• tal@lemmy.today
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      19 days ago

      I’d say that it’s probably one of the easier places, actually, because post-9/11, there’s a lot of security at the Super Bowl, whether-or-not a President is there. Like, they already have overhead marksmen and airspace restrictions and stuff, which is the sort of stuff that you’d put on the President at an event.

      I believe that the Super Bowl is considered to be a potential target because of its high visibility.

      IIRC, even before that, Tom Clancy had one of his books involve terrorists blowing up the Super Bowl with a small nuclear weapon.

      kagis

      Yeah, The Sum of All Fears.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sum_of_All_Fears

      The terrorists’ plan is to detonate the weapon at the Super Bowl in Denver while simultaneously staging a false flag attack on U.S. military forces in stationed in Berlin by East Germans disguised as Soviet soldiers.

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        19 days ago

        And keep in mind if someone as prominent as Taylor Swift might be there Trump can sort of ride her coat tails security-wise.

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          19 days ago

          Hang on do you actually think that Taylor Swifts security detail is better than the fuckin secret service??

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              19 days ago

              Yes… Because a generally liked pop singer and a highly controversial world leader have the same likelihood for being assassinated.

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                  18 days ago

                  Ok so that’s 1 for assassinated pop stars… And a couple hundred assassinated world leaders. Or 4 presidents if you wanna limit yourself to just the US and it’s relatively short history.

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                18 days ago

                If you don’t think Taylor Swift is under absolutely constant threat of assault and kidnapping then I have an incel in Brooklyn to sell you.

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                  18 days ago

                  … I never said she wasn’t? I simply find it comical that you think a pop star has a better security detail than the sitting president of the United States lol.

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        18 days ago

        It depends on the funding of the aggressor. A lone dude isn’t going to have a chance. A national asset would have access to the means to take him out, but the risk is the CIA might find out and blow their cover.

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          It’d be terrible if there was a bunch of recently fired federal agents with nothing to lose that already know the inner workings of presidential security that were able to plan something like that…

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            18 days ago

            He already said he left orders to blow up Iran, so I could easily see Israel hiring a half dozen Iranians and giving them some RPGs.

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      19 days ago

      I’ve been in NOLA for the Superbowl all week (I get to leave Friday) this place is locked down as tightly as DC was during the 2020 elections.

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    I do find it odd no sitting president has before. I get the Super Bowl is relatively new, but it kinda shocks me no other president has.

    I guess when you’re trying to prove you’re not Hitler 2 you gotta look good for the people you’re going to send to jail.

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      A quick search shows on average a box at the Superbowl costs between $750,000-$2 million.

      The President makes $400,000 a year.
      They can’t sit in the stands, so the reality is no president should be able to afford to go to the game.

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    18 days ago

    Hey, totally unrelated, but does anyone remember this Simpsons episode?

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    Can we get the crowd to flip him off again? That’d be cool to see on tv. I don’t watch tv or sports, but it’d make it to the internet and then I’d enjoy watching.

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      19 days ago

      The Superdome holds ~75,000 plus staff.

      I wonder how many innocents will be killed by multi-bigoted, fascist, patriarchal oligarchs working to make the orphan-shredding machine run on pure-white mandatory babies?