Matthew J. Stott

@MbarkCherguia This is why there are leash laws. I love dogs, have had dogs my entire life. But either train them properly or leash them. Some people are terrified of dogs. Pepper spray is far more humane than a baton, bat, or stick which some people carry to ward off a loose dog.

He pepper sprays unleashed dogs that approach him because he doesn't trust them. Agree or disagree with his method?

@Oceanbreeze473 They were everywhere, restaurant lobbies, pizza joints, donut shops, bars, shopping malls, truck stops, etc., etc., etc. Not sure today but Japan used to have cigarette machines on every single street corner.

I can’t believe this was real. Where would they put these things?

@AntiLeftMemes Nobody is starving in America. Take a trip anywhere in the 3rd world, go witness real poverty. Clueless...

Do Liberal Women have a mental breakdown every day ??

@alphafox He's squatting in an empty commercial building or he owns it and is divorced, lost most everything, etc.

Bro practically lives in a horror movie: 😱

@keithedwards Frmr Rep Katie Porter’s net worth is est to be between $1.2M and $2.8M, with some est placing it around $1.6M to $2M. Her wealth is primarily driven by her tenure as a law professor at UC Irvine and her congressional salary, along with real estate assets. She's a liar.

I'm at a loss for words. This is so bad.

@alphafox From a morals point of view, beyond ick!

So she brings nothing to the table. 😒

@GeneralTulliu5 @MarioNawfal Justified! This is armed robbery a serious crime most everywhere in the entire world. The shop keeper life was threatened. A kid I went to high school fully complied and was shot dead regardless. The criminals never caught.

@MarioNawfal Yeahhhhhh I don't think that would be ruled a justified shooting that point. Maybe 10 second earlier, but...

Armed robbery is a hazardous profession… wrong store, wrong day.

@CitizenFreePres Gamestop, kept alive buy autist day traders shooting for the moon. Fueled by nostalgia and hatred of those who were shorting Gamestop.

Wild interview on Squawk Box this morning with CEO of Gamestop who is trying to buy eBay. He refuses to admit that Gamestop would have to create and sell millions of shares to raise the capital. This is a total pr stunt.

@vaxryy The vast majority of people are dumb, many with college degrees. Even auto mechanics can confirm. Technology just makes the outcome so much worse. Fast forward 20 years and people will be relying on A.I. for everything and will be incapable of thinking without it. Terrifies me...

People really don't know how to use technology anymore. I asked a person today why some people's photos had the gemini watermark. The answer? Because they used gemini to remove the names below the photos. Yes, a 10 second microsoft paint crop job was apparently too hard for that person, so they decided to use megajoules of energy and 10x as much time to ask gemini to crop the image for them, distorting it in the process. "Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Give a man a fishing rod, and he'll wonder how to stir soup with it"

@ThatLARRYSHOW @ChampionsTour @RegionsTrad @PGA_JohnDaly More than 80% of all popular guitar songs are 3-4 chords. He's doing just fine as an amateur. Nobody expected him to break out an Eddie Van Halen solo. 🙄

@ChampionsTour @RegionsTrad @PGA_JohnDaly Yay. Another literal 3- chord Johnny, croaking his way through a 3- chord dirge, his fossilized sycophants cheering like its Elvis. It's never enough, is it, John? Sit down and STFU.

John Daly, a man of many talents. The legend showed out @RegionsTrad pro-am! @PGA_JohnDaly

@conanknows @richardaeden He's got a camera crew of at least one or two. Katz might not want the camera inside. Plus it could have been peak lunch time rush.

@richardaeden Goes to Katz' Deli and doesn't even stay to eat. What a schmuck. It's half the experience....

I couldn't visit New York for the first time without trying a pastrami sandwich from Katz's Deli....

@WhiteHouse They just discovered, that Trump is actually a distant cousin to King Charles.

TWO KINGS. 👑

@BreitbartNews Meanwhile, Ken Griffith is meeting with Gov Houchel, Pulling out of just his latest project deal. He could cost NY State / City $6.2B in revenue and many thousands of jobs. He can also pull out of NYC altogether increasing the losses considerably. He is far from alone.

WARMTH OF COLLECTIVISM UPDATE: Mayor Zohran Mamdani declares a "budget crisis," asks for a bailout from the state government, and pushes back his deadline for completing the city budget at least 10 days: "We cannot close this deficit with savings alone. We need new revenue, and we need a structural reset in our relationship with the state. That is the only way to meet our legal obligation to pass a balanced budget."

@ClownWorld Most of it is snap clips holding the wheel well liner and front plastics on. Not too bad to repair but seriously upsetting to any car owner.

Crazy boy 😭🤣

@gothburz The poor White House Press had to rush over to the White House for Trump's official address. They must have been eating somewhere well after midnight.

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.

@gothburz You placed the bottles on tables intending it to be consumed. One can only hope the kitchen fed the enormous amount of food prepared to the hotel staff, police, Secret Service, and allow take-home boxes. Rather than throw it in the trash.

@Geniustechw Nobody takes you seriously in the workforce until you hit age 30.

Does she have a valid point?

@Geniustechw Stop eating out and clubbing and drinking or buying $7 lattes. Or spending more than you have on credit cards. Stop with the hairdresser dye job and spending on clothes and makeup. I bet I could slash her budget.

@Geniustechw She’s wrong! 20 years or even 30 years ago you couldn’t live working retail and support yourself entirely. Now if you had roommates or a partner then you could.

@CitizenFreePres Not knowing the rules... Why would a relay race exchange rider think they can just swing into the turn with faster cyclists coming up from behind before they even pump the pedals 10 times? WTAF? Nowhere up to speed.

World's Greatest College Weekend -- Little 500 IU Team in 10th place wins after massive crash on final lap.