1 BOINGO!!!!!!

2 If you never went to the Halloween Boingo concerts, consider yourself a lesser being.

3 Wow, shots fired at White House Correspondents dinner.... outside... Trump and other officials evacuated.

4 I'm actually in the Farewell concert DVD.

5 Top photo: HIMITSU Speakeasy Bar in Berlin

That's Japanese for "secret."

Not a very subtle name for your speakeasy.

6 Glad that POTUS is safe.
I am sick to my stomach and furious at the same time. These people are animals.

7 Shots were apparently fired *inside*. Not ballroom, but building.

There's a Japanese place here with a very nice speakeasy bar. Friend "discovered" it by mistake looking for the bathroom. It's very cool.

8 Looks like on the greatest-hits compilation, once again passing the football. To the resident Canadian this time, so... kicking the football

9 Evenin'

10
Trump and other officials evacuated.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 25, 2026 09:52 PM (mP0Kj)

_____________

He fled, screaming like a little girl. We're correspondents. We know stuff.

11 The Hill:
Secret Service said a shooter was in custody, and that the incident had taken place near screening detectors people must walk through before entering the annual event. … “The president and the first lady are safe along with all protectees. One individual is in custody.….”

Dang. I was looking forward to Trump's humor.

https://bit.ly/loonylady
Liberal on President Trump: “I want him dead. I don’t care who knows it. Head on a stake. Dragged through the motherf*cking streets. Entrails in the fucking road.”

She seems nice.

Evenin', y'all. We're off to a good start. I'll have a Guinness, barkeep. If you know how to pour one.

12 Willowed: Great Mathematicians as Modern Math Teachers:

https://tinyurl.com/2s3uufrf

13 Fuck you, Springsteen.

14 somebody shot up the WH Correspondents dinner tonight

15 All channels covering the shooting now.

Also, I'm sure suspect being identified and social media about to be scrubbed.

16 That Old Lay cocktail sounds interesting. I do love a margarita, especially the spicy ones!

17 At least one person in custody, SS agent OK after one round hit his body armor. Prez to speak from WH press room presently.

18 Willowed from below just because…

Well I'm upper-upper class high society
God's gift to ballroom notoriety
And I always fill my ballroom
The event is never small
The social pages say I've got
The biggest balls of all

Couldn’t resist adding some AC/DC lyrics. Because the word “ballroom” has been uttered on TV a thousand times tonight. Classic!

19 14 somebody shot up the WH Correspondents dinner tonight
Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at April 25, 2026 09:58 PM (+QijZ)

----------

Really? Where did you hear this?

20 What’s happening
Politics · Trending
Secret Service
Trending in United States
Staged
Politics · Trending
SHOTS FIRED
Trending in United States
Shooter

21 Ringo just posted almost a dozen new videos on his YouTube channel.

22 Recently watched the anime Bartender: the Glass of God. Looks like the artist got the speak easy look correct.

23 U.S. President Donald Trump: "Quite an evening in D.C. Secret Service and Law Enforcement did a fantastic job. They acted quickly and bravely. The shooter has been apprehended, and I have recommended that we “LET THE SHOW GO ON” but, will entirely be guided by Law Enforcement. They will make a decision shortly. Regardless of that decision, the evening will be much different than planned, and we’ll just, plain, have to do it again."

24 13 Fuck you, Springsteen.
Posted by: Cicero (@ciceto43) at April 25, 2026 09:58 PM (JkO4W)

Evergreen comment

25 Sorry I'm late (checks watch,) hey, wade uh minnit- they aren't even supposed to have posted the ONT yet. I'm actually early. This is really going to sully my reputation at Timeless Tardy Tarts, LLC.

26 Also Willowed:

162 I'm glad no one was hurt, but freakin' shooter upstaged my post.
Posted by: Lex at April 25, 2026 09:06 PM (y4H1r)

He deserved to die for that!

27 The Press Club firing is yet another Left-Wing talking point, ("we're being shot at!") soon to be used against the non-Communist masses. They want to persuade the People that they are in danger, and must be protected against the Orange Man Bad Militia.

Well, it's Saturday so I'm going to say this. Ban me if you want.

It's long past time for the Right to play the Left's playbook.

28 Alt caption: Wait until they figure out that the board won't really make changes to cater to the teenage vote.

Alt Alt caption: I guess they'll get a two-year head start on learing that a politician's promises have no relation to their actions in office.

(He's not a politician, he's a real-estate mogul.)

29 The woke right a la Candace has been pushing the insanity that Butler was staged. This is going to be more “evidence” for the grift.

30 Uh, posted before I added the URL for Ringo
https://www.youtube.com/@ringostarr/videos

31 14 somebody shot up the WH Correspondents dinner tonight

Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at April 25, 2026 09:58 PM
***
No they didn't. Someone tried to breach security in the lobby. Very different.

32 Ringo just posted almost a dozen new videos on his YouTube channel.
Posted by: mindful webworker - on tap at April 25, 2026 10:00 PM (y3Pql)
--//

Oh No John Ringo?

33 I guess the spin will be this is a right wing white supremacist there to take out America's best and brightest journalist.

What else could it be?

And Hillary is probably having flashbacks about the time she imagined she was under fire.

34 the shooting

https://x.com/TheAKGuy/status/
2048212029018718483

35 Cicero, you're on AOSHQ. Do you really expect ALH or anyone else to read the main post before hitting the comment section?

36 Ah, that Ringo.

37 Candace can [censored] a hog's [censored] and [censored] off.

38 Does the shooter look anything like DeNiro?

39 Cicero, not based on the video of a guy they've got down and shirt off, who must be the person detained.

40 Ace has posted a new thread on the attempted assassination.

41 Old Lay:
✔️Triple Sec
✔️Lime juice
✖️Tequila
Dang it.

42 Putting my marker down now that when the WHCD actually happens, Trump goes up to the podium and says something like, "As I was saying, before we were rudely interrupted..."

43 All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes

Willowed:

Gauss was very funny. Me likey.

44 My favorite Boingo song is the one that makes your friends and family worry about you. My second favorite is a toss-up between No One Lives Forever and Dead Man's Party. But I like Gratitude better than all 3 of those (but is it really Boingo or just Elfman?).

45 35 Cicero, you're on AOSHQ. Do you really expect ALH or anyone else to read the main post before hitting the comment section?
Posted by: gKWVE at April 25, 2026 10:01 PM (gKWVE)

---------

Yeah, that would just be weird.

46 Does the shooter look anything like DeNiro?

Posted by: Cicero (@ciceto43) at April 25, 2026 10:04 PM (JkO4W)

Some angry old Boomer grandma? Like Springteen? Neil Young? Jane Fonda? They all look alike.

47 @reddit_lies 45m
A mass psychosis event is unfolding on Reddit right now. Basically every comment on Reddit about the incident is claiming it was "staged."

48 Does the shooter look anything like DeNiro?

Posted by: Cicero (@ciceto43) at April 25, 2026 10:04 PM (JkO4W)

Some angry old Boomer grandma? Like Springteen? Neil Young? Jane Fonda? They all look alike.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 25, 2026 10:07 PM (7JD9w)

I'd put money on Alec Baldwin. He's experienced.

49 Newark became the third city in the U.S., and first in New Jersey, to allow 16-and-17-year-olds to vote in school board elections.

When I was 20 I had the opportunity to vote, the voting age having just been lowered to 18.

I was then and still am of the opinion that the voting age should instead have been raised to 25 (with possibly exceptions for those in the services).

But I was not going to miss my chance to vote. To counter all the other young new enfranchisee idiots.

50 Shet yer peehole!

51 It appears that no one at the party knew shots were fired until someone yelled shots fired. You can see the president and his entourage seated at the table as an SS man shows Trump a note before the evacuation.

https://tinyurl.com/26p2s292

52 24 13 Fuck you, Springsteen.
Posted by: Cicero (@ciceto43) at April 25, 2026 09:58 PM (JkO4W)

Evergreen comment
Posted by: gKWVE


I was going to ask what did he say now but discovered that I really didn't care.

53 48 Does the shooter look anything like DeNiro?

Posted by: Cicero (@ciceto43) at April 25, 2026 10:04 PM (JkO4W)

Some angry old Boomer grandma? Like Springteen? Neil Young? Jane Fonda? They all look alike.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at April 25, 2026 10:07 PM (7JD9w)

I'd put money on Alec Baldwin. He's experienced.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
--

A Somali?

54 Was the shooting an SPLC op?

55 Dang it. There's info on all three threads! Which one is the most current?


Glad to hear everyone's safe.

Now, to the important info: who's the Asian chick on the President's left side?

56 Washington Hilton

same place they tried to kill Reagan

57 Dude, Rubio is gonna be pissed at his next assignment.

58 Ex-shooter looks white or mid-eastern

59 1
44 My favorite Boingo song is the one that makes your friends and family worry about you.”

LOL mine too!

The Song that Dare Not Speak It’s Name.

60 nood

61 There's a nood for the DC stuff...

62 The current TCM movie is one from 1945 called Murder, He Says w/ Fred MacMurray. I thought it was a film noir. No -- it's a slapstick comedy! Marjorie Main, the Ma Kettle of those movies, plays a backwoods matriarch, and character actor Peter Whitney, the tall fellow who played retarded men and devious villains with ease, has a dual role as her sons.

63 Stride and Boogie worked ... the other styles, not so much.

And Ragtime is not a race up and down the keyboard ... damn !

64
The shots fired at the WH Correspondents Dinner seem newsworthy. Let's see what a roomful of professional correspondents who were right there can tell us:

"Shrieeek."

"Save me!"

"This table has gum stuck under it."

65 Seems fine in here, nice content, drink, jokes, tennish, etc. And it doesn't smell bad, which is always a plus.

66
How much do you want to bet that one or more of the "correspondents " were some how involved with the shooting attempt?

67 He ain't no ways Eyetalleyan.

68 I said his race but it's been blocked.

69 Gauss was very funny. Me likey.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 25, 2026 10:07 PM (u82oZ)

I liked Archimedes setting off the fire alarm. Whoopsie!

70 God bless our President and his ability to hold a press conference after that.

71 *sets up round for the house*

Our President survived another attempt on his life! All other attendees are also safe and unharmed. Perp was unable to complete his mission.

Thanks and all praise be to God!

72 Gauss was very funny. Me likey.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

*whimper*

73 Fuck this Saturday shuffle. Pick a dick and stick wit it.

74 Torrance guy, 31 - same age as my kids who were raised in that area Unbelievable except it's California

75 Italian is a race?

76 Miles Taylor
@MilesTaylorUSA
·
39m
The WHCD shooter will be used to justify things that have nothing to do with the WHCD shooter. Mark this moment.

Julie Kelly 🇺🇸
@julie_kelly2
·
6m
Gfy

>

I love Julie Kelly

77 HIMITSU Speakeasy Bar in Berlin]

Gay Bar

78 Evening.

So another leftist piece of shit tried murdering the president again. This is how many attempts now?

When do we start arresting leftists and democrats as conspirators in overthrowing an elected administration? Fuck them. Fuck all of them. Just start throwing them all in jail. The courts will sort it all out eventually.

Leftists are treasonous scum. They tell us this day in, day out that they want to overthrow our system of government and murder all who oppose them. Why do we tolerate them? Begin the mass arrests and incarcerations.

War!

79 Thanks and all praise be to God!

Posted by: JQ at April 25, 2026 11:10 PM (rdVOm)

I'll spot a round of spicy Margaritas for the Horde. God Bless Trump.

80 Common theme on tomorrow morning's "news" programs: Why didn't President Trump stop the shooter himself, like John Rambo?

81 Thank God President Trump and his people were okay.

82 Cole Allen


Friggen teacher if the minth in torrance


Insanity

83 Dang.
Thats a good drink!!!

84 Thank God President Trump and his people were okay.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 25, 2026 11:17 PM (+2QQb)

Other than that, how did your day go, Wolfus?

85 'Bout time I headed off to bed. Got to finish packing tomorrow morning as well as eating a light breakfast, and to try to get away by 7:30. Here's hoping it's not raining, or at least not heavily.

86
When do we start arresting leftists and democrats as conspirators in overthrowing an elected administration?

Hakeem will start impeachment boogalo in January.

87 Teacher if the month december 2024

Not sure this will post but what an animal Teaching our kids

88 Hey, we're back!

89 U.S. Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon:

"I have a bruise on my head from the Secret Service running across my table and chairs while I ducked under the Washington Post table. Thank God for U.S. Marshals Service team who got me and my posse home safely!"

90 I suppose it's a good thing that Doof and the Dino didn't spend money on large potted plants tonight, to make it more comfortable for lurkers to try posting.

91 Here's an idea.

Nationalize CNN and NBC.

Arrest the propagandists who push for this shit like Tapper and the fucking Potato.

Fuck them. Shut it all down. Make examples of them.

I want free speech and a free press. I do not want fucking murderous wannabe revolutionaries murdering our leaders. Times to start rounding motherfuckers up.

Lincoln did far more in crappier circumstances. This will be nothing by comparison.

92 The password to get into any speakeasy is "Swordfish".

93 Please pray for a hedge of protection around President Trump, his family, and the Cabinet officers.

94 So since someone posted the donations from the 3rd would be Trump assassin I went poking around the FEC donations site looking for some people I know.

I didn't find them but I did find a large number of people with the same name in other states and the pattern we always see:

Donations to Act Blue
Job: Unemployed or teacher
Amount: Some random smallish number but a lot of them

95 Safe travels, Mr Wolfus and Steady Buick.

96 I spoke too soon. It's already raining lightly here. Oh, well. I've done all I can to pre-pack the car; I have my umbrella and rain jacket, and only have one suitcase and my shoulder briefcase to load tomorrow.

97 "I have a bruise on my head from the Secret Service running across my table and chairs while I ducked under the Washington Post table. Thank God for U.S. Marshals Service team who got me and my posse home safely!"

I remember when AOC claimed she felt she was going to be raped or something on J6 even though she wasn't at the capitol and the FNM presented it as a serious comment.

Expect to here a lot of scoofing here instead

98 Donations to Act Blue
Job: Unemployed or teacher
Amount: Some random smallish number but a lot of them
Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2026 11:21 PM (sKqQm)

Smurf smurf smurf smurf smurf smurf smurf smurf smurf smurf smurf smurf smurf smurf smurf smurf smurf smurf smurf smurf smurf smurf smurf smurf . . .

99 Hakeem will start impeachment boogalo in January.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2026 11:20 PM (Cqx++)

Hakeem will be lucky if he isn't turned into some dumb gang banger's bitch in a Federal Supermax prison.

100 Cant link it but look up Chad Allen- torrance teacher of the month december 2024

101 Shooter was a guest at the hotel.

102 Ex-shooter looks white or mid-eastern
Posted by: weft cut-loop

Oh, he'll be whiter than the driven snow after the MSM lightens up his pics.

103 looking at the sh**ter's CV, he was a Mech E and migrated to software, and finally teaching.
This looks like a man who got fired*, tried an easier job, got fired again, and ended up in education.

*or put on a performance plan before sneaking out the back door

104 the perp was a "guest" at the hotel...

105 Cole Allen Sorry, not Chad

106 The “Press” as it was known, or “Media” has always abused Free Speech, and quite badly. It may have been well intended but has caused incalculable problems. They can lie with impunity and libel & slander. It’s a real problem.

107 Thank God President Trump and his people were okay.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 25, 2026 11:17 PM (+2QQb)

Other than that, how did your day go, Wolfus?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 25, 2026

***
"How did you like the play, Mrs. Lincoln?"

Oh, I ran up to the little cowtown Abilene. Some nice antique and thrift stores there, as well as a "bakery/bistro" and a breakfast & lunch place that -- as I was leaving about ten -- was starting to get slammed by locals. Good food and prices.

108 Cole Allen, white Jamaican

109 Not white

110 the perp was a "guest" at the hotel...
Posted by: runner at April 25, 2026 11:24 PM (GD0B3)

Who paid for his room? Is the dinner always at that location?

111 Looks a son obama never had.

112 Trump looks so cool in a tux.

113
The password to get into any speakeasy is "Swordfish".
Posted by: Chico Marx

Broadsword calling Danny Boy...

114 I wonder how much cock Jake Rapper's Cherry asshole can take. I imagine he's going to have to learn to stretch it out very quickly lest he bleed to death out of his asshole.

The Potato can probably suck three fat black cocks all at once. He's going to be popular.

115 Virginia DA Jay Jones gave Cole Allen the weapons?

116 Oh, I ran up to the little cowtown Abilene. Some nice antique and thrift stores there, as well as a "bakery/bistro" and a breakfast & lunch place that -- as I was leaving about ten -- was starting to get slammed by locals. Good food and prices.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 25, 2026 11:25 PM (+2QQb)

Potential, or still thinking about TH?

117 Who paid for his room? Is the dinner always at that location?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 25, 2026 11:25 PM (1Ff7Z)


..and... is he a fan of Hassan Piker, who is a nephew of Cenk Uygur who happen to live in California..I am just axing questions

118 lol

If Obama had a son he would have looked like this guy.

119 Go long on helicopter manufacturers.

120 If Obama had a son he would have looked like this guy.
Posted by: Robert at April 25, 2026 11:28 PM (dpXJq)

Faggy looking, eh?

121
If Obama had a son he would have looked like this guy.
Posted by: Robert

Better than looking like James Carville.

122 Only wreckers and hoarders ask questions.

123 So, anything surprising go down today?

No, no - not that. I said 'surprising'.

124 Jacqui Heinrich.
mmmm

125 Back on top!

126 C2 Education, a Somali LLC Learing Center.

127 Cole Allen Sorry, not Chad

Posted by: LASue at April 25, 2026 11:24 PM (mFhj

Cole = Chad. Don't even start me on Dakota.

128 not again, and what the fk ?

"Stu Smith
@thestustustudio
1h
Before there was a shooter in the lobby of the Hilton hosting the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Code Pink was able to get inside and protest there too."

129 Evening horde. Thanks for the ONT, D's. Catching up on the news - spent day and evening wrenching on a tractor.

130 lol

If Obama had a son he would have looked like this guy.
Posted by: Robert


But, first he'd have to fvck a turkey baster.

131 But, first he'd have to fvck a turkey baster.

Michelle or Gaylord?

132 Before there was a shooter in the lobby of the Hilton hosting the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Code Pink was able to get inside and protest there too."

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2026 11:30 PM (GD0B3)

Some R pol is letting them in.

133 He worked at c2 , a test prep company on hawthorne blvd across from del amo mall. for anyone from the south bay, they'll know the area

134 Evening horde. Thanks for the ONT, D's. Catching up on the news - spent day and evening wrenching on a tractor.
Posted by: scampydog at April 25, 2026 11:30 PM (LVaYG)

Well, wenching on a tractor could be uncomfortable, unless it was real large with an air-conditioned cab.

135 There's a lot I liked about Trump, but...

Looking at the press conference, I see another "but...".

His tux jacket has a notched collar. Almost as bad as Markwayne and his straight tie.

136
Code Pink was able to get inside and protest there too.

Those jokers don't seem to have a problem accessing any place.

137 So, anything surprising go down today?

No, no - not that. I said 'surprising'.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 25, 2026 11:29 PM (Kyh8Y)

We had to mow grass because of excess rainfall in TX That is surprising in the happy, jolly sense.

138 Go long on helicopter manufacturers.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 25, 2026 11:29 PM (utfVc)

Absolutely. Ones that can carry a Chinook. We'll do Pinochet in bulk.

139 We have a launch in the morning.

SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 17-16
SLC-4E - Vandenberg SFB - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: April 26, 2026
Launch Time: 7:36 a.m. PDT (1436 UTC, 16:36 CEST)

https://youtu.be/YKS9ITKdyL8

140
@susancrabtree
·
33m
🚨🚨 SECRET SERVICE EXCLUSIVE: For the two weeks before the shooting at the White House Correspondents' dinner, the Secret Service had been investigating a mystery shooting that took place near the White House the morning after Easter Sunday around 1-2 a.m.

The White House/President Trump has been demanding answers from the Secret Service - but the USSS has been at a loss.

The agency found rifle casings at K and I Streets, and had the license of the car, but no images of the shooter, and the license was stolen, according to multiple Secret Service sources.

The case had gone cold — to the frustration of the Secret Service and the White House.

141 Image: Cole Allen full frontal

https://tinyurl.com/nhdnpxhf

142 For some of the Code Pinkos you will need a CH-47D just for one of them.

143 But, first he'd have to fvck a turkey baster.

Michelle or Gaylord?

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2026 11:31 PM (2GVsD)

Yes.

144 6 Glad that POTUS is safe.
I am sick to my stomach and furious at the same time. These people are animals.
Posted by: Jmel

The secret service needs to be extra vigilant whenever democrats and liberals are present.

145 Cookout yesterday was so much fun! Saw a few people haven't seen since retiring. Food was great; everyone brought something delicious and we talked until evening... It got cold out, so built a blaze in the firepit.

Got home late & had to shower the wood smoke off, LOL.

It was so nice to 'get away from the 4 walls' for a day and get mind off of problems!

146 The MSM will be insufferable after this, just like before.

147 Thanks for the ONT.

148 Image: Cole Allen full frontal

https://tinyurl.com/nhdnpxhf

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others



Are they suggesting that he is a blindian?

149 Image: Cole Allen full frontal

https://tinyurl.com/nhdnpxhf

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2026 11:34 PM (jXvKN)

Ehhhh.... How about a full frontal of the Asian chick as a palate cleanser?

150 Something a little lighter.

https://youtube.com/shorts/AMoN_imK8AE

(Music is louder than average.)

151 >>> Evening horde. Thanks for the ONT, D's. Catching up on the news - spent day and evening wrenching on a tractor.
Posted by: scampydog at April 25, 2026 11:30 PM (LVaYG

=====

Hopefully not a John Deere.

152 I saw the movie Eden which is about a group of crazy Germans that moved to the Galapagos islands. The lead actresses were Sydney Sweeney, Anna de Armas and Vanessa Kirby.

Then I found some pictures of the real people from the story. Uh, lets just say they were not picking actresses that looked like the original people...

153 He worked at c2 , a test prep company on hawthorne blvd across from del amo mall. for anyone from the south bay, they'll know the area
Posted by: LASue

That's like 14 blocks of land. Little Company is off Torrance Blvd. And there used to be a decent curry house there. .. sad. Now a Bao Feng poison center.

154 Okay Horde - consider this:

After some set number of occurrences, even horrible events become rather ho-hum. The sharpness of that particular action loses it's edge and easily fades into yesterday's news.

How many assassination attempts will it take to cause the media's, and the public's, interest in these to drop way off.

The left has been mentally unstable for years and getting worse as time goes on. I hold that the shock of an attempt on PDJT's life is, for them, less interesting than the price of gas. Discuss.

155 Got the serpentine belt and idlers all buttoned up on the '08 Suburban, took it to town and back no problem. Longer writeup at the end of the Hobby Thread.

156 The left: Trump must be removed by any means necessary. ANY MEANS. YOU LISTENING?

/Another lefty tries to assassinate the president

The left: Uh, local crime story.

157 Monday and possibly Tuesday a lot of us in the middle of the country are going to have really bad storms. My area has been given a 45% tornado probability and that keeps increasing as we get closer to Monday.

I hope all of you who are in the path of this system will be safe.

158 Poor Erika Kirk was crying and saying she just wanted to go home.

159 "Cole Allen crossed state lines!!!!"

It had to be said.

160 Coming in hot on a Saturday night, I have been helping my neighbor arrange for a baby shower. Gosh, that was fun.

161 A cookie is salad.

Here's the truth.If you make a salad with high fat dressing, cheese, croutons, you may as well eat a cookie or a hamburger. Almost everything you put on lettuce to make it edible is high calorie.

162
Image: Cole Allen full frontal

https://tinyurl.com/nhdnpxhf

Posted by: Braenyard

===============

Who knows, maybe the sun was in his eyes, but he looks miserable. Of course he has to be locked up, but for his own sake I hope peace comes over his heart.

163 Poor Erika Kirk was crying and saying she just wanted to go home.
Posted by: Piper at April 25, 2026 11:40 PM (Dd38x)

DJT ought to issue her a Tommy gun and give her a tag license for Candy Ovens.

164 Almost everything you put on lettuce to make it edible is high calorie.
Posted by: nerdygirl

Not seeing the problem.
* smashes 2 bowls of ramen and hamburger *

165 Hi, Debby! Nice to see you so early!

166 The old pastor mustered all his strength, and then said weakly, "Jesus died between two thieves, and that's how I'd like to go."

________________________

Alternate punchline:

The old pastor squeezed each of their hands with a surprising grip and wouldn't let go before whispering, "It's said you can't take anything with you when you die. I'm hoping, for everyone's elses sake in this wonderful town, that it's not true."

167 Prior to the attempt there were tons of people outside of hotel, in masks, holding "Death to Tyrant" signs.

"Katie Pavlich
@KatiePavlich
21m
There were no checkpoints at the doors at street level. This checkpoint was only one level up from the ballroom, the stairs down to the ballroom are yards away. Grateful for the rapid response, but the fact that anyone could get this far into the building was a serious problem."

168 Just put some quickie images on Tensor that some may think of a topical.

Nyah

169 Who knows, maybe the sun was in his eyes, but he looks miserable. Of course he has to be locked up, but for his own sake I hope peace comes over his heart.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 25, 2026 11:42 PM (n7rxJ)

It will, but only after 3 rounds of 45 ACP go through it.

170 Almost everything you put on lettuce to make it edible is high calorie.
Posted by: nerdygirl

True. Iceberg lettuce is just crunchy water.

171 Prior to the attempt there were tons of people outside of hotel, in masks, holding "Death to Tyrant" signs.

Back in 2020 the left told me anyone threatening a politician with violence was an insurrectionist that should be shot by a police officer.

172 >>> I saw the movie Eden which is about a group of crazy Germans that moved to the Galapagos islands. The lead actresses were Sydney Sweeney, Anna de Armas and Vanessa Kirby.

Then I found some pictures of the real people from the story. Uh, lets just say they were not picking actresses that looked like the original people...
Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2026 11:38 PM (sKqQm)

=====

So, since it Sweeney in it I had to look it up. Wiki says it had a budget of $55M. Box office was $2.5M

173 so a JPL alumnus tried to be an assassin.
I'm guessing nobody out of SpaceX has tried this.

174 One of the unhinged marxist goons outside the hotel, holding a sign with "Death to All of Them" assaulted Katie Pavlich.

175 167 Prior to the attempt there were tons of people outside of hotel, in masks, holding "Death to Tyrant" signs.


If only Trump was the tyrant the Left primal screams about.

176 If Trump was a true tyrant, all this rabble would be dangling from lampposts via meat hooks.

177 Oof. The choice of band for that third video....

178 If Trump was a true tyrant, all this rabble would be dangling from lampposts via meat hooks.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2026 11:48 PM (2GVsD)

yeah...

179 So, since it Sweeney in it I had to look it up. Wiki says it had a budget of $55M. Box office was $2.5M

I thought it was pretty good. Interestingly Sweeney comes across as the best actress of the lot not that the others were bad.

I guess people didn't want to see Jude Law nekkid though (and I agree with that part)

180 So...a teacher.
When will we hear from the NEA?

181 Old Lay cocktail?
I love older women.

182 Hitler executed 5K people after the July 20 plot on him.

I suspect this will lead to 0 executions.

183 The left has been mentally unstable for years and getting worse as time goes on. I hold that the shock of an attempt on PDJT's life is, for them, less interesting than the price of gas. Discuss.
Posted by: Tonypete

Tonight many of the media were in the line of fire and were shown to be scared sh!tless for their own safety.

They can report honestly, that they hid under their tables at the sound of gunfire, or they can continue with their ridiculous script that this wasn't a real danger and that Trump deserves this constant threat regardless of collateral damage (them in this case).

184 Prior to the attempt there were tons of people outside of hotel, in masks, holding "Death to Tyrant" signs.
----
Back in 2020 the left told me anyone threatening a politician with violence was an insurrectionist that should be shot by a police officer.
Posted by: 18-1
+++

The left was looking in the right direction -

not 'politician' but 'elected official' would be correct as some slice of government, however small, is vested in them as individuals, and

not immediately shot, only if need be, when being arrested for 'terroristic threatening', which is just terrorism.

185 167. Katie, it’s a working hotel. There are many people staying there who have nothing to do with the dinner.

186 They can report honestly, that they hid under their tables at the sound of gunfire, or they can continue with their ridiculous script that this wasn't a real danger and that Trump deserves this constant threat regardless of collateral damage (them in this case).
Posted by: old chick at April 25, 2026

And they took the wine off the tables on the way out. Insufferable twits. All of them.

187
Iceberg lettuce is just crunchy water.

But you wouldn't want to put it in your drink.

188 Thanks, D Squared. Love the jokes & funnies.

But never, ever Wang Chung. 😱🫣

189 Katie, it’s a working hotel. There are many people staying there who have nothing to do with the dinner.
Posted by: Jen the original at April 25, 2026 11:52 PM (8i9fb)



she is exactly right in her observations

190 I wonder how many of the four shots were the shooter and what was return fire, if any?

191 They can report honestly, that they hid under their tables at the sound of gunfire, or they can continue with their ridiculous script that this wasn't a real danger and that Trump deserves this constant threat regardless of collateral damage (them in this case).
Posted by: old chick at April 25, 2026

And they took the wine off the tables on the way out. Insufferable twits. All of them.
Posted by: Piper

Anything else would have been alcohol abuse.

192 186. Fox showed two correspondents who were toasting each other and taking selfies after they were told the evening was over.

193
Gad, the news coverage after these events is insufferable. "Jennifer, what was going through YOUR head when this happened?"

"Well, Bill, there was that split-second where I wasn't sure, but it was really sort of surreal, thinking back to those moments at Butler and at Mar-a-Lago and wondering if it could be happening again, and then hearing the agents calling at everyone to get down and not knowing in that moment where the threat was--"

jeez, cut to some news.

194 If Trump was a true tyrant, all this rabble would be dangling from lampposts via meat hooks.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 25, 2026 11:48 PM (2GVsD)

... by their genitals.

195 Fox showed two correspondents who were toasting each other and taking selfies after they were told the evening was over.
Posted by: Jen the original at April 25, 2026 11:55 PM (8i9fb)

Well, they're just retards.

196 >>Iceberg lettuce is just crunchy water.

But you wouldn't want to put it in your drink.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Heh. Yeah, even *ice* tastes better!

Celery is crunchy water too, and some people put it in their Bloody Mary-- not me. Prefer pickled bean or pickled asparagus.

197 Just put some quickie images on Tensor that some may think of a topical.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Unbuttoned collar is correct. I don't think Melania's the bolo-tie type.

198 Yeah, taking the wine is just good manners... bottles already open and why allow the shooter to spoil a buzz?

199 189. My point is, the shooter was staying in a room at the hotel. He didn’t come in off the street tonight.

200 mikeski

LOL

201 If Trump was a true tyrant, all this rabble would be dangling from lampposts via meat hooks.
Posted by: Anna Puma

... by their genitals.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

You cannot actually suspend a man by a hook through his scrotum. It'll just tear.

202 Evening horde. Thanks for the ONT, D's. Catching up on the news - spent day and evening wrenching on a tractor.
Posted by: scampydog at April 25, 2026 11:30 PM (LVaYG


Read that as wenching on a tractor.
Sigh. No pics.

203
Willowed.


460 The scumbags on the left already are celebrating this:

"Well, we almost got #freebeerday. Either a brother or a sister in the Resistance needs to work on their marksmenship or he faked another assassination to get a positive news cycle.

We'll never know.

Regardless, we stand at the ready to pour free beer the day it happens."

-Tweet by the owner of Minocqua Brewing Company (this asshole is running for state-wide office in Wisconsin)

https://tinyurl.com/47kfh4yt

204 wait, they took the wine??! low class

205 My point is, the shooter was staying in a room at the hotel. He didn’t come in off the street tonight.
Posted by: Jen the original

Premeditated. Yep.

206 Take the perp to Gitmo, on suspicion of being an Iranian agent. Waterboard him. Put his nuts in a vise. Make him sing like Zeppelin load of canaries.

207 The supply of retards FAR outstrips the demand.

208
DJT ought to issue her a Tommy gun and give her a tag license for Candy Ovens.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
---

It's time for Candy to STFU or be arrested.

209
-Tweet by the owner of Minocqua Brewing Company (this asshole is running for state-wide office in Wisconsin)

https://tinyurl.com/47kfh4yt
Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie

He should offer a free 24-pack to anyone who can prove they voted for him.

210 What did Candy Ovens do this time?

211 Make him sing like Zeppelin load of canaries.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 26, 2026 12:00 AM (utfVc)

Band or airship?

Either one works.

212 -Tweet by the owner of Minocqua Brewing Company (this asshole is running for state-wide office in Wisconsin)
Posted by: Sasquatch

I hate seeing breweries go out of business, but I'd raise a glass (someone else's) to this one.

213 You cannot actually suspend a man by a hook through his scrotum. It'll just tear.
Posted by: Vlad Tepes and/or Wesley Crusher

It's worth trying. Again and again...

214 And they took the wine off the tables on the way out. Insufferable twits. All of them.
Posted by: Piper

It's surprising how someone's view can change when it happens not 10 miles from them, but in their own face.
Once the shock begins to wear off if even a few members of the media see that this political divide has become dangerous to all, even them, it might enable them to attempt to start fixing the problem they helped create.

215 That beer owner, he deserves everything they wish upon others.

216 This was a rifle, not a handgun? Thats good body armor.

217 You cannot actually suspend a man by a hook through his scrotum. It'll just tear.
Posted by: Vlad Tepes and/or Wesley Crusher at April 25, 2026 11:58 PM (VHUov)

A thousand data points, or it's not proven.

218 I doubt he flew from LAX with the shotgun and pistol, so he probably was not acting alone

219 I hate seeing breweries go out of business, but I'd raise a glass (someone else's) to this one.
Posted by: mikeski at April 26, 2026 12:02 AM (VHUov)

I wonder how many fire code violations are on record for that jerk's pisswater bottler?

220 ha

Nothing will happen guy is furry cuck

In that order.

221 Offering something of value, even shitty beer, for an assassination is a crime.

222 Would-be assassin appears to have attended CalTech:

https://tinyurl.com/469cte8z

"A Cole Tomas Allen appears on California Institute of Technology’s mechanical engineering website page, where he appears to have been a student in about 2017. Public records show a CalTech email address for Cole Tomas Allen of Torrance, California."

-- https://tinyurl.com/5n7hx8fn

223 The supply of retards FAR outstrips the demand.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.

224 It's surprising how someone's view can change when it happens not 10 miles from them, but in their own face.
Once the shock begins to wear off if even a few members of the media see that this political divide has become dangerous to all, even them, it might enable them to attempt to start fixing the problem they helped create.
Posted by: old chick at April 26, 2026 12:02 AM

***

No.
They will double down.
Their bosses will tell them to do so.

225 I am out for the evening. Just posted something cute and non-topical to Tensor.

226 @204

>>wait, they took the wine??! low class

They took the bar? They took the whole f**** bar!!!!!

--
Bluto Blutarski

227 Doof - I sent you a twilight zone tweet.

228 Read that as wenching on a tractor.
Sigh. No pics.
Posted by: Diogenes
----------
There was some language - not the slow, sexy type, however. More crisp.

229 214. It's surprising how someone's view can change when it happens not 10 miles from them, but in their own face.
Once the shock begins to wear off if even a few members of the media see that this political divide has become dangerous to all, even them, it might enable them to attempt to start fixing the problem they helped create.
Posted by: old chick

Excellent point. Reportedly, there were 3,000 people in that room when the incident occurred. Maybe it'll dawn on some who are clearly not Trump fans that when the shooter attacked, he didn't value their lives either.

---
Nite, all.

230 Gotta be the first JPL grad involved in something like this. One of my best friend's brother is longtime friends with JPL president. Through this connection I heard not that long ago that JPL had stuck to real standards in the recent times of university idiocy, admissions idiocy in particular. And those standards have always been very high.

I just wonder if they still do the amazing pranks near graduation. My favorite was the sports car (Triumph?) disassembled, and reassembled *inside* some guy's dorm room. There was also the one where they made some dorm room into a giant fish tank, complete with fish swimming around.

231 It's surprising how someone's view can change when it happens not 10 miles from them, but in their own face.
Once the shock begins to wear off if even a few members of the media see that this political divide has become dangerous to all, even them, it might enable them to attempt to start fixing the problem they helped create.
Posted by: old chick at April 26, 2026 12:02 AM (F3Dlr)

**********

I hope you're correct, but I fear that this group is so far gone that nothing will cause them to change.

232 I heard he had a shotgun, pistol and several knives

233 The leftist idiots /trolls/ china bots are already saying this was staged to get support for the Trump Ballroom! !!

234 No.
They will double down.
Their bosses will tell them to do so.
Posted by: Diogenes

You are probably correct. I guess their entire persona is based on one script and one script only.

235 It's surprising how someone's view can change when it happens not 10 miles from them, but in their own face.
Once the shock begins to wear off if even a few members of the media see that this political divide has become dangerous to all, even them, it might enable them to attempt to start fixing the problem they helped create.
Posted by: old chick at April 26, 2026 12:02 AM (F3Dlr)

**********

I hope you're correct, but I fear that this group is so far gone that nothing will cause them to change.
Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at April 26, 2026 12:15 AM (c4pSx)

Trump derangement is a helluva disorder...

236 230 Gotta be the first JPL grad involved in something like this. One of my best friend's brother is longtime friends with JPL president. Through this connection I heard not that long ago that JPL had stuck to real standards in the recent times of university idiocy, admissions idiocy in particular. And those standards have always been very high.

I just wonder if they still do the amazing pranks near graduation. My favorite was the sports car (Triumph?) disassembled, and reassembled *inside* some guy's dorm room. There was also the one where they made some dorm room into a giant fish tank, complete with fish swimming around.
Posted by: rhomboid at April 26, 2026 12:15 AM (U/Byj)

*********

He was there only a year, so there has to be a story behind why he left (forced out?).

The disassembled car (it might have been a VW Beetle) was one I heard about, too, and it involved a male student who had gotten a date and didn't use the Beetle for the date (might have used the Triumph for the date - I can't remember). That's the CalTech I know from the people who graduated from there.

237 The leftist idiots /trolls/ china bots are already saying this was staged to get support for the Trump Ballroom! !!
Posted by: LASue at April 26, 2026 12:16 AM (mFhj

The thing about being a dumbass is you can't turn it off.

238 Guaranteed thought of 90% of the female attendees at tonight's soiree: "We're doing this again in 30 days? I have to find another dress!"

239 Oingo Boingo was genius.

240 I heard he had a shotgun, pistol and several knives
Posted by: LASue

Knives? He was gonna shoot his way through a bunch of SS agents, and then stab the President to death? He really did think he was John Motherfucking Rambo?

.....thank you for making our enemies ridiculous.

241 ADAM-12 had an episode where students assembled a VW bug in a professor's living room.

242 Caltech , NASA intern, then part-time teacher?

243 If you are old enough, you can remember when Springsteen was all about rock and roll and black leather jackets and 57 Chevies. His entire career consisted of simplifying his music until he sold a LOT of records. Then being deified by left wing rock critics cause he said lefty things. Lives like the 1% while pretending to be blue collar. The legendary E Street Band, his brothers? He fired them all and brought them back later when solo Brucie didn't bring in as much $$$$. One of the worst.

244 DAM-12 had an episode where students assembled a VW bug in a professor's living room.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.


Was't the Bug one of the first unibodies?

245 242 Caltech , NASA intern, then part-time teacher?

********

It would seem that he wouldn't have been accepted into CalTech if he were white or Asian, and then found out that he didn't have the ability to keep up and flunked out.

246 ADAM-12 had an episode where students assembled a VW bug in a professor's living room.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 26, 2026 12:23 AM (Cqx++)

IIRC, UBC engineering students suspended a VW Bug from the Lions Gate Bridge in Vancouver.

247
You're never gonna believe this, but Brian Stelter is praising Trump right now. Commends him for refraining from blaming the press and inviting them all to the WH for a briefing. Noted Trump's non-partisanship in his remarks.

248 They need to let FLOTUS interrogate the guy.
10 min, no cameras, give her his knives.

249 Was't the Bug one of the first unibodies?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 26, 2026 12:26 AM (/lPRQ)

Nope. They are not a unibody. They have a platform frame, to which the body is attached by a great many bolts. It's pretty darned easy to remove the body from a Bug.

250 Not surprising with the mangione love fest that dudes would keep trying.

251 >>The leftist idiots /trolls/ china bots are already saying this was staged to get support for the Trump Ballroom! !!


They have no idea what's comiing,


To be fair, neither does that dipshit nothing willl happnen asshole.

252 .The leftist idiots /trolls/ china bots are already saying this was staged to get support for the Trump Ballroom! !!
----
wait
the ballroom is to take focus off the Epstein files
which are meant to be a distraction from the UFO menace, and the fact that THEY SAVED HITLER'S BRAIN

253 238 Guaranteed thought of 90% of the female attendees at tonight's soiree: "We're doing this again in 30 days? I have to find another dress!"
Posted by: buddhaha

Well, they probably wet the one they had on.

254 I made a pot of spaghetti for dinner. In a great display of self-restraint, I refused a second helping, and put the leftover spaghetts in Tupperware tub in the fridge for lunch tomorrow.

255 Nope. They are not a unibody. They have a platform frame, to which the body is attached by a great many bolts. It's pretty darned easy to remove the body from a Bug.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Only rode in one. It was a convertible. So, I guess it would have to be on a frame...

Was trying to figure out how to break a regular one down to get it in the door.

256 Back at community college, Beetles were fun to *group lift* and turn 90 degrees within their parking spaces.

257 Office of the First Lady@FirstLadyOffice . 4h

.@POTUS and @FLOTUS depart for the 2026 White House Correspondents’ Dinner

https://tinyurl.com/y4k6f3as

258 Once the shock begins to wear off if even a few members of the media see that this political divide has become dangerous to all, even them, it might enable them to attempt to start fixing the problem they helped create.
Posted by: old chick at April 26, 2026 12:02 AM

Leftist gonna leftist. Once we saw Planned Parenthood chopping up babies and selling the parts that should have been "it" for many. I don't think it gets worse than that. I really don't. Does it? Can it? What the hell is worse than that? Whatever it is it's untenable to fathom.

And yet we still have supposed half the country still advocating rabidly for them and their benefactors. There will be no change other than that which is type deleted.

259 Only rode in one. It was a convertible. So, I guess it would have to be on a frame...

Was trying to figure out how to break a regular one down to get it in the door.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 26, 2026 12:37 AM (/lPRQ)

Convertible Beetles have an extra reinforcing girdle around the perimeter of the frame, a steel tube about 2X3" cross-section.

260 Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 26, 2026 12:27 AM (n7rxJ)

How can you... why would you... I mean how do you even... on one hand I commend you, I have neither the patience nor self-control to listen to even a single thought from one of these stooges. Is it curiosity? I'm not making fun here, I'm being completely earnest. I am just so beyond giving a shit about what any of them have to say - and I guess I shouldn't be?

Then again I don't really listen to people on "my" side either. Eight months ago "my" side was purportedly Tucker and Megyn so go figure.

261 Once we saw Planned Parenthood chopping up babies and selling the parts that should have been "it" for many.....
Posted by: ...

Are we sure Mengele is dead?

262 15 Stolen Crop-Spraying Drones In New Jersey

The GPS-guided drones can each spread 31 gallons of liquid over 15 acres in eight minutes.
--

And here's an article on Malia Obama going without a bra. (pics included) Charming, much like a young image of her mother.

https://tinyurl.com/yp37nma8

263 Not sure who the Asian gal was on Trump's left, but the soprano in this youtoob is awful purty. I'm smitten

https://tinyurl.com/383x6s54

264 And here's an article on Malia Obama going without a bra. (pics included) Charming, much like a young image of her mother.

https://tinyurl.com/yp37nma8

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 26, 2026 12:54 AM (jXvKN)

Talk about resting bitch face.

265 Re 263: I should've said go to about 1:30

266 Posted by: nerdygirl at April 26, 2026 12:51 AM (0Htd1)

I'm pretty sure I know where the Nazi's ended up shuffling off to.

267 BTW nerdygirl hand to heart I was wondering about you yesterday - just had a thought I hadn't seen you around in a while.

268 Old Lay cocktail?
I love older women.
Posted by: GW
---
Oh,give me an older woman
Every time, every time
Give me an older woman every time
'Cause they don't yеll
And they don't tell
And Oh, they'rе grateful as hell
So give me an older woman every time

RIP. Alfred Hawthorne "Benny" Hill

269 Still wintry here. Some of the snow melted off this afternoon, and I did not have to use the snowblower. But then we had some snow flurries later, and a little of that has stuck. But the extreme high winds are gone; just a little breezy. Maybe 29 out right now.

270 Jeez
The British sounding announcer on Fox seems to want everyone he talks to to have a stiff drink.
I like this guy!!!

271 Scott Jennings@ScottJenningsKY . 3h

LIVE ON CNN NOW - @kaitlancollins confirms a shooter confirmed DEAD at White House correspondents dinner.
--

We're CNN, we always get it right.

272 a shooter confirmed DEAD at White House correspondents dinner.
----------

Did not seem correct to me that the fucker was alive. But we'll see.

273 Oh he IS alive. Nevermind

274 No, I have not had anything to drink tonight, why do you ask

275 Nope. They are not a unibody. They have a platform frame, to which the body is attached by a great many bolts. It's pretty darned easy to remove the body from a Bug.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
------
Classic Dune Buggy:
Get Beetle, remove body. Add some sorta-go-fast parts to engine.
Drop fiberglass body onto it.

276 Have any networks started with the whole "Trump needs to tone down his rhetoric" shtick yet?

277 So, is he alive or is he dead? I refuse to turn on CNN to find out. Of course, if he's dead, that just saves the taxpayers money. And thanks to wimp liberals, if he survived and got convicted, we probably wouldn't be allowed to strap him into Ol' Sparky.

278 248 They need to let FLOTUS interrogate the guy.
10 min, no cameras, give her his knives.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport
---

Put your hand on the table.
Put your other hand on the table.
Colin, I have one more knife,
tell Melania what you know.

279 267 BTW nerdygirl hand to heart I was wondering about you yesterday - just had a thought I hadn't seen you around in a while.
Posted by: ...

I'm still around quite a bit.

280 Stop finding a reason to not vote,

Vote. Get loud.

281 Melania is old school slav.

282 It’s cute that Newark and other Leftists think young people vote. (I voted in my first election when I was 18. But even then I was an outlier.)

283 280 Stop finding a reason to not vote,

Vote. Get loud.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 26, 2026 01:13 AM (viF8m)

It’s easier to sit around and whine all day.

284 I'm still around quite a bit.

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 26, 2026 01:13 AM (0Htd1)

Oh ok that's good. I don't know what made me think of you. Anyway hope things are well

285 No, he's not dead. There are pics of him handcuffed on the floor. Links in this thread. It's confirmation that CNN is total bs.

286 Classic Dune Buggy:
Get Beetle, remove body. Add some sorta-go-fast parts to engine.
Drop fiberglass body onto it.
Posted by: buddhaha at April 26, 2026 01:07 AM (3tF5Z)

Cut 14.5" out of the platform frame just ahead of the point on the center tunnel where it begins to widen at the rear. Cut the tunnel square across, but the floor pans should be "vee cut". Rear cut goes from the cut point on the tunnel back diagonally to the pan corner, and front cut is made parallel to that. Result is the pan edges line up almost perfectly for welding.

I learned this because I have a half-finished dune buggy in my shop, and I did the frame cut this way, and it turned out almost perfect.

287 276 Have any networks started with the whole "Trump needs to tone down his rhetoric" shtick yet?
Posted by: 496 at April 26, 2026 01:08 AM (Giz+5)

I’m waiting for their calls for increased “common sense gun safety laws”. As well as the day when I will crawl away.

288 Classic Dune Buggy:
Get Beetle, remove body. Add some sorta-go-fast parts to engine.
Drop fiberglass body onto it.
Posted by: buddhaha

===


Hindsight...

JC Whitney catalog.
Seems you could build a whole jeep or bug from their parts.

289 Flour, sugar, chocolate and cookies are all PLANT-BASED!!!

290 Malaria Is Still Endemic In 80 Countries zerohedge
--

Know why is all over those coutries?
They banned DDT.

291 LIVE ON CNN NOW - @kaitlancollins confirms a shooter confirmed DEAD at White House correspondents dinner.
-- -----

dead/undead
formerly dead
he was dead, but then he got better

292 264 And here's an article on Malia Obama going without a bra. (pics included) Charming, much like a young image of her mother.

https://tinyurl.com/yp37nma8

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 26, 2026 12:54 AM (jXvKN)

Talk about resting bitch face.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 26, 2026 12:57 AM (utfVc)

Her initials are MAO.

293 LIVE ON CNN NOW - @kaitlancollins confirms a shooter confirmed DEAD at White House correspondents dinner.
-- -----

So, he's in the same state as the truth at CNN - unsure.

294 Are we sure Mengele is dead?
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 26, 2026 12:51 AM (0Htd1)

PATHETIC HARMLESS VICTIMS LEFT TO DIE
RANCID ANGEL OF DEATH FLYING FREE

295 Could it be there were two shooters, one alive, and one dead?

296 J,C.Whitney is long gone. --- No joy.

297 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 26, 2026 01:20 AM (utfVc)

I've been wondering that.

298 Her initials are MAO.
Posted by: Cow Demon at April 26, 2026 01:18 AM (pKv0r)

Thing is, that DM article shows her stalking down the sidewalk like Godzilla on a mission for, what? To get her nails done. To make her look "pretty". For a couple hundred bucks, no doubt. She could put a smile on her face for $0, and look a lot prettier.

299 One of my brothers called, upset about the latest attempt on PDJT's life. I calmed him down, told him to give thanks to God for preserving our president, then we chatted a while... of course, the subject of our libtarded sister came up. (She has shunned us, due to differing political views and has made no secret of her wish for his @ss@ssin@tion)

Asked bro: "Should we send her a sympathy card?"

300 Tired of reading comments on the assassination thread.

Remarkable how much repetition there is. Horde mind, I guess.

My last comment had an unclosed italics, but apparently some COB fixed it. I was about to get in the barrel, but decided to escape back here to say my goodnites.

Amazing sometimes how this all-text forum communicates so much without video or pix. All we get is
Words
https://youtu.be/cvKmh_jWC5c

G'nite, y'all.

301 Not sure who the Asian gal was on Trump's left
Posted by: 496

From the previous thread:

the woman in the white dress is Weijia Jiang, president of the White House Correspondents Assoc. and she works for CBS News.
Posted by: Joemarine at April 25, 2026 10:28 PM (y171U)

302 J,C.Whitney is long gone. --- No joy.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 26, 2026 01:20 AM (jXvKN)

I checked. They still exist, but seem to be kind of a mashup of Rock Auto, JEGS, and Harbor Freight.

303 278 248 They need to let FLOTUS interrogate the guy.
10 min, no cameras, give her his knives.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport

---

Getting burnt is more painful. Give her an iron.

304 Her initials are MAO.
Posted by: Cow Demon at April 26, 2026 01:18 AM (pKv0r)

December 24, 2009
"Mao Zedong ....... found his way onto one of the ornaments adorning the official White House Christmas tree.

The first lady’s office, which is responsible for the display, says that the ornaments were decorated by outside community groups - and that it was unaware it was Mao in the picture."

305 I remember visiting the J.C. Whitney retail outlet in Illinois, in maybe 1983. It was massively unimpressive.

306 The crack jOuRnAlISts at MS Now are stressing that it is impossible to determine if the armed lunatic was on a mission to assassinate Trump and kill everyone else he could and that we must wait for eXpErTs to tell us what really happened.

Sigh.

307 They could have started the investigation of Cole as he lie there on the floor by peeing on him. They could talk to him, gently, advising him that this is the most respect he will receive and to prepare himself to give accurate information.

308
How can you... why would you... I mean how do you even... on one hand I commend you, I have neither the patience nor self-control to listen to even a single thought from one of these stooges. Is it curiosity? I'm not making fun here, I'm being completely earnest.

Posted by: ...

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lol see my #193. I got bored and thought I'd see what their talking heads were up to.

309 I’m waiting for their calls for increased “common sense gun safety laws”. As well as the day when I will crawl away.
Posted by: Cow Demon

If you insist!

https://youtu.be/qF9AARpa_o0

310 250 Not surprising with the mangione love fest that dudes would keep trying.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 26, 2026 12:30 AM (zZu0s)

All they have to do is not die, and then just wait for the next Democrat President to give them a full pardon, a medal, and an offer to roll over and settle for $MM if they sue.

/sarc... or is it?

311 287 276 Have any networks started with the whole "Trump needs to tone down his rhetoric" shtick yet?
...
I’m waiting for their calls for increased “common sense gun safety laws”. As well as the day when I will crawl away.

LIBs. What Price their Vision?

Cowardly LIBs quivering under the table clutching their
stress blankies -- not one LET's ROLL! Not one, capable of Opposing Evil because it is Evil, of upholding Good for being GOOD.


LIB America250/FAIL:
"The difference between a civilian and a citizen? A citizen accepts personal responsibility for the safety of the body politic, of which he is a member, defending it, if need be, with his life. The civilian does not."

First into the bunkers, not because they Value their own Lives but rather to displace someone else who does.


LET'S GO BRANDON!
END LIB STRATEGIC INSANITY (and their Civilizaiton) FOREVER.
https://iran.liveuamap.com/

312 It's tiresome these people speaking out in favor of violence and murder. Aggressively advocating the murder of another human being must be against the law.

313 The crack jOuRnAlISts at MS Now are stressing that it is impossible to determine if the armed lunatic was on a mission to assassinate Trump and kill everyone else he could and that we must wait for eXpErTs to tell us what really happened.

Sigh.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions.


If it wanted to just kill random people with no real intent beyond that then it would have just put on a dress and attached a school.
Or do you really believe it thought it was just going to shotgun some balloons at a random wedding party or whatever was going on that day? Like a clown, at a kids party, being funny?

Pure propaganda for others with TDS so they too can pretend that they are also stupid and confused.

314 Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 26, 2026 01:30 AM (n7rxJ)

Ah

315 305 I remember visiting the J.C. Whitney retail outlet in Illinois, in maybe 1983. It was massively unimpressive.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
--

It was the catalog, that huge catalog full of ...everything. Dreams.

316 It was the catalog, that huge catalog full of ...everything. Dreams.

Posted by: Braenyard


I am disappointed that I never got my 'curb feelers'.

317 It was the catalog, that huge catalog full of ...everything. Dreams.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 26, 2026 01:37 AM (jXvKN)

You got that right!

318 Not to be outdone by CNN the WSJ publishes:

According to the Wall Street Journal, the shooter at tonight’s White House Correspondents Dinner had a rifle and a magazine, per eyewitness accounts.

319 The shooter was from CA. How'd he get a gub in DC?

320
Ah
Posted by: ...

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Strictly anthropological.

321 Right now, in a windowless subterranean conference room in Falls Church VA, DNC operatives are fabricating the spin that they will roll out Sunday re: the latest attempt on Trump's life.

By Monday the would-be assassin will be a MAGA type Zionist transphobe, and Trump will have brought this shit on himself.

322 The shooter was from CA. How'd he get a gub in DC?
Posted by: 496

Indiana en route.

323 Strictly anthropological.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 26, 2026 01:41 AM (n7rxJ)

Would rather it be archaeological, IYKWIM

324 According to the Wall Street Journal, the shooter at tonight’s White House Correspondents Dinner had a rifle and a magazine, per eyewitness accounts.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 26, 2026 01:39 AM (jXvKN)

LOL I assume it was The Economist

325 And ah now, for something entirely different:

https://tinyurl.com/j6na99a7

326
Would rather it be archaeological, IYKWIM
Posted by: ...

===============

Heh, with a specialty in extinct cultures.

327 Hasan Piker: "KiII the motherf*ckers. Let the streets soak in their red, capitalist bIood!"

3 days ago, the NYT promoted him

328 The shooter was from CA. How'd he get a gub in DC?
Posted by: 496 at April 26, 2026 01:40 AM (z9zfD)

I can tell that you're a lovely person, who never had the need or desire to do something dreadful.

Should the need ever arise, it's generally easiest to have all the necessary tools placed ahead of time, or at least have someone ready to hand them off to you once you reach your destination.

You could also just drive across country with it, but you run the risk of getting pulled over by cops in small towns who don't like out of state plates, have quotas to fill, etc. Or you could get into am accident.

329 And ah now, for something entirely different:

https://tinyurl.com/j6na99a7

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 26, 2026 01:50 AM (jXvKN)

When a fish grabs your thigh, like a real handsy guy,
That's Remora!

330 Tammy al-Thor at April 26, 2026 01:54 AM (Vvh2V)
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Spot on.

331 313 The crack jOuRnAlISts at MS Now are stressing that it is impossible to determine if the armed lunatic was on a mission to assassinate Trump and kill everyone else he could and that we must wait for eXpErTs to tell us what really happened.
...
If it wanted to just kill random people with no real intent beyond that then it would have just put on a dress and attached a school.
Or do you really believe it thought it was just going to shotgun some balloons at a random wedding party or whatever was going on that day? Like a clown, at a kids party, being funny?
...
Pure propaganda for others with TDS so they too can pretend that they are also stupid and confused.


Even as Wave after Wave of (T)error appear over the horizon as so many luftwaffe during the battle of britain LIBs will continue to deny their point of origin, or even that we could possibly know the intent of each pilot -- even as they shriek and demand that we not only sponsor our Adversaries, but actively Defend them as well...

LET'S ROLL.
LET'S GO BRANDON.
https://iran.liveuamap.com/

332 Tammy - it's the 'hand-off' scenario I was contemplating. I wonder if this guy had help.

333 It's time to say goodnight. Glad the president and all are OK. 'night.

334 327 Hasan Piker: "KiII the motherf*ckers. Let the streets soak in their red, capitalist bIood!"

3 days ago, the NYT promoted him
Posted by: Braenyard


He'll be a keynote speaker at the Democratic Convention.

335 334 327 Hasan Piker: "KiII the motherf*ckers. Let the streets soak in their red, capitalist bIood!"
...
3 days ago, the NYT promoted him
...
He'll be a keynote speaker at the Democratic Convention.

...when the filth of all their corruption foams up around their waists the LIBs will all look up and cry out: SAVE US!

And Trump will whisper. NO.
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-LIBsTheBotchmen

336 Perhaps of interest:

tinyurl.com/8v92wr8e

Was the WHCD sh00ter licensed? Were either of his weapons registered?

/s

337 Oh, not licensed, but "permitted"...

338 That's a long drive from Torrance to DC with firearms.

https://shorturl.at/eLhwO

339 Oh, I missed the movie thread, between weeding the yard and then the journoliars' dinner shooter.

>> 59 So many books I would love to see as movies. But the process of turning them into a screenplay would harm a bunch of them. (If for no other reason than a lot of interior dialogue that couldn't easily be re-written as external dialog.)
Posted by: GWB at April 25, 2026 08:14 PM (fK5DA)

I see what people like Skyebrows are doing with GenAI, and admittedly he or she does music videos, but I think that going from that to movies would mostly be a matter of scale. With no cameras, no crew, not even voice actors, any difference in kind would be in the style, not the tools. Maybe a more elaborate workflow would be called for to keep a larger and more sophisticated project moving to completion, but it's not a category error like the difference between shooting a Rihanna music video and a Transformers movie.

So, I think that it won't be long until we see actual full-length movies made by ordinary people like us, who just really like a story and can imagine what it should look and sound like, but have neither the skills nor the inclination for wrangling a cast and crew.

340 338 That's a long drive from Torrance to DC with firearms.
https://shorturl.at/eLhwO

LET'S ROLL.
Even as the cowardly libs run for cover.
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-signedSCHWARTZWALD

"Let's roll" the colloquialism that has been used extensively as a command to move and start an activity, attack, mission or project. They were the last recorded words of passenger Todd Beamer on board United Airlines Flight 93 during the September 11 attacks in 2001, before he and other passengers attempted to storm the cockpit and retake the plane from the hijackers. The slogan subsequently became a battle cry for American forces during the war on (T)error

Why?
Citizenship is not a birthright; it is a status earned

"The difference between a civilian and a citizen? A citizen accepts personal responsibility for the safety of the body politic, of which he is a member, defending it, if need be, with his life. The civilian does not."

341 I think that it won't be long until we see actual full-length movies made by ordinary people like us...
Posted by: SciVo

Looking forward to that! Especially movies that don't preach any emo-dei-woke horsecrap.

342 It’s a good thing that fkr didn’t work for C4 test prep.

343 Way too early to get up
See Ace put up a post atv10pm

344 Glad this nut utterly failed to hurt anyone. Makes it easier to smirk at the thought of all the correspondents & muckamucks in their luxurious finery and elitist extended-pinky attitudes diving desperately for the dirt. It is to chortle.

345 342 It’s a good thing that fkr didn’t work for C4 test prep.
Posted by: NC Ref at April 26, 2026 02:39 AM (/2Diw)

He doesn't seem very bright. I could picturing him trying to hack his way through interior walls to get at the ballroom, wondering why a claymore doesn't just punch through like he thought it would.

346 Haha, Cat came in for his midnight snack-- a bit wet! It's not raining. Neighbors down the road must have turned on their irrigation system.

Frost advisory tonight. Hope there's no damage to neighbors' system.

347 I'm dropping clauses. I could picturing him trying to hack his way through interior walls with a Scottish two-handed sword to get at the ballroom, wondering why a claymore doesn't just punch through like he thought it would.

348 Well, 0100 here. Time to hit the sack. Night, Horde. So very happy that no decent people were harmed by the Democrat would-be assassin.

349
Image: Cole Allen full frontal

https://tinyurl.com/nhdnpxhf

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2026 11:34 PM

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What is that image on the right where he's apparently bound up and naked on the floor with cops in the background? Is it real?

350 Glad this nut utterly failed to hurt anyone. Makes it easier to smirk at the thought of all the correspondents & muckamucks in their luxurious finery and elitist extended-pinky attitudes diving desperately for the dirt. It is to chortle.
Posted by: Late Night Lurker

It will be especially funny to see how they twist into knots, with some saying how *scary* it was, and others saying how "it was just a loud noise and nothing to be afraid of." LOL

351 What is that image on the right where he's apparently bound up and naked on the floor with cops in the background? Is it real?
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at April 26, 2026 02:58 AM (bpEIk)

Yes, that is real. Released by Trump. They stripped him naked in case he was wired or hiding a bomb. Standard practice.

Also, humiliation.

Dude is a failure in so many ways, it's hard to keep count.

Only a person who graduated from teachers college would think he could run past the Secret Service these days. I suspect he is a bit upset they didn't shoot his ass dead.

352 What is that image on the right where he's apparently bound up and naked on the floor with cops in the background? Is it real?
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at April 26, 2026 02:58 AM (bpEIk)

Yeah, I thought that odd, but my guess is they stripped him down. Said he was carrying a long gun, pistol and several knives. Keep digging until you stop finding stuff?

353
180 So...a teacher.
When will we hear from the NEA?
Posted by: Diogenes at April 25, 2026 11:49 PM

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The California Teacher's Union will insist that he get his pension while he's in prison. I'm not making this up, that's what they do.

354 😁JQ. &🩵

355 So, his plan was to shoot and kill any guards outside the room, break into the room and then shoot Trump while dodging fire from the agents IN the room?


This seems like a retarded plan.

356 183 Tonight many of the media were in the line of fire and were shown to be scared sh!tless for their own safety.

They can report honestly, that they hid under their tables at the sound of gunfire, or they can continue with their ridiculous script that this wasn't a real danger and that Trump deserves this constant threat regardless of collateral damage (them in this case).
Posted by: old chick at April 25, 2026 11:50 PM (F3Dlr)

Hoping you are right.

357 Oh, this is just priceless. I asked the search engine 'assassination attempts by president:
The United States has seen numerous assassination attempts on its presidents, ranging from the early 19th century to the present day. Notable attempts include those on Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, William McKinley, and John F. Kennedy. Ronald Reagan was the only sitting president to survive an assassination attempt, while Donald Trump endured two attempts in 2024. These incidents highlight the dangers faced by the president of the United States and the various methods used by those seeking to change the government's policies.

Me: wtf?

358 >>The California Teacher's Union will insist that he get his pension while he's in prison. I'm not making this up, that's what they do.
------

Asset forfeiture. Take his pension and use it to fund Secret Service. LOL

And send this asshoe to Gitmo for.. questioning.

359 355 So, his plan was to shoot and kill any guards outside the room, break into the room and then shoot Trump while dodging fire from the agents IN the room?


This seems like a retarded plan.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone


But in the movie reel in his head, it was a fool proof plan!

360 This seems like a retarded plan.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 26, 2026 03:06 AM (zZu0s)

Teacher's college. Nuff said.

361 >>>These incidents highlight the dangers faced by the president of the United States and the various methods used by those seeking to change the government's policies.

Me: wtf?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone

>Make no mistake, the IRGC has made attempts to get Trump. Payback is a bitch. It's personal, not some wild cowboy dance hall party brawl over a chick.

362 181 Old Lay cocktail?
I love older women.
Posted by: GWB at April 25, 2026 11:49 PM (fK5DA)

We like older women too.

THE KIND YOU FIND SIX FEET UNDERGROUND.

363 Hakeem Jeffries can say he wants "maximum warfare everywhere.All the time."

Wasn't Sarah Palin condemned for talking about targeting congressman and saying reload?

364 359 355 So, his plan was to shoot and kill any guards outside the room, break into the room and then shoot Trump while dodging fire from the agents IN the room?

This seems like a retarded plan.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone

But in the movie reel in his head, it was a fool proof plan!
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 26, 2026 03:20 AM (c711F)

*Could* have got "lucky"?

365 51 It appears that no one at the party knew shots were fired until someone yelled shots fired. You can see the president and his entourage seated at the table as an SS man shows Trump a note before the evacuation.

https://tinyurl.com/26p2s292

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2026 10:12 PM (jXvKN)

That's the event entertainer Oz Pearlman engaged in a mentalist reveal.

366
264 And here's an article on Malia Obama going without a bra. (pics included) Charming, much like a young image of her mother.

https://tinyurl.com/yp37nma8

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 26, 2026 12:54 AM (jXvKN)

Talk about resting bitch face.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 26, 2026 12:57 AM

------------

She truly is the entitled, resentful, lantern-jawed image of her mother. I'm expecting great things, by which I mean small stupid things, from her.

367 Pixy's up! (at https://ai.mee.nu)

368 Finally can sit down and do a nightcap.

369 Howdy, Bers! Hope ya had a fun jam tonight

370 And here's an article on Malia Obama going without a bra. (pics included) Charming, much like a young image of her mother.

https://tinyurl.com/yp37nma8

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 26, 2026 12:54 AM (jXvKN)

Talk about resting bitch face.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 26, 2026 12:57 AM

Shit man, even a resting bitch face is horrified at that one.

371 Howdy, Bers! Hope ya had a fun jam tonight

Posted by: JQ at April 26, 2026 03:40 AM (rdVOm)

Actually, it was pretty good.

372 She truly is the entitled, resentful, lantern-jawed image of her mother. I'm expecting great things, by which I mean small stupid things, from her.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at April 26, 2026 03:38 AM (eQ0fC)

How is it that neither of those spoiled brats look a thing like dear old dad?

373 Malaria O-zero:

youtu.be/oIAkRVBS-0U

374 She truly is the entitled, resentful, lantern-jawed image of her mother. I'm expecting great things, by which I mean small stupid things, from her.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at April 26, 2026 03:38 AM (eQ0fC)

How is it that neither of those spoiled brats look a thing like dear old dad?

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 26, 2026 03:44 AM (DwqWV)

He's no match for the wookie gene.

375 How is it that neither of those spoiled brats look a thing like dear old dad?
Posted by: tcn in AK

That's not quite fair-- we don't know their real dad.

376 December 24, 2009
"Mao Zedong ....... found his way onto one of the ornaments adorning the official White House Christmas tree.

The first lady’s office, which is responsible for the display, says that the ornaments were decorated by outside community groups - and that it was unaware it was Mao in the picture."
Posted by: ... at April 26, 2026 01:27 AM (vE0+H)

There’s nothing to do in the White House but eat, sleep,and shit.

377 363: Sarah Palin has been condemned for absolutely everything. Because.

378 262 15 And here's an article on Malia Obama going without a bra. (pics included) Charming, much like a young image of her mother.

https://tinyurl.com/yp37nma8

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 26, 2026 12:54 AM (jXvKN)

https://archive.is/nT4eV

379 The Obamas are a family of no-talent grifters on the taxpayers' dime.

Have they invented the cure for cancer? Solved climate change? Soaring rhetoric has not solved the homeless problem or world hunger. Have they improved race relations?

380 312 It's tiresome these people speaking out in favor of violence and murder. Aggressively advocating the murder of another human being must be against the law.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 26, 2026 01:33 AM (jXvKN)

It’s immoral, and that’s fine, for it shows you who to avoid at all costs. Let them speak out. Then stay the hell away. Above all, do not give them any political power.

381 from the Malia article:

The 27-year-old daughter of Michelle and Barack Obama flaunted tradition by going bra-free in a black tank top matched with a pair of baggy pants and flip flops

382 How is it that neither of those spoiled brats look a thing like dear old dad?
Posted by: tcn in AK

Sorry. You're right anyway-- I found a pic of their dad:

tinyurl.com/y84cb4wh

383 from the Malia article:

The 27-year-old daughter of Michelle and Barack Obama flaunted tradition by going bra-free in a black tank top matched with a pair of baggy pants and flip flops

Posted by: m at April 26, 2026 03:55 AM (8NTVk)

What tradition? A loin cloth and a bone in her fucking nose? She dresses like half the chicks out there in her generation.

384 Welp, it's late.

Good night, horde.

385 Barry Soetoro is Angela Davis with a bathhouse membership card. Commies need some loving too.

386 Pixy's up!

387 383 from the Malia article:

The 27-year-old daughter of Michelle and Barack Obama flaunted tradition by going bra-free in a black tank top matched with a pair of baggy pants and flip flops

Posted by: m at April 26, 2026 03:55 AM (8NTVk)

What tradition? A loin cloth and a bone in her fucking nose? She dresses like half the chicks out there in her generation.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 26, 2026 03:58 AM (snZF9)

Whoa. They presumably meant 'flouted', but that would have been false, so they... accidentally got it right? Two wrongs canceled, and despite themselves, they correctly noted that she 'flaunted' a stereotypical look.

388 387 383 Whoa. They presumably meant 'flouted', but that would have been false, so they... accidentally got it right? Two wrongs canceled, and despite themselves, they correctly noted that she 'flaunted' a stereotypical look.
Posted by: SciVo at April 26, 2026 04:32 AM (Sy6m/)

HA!

flaunt
verb
display (something) ostentatiously, especially in order to provoke envy or admiration or to show defiance: newly rich consumers eager to flaunt their prosperity.
• (flaunt oneself) dress or behave in a sexually provocative way.

flout
verb [with object]
openly disregard (a rule, law or convention): these same companies still flout basic ethical practices.

389 usage
Flaunt and flout may sound similar but they have different meanings.

Flaunt means ‘display ostentatiously,’ as in ‘tourists who liked to flaunt their wealth’, while flout means ‘openly disregard (a rule or convention),’ as in ‘new recruits growing their hair and flouting convention’.

It is a common error, recorded since around the 1940s, to use flaunt when flout is intended, as in ‘the young woman had been flaunting the rules and regulations’

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The Alan Trustman Affair [Lex]

Most people don’t know the name Alan Trustman. But they do know The Thomas Crown Affair starring Steve McQueen. Alan Trustman wrote that movie, and his story as a screenwriter is at once inspiring and infuriating.

I was friendly with him, and that itself is an inspiring and infuriating story. I had lost touch with him the past few years, but recently my father gave me Alan’s obituary, which he saw in The Boston Globe. Alan died on March 5th at the age of 95.

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I graduated from Boston University’s film school in 1998 where I concentrated in screenwriting. In the early 2000s, I teamed with another writer to pen a number of scripts which we shopped to Hollywood. Many of our screenplays were Boston-set, of the true-crime or suspense variety.

Though his career as a Hollywood scribe was long since over, Alan Trustman, a Beantown native, was someone you sought out if you wanted to discuss Boston crime stories. I can’t remember how I first got in touch with him, but in the early 2000s we began to correspond by email.

Before the days of doxxing, people were less guarded about protecting their locations, and I frequently noted the signature line of Alan’s emails, which listed his retirement address—a place called Fisher Island in Florida.

Our correspondence petered out, but in 2005 I met a woman who was to become my wife (eventually ex-wife). As the relationship deepened, I was invited by her father to visit him in Florida, Fisher Island to be exact.

Fisher Island is an islet off Miami Beach. You can walk around it in thirty minutes. Not everyone knows everyone on Fisher Island, but when I mentioned to my former father-in-law I had exchanged emails with Alan Trustman, who also lived on the island, it didn’t take long for him to track Alan down.

After that, I would see Alan a couple times per year. Maybe once in Florida and then sometimes when he was back in Brookline/Chestnut Hill for the summer, where my wife’s family lived, as did Trustman when not snow-birding.

At the time, I was still making attempts to sell my own scripts while paying the bills in the family real estate business. Alan’s advice to me was consistently –and bitterly—as follows: forget screenwriting, stick with real estate.

I always listened patiently but was annoyed. ‘You had your time in the sun’ I thought, so why attempt to talk me out of going for it? Why be so negative about a passion people spend many years cultivating?

In one sense he was correct: screenwriting is a tough row to hoe. You’re unlikely to be able to support a family pursuing it. Even if you can grab a little success, you’ll eventually hit a dry spell. I knew this to be true, having many screenwriting friends and acquaintances who were on top of the world after selling something one year and then broke or waiting tables the next. There are only a handful of writers who spend their entire careers living off the income screenwriting provides.

Even so, one can be realistic without being discouraging, and Alan routinely chose the latter. What irked me more was he had put almost no time into developing himself as a writer before rocketing to the top.

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One of the first lines in Alan’s obituary notes he had nothing to do with the film industry or any kind of creative writing until one night, in his mid-30s, he was so disgusted by a bad movie he saw, he vowed he could do better.

I never got the full story on how his script made it to Hollywood and eventually Steve McQueen, but Alan did work for a prominent law firm and probably a few calls via the old boys network got him access.

It’s a story that is inspiring because we have all been there. We see a movie (or many, many movies) that are horrible and say 'I can do better than that.'
But I was never able to dash something off, make a few phone calls, and leapfrog to the top. I would say Alan’s story is nearly unique in this regard, which is why it’s so frustrating.

According to the obituary, “Although he had never written a line except for contracts and legal briefs, Mr. Trustman spent every Sunday afternoon for two months hammering out a script about a bank heist. When the William Morris Agency quickly sold The Thomas Crown Affair script to United Artists, he felt like Lana Turner, the star who was discovered ‘sipping a malt in a drugstore.’”

Yes, there are discoveries in screenwriting every day. In fact, that’s how it almost always goes. A writer, struggling for years, finally gets his or her script to the right producer or an agent takes a shine to a screenplay and brings it to studios. When the sale is made, the nobody becomes the toast of the town.

Except, with Alan, he did it on his first try. Only a few months into his new endeavor he not only completed a script, but also sold it—a feature that actually got made (when so many get lost in development hell), snagging one of the biggest stars of the day.

I don’t know whether to celebrate an industry that picks winners and losers like this or feel thankful it could happen to anyone, at any time.

Over the years, as I have presumably become wiser, I’ve recognized the Alan Trustman path to success is an indictment of the system, not a cause to celebrate it.

All it really demonstrates is that Alan had a good idea and got that idea to the right person. I doubt the original script he wrote was earth shattering, but it was a good vehicle for McQueen and his agents recognized it. Alan was lucky he wasn’t rewritten and cast aside, but for most this is the rule.

I never understood this about Hollywood. How can you praise something so highly and laud the writer who birthed it but quickly bring in others to redo the work? Clearly you didn’t think the script you proclaimed to be superb was really that. You probably liked the idea and thought it could eventually be worked into a movie, but rather than admit this is how most scripts get selected, you pretend the screenplay and the writer are the finds of the century.

It’s a gestalt everyone in the system is in on, and the system will circle the wagons rather than admit its dishonesty. It’s like listening to professional wrestlers insist matches are not staged.

Part of the trick is Hollywood convincing you they know something more. That they can judge material and potential in a far better way than an outsider can. After 25 years of observing this, I can say with definitiveness, they cannot. If you doubt me look at the amount of movies produced each year. Maybe 10% are good to superior; the rest could have been written by the first 100 people in the Cambridge telephone book (hat tip to William Buckley).

These days, the better writing is to be found in television and independent cinema, but most successful, contemporary feature scribes working toward Hollywood glitter can’t pull off what Alan did. They do put in years before breaking through, but that still doesn’t mean what they produce is beyond the ken of most reasonably intelligent people.

Nevertheless, Alan’s story is a slap in the face to all the people who grinded for years before getting a seat at the table. And it’s even more of a blow to so many talented people who never got a break but possessed similar skills and ideas. Screenwriting success is maybe 20% talent and the rest luck and timing. But few in Tinseltown will cop to this.

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Why am I going on about Alan Trustman, a relatively minor player in the history of Hollywood? If I hadn’t come to know him personally, I might have nothing to say. But because he had instant success with minimal effort, while at the same time advising me to abandon my own dreams, his passing engendered many conflicting thoughts. Both anger and appreciation for his success, as well as the same for an industry that operates this way. I love movies and have devoted much of my life to the cinema in one form or another, but I hate the process by which many films are developed—and even more the lionization of that process.

I haven’t even discussed Steve McQueen and the movies Trustman wrote for him, The Thomas Crown Affair, and, perhaps, equally noteworthy, Bullitt. They are both solid movies, but I never was a McQueen guy. Nothing against him, but I suppose I’m more of a Lee Marvin or Charles Bronson and The Dirty Dozen fan as opposed to McQueen and The Great Escape.

Alan’s screenplays were also solid. He wrote a few more after he parted ways with McQueen, and his run as a successful screenwriter came to an end in the mid 1970s.

Would Alan have had the same success if he tried to break into the business today. I don’t think Trustman was the kind of high concept scribe every manager and producer is looking for these days. He wrote good screenplays with taut dialogue. They were well-structured and paced.

There really is something to be said for simplicity, and that may be why mainstream American movies are in such dire straights right now. Instead of telling interesting stories with clearly defined dramatic purposes, it’s a race to the bottom for the most surprising hook one can conjure. Either that or another sequel.

Originality is at an all-time low, and so perhaps Hollywood wouldn’t be a fit for a sui generis kind of writer like Alan. Whatever the case, rest in peace, Mr. Trustman. You have inspired and bedeviled me, and that is, perhaps, the mark of any effective writer.