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[Gutfeld! @Gutfeldfox]

Sunny Hostin’s Holdout Story Doesn’t Hold Up

[SurfSkateThrash @SurfThrash]

Shellac
Squirrel Song
"The Last Show" festival at Pardee Field in Princeton, NJ on May 6, 2000

[Kevin Dahlgren 🥾 🥾 @kevinvdahlgren]

Brutal, yet insightful description of what it’s like to be addicted to fentanyl

[Brit Hume @brithume]

Quote: "...unprecedented combat conditions” in Gaza, including Hamas’s use of “hundreds of kilometers of tunnels, thousands of boobytrapped homes [and] the conflating of combatants with ‘journalists’ and ‘human rights workers.’”

[Daily Signal @DailySignal]

Victor Davis Hanson: Mexico Is an Enemy of the U.S.

America’s relationship with Mexico looks different if you just describe what our southern neighbor is doing.

Mexico deliberately exports illegal aliens to this country, they allows China to get around U.S. tariffs and send in unprocessed fentanyl, and they broadcast anti-American boilerplate at the U.N.

“And yet our economy, through remittances and an open border, has propped that corrupt government up for years.”

Watch the full episode with @VDHanson here: https://t.co/JpnPNtANx3

[Ben Shapiro @benshapiro]

The genocide charge against Israel is a lie. It always has been. But there’s a purpose to the lie – and a reason that the Left dictates that its leaders repeat it, over and over again.

[Ben Shapiro @benshapiro]

Two transgenders, a 1970s-era feminist actress, and a bisexual “as a Jew” Israel-hater all got themselves arrested yesterday because they hate the West. And they were joined by a bunch of soon-to-be-Congresspeople. America, are these the kinds of people you want representing you?
https://t.co/yBiP6HuUQ0

[Gutfeld! @Gutfeldfox]

When Identity Politics Eats Itself: The Lesbian Bar Ruined by Its Own Rules

[Daily Signal @DailySignal]

Victor Davis Hanson: The Left’s Instinct to Sympathize With the Guilty

The Left has an instinct to sympathize with the guilty—from Muslim hijackers behind 9/11, to Tyler Robinson, to Hamas. So many of their claims abandon truth in favor of a narrative that benefits them.

“And so when they see people who murdered 3,000 people, their little brains go victim? Check. Nonwhite? Check. Middle East Muslims? Check. They are victims? Check. I will get notoriety. I will get virtue signaling. I will square my moral circle and feel good about myself.”

@VDHanson

[Ben Shapiro @benshapiro]

Macklemore is the Colin Kaepernick of music -- a truly terrible performer who has now been relegated to social justice posturing as a way to cash in

[Camus @newstart_2024]

A teenager asked Tyson what he ate. He did not pull out a protocol.

Constantine “Cus” D’Amato did not believe in diets. Eat whatever you want, then work harder than the plate. Camille cooked like calories were a love language. Pies. Pasta. Tyson still talks about that table like it was a country he cannot visit. Fourteen to nineteen in that house is the stretch he calls almost perfect.

I keep thinking how little of that sounds like fitness content. It sounds like a kid who finally had a home, and a gym attached to it.

[Graham Linehan @Glinner]

Can't. Wait.

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

BREAKING: Benjamin Netanyahu has begun his speech at the UN and immediately fired at the cowards who left the hall:

“Before I begin, just a quick announcement: if there are any other moral cowards who haven’t yet left this hall, please do so now!”

[Selene Mariposa @Selene_Mariposa]

McDonald's is spending 8.5 billion dollars to find out why families stopped coming.

I can save them the 8.5 billion.

They took out the playground.

The plan, announced Wednesday at investor day. Better food, faster service, new equipment, AI tools, hospitality training, and a bigger push into chicken and beverages. They call it Next. The goal, they say, is making customers feel more comfortable.

Wall Street loved it so much the stock fell 5 percent to its lowest since 2022.

Over five years McDonald's shares are down 3 percent. Burger King's parent is up 14. The owner of Taco Bell and KFC is up 13.

This is not a hamburger problem. This is a McDonald's problem.

So let us talk about who used to eat there.

Parents. That was the whole business. Parents at 5:40 on a Tuesday with three kids in the back and nothing thawed at home.

You did not go for the burger. You went because your kids could run screaming through a plastic tube for 40 minutes while you sat with a coffee and experienced silence.

That was the product. The food was the cover charge.

The first PlayPlace opened in 1971 in Birmingham, Alabama, and for fifty years it did one job. It made small children demand to go to McDonald's.

Then 2020 arrived, every play area in the country closed, and a great many never came back. The equipment came out during a remodeling program named Experience of the Future.

The Experience of the Future turned out to be a touchscreen.

Their own chief executive said he did not know if ball pits were in their future.

Sir, you were not selling ball pits. You were selling forty minutes.

So now there is no counter, no playground, and no reason for a seven year old to want to go. A screen, a window, and a bag.

And for that we pay prices that require a moment of reflection in the parking lot.

For thin, overcooked, oddly uniform pucks that taste like a memory of beef.

I did not love them because they were good. I loved them because I was eight and there was a slide.

And have you seen the new buildings.

The old ones were unmistakable. Red roof, yellow arches, legible from a highway at 70 to a child who could not yet read.

The new ones are a flat gray box with a small logo and a drive through wrapped around it. A regional claims office with a fryer.

They removed the color, the characters, the counter, and the playground, and then hired consultants to find out why it no longer feels like anywhere.

Which is why, when I have to eat fast food, I go to Chick-fil-A.

Not for the politics. For the competence.

They have led the customer satisfaction index for fast food eleven years running, and average 8.5 million dollars per location against McDonald's 4 million.

More than double, while closed on Sundays. Fifty two days a year with the lights off, and still double.

A seventeen year old hands you a bag and says my pleasure and means it about 70 percent, which is 70 percent more than a touchscreen has managed.

McDonald's is spending 8.5 billion on hospitality training.

Chick-fil-A earns 8.5 million per restaurant by just having some.

So here is my consulting proposal, free of charge, on behalf of mothers everywhere.

Put the playgrounds back.

Not a nostalgia campaign. Not a retro cup. The structure. Tubes, slides, a door the kids cannot open from the inside, and a bench where a tired woman can sit.

And understand what you are buying, because it is not lunch.

A six year old does not know your food is bad. He has no basis for comparison and no functioning palate. He thinks the burger is incredible because he is standing in a castle made of tubes.

That is the window. That is the only window you get.

You catch them before the taste buds arrive, and thirty years later they drive past your sign, feel something they cannot explain, and pull in anyway.

That is not a menu strategy. That is imprinting, and you shut it down in 2020 to save on cleaning.

Eight and a half billion dollars for AI tools and hospitality training.

Or a slide.

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[Prof. Jeffrey Lax @CUNY_Prof]

It may not seem so at the moment, but --if the western free world survives the Islamist-Marxist world-wide attack-- history will remember you as the 21st century's Winston Churchill.

[Kimberley Strassel @KimStrassel]

Yes, diesel is temporarily expensive. The GOP might point out that the real choice is between that, and a party that wants to jail diesel owners who want their equipment to work.
https://t.co/CPuJWUvOYG via @WSJopinion

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The NGOs end up increasing the number of homeless people they manage, because that’s the only way to increase their revenue! Incentives drive outcomes.

“Homeless” is a propaganda word used to describe people on the street who are mentally ill or severely addicted to drugs. The word implies that this is someone who fell a little behind on their mortgage payment and they’re one job offer away from getting back on their feet, which is obviously false if you’ve ever tried talking to a “homeless” person in SF, LA, NY, Austin or anywhere else.

The honest reality is that we need to bring back asylums for extreme mental illness or drug addiction for those who are a serious danger to themselves or others.

[Guy Benson @guypbenson]

F***ed up culture.

[Kevin Dahlgren 🥾 🥾 @kevinvdahlgren]

A fentanyl addict describing addiction as he is smoking fentanyl

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

Benjamin Netanyahu: “One day, and it may not be far away, the Iranian people will be free. This evil regime will fall, and we will all celebrate that day.”