The left went too far.

In fairness, she has extensive SS experience before Pepsi. But then again, diversity has to work its way into the mission (2nd sentence).

Kimberly Cheatle is the 27th Director of the U.S. Secret Service, sworn in to office September 17, 2022. She is responsible for successfully executing the agency’s integrated mission of protection and investigations by leading a diverse workforce composed of more than 7,800 Special Agents, Uniformed Division Officers, Technical Law Enforcement Officers, and Administrative, Professional, and Technical personnel.

Prior to her appointment, Ms. Cheatle served as Senior Director in Global Security at PepsiCo, where she was responsible for directing and implementing security protocols for the company's facilities in North America. Her role at PepsiCo involved developing risk management assessment and risk mitigation strategies.

Before joining PepsiCo, she served with distinction for 27 years in the U.S. Secret Service, most recently as Assistant Director of the Office of Protective Operations. In this position, Ms. Cheatle managed a $133.5M budget and collaborated with ten operational divisions and the Technical Security Division to research, develop and deploy technologies that reduce risks to protectees, protected facilities, and protected events.

I find it hard to feel flattered when a gay man is obsessed with me.

Those three ladies near the vehicle looked right out of a KEYSTONE COPS movie!!!

CNN.  Amazing.

Welcome back RSM789. I hope you will visit more often, or better still, you should post regularly, because I finally passed you. I'm now 67 posts ahead of you.

Good to see that you are still alive, RSM. As regards the possibility of a Civil War I have always held the position that usually what we see in the papers are comments from the breathless and overwrought fringe. You are familiar with the old adage that "If it bleeds it leads" since we typically see the emotional rants of the left and right fielders. They represent some but - I have always believed - not most. You know what you are going to see if you read CNN or MSNBC or Fox. Rachel Maddow has an audience simply because she feeds the needs of the leftists seeking confirmation of Russian collusion or "threat to democracy" or whatever off-the-wall crisis du jour is fashionable.

I had always recalled Lincoln's comments on "the better angels of our nature", but of course he said that shortly before the onset of the Civil War, so........

MDDad, why would you be concerned about commentary on TOB? There is a reason why we don't contribute there any longer. As they say, "Consider the source."

A former American president and current presidential candidate has been shot and there is not one glimmer of recognition regarding the portent of such a thing. Or of the endless malicious commentary from those leftist types I noted above. The comment of the current president that Trump should be placed in a "bull's-eye" shortly before the episode is stunning, but also routine at this point. There is so much intransigent animosity on that board that I found after years of trying there wasn't anybody with whom I could have an objective discussion.

I did take a look at it as you suggested and found it a little depressing. But it was worth it because I couldn't help laughing at Wabash and the cogent observation that:

"I stopped trying to apply logic, reason, and rationality a long time ago."

As Winston Churchill commented about Stanley Baldwin:

"He occasionally stumbles over the truth, but he picks himself up and hurries along as if nothing it happened."........................................Luca