Samantha

Unseen wrote:
the Vera series is a long one with 11 seasons. I’ve watched the first four and can’t figure out what the appeal is.

My friend comes from Northumberland where Vera is set, so that’s why he watches it.  He quite often spots places from his childhood, so the settings are authentic.

Belle Rose wrote:
Do you think it’s a coincidence that right after that one of his criminal cases got completely dismissed by the judge? Come on people really? Are we all seriously that gullible! 😂

Trump is a remarkable person.  Therefore, remarkable things happen to him.  To me, it looked and smelled 100% real.

Belle Rose wrote:
I think the lack of transparency speaks VOLUMES

What is there to tell?  The bullet went through the top of his ear.

The shooter flew a drone over the site two hours before the rally.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-shooter-flew-drone-venue-hours-attempted-assassination-source-sa-rcna162817

jakelafort wrote:
You want to see highjacking go to a mosque and any Islamic nation.

It’s a lot like a religion.  I don’t think it’s a coincidence that a lot of his fan base is Evangelical Christians.

Trump doesn’t need to be intelligent to control people’s minds.  All the ingredients are there in his personality (disorder) – controlling, m…[Read more]

Belle Rose wrote:
the US is the victim of an abusive relationship currently being pulled back into the same abusive relationship with its malignant narcissist of an ex husband only to be beaten up and left for dead…..again

I think it’s worse than that.  He’s hijacked the minds of millions and turned them into his willing bots.  But for them, the…[Read more]

Here is an interesting new paper giving insight into the polarisation process.  People think their political opponents are capable of terrible moral infringements.  As opposed to, say, cheating, lying, bullying, vindictive, Machiavellian and self-serving, which is what Trump really is.

https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/3/7/pgae244/7712370

Unseen wrote:
suicide-by-cop

That makes the most sense to me.  Maybe he wanted to make an impact at the same time.

Unseen wrote:
Didn’t want an agent to get sunburn?

They said the roof was too steep to put an agent on.  However, they sheepishly admitted it wasn’t too steep for the shooter.

That the plan was to just graze his ear doesn’t pass the snicker test.

Spraying the stage with real bullets?  That doesn’t add up at all.

Belle Rose wrote:
I think Trump manufactured the whole thing and planned it for sympathy and votes.

I don’t think that’s the case.  He would have had to stand there waiting for a bullet to the ear.  He might have big shiny round balls, but I don’t see anyone doing a William Tell with such confidence.

Also, if Trump had orchestrated it, he w…[Read more]

Belle Rose wrote:
EXACTLY….think about it…..

You’re right, it does need explaining.

Belle Rose wrote:
They are only incompetent if they choose to be. Meaning – they are not incompetent.

I don’t know.  Mistakes happen.  I’ve heard the head of the secret service say it was a health and safety issue, why they didn’t put anyone on that roof.  Instead, they secured the inside of the buil…[Read more]

Simple incompetence could account for why the Secret Service didn’t put a sniper on that roof.  But how did the shooter know that rooftop was going to be empty?  That seems strange.

From this vantage point (the UK), it seems that it’s normal in the US for people to malign each other’s motives, instead of charitably taking them at face value.  In the UK, we would call this “Trumpian”, a grossly obvious way of wriggling out of accountability and responsibility.  I don’t know who started it, but I’ve noticed it in the past f…[Read more]

The Secret Service are saying it wasn’t safe to put an agent on that roof.  So that’s why they didn’t.  However, it was safe enough for the shooter.

Unseen wrote:
If you use a VPN to go into the Dark Web, the suspicion will always be you’re seeking illicit drugs or accessing kiddie porn.

Or a gun, … or poison … a hitman …

If you have a VPN, apparently that is how you can access BBC iplayer from the US.  There you should find lots of everything you are looking for.

Rebus is meant to be a good crime drama.