trump assassination attempt? 2024

OldMedUser

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This morning in my FB feed is this video of Trump hitting Kamala in the head with a golf ball. I complained, isn't that promoting violence? I tell you what, go hit somebody in the head with a golf ball as hard as you can throw it. Now use a golf club and do it 50 mph faster. Sounds pretty violent to me, not funny. FB left it up cause it did not violate their community standards.
Last week I posted a video of a little girl interacting with a baby dolphin. I got a nasty gram from FB telling me they were taking it down because I was trying to garner likes or followers or some such thing and violated their community standards. I don't have any followers, it was for my friends and family.
I call FaceBook, FuckedBook, and have in my feed over there that I rarely post anything on. A close friend of ours had her account hacked and stolen a couple months ago and couldn't get them to get it back for her or at least pull it down. A couple weeks ago I get a friend request from her old account but almost accepted it. Called the wife in to have a look and she right away knew it was from the stolen account as it had the same picture but the face was blurred. Our friend used a pic of her cat on her new account.

I reported it to FB, and that's not easy to find how to do that, explaining it was a stolen account. Same shit where they were leaving it up as it didn't violate their community standards. I tried again asking how a reported stolen account could be allowed to stay up and it should be blocked as the thieves were contacting all her friends with friend requests. I guess so they could then do the same with more friends of friends then be able to wheedle personal info out of them for scams and such. Nope, so I guess it's cool with them.

I went into my settings and locked everything down to at most friends only as the default is allow anyone to access your account. My main use of FB is marketplace where I've been buying lots of stuff the last couple years and now selling off stuff to help clear up some of the clutter around here. Also for fishing related groups as I'm getting back into building rods and tying flies.

I hear a lot about rip-offs on marketplace but so far I haven't had a single problem. Bought a quad trailer, small boat with gas motor, electric trolling motor, a half dozen fly reels and a dead guys fly tying gear from his son and got decent deals for everything.

So many scams out there these days on social media. And when the people running these sites only care about their ad revenue and don't have any fucks to give about the people that they need to be there to generate said revenue we're suckers to be there. :(

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hanimmal

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https://apnews.com/article/trump-assassination-attempt-senate-report-secret-service-50af5692ca1489771144ac399d491e5e
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Multiple Secret Service failures ahead of the July rally for former President Donald Trump where a gunman opened fire were “foreseeable, preventable, and directly related to the events resulting in the assassination attempt that day,” according to a bipartisan Senate investigation released Wednesday.

Similar to the agency’s own internal investigation and an ongoing bipartisan House probe, the interim report from the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee found multiple failures on almost every level ahead of the Butler, Pennsylvania shooting, including in planning, communications, security and allocation of resources.

“The consequences of those failures were dire,” said Michigan Sen. Gary Peters, the Democratic chairman of the Homeland panel.

Investigators found that there was no clear chain of command among the Secret Service and other security agencies and no plan for coverage of the building where the shooter climbed up to fire the shots. Officials were operating on multiple, separate radio channels, leading to missed communications, and an inexperienced drone operator was stuck on a help line after his equipment wasn’t working correctly.

Communications among security officials were a “multi-step game of telephone,” Peters said.

The report found the Secret Service was notified about an individual on the roof of the building approximately two minutes before shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks opened fire, firing eight rounds in Trump’s direction less than 150 yards from where the former president was speaking. Trump, the 2024 Republican presidential nominee, was struck in the ear by a bullet or a bullet fragment in the assassination attempt, one rallygoer was killed and two others were injured before the gunman was killed by a Secret Service counter-sniper.

Approximately 22 seconds before Crooks fired, the report found, a local officer sent a radio alert that there was an armed individual on the building. But that information was not relayed to key Secret Service personnel who were interviewed by Senate investigators.

The panel also interviewed a Secret Service counter-sniper who reported seeing officers with their guns drawn running toward the building where the shooter was perched, but the person said they did not think to notify anyone to get Trump off the stage.

The Senate report comes just days after the Secret Service released a five-page document summarizing the key conclusions of a yet-to-be finalized Secret Service report on what went wrong, and ahead of a Thursday hearing that will be held by a bipartisan House task force investigating the shooting. The House panel is also investigating a second assassination attempt on Trump earlier this month when Secret Service agents arrested a man with a rifle hiding on the golf course at Trump’s Florida club.

Each investigation has found new details that reflect a massive breakdown in the former president’s security, and lawmakers say there is much more they want to find out as they try to prevent it from happening again.

“This was the result of multiple human failures of the Secret Service,” said Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, the top Republican on the panel.

The senators recommended that the Secret Service better define roles and responsibilities before any protective event, including by designating a single individual in charge of approving all the security plans. Investigators found that many of the people in charge denied that they had responsibility for planning or security failures, and deflected blame.

Advance agents interviewed by the committee said “that planning and security decisions were made jointly, with no specific individual responsible for approval,” the report said.

Communication with local authorities was also poor. Local law enforcement had raised concern two days earlier about security coverage of the building where the shooter perched, telling Secret Service agents during a walk through that they did not have the manpower to lock it down. Secret Service agents then gave investigators conflicting accounts about who was responsible for that security coverage, the report said.

The internal review released last week by the Secret Service also detailed multiple communications breakdowns, including an absence of clear guidance to local law enforcement and the failure to fix line-of-sight vulnerabilities at the rally grounds that left Trump open to sniper fire and “complacency” among some agents.

“This was a failure on the part of the United States Secret Service. It’s important that we hold ourselves to account for the failures of July 13th and that we use the lessons learned to make sure that we do not have another failure like this again,” said Ronald Rowe Jr., the agency’s acting director, after the report was released.

In addition to better defining responsibility for events, the senators recommended that the agency completely overhaul its communications operations at protective events and improve intelligence sharing. They also recommended that Congress evaluate whether more resources are needed.

Democrats and Republicans have disagreed on whether to give the Secret Service more money in the wake of its failures. A spending bill on track to pass before the end of the month includes an additional $231 million for the agency, but many Republicans have said that an internal overhaul is needed first.

“This is a management problem plain and simple,” said Republican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, the top Republican on the Homeland panel’s investigations subcommittee.

Santana covers the Department of Homeland Security for The Associated Press. She has extensive experience reporting in such places as Russia, Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Editing this in because I want to see what the troll verse is talking about later on:
 
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