Thursday, July 18, 2024
Headed For Obsolescence’: Chinese Automakers Could Be Poised to Wipe Out American Car Titans
Chinese competitors are poised to take over approximately one-third of the global market share by 2030 with particularly strong growth in Europe, South America and Asia driven by EVs and plug-in hybrids, AlixPartners projects in its report. - NICK POPE
“China is the industry’s new disruptor – capable of creating must-have vehicles that are faster to market, cheaper to buy, advanced on tech and design, and more efficient to build.
“China is the industry’s new disruptor – capable of creating must-have vehicles that are faster to market, cheaper to buy, advanced on tech and design, and more efficient to build.
For traditional [manufacturers], keeping pace with China’s strongest brands will require more than a course correction.”
Secret Service responsible for security failure at rally while trying to blame local police, says district attorney | Blaze Media
Secret Service responsible for security failure at rally while trying to blame local police, says district attorney | Blaze Media:
Butler County district attorney Richard Goldinger made the claim in an interview with the Washington Post. Goldinger said that the SWAT teams in his jurisdiction were located within the secure perimeter while it was the responsibility of the Secret Service to secure the area outside of that perimeter.
“Secret Service was in charge, and so it was their responsibility to make sure that the venue and the surrounding area was secure," he explained.
“There’s something Eric Hoffer said: ‘Intellectuals cannot operate at room temperature.’
Instapundit- All this talk about “turning down the heat” after the assassination attempt reminded me of something
...I read on Instapundit years ago that resonated with me, so I searched and found it:
https://instapundit.com/462312/
As Thomas Sowell told an interviewer in 2004, “There’s something Eric Hoffer said: ‘Intellectuals cannot operate at room temperature.’
So here is the catch-22 Democrats face when told to “turn down the heat”: Trump IS the heat Democrats need in order to function. If they can’t continue to bloviate and hyperbolize about Trump as an existential threat, then they’re paralyzed. They will fall from their high perches like Florida iguanas in winter. And then this just becomes a contest between one candidate that takes bullets and another that takes naps. They can’t have that.
This seems right to me. Also: “a contest between one candidate that takes bullets and another that takes naps.” Brilliant. - by Glenn Reynolds
History for July 18
History for July 18 - On-This-Day.com 
Hunter S. Thompson 1937
- 0064 - The Great Fire of Rome began.
- 1872 - The Ballot Act was passed in Great Britain, providing for secret election ballots.
- 1914 - Six planes of the U.S. Army helped to form an aviation division called the Signal Corps.
- 1932 - The U.S. and Canada signed a treaty to develop the St. Lawrence Seaway.
- 1936 - The first Oscar Meyer Wienermobile rolled out of General Body Company’s factory in Chicago, IL.
- 1936 - The Spanish Civil War began as Gen. Francisco Franco led an uprising of army troops based in Spanish North Africa.
- 1947 - U.S. President Truman signed the Presidential Succession Act, which placed the Speaker of the House and the Senate President Pro Tempore next in the line of succession after the vice president.
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
Nearly 30 mins before assassination attempt, officer spotted suspected shooter on roof and reported him, sources say | Blaze Media
Nearly 30 mins before assassination attempt, officer spotted suspected shooter on roof and reported him, sources say | Blaze Media:
That person called in the report of a suspicious person and also took a photo of the man who was later confirmed to be Crooks, according to the report.
WPXI said it was unclear whether Crooks had a gun when he was first spotted.
About 26 minutes later, the gunshots were fired at the former president.
The revelation will likely increase the scrutiny placed on the Secret Service agents and other law enforcement officials who were tasked with protecting Trump at the rally.
Assassination Porn and the Sickness on the Left - Victor Davis Hanson
Now, it as if the imagined killing of Trump had been mainstreamed and become acceptable in a way inconceivable of other presidents. - Victor Davis Hanson @VDHanson
(Do we remember the rodeo clown who merely wore an Obama mask during a bull riding contest and was punished by being permanently banned by the Missouri State Fair authorities?)
So since at least 2016 there has been a parlor game among Leftist celebrities and entertainers joking (one hopes), dreaming, imagining, and just talking about the various and graphic ways they would like to assassinate or seriously injure Trump:
- By slugging his face (Robert De Niro),
- by decapitation (Kathy Griffin, Marilyn Manson),
- by stabbing (Shakespeare in the Park),
- by clubbing (Mickey Rourke),
- by shooting ( Snoop Dogg),
- by poisoning (Anthony Bourdain),
- by bounty killing (George Lopez),
- by carrion eating his corpse (Pearl Jam),
- by suffocating (Larry Whilmore), by blowing him up (Madonna, Moby),
- by throwing him over a cliff (Rosie O’Donnell),
- just by generic “killing” him (Johnny Depp, Big Sean), or
- by martyring him (Reid Hoffman: “Yeah, I wish I had made him an actual martyr.”).
Or should we deplore the use of telescopic scope imagery, given that the Left blamed Sarah Palin for once using bullseye spots on an election map of opposition congressional districts, claiming that such usage had incited the mass shooting by Jared Lee Loughner?..
Media hypocrisy on display!-----Biden Flails Trying to Defend "Bullseye" Remark About Trump JAZZ SHAW
Things got a bit dicey, however, when Holt asked Biden about his recent comments saying that he needed to put Donald Trump "in a bullseye"
Biden made a couple of attempts at defending his remarks, but let's just say that it didn't go well. (NY Post)
She clearly wasn't identifying literal targets for physical attacks, but that's how the left decided to run with it, so here we are...
...But the Democrats are the ones who set up the rules for this game, dating back at least to their scathing criticism of Sarah Palin for posting a map with some crosshairs on it.President Biden appeared to defend saying that Democrats should put Donald Trump in a “bullseye” less than a week before the former president was shot, saying “I didn’t say crosshairs.”
“I was talking about ‘focus on,'” the 81-year-old president told NBC anchor Lester Holt in an interview Monday.
“Look, the truth of the matter was, what I guess I was talking about at the time was there was very little focus on Trump’s agenda.”
A woke joke: Secret Service failure for Trump blamed on leftist insanity * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh
A woke joke: Secret Service failure for Trump blamed on leftist insanity * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh:
The question Rufo raised: "Why so many female agents? The answer, unfortunately, is the same as in many other institutions: DEI. The Secret Service has highlighted 'diversity' as a key priority and its director, Kimberly Cheatle, hired by President Biden in 2022, has pledged to increase dramatically the number of women in the ranks."
So now the official policy of the Secret Service is to hire, and promote "woman, LGBT, Native Americans, and other identity groups" as a higher priority than the absolute brute strength needed to protect a president or candidate.
Sketchy Business Behind: Thomas Matthew Crooks - The Last Refuge
I’m having trouble believing the constructed narrative around President Trump’s attempted assassin, Thomas Matthew Crooks.
- ...According to what little data footprint is available and shared by media, Thomas Matthew Crooks, age 20, DOB: 09-20-2003, had no social media presence. Let that sink in for a moment. A 20-year-old in 2024 with no social media presence.
- No TikTok, WhatsAp, Telegram, SnapChat, Insta, Twit, FB, gaming profile or Apple ID to correspond with his almost guaranteed iPhone, XBox or Playstation? Sorry, not even close to plausible.
- Second, it’s Deja-vu all over again with the picture (seen above left) that is widely being used by media in stories about Matthew Crooks. The above image is his freshman high school picture. [SEE HERE]
- There are no recent or current pictures of 20-year-old Crooks taken by friends, family, or in this era, selfies? And the picture on the left is the best image the media can come up with?
Sources: Trump shooter spotted nearly 30 MINUTES before shots fired! * WorldNetDaily * by Joe Kovacs
Sources: Trump shooter spotted nearly 30 MINUTES before shots fired! * WorldNetDaily * by Joe Kovacs:
Earlier, another rally attendee told BBC News he tried to alert authorities to the gunman, to no avail.
"We're pointing at the guy crawling up the roof," the man explained.
"He had a rifle, we could clearly see him with a rifle absolutely. We're pointing at him. The police are down there running around on the ground. We're like. Hey man, there's a guy on the roof with a rifle. And the police were like, Huh, what? Like they didn't know what was going on. …
Show it to your family!-----The new film exposing the lie that the Earth is getting too hot is titled “Climate: The Movie”
Carbon dioxide is *not* the climate control knob. - Bob Evermon
It has been awarded First Prize at the Las Vegas Film Festival today...
The Movie won the Best International Documentary award at FreedomFest's Anthem Film Festival in Las Vegas today.
- There is no climate crisis.
- The Earth isn't too hot.
- The weather isn't getting worse.
- Carbon dioxide is *not* the climate control knob.
- Going back to year-1850 temperatures and CO2 levels would be harmful for life on Earth...
Dave Agema - After 4 years of complete failures in every respect,... | Facebook
After 4 years of complete failures in every respect, still 36% of democrats love Biden.
It is living proof that some democrats would vote for a bastard dog if it has democrat written on it.
These are communist people who look to gov’t as their god.
Most are on some sort of “ entitlement” which they are NOT entitled to.
It’s a great incentive to get off their lazy butts and work.
These are communist people who look to gov’t as their god.
Most are on some sort of “ entitlement” which they are NOT entitled to.
- We have become what we used to fight against and the communist didn’t have to fire a shot, just make lazy Americans vote for whoever gives them something they didn’t work for.
It’s a great incentive to get off their lazy butts and work.
- America is very near 50% if the people working to support 50% that don’t.
- It’s unsustainable...
That was "RAMPED UP" security?!!!---Secret Service ramped up security after receiving intel of Iranian plot to assassinate Trump; no known connection to shooting | CNN Politics
a development that led to the Secret Service increasing security around the former president, multiple people briefed on the matter told CNN.
- US authorities obtained intelligence from a human source in recent weeks on a plot by Iran to try to assassinate Donald Trump, a development that led to the Secret Service increasing security around the former president, multiple people briefed on the matter told CNN.
- The existence of the intelligence threat from a hostile foreign intelligence agency — and the enhanced security for Trump — raises new questions about the security lapses at the Saturday rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and how a 20-year-old man managed to access a nearby rooftop to fire shots that injured the former president...
- In response to the increased threat, Secret Service surged resources and assets for the protection of former President Trump. All of this was in advance of Saturday.”
- Secret Service officials have warned the Trump campaign repeatedly against holding outdoor rallies...
Trump finally announces his VP pick | Blaze Media
Trump finally announces his VP pick | Blaze Media:
President Donald Trump named Sen. James David Vance (R-Ohio) Monday as his vice presidential pick.
Trump said in a statement Monday afternoon that after "lengthy deliberation and thought, and considering the tremendous talents of many others, I have decided that the person best suited to assume the position of Vice President of the United States is Senator J.D. Vance of the Great State of Ohio."
This Is What Happens When Media Pretends Everyone They Don’t Like Is Hitler By Jeff Charles
When Trump first came on the scene announcing his intention to run for president, Democratic politicians and members of the activist media did their level best to portray him as the second coming of Adolf Hitler and his supporters as modern-day Nazis.
- To those who have been following American politics closely over the past decade, the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump is not a shock.
- Even the most cursory of glances at the political division in this country could tell you that this was a matter of when, not if...
- The effort to paint the right as a pernicious threat to “democracy” has not abated since 2016. Indeed, it has intensified.
Salon did something similar in a piece taking issue with Trump questioning the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.
It is a question I often hear people ask during conversations about the rise of Adolf Hitler: If I had been alive in Germany when the Nazis took power, would I have had the courage to side against them?...
Hitler rose to power because he told a Big Lie...
The same dynamic is true regarding Donald Trump's claim that Joe Biden stole the election from him. It is a Big Lie being embraced to advance a racist, anti-democratic agenda. Anyone who doesn't stand up to that Big Lie today would have likely been complicit in Hitler's Big Lie last century. Anyone who actually believes Trump's Big Lie ... do I need to finish that sentence?
History for July 17
History for July 17 - On-This-Day.com 
Phyllis Diller 1917 - Comedian
- 1212 - The Moslems were crushed in the Spanish crusade.
- 1821 - Spain ceded Florida to the U.S.
- 1867 - Harvard School of Dental Medicine was established in Boston, MA. It was the first dental school in the U.S.
- 1917 - The British royal family adopted the Windsor name.
- 1945 - U.S. President Truman, Soviet leader Josef Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill began meeting at Potsdam in the final Allied summit of World War II.
- 1955 - Disneyland opened in Anaheim, CA.
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
Report: Biden told Donors it was 'Time to Put Trump in the Bullseye"
Report: Biden told Donors it was 'Time to Put Trump in the Bullseye":
Biden’s comments came days before what sounded like gunshots were heard at Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on Saturday.
As the gunshots were heard, Secret Service agents could be seen swarming over to protect Trump as the crowd began screaming and ducking.
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