ROK Drop Open Thread – July 26, 2024

South Korea is one of the most beautiful nations in Asia. And the actual Korean people, while initially shy, are among the warmest and best anywhere, once you have been introduced.

If you, like our local chinabots, have never been, I recommend spending at least two weeks touring East and West coasts, Seoul, Suwon, and even Dokdo.

If you don’t have friends or relatives in South Korea, you can find decent tour packages at the nicer hotels in Seoul (Shilla, Grand Hyatt, etc.).

Have a wonderful time!

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is a pompous incompetent diversity hire clown.

American generals haven’t won a major war since WW2. GWOT has been a total and complete failure. The final days of Kabul, shameful. Not a single person fired or resigned. Zero accountability.

South Korea bets on foreign housekeepers to ease women’s workloads and boost birth rate

Seoul to welcome Filipina workers under new scheme designed to encourage women to have children

https://www.ft.com/content/20b07600-765e-461b-8439-a0c6e7c7f4da

Seoul said the monthly pay of Won2mn — in line with South Korea’s minimum wage — compared with a market rate of between Won3.5mn and Won4.5mn for live-in South Korean housekeepers. This is substantially more than the roughly $620 minimum wage for live-in foreign workers in Hong Kong, a fact that may work against broader take-up but which Seoul says is necessary to guard against exploitation.

Yoon government is clueless and shameful. They are bringing in cheap foreign labor to be exploited for $1500 a month, to undercut the Korean workers in the care industries who are paid significantly more. Also, Hong Kong and Singapore with their $600 per month salaried Filipina nannies haven’t boosted their birth rates at all.

If they are interested in boosting the birth rate, they would cut the mandatory working hours, better protect worker rights including protecting the rights to maternity leaves, and do something about the density and the over-reliance on a single Megapolis city where millions live in expensive tight space apartments. Who will have kids if they are worked to death and have little space to move around in their own 15-pyeong homes? As evidenced by the fact that regions, especially southern regions with far cheaper much bigger homes, and where regions have less density, have almost twice the birth rate compared to Seoul’s 0.55 births per woman rate.

chinabot’s rant about birthrates is really poking Xi in the nose, as the Chinese population is aging and decreasing from inflation, a mis-managed economy, and worse opression of dissidents and minorities than even North Korea…

And Chungking is flooded again.

they would cut the mandatory working hours, better protect worker rights including protecting the rights to maternity leaves

Agreed. They should cut working hours for women all the way down to zero and ensure maternity leave is permanent.

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That story makes almost sense.

Just like the “the snipers were on the first floor of the same building so they couldn’t see the shooter” made almost sense until it was exposed as a lie.

Let’s look at this current lie so we can see where it will have to be modified for the next iteration.

“There was supposed to be three personnel. Have one person was allowed to go home early”

So a sniper showed up, hung around in a room adding no value to the situation, and went home 2 hours before he was actually needed. This COULD be fraudwasteabuse-level true. The claim is everyone knew he would only work until 4pm, so there was no “supposed to be three”. Even best case, there was “supposed to be” two plus one useless guy who got paid to hang out at the pre-game party.

“and a second person went to go check out the report about the suspicious person that came over the radio. The second person walked around outside and could not find Crooks.”

That turns out to be a lie. We can guess that because snipers in position with a clear duty don’t go running around looking for marginally suspicious people. We now know it to be a lie because the sniper who noticed the suspicious person sent a text message with two pictures and asked for a “uniform” to look for him, which would be the exact procedure. It would also allow the sniper to stay in the air conditioning and make sure a sNiPeR wasn’t caught doing the bitchwork of a uniformed cop.

“However, he forgot to bring his key card with him and could not get back into the building.”

This could be true. We know he didn’t leave the building to do low-level police work that he already delegated. He may have left for some other less glamorous reason. But it doesn’t matter.

“The only remaining person at the window then left his post to open the door for the other cop to enter the building. During this time this is when Crooks crawled up on the roof. There was no one in the window observing the roof top when Crooks was up there and firing his shots at Trump.”

Let’s see what congress was told according to ABC News.

“the snipers spotted the suspect, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, on the roof of a building outside the security zone at the rally Saturday in Butler, Pennsylvania, at 5:52 p.m. ET. The shooting happened at 6:12 p.m. ET, 20 minutes later”

So, you want to believe that it took 20 minutes for Sniper 1 to leave his post, go down one flight of stairs, hear Trump start speaking, let Sniper 2 in, go back upstairs just after the shots finished?

We know the Secret Service snipers were intently looking at the shooter long before he shot Trump and they returned fire, possibly even 20 minutes. There is plenty of video. They also could have asked the 2nd floor sniper team to glance over and see what the dude on the roof was up to. “He has a rifle, you say? Maybe we should delay Trump’s speech until someone checks if his duck license is valid.”

You are about two full bullshìt narratives behind.

Let’s recap:

– the SS went along with the intentional arrangement of 3 protected people in the same area and greatly reduced Trump’s protection instead of pulling in the proper manpower

– the SS intentionally delegated responsibility for the highest risk area to local law enforcement.

– the SS went against established procedures and did not train, organize, supervise, or verify local law enforcement. The roof and water tower were unobserved instead of being manned and the SS didn’t notice.

– local law enforcement knew there was a suspicious person doing suspicious thing fully consistent with a shooter… lurking, observing the wrong things, using a range finder, having a connection to a backpack, yet didn’t inform anybody important.

– SS knew there was a person on the roof long before Trump came out. The person was lying on the roof, concealed in a sniper-like position instead of sitting or standing, and in a location not ideal to view Trump but better not to be seen by snipers. Yet, they didn’t inform anybody important nor ask the 2nd floor sniper team to look out the window because they were playing with keycards for 20 minutes or something. And they didn’t do their duty to delay Trump for 10 minutes while somebody went and checked on the guy on the roof that was so suspicious that everybody noticed him for an hour.

– and of all the days for everything to be lax and everyone to be incompetent, a shooter jusy happens to show up

There was likely a great deal of incompetence. Everything in America is broken. This won’t be fixed until after the first battle of the next war where a shocking number of Americans will die in less time than you think possible.

But it isn’t all incompetence.

While we shouldn’t “attribute to malice what incompetence explains,” we shouldn’t attribute to incompetence what lies explain.

We have seen a long stream of lies as this story has evolved. Some of those lies have been to hide incompetence. But now we are seeing unudual admissions of incompetence that are clear lies.

And this is most likely done to hide malice, as those who arranged this would much rather be seen as stupid than get caught trying to kill a president.

Of course this entire situation faded from the news in a week and is fading even more quickly now. Revamped narratives will be released less frequently and it will all disappear from the news before there is any true resolution.

Haven’t seen much about this in the US news… https://www.reuters.com/world/china/typhoon-gaemi-forces-evacuation-factory-suspension-northeast-china-2024-07-27/

New video out today.

It ranges from some minutes before until just after the shooting.

The location is between the buildings and Trump on the building side of the fence.

Key points:

– some minutes before the shooting, while Trump is speaking, cops know something is going on. They are all surrounding the building. They have a lot of frantic movement and are all on their radios

– Civilians are watching this and are commenting in the background that the cops are looking for someone and something is up.

– we know the SS snipers have been watching the shooter for over 15 minutes and are watching him now. There is plenty of video confirming this. Even if they were not, they would clearly be able to see the behavior of the police below him, which would alert them.

– we know there was a police sniper team of two people on the second floor windows overlooking the position of the shooter. This was officially denied until too much evidence came out to continue denying it.

– we know all sniper teams have radios and cellphones, and the 2nd floor sniper team even sent pictures from the second floor and a text message to someone in enough command to send a “uniform” to investigate further

– the original lie was there were two shooters (in case you are behind on your bullshít narratives). A professional audio forensics company found there to be three. Oh yes, the government said, we forgot about that but a police sniper also took a shot. While we know the location and situation of the SS sniper, we don’t know anything about the police sniper’s location. The only police sniper team we know of was on the second floor. How odd is all of that?

– The current claim is they found 8 empty shells with the shooter, there was a police sniper shot, and a SS sniper shot. I was hoping someone would make a satisfactory timeline of all of this, but so far not. I will have to do it myself by loading it into some sort of audio software and checking waveforms. I think i can do this on my phone.

In this video, there seems to be 3 shots, 5 shots, 1 shot, long delay, 1 shot.

If I were to guess without further study:
– the shooter shot 3 times – well documented
– short delay
– the shooter shot 5 times – not really talked about
– the police sniper shot and killed him
– oddly long delay
– the SS sniper missed

The original narrative spent a lot of time on the first 3 bullets becasue they each could be traced to someone shot, with one bullet hitting Trump and an audience member (though witnesses statements are odd, as it is impossible to draw a line from the shooter to Trump to the victim based on where they claim he was sitting, though the narrative shows him sitting somewhere else – undetermined as of now).

Somehow, there is less information on the next 5 bullets.

The 9th bullet sounds like it might overlap the 8th and perhaps stopped the shooter.

There is a crazy long delay and then the 10th shot. This appears to be the SS sniper, as they had the last shot in other videos. This has my attention so i will assemble a timeline to verify all this.

Keep in mind, much of the confusion is because it takes a half second for sound to travel between the shooter and Trump so the relationship of shots that happened much faster than half a second will be different depending on where the video was taken.

But now, I have 3 videos at known locations with clear sound. Any audio program can lay these out and the time difference can be clearly seen between shots. That time difference translates to a distance, especially as we know the location of the SS sniper and the shooter.

We calibrate based off the SS sniper for each video. We verify based off the shooter. If that doesn’t all match, we can rethink things, but it likely will. Once those match, we draw 3 circles on the map and they will all meet at the location of the police sniper.

(Actually, we only need 1 circle from a known location because most of the circle will be some place a police sniper obviously isn’t.)

Why do I think the police sniper rather than the SS sniper took out the shooter?

– the shooting stops when the possibly-overlapping 9th shot is fired
– the early high-quality photo of the dead shooter’s injury is not at all consistent with a headshot from the .300 Winchester Magnum fired by the SS sniper.

Your opinion may be different and I will listen if you have a valid reason.

Let’s recap:

– everybody knew something suspicious was going on long before Trump was taken to the stage

– everybody knew there was an actual threat while trump was speaking and possibly before

– there were many people in position to verify the threat, call for its verification, or keep Trump from being exposed until it was resolved

Some of you will continue to believe this was all incompetence. There was plenty of that, and it was used by the malicious higher up.

By someone, this entire situation was plotted to fill the area with the incompetent and untrained, deplete their numbers, remove their resources, sabotage their assets, misguide their actions, neglect supervision, shrink the security bubble…

…and of all days for a shooter to show up.

Setnaffa, Typhoon Gae-mi came from behind, hit hard, and penetrated deep into an unsuspecting China which was left staggering.

Typhoon Tran-ni will do the same but will be wearing a dress with winds that sound like, “IT’S MA’AM”.

CH, you have just answered the $64,000 question.

Why does JD Vance wear eyeliner?

Inner woman?

Hillbilly goth?

Yeah, OK, I can see that.

JD Vance is more Steve Strange than Steven Tyler?

A mash-up of Vince Neil and Lilith?

The Whole World Disapproves of China!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haLZWENEMRk

@GIKorea On topic of Vance being weird …

Vance is just a meme magnet.

Deviance is even an anagram for DEI Vance … which he is.

Hmmm…

I thought I made it clear that I believe this was incompetence at the bottom and maliciousness at the top.

It appears someone high up made some very intentional choices:

– repeatedly deny adequate protection for Trump (encourage reducing it)
– hold three events in the same area at the same time to stretch resources
– put Trump, at highest risk, last in importance
– send the worst people to protect Trump
– don’t send enough of them
– don’t bring anybody from out of area despite much advanced notice
– reduce the size of the security bubble to leave dangerous areas unprotected
– don’t follow any standard procedures, from barriers to security checks
– don’t follow any standard procedure in securing the larger area
– put locals in charge of the most dangerous areas
– give them no training or guidance
– have no supervision to check their work
– clearly see areas are unsecured yet still do nothing
– make communications difficult and indirect
– don’t delay Trump’s appearance when there is clearly a suspicious situation that has gotten everyone’s attention
– don’t temporarily remove Trump from speaking when there is clearly something that has the attention of all cops and snipers
– be sure not to record radio communications or use bodycams
– lie, lie, lie about everything and then evolve the narrative to an equally implausible story when getting caught

Who knows why the cops in a window clearly overlooking the shooter saw nothing. Without knowing who they are, I am fully prepared to blame the laziness and incompetence I see from all of government.

…or they could have been distracted so they wouldn’t see anything.

But those other decisions were all made intentionally, far from normal procedures, to engineer the situation as it turned out.

This could easily have been done by one high-ranking person assisted by incompetence and Trump-hating apathy at lower levels.

Those decisions were made by people who know better. They got the results they were looking for.

Vance is very unusual, but not for the reasons the left cares to acknowledge or really even understand.

He’s the intellectual offspring of an esoteric Platonian silicon reactionary futurism which sprung onto the internet in the 2000s when a Jewish State Department brat decided to write some unqualified reservations.

To put it simply, really effective assasination insurance because at the end of the day, Trump is merely a 1980s liberal whereas Vance and his backers are against the entire whig project so to speak.

This will be some exciting times.

“Trump declaring himself the personal embodiment of the ‘living constitution’.”

That would go well with Fauci’s “I am science,”
Muhammad Ali’s “I am the greatest,” and Obama’s “I am Big Mike’s backdoor plaything.”¹

¹not yet verified by independent fact checkers

The military has long been served in great part by poor white boys from indigent communities. Not a lot of folks who grew up in Martha’s Vineyard go the enlisted route.
And for years liberal leadership has forced DEI onto the military because, in their estimation it didn’t matter they were from dirt farming poor backgrounds, that was the face of white privilege.
But now that JD Vance is on the ballot, that was really the face of DEI the whole time eh?
This is just about to the point that it is too ridiculous to believe.

My spouse was at a DEI conference (he volunteered for a couple of reasons…first, he was honestly interested in how to implement DEI because there was not much guidance at the time and second, he didn’t want to saddle someone else to have to sit through it).
The conference lasted several days and he himself made the pitch that there are a lot of airmen from extremely poor backgrounds, and this itself is a type of diversity regardless of their race or sex or sexual orientation. The DEI representative assured the group it had nothing to do with background.
Then the DEI rep gave him the name of an airman at our base who wanted to be a pilot (not a white kid). My spouse was already mentoring him…then my spouse proceeded to give the names of five other non-white airmen he was mentoring to be pilots. The DEI rep said he was “impressed” my spouse cared so much about DEI and my spouse responded he cared about getting good pilots and the required people who were very motivated, talented, who very much wanted to be pilots.
He came out of that conference knowing for certain that DEI is anti-meritocratic and has absolutely nothing to do with a person’s background (impoverished or no).

How many iterations of lying to one’s self can the liberals keep up when their narratives are so conflicting? The memes write themselves eh? Insert meme here:
Libs in 2016 (jump shark)
Libs in 2021 (jump Sharknado)
Libs in 2024 (jump wrecking crew of ill tempered barracuda)

History is being rewritten as we speak.

But this time, maybe a good thing?

The Navy has lost a lawsuit and now must review all records to make sure there is nothing bad against people who refused to take the covid vaccine on religious grounds.

This is really just a first flight in the coming downward spiral of the entire failed medical experiment.

The big one to watch is, while law allows forced vaccines, it does not allow forced therapeutics. The moment breakout cases went from “they do happen but are exceedingly rare” to “the vaccine keeps you out of the hospital”, it stopped being a vaccine and started being a therapeutic, no matter what it was officially called.

If there are any of you who aren’t stupid or pushover wussies, now is the time to start getting your friends together and win a form of ghetto lottery that we have to find a clever name for.

…maybe after coffee.

In other news, it was 36 years ago yesterday that the late Rush Limbaugh of blessed memory went national.

CH, in related news, Demi Moore is tired of flatulence always being the butt of the joke. She plans to make intestinal eruptions socially-acceptable.

Democrats and their pets are all perverts. And not in a good way.

I’ll add that if Demi is remembered as either the czar of farts, or queen of ex cougar cat ranchers, it is better than she deserves.

This.

The news cycle discussing unbelievable incompetence among a federal agency managing the wellbeing of America and local law enforcement agencies who can affect you any time they want, has moved on to how great Kamala is. She is so great, we have all forgotten that, technically, Sharp as a Tack Joe is actually supposed to be the president.

Who is running America?

Anyway, in some Trump Assasination news…

The autopsy is complete… and has been complete.

State law says it is a public record that must be released.

The county where the autopsy was done said, “but but but… the other county paid for it… so… wait.” The county that paid for it said “but but but… relatives need to see it first.”

They are just delaying until everyone forgets about it. Since everything in America is broken, nobody enforces the law.

Actually, they might enforce it against you if you drive too fast or the barrel of your rifle is a few millimeters too short… but other broken institutions are off the hook.

So why wouldn’t they just release the autopsy?

Becasue that is where yet another major lie in this whole plot will be exposed.

Remember, the shooter fired a 3 shot burst followed by a 5 shot burst. Then, there was a very different 9th shot. Then the Secret Service sniper, who was watching the shooter but flinched when the shooter started shooting, took 15 seconds to fire his shot, just less than 10 seconds after the 9th shot.

The official story is that the Secret Service sniper took out the shooter. That only holds up if you believe the shooter fired 8 shots in less than 6 seconds and then did nothing for 10 seconds.

The other option is the 9th shot, first denied but now officially admitted to be from a local police sniper (but he missed), actually didn’t miss. He ended the shooting when he ended the shooter.

But if you believe that, you have to ask where he shot from. In the first round of lies, police snipers were located in the one-floor building the sniper was on. Of course that is unbelievable.

Then it came out that police snipers were on the second floor, which had a clear view of the shooter (not straight ahead… you had to get up and look).

Then it came out they weren’t there when the shooting started because one sniper left his post to do “uniform” work looking for a suspicious kid but forgot his card key and the other sniper let him in. If you believe the roof was too slanted, you probably believe this.

The most likely story is the second floor snipers were not vigilant and the shooter set up under their noses.

Or maybe they were vigilant enough to notice.

Could they hear the shooter, locate him, and shoot him within 6 seconds? Maybe.

Could they do it if they were already watching through a closed window but not realizing what he was up to as law enforcement, including ones on the same radio net, started moving in and civilians yelled about a man on the roof with a gun? Probably.

The autopsy will show the shooter was not shot from the front by the type of bullet the Secret Service was using. We already know that from the pictures and the speculations of people qualified to speculate on that.

It will show he was shot from the 2nd floor window by a smaller bullet on the 9th shot.

The police would rather give credit to the Secret Service than get the blame on why they didn’t see the shooter right in front of him.

Also, the DEI broad who was puppeted into the leader position resigned. Who was promoted into her place? The guy who actually arranged all this, from cutting security to assigning the least qualified.

The malignancy starts with him and works its way down to intentionally positioned incompetence.

Heh.

Ha! Comment likes on this page tell me everything I need to know about America and its future.

A thoughtful analysis of important events and a decent but obvious joke get the same number of likes.

So why no love?

Likely because little insect people with little insect attention spans think it is all too much to read and don’t even engage.

This is a big problem in America. The lack of engagement with most people is a force multiplier for those who profit from your labor and those who find ways to get more of it.

Or maybe there there is no love because my facts are bogus and my analysis is wrong.

It would be easy to disagree with me and introduce better facts and better analysis.

But… nothing.

Now we are back to little insect people and their lack of engagement.

I understand. It is difficult to think… especially with so much mindless entertainment available to take your mind of the minimal amount of thinking you have to do at work.

Why is it again that every system is broken? Including where you work?

Kindly consider the only way to defend against manupulation and exploitation by the people more powerful (and possibly smarter) than you is for all the Little People to start paying attention and getting noisy.

When you see something valid and insightful that explains the lies and insanity you see on a daily basis, forward it to everyone and scold them for not engaging.

Or dont.

Just read a history book to know your future… how the unengaged got used and how nobody complied their way to freedom.

Remember how no communications were recorded and no bodycams were worn by anyone doing security at the Trump assasination attempt rally?

Sit down for a minute.

It turns out that isn’t exactly true.

Some of you fools refuse to believe in conspiracy theories, even when they are clearly everywhere.

Most of them are conspiracies of shared values.

In this case, the police were happy to let the Secret Service be the single point of management, so they conspired to conceal any evidence that would go against the Official Narrative.

But, as facts started coming out that required the Official Narrative to be continuously modified to support incompetence over malice, the police started getting most of the blame for the incompetence.

And they have been leaking small amounts of information to deflect this blame, forcing the Official Narrative to be modified further.

Comparing its current, and still incomplete form, with the original story would make a normal, rational person understand all these lies exist for a reason.

And that reason very much appears to be at some level, there was a conspiracy to assassinate Trump and one of the tools to make this happen was reliance on lower-level incompetence, some misdirection, and the knowledge that people will naturally assist in your cover-up if they need to cover their own incompetence.

So what did we learn from this bodycam?

Hope you are still sitting down.

The video starts with no audio. Perhaps that will be corrected in a future release if the cops start feeling they need to defend themselves further. This part of the video likely has some juicy information that will force a major narrative rewrite.

This cam is on the cop that is lifted up to look on the roof. There is nothing much to see. Another cop lifts him up on one of the connecting hallways. There are a few frames of the building the shooter was on but mostly it is just the camera pressed up against the metal.

However, even without audio, we learn two new modifications the Official Narrative will need.

– When the cop drops down, he was not injured. Why was that lie even necessary?

– And we can guess why there is no audio. The shooter was looking 180⁰ away at Trump and didn’t “aim his rifle at the cop, forcing him to drop”. The shooter never even saw the cop. Unintentionally, this requires yet another Official Narrative modification, as “the hero cop” didn’t distract the shooter, causing him to miss Trump.

Based on the audio that came on later, it appears the cop was shocked to see a civilian and dropped down to respond somehow. Then the shooting started and 15 seconds later, everything was over but the disorder… 6 actually, as the shooter was almost certainly dead by the 2nd floor sniper shot #9 before the Secret Service even fired #10 over 9 seconds later.

Let’s quote some audio from later in this bodycam footage that only came into existence when the cops got tired of being blamed.

Around 10 minutes after the shooting, one cop says to another, “I thought you guys were on the roof. I thought it was you. I thought it was you.”

The other cop responds, “No.”

“What the fúck! Why were we not on the roof? Why weren’t we?” the first cop replies.

Yeah. Good question. Why weren’t they on the roof? And why did they all think the guy on the roof was law enforcement?

This starts to explain why the second floor sniper team (that was denied to exist) killed the shooter so quickly. They were watching him. They just weren’t sure if he was on the same side or not until he started shooting at Trump.

But why all the confusion?

Let’s listen to more audio.

“I fúcking told them that they needed to post guys fúcking over here…I told them that fúcking Tuesday. I talked to the Secret Service guys. They’re like, ‘Yeah, no problem. We’re going to post guys over here,'”

So it looks like the Secret Service said they would have the roof covered… but intentionally did not. Cops thought they had it covered.

With a big coincidence, or intentional grooming, a shooter was in a place everyone expected security to be. Elegant.

What a clever way to give the shooter a free pass until he starts shooting and then get rid of him when his job is done.

Let’s see how the Secret Service responds.

Maybe they don’t need to.

The news has moved on.

And so have most of you.