White House Correspondents Dinner

[jon-nyc]

Way too well written for an insanity plea.

Guys like him should write two of these - one for if he lives that makes him sound totally insane, and then a real one for if he dies.

[Renauda]

What a strange and twisted rationalisation to commit an act of infamy.

Don’t care what anyone says, but this guy does not have both his oars in the water.

[Tom-K]

Hugely damning of security for the President and the event. It makes you think that if he had some backup he could have done some real damage.

I wonder why he was OK with Kash Patel?

And that's not "anti-Christian" rhetoric as reported in the press. The guy is saying he IS a Christian and killing an oppressor is the kind of thing a Christian should do.

[Horace]

That’ll resonate deeply with maybe a third of Americans. 95% of bluesky.

I missed the dialectic about precedent and escalation in tribal politics. I guess he didn’t think that far.

[Horace]

It is remarkable he was taken down without getting shot.

[jon-nyc]

@Tom-K said:

Hugely damning of security for the President and the event.

Yes and no. He was caught and apprehended at the security checkpoint a floor away from the president. You can hardly expect them to apprehend people before they even get to the security perimeter.

One can argue that they should have had a security perimeter outside the hotel but that would have probably required closing the hotel to other guests and events. And maybe that’s the right answer? Who knows.

[jon-nyc]

@Horace said:

It is remarkable he was taken down without getting shot.

Yeah. One gets the feeling their preference is to shoot. Perhaps there were just too many people near him and an agent happened to be behind him and could intervene physically relatively safely.

[Horace]

And I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.

Sign of the times when a tribalist attempts to assassinate a person as vulnerable to legit criticism as Trump, and their list of reasons includes nothing actually legitimate. Man is our political culture broken.

[jodi]

Broken for sure.

[89th]

I find the shooter's strategy to run really fast through the first security checkpoint intriguing. He made it through, although I think about 50 feet later was tackled or something. Imagine if it comes out his name is Leeroy Jenkins?

I didn't read his manifesto, I try never to give the shooters any oxygen (name, face, manifesto...). Clearly I'm having an impact.

[Horace]

It seems simply true that a larger group of well armed people could have succeeded where the lone gunman failed. Could have checked in the day before armed to the teeth, and could have neutralized the handful of SS agents with overwhelming force.

[Horace]

@89th said:

I find the shooter's strategy to run really fast through the first security checkpoint intriguing. He made it through, although I think about 50 feet later was tackled or something. Imagine if it comes out his name is Leeroy Jenkins?

I didn't read his manifesto, I try never to give the shooters any oxygen (name, face, manifesto...). Clearly I'm having an impact.

He isn't crazy. I can understand dismissing the ravings of a crazy person, but this manifesto was informative on a number of levels.

[89th]

@Horace said:

It seems simply true that a larger group of well armed people could have succeeded where the lone gunman failed. Could have checked in the day before armed to the teeth, and could have neutralized the handful of SS agents with overwhelming force.

True. I bet if a van pulled up and a dozen guys wearing armor and using machine guns, they probably could've had one or two make it to the main stage. Who knows.