☕️ SUPER CHAD ☙ Tuesday, July 16, 2024 ☙ C&C NEWS 🦠

Dr. Pinder faces the music; FBI's lone guman theory already falling apart; Trump names J.D. Vance as Veep; fearless, bandaged Trump back in business at RNC; Mar-a-Lago Raid case dismissed; more.

Good morning, C&C, it’s Tuesday! The news was popping yesterday, even louder than CNN’s reports of sounds from Saturday’s Trump rally. Yesterday was yet another historic day packed with good news. In this morning’s roundup: ‘Doctor’ Karen Pinder back in the news as her school digs into the troubled recesses of her overheating brain; FBI’s stupid “lone gunman” theory already unraveling as local cops leak, witnesses report possible second shooter, and Congressional investigation takes off; Trump names Vice President J.D. Vance early and I attempt to add some context not covered in one million mainstream stories; Trump attends RNC first day; and tremendous Trump win as his Mar-a-Lago Raid case is dismissed.

🗞💬 WORLD NEWS AND COMMENTARY 💬🗞

🔥🔥 The Canadian Broadcasting Network ran an encouraging story yesterday headlined, “UBC looks into prof's social media posts after Trump shooting.” The story is getting a surprising amount of coverage in Canadian media, for reasons that will become obvious. The gist is that Dr. Pinder, who teaches fledgling doctors the Foundations of Medical Practice in the Department of Cellular and Physiological Services at the University of British Columbia, which is located somewhere in Canada, whose Prime Minister resembles a Cuban dictator, literally, is now under disciplinary ‘investigation’ at her school.

As a reminder, right after President Trump was shot, and right before she permanently deleted her ‘X’ account, showing an impressive lack of impulse control and judgment, Dr. Pinder tweeted, “Damn, so close. Too bad,” and “What a glorious day this could have been!” Dr. Pinder presumably expected to receive “liles” and digital high-fives from other liberal Canadians. But this article, as well as the others about Dr. Pinder’s posts, were packed with quotes condemning the tweets — very politely (it’s Canada, after all).

Who knows whether University administrators —sitting in the socialist utopia of Canada— may legally take any action against Dr. Pinder professionally for what were, after all, Karen’s private comments on her personal Twitter account. I assume University officials prefer to purge her and her insane rants. By and large, Canadians fussily avoid the kinds of violent rhetoric rumbling around Karen’s feverish brain, preferring instead to express their dissatisfaction with stern looks, pursed lips, and quick shakes of the head. At least we can be confident that Karen is fully boosted.

On an aside, whenever I reference the “Karen” meme, as I did yesterday, it inevitably offends our own fine C&C citizens whose parents named them Karen, blissfully unaware of the dark turn that moniker would take in the Millennium. To be clear, I am acutely aware there are tons of “good” Karens out there, and I love and appreciate them all, mean no offense whatsoever, and am rooting for them to turn the tide and reclaim their good names.

Still. Come on. Just look at her. The memes make themselves.

This particular Karen does not represent the gaggle of meddling, middle-aged women with over-high opinions of themselves. This Karen represents a massive contingent of pro-violence leftists, who are not “democratic” at all, but instead are peanut-brained armchair revolutionaries lacking the wit to extrapolate the obvious bitter consequences of their poorly-considered ideas.

Say what you like, but “Democracy” as a political ideology is generally antithetical to political violence. Political assassinations are the day-to-day tools of dictators and thugs, fascists, marxists, and anarchists. Not “democracy” lovers. People who really support democracy trust in voting and so-called “democratic institutions.”

So the left’s barely muted glee at Saturday’s shooting ironically betrays the lie inherent in their overwrought public fretting about “destroying democracy.” They don’t really care about democracy. Just power.

Thanks, Dr. Pinder! Maybe, and I am just making a suggestion, you should start by diagnosing yourself.

🔥 The FBI may say the investigation is over and Matthew Crooks acted utterly alone, just another lone gunman, but everybody else seems to be ignoring the ailing law enforcement agency. CBS ran a live update yesterday headlined, “Three snipers were stationed inside building used in Trump assassination attempt.”  In a story broken by the local Beaver County paper, we learned yesterday that three local Beaver County sharpshooters who should have been stationed on the building, were instead inside the building, and it gets worse.

Snipering usually works much better from an elevated position, and isn’t super effective from the ground. I’m not an expert, but it seems obvious.

Anyway, the cops spotted assassin Crooks, several times. Each time Crooks was acting incredibly sketchy and even once used a rangefinder. The Beaver County police stayed put, but called it in to the command post — all while Crooks continued prowling around on the ground. They knew exactly where he was —well before he took the shot— called it in more than once, and even took pictures of him, but still didn’t stop the shooting. CBS:

Not only that, but they knew the building was a good spot for shooting presidents. Citing NBC’s sources, the BBC reported yesterday that the rooftop was a “known vulnerability,” and Secret Service had assigned local police to secure the building.

Whatever reason. Another unconfirmed wrinkle developed yesterday on social media, with no mention in any of the confirmed reporting. They could just be confused by the fog of war, but at least two witnesses interviewed by local reporters claimed there was a second shooter on the water tower.

Here is witness clip one. And here is witness clip two.

Here is a top-down map showing the potential shooting angles.

Who knows? It’s much too early to rule anything in or out. But even though the FBI is wrapping up its “thorough” research, multiple other investigations are already underway. You can expect this thing will get a lot of attention. For instance, in its article, the BBC reported that the House Oversight Committee has already confirmed Secret Service Directory Kimberly Cheatle to testify and requested all the rally records:

Finally, the New York Post interviewed a trained Canadian sniper who holds the current record for the longest kill. I was especially gratified that a professional, military-trained sniper agreed with C&C’s assessment: it seems unlikely unemployed drifter Crooks could possibly have planned and executed the sophisticated operation without some help, regardless of what the FBI says:

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas — who oversees the Secret Service — conceded on “Good Morning America” yesterday that “a direct line of sight like that to the former president” should never have been possible. “That’s why President Biden directed an independent review of the incident,” Mayorkas quipped. By “independent,” the impeached Secretary meant a totally controlled internal FBI whitewash by the same field office that “debunked” the Hunter Biden laptop.

🔥🔥🔥 As you almost certainly already know, in another flash of political genius, President Trump accelerated his plans to announce his Vice President and yesterday named freshman Ohio Senator J.D. Vance. The Associated Press ran the widely-covered story under the headline, “Trump picks Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, a once-fierce critic turned loyal ally, as his GOP running mate.” One of my best lifelong friends immediately texted me yesterday noting that Vance remarkably resembles the “Chad” meme:

To that strong comparison, you might also note that the Senator from Ohio also looks like he could be directly related to our second Republican President and brilliant Civil War general, Ulysses S. Grant:

Right? You see it too? I’m not imagining things, am I?

There is a lot that could be said about Trump’s bold choice. Vance is Mike Pence’s reverse opposite. J.D. is a political newcomer, having won his Ohio Senatorial seat in 2022 as his first public office. Vance is a veteran Marine, Yale lawyer, and bestselling author. His 2016 rags-to-riches story Hillbilly Elegy was adapted into a Netflix movie starring Glenn Close as Vance’s grandmother, who more or less raised him. Close was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance.

J.D. Vance is 39 years old — just a few years younger than U.S. Grant when that military veteran  ran for office.

Demonstrating Trump’s political brilliance, Vance started his political career in 2016 as a self-described “Never Trumper.” But by 2021, he’d apologized, recanted, and joined Team MAGA. This was politically masterful since Vance’s early skepticism builds a sympathetic bridge for anti-Trump Republicans, helping cure Trump’s greatest intra-party weakness. And Senator Vance ticks all the C&C boxes. Vance was deeply skeptical of pandemic overreach and opposed vaccine mandates. He was one of East Palestine’s strongest advocates. And his nomination is catastrophic for Proxy War proponents; Vance once famously remarked, “I don’t really care what happens to Ukraine.”

Without seeming unsympathetic to the plight of Ukraine’s luckless citizens, at this point in history we prefer that our politicians focus on fixing our border instead of fixing Ukraine’s. Ukraine’s border has received more U.S. taxpayer money than has our own porous border, and we are still waiting for the thank-you cards.

🔥🔥🔥 Yesterday, two days after being shot, and after announcing the Vance pick, fearless President Trump —with bandaged ear— attended the Republican Convention’s opening day in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Historical note: In 1851, having only a teeny-tiny bit of space left on the state seal, Wisconsin adopted the succinct state motto of ‘Forward,’ and has ever since encountered great difficulty when turning corners. U-turns are right out.)

The triumphant former President entered the RNC convention floor to wild acclaim, tears of joy, and gratitude for God’s intercession, which saved his life on Saturday. Trump didn’t speak, and won’t until he formally receives the party’s nomination on Thursday.

CLIP: President Trump triumphantly enters the 2024 Republican Convention floor (4:15).

(The Convention’s first day was not without some controversy. Perhaps not reading the room, GOP Committeewoman and pandemic lawyer Harmeet Dhillion delivered a strange Hindu prayer and some kind of weird, warbling song, but I’ll reserve my comments about that for later this week.)

👨‍⚖️👨‍⚖️ As I predicted, following Justice Thomas’ exhaustive concurrence in the Presidential Immunity decision, first thing yesterday morning, Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Classified Documents Raid case. The BBC reported the story headlined, “Judge dismisses Trump documents case over special counsel appointment.” This case was the left’s last, best hope to nail the former President somehow.

Closely hewing to Justice Thomas’s logic, Judge Cannon wrote that “Special Counsel Smith’s appointment violates the Appointments Clause of the United States Constitution.” Boom. The Justice Department will surely appeal this dismissal to the 11th Circuit. But in doing, the DOJ must fly in the face of Justice Thomas’ concurring opinion, in which the Supreme Court Justice laid out in painstaking detail exactly why Special Prosecutor Jack Smith’s appointment was unconstitutional.

Thomas’s concurring opinion is not binding precedent. But it is what lawyers call “persuasive precedent.” Persuasive precedent from the Supreme Court is supremely persuasive to lower courts. To reverse Judge Cannon’s dismissal, the 11th Circuit must reject not only Judge Cannon’s rationale, but also Justice Thomas’ logic. I wouldn’t rule anything out at this point, but the DOJ has to dig itself out of a Thomas-sized hole.

Appeals to the 11th Circuit initially draw a three-judge panel. But after that, the losing party can request review by the entire 12-judge court. From there, the case could return to the Supreme Court, which can take the case or not. And, thanks to Justice Thomas’s special concurrence, everybody already knows how at least one influential Supreme Court Justice would rule.

All that inside baseball may not even matter at all, because this case will now be tied up in multiple levels of appeal for the foreseeable future. For purposes of the 2024 election, the hopes of “Get Trump” liberals everywhere are demolished, cooked geese, done, finito. It’s over.

Yesterday was a massive good news day. Be greatly encouraged. More is coming.

Have a terrific Tuesday! Skate, drive, or helicopter back here tomorrow morning, whatever you need to do, for more astounding 2024 essential news and commentary.

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