Watching the RNC last night was fascinating in more ways than one. It was incredible to see the unity there, but that unity wasn't forced at all. People were very excited to be charging forward under one banner.
It wouldn't be a stretch to say that the banner the RNC was rallying around had the name Trump/Vance plastered in bold letters on it, but despite that fact, the RNC's primary focus wasn't Trump. Don't get me wrong, it was a massive part of the messaging to be sure. It would be weird if it wasn't, given recent events and the fact that he's the official Republican candidate.
But ultimately, the RNC's message was very simple but very profound.
"This is about you."
The funny thing is, in any other election cycle, this message would have been worthy of eye rolls. Every election cycle, politicians and talking heads smile at the camera and tell you how much they want to get into office to fix all the problems for Americans, but this year, it actually felt genuine. //
The thing is, the left's message is also "this is about you." However, now that we've watched them at their most unhinged, "this is about you" looks pretty unhinged when the left says it. It's like a salivating wolf saying the phrase to sheep.
The Democrat Party's approach to "helping" America takes on the feel of them saying, "This is for your own good," whereas the Republican Party's approach is "You don't need us in your way to thrive." The Democrats want you to submit; the Republicans want you to live like an American should. //
Many within the party, and indeed on the left, truly believe they know better and that what they're doing is a good thing. They think they're the heroes.
But they lost the plot. They forgot they are fallible humans themselves. They got so infected with their own hate that they think their hatred of people is good. They willfully operate on this hate under the full understanding that their hatred causes them to, as was pointed out by Trump last night, operate for only half the country while damning the other half, but doing so in good conscience.
They brainwashed themselves into thinking villainy is a virtue.
The reason the RNC seemed so genuine and united is because amidst all the villainy we've experienced over the past few years, one party still remembers an America as it's supposed to be.
"Seeing Donald Trump get up after getting shot in the face and pump his fist in the air with the American flag is one of the most bada-- things I’ve ever seen in my life," Zuckerberg said Thursday during an interview at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, according to Bloomberg.
"On some level as an American, it’s like hard to not get kind of emotional about that spirit and that fight, and I think that that’s why a lot of people like the guy." //
Zuckerberg said Meta is making changes that he hopes will mean Facebook is not as much of a flashpoint in elections going forward. “The main thing that I hear from people is that they actually want to see less political content on our services because they come to our services to connect with people.” Meta is already recommending less political content to its users, he added. “I think you’re going to see our services play less of a role in this election than they have in the past.” //
Mary Frances
12 hours ago
Trump raises his "fight" fist to America. Biden raises his middle finger to us.
UpLateAgain Mary Frances
12 hours ago
You can't really blame Biden. That's all the weight he can heft.
In the wake of Saturday's failed assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, the US Secret Service is still unable to explain how the incident happened, but it is devoting a lot of effort to defending the Secret Service agents who appeared to be flummoxed and a lot less than competent as former President Trump was evacuated to the hospital.
Sara Rose 🇺🇸🌹 @saras76
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DEI hire who couldn't find holster, hid behind Secret Service instead of jumping in.
Coward.
Women don't belong in that position.
4:08 PM · Jul 14, 2024 //
The physical fitness standards required are wildly different — a male doing four pull-ups fails the fitness test fails, a woman doing four pull-ups gets a max score. The physical fitness requirements are either related to the job or they are not; in that case, they would have difficulty surviving a legal challenge. If they are related to the job and men and women are required to do the same job, they must be the same. //
While the Secret Service is trying to make this a sex issue, it isn't. It is a competence issue. There is no issue with women on a presidential protective detail so long as the men and women meet the same objective, empirical standards. //
Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @realchrisrufo
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This is progress. We are creating a circle of connotations around "DEI" that associates it with failure, corruption, incompetence, and fraud. Keep pushing.
4:29 PM · Jul 18, 2024
Carlson spoke to Trump Saturday evening after the former president dodged an assassin's bullet:
I think it changed him. I reached out to Trump within hours of it, that night, and what he said to me that night – he said not a single word about himself. He said only how amazed he was and proud he was of the crowd, which didn’t run.
Of course they didn't run. His courage gave them heart. A leader’s courage gives courage to his people.
For a man who's allegedly divisive and selfish (according to Democrats and the legacy media), Trump's actions since the assassination attempt have been anything but, Carlson said:
He turned down the most obvious opportunity in politics to inflame the nation after he was shot...This is the most responsible, unifying behavior of a leader that I’ve ever seen.
Then there was this amazing video taken by Rick Foerster who had been in the front row at the rally with his wife Karen, but had to go the hospital because she was overcome by the heat. They were there when the car arrived with Trump in front of the hospital. They had heard he was supposedly shot in the head and there was blood, from someone in the front row. I looked at this and thought about how John F. Kennedy was brought into Parkland Hospital. But fortunately, this was so different. You can hear how people in the room prayed for Trump when they heard that.
President Trump withdrew from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces treaty. He did so for two reasons. First, Russia was cheating on the treaty like it always cheats on treaties (which is why I categorize anyone wanting an agreement with Russia as invincibly stupid, terminally naive, or a Russian agent of influence). It had developed and deployed prohibited weapons in Europe. Second, China was not bound by the treaty and was developing intermediate-range nuclear weapons while we were prohibited.
There is no "unilateral moratorium on the deployment of ground-based intermediate-range missiles" on Russia's part for Putin to suspend. Putin made several proposals for a general moratorium, which the Trump administration rejected. There are no monitoring or verification measures in place.
If you want more details on the events leading up to President Trump's departure from the INF, read Trump Announces the US Is Leaving a Treaty Russia Is Violating, and You Can Guess What Happened. https://redstate.com/streiff/2018/10/21/trump-announces-us-leaving-treaty-russia-violating-can-guess-happened-n96589
What Putin wants is to retain roughly 100 forward-deployed launchers for missiles that would be covered by the INF and for the US to negotiate away its ability to respond. Putin's lapdogs are all upset about Russian cities being within range of NATO weapons but not a single one of those voices has ever expressed any concern about Russian weapons based in Kaliningrad threatening a majority of NATO capitals.
Fabian Hoffmann @FRHoffmann1
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When people claim medium-range missiles in Germany are destabilizing because they can reach homeland targets deep inside Russia, including Moscow, ask how often they’ve complained about short-range ballistic and land-attack cruise missiles stationed in Kaliningrad.
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9:01 AM · Jul 15, 2024
And threatening to nuke NATO capitals is something that happens on Russian state television a couple of times a month. //
Hopefully, Trump won't let himself be rolled by Putin the way that China's Xi pantsed Biden; Checkmate? US Removes Missiles From the Philippines As China's Xi Plays JFK to Biden's Khrushchev.
CNN contributor and Democrat strategist Van Jones was impressed with model and rapper Amber Rose's speech, as were many who listened to her at the Republican National Convention on Monday.
Jones told CNN viewers that Rose's speech was "probably the most dangerous speech" for the Democrat party.
That was probably the most dangerous speech for the Democratic coalition. That is a young woman of color. She is describing the experience that a lot of people have — feeling that maybe, if you’re around too many liberals, you might get criticized too much or you might not be able to speak your mind, and she spoke to it really well. //
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At the RNC this week, Amber Rose’s approach poses the biggest threat to the Democratic Party’s traditional coalition. If the GOP is trying to bust up the Democratic Party, Amber Rose is a bunker-busting bomb. 💣 😱 💣
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12:22 PM · Jul 16, 2024
On Sunday, Trump said in an exclusive interview with the New York Post, aboard Trump One while en route to Milwaukee for the Republican National Convention, that he was "supposed to be dead," as he recalled the "very surreal experience."
The doctor at the hospital said he never saw anything like this, he called it a miracle. I’m not supposed to be here, I’m supposed to be dead ... I’m supposed to be dead.
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By luck or by God, many people are saying it’s by God I’m still here. //
Donald being Donald, he also took a moment to describe the "iconic" picture taken soon after Secret Service agents helped him to his feet and led him off stage.
A lot of people say it’s the most iconic photo they’ve ever seen. They’re right and I didn’t die. Usually you have to die to have an iconic picture. I just wanted to keep speaking, but I just got shot.
Senate Candidate for Virginia Hung Cao knows the magnitude of the gift his family was given when they were allowed to immigrate from Vietnam to the United States. In an inspiring speech at the RNC Tuesday evening, Cao tells of how America saved his life.
"We escaped from Vietnam days before Saigon fell to the communists. We were given a new life in the most generous country on earth. My name is Hung Cao, and America saved my life."
Cao's speech reminded us of the beauty of the American dream and that no country in the world is like our own. He shows us immigration done right — a treasured piece of American history and heritage that has gotten lost in the reckless stewardship of poor leaders. . //
Margaret Clark
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This is the American dream.
Team Trump (Text TRUMP to 88022) @TeamTrump
"Don't ask for the American dream if you aren't willing to embrace AMERICAN LAWS & AMERICAN CULTURE." -- @HungCao_VA
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7:53 PM · Jul 16, 2024
My fellow Republicans, let's send Joe Biden back to his basement, and let's send Donald Trump back to the White House. Life was more affordable when Donald Trump was President, our border was safer under the Trump administration, and our country was respected when Donald Trump was our commander-in-chief. Joe Biden has failed this nation. //
Our enemies do not confine their designs between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. We need a commander-in-chief who can lead 24 hours a day and seven days a week. America cannot afford four more years of a 'Weekend at Bernie's' Presidency. //
Let's be honest here, Biden is just a figurehead. He's a tool for imposing a leftist agenda on the American people. They support open borders, allowing millions and millions of illegal aliens to pour into our country and to burden our communities, but just don't send any to Martha's Vineyard, then they get really upset.
RSB
7 hours ago
Well Cannon has things going for her here:
1) Justice Thomas concurrence, which she quoted from and based her ruling on. And Thomas doesn't write that if he doesn't have at least 5 votes behind it. It was basically what he did when he used opinion writing to beg for a Chevron case.
2) 11th Circuit is not a leftist sinkhole. And...it's SCOTUS supervisory justice is Thomas.
3) Jack Smith is unique in that he was a private citizen and not an already in place US Attorney. Without the Independent Counsel statute being in effect there was no authority to just appoint a private citizen to these powers without Senate approval.
4) In addition to the Immunity concurrence, the ruling that revoked Chevron plays here as it directly refutes deference to DOJ interpretation of its regs.
I think ultimately she gets upheld here. And that SCOTUS takes it even if a Trump election "moots" it so they can make a definitive ruling. //
DaveM Benito
7 hours ago edited
That's the issue. The Statute authorizing the DOJ to appoint Special Counsels expired many years ago and was never renewed.
The current trends of the court here indicates that their interpretation is that an agency can not by itself decide it has authority. Only Congress can grant it to them. The fact that the previous authorization expired without being renewed indicates Congress withdrew that authority.
From what I read yesterday- Smith is using Stare Decisis as his argument-i.e previous courts have upheld the appointment of SCs therefore it is decided law. It's dangerous to try to predict what the court will do in a particular case but in general that argument will not looked upon with favor by this court. This court has repeatedly ruled that unconstitutional behavior by an agency is unconstitutional behavior by an agency- whether it as been previously upheld in the courts or or not. //
The Viking RSB
6 hours ago
Prior to his appointment, every other SC had gone through the approval process in one form or another, as either head of the FBI (Mueller) or as a US Attorney, such as Durham and Hur.
But now, according to the local news, Nicole Ford with WPXI, it is so much worse than just a couple of minutes — they spotted the shooter on the roof nearly a half hour before the shooting.
Channel 11′s Nicole Ford confirmed that Beaver County’s ESU team had eight members at the rally, including snipers and spotters. According to Ford’s sources, one of them noticed a suspicious man on a roof near the rally at 5:45 p.m., called it in and took a picture of the person. We have learned from our sources the person in that picture is Thomas Crooks. We’re told it’s not clear if Crooks had a gun with him at that point. //
It was 26 minutes, running from 5:45 p.m. to 6:11 p.m., which is when the shot hit Trump. //
Guess what that building was, the one that the shooter was on? It was a staging area for the local police involved in security for the event. Unbelievable.
streiff @streiffredstate
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Just think, one Pennsyl-tucky redneck on the roof of that building with a lawn chair and a case of Yuengling would have done more to protect Trump than the Secret Service.
11:50 AM · Jul 14, 2024. //
The issue of overwork is sort of baked in during campaign season. Other claims that Trump's security detail was pillaged to provide security for Jill Biden, that more resources were requested and denied, and that the counter-sniper detail was only assigned the day before the rally, if true, are the decision of Director Cheatle, or at least had her approval. The actions are also so petty that it is easy to believe that the White House, particularly "Dr. Jill," was behind them. //
It is very difficult to believe that Trump had "enhanced" security. On the other hand, the decision to add a counter-sniper team to security only 24 hours before the event does explain how the shooting happened. A shortage of personnel explains why the shooter's vantage point was "outside the security cordon," though not why local police did not guard it, //
In the end, it comes down to credibility. Siphoning off Trump's regular security detail to protect Dr. Jill goes a long way toward explaining the goat-rope we see as they are bundling Trump into the vehicle. The people leaking about what went on behind the scenes aren't making excuses; they are giving reasons.
Mayorkas has a very estranged relationship with the truth, and there is no reason to believe anything he said. The surest way to tell he was lying to Stephanopoulos was to watch his face. His lips were moving.
As I write, the information in the public domain regarding the perpetrator is still sparse. The shooter, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, was killed shortly after firing his lethal shots. The public is therefore left to speculate about his motives.
However, what we do not need to speculate about is the climate created and cultivated by Donald Trump’s political enemies. America is polarized, toxic, and politically close to a breaking point in part because the country’s liberal political, cultural, and media elite never accepted Trump’s legitimacy as the country’s president. //
For years they have proclaimed Trump to be a danger to democracy and demonized his voters as witting or unwitting fascists. The May 16 edition of the once-revered New Republic depicted Trump as Hitler on its front cover.
“We chose the cover image, based on a well-known 1932 Hitler campaign poster,” wrote editor Michael Tomasky, “for a precise reason: that anyone transported back to 1932 Germany could very, very easily have explained away Herr Hitler’s excesses and been persuaded that his critics were going overboard. … But he and his people vowed all along that they would use the tools of democracy to destroy it.” Trump, argued Tomasky, was “damn close enough” to being an American Hitler, “and we’d better fight.”
The argument that Trump posed a Hitler-level threat to American democracy can be traced back to the first outbreak of Trump Derangement Syndrome among left-leaning journalists in 2016. What made the argument so malignant was that it justified using all means possible to disrupt Trump’s presidency and to prevent his re-election. //
The Democratic Party is in a mess today because they failed to do what a losing party in a major democracy is supposed to after it loses an election: conduct a thorough autopsy and get to the bottom of all the factors that lead to its defeat. That is supposed to be the main point of the years in opposition—to figure out what went wrong and come back equipped with insight, resources, and policy proposals to attract the voters.
Instead, after 2016, the Democrats invested their money, time, energy, and media ties into an effort to trash Trump’s presidency and thwart his bid for a second term. It seemed to work. They won the 2020 election.
But after 2020 the Democrats did not settle down to govern and bring a divided nation together. Under the stewardship of an elderly and superficially moderate president, they continued to wage rhetorical and legal jihad against former president Trump.
yaan Hirsi Ali
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The argument that Trump posed a Hitler-level threat to American democracy can be traced back to the first outbreak of Trump Derangement Syndrome among left-leaning journalists in 2016. What made the argument so malignant was that it justified using all means possible to disrupt Trump’s presidency and to prevent his re-election. We should not be surprised, then, at what happened yesterday. It was the inevitable result of years of vitriolic,
Sara Rose 🇺🇸🌹 @saras76
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Montage of democrats calling for violence and unrest.
Never forget.
8:31 AM · Jul 14, 2024
Susan Crabtree @susancrabtree
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This is the problem that my Secret Sources have cited: Secret Services resources were diverted to Jill Biden's event and away from Trump's because they followed agency protocol applying to Trump as a former president, according to two sources within the Secret Service community.… Show more
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🚨New info from a source in the Secret Service community — Trump’s usual protective Secret Service detail was worked so hard (working 7 days a week with no days off) that many of agents assigned Saturday were temporary replacements from different field offices.
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2:11 PM · Jul 14, 2024
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🚨 (cont.) "I’m told the only permanent agent from trump’s detail during the rally was SAIC (Special Agent In Charge) Kern, two sources within the Secret Service community told me. All others were temps," Crabtree reported. Pittsburgh "USSS Field Office had a Jill Biden visit and designated a lot of resources to her, the source said. Also - the advance work only occurred one-day beforehand bc of a lack of resources."
Where were the resources? The Pittsburgh USSS Field Office had a Jill Biden visit and designated a lot of resources to her. “That is f—-ing unbelievable to me,” the source remarked.
2:33 PM · Jul 14, 2024
Another Secret Service source says approval for the Counter Sniper Team was only granted the day before the rally - and that is not enough time for a two-man team to do their survey. That’s nowhere near enough time - a site like that should have had at least three Secret Service counter-sniper teams at the very least.”. //
Anthony Guglielmi @SecretSvcSpox
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Theres an untrue assertion that a member of the former President’s team requested additional security resources & that those were rebuffed. This is absolutely false. In fact, we added protective resources & technology & capabilities as part of the increased campaign travel tempo
7:38 AM · Jul 14, 2024
Dan Bongino @dbongino
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Resign today.
7:49 AM · Jul 14, 2024
"The Superseding Indictment is DISMISSED because Special Counsel Smith’s appointment violates the Appointments Clause of the United States Constitution," her order states. "Special Counsel Smith’s use of a permanent indefinite appropriation also violates the Appropriations Clause [...] but the Court need not address proper remedy for that funding violation given the dismissal on Appointments Clause grounds. The effect of this Order is confined to this proceeding." //
"The bottom line is this," she wrote. "The Appointments Clause is a critical constitutional restriction stemming from the separation of powers, and it gives to Congress a considered role in determining the propriety of vesting appointment power for inferior officers. The Special Counsel’s position effectively usurps that important legislative authority, transferring it to a Head of Department, in the process threatening the structural liberty inherent in the separation of powers. If the political branches wish to grant the Attorney General power to appoint Special Counsel Smith to investigateand prosecute this action with the full powers of a United States Attorney, there is a valid means by which to do so. He can be appointed and confirmed through the default method prescribed in the Appointments Clause, as Congress has directed for United States Attorneys throughout American history, see 28 U.S.C. § 541, or Congress can authorize his appointment through enactment of positive statutory law consistent with the Appointments Clause."
According to NBC News, the replacement campaign has lost steam not because Democrats think the president can seize a moment of unity, but because they think the race is now over.
Mehlhorn went on to characterize the attack as “a classic Putin play,” and claimed that this theory is “more plausible” than the notion that a deranged individual actually tried to murder Trump.
But wait, it gets even more bizarre. Mehlhorn then expresses outrage that major media outlets and influencers are not peddling this narrative. “I skimmed a few headlines just now. NOT ONE NEWSPAPER OR OPINION LEADER IN AMERICA IS WILLING TO OPENLY CONSIDER THE POSSIBILITY THAT TRUMP ANND PUTIN STAGED THIS ON PURPOSE,” he wrote: //
The other possibility – which feels horrific and alien and absurd in America, but is quite common globally – is that this “shooting” was encouraged and maybe even staged so Trump could get the photos and benefit from the backlash. //
I don’t believe for a second that folks like Mehlhorn actually believe that Saturday’s shooting was somehow staged. The entire theory makes no sense.
One person actually died in the attack. Two others were wounded. Moreover, the shooter missed his mark, only grazing Trump’s ear. Anyone who believes that some 20-year-old could pull that off on purpose has been watching far too many movies.
At this point, it makes no sense to pretend the assassination attempt was a false flag – and folks on the left know it. They are entertaining this fantasy for two reasons: They don’t want to admit there are people in their camp that could carry out such an act and they know the failed attempt to murder Trump will only help his campaign. These people are motivated purely by politics.