July 23, 2024
Secret Service Director Resigns
After seeing a plat map of the area where former President Donald Trump was holding a rally on July 13, 2024, I posted a short note on Truth Social:
Head of Secret Service, who qualified for the job by checking the appropriate DEI boxes, should resign immediately if not sooner. Never cede the high ground. Someone should have been on the AGR building.
It doesn't take a military genius to understand that the roof of the AGR building was close enough to the rally to take a rifle shot at President Trump. The lowliest agent with a pistol posted on the roof would have been plenty to deter any attempt to kill President Trump from there.
It was a day or two later that we learned the Secret Service had determined the building to be of some importance, but had posted one or more agents inside the building instead of on top of the building. I get it. The Secret Service agent(s) had forgotten their sunscreen and were afraid of getting a sunburn if they had been posted on the roof.
Today we learned that Kimberly Cheatle, the Director of the Secret Service, resigned. She can now back to protecting Doritos, which is where she belongs. (Cheatle was senior director of global security at Persico for three years prior to being named Director of the Secret Service on September 17, 2022.)
The agent who posted the agents inside the AGR building and the agent(s) who allowed themselves to be posted inside the building should also resign.
Posted by Rick | July 23, 2024 04:36 PM | Political Science
Kamala Harris On Foreign Policy
Vice-President Kamala Harris, who as vice-president is the President of the Senate, has indicated that she plans to boycott Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's address to a joint session of Congress.
It will be Netanyahu's record setting 4th address to a joint session of Congress. His address comes at a time when Israel is attempting to wipe out Hamas and free over 100 hostages still held by Hamas since the massacre by Hamas of over 1,200 people in Israel on October 7, 2023.
Disrespecting Israel, our best friend in the mid-east, is not the best way to begin Harris' campaign to become the Democratic candidate for president following Joek Biden's decision to scrap his attempt to be re-elected. If this is what we can expect from a President Harris, the Democrats really need to find someone with some common sense to take over Biden's campaign.
Posted by Rick | July 23, 2024 04:13 PM | Political Science
