SUZY WEISS: My Takeaway from the WHCD? Dudes Rock.

When I got up soon after, I was shuffled to the front of the room to get to my sister, Bari, by a security guard who cleared a path for me through the confusion. Everyone was reeling, but the men were also another thing: They were activated. And I’m not talking here about the obvious heroes of the evening: the law enforcement professionals, and the Secret Service, one of whom was shot by the would-be assassin as he leaped toward the gunshots. Others, with guns at the ready, hustled officials out of the room. They acted nobly. But they weren’t the only ones.

The lobbyist David Urban was nearly glowing, telling us how he went to West Point, served in the 101st, and that he simply wasn’t about to let anything bad happen to us. I believed him. (And so did Bari, who was shielded by him at the front of the room like I was by Elliot in the back.)

Aaron MacLean—who was caught on camera during the pandemonium looking about as shaken as a person who really couldn’t decide if they wanted chicken or fish—was talking protocols, perimeters, and numbers with ease. How many seconds did it take for security to get Trump out of the building and to The Beast, the presidential limo? How many yards away was the shooter from the doors, and how long will it take to figure out what exactly happened?

Many of the men had hands on hips, surveying the room and counting tables, doors, and exits, nodding along to a distinctly male tune. Behind their eyes, you could glimpse the multiplication of tables by people per table, division by minutes, then seconds, accounting for escalator bottlenecks. MacLean was a Marine, and among many veterans in the room for whom, it seemed, a primal stopwatch had been started the second they saw, literally, that the big guns had come out. Immediately, they became situationally aware.

That’s the “toxic masculinity” the left keeps trying to suppress.

It’s a good piece from Weiss, and well worth giving up my email address to read the whole thing.

Related thoughts here from Sarah Anderson.

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HISTORY:

After the Spanish Right won the 1933 elections, Communists in Asturias launched a revolution, killing thousands before the army was deployed to finally put an end to the chaos.

They did the same thing in Catalonia, and when that too was quelled, they engaged in a low-level… https://t.co/UNAaaWrxJa

— Christian Heiens 🏛 (@ChristianHeiens) April 26, 2026

AMERICA’S PROBLEMS START HERE:

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You cannot play around with this, Rob — education is the genesis of everything that’s gone wrong in the West. You can’t refuse to take control of the curricula at schools and universities and still expect things to work out. It won’t. You’re currently funding and… https://t.co/xtC03L7NjL

— Elia Polonia (@Elia_Polonia) October 6, 2025

DEVELOPING…:

So a public school teacher in Calif. travels to DC with a collection of weapons. He has booked a room at the hotel where a highly publicized event is taking place with the POTUS as guest of honor. He has a large presence on social media, and he has written manifesto concerning…

— Shipwreckedcrew (@shipwreckedcrew) April 26, 2026

SCOTT PINSKER: Political Fallout of Yet Another Assassination Attempt: Danger for the Dems.

TURNABOUT IS FAIR PLAY:

Every time a leftist professor defends students disrupting an event on campus as "free speech" or "no big deal," there should be an action squad that shows up to that professor's next class and disrupts it in similar fashion.

— David Bernstein (@ProfDBernstein) April 25, 2026

SINCE I THOUGHT I WAS A CAT TILL I WAS SIX YEARS OLD: And still feel like one most of the time, this amused me:  All Cats Are Basically Americans!  No matter where they live.

BECAUSE WHEN A CULT IS PROVEN WRONG CULTISTS DOUBLE DOWN IN FERVOR?  Why the UK and EU Keep Doubling Down on Net Zero Dogma in the Face of Spiralling Economic Dysfunction.

BERNIE SANDERS, MEET JUST FACTS: The Vermont Independent socialist’s spiel about the alleged virtues of renewable energy survives about three nanoseconds when subjected to a Just Facts analysis, as I explain in my latest PJ Media column.

SOONER OR LATER THIS WILL END IN TEARS. YOU CAN’T KEEP TAKING POT SHOTS AT A SITTING PRESIDENT AND NOT EXPECT THAT SOME OF THE RIGHT’S LESS TIGHTLY WOUND BULBS WILL STAY CALM:  The fire this time.

The problem is that large segments of the left live in a waking dream fed by movies and stories and storifyied pseudo-reporting, to the point they don’t realize life is real. They life in the “and then everyone clapped” universe.

MOST NORMAL OR WHOLESOME THINGS TRIGGER THEM:  WHCD: Displays of Normal American Masculinity Triggers The Left.

LONG OVERDUE:  Trump fires the entire governing board of the National Science Foundation.

WHEN WE SAY THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA ARE ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE*? THIS IS WHAT WE MEAN:  What radicalized him were the same talking points repeated every day on the left.

X-cancel.

*Not exclusively. They’re also enemies of all decency afflicted with an obsessive nostalgie de la boue. And all too often acting like hostis humani generis.
If you’re in the MSM and don’t like that characterization, stop reporting on fever dreams from a parallel universe and licking the… er… boots of the Democrats on their slip slide into communism.

FOR THOSE KEEPING TRACK AT HOME:  WHCA Dinner Shooting Occurred as DHS and Secret Service Have Been Unfunded for More Than 70 Days.

RIGHT NOW CALIFORNIA IS A GIANT PIGEON BEING PLUCKED BY ALL SORTS OF GRIFT:  California Swapped Gold for Grift: How “Affordable Housing” and “Green Energy” Became NGO Slush Funds.

IT’S NOT ALL HUMANS, LAWDOG:  White House Correspondent’s Dinner.

I’m not sure it’s even all leftists*. It’s leftists right here and now. They’re out of their raving little minds.

*Yes I know their principles are terrible and lead to utter horror, but people are really good at ignoring such stuff.

THE AMORALITY IS BIZARRE. HE NEVER MENTIONS THE MOST OBVIOUS REASON NOT TO STEAL: Because it’s wrong. In every major religion of the world, which are — if nothing else — a distillation of all human wisdom and what works, theft is wrong.  Why shoplifting is bad. It may feel like a small act of rebellion, but it hurts a lot of people who don’t deserve it.

AND HERE I THOUGHT IT WAS FUNNY THAT WHEN MY BLUE TOOTH CONNECTION WAS GLITCHING IT COULDN’T FIND MY HEADPHONES, BUT KEPT FINDING MY HUSBAND’S SMART TOOTHBRUSH:  The Smallest Things.

IT’S RAZOR FIST:  It Happened Again. (Video)

AN ANALYSIS:  The Southern Poverty Law Center indictment.  It looks like deserved karma for race-huckstering grifters, but is it a legitimate fraud case?

I BELIEVE IT:  I’m seeing a correlation. Looks to me like the people in open source who are anti-AI are pretty much the same people who were completely captured by the woke mind virus.

X-cancel.

THIS IS WHY IQ* BY ITSELF IS USELESS AS A MEASURE OF A PERSON:  Cole Allen is the Dunning-Kruger Assassin. Allen is not some random nut job from the fringes of society. He’s a very articulate graduate of Caltech, which means he has a high degree of native intelligence. He’s in the education profession. He is on BlueSky. He goes to No Kings protests. He’s your basic rank-and-file Democrat. But it’s that high native intellect that led him astray.

X-cancel.

Horse sense understanding of humans is at least as important. And not being by personality a patsy is more important.

*No. I don’t say it to compensate for anything. Nice try. I can give you my Mensa card number. It’s been expired for 20 years, but the test doesn’t expire. It is because of it that I understand the limits of the measurement.

ON SUNDAYS I DO A PROMO POST FOR (MOSTLY) INDIE AUTHORS:  Book Promo And Vignettes By Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike.

There’s also a fun vignette challenge.

THEY’RE JOINED AT THE HIP TO THEIR OWN AGITPROP LIES NOW:

Yeah, they're not going to do that. Too invested. Alienate their base.

Some things to too false but true to be acknowledged as false.

You're asking pathological liars to admit they are pathological liars. Not gonna happen. https://t.co/23pxJYQnsf

— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) April 26, 2026