AlexRich

You think I love Biden? You understand nothing. Biden should never have been the candidate. He was old in 2020 but he is now simply not physically and mentally up to the task. The Democrats need a younger and more energetic candidate to face the fraudster Donald Trump.

Sorry, did I hurt your MAGA feelings? Strange you don’t want to comment on the second and third shooter? As you can see, I simply reported what is out there. Comments by people who witnessed the event. Is that propaganda?

Here’s something more interesting: Look how quickly the Fox News reporter cuts away when she’s told about the water tower shooter and the shooter at the fence. That young guy Crooks seems to get around?

A street fighter like Trump … … old bone spurs couldn’t wait to show those Vietnamese his moves, but unfortunately couldn’t go due to a letter from his doctor. A right wing commentator Ben Shapiro was being interviewed by Andrew Neil (ex Sunday Times (UK) editor and media pundit) and after Neil asked him the first question he immediately accused him of being “on the Left”. Everyone in the UK knows that Neil is a right winger. So the “go to” default put down by the MAGA loons is that anyone who opposes them is a left wing agitator. McCarthyism is alive and well in the US. For the record, centre right … not extreme. Like an old fashioned Republican before the Cult of MAGA took over.

The truth is that they failed miserably to prevent a “shooter” from getting in range for a shot at Trump. And yet Trump praises them? That’s pretty uncharacteristic? The “shooter” wasn’t dealt with because he was only supposed to be eliminated after the “theatre” show was over. One witness that I’ve seen interviewed claimed there were two shooters, the other being on a water tower. I suspect we’ll hear more about this in the weeks to come. Although I did notice that the lady doing the interview cut her off as soon as she said it was two shooters? Crooks, like Oswald, may simply have been the patsy. But a man died, and he was a big fan of Trump? The people that would orchestrate an event like this don’t care at all about that, it just lends credibility to it. Biden phoned the wife, Trump never did. He went golfing.

Then why characterise it as Vance realising he was “wrong” about Trump? A more obvious explanation is that he knows Trump’s corrupt, but as he is too it’s better to team up and benefit. Birds of a feather, etc.

Wrong. He did it after the event, and so did his son. He’s not criticised the SS over this “incident”, he has praised them.

Perhaps it’s not about “being wrong” and more about self interest?

And yet … Trump has consistently praised the Secret Service detail? That’s incredibly magnanimous of him, don’t ya think? I recall that the Secret Service tried to get Mike Pence into a car on Jan 6th, but he refused to go because he suspected an “accident” would befall him. That implies that Pence thinks they would do Trump’s bidding? When known facts/rumours emerge in the coming weeks there will be many questions. I’ve already seen tv interviews where eyewitnesses talk about two shooters … one on the water tower? I’ve read a report that Crooks was on that roof for 30 minutes? He had bombs in his car? Trump is at golf the next day with no ear bandage, and no visible marks, but he’s at the Convention the next day with a sanitary towel stuck to his ear. It's very murky.

Project 2025 … look it up.

I thought he was a Beatles fan? Because he knows sod all about the other guy.

Leninist? Nuts!

You mean like Epstein and Weinstein? They were around for years before they were held to account. But it’s true that stepping into the political arena results in closer scrutiny. It’s not really a surprise, because you have an opposition looking for dirt. So not coincidental, totally expected. And it doesn’t mean that what you’re being accused of is false.

Did Q tell you that? For someone that’s “clearly unfamiliar” with the US I see comments on many platforms, from prominent US citizens and ordinary citizens, that agree with me that US democracy is under threat. Nice try at gaslighting, but no cigar!

… bringing Hitler into a Trump thread? I am in good company. Even his new Vice President pick called him “America’s Hitler”.

Anyone who doesn't believe that what happened in Germany could happen in their country is a fool ... and you're well qualified for that role.

True ... I'm not a MAGA imbecile.

He didn't have the enablers in place he has now. The checks and balances are no longer there, he'll only appoint people who say "yes" ... consider how many former Trump appointments warn about giving him a second term? Trump has been charged with 88 felony counts across four criminal investigations ... but the politically stacked Supreme Court will give him a free pass. And these are only the crimes that are known. We could also talk about the rape and sexual assault allegations ... and in particular the ones related to Epstein and a 13 year old girl. We could question why Saudi Arabia transferred $2billion to Jared? A guy with no investment experience. We can consider whether his Russian links were properly investigated? God knows what else.

You create a "crisis" that requires the incumbent to stay in place. With Hitler it began with the Reichstag building fire ... leading to the Enabling Act and the Emergency Decree as well as the Night of the Long Knives ... and before you know it Germany is a one party state. Germany had its traditions and laws ... none of that stopped Hitler. Trump will attempt something along those lines. An existential crisis requires extraordinary measures, and he will step up as the saviour of the country ... a fist pumping fraud. They'll promise that things will get back to normal once the crisis is over ... but it never will. I'd like to think that you don't believe that could happen in the US, and that's your objection, but I suspect that it is actually what you want to happen.

In 1930's Germany they also had laws and traditions.

Trump in a second term will be the most corrupt President ever to sit in the seat. The idea that he is “needed” to clean up corruption beggars belief. He will create a criminal enterprise, and call it a Government. And I’ll not be surprised if he tries to challenge the two term only rules … get ready to watch your Constitution get thrown in the bin.

Hitler came to power in a democracy … he didn’t go straight to building extermination camps … it all built up slowly. Get in power, take over the institutions that ensure checks and balances, ban the opposition (enemies of the people) and expel and jail anyone who could foster any type of opposition. I used to have a similar view to you … “that’s not possible here, that would never happen”. Yet it is happening in front of my eyes, and I can’t understand why so few people don’t see the danger? Jerry Springer story, as an illustration. I watched him on tv one day many years back, he was being interviewed, it was not his show. He told the story of his father, who had fled the Nazi’s. Springer went to visit him, I think his Dad was a very old man at the time, and not really up to driving. Yet he had a fully serviced car in his garage? Springer asked his Dad why he kept a car he’d never drive. His answer - “in case they come again”. At the time I thought like Springer, that his Dad was preparing for an event that could never happen in the US. I was wrong. I suspect his Dad lived in a Europe where such a thing could never happen … yet he subsequently lived that experience. There was nothing special about Germany, it wasn’t a unique characteristic of the people that brought Hitler to power. The sad fact is that it can happen in any country force fed propaganda and lies. Springer’s old dad understood better, because it was a lived experience for him.

Many a true word spoke in jest. Your quip about the guy packing his toothbrush to be sent to a concentration camp is the type of scenario witnessed in Russia, an authoritarian and criminal regime. With Trump in charge that’s exactly where you are heading. And you know it … your comment confirmed that.

And that’s exactly the oppressive dictatorship that the US is heading towards. It will become like Russia, a criminal enterprise masquerading as a Government.

Did you meet many when you were socialising there?