Shot In The Dark

They got Tupac, didn't they?

This is not a failure of law enforcement, this is a failure of COMMUNICATION!

Tell everybody guns are cool and the government is the enemy of the people and what do you expect?

And then you've got Elon Musk asking on X why this doesn't happen to Harris and Walz and when confronted with the blowback he deletes the tweet and says it's all a joke. Explain to me how that works again?

If you want to be horrified, or if you just want an adjustment, you need to read yesterday's excerpt from the new book about Donald Trump and "The Apprentice":

"The Star-Making Machine That Created 'Donald Trump' - The inside story of how the producers of "The Apprentice" crafted a TV version of Mr. Trump — measured, thoughtful and endlessly wealthy — that ultimately fueled his path to the White House."

Free link: https://t.ly/u9X6Z

This is not dense, like the article on Roberts and the Supreme Court in the same edition, this is easily read and I highly recommend it, but since it's so hard to get people to click through, let me just give you a few quotes:

"The first thing they noticed was the stench, a musty carpet odor that followed them like an invisible cloud. Then they spotted scores of chips in the finish of the wooden desks and credenzas."

And:

"The place did not exactly buzz with energy either. Fewer than 50 people worked at Trump Organization headquarters in midtown Manhattan. At the office's spiritual center, Mr. Trump's own desk bore no evidence of work, no computer screens or piles of contracts and blueprints, just a blanket of news articles focused on one subject: himself.

And:

"'He would fire the absolute wrong person,' recalled Mr. Braun, who came to recognize the times when Mr. Trump 'had no idea what was going on, and he would just make something up.'"

It's a myth baby, TV sold it and America bought it.

And then the disenfranchised turned over America's table.

Let's be clear, Clinton was out of touch. Hell, the Democratic party is still out of touch, I haven't yet recovered from how they covered up Biden's foibles, thinking we'd buy that he's spry and up to the job in his eighties. And we had a media that bought it, as if we can't see the truth with our own eyes.

And the truth is that Trump has been inciting violence for years. Rile people up and you get results. These people are doing God's work, at least that's what they believe.

And then you've got J.D. Vance. Unlike Trump, Vance is actually smart, even though his book was fiction and he worked with Peter Thiel and knows about as much about the rank and file as Prince William, never mind his brother.

This is what the Trumpsters don't understand. Trump and Vance can't be on your side because they never experienced your side, they've got no idea what it is, they don't live that way, and in the case of Trump, never has. This is not Bernie Sanders up from nothing.

It's not like the past has not been prologue. January 6th was enough. But we had the Bundy standoff before that. All kinds of people who think the rules don't apply to them. Destabilizing the government. So they can...

Exactly what? Bring chaos to the country at large?

Kind of like the death of Roe v. Wade?

Sure, it's sad we live in a nation where rogue actors take pot shots at our officials, but let's stop with the kumbaya. Sure, there are mentally ill independent actors, but even they are inspired by the news they're exposed to. Like that child sex ring run out of a pizza parlor.

The Democrats don't know how to fight back. Call a spade a spade. They say to wait until it works its way through the courts, which is interminable and too many of the Trump judges rule in his favor.

How come Trump knows it's about hearts and minds and the Democrats don't?

And I don't care how many Secret Service people you put on Trump, if someone wants to get him, they will. That's how the world works. No one is safe. This is just another demonization of the government. Hell, the Mafia can't keep people safe and crime is their business! The only way to stay completely safe is to never go outside your bunker, and surround that with concertina wire and security. And that's no way to live.

It's everybody's fault but theirs. The immigrants. Unless you're descended from a Native American, you're an immigrant too. And just like the Nazis incarcerated everybody with a hint of Jewish blood, even if they went to church, if we went back far enough you'd be considered an immigrant too.

As far as being a real American... What exactly does that mean? I'm here, I'm a citizen, I'm not real?

But it gets worse than that... The WaPo predicts the Republicans will take over the Senate. Why not, when the two Dakotas get four Senators between them. Same deal with Wyoming.

And there's the Electoral College. The game is rigged for Republicans but it's still not enough for them.

So you hate me and you hate the Democratic elite. Fine. What's your solution for school shootings?

Once again, I don't care how many ARs you've got, you're no match for the government, which can squash you like a bug. Stop with the fantasy that guns can keep the government in line.

As for assault rifles... Everybody's so afraid of alienating a minority of the public, a minority of gun owners, that no action can be taken. This is just like the inane politicians who flipped and now pay fealty to Trump. You may be keeping your job, for a while anyway, but you're making things worse, not better.

Did you read the story in Saturday's "Wall Street Journal" about Ford's CEO being freaked out by electric cars in China?

"What Scared Ford's CEO in China - Jim Farley is changing strategy to combat what he calls an 'existential threat' from  China's electric carmakers"

Free link: https://t.ly/R7DII

Bottom line, if it weren't for protectionism, China would soon own our car market. This is not Yugos, this is electric cars and some hybrids priced low with features you can't even dream of.

But what are we told? We need more oil! Drill, baby drill!

And if you don't like the news in the right wing paper of record, here's an equivalent piece in the left:

"Trump's Obsession With Oil Could Destroy America's Auto Industry"

Free link: https://t.ly/zoaOy

Share the above two articles with everybody you know.

We need a moon shot, an equivalent to JFK's promise to put a man on the moon in the sixties, something we actually did, when the U.S. was still a can-do nation.

People don't understand the problem. You make it a movement. You need a better name than "The Green New Deal." It has to be about saving America, if you want to make America great again this is how you do it, as opposed to fantasizing about a past era that wasn't so good to begin with and will never come back.

People don't know the truth. And therefore they act on falsehoods.

And my inbox is inundated with lefties decrying the "New York Times."

But the joke is on them. You want to compete with the "Times," do your own reporting. Furthermore, most of the complaints are about the Op-Ed pages, which are inherently opinion.

So it's not only those on the right who don't get it.

And we've got parents who don't want schools to shut out cell phones because... They want to be able to get in touch with their progeny in case of a school shooting. How upside down is that!

This is the nation we now live in. Where everybody's living in fear.

While they feel powerless.

And then some martyrs, uninformed and uneducated, decide to take matters into their own hands.

Trump is responsible for the assassination attempts. Period. But in the topsy-turvy world we live in, they're blaming it on Harris and Walz. Is there no truth left?

You can't be afraid of the other side.

God, I wish Kamala Harris would speak English, say under Biden things have actually been pretty good, better than all the countries in Europe. Lower inflation... You've got to own your victories instead of running away from them. Own your truth if you want to win. Start running on Biden's record. The question isn't whether you're better off today or four years ago, the story is how we beat Covid and not only survived, but thrived! That's quite an accomplishment.

As for vaccines... They protect against death. Every study says that.

Where fewer people were vaccinated there were more deaths.

When are people going to start telling the truth?

Oh, you get it on social media.

Like that woman who responded to former Trump White House personnel chief John McEntee who said no women were "bleeding out" as a result of abortion bans:

Check this out: https://t.ly/m2LS2

Meanwhile, Harris keeps asking us for money for TV advertising. Who in the hell is watching linear TV, and how many of those people have not made up their minds?

But as a matter of fact, the Harris team is deep into TikTok, you can read all about it here:

"The 'feral 25-year-olds' making Kamala Harris go viral on TikTok': https://t.ly/yv0jN

All the action is online and the left wing elite keep telling us to get off our smartphones. How do you think you get the message out today?

I'm just irritated because everybody in the news yesterday was dancing around the issue, talking about the shooter instead of the target. Yes, it's interesting another person wanted to take out Trump, but can you focus on Trump, can you stop being afraid, and can you speak in plain English?

The right can stay in its bunker, refuse to believe the truth.

And the left can be afraid to say the truth.

But I'm not.


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