Doctor Steuss wrote: ↑Tue Jul 16, 2024 8:40 pm
Third-person anecdote of sorts. This is kind of a game of telephone, even as far as anecdotes go, so grain of salt and all that jazz.
I have a friend who is an FBI agent that I chatted with while at lunch. He primarily works with financial crimes, and so regularly works with IRS agents, the Treasury (not sure if they have their own agents), and the Secret Service. Paraphrasing from memory (it’s only been about 30 minutes, but that’s an eternity for my noggin to retain something sometimes):
From some of his conversations with SS, they usually tag field offices for political security details for events. So, people whose bread-and-butter isn’t protective assignments, but investigating crimes (bank/mail/wire fraud, counterfeit currency, etc.) A President (or other high risk/ranked individual) will have their regular detail that travels with them, but they’ll also have to enlist people from the nearest field office(s) when traveling to cover all of the security requirements. My friend’s guess/assumption is that quite a few of the SS agents there likely spend their days investigating crimes, and hadn’t had to do a protective assignment since their training days (and were probably a few years of field service away from getting their first official protective assignment).
Again speculative anecdote, but I thought it was interesting and figured it might be worth passing along.
That sounds plausible, Steuss.
Here's my issue: We are talking about Donald J. Trump here. A man hated by millions of people. A man who has had his nards pulled out of the flames by partisan guardian angels much to the outrage of millions of Americans. A man who loves Vladimir Putin and other dictators. A man whose idea of restraint in public office is that he will only be a dictator on the first day of his presidency. A man who has raped more than one woman. A man who kept classified documents next to the toilet he can't even flush his gargantuan turds down.
So, given the fact that this guy is one of the most divisive personalities on the planet, you have to put that effer in a popemobile and surround him with all kinds of security precautions. There should have been Secret Service snipers on every building around that place. How could anyone not know this?
I think it is outrageous, and I would love nothing more than for God to intervene and send Donald to that giant gold toilet in the sky (with super flushing capabilities). But, come on, this is a colossal eff up. I think the only reason we are not beside ourselves with outrage is that most of us would be really relieved if the Donald were gone. I dearly hope no assassination attempt would be the culprit, or anything illegal, but, hey, if he tripped and hit the corner of his fat head on the sharp corner of a marble table? Act of God. I am relieved. So we subconsciously don't want to get worked up over it: "Oh, yeah! I guess that was kind of odd that there was inadequate security at his rally. Oops! Someone ought to look into that!"
"I have learned with what evils tyranny infects a state. For it frustrates all the virtues, robs freedom of its lofty mood, and opens a school of fawning and terror, inasmuch as it leaves matters not to the wisdom of the laws, but to the angry whim of those who are in authority.”
