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Reply #3525 –
The shooter was a frail kid with glasses who was bullied at school and isolated. Worked in food prep at a nursing home and was rejected at the school rifle club for being a lousy shot.
Type of profile that seems to be prone to this type of action where they have nothing to live for and want to be acknowledged for something in life.
Schools and Governments need to do more to stem bullying and stamp it out and make sure these kids are identified and helped post school.
I'm not sure what his parents situation is or his home life but it happens too frequently where these gentle bullied kids
freak out with horrendous outcomes.

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Reply #3526 –
Trump said he only turned his head at the moment to look at some screen with information on it which he rarely does.
2012 HAPPENED!!!!!!!

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Reply #3528 –
It seems that, when the first shot was fired, the secret service agents shouted, “Donald Duck!”

It's still the Gulf of Mexico, Don Old!

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Reply #3529 –
Something about the whole incident seems just a bit off.
We know the meticulous planning that goes around the protection of Presidents and ex-Presidents of the USA. Real life is probably more intense than how it’s depicted in Hollywood
The folks in charge of securing this event were no Denzel Washington or Clint Eastwood.

There are a number of questions, some have been asked, some may already have been answered.
Most of these are questions of incompetence.
The young fellow who did the shooting was no trained assassin. How the Fck did he get on an open roof with a rifle 100m from the ex-President?
Why wasn’t that roof posted?
Why weren’t all the roofs within a couple of hundred metres posted because that would have given line of sight to many other points of the area? There was certainly no shortage of police and security personnel.
Many of the crowd have said they saw the gunmen and tried to alert authorities, they said some of those seemed to have little interest in following that up…but we don’t know?
Was the deputy who confronted the gunman on the roof and then backed off, sent up there as a response to those concerns from the crowd?
How long from that confrontation until the first shots were fired. You would think that the gunman, having been discovered would have started shooting straight away. The deputy on the roof would have dropped back to the ground and radioed to a’ central command’ that there was a “gunman on the roof, shut it down.”
Was there a central command?

All of these questions will no doubt form the basis of an assessment and there is probably a failure at several points.
There’s one question I find rather hard to explain and it may just be a matter of timing.
The sniper group on the roof seemed to be looking directly in the direction of the gunmen. How long was that group in place before the shooting and why that direction? What were they watching, the birds? Could they not see him. A gunman with a rifle!... Or were they also sent up in response to the crowd concerns? They must have set up quickly if that’s the case. There was very little time before the gunman started shooting and him being, in turn, shot.
No doubt all these will be answered in a follow-up assessment. There is no shortage of evidence. Most of the crowd were probably making a record of the day on their phones. If mobile phones had been around in the Kennedy days, they might have got some interesting shots.

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Reply #3530 –
Yep, Principal LODS... to say that security seemed lax is an understatement. No doubt heads will roll. And knowing the US litigation culture the victim's families will have a line of ambulance chasers at their front doors and around the block.

Hard to see Trump being defeated now... huge sympathy vote which Donald, ever the opportunist, will milk for all its worth. That photo of him, fist raised, bloodied, with the US flag in the background will be a feature of the campaign. Not to mention how God intervened and obviously wants him as President.

Hard to see anything but a Trump victory in November... then we'll get to watch his cognitive decline of which there are already symptoms.

Only our ruthless best, from Board to bootstudders will get us no. 17

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Reply #3531 –
It's OK.
Everything will be fine if he does decline.
He has a clone as his VP ::)
A Mini-Don.
Bye-Bye to Ukraine. :(

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Reply #3532 –
The US political machine, which more closely resembles some low brow made-for-tv reality show, than anything involving serious journalism and legitimate political discourse, continues to roll on. And that's not by accident IMO.

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Reply #3533 –
Quote from: PaulP – on
The US political machine, which more closely resembles some low brow made-for-tv reality show, than anything involving serious journalism and legitimate political discourse, continues to roll on. And that's not by accident IMO.

Yep. When you have so many political snouts in the corporate trough, it's hard to imagine much changing... eagerly enabled by a glib mainstream media (who've also got their snouts in the corporate trough).
Only our ruthless best, from Board to bootstudders will get us no. 17

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Reply #3534 –
Quote from: Baggers – on
Yep. When you have so many political snouts in the corporate trough, it's hard to imagine much changing... eagerly enabled by a glib mainstream media (who've also got their snouts in the corporate trough).

I agree Baggers. There's no way out through the American electoral system.

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Reply #3535 –
It's not just the USA where politics are for show.
"Extremists on either side will always meet in the Middle!"

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Reply #3537 –
MAGA crowd is calling for Jack Black to be deported for mocking Trump.

Quote from: LP – on
@shawny Surely MAGA supporters won't contend that spreading conspiracies is offensive?

This is a bed they have made, and it will be largely the same nutters spreading the conspiracies! ;)

The nutters are conspiracy theory apparatchiks, politics have little to do with it, politics has just leveraged the behaviour in a very short sighted manner.

Within the context of certain posts you can see in this thread, I now fell like Nostradamus, it wasn't that hard though! :o
"Extremists on either side will always meet in the Middle!"

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Reply #3538 –
Strictly speaking, it was one of his band mates, not Jack Black himself, that made the comment.

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Reply #3539 –
Quote from: PaulP – on
Strictly speaking, it was one of his banId mates, not Jack Black himself, that made the comment.

It was kyle gass.

There are only 2 members of the actual band and this is the other one.

I have tickets to see them on Saturday....if they play.

They have cancelled Townsville tonight, have Brisbane on Thursday and Melbourne on Saturday....if they don't get run out of town in  the meantime.

I've seen the video. The crowd loved it. Politicians should keep their fingers out of pies that have nothing to do with them.