The alligator emojis are all giddy claiming Top Gov DeSantis, has kicked the feds out of Florida and taken custody of Ryan Wesley Routh.  Apparently, the rumors of Ron DeSantis starting a state-level independent investigation has led the DeSantis supporters to believe Ron is doing something.  However, there’s no truth to any of it.

FACTS: Asked in a press conference today about the second assassination attempt against Donald Trump, the Florida governor told the media he had not talked to President Trump; however, he did expect an announcement to be “forthcoming” that Florida will investigate the events of the assassination attempt.  The announcement will come sometime later on.  Here’s the answer.  WATCH: 

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Ryan Wesley Routh was placed in the custody of the FBI immediately after his arrest last evening.  Routh appeared in federal court today, where he is charged with federal gun charges.

Politico – […] In court papers filed Monday morning, an FBI agent alleged that Routh started staking out Trump’s golf course at about 2 a.m. on Sunday. Twelve hours later, as Trump was golfing, a Secret Service agent walking the course’s perimeter saw Routh’s semi-automatic rifle poking through the fence surrounding the course. The agent fired at him and Routh fled. He was later arrested by local law enforcement and has been charged by federal prosecutors with gun crimes. (more)

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Martin County Sheriff William Snyder gave a press briefing earlier today and at a certain point was asked some specifics about the attempted shooter/assassin Ryan Routh and his connection to the area.

At 11:25 of the video below, Sheriff Snyder instinctively has two general baseline questions: (1) How did the assassin, from outside the area, know exactly where to be in order to have the opportunity to shoot President Trump; and (2) Did Ryan Rough act alone, or was he part of a supportive conspiracy to assassinate President Trump.  WATCH (prompted):

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I think it is fair to say that we all view the use of the FBI in this investigation with great trepidation.

Given the long and extensive history of the modern, highly, intensely political, FBI as a weaponized agency of the federal government, there is zero faith or trust in their institutional ability to conduct a genuine investigation.   This is not a comfortable thing to accept or admit, but unfortunately there is no other intellectually honest reference point from which to generate optimism.

Sheriff Snyder repeatedly defers all elements of the ongoing investigation to the FBI.  However, on the positive side all of the information that is inside the control of the local law enforcement is being shared with the public; it’s the feds that are the problem.

CTH has sources within the system on a local and state level. Prayers for President Trump, the entire Trump family and organization, along with our entire nation, continue.

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President Donald Trump is directly confronting the left-wing calls to violence toward him, while contrast against the second assassination attempt that took place yesterday. Details below video.

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— il Donaldo Trumpo (@PapiTrumpo) September 16, 2024

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From his campaign website, President Trump outlines the receipts of democrats and media calling for political violence against him. The details and citations outlined are quite alarming. Threats have consequences, and Donald Trump is saying “enough.”

[DONALD J TRUMP] Yesterday, President Donald J. Trump was the target of a second assassination attempt in as many months.

Thankfully, the would-be assassin was stopped by the heroic action of law enforcement — but make no mistake, this psycho was egged on by the rhetoric and lies that have flowed from Kamala Harris, Democrats, and their Fake News allies for years.

Democrats used increasingly incendiary rhetoric against President Trump in the days, weeks, and months leading up to the two assassination attempts:

• Kamala Harris — repeatedly: “Trump is a threat to our democracy and fundamental freedoms.”
• Kamala Harris: “It’s on us to recognize the threat [Trump] poses.”
• Kamala Harris: “Does one of us have to come out alive? Ha ha ha ha!”
• Joe Biden: “It’s time to put Trump in a bullseye.”
• Joe Biden: “I mean this from the bottom of my heart: Trump is a threat to this nation.”
• Joe Biden: “There is one existential threat: it’s Donald Trump.”
• Joe Biden: “Trump is a genuine threat to this nation … He’s literally a threat to everything America stands for.”
• Joe Biden: “Trump and MAGA Republicans are a threat to the very soul of this country.”
• Joe Biden: “Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic … and that is a threat to this country.”
• Tim Walz: “Are [Republicans] a threat to democracy? Yes. … Are they going to put peoples’ lives in danger? Yes.”
• Gwen Walz: “Buh-bye, Donald Trump.”
• Rep. Nancy Pelosi: “[Trump] is a threat to our democracy of the kind that we have not seen.”
• Rep. Jasmine Crockett: “MAGA in general — they are threats to us domestically.”
• Rep. Dan Goldman: “He is destructive to our democracy and …  he has to be eliminated.”
• Disgraced Harris staffer TJ Ducklo: “Trump is an existential, urgent threat to our democracy.”
• Top Harris surrogate Liz Cheney: “Trump presents a fundamental threat to the republic and we are seeing it on a daily basis.”
• Rep. Steve Cohen: “Trump is an enemy of the United States.”
• Rep. Maxine Waters: “Are [Trump supporters] preparing a civil war against us?”
• Rep. Maxine Waters: “I want to know about all of those right-wing organizations that [Trump] is connected with who are training up in the hills somewhere.”
• Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz: Trump is an “existential threat to our democracy.”
• Rep. Adam Schiff: Trump is the “gravest threat to our democracy.”
• Rep. Gregory Meeks: “Trump cannot be president again. He’s an existential threat to democracy.”
• Rep. Dan Goldman: “Trump remains the greatest threat to our democracy.”
• Rep. Jake Auchincloss: “What unifies us as a party is knowing that Donald Trump is an existential threat to Democracy.”
• Rep. Abigail Spanberger: “Trump is a threat to our democracy … the threats to our democratic republic are real.”
• Rep. Annie Kuster: “Trump and his extreme right-wing followers pose an existential threat to our democracy.”
• Rep. Becca Balint: “We cannot underestimate the threat [Trump] poses to American democracy.”
• Rep. Jason Crow: “Trump is an extreme danger to our democracy.”
• Rep. Raul Grijalva: “Trump is an existential threat to American democracy.”
• Sen. Michael Bennet: Trump is “a threat to our democracy.”
• Rep. Stacey Plaskett: Trump “needs to be shot.”
• Rep. Steven Horsford: “Trump Republicans are a dangerous threat to our state.”
• Rep. Gabe Vasquez: “Remove the national threat from office.”
• Rep. Mike Levin: “Donald Trump is a threat to our nation, our freedom, and our democracy.”
• Rep. Eric Sorensen: “He is the greatest threat to law and order we have in our country.”
• Rep. Greg Landsman: “The threat is not over.”
• Rep. Pat Ryan: “Trump is an existential threat to American democracy.”
• Rick Wilson, The Lincoln Project: “They’re still going to have to go out and put a bullet in Donald Trump.”
• Former Harris-Biden staffer Kate Bedingfield: Democrats should “turn their fire on Donald Trump.”

That doesn’t even include the dangerous rhetoric against President Trump spewed by deranged Democrats during the 2016 and 2020 elections, the impeachment hoaxes, and the Summer of Love.

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The Martin County Sheriffs’ office has promised to release all the information around the Trump assassination attempt in Florida to the public.  This morning the sheriff’s office released the body cam footage from the arrest of Ryan Wesley Routh.

According to new information, suspect Ryan Routh spent almost 12 hours lying in wait for the former president at his golf course, according to court documents. Ryan Wesley Routh took up position at the Trump International Golf Course in Florida just before 2am on Sunday, officials said, citing data from the 58-year-old’s mobile phone. He camped at the spot, where he was concealed in the tree line, with food and an assault rifle until 1:31pm, when he was allegedly spotted by President Trump’s security team and fled in a black Nissan without opening fire.

Ryan Routh was arrested on I-95 as he fled the area.  The body camera footage released shows his arrest. WATCH:

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In an effort to keep the Daily Open Thread a little more open topic we are going to start a new daily thread for “Presidential Politics”. Please use this thread to post anything relating to the JoeBama Administration and Presidency.

“This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can’t be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won’t be done. The Founders’ Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.”

“But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.”

~ Mike Vanderboegh

This thread will refresh daily and appear above the Open Discussion Thread.

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Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

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The key word here is “current.”

A rather unnecessary and specific word choice from the Yale and Harvard legally trained Governor.

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It’s doubtful Top Gov types his own tweets.

Nah, probably from an advisor of some sort.

Slava Ukraini, eh.

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The full briefing video is below.  There are also preliminary pictures of the suspect.  I would note the nervousness of the FBI agent in charge.

Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw: Secret Service was able to spot a rifle sticking out of the bushes and fired on the suspect some 300-400 yards away.

In the bushes where the suspect ran from, the Secret Service or law enforcement found an AK-47-style rifle with a scope, 2 backpacks that had ceramic tile at them, and a GoPro for taking photos.

Bradshaw also says he has photos of everything that they will release. Bradshaw: “Fortunately, we were able to locate a witness that came to us and said, “Hey, I saw the guy running out of the bushes, he jumped into a black Nissan, and I took a picture of the vehicle and the tags, which was great.” Said the Secret Service agent who spotted this and opened fire did a “fantastic job.”

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The main point is that President Trump is okay and was not injured by gunfire that took place near his location at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach.  Details are freshly coming through.

UPDATE:  “ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION”  A man with an AK-style rifle pointed the firearm’s muzzle into Donald Trump’s golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida, as the former president was playing a round, prompting the U.S. Secret Service to open fire, according to three law enforcement officials. (More AP Details Below)

The former president is safe and unharmed, and the FBI says it is investigating “what appears to be an attempted assassination” of the Republican presidential candidate.

The person dropped the weapon and fled in an SUV, and was later taken into custody in a neighboring county, the officials said. The officials were not authorized to discuss the ongoing investigation and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.

An AK-style firearm was recovered at the scene near Trump International Golf Club West Palm Beach, two of the officials said. And no injuries were reported.

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Ordinarily the opinions of one tech billionaire would, perhaps, not matter much to the life of an ordinary American.  However, in this era of 2024 election and the Technocracy influence, maybe this interview discussion carries a different set of values.

Tech entrepreneur Peter Thiel, the founder of Palantir, an AI enhanced data processing system that streamlines the organization of technological surveillance methods, gives his views on a variety of current political aspects.

I find the interview as little interesting from a few perspectives.  First, while generally supporting President Trump, Peter Thiel says he is choosing to stay out of the political influence game in the 2024 general election.  Considering the scale of Thiels prior advocacy and specific action he undertook to put JD Vance into office and then into the VP nominee position for Trump – this decision to now ‘step back’ from 2024 seems a big disingenuous.

Second, and directly related to the first point, Thiel -through Palantir contracts- is now directly enmeshed in the Intelligence Community effort to capture and organize surveillance metadata of Americans.  Perhaps, just perhaps, this new financial dependency plays a role in influencing his ‘step back’ decision.   WATCH: 

Other points worth noting relate to how Thiel outlines his perspectives on geopolitical events.  When you look at Thiel’s communication abilities and perspectives it really shows you how shallow, small and generally naïve these top-tier influence agents can be.

You can see how there is a big difference between “theory” and practical reality or “practice.”  Thiel waxes philosophically about how the human nature of leadership intersects with outcomes.  Meanwhile, President Trump represents the practical application of geopolitical policy.  Thiel’s thoughts are narrow and small.  Trump’s thoughts are consequential, deep and can bring actionable results.

The contrast between Thiel and his co-panels’ theories, when overlaid against President Trump and his factual application of geopolitical leverage, pressure points, focused policy… and applied truthful/direct and brutally honest relationship presentation to world leaders -what Thiel calls “human agency”, really provides substance to the unique scale of Trump.

The “Thiel’s” of the world are talkers; Donald J Trump is a doer.  Boy howdy does this discussion of smaller men showcase that dynamic.

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