Oh where to begin!
Had yet another Malware issue with my hosting, I am quickly removing WordPress accounts that arent being updated or used regularly, its a lot like purging a house, “does this page bring me joy” and all that.
I switched my Masonic Lodge back to HTML in an effort to remove the literal hundreds of suspicious files, need to relaunch my wife’s food blog, likely do that later.
Korstog Training has been running in the red for quite awhile, things are starting to pick up, but some rich donor walking by and saying “here Zombie Medic, take this bag of money” would not go amiss.
The world is rapidly going to shit around me, and not on a personal level, but more on the global level, it’s just that feeling that has me on edge the people that I see each day are giving me a predatory vibe, I find myself in the gun fighter mindset more and more lately, add to that the past weekend former President Trump was nearly killed, a young man managed to get through the Secret Service’s security fence, got within one hundred thirty yards and fired eight shots, grazing the former president in the right ear when he shifted his head at the last moment, unfortunately killing a firefighter in the crowd, and injuring two others. the Secret Service Counter Snipers did their job and took out the gunman. There are many individuals who seem to be critiqueing the secret service agents at the scene.
It bothers me greatly that so many people are just obliterating the female agents because of their size and physical appearance, as well as one having trouble rebolstering her gun.
The problem is that those women are not on the close reaction team incase the president is attacked, they are what is called the “wranglers” they are the ones who float out a short distance to intercept the overly excited people who want a picture of the president, or to give him or her a gift, there is a reason they look like soccer moms, because it decreases the anxiety people have when interacting with the Secret Service, they are also some of the most observantly trained agents, often having spent time learning profiling from the Mosaad, and having in my young and stupid days tangled with a few of them, absolutely not someone I want to ever tangle with again. but when Mr. Trump was hit and the agents surrounded him, there was a gap that reporters ran into to get pictures of the wounded President, so those people wranglers converged in to help create a barricade to protect the former president. The agents are critiqued because they let Trump get up and pump his arm and say “Fight” a couple times.
First, Mr. Trump just had a bullet pass less than an inch from his skull, the concussive force would be enough to scramble anyones brains a bit, plus as the time he thought he was losing grey matter, which to me seems like a logical deduction due to the blood, did they control him properly not really, but then having dealt with people seeing their lives pass before their eyes again ill give them a pass, they hustled him to the SUV and did what Secret Service does really well, drive with a purpose.
People are critiquing one of the women because she was having trouble putting her gun back in it’s holster, again despite how much you train and how much plan, no one is prepared for a sniper taking shots at the president or former president, the adrenalin was flowing like a river and when that happens we lose fine motor skills, she kept her finger off her trigger and kept her gun at the low ready, which is probably a much better option until things are confirmed as being safe.
twenty five years ago I trained with the Secret Service, my group was often situated with the CAT team (Secret Service SWAT) training with them was eye opening, you learn a lot about the rings of protection and who is supposed to be where, there were issues with the protective rings of Trumps speech thats a given, a kid with zero tactical training managed to carry a ladder and a rifle to a building, climb up and sit up there for thirty minutes and get off eight shots, while being watched by a counter sniper, but none of that is on the close protection detail, their job was to surround the target, and either push or carry them off a stage and to safety, and they did that, they used their bodies to protect his life and got him off the X.
We as a nation are lucky that Mr. Trumps injury was very minor, he will likely have an awesome scar, and something to talk to the kids about during the holidays. Had that bullet entered his skull it would have killed him instantly I shudder at what would happen after that, for the last eight years one entire side of the media has been speaking ill of him, claiming he is all sorts of things i wont repeat frequently saying he needed to be removed, the level of violence I think they would see from the right would have been immense, right now many people are losing their jobs because they celebrated him getting shot, the lead members of the band Tenacious D has been permanently banned from Australia when one of their members made a comment about not missing, another member had his contract for voice over work for movies put on hold.
there will likely be a part two.