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I'd prefer more attrition in some cases around here...
WH Correspondent’s Dinner - Trump evacuated, shooter in lobby
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kickazzz2000
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So did they throw Southern Living in there b/c he's from the South? And the trio of local rags based on more specific location info? What about Axioms? I assumed that was a typo for Axios, esp. when I looked up Axioms and found that it's "an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal of mathematics, mathematical logic and mathematical physics, published monthly online by MDPI."
I didn’t know that about the Drudge Report; but, I know little about the Drudge Report.
I haven’t visited that site in 10+ years.
superrific
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I don't know it about Drudge specifically but most of the aggregator sites do that.
Mulberry Heel
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They really are some of the most thin-skinned snowflakes alive. Can't handle any criticism or joke thrown their way. A Kennedy or Reagan or Clinton or Obama would have either laughed it off or made a joke about it themselves. Trump and his people throw tantrums and demand that people be fired and whole networks be taken over so they don't have to hear any criticism or jokes made at their expense. It would actually be pretty pitiful were it not for the fact that they have been successful in buying and taking over and gutting once-prestigious news organizations and trying to suppress freedom of speech and the press. But of course they all love Gutfeld and Jesse Watters.
"What did he know?"
That's basically admin-sponsored propaganda, but we're sitting here talking about if the mainstream media is fact-based. FOH.
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Here are some "fact-based" articles from the sources you apparently won't ignore, laying out some of the issues with Trump's admin so far. I'm sure there are plenty more but many of the sources you claim to read require subscriptions that I don't have. Bottom line: the idea that very little criticism of the damage the Trump admin is doing is "fact-based" is absurd.
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theel4life
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Ok, how did this get to what thr Hilton could have done??? Nice moving of the goal posts, basically from Kenan to Wallace-Wade.
I noted several clear examples of things that SECURITY (SS, locals, and everyone in charge of that) could have and should have done.
This has been widely accepted as a security failure, other than by team Trump. Your lack of understanding or perhaps utter intransigence in order to be "right" here is pretty laughable. Since I don't really care how much of a fool you want to be on this, please carry on so you can feel better about yourself (I guess).
Oh, and it was a 740 way back in 1993.
I agree that “senile” is not the correct term for Trumps mental issues. He’s just an old guy now that his age is starting to amplify the mental issues he’s always had such as how he uses social media (for one example). I mean what other President would post the bs he does on a daily basis?
And please don’t post about any crazies or radicals on the left w out acknowledging that the leaders of the left have not engaged in conspiracy theories anywhere close to what the right promotes. For example, Obama wasn’t born in the US and our elections are rigged.
You don’t believe those last two conspiracies do you?
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The idea that all of those competing news publications would all be running "election interference" in the same way -- which is Calla's claim (note that reporting facts is not interference but whatever -- is legit bonkers.
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I have been asking you repeatedly things the hotel could/should have done differently. You have now responded by creating an amorphous, all-caps concept called "SECURITY" -- as if there is a single entity in charge of security at an event like this.
The secret service's job is to take care of the President (and others in the line of succession). Not the press and not MAGA firemen in the crowd. They protect the President. A lot of the whining I have seen from the media types about security has concerned matters related to the press only, not the President.
And just because there may be a security gap -- say failing to scan an actual bar code ticket to get into the hotel, or failing to secure all back entrances -- does not mean those security gaps had anything to do with the particular issue in this case. In law, you have both negligence and causation. You've done a lot to argue the negligence part but have done nothing to address the causation part of this.
The President is a guest at the WHCD. Thus, the SS is not going to protect the entire event. It is going to make sure there are layers of security to protect the President. Those layers worked perfectly in this case. The perp got tackled right away and no one was hurt. That is how security is supposed to work.
Again, I have said from the very beginning that it is appropriate to do a thorough investigation of the incident and make appropriate security protocol changes in the future, if necessary. But if some crazy person wants to travel the country by train and smuggle guns into a hotel by suitcase and then run at breakneck speed through security, there is precious little a hotel can do to stop that.
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Shut up, snowflakes.