Steve. not/me 💩

This is probably the wildest data point you'll see today. The cost to a French employer of a net pay of €39k is a staggering €95k. How is this even possible? Can you imagine the incentive to replace French jobs with AI and robots? Get some popcorn.

Dear Democrats whining about Democracy: please explain to America how, out of 21 Congressional seats representing the 6 New England states, there are ZERO Republican Representatives, even though 40% of the electorate are registered Republicans, 48% in New Hampshire alone?

What kind of shoes are these?

I am a senior coordinating producer for the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner. I have worked eleven of these. I was backstage at the Washington Hilton when the shots were fired. The first thing I heard was not the gunfire. It was glass. A champagne flute hit the floor of the International Ballroom at approximately 9:47 PM. Then a second. Then the sound that I have since been told was a 12-gauge shotgun, which from inside the ballroom sounded like a heavy door slamming in a parking garage. Then the Secret Service moved. They moved the President, the Vice President, the First Lady through the east corridor in under ninety seconds, which is protocol, which is practiced, which is the one part of the evening that worked exactly as it was designed. Everything else was improvised. I know this because I ordered the wine. 94 tables. Two bottles per table. 188 bottles of a Willamette Valley pinot noir that the Association selected in February after a tasting committee spent three meetings debating between Oregon and Burgundy. Oregon won. The budget was $14,200. I signed the invoice. I can tell you the vintage. I can tell you the distributor. I can tell you the per-bottle cost because I negotiated it down from $89 to $76. What I cannot tell you is how 147 of those bottles left the building during an active shooter evacuation. I can tell you what I saw. A correspondent from a network I will not name picked up two bottles on her way to the east exit. Full bottles. One in each hand. She was wearing heels and she did not spill. A man in a tuxedo tucked one inside his jacket the way you'd shoplift a paperback at an airport bookstore. A woman picked up a bottle, looked at the label, put it back, and took a different one. She checked the vintage. During an evacuation. That's editorial judgment under pressure. The theme of the dinner was "A Free Press for a Free People." The banners were still hanging when the evacuation began. I know because I hung them. Twenty-three banners, navy blue, gold serif lettering, $11,400 for the set. They were still hanging when 2,600 guests were directed to the exits by Secret Service agents, one of whom had just taken a shotgun round in his ballistic vest and walked to the ambulance on his own feet. The agent's vest costs approximately $800. The wine that left the building was worth $11,172 at Association cost. At restaurant markup, roughly $29,000. The guests saved more in wine than the vest that saved the agent. That's priority. The video went viral by 10:15 PM. Not the video of the evacuation. Not the Secret Service response. The wine. Three guests in formalwear grabbing bottles off white tablecloths while being told to move toward the exits, while a man with a shotgun stood in the same motor entrance where John Hinckley shot Ronald Reagan 45 years ago. A woman near the service entrance was crying. She said "I just wanna go home." She was not holding wine. She was holding her phone. She was the only person I saw that night who looked afraid rather than inconvenienced. That's the distinction. The rest of the ballroom did not look afraid. They looked interrupted. An active shooter at the WHCD is a logistical problem. The dinner was disrupted. The timeline was off. The after-party at the French Ambassador's residence would need to be rescheduled. These are contingency matters. Contingency matters have solutions. Fear is for people who attend events without security details. I have produced eleven of these dinners. I have managed seating charts that require diplomatic-grade negotiations. I have handled comedians, cabinet secretaries, network anchors, and the editor of a major newspaper who once threatened to leave because his table was behind a column. I have never, in eleven years, seen a guest leave a $76 bottle on the table during an evacuation. I have also never seen a guest check the label first. Both observations are consistent. The bottle is worth taking. The evacuation is worth surviving. The instinct is to do both simultaneously. 188 bottles placed. 41 recovered. 147 unaccounted for. One agent shot. Zero guests injured. Zero bottles broken. A free press for a free people. The press is free. The wine was $76 a bottle. They took it anyway.

Hmmmm 🤨 Kimmel has opinions …

In just ONE state, 14,000 individuals receiving SNAP benefits were driving LUXURY VEHICLES! 🚗 3 Bentleys 🚗 3 Ferraris 🚗 11 Lamborghinis 🚗 59 Maseratis 🚗 141 Porsches 🚗 244 Alfa Romeos 🚗 306 Land Rovers 🚗 2,098 Teslas And this is just in ONE STATE. We need to defend our nutrition programs for those most in need, not for scammers gaming the system. These individuals are taking advantage of the American taxpayer. And together with @VP’s Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, this ends NOW. 4.3M Americans have been moved off of SNAP — but more work to be done!

🚨 MUST WATCH: Johnny Carson (a Democrat) opens the 1981 Oscars, a day after the assassination attempt on President Reagan, with genuine class and respect. The entire liberal Hollywood crowd erupts in applause. Today? Jimmy Kimmel jokes about Melania Trump becoming a widow.

@mjfree you are retarded......................

Why is the only word MAGA know “retarded?”

@FoundAMoron so WHAT is this caused by? Alcoholic moms during birth? Infant vaccines? Flouride in water?

What is the rainbow mafia marching for or protesting about this time… 🤦‍♂️

@UpdatingOnRome THIS IS TRUE!!! The only time it is not ture is in a controlled vacuum.

Lmao.

@SroIhm @DelusionPosting incomplete story and missing many details.

@DelusionPosting I fon't see how this is delusional. If it's true, then this constitutes an injustice.

@TaraBull ratemypoo.com!!!!!!

What’s a "lost" website from the early 2000s that you still think about today?

@InsaneCope When STUPID idiots donot know the difference between the SENATE and the HOUSE of Representatives........

@DiedSuddenly_ total bullcrap story.......................

One of our sources from the military has told us something troubling. We can’t secondarily verify this yet, but this source has been right every time before, like with the interceptors being depleted and Iran holding back missiles. We’ve been told that President Trump demanded the nuclear codes to launch a nuke against Iran, but was denied by the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff for the U.S. military. Our sources say top Gen. Dan Caine stood up and shut it down, warning it would put America at real risk of an EMP retaliation from Russia and China. A heated verbal brawl followed. Caine reportedly left after. After the incident, cabinet officials secretly discussed invoking the 25th Amendment to remove Trump. The White House has denied these claims as “totally false.”

@Eva_eva_P @AncestralAces @Strandjunker bullcrap! NOBODY dies waiting for medical care. Ask the illegal aliens

Huh 😯 "We don't have waiting lists in America" Correct. America has something worse. People who never get on the list. Total without functional access: 65-70M ppl. AND 'Died while waiting for care' isn't a standardized metric. Most countries don't track it, including the US. Propaganda.

Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss: 🇦🇺 0 🇨🇦 0 🇩🇰 0 🇫🇮 0 🇫🇷 0 🇩🇪 0 🇮🇸 0 🇮🇪 0 🇮🇹 0 🇯🇵 0 🇳🇱 0 🇳🇴 0 🇵🇹 0 🇪🇸 0 🇸🇪 0 🇬🇧 0 🇺🇸 530,000 There’s a lesson there.

@libsoftiktok is she using the same one since coivd??

Omg she’s still wearing a mask in 2026 🤡

@reddit_lies @Reddit is a f*cking cesspool! Why I left....... it is just a commie socialist cesspool.

Redditors react to gunshots at the White House Correspondence Dinner just now.

John Stossel exposing the Southern Poverty Law Center for actually being a hate group back in 2018.

@TaraBull it is a *SEISMIC* event!!!

What kind of event is this?