WaPo are now reporting the “shooter” did not actually fire any shots. There was already some video analysis suggesting that the SS member who got shot did so from friendly fire and this seems to be WaPo’s position.
I get why some on the left are trying to rein in conspiracy theories coming from “their side”, but nothing this admin, even at the DoJ, ever says should be believed and you have to allow some room between “conspiracy theory” and “I dont believe anything about this situation at all.” So no, this doesnt mean it was a false flag, but their immediate spinning of this with things they couldnt possibly know and turned out to not be true does validate the conspiracy theory adjacent thinking.
Politics is far less the debate of ideas as its commonly portrayed as, but a debate between people who know things and people whose world view is based on utterly imagined ideas
Julie Davis, the US ambassador to Ukraine is resigning over the US government’s pro Putin position. She is the second US ambassador to Ukraine to resign under Trump this term for the exact same reason
https://x.com/Ania_In_UA/status/2049549278272430083
Yeah, he just talked to Putin. That’s why he he mixed up Ukraine with Iran, claiming that it was militarily defeated and that all it’s 159 ships had been sunk (lol). American mashed potatoes for brains and clearly mentally impaired compared to 10 years ago.
But this was supposedly about Iran. But of course, he will bear no insult to himself, so is going to pretend it was about Ukraine probably and double down.
King Charles needs to camp in Washington DC for 3-4 weeks to nanny him and be in the same room with him when he uses his phone (I wish !)
At the time the story broke, I didn’t think it added up. However I saw one report, from Al Jazeera, that did. In fact it seems pretty spot on now in terms of it being a security incident and potential threat rather than an actual assassination.
It’s interesting that they seem to have adopted the tactic of the BBC World Service, in that factual reporting gives credibility.
It is the one piece of history most Americans “know” even though they get it wrong. They know it as part of the story of us coming back for more to try to reclaim the US 40 years later and they kicked our arse a second time and the white house just happened to get burned down in that
A further reminder that when Republicans or anyone on the right claim to think any issue is important dont believe them. This is orders of magnitude worse than what they pretended to believe about Biden, but that was all made up and they have absolutely no concern about how absurdly Trump is monetizing the presidency, and doing so at the expense of the US and Americans
WOW. Janet Mills has pulled out of the Senate race in Maine citing lack of money (in the cheapest state in the country, and one where the small size means a lot can be done with cheap retail politics). Had she won she would have been the oldest ever first time elected senator and there was a lot of reporting that she had to bullied into it by Schumer in the first place and never expected to be in such a tough race for the party nomination. This seems far more a reflection of that than it does a purely financial issue.
I don’t know this lady, but she’s 78, that’s quite old to be honest. It will make place for a younger candidate, and a bit less gerontocracy in your country can’t be a bad thing, isn’t it?
She is the popular governor who was term limited and could not run again for that office and instead of retiring was bullied into trying to run for the Senate by party leadership. She then found herself up against a popular “grassroots” “populist” candidate who had all the voter energy making it a very uphill path to even win the nomination. It caused a TON of in-party fighting about who to support and what it means existentially to support one candidate or the other.
