Pass the Tin Foil Hat, Please
Yes, I'm angry and disillusioned, but I believe attitude is everything, so I'll end this substack on a positive note...
Saturday, July 27th
This is for ALL of the people in my life (or in your life) who immediately grabbed onto a variety of conspiracy theories about Donald Trump NOT being hit by a bullet...
- "It was a faked assassination attempt, promoted by Trump and his allies, to make him look good, and no bullets ever got near him..."
- "It didn't graze his ear, because ears bleed a lot more and faster (or they don't bleed much and there was too much blood)..."
- "He got hit by a shard of plastic that shattered off the podium, it was the teleprompter that got hit (!), which proves that, ummm...oh yeah, see #1 above!"
- "Why does he have his ear all bandage up? They don't do that for ear injuries. And, why doesn't he show us all a picture of his ear, so we (the public) can see his injury for ourselves? He's probably not even injured!"
I'd like to point something out. YOU ARE NOW THE CONSPIRACY THEORIST. How does it feel to be the wearer of the Tin Foil Hat for a change?
And while I’m on the subject, my dear, dear Left Leaning Republican Party Haters who lust after the death of Donald Trump…
You realize you are mobilized soldiers in an active American Civil War, don’t you?
That’s what is happening right now. You don’t need bayonets, cannon fire, and an open declaration of war — to BE a civil war. You just need THE PEOPLE to be so tremendously divided that they turn their back on our precious constitution, on our beloved countrymen, and they desire death as a solution to disagreements and disputes.
Democracy is ONLY possible when everyone is willing to compromise peaceably.
When you toss out peace and you LUST after a violent solution (as so many displayed publicly on their social media accounts or even on the stage at a comedy show) you have become a barbarian, willing to commit murder or celebrate it, in the pursuit of a political goal — and, that is WAR!
And, when directed against one’s own nation, it is CIVIL WAR.
By the way, if you’re one of those rushing to hand over our freedom, privacy, and constitutional protections against government control and tyranny —
whether you’re using government to FORCE women to eschew pregnancy termination procedures
or you want to FORCE everyone to inject themselves with vaccine serums and experimental mRNA Frankensteinian tech
or you want to FORCE American families to give up their handguns, shotguns, and rifles
or you want to FORCE Americans to only use government approved speech
or you want to FORCE American business owners to provide services to customers that go against their own personal religious beliefs
or you want to FORCE parents to send their children to government schools where the official policy is to LIE to the parents
How ridiculously naive and foolish is it to offer up written and videotaped comments expressing your wish that the gunman hadn’t missed? Your thoughtless exultation at a publicly witnessed assassination attempt — which led to the terrible and tragic death of a father and husband who threw himself over his family and died from an assassin’s bullet — is not only despicable. It’s evidence that can be used in a court of law, to convict you of treason.
Did your brain operate AT ALL while you were slinging hateful, immoral, immature, and cruel rhetoric around? Offering it up AS FODDER for all the mentally ill, unstable, and weak-minded men and women who can clearly be radicalized to the point of climbing onto a rooftop and spraying bullets toward an American Citizen who’s also a Presidential Candidate?
Did you THINK long enough to realize you are INCITING murderous violence?
Did you THINK long enough to realize Bobby Kennedy and Kamala Harris and Donald Trump (and by extension, their families) are ALL facing huge risks by running as presidential candidates?
Did you THINK…at all?
As an American, who has never and will never vote for Donald Trump, I am still 100% against any American Citizen being shot at during a public rally while on campaign. Just as I’m 100% against the violence and vandalism demonstrated on January 6th.
The hypocrisy of the same people who endlessly beat the January 6th drum being elated and celebratory over the assassination attempt on July 13th, is worse than pathetic. It’s delusional, childish, irresponsible, and more.
And now, with respect, let us mourn and honor the injured and the fallen:
Pennsylvania State Police identified David Dutch, 57, of New Kensington, Pennsylvania, and 74-year-old James Copenhaver from Moon Township, Pennsylvania, in a Sunday press release.
The state police also confirmed the name of Corey Comperatore, 50, as the victim who was killed in the assassination attempt. His identity was announced earlier in the day by Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro.
The Marine Corps League of Pennsylvania, Inc., identified Dutch as a commandant in its organization in Westmoreland County. MCL Vice Commandant Matt Popovich said on Facebook that Dutch underwent two surgeries after being “shot in the liver and chest.”
“These victims and their families are certainly in our thoughts today,” said Col. Christopher Paris, the state police commissioner. “The Pennsylvania State Police continue to work tirelessly alongside our federal, state and local partners as this investigation continues.”
#SayTheirNames
I fully appreciate that Corey Comperatore had a beautiful life ahead of him, but he and his family were robbed of those many years, by an assassin’s bullet fired during our undeclared Civil War. I also know just how devastating a bullet wound to the liver and chest is, and I feel tremendous empathy for David Dutch. I also hope that James Copenhaver is well. Please join me in wishing both men the best recovery possible and I encourage you to check out their extremely successful GoFundMe Campaign!
Respect to all who stepped up to support these victims of left-leaning gun violence.
Respect also goes to Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi.
Thank you for identifying and removing an aide who made an inflammatory post following the attempted assassination of an American President: A post on Facebook associated with the staffer’s account suggested the gunman needed shooting lessons “so you don’t miss next time.”
HOWEVER, this Facebook post by a staffer of a Democratic Representative is also a reminder of the level of vitriol and single mindedness that goes hand in hand with being a direct participant of the Democratic Party. SHE is just the one that got caught. One can only imagine what was being said in the office by all the folks smart enough to NOT incriminate themselves on social media.
I witnessed the tremendous bigotry of the Democratic Party first hand during 2015 and 2016, when I was working hard to help Bernie Sanders. He was basically an Independent Candidate, who ran as a Democrat and was destroyed by the Democratic Party Machine as they shoved Hillary Clinton down our throats.
Later, while working as an independent journalist in Philly during the DNC, I came face to face with more hard core Democratic Party players and their machinations, their hatred, their “do anything to win,” and absolute closed-mindedness — not to mention the sex crimes, the alcohol, and the DNC suppression of a huge contingent of Bernie Sanders delegates who were silenced, ignored, hidden from the viewing public at home, and otherwise treated like the ugly stepchild — it was frightening to witness.
THIS IS WHY I SUPPORT BOBBY KENNEDY JR.
I will not join an army that has, as a goal, the destruction of my fellow American citizens, and both Bernie Sanders and Bobby Kennedy Jr. are and have been consistently respectful and inclusive toward Americans, seeing them for the people they are, and not as mere pawns on a political chess board.
RUMBLE — A FREE SPEECH PLATFORM.
You’ll find that a great many of Bobby Kennedy Jr.’s video content (like Theo Wilson’s recent video: The Secret to RKF Jr’s Appeal) shows up on RUMBLE, rather than the more familiar YouTube.
Why?
Because YouTube has become a dangerous tool of our rogue totalitarian-seeking government, serving as a convenient censorship tool, while Rumble has remained true to its goals of being a Free Speech Space.
I suggest you familiarize yourself with Rumble. It’s free and easy to access, just like YouTube, but without all the Orwellian Thought Control.
So sad that people would exult in an assassination attempt on a candidate for the Presidency. Bad enough that they would do it privately, even internally. But to publically praise the attempt, and bemoan the fact that the would-be assassin missed?
I don't care which party if any with which you allign yourself. If we are not able to work within the system created by the Founding Fathers under our Constitution to govern our country, and instead choose to resort to violence because we're unhappy with something a candidate or an elected official said or did, we are moving away from our Republic and into something else entirely.
Frankly it is my belief that this is something that has long been planned and worked toward by those who hate the very idea of a Free People deciding who will govern their country. This idea is pure anathema for those who believe in Authoritarianism and Totalitarianism. Creating the conditions in the US that takes us to the brink of, or even into, another Civil War is their goal and it terrifies me to realize how close they are to achieving their ambitions.