History for August 14

History for August 14 - On-This-Day.com 

Russell Baker 1925 - Newspaper columnist

• 1720 - In Nebraska, Pawnees and Otoes attacked the Spanish Villasur Expedition. The Spanish defeat makred the end of their influence on the central Great Plains.
• 1888 - A patent for the electric meter was granted to Oliver B. Shallenberger.
• 1900 - An international force, consisting of eight nations, lifted the siege of Peking. It was the end to the Boxer Rebellion, which was aimed at purging China of foreigners.
• 1919 - About 1 million tons of ice and rock broke off of a glacier near Mont Blanc, France. Nine people were killed in the incident.
• 1935 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law. The act created unemployment insurance and pension plans for the elderly.
• 1992 - The U.S. announced that emergency airlifts of food to Somalia would begin. The action was being taken to stop mass deaths due to starvation.

Trump-Musk Interview Shatters Viewership Milestones with Numbers the Mainstream Media Could Only Dream Of

Trump-Musk Interview Shatters Viewership Milestones with Numbers the Mainstream Media Could Only Dream Of: 

All things considered, the Trump-Musk conversation, which lasted for more than two hours, represented one of the greatest victories for freedom and the will of the people over hyper-authoritarian elitism in recent memory.

Earlier in the day, tyrannical European Union bureaucrat Thierry Breton sent Musk a letter that one must read to believe. In sum, Breton warned Musk to take “all proportionate and effective mitigation measures” against “the amplification of harmful content.”

Police saw Crooks run across roof 3 minutes before he shot former President Trump | Blaze Media

Police saw Crooks run across roof 3 minutes before he shot former President Trump | Blaze Media: 

Disclosures found on hours of police bodycam footage are raising new questions on why Crooks was not deemed a threat earlier and Trump taken off the stage before the 20-year-old gunman could open fire, wounding Trump, killing a retired fire chief, and seriously injuring two bystanders. The bodycam also makes clear that the lack of Secret Service or police presence on the entire AGR complex roof enabled Crooks to pull off his deadly attack and calls into question the decision to not include the AGR grounds inside the security zone for the event.

The way we were-----The Horrifying Erie Steamship Tragedy

David Starkey: Mass migration has destroyed the Britain I knew

"They wanted to interview her for this & she told them to fuck off, so they ran it anyway b/c of course.

kc2fargo on X: I honestly cannot believe the political world we live in. It's the worst it has ever been and it's only going to keep going that way." / X

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They wanted to interview her for this & she told them to fuck off, so they ran it anyway b/c of course. I honestly cannot believe the political world we live in. It's the worst it has ever been and it's only going to keep going that way.

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So, That's Why a Major 'Fact Checker' Is Covering for Harris

So, That's Why a Major 'Fact Checker' Is Covering for Harris - Katie Pavlich

...PolitiFact, a major "fact checker," has been one of Harris' greatest champions and advocates...

Why the fawning? This is why:

Local Police Disputes Secret Service Claims That They Were Covering Rooftop

Local Police Disputes Secret Service Claims That They Were Covering Rooftop: 

Local law enforcement are disputing claims that the Secret Service assigned them to cover the rooftop where a would-be assassin fired at former President Donald Trump during a Pennsylvania campaign rally in July.

Propagating Misinformation

"According to Perplexity.ai, being correct is "misinformation" but being incorrect isn't.

Democrats have run the greatest strawman

Michael Smith - Democrats have run the greatest strawman... | Facebook - Michael Smith 

...What it is about is the people behind the curtain...

A cabal of Democrats have been putting an opaque coup in place since the Clinton administration, they couldn’t go through the Constitution, but they sure as hell could find ways around it...
Now Obama runs the cabal, planning and directing from behind the front lines...

• It means one thing – who runs is not important. They are as interchangeable as two AA batteries. It should tell us The Plan is in play and they have extreme confidence in its success.

That is why it must be Trump-Vance...

• If you wonder what it would look like if we were not successful, look to the UK. 
• What happens there usually washes up on our shores within a few years. Cancel culture and censorship in America was the precursor to arresting people for tweets and Facebook posts and the aftermath of J6 was the cabal’s pilot project.

Can’t happen here?
It already is happening here.

Lunch video-----"I Told You Something is Coming & Now It's Here..." | Victor Davis Hanson

Noon-toon

 

Bombshell: FBI Itself Allowed Would-Be Trump Killer Into Country, Said He Was 'Polite'

Bombshell: FBI Itself Allowed Would-Be Trump Killer Into Country, Said He Was 'Polite': 

Do Americans have any reason to trust the FBI?

The once-vaunted reputation of the Federal Bureau of Investigation has been in tatters for years among conservatives — since well before its deep-state warfare against Donald Trump and his supporters became public knowledge.

But a report this week about the bureau’s dealings with a man arrested in July in a potential Trump assassination plot linked to Iran just made things a good deal worse.

Fundamental Human Right!

 

Secret Service May Get More Funding After Failing To Stop Trump Assassination Attempt

Government agencies are expensive, incompetent, and overreaching. The Secret Service is no exception. Joe Lancaster

• Almost immediately after the shooting, a narrative emerged that the lapse owed to a lack of resources...
• "Congress provided (an increase of) more than $190 million to the Secret Service in Fiscal Year 2024, specifically for protection requirements related to the 2024 presidential campaign, plus an additional $22 million above President Biden's budget request for protection-related travel costs," the senators wrote... 
• "Secret Service real spending has grown from $2.34 billion in 2014 to $3.62 billion in 2024, which is a 55 percent increase in ten years," Chris Edwards of the Cato Institute wrote this week...
• It is possible the agency may be stretched thin in its duties...
• But it's also worth keeping in mind that government agencies, by their nature, do too much, too poorly, and for too much money...

"...cringe-inducing..."

 

But now it is a *great *idea?

Fans of Best of the Web Today - Donald Sensing
But now it is a great idea, amirite?

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