Re: Whoops! The Atlantic Makes Trump Look EPIC In Cover Intended as a Smear

On Sep 15, 2024, Don wrote
(in article <20240915a@crcomp.net>):

The Horny Goat wrote:

Paul S Person wrote:
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I don't recall Trump holding a whip in his fist after being shot.

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I don't recall much being made of the assassination attempt in the
debate at all frankly especially not by the heavily Dem leaning ABC
crew.

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Another assassination attempt?!?!
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The State, Deep in the bowels of hell, acts as though Trump can
singlehandedly reverse centuries of sociological ratcheting.
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ObSF:
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"Flow my Tears" the Francis "Shakespeare" Bacon said.
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Danke,

M’man Routh was, apparently, a gung-ho gun-happy nut. The BBC has a nice
write up at https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq5eewvy3nlo

If you look at the aerial view in the article, the road directly to the south
of the Orange One’s golf course is Summit Blvd. The building across the
street at the point where Summit jogs north-east is the main office of the
county library. Next up is the county school board, and then the main post
office. The cut-out on the north is Sheriff’s HQ and lockup; inmates on the
top two floors of the lockup used to be able to see the golf course, before
spoil-sport Don raised the height of the hedge and the fence. The small
cut-out to the east is a fire station, County Station 33; there is low to
low-mid income housing on the other side of Kirk. (Lots of immigrants, mostly
Haitians; no reports of missing pets.) On the west side is Congress, with the
biggest strip club in the county, plus lots of bail bondsmen. North of the
sheriff’s office, on the other side of Gun Club Rd, is the National
Guard/Reserve Armory. Congress goes north and there’s an exit to Southern,
which leads to I-95. M’man Routh bailed that way and hauled ass north to
cowtown, a.k.a. Martin County (there’re more cattle than people in Martin
and Indian River counties...) where he discovered that he can’t outrun a
radio.

Note #1: the media is calling the weapon an AK-47 type rifle. Of course, the
media calls all Kalashnikov weapons, and anything even vaugely similar to a
Kalashnikov weapon, AK-47s. It’s particularly amusing when its an AKS, or,
worse, a SKS. (I only wish that I was making this up... Aparently if it’s
Russian and ain’t a pistol it’s an AK...)

Note #2: at the time of this incident I was in the library. When I left,
there were swarms of PBCS deputies all over, and Summit west-bound was
blocked off. There were more deputies at Summit and Kirk, they wouldn’t let
anyone except the fire-rescue guys from Station 33 go west, and those heading
east got a quick look-over. Multiple helos, from the Sheriff’s Office, from
the Coast Guard, (yes, the Coasties, in their red and white...) and at least
one in grey that was probably Air Force, were up. I had no idea what was
going on, and the deputies weren’t answering questions. I figured that it
probably involved the Orange One and that it was a good idea to Be Somewhere
Else. I found out what was happening when I got home, local news was full of
it, one of the helos was apparently the Channel 5 news helo.

Note #3: Summit between Kirk and Congress was still blocked off as of 9:00
this morning. The lead pic on the BBC article shows the Station 33
fire-rescue guys trying to get past Sheriff Ric's (no ‘k’, he hates it if
you spell his name with a ‘k’) deputies. That pic is the intersection of
Kirk and Summit.

Note #4: Sheriff Ric is pissed. He’s taking this personally. It’s a good
thing for m’man Routh that it was the Martin County boys who caught him,
there might have been an unfortunate incident if Ric’s little helpers and
done it.