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Secret service must be sweating bullets
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
And keep in mind if someone as prominent as Taylor Swift might be there Trump can sort of ride her coat tails security-wise.
Hang on do you actually think that Taylor Swifts security detail is better than the fuckin secret service??
After the recent “DEI replacement” cronyism maybe?Would almost bet on him firing anyone competent in favor of yes men.
Probably, not like some kid got a shot at Swift.
Yes... Because a generally liked pop singer and a highly controversial world leader have the same likelihood for being assassinated.
Clout assassinations have been a thing for decades, John Lennon was murdered back in the 1980.
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.
There's a lot more than just one - here's a specific example with excessive violence and a lot of collateral damage
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimebag_Darrell
And here's Wikipedia's list of notable musicians, do note that someone performing at your local club or restaurant wouldn't make it onto this list
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_murdered_musicians
Also, she's a prominent woman and there are just a lot of creepy guys out there so she'd faced an immense amount of abuse from a distance and personal threats of a violent, sexual and violently sexual nature.
Damn you right. Maybe it is easier to kill a musician than it is to kill a sitting US president with the secret service around.
Crazy concept I know.
You really want to go down that road? Because I'm sure there's a Wikipedia article that could show you a lot more attempted assassinations for pop stars than presidents /world leaders
Here's a crazy concept. Maybe they get killed more frequently than US presidents because they don't have the fuckin secret service protecting them 24/7. I mean the guy who killed John Lennon just walked up to him outside a building and shot him.
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.
... 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.
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.
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...
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.
Or they're scrambling to come up with a better plan