Author: Blazingcatfur

Local counter-sniper team was inside building where Trump shooter climbed on the roof and opened fire: sources

A local police counter-sniper team was stationed inside the building where attempted assassin Thomas Crooks climbed on the roof and fired on Donald Trump, law enforcement sources told The Post.

The building — the AGR International Inc. factory in Butler, Pennsylvania — was being used by local police as a “watch post” for snipers to scan for threats as the former president spoke onstage

only 130 yards away, according to sources.

Incredible.

Stunning new details from @CBSNews on how secret service snipers noticed the shooter before the Trump rally in Butler, PA on Saturday.

There were three snipers stationed INSIDE the building the shooter was on, according to a local law enforcement officer with direct knowledge.

One of the snipers inside saw Crooks outside looking up at the roof observing the building and then disappeared, according to local law enforcement.

h/t Patti Jo & DS

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTrump Derangement Syndrome, WTF?

Vancouver Island University Gives Pro-Palestinian Protesters Trespass Notice

Vancouver Island University (VIU) has issued a trespassing notice to pro-Palestinian protesters on its Nanaimo campus.

The notice says that protesters must dismantle the encampment and leave by 8 a.m. on Monday, July 15.

“VIU had been hopeful the encampment could be resolved through dialogue between the university and student participants,” said a July 11 post on the school website.

This was getting awfully stale.

The Pallies have illustrated that they and their cult do not belong in Canada.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023"

Poll finds Canadians think Quebec takes too much, Alberta gives too much

Quebec was the province Canadians felt most likely to say had a disproportionate benefit from its place in Confederation, according to a poll conducted by the Angus Reid Institute (ARI).

A total of 42% of Canadians believe Quebec garners an extra advantage in Confederation, according to the Monday poll. While Quebec was the province Canadians believed was the most favoured, Ontario came in second place (24%).

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

They Don’t Want ‘Unity,’ They Want A Reset. Don’t Give It To Them.

Predictable as ever, Democrats and their reliable partners in the news media have escalated political conflict to the point of violence and now that the once unspeakable has happened they’re insisting on a do-over. No thanks!

Naturally, they don’t just come out and say that’s what they want. They instead dress it up in calls for “unity” and declare it a time to “cool it down.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTrump Derangement Syndrome

Woman sitting behind Trump during Pennsylvania assassination attempt goes viral for very strange behavior

A woman who was sitting behind Donald Trump when he survived his assassination attempt has sparked suspicion over her strange behavior.

Footage showing the unidentified woman — wearing sunglasses, a white shirt and a black hat — pulling out her phone as shots rang out at the Pennsylvania rally on Saturday has gone viral.

She did so while everyone else — including Trump — ducked down to the ground, in fear for their lives.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTrump Derangement Syndrome

76 Years of the Left’s Hitlers

On Saturday evening, we saw where the left’s overheated rhetoric leads.

Leftists have called Trump a traitor, an insurrectionist, a dictator, and much more. Above all, they have repeatedly likened him to the man whose name has become synonymous with evil, Adolf Hitler. Is it any wonder, in light of the way the left has portrayed Trump since 2015, that someone tried to kill him?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Progressive Hypocrites

The woke media’s grotesque gloating over the shooting of Trump

Imagine being taken off the airwaves because your bosses are worried you might gloat over an attempted murder. That, reportedly, has been the fate of pundits on MSNBC’s maddeningly woke talk show, Morning Joe. It’s been pulled from the air today, in the wake of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, allegedly out of fear that a guest might make an ‘inappropriate’ comment about the shooting. CNN has the lowdown. It reports that MSNBC benched its best-known show, despite the ‘seismic’ events of the past 48 hours, as a pre-emptive strike against the possibility that one of the ‘stable of two-dozen-plus guests’ would say something nuts about the violence visited on Trump.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTrump Derangement Syndrome

A Compromised Secret Service

The agency has sacrificed its basic mission on the altar of DEI.

It was a shot heard around the world.

On Saturday, a gunman whom the FBI has identified as Thomas Matthew Crooks fired a burst of rifle shots at former president Donald Trump, grazing his ear and nearly killing him. The attempted assassination is an historic, and perilous, moment. We’ll get commentaries and investigations, and the government will announce reforms.

But amid all the chaos weaves the thread of another story, one that reveals a mounting problem in our political life. A surprising number of the Secret Service agents protecting the former president were women. And, according to video recordings of the scene, many did not acquit themselves favorably.

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTrump Derangement Syndrome

Olympic ‘green’ cars are no such thing, say scientists

Toyota Mirai Hydrogen Vehicle

More than 100 scientists have criticised the choice of hydrogen-powered cars to transport athletes at the Paris Olympics, saying they are nothing like as environmentally friendly as claimed.

Hydrogen is being touted by Toyota, which is supplying the cars, and by the Paris 2024 organising committee as a green fuel that will ensure C02-free rides for the athletes as they are whisked past the traffic in the French capital in special “Olympic lanes” that opened on Monday. The lanes can only be used by vehicles accredited for the Olympics.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Net-Zero Tyranny"

Ukrainian army deserter shot dead as anger grows over recruitment drive

Almost 44 per cent of Ukrainians now believe it is time for Kyiv to hold official peace negotiations with Russia

A Ukrainian army deserter has been shot dead, and a military recruitment centre has been bombed as tensions rise over the country’s aggressive mobilisation drive.

As pressure on the front line mounts, with Russia sending waves of soldiers to overwhelm Ukraine, Kyiv has launched a forceful recruitment campaign.

It has led to reports of Ukrainian men fleeing over borders to avoid service, while The Telegraph has been told that medically unfit men are being mobilised.

I can’t help but think we are being kept in the dark. When your people flee rather than fight something is wrong.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia"

You mean there’s more than one?

UBC, U Alberta, U Guelph profs lament Trump assassination attempt failed, call it staged

Dr. Karen Pinder, a medical professor at University of British Columbia (UBC), said it’s “too bad” the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump was unsuccessful.

Trump on Saturday was shot at with a rifle from a rooftop during the Republican Convention in Pennsylvania Saturday. The bullet skimmed the cartilage in his ear, but otherwise he was unharmed. One person was killed, and two critically injured.

I don’t care what they said. I do care that their ideology may dictate the ill-treatment of students and colleagues they consider political enemies.

Send your kids to a trade school.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTrump Derangement Syndrome, WTF?

Secret Service Identified Rooftop as Potential Vulnerability Before Rally

The rooftop where a shooter positioned himself before nearly assassinating former President Donald Trump Saturday at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania was identified as a potential vulnerability in the days before the event, according to a report.

Two sources “familiar with the agency’s operations” told NBC News that the Secret Service was aware of the risks associated with the rooftop, which tops a glass research company next to the Butler Farm Show where the rally was taking place.

2 minute warning

h/t Patti Jo

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTrump Derangement Syndrome

CBC/Radio-Canada board approves bonuses for 2023-24, but will review practice

OTTAWA – The board of directors for CBC and Radio-Canada has approved bonuses for some staff, following a fiscal year that saw 141 employees let go, and another 205 vacant positions eliminated.

The decision was posted quietly on the public broadcaster’s website last month following a board of directors meeting.

A spokesman for CBC would not disclose how much money was doled out to the 1,194 eligible employees during the 2023-24 fiscal year, saying it’s internal information.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCBC

Taibbi: The Slow Motion Assassination

Matt Taibbi, as he so often does, hit the nail on the head with his Substack post calling the past eight years a “slow-motion assassination” of Donald Trump. The escalating rhetoric, the lawfare campaign, the comparisons to Hitler (and calling him “worse than Hitler), and the escalating panic that despite their legal and illegal campaign to destroy him he has become the likely winner of the 2024 election.

h/t DS

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTrump Derangement Syndrome