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Ah!

[Eve Keneinan 𝛗☦️ن @EveKeneinan]

Well, damn.

I didn't know this.

• such tents are used to store the team's valuables
• Metcalf had an assigned tent-guarding role

That makes his trying to get Anthony to leave not simply reasonable, but a positive moral duty.

He was trying to make a person who had no right to be there, leave an area with his teammate's belongings and valuables. I assume you DO have to put your wallet and keys and cell phones *somewhere* when doing a track meet.

This puts Austin Metcalf fully in the right.

Even MORE.

I would have thought (and I said) he was justified just if the tent were a rain-shelter or the like.

But since it was a valuables storage area and hence a big theft risk, and since Metcalf was assigned duties to keep it safe, that makes Karmelo Anthony so much worse.

He was, in fact, probably there to steal stuff.

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@PubliusNV @FaleroJr @RocIngersoll @indyrallen @platospupil @HonkyTonkJew @reg1776 @anonyval @proteinwisdom @rshackelford14 Fair winds and following seas, my friend.

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@ShamashAran In white, but same.

[Sensurround @ShamashAran]

https://t.co/iT7eNP2hog

[PubliusNV @PubliusNV]

Last FF for a while, I'm headed out on another cruise, will be posting pics.
@FaleroJr
@RocIngersoll
@servative
@indyrallen
@platospupil
@HonkyTonkJew
@reg1776
@anonyval
@proteinwisdom
@rshackelford14

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

Let me explain why I think Freddy resonates.

Lots of Europeans visit the USA as tourists. They visit New York City, or Washington DC, or Hollywood, or Las Vegas, and if they visit natural beauty too, they go to really crowded places like the Grand Canyon or Yellowstone.

So while they see our cultural and natural icons, they are mostly in blue cities and they therefore also see the decline, the homeless, the drugs, the dirt and the rude, rude Americans.

But Freddy is not doing that. Freddy is driving, and he’s doing it through the heartland, where people are kind and polite, the skies are wide open, and the bounty of Buc-ees and Bass Pro Shops are overwhelming.

Freddy is not seeing fentanyl and decline.

He is seeing the real, hopeful, patriotic, kind America that European tourists rarely traverse.

And he loves it.

That’s why Freddy is a phenomenon.

[James E. Thorne @DrJStrategy]

Trump’s Trafalgar Moment

Trump’s Iran deal is best understood through the lens of Trafalgar: a decisive victory that does not end every conflict, but closes the enemy’s best route to success and reshapes the strategic landscape. By reopening the Strait of Hormuz, blocking Tehran’s path to a nuclear weapon, and cutting off the financial backing of global terrorism, Trump has broken Iran’s core leverage without a wider ground war.

The closure and reopening of the Strait has changed the rules of the “great game” in energy security, putting the United States back at the center of global energy markets.

Investors should expect critics to pan the agreement as insufficiently decisive, but they should ignore the pedantry: the rules of the game have changed and the forces for complete victory have been set in motion.

Nelson’s victory at Trafalgar did not end every battle, but it closed off Napoleon’s best route to victory and set the course of the war. The end of the Cold War did not abolish conflict, but it delivered a peace dividend that reshaped economies. Trump’s deal with Iran stands in that line, a decisive strategic win with far-reaching economic and market consequences. The critics were not satisfied when Maduro fell, and they will not be satisfied now, but history will be, and capital will be too, because a peace dividend akin to the one that followed the end of the Cold War will not be ignored.

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I need a drink. @DrunkRepub

HANG ON THERE, PARDNER: 'We Just Made a Great Settlement of the War With Iran' https://t.co/S7A5IRbpFz

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All I can say is, for people who don't like Christianity - the religion of love and compassion, with the God from whom we inherit Human Rights and civic responsibilities, which emphasizes the loving partnership of men and women raising their families, asking in return only a voluntary adherence to a basic moral code which is good for people in the long run; they're really not going to like Islam, which is the complete opposite.

[Teddy - PolyBackTest.com @Bitcoin_Teddy]

Bill Maher just went so hard against Islam, it left his guests in stunned silence.

It all started when Maher recalled how people overused the term “Islamophobia” after 9/11.

He says that moment was the “beginning” of a “wokeness” that forbade you to say this out loud:

“There is such a thing as Western civilization. Remember after 9/11, if you said ‘clash of civilizations’? It was the beginning of sort of that wokeness where, ‘Oh, don’t say that. That’s Islamophobia.’”

“No, it was a clash of civilizations. The civilizations are very different, and OURS IS BETTER!”

[Guests stare at each other in silence].

Maher continued: “And if you’re not clapping, spend a week in a Muslim capital, you wouldn’t last.”

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Going down?

Congressmen Call on Walz, Ellison to Resign https://t.co/fQgHpeOn1U

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'Disclosure Day' - Close Encounters of the Sappy Kind https://t.co/KjXbsoFqZC via @HollywoodInToto

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They don't just need to be slapped. They need to be soundly defeated.

[Faytuks Network @FaytuksNetwork]

BREAKING: U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says CENTCOM “will be very busy tonight,” and that the United States will carry out heavy strikes on key Iranian facilities tonight.

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This is just so completely outrageous.

Over 100 UNRWA Jihad Staffers Helped Hamas on Oct. 7, Watchdog Reveals https://t.co/AP96DfQPzc

[Amber Smith @AmberSmithUSA]

My thoughts on the Apache that was shot down by Iran:

I cannot begin to explain how lucky that Apache crew was that was shot down. Yes, UXOs happen, but that is just part of the luck (especially since it was on fire!).

Apaches have a tandem cockpit, which means the pilots sit one in front of the other, like a fighter jet, rather than side by side like most helicopters.

The fact that the drone hit between the two pilots without actually hitting one of the pilots is just wild…there isn’t that much room for that not to happen.

Then, having to ditch in the Strait of Hormuz after a drone crashes into you and your helicopter is on fire with flames likely filling your line of sight. Sounds like they likely did power-on ditching procedures, but once they jettison the canopy and hit the water things happen fast. Helicopters roll when they hit the water and start to fill up with water. It’s very disorienting and the water is dark. You also still have to worry about the rotor blades.

When train for this. We refer to it as “dunker training.” But in the span of most standard Army pilots careers, they usually only complete the initial training, not the annual follow on training that is preferred.

The pilots were able to get out and find each other and wait in the water for two hours while a drone boat came and rescued them…. Technology that those pilots likely didn’t even know existed until it picked them up.

A lot of things that could have and likely should have gone wrong, didn’t. Things very easily could have ended much differently.

Very grateful those pilots are ok. 🇺🇸🙏

[Ed Morrissey @EdMorrissey]

Kudos to @TheFP for writing the story that the @nytimes tried to "tamp and tame" when they realized that "catch and kill" had failed.

[David Reaboi, Late Republic Nonsense @davereaboi]

Whomever suggested something as stupid as a “proportional response” to Iran hitting one of our helicopters should be sent packing, no matter who it is. Faux-sophisticated garbage.

[Larry Correia @monsterhunter45]

Wow... is the movie that bad then? :D
WHY DID YOU LET ME WATCH THIS MOVIE, GOD?!? WHY!?!

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Well, the ice has truly broken on the Rillito.

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@ABC What was the "suspect" suspected of?

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Shocking.

[Decision Desk HQ @DecisionDeskHQ]

Decision Desk HQ projects Nithya Raman wins the second of two spots in the CA Los Angeles Mayor Nonpartisan Primary

#DecisionMade: 7:57 PM EDT