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As usual, in the immediate aftermath of any event, things reported as facts are just wrong. Even eyewitnesses claim to have seen things that it later turns out they could not possibly have seen. Call it the fog of war, it’s like playing telephone as a kid. As I wake up this morning, the reports now are that the suspect is a 31 year old teacher named Cole Tomas Allen. He graduated from CalTech and was known to have donated to the Harris campaign in October of 2024. No other political activity has been reported at this time. He lived in Torrance, CA with his parents in a home they moved into six months ago. He was a guest at the hotel, and charged the first security checkpoint armed with a shotgun, a handgun, and several knives.

Security camera footage released by Trump on social media shortly after the incident shows the suspect running past security officers who appear to be disassembling the metal detectors. Once the president was seated in the ballroom, additional attendees were not permitted to enter the secured area, which is why they were taking them down.

It appears that the shooter was able to be captured without being shot because the moron tripped and fell as he ran through the checkpoint.

One witness, Erin Thielman, a military veteran, left the ballroom to call her son and said she had heard three loud bangs that she believed to be gunfire. She saw a man fall flat right in front of her and said he was carrying what appeared to be a rifle and magazines.

Videos of National Guard troops and agents running around, weapons bared, screaming “Blue, blue!” to prevent blue on blue incidents. Democrats are claiming that this is staged, because real Secret Service have radios and don’t need to yell. When I tried pointing out yelling blue on a radio doesn’t work for that purpose, because the person in your radio earpiece can be miles away, so doing that is just stepping on radio transmissions for no reason, but yelling lets the people in front of you know who is who, I was told by these experts in firearms, shooting, and law enforcement who all graduated from the Dunning Krueger school of all knowledge, that I don’t know what I am talking about.

Of course the left is busy screaming that this entire thing is a false flag, just as they do after every assassination attempt on Trump’s life, even as many Democrats call for his death. That is stupid, for the same reason Alex Jones’ claims about Sandy Hook were stupid. You can’t get thousands of people to all tell a fake story like that, and not have at least one of them decide to come clean in order to be famous. In case you are keeping a count, this is the fourth time in the past two years that someone has attempted to murder Donald Trump. The score is two would-be assassins dead, one serving life in prison, and one in custody awaiting trial.

If I recall, Alex Jones was sued and ordered to pay a billion dollars for claiming the Sandy Hook shooting was false. So why isn’t someone suing the left for the same thing? Probably because the ones saying this don’t have jobs or money, and are posting that from their mom’s basement.

As to videos of the shooting itself, I am always fascinated at how the Secret Service does their job when an incident like this occurs.

That’s all I have for now.

EDITED TO ADD:

The press is claiming this to be the third attempt, but I don’t think they are counting the guy who attempted to enter Mar a Lago with the shotgun, because Trump wasn’t there at the time. I still count that one, because it was an attempt. I didn’t say it was a good one, just that it was an attempt. None of these idiots are any good at trying to assassinate the President. They aren’t good at a whole lot of anything- who charges a secret service detail with a shotgun, after all?

It turns out that I was not counting all of them. In all, there have been 18 security incidents involving President Trump. Nine of them have been what I would call attempts at assassination, and 5 of those have happened in the past two years.

  1. On June 18, 2016, Michael Steven Sandford attempted to grab a Las Vegas Metropolitan Police officer’s pistol and expressed his desire to murder Trump.
  2. On September 6, 2017 Gregory Lee Leingang stole a forklift and attempted to drive it toward the presidential motorcade and admitted his intent to murder the president by flipping the presidential limousine with the stolen forklift.
  3. On August 10, 2020, Trump was escorted from a press briefing by a Secret Service agent after an armed suspect was shot outside the White House fencing.
  4. On September 20, 2020, Pascale Cécile Véronique Ferrier wrote a ricin-laced letter to Trump.
  5. On July 13, 2024, Thomas Crooks fired eight shots from an AR-15–style rifle at Trump near Butler, Pennsylvania.
  6. On September 15, 2024, Ryan Routh waited for Trump at a golf course while armed with a rifle in West Palm Beach, Florida, later admitting he was trying to kill the President and had at least one accomplice
  7. On November 8, 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice charged Farhad Shakeri, an Afghani citizen, along with Carlisle Rivera and Jonathan Loadholt (whom Shakeri had met in a U.S. prison) in connection with another murder-for-hire plot to kill the President at the request of Iran
  8. On February 22, 2026, the United States Secret Service shot and killed Austin Tucker Martin, a 21-year-old man from Cameron, North Carolina, who was reportedly carrying a shotgun and gas canister onto the grounds of Mar-a-Lago
  9. and now last night’s attempt.
By Divemedic, ago

Arguing with Idiots, Part 2

Then we moved on to landlords. The left claims that, if landlords were prohibited, they would have to sell their homes, and housing prices would fall. Therefore, eliminate landlords, and everyone can afford a house.

My reply? OK, that’s the first year. What happens next year when no homes are built because prices are too low to make it profitable to build? This is no different than the “tax all billionaires out of existence, give their money away, and we can all be rich.”

If you taxed every billionaire, just confiscated 100% of their wealth over $1 billion, here is the math:

~900 billionaires, who have a combined net worth of about $8.2 trillion. So we take everything over $999 million. That’s about $7.3 trillion we can distribute. Each person in the US would now get $20,000 plus or minus.

Only now all of those companies are gone- Domino Sugar, Tesla, Facebook, Amazon, Meta, WalMart, Nike, M&M Mars, Hershey Co., Redbull, Keurig, ChikFilA, Subway, Tyson Foods, Archer Daniels Midway, thousands of companies. Essentially all of the large and mid cap businesses will be wiped out. All out of business because they needed to be liquidated to pay for the confiscation.

In all, about 60 million people just lost their jobs as billionaires liquidated to settle their tax bills.

Now what do you do next year?

Taxing billionaires, destroying landlords, killing your economic engine is the equivalent to eating all of your egg laying chickens, making flour out of your seed corn. Sure you eat well today, but your tomorrows will be lean and hungry.

Your leftist is a child-like moron with little concept of economics or money. To them, someone with money is someone to be robbed without regard for what disruptions the robbery will actually cause.

By Divemedic, ago

Tiring

One of the leftist claims going around sounds like this:

Buying and selling is NOT capitalism. That’s trade. Capitalism is an employee generating $1,000 of value an hour but being paid $16.

I reply that an employee selling $1000 of merchandise isn’t the same thing as generating revenue.

An employee doesn’t generate $1000 of value in an hour. Let’s say that employee works at an Apple store. That employee is the clerk who sells a $1000 phone. Did that employee generate $1000 in value? No.

That phone had value when it came into the store. The store had overhead and value.

The owner of that store provided the phone, the store, its operating expenses, the taxes, and the insurance. I point this out, and get this in return:

Awwww did someone never take a business or finance class? Is it hard being so stupid?

It just gets so tedious. Aren’t we at the stage yet where we can toss commies out of helicopters?

By Divemedic, ago

Projection

Antigun democrat former Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, who called gun rights activists extremists after they handed out standard capacity magazines at the Virginia State Capitol Building, has killed his wife and himself with a gun in front of their teenage children.

He pushed for “red flag laws” and a ban on “high capacity magazines.”

Leftists aren’t against guns. They are against guns for everyone but them. They fear gun violence because that is what they will do with them- it’s projection.

By Divemedic, ago

Do You See Where This is Headed?

They are “othering” the right so they can justify what they are about to do. Look, my wife and I made a quarter million last year. They already took more than a quarter of what I made through taxes, and that isn’t enough. It’s coming, and things are going to get ugly as hell.

I’ve been warning my readers for 6 years that this is a communist takeover in the making. I’ve been telling you to prep. They are coming. Trump was only a speedbump.

By Divemedic, ago

Violence

The left is turning up the heat because it’s an election year, because of course they are.

This is what they are using to justify committing violent acts. They want you to submit or die.

By Divemedic, ago

Washington

The Washington state legislature just passed a law making it a felony to possess digital files that can be used to make any part on a CNC or a 3d machine that could potentially be used as a part of a firearm.

Not only impossible to make work in any practical or Constitutional sense, it opens a huge can of worms.

By Divemedic, ago

That’s Some Soviet Shit

Remember when the left got their panties in a bunch when Florida prohibited teaching about gay sex? Papers were written, and the left’s chorus were all claiming it was a First Amendment violation. (pdf warning- not hosted here)

Proving once again that, if it weren’t for double standards, the left would have no standards at all, Virginia has passed a law that defies belief. It is now a crime in Virginia for a school to “state, suggest, or present as credible a statement or suggestion that there was extensive election fraud that could have changed or actually changed the results of the 2020 presidential election.” 

Not only that, but the same law says that school instruction must “Describe the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the United States Capitol as an unprecedented, violent attack on United States democratic institutions, infrastructure, and representatives for the purpose of overturning the results of the 2020 presidential election.”

Not only is this law egregious, but CBS’ reporting of it is as bad. The reporting here would have made Goebbels or Zhdanov proud. First lie is in the headline:

Virginia passes legislation prohibiting schools from teaching falsehoods about Jan. 6 riot

Read the money quote:

The White House posted a series of lies about Jan. 6 on an official federal government web page on Jan. 6, 2026, including a bogus claim that police bore responsibility for the attack.

So is telling teachers to teach only one side of a story propaganda, or not? A First Amendment issue, or not? Wouldn’t it be better in a politically charged case like this one, to present both sides and let students decide for themselves? Are we teaching students how to think, or what to think?

  • “Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”
  • “The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
  • “All propaganda is lies, even when one is telling the truth. I don’t think this matters so long as one knows what one is doing, and why.”

By Divemedic, ago

Who Said That?

“The president had the constitutional authority to direct the use of military force because he could reasonably determine that such use of force was in the national interest.”

The next liberal who complains about the Iran conflict, ask them if the above quote is an accurate description of Presidential powers. If it isn’t, what should happen to the President making this claim?

Then point out that the above quote was from Obama.

By Divemedic, ago