I was wondering why at the WHCD the secret service fired five shots at the suspect and missed. And today on Youtube I got the answer. All five shots were fired by the SS Agent who was shot by the suspect, as Cole Allen raced through the checkpoint he fired his shotgun at the agent, hitting him. And at almost the same time this same SS agent let loose with five shots.
Allen then ran into something and went to the floor. And was subdued. So now it all makes sense.
The whole thing could have been avoided if the SS had blocked off the long hallway that allowed Allen to run and pick up speed before he got to the checkpoint.
A few weeks ago I was on a train from Vancouver to Toronto, getting gestalt overload from the Canadian landscape. One of my fellow travelers was a guy from Manchester, UK, accent and all, who looked like a biker in a B-movie. He was snapping some of the most wonderful photos with his phone. It turns out he was a professional photographer in a past life. I asked if there was anything special about his phone, or whether it was just that he was so good at it. I could ask Althouse the same.
Wow. Somehow I forgot about the record high prices in Bidens era. Def do remember the super high increase in groceries, and not talking about the egg crisis. People with a bag full of normal stuff double checking their receipts. Despite all the talk of prices going up on everything, only thing around here is gas. Food is stable, Home Depot stable. Amazon has a "price history" feature on a lot of stuff which shows tariff influence negligible. No commenter here need worry about price of gas, but it hits millions of others hard.
"Following Friday’s price jump, the average price for regular gas in the San Francisco Bay Area sits at $6.24.
The region is quickly approaching the all-time record of $6.61, set in June 2022. "
The whole thing could have been avoided if the SS had blocked off the long hallway that allowed Allen to run and pick up speed before he got to the checkpoint.
We were stationed in England (well, my dad was, and we were there) when the Beirut Marine barracks bombing took place. Immediately, all the bases at least in the European theater moved huge concrete blocks into position in front of the gates so that all vehicles had to zigzag to approach the guard. No truck could speed through.
Speaking of Golden Trumpo My 2nd pick key horse FURTHER ADO flattened out in the stretch no excuse just not good enough. My wager play was cut in more than half as I got to windows to bet and teller says #9 THE PUMA is scratched after weeks of putting together my wagering format for the big day. I didnt even know as the scratch occurred early today and I was on road to Casino. I had to go back and rework most of my tickets with my key THE PUMA OUT. I kept in my 3 saver bests,the best speed (best horse actually) RENEGADE and best closer GOLDEN TEMPO for and $ 4 box exacta with the #19 with my 2nd pick the 18, with the 6 i thought a strong contender (didnt run well) and with the best horse #1 RENEGADE withthe curse of the #1 hole. ,with my wagers less than half of my original play until they scratched my key (approx $450 little more or less ,,GOLDEN TEMPO CLOSEST AS ALWAYS FROM MID PACK AND THE FAVORITE(MUCH THE BEST) JUST MISSES WIN BY A NECK.Payout with Golden Tempo on top $278.00 AND CHANGE X2(PLAYED THE TICKET 2X) showed a good ROI on the day. Would have paid more but all the scratches and scratch at gate of GREAT WHITE,odds dropped ,GOLDEN TEMPO was as high as 30-1. $556.00 for $220 wager covered $200.00 I left at the BANDITS downstairs before puttin gin my wager and heading back home. Next stop PREAKNESS and the Belmont and then chill till the late summer SARATOGA MEET(my favorite) Preakness being run at LAUREL instead of Pimlico and Belmont run at Saratoga instead of big sandy and a mile and a quarter becaus eo f track size has lost its luster for me this year until Belmont and Pimlico get back in the groove revamped and renewed. Betting capital still in good shape with minor wins and no major loses. Only 18 ran in Derby because of so many scratches really benefitted the favorite on the rail as less traffic to run through. Each scratch changes complexion of race but this one even with all the scratches ran pretty true to what the handicapping showed. THE triple(never would have used the 3rd horsestill a Maiden and paid off at 70-1 to key and $11,000.00 triple for $2.00 wager I could use that horse if it had a 5th leg,but thats horse racing!
We had those big concrete slabs a week and a hell ago, when Trump stayed at his hotel in Las Vegas. You would go through this tent, where you opened the trunk and hood, and the USSS agents and dogs checked out your car. Then would have to weave between the concrete slabs to get to the hotel. My partner asked why I was weaving, and I explained why we couldn’t go straight. She had eye surgery most of a week ago. It was successful, and I expect that she would recognize the issue today.
Paul White Gold Eagle @PaulGoldEagle Rather than go out gracefully to face his own demons, former Congressman and womanizing loser Eric Swalwell decided to bring several of his colleagues down with him.
Swalwell named Jamie Raskin, Hakeem Jeffries, and Adam Schiff as his "friends" who "engaged in all the same activities."
And Democrats didn't start the war in Iran, NACHO did.
Nobody's saying the Democrats started it, shithead. The Iranians started it on Nov. 4, 1979. Just because nobody's done anything about it until now doesn't change that fact.
What we are saying is you've chosen sides, and it's not the United States.
Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav · 4h Maturing is realizing that we are all sIaves to the bottom 20 percent of society, far more than we are to the top 1 percent.
🇺🇸 @FreeStateWill · 10h Tell me again why I had to fight the government in court for four years for being entirely peaceful on January 6, while antifa gets a pass for being violent demons! Quote Katie Daviscourt 📸
@KatieDaviscourt · May 2 It’s impossible for me to do my job down at the Portland ICE facility, even with security. I was violently mobbed out by Antifa, and a suspect in black bloc threw a rock at my face. https://x.com/FreeStateWill/status/2050709098753335463?s=20
William A. Jacobson @wajacobson · 15h For the 17 millionth time, academia (particularly in the humanities and social sciences) is completely broken, it has been taken over by radicals more extreme than you can imagine, it cannot be reformed internally. Quote Benny Shaevsky @brshaevsky · 17h @UMich Professor Derek Peterson shoutouts terrorist sympathizers during this morning’s commencement. Unbelievable.
Yes, barriers would greatly help prevent bum-rush attacks like at the WHCD. But you have to keep in mind that the WHCD isn't the only event the President goes to. Multiply it by all the events he goes to in a week, all over the country. Even more during campaign years (and at least double it to include opposing candidates, like he was at Butler).
That means you need a lot of barriers, ways to transport them, added prep time at each event to install and remove them, more USSS personnel to cover the barriers (since an obstacle is worthless unless someone is at least observing it). All that translates into more money.
Is the country willing to spend that money? When we no longer have to worry about decapitation of our nuclear chain of command the way we did in the Cold War? When one party won't care about protecting its own presidents, because it will just shut off its street fighters and the flow of rhetoric to them? When both parties have strong anti-police tendencies: one ACAB, one libertarian? Etc. CC, JSM
Thinking that @WallStreetMav laid down a nifty little adage, but also inclined to believe there's not much new under the sun when it comes to these sorts of things, I asked the internet "who said we are slaves to the bottom far more than we are to the top?" and the internet said it was Booker T. Washington from his 1895 "Atlanta Compromise" speech during which he said, "it is at the bottom of life we must begin, not at the top," meaning Blacks should focus on opportunities rather than grievances, so that just goes to show you the internet isn't beyond cobbling together an answer, or a shoe repair, or a street from rounded stones, or a warm, comforting dessert made by layering peaches with a sweet, flour-based topping that can resemble a biscuit, cake, or dough.
Jim @ 11:34; “ Nobody's saying the Democrats started it, shithead. The Iranians started it on Nov. 4, 1979. Just because nobody's done anything about it until now doesn't change that fact.”
Oh, so Trump’s solo war of choice, or, uh, not-war of choice, is a revenge war, or, revenge not-war because Iran stormed a U.S. embassy almost a half century ago?
Kinda makes you wonder why Americans getting hosed at the gas pump are bitching about.
Speaking of tax payers getting hosed, I’m reading that the security argument of the ballroom falls back to when Trump was taken to the bunker in 2020 when he looked around and said; “ ‘I don’t like the digs here. I anticipate being down here again. I would like it to be nicer.’”
Meh. No. We don't lie in bed thinking of other women. I was thinking about flat surfaces and the Antikathera mechanism. All reconstructions show it to be a highly accurate computing device. In order to be that accurate all the parts have to be accurate to mesh and rotate smoothly. Therefore all the components have to have parallel surfaces. Even the gear blanks. The result is that I think they used what was later Whitworths solution, a+b+c. Lapping the components against each other until uniformity was achieved. I don't play the ponies so I ponder shit like this. OK?
Absolutely fabulous clip of Nancy Pelosi speechifying in one of the most corrupt cities in California because it illustrated something I’d just read about the Left’s unique weakness to the nearly extinct journalist habit of the follow-up question. I noticed its near-extinction during Biden’s term.
Anyway, Nancy was going on about how Democrats need to fight Trump, and how noble a cause it is and that it is just like Lincoln had to fight to save the country. Yep. She said that. And I really wish I could reach through the screen to her and say, “Who was opposing Lincoln?” Because the answer really makes her whole analogy collapse. You think she is trying to further the myth that all great presidents were democrats?
Something else. My wife is convinced that the TV series, "The Boys", is about Trump and MAGA. My opinion is that it's a not so subtle dig at how the left thinks about the right. It's way too over the top to be anything else. Think Chuck Schumer written for Ethel Merman.
Only an idiot would defend the fraud uncovered by DOGE instead of praising the discovery. If you really have spending priorities but still decry the discovery of billions in fraud, billions more doled out through NGOs to fund Nazi marches and Green Deal scams, then you are stupid. For all the soak the rich taxes your side got not one bit of progress is ever made in reducing homelessness or the rate of poverty. $200B stolen by Somali pirates in MN and still after 20 years 80% rely entirely on welfare.
Rusty have you seen the truism about how any conservative can explain the left’s policies in a way that lefties can agree to but progressives know absolutely nothing of what conservative policies actually are. The best explanation IMO is that they spend so much time spinning tales about how we think (“it’s a big business plan to screw minorities!”) that they never take the time to read what our side actually says.
In this one specific way Althouse comment section reflects the wider culture on social media platforms. You see the same behavior here. Like bringing up the word cult when it was so obviously obliterated by the facts here just yesterday. But they don’t read for content.
Mike @ 7:51, it would be interesting to know where you get your numbers and why you take them at face value.
Feeding Our Future was about $300 million, not $200 billion.
Minnesota’s broader charged social-services fraud is reported in the hundreds of millions, not hundreds of billions.
If you have receipts for “$200B,” “Nazi marches,” or “80% entirely on welfare,” show them. Otherwise that’s not an argument against fraud; it’s inflation of fraud for political effect.
FoF was one of hundreds of scams. I stand by my statement. Let me know when you have added up ALL the fraud that occurred on Tampon Tim’s watch. You only named ONE that has gone to trial. And it’s not even over yet.
Google Brendan Gill and watch him question the MN officials. He cites statistics. Yes 80% of Somali immigrants in MN still rely on welfare 20 years on. Why didn’t you know that? It preceded the now famous question, “Does that make Minnesota stronger or weaker?” Your side really needs to get more and better news sources.
Mike Engleman🇺🇲 @RealHickory · 3h Remember when Joe Biden gave Ruby Freeman the Presidential Medal of Freedom for helping steal Georgia?
Sherri Unfiltered™ @FFT1776 🔥Fulton County admitted they certified hundreds of thousands of early votes in 2020 with unsigned tabulator tapes … a straight-up violation of Georgia election rules.
We’re talking serious procedural failures on over 300k ballots!
Trump lost the state by a razor-thin ~11,800 votes.
Kemp and Raffensperger have some serious explaining to do.
Time for full transparency and accountability. 5:52 AM · May 3, 2026 https://x.com/RealHickory/status/2050882388461285549?s=20
Is the Lefty playing dumb or truly unaware? Our side continually has to ask that. Is chuckrjw truly ignorant of the fact that federal funds have been traced from USAID to the Tides Foundation to SPLC to the organizer and transportation provider of the Charlottesville Nazis. The fine people hoax.
So much of progressivism is pretending not to know or understand topics making conversation impossible.
Prediction markets are obviously not infallible, but they are worth paying attention to, if only because they are an environment in which people are investing their own money, not merely spinning as is usual in the press. So these data, via Stephen Moore’s daily Unleash Prosperity Hotline should be concerning for Republicans:
According to an update by political [Republican] analyst Bruce Mehlman:
"Six months ago prediction markets gave Democrats a 58% chance of capturing the House and 27% chance of winning the Senate. Today the quoted odds are 86% (House) & 50% (Senate)."
[shrug] I thought rehajm's 6:28 was interesting. I always thought Dinky might have somewhat controlled schizophrenia (no offense, Dinky - it's not a character flaw) or the like. I know zero about racing IRL despite having read much of Dick Francis's catalog.
Yes, barriers would greatly help prevent bum-rush attacks like at the WHCD. But you have to keep in mind that the WHCD isn't the only event the President goes to. Multiply it by all the events he goes to in a week, all over the country. Even more during campaign years (and at least double it to include opposing candidates, like he was at Butler).
I am again going to point out the solution to this is not putting up barriers everywhere and having a standing army follow Trump around.
The solution here is to start executing the pieces of shit that are trying to kill him and shipping their supporters to Europe.
Achilles: "The solution here is to start executing the pieces of shit that are trying to kill him and shipping their supporters to Europe"
Assuming that really is the solution, it can't be implemented instantaneously. And once you start implementing it, you'll have a spike in attacks as they make their last stand. RLTW, JSM
A character in Updike's "Roger's Version" mused that whereas in the past it was elites who got pampered, in modern day America the pampering is of the underclass (not that he used that exact terminology).
Debbie Harry was on SNL last night, just to intro one of the musical blocks. At the end, only Asiz Ansari came up to talk to her. If I’d been on that stage, I’d have been inviting her to the broom closet! CC, JSM
Mike @ 8: 00 Yeah. I can see that. Especially when the usual suspects double down on their TDS.I just thought it was funny that my wife thinks it's about Trump and MAGA. I guess when MAGA occupies your every waking hour you tend to see it everywhere.
Even prediction markets can be manipulated. How many are currently betting and what are the total wagers to date? With those odds I'd be looking to bet on Republicans taking the house- the current most likely outcome IMHO. Just one question as someone who has never placed a bet online- or on a horse race- or sporting event- Where do I go to place such a bet?
When I lived in Saratoga twelve seconds a furlong was a snappy pace for a distance race, now it’s two or three seconds faster. Secretariat was a freak of anatomy- big huge heart.
"Six months ago prediction markets gave Democrats a 58% chance of capturing the House and 27% chance of winning the Senate. Today the quoted odds are 86% (House) & 50% (Senate)."
Yeah, but we really won't know until The Des Moines Register puts out its final poll immediately before the election.
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Thought I thought of it first but went to X only to find out “Golden Trumpo” was already trending way ahead of me.
I was wondering why at the WHCD the secret service fired five shots at the suspect and missed. And today on Youtube I got the answer. All five shots were fired by the SS Agent who was shot by the suspect, as Cole Allen raced through the checkpoint he fired his shotgun at the agent, hitting him. And at almost the same time this same SS agent let loose with five shots.
Allen then ran into something and went to the floor. And was subdued. So now it all makes sense.
The whole thing could have been avoided if the SS had blocked off the long hallway that allowed Allen to run and pick up speed before he got to the checkpoint.
A few weeks ago I was on a train from Vancouver to Toronto, getting gestalt overload from the Canadian landscape. One of my fellow travelers was a guy from Manchester, UK, accent and all, who looked like a biker in a B-movie. He was snapping some of the most wonderful photos with his phone. It turns out he was a professional photographer in a past life. I asked if there was anything special about his phone, or whether it was just that he was so good at it. I could ask Althouse the same.
A 15 foot Golden statue of Trump on the Doral golf course. Hair? Not Orange.
…in the grill room downstairs there on a pillar is an eye high photo of Trump with his signature scowl in an Uncle Sam pointing pose….
Wow. Somehow I forgot about the record high prices in Bidens era. Def do remember the super high increase in groceries, and not talking about the egg crisis. People with a bag full of normal stuff double checking their receipts. Despite all the talk of prices going up on everything, only thing around here is gas. Food is stable, Home Depot stable. Amazon has a "price history" feature on a lot of stuff which shows tariff influence negligible.
No commenter here need worry about price of gas, but it hits millions of others hard.
"Following Friday’s price jump, the average price for regular gas in the San Francisco Bay Area sits at $6.24.
The region is quickly approaching the all-time record of $6.61, set in June 2022. "
The Kentucky Derby coverage today was excellent. For some reason NBC opted to not make it a Democrat campaign event and made it an American event…
Love that top photo.
The whole thing could have been avoided if the SS had blocked off the long hallway that allowed Allen to run and pick up speed before he got to the checkpoint.
We were stationed in England (well, my dad was, and we were there) when the Beirut Marine barracks bombing took place. Immediately, all the bases at least in the European theater moved huge concrete blocks into position in front of the gates so that all vehicles had to zigzag to approach the guard. No truck could speed through.
…the food is terrible but such large portions…
https://x.com/Rightanglenews/status/2050694204871905724
No 2
https://www.malone.news/p/the-senator-the-mrna-industry-built?
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/05/02/indicted-mexican-governor-ruben-rocha-moya-steps-aside-during-investigation/#more-283030
https://x.com/ChristopherHale/status/2050160036987449655
Leo removes all doubt
Yes this rhymes with butler too much
Went to narciso's first link.
Foreign Black African American student? Really? Do words have any meaning anymore?
Much learing in mordor
https://open.substack.com/pub/behindthenarrative7/p/everyone-is-lying-to-you-about-the?
California has been hit hard through regulatory abuse.
There is also Newsom fiddled while Bass strummed a DEIst cacophony.
Speaking of Golden Trumpo My 2nd pick key horse FURTHER ADO flattened out in the stretch no excuse just not good enough. My wager play was cut in more than half as I got to windows to bet and teller says #9 THE PUMA is scratched after weeks of putting together my wagering format for the big day. I didnt even know as the scratch occurred early today and I was on road to Casino. I had to go back and rework most of my tickets with my key THE PUMA OUT. I kept in my 3 saver bests,the best speed (best horse actually) RENEGADE and best closer GOLDEN TEMPO for and $ 4 box exacta with the #19 with my 2nd pick the 18, with the 6 i thought a strong contender (didnt run well) and with the best horse #1 RENEGADE withthe curse of the #1 hole. ,with my wagers less than half of my original play until they scratched my key (approx $450 little more or less ,,GOLDEN TEMPO CLOSEST AS ALWAYS FROM MID PACK AND THE FAVORITE(MUCH THE BEST) JUST MISSES WIN BY A NECK.Payout with Golden Tempo on top $278.00 AND CHANGE X2(PLAYED THE TICKET 2X) showed a good ROI on the day. Would have paid more but all the scratches and scratch at gate of GREAT WHITE,odds dropped ,GOLDEN TEMPO was as high as 30-1. $556.00 for $220 wager covered $200.00 I left at the BANDITS downstairs before puttin gin my wager and heading back home. Next stop PREAKNESS and the Belmont and then chill till the late summer SARATOGA MEET(my favorite) Preakness being run at LAUREL instead of Pimlico and Belmont run at Saratoga instead of big sandy and a mile and a quarter becaus eo f track size has lost its luster for me this year until Belmont and Pimlico get back in the groove revamped and renewed. Betting capital still in good shape with minor wins and no major loses. Only 18 ran in Derby because of so many scratches really benefitted the favorite on the rail as less traffic to run through. Each scratch changes complexion of race but this one even with all the scratches ran pretty true to what the handicapping showed. THE triple(never would have used the 3rd horsestill a Maiden and paid off at 70-1 to key and $11,000.00 triple for $2.00 wager I could use that horse if it had a 5th leg,but thats horse racing!
[gas] in Francisco Bay Area sits at $6.24.
It's about $4.05 here.
DD must get paid by the word. I don’t ever read it. I suspect nobody else does either.
"DD must get paid by the word. I don’t ever read it. I suspect nobody else does either."
Easy to see, easy to skip over.
David Axelrod must brought the Pope a big sack of altar boys.
Tired stale un-funny Jon Stewart loves him some real life Nazi Graham Platner.
We had those big concrete slabs a week and a hell ago, when Trump stayed at his hotel in Las Vegas. You would go through this tent, where you opened the trunk and hood, and the USSS agents and dogs checked out your car. Then would have to weave between the concrete slabs to get to the hotel. My partner asked why I was weaving, and I explained why we couldn’t go straight. She had eye surgery most of a week ago. It was successful, and I expect that she would recognize the issue today.
Paul White Gold Eagle
@PaulGoldEagle
Rather than go out gracefully to face his own demons, former Congressman and womanizing loser Eric Swalwell decided to bring several of his colleagues down with him.
Swalwell named Jamie Raskin, Hakeem Jeffries, and Adam Schiff as his "friends" who "engaged in all the same activities."
All three have denied the allegations.
https://x.com/PaulGoldEagle/status/2050650523565703436?s=20
Gas is 3.95 here.
It is only in places run by democrats where gas is too expensive.
But democrat voters are just really stupid people.
Achilles said...
Gas is 3.95 here.
It is only in places run by democrats where gas is too expensive. But democrat voters are just really stupid people.
I don't know where "here" is, but the discount gas from Sam's Club in NE Indiana was $3.50 last week, but it's $5.00 today.
And Democrats didn't start the war in Iran, NACHO did.
And Democrats didn't start the war in Iran, NACHO did.
Nobody's saying the Democrats started it, shithead. The Iranians started it on Nov. 4, 1979. Just because nobody's done anything about it until now doesn't change that fact.
What we are saying is you've chosen sides, and it's not the United States.
“I don't know where "here" is, but the discount gas from Sam's Club in NE Indiana was $3.50 last week, but it's $5.00 today.”
So?
Supply and demand says that ultimately the price will go down. The US has plenty of oil and gas. Most of the world does not.
I enjoy Dinky Dau's handicapping racetrack tout posts. Very interesting to see the workings of a horse racing gambler.
Wall Street Mav
@WallStreetMav
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Maturing is realizing that we are all sIaves to the bottom 20 percent of society, far more than we are to the top 1 percent.
https://x.com/WallStreetMav/status/2050790689286312402?s=20
James Woods
@RealJamesWoods
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May 1
It was right there in front of us all the time.
https://x.com/RealJamesWoods/status/2050293083405947327?s=20
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@FreeStateWill
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10h
Tell me again why I had to fight the government in court for four years for being entirely peaceful on January 6, while antifa gets a pass for being violent demons!
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Katie Daviscourt 📸
@KatieDaviscourt
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May 2
It’s impossible for me to do my job down at the Portland ICE facility, even with security. I was violently mobbed out by Antifa, and a suspect in black bloc threw a rock at my face.
https://x.com/FreeStateWill/status/2050709098753335463?s=20
William A. Jacobson
@wajacobson
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For the 17 millionth time, academia (particularly in the humanities and social sciences) is completely broken, it has been taken over by radicals more extreme than you can imagine, it cannot be reformed internally.
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Benny Shaevsky
@brshaevsky
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17h
@UMich Professor Derek Peterson shoutouts terrorist sympathizers during this morning’s commencement. Unbelievable.
https://x.com/wajacobson/status/2050640808815034800?s=20
Yes, barriers would greatly help prevent bum-rush attacks like at the WHCD. But you have to keep in mind that the WHCD isn't the only event the President goes to. Multiply it by all the events he goes to in a week, all over the country. Even more during campaign years (and at least double it to include opposing candidates, like he was at Butler).
That means you need a lot of barriers, ways to transport them, added prep time at each event to install and remove them, more USSS personnel to cover the barriers (since an obstacle is worthless unless someone is at least observing it). All that translates into more money.
Is the country willing to spend that money? When we no longer have to worry about decapitation of our nuclear chain of command the way we did in the Cold War? When one party won't care about protecting its own presidents, because it will just shut off its street fighters and the flow of rhetoric to them? When both parties have strong anti-police tendencies: one ACAB, one libertarian? Etc. CC, JSM
Thinking that @WallStreetMav laid down a nifty little adage, but also inclined to believe there's not much new under the sun when it comes to these sorts of things, I asked the internet "who said we are slaves to the bottom far more than we are to the top?" and the internet said it was Booker T. Washington from his 1895 "Atlanta Compromise" speech during which he said, "it is at the bottom of life we must begin, not at the top," meaning Blacks should focus on opportunities rather than grievances, so that just goes to show you the internet isn't beyond cobbling together an answer, or a shoe repair, or a street from rounded stones, or a warm, comforting dessert made by layering peaches with a sweet, flour-based topping that can resemble a biscuit, cake, or dough.
Dinky’s weird punctuation and writing style- he’s using a convention of racing form from days of old….
rehajm said @ 6:28
Don't care.
…don’t care that you don’t care…
Jim @ 11:34; “ Nobody's saying the Democrats started it, shithead. The Iranians started it on Nov. 4, 1979. Just because nobody's done anything about it until now doesn't change that fact.”
Oh, so Trump’s solo war of choice, or, uh, not-war of choice, is a revenge war, or, revenge not-war because Iran stormed a U.S. embassy almost a half century ago?
Kinda makes you wonder why Americans getting hosed at the gas pump are bitching about.
Speaking of tax payers getting hosed, I’m reading that the security argument of the ballroom falls back to when Trump was taken to the bunker in 2020 when he looked around and said; “ ‘I don’t like the digs here. I anticipate being down here again. I would like it to be nicer.’”
The advice was ignored in favor of dubois elitism
Meh.
No. We don't lie in bed thinking of other women. I was thinking about flat surfaces and the Antikathera mechanism. All reconstructions show it to be a highly accurate computing device. In order to be that accurate all the parts have to be accurate to mesh and rotate smoothly. Therefore all the components have to have parallel surfaces. Even the gear blanks. The result is that I think they used what was later Whitworths solution, a+b+c. Lapping the components against each other until uniformity was achieved.
I don't play the ponies so I ponder shit like this. OK?
"Is the country willing to spend that money?"
You had Elon take a chainsaw to spending. The hypocrisy to those outside the Trump cult about needing ceremonial arches, statue gardens, etc is clear.
Can't wait for the chainsaw video to reappear during the nidterms
It must be painful to be this stupid
Absolutely fabulous clip of Nancy Pelosi speechifying in one of the most corrupt cities in California because it illustrated something I’d just read about the Left’s unique weakness to the nearly extinct journalist habit of the follow-up question. I noticed its near-extinction during Biden’s term.
Anyway, Nancy was going on about how Democrats need to fight Trump, and how noble a cause it is and that it is just like Lincoln had to fight to save the country. Yep. She said that. And I really wish I could reach through the screen to her and say, “Who was opposing Lincoln?” Because the answer really makes her whole analogy collapse. You think she is trying to further the myth that all great presidents were democrats?
Something else. My wife is convinced that the TV series, "The Boys", is about Trump and MAGA. My opinion is that it's a not so subtle dig at how the left thinks about the right. It's way too over the top to be anything else. Think Chuck Schumer written for Ethel Merman.
Only an idiot would defend the fraud uncovered by DOGE instead of praising the discovery. If you really have spending priorities but still decry the discovery of billions in fraud, billions more doled out through NGOs to fund Nazi marches and Green Deal scams, then you are stupid. For all the soak the rich taxes your side got not one bit of progress is ever made in reducing homelessness or the rate of poverty. $200B stolen by Somali pirates in MN and still after 20 years 80% rely entirely on welfare.
That chainsaw was ridiculous. We needed a D9.
Subtle as a chainsaw
Rusty have you seen the truism about how any conservative can explain the left’s policies in a way that lefties can agree to but progressives know absolutely nothing of what conservative policies actually are. The best explanation IMO is that they spend so much time spinning tales about how we think (“it’s a big business plan to screw minorities!”) that they never take the time to read what our side actually says.
In this one specific way Althouse comment section reflects the wider culture on social media platforms. You see the same behavior here. Like bringing up the word cult when it was so obviously obliterated by the facts here just yesterday. But they don’t read for content.
Mike @ 7:51, it would be interesting to know where you get your numbers and why you take them at face value.
Feeding Our Future was about $300 million, not $200 billion.
Minnesota’s broader charged social-services fraud is reported in the hundreds of millions, not hundreds of billions.
If you have receipts for “$200B,” “Nazi marches,” or “80% entirely on welfare,” show them. Otherwise that’s not an argument against fraud; it’s inflation of fraud for political effect.
FoF was one of hundreds of scams. I stand by my statement. Let me know when you have added up ALL the fraud that occurred on Tampon Tim’s watch. You only named ONE that has gone to trial. And it’s not even over yet.
They stesl and people are still left hungry and. They have the nerve to be outraged for pointing ot out
Google Brendan Gill and watch him question the MN officials. He cites statistics. Yes 80% of Somali immigrants in MN still rely on welfare 20 years on. Why didn’t you know that? It preceded the now famous question, “Does that make Minnesota stronger or weaker?” Your side really needs to get more and better news sources.
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Remember when Joe Biden gave Ruby Freeman the Presidential Medal of Freedom for helping steal Georgia?
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🔥Fulton County admitted they certified hundreds of thousands of early votes in 2020 with unsigned tabulator tapes … a straight-up violation of Georgia election rules.
We’re talking serious procedural failures on over 300k ballots!
Trump lost the state by a razor-thin ~11,800 votes.
Kemp and Raffensperger have some serious explaining to do.
Time for full transparency and accountability.
5:52 AM · May 3, 2026
https://x.com/RealHickory/status/2050882388461285549?s=20
Is the Lefty playing dumb or truly unaware? Our side continually has to ask that. Is chuckrjw truly ignorant of the fact that federal funds have been traced from USAID to the Tides Foundation to SPLC to the organizer and transportation provider of the Charlottesville Nazis. The fine people hoax.
So much of progressivism is pretending not to know or understand topics making conversation impossible.
Michael Fitzgerald said...
“I enjoy Dinky Dau's handicapping racetrack tout posts. Very interesting to see the workings of a horse racing gambler.“
💯.
And, knowing next to nothing, is every elite race horse now a descendant of Secretariat, the greatest of all time? Seems like it.
From Powerline Blog: Betting On the Midterms
Prediction markets are obviously not infallible, but they are worth paying attention to, if only because they are an environment in which people are investing their own money, not merely spinning as is usual in the press. So these data, via Stephen Moore’s daily Unleash Prosperity Hotline should be concerning for Republicans:
According to an update by political [Republican] analyst Bruce Mehlman:
"Six months ago prediction markets gave Democrats a 58% chance of capturing the House and 27% chance of winning the Senate. Today the quoted odds are 86% (House) & 50% (Senate)."
btw--so many great comments from last night and this morning. thank you, all.
The answer is yes
[shrug] I thought rehajm's 6:28 was interesting. I always thought Dinky might have somewhat controlled schizophrenia (no offense, Dinky - it's not a character flaw) or the like. I know zero about racing IRL despite having read much of Dick Francis's catalog.
john mosby said...
Yes, barriers would greatly help prevent bum-rush attacks like at the WHCD. But you have to keep in mind that the WHCD isn't the only event the President goes to. Multiply it by all the events he goes to in a week, all over the country. Even more during campaign years (and at least double it to include opposing candidates, like he was at Butler).
I am again going to point out the solution to this is not putting up barriers everywhere and having a standing army follow Trump around.
The solution here is to start executing the pieces of shit that are trying to kill him and shipping their supporters to Europe.
MJB Wolf: "80% of Somali immigrants in MN still rely on welfare 20 years on"
Well are they relying on it, or do they have other income but the welfare is just too good to pass up? CC, JSM
Achilles: "The solution here is to start executing the pieces of shit that are trying to kill him and shipping their supporters to Europe"
Assuming that really is the solution, it can't be implemented instantaneously. And once you start implementing it, you'll have a spike in attacks as they make their last stand. RLTW, JSM
A character in Updike's "Roger's Version" mused that whereas in the past it was elites who got pampered, in modern day America the pampering is of the underclass (not that he used that exact terminology).
A lot of truth in that.
Debbie Harry was on SNL last night, just to intro one of the musical blocks. At the end, only Asiz Ansari came up to talk to her. If I’d been on that stage, I’d have been inviting her to the broom closet! CC, JSM
Mike @ 8: 00
Yeah. I can see that. Especially when the usual suspects double down on their TDS.I just thought it was funny that my wife thinks it's about Trump and MAGA. I guess when MAGA occupies your every waking hour you tend to see it everywhere.
Even prediction markets can be manipulated. How many are currently betting and what are the total wagers to date? With those odds I'd be looking to bet on Republicans taking the house- the current most likely outcome IMHO. Just one question as someone who has never placed a bet online- or on a horse race- or sporting event- Where do I go to place such a bet?
And, knowing next to nothing, is every elite race horse now a descendant of Secretariat, the greatest of all time? Seems like it.
…you know stuff. I think all except one Derby horse is from Secretariat's bloodline…
When I lived in Saratoga twelve seconds a furlong was a snappy pace for a distance race, now it’s two or three seconds faster. Secretariat was a freak of anatomy- big huge heart.
"Six months ago prediction markets gave Democrats a 58% chance of capturing the House and 27% chance of winning the Senate. Today the quoted odds are 86% (House) & 50% (Senate)."
Yeah, but we really won't know until The Des Moines Register puts out its final poll immediately before the election.
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