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The DUmpster / How is everyone out there making it financially?
« Last post by CC27 on May 24, 2026, 09:15:26 AM »
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LuckyCharms (23,142) Posts

How is everyone out there making it financially?

I'm feeling like everyone has their hands in my pockets...because they do.

Gas and electric costs have reached a near unsustainable level.

Spectrum bill increases seemingly monthly.

Groceries? (that's a new word I just heard...groceries)...forget about it.

And...I think twice before driving anywhere because I cringe at the pump.

How are you doing? How bad is it getting for you? Or, is it not bad?

I know we are all in the same boat...but I'm interesting in seeing how others are holding up.

Thanks.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221256614

How come I didn't see these types of posts during the Biden administration?? 🤔🙄
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This was posted last evening:

White House Gunman Identified, Was Known to Secret Service

https://legalinsurrection.com/2026/05/white-house-gunman-identified-was-known-to-secret-service/

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Nasire Best, 21, of Maryland, had been showing up at the White House for nearly a year before Saturday evening, when he pulled out a revolver and opened fire at a security checkpoint. Secret Service officers shot and killed him at the scene. ...
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The agents who confronted him had seen him before. Court records show he was involuntarily committed in June 2025 after obstructing traffic near 15th Street and E Street NW, just blocks from where he would be killed eleven months later. The following month, he was arrested for unlawful entry after bypassing a restricted pedestrian control post at the White House perimeter. When agents detained him, he told them he was Jesus Christ and that he wanted to be arrested.

A court issued an order barring him from the area. He violated it and kept coming back. The Secret Service kept finding him loitering around White House entry posts in the months that followed. No political motive has been established. Best wasn’t a political operative with a manifesto; he was a deeply disturbed young man who kept returning, compulsively, to the same patch of federal ground until the day he arrived armed.
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This blogpost was stream-of-information, while information was becoming "known":

Shots Fired at 17th and Pennsylvania Ave - Secret Service Take Gunman Down UPDATES

https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/05/23/shots-fired-at-17th-and-pennsylvania-ave-secret-service-take-gunman-down-n3815249

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It's been a rainy, crappy day in D.C., and some of the press had little shelters while others were out on the lawn under the trees, doing what they do with all the news about the Iran deal or no deal in the air.

And it suddenly got spicy.
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There were upwards of thirty shots ringing in the air as panicked reporters were hustled into the White House press room for their own safety.

Reports are coming in that three of the shots were from a man brandishing a pistol and firing towards the White House, and the rest of the fusillade was the Secret Service agents returning fire.
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There were no injuries to law enforcement, according to reports. Right now, the shooter is in critical condition, and unfortunately, a bystander was hit as well.
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The gunman never got inside the White House perimeter. Well done, Secret Service.
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Hmm. Fox's Chad Pergram is saying he was told the gunman came up 'near' the 17 gate and lit off some shots.
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UPDATE:   Okay, the White House is saying the shooter approached the SS checkpoint, removed the weapon, and began firing at police officers. Obviously, they returned fire and hit him, and no one is quite sure who hit the bystander.

The shooter was taken to a local hospital and died.
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...CNN’s John Miller: “This is a 21-year-old individual. He has been identified to law enforcement. He has not been identified by law enforcement.” 

“He was walking on 17th Street… We’re told he reached into a bag and we’ve seen a bag when we look at those crime scene photos.” 

“Pulled out the g*n and opened fire in the direction of this secret checkpoint staffed by Secret Service officers.”
MORE: Reuters fills in a few more blanks and, sad to say, I'm STARTING TO SENSE A THEME...
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...The suspect was identified as an emotionally disturbed person, the official said, adding that a "stay-away order" had been ⁠issued to the suspect previously.
Earlier, the U.S. Secret Service said it was investigating the incident and FBI ⁠Director Kash Patel said his agency was supporting the probe.
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GUNMAN IDENTIFIED: The NY Post has the gunman's reported ID.
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Nasire Best, 21, fired at a checkpoint at about 6:10 p.m. after being seen pacing in a strange manner up and down 17th St. Northwest, sources told The Post. He used a revolver and only got off a few shots before he was quickly shot and killed in a hail of bullets from federal officers.

A least one bystander was hit and seriously wounded in the fusillade, the sources said.

While a motive for the attack hasn’t been confirmed, sources said Best is a mentally troubled individual who believed he was Jesus Christ and is known to the Secret Service and has violated a pervious court order to stay away from the White House.
He'd been arrested for trying to get into the White House grounds previously.
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MORE: Oh, dear - this is not at all what I wanted to have to correct. CNN is reporting that the poor person caught in the crossfire has died, dang it.
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The DUmpster / Re: I was just informed by a Verizon insider
« Last post by SVPete on May 23, 2026, 06:42:44 PM »
Have you tried dialing 411 for the answer?  :cheersmate:

 :hi5:

The problem is, my cell phone carrier is Verizon. :rimshot:
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The DUmpster / Re: I was just informed by a Verizon insider
« Last post by 67 Rover on May 23, 2026, 06:34:22 PM »
Does anyone have a clue why Verizon discontinuing 411 service is threadworthy?

Have you tried dialing 411 for the answer?  :cheersmate:
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The DUmpster / Re: had an interesting evening yesterday
« Last post by DUmpDiver on May 23, 2026, 03:08:35 PM »
I wonder how many of those Hispanic-named grads' families have been in the US legally for several generations, if not all the way back to 1849 when the US bought what is now the US Southwest.

Illegals can also excel scholastically. However, that does not change their immigration status so they should still be subject to deportation.
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The DUmpster / Re: had an interesting evening yesterday
« Last post by DUmpDiver on May 23, 2026, 03:07:21 PM »
I wonder how many of those Hispanic-named grads' families have been in the US legally for several generations, if not all the way back to 1849 when the US bought what is now the US Southwest.

Illegals can also excel scholastically. However, that does not change their immigration status so they should still be subject to deportation.
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The DUmpster / Re: had an interesting evening yesterday
« Last post by Texacon on May 23, 2026, 03:01:09 PM »
Barring this poster being a teacher … no mention of any awards for the graduate they showed up for. Just sayin.

KC
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The DUmpster / Re: Watched Colbert last night and cried through most of it
« Last post by DUmpDiver on May 23, 2026, 02:59:12 PM »
Successfully mixing humor with socio-political commentary is a difficult art and balance. Rush was a master of that art, and that was part of why lefties HATED him. Glen Beck was good at it in the early 2000s, but he lost his sense of humor around the time he bought into "Peak Oil" doom.

It goes downhill when an entertainer takes themself too seriously and becomes bitter and spiteful. Both Colbert and Kimmel used to be pretty good entertainers/comics until the TDS set in.

It is possible to recover though. Dennis Miller went off the deep end and became a really bitter guy but has since recovered and doesn't take himself as seriously as he used to.
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The DUmpster / Re: Watched Colbert last night and cried through most of it
« Last post by DUmpDiver on May 23, 2026, 02:47:11 PM »
Successfully mixing humor with socio-political commentary is a difficult art and balance. Rush was a master of that art, and that was part of why lefties HATED him. Glen Beck was good at it in the early 2000s, but he lost his sense of humor around the time he bought into "Peak Oil" doom.

It goes downhill when an entertainer takes themself too seriously and becomes bitter and spiteful. Both Colbert and Kimmel used to be pretty good entertainers/comics until the TDS set in.

It is possible to recover though. Dennis Miller went off the deep end and became a really bitter guy but has since recovered and doesn't take himself as seriously as he used to.
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