Congratulations to Clarence Thomas, who this week will become the second-longest-serving Supreme Court Justice in history. Longevity is its own reward, but more important is that the 77-year-old Justice has served long enough to see his originalist view of the Constitution remake American law.
Some here will love this, and others absolutely will not. Andy Kessler in today’s WSJ lauding Tim Cook and globalization.
It was the perfect hourly salary arbitrage. Apple paid assemblers in China $2 an hour (today it’s $6) to sell phones to Americans making $37 an hour. Could the company have made iPhones in union-dominated Detroit? Sure, but they might have cost $3,000, and we’d be using Huawei phones instead. Another reason tariffs are dumb.
Editorial in Slate (remember them?) about how Cole Allen’s manifesto is about as radical as the author’s mom’s Facebook page.
And from that he concludes… Trump is to blame. Of course. Trump did that to everyone, is his thesis, drove normal people to become potential killers by his mean tweets. It’s always been surprising to me that people can say something and seemingly not hear what they themselves are saying.
This leaves me with only one logical conclusion about the state of the union. Amid the decline of the American quality of life—to say nothing of the phantasmal, reality-blinkering disruptions of the modern internet, and the collective understanding that, within this political gridlock, nothing, on principle, can ever get better—I find myself wondering if people we once perceived as “normal” are, in fact, considerably more strange than they ever were before. That is the only way I can make sense of a Bluesky Lib going postal, or a podcast bro opening fire on West 54th Street. I think of the unfazed reaction the world at large had to this most recent Trump assassination attempt, how everyone quickly settled back into Wolves vs. Nuggets, or more grimly, instinctually asserted that the whole situation was a false-flag psyop. More to the point, I think about how I know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that a huge swath of solid-blue mainstream liberals—those same wine moms at the rally—wish that Allen had found a better vantage point to mount his rifle. This is the status quo we are left with after 10 long years of MAGA, our norms and institutions chipped down to the bone. The man in the chair has foreclosed the future itself, and millions of Americans, passively or otherwise, want him dead for it.
Cole Allen is a tragic story of a brilliant, gifted and able young man whose (psychotic?) delusions yielded him a life behind bars, possibly in solitary confinement, if he is adjudicated sane.
@NC — The author of the Slate editorial may have resolved the problem without realizing it… He refers to people “perceived as normal…” twisting-off as we see here. Maybe the problem is one of perception and that flawed perception makes it difficult for them to see the problems lurking just below the surface.
I often wonder if there is some evolutionary trade-off by which a person is endowed with great cognitive ability, but at the expense of some of the more mundane abilities related to handling daily life as a social animal. I know nothing about such things, but that question arises in me when this stuff happens.
I don’t think it’s possible to ascertain whether he was either psychotic or delusional in a clinical sense. More than likely he was simply a bad person with a corrupt character and moral sensibility who made bad choices.
I believe that, more often than not, the commission of evil deeds is attributable to a choice to commit evil and not to mental illness.
Apparently Iran just launched 4 missiles at the UAE…time to stop pussyfooting around with them.
physucsguy – RUBBLE BOUNCE
In the wider strategic context of this war against the IRI now reduced somewhat to straggling bigwigs of the IRGC with a handful of Iranian clerics and politicos in their train — if we may be permitted to suppose a wider context ab initio — couldn’t it be the case that beyond merely subduing the IRI nuclear weapons aspirations along with their offensive missile and drone forces, Pres. Trump seeks to weaken the other members of their “resistance” orbit and their allies (China, NK, Russia), and perhaps the timing of Trump’s decisions depend on his views regarding these ends as well? I’d suggest as much, anyhow, for the whole may not be quite so neat as the surface appearances may imply.
Physicsguy, re Iran missiles,
“The UAE’s Defense Ministry said in a social media publication that three “loitering munitions” were “intercepted over the country’s territorial waters,” with a fourth falling into the sea.”
Not a big deal but I also hope it gets the President to take action.
Regarding the sprinting assassin, just because he’s as crazy as the Bat-Shite Media, does that mean he’s legally insane?
(If it does, then building new nut houses—state of the art, of course—will quickly become the latest leading-edge growth industry…)
Probably what Trump oughtta do is grant the guy clemency ON CONDITION that he pledges to join the US Olympic track team (and promises not to self-identify as Kayla Ellen)…”for DJT is a compassionate so-and-so”…. Yep, the Democrats’ll go nuts—as they hysterically accuse DJT of going soft on crime AND being anti-trans!! Just imagine the frenzy…
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And for Vikings’ fans…
As a programmer in San Francisco I’ve met some unusually bright people, who are used to being able to out-think and out-talk most people around them.
A drawback I’ve noticed is that it may diminish their ability to question their own thinking, motivations and conclusions.
My guess about Allen is that after he graduated from Caltech, things somehow didn’t work out for him, then, egged on by the Democrat media, he funneled his anger into TDS.
I doubt there is anything clinically wrong with Allen. But I could be wrong. 🙂
Agreed.
A Federal Judge just apologized to Allen for the bad jail conditions. What in the Ever Loving, No, I can’t go on. Won’t offend those here and our Hostess with what I really want to say.
@huxley:
I think you are wrong about Allen. He synthesized a deranged castle out of very thin air. His evolution parallels classical parnoid schizophrenia.
I don’t see any sign that the sprinting shooter was mentally deranged beyond what is found all over left-wing social media.
Bluesky – Cloud Coo Coo Land, chock a block full of malice.
Speaking not professionally but personally, I see zero evidence of mental illness in the legal sense on Allen’s part. His opinions are garden-variety Democrat stuff, shared by enormous numbers of people, including Democrat office-holders. His “manifesto” sounds rational in that sense. The only thing that differentiates him from millions of others who would have applauded him had he succeeded was that he acted rather than just talking or writing, and his plan was likely to be a failure. But inadequate planning is no evidence of insanity.
@CICERO : I think you are wrong about Allen. He synthesized a deranged castle out of very thin air. His evolution parallels classical parnoid schizophrenia.
First, FWIW, paranoid schizophrenia is an outdated term no longer used in the DSM. I’m a layman so I’ll just stick with crazy.
Second, what “deranged castles … synthesized out of thin air”, presumably gleaned frokm his manifesto, are you talking about?
His manifesto is lucid, even polite, and reads like boilerplate from MSM and Democrat talking points. If he is clinically crazy so are a substantial number of Democrats and pundits. Is that how you see things?
Third, two members of my family went crazy, barking even. My mother believed a fleet of young men in white vans were following her around town, her landlord was putting LSD into the air she was breathing, and that the lights from planes overhead were sending her messages.
I know less about my cousin but I remember him going on about how he thought his father was also the sun, then laughing loudly and strangely.
They were both put into mental health facilities for a period of time. Neither recovered. They just sat around, smoking cigarettes, drinking coffee and taking their psych meds until they died. My mother sped up the process.
I think you are entirely wrong about Cole Allen.
Allen is a jabberjay they were the creatures that were the recording devices in the hunger games
Not very original he just recited some of ro khanna and chris murphy maybe mark kellys greatest hits
I have to agree with Huxley here, as an autist with some experience reading up on the matter or doing volunteer work for asylums. What chilled and horrified me about Allen’s manifesto was not the radicalism or murderous intent but how relatively lucid and even ethical
It was compared to what many others spew. Even “respectable” “mainstream” analysts. He seems to have thought things through far more than most, down to trying to limit civilian casualties and collateral damage. He displayed no real signs of mental illness I could see, and certainly less than I suffer or many others do.
He we obviously unmoored from reality to a significant degree, but not due to any major psychosis from himself but due to living in a bubble and making the major mistake of taking the left and Vichy right at their words. He started with his premises and worked logically and even in a very twisted sense morally forward from them. He was not the one that conjured castles out of thin air, and he is far from the worst susceptible to them as we see with scum shilling for October 7th.
In another generation or other other inputs be might have been a brave or even heroic mediocrity like Nathan Hale. But he made the mistake of drinking from the poisoned wells and believing what they showed him.
This was not a crisis of insanity in contrast even to malevolent cases like Iryna Z’s murderer. If the situation is insane, it is not because of what is found in DSM or the asylums but what is spewed in “education” and “news.”
Red squaw doesnt dissapoint in her part in the spirit airlines debacle
The tucson shooter laughner entertained really baroque notions he was freed because of sheriff dupnik
Matt van Swol tells the truth about what happened up here in the mountains far better than any “mainstream” news source. Neither the federal government nor the state did a good job in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Helene. As van Swol says, volunteers and volunteer groups helped keep people fed and alive up here.
Roy Cooper mishandled this storm just as badly as he did a previous bad hurricane in East Carolina, where some people STILL have not had their homes rebuilt as promised.
That Democrat with the Wehrmacht grandfather forgot that “ordinary” German soldiers didn’t need to “escape” to Brazil.
may diminish their ability to question their own thinking, motivations and conclusions.
It is a delusion wide spread in academia, many are brilliant people who never doubt the superiority of their own views and morals. There is a pompous edge to it all that is annoying. And then they head off into the bsky swamp, or HuffPost desert.
The US Navy destroyed 6 swift Iranian attack boats implicated in attacking a ship in the Persian Gulf.
Sad to say there is barely a whisper over this success and extraction of pain from the Theocrats to be seen in “the news.”
Hoist a drink and salut them!
I did not watch the video, but the photo at the top of the post seems to indicate the Her Majesty was stacked!
NYPost sets the threat in context: “Adm. Brad Cooper, head of US Central Command (CENTCOM), told reporters in a press call that while Iran historically has deployed ‘between 20 and 40 small boats’ to threaten commercial shipping in the strait, ‘Today, we saw just six and eliminated them quickly’.”
The story miguel linked needs to be read, and spread.
The hurricane hit in late September 2024.
I date my distrust of the Media (MSM aka Democrats-with-bylines) from the late 1970s, when “60 Minutes” ran a story about a local controversy that we actually knew something about.
Yeah, they have been “curating” the news for a long time.
Out of every disgusting, dishonest piece of filth the mainstream media has produced about Hurricane Helene…
This is the worst.
60 Minutes has NEVER done a story on the families FEMA denied.
They NEVER mentioned the Amish, who are STILL in the mountains rebuilding homes 550 days later.
They NEVER mentioned Jake Jarvis, who has worked 550 days STRAIGHT FOR FREE for Hurricane Helene victims.
Instead, they dug up some fringe conspiracy angle to smear the people who actually showed up as White Nationalists.
I’m so angry.
Let me tell you what 60 Minutes will NEVER report on
I was there. I lived it. I am still here.
I shared every story I could find.
Me, my wife, hundreds of volunteers delivered RVs to mothers holding babies who were sleeping in TOOL SHEDS AND TENTS in the freezing cold, in the mountains.
Because their homes had been ripped off the side of a mountain and washed down the French Broad.
So tell me 60 Minutes… WHERE WAS THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT?
Tell me, WHY did all these volunteers NEED to show up?
Any thoughts on that?!!!!!
Any investigation AT ALL into the federal or state government’s response to Hurricane Helene?
Please tell me… if the federal government was doing such a GREAT JOB, why did we need to put victims in RVs…
…A MONTH AFTER THE HURRICANE?!!!!!!!
Literally every single victim you talk to in Western North Carolina has a horror story about dealing with FEMA…
…and guess who they will all say actually cam through for them?
Neighbors.
Church groups.
The Amish.
The Cajun Navy.
Shawn Hendricks.
Samaritan’s Purse.
MercuryOne.
The Mission Mules hauling insulin up washed-out roads, ONLY ACCESSIBLE by mules.
Greg Biffle burning his own fuel in helicopters.
Veterans like Adam Smith who organized helicopter rescues with other veterans BY HIMSELF and then was demonized by the media for it.
Volunteers like Jake Jarvis working TO THIS DAY, 550 days later without ANY PAY AT ALL.
THOSE ARE THE STORIES FROM HURRICANE HELENE WORTH TELLING.
But 60 Minutes won’t tell ANY OF THEM.
Because the truth makes the federal government the villain and the “deplorables” are actually the heroes in this story and they can NEVER admit that.
So instead they smeared the rescuers as white nationalists.
This is unforgivable.
I was there. I saw it with my own eyes.
And I will BE DAMNED if I let CBS rewrite the history of what happened to my mountains.
VIDEO (55 seconds) WYFF (NBC affiliate)
7:26 AM · May 4, 2026
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60 Minutes – Newsmakers
Some white nationalists swoop in after natural disasters, trying to soften their image while offering help
By Lesley Stahl
May 3, 2026 / 7:00 PM EDT / CBS News
A surge of tornadoes tore across a large swath of the country in April, carving a path of destruction. Over 200 tornadoes hit over 20 states, closely clustered in the last couple of weeks. And hurricane season is just around the corner.
Our story tonight is about what happens after these natural disasters. A pattern has emerged in recent years in which militias, conspiracists, and white supremacists show up to hard-hit communities — as they did last week in Texas — offering help. But they’ve been called disaster tourists who are out to sow doubt in government, soften their own image and gain followers.
September 2024. Hurricane Helene barreled through North Carolina with forces so powerful, it nearly wiped the town of Bat Cave off the map, lifting homes and toppling trees.
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Sheriff Lowell Griffin: These folks that we’re talking about, they were in the minority. However that minority can create chaos. And that’s what we ran into.
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Lesley Stahl: Would you say “white supremacist?”
Robert Rundo: No. I think that’s like a slander-ish term.
Lesley Stahl: But “My people” are white people. European white people.
Robert Rundo: Right. And there’s plenty of organizations that are geared towards other ethnic groups, right? If we don’t look out for ourselves, who is?
Lesley Stahl: I know that your organization has gone to floods, fires, hurricanes. What if you came upon someone who wasn’t white, but is suffering because of the flood?
Robert Rundo: Like if there was, like, a guy in a fire, would I give him water? Yeah. I’d probably give him some water.
Lesley Stahl: When you go into these areas, are you recruiting?
Robert Rundo: We hand out flyers, you know. If somebody wants to contact us later, that’s fine. But just us showing up changes somebody’s opinion, someone’s mind so the next time when they put something out and they say “These evil guys,” they say “Wait a second. That’s the guy who came when my house was on fire and helped me out.”
[narrator] Many of these outside groups want to build, as one of their posts states, “a pro-white parallel system.” One of the more prominent white supremacist groups that showed up in North Carolina was Patriot Front. They cut down trees and handed out bread.
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Lesley Stahl: What do you say to people who argue that you go in, the purpose is to have some video shot of you handing out some water and then you leave and the whole point was for– to get that video so that you could post it.
Robert Rundo: That kinda sounds like—what everyone does, right? That’s what a president.. that when he goes into a community they have the cameras there. So is that bottle of water actually being handed out? Absolutely it is. Does our guys actually care and feel for the people they’re helping out. Absolutely. Do we also video it and put it out there to show another side of us? Absolutely.
BTW, Stahl did mention Samaritan’s Purse as being a group that came and stayed.
But nothing about the rest of them that Matt listed.
Rundo spoke very openly about his group and his ideology, and he is out-and-proud as a White Nationalist (he rejected the label “supremacist”) but the clear indication from Stahl was that, despite the Sheriff admitting “they were in the minority,” the few that Stahl talked about were the MOST IMPORTANT PART of the story.
And she never did get around to talking about those groups in Texas that she started with.
Stahl: “But they’ve been called disaster tourists who are out to sow doubt in government, soften their own image and gain followers.”
Sounds like most of the Democrats on the news anytime a Republican is President.
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@ Kate – thanks for the upvote on miguel’s link.
More about Matt van Swol:
Matt Van Swol
@mattvanswol
Former Nuclear Scientist for US Dept of Energy | Ex-Photographer for
@apple, @united, and @hyatt
Asheville, NC
realmattvanswol.com
Joined March 2020
I wish that entries in X accounts were listed chronologically, but I have scanned down through most of them. A small sample.
I am now a registered Republican.
7:01 AM · Sep 18, 2025
At minute 2:06 in the video: who is the women walking up behind Elizabeth, forced to drag her own dress train by herself, unaided, etc.? The Queen Mother?
Mike Plaiss on May 4, 2026 at 10:24 am: from the WSJ article cited:
” “Tim Cook Was Great for Apple Investors. He Was Not as Great for America.” ”
Since my wife bought us some Apple stock back in (about) 1992, it now constitutes the largest portion of our retirement portfolio. Perhaps too large a portion, but made smaller as we gift (split) shares to our family members. That allows us and them to help make America better and greater, too.
“Another reason tariffs are dumb.” But if Andy Kessler wants to display his TDS, he should at least realize tariffs used solely for income or economic purposes might be dumb, but when used for geopolitical leverage, they do seem to come in handy. His pro-globalization stance seems to also avoid consideration of the national security and medical and food security issues that have arisen, especially since 2009 and 2020. I believe back in Adam Smith’s time they used to call the discipline “political economy” in greater recognition that not all decisions could be made about money in isolation of other society needs and issues.
I guess that puts me in the middle on the globalization issue, overall.
Niketas Choniates on May 4, 2026 at 10:53 am:
“Editorial in Slate (remember them?) …”
They are still around?! Well, I am glad you are willing to tread those murky waters so I don’t have to.
…”It’s always been surprising to me that people can say something and seemingly not hear what they themselves are saying.” I presume that is surprising to many of us, … and yet here we are.
SCOTTtheBADGER on May 4, 2026 at 9:34 pm said:
“I did not watch the video, but the photo at the top of the post seems to indicate the Her Majesty was stacked!” The man made (maketh) the dress; and the dress maketh the woman. I am told there was also a rib as an intermediary in there somewhere. Perhaps as a corset stay? 🙂
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Nice editorial this morning on Clarence Thomas. The guy who gets it right more often than any other.
The Triumph of Clarence Thomas
https://archive.fo/An5CM
Some here will love this, and others absolutely will not. Andy Kessler in today’s WSJ lauding Tim Cook and globalization.
We’re Going to Miss Tim Cook
https://archive.fo/At47M
Editorial in Slate (remember them?) about how Cole Allen’s manifesto is about as radical as the author’s mom’s Facebook page.
And from that he concludes… Trump is to blame. Of course. Trump did that to everyone, is his thesis, drove normal people to become potential killers by his mean tweets. It’s always been surprising to me that people can say something and seemingly not hear what they themselves are saying.
Cole Allen is a tragic story of a brilliant, gifted and able young man whose (psychotic?) delusions yielded him a life behind bars, possibly in solitary confinement, if he is adjudicated sane.
@NC — The author of the Slate editorial may have resolved the problem without realizing it… He refers to people “perceived as normal…” twisting-off as we see here. Maybe the problem is one of perception and that flawed perception makes it difficult for them to see the problems lurking just below the surface.
I often wonder if there is some evolutionary trade-off by which a person is endowed with great cognitive ability, but at the expense of some of the more mundane abilities related to handling daily life as a social animal. I know nothing about such things, but that question arises in me when this stuff happens.
I don’t think it’s possible to ascertain whether he was either psychotic or delusional in a clinical sense. More than likely he was simply a bad person with a corrupt character and moral sensibility who made bad choices.
I believe that, more often than not, the commission of evil deeds is attributable to a choice to commit evil and not to mental illness.
Apparently Iran just launched 4 missiles at the UAE…time to stop pussyfooting around with them.
physucsguy – RUBBLE BOUNCE
In the wider strategic context of this war against the IRI now reduced somewhat to straggling bigwigs of the IRGC with a handful of Iranian clerics and politicos in their train — if we may be permitted to suppose a wider context ab initio — couldn’t it be the case that beyond merely subduing the IRI nuclear weapons aspirations along with their offensive missile and drone forces, Pres. Trump seeks to weaken the other members of their “resistance” orbit and their allies (China, NK, Russia), and perhaps the timing of Trump’s decisions depend on his views regarding these ends as well? I’d suggest as much, anyhow, for the whole may not be quite so neat as the surface appearances may imply.
Physicsguy, re Iran missiles,
“The UAE’s Defense Ministry said in a social media publication that three “loitering munitions” were “intercepted over the country’s territorial waters,” with a fourth falling into the sea.”
https://www.ibtimes.com/uae-says-it-intercepted-missiles-iran-first-since-ceasefire-began-3802315
Not a big deal but I also hope it gets the President to take action.
Regarding the sprinting assassin, just because he’s as crazy as the Bat-Shite Media, does that mean he’s legally insane?
(If it does, then building new nut houses—state of the art, of course—will quickly become the latest leading-edge growth industry…)
Probably what Trump oughtta do is grant the guy clemency ON CONDITION that he pledges to join the US Olympic track team (and promises not to self-identify as Kayla Ellen)…”for DJT is a compassionate so-and-so”…. Yep, the Democrats’ll go nuts—as they hysterically accuse DJT of going soft on crime AND being anti-trans!! Just imagine the frenzy…
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And for Vikings’ fans…
“Largest Viking Age Coin Hoard Ever Found In Norway Shocks Archaeologists”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/largest-viking-age-coin-hoard-ever-found-norway-shocks-archaeologists
Re: Cole Allen
As a programmer in San Francisco I’ve met some unusually bright people, who are used to being able to out-think and out-talk most people around them.
A drawback I’ve noticed is that it may diminish their ability to question their own thinking, motivations and conclusions.
My guess about Allen is that after he graduated from Caltech, things somehow didn’t work out for him, then, egged on by the Democrat media, he funneled his anger into TDS.
I doubt there is anything clinically wrong with Allen. But I could be wrong. 🙂
Agreed.
A Federal Judge just apologized to Allen for the bad jail conditions. What in the Ever Loving, No, I can’t go on. Won’t offend those here and our Hostess with what I really want to say.
@huxley:
I think you are wrong about Allen. He synthesized a deranged castle out of very thin air. His evolution parallels classical parnoid schizophrenia.
I don’t see any sign that the sprinting shooter was mentally deranged beyond what is found all over left-wing social media.
Bluesky – Cloud Coo Coo Land, chock a block full of malice.
Speaking not professionally but personally, I see zero evidence of mental illness in the legal sense on Allen’s part. His opinions are garden-variety Democrat stuff, shared by enormous numbers of people, including Democrat office-holders. His “manifesto” sounds rational in that sense. The only thing that differentiates him from millions of others who would have applauded him had he succeeded was that he acted rather than just talking or writing, and his plan was likely to be a failure. But inadequate planning is no evidence of insanity.
@CICERO : I think you are wrong about Allen. He synthesized a deranged castle out of very thin air. His evolution parallels classical parnoid schizophrenia.
First, FWIW, paranoid schizophrenia is an outdated term no longer used in the DSM. I’m a layman so I’ll just stick with crazy.
Second, what “deranged castles … synthesized out of thin air”, presumably gleaned frokm his manifesto, are you talking about?
His manifesto is lucid, even polite, and reads like boilerplate from MSM and Democrat talking points. If he is clinically crazy so are a substantial number of Democrats and pundits. Is that how you see things?
Third, two members of my family went crazy, barking even. My mother believed a fleet of young men in white vans were following her around town, her landlord was putting LSD into the air she was breathing, and that the lights from planes overhead were sending her messages.
I know less about my cousin but I remember him going on about how he thought his father was also the sun, then laughing loudly and strangely.
They were both put into mental health facilities for a period of time. Neither recovered. They just sat around, smoking cigarettes, drinking coffee and taking their psych meds until they died. My mother sped up the process.
I think you are entirely wrong about Cole Allen.
Allen is a jabberjay they were the creatures that were the recording devices in the hunger games
Not very original he just recited some of ro khanna and chris murphy maybe mark kellys greatest hits
https://x.com/mattvanswol/status/2051292351658697064
So much for decent reporting
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/05/02/indicted-mexican-governor-ruben-rocha-moya-steps-aside-during-investigation/#more-283030
South of the border, the cartels call the shots
I have to agree with Huxley here, as an autist with some experience reading up on the matter or doing volunteer work for asylums. What chilled and horrified me about Allen’s manifesto was not the radicalism or murderous intent but how relatively lucid and even ethical
It was compared to what many others spew. Even “respectable” “mainstream” analysts. He seems to have thought things through far more than most, down to trying to limit civilian casualties and collateral damage. He displayed no real signs of mental illness I could see, and certainly less than I suffer or many others do.
He we obviously unmoored from reality to a significant degree, but not due to any major psychosis from himself but due to living in a bubble and making the major mistake of taking the left and Vichy right at their words. He started with his premises and worked logically and even in a very twisted sense morally forward from them. He was not the one that conjured castles out of thin air, and he is far from the worst susceptible to them as we see with scum shilling for October 7th.
In another generation or other other inputs be might have been a brave or even heroic mediocrity like Nathan Hale. But he made the mistake of drinking from the poisoned wells and believing what they showed him.
This was not a crisis of insanity in contrast even to malevolent cases like Iryna Z’s murderer. If the situation is insane, it is not because of what is found in DSM or the asylums but what is spewed in “education” and “news.”
They really lack self awareness dont they
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/democratic-fundraiser-threatens-free-beacon-for-noticing-veterans-day-tribute-to-grandfather-who-fought-for-hitler/
And shes nowhere near the worst candidate that would be abdul sayeed
The hold my sweet tea candidate from dearbornstan
https://x.com/LudwigNverMises/status/2050635177978958028
Red squaw doesnt dissapoint in her part in the spirit airlines debacle
The tucson shooter laughner entertained really baroque notions he was freed because of sheriff dupnik
Matt van Swol tells the truth about what happened up here in the mountains far better than any “mainstream” news source. Neither the federal government nor the state did a good job in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Helene. As van Swol says, volunteers and volunteer groups helped keep people fed and alive up here.
Roy Cooper mishandled this storm just as badly as he did a previous bad hurricane in East Carolina, where some people STILL have not had their homes rebuilt as promised.
That Democrat with the Wehrmacht grandfather forgot that “ordinary” German soldiers didn’t need to “escape” to Brazil.
may diminish their ability to question their own thinking, motivations and conclusions.
It is a delusion wide spread in academia, many are brilliant people who never doubt the superiority of their own views and morals. There is a pompous edge to it all that is annoying. And then they head off into the bsky swamp, or HuffPost desert.
The US Navy destroyed 6 swift Iranian attack boats implicated in attacking a ship in the Persian Gulf.
Sad to say there is barely a whisper over this success and extraction of pain from the Theocrats to be seen in “the news.”
Hoist a drink and salut them!
I did not watch the video, but the photo at the top of the post seems to indicate the Her Majesty was stacked!
Make that 6 (or 7) boats dispatched. No losses by the US Navy reported. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/breaking-us-sinks-seven-iranian-small-boats-harassing/
NYPost sets the threat in context: “Adm. Brad Cooper, head of US Central Command (CENTCOM), told reporters in a press call that while Iran historically has deployed ‘between 20 and 40 small boats’ to threaten commercial shipping in the strait, ‘Today, we saw just six and eliminated them quickly’.”
This evening, the NYPost has details: “ Trump is trying to force the Strait of Hormuz open — and daring Iran to respond”
https://nypost.com/2026/05/04/world-news/trump-is-trying-to-force-the-strait-of-hormuz-open-and-daring-iran-to-respond/
Greg Price:
https://x.com/i/status/2051457758151524835
See link for J. Alito’s response. It’s a dandy.
The story miguel linked needs to be read, and spread.
The hurricane hit in late September 2024.
I date my distrust of the Media (MSM aka Democrats-with-bylines) from the late 1970s, when “60 Minutes” ran a story about a local controversy that we actually knew something about.
Yeah, they have been “curating” the news for a long time.
https://x.com/mattvanswol/status/2051292351658697064
Swol does not link to the CBS piece, but his Xweet comes up at the top of the search along with it.
This appears to be the one, by Lesley Stahl.
What a surprise.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/some-white-nationalists-swoop-in-after-natural-disasters-60-minutes-transcript/
BTW, Stahl did mention Samaritan’s Purse as being a group that came and stayed.
But nothing about the rest of them that Matt listed.
Rundo spoke very openly about his group and his ideology, and he is out-and-proud as a White Nationalist (he rejected the label “supremacist”) but the clear indication from Stahl was that, despite the Sheriff admitting “they were in the minority,” the few that Stahl talked about were the MOST IMPORTANT PART of the story.
And she never did get around to talking about those groups in Texas that she started with.
Stahl: “But they’ve been called disaster tourists who are out to sow doubt in government, soften their own image and gain followers.”
Sounds like most of the Democrats on the news anytime a Republican is President.
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@ Kate – thanks for the upvote on miguel’s link.
More about Matt van Swol:
I wish that entries in X accounts were listed chronologically, but I have scanned down through most of them. A small sample.
https://x.com/mattvanswol/status/1860132105134760121
https://x.com/mattvanswol/status/1882790527785156619
“Trump kept his promises” is a frequent refrain, as is the remark about Biden below:
https://x.com/mattvanswol/status/1883871715991896317
Matt used to be a registered Democrat and a liberal.
Then he got mugged by reality.
https://x.com/mattvanswol/status/1968661769200574950
At minute 2:06 in the video: who is the women walking up behind Elizabeth, forced to drag her own dress train by herself, unaided, etc.? The Queen Mother?
Mike Plaiss on May 4, 2026 at 10:24 am: from the WSJ article cited:
” “Tim Cook Was Great for Apple Investors. He Was Not as Great for America.” ”
Since my wife bought us some Apple stock back in (about) 1992, it now constitutes the largest portion of our retirement portfolio. Perhaps too large a portion, but made smaller as we gift (split) shares to our family members. That allows us and them to help make America better and greater, too.
“Another reason tariffs are dumb.” But if Andy Kessler wants to display his TDS, he should at least realize tariffs used solely for income or economic purposes might be dumb, but when used for geopolitical leverage, they do seem to come in handy. His pro-globalization stance seems to also avoid consideration of the national security and medical and food security issues that have arisen, especially since 2009 and 2020. I believe back in Adam Smith’s time they used to call the discipline “political economy” in greater recognition that not all decisions could be made about money in isolation of other society needs and issues.
I guess that puts me in the middle on the globalization issue, overall.
Niketas Choniates on May 4, 2026 at 10:53 am:
“Editorial in Slate (remember them?) …”
They are still around?! Well, I am glad you are willing to tread those murky waters so I don’t have to.
…”It’s always been surprising to me that people can say something and seemingly not hear what they themselves are saying.” I presume that is surprising to many of us, … and yet here we are.
SCOTTtheBADGER on May 4, 2026 at 9:34 pm said:
“I did not watch the video, but the photo at the top of the post seems to indicate the Her Majesty was stacked!” The man made (maketh) the dress; and the dress maketh the woman. I am told there was also a rib as an intermediary in there somewhere. Perhaps as a corset stay? 🙂