Open Thread – Weekend 13 July 2024


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BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 14, 2024 7:47 am

Bruce of Newcastle

 July 13, 2024 9:45 pm

 Reply to  BobtheBoozer

Winston – it is working fine for me.

Win 10 and 11. Brave browser (with shields down).

Yep, Win!! here with Brave Browser – but shields were up, courtesy of yet another damn upgrade that resets my stuff back to what the coders think it should be.
I’ll see how it goes now I’ve reset it back to my settings.

Rosie
Rosie
July 14, 2024 7:47 am
Cassie of Sydney
July 14, 2024 7:48 am

There’s a Walkley Award up for grabs for the first journalist who investigates how many members of the NSW Liberal Party — from Michael Photios down — are personally benefiting from investments in renewable energy.

Well, we know who the Big Daddy is.

Just further to the NSW Liberal Greens (and that’s what they are), don’t forget how the late Jim Molan, in early 2019, was booted from a winnable senate spot. As with Hughes this year, the left-wing Liberal NSW executive booted Molan down to the usually unwinnable fourth spot on the senate ticket. Furious at htis, Molan embarked on a personal political campaign to win that fourth spot and in May 2019 he was reelected, infuriating the likes of Bragg, Photios, Keen and others. Jim Molan was able to enlist followers who door knocked and letter dropped in conservative areas, particularly across Sydney’s north, north-western and western suburbs. It worked a treat and Molan was elected. After Molan’s death early last year, his senate spot was handed to a vacuous Green Liberal.

shatterzzz
July 14, 2024 7:53 am

Mohammed Deif gone?
Naturally hamas are claiming 186,000 civilians died in the attack.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-july-13-2024/

Notice this morning that all the Oz media are more interested in the, always accuratel, Gaza Ministry of Health civilian death/injured figures than the target ….

Still ……..! it’s been over a week since Hamas/Gaza had a ‘top-of-page” headline so something had to give …… LOL!

shatterzzz
July 14, 2024 8:02 am

Professor Higgins at the University of Sydney was giving a lecture on ‘Involuntary Muscle Contraction’ to the first year medical students.
This was not an exciting subject and the professor decided to lighten up the mood.
He pointed to a young woman in the front row and asked, ‘Do you know what your arsehole is doing while you’re having an orgasm?’
She replied, ‘Probably golfing with his mates.’
It took 45 minutes to restore order in the classroom!

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 14, 2024 8:08 am

Cohenite:

I really can’t see the point of these revelations anymore:

Court Just Nailed Hillary for FEC Violation 45x Bigger Than Trump’s $130k So-Called Violation | The Gateway Pundit | by Randy DeSoto, The Western Journal

It’s a shot across the Hildebeasts bows – a warning they have the same dirt file she has on them. They can see her quietly lining up the ‘accidents and revelations’ of the people who stand in her way of becoming the ‘First Woman President of the United States’.
She’s been too quiet for anything else.

Tom
Tom
July 14, 2024 8:17 am

Breaking: Secret Service rushes Donald Trump offstage at rally. Sky News asserting that Trump “collapsed”, but armed commandoes are now swarming the area.

areff
areff
July 14, 2024 8:21 am

Looks like blood on Trump’s right ear, bvut he was pumping his fist as they SS guys and gals hustled him off.

Go round calling people Hitler and saying they’ll be dictators and end democracy and what do you think will happen

About 10 ‘pops’

Black Ball
Black Ball
July 14, 2024 8:24 am

Piers Akerman:

At home and away, Australia has gone rapidly backwards under the Albanese Labor-Green government. The US has warned that China presents a real and present threat to Western interests in the Pacific region and that Australia needs to rapidly scale up its defence capability.

We didn’t send a ship to assist allies in the Middle East, but we managed to send a single vessel to the recent RIMPAC exercises. We’ve failed to stand with our closest allies in the face of rising threats from radical Islamists due to pressure placed on Labor MPs in seats with vocal Muslim minorities.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s failure to rein in renegade MP Fatima Payman before she walked out of the ALP sent a strong message to radicals that he was all hat and no cattle. His inability to discipline a junior senator gave them a green light to abandon government policy, knowing that any repercussions would be meaningless.

Instead of uniting the nation, Albanese’s government has created schisms that could take generations to erase. Where we once had a national flag, government representatives now stand before the national flag and two based on race. A flag by people living in the West Bank and in Gaza is now displayed at protests, alongside the race-based Aboriginal flag.

Such is the Muslim hold on government that Labor has had nothing to say about Sydney University’s capitulation to radical protesters and its agreement to permit radical groups to vet defence investments and research programs.

Cutting-edge Israeli weapons research, which Australia badly needs, has been axed even as US Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell has urged us to tool up our defence industries. “We need short-term stocks of critical ordnance. We need more shipbuilding across the alliance,” he told The Australian newspaper.

Campbell called out the evil alliance of China, Russia, Iran and North Korea as the “enormous peril” of our time.

Instead of rising to meet the challenge, the government has sat passively as protesters succeed in restricting the engagement with Israel, one of the world’s foremost innovators. This is unbridled idiocy.

Last month, I visited an Iron Dome battery near the Israel town of Sderot, close to the Gaza border. The missiles fired from there had thwarted a rain of rockets launched by Hamas and saved hundreds, if not thousands, of lives.

The battery’s operation was largely automatically controlled by a bank of radar-linked computers. Australia has no such protection. We’re also lagging in the procurement of drones, which have proved their worth both in Israel and Ukraine.

The short-sightedness of the Albanese government makes Mr Magoo look like an eagle-eyed visionary. Nowhere is this more apparent than in its blind approach to the energy crisis.

Closing ageing coal-fired power plants without providing for reliable base-load electricity – just to appease irrational teal and Greens voters – has driven up living costs.

Punishing investors prepared to back new gas projects is just the latest folly in a series of scandalous decisions made by the government. The Opposition has presented two proposals that promise real results in the national interest.

Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has slammed the “ideological nonsense” of progressive ideology followed by the government in respect to Aboriginal policy.

Citing the failures of the reversing of the alcohol bans and debit card quarantining of 80 per cent of Centrelink payments in remote communities, Senator Price correctly rejects academic humbug for on-the-ground lived experience.

The Opposition’s plan to remove restrictions on the gas supply and lift the ban on the discussion of nuclear energy should be no-brainers – but the government is inflicting endless pain on the nation with its rejection of these simple remedies.

Pogria
Pogria
July 14, 2024 8:24 am

Ron E Sparks has died.
He, along with Ian MacRae, were a big part of my teen radio listening.

Big week for dying, Dr Ruth a couple of days ago, and Richard Simmons also.

Tom
Tom
July 14, 2024 8:24 am

Reports that gunshots were heard at Pennsylvania rally moments after Trump began his rally speech.

Secret Service rushed Trump into a waiting van. He was apparently uninjured and raised his fist as he was led away.

Looks like a definite assassination attempt

caveman
caveman
July 14, 2024 8:29 am

Trump Fist pumps after being shot at…….
….Like a Boss.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
July 14, 2024 8:30 am

SHOTS FIRED AT TRUMP RALLY; Trump Injured But Walks Off Stage (Newsmax banner headline)

Unclear if Trump was hit by gunfire, but blood was seen on his face as he pumped his fist to the crowd as Secret Service walked him off the stage.

The link doesn’t have anything about the attack yet.

Tom
Tom
July 14, 2024 8:34 am

Replays show Trump clutching his ear as the shots rang out.

The sniper almost got him in the head.

It would appear to be a narrow, lucky escape.

132andBush
132andBush
July 14, 2024 8:38 am

Are we 100% sure it was gunshots?

Black Ball
Black Ball
July 14, 2024 8:39 am

Monty has an erection:

A gunman appears to have opened fire in terrifying scenes at Donald Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania.

Secret Service agents quickly swarmed on the former president as he ducked for cover while speaking on stage.

Supporters of the Republican nominee for this year’s US election screamed as what sounded like multiple shots rang out.

Trump appeared to grab the side of his face after shots were fired.

Secret Service agents helped him up, revealing that he had blood on his face.

He pumped his fist defiantly as he was taken off the stage.

The 78-year-old was then piled into a Secret Service vehicle and whisked away, as a heavily armed response team swooped into the crowd.

This is what monty wants.

Cassie of Sydney
July 14, 2024 8:45 am

Trump and the SS would know exactly what gunshots sound like.

I’ve watched the video, The Oz has it up. It was a definite attempt on Trump’s life.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
July 14, 2024 8:46 am
Miltonf
Miltonf
July 14, 2024 8:48 am

Just horrible

Tom
Tom
July 14, 2024 8:50 am

I’m guessing it being a Trump rally full of MAGA fans, the sniper was shooting his rifle from a distant building hundreds of yards from his target.

It would have been miraculous if he had hit his target. He was off by a few centimetres.

Because the sniper was doing Biden’s work, it will be miraculous if he is even found, let alone arrested.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
July 14, 2024 8:50 am

Well, bloody hell. Wet Dream for the left.
…arseless chaps for the first Cat to find a hoax-false flag-Reichstag Fire commentary.

Crossie
Crossie
July 14, 2024 8:52 am

Who knew that trying to assassinate a former US president and a leading candidate in an election campaign is now known only as an incident?

Desperation is setting in with the Democrat party which also means that the polls are far worse than the media will admit. Realisation must have dawned that they will not be able to cheat their way to victory.

JC
JC
July 14, 2024 8:54 am

He won’t, but the poor dude should just give it up. 40% of the country is not worth saving. Lord, I feel bad for him.

It was an assassination attempt.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
July 14, 2024 8:54 am

-hope there were no rallygoers hit by the bypass?
-God Emperor didn’t “fall to the ground”, he ducked for cover
-god bless those Secret Service. Nothing but torso plates and they’re two and a half deep around him, like lightning

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 14, 2024 8:56 am

Orange JFK

caveman
caveman
July 14, 2024 8:56 am

Just racked this up.

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GreyRanga
GreyRanga
July 14, 2024 8:56 am

Just been reported on Breitbart, Attempted assasination of DJ Trump.

Last edited 5 months ago by GreyRanga
Crossie
Crossie
July 14, 2024 8:56 am

This assassination attempt will be the end of the rallies and a plus for Biden and the media. No matter how the media tried to spin it the rallies were a show of huge support.

Cassie of Sydney
July 14, 2024 8:57 am

It’s up on GB News…..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiWTZdB4u6M

The bullet narrowly missed him. Watch him hold his fist up. He’s got blood on his face.

Go Donald Trump.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
July 14, 2024 8:59 am

I see I’m a bit slow. More votes for DJT.

JC
JC
July 14, 2024 9:00 am

There’s no fcking around now. The VP spot is hugely important and needs to be seen as assassination insurance, which is why Vance needs to be the pick.

This is totally the corpse’s fault too.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
July 14, 2024 9:00 am

Mutley will have a woody if he had a dick.

JC
JC
July 14, 2024 9:01 am

GreyRanga

July 14, 2024 8:59 am

I see I’m a bit slow. More votes for DJT.

I reckon this changes everything, Ranga.

Zippster
Zippster
July 14, 2024 9:02 am

High-Tech American Weapons Work Against Russia—Until They Don’tMoscow is learning how to defeat Western precision munitions in Ukraine

Crossie
Crossie
July 14, 2024 9:02 am

I wonder if the sniper is one of those young military age men who came across the border. Republicans should push that angle.

132andBush
132andBush
July 14, 2024 9:03 am

Doesn’t matter who they run against him now.
Trump wins in a landslide.

Zatara
Zatara
July 14, 2024 9:03 am

Bullet appears to have taken the top of Trump’s right ear off.
If his head wasn’t turned…

Millimeters matter.

JC
JC
July 14, 2024 9:05 am

He gets shot, blood over the side of his face and he puts up his fist and calls out “fight”. He’s one of the strongest dudes ever.

Crossie
Crossie
July 14, 2024 9:06 am

JC

 July 14, 2024 9:00 am

There’s no fcking around now. The VP spot is hugely important and needs to be seen as assassination insurance, which is why Vance needs to be the pick.

This is totally the corpse’s fault too.

I agree with you, only Vance has the guts to carry on with Trump’s policies.

Tintarella di Luna
Tintarella di Luna
July 14, 2024 9:08 am

Donald Trump is no coward.After all these vile creatures have done to him, anyone who thinks Donald Trump will stop the rallies doesn’t know
the essence of Donald Trump. He’ll find a way to have rallies it’ll be a Trumpmobile.

Donald Trump is history in the making — the evil has nothing left except assassination — they’ve tried to assassinate his soul now they’re going after his body.

Talk about protection from on high.

Zatara
Zatara
July 14, 2024 9:10 am

No report of the cops grabbing the shooter yet but that’s going to be one of the most important aspects of this event.

One of the most important who-dun-its in history.

If the Dems had anything to do with God help them.

Crossie
Crossie
July 14, 2024 9:10 am

Annelise Nielsen wonders how anyone got that close to Trump with a gun. The poor dear never heard of snipers.

Last edited 5 months ago by Crossie
bons
bons
July 14, 2024 9:10 am

I can picture Whoopi adopting the Faruqi response:

“It was just a bit of blood”.

Zippster
Zippster
July 14, 2024 9:11 am

CIA up to its old tricks?

m0nty
m0nty
July 14, 2024 9:11 am

Terrible events in Pennsylvania. Lucky no one was killed. Gun proliferation is a curse.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 14, 2024 9:12 am

Trump shooter ‘is down’: Secret Service agents heard screaming moments after shots fired at former president’s Pennsylvania rally
Daily Mail.

Rabz
July 14, 2024 9:15 am

This is the logical conclusion of the dumbocrats’ and collectivists’ increasingly bizarre and insane efforts to have Fatty Trump silenced.

A good ol’ assassination attempt – and it will be very surprising if the shooter is apprehended any time soon.

And Neilson, you ridiculous bimbecile, STFU – if I want a more sensible analysis of the shooting I’ll commune with my neighbore’s cavoodles.

Last edited 5 months ago by Rabz
Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
July 14, 2024 9:16 am

From the ZH updates:

Update (1912ET): One person is believed to be dead following the shooting.

UPDATE: District Attorney says he believes the person who died was “someone in the crowd.”

Vicki
Vicki
July 14, 2024 9:16 am

Amazing no one else hurt, since more than one shot heard. Trump incredibly lucky. We all expected this to happen. Thank God he is still alive. History moves its previous course.

MatrixTransform
July 14, 2024 9:16 am

not bullet-proof … bullet-resistant

Zatara
Zatara
July 14, 2024 9:16 am

At least on person in the crowd reported hit as well. Estimates of 7-8 shots.

First impression is a small caliber (.22) weapon

Rabz
July 14, 2024 9:17 am

Excellent – hopefully the shooter is cactus. Wonder if there’ll be any speculating about the “root causes”?

Vicki
Vicki
July 14, 2024 9:18 am

Ahhh just heard – it seems a spectator was the one killed. Hardly surprised.

JC
JC
July 14, 2024 9:19 am
thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
July 14, 2024 9:19 am

Any endless screeching on the left about how Biden calling to “put a bullseye” on Trump created this event yet?

After all they have been calling him worse than Hitler, and youd shoot baby Hitler wouldnt you?

Cassie of Sydney
July 14, 2024 9:19 am

I see the Jew hating pervert apologist has appeared. It’s akin to vomit His sanctimony is touching considering he’s encouraged violence against his ideological enemies here on these pages for years. Last year he scoffed and scorned at the violence in an Auckland Park, directed against women who don’t like perverts in their spaces. HIs words….’she deserved it’. He’s written here for years about how much he wants to ‘punch a Nazi’ which is simply code for punching people like you and me. I also remember his mirth when Tony Abbott was headbutted on a Hobart Street.

I note he blames ‘guns’ for this. NO. I tell you what’s to blame…..Trump Derangement Syndrome and the deranged left, people like our very own Jew hating pervert apologist.

Zippster
Zippster
July 14, 2024 9:20 am

Butler Police Department confirms the arrest of the #Trump shooter identified as Mark Violets, a known antifa extremist. He uploaded a video on YouTube before the attack, claiming “justice was coming.”

unverified

Cassie of Sydney
July 14, 2024 9:20 am

May Hashem protect Donald J Trump.

JC
JC
July 14, 2024 9:23 am
Zippster
Zippster
July 14, 2024 9:24 am
Zatara
Zatara
July 14, 2024 9:24 am
Last edited 5 months ago by Zatara
Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
July 14, 2024 9:24 am

ZH:

Update (1918ET): Trump was grazed by a bullet and two people are dead, including the shooter, according to the Butler Country District Attorney.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
July 14, 2024 9:24 am

This channel is doing a stellar job with updates.

—-

Agenda-Free TV:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcZRQTVq7W4

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
July 14, 2024 9:25 am

Good Lord, the Secret Service persons do the job.

Apparently the shooter (or a shooter) is dead.

Unfortunately it appears that a number of people in the crowd were hit with one reported fatality.

Needless to say, Democrats everywhere are intoning ‘There is no place for violence in our democracy…

Zippster
Zippster
July 14, 2024 9:27 am
MatrixTransform
July 14, 2024 9:28 am

North America is the new South America

JC
JC
July 14, 2024 9:28 am

My kid, who really doesn’t take much interest in politics just texted that this makes her vote for Trump.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
July 14, 2024 9:29 am

JC
 July 14, 2024 9:19 am

Hopefully the turdlet lived long enough to realise “Oh crap, I just won Trump the election”…

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
July 14, 2024 9:33 am

Apparently this is the shooter.

https://x.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1812262641848717657

From the antifa terrorist group.

JC
JC
July 14, 2024 9:34 am

Assassination attempts, lawfare up the ying yang, but cheating elections, you lunatics. Who could ever believe such a thing.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
July 14, 2024 9:34 am

You may think you hate the media enough – you just cant.

https://x.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1812261888866349462/photo/1

“Trump rushed off stage after falling”..

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
July 14, 2024 9:35 am

Now the Demonrats will think, “votes if we assasinate Sniffy Joe “, no downside.

Vicki
Vicki
July 14, 2024 9:35 am

People are saying “Trump took a bullet for us”. This will surely win him the Presidency.

Incidentally, there is more up to date material on this blog than TV – are we surprised ???

Incredible footage posted on this blog of the dead body of shooter being taken out of stadium by troopers.

Zippster
Zippster
July 14, 2024 9:35 am

VIOLENT HAMAS SUPPORT MOB IN BRISBANE TARGETS GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH

Pro-Hamas extremists surrounded the main Greek Orthodox church in Brisbane on Friday July 12 to protest a visit by PM Anthony Albanese. Extremists scaled the roof of one of the buildings in the complex while the crowd outside spat on people walking through the main entrance – Muslim refugee members of the Labor Party were singled out by the crowd for attack and denounced as race traitors.

The atmosphere was pure hatred and police came close to losing control on multiple occasions – they were completely outnumbered and the extremists boasted that they were in charge. Multiple people were. This is a hate cult and a serious domestic terror threat and risk to public safety.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
July 14, 2024 9:35 am

Don’t turn on the ABC unless you’ve taken the blood pressure tablet.
The scum of the inner suburbs rising to the top for all to see. You’ve been exposed.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 14, 2024 9:37 am

Secret Service shot and killed the suspected shooter
The US Secret Service shot and killed the suspected shooter at Trump’s rally Saturday, according to law enforcement officials.
It wasn’t clear what type of weapon the suspect shooter used, reports the Wall Street Journal.
Video on social media appears to show a lifeless body being dragged by police from the crowd.

Cassie of Sydney
July 14, 2024 9:39 am

CNN……

Trump escorted off the podium after falling.

Last edited 5 months ago by Cassie of Sydney
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 14, 2024 9:40 am

Daily Mail is reporting eight shots fired.

JC
JC
July 14, 2024 9:40 am

There was a similar incident with Teddy Roosevelt. A gunman shot him while Teddy was on stage and Teddy kept on talking to finish the speech. There’s something unusual about America.

Crossie
Crossie
July 14, 2024 9:40 am

Good statement from Scott Morrison. Bet Albo will issue something anodyne.

bons
bons
July 14, 2024 9:41 am

We will now witness a ‘911 response’.

Within 48 hours this incident will be Trump’s fault.

But at least the Clintons missed this time.

Makka
Makka
July 14, 2024 9:41 am

CIA up to its old tricks?

You can be certain these evil scumbags will be in it somewhere, somehow. They probably have a number of different ops running across the country.

calli
calli
July 14, 2024 9:41 am

I’ve just had a family member opine that they should have taken a pot shot at him earlier.

Oh. So you think removal of political opponents is a-okay? Just like Putin?

Silence.

Crossie
Crossie
July 14, 2024 9:46 am

JC

 July 14, 2024 9:19 am

I think the shooter prick is dead.

Isn’t that convenient? Then we will be told that the shooter had no social media presence. We will be told there is no way of knowing what motive he had.

Bruce in WA
July 14, 2024 9:46 am

Just following suggestions.

“It’s time to put Trump in a bullseye,” President Biden is heard telling supporters in a recent conversation.”

The Sun, NY, 10 July 2024

calli
calli
July 14, 2024 9:48 am

At a family gathering. Wall to wall lefties with small outcroppings of sensible people for balance. I’ve done a Cassie and been very forthright about Gaza also.

There was no reasoning with the Canberra parasite with his lopsided condescending smart-arse smile though.

Sometimes you just have to walk away.

Crossie
Crossie
July 14, 2024 9:49 am

Oh, John Fund say we have lower the political rhetoric. There we go, both sides indulge in political violence. What an idiot!

cohenite
July 14, 2024 9:49 am

Of course antifa; the go to creeps of the demorats.

Biden a couple of days ago:

It’s time to put Trump in the bullseye

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/07/13/livewire-secret-service-rushes-trump-out-of-pennsylvania-rally-after-shots-fired/

Cassie of Sydney
July 14, 2024 9:50 am

I suppose the e-safety skank will now order X to remove the footage of Trump being shot at.

Roger
Roger
July 14, 2024 9:51 am

I think the shooter prick is dead.

Isn’t that convenient?

Eh?

It was hardly a “let’s negotiate” moment.

Crossie
Crossie
July 14, 2024 9:55 am

GreyRanga

 July 14, 2024 9:35 am

Now the Demonrats will think, “votes if we assasinate Sniffy Joe “, no downside.

Nothing will surprise me, it’s not as if he is not expendable and troublesome to boot.

Roger
Roger
July 14, 2024 9:57 am

Oh. So you think removal of political opponents is a-okay? Just like Putin?

Silence.

Good for you taking advantage of a “teachable moment.”

Let’s hope some “learnings” have been taken on board.

😀

Last edited 5 months ago by Roger
H B Bear
H B Bear
July 14, 2024 9:57 am

He’s invincible. An orange Hercules to drain the modern Augean Stables of DC and the alphabet agencies.

Crossie
Crossie
July 14, 2024 9:58 am

There you go, tweets on X say this is a false flag incident. Never mind the dead shooter plus a dead rally attendee.

Roger
Roger
July 14, 2024 10:00 am

There you go, tweets on X say this is a false flag incident. Never mind the dead shooter plus a dead rally attendee.

Twits are going to tweet. Pay them no mind.

Zippster
Zippster
July 14, 2024 10:01 am

the demonrat party needs to be expunged from civil society

Black Ball
Black Ball
July 14, 2024 10:01 am

Seems appropriate in this age

Popular-memes.jfif
Bluey
Bluey
July 14, 2024 10:02 am

Wouldn’t be too surprised to see some hotheads take this as meaning it’s open season on antifa and the left in general. The US is a long long way from it’s peak and very fractured.

Rosie
Rosie
July 14, 2024 10:02 am

I agree Roger.
I also doubt there will be a cover up of the shooter and his motivations.
What there already is is claims it was staged.
Apparently one just can’t get grazed by a bullet.
It was extraordinary that he wasn’t killed.
The shooter knew other people would be shot and probably killed.
Didn’t care.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
July 14, 2024 10:05 am

The photos of Trump and the footage post-assassination attempt are epic.

Pity the poor photographer.
Take the shots of a lifetime, but know you wont get any awards because its of tangerine hitler….

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 14, 2024 10:05 am

Eight to ten shots fired, two people killed. Daily Mail

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
July 14, 2024 10:06 am

The Secret Service have counter-sniper teams at events of this type, I have heard it said.

I will contend that Mr Antifa’s research consisted of watching movies.

On a related note – if anyone needed any further indication as who was going to storm the election in, have another look at the crowd go ballistic when Trump raises the fist before being taken from the dais.

Crossie
Crossie
July 14, 2024 10:06 am

If a bullseye allusion was enough to sink Sarah Palin after the Gabby Giffords Shooting then it’s good enough to disqualify Biden.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
July 14, 2024 10:08 am

‘Some people did something.’

Zippster
Zippster
July 14, 2024 10:08 am
Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
July 14, 2024 10:10 am

The White House has announced that Joe Biden will soon deliver remarks, following a shooting at Donald Trump’s rally that left an audience member and the suspected shooter dead.

Hopefully they’ve got the meds balanced off, because this will be one for the ages.

Cassie of Sydney
July 14, 2024 10:10 am

Hear this, it is the left who have cheapened and coarsened political debate over the last decade..

Hear this, it is the left who have provoked, urged, initiated and instigated political violence against their ideological enemies.

Hear this, turning the other cheek does not work, the days of being polite and ‘nice’ are over, finito, done with. You pick up the slop and you throw it back, beginning here with our resident Nazi, who for years has laughed at, ridiculed and trivialised political violence against his ideological enemies.

Enough, it’s over.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
July 14, 2024 10:11 am

It’s somehow apt that the Republican icon is an elephant.
Trump has elephant sized balls.
It’s only in extreme events that you see the measure of a man. There’s not a chance in hell I’d stand up and don that.

Indolent
Indolent
July 14, 2024 10:12 am
BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 14, 2024 10:12 am

Typical of CNN – the immediate reaction is to blame the victim and cover up the crime.
https://x.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1812261888866349462

Crossie
Crossie
July 14, 2024 10:12 am

From now on Trump will have to do rallies in a Popemobile.

Zatara
Zatara
July 14, 2024 10:13 am

Rumor is that Trump was actually hit by “glass shrapnel” from the bulletproof screens rather than a bullet itself.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
July 14, 2024 10:16 am

Zippster – thanks for that BBC video, it’s breathtaking.

Crossie
Crossie
July 14, 2024 10:16 am

Biden bared his teeth. What was that?

Crossie
Crossie
July 14, 2024 10:17 am

No words of comfort for Trump and his family. Very telling.

Crossie
Crossie
July 14, 2024 10:18 am

Adam Creighton also had to say crazies on both sides. If that is true then why the actual political shootings are only from the left?

Last edited 5 months ago by Crossie
Harlequin Decline
July 14, 2024 10:18 am

Zippster
July 14, 2024 10:06 am

Fantastic post Zippster. Clearly explains what happened. Everyone should watch.

Crossie
Crossie
July 14, 2024 10:24 am

Chris Kenny is a piece of work, says Trump is a divisive figure insinuating that he is partly to blame for what happened.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
July 14, 2024 10:26 am

A full house of top Democrats now a-prayin’ for Former President Trump and denouncing political violence.

Obama
Pelosi
Newsom
Schumer
Jeffries

And the Democrat campaign machine springs into protection mode:

The Associated Press reports that the Biden campaign is pausing its advertising after at least two people were killed in a shooting at Donald Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania.

“The Biden campaign is pausing all outbound communications and working to pull down our television ads as quickly as possible,” a campaign official said.

Is it wrong to wonder if it crosses Dem minds that their problems might be solved if a MAGA-Redneck-from-casting topped Sloppy Joe in revenge?

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
July 14, 2024 10:28 am

Twitter has crashed.
End Of Days stuff.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
July 14, 2024 10:30 am

The memes are going to be epic. Here’s one I just saw.

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Zatara
Zatara
July 14, 2024 10:31 am

“Reports are that this is being treated by law enforcement as an assassination attempt”

Well no shite Sherlock. Can the press GET any more inane?

bons
bons
July 14, 2024 10:32 am

That is one very tough bloke.

Looking at the close-up video on Gettr, he was obviously seriously shocked when the SS pulled him to his feet but then a look of almost frightening determination took over followed by his clenched fist gestures.

“Don’t step on me” indeed.

Makka
Makka
July 14, 2024 10:33 am

“We’re done talking about the debate. It’s time to put Trump in the bull’s-eye.” – Joseph Biden, July 8, 2024?

MatrixTransform
July 14, 2024 10:34 am

I just overheard those mongs on 3AW speculating about motives and guns and plexiglass barriers etc

if you speculate, it’s a conspiracy theory … if they do, apparently it’s news

gawd they’re an annoying bunch of clowns

Zippster
Zippster
July 14, 2024 10:34 am
Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 14, 2024 10:37 am

m0nty
 July 14, 2024 9:11 am

Terrible events in Pennsylvania. Lucky no one was killed. Gun proliferation is a curse.

No.
The curse is far-left extremists like you running around screaming “literally Hitler” in the hope they might influence another far-left nutjob to take him out.
It is time the adults started running news outlets in the US again and pulling the likes of Madcow off the air.

m0nty
m0nty
July 14, 2024 10:39 am

Alex Jones is hosting a livestream on Twitter entitled Assassinate Biden.

I would suggest avoiding socials today. Things are very loose.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
July 14, 2024 10:40 am

JD Vance tells it:

Today is not just some isolated incident.

The central premise of the Biden campaign is that President Donald Trump is an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped at all costs.

That rhetoric led directly to President Trump’s attempted assassination.

And awareness of that has led to the media rallying around the Biden:

Outpouring of Democratic sympathy on high rotation;

Gunman fired “in Trump’s direction”, possibly not at him;

Trump not actually, shot, just a bit of glass;

Authorities not “concluding” it was an assasination attempt, but checking…

MatrixTransform
July 14, 2024 10:44 am

reportedly Mr Trump plans to go to the UFC tonight

epic !!

Arky.
July 14, 2024 10:44 am

They tried it. They really, really tried it.

Arky

 May 5, 2024 7:04 pm

In 2016 they didn’t think he could win.

In 2020 they knew they had the fix in.

In 2024 they could decide to… “go another way”, to quote Breaking Bad.

Assassination is a real possibility if they think the man has the numbers this time around.

Last edited 5 months ago by Arky
Tom
Tom
July 14, 2024 10:46 am

The American news media loaded the assassin’s bullet.

The American news media — and most of our own — is incapable of reporting US politics objectively

Makka
Makka
July 14, 2024 10:47 am

Terrible events in Pennsylvania. Lucky no one was killed. Gun proliferation is a curse.

m0ron,

At least one bystander was murdered and another reported in critical condition by this Antifa vermin.

You have been on this blog singing the praises of Antifa , who have always been a band of violent left wing thugs.

You support the violence, perversions and corruption on the left. You support the left’s hatred of unborn babies and their grooming of children for deviant sexual gratification. You too are a fkg scumbag, no better than the deviant in the WH.

Last edited 5 months ago by Makka
Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 14, 2024 10:48 am

Cassie of Sydney
 July 14, 2024 9:50 am

I suppose the e-safety skank will now order X to remove the footage of Trump being shot at.

Most of the links put up here have since been ditched.

Zatara
Zatara
July 14, 2024 10:49 am

“There is one existential threat to democracy: It’s Donald Trump,” Biden said at a fundraiser in February.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
July 14, 2024 10:52 am

Via PJ Media’s live coverage:

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Captioned: “Map of location. Looks like 2 civilians took shots meant for Trump.”

Makka
Makka
July 14, 2024 10:52 am

Appears to be a massive security failure if shooter was on a roof being called out by bystanders directly to police. Also, how are they not using drone surveillance?

The SS are another Govt agency. A Biden Govt agency. Like the DoJ, FBI, CIA etc. Think on that.

132andBush
132andBush
July 14, 2024 10:52 am

Terrible events in Pennsylvania. Lucky no one was killed. Gun proliferation is a curse.

Monty if a right wing nut job goes postal: “Right wing nut job, fascists, MAGA!!!”

Monty after an obese left wing nut job (BIRM) tries to assassinate a former Republican President and current front runner at the next election: “Gun violence”

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
July 14, 2024 10:55 am

What we know from the public and not the media.
-Shooter was on a roof with a rifle outside the event.
-Security did not react quickly enough to warnings that a shooter was on the roof.
-The man killed was unfortunately in the way of the shooter’s aim at Trump.
-Heroic doctors rushed to help the victims.
-Close bodyguards did their job without flinching.

Zippster
Zippster
July 14, 2024 10:55 am
Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
July 14, 2024 10:56 am

From the man himself.

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cohenite
July 14, 2024 10:56 am

m0nty
 July 14, 2024 10:39 am

Alex Jones is hosting a livestream on Twitter entitled Assassinate Biden.
I would suggest avoiding socials today. Things are very loose.

FOAD dickless.

Zippster
Zippster
July 14, 2024 10:57 am

A source familiar with Trump’s security detail tells @FDRLST

that the former and future president’s detail has been asking for beefed up protection and resources for weeks, but has been rebuffed time and again by Biden’s DHS.

DHS, which oversees Secret Service protective detail “wasn’t responsive to those requests” for more resources, the source said.

Zippster
Zippster
July 14, 2024 10:59 am
m0nty
m0nty
July 14, 2024 11:00 am

Trump himself says nothing is known about the shooter. Hold off on your conclusions.

Arky.
July 14, 2024 11:01 am

Trump has to declare ASAP a vice president who is mega MAGA.
Someone who chills the commies to the bone,
If they think Trump is Hitler, he has to appoint someone the pricks think is the very devil himself.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 14, 2024 11:03 am

‘They blew his head off’: eyewitness recalls Secret Service killing alleged shooter
Ellie Dudley
22 minutes ago.
Updated 3 minutes ago

5 comments
The shooter who attempted to assassinate former US president Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania campaign rally is dead, law enforcement officials have confirmed, with one eye witness claiming he saw Secret Service agents “blow his head off”.

cohenite
July 14, 2024 11:04 am

The images of a person being carried from the crowd can’t have been of the shooter if the POS was lying on a roof around the perimeter when he shot at Trump and was in turn taken out by the official snipers. That must have been one of the poor Trump supporters.

Thank God Trump is ok but some revision of security will have to occur. Trump will be fortified by this because he is the guy you want next to you in the trench but he can’t succumb to the inevitable taunts and lies which will come from the demorats and the scum msm.

Let’s place bets about which hollywood scumbag comes out expressing regret Trump wasn’t killed.

Bluey
Bluey
July 14, 2024 11:06 am

Will this lead to a crackdown on antifa I wonder? Certainly not from federal authorities in the US, but I could see Florida and some of the other more conservative states doing something.

cohenite
July 14, 2024 11:12 am

This video of Trump surrounded by SS with his fist in the air shouting fight as blood streams from his head is amazing.

(18) Matt Wallace on X: “THIS IS THE MOST BADASS MOMENT IN MODERN AMERICAN HISTROY https://t.co/xCwgv4ENsB” / X

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
July 14, 2024 11:12 am

A shooter on the roof and we get the fool on the hill commenting.

Zatara
Zatara
July 14, 2024 11:12 am

Crackdown?

This assassination attempt will give Trump all the motivation and mandate he needs to start sweeping up the rubbish which exists in the US at the moment. Especially in the alphabet agencies.

Zippster
Zippster
July 14, 2024 11:13 am

iconic image

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m0nty
m0nty
July 14, 2024 11:13 am

As was utterly predictable, the “it wuz Antifa extremist Mark Violets wot dun it” narrative was a complete lie.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
July 14, 2024 11:14 am

Why does Monty still support the domestic terrorist organisation Antifa?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 14, 2024 11:14 am

m0nty
 July 14, 2024 10:39 am

Alex Jones is hosting a livestream on Twitter entitled Assassinate Biden.

You lot started it.
Have to be a pretty good marksman to blow Joe’s brains out.

m0nty
m0nty
July 14, 2024 11:16 am

This assassination attempt will give Trump all the motivation and mandate he needs to start sweeping up the rubbish which exists in the US at the moment.

A modern Reichstag fire moment. Or at least, you lot fervently hope so.

Miltonf
Miltonf
July 14, 2024 11:18 am

Hey momty just piss off you spiteful piece of work

Cassie of Sydney
July 14, 2024 11:19 am

Yep. The Jew hating pervert apologist Nazi is defecating his shit here.

Last edited 5 months ago by Cassie of Sydney
Roger
Roger
July 14, 2024 11:19 am

In passing, in regard to the pro-Pali zealots invading the campus of the Greek Orthodox Church in Brisbane which Albanese was visiting, you’d hope our intelligence and security authorities are well across these groups because there are bound to be personal links with ME crime outfits with ready access to handguns.

The evident security failure at that venue raises serious questions.

Makka
Makka
July 14, 2024 11:19 am

This video of Trump surrounded by SS with his fist in the air shouting fight as blood streams from his head is amazing.

For years the left has been inciting violence against Trump and intimidating conservatives in the hope of sparking a violent civil war. Thus far all attempts have failed.

I hope Trump deals with this in a way that doesn’t reward these evil sh*tbags. Once he is in power he needs to appoint a special agency headed by a smart motivated loyalist to enact a purge of all these hateful left wing vermin. Flynn would be the ideal choice.

Zippster
Zippster
July 14, 2024 11:22 am

?!?!?!?

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m0nty
m0nty
July 14, 2024 11:22 am

In a tradition started by Cats when Paul Pelosi was attacked with a hammer, I am going to assume that the shooter in Pennsylvania was Trump’s spurned gay lover.

cohenite
July 14, 2024 11:22 am

Salty does a methodical and for him subdued analysis of the Trump assassination attempt, including all the incitements by demorats for this to occur and regrets by them that it did not succeed. It was a major security lapse though:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFTfQqbWuyQ

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 14, 2024 11:26 am

m0nty
 July 14, 2024 11:00 am

Trump himself says nothing is known about the shooter. Hold off on your conclusions.

A MAGA deer hunter with poor eyesight?

Wally Dali
Wally Dali
July 14, 2024 11:26 am

Housekeeping note- noting the fat fascist fatwa fan invoking the Reichstag Fire meme does not qualify the spotter for the studded chaps, has to come from a respected commenter inside the ABC-BBC-NBC-Fauxfacts-Goolag circle jerk.

Makka
Makka
July 14, 2024 11:26 am

In a tradition started by Cats when Paul Pelosi was attacked with a hammer, I am going to assume that the shooter in Pennsylvania was Trump’s spurned gay lover.

Further evidence that the left even fail at humour.

132andBush
132andBush
July 14, 2024 11:27 am

Monty saying this is a false flag.

Final confirmation it was the real deal. Probably ANTIFA.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
July 14, 2024 11:31 am

Let’s place bets about which hollywood scumbag comes out expressing regret Trump wasn’t killed.

Lot of that already.

https://x.com/RussLatino/status/1812284802814365868

https://x.com/charliekirk11/status/1812269551566168286

Bill From The Bush
Bill From The Bush
July 14, 2024 11:32 am

Dover, does the wordpress version you are using have a facility to let me block a commenter on the site?
It would save me wearing out the scroll wheel in times like this.

Zatara
Zatara
July 14, 2024 11:36 am

Lest we forget, Biden’s people actively floated the idea of removing Trump’s SS detail completely after he was “convicted”.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
July 14, 2024 11:36 am

For those with a strong stomach, the Grauniad’s view of events:

Biden is accused by Republican extremists of setting up the assassination, but Trump was probably responsible himself by refusing to rule out contesting the election result.

The rifle that did the shooting was an “AR-style rifle” – the most murderous of rifles, a weapon that defines the American Far Right.

Trump says his ear was clipped by a bullet (snork, snork) – but in reality it was a random piece of glass, the Big Nancy, and Trump is playing to the MAGA Crowd.

thefrollickingmole
thefrollickingmole
July 14, 2024 11:37 am
Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
July 14, 2024 11:37 am

At a serious moment it’s nice to have our resident comic prestidigitator by ‘The Great Montyzuma’ lightening the mood.

Roger
Roger
July 14, 2024 11:40 am

Now this is interesting:

According to 7News, soldiers who trained with Kira Korolev at Kapooka in early 2017 thought she was a spy.

They also claim she told them her husband was a former member of Russian special forces.

132andBush
132andBush
July 14, 2024 11:42 am

m0nty
 July 14, 2024 11:31 am

 Reply to  132andBush

I said no such thing. It appears very real.

Trump is the luckiest man alive.

Did I misrepresent and take you out of context?
Shit, sorry Monty.
I’ve stooped to your standards.

Not Uh oh
Not Uh oh
July 14, 2024 11:43 am

A mostly peaceful assassination attempt.

Arky.
July 14, 2024 11:43 am

Not securing rooftops overlooking a rally by a Presidential candidate looks slack.

Pogria
Pogria
July 14, 2024 11:43 am

Newt Gingrinch has been excellent on Sky.
He kept bringing up the fact that extra Security was denied to Donald Trump, and that Robert Kennedy received none at all.

Zippster
Zippster
July 14, 2024 11:44 am

Elon Musk

@elonmusk

Dangerous times ahead.

Two people (separate occasions) have already tried to kill me in the past 8 months. They were arrested with guns about 20 mins drive from Tesla HQ in Texas.

the left has always been evil wrapped up in fake compassion

Barry
Barry
July 14, 2024 11:45 am

Trump turned his head at just the right moment otherwise it would have hit him square in the back of the head. Look at the video.

We are living in a simulation and Trump is Neo.
(h/t some Twitter guy)

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Zippster
Zippster
July 14, 2024 11:46 am

Counter sniper. moment of shots fired

Roger
Roger
July 14, 2024 11:47 am

He kept bringing up the fact that extra Security was denied to Donald Trump, and that Robert Kennedy received none at all.

The Biden WH weaponising the Secret Service?

Shirley not.

Pogria
Pogria
July 14, 2024 11:47 am

Elon Musk has fully endorsed Donald Trump for President.
Class act from Musk.

Zippster
Zippster
July 14, 2024 11:50 am
Salvatore - Iron Publican
July 14, 2024 11:52 am

It seems the marksman’s position was within 100 yards of Trump, though outside the venue.
(source, american tv being replayed on channel 10)

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 14, 2024 11:55 am

3AW (with far-left activist Nick McCallum at the helm) was a f-cking disgrace this morning.
Had some dweeb from the New York Times on, blathering on about how Trump is ignorant and gets historical facts wrong.
Not a word about his opponent having gold-fish memory.
And, in any case, the relevance of that to an assassination attempt is what, precisely?
They then move on to call for restraint. Not from the likes of Rachel Madcow drooling at the possibility of Trump being offed.
No.
Trump needs to “tone down the rhetoric”.
FMD.

billie
billie
July 14, 2024 11:56 am

Violent mob protest a visit by PM Anthony Albanese

That’s somewhat amusing, since it is usually the left, ably supported behind the scenes by Labor operatives, empowering violence against conservatives.

Albanese must be in shock that he is actually a target of such .. where is ASIO you have to wonder eh? Oh right, watching train stations for those awful nazis.

Perhaps it will make some of the left, Albo, rethink their behaviour? (nah, only joking, they will blame it on the Jews of course!)

Perfidious Albino
Perfidious Albino
July 14, 2024 11:59 am

Former former President black jesus a little too quick out of the blocks with a statement for mine.

Miltonf
Miltonf
July 14, 2024 12:01 pm

McCallum was educated at Scotch College, Melbourne, and from an early age wanted to become a journalist. He is quoted as saying “News was so much more interesting than maths”.[2] During his time at Scotch he was involved in the schools sporting program and edited the school newspaper.

Scotch has foisted some real horrors onto this city- again I ask, what is it about snotty nosed skools and leftists?

Rabz
July 14, 2024 12:03 pm

Violent mob protest a visit by albansleazey.

Good. Sucked in, you staggeringly stupid dickheads. You own these vile creatures, lock stock and stinking barrel.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 14, 2024 12:08 pm

I want the rallies to go ahead, but with heaps more security, and possibly a protective shield around Trump? Or would that sort of protective shield look like weakness? It’s just that we really really cannot afford to lose him.

Tom
Tom
July 14, 2024 12:10 pm

Former former President black jesus a little too quick out of the blocks with a statement for mine.

Obama’s major ongoing problem is that most of the plebs being lied to daily by the media don’t realise that Obama is actually the one running the Biden White House. Therefore, everything he says publicly — including its timing — attempts to maintain the fiction that Biden is his own man

  1. Bronte Beach was on the news last night. Packed to the hilt with Pommy/Euro backpackers and whatnot. No mueslis.

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