A gunman charged the Washington Hilton last night. By sunrise, the President was on Truth Social pitching a construction project. That timeline is the story.
I am smelling something very stinky here. You are right that the Secret Service, police, security and hotel employees were heroes in handling the situation. My question is why were they in that situation? I find it difficult to believe that the Secret service would screw up security in 2 events protecting the same person. They have done this work professionally for over 100 years with few incidents and now they are bumbling? Something isn't right here and it gets Trump what he wants; attention, sympathy, argument for the damn ballroom, distraction from Iran and Epstein and possibly another reason to declare an emergency and complete a coup. Trying not to be a conspiracy theorist but the "coincidences" are appearing more intentional than coincidental. And we jut have to keep taking it because the R's won't oppose him. Concerned we will not make it to November.
Nancy...you're not smelling something that isn't there.
You're smelling something real.
But...let me push you gently...because the "is it intentional" question is actually the trap...and I want you out of it.
The Secret Service hasn't performed flawlessly for 100 years. They lost JFK. They almost lost Reagan. The myth of unbroken excellence is useful to the agency and useful to presidents...but it's still a myth.
What's happening now...in my read...isn't bumbling-on-purpose...it's an under-resourced agency...stretched thin during a months-long DHS shutdown...operating in an unusually high-threat environment.
Starve an institution...then...ask it to perform at peak...and you'll get more failures. That's not conspiracy. That's just what happens.
The "they're letting it happen" framing is what they want you to chase...because once you're there...you can be dismissed as the crank.
The stronger argument...the one I'm staying on...is that you don't need intentional failures to convert security events into political assets.
You just need pre-built conversion machinery...rehearsed and ready...that activates the MOMENT something real happens. The events don't have to be staged. They just have to be metabolized...FAST ENOUGH.
That's what we saw last night. A federal lawsuit...politically NEUTERED... in twelve hours.
A fortified construction project...made UNTOUCHABLE. Iran and Epstein...buried under it.
On not making it to November...your fear isn't irrational, Nancy. But...the people running this operation....are counting on exactly that feeling.
DESPAIR is the deliverable. DISENGAGEMENT is the goal. The single most important thing you can do is stay in the conversation and keep asking the actual question: why is every national security shock being routed through real estate decisions controlled by one family.
That question, asked persistently...is what they can't survive.
Nancy, hang in there with Jack! No, I’m not related 😂 nor could I pick him out of a lineup 😬 I’ve just been reading his work, keeping my eyes open and looking for patterns!
I have to admit, when a friend called me in a panic last night, excitedly proclaiming “they’re trying to k*ll yrump,” I had to turn the tv on because I was actually taking a break from reality (was reading about Andrew and Fergie’s descent into their own private hell 🤣). After I calmed her down I started channeling Jack! 🤣🤣
My immediate thought was not WWJD (What Would Jack Do) but WDJS (What Does Jack “See”)?
The White House Correspondents’ Dinner is not a sanctioned White House event, but is by the Press Corp who chooses the event venue. Trump’s selling of a White House Ballroom that would avoid last night’s incident, does not work in this case, and is highly suspect. The timing of this is suspect as well. The boy who cried wolf, Trump, seems to have so many more “assassins” incidents, timed out after poor ratings and job performance (war, economy,etc.), all serving as distractions from what we really need to be focused on. Can’t wait to read your next report.
The Correspondents' Dinner is hosted by the WHCA...the press corps picks the venue... not the White House.
Trump pitching a White House ballroom as the fix for a Washington Hilton security failure ...is a category error...SO obvious...it has to be deliberate.
The "fix" doesn't fit the problem...because the fix was already on the shelf...waiting for any problem to attach to.
And...you're right about the rhythm. The pattern isn't that these events happen...it's that they keep arriving precisely when the polling tanks...the war news sours...or the Epstein files surface.
The boy-who-cried-wolf comparison is too generous. The boy was at least surprised by the wolf.
Keep reading. Keep noticing. The next one is coming!
And it all smacks of a desperate attempt to take control of the effing ballroom and bunker to save all of trump’s evil spawn from any harm, from real or imagined enemies. How do we ever get our country and the People’s House back? Vote them out, yes heard that one many times. It’s not going to be that easy.
Sylvia...you're seeing something not enough people are saying out loud yet.
The bunker-and-ballroom...isn't really about Trump's security.
A man with that detail doesn't need a personal fortress to survive a threat. What he needs it for is everyone else who carries his name. Continuity-of-government is the cover story. Continuity-of-family is closer to the truth.
And "vote them out" fits in a sentence because that's all it does. You already know it's not enough.
Getting the country back happens in layers. Judges writing rulings for the record...even knowing they'll be overruled.
Civil servants quietly refuse unlawful orders. Journalists who keep reporting...after their near-death experience get converted into a construction permit.
Our job is to refuse to let the conversion machinery work on us. Every time they try to convert tragedy into a permit...we NAME IT.
Every time they try to convert exhaustion into withdrawal, we name it.
Even the look on Trump's face after he was officially told of the shooting said it all. There was no shock or upset, which you would expect to see. What was there? A little smirk. Nothing extremely obvious, but it was a little smirk.
When he did his riff in the briefing room about 30 minutes after his departure from the hotel, he touched on the ballroom issue. The same little smirk was there as well, similar to the one he made right after the shots were fired.
A similar script was used in Butler, too. Jack hit on it. I think there's a couple more similarities that bind the events together. First, Trump is now (and was before Butler) in the gutter with his approval ratings. People don't agree with his leadership, policies, etc. Butler was a big stunt just before the RNC, meant for the public to have sympathy for him and bring his approval rates up. The same things are going on with what happened last night. He's seeking sympathy in hopes of getting his approval rates up, as well as to get through specific policies he wants. Both incidents were staged with specific goals in mind.
I noticed Jiang, on its left, had what looked like an over dramatic response at the time 🍊💩 was being shown the piece of paper with whatever was written on it. 🍊💩 had a glaiket look on its puss, like it was having a hard time reading it, while Jiang slapped her hand over her mouth.🤷♀️
SMDH. There are so many questions swirling about this event. One of them is telling: trump just sat there as his table mates whipped their heads toward the loud sounds. And Melania very uncharacteristically wore a pantsuit.
Better to run in. It was reported that Leavitt's husband said to the woman seated next to him to stay safe. And of course Karolyin said it was going to be fun, and shots will be fired.
This was definitely a set up by Trump. That was my instinct. al, why was the entire presidential succession in the same place at the same time. Trump gets a new dog whistle, new narrative, and the obscene ballroom. Until trump tore it up, there was a safe bunker under the East Wing. He is the menace a
The boy who cried “wolf” has done it one too many times! I do not believe one word about what transpired last night…it was another desperate ploy by Trump to change the narrative! Iran isn’t working out the way he thought it would, gas prices are high and the cost of food will be skyrocketing just like the cost of the diesel fuel used to transport those good has already done! Along with those issues, it was an opportunity for him to bang on after the “attempt” about HIS damn ballroom and how the correspondents dinner needed to be held at the White House. The problem with that is it isn’t a White House event, it is put on by the Washington Press Corp, who choose the venue and the President is an invited guest, like everyone else in attendance. I am tired of these desperate attempts to change focus and every one of them from Butler, PA, to last night’s follow a similar pattern that they seem so scripted, to the point of being ridiculous! He’s never attended one of these dinners, has derides them at every opportunity, along with the press that he both uses and loathes at the same time! How convenient that it was the one time he’d be attending! When the suspect is arraigned on Monday I am waiting to hear that he’s a “radicalised supporter of Iran.” This regime, this poor excuse for a president, let alone a human being needs to be removed, and the list of reasons is long!
I dunno, I’m kind of confused about the whole ballroom thing. It’s “Militarily Top Secret” and being broadcasted on Truth Social? And does this mean he will now spend all his time there (which frankly might be better for all of us)? Is the ballroom going to have a golf course? Will the American people also have to pay to have Mara-Lago bullet-and-drone-proofed? So many unanswered questions. And, oh yeah - THE IRAN WAR, THE EPSTEIN FILES - so many unanswered questions 🙄
"Militarily Top Secret" ...announced on Truth Social ...is the kind of phrase that survives... ONLY because nobody is allowed to laugh at it out loud.
It's a contradiction in terms...doing duty as a marketing slogan...and...it works precisely because the absurdity exhausts you...BEFORE you can pin it down.
And...yes...every question you just asked...is the right one.
Who pays for the Mar-a-Lago version.
Whether the bunker is for him...or his name. Whether this becomes the residence of choice. Whether the perimeter expands again. Nobody is being made to answer ANY of it ...because the news cycle has been weaponized to NEVER sit still...long enough.
Iran. Epstein. BOTH buried by Sunday morning. That's not coincidence...that's the deliverable.
Keep your questions. Ask them out loud. That's the work!
Why doesn’t one person, one journalist, anybody that has Google like me, at least call him on the ballroom BS that they have been screaming for this ballroom for 150 years and make an absolute fool of him (like when he mentioned the airplanes during the war of 1812). You mean when ULYSSES S. GRANT was President? During the Reconstruction era of the Civil War.? Didn’t he have better things to do than worry about a demented, failing JamesBond villain president 150 yrs in the future with killer drones and a bunker to survive a nuclear war and thoughts of a ballroom for 1000 with security? No, he was busy putting a war-torn country back together, unlike this one who is tearing us and the world apart. This man is a national and global security risk. Before this blabber-mouth liar-in-chief, I had no idea that’s where the situation room was ,or where they hid Cheney, or that there was a bunker underneath the White House. We shouldn’t need to know. I’m all for transparency, but does every enemy of ours , or an everyday lunatic need to know about a “secret”? Is there going to be a big arrow on Google maps on our phones with TOP SECRET BUNKER BALLROOM pointing to it? He has no intention of leaving and never did. I cheat on you Jack, and listen to historian Timothy Snyder, who said these are the Orban Russian/Hungarian playbook tactics, and this was over a week ago. False flags, terrorist attacks, all to hold power. Except now I think they are scared. since Orban.That a dictator thinks history stops with them (with no plan for succession unless if I read correctly…he’s thinking of his family dynasty) but that Hungary is proof that we can succeed, but it just can’t be election day. That’s why Hungarians were successful. They were diligent. And it was too big to rig. The other tell is the techbros are getting nervous. Peter Thiel just bought a $12 million house in Argentina for 2 months. They see us fighting back and they talked of leaving if the Dems are back in power. #hold fast
Yes, I believe trump wants to establish a dynasty and - and own the place the dynasty lives.
He wants to establish his ownership of the White House by virtue of the fact that he is building the "ballroom" without federal funds so that makes it his (in his thinking) and ipso facto the White House and the property it sits on. He loves a good piece of real estate. He has already transformed it into Mar a lago inside and out. Ownership is his last step. But he needs to be able to restart construction of the "ballroom".
Jack great take on this as always. Will this save Patel’s drunken butt? He was beyond cloying last night so I think this is a done deal. Surprised MarkWayne didn’t try to take out the “assassin” himself.
I told a friend this was the first of these that he attended they didn’t believe me at first. So is all of this a coincidence and more to the point the pedo in chief hates to be mocked…yet this serves as exactly that, a roast so to speak. This entire administration is pathetic. Kudos to the reporters who stayed to relay info. I just wish they’d ask more direct questions of him and our fave cross wearing press secretary.
I am smelling something very stinky here. You are right that the Secret Service, police, security and hotel employees were heroes in handling the situation. My question is why were they in that situation? I find it difficult to believe that the Secret service would screw up security in 2 events protecting the same person. They have done this work professionally for over 100 years with few incidents and now they are bumbling? Something isn't right here and it gets Trump what he wants; attention, sympathy, argument for the damn ballroom, distraction from Iran and Epstein and possibly another reason to declare an emergency and complete a coup. Trying not to be a conspiracy theorist but the "coincidences" are appearing more intentional than coincidental. And we jut have to keep taking it because the R's won't oppose him. Concerned we will not make it to November.
Nancy...you're not smelling something that isn't there.
You're smelling something real.
But...let me push you gently...because the "is it intentional" question is actually the trap...and I want you out of it.
The Secret Service hasn't performed flawlessly for 100 years. They lost JFK. They almost lost Reagan. The myth of unbroken excellence is useful to the agency and useful to presidents...but it's still a myth.
What's happening now...in my read...isn't bumbling-on-purpose...it's an under-resourced agency...stretched thin during a months-long DHS shutdown...operating in an unusually high-threat environment.
Starve an institution...then...ask it to perform at peak...and you'll get more failures. That's not conspiracy. That's just what happens.
The "they're letting it happen" framing is what they want you to chase...because once you're there...you can be dismissed as the crank.
The stronger argument...the one I'm staying on...is that you don't need intentional failures to convert security events into political assets.
You just need pre-built conversion machinery...rehearsed and ready...that activates the MOMENT something real happens. The events don't have to be staged. They just have to be metabolized...FAST ENOUGH.
That's what we saw last night. A federal lawsuit...politically NEUTERED... in twelve hours.
A fortified construction project...made UNTOUCHABLE. Iran and Epstein...buried under it.
On not making it to November...your fear isn't irrational, Nancy. But...the people running this operation....are counting on exactly that feeling.
DESPAIR is the deliverable. DISENGAGEMENT is the goal. The single most important thing you can do is stay in the conversation and keep asking the actual question: why is every national security shock being routed through real estate decisions controlled by one family.
That question, asked persistently...is what they can't survive.
We keep asking. Together.
#HoldFast
-Jack
didn't mean it was intentional on Secret Service part but on the administrations constant manipulation of events. Just do not trust a thing they do.
Oh...I didn't think you meant that. I was just using that as an opportunity to reply for other readers.
-Jack
I don’t trust them (the administration) any further than I could throw them - and I’ve had about 2/3 of my spine fused! 😆
Nancy, hang in there with Jack! No, I’m not related 😂 nor could I pick him out of a lineup 😬 I’ve just been reading his work, keeping my eyes open and looking for patterns!
I have to admit, when a friend called me in a panic last night, excitedly proclaiming “they’re trying to k*ll yrump,” I had to turn the tv on because I was actually taking a break from reality (was reading about Andrew and Fergie’s descent into their own private hell 🤣). After I calmed her down I started channeling Jack! 🤣🤣
My immediate thought was not WWJD (What Would Jack Do) but WDJS (What Does Jack “See”)?
My 💰is firmly on WDJS! 🤔 😊
#HoldFast
The White House Correspondents’ Dinner is not a sanctioned White House event, but is by the Press Corp who chooses the event venue. Trump’s selling of a White House Ballroom that would avoid last night’s incident, does not work in this case, and is highly suspect. The timing of this is suspect as well. The boy who cried wolf, Trump, seems to have so many more “assassins” incidents, timed out after poor ratings and job performance (war, economy,etc.), all serving as distractions from what we really need to be focused on. Can’t wait to read your next report.
#HoldFast
CC...you're connecting the right dots.
The Correspondents' Dinner is hosted by the WHCA...the press corps picks the venue... not the White House.
Trump pitching a White House ballroom as the fix for a Washington Hilton security failure ...is a category error...SO obvious...it has to be deliberate.
The "fix" doesn't fit the problem...because the fix was already on the shelf...waiting for any problem to attach to.
And...you're right about the rhythm. The pattern isn't that these events happen...it's that they keep arriving precisely when the polling tanks...the war news sours...or the Epstein files surface.
The boy-who-cried-wolf comparison is too generous. The boy was at least surprised by the wolf.
Keep reading. Keep noticing. The next one is coming!
#HoldFast
-Jack
And it all smacks of a desperate attempt to take control of the effing ballroom and bunker to save all of trump’s evil spawn from any harm, from real or imagined enemies. How do we ever get our country and the People’s House back? Vote them out, yes heard that one many times. It’s not going to be that easy.
Sylvia...you're seeing something not enough people are saying out loud yet.
The bunker-and-ballroom...isn't really about Trump's security.
A man with that detail doesn't need a personal fortress to survive a threat. What he needs it for is everyone else who carries his name. Continuity-of-government is the cover story. Continuity-of-family is closer to the truth.
And "vote them out" fits in a sentence because that's all it does. You already know it's not enough.
Getting the country back happens in layers. Judges writing rulings for the record...even knowing they'll be overruled.
Civil servants quietly refuse unlawful orders. Journalists who keep reporting...after their near-death experience get converted into a construction permit.
Our job is to refuse to let the conversion machinery work on us. Every time they try to convert tragedy into a permit...we NAME IT.
Every time they try to convert exhaustion into withdrawal, we name it.
You doing that counts more than you think.
#HoldFast
-Jack
Even the look on Trump's face after he was officially told of the shooting said it all. There was no shock or upset, which you would expect to see. What was there? A little smirk. Nothing extremely obvious, but it was a little smirk.
When he did his riff in the briefing room about 30 minutes after his departure from the hotel, he touched on the ballroom issue. The same little smirk was there as well, similar to the one he made right after the shots were fired.
A similar script was used in Butler, too. Jack hit on it. I think there's a couple more similarities that bind the events together. First, Trump is now (and was before Butler) in the gutter with his approval ratings. People don't agree with his leadership, policies, etc. Butler was a big stunt just before the RNC, meant for the public to have sympathy for him and bring his approval rates up. The same things are going on with what happened last night. He's seeking sympathy in hopes of getting his approval rates up, as well as to get through specific policies he wants. Both incidents were staged with specific goals in mind.
Chris...you're picking up on something real.
The pattern you're naming...is the ground we win on.
Approval underwater before Butler. Approval underwater...before last night.
Both events...delivering a sympathy bump...and a pre-built policy demand.
That's not a feeling...that's a record.
And...the record doesn't require us to prove staging. It only requires us to prove the conversion machinery exists...and activates on cue.
Stay there. That's where they can't dismiss us!
#HoldFast
-Jack
I noticed Jiang, on its left, had what looked like an over dramatic response at the time 🍊💩 was being shown the piece of paper with whatever was written on it. 🍊💩 had a glaiket look on its puss, like it was having a hard time reading it, while Jiang slapped her hand over her mouth.🤷♀️
I'm curious as to how the trump media is going to spin this one. Good start here, Jack, and will reStack ASAP 💯👍
Karen...thanks for the restack...appreciated.
The spin to watch for: they'll try to merge the shooter's politics into the gun control debate...to pull oxygen away from the ballroom angle entirely.
If they can make the next 72 hours about the suspect...instead of the conversion...the doctrine survives unexamined.
Don't let the frame move. KEEP eyes on the ballroom!
#HoldFast
-Jack
Got It 😜👍
SMDH. There are so many questions swirling about this event. One of them is telling: trump just sat there as his table mates whipped their heads toward the loud sounds. And Melania very uncharacteristically wore a pantsuit.
Better to run in. It was reported that Leavitt's husband said to the woman seated next to him to stay safe. And of course Karolyin said it was going to be fun, and shots will be fired.
Agreed. Quite unique bunch of circumstances.
Maybe her “dresser” was told in advance that she might have to run for it! 😂🤣
That was not how she generally turns out for a formal affair.
Exactly! Hard to duck & cover in an evening gown!
This was definitely a set up by Trump. That was my instinct. al, why was the entire presidential succession in the same place at the same time. Trump gets a new dog whistle, new narrative, and the obscene ballroom. Until trump tore it up, there was a safe bunker under the East Wing. He is the menace a
ND clear a d present danger .
I think we should start calling the Golden Ballroom the Golden Calf (and I’m not even Christian ;-)
The boy who cried “wolf” has done it one too many times! I do not believe one word about what transpired last night…it was another desperate ploy by Trump to change the narrative! Iran isn’t working out the way he thought it would, gas prices are high and the cost of food will be skyrocketing just like the cost of the diesel fuel used to transport those good has already done! Along with those issues, it was an opportunity for him to bang on after the “attempt” about HIS damn ballroom and how the correspondents dinner needed to be held at the White House. The problem with that is it isn’t a White House event, it is put on by the Washington Press Corp, who choose the venue and the President is an invited guest, like everyone else in attendance. I am tired of these desperate attempts to change focus and every one of them from Butler, PA, to last night’s follow a similar pattern that they seem so scripted, to the point of being ridiculous! He’s never attended one of these dinners, has derides them at every opportunity, along with the press that he both uses and loathes at the same time! How convenient that it was the one time he’d be attending! When the suspect is arraigned on Monday I am waiting to hear that he’s a “radicalised supporter of Iran.” This regime, this poor excuse for a president, let alone a human being needs to be removed, and the list of reasons is long!
Well it seems the “shooter” went to a No Kings rally and made a $25 donation to ActBlue so he’s been radicalized, for sure! 🤣😂😉🙃
I dunno, I’m kind of confused about the whole ballroom thing. It’s “Militarily Top Secret” and being broadcasted on Truth Social? And does this mean he will now spend all his time there (which frankly might be better for all of us)? Is the ballroom going to have a golf course? Will the American people also have to pay to have Mara-Lago bullet-and-drone-proofed? So many unanswered questions. And, oh yeah - THE IRAN WAR, THE EPSTEIN FILES - so many unanswered questions 🙄
Terry...your confusion is the correct response.
"Militarily Top Secret" ...announced on Truth Social ...is the kind of phrase that survives... ONLY because nobody is allowed to laugh at it out loud.
It's a contradiction in terms...doing duty as a marketing slogan...and...it works precisely because the absurdity exhausts you...BEFORE you can pin it down.
And...yes...every question you just asked...is the right one.
Who pays for the Mar-a-Lago version.
Whether the bunker is for him...or his name. Whether this becomes the residence of choice. Whether the perimeter expands again. Nobody is being made to answer ANY of it ...because the news cycle has been weaponized to NEVER sit still...long enough.
Iran. Epstein. BOTH buried by Sunday morning. That's not coincidence...that's the deliverable.
Keep your questions. Ask them out loud. That's the work!
#HoldFast
-Jack
Lots of puzzle pieces appear as information surfaces in relation to the incident.
Do we know when the,shooter checked in? He was a guest of the hotel on the tenth floor.
Sue...law enforcement sources told CBS News he checked in on Friday, the day before the event
-Jack
Thanks.
The day before from the reports I’ve read.
Jack, simply put: you’re brilliant. We can see clearly now … last night’s haze is beginning to lift.
Don’t stop sharing your insights.
With gratitude,
Terry & Bernice
Why doesn’t one person, one journalist, anybody that has Google like me, at least call him on the ballroom BS that they have been screaming for this ballroom for 150 years and make an absolute fool of him (like when he mentioned the airplanes during the war of 1812). You mean when ULYSSES S. GRANT was President? During the Reconstruction era of the Civil War.? Didn’t he have better things to do than worry about a demented, failing JamesBond villain president 150 yrs in the future with killer drones and a bunker to survive a nuclear war and thoughts of a ballroom for 1000 with security? No, he was busy putting a war-torn country back together, unlike this one who is tearing us and the world apart. This man is a national and global security risk. Before this blabber-mouth liar-in-chief, I had no idea that’s where the situation room was ,or where they hid Cheney, or that there was a bunker underneath the White House. We shouldn’t need to know. I’m all for transparency, but does every enemy of ours , or an everyday lunatic need to know about a “secret”? Is there going to be a big arrow on Google maps on our phones with TOP SECRET BUNKER BALLROOM pointing to it? He has no intention of leaving and never did. I cheat on you Jack, and listen to historian Timothy Snyder, who said these are the Orban Russian/Hungarian playbook tactics, and this was over a week ago. False flags, terrorist attacks, all to hold power. Except now I think they are scared. since Orban.That a dictator thinks history stops with them (with no plan for succession unless if I read correctly…he’s thinking of his family dynasty) but that Hungary is proof that we can succeed, but it just can’t be election day. That’s why Hungarians were successful. They were diligent. And it was too big to rig. The other tell is the techbros are getting nervous. Peter Thiel just bought a $12 million house in Argentina for 2 months. They see us fighting back and they talked of leaving if the Dems are back in power. #hold fast
Yes, I believe trump wants to establish a dynasty and - and own the place the dynasty lives.
He wants to establish his ownership of the White House by virtue of the fact that he is building the "ballroom" without federal funds so that makes it his (in his thinking) and ipso facto the White House and the property it sits on. He loves a good piece of real estate. He has already transformed it into Mar a lago inside and out. Ownership is his last step. But he needs to be able to restart construction of the "ballroom".
Last night's stunt - real or staged
- has opened the door. We must stop him.
#HoldFast as hard and loud as we can
Jack great take on this as always. Will this save Patel’s drunken butt? He was beyond cloying last night so I think this is a done deal. Surprised MarkWayne didn’t try to take out the “assassin” himself.
I told a friend this was the first of these that he attended they didn’t believe me at first. So is all of this a coincidence and more to the point the pedo in chief hates to be mocked…yet this serves as exactly that, a roast so to speak. This entire administration is pathetic. Kudos to the reporters who stayed to relay info. I just wish they’d ask more direct questions of him and our fave cross wearing press secretary.