Cheatin’ Cheatle?
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his whole show is good, but, the last 20 minutes or so is the part everyone needs to hear and do, make sure you get out and vote early!!!
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BB is at it again
Everyone knows the Secret Service is the most sophisticated, dedicated security team on the planet, a virtually impenetrable defense system. However, did you know that by using high-tech counter surveillance techniques, even you can elude the Secret Service? Here we reveal eight of the most advanced tradecraft secrets in existence that help you avoid detection by the Secret Service:
- Ride in on a hot air balloon with “This is my assassin balloon” painted on the side: Espionage at its finest.
- Ask Secret Service if they have any spare ammo for your President-shooting gun: So stealthy.
- Entreat a crowd of onlookers to point at you and scream, “Hey! He’s got a gun!”: You’ll be practically invisible to them.
- Drive an M1A1 Abrams tank directly into the middle of a rally and ask to see the President: Clandestine ops at its finest.
- Cover yourself in Hunter Biden’s cocaine: Pricey, but effective.
- Sneak in under a cardboard box and just freeze whenever you see an exclamation mark over their heads: Tried and true.
- Fly one of those skywriting planes and spell out “I’m going to shoot the President”: They’ll never know what hit them.
- Disguise yourself as a deranged kid with a scoped rifle walking on an exposed roof directly across from a Republican President: Fiendishly cunning!
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What is she going to do, make him a sandwich?
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Oh come on now K,
What’d she do to deserve that?
Did she Loaf around?
Was she ‘Crusty?’ to you
She’s just a ‘White Bread’ Agent
I betcha she’d butter yer Baguette!
She does have a ‘Muffin-Top’ though!
Maybe she has a Bun in the oven?
Give her a break, it’s the ‘Yeast’ you can do.
Don’t ‘rise’ to the occasion and attack!
Her Grand daddy was a ‘dough-boy’ in WW1
She’s ‘fluffy’ cute!
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The attempted assassination of Donald Trump was reportedly carried out with an AR-15 variant. When the type of rifle became known, the usual suspects immediately began screaming for banning “assault weapons,” a class of firearm that does not exist, but serves as a catch-all term for any scary gun Democrats/socialists/communists (D/s/cs) want to ban at the moment. Kamala Harris has long wanted to ban “assault weapons” with a mandatory “buy back”—confiscation with government deciding how much compensation—if any—you’ll get. And of course, anyone refusing will find themselves in federal prison or dead. Now, however, the new, election converted, version of Kamala still wants to ban your AR-15, she just doesn’t want to confiscate them anymore. Until she gets elected, that is.
Part of the anti-liberty/gun cracktivist playbook is claiming the ubiquity of guns justifies their banning. Fewer guns, no “gun violence” (go here to discover why that’s false), a particularly dimwitted misnomer. It’s unsurprising some criminals, particularly those involved in noteworthy crimes, use the AR-15. It’s ubiquitous, America’s most popular rifle. Light weight, adaptable, highly accurate and our military issue rifle since the Vietnam era.
Even so, Americans are learning our politicians and bureaucrats know nothing about the nature, history or employment of the firearms they legislate. In-the-know Americans have long suspected most law enforcement officers, particularly high-ranking sorts, are also largely clueless, as is the media, who virtually always get everything about guns wrong, and rarely issue corrections.
This week, that suspicion was confirmed when FBI Director Christopher Wray, testifying before Congress on the Bureau’s investigation into the attempted assassination, first claimed Trump was not hit by a bullet, but something else. Maybe a piece of glass, or shrapnel, something, anything but a bullet. His own agency had to walk that back the very next day, admitting it was a bullet.
But Wray loosed another dimwitted whopper: the assassin’s AR-15 had a collapsible stock, so he probably just collapsed the stock and hid the rifle in a backpack!
This bit of nonsense was transmitted by the media, including The New York Post, which source, unlike many, was honestly trying to inform rather than deceive.
Graphic: A common AR-15 variant (accessories optional). Author.
Contemporary AR-15 variants are semiautomatic rifles, usually with the legal minimum 16” barrel, and a collapsing stock. In those outward factors, they resemble the military M4, which fires the same .223/5.56 NATO cartridge, a cartridge of intermediate power, not a “high powered” rifle cartridge. The M4 principally differs in that it is a select fire weapon: it may be fired semiautomatically or fully automatically, unlike the semiauto-only look-alike rifles available to civilians.
The collapsing stocks shared by both collapse all of about 3.25 inches, which is not nearly enough to allow one to be concealed in any but the largest backpacks . The kinds of backpacks one might consider standard, carried by college students and many others, are about 21” tall. The primary purpose of collapsing stocks is to adjust “length of pull.”
Length of pull is essentially the distance from the back of the stock to the trigger. Properly adjusted for the shooter, the weapon is more comfortable and it’s easier to be accurate. Because the M4 is a general issue weapon, it makes far more sense to have an adjustable stock than to have to maintain stores of weapons with many different stock lengths. A soldier wearing heavy body armor or carrying a pack with thick shoulder straps will usually want to slightly shorten their stock to maintain a proper length of pull.
Graphic: Author
This graphic illustrates the issue, and also illustrates why Wray and many others who should know better don’t. With stock fully extended, this AR—essentially identical in dimensions to most on the market—is 35.5” long. Collapsing the stock reduces its length to 32.25 inches, still far too long to conceal in a common backpack.
What Wray obviously doesn’t know is AR rifles can be separated into upper and lower receivers by pushing two through-pins which are retained in the lower receiver so they can’t be easily lost —important in a general issue military weapon—thus allowing easy cleaning and maintenance. Thus disassembled the upper receiver is only 24.75 inches long, the lower, much shorter. Both pieces can be easily hidden in a slightly larger than usual backpack and quickly reassembled. The assassin apparently had sufficient time.
A collapsible stock does make an AR-15 slightly—by 3.25”–easier to store, and just a little easier to maneuver in the close confines of military vehicles, but as he does so often, Wray had no idea what he was talking about, and the media was blissfully—but in this case not maliciously–ignorant.
Facts potentially useful in this investigation you’re not going to get from the FBI or the media.
Mike McDaniel is a USAF veteran, classically trained musician, Japanese and European fencer, life-long athlete, firearm instructor, retired police officer and high school and college English teacher. He is a published author and blogger. His home blog is Stately McDaniel Manor.
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In a criminal case, Asif Merchant, a Pakistani national with alleged ties to Iran, was arrested for allegedly plotting to assassinate former President Donald Trump and other U.S. officials. The plot was reportedly uncovered through a criminal complaint unsealed in Brooklyn federal court. The story is that Merchant, who had spent time in Iran, traveled to the U.S. to recruit hitmen, reportedly contacting an FBI informant. He is charged with murder-for-hire and remains in federal custody. The U.S. Department of Justice, along with the FBI, emphasized their commitment to countering threats to national security. The case is being prosecuted by the National Security & Cybercrime Section of the U.S. Attorney’s Office, with assistance from the Department of Justice’s Counterterrorism Section.
In the US, Donald Trump remains a leading candidate in the polls, prompting business leaders to prepare for a potential second term. Drawing from his first-term policies and the 2017 National Security Strategy, a second Trump administration would likely emphasize U.S. economic and technological dominance, particularly in countering China. This could involve stringent measures against Chinese intellectual property theft and economic practices. Trump’s approach might include increased tariffs, export controls, and expanded oversight by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). Additionally, he could push NATO members to increase defense spending and build on the AUKUS agreement, potentially expanding it to include Japan and South Korea. Investments in artificial intelligence and quantum sciences would be crucial to maintaining U.S. economic and national security.
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Okay, your post was amusing until that 
. I know you are single and the sight of any woman gets you aroused, but show some restraint, man. 
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She’s not my type. She’s a Fed. Goes against the grain of my anti.gov
Weaponizing everybody.gov stance
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They released the police body cam footage….
The cop who saw him and fell back was being boosted up by another officer,…. No ladder involved in the instant, no easy way back up. I want to hear the audio of that video….
By the time he retrieved his rifle the counter sniper had ended the threat.
The rest is the confusion in the aftermath.
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Todays humor
JD Vance may have been a Marine, but Kamala Harris’ running mate Tim Walz was in the National Guard for over 24 years. Twenty-four! That’s the same number as the title of a hit television show starring Kiefer Sutherland as Jack Bauer, another former soldier and eventual public servant. Coincidence? No.
Walz’s military record speaks for itself. Here are just a few of his harrowing tales of valor:
- “So there I was in France, out-gunned and near death. My Thompson submachine gun had just run out of ammo and I knew I was about to die, so I accepted my fate and just started shooting at an approaching tank with a pistol, but then the Army Air Corps bombed the tank just in time. Then, I held Private Ryan close and said: ‘Earn this.'”
- “In another battle, my helicopter was shot down over a war zone in some place overseas with a lot of brown people. I looked at my squad mates square in the face and said, ‘Well, boys, looks like we got a Black Hawk down.’ Everyone said ‘Hooah! Rangers lead the way!’ And then we killed all the bad guys.”
- “U.S. politicians were being held hostage in Guatemala, so I went down there with a ragtag group of mercenaries to rescue them. But just as we were ready to head home, an alien with cloaking technology attacked, and it made clicking sounds, and one guy told me I was bleeding. I said, ‘I ain’t got time to bleed.’ Everyone clapped.”
- “One time, I destroyed the Bugger’s homeworld in a simulation while training at the Battle School. Or so I thought. I thought it was a game, but the real game was being played on me. I thought I was about to graduate at the head of my class, but I’d decimated an entire alien species. I had an emotional breakdown after that and carried a Bugger egg around for a while and spoke for the dead. As one does.”
- “In Pennsylvania, we fought uphill even though General Lee explicitly told us not to. “Never fight uphill, me boys!” Lee said. But I turned around, defiant, and said, ‘The enemy’s gate is down.’ Everyone cheered.”
- “In my youth, I once attacked a bug planet and was the only Starship Trooper who survived, and we soldiers took naked showers together, and also I had super mind powers.”
- “My father died before my very eyes on the field of battle. In desperation, I took up my father’s sword and cut the Ring from the hand of Sauron. People still sing songs of that day.”
- “I heroically held off the Persians at the pass of Thermopylae with just 300 Spartans. We were all naked too, just like Pride Month. In the end, it didn’t pan out. But I died a hero’s death and became a legend.”
These stories are nearly impossible to believe, but he swears they are true. He would never lie. What a hero!
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D*mn it @leo23. Do you know how bad OJ 
burns your nose 
when you snort it out your 
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no on the OJ. 
but, if it is anything like coffee it sucks 
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oorah 
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@Dave17 … Happy Anniversary!! 
Here’s to another year under your belt
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Happy Anniversary @Dave17
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