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Essentially this.
If your whole brand is based on an image of "I am smart, and I know better, so shut up and do what I say" a visible display of gross incompetency is going to be extremely damaging to that brand, and the more one tries to deflect, rather than own the failure the more people are going to assume that the actual situation is even worse. As the old saying goes, it's not the facts of the crime that implicate guilt, but the cover up. The cover up demonstrates knowledge and intent.
How is what happened gross incompetence though? Most rich people and most national level politicians do not have 24 hour armed security. Is their incompetence in not fitting steel shutters a la The Purge? The guy smashed his way in through a window with a hammer while Pelosi was asleep. That could happen to just about anyone competent or not. Other than living in a gated community and having security cameras watched by Capitol police what else should they have done to avoid this accusation of incompetence?
Are other home invasion victims similarly incompetent if they fail to have fully automated machine gun turrets set up in overlapping fields of fire with SEAL Team Six on hot alert?
They had all that, the house also basically has a gigantic amount of open land around it. If capitol police are essentially Homer Simpsoning (and I feel I may be slandering good ole Homer here) at the Pelosi's residence that is, in fact, a massive failure in staffing by Nancy Pelosi. Perhaps Jan 6 should have been a heads up to initiate an inquiry into the agency's competency after they bumbled the situation so pathetically that a large stone-and-iron building, on a hill, surrounded with crowd control fences, with fortified doors and windows was surrendered to a couple dozen unarmed cosplayers.
If you can afford such a thing and possess items of such value that you think The Joker and Harley Quinn are likely to break in at any moment, then probably. For most people, all they can afford is a lock and maybe something that dings when a window is broken. Unlike most people, the Pelosi's both have money for armed security, and hold themselves out as people who are at serious risk of political violence.
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At the risk of inviting karmic retribution, yes It demonstrates incompetency, because we know that the Pelosi's are "deeply concerned about right wing political violence", we know that they have 24 hour security, and we know that one would have to cover approximately 50 yards of open ground (presumably covered by security cameras) to reach the French doors in question. Breaking the door down should have brought security running if the methed-out gay prostitute on the security cameras didn't.
The reason the "Gay escort" has gained the momentum it has is that DePape is a known gay escort and it seems difficult to believe that he would be able to gain entry to the Pelosi's house without setting off any alarms unless he had been invited/let in by somebody.
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Most standard issue home security systems will ring an alarm and some will even call 9-11 if a window is breached. You’d think if Pelosi was serious about the threats of political violence, she would at least have something like that in place. My guess is that they have something far more advanced.
that takes too long when you're talking a possible life or death situation. armed security, even just knowing how to use a gun, is better.
I’m not arguing about what would be the best home security system, but that it seems unbelievable that the Pelosis didn’t even have the least home security system. A plebe like me can go to Home Depot and come home with something more effective than “don’t notice when someone breaks your window and then eventually run into the bathroom to call police.”
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Probably basic firearm proficiency is a start .The overwhelming majority of home invaders are incompetent or wait for the target to leave.
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