RCS: Germany’s Disastrous Switch Away From Nuclear
It’s interesting to watch a country intentionally destroy itself. Germany presents itself as a technically-minded country with high-quality manufacturing, not a country that makes uninformed and impetuous decisions.
That didn’t take long. Cheatle should have resigned the day before the hearing, rather than the day after.
I’m watching a portion of the Congressional hearings on the Secret Service and the Trump assassination attempt.
If the Secret Service Director, Kimberly Cheatle, was ever going to resign, I bet she wished she had resigned yesterday. Every congressman is ripping into her. For the most part, it isn’t possible to distinguish between a Democratic or Republican congressman. They are all personally pissed off that people died and a presidential candidate was shot. They all ask for her resignation. It’s gratifying to see.
Surprisingly, Ocasio-Cortez did a good job. She isn’t a quick thinker or smooth talker, but she was informed, had good questions and was impressively indignant. A couple of congressmen tried to make some unrelated political points, but it was a soft-sell. Several congressmen are grandstanding by demonstrating their personal knowledge, but that makes the hearings less repetitive.
Most congressmen imply that 20 year-olds are insipid morons and that makes the Secret Service look even worse. Cheatle isn’t answering many questions, fewer questions than in the ABC interview, and that makes her look terrible.
Cheatle should have resigned, she doesn’t have a friend on the Hill. She won’t remain in that position.
Peggy Noonan was a speech writer for Ronald Reagan, and then was an insightful commentator until she got Trump Derangement Syndrome. After the 2024 RNC Convention, she can’t quite come around.
Scott Adams is the creator of the Dilbert comic strip and the first person of notoriety to predict that Trump would win the 2016 presidential election. This was very early on, when there were 16 people in the Republican primary. Adams was careful not to endorse Trump, he just recognized that Trump had a gift for persuasion.
NBC News: Secret Service is appalled.
Anthony Guglielmi, the Secret Service’s chief of communication, said in the statement: “We stand united against any attempt to discredit our personnel and their invaluable contributions to our mission and are appalled by the disparaging and disgusting comments against any of our personnel.”
The Secret Service doesn’t get to be appalled after their appalling inability to keep Trump safe.
ABC News: Secret Service Director Interview
This post won’t be relevant for long, but Trump was shot 3 days ago and this is the first interview of the Director of the Secret Service. Even in her own words, Kimberly Cheatle sound unfit for duty.
There Will Always Be Vulnerabilities
This article was written by an veteran police officer who has been writing about law enforcement for many years. He describes working with the Secret Service in the manner that you’d expect.
From my position I could see other teams similarly situated on rooftops, but so numerous were the nearby buildings that there weren’t enough counter-sniper teams to post one on all of them. I was told, however, that any position overlooking the landing zone would be guarded by at least one Secret Service agent, most of them accompanied by an LAPD officer.
I’ve read a couple of books by Ronald Kessler about the Secret Service. It’s difficult to understand why security was so lax for Trump’s rally.
After a startling event, it takes a couple of days to get the story. Getting “all wee-wee’ed up”, as Obama once called it, isn’t a good idea until the dust settles.
A couple of things happened prior to the attempt to assassinate former President Trump.
In April, U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson and eight other congressmen introduced a bill to strip Secret Service protection from anyone convicted of a felony. The intention was clearly to leave Trump with no Secret Service protection.
The Biden Administration has been denying Secret Service protection to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. RFK is running as an independent candidate for president and is polling at 15%. He is not a trivial candidate. In case anyone isn’t clear on the history, his father and uncle were assassinated.
Denying Secret Service protection to credible presidential candidates is an extraordinary abuse of power and is thug intimidation. Greasing the skids for an assassin to murder a presidential candidate is horrible.
That should be reason enough to ruin the political careers of Biden and those nine congressmen.
The exchange came within the first 15 minutes, and suddenly, fears about Biden’s age and acuity, concerns that were once only whispered among Democrats, were being discussed openly on the left. Before the night was over observers ranging from Andrew Yang, who competed with him for the Democratic Party nomination in 2020, to Van Jones, a CNN contributor who previously worked in the Obama administration, said it was time for Democrats to look for another nominee.
Joe Rogan has been talking about this for a few years, yet it comes as a surprise to people who rely on NPR and the NYT. Rogan has no college degrees, but has wide ranging interests. He is a successful comedian, actor, taekwondo champion, sports commentator and podcaster. Rogan describes himself as a liberal, but thinks for himself.
The corporate media doesn’t think for themselves, and take a reliable progressive party line. They aren’t honest. Rogan is correct on major issues, more often than NPR or the NYT.
In 2018, the NYT ran an opinion piece on the intellectual dark web. Anyone not following a few of these people are wrong or uninformed about the major issues in America.
The intellectual dark web is not an actual group of affiliated people, but a number of public, heterodox individuals. People often named are Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Glenn Greenwald, Sam Harris, Heather Heying, Claire Lehmann, Bill Maher, Douglas Murray, Maajid Nawaz, Camille Paglia, Jordan Peterson, Steven Pinker, Joe Rogan, Dave Rubin, Ben Shapiro, Michael Shermer, Christina Hoff Sommers, Bret Weinstein, and Eric Weinstein.
If you aren’t following at least a few of these people, then modern American is a mystery to you.
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