The Stubble Grows Again - Where's Hanlon?
I said I probably wouldn’t be writing again on the topic of Presidential ear sculpturing, but new video footage has emerged.
Rep. Eli Crane took his life into his own hands and managed to stand on the extremely dangerous sloped roof from which Trump’s would-be assassin operated. The guy needs a medal for putting his own life in such danger in order to give us a better view of what happened that day.
I’ve taken some screenshots from Crane’s video.
I’m now suffering from a fresh bout of Votzerfuchitis. The use of Hanlon’s handy razor had given me at least some partial relief, but the stubble’s back again. With a vengeance.
Here’s the kind of view the shooter would have had
Trump’s stage was set in front of the indicated buildings.
It also appears that the shooter was spotted by the security team up to an hour before the event, was subsequently lost, only to be spotted on the dangerously-sloped roof by the crowd some 30 minutes later. They were obviously worried for his safety.
We have to forgive the Secret Service this one. It transpires that the carrier pigeons they use for comms were feeling unwell that day and so they had to use carrier chickens, which don’t fly all that good.
The donuts for the police counter-sniper team had also only just been delivered to the building. So no one was looking out the window.
It’s therefore entirely understandable how such a monumental security cock-up could have happened.
Even Joe Biden could have worked out a better plan on the day for ensuring Trump’s safety.
Joe : Put your cunty-spikers on the, err, you know, the err, the thing
Security Detail : Yes, Mr President
Joe : And we beat Medicaid
Security Detail : I understand, Mr President
I mean, seriously, just how incompetent do we have to go in order to Hanlon our way out of this?
Is it really more plausible that the entire security detail were THAT incompetent than any of the other ‘conspiracy’ theories circulating?
My best non-conspiratorial guess is that it was Trump and so they didn’t really care all that much and did a really, really, shit job. Other than that, I’m fresh out of ‘plausible’ explanations for how it could have happened in the first place. We’re not talking merely inept, but stupendously inept.
I mean, the security detail secured that location about as well as Kamala (unburdened by any thought) Harris has secured the US border.
It’s not that I really want to believe in some kind of conspiracy here - it’s just that I’m having a hell of a time understanding the sheer level of incompetence required for things to have happened as they did.
At this point, alien space lizards firing ear-piercing laser beams from the mother ship begins to look like a more plausible explanation than incompetence.
Cheatle, the head of the USSS (at the time) has now resigned. She couldn’t DEI her way out of this one. As Elon Musk so beautifully said, her previous experience was in guarding Cheetos. I don’t know the status of Trump’s fake tan that day - but that was one Cheeto she didn’t guard too well.
Cheatle’s stated aim of diversifying the US Secret Service (30% women agents by 2030, for example) had diverted her from her actual job, clearly.
I don’t know about you guys, but when I’ve been on hiring panels and conducting job interviews, I’m very discriminatory.
I discriminated against people on the basis of their ability.
The company I worked for was not some kind of charity. Neither was the university I worked at. Your past troubles and exposure to all those ‘systemic’ wotnots elicit my sympathy, but they’re irrelevant when I’m hiring you. Can you do a good job? That’s the only question I’m interested in1.
You can see a list of requirements for a career in the secret service in this article. I know we are concerned by what’s being taught at schools, colleges and universities these days - but the educational entry requirements are fairly rigorous. Not many new agents will get appointed with degrees in Basket Weaving for Furries.
I’m sorry - but I can’t make all the bits fit for this one.
I’m probably just standing on a dangerously sloped roof.
It’s not a science, though. There are many ‘imponderables’. One question which might override qualifications, for example, is “is this person going to be a total pain in the ass?”. The way a candidate has overcome any struggles might also be a factor.
She's a quota-hire, close friends with Jill Biden.
She lied to cover her incompetence.
Her lie was busted so hard she broke, and she was told she wouldn't get any support from her backers, them having their hands full with the ongoing coup d'état against Joe Biden.
She made an ass of herself in the hearings.
It could have been the bald cleptomaniac pervert they had as director of nuclear safety, it could have been Mayorkas, it could have been any one of them - but a white woman, hired under nepotism-by-DEI-fiat? Bottom of the hierarchy, thanks to intersectional feminism.
Yay?
I was involved in hiring software engineers for my employer for over 20 years. My number one criterion was always that the person should be affable, and decent, and capable of fitting into the team. Technical ability came (a close) second, because a good team can be very quickly fucked by a clever narcissist/sociopath/whatever, and a fucked team can be very difficult, if not impossible to recover from. My proudest achievements at that job were (1) The extraordinarily capable group of very nice people I hired, and only then (2) The astonishing software we built. Many of that team are still working there happily, more than 2 decades after I hired them as graduate engineers.
I interviewed my peer from a competitor for one of our roles. He showed up late, dominated the conversation with irrelevant anecdotes and swore constantly, dropping f-bombs throughout the interview. I though " This bloke seems like a mad fuckhead, but maybe it's me," so I scheduled a second interview and recused myself. He showed up 45 minutes late for the interview and didn't explain himself or apologise The second interview panel produced a one line interview report which was "Do not, ever, ever, ever hire this man". Wise advice, and I didn't.