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That isn't what DEI does.

Commented: Monday, July 15th, 2024 @ 9:38 am By: Big Bob

For now, I'm confining my remarks just to the bad security failure at the Butler, PA event. Having had a lot of experience a long time ago with military matters regarding physical security, it is really hard to imagine how this happened. With the line of sight of the shooter's rooftop with the speaker's stage and the very short range between the two, how did they not secure that rooftop? That should not have gotten by the lowest ranking member of any security team and is unbelievable that it was not a primary part of the security plan. Whether it is incompetence or worse this is gravely concerning.

Commented: Monday, July 15th, 2024 @ 8:33 am By: Charles Hickman

The kids the shooter went to school with say he was a loner, was badly bullied, was rejected because he was a bad shot when he tried out for the school rifle team, and that his family were withdrawn from the rest of the community. His father bought the rifle he used. The shooter made his first Democrat political contribution while he was 17 and still in high school. Not many high school kids make political contributions.

The BLM / ANTIFA riots were bi-racial, with BLM mostly black and ANTIFA mostly white. Both were radical extremist far left groups. Responsible black organizations like the NAACP and the Congress of Racail Equality do not riot or use violence and destruction.

THe only race hustler on this board, Little Bobbie, is YOU.

Being cheated out of an election is a very different thing from losing a fair and honest election. Trump responded with legal remedies and support of peaceful domonstrations. He did not want the agitators and instigators to do what they did at the Capitol, but even so, it lacked the violence and destruction of so many of the BLM / ANTIFA riots.

Commented: Monday, July 15th, 2024 @ 8:03 am By: Conservative Voter

Apples and oranges-CV -I understand you have a racist point of view and I'm sorry for you. Black people have a right to be treated as equals under the law. often they are not. BLM was a response to that.

Trump lost an election and had a tantrum.
There is no comparison.

Commented: Sunday, July 14th, 2024 @ 7:14 pm By: Big Bob

The question you should be asking is how does a kid like this get an AR-15? I understand it's legal but as we learn about him, we need to make a choice. Do we allow this or not? If so, nobody is safe.

Commented: Sunday, July 14th, 2024 @ 7:25 pm By: Big Bob

The shooter was a BIDEN DONOR. There is no question whose side he was on, He was also a donor to the Progressive Turnout Project in 2022, so he a a far leftist, too.
www.dailymail.co.uk

Even since the assassination attempt, a lot of lefties are melting down that the shooter missed.

Commented: Sunday, July 14th, 2024 @ 10:27 pm By: Rino Hunter

Thank you for pointing out a recent example of demonization of conservatives, Bob. Plans for new administrations to hit the ground running to implement their policies are something that is done for every new administration, state or federal, Republican or Democrat. For Team Biden to present the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 as anything unusual or sinister is just complete malarky. This planning is always done by the official campaign and usually by one or more sympathetic think tanks or policy groups as well. The Heritage Foundation is a well respected and long established conservative policy organization staffed by Reagan-style Republicans. They are not always on the exact same wavelength as Trump, who is more of a populist, but they are usually close.

I am personally aware of how these things work in a transition between administrations of different parties, having been through one at the state level between Republican Governor Jim Martin who I worked for as a political appointee and that of Democrat Jim Hunt. I saw both sides of it because, while the Hunt people originally told us that the top 6 political appointees (out of about 100 political appointees in an 18,000 employee department), of which I was one as the deparment's General Counsel had our last day on Governor Martin's last day in office, that changed because 1) Hunt did not have a replacement selected for my position, and 2) there were four very serious issues hanging where the two administrations were in agreement, but could not be left unattended. So for two months, until my replacement was selected and came on board, they kept me on as a consultant to ride herd on those issues.

Prior to the end of the Martin administration, we saw a lot of the official Hunt transition people asking questions and taking stock of things to make their plans to implement their policies. After Hunt took over, however, even in my limited capacity in the department, I became aware that there were also at least two plans from outside liberal groups that the Hunt people were also weighing and sometimes they disagreed with the original internal planning, so some changes got made. Both of the outside plans addressed one of the issues I was riding herd on differently than their internal plan and there was some uncertainly for a couple of weeks as to which way they would end up going. Ultimately they stuck with their own internal plan on that item.

In short, plans for new administrations like Project 2025 are not at all unusual in government. What is unusual is somebody trying to demonize them for political purposes. But that seems par for the course with the Biden Democrats.

Commented: Sunday, July 14th, 2024 @ 8:57 pm By: Steven P. Rader

Bobbie's tunnel vision is on display again. If he had read the post, he would have known that the DEI issue involved was filling a quota for women leading to unqualified Secret Service officers, and had NOTHING to do with blacks. Bobbie is deflecting by trying to change the discussion to blacks. The issue also had to do with the Secret Service, not the shooter. Is Bobbie smoking something other than a tobacco product?

The problem with DEI is that when you hire people based on quotas instead fo qualifications, you often get people who are not qualified to do the job.

Trump rallies have hardly been "all white". There are lots of interviews out there of blacks and Hispanics at Trump rallies.

The last line shows Bobbie is still following the talking points of demonizing their opposition. Northing seems to have changed.

Commented: Sunday, July 14th, 2024 @ 6:15 pm By: Conservative Voter

Something smells about this whole situation. Congress needs to invesstigate the Secret Service and the FBI and probably Mayorkas. And RFK, Jr. needs to be given protection.

Commented: Sunday, July 14th, 2024 @ 5:12 pm By: Bubba

You know my post is factually correct. Ignore my advice and watch the death toll rise. We all have guns.

I’ve never threatened anyone in any post I have ever made. My side did not storm the capitol.

Commented: Sunday, July 14th, 2024 @ 5:18 pm By: Big Bob

....but a registered republican.

my advice, we need two tone it down. We live in a country where its is acceptable to carry guns at all times. just about anyone and everyone. We choose this. It is our birthright. The result? People are going to get shot. Lots of people. That's just reality.

Itt could happen to JB, DT or any of us. We choose to live this way.
That said, I'm very sorry it happened. I dont like dt, I still dont like DT. I am happy to beat him at the ballot box. Not happy about him being shot.

We all need to tone it down.
Starting right here.
Both parties, republican and democrat, have a right to exist. Nobody needs a killin.

Commented: Sunday, July 14th, 2024 @ 1:40 pm By: Big Bob