▪️This is a hilarious attempt to craft a narrative. Commander wasn’t “untrainable,” German shepherds are highly trainable dogs. The reason Commander left the White House is he bit Secret Service personnel in at least 24 incidents! Which doesn’t include the bites to other staffers, of which there were many.
▪️These 24 biting incidents took place in just an 8 month span, from Oct ‘22 to July ‘23. A FOIA document reported members of the Secret Service being bitten on the wrist, forearm, elbow, waist, chest, thigh & shoulder. The report doesn’t include other bites to White House staff.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68366306
▪️The problem was so pervasive and known that an email was sent to SS agents saying, “The recent dog bites have challenged us to adjust our operational tactics when Commander is present – please give lots of room.” And, that agents “must be creative to ensure our own personal safety.”
▪️ The bites took place inside and outside of the White House residence, but also at Biden family homes in Wilmington & Rehoboth Beach, at Camp David and in Nantucket.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/21/politics/commander-biden-secret-service-bites-white-house/index.html
▪️One incident happened at Biden’s beach home, where an agent walked to a backyard security post and heard Commander start to bark, but did not realize Commander was “loose and off leash.”
🔹 “In the background SA [redacted] heard the voice of what believes to be FLOTUS Dr. Jill Biden [redacted] yelling [redacted quote]. Commander ran toward the direction of post [redacted] booth and bit SA [redacted] in the left forearm. Causing a severe deep open wound. As result of the attack SA [redacted] started to loose (sic) a significant amount of blood from [redacted] arm”
▪️In another, an agent was bitten on the forearm while holding the door open in the area between the West Wing & the residence:
🔹”Commander and POTUS were entering the Palm Room through the West Colonnade. Commander came in first circled back and grabbed my arm left arm. He then stood up and back down. He is literally my height standing. POTUS entered shortly after since he was trailing behind him. POTUS entered the Palm Room and said [redacted],” the agent said in a description of the event, saying that they were “in shock that this incident occurred.”
▪️ Another involved a “deep bite" on the forearm of an agent, who needed stitches. Blood on the floor in an area of the White House caused tours of the East Wing of the building to be suspended for 20 minutes. There are many other harrowing stories of similar nature.
▪️This, understandably, caused significant tension between the Bidens and Secret Service. Plus, the press was already on the story (remember his prior dog Major ALSO bit SS agents). Unless they wanted a major scandal, the only solution was to remove the dog.
▪️To pretend like this is “decent human” behavior is absurd. Most owners would be mortified if their dog bit someone, let alone their security. Now imagine your dog biting DOZENS of your staff and still expecting them to work in the vicinity of your huge dog. It’s narcissism on a level most can’t attain, and reveals a certain kind of dog owner.
It’s funny to see the left use the same conspiratorial rhetoric as the right did a year ago regarding the jobs numbers being downwardly revised. So many on the right, who knew nothing of how the jobs numbers are calculated or why they revise them, were convinced the downward revisions were a conspiracy to help Biden win.
If people want to have a debate about the birth death model or the survey methods, ok, but that’s not what’s happening here. Most people are under the delusion that the BLS report is the govt reporting every job created and lost, and are thus easily swayed it’s rigged when it suits their political ends.
This is almost laughingly misleading, as it leaves out everything before the letter.
▪️After being repeatedly lampooned by the Smothers Brothers over Vietnam, Johnson finally had enough. One night at 3 am he called the head of CBS William Paley, demanding that he “get those bastards off my back.”
▪️Paley then asked the heads of CBS entertainment to get them to back off of LBJ. However, instead of backing off the Smothers Brothers doubled down, booking a folk musician performing “Waist Deep,” an anti-war song about a soldier being stuck in the mud while “the big fool says to push on,” clearly a dig at LBJ.
▪️At the last minute, CBS cut the song from the pre-taped show to the outrage of the Smothers. They continued to push the boundaries off and on for the rest of his presidency, with CBS sometimes cutting segments that they thought went too far. Basically, it was a soft form of censorship.
▪️It wasn’t until Johnson made his surprise announcement not to run in 1968 ...
