Althouse: Sunrise.

April 25, 2026

Sunrise.

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183 comments:

Iman said...: Military Analyst Mike Lyons writes…

“The debate over the U.S.-Israel campaign against Iran is mostly organized around the politics of one man rather than the war itself, which deserves serious study on its own terms. The Iran war is the first large-scale U.S. operation in a generation to abandon ‘escalation management’ and ‘proportional response’ in favor of front-loaded, overwhelming force. It has been executed with restraint toward civilians. This will be a major part of this war’s legacy.

For decades, proportional response functioned less as a strategy than a ritual: hit a transmitter, strike a barracks. This theory, codified in Cold War deterrence doctrine, held that matching force with roughly equal force would control the so-called escalation ladder. These rules of engagement protected enemy sanctuaries.

The early phase of Epic Fury discarded that playbook. Nearly 900 strikes in 12 hours targeted Iranian military infrastructure, air defenses, and regime leadership simultaneously.

This showed overwhelming superiority, delivered as an opening blast. Iran attempted to re-escalate by threatening the Strait of Hormuz and striking nearby Arab states, but those measures failed to change the battlefield calculus. The doctrine of controlled escalation, with its tit-for-tat approach, had been set aside as the U.S. military imposed a strategic ceiling the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps couldn’t breach...

Read it all…

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-iran-war-marks-the-end-of-escalation-management-a32b7b0d; 4/25/26, 6:43 PM
mccullough said...: That band of clouds doesn’t look like it moved from the top to bottom photo; 4/25/26, 6:53 PM
Iman said...: “Whatever one thinks of Operation Epic Fury, the signal is unambiguous: The U.S. is willing to apply overwhelming force, with deliberate restraint toward civilian infrastructure and without escalation anxiety. That is a different America from the one Iran and China have been modeling. They are updating their models now.

The media will keep covering this war as a story about Donald Trump. That is their prerogative and their loss. The actual story is bigger than any one president and will outlast this news cycle by a generation.”; 4/25/26, 6:55 PM
Narr said...: Pewter-grey and orangey brown--who would think they could look so good together?

Speaking of getting old, I had to show ID today and the clerk pointed out that my drivers license was expired. Sure enough I've been driving around for about five weeks in blithe ignorance of jeopardy. If asked about renewal, I would have thought it centered on my birthday, but that's weeks away.

I suppose I could have missed something mailed to me about renewal.

I've forgotten my wallet with the DL a couple of times in the last year too--something I used never to do, speaking of getting old.; 4/25/26, 7:14 PM
Big Mike said...: If red sky in the morning means sailor take warning, what does a yellow sky mean?; 4/25/26, 7:19 PM
Dave Begley said...: Free Speech question for the Althouse community: Should I lose my license to practice law because I criticized the Knox County Sheriff based upon publicly available information and the fact that I had the written consent of the Knox County Board?

If you comment, bear in mind that the former Knox County Attorney who wrote the grievance against me (but he had the Sheriff sign and file it) is now a reader of the Althouse blog.

I used to think Free Speech was protected in America, but now I’m not so sure.; 4/25/26, 7:23 PM
Eva Marie said...: “If asked about renewal, I would have thought it centered on my birthday, but that's weeks away.”
I bet you got a Real ID. It renews X years on the date you got it rather than X years on your birthday - at least in AZ; 4/25/26, 7:27 PM
Eva Marie said...: X years after on the date it was issued rather than on your birthday - if that makes more sense.; 4/25/26, 7:33 PM
Peachy said...: Thanks Iman.; 4/25/26, 7:41 PM
Ann Althouse said...: There’s some kind of incident going on at the White House correspondents’ dinner. Everyone had to leave the podium. Lots of security. I wonder if it will go forward at all; 4/25/26, 7:42 PM
Peachy said...: Also called - Trump / Netanyahu media distortion.; 4/25/26, 7:44 PM
Iman said...: Since when are county sheriffs protected from criticism? That’s not the way it is where I live… in Calunicornia.

And our public officials are as corrupt and hyper-progressive as any you will find anywhere in these United States of America 🇺🇸.

A pathetic response to criticism from people who should know better.; 4/25/26, 7:50 PM
Dave Begley said...: I imagine some Leftist doesn’t want the President to exercise his Free Speech rights.

I’m personally familiar with that issue. Conservatives don’t have First Amendment rights.; 4/25/26, 7:50 PM
Dave Begley said...: Iman:

Use a paywall remover and read the stories in the Omaha World -Herald, Yankton News or the Norfolk Daily News. Or look at the Knox County News on FB with my comments.; 4/25/26, 7:52 PM
Mr. T. said...: 19 year old from Loudoun Co. (of course, ::eyeroll)

https://wjla.com/news/local/substitute-teacher-hayden-dollery-making-online-threats-northern-virginia-john-champe-high-school-safe2talk-app-loudoun-county-sheriffs-office-investigation-crime

KKKak/Richsockpuppet/FACEActviolationexcursion(TM)/paidActbluetrollaccount:

Is there anyone on your side that ISNT a violent/pedophile/rapist nazi /transurrectionist/ islamist/murder /cultist?

Is this another of your "new generation of leadeship???"
Why have you STILL said noting about rapist Eric Swalwell???
Why did you and your bosses lie and cover him up for 10 years?
Whatever happened to "no one is above me the law???"
Whatever happened to "let the chips fall where they may???"

Hello KKKak? Helllo? Anyone home? Are you busy on an Excursion (TM) to incite a storming of a MN church again?; 4/25/26, 7:55 PM
Peachy said...: Drudge is saying Trump is dead all while he sucks Kristol's penis.
CSPAN - not so much. 4 loud noises - and precautions.; 4/25/26, 7:55 PM
Dave Begley said...: Reports of shots fired! OMG.; 4/25/26, 7:55 PM
Peachy said...: it will all be OK.; 4/25/26, 8:00 PM
Dave Begley said...: Trump will still speak!

Fight, fight, fight!; 4/25/26, 8:01 PM
Peachy said...: Dave - Not knowing the criticism or the context - it's hard to say.
But a critical comment is free speech. Period. Sounds like your law enf. guy might have a ship on his shoulder? or perhaps he's a democrat. If he is a democrat - watch out - dems have collectively lost their minds. They assume they are kings.; 4/25/26, 8:03 PM
narciso said...: Drudge is sewer trash (formerly Drudge); 4/25/26, 8:06 PM
narciso said...: Drudge is sewer trash (formerly Drudge); 4/25/26, 8:06 PM
Big Mike said...: Pulled off the Internet just now:

Trump and White House VIPs evacuated after gunman opens fire at White House Correspondents Dinner and is killed on the scene

I have no more information than that at this time. I don’t even know whether Donald Trump was for sure the target.; 4/25/26, 8:07 PM
FullMoon said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 4/25/26, 8:10 PM
Christopher B said...: Eva Marie, I think the expiration definition can vary by state. In Kentucky your license expires 31 days after your birthday whether it is a standard DL or a REAL id.; 4/25/26, 8:11 PM
Narr said...: Eva Marie, that may be the case, thanks. I'll check the state wwwebsite of course. Eventually. If I remember.; 4/25/26, 8:11 PM
Aggie said...: Only dead person is the shooter, so far. Speaker Johnson, Vance, Trump evacuated. But they're preparing to resume the event, apparently with the VIPs present. But the gunfire was apparently heard in the hall.; 4/25/26, 8:13 PM
Big Mike said...: I found this update;

A shooter has been confirmed as dead, and the president was not injured.

How in the Bleeding Hell did someone smuggle a gun into an event filled with top administration officials? I guess we won’t know for a while, but it is another black eye for thec secret Service.; 4/25/26, 8:14 PM
Iman said...: There is coverage on the tube.; 4/25/26, 8:17 PM
Iman said...: In the ballroom.; 4/25/26, 8:17 PM
narciso said...: Got to the outer hallway, and shot at the secret service agent; 4/25/26, 8:20 PM
narciso said...: Got to the outer hallway, and shot at the secret service agent; 4/25/26, 8:20 PM
Iman said...: Agent shot the assailant outside the ballroom.; 4/25/26, 8:20 PM
steve uhr said...: I can’t imagine the secret service will let Trump return. Everyone should just go home.food at these events always suck.; 4/25/26, 8:20 PM
narciso said...: Your psycho friends got off the leash steve; 4/25/26, 8:22 PM
narciso said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 4/25/26, 8:22 PM
Iman said...: Just 2 or 3 weeks ago, Bongino was saying the Secret Service is not capable of providing adequate protection, that Trump was being actively hunted.; 4/25/26, 8:31 PM
Eva Marie said...: The reporters are all shaken up - and it’s perfectly understandable. But maybe now they’ll take into account how courageous our President was to get up, shout Fight! Fight! Fight! and continue campaigning afterwards.; 4/25/26, 8:35 PM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: Who could have imagined the reporters at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner would have wound up cringing on their knees on the ground.; 4/25/26, 8:36 PM
narciso said...: UPDATED: Shots Fired at Correspondents Dinner, Shooter Neutralized, Trump Evacuated – PJ Media https://share.google/YB0lOezDKh5fBef1g; 4/25/26, 8:36 PM
narciso said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 4/25/26, 8:36 PM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: I enjoyed Jake Tapper making clear in taking to CNN that he was speaking as “a witness, not a journalist”. As though journalists can’t talk about what they saw with their own eyes in their professional capacity. The problem with US journalism in a nutshell.; 4/25/26, 8:39 PM
Peachy said...: kak-a-bot(D) - your party is the party of assassination.; 4/25/26, 8:39 PM
Peachy said...: AGAIN - the democratic party is the assassination party.; 4/25/26, 8:40 PM
narciso said...: Try to be less of a ghoul otto; 4/25/26, 8:41 PM
Big Mike said...: From Katie Pavlich on X by way of Instapundit:

Katie Pavlich
@KatiePavlich

WHAT JUST HAPPENED AT WHCD;

Trump was introduced with First Lady 15 mins ish ago

Five or so mins after he was seated shots range out: POP POP POP POP. Sounds like five to me where I’m sitting.

Everyone immediately hit the floor.

Secret Service immediately took POTUS out and a search of the room began.

There are thousands of people here.

No, she does not explain why she wrote “POP” only four times but thought she heard five shots total.; 4/25/26, 8:41 PM
mccullough said...: Trump is hard to kill; 4/25/26, 8:43 PM
paminwi said...: I need video of these liberal media assholes cowering on the floor!; 4/25/26, 8:44 PM
Original Mike said...: Journalists patting themselves on the back for being so courageous.; 4/25/26, 8:44 PM
Lucien said...: Anyone caught writing that shots “rang out” deserves . . . You know the thing.; 4/25/26, 8:44 PM
Original Mike said...: They're going to keep doing this until they succeed.; 4/25/26, 8:46 PM
Iman said...: Some have said it 2 people, tried to bust through security, one shot dead, the other in custody.; 4/25/26, 8:47 PM
narciso said...: Cut their hands off; 4/25/26, 8:47 PM
Iman said...: it was; 4/25/26, 8:47 PM
Peachy said...: watched C-span - the media were sort of cowering on the floor. most looked confused and/or mildly nonplussed; 4/25/26, 8:49 PM
steve uhr said...: Dave - Probably depends on what you said. If you made threats then yes perhaps you should use your license. But not if you were just being your normal jerk. What did you say?; 4/25/26, 8:50 PM
Lucien said...: My mistake — Pavlitch wrote that shots “range out”. Oh! that’s different, never mind.; 4/25/26, 8:52 PM
narciso said...: Youre a jackass steve, dave is nothing but candid without makice; 4/25/26, 8:53 PM
Original Mike said...: CNN turned to Andrew McCabe for comment. I couldn't watch. I wanted to puke.; 4/25/26, 8:53 PM
Iman said...: “Use your license”, Dave. Sheesh… Happy Hour for Steve.; 4/25/26, 8:53 PM
Ann Althouse said...: They need to finish the White House ballroom and hold the event there where it will be secure and not trapped in some dingy basement ballroom.; 4/25/26, 8:54 PM
Peachy said...: Ann Althouse said @8:54! #yes!; 4/25/26, 8:55 PM
MadTownGuy said...: Trump uninjured after security incident at White House correspondents dinner; no injuries reported (AP News)

President Donald Trump was uninjured and other top leaders of the United States were evacuated from an annual dinner of White House correspondents on Saturday night after an unspecified threat. There did not immediately appear to be any injuries, and one law-enforcement official said a shooter had opened fire.

Authorities said the incident occurred outside the ballroom where Trump and other guests were seated. It was not immediately clear what happened.

...

Officer shot in bullet-resistant vest at correspondents’ dinner but is expected to be OK, law enforcement official says; 4/25/26, 8:55 PM
Tina Trent said...: Trump is about to hold a press conference and will reschedule the event within a month.; 4/25/26, 8:56 PM
Aggie said...: Trump apparently convening a press conference at the WH in about 15. Correspondent's dinner to be rescheduled a month out.; 4/25/26, 8:57 PM
Iman said...: Trey Yingst (Fox News) is probably happy he’s out of war torn Tel Aviv and back in war torn Washington D.C.; 4/25/26, 8:58 PM
Jimmy said...: the trolling scum on this blog must be happy. What happened tonight at the White House is a natural progression of the hate, racism, and bigotry the leftists push, 24/7 for 10 years.
This is the society they want to create, and have created in Calif, Mn, NY etc. And not one of them can defend the policies they promote. NOT ONE
It is always 6th grade insults, and talking points given to them by their masters. disgusting scum, all of you who promote death and destruction fueled by hate. fuck you
The SS is doing a wonderful job, for a DEI, feminist infused institution. that's sarcasm for the leftists.; 4/25/26, 8:59 PM
narciso said...: Scorpions must behave according to their nature; 4/25/26, 9:01 PM
Gerda Sprinchorn said...: TDS version: "Trump secret police gun down protester at Trump event. Witnesses say the protestor was not an imminent threat to the police."; 4/25/26, 9:04 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Shots fired at Correspondents Dinner. Trump rushed out. Video; 4/25/26, 9:05 PM
Gerda Sprinchorn said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 4/25/26, 9:09 PM
Dave Begley said...: Shooter is alive. IRGC? Russia? Democrat?; 4/25/26, 9:09 PM
narciso said...: Cole thomas allen (according to some sources) a teacher; 4/25/26, 9:10 PM
Peachy said...: Leftist loons are already sure it was all staged. Are we surprised?; 4/25/26, 9:10 PM
Dave Begley said...: Ann:

But a federal judge won’t allow that. Reasons.; 4/25/26, 9:11 PM
Dave Begley said...: Cole Thomas Allen is probably a Dem and a union member. Place your bets on Kalshi!; 4/25/26, 9:12 PM
Gospace said...: Also- but I've not seen confirmed elsewhere:

Laura Loomer
@LauraLoomer
Protestor who attempted to ram President Trump’s vehicle motorcade while the shooting took place tonight at WHCD was wearing a Keffiyeh.

If this was a Muslim inspired shooting by a Palestinian or Iranian, people must be made to pay severely.

Related or unrelated to the shooting? Makes a difference. In many ways.; 4/25/26, 9:13 PM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: Now that the gunman has been apprehended, I'm going to put my first amendment pocket square back in.; 4/25/26, 9:14 PM
narciso said...: Yeah dateline and the nba have priority; 4/25/26, 9:14 PM
James K said...: No security screen to get into the hotel only to get into the dinner. So someone could have walked into the hotel with a bomb.; 4/25/26, 9:16 PM
Christopher B said...: Tangentially related to the topic at hand, Bill Glahn at Powerline points out the Democrat-lead DHS shutdown over ICE/CBP (according to them) actually impacts on other DHS sub-agencies such as the Coast Guard and Secret Service since ICE/CBP were funded under other appropriations bills.; 4/25/26, 9:17 PM
narciso said...: Thats ridiculous; 4/25/26, 9:17 PM
john mosby said...: Fucking Carol Leonnig is on MSCOW in her ball gown, telling Stephanie Ruhle in her ball gown all the problems she saw in the security arrangements. GFY. CC, JSM; 4/25/26, 9:17 PM
john mosby said...: Sean Hannity was attending as a guest, at Markwayne Mullen's table. He phoned in to Fox and said Erica Kirk was evacuated in tears. CC, JSM; 4/25/26, 9:19 PM
Iman said...: Caught near the magnetometers, which were inside the building; 4/25/26, 9:20 PM
boatbuilder said...: I think it is fair to say that even conservative "correspondents" (the few, the proud) as well as liberal may be excused for "cowering" when confined, unarmed, in a venue where shots are being fired and the most controversial person on the planet is on the dais. They may be "correspondents" but they are not complete idiots.; 4/25/26, 9:20 PM
john mosby said...: Look on the bright side: maybe we'll find out this prick came there to kill reporters. CC, JSM; 4/25/26, 9:20 PM
narciso said...: Very pythonesque mosby; 4/25/26, 9:23 PM
Iman said...: Careful, TinyEE® at 9:14pm… you used your hanky to extract your butt plug an hour ago.; 4/25/26, 9:24 PM
john mosby said...: what python reference? CC, JSM; 4/25/26, 9:26 PM
Iman said...: Good one, Mr. Mosby! 😆; 4/25/26, 9:26 PM
Eva Marie said...: Dave Begley, best of luck with your legal issues.; 4/25/26, 9:26 PM
narciso said...: From life of brian; 4/25/26, 9:27 PM
gilbar said...: so, the democrats and the media both conspired to attempt to assassinate The President, AGAIN tonight.
I'm NOT Sure what else we would expect from them.; 4/25/26, 9:28 PM
narciso said...: Nbc finally chimed in (thanks for nothing); 4/25/26, 9:29 PM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: Every few months, Americans are asked to resume their banquet and pretend a shooting didn't just happen. Well, in fairness, that's what we ask of school kids.; 4/25/26, 9:30 PM
narciso said...: Another one of the ring wraiths you have reared; 4/25/26, 9:35 PM
john mosby said...: Trump is doing a presser at the WH. Within one minute of starting, he made the argument for the new East Wing ballroom. CC, JSM; 4/25/26, 9:36 PM
john mosby said...: The WH Press Room is filled with newsies in black tie and ball gowns. And you know half of them were drunk off their asses when this thing happened. Might have sobered them up a bit. CC, JSM; 4/25/26, 9:38 PM
narciso said...: Always be closing; 4/25/26, 9:38 PM
narciso said...: When are they sober; 4/25/26, 9:39 PM
john mosby said...: Trump was also gracious enough to say a couple of times that this was an attack on free speech. CC, JSM; 4/25/26, 9:40 PM
john mosby said...: Karoline Leavitt is hugely pregnant. She held her last prenatal WH briefing yesterday, but she went to tonight's event. Her thinking must be very concentrated right now. CC, JSM; 4/25/26, 9:43 PM
Mr. T. said...: KKak/Richsockpuppet/ FACEActviolation/paidActbluetrollaccount said,

"Now that the gunman has been apprehended, I'm going to put my first amendment pocket square back in."

KKKaK can't ou people can't go a single 24 hour period without trying to shoot, stab, run over, rape, molest the rest of us even ONCE?; 4/25/26, 9:45 PM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: Have the RNC fundraising emails gone out yet? I filled up my tank. $112. Not sure how generous MAGA feels.; 4/25/26, 9:50 PM
Jamie said...: Over on X, the "it was staged!!" people are already hard at work.; 4/25/26, 9:50 PM
Jamie said...: Over on X, the "it was staged!!" people are already hard at work.; 4/25/26, 9:50 PM
john mosby said...: Trump is joking around with the head of the Correspondents Association. He said he had a hell of a speech ready, but now it's probably inappropriate. When they redo the dinner in 30 days, his new speech will be boring. He did kind of a head-tilt-shake-smile thing that reminded me of Reagan. Just trying to make common cause with this gal. Charming AF, less than an hour after someone tried to kill him.

The left and the RINOs missed out on what could have been 8 years of constructive dealmaking. And it's not even going to be worth it for them, because he is dismantling all the systems they live off. CC, JSM; 4/25/26, 9:51 PM
Disparity of Cult said...: "It took only about half a minute
On the stairway
It was child's play"

- Tina Turner "Steel Claw"; 4/25/26, 9:54 PM
john mosby said...: On Truth Social, Trump posted a pic of the shooter proned out and cuffed, with his shirt off. Also there's video, I guess from the hotel security cams. USSS people are standing around (because all the reporters are already in the event), and then the shooter comes running through. Action is faster than reaction. CC, JSM; 4/25/26, 9:56 PM
john mosby said...: Trump said 8% of Presidents have been shot at. "I had no idea this was such a dangerous profession!" Classic. CC, JSM; 4/25/26, 9:57 PM
Eva Marie said...: The suspect in the White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting has been identified as 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen from Torrance, California.
He graduated from Cal Tech with an engineering degree in 2017 and earned a master's in computer science in 2025.; 4/25/26, 10:09 PM
Eva Marie said...: High school teacher; 4/25/26, 10:13 PM
john mosby said...: Law enforcement presser going on now. The boss of the FBI Washington Field Office is in a tux. That's weird. Why TF was he attending the event? The USSS director is in a golf sweater, as he properly was not attending. Similar with the DC Mayor. CC, JSM; 4/25/26, 10:14 PM
john mosby said...: Judge Pirro was attending, because she was a newsie until last year - nice dress. She made a nice remark about how all the newsies in the ballroom got down when the shots were fired, and all the LE officers in the room stood up. CC, JSM; 4/25/26, 10:16 PM
Disparity of Cult said...: Image search of Cole Tomas Allen - he has the crazy eyes.; 4/25/26, 10:22 PM
Mr. T. said...: Judging by the pictures posted of the shooter, we can be assured by CNN and the WashPost that he is a "white" supremacist...

3...2..1...; 4/25/26, 10:34 PM
john mosby said...: Fox's Jacqui Heinrich, who is going to be the next president of the Correspondents Association, just said "I never expected to be crawling in a ball gown tonight."

Speak for yourself, honey....CC, JSM; 4/25/26, 10:34 PM
doctrev said...: Mr. T. said...
Judging by the pictures posted of the shooter, we can be assured by CNN and the WashPost that he is a "white" supremacist...

3...2..1...

4/25/26, 10:34 PM

That means less than it once did. Perhaps the SPLC contracted him.; 4/25/26, 10:38 PM
john mosby said...: Excellent trigger discipline on the part of the USSS, by the way. About a dozen mofos cleared leather on the dude, but no one shot, because they would have had to shoot toward the ballroom and the president. CC, JSM; 4/25/26, 10:40 PM
Disparity of Cult said...: SPLC - Smollett Ploy Learing Center; 4/25/26, 10:44 PM
Original Mike said...: "Excellent trigger discipline on the part of the USSS, by the way. About a dozen mofos cleared leather on the dude, but no one shot, because they would have had to shoot toward the ballroom and the president."

There were (reportedly) 4 shots. Who was shooting and what was he shooting at?; 4/25/26, 10:48 PM
Dr Weevil said...: Mr. T and doctrev: Are you saying the shooter's "white" seriously, or ironically? Because his teacher portrait makes it clear that he he's not so much "black" - he's quite pale - as mixed-race, with features typical of someone with one-quarter or one-eighth African ancestry. Not in fact a stereotypical white man.; 4/25/26, 10:53 PM
Original Mike said...: "Most of the people in that Washington Hilton ballroom tonight are morally responsible for what just happened."

"For over 10 years they’ve pushed the most hateful, vile conspiracies: Trump is a threat to democracy, a dictator, literally Hitler 2.0."

It was hard watching the shit stains on CNN cover this. Among everything else, there was a lot of 'poor us'.; 4/25/26, 11:00 PM
Jupiter said...: "Free Speech question for the Althouse community: Should I lose my license to practice law because I criticized the Knox County Sheriff based upon publicly available information and the fact that I had the written consent of the Knox County Board?"
Umm ... No. You shouldn't.
But I suspect there is something else involved.; 4/25/26, 11:04 PM
Iman said...: That liver-lipped, crazy sonuva bitch corksoaker Murphy (D-Connman) had better clean up his act; 4/25/26, 11:06 PM
Iman said...: Among many others.; 4/25/26, 11:07 PM
Iman said...: That wannabe killer is so fast, he oughta be playing in the NFL, not shooting presidents. The dumb ass.; 4/25/26, 11:09 PM
Achilles said...: Iman said...

That liver-lipped, crazy sonuva bitch corksoaker Murphy (D-Connman) had better clean up his act

Why?

Democrats have proven over and over that they are violent evil murderous pieces of shit and nothing ever happens to them.; 4/25/26, 11:10 PM
Iman said...: That last one was a joke, Eva Marie. 😬; 4/25/26, 11:10 PM
Mason G said...: "Democrats have proven over and over that they are violent evil murderous pieces of shit and nothing ever happens to them."

You left out their fondness for engaging in fraud. And nothing ever happens to them for that, either.; 4/25/26, 11:14 PM
Jim at said...: And the left's response to this has been entirely predictable. He deserved it and/or it was staged.; 4/25/26, 11:14 PM
Iman said...: I am hoping, Achilles, that at least a few of the Democrats - the few who have an admittedly tenuous hold on reality - use this as an opportunity to tone down the hateful vitriol, insane, inexcusable behavior and show some leadership, loyalty to and affection for America.

I have a dream…; 4/25/26, 11:19 PM
Achilles said...: Democrats were caught red handed not just lying about what Trump said about Charlottesville, but also about paying both sides to be there.

The democrats bought the tiki torches and they paid for all of the failing neo-nazi groups.

All so they could justify killing Trump and persecuting us. Ann wont talk about any of that.

But Democrats have nothing to fear from any of you people.

It is sad to watch people get outraged at this and clutch their pearls. There is no common ground with anyone who still supports the Democrat part.; 4/25/26, 11:21 PM
Left Bank of the Charles said...: “They need to finish the White House ballroom and hold the event there where it will be secure and not trapped in some dingy basement ballroom.”

If security is the paramount concern, the White House ballroom should be built somewhere other than the White House.; 4/25/26, 11:38 PM
Eva Marie said...: Heather Heyer’s family should be fielding legal teams to sue the SPLC right now. She died when James Alex Fields Jr. drove his car into the crowd of demonstrators at the Charlottesville march in 2017. The dozen people who were injured as well should be suing SPLC also.; 4/25/26, 11:38 PM
Eva Marie said...: “If security is the paramount concern, the White House ballroom should be built somewhere other than the White House.”
Is that a joke?; 4/25/26, 11:39 PM
Rt41Rebel said...: “Trump is doing a presser at the WH. Within one minute of starting, he made the argument for the new East Wing ballroom. CC, JSM”

I knew he would do that. That’s what I voted for, a dude who will use an attempt on his life to sell his vision.; 4/25/26, 11:40 PM
Original Mike said...: "If security is the paramount concern, the White House ballroom should be built somewhere other than the White House."

You want to explain that?; 4/25/26, 11:47 PM
Eva Marie said...: “I knew he would do that. That’s what I voted for, a dude who will use an attempt on his life to sell his vision.“
A dude who never lets anything get in his way. A dude who is goal oriented no matter what the circumstances are - even when his own life is in danger.; 4/25/26, 11:49 PM
Jim at said...: If security is the paramount concern, the White House ballroom should be built somewhere other than the White House.

You got a place in mind more secure than the White House?

Do share.; 4/25/26, 11:52 PM
Original Mike said...: "Do share."

He can't, because there was no thought behind it other than anti-Trump animus.; 4/26/26, 12:08 AM
Original Mike said...: There's Cheyenne Mountain, I guess.; 4/26/26, 12:36 AM
Tina Trent said...: Forgetting politics, you had to feel for RFK Jr. He had been sitting in a place where it looked a bit harder to get him out fast. The agents had to practically carry him over at least one table.

He looked decades older and lost in far too many pasts.; 4/26/26, 1:20 AM
Dave Begley said...: If the plaintiff group in the WH ballroom case was composed of halfway decent people, they’d dismiss the case today. But that won’t happen because…… Trump.

The shooter’s neighbor said the guy “is on the spectrum.” The defense begins.

And more likely than not, the shooter drove through Nebraska on his way to DC.; 4/26/26, 1:21 AM
gadfly said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 4/26/26, 1:44 AM
gadfly said...: Not funny, Honey!

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/karoline-leavitt-goes-viral-saying-040223439.html; 4/26/26, 1:50 AM
RCOCEAN II said...: "She died when James Alex Fields Jr. drove his car into the crowd of demonstrators at the Charlottesville march in 2017. The dozen people who were injured as well should be suing SPLC also."

I'm all for anyone suing the SPLC. Fields was sentenced to life for panicking and hitting someone while trying to flee a bunch of antifa attacking him in his car. He should have gone to jail but it vehical manslaughter not 1st degree murder. He got life in jail because of his politics.

As for Heyer, she was antifa and showed up to "Punch Nazis" . Like the crazy lesbian who took on ICE in Minneapolis things didn't turn out as she expected. When you decide to incite violence you're not always safe.; 4/26/26, 1:50 AM
RCOCEAN II said...: The wouldbee assassian is black and 10-1 he's Gay. Another weirdo loner and a school teacher. Wow, shocking. How he was allowed to bring guns, knives etc into the hotel and assemble them in his hotel room is anyone's guess.

There seems to be endless supply of weirdo violent Leftists with nothing to do with their lives except try to kill people they don't like. The Left seems to give them a place to feel wanted and special. They used to have a phrase "He found a home in the Army" for losers who joined an organization that gave their lives meaning. I guess that's what the liberal/left does.; 4/26/26, 1:55 AM
RCOCEAN II said...: For the past ten years, I've been waiting for some pyscho leftists politican or journalist to use their special status to take a shot at Trump. Thankfully, it hasn't happened.; 4/26/26, 1:57 AM
Eva Marie said...: Something I did not know but found out tonight: if you have a business you have to make your website ADA compliant (“actively implementing improvements to achieve full compliance for blind and low-vision users”); 4/26/26, 2:00 AM
Eva Marie said...: Gadfly, that’s low even for you.; 4/26/26, 2:06 AM
RCOCEAN II said...: It'd be a lot better for all of us, if instead of capturing these assassians the SS would simply shoot them. maybe we'd have fewer assassians if they knew they'd be paying with their lives.; 4/26/26, 2:14 AM
gadfly said...: Cole Tomas (T.) Allen, the 31-year-old of Torrance, California, is registered as No Party Preference (NPP) in Los Angeles County. Somehow that appears a to be appropriate.; 4/26/26, 2:16 AM
wendybar said...: Blake Neff
@BlakeSNeff
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4h
The left will simultaneously stand outside an event with signs promoting political murder, hysterically scream about impending fascism, do podcast interviews explaining why political murder is justified, and explain why assassination victims had it coming, then also confidently declare that when one of their own takes them literally and attempts an assassination, that it must be staged.

https://x.com/BlakeSNeff/status/2048251591040565656?s=20; 4/26/26, 3:38 AM
Jim at said...: The wouldbee assassian is black and 10-1 he's Gay. Another weirdo loner and a school teacher. - RCO

You left out Jew.; 4/26/26, 4:33 AM
Clyde said...: I saw the video of him sprinting past security and I thought, "Man, I thought O.J. was dead!"; 4/26/26, 4:36 AM
Clyde said...: Also, I'm guessing that maybe this is some more of that SPLC funding at work.; 4/26/26, 4:36 AM
Clyde said...: Maybe the "Teacher of the Year" can share a cell with the golf course weirdo.; 4/26/26, 4:40 AM
Mark said...: wendybar, if you cared about violent rhetoric you would call out Achilles when he speaks the same thing here.; 4/26/26, 5:06 AM
Breezy said...: “The shooter’s neighbor said the guy “is on the spectrum.” The defense begins.“

Thinking you can rush past a USSS post and get to your quarry is clearly not a Mensa level strategy.; 4/26/26, 5:06 AM
Breezy said...: I’m glad everyone’s fine, no one seriously injured. There is one overlooked casualty, though. Trump’s roasting speech of the media apparently will be relegated to an archive somewhere. That is sad.; 4/26/26, 5:15 AM
Christopher B said...: A bit pedantic but, per Steve Sailer, Cole Tomas Allen is (was?) employed by a test prep and tutoring company so saying he's a teacher is using a pretty loose definition of the term. He also noted that such an employment trajectory as bit downwardly mobile for a CalTech computer science grad.; 4/26/26, 5:42 AM
Eva Marie said...: “wendybar, if you cared about violent rhetoric you would call out Achilles when he speaks the same thing here.“
Nonsense. Calling people names isn’t violent rhetoric.; 4/26/26, 5:46 AM
john mosby said...: Begley, does the NE Bar have some rule about not impugning the character of other bar members? Is that what they're trying to do you for?

The new DA in SF has been done for that. She obviously survived it professionally.

Reminds me of the rule in the House of Commons that you can't call another MP a liar. Two Reform Party members have been kicked out of the chamber for calling Starmer a liar. The Tory leader danced very close by saying "I'm not going to call the Prime Minister a liar...." CC, JSM; 4/26/26, 5:56 AM
Eva Marie said...: Really the nerve. People on the left are breaking laws, threatening ICE agents, keying Teslas, ripping people’s MAGA hats off their heads - criticize your lefties. But I’ll tell you why you don’t - you’re as afraid if them as everyone else.; 4/26/26, 5:57 AM
Eva Marie said...: Let’s not forget disrupting church proceedings, murdering peaceful leaders on the right, attacking synagogues.; 4/26/26, 6:01 AM
Eva Marie said...: People were afraid to put Menorahs in their windows, wear Trump shirts, - and you lefties said nothing. Fix your Democrat Party.; 4/26/26, 6:27 AM
Eva Marie said...: Maxine Waters: 2018: “If you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them, and you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.”; 4/26/26, 6:31 AM
Eva Marie said...: Eric Holder: 2018: “Michelle [Obama] always says, ‘When they go low, we go high.’ No. When they go low, we kick them.”; 4/26/26, 6:32 AM
Eva Marie said...: Hakeem Jeffries: Recent statements urging Democrats to “fight [Trump agenda] legislatively… in the courts… and in the streets.”; 4/26/26, 6:33 AM
wendybar said...: Mark said...
wendybar, if you cared about violent rhetoric you would call out Achilles when he speaks the same thing here.

4/26/26, 5:06 AM

But you see Marky....Achilles wasn't standing outside where an assassination attempt just happened, with a sign spewing Progressive hate chant "DEATH TO ALL OF THEM" like one of YOU people did last night...

https://x.com/ClayTravis/status/2048219138410111211?s=20; 4/26/26, 6:47 AM
Rustygrommet said...: Eva Marie said...
“If security is the paramount concern, the White House ballroom should be built somewhere other than the White House.”
"Is that a joke?"

He didn't think it through, did he. Typical.; 4/26/26, 7:04 AM
Bruce Hayden said...: “How in the Bleeding Hell did someone smuggle a gun into an event filled with top administration officials? I guess we won’t know for a while, but it is another black eye for thec secret Service.”

The alleged shooter was apparently a guest of the hotel. And apparently, the ballroom there is hard to secure from hotel guests, according to Josh Blackman at Volokh.

A week ago, we had the Big Guy spend the night at his namesake hotel in Las Vegas. And the SS was out in force, along with the LVMPD. And, yes, I have had a gun (or two) in the same building that the President is in, including an AR-!5 (short barreled) pistol. And know someone who had a couple of legal machine guns there, and knew how to use them. Though hotel guests aren’t supposed to be armed, there might be hundreds of firearms in the hotel, at the annual SHOT show (Jr was a regular there).

Non-employees, who weren’t staying there, were banned from the premises while the BG was there. Hotel security was working extra shifts for just this reason - identifying hotel guests and employees.; 4/26/26, 8:50 AM
Mark said...: wendybar, that could be Achilles wishing death on all the journalists as he has done on this blog in the past.; 4/26/26, 9:11 AM
Tina Trent said...: The guy was a hotel guest. The gun-check security perimeter was diminished significantly for what may be the first time right to the entrance to the 'crappy banquet hall,' a very accurate description. Still, they excelled.

Every other First-World country and even well-enough-off third-world hellholes have better protected leadership residences with size-appropriate facilities for hosting such events. The White House has not been size and protection adequate for more than half a century.; 4/26/26, 9:16 AM
Tina Trent said...: Buckham Palace: 15 times larger than the White House. France, Spain, Vatican City ... The list goes on, no matter how hard AI tries to conceal it.; 4/26/26, 9:23 AM
Eva Marie said...: Mark said...
wendybar, that could be Achilles wishing death on all the journalists as he has done on this blog in the past.

Trump could be Hitler. But he isn’t. And Achilles wasn’t wishing death to journalists.
Start living in the real world instead of the world of your imagination.; 4/26/26, 9:49 AM
Eva Marie said...: Mark, I always know when someone on the right has been violently attacked because lefties come out of the woodwork asking for apologies from conservatives about sone perceived past slight. You folks are such predictable jerks.; 4/26/26, 9:59 AM
narciso said...: Like steven scalise; 4/26/26, 9:59 AM
Peachy said...: Trump is paying for the ballroom and the corrupt evil vile shit left and their corrupt judges have tantrums.; 4/26/26, 10:00 AM
john mosby said...: True that we need the big EW ballroom.

But also true that as a republic, we have a tradition of presidents going out to events to participate in that res publica. You have your annual Widget Salesmen Convention and you decide one year to invite the President, and then surprise, he accepts. That's a deep American tradition. Would be a shame to let bad guys make us abandon it.

One of the chief drawbacks of protecting a temporary site like a journalists' or widget salesmen's convention is that you can't really build obstacles. The WH complex not only has lots of officers - the entrances are built with turnstiles, rotating subway-type gates, and other physical barriers. The fence has been jumped, but very few times, by rather fit people (or walked through by very tiny people). And even that has been improved.

In contrast, at a temporary site, all you really have are agents and officers acting as defensemen, helped by some ropelines or temporary curtains to suggest which way people are supposed to go. Every so often they will zig instead of zag and a bad guy will get through.

Now just like we improved onstage security by bringing glass to every outdoor or even just big indoor site, you could improve the security of entrances by bringing stuff like those 8-foot climb-resistant mesh fence sections, or water-fillable plastic barriers, or maybe even portable turnstiles, to every site. But that will increase cost and prep time. And make your events look like bunkers. And it still won't be foolproof: 2 or 3 bad guys could do the "give me a boost" thing to get one over the fence, for example. Your average DC teenager can vault the turnstile. Etc.

The idea you can make something 100% safe is an idea of the left. It is a fond thing, and vain. CC, JSM; 4/26/26, 10:13 AM
DINKY DAU 45 said...: Even though it’s called the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, the event is not a government function. It’s a private fundraiser for journalism scholarships and awards, organized by the WHCA — a nonprofit group of reporters who cover the White House.
Because it’s a private event with hundreds of journalists, celebrities, and officials, it’s been held for decades at large venues like the Washington Hilton.
There’s no rule saying it couldn’t be held at the White House, but logistically it would be nearly impossible — too many people, too much security, and it’s not a government-sponsored event.The President an invited guest.
The President is formally invited by the WHCA each year.
The WHCA president explicitly said they were “happy the president has accepted our invitation and look forward to hosting him.” Security at this event was sorely lacking especially with final entry into the room, that will be investigated. The WHCD is not government event unless everything is changed up..To be cont.... SECURITY ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL it will come out the flaws in the coverage but always after the fact. Knuckleheads UP IN HERE TALKING ABOUT THE PERP WAS SHOT AND KILLED AND ONE ESCAPED AND THAT WAS "fake news" . Members of the ALTERNATIVE FACTS GROUP, cant wait to blab misinformation and be the first with the SCOOP! LAME; 4/26/26, 10:44 AM