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‘These are my people coming in here crying because they’re hot and they’re miserable and they’re dying,’ he says.

Houston, Texas, legend Jim “Mattress Mack” McIngvale, owner and founder of Gallery Furniture, slammed utility provider CenterPoint Energy for putting profits over people in the aftermath of Hurricane Beryl.

Mattress Mack joined Texas Emergency Management Chief Nim Kidd, Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick in the Monday press conference addressing mass power outages lasting days after the storm.

⚡️Mattress Mac lays down the law for the CEO of Centerpoint. pic.twitter.com/5rabMZj0Q5

— Merissa Hansen (@merissahansen17) July 15, 2024

Mattress Mack is known for opening his doors to citizens during past hurricanes and floods, doing so once again earlier this month.

In a recent press conference, McIngvale explained he turned his North Freeway location into “a cooling center” for locals who were without power in the extreme Texas heat following Hurricane Beryl.

He said, “We decided to feed them breakfast, lunch and dinner. We also decided to have a place where they could power their device. Monday through Thursday we had 15,000 people in there… We did that because it’s the right thing to do.”

McIngvale took aim at CenterPoint next, claiming the energy company’s executives are more concerned with fancy vacations and making more money than helping Houstonians.

“These are my people coming in here crying because they’re hot and they’re miserable and they’re dying. These are the people the hospitals sent out here that needed a heart rate charger otherwise they were gonna die. These are real people, mothers coming in here breastfeeding their children because it’s so stifling hot at home,” he explained.

The Houston icon added, “The executives at CenterPointless don’t get that. Put the people before the profit… you ought to be ashamed of yourselves.”

Regarding the lineworkers employed by CenterPoint, Mack said, “The lineworkers are the greatest people on Earth. They’re working 16 to 18 hours a day in sweltering heat.”

Infowars reported on Tuesday about these same lineworkers being attacked and even poisoned by wild locals while trying to get the power back on in Houston.

He continued preaching to the energy execs, declaring, “Life is not about money. Life’s about making people’s lives better.”

Governor Abbott also criticized CenterPoint during the press conference and promised the Texas utilities regulator will investigate its response.

“Maybe they have too large of an area for them to be able to manage adequately,” he said. “It’s time to reevaluate whether or not Centerpoint should have such a large territory.”

Check out the video below where Mack offered locals to come down and grab some free food, cool down and charge their phones amid the widespread power outages.

MATTRESS MACK STILL HOLDING DOWN H TOWN ?
Tuesday July 9 still free food and charge your phone at GF 6006 N FRWY. When no one else steps up – MACK DOES ?? pic.twitter.com/y8eG7yPmO1

— @MattressMack (@MattressMack) July 9, 2024

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Jones warns: “The big move is to hit him with a large truck bomb, it’s in the cards to use a small nuclear weapon and blame the Iranians … They’ll be the fall guys. And then instantly we’re at war with Russia. Instantly life as you know it is over.”

The federal government on Tuesday made public that it obtained intelligence of an Iranian plot to kill Former President Donald Trump , according to CNN.

Just yesterday, Infowars Founder Alex Jones warned that the Deep State will continue to stop at nothing to kill Trump and using Iran as the “fall guys” is on the table.

“They will try to poison Trump, they will try to shoot Trump, they will activate even bigger lies and fraud about it,” warned Jones Monday. “The big move is to hit him with a large truck bomb, it’s in the cards to use a small nuclear weapon and blame the Iranians.”

“They’ll be the fall guys. And then instantly we’re at war with Russia. Instantly life as you know it is over.”

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According to CNN, Trump’s security was actually enhanced after the news of the intelligence.

Also according to CNN, it is unclear if would-be assassin Thomas Crooks was in any way related to the reported Iranian plot, with CNN reporting that there is “no known connection” to the tragedy that unfolded Saturday.

Additionally, critics online are raising alarm on the timing of this development.

On Monday’s Infowars broadcast, Jones continued at length of the threat escalation ladder we are all witnessing.

“They’ll do anything for power and control as long as they think they can get away with it,” warned Jones.

Alex Jones is live covering this:

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BOMBSHELL: Secret Service Told To Stand Down In Butler, Pennsylvania, Says Trump Event Head

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‘It’s just too obvious that this guy had help getting there,’ according to retired sniper Dallas Alexander.

A former military sniper asserts the shooter who took a failed shot at Donald Trump had help from inside sources.

In an Instagram post Sunday, retired sniper Dallas Alexander, whose Tier 1 Special Operations Unit “JTF 2” had the longest confirmed sniper kill streak, expressed his expert opinion that the shooter was allowed to take his shot.

“I’m very familiar with the layout of these types of things and what the job should be,” Alexander said a day after the assassination attempt.

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“And yesterday what happened, I have no doubts in my mind that the shooter had help from somewhere within an agency, an organization, or the government,” he said.

Alexander added when he saw aerial photos of the event “it immediately made no sense to me,” adding the rooftops were glaring vulnerabilities that would have been noticed by anyone.

“You don’t even need to be a sniper — it’s the most f–king obvious thing. The most obvious place in the whole world,” Alexander said.

“You could be like a seventh-grader — like ‘What do we have to do for security?’ Well, let’s look at these rooftops that are almost within zeroing range of a rifle,” he continued.

Ultimately, Alexander says it appears a stand-down was effectively ordered and shooter Thomas Crooks was permitted to get into position.

“Something happened. I’m not pointing fingers at anyone, it’s just too obvious that this guy had help getting there. Whether someone turned a blind eye or it was strategically planned. Events like that, security like that … it’s not a small thing and that is the most obvious place to be.”

Alexander said he also found it hard to believe the shooter was able to get into position and target one of the “hardest to stalk targets in the whole world,” and still missed his shot.

“Uh, you’re not gonna miss a shot. You’re not going to miss that shot. Like, if you have the skill set to get in there, avoiding all of these security, um, all different layers of security, then you will have the skill set to hit that, hit that first round. Um, it just, it doesn’t make any sense.”

“So, my opinion is, And whether this comes out now or way later, um, is that this guy had help from somewhere,” he concluded.

Alexander’s assessment echoed sentiments from retired Green Beret Matthew Murphy, a certified level one sniper with extensive Special Operations training, who also deduced the failed assassination attempt on Trump was likely an inside job.

Wow.

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— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) July 15, 2024

The analysis from the two expert snipers comes as US Army veteran and House Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.) told CNN on Tuesday that the amount of security lapses seemed to point to an “intentional” effort to leave Trump vulnerable to gunfire.

“The amount of negligence, the amount of mistakes that was made here, I have a very difficult time not leaning myself towards this was intentional as opposed to fecklessness,” Mills told anchor Kate Bolduan during RNC coverage in Milwaukee.

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Linemen hospitalized with fentanyl poisoning, others beaten, held hostage by armed men

Multiple utility workers have been hospitalized in Houston after attacks from local residents amid heroic efforts to restore power to the region following last week’s hurricane impact, according to reports.

Hurricane Beryl hit Southeast Texas on Monday as a Category 1 hurricane before weakening to a tropical storm and then a tropical depression.

Nearly 3 million residents in the Houston metro area were left without power, prompting line workers from across the U.S. to surge the region to aid restoration efforts.

Incredibly, linemen have been reporting a slew of physical and verbal attacks in recent days, and at least one suspect has been charged with aggravated assault after allegedly pointing a gun at a utility worker over the weekend.

One lineman posted a video on social media showing a lunatic battering his truck with a metal rod in the middle of a busy highway.

Last night, I posted videos of linemen who came from all over the country to fix the power grid in Houston. They stated that they have been attacked, beaten up, given fentanyl-laced water, and some were even threatened with guns.

Here is a crazed man attacking a lineman’s truck… pic.twitter.com/F3FvBj9pSW

— I Meme Therefore I Am ?? (@ImMeme0) July 16, 2024

A utility worker from outside Texas shared a variety of horror stories from the past week on TikTok — including a revelation that a colleague was hospitalized after ingesting water laced with fentanyl that had been given to him by local residents.

“What the hell are you guys doing right now to the men who came down, who left their families, to come help you?” another lineman asked in a video post on social media. “There are linemen leaving right now and there are linemen that will never be back to Texas. And let me tell you — I’m one of them. You’ll never see me in Houston.”

“The most dangerous part of the job of being a lineman is supposed to be the electricity — the thing you can’t see. It’s not supposed to be the public.”

Utility workers have been beaten, forced to evacuate staging areas, and in one case, 20 linemen were held hostage by armed men, he said.

“We’ve had guys who have had guns pulled on them, we’ve got guys who have had rocks picked up and slung at them. I had a crew out in Sugarland, they had guys with AK-47′s standing across from them. Never pointed it at them but menacing them,” Ed Allen, business manager for IBEW Local 66, told KPRC 2.

“I’ve had several companies already tell me, ‘Ed, if it doesn’t stop, we are going to get in our trucks and drive off.’”

“In 42 years in this industry, working here in this community, I have never seen a response like this from the community,” Allen continued.

NEW: Lineman being attacked and threatened while working to restore power to the Houston area.

Wellcome to Democrats ran city! https://t.co/5TphArtqgr pic.twitter.com/llgSWGMI7L

— I Meme Therefore I Am ?? (@ImMeme0) July 16, 2024

State and local authorities are urging Houston residents to support utility workers and are warning of “enhanced charges for those who threaten or commit violence against linemen.”

InfoWars will monitor this situation as it develops.

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Alex Jones breaks down the alarming analysis that the attempt on former President Donald Trump’s life was likely “intentional” due to the tremendous amount of security lapses that day:

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BOMBSHELL: Secret Service Told To Stand Down In Butler, Pennsylvania, Says Trump Event Head

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The local police command had roughly 30 minutes to coordinate with the US Secret Service on the suspicious guy with a rangefinder, who they then let climb the roof and attempt to assassinate Donald Trump.

Three Beaver County police snipers were reportedly stationed inside the building used by the shooter in Saturday’s assassination attempt on Donald Trump, a local law enforcement officer with ‘direct knowledge’ of the incident tells CBS News‘ Anna Schecter, and as first reported by the Beaver Countian.

It gets worse…

A sniper, stationed on the second floor providing overwatch, saw the shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, outside the building and looking up at the roof. He then walked away, returned, whipped out his phone, when one of the snipers took the first of two pictures of him.

Crooks then took out a rangefinder – at which point the sniper radioed to a command post. Crooks then disappeared again and came back a third time with a backpack. The snipers called in once again with information that he had a backpack and that he (Crooks) was walking toward the back of the building.

By the time other officers came for backup, he had climbed on top of the building and was positioned above and behind the snipers inside the building, the officer said.

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Two other officers who heard the sniper’s call tried to get onto the roof. State police started rushing to the scene, but by that time, a Secret Service sniper had already killed Crooks, the officer said. –CBS News

So – law enforcement had eyes-on the shooter the entire time, took pictures of him, notified their command post – and nothing was done until Crooks shot Trump, at which point Secret Service snipers returned fire and killed him.

According to local TV station WPXI, officers on the ground spotted Crooks nearly 30 minutes before he fired at Trump.

Channel 11′s Nicole Ford confirmed that Beaver County’s ESU team had eight members at the rally, including snipers and spotters. According to Ford’s sources, one of them noticed a suspicious man on a roof near the rally at 5:45 p.m., called it in and took a picture of the person. We have learned from our sources the person in that picture is Thomas Crooks. We’re told it’s not clear if Crooks had a gun with him at that point.

According to multiple sources, a law enforcement officer had also previously seen Crooks on the ground and called him in as a suspicious person with a picture prior to 5:45 p.m. Our sources tell us an officer checked the grounds for Crooks at that point, but did not see him where the first picture was taken.

26 minutes after the second picture of Crooks was taken by law enforcement and the information called in, shots were fired from the roof of the American Glass Research building. Seconds later, a Secret Service sniper returned fire and killed Crooks.

So the local police command had roughly 30 minutes to coordinate with the US Secret Service on the suspicious guy with a rangefinder, who they then let climb the roof and attempt to assassinate Donald Trump.

Blame Game

The assassination attempt has pitted the USSC against local law enforcement – with agency director Kimberly Cheatle telling ABC News on Monday that it was the local police’s responsibility to secure the building that was outside the USSC perimeter.

“There was local police in that building – there was local police in the area that were responsible for the outer perimeter of the building,” said Cheatle.

One former Secret Service agent, however, took issue with Cheatle placing so much blame on local law enforcement – telling CNN: “The Service is responsible for everything, not just the inner perimeter. They should make sure all of this is covered.”

“Officers inside a building – that’s not mitigating a high-ground vulnerability,” the former agent continued.

According to Patrick Yoes, national president of the Fraternal Order of Police, this isn’t the snipers’ fault.

“Whatever happened in Butler, this was not a failure of the local, state or federal officers on the ground who responded to the shots fired at former President Trump. They acted heroically and put their lives on the line to protect everyone at the event and we must recognize that,” he said. “This is a failure at the management or command level who failed to secure an obvious weakness in the security of this event.“

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BOMBSHELL: Secret Service Told To Stand Down In Butler, Pennsylvania, Says Trump Event Head

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