US Politics

What a story. Thanks for sharing!

What does this ‘registered Republican’ mean? I read this about the shooter and couldn’t work it out. This seems to be public record. Is it like publishing a list of party members in the uk?

NYT reported that an SS supervisor decided their cordon of control wouldn’t extend to the warehouse, and left it for police to secure. Both organisations but especially the SS needed to have set a detailed MOU about how the locals were going to secure that building, which they clearly didn’t. Also evident was the lack of an effective emergency comms channel, by which the SS at the stage could have been alerted as soon as the local cop saw the gun, and moved trump before the shooting started.

Before they could shoot the guy they had to work out whether he was a local police sniper.

That’s not really a concern, or it shouldn’t have been if protocols were followed. The SS would have known about any and all armed police capability deployed anywhere near trump, and they also would not have allowed any non-SS sniper to be deployed near him anyway. A lone person wearing corrective glasses and casual clothing, prone behind a rifle without a scope or a tripod, and appearing to aim anywhere except 180deg away from trump is a threat to be engaged first and queried later. If it had turned out to be a plain clothes cop with crappy equipment whose boss didn’t tell the SS that’s where he’d be, the SS would still have been completely right to have shot him on sight.

It was a tragicomedy of errors. From the public seeing the shooter and trying vainly to alert security for several minutes, to the close protection officers letting trump collect his shoes and then endanger himself and them by standing still multiple times to make his grand gestures, to the vehicles waiting so many meters away instead of stage-side… Not at all how a worldclass organisation should perform. Genuinely embarrassing.

registered Republican

Most states have a party affiliation system. When you register to vote you can choose a party to be affiliated with, or choose to be independent. If you're affiliated with a party you can have a say in its internal workings. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_registration_in_the_United_States#Party_affiliation

The Secret Service Director has given an interview. She says local police were in the building while the shooter was on the roof. This will make a terrific film. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/live-updates/donald-trump-rally-shooting-assassination-attempt/?id=111916828&entryId=111971136

Potential VP says he's dead worried about the Islamist nuclear bombs in UK now that labour have won the election:

https://x.com/60sJapanfan/status/1812967311500058991

Trump supporter’s call for more guns, in the wake of the attempted assassination, reasoning: “You can’t fight fire with water”.

https://x.com/joe_yer99/status/1812823494310219866

I think that's quite old, but still funny.

that smug smile on his face makes me want to throw water on him

Your political party affiliation is the party that you choose to
associate with. Depending on your state, you may be asked your party
affiliation when you register to vote. You can change your
registration through your state election office. Before you do, know:

You do not have to join a political party or reveal your party
preference when you register to vote. Not every state accepts or lists
a party affiliation on a voter registration card. The party
affiliation on your voter registration does not limit you to voting
for just that party. You can always choose to vote for a candidate
from any party in a general election, like a presidential,
congressional, or mayoral election. Your party affiliation is usually
only important in primary elections. Many states have "closed"
primaries. This means that you can only vote for your party’s
candidates in its primary election. Learn about the different types of
primary elections.

https://www.usa.gov/change-voter-registration

He is very obviously trolling the reporter.

What, however, is the point of registering your affiliation? What purpose does it serve?

In a lot of states, it means you can vote in primaries.

Thanks for sharing. First time I have heard ‘six-sigma’ in a long while.

Discounts on sweet MAGA merch

What the six sigma?

Please no. I once did a course on it. Death by boredom can happen.

I never knew the RNC is sponsored by Starbucks:

https://x.com/jordanzakarin/status/1813360027950088375

After years of identifying as a progressive employer, Starbucks is now
sponsoring the Republican National Convention.

Republicans oppose LGBTQ+ and workers' rights, but the conservative
Supreme Court recently gave Starbucks a big win vs. its union.

One for the wanky business language thread, but i'm a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt practitioner.

I actually find it quite interesting, but I have to do lots of process improvement and root cause analysis for my work.

Hahaha

To those who suggested earlier in this thread that Trump is little more than a puppet whose strings are held by Project 2025, podcaster Robert Evans has a pretty convincing argument to the contrary:
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/dont-panic-195702715/

Make no mistake, I think it's appalling that the man most likely to become the next US president is even talking to this scum. But let's not resort to conspiracy theories.

let's not resort to conspiracy theories

I think the horse bolted on that one a long time ago. As confirmed by the erstwhile popularity of Seth Abramson.

I think history has shown that Trump will hitch his wagon (or at least appear to) anything that he thinks will help him win, wether that's religion, guns, abortion, schooling, immigration or whatever. Even if it is not line with what has previously been his position.

To those who suggested earlier in this thread that Trump is little more than a puppet whose strings are held by Project 2025

Nobody suggested that. You claimed that's what people were saying, they firmly disagreed and said that wasn't the point of the argument.

Also sponsored by Fever-Tree tonic as well looking at the link you posted