DEI ends up being DIE and those agents were responsible for covering the entire area. The building was outside the cordon of the event, and supposedly agents were inside the building...but why wasn't the roof covered? The slanting excuse is insane, the agents were on another rooftops just as slanted. And Jill Biden had team A and team B was sent to guard Trump?! All of this is disgusting.
Take a gander at what investigative journalist John Judge reported back in 1988 on the Reagan attempt. It's only 13 min.
I knew John Judge. I was the executive producer for Roger Fredinburg's national radio talk show and he said Judge was one of his best interviews. Judge's mother was an insider at the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
If you didn't watch the short video, you're missing the point. John Judge exposed what was done at the Reagan attack and he gave us the BLUEPRINT for every assassination and attempted assassination since John F. Kennedy.
The model a lot of people are suggesting seems to be this:
(1.) There are individual 'Woke' leaders are out there -- people disgruntled at the state of things for some reason(s), dreaming of taking some people down a few pegs -- and these individuals try to place themselves at the head of these organizations, in order to... (2.) "reshape society."
I think this may be backwards. Maybe it's the really: (2.) --> (1.); a "reshaped society" places 'Woke' leaders at the head of organizations. The pro-Wokeness policies don't come from any individual initiatives or desires, but from the whole system operating as a machine. If this alternate model is correct, then pegging blame on specific individuals is not the right way to go.
Some of the RNC Convention 2024 speakers were bragging about how great Trump has been at promoting the interests of professional women. One in particular was the speech by Kellyanne Conway, who practically declared herself a pro-Trump feminist, and practically declared the orange-haired man himself a "pro-Trump feminist."
If it is true that Trump promoted the interests of high-powered "Girlbosses" all over, what caused that? Is it because Trump personally had some burning desire to "reshape society"?
It seems easy to blame the current Secret Service head, because she is a woman supposedly promoting the interests of feminism inside the Secret Service. But Kimberly Cheatle (b.1972, full-White origin; with the Secret Service since 1995) may not be doing anything different from what a male in her place might be doing.
This seems to me like the big failure of Trumpism, MAGA (whatever it is). The idea sometimes seems to boil down to: There are this group of evil characters out there, and all we have to do is replace them with better -- pro-Trump -- people and everything solves itself. It's not realistic.
Yes, #2 captures it better. Ambitious people are found everywhere, including many-layered government & corporate bureaucracies. Once “diversity is our strength” becomes the order of the day, the ambitious ones become good at pursuing and promoting diversity, regardless of their personal preferences. The “machine” grinds on. Their goal is to climb the bureaucracy, not reshape society.
There's no policy initiatve so stupid that the adherents of Western feminist androgynotopia will not embrace it. In the UK it has taken the form of women prison officers 'guarding' male prisoners. The result was so predictable as this Daily Mail report reveals: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12507975/female-prison-guards-sex-inmates.html
Whenever you hear "Diversity is our strength" you KNOW you are being gaslit. Physical ability is MORE important than temperament. The willingness to put oneself in harm's way is not particularly useful when one is physically incapable of the task at hand. Kim Cheatle seems to have seen too many superhero movies where skinsuit clad women and girls overcome crowds of "stupid boys" and thought they were real. She should be fired and replace with someone committed to restoring physical standards of excellence in the department, even if that is a woman. Performance Trump's optics every time. And abolish DHS. A many tentacled monster with an insatiable appetite for funding but no evidence of a brain.
There is a possibility that Secret Service head Kimberly Cheatle herself is competent and capable. The mistake is thinking that exceptional cases can "scale up."
This woman (b.1972; full-White, apparent Midwest origin, active with the Secret Service, 1995-2018; 2022-present), however, may have been able to enter in the mid-1990s when a relatively more-modest feminist dispensation existed, and when a "male norm" for many fields still held, if tenuously (already by that time). Exceptional women could get in, but were heavily balanced out by males, the "male norm."
There may be some %-threshold that could be calculated at which organizations really begin to institutionally 'tip' away from male norms.
Offices and professional environments all over have seen this play out over the past few decades, often with results that are in many ways highly unfavorable. The great wealth and accumulated competence and norms generated by and in the (male-dominated) 19th and 20th centuries allowed lots of slack. Call it: cultural capital.
There was plenty of slack to Diversify things while sacrificing excellence (and a family-formation norm) by the fourth quarter of the 20th century and the first quarter of this century. The problem is, people don't realize that some of the people now heavily present in, or even dominating, controlling, and managing certain fields or areas, could NOT themselves have created them and often cannot even maintain them.
This is not a personal failure on those raised within such a system (as with b.1972 Kimberly Cheatle). It is a larger ideological problem.
This recalls a line from Hemingway where one character asks another how he went bankrupt. The answer was "Gradually at first. Then suddenly." This is how a society squanders its social capital built up over centuries. Gradually, then suddenly. The gradual phase was from the 60's through the 90's. I think we have moved into the sudden phase. I don't know anyone not shocked at how the west has declined just in the first quarter of this century. 9/11 may be the point where the American dollar started to show strain from the money printers going "Brrrrrrrr", the American military started to spend a lot more to accomplish a lot less, non-producers started demanding ever more resources all across the west and the Climate Fascism started to swing into high gear. Would the Covid-19 plan-demic have been so devastating in healthy societies of sane people?
The 90s was the peak feminist decade. Recall that the draconian anti-male VAWA, which Joe Biden has called his proudest accomplishment, was passed in '94.
That Cheatle started her career in the SS in the 90s only suggests to me that she's an ambitious, militant dyke. Maybe I'm wrong about that, but the shoe fits as far as I can tell.
This has been the case in every military branch for decades. The Army tried having one standard a few years ago but the usual suspects threw a fit. Glad this is getting some attention, finally.
In fairness to the short woman agent she probably assumed Trump would want to, you know duck down, when being shot at by snipers. That said, what a mess we’ve made of this country. Mainstream media 100% enemy of the people.
As a woman who has trained in martial arts and who participates in other physically demanding sports with men - there is almost NO overlap in physical abilities between men and women. I'm very strong for a woman, and tougher than most - and a teenage boy can easily overpower me.
I do feel bad for the little Secret Service lady; a lot of the memes are pretty mean. But, it is a completely ludicrous idea to assign a 5'4" woman to protect a 6'3" man. It reminded me of the "Curb Your Enthusiasm" episode where Larry David is picked up at the airport by a tiny, petite female driver who tries to carry his luggage, and the awkwardness that ensues.
I saw three women agents in Trump’s protective detail. I’ll tell you this, I’d take the blonde agent with the bun in her hair as my protector any day of the week, and I don’t mean that in a sexual way even though she’s cute. Watch her actions compared to the other two. She threw her body into the fray instantaneously, and while she is smaller than the male agents (a real issue with the 6’3” Trump) she did everything the other agents were doing, unlike the ponytail duo who bumbled around. You know, not every Navy SEAL is 6”5, 260#, in fact few are. Quite frankly, I don’t think bun lady is a diversity hire, but the jury is out on the other two…
Yes, absolutely she was prepared and made serious efforts to protect Trump and handle the situation. When Trump was ushered in to the SUV she was again the only one who appeared to know what she was doing. Personally I hope she could continue as part of Trumps security detail, but not in a role where she would be expected to somehow block a man a foot taller than her.
The SS will just do exactly what the armed forces do when confronted about lowered standards: act indignant and lie. Then everyone on the left will feel relieved and say "the experts all agree that the Secret Service did not lower standards to hire more women."
How about giving protectees a choice? Pro DEI advocates choose DEI hires and pro merit advocates can choose accordingly. If this leads to a peaceful resolution it could be applied to other areas like airlines. A kind of participatory democracy.
The big failing was not a lack of height or brawn, but of brainpower. The shooter was known to be on the roof for at least 26 minutes, and caught the attention of of security, and the general public, even before that, yet nobody acted until he took his shots
Lack of proper pre-planning, lack of meticulous detail-orientation. This tends to be a male strength.
Whatever it is in the male psyche that causes the male-female gap on current-events general-knowledge quizzes amounting to a full standard deviation or more, would seem to apply to the temperament needed for this Secret Service kind of work.
DEI ends up being DIE and those agents were responsible for covering the entire area. The building was outside the cordon of the event, and supposedly agents were inside the building...but why wasn't the roof covered? The slanting excuse is insane, the agents were on another rooftops just as slanted. And Jill Biden had team A and team B was sent to guard Trump?! All of this is disgusting.
Take a gander at what investigative journalist John Judge reported back in 1988 on the Reagan attempt. It's only 13 min.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZZnuJ_8Xs8
I knew John Judge. I was the executive producer for Roger Fredinburg's national radio talk show and he said Judge was one of his best interviews. Judge's mother was an insider at the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
If you didn't watch the short video, you're missing the point. John Judge exposed what was done at the Reagan attack and he gave us the BLUEPRINT for every assassination and attempted assassination since John F. Kennedy.
Foolish in the military; foolish here.
These organizations have very narrow roles…reshaping society is not why we have them.
The model a lot of people are suggesting seems to be this:
(1.) There are individual 'Woke' leaders are out there -- people disgruntled at the state of things for some reason(s), dreaming of taking some people down a few pegs -- and these individuals try to place themselves at the head of these organizations, in order to... (2.) "reshape society."
I think this may be backwards. Maybe it's the really: (2.) --> (1.); a "reshaped society" places 'Woke' leaders at the head of organizations. The pro-Wokeness policies don't come from any individual initiatives or desires, but from the whole system operating as a machine. If this alternate model is correct, then pegging blame on specific individuals is not the right way to go.
Some of the RNC Convention 2024 speakers were bragging about how great Trump has been at promoting the interests of professional women. One in particular was the speech by Kellyanne Conway, who practically declared herself a pro-Trump feminist, and practically declared the orange-haired man himself a "pro-Trump feminist."
If it is true that Trump promoted the interests of high-powered "Girlbosses" all over, what caused that? Is it because Trump personally had some burning desire to "reshape society"?
It seems easy to blame the current Secret Service head, because she is a woman supposedly promoting the interests of feminism inside the Secret Service. But Kimberly Cheatle (b.1972, full-White origin; with the Secret Service since 1995) may not be doing anything different from what a male in her place might be doing.
This seems to me like the big failure of Trumpism, MAGA (whatever it is). The idea sometimes seems to boil down to: There are this group of evil characters out there, and all we have to do is replace them with better -- pro-Trump -- people and everything solves itself. It's not realistic.
Yes, #2 captures it better. Ambitious people are found everywhere, including many-layered government & corporate bureaucracies. Once “diversity is our strength” becomes the order of the day, the ambitious ones become good at pursuing and promoting diversity, regardless of their personal preferences. The “machine” grinds on. Their goal is to climb the bureaucracy, not reshape society.
There's no policy initiatve so stupid that the adherents of Western feminist androgynotopia will not embrace it. In the UK it has taken the form of women prison officers 'guarding' male prisoners. The result was so predictable as this Daily Mail report reveals: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12507975/female-prison-guards-sex-inmates.html
Whenever you hear "Diversity is our strength" you KNOW you are being gaslit. Physical ability is MORE important than temperament. The willingness to put oneself in harm's way is not particularly useful when one is physically incapable of the task at hand. Kim Cheatle seems to have seen too many superhero movies where skinsuit clad women and girls overcome crowds of "stupid boys" and thought they were real. She should be fired and replace with someone committed to restoring physical standards of excellence in the department, even if that is a woman. Performance Trump's optics every time. And abolish DHS. A many tentacled monster with an insatiable appetite for funding but no evidence of a brain.
There is a possibility that Secret Service head Kimberly Cheatle herself is competent and capable. The mistake is thinking that exceptional cases can "scale up."
This woman (b.1972; full-White, apparent Midwest origin, active with the Secret Service, 1995-2018; 2022-present), however, may have been able to enter in the mid-1990s when a relatively more-modest feminist dispensation existed, and when a "male norm" for many fields still held, if tenuously (already by that time). Exceptional women could get in, but were heavily balanced out by males, the "male norm."
There may be some %-threshold that could be calculated at which organizations really begin to institutionally 'tip' away from male norms.
Offices and professional environments all over have seen this play out over the past few decades, often with results that are in many ways highly unfavorable. The great wealth and accumulated competence and norms generated by and in the (male-dominated) 19th and 20th centuries allowed lots of slack. Call it: cultural capital.
There was plenty of slack to Diversify things while sacrificing excellence (and a family-formation norm) by the fourth quarter of the 20th century and the first quarter of this century. The problem is, people don't realize that some of the people now heavily present in, or even dominating, controlling, and managing certain fields or areas, could NOT themselves have created them and often cannot even maintain them.
This is not a personal failure on those raised within such a system (as with b.1972 Kimberly Cheatle). It is a larger ideological problem.
This recalls a line from Hemingway where one character asks another how he went bankrupt. The answer was "Gradually at first. Then suddenly." This is how a society squanders its social capital built up over centuries. Gradually, then suddenly. The gradual phase was from the 60's through the 90's. I think we have moved into the sudden phase. I don't know anyone not shocked at how the west has declined just in the first quarter of this century. 9/11 may be the point where the American dollar started to show strain from the money printers going "Brrrrrrrr", the American military started to spend a lot more to accomplish a lot less, non-producers started demanding ever more resources all across the west and the Climate Fascism started to swing into high gear. Would the Covid-19 plan-demic have been so devastating in healthy societies of sane people?
The 90s was the peak feminist decade. Recall that the draconian anti-male VAWA, which Joe Biden has called his proudest accomplishment, was passed in '94.
That Cheatle started her career in the SS in the 90s only suggests to me that she's an ambitious, militant dyke. Maybe I'm wrong about that, but the shoe fits as far as I can tell.
This has been the case in every military branch for decades. The Army tried having one standard a few years ago but the usual suspects threw a fit. Glad this is getting some attention, finally.
In fairness to the short woman agent she probably assumed Trump would want to, you know duck down, when being shot at by snipers. That said, what a mess we’ve made of this country. Mainstream media 100% enemy of the people.
He’s still be taller than her ducking down.
They know we've all seen the video, right?
As a woman who has trained in martial arts and who participates in other physically demanding sports with men - there is almost NO overlap in physical abilities between men and women. I'm very strong for a woman, and tougher than most - and a teenage boy can easily overpower me.
I do feel bad for the little Secret Service lady; a lot of the memes are pretty mean. But, it is a completely ludicrous idea to assign a 5'4" woman to protect a 6'3" man. It reminded me of the "Curb Your Enthusiasm" episode where Larry David is picked up at the airport by a tiny, petite female driver who tries to carry his luggage, and the awkwardness that ensues.
I saw three women agents in Trump’s protective detail. I’ll tell you this, I’d take the blonde agent with the bun in her hair as my protector any day of the week, and I don’t mean that in a sexual way even though she’s cute. Watch her actions compared to the other two. She threw her body into the fray instantaneously, and while she is smaller than the male agents (a real issue with the 6’3” Trump) she did everything the other agents were doing, unlike the ponytail duo who bumbled around. You know, not every Navy SEAL is 6”5, 260#, in fact few are. Quite frankly, I don’t think bun lady is a diversity hire, but the jury is out on the other two…
Yes, absolutely she was prepared and made serious efforts to protect Trump and handle the situation. When Trump was ushered in to the SUV she was again the only one who appeared to know what she was doing. Personally I hope she could continue as part of Trumps security detail, but not in a role where she would be expected to somehow block a man a foot taller than her.
Just as equal opportunity does not mean equality of outcomes, equal standards does not mean using different group averages.
6'-1", 185 lbs and 6'-3", 200 lbs are not "big guys;" they are *tall* guys, not "big" guys.
It’s all relative
The SS will just do exactly what the armed forces do when confronted about lowered standards: act indignant and lie. Then everyone on the left will feel relieved and say "the experts all agree that the Secret Service did not lower standards to hire more women."
How about giving protectees a choice? Pro DEI advocates choose DEI hires and pro merit advocates can choose accordingly. If this leads to a peaceful resolution it could be applied to other areas like airlines. A kind of participatory democracy.
It’s straightforward: men are taller (on average) and stronger (always) than women. Some tasks do require height and strength.
Or RAISING its standards, speaking estrogenically
The big failing was not a lack of height or brawn, but of brainpower. The shooter was known to be on the roof for at least 26 minutes, and caught the attention of of security, and the general public, even before that, yet nobody acted until he took his shots
Lack of proper pre-planning, lack of meticulous detail-orientation. This tends to be a male strength.
Whatever it is in the male psyche that causes the male-female gap on current-events general-knowledge quizzes amounting to a full standard deviation or more, would seem to apply to the temperament needed for this Secret Service kind of work.
“Temperament”, as you say, is probably a better word choice than “brainpower”