Rep. Nancy Mace won my respect today with a powerful, yet funny set of questions to Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle.
Hoot of the Day
The opening question from Mace to Cheatle is my hoot of the day.
Mace: My first question. Both sides of the aisle today have asked for your resignation. Would you like to use my five minutes today to draft your resignation letter? Yes, or No?
Wow. I want Mace on my team if I ever want to take someone down.
Play the entire video. It’s less than 5 minutes long and highly entertaining.
Secret Service Director Questioned on Trump Shooting
The Wall Street Journal reports Secret Service Director Questioned on Trump Shooting
The WSJ provided no details because there were none to be found. I only link to the Journal for this additional ridiculous comments.
“Obviously, there were many security failures on the day of the attempted assassination and leading up to that day,” Rep. James Comer (R., Ky.), said in opening an intense day of questioning. “Let’s start with the building that the shooter used to shoot President Trump from at any point Saturday. Did the Secret Service have an agent on top of that roof?”
“Sir, I’m sure, as you can imagine, that we are just nine days out from this incident, and there’s still an ongoing investigation,” Cheatle said, deflecting the question as lawmakers collectively groaned.
Comer needs lessons from Mace. “That was a yes or no question,” something that Mace pointed out many times.
Alternatively, Cheatle still has no idea.
“The number one question everyone in America is wondering is, why was the roof left open? And after nine days, we should at least maybe have a bit of that information,” Rep. Michael Cloud (R., Texas) said. “And when you come to this committee hearing and you don’t have anything to say about that, it’s, it’s very, very troubling.”
Troubling indeed. And so is this.
The director on Monday said initial reports of Crooks’s suspicious behavior didn’t immediately rise to the level of a threat. Cheatle declined to say how Crooks got on the roof, or whether authorities sought to approach him after he was initially identified as suspicious.
Calls for Resignation
“I believe, Director Cheatle, that you should resign,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D., Calif.) said. “I think there are colleagues on both sides of the aisle who believe that, and I hope you’ll consider it.”
Full Confidence
The WSJ noted “Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has voiced full confidence in her.”
Anyone who has full confidence in this liar and grossly incompetent buffoon deserves to be fired as well.
Meanwhile, Here’s a First Look at Trump vs Kamala Harris Polls.
Also, Mace’s Sexy Librarian thing is working. If she puts her hair up in a bun, we’re there.
The Cheatle has resigned as of 7/23/24.
I think Mish should run a poll on her next postion.
The obvious choice is start an executive protection company.
The deep state doesn’t want Trump to be President. They used 24/7 “Trump is Hitler” propaganda to infect many low brow rubes with TDS. But the propaganda campaign hasn’t worked as effectively as they hopedso they then used lawfare to get Trump thrown in jail. This has backfired and only made Trump’s support stronger. Now they try to take him out JFK style. They groomed a dupe (the FBI and CIA have lots of practice doingcthis) and then they have very lax security to allow the event to occur. We’re now were in the cover up phase. Fortunately for them, DEI guarantees there are lot of incompetent patsies to provide the perfect cover story.
The following Tucker interview provides a fascinating perspective.
https://youtu.be/U24fKGJ2JPo?si=pdssC7v1c_AjeMCN
I think she was a bit out of line in what she said. Winston Churchill, for example, would have shredded Cheatle 100X worse with polite understated sarcasm. I have to admit, though, I would have probably gone with a dozen f**k your. We can’t all be masters of the English language.
Unfortunately, Churchill’s was a different time. Modern people are just too vulgar and simple minded to appreciate that sort of verbal adeptness – it’s a consequence of the ‘ghetto-ification’ of American culture.
Her manner was on the rude side, yes.
Many people like to be rude online – but rude doesn’t work face-to-face.
DEI is nothing more than the lowering of standards. There are not many women qualified for these types of jobs so the bar needs to be dropped so more can clear it. The more that clear it, the worse things get in every agency and company. Unfortunately it will only improve when the standards are raised. The US went through this with the military after Vietnam. Drug testing, massive overhaul of doctrines and training. It worked. It worked so well that standards had to be lowered again.
I have to scroll down past nine articles just to get to the last article that is related to finance and economics, the one title “Three Top Reasons Mortgage Delinquencies Are Rising.” It is the last of the 10 articles on the page before having to select the next page button at the bottom to see more articles (at least how it’s displayed using my computer and browser). The Biden Ball Bustin’ Bonanza continues. The Trump Cock Riding Circus is in full swing. Everyone line up behind your favorite moron to destroy America. I love our democracy. The puppets pick a few people who will destroy the United States and it’s up to us to vote for which one we think we would like the most in that role. I don’t vote for presidents because it’s like having the freedom and privilege to select your favorite of two pre-filtered and chosen child molesters to hang out with you own kid, and you get the excitement of choosing which one you like more than the other. Isn’t that great. So, even those who say they are voting for the lesser of two evils are still validating and giving credibility to the circus. In other countries around the world, when there is a low voter turnout, the US government is quick to claim those countries aren’t real democracies because the population is disillusioned and doesn’t believe in their government and think it’s a show and a sham (especially if those countries aren’t subservient to the US and it’s affiliated masters). Keep supporting the scum and whining that nothing ever changes. For the most part, patriotism in this country is all talk and is self-serving selfishness.
‘Sometimes the only winning move is to not play the game.’
I do hope that you return here to see that at LEAST ONE OF, plus Mish, are not into either party because it is impossible to believe in either one.
When I say that to my closest friends and family members, at LEAST they now understand that my not voting has been durable. There has been NO ONE to believe or believe in for 35 years. What deepened my hatred for our Government is when I realize that BOTH PARTIES are purveying to the same interests: MIC, Lawyers/Justice, Commerce, Big Pharma & So on.
I have NO hope that we will ever return to fiscally sensible policies and I truly understand that being the MONEY HEGEMON has privileges no other country can offer.
Then I hear: “America is the Greatest Country on earth.” OH COME ON NOW, that is like saying that we are the best of the piles of shit shows that every other so called Democracy is.
We are a representative republic anyway, so hearing “Democracy” dilutes that term. AND, the representation is SO SLIMLY DIFFERENT between the two parties, that I simply refer to them at political scum, lying sacks of shit that people continue to buy endlessly.
I am a libertarian but the MSM and the power structure have this crap locked up. NO WAY will they even allow outlier ideas to surface.
SAME OLD SAME OLD.
So there are people with sense out there. That’s refreshing. Good luck to you and those you care about.
Start voting 3rd party
pssing in the wind. I’ve tried it, look where it got us. nowhere…
The D/R parties have a lock on the system, when you go outside the system, all you can do is look in the windows…
We have to restructure the D/R parties with viable candidates and policies, and we have to stop whining about voting once a year doesn’t change anything. of course it doesn’t. You want change, you make the change, you find the candidates, you support them financially and any other way you can. you talk about it, you write about it. you encourage people you meet to get into politics.
you complain about your car being dirty, but you only wash it once a year. politics effects you every day, time for you to effect politics every day.
3rd party voting is this country is a vicious catch-22 – it needs people to support it to grow but until it grows there’s no chance it will make an impact. The corporate propaganda machine is geared toward herding people into fighting emotionally charged battles while the things that really do affect their welfare go under the radar. Until that changes it will be ‘lesser of two perceived evils’ on election day. Personally i think there’s going to be no progress without changing the culture – progressive cultural transformation will lead to the destruction of the nation by indoctrinating the coming generations into being self-hating marxists and actively working to cripple their own ability to succeed economically by imposing green initiatives, high taxes and dependence. If allowed to progress there won’t be enough people who even WANT things to change.
In the last 12 out of 16 years the deep state ruled the US. In the last 4 years Biden and Harris have done nothing to improve life in the US. The swing state hate both. Will u vote for Harris, AOC, Rashida and Somalia Omar, or Trump and JD Vance.
Instead of Hitler/Trump Gamala Harris among the squad.
Oh no : u are racist !
the deep state fired the bullet at Kennedy. The seeds go back to the federal reserve creation in 1913. The deep state has become so embedded in the system, they are functionally “the system” at this point. George Bush was the CIA director before he was president, his son was the son of the CIA director before he was president. Anyone who thinks the Deepstate just fell off a bus and strolled into the state department 16 years ago, needs a history lesson or maybe a couple hundred.
The physical and circumstantial evidence pointed directly at Oswald.
as was planned by those doing the investigation.
Deep state has actually ruled since November of 1963. Message heard, loud and clear. Trump best retain best private security in the world. If they tried once and failed, will be less discrete with second attempt.
If this is the way the Deep State wanted to get rid of Trump, then I am flabbergasted by the Deep State’s incompetence.
Command and control often suffers when a system becomes bloated and complacent. Look at the mom & pop store that becomes a megachain, and how everything goes to shit.
Apply the same frailty of human systems to one built largely on greed and power and understand how eventually it collapses under the mistrust and stupidity it sustains as a “feature” of its own peculiar organization. Its the original DEI system of hiring only the inbred progeny of its founders and it beleives its own PR and hence often underexecutes on goals.
Look at how the Covid operation fell apart and disappeared. Either they created a monumental change in human society that will soon appear like a tidal wave and destroy all in its path, or they simply F*cked up and gave up when their program couldn’t deliver the results their play scenarios had anticipated.
It’s America. The Incompetent Nation.
Anyone not incompetent; in the entire country; has long since been robbed to the point where he poses no threat to the rankest of all rank idiots who have been handed all the loot. Biden The Senile is not some anomaly. He’s the brightest and most talented “leader” available among Fed enabled “ruling class” members, by now. The rest; in all “sectors” of society, are even worse. As is fair and proper in any truly end-stage, pure and undifferentiated idiotopia.
Sometimes you just blow your chance.
The world is on proverbial fire.
Scary, ain’t it?
reminds me of the 1960’s, it was like living on a high speed train, the rate of change was incredible.
It’s astounding so many tell us “some things went wrong.” When you get too many things wrong, it’s no longer “things went wrong.”
There was too much incompetence for it to be incompetence.
Smart way to put it.
Our government has gone rouge decades ago. A truly fascist state is the USA. Oh and you can’t vote your way out of this!
Rogue.
General Milly, Rear Admiral Levine and Sam Brinton went rouge.
The cookie crumbs lead straight back from the assassination to the White House.
I don’t think Joe has the capacity to plan a caper like this. He has trouble figuring out how to make it up stairs. I’d say Obama’s team, with his CIA background they’d be more likely to have the wherewithall to execute an opponent. look at his poor Chef..
It’s all well and good to harangue Cheadle, but is anybody going to mention it was a deep state plot? Or, since the FBI is not giving any press briefings, subpoena FBI staff (not Wray, he just pretends to be retarded) and ask basic questions:
What caliber shots did Crooks shoot – if any?
How many cartridges had been depleted from his magazine?
How many shell casings were found in his vicinity?
What caliber bullet(s) hit Comperatore?
What caliber bullets hit the two wounded attendees?
What caliber bullet(s) hit Crooks?
How many and from what direction (hit Crooks)?
Etc etc.
Get the names of all “agents” on site that day and depose all of them under oath asap.
Excellent approach and suggested questions, Sentient.
“What difference does it make?” — Hillary Clinton
Cheatle is the gatekeeper, preventing those uncomfortable questions being asked. She was the sheep put in front of congress to be humiliated in the hopes that will bring satisfaction from the easily swayed.
Sort of like the circus part of bread and circuses.
Elections have consequences. When DEI is placed above competence, this is the result. 1 dead, 2 additional injured and a near assassination of a president. And a senate witness providing testimony where she lies over and over and is not held in contempt and placed in jail.
Mayorkas should not be in any position in the U.S. gov after the EB-5 bribery case with Hillary’s brother. A definite swamp creature.
I don’t like to speculate publicly but the Trump attempted assassination attempt is a real stinker. The conveniently ignored patsy, iron sights at pretty long yardage, sound recordings that have sound signatures of 4 different guns, and an amazingly lackadaisical crew of Secret Service agents do not paint a pretty picture.
This investigation should be done by a third party non-politically affiliated forsenic investigation firm with subpoena power with the highest level priority.
Funnier than hell. I especially like the question about how many SS personnel have been required to take a refresher course on how not to get Donald Trump shot. If Rep. Mace wrote these questions, than kudos to her otherwise to a her staff.
Former USSS agent here-
When I was in virtually all agents hired had either military or law enforcement backgrounds. For obvious reasons.
Director Cheatle was hired shortly out of college with no military or law enforcement experience and it shows.
Culture started changing when USSS became part of DHS after 9/11.
Over the years, incompetent bureaucrats promoted, focus on DEI, etc has destroyed the culture. She is terrible but unfortunately only a symbol of a bigger problem.
USSS lost it’s way over the last 20 years.
USSS Motto is “Worthy of Trust and Confidence.”
Not anymore..when I was in the mentality was “Not on my watch.” Those days are long gone.
there seems to be a deliberate effort to destroy the government from within, that makes communism seem like a childs effort. The economy as well has been dismantled and largely automated or shipped overseas.
A country that can build nothing and cannot work together is ripe for becoming a colony of another country.
When the circus rolls into town, you’re gonna see clowns.
Seems people are starting to be more interested in the Truth, not how sweetly it gets delivered.
You don’t want to risk the lives of overweight agents with no physical on a sloped roof, do you?
You would end up with a macho, intelligence tested navy seal secret service like in the past, and you could flush DEI down the toilet.
Incompetent DEI hires are everywhere.
UCLA medical degree. No thanks.
I heard for the first time today that she was previously employed by the SS. WTF why wasn’t that mentioned before.
Employed for 27years by the SS. Who started the dei misinformation. I still think she needs to be fired .
It’s not her being employed by the agency that’s earned the DEI inference, it’s that she somehow advanced to the Director position and her stated goal of making the SS 30% female that’s the problem. Her performance today shows she should’ve never been given that position in the first place.
Thank you for pointing that out
she provided security for Mrs. Biden who suggested she be considered for her present position. She also worked for Frito-Lay in logistics, I’m told. She has publicly stated that 30% of the SS will be DEI hires under her watch.
Was recruited after she retired from USSS by Dr.Jill Biden as Cheadle used to be on the VP “Second Lady” detail during Obama administration and they became friends.
Director of USSS does not have to be approved by the Senate and is “appointed.”
If she herself hired agents based on meritocracy, you might have a point, but she is a huge DEI promoter.
This goes far, far beyond incompetence.
Oh goody! A CONSPIRACY!
Share your secret knowledge.
I’ve got one data point. 911 calls and police body cam footage is saved for months. But SS radio dialogue, people assigned to protect presidents, congressmen, supreme court justices and foreign dignitaries deletes or does not record events?
Or did Joe accidentally record over it so he could watch The Fall Guy re-runs?
You don’t need secret knowledge. It’s common fucking sense. “Error” upon “error” upon “error” upon “error”. After a while “it was an accident” is ridiculous. If somebody flips a coin and gets 100 heads in a roll, it’s a two-headed coin.
Go to your local high school, ask the physics teacher to run an oscilloscope (a 50 year old model will do) inputting the sounds of the shots fired.
“Let’s start with the building that the shooter used to shoot President Trump from at any point Saturday. Did the Secret Service have an agent on top of that roof?”
She already knew the answer, as she claimed there was no USSS on the roof, because the roof was sloped. She was gaming the legislator by her deflective verbose response, instead answering, no. Prior to the assassination attempt, USSS whistleblowers had come forward to Republican members of congress and allegations were being investigated.
Impeach Cheatle
Ms Cheatle cold eyes and total defiance raise suspicion that Biden was behind Trump’s assassination attempt. Firing her isn’t good enough.
See if the fat pig can walk the span
of that sloped roof. Maybe she’ll fall through it.
Organizations like the Secret Service run on protocol and checklists.
Deviation from them is a reason to be fired, b/c error cannot be tolerated.
So there must be at least a suspicion of interventions in protocol.
And any investigation must be done by qualified independent (outside the government) actors.
Admissions of incompetence are only made when the alternatives are more damning.
as an election doesn’t matter on who votes for whom, but merely on who counts the votes, so too it doesn’t matter who controls the crime scene, merely who controls the investigation.
Cheatle has dirt on Homeland Security and possibly the WH otherwise she would’ve been asked to resign
Impeach Biden for dereliction of Duty.
Is our Republic dead? This is so frightening. Are they looking to start a full-fledged violent revolution? War in the streets? I think this is a good time to get out of the current foreign wars and those threatened-Ukraine, Gaza, Taiwan, etc. We need to worry about the one being planned and promoted here in the USA.
The same Nancy Mace that voted to impeach Trump and sent Bannon to jail. She is no better than AOC to me.
Nancy Mace is full of shit
Was she wrong in her examination of SS dir? Christ, was AOC? Don’t turn away things that are right because you hate the source. Gotta be better than that.
You are exactly right.
As usual, the Republicans are incompetent at staging an inquisition.
They failed to hold Cheatle in contempt and put her in a holding cell to help jog her memory.
You are right.
I can’t believe she didn’t even know Stuart Knight accepted full responsibility and resigned after the Reagan assassination attempt. Doesn’t even know the history of the organization!
she’s like most political appointees. She got the job because dr jill biden aka diaper genie, gave it to her.
There’s obviously a problem.
Replacing the political appointee at the head of the department will likely have no impact other than to satisfy the call for blood.
Someone further down in the organization led this mission and made the decisions that let this happen.
Incompetence of the mission planner may have nothing to do with the competency of the director.
True, but has ANYONE been fired? And if your premise is correct, her testimony today could easily have honestly identified that rather than stonewalling Congress.
Competent organizations expel incompetent individuals.
Incompetence only flourishes amidst other incompetence.
So far it looks like 50%+ incompetents, at every level of the org chart, all the way down.
I would add that the incompetence starts with Congress, which has stuck Secret Service in DHS and under-funded it relative to the protective mission, particularly in election years.
Also, it’s blatantly clear that Congress’ public-shaming bully pulpit “hearings” are utterly ineffective at rooting out the incompetence and corruption.
There’s been 48% turnover at the USSS since her appointment. That’s not normal.
got to have some open slots to slide those DEI hires into. She views the departures as a great opportunity to fix the “white male problem” she discovered on her watch.
Of course Mayorkas has full confidence in her, she’s doing his directives. Mayorkas should be booted out of his job, as well as this idiot ss director. Competency is vital in security, and clearly, neither of these bozos are capable.
Mayorkas — disgusting dual shitizen.
Cheatle shouldn’t resign. She should be FIRED! …but since that’s Brandon’s job, and he is incapacitated, corrupt pigs like Cheatle & Mayorkas stay put.
Ladies and Gentlemen, Brandon has left the building.
-Ms. Cheatle. Are you a moron, an imbecile or being told to sweep this under the rug?
-I’ll have to get back to you after I check …
she’ll circle back on that question.
Recent news out of Chicago –
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson bizarrely blames Richard Nixon for surging gun violence.
Given a country with tons of mentally unstable young men and 300 million guns, there is no Secret Service that can prevent the kind of senseless shooting that took place. These shootings are going to happen again and again until our gun laws change.
Proper security measures would have prevented the shooting.
Just getting Trump off the stage in the minutes after a shooter on the roof had been spotted would have been sufficient.
This argument makes no sense. Why do these kind of pointless shootings almost never happen in other countries, including other Anglo-Saxon law-based countries like Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, and the UK? These countries also have tons of mentally unstable young men. The only significant difference across these countries plus the US is that we have the world’s most moronic gun culture.
the CIA mostly operates out of the USA. The crown takes a dim view on the CIA stepping on the domain of MI7 & MI6.
as one needs a different foundation to hold up structure in different soils, so one needs a different 3 letter agency to accomplish the unique goals of the Crown vs the goals of our banking overlords.
The Crowns long term goal is to fold the U.S. back into the U.K.
it requires subterfuge of a different sort from their domestic agenda on the already subdued nations of the U.K..
This is for Chicago – let me know what you find for “downstate” Illinois. That’s where the farmers, hunters, hicks and other deplorables hang out.
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Who is Tlaib going to blame for Dearborn – Henry Ford?
Okay, be prepared for this: criminals do not follow gun laws.
From this premise it follows we are a nation full of criminals. BTW, Crooks had no criminal record whatsoever.
When I lived in Texas, I saw a bumper sticker that said, When you outlaw guns only outlaws will have guns. How difficult was that?
Which implies Crooks would not have been able to fire at a political rally with an AR15. How difficult is that?
its not a failing in beliefs, its just criminals as whole don’t usually follow laws, its an inherent feature of criminality. In fact one could define a criminal as one who does not follow the law and instead frequently violates the laws of the land.
If you are willing to use a gun for criminal activities you dang sure don’t care about any gun laws it’s a morality and spiritual problem and no law can change that.
Then the crazies will make use of drones, or IEDs or whatever else that they can make or buy. Didn’t a guy crash a light plane into a tax office a few years ago? Or the guy who used a vehicle to run down a crowd? So let’s ban planes, trucks and cars when we ban guns.
How about not prescribing certain drugs that have been linked to many of the young male shooters where those drugs are not recommended for those under 25 but that strong recommendation is ignored?
How about teaching good morals, civics and non woke stuff in schools so there are fewer crazies out there?
Mentally unstable people will do crazy stuff no matter what. But why give them an AR15 as a Christmas present? It’s much more difficult for them to get their hands on an IED.
so we have to pass a law to make people good parents? you can’t outlaw stupidity, it has too many loopholes.
one of the earliest mass school death tolls was due to a bomb. look it up
Gun laws are not the problem. California keeps adding gun laws, yet there are shootings in Los Angeles on a daily basis. The Trump rally was treated as a “loose security” event.
I think the 300 million number says something different. ESPECIALLY in W PA, there are so many deer hunters here (beyond the left’s claim of gun nuts) that could’ve made that shot with a much better rifle than an ar15 at that distance. Most from far longer range without military training, too.
Point being, so many guns, so many people, and this happens how often?
you can’t use logic on my “feelings”…. most democrats and those who drink the kool-aid.
i would suggest national policies which would address reversing the underpinnings of that instability. Otherwise get ready for feudalism.
I’ve already got my eye on a nice castle, we are dickering over the moat depth, heated/unheated etc. its a lot of work becoming a prince, hope the peasants are worth it…
The Secret Service can and does eliminate threats all the time; after all, this hasn’t happened in DECADES! And it ignores the obvious that this was preventable too! And if the anti-gun crowd were in charge of the SS (hint: they are) they would never have allowed anyone with an elevated shooting position within 300-400 yards let alone 130 yds. This is not a gun-control/gun law argument. Law abiding citizens pointed out the man carrying a firearm and the armed authorities did nothing. And others correctly pointed out that killing someone with ANY weapon is already illegal. Do you really think making something doubly illegal that will stop someone from trying? Only way is through active deterrence, which has been effective until this debacle lead by a total sham.
Watch the testimony and try not to be outraged at the witness SS DIrector Cheadle.
Deflection from the point. Shocker.
43 years without a president getting shot and when one finally does get shot – it’s the same one the intelligence community hobbled with the Russia Collusion Hoax and the same one whose reelection they tried to scuttle by 1) sitting on Hunter’s laptop for a year and 2) getting 51 crooked intel guys to say the laptop “had all the hallmarks of Russian disinformation”.
Gee what a fucking coincidence. Reminds me of how JFK fired Allen Dulles and six months later he was dead.
Someone. fire. this. person. Please.
Mayorkas is a sleaze ball. The only question he could answer directly recently with a big old self-righteous grin was if he is in favor of banning ‘assault weapons’…guess what his answer was,..