24-7-13 Schade

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24-7-13 Shooter dead and attendee killed at tRUMP rally - CBC > .

24-11-4 Security: Air Force One, The Beast, Marine One - AiTelly > . skip > .

24-10-23 Political Ponerology (Study of Evil) - Notes > .

24-10-22 Democrat vs Republican brain scans - Jack Gordon > .

24-9-29 [Ex-FBI Andrew McCabe: Secret Service vs Assassination Attempts] - 60 > .

24-9-29 [Could Attempted Assassination Have Been Prevented in Butler] - 60 Min > .

24-7-14 Attempt: Geolocation of tRUMP, Shooter, Secret Service Sniper - Such > .

24-7-14 Secret Service Sniper Drops Would-Be Assassin - T&P > .

24-7-14 How tRUMP's Attempted Assassination Unfolded | WSJ > .

24-7-14 What the Failed Assassination Attempt Could Mean for Election - Span > .

24-7-14 Покушение на Трампа | Assassination Attempt - Impacts? (subs) - Katz > .

24-7-15 [Failed] Attempted Assasination illustrated in 3D - Mike Bell > ⏩

24-7-15 Assassination Attempt and A Changing World || Peter Zeihan > .

24-7-16 Mapping the [Failed] Shooting - fern > ⏩

24-7-16 Debunking Conspiracy Theories Around Assassination Attempt | WSJ > .

24-7-16 [Finding a Scapegoat] Secret Service Security Failures re-Attempt | WSJ > .

24-7-16 [Xina Reactions to Shooting at Rally] - Update > .

24-7-16 How Assassin Evaded Secret Service Security Detail - T&P > .

24-7-16 Assassination [Attempt]: Konstantin Kisin Not Surprised - Triggernometry > .

24-7-16 [Moanstream Media's Mealy-Mouthed Failure] - Winston M > . skip > .

24-7-17 [Animation, Analysis of Attempted Assassination] - AiTelly > ⏩

24-7-17 [RepuGNicans Whining & Blaming; Democrats Remarkably Polite] | WSJ > .

24-7-19 [American credulity -- hunt for a shooting conspiracy] | ABC Aus > .
24-7-19 Huge Legal Issues of Trump's Assassination* - Legal Eagle > .

24-7-19 Stop Obsessing Over the Polls || Peter Zeihan > .

24-7-23 How Secret Service Failed During Attempted Assassination - AiTelly > ⏩

24-7-23 Audio Analysis | Multiple shooter [conspiracies debunked] | Mike Bell > ⏩

24-7-26 Secret Service Hearing was a Trainwreck - T&P > . skip > .

24-8-1 How the Secret Service Failed Catastrophically - Real > .

[the clipped ear >]

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> MAGAtry >>

24-8-6 Anne Applebaum: XIR & Autocracy “Infecting US Politics” | A&Co > .

24-7-25 Replying to Donald Trump Jr's [false equivalence] Nonsense - Betty > .

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24-7-15 ['Murica] - Violence Against Politicians Has Surged | WSJ > .

24-7-15 The Long Simmer of Political Violence in America - The Atlantic > .

24-7-15 Making Sense Of Political Violence In America | 538 Politics Podcast > .

Агент Оранж: Despot 2025 - Present Tense >> .

Failing Experiment - Guy Lewis >> .

MAGAcide - Shrink Rap >> .

'Murican Xharia Law 2025 - Bonum V. Mālum >> .

Political Ideologies - Illustrate to Educate >> .

Security Logistics - Armor >> .

>> Authoritarianism >>>

>> Politics >>>

   > RWA - Right Wing Authoritarianism >>

>> Sociopolitical Dysfunction >>>

Tragically, a bystander was killed and others injured during the shooting mêlée. The 20-year-old shooter was shot and killed by Secret Service snipers. agrtdr

Needless to say, conspiracy theories have sprung up like weeds. "People can be prone to believe in conspiracy theories due to a combination of personality traits and motivations, including relying strongly on their intuition, feeling a sense of antagonism and superiority toward others, and perceiving threats in their environment, according to research published by the American Psychological Association. .... The researchers found that overall, people were motivated to believe in conspiracy theories by a need to understand and feel safe in their environment and a need to feel like the community they identify with is superior to others. .... The researchers also found that people with certain personality traits, such as a sense of antagonism toward others and high levels of paranoia, were more prone to believe conspiracy theories. Those who strongly believed in conspiracy theories were also more likely to be insecure, paranoid, emotionally volatile, impulsive, suspicious, withdrawn, manipulative, egocentric and eccentric." 

[The APA article does not address another likely cause of trips down the rabbit hole ---- social-media algorithms are designed to amplify any tendency toward viewing/reading material that promotes suspicions.]

In 70 years, this prophesy proved accurate: “As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.” ― H.L. Mencken, On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe (1956)

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24-6-27 Sad! 24-7-21 Better! ..

American Democracy Threatened ..

fIQ - Cognitive Flexibility/Rigidity .. 

Free Speech in the West ⇻

Free Speech vs Censorship ⇻

Freedom To vs Freedom From ⇻

Insurrection 2021-1-6 ..
MAGAtry ..
Overton Window ..
Political Shifts ..

Schade [failed assassination attempt, attendee killed] 24-7-13 ..

Thirteen Keys ..
Tools of Political Warfare ..
Undermining Democracy ..

24-7-8 Ruscist Atrocities Continue

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24-7-8 [Kyiv] Children’s hospital comes under [targeted] attack - Kyiv I > .

24-7-8 Ruscians bomb kid’s hospital in Kyiv: Details from the scene - Kyiv P > .

24-7-8 Kyiv Suffers Missile Attack. Ruscians [Target] Children's Hospital - U24 > .

24-7-8 Kyiv: "Many wounded children waiting for hospitalization" - hro > .

24-7-8 Ruzzian Army Nazis in Ukraine | Real Face of the Ruzzian regime - Denys > .

24-7-9 russian terrorists attacked Ukrainian children | Starsky > .
> Authoritarianism >>  > Axes of Evil >> 

> Crime >>  > Crimes & Lies >>

> Fiendish >>  > > Krumblin > >

> Mindsets >>  > NoXious World Order >> 

> RWA - Right Wing Authoritarianism >>  > Terrorism >>

> Western Democracies vs Autocracy >>  > Western Resistance >>

> Word Games - Geopolitical Manipulation >>

"For Kyiv residents, Monday morning started with loud explosions throughout the city. Russia launched a large-scale missile attack targeting the capital as well as cities in Dnipropetrovsk and Donetsk oblasts on the morning of July 8. As of 8 p.m., at least 38 people were killed, and 136 were wounded across Ukraine One of the heaviest strikes hit Kyiv’s Okhmatdyt hospital, Ukraine’s largest children’s medical center."

The war-crime performing Axis of Envious Resentment must NOT be allowed to succeed in their plans for NoXious World Domination.

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24-7-7 Le Phew!

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24-7-7 France's Election Results Explained - Simple > . skip > .

24-7-12 [Hung Parliament] France Plunged Into Political Uncertainty - Bloomberg > .

24-7-7 France's leftist bloc has early lead in election, far-right party in third - CBC > .

24-7-7 Far-right misses out on majority, hung parliament projected | ABC Aus > .

24-7-8 Andrew Neil – 'Not a good time for Western leadership' | Spectator > .

24-7-5 Hx National Rally's 50-year campaign to normalize fascism - Barely Inf > .

24-6-29 Fareed Zakaria: revolutions, tribalism, demise of West | Spectator > .

EU - European Upheavals - Bonum V. Mālum >> .

Eurōpa - pro libertate >>.

Europe - Compass >> .

Europe - Warographics >> .
Europe, EU, UN, Alliances - Present Tense >> .
European Economics - The Invisible Hand >> .
European Politics - Eyes Red >> .
European Shifts - anffyddiaeth >> .

rēs pūblica - pro libertate >> .

>> Europe >>>

National Rally set to come in 3rd despite topping 1st round CBC

"France is on course for a hung parliament in Sunday's election, early projections suggest, with a leftist alliance unexpectedly taking the top spot ahead of the far right in a potential major upset that would bar Marine Le Pen's National Rally from running the government."

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"But it will also be a major disappointment for Marine Le Pen's nationalist, Euroskeptic National Rally (RN) party. The RN, which had for weeks been projected to win the election, was seen getting 115 to 155 seats.

The party is currently led [nominally led] by Jordan Bardella, who succeeded Le Pen as leader [official leader] in November 2022.

Le Pen, daughter of the party's [Holocaust-denying] founder, remains a party member and retained her seat in the National Assembly during the first-round of voting last weekend."

Quickly outdated: AUDIO Why is France’s far right surging toward power? CBC

The National Rally (Rassemblement National, RN), known as the National Front from 1972 to 2018 (Front National, FN), is a French far-right party, described as populist and nationalist. It was the single largest parliamentary opposition party in the National Assembly from 2022 to 2024. Its candidate was defeated in the second round in the 2002, 2017 and 2022 presidential elections. It opposes immigration, advocating significant cuts to legal immigration, protection of French identity, and stricter control of illegal immigration. The party advocates a "more balanced" and "independent" French foreign policy, opposing French military intervention in Africa while supporting France leaving NATO's integrated command. It also supports reform of the European Union (EU) and its related organisations as well as economic interventionism, protectionism, and zero tolerance for breaches of law and order.

The party was founded in 1972 to unify the French nationalist movement. Holocaust denier Jean-Marie Le Pen founded the party and was its leader until his resignation in 2011. While the party was a marginal political force for its first ten years, it became a major force of French nationalism since 1984. It has put forward a candidate at every presidential election but one since 1974. In the 2002 presidential election, Jean-Marie Le Pen advanced to the second round but finished a distant second in the runoff to Jacques Chirac. [Jean-Marie's] daughter Marine Le Pen was elected to succeed him as party leader in 2012. She temporarily stepped down in 2017 in order to concentrate on her presidential candidacy; she resumed her leadership after the election. She headed the party until 2021, when she temporarily resigned again. A year later, Jordan Bardella was elected as her successor.

The party has seen an increase in its popularity and acceptance in French society in recent years. It has frequently been accused of promoting xenophobia and antisemitism. While her father was nicknamed the "Devil of the Republic" by mainstream media and sparked outrage for hate speech, including Holocaust denial and Islamophobia, Marine Le Pen pursued a policy of "de-demonisation" of the party by softening its image and trying to frame the party as being neither right nor left [despite classic right-wing policies and receiving funding from Vladimir Putin]. She endeavoured to extract it from its far-right roots, as well as censuring controversial members like her father, who was suspended and then expelled from the party in 2015.

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On the other hand, the far-left can be problematic in different ways.

The Risky Politics of France’s Hung Parliament tn

" .... in a resurrection of the so-called “republican front,” over 200 centrist and left-wing candidates withdrew before the July 7 runoff in order to block the far-right ticket. .... Divided between three acrimonious blocs, the new National Assembly points above all to a period of extended instability and institutional paralysis. .... There’s one crucial point of agreement between Macronists and the forces to their right: Any left-wing government, and specifically one with ministers from La France Insoumise, would be welcomed with an immediate vote of no confidence."

24-7-4 UK Upheaval

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24-7-4 Keir Starmer, Britain’s next prime minister - Economist > .

24-7-14 Can the Conservative party survive defeat? | FT > .

24-7-13 Who and What is Keir Starmer? David Starkey > .

24-7-12 Melanie Phillips: Britain chooses Labour [Danger to Israel, West] - JNS > .

24-7-5 Jonathan Pie: '50 Shades of Beige' | Britain's New PM | NYT > .

24-7-5 David Starkey: Starmer Will Impose New [weakist] Constitution - Culture > .

24-6-29 Fareed Zakaria: revolutions, tribalism, demise of West | Spectator > .

20-11-1 Simulating alternate voting systems - Primer > .

2024 General Election - New Statesman >> .

European Politics - Eyes Red >> .

Given that weakism has completely abandoned rationality, I expect that the British will soon be as sorry about this kneejerk landslide as they are about BrexTWIT. For Britain's sake, I hope I'm wrong. On the positive side: the SNP has taken a drubbing; Liz Truss lost her seat rather ungraciously, whereas others swamped by the changing tide were gracious losers; and, 30-years-wait-to-be-MP Nigel Farage's Reform accomplished little despite an annoying social media plague of Reform-bots.

A comment thread beginning with "Reform - 4 million votes and 5 seats. LibDem - 3.5 million votes and 71 seats" reveals much about the MAGA-like capacities of Reform voters = emotional reactivity with almost zero attempt to comprehend the underlying mechanisms of multi-party vote splitting in an FPP system.  

Tell the World - 8964

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Archive: Chinese troops fired on protesters in Tiananmen Square - BBC > .

Xina covering up 30th anniversary of Tiananmen Square Massacre - DW > .

Background to Tiananmen Square Massacre - Casual > .

Tiananmen Square Massacre: A Soldier's Perspective - ABC Aus > .

24-6-4 Tiananmen Square Anniversary = 35 years - Update > .

24-6-4 From Tiananmen Square to Xina's Most Wanted - FIRE > .

> Indoctrination >>

24-6-5 [Xit GPT: AI Devolution = Ideological Indoctrination] | Digging > .

The Tiananmen Square protests, known in China as the June Fourth Incident, or 8964, were student-led demonstrations held in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China, lasting from 15 April to 4 June 1989. After weeks of unsuccessful attempts between the demonstrators and the Chinese government to find a peaceful resolution, the Chinese government declared martial law on the night of 3 June and deployed troops to occupy the square in what is referred to as the Tiananmen Square massacre. The events are sometimes called the '89 Democracy Movement, the Tiananmen Square Incident, or the Tiananmen uprising.

The protests were precipitated by the death of pro-reform Chinese Communist Party (CCP) general secretary Hu Yaobang in April 1989 amid the backdrop of rapid economic development and social change in post-Mao China, reflecting anxieties among the people and political elite about the country's future. ... As the protests developed, the authorities responded with both conciliatory and hardline tactics, exposing deep divisions within the party leadership. By May, a student-led hunger strike galvanized support around the country for the demonstrators, and the protests spread to some 400 cities. In response, the State Council declared martial law on May 20 and on June 2, the CCP's Politburo Standing Committee made the decision to use military force to clear the square, leading to clashes between the military and demonstrators. Estimates of the death toll vary from several hundred to several thousand, with thousands more wounded. The vast majority of those killed were civilians, though a small number of soldiers were also killed.

The event had both short and long term consequences. Western countries imposed arms embargoes on China, and various Western media outlets labeled the crackdown a "massacre". In the aftermath of the protests, the Chinese government suppressed other protests around China, carried out mass arrests of protesters which catalyzed Operation Yellowbird, strictly controlled coverage of the events in the domestic and foreign affiliated press, and demoted or purged officials it deemed sympathetic to the protests. The government also invested heavily into creating more effective police riot control units. More broadly, the suppression ended the political reforms begun in 1986 and halted the policies of liberalization of the 1980s, which were only partly resumed after Deng Xiaoping's Southern Tour in 1992. Considered a watershed event, reaction to the protests set limits on political expression in China that have lasted up to the present day. The events remain one of the most sensitive and most widely censored topics in China.

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