• Juiceyb [any]
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    2 months ago

    It's like I told a chud yesterday, the problem with being conspiratorial is that all of those stories you keep telling yourself fall flat. What obviously happened is that the Secret Service was incompetent as shit because this detail was picked by the Donald or someone close to him. It's not like the Secret Service has a clean history with their agents to begin with. In a way it's DEI for white people as he chose his own people for the "loyalty" rather than anything else.

    • MolotovHalfEmpty [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      There was a guy on the radio the other day who had been part of Bush's protective detail and talked about how the SS usually did 'close protection' meaning the guys around Trump and the stage and extended threat like the snipers we saw who would be aiming much further out. He said that the close-to-middle-distance that the shooter was in was usually designated to local police to secure.

      If that's the case, then it's even more unsurprising that the cops half-arsed it and reacted way too late.

      • Adkml [he/him]
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        2 months ago

        Not to defend cops but they have a solid argument of "thanks to the gun laws in PA he didn't do anything illegal until he pulled the trigger"

        • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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          2 months ago

          I can't admire the president's visage through this rifle scope? I'm sorry, I thought this was AMERICA!

          • Adkml [he/him]
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            2 months ago

            Crawling around on barn roofs with an ar-15 is basically the national pass time of that particularly blighted part of the country.

              • Adkml [he/him]
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                2 months ago

                It's like the Mythbusters episode where they tested climbing ducts with magnets and there was a shot of Adam standing there as you heard bang bang bang from the ducts and he was like "I think somebody is trying to break into my building" except that the cops weren't smart enough to figure that out.

      • marxisthayaca [he/him,they/them]
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        2 months ago

        If that's the case, then it's even more unsurprising that the cops half-arsed it and reacted way too late.

        Are you?

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