Vince McCambridge

Retired guy in CA. Former financial mkt professional (bond mkt), CFA, international master of chess.

[Elton Alikaj @eltonalikaj]

@gregbagwell You’re being disrespectful to our SecWar.

Here’s a longer version of your cherry picked clip.

GFY

https://t.co/MHoAspTaiV

[John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad]

Because you are a former Royal Air Force general, let me put the reason for @PeteHegseth’s D-Day speech in terms you will recognize.

In 2005, Boeing hired James McNerney, a disciple of Jack Welch’s school of cost-cutting, as CEO. He later said, “When people say I changed the culture of Boeing, that was the intent, so that it’s run like a business rather than a great engineering firm.”

The results were catastrophic.

As Eric Ries documented in his book Incorruptible, management focused more and more on financial engineering while the engineers inside Boeing watched one program after another unfold with growing horror. We have their internal records because of the investigations into the 737 MAX crashes.

Engineering raised the alarm. Management’s answer never changed: costs, deadlines, stock price. The number on the slide had become the mission, and the airplane underneath it had become an afterthought.

That is the trap. Stock price was never the product. It was a proxy for the product, a stand-in for whether Boeing built aircraft people could trust their lives to. McNerney optimized the proxy and destroyed the thing it was supposed to measure. Two planes full of families paid for the difference.

One Boeing employee later confessed, “I still haven’t been forgiven by God for the covering up I did last year.” Psychologists call that moral injury: the inner damage a person carries from knowing they did harm by saying nothing.

What does this have to do with DEI, migration, and the agendas being pushed across the EU and UK?

Everything. They run on the same machinery.

A minority arrest rate is not justice. It is a proxy for justice, a stand-in for whether a city is safe and its law applied equally. Starmer’s government optimized the proxy.

Officers who flagged the cost of a pivot to DEI, the victims who came forward, the communities who watched predators walk, all of it was feedback, and all of it was waved off because the statistic was moving in the politically correct direction. The number improved. Justice did not. Just as Boeing’s engineers were told costs, deadlines, stock price, Britain’s police were told the quota, the optics, the politics.

Welch chased ROI. Starmer chases DEI. John Kerry chases CO2. All ignored the people in front of them telling the truth. Both mistook the dashboard for the world.

I too want safe minorities, higher share prices and a cleaner planet. We all do. That is exactly the point. McNerney wanted a higher stock price too. The disaster was not the goal. The disaster was measuring the proxy and calling it the product.

Last year, touring colleges in London, a family friend asked me a version of the question Boeing’s own engineers asked each other before the crashes. Theirs was, “Would you put your family on a MAX simulator-trained aircraft?” The answer was no. Mine was simpler: would I put my daughter on streets policed by a two-tier system, where carrying pepper spray to defend herself is a crime but the men she fears walk free?

Which brings us to Hegseth.

This is not the usual venue for these arguments, and I understand the objection. I endorse his saying it here anyway, because it needs to be said, and because the people who most need to hear it are the ones who have learned to look at the dashboard instead of out the window.

You know the cost of silence better than I do. The veteran who watched Afghan allies rape children on our own bases and was told to stand down, to protect the relationship. They enforced the rules of engagement because those were being measured by you. That man is carrying moral injury for the rest of his life. Some of them did not survive it. Too many witnessed a dual tiered system - US/UK troops held accountable for honest ROE mistakes while Taliban used women and kids as shields - and paid the ultimate price for saying nothing.

This is not the ideal place to bring up politics but is absolutely the right place to prevent further moral injury.

[John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad]

Liberal members of the old Pentagon press corps had a conniption fit last week when he took Mrs. Hegseth to Singapore.

So this week he took the kids too.

The American family is so back. 🇺🇸

[Guy Benson @guypbenson]

These details are important because even if you want to dismiss Platner’s ex girlfriend’s veracity (because she’s a conservative) time stamped text messages & *Platner’s own online posts from years ago* disprove his claims about not knowing his Nazi tattoo was a Nazi tattoo:

[Prof. Frank McDonough @FXMC1957]

BBC Radio newsreader John Snagge gives the first news of the D-Day landing at 9:32 AM to the British public.

[Dinesh D'Souza @DineshDSouza]

.@PeteHegseth has announced an internal audit of Bill Gates-connected company Microsoft’s digital cloud system for allegedly being used by Chinese nationals to hack Government systems in Aug. 2025.

[Garrett Exner @Exner_Garrett]

Ray’s Rock - Omaha Beach

On the morning of June 6, 1944, 23 year old Staff Sergeant Arnold “Ray” Lambert came ashore with the first wave of the 1st Infantry Division on the eastern side of Omaha Beach. At this small patch of concrete he saved nearly 20 lives:

The division came under intense fire from several German bunkers surrounding the entrance to the Colville Draw (one of two exits off Omaha Beach). Ray, a medic, immediately went to work.

He was shot in the arm. Moments later he was hit by shrapnel in the leg, but Ray kept pulling men to safety. He pulled nearly 20 wounded soldiers to cover behind this 8ft wide obstacle, treating each soldier before going out in search of others.

After several hours under fire, while pulling a wounded soldier from the ocean, he was struck by a landing craft. It dropped its ramp on top of him, breaking his back. He fell face down in the water, drowning. The craft backed up and nearby soldiers pulled an unconscious Ray to safety, eventually evacuating him off the beach.

Remarkably, Ray had already earned two Silver Stars and three Purple Hearts in Sicily and North Africa, prior to landing in France. But here in Normandy his war would end.

He awoke in a hospital back in England a day later. In the next bed over was his brother, who had also been wounded at Omaha.

When asked about his work on D-Day, Ray simply said, “I did what I was called to do.”

Ray Lambert passed in 2021 at 100 years old. He exemplified the best of American grit and why remembering this day is so important.

[Melissa O'Connor @Melissa_in_CA]

Funny how same-day election results by 8:53 p.m. are possible when it’s 2021 and the whole state is voting on whether to recall Gavin Newsom.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

It’s all coming out

We just figured out how Minnesota has been taken over by Muslims

“Nearly half of all immigrants in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Twin Cities were found to have committed some form of immigration fraud”

This is an INVASION of illegals

“Over the course of the operation, our officers found indication of fraud, non-compliance, or public safety and national security concerns in nearly, a little less than 50% of the cases interviewed.”

“Focusing on a list of over a thousand target cases involving more than 900 individuals, our officers encountered blatant marriage fraud, visa overstays, people claiming to work at businesses that can't be found, forged documents, abuse of the H-1B visa system, abuse of the F-1 visas, and many other discrepancies.”

It’s a Muslim takeover

The Twin Cities have one of the largest Somali populations in the US concentrated in Minneapolis. Somalis are predominantly Muslim

These are the most common violations found

- Blatant marriage fraud
- Visa overstays
- Forged documents
- Claiming employment at nonexistent businesses
- H-1B
- Abuse of F-1 visas
- Fake death certificates

These immigrants aren’t here to assimilate, they are here to scam us for everything we have and then takeover our country

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

The intellectual life was never something that only the elites enjoyed.

In England there has long existed a massive, self-directed culture of education among working-class people. Coal miners in industrial England read voraciously, with many even self-studying Latin or history after long shifts underground or in factories.

Coal miners, mill workers, and mechanics built their own libraries and formed reading societies to study Shakespeare, Dickens, Milton, even Plato. A grassroots intellectual movement that grew independent of elite institutions.

Jonathan Rose makes this case in "The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes", one of the most illuminating cultural histories of recent decades.

While elites might have consumed culture for status, ordinary readers engaged with it morally and personally, seeing in Shakespeare and the classics a means of moral development and self-mastery. This revelation directly challenges the 20th-century academic assumption (inspired by postmodernism and Marxist cultural studies) that "high culture" is inherently exclusionary.

Pulling from autobiographies and letters, Rose shows that workers often described reading as a form of inner liberation, citing writers like Ruskin, Carlyle, and Dickens as their moral guides. They read with a degree of seriousness we rarely see today, treating their books as beloved companions in a lifelong pursuit of wisdom.

The rise of mass media and television following WWII made a preference for reading slowly give way to one for passive entertainment.

And the democratization of education paradoxically coincided with a lowering of intellectual standards — just like how more people than ever attend university today, yet popular culture as a whole is much less intellectually vibrant than it was 50 years ago.

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

🚨BREAKING: A new federal lawsuit accuses California Secretary of State Shirley Weber of violating federal law by failing to clean up inactive voter registrations that should have been removed years ago.

The shocking numbers:
- 873,092 registrations inactive for at least 2 general federal elections
- 326,808 inactive for at least 3
- 151,202 inactive for at least 4
- 33,922 inactive for at least 5 — some dating back before 2016

These “ghost voters” remain on the rolls despite clear federal requirements to maintain accurate lists. This is exactly why election integrity matters.

Time for real accountability in California. Clean voter rolls = fair elections. This was filed by Judicial Watch end of May You saw the headlines ( or did you)?

[Clandestine @WarClandestine]

Trump’s beautification efforts for DC are more important than people realize.

Past administrations treated this nation like conquerors treat conquered land.

They intentionally removed the statues, the culture, the history, etc., so they could remove the national identity.

Psychological demoralization of the conquered peoples. That’s what the Democrats were doing to our nation, because they are represented by foreign interests attempting to conquer and overthrow this nation from within.

All of the attacks on everything America, is not an accident. It’s part of the Globalist Left’s broader plot to subvert this nation and eradicate the American People.

[Robby Starbuck @robbystarbuck]

The math here defies reasonable logic. I see no reasonable way the 3rd place candidate suddenly starts beating #1 and #2 4 days after the election. This is third world country stuff we’re watching.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Bill O’Reilly says that E. Jean Carroll must be criminally prosecuted

It turns out she wasn’t paid a little bit to lie about Donald Trump and target him, she was paid a lot. $7 MILLION in funding for her lawsuits against Trump

“The E. Jean Carroll fraud should be prosecuted. That is the most outrageous story — It's so outrageous that the woman testifies in a deposition under oath that nobody is helping her, no lawyer is helping her, no pro bono, and then we find out she got $7 million”

The lawyer was connected to Jeffrey Epstein and is a Democrat donor

I’ll break down what happened

Carroll’s lawyers Kaplan Hecker & Fink received $7 million from a nonprofit tied to billionaire Reid Hoffman. He is a LinkedIn co-founder and major Democratic donor and tied to Epstein

In a 2022 deposition, Carroll testified under oath that no one was helping her financially with legal fees. She said no pro bono, no outside funding

She lied, like they all always do

If we don’t have accountability in America then why are any of us following any laws and paying taxes

[Richard Nixon Foundation @nixonfoundation]

On D-Day, supreme commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force, Dwight D. Eisenhower sent thousands of young men into the hardest hours of their lives.

Nearly 20 years later, he returned to Normandy, not only as a former president, but as the commander who never forgot the cost.

“They bought us time so we can do better.”

[Shipwreckedcrew @shipwreckedcrew]

Now -- do an analysis of how many J6 defendants had prior criminal convictions, and then compare their recidivism rate to the recidivism rate of that portion of the general population with a prior criminal history.

Then look at the percentage of J6 defendants who no criminal history prior to Jan. 6, and come back and let us know how many of THOSE defendants have new criminal offenses.

There percentage of my J6 clients with prior criminal histories was small, but it was nor 0%.

A small number -- 5 or less would be my guess -- had significant criminal histories.

I'm highly confident you hacks at Lawfare have done NOTHING in terms of having a control group to measure the J6 recidivism rate against.

An unfortunate reality of the American public is that people who have been convicted of a crime tend to re-offend at a much higher rate than those who have never been convicted of a crime.

[Brit Hume @brithume]

She trusted the New York Times with her account of her abuse at the hands of Graham Platner. She paid the price.

[Houman David Hemmati, MD, PhD @houmanhemmati]

🗳️ Many have been asking me describe the potential signature verification loophole for Los Angeles mail in ballots.

It says: “If a voter is unable to sign, the voter can make a mark witnessed by one person.”

Here, the person drew a happy face & “witnessed” it with a scribble. That scribble isn’t validated as being a real person. No name, nothing.

While a happy face may draw scrutiny, a plain line would not.

This could hypothetically enable mass harvesting where the voter never fills out, signs or even sees their own ballot.

We should be told how many ballots show up without the voter’s signature.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Yup