such as Stochastic Terrorism. Taking control of this idea is the first part of the game.
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Now that the term has been established into peoples minds as an academic and well-studied concept, the experts can help navigate and “call out” the Stochastic Terrorists. Notorious Stochastic Terrorists such as the author of the Harry Potter series.
The ‘Stochastic’ part of Stochastic Terrorism is a benefit to the experts. Because, as is essential to the idea, violence can be expected “stochastically,” they can rest assured something will occur eventually . The more they assert certain people are Stochastic Terrorists, the more those people are immediately to blame the moment any incident occurs, no matter if the violence was related to them in any way or not.
The term has completely corrected for the the original flaw in accusing Sarah Palin of being responsible for the shooting of Gabby Giffords. No details are necessary.
In order to prevent that from reducing the asymmetry, a rhetorical tactic is employed that is to declare whataboutism . This brilliant little nugget of rhetoric has been instilled in the populace as a perfect countermeasure to maintain dominance in the asymmetric game.
Describing riots as “mostly peaceful” allows for the rhetorical negation of any accusations of Stochastic Terrorism, and allows for the continued excited elevation of every police encounter as being corrupted by racism.
Dismissal maintains asymmetry and might have an added bonus of pushing the other side on tilt.
The concept of Stochastic Terrorism has only recently had a very small handful of people making an attempt at an academic review. Despite that, its rhetorical utility will ensure that it will be treated as a long existing and well-understood phenomenon with a chosen supply of “experts” at the ready to bludgeon political opposition.
So the term is here to say. Just try to be aware of the game that’s being played.
Brandon Herrera recreates the shot at Trump to show that “Trump set it up” is a wrong take. Has high speed camera footage.
Bonus recreation of the shot at the shooter. Warning: graphic.
Have there been any press conferences organized by the FBI since last week? Did the general public and the press hear anything from Kevin Rojek, the SAC running the investigation?
Last I recall was the first press conference more than a week ago Saturday night to Sunday morning.
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