Too soon
That poof of smoke in the distance is a combine harvester. They took in the rapeseed field today. That is way, way early.
We’ve had a lousy Summer.
Still walking through the timeline of Saturday’s assassination attempt. I am speechless at the incompetence. One way or another, they watched this guy walk around for over half an hour, even apparently spotting him on the roof with a gun in time to stop him.
That kid was simultaneously the blandest and the luckiest who ever lived. Next to nothing has come out of his socials. One report said he posted something on Steam, like “Watch my debut July 13!” And both presenters nodded sagely because, you know, games.
But Steam isn’t a social platform in that way. So he either was in a community forum about a specific game, or (seems more likely to me) he put that on his Steam profile. Which is like putting it in your Twitter bio. It’s a billy-no-mates kind of move.
I’d love to see his Steam profile.
Posted: July 18th, 2024 under personal.
Comments: 10
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Comment from ExpressoBold Pureblood
Time: July 18, 2024, 8:30 pm
Congratulations Gromulin….
George Robert Newhart (September 5, 1929 – July 18, 2024)
R.I.P. Bob Newhart
Comment from Ea
Time: July 18, 2024, 8:30 pm
Maybe it’s just me but doesnt the shooter look like a young Elizabeth Warren. I doubt they are related by DNA but lefties do have a ‘look’.
Comment from Uncle Al
Time: July 18, 2024, 9:52 pm
@stoaty — I read earlier today that the story of that “lookatme” post was bogus, a hoax, but I didn’t catch the details.
Please keep in mind that virtually all of the raw information about the J13 assassination attempt comes from some govt spokesjackal or other. In my now fairly long lifetime¹ of exposure to govt spokesjackals I have a huge and stinking pile of evidence that it is always safe to bet that they are lying, misinformed, or gullible. Therefore, virtually all of the honest analysis of that information results in, as the input is garbage, garbage going out. And I won’t even start on the dishonest analyses posted for clicks by ideologues catering to their ideologue fans.
I despair of ever having a clear picture of the whole affair. And I expect that’s by design. One way of killing the truth is to drown it in a sea of lies.
1. 75 years. For historical reference, I was in high school, and thus in early stages of consciousness, when JFK was assassinated. The official govt Warren report was a load of fetid dingos’ kidneys.
Comment from durnedyankee
Time: July 18, 2024, 10:27 pm
They do seem to have a certain look don’t they.
And sorry to see ya go Bob, RIP.
Just for clarification, I don’t suppose we can name a political campaign’s death in the deadpool, right?
Comment from thefritz
Time: July 18, 2024, 11:16 pm
I was five years old when Kennedy was shot. I remember. My mother plopped me into my high chair and watched the events on our black and white Philco. I remember being terrified not because of the assassination but of watching my mom weep openly. The Deep State is terrified of Trump because if he becomes President, he will expose everything. The truth of the Kennedy assassination, UFO’s, and everything else they have been lying about. I’m so heartened by the RNC Convention. It has been flawless in it’s production and content. Trump speaks in three hours and I know he will deliver the coup de grâce that will propel America back to the shining light on the hill.
Comment from Rich Rostrom
Time: July 19, 2024, 1:46 am
Ucle Al: “For historical reference, I was in high school, and thus in early stages of consciousness, when JFK was assassinated. The official govt Warren report was a load of fetid dingos’ kidneys.”
For that to be true, there had to be a conspiracy powerful enough to make Chief Justice Earl Warren, future President Gerald Ford, and former CIA chief Allen Dulles lie for them, and also block any investigation by Attorney General Robert Kennedy.
If they could do that, why would they need to kill Kennedy?
Or else… The truth about the assassination would be so embarrassing to Kennedy’s memory and family that they wanted a cover-up. (I.e. the assassination was plotted by an obsessive Marilyn Monroe fan who blamed Kennedy for her death.)
Comment from durnedyankee
Time: July 19, 2024, 2:04 am
Or the government.
Who were the other oft mentioned suspects?
The Soviets, they’re dead.
Castro? Dead.
Mafia bosses? Dead.
All of the people who were allegedly involved are gone now, yet they withheld the documents a couple years ago which were supposed to be revealed after 50 years.
Well, except for government agencies, they’re still here. And who’d trust them ever again if they were implicated?
Maybe that’s why they didn’t release the sealed info because the embarrassment would point to one, or more, of our three letter agencies, or perhaps our own military.
The industrial war complex and cold war spy complex was doing, or about to do, an awesome business in 1963.
Same complex trying so hard to start another Cold (or hot) War via Ukraine with….The Russians, again. Maybe it’s about the money, and the power, that comes with ‘defending’ us from ‘the enemy’.
Personally, it was my 6th birthday that day.
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: July 19, 2024, 3:30 pm
I was three when Kennedy was assassinated and I do remember it because the maid ran through the house shouting, “SOMEBODY DONE KILT THE PRESDENT WITH A SWORD!!” and she pronounced the W in sword, too.
Sorry for negro dialect, but it’s important. The word “sword” pronounced like that stuck with me forever. Nearest we can figure, that’s what she thought “assassinate” meant.
Comment from HottyTottyGirl
Time: July 19, 2024, 5:14 pm
I will always remember where I was last Saturday during the assassination attempt
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: July 19, 2024, 8:29 pm
Not me. I didn’t learn about it until the next morning and I was like, “wait, what?”
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