Dow futures trading higher, likely on the back that Trump will be in the Oval Office.

LOL

Mike Carlton under fire over three-word response to Australia’s message of support to Donald Trump: ‘This is a low blow’
Daily Mail.

There’s no conspiracy that the swamp was directly involved . That’s because the swamp didn’t need to.

All the Demonrats had to do was to continually repeat that Trump = Hitler , peddle hoaxes over hoaxes and eventually one or more of their own would take the shot. Mental illness runs rampant in the demonrat sphere, so they know what they were doing and that some sicko would come forward.

Andrew Bolt:

No one can hide from this truth.

Whoever shot Donald Trump – whether some crazy or Left-wing extremist – this assassination attempt was part of a plot.

No, not a deliberate, worked-out plot to kill the man most likely to become president again.

I mean the plot to make Trump seem so evil that OF COURSE someone would want to kill him. OF COURSE someone would figure they just had to stop the new Hitler.

And the blame for that goes all the way to the top – to desperate President Joe Biden who has terrified Americans of the Left by painting Trump as a wannabe dictator, who just had to be stopped by almost any means.

Take Biden’s TV ad last month demonising Trump: “There is nothing more sacred than our democracy, but Donald Trump, ready to burn it all down”.

Or this Biden ad, just two days before the shooting, accusing Trump of being the poodle of Russia’s war-criminal president: “This is who Donald Trump is … the United States must never be like Putin’s Russia; we don’t empower dictators”.

Biden’s team also got actor Robert De Niro, who’d declared ‘I’d like to punch Donald Trump in the face’, to narrate another ad savaging Trump: “Now he’s running again, this time threatening to be a dictator, to terminate the constitution”.

It kept coming. Two weeks ago, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declared on national television that “this is not a normal election”, and Trump “must be stopped; he cannot become president”.

And talking to donors this past fortnight, Biden repeated urged them: “It’s time to put Trump in a bullseye”.

Sure, Biden didn’t mean that literally. But the media forgave that inflammatory language in a way it never would have had Trump used it against Biden.

Democrats seemed to believe their own hysteria.

What else, short of violence, didn’t they do to make Trump seem an evil that had to be stopped by hook or by crook?

For three years, the Democrats pushed the bogus claim that Trump stole the 2016 election by colluding with Russia.

Then Democrats also falsely accused Trump of sending a mob to invade Congress to stop Biden replacing him as president.

Biden even falsely accused Trump of having “sat and watched … the cops being killed”, when the only person killed was a female Trump supporter, shot by police.

This Trump Derangement Syndrome isn’t just a slogan. It is a sick reality in a United States that looks at times almost on the edge of a civil war. God knows what would have happened had that bullet which clipped Trump’s ear been two inches to the right.

The Democrats even felt licenced to bend and strain the law to launch four separate legal cases to get Trump jailed or at least crippled ahead of the November election.

And the media Left did their bit.

The New Republic last month ran a cover picture of Trump with a Hitler moustache, over the headline: “American fascism: what it would look like”.

The Left-wing American Prospect Magazine ran with this headline: “American Fascism”, warning against “American fascism in 2024”.

The New Yorker went with: “Why we can’t stop arguing about whether Trump is a fascist.”

And all the way through, media outlets falsely accused Trump of praising neo-Nazis as “good people”, of planning to be a dictator on “day one” and more.

So can anyone be surprised if someone may have decided to remove a man they’ve been told is a monstrous evil? A Hitler?

But few in politics have been luckier in their choice of enemies than Trump.

His enemies have now made him so much stronger.

The Democrats’ attempts co-opt the FBI into making Trump seem in collusion with Putin just made the Deep State look corrupt.

The Democrats’ attempts to stop Trump’s campaign in the courts just made the justice system seem corrupt, and Trump’s support grew stronger.

And now this attempted assassination will make Trump unbeatable in the election.

That’s not just because Trump acted like a man with balls of steel, shrugging off his security when the shooting ended to wave a fist and shout: “Fight, fight”.

The contrast with feeble Joe Biden could not be stronger.

But more: This attack will stop Biden playing his lunatic “dictator Trump” card, and will wake up more Americans to the real threat to their peace and freedom.

No, it’s not the Right. It really is the Left, which must reflect how it’s become the very threat it saw in Trump.

There’s no conspiracy that the swamp was directly involved . That’s because the swamp didn’t need to.

That an elevated shooting position less than 200 yards from Trump, who was standing on a stage in an open field, was left unguarded, in contradiction of Secret Service doctrine since the Kennedy assassination, does raise some questions though.

Was it simply incompetence?

Or was there a shortage of SS & police manpower at the rally stemming from a WH knockback of Trump’s request for extra security, as has been claimed?

Looking forward to the SS answers before the Congressional inquiry.

The CFMEU has placed its key Victorian branch into administration following allegations of corruption, with the national executive to take over.

The same national executive that allowed the corruption in VIC to fester.

Over to you, Tony Burke.

Make of this what you will

P.S.

My scroll wheel is getting an extra workout this morning

The overwhelming majority of gun killings in the US are committed by black people.
The only way to effectively reduce the gun toll in the US would be to strip blacks of their guns – why are gun control zealots so racist????

2SM talkback with the very good Dave Cochran just had a regular caller called stan, a self confessed avowed leftie, stating it was a shame the assassination failed because Trump is a bad person.

It doesn’t matter where they are, lefties are sick fuks. Just look at our pet cockroach, dickless.

johanna
 July 15, 2024 7:50 am

calli

July 15, 2024 7:15 am

Reply to  Rosie

Good. Well done that Congressman.

Nope.

That Congressman wanted to withdraw Trump’s SS protection detail entirely a few months ago. He’s a creep as well as a hypocrite

Quite so.
The staffer was just silly enough to publicly repeat office in-jokes at an inappropriate time.
The firing is a sham.
She will quietly appear in a similar job for another rep in a couple of weeks time.

If Crooks was a conservative, the content of his social media posts would already be in the news.

Nothing new in this for Cat readers, but that it appeared in The Courier-Mail is noteworthy. O’Connor must feel he has his finger on public sentiment to publish this:

Appalling, gutless response as racial hate allowed to run rampant

Mike O’Connor The Courier Mail 9 July, 2024

There’s a sense of unease in our cities and suburbs fuelled by a feeling of helplessness as people begin to realise that the fabric of the country that they love is being picked apart thread by thread. The shambles that unfolded in Canberra surrounding the defection of Senator Fatima Payman from the Labor Party was a straw in the wind, a further sign that the nation is fragmenting into groups whose agenda is self-interest with no thought for the good of all.

You might well wonder how a person for whom 1621 people voted in Western Australia is now attempting to direct the foreign policy of those 26 million of us who didn’t vote for her, and how she managed to be endorsed by the Labor Party in the first place, unless of course the fact she was a woman of colour and a Muslim played into it.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is now reaping the harvest that he has sown with his vacillation, lack of leadership and half-hearted support of Israel over the Gaza issue and the anti-Semitism that has been allowed to flourish on our streets and in our universities and most recently on the roof of our national parliament.

Having an each-way bet might be fine for a punt on the Melbourne Cup, but as Albanese is finding to his cost, it doesn’t cut it when you are dealing with racial hate, vitriol and calls for the extermination of the Jewish people.

The appalling, gutless approach of university vice-chancellors in failing to deal with the invasion of their campuses, and then capitulating to pro-Palestinian activists demanding a say in the way the universities are run, is a disgrace.

These protesters are now claiming a victory. Now that they’ve discovered how easy it is to intimidate university authorities they’ll be back for more, making more and more outrageous demands and chanting “from the river to the sea” as they do so. Jewish students no longer feel safe on campus. How can this happen in our country?

I have no answer other than to suggest weakness, a lack of moral fibre and a desperate desire on the part of the vice-chancellors to hang on to their obscenely bloated salaries.

The Vote Muslim Movement says it will now run candidates in seats for federal parliament with large Muslim populations, pushing a Muslim agenda. Clerics recently claimed it was sinful for Muslim students to pay indexation on their student loans, as do other Australian students, and wants them granted a dispensation. One rule for them, another for the rest.

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton raised the spectre of the Albanese government being voted into a minority and having to do deals with the Greens, teals and Vote Muslim members in order to govern.

He voiced a reasonable concern, but predictably was branded a bigot.

This political fragmentation follows upon the avoidable disaster that was the Voice referendum, which revealed that there were those people who did not regard themselves as Australians but as a group deserving of special treatment, with those who opposed this view vilified as racists.

It was a case of us and them, with the dictum being that if you’re not with us you’re against us.

Every other day, people awake to the news that an Indigenous group has been granted native title over another slice of the country, increasingly over prime real estate such as on the Sunshine Coast, Redland and Moreton Bay areas and on Fraser and Moreton islands.

The narrative is always the same – nothing to see here, no need for non-Indigenous Australians to worry about access and usage. But why bother to spend vast amounts of taxpayer dollars paying lawyers to argue these cases if it’s all going to be hunky dory and business as usual?

People are told not to worry, but if Premier Steven Miles was to park himself beside any suburban backyard barbecue he would quickly discover that people are very worried about what this will mean for the nature of the society in which their children and their children’s children will live.

I’m old enough to remember the days when even though people held opinions that differed from yours, it was understood that we were all in this together and agreed to disagree in the interests of the common good.

Those days are fast disappearing. I wonder if we will ever see their like again.

Selection of prominent demorats calling for the killing of Trump:

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Tom at 9:59

Her name is Kimberly Cheatle. I trust she will be required to testify publicly before a congressional committee in coming weeks about why the SS didn’t go the simplest of security sweeps at Saturday’s Trump rally.

Yes, even a layperson with basic common-sense would make a better fist of it than they did.
Identify possible sources of threats – handguns, rifles, bombs, knives, chemical attack – and frame strategies to mitigate each one.
Honestly, given the history of POTUS pot-shots, the lone building just outside the perimeter sticks out like dogs balls.
I saw some absolute moron (expert) on Skah earnestly telling us that “sniper vs sniper” was the best tactic for this situation.
FMD.
Shooting back is the go-to tactic?
We saw how that worked on Saturday.
Sure, they killed the shooter, but only after he came within a split-second or 20mm of killing Trump.
Incidentally, the Secret Service used to deliberate select very tall men for the close bodyguard protection of the President. The theory was that they could surround a, say, 6’1″ President with 6’4″ protection so that, even if they have to walk him to a car to evacuate, it is very difficult for anyone to get a subsequent clear shot at him.