Robert Smalls should be in Statuary Hall

Perhaps if you had a pair of testicles you would understand.

The people who created 40 Trillion in debt are angry that Elon Musk created 1 Trillion in wealth.

This is the greatest fucking concession speech in the history of the world. @spencerpratt

Sandwich Shop Test. If a guy makes a trillion dollars, and you want to take the trillion dollars, and you say you will use the trillion dollar better than the guy who makes it... Run a small sandwich shop at a continuous profit for five years. Then you can tell me your plan. Otherwise, it's not worth my time to even listen.

If you stacked all the dollar bills Elon has, it would be more than enough to build a waterslide long enough to deport Mamdani straight back to Uganda.

The CA Legislature tried to strike these words from the state constitution in 2020 (put there by Prop 209 in 1996). The voters smacked them down when 57.23% said NO—despite the YES campaign outspending the NO team by more than 14 to 1. Now they’re trying again—calling it a “clarification” instead of an effort to gut the provision’s application to public education. Don’t believe them. If approved by the voters, this would be a major change. The aim is to pave the way for the recommendations of California’s Task Force on Reparations. The Task Force wants to make college free to African Americans no matter how well off their parents are and to get school districts to fund individual schools based on the race of the students who attend. @christopherrufo

You told us for years that bending a knee is the symbol of solidarity So go ahead, I’ll wait as you all bend a knee for Henry.

I could go on but I'll conclude today's intro with a notable mechanical D-Day veteran: "That's All, Brother," a Douglas C-47 Skytrain. This was the tip of the D-Day spear, the first US aircraft over the English channel on June 6, dropping paratroopers behind German lines. It fell into neglect after the war, but was rediscovered in 2006. A long careful restoration by the Commemorative Air Force ensued, and in 2018 I got to see my old Chicagoland hot rod buddy Chad Hill put the cherry on top: repainting its nose art and war stripes. No cheap cheesty vinyl decals; nose art painted with 1-Shot sign paint, just as it would have been done in 1944. And war stripes painted hastily with a roller brush, just as they would have on the eve of D-Day. After the restoration it repeated its mission on the 75th anniversary of D-Day, dropping paratroopers into France. And has made that journey a few more times since. When it's not on tour you can see it at the CAF in San Marcos Texas. By the way "That's All, Brother" comes from the title of a Mae West song, sort of a FU to Hitler. That's all pal. Ixnay, amscray, get lost.

Imagine being the sniveling moron who wrote this post only to have the project completed three weeks later. Actually finishing projects is a foreign concept for California Democrats.

I bucked all advice from my friends (and resisted my conservative bias) and decided to fully trust the Times journalists. As they left my home they asked that I not talk to any other outlets and I insisted then and repeatedly over the following weeks that I would keep my word and only share this story with them. But then the weeks dragged on. They kept coming back to us saying the editors needed more. I needed to go on the record (okay). We need more screenshots (okay). I met every bench mark they set, eager to provide more sources or evidence as needed. After the story went up I began to ask them … wait, where are the stories from the other women? Where are their accusations of sexual assault? Why am I the focus? Why are there 11 paragraphs dedicated to detailing my work history (more than has been published about Graham’s by far)? Why does it say “nobody could corroborate” when I offered them sources that COULD corroborate? Why did they include an out of context quote from a friend joking “do not call Graham” after I called off my wedding? (Because she knew I would never). Where were the screenshots they’d said they would use? Or the mention that I’d supported local democrats and that most of my family (and husband) are liberal? The editors said it was too much, they explained. The Times also failed to include any mention that I DID confide in multiple friends through the years that Graham had been abusive — long before he was running for office. Those friends confirm they told the Times so. It dawned on me that this really was a set up all along. The journalists I trusted who convinced me to share a story I never wanted to tell methodically delayed and twisted this into a gift to the Platner campaign. Violating the trust of his victims. Shattering the trust I placed in them with the most vulnerable story of my life. And at the end of my call with them I reluctantly accepted their insistence that this was still a powerful story and that I had done a brave thing. And I thanked them for all the hard work they had put into it. Still fawning after all these years.

Let me ruin your June for a second. Every year when National Gun Violence Awareness Month rolls around, the same people who have not read a single page of John Lott's 13,312-regression peer-reviewed study start posting pictures of children and demanding you feel responsible for deaths you did not cause and had nothing to do with. So. Let us talk about children. Since they brought it up. In 2006, the CDC recorded 642 accidental firearm deaths in the entire United States. For children under the age of ten — the number was 31. Thirteen under age five. Eighteen between five and nine. Tragic? Absolutely. Every single one. But here is the number that will not appear on a single "Orange Friday" awareness post: 80. Eighty children under the age of five drown in bathtubs every year. Every. Single. Year. ALMOST THREE TIMES as many children drown in bathtubs annually as die from ALL firearm accidents combined — including adults. And forty more drown in five-gallon water buckets. The kind you buy at Home Depot for $4.99. I have given this information at talks and watched jaws drop, because people genuinely believe the number is in the thousands. They have been so thoroughly marinated in "gun violence awareness" content that their perception of actual risk is completely detached from reality. That is not an accident. That is the point of the campaign. Where is Bathtub Awareness Month? Where is the congressional hearing on five-gallon bucket control? Where is the hashtag? Where are the orange ribbons for the children who drowned while their parents were in the next room? There are none. Because the campaign was never about children. It was never about safety. If it were about safety, they would be equally outraged about cars — which killed 1,305 children that same year. Or fire. Or drowning. But they are not. The selective fury lands exclusively on firearms. And if you are a scientist, which I happen to be, you do not get to cherry-pick your data based on which conclusion you prefer. Quinn's Law Number Six: facts are the enemy of liberalism. Now let us talk about what the actual data says about guns and safety, because John Lott ran 13,000-plus statistical regressions across every county in America and the results are not ambiguous. Fifty-six percent of convicted felons surveyed in a ten-state study said they would NOT attack a target they believed was armed. Fifty-six percent. The deterrence is real, it is documented, and it functions whether or not a shot is ever fired. The firearm you carry protects your neighbor whether your neighbor knows it or not. When states passed right-to-carry laws, multiple-victim public shootings — what the media insists on calling "mass shootings" to maximize terror — dropped by 67 percent. Deaths in those events dropped by 75 percent. Injuries by 81 percent. States that adopted these laws virtually ELIMINATED mass public shootings within four to five years. The remaining events? They happened almost exclusively in the specific locations where guns remained banned. The gun-free zones. The places we hang the sign that only the law-abiding ever read. There were between 760,000 and 3.6 million defensive gun uses in the United States last year alone, depending on which of fifteen national polls you consult. A JAMA Network Open study from March 2025 estimated 489,000 DGUs in which a firearm was actually discharged. The Department of Justice's own National Crime Victimization Survey puts the conservative floor at 65,000 defensive uses per year against assaults, robberies, and home invasions. No dead body. No coverage. No awareness month. Here is one more number for you: 74. Seventy-four percent of convicted felons in a National Institute of Justice survey said they actively avoided homes they believed were occupied by armed residents. Criminals respond to incentives. That is not ideology — that is basic deterrence theory, and it is confirmed by the people who actually commit the crimes. I also want you to think carefully about something the Supreme Court already settled. DeShaney v. Winnebago County (1989). Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzales (2005). Two separate rulings establishing that the government has NO legal obligation to protect you as an individual. None. You are your own first responder. That is not my opinion — that is settled constitutional law from the highest court in this country. So the political class that just told you the government is not required to protect you... is also the one demanding you surrender the tool you use to protect yourself. I want fewer people dead. That is why I know the data. That is why I read the book. That is why I am furious every June when emotion and fundraising replace science and evidence in a "debate" that has actual life-or-death consequences for real people. You want to honor the children? Honor ALL of them. The ones who drowned. The ones who died in car crashes. And the ones who will never be born because a woman alone in her house at 2 a.m. had no way to stop what was coming through her door. But what do I know — I am only a published textbook author, a science teacher, a father of four, and a combat medic who spent his career reducing human suffering and who actually read the peer-reviewed data before forming an opinion. IF you agree: LIKE this post so the algorithm shows it to people who need to read it. SHARE this. COMMENT below — did you know the bathtub number? Or did the narrative keep that from you? Tell me. And if you want MORE of this -- the data, the history, the science, the stories -- JOIN Bski's Classroom community on X or YouTube. #MAGA #Veterans #Trump @JoJoFromJerz @GuntherEagleman @catturd2

Guys with cowboy hats generally have tans, and their hats have been worn at least once before. If this guy were any whiter, I'd have to wear shades … I do love the Yassir Arafat "just came in from work, didn't have time to shave" look, though. w.

Remember when Roy Cooper had Stacey Abrams campaign for him? Yeah, I remember that.

STOP trying to put America on permanent jet lag. Permanent DST means: darker winter mornings children waiting for school buses in darkness worse circadian disruption less natural morning light The human body runs on SUN time — not shopping time. End the clock changes if you want. But permanent STANDARD time is the biologically healthy option. Nature already created “daylight savings.” It’s called summer. Dear @SenateGOP @SenateDems @SenateFloor : please reject permanent DST.

A couple of years ago I was about to propose to my girlfriend. Ring in hand. Speech prepared. Everything ready. My roommate Joseph burst through the door out of nowhere, tripped over absolutely nothing, and fell face first through a glass table. Me: (ring still in hand) Me: (staring at Joseph on the floor) Me: (staring at the shattered table) Me: (staring at my girlfriend) Mood: gone. Joseph got a large piece of glass in his eye. Was walking around with a cotton pad over it for two months. I put the proposal on hold and helped him through the whole thing because that's what you do. Then one day Joseph was gone. My girlfriend was also gone. Together. Apparently they bonded during his recovery. Eloped without leaving a single note. I tried to find them. Never could. So if you've ever wondered why I'm not married right now. It's because if it hadn't been for cotton eye Joe I'd have been married a long time ago. Where did you come from. Where did you go. Where did you come from cotton eye Joe.

Charles Curran puts out another BANGER for Spencer Pratt. This one does not disappoint.

🚨 20 ARRESTS. ATTEMPTED MURDER. ONE MONTH OUT OF JAIL. THEN HE WALKED INTO A JET ENGINE — AND NEARLY TOOK 231 SOULS WITH HIM. ☠️👿✈️ In the shadow of Denver International’s perimeter fence, 41-year-old Michael Mott — a man with over 20 arrests dating back to 2002 — delivered the most savage indictment of our justice system yet. 2005: Arrested for attempted murder with a gun. Pleaded down to second-degree assault. Served just six years. In prison: Charged with felony assault with a weapon. Post-release: Domestic violence, felony menacing, burglary, assault on a peace officer. April 10, 2026 — one month before the incident — arrested again for felony trespass and resisting. Released. On May 8, he scaled an 8-foot barbed-wire fence, ignored the alarms (dismissed as “deer”), strolled calmly onto Runway 17L, and stepped directly into the path of Frontier Flight 4345, accelerating for takeoff to LAX. 231 passengers. Pilots aborting at 127 knots. Engine fire. Smoke-filled evacuation. Twelve injured. Mott? Sucked into the turbine and pulverized into pink vapor. The medical examiner ruled it suicide — but the real casualty was every principle of ordered liberty. This wasn’t a “tragedy.” It was the logical endpoint of a system that treats violent recidivists like redeemable nuisances instead of societal predators. Plea bargains dilute justice. Early releases recycle danger. “Compassion” for the criminal becomes indifference to the innocent. Physics, unlike our courts, does not negotiate with woke dipshidiot twatwaffles. A jet engine at takeoff thrust rendered the verdict that the law kept deferring. We don’t need more studies. We need a justice system that incapacitates the Michael Motts of the world before they force 231 strangers to pay the price. The passengers survived by a miracle, not by policy. How many more “miracles” before we admit the policy is the problem? #JetEngineJustice #RecidivistReckoning #20StrikesAndStillFree #FixTheSystemOrBurn #DenverAirportBreach #PublicSafetyFirst #NoMoreRevolvingDoors

Robert Smalls was born a slave in 1839. At age 14, His master hired him out to the owner of the steamship Planter in Charleston. In the early morning hours of May 13, 1862, Smalls (aged 22) freed himself, his crew, their families and 4 Confederate harbor defense cannons by commandeering the ship, and sailing it from the Confederate-controlled waters past Fort Sumter to the U.S. blockade that surrounded the harbor. He was later elected to the United States Congress as a Republican. Late in his life Democrats used lawfare to end his political career. I have a copy of The New Simms History of South Carolina published in 1940 and adopted as the official public school text book on SC history. It has an orange cover but, the cover should be white. It is definitely not a book written by the victors. It was written by the granddaughter of William Gilmore Simms, a famous antebellum pro slavery author, and it shows. A former slave Robert Smalls, a brave Civil War hero and Republican Congressman is not mentioned. Robert Smalls should be in Statuary Hall.

🚨 YOU CAN’T HATE THE MEDIA ENOUGH! Lesley Stahl and 60 Minutes just got caught. Western NC veterans and active-duty heroes — the same guys who flew helicopters into Swannanoa to save lives after Helene — were smeared as racist “white Christian nationalists.” These are the men and women who actually show up. 90% white, rural, Christian Appalachia — the backbone of North Carolina’s military service from WNC. They just hate us We can’t hate the media enough.

A reenactment of the Naval battle in Rome’s colosseum? Trump must be stopped!