HankHeIl

DFW realtors and investors will look you in the eye and tell you this is a great neighborhood for you to raise your kids and live in a community. These people are sick

I searched Cole Allen on tiktok and went to the top posts to see what people are saying... its basically all that alleged photo of him in an IDF shirt.

Folks keep tagging me. They want to know: Is Asheville really that bad? YES. And regardless of what this article says, it’s not a new problem that developed after Helene. I grew up in Canton. When we “went to town,” it was to Asheville. Mamaw and Papaw took me to the flea market in Asheville multiple times a year. We did our clothes shopping at the Asheville JCPenney. When Papaw had to go to the VA, it was in Asheville. Daddy took me to the Belle Chere music festival every year. Back then, Asheville was a hillbilly Mecca. Old men sat on benches outside Hardee’s with their sausage biscuits and coffee to gossip. Bluegrass played on gas station speakers. People clogged on weekends. Folks sounded like they’d never left WNC—the accents were thick. By the time the city ended Belle Chere in 2013, Asheville had become a place I didn’t recognize. Transplants had flooded out the locals, who escaped to Madison and Haywood counties. Local accents? Gone. Bluegrass and clogging? Bastardized by people with zero ties to the traditions. The old men at Hardee’s? Replaced by homeless junkies nodding off and drooling on themselves. It’s so bad that I’ve avoided Asheville for more than a decade. Only one of my children has ever been to the city, and she only went so I could take her to the Biltmore House. Asheville is like an infection—and as much as it pains my heart to admit it, that infection is spreading. The last time I was in Canton, we went out to eat. There wasn’t a single person in the restaurant with a local accent. Women in Lilly Pulitzer and men in dock shoes walked the sidewalks where overalls and work boots once ruled. It won’t be long before the same policies that created this new Asheville turns the rest of WNC into a shell of its former self. 💔

Every other country who hosts a world cup panics and spends a fortune on infrastructure in the lead up. Not the good ol' USA, however. They just act weirdly smug about how shit it is.

The actual lesson to take away from the fall of Orban is that the only way to dislodge an effective, populist, personality-led political movement is with a strong anti-corruption platform.

On Tuesday, a day before John C. Phalen was removed from his position as U.S. Secretary of the Navy by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth after months of infighting with senior leaders and disagreements over how to revive the Navy’s struggling shipbuilding program, he said during a roundtable at the Navy League’s Sea Air Space 2026 that the Navy is looking to wrap up a review of the Ford-class and Nimitz-class aircraft carriers by the end of May. Pointing to a possibly major shift in the carrier acquisition strategy currently held by the U.S. Navy, including the potential cancellation of planned orders for additional Ford-class carriers and even a transition to a new design, as suggested last year by President Donald J. Trump, who has consistently criticized the Ford-class, and its electromagnetic catapults, known as the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS).

Would somebody who owns one please explain the category "truck gun" to me? Don't get me wrong, I'm completely in favor of people being as heavily armed as they want to be. I just don't understand the threat model that leads to people having a specific gun that they specifically carry in their truck. I mean, as opposed to on their person. What do you use a truck gun for? Is there some epidemic of backroad banditry that needs to be suppressed? Are people driving with one hand and potting varmints with the other? What's actually going on here? Inquiring minds want to know.