Not really hard to piece this together.

[MegaPoke]

1. Obama's administration has no plan for ISIS. Just some cosmetic drone strikes and geographic redistributions to call progress. This was the first point he made in his speech early this week before crying like a bitch about phrasing and politicizing the situation while crying like a bitch about Trump politicizing the situation.

He then made his move to tie this - a terrorist attack, he was forced to admit - to the need for gun control, specifying a type of gun that is statistically irrelevant in American gun violence statistics.

Oh, turns out we've really ramped up our processing of Syrian refugees - processing more in the last 5 weeks than in the previous 7 months combined.

But ostensibly, the supposed point of his speech was yes we are making significant progress against ICE-ill.

record scratch Weelllll..... maybe not.

2. Two day's later, his appointed CIA director (a good man overcome by conscience?) comes out and gives testimony in direct contradiction to Obama's speech. He in fact seems to specifically be warning Americans that ISIS' membership is larger than Al Qaida's at it's peak, We have done nothing substantive to deprive it of money, communications or recruitment. That they are not only able, but have specifically stated it is their goal to attack soft targets in the west and infiltrate through posing as refugees and via smuggling routes. And I think this is an important quote - "They're taking advantage of the liberties that we've fought so hard to defend," he said.

Brennan - an Obama appointee, not a Brietbart editor or GOP spokesperson, mind you... directly contradicted everything Obama said and even subtly inserted what appears to be an opinion on gun control expansion. Good for him. It shines light on the reality of what we have seen this week from the Obama Administration, which once you strip away the lies and misdirections and tune out the useful idiots and bleating sheep, is this...

Obama has failed with ISIS. The "JV team" is now growing into a legitimate existential threat to western cities and populations - including now, predictably in American cities. He knows he has failed but is a narcissist who has no reverse gear or ability to admit he f*ed up. He is also nakedly focused on his legacy and is perfectly willing to let ISIS be someone else's problem. His focus on gun control is simply a red herring to distract Americans from the gathering storm until he can hand it off to Trump or Hillary. He doesn't have the numbers to back up his gun control claims and he doesn't have the votes to do anything, so what's really happening? We just got punched in the mouth by ISIS and this guy has no plan for how to keep it from happening again. None. Just more of the same with a car salesman's script to polish this turd.

Also, it appears that on a half dozen or more levels, this shooter had a chance to be filtered out of the gun buying public and the ball was dropped again and again through bullshit politically correct policies within this administration's federal law enforcement.

Islamophobia - another bullshit straw man that has been created to give him cover for his failures. Lecturing law abiding Americans about gun control is the other.

I can at least wrap my mind around that. What is truly disappointing is how many media types fall in line and fail to question the obvious or call him out on it, and of course how many people who seem like functioning adults who buy this load of bullshit. What do you expect from a culture that gets it's news and analysis from facebook memes? This I guess.

Guys I have to admit, this has gotten me pretty worked up. I have full confidence in this administration doing absolutely nothing productive and cluttering their failure with more gun and islamophobia rhetoric, and I don't know what either of these candidates is going to do about it either to be honest. But these are scary times and we definitely do not seem prepared, at all. And the worst of it is, by falling for this snake oil, we will again be completely unprepared for the next big thing in a few months.

 

[Marshal Jim Duncan]

http://nypost.com/2016/06/17/obama-has-turned-jihadist-terror-attack-into-personal-gun-war/

 

[Medic007]

Mega, here is the stark reality of ICE-ill compared to al Qaeda. I've had a lot of terrorism related training over the years as the terror threat has grown. Al Qaeda's greatest limiting factor was financing. Not that they couldn't get large sums of cash, but where they got it. A large portion of their finances came from sympathizers in the USA. This has been well known for years. Those sympathizers were OK with events like 9/11 because, despite the dramatic impact, they caused very little disruption to everyday folks.They specifically did not engage in small scale high community impact terrorism like the Pulse because of the negative effect it would have on their financing from US sympathizers.

Fast forward to ICE-ill. They have formed a functional terrorist state. They are no longer a group. They are awash in cash that they make from their own operations. They have no risk to consider when planning and carrying out attacks so they can and will dish out terrorist attacks at a much more personal community level that have a much deeper impact on Americans.

Most folks are smart enough to know 9/11 took years of plotting and tons of cash to actually pull off. The likelihood of another 9/11 is almost none, at least on that scale. It takes little to no planning or cash to drive on over to the local nightclub and shoot it up. Smart folks are realizing that the threat of a terrorist state is much greater than the threat of a loose group who requires a host and outside financing.

We're in a bad spot. The US has a limitless supply of soft targets. The worry used to be that somebody would drive a truck loaded with explosives up to the OU stadium and detonate it during game day. Vehicle barriers provide some prevention that threat. The next worry was somebody getting into the stadium and detonating a backpack or suicide vest type of bomb. The backpack has been mostly eliminated as a worry. The current worry and most likely scenario is somebody with a rifle or person borne IED that attacks the crowds of folks outside of the stadium before gates open and before the terrorist ever contacts a security check point.

Each successful attack will give more courage and motivation to the next, so unfortunately, we've only seen an appetizer of the capabilities ICE-ill and their inspired terrorists possess. This administration has sat on its collective ass, led by an incompetent idiot, and treated ICE-ill like they were al Qaeda while the Islamic State took large amounts of territory and people and actually created their Caliphate. There literally is not much that can be done at this point except protect yourself. The days of the complicated big splash attack are gone. The days of getting a rifle and killing folks at the local middle school band concert because you woke up wanting to serve Allah are upon us.

And the president doesn't seem to have any clue what to do. The days of large scale prevention are years ago. Today it's all reactionary planning. The feds have spent tons of dollars training folks like me to respond. Years ago it was for things like the WTC bombing and large scale chemical/biological weapon attacks. This decade has seen the focus shifted to IED and mass shooting responses. I've gone to four schools on response to personal and vehicle borne IEDs alone in just the past two years. We've gone from active shooting training about every other year to having two training events so far in this calendar year. Imagine when they figure they can steal general aviation aircraft and fly them into the crowds at open stadiums.

These shit bag IS folks are smart. I won't go into complete detail of the Pulse response at this point, but the hostage stand off with law enforcement was not a spur of the moment thing. The threat of an IED and hostages kept law enforcement at bay and allowed wounded folks who could have probably been saved to bleed to death, maximizing the death count. The reason all those that went to the hospital lived is because if they had not bled to death in the previous 3 hours, they weren't going to.

Sobering.

 

[MegaPoke]

http://nypost.com/2016/06/17/obama-has-turned-jihadist-terror-attack-into-personal-gun-war/

What makes me so furious is that it's OBVIOUS and the sheep just say, "Baaaaaahhh."

 

[MegaPoke]

Mega, here is the stark reality of ICE-ill compared to al Qaeda. I've had a lot of terrorism related training over the years as the terror threat has grown. Al Qaeda's greatest limiting factor was financing. Not that they couldn't get large sums of cash, but where they got it. A large portion of their finances came from sympathizers in the USA. This has been well known for years. Those sympathizers were OK with events like 9/11 because, despite the dramatic impact, they caused very little disruption to everyday folks.They specifically did not engage in small scale high community impact terrorism like the Pulse because of the negative effect it would have on their financing from US sympathizers.

Fast forward to ICE-ill. They have formed a functional terrorist state. They are no longer a group. They are awash in cash that they make from their own operations. They have no risk to consider when planning and carrying out attacks so they can and will dish out terrorist attacks at a much more personal community level that have a much deeper impact on Americans.

Most folks are smart enough to know 9/11 took years of plotting and tons of cash to actually pull off. The likelihood of another 9/11 is almost none, at least on that scale. It takes little to no planning or cash to drive on over to the local nightclub and shoot it up. Smart folks are realizing that the threat of a terrorist state is much greater than the threat of a loose group who requires a host and outside financing.

We're in a bad spot. The US has a limitless supply of soft targets. The worry used to be that somebody would drive a truck loaded with explosives up to the OU stadium and detonate it during game day. Vehicle barriers provide some prevention that threat. The next worry was somebody getting into the stadium and detonating a backpack or suicide vest type of bomb. The backpack has been mostly eliminated as a worry. The current worry and most likely scenario is somebody with a rifle or person borne IED that attacks the crowds of folks outside of the stadium before gates open and before the terrorist ever contacts a security check point.

Each successful attack will give more courage and motivation to the next, so unfortunately, we've only seen an appetizer of the capabilities ICE-ill and their inspired terrorists possess. This administration has sat on its collective ass, led by an incompetent idiot, and treated ICE-ill like they were al Qaeda while the Islamic State took large amounts of territory and people and actually created their Caliphate. There literally is not much that can be done at this point except protect yourself. The days of the complicated big splash attack are gone. The days of getting a rifle and killing folks at the local middle school band concert because you woke up wanting to serve Allah are upon us.

And the president doesn't seem to have any clue what to do. The days of large scale prevention are years ago. Today it's all reactionary planning. The feds have spent tons of dollars training folks like me to respond. Years ago it was for things like the WTC bombing and large scale chemical/biological weapon attacks. This decade has seen the focus shifted to IED and mass shooting responses. I've gone to four schools on response to personal and vehicle borne IEDs alone in just the past two years. We've gone from active shooting training about every other year to having two training events so far in this calendar year. Imagine when they figure they can steal general aviation aircraft and fly them into the crowds at open stadiums.

These shit bag IS folks are smart. I won't go into complete detail of the Pulse response at this point, but the hostage stand off with law enforcement was not a spur of the moment thing. The threat of an IED and hostages kept law enforcement at bay and allowed wounded folks who could have probably been saved to bleed to death, maximizing the death count. The reason all those that went to the hospital lived is because if they had not bled to death in the previous 3 hours, they weren't going to.

Sobering.

I hope it is (sobering). It doesn't yet seem to be.

And the corporatized media no longer can be counted on to veer from the directed narrative.

Where does the truth even come from anymore?

 

[Medic007]

I hope it is (sobering). It doesn't yet seem to be.

And the corporatized media no longer can be counted on to veer from the directed narrative.

Where does the truth even come from anymore?

Yep. The media is paid for by elites to serve the interest of them. That's the reason independent blog journalists are attacked by the elite and MSM. When a story gets out that isn't pretty, the elites and their mouthpieces squash it.

In Norman, the PD has been trying to get a Bearcat for use at high risk events. The local elite who only represent themselves went all out and blitzed the city council with the narrative that Norman doesn't need the oppression that will be caused by the PD owning a "tank." City council caved and the 3rd largest city in OK, also the one where 9/11 folks trained and host to a nearly successful IED attack on a college stadium during a game (whitewashed by Boren to some poor directionless lonely guy who decided to commit suicide with a backpack full of explosives on a quiet bench outside a stadium with 85k people) can't get a damn armored vehicle to protect their officers during the riskiest job situations. "They should focus on doing a better job comminicating during incidents" is the actual focus of the city government.