Lawyer. Comedian. Business Owner. “The world needs bad men. We keep the other bad men from the door.”
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At the end of the day, Trump risked life in prison, multiple assassination attempts … got reelected and sealed the border - the single most important issue for American Domestic Policy. Lots of entitled people jumped ship. Maybe our country is lost
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Long post worth the read. I have a close friend who flies private jets. He flew Lear 60 for over 15 years and now flies a Gulfstream. This is a copy and paste of his response to me asking him if I thought Ice was the issue.
“We always fly in ridiculous cold temperatures.”
“Usually you get the bad ice when the temperatures are like 0 to negative 20. Believe it or not, there's a point where it gets too cold for ice. At negative 40, you pretty much can't get ice. Besides that, the airplane is equipped with hot wings and hot tail.”
“I flew the Lear 60 for like 15 years. It's a no joke airplane and probably the most dangerous airplane I've ever flown. It has a super critical wing. The airflow has to be perfect. When it gets into rough air and turbulence, it will easily stall. It has stalled on me at 41,000 feet just because we got into some turbulence. (On the way to Palm Beach as a matter of fact. ) we recovered and got her flying again around 30,000 ft. Scary
But here's the problem. This airplane has a terrible coffin corner. (At high altitudes) what that means is, you fly in a really narrow window where if you lose 20 knots, it stalls. And if you gain 20 knots, it goes into overspeed. The air goes supersonic over the wing and it goes into a high speed stall, or worse, a Mach tuck.
So if you stall, the normal recovery is to push the yoke forward to lower the nose and gain air speed again. At low altitude, you can push really hard and recover quickly. But in the 60... if you push hard, it will gain air speed and go into a high speed stall, it doesn't take much. It's very sensitive. The 60 has super short wings that don't make much lift. So then you high speed stall, and the computer is yelling at you... OVERSPEED! So then you pull back and enter a low speed stall. And you go back and forth trying to keep it in the air speed window.
This whole thing is pretty scary. And you should recover basically by using your finger tips using super small corrections. You can't over do it. If you try to muscle the recovery, she gets mad and will become unrecoverable. If she enters a mach tuck. You're done.”
“I taught the Lear 60 to other pilots and mentored them. I told them... this airplane has a soul and it's trying to kill you. Do not ever try to top the weather. Don't go over a thunderstorm. Go around it. If it means a half hour longer, then do it. Going over the thunderstorm will go into turbulence that you might not recover from.
These pilots went right over a thunderstorm. I think it stalled which caused them to drop down into the thunderstorm and ended up in mach tuck. They picked up so much speed that it ripped off the horizontal stabilizer. At that point... chuck Yeager can't fix it.
These same pilots did something similar a couple months ago. ATC got mad at them. They poked the bear one too many times.
This is not a beginner airplane. The Gulfstream would never do this. It has HUGE margins of error and won't stall like that. But then again... it's got HUGE wings. It's a pussy cat.
The Gulfstream is like driving a 4 wheeler. The Lear 60 is like riding a uni cycle.”
As the former owner of a private jet charter company, here is a little perspective on the crash in Florida yesterday.
The economics of jet charter are a set of fixed costs (crew salary, hangar space, scheduled maintenance, landing fees) and variable costs (flight distance, flight time, fuel load).
It appears the Lear 60 was trying to thread through some severe storms. They could have chosen to (1) Fly around the storms or (2) divert to a safe airport and wait out the weather on the ground. Flying around the storms or stopping add to the cost by thousands of dollars.
Pilots tend to have a bit of a "cowboy culture" where they think their skills can handle dangerous situations. Private jet passengers will often try to lightly pressure pilots to get to their destination on time - it is the reason they're paying tens of thousands of dollars after all.
This is a snapshot into the culture of private jet chartering. This incident is most likely several things going wrong at the exact same time. Unfortunately, physics, aerodynamics and gravity are undefeated.
The likely NTSB report will show what occurred is similar to the Denzel Washington movie 'Flight.' A broken rear stabilizer led to the pilots having zero control.
It's not a conspiracy, it's not Epstein, it's not Patriot Missiles. This very situation is what everyone in the aviation industry tries to play defense against everyday. Not being able to control things like this is one of the main reasons I left the industry behind.
Dismantling USAID is one of the most important things Trump did. It cut off the money funnel to a lot of corruption. Every NGO or Foundation takes a 30% cut of the taxpayer money as an Administrative Fee, then that money would be siphoned off via fake jobs or via companies owned by politicians that became “vendors” needed for the “operation” of the NGO. It’s how you get a $30 million winery that has no wine bc someone in on the grift is “purchasing” the empty wine barrels so the money can be laundered to the corrupt politicians.
I’m certain we’ll see a lot of this uncovered in the Ilhan Omar case. Anyone vocally defending her is surely just trying to protect the institution of this grift.
The @TuckerCarlson x @HunterBiden interview: two lifelong DC Elites manufacturing victim narratives for themselves. Making passing acknowledgements of their privilege while trying to manipulate ordinary people into thinking they’re common men with common problems. Two crooks pointing fingers at everyone but themselves. Waste of time.
When you’re buying a $20 Chipotle burrito, the profit is roughly $2.50. The additional $17.50 is to cover labor expense, rent, overhead, packaging and food cost. It’s incredibly expensive to operate a business in the post-Biden COVID era economy.
When Biden’s policies kicked in back in 2021, my business costs increased roughly 30-40% across the board. When we paired that with a 30% decline in sales due to price increase + supply constrains, an enjoyable and fulfilling profitable business became a nightmare to get to break even.
Under Trump45 economic conditions, we experienced double digit growth year over year for 5 consecutive years. What started as a $1.5mil annual revenue business from inception in 2016 quickly became a $12.5mil annual revenue business by 2020. Then 2021 and onwards saw year over year declines up until the point we were effectively forced to sell our remaining assets to a larger competitor.
If we let the Democratic Socialists take over, we’ll see this cycle on steroids across all industries. But business owners won’t be selling to larger competitors, they’ll be surrendering it to the government for State Control.
I created dozens of high paying jobs and provided employees and their families with 100% company paid private health insurance for 10 years. But, I’m sure Bernie Sanders and his crew of people can do better … right?
I really hope they paid @DougPolkVids a lot of money to endure what is sure to come from these rolling billboards @ClubWPTGold @philivey @rampagepoker @WSOP
The World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event starts in about a week. The buy-in has remained at $10,000 since it's inception in 1970. It would cost roughly $85,000 (~750%⏫) in 2026 if the buy-in tracked with inflation. That represents a 7.5x reduction in purchasing power. Wild.
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Is something fraud if no one enforces the laws? At what point does it become accepted? When does the “everyone else is doing it” mentality reach critical mass? Taxpayer fraud is directly connected to illegal immigration which is directly connected to election fraud. It’s a web - you can’t tackle one of the issues unless you attack all 3 at the same time. That’s exactly what Trump is trying to do - unfortunately, people that care about one tenticle obstruct the fixing of the other two.
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The entire case needs to be thrown out and @LodgePokerATX needs to file a “Takings” lawsuit against the State of Texas. The probable cause was based on an “anonymous tip” coupled with undercover work by agents who clearly don’t understand how poker clubs are operated. They claim no one told them they had to have a membership and there was no signage stating it either. The UC’s (1) did purchase memberships and (2) don’t understand that when a player sits at a table - they must swipe a players card which links to a tablet on each table that shows how much time each player has. If a player doesn’t have a membership or purchased time - the dealer won’t let them play. When time runs low, the player is alerted to buy more time or to leave.
The bank account records show no proof of illicit activity - a club the size of the Lodge operating 24/7 is easily clearing $75,000 - $100,000 per day in gross revenue for membership and time. They have 68 nine-seat tables charging $12/hr per player per hour. On a busy day, they can be making $7,500/hr in revenue. Evidence of $1.35 million in bank transfers is simply a business transferring money in the ordinary course of daily business. There is nothing at all that hints at illicit activity - certainly not money laundering.
Even if this lead to charges and an indictment - the bank records should be thrown out of evidence based on the probable cause to subpoena them being improper.
The Lodge should file a lawsuit and Doug should personally sue for damages to his reputation.
If they don’t want poker clubs, they need to go to Austin and get the legislatures to change the laws. They have no right to manipulate the law to try to chase poker clubs out of Texas.
LOL at Dems crying about “luxury jets” - an airplane is an airplane - you can configure it anyway you want. A 737 can have 140 seats or it can have a 19 seat VIP setup. You can buy a 19-seat 737 and turn it into a 140 seat transport. DHS is buying hulls, wings and engines - it’s not buying BBJ’s to pop bottles on.
Nancy Mace is a disaster. She managed to make Hillary Clinton look sympathetic. Mace is a disaster - the depo was a disaster. They really went with the conspiracy theory crazy questions - pointless, useless and a waste of time.
Iran would have a nuclear weapon eventually. In 2015/16, I was assigned to the defense team of an Iranian living in America indicted for exporting $24 million of US Technology (nuclear missile parts) to the IRGC for the purpose of building nuclear ICBM’s. Of course, Obama pardoned him as part of the 2016 Iran nuclear deal. I don’t like war or conflict - but the underlying premise is true - Iran would eventually have a nuclear weapon. Mostly because our corrupt leaders wanted it to happen.
This Epstein crusade reminds me of the George Floyd saga. I’m a lawyer, I’ve see real trials - both civil and criminal. In 2020, I’d get asked a question about the Chauvin trial - if my basic/boring textbook explanation of evidence or court procedure went against the narrative, I was branded a “racist.” Today, I’ve been branded as a “pedo protector” for explaining how evidence in a criminal prosecution is handled.
We live in a country of broken, brainwashed people. I think we’re past the point of return.
Counted at least a dozen cops having to be pulled off duty to protect Anti-ICE protestors in Downtown Dallas. It appears to be high schoolers on their lunch break. Not a single American Flag present. What a bunch of junk.
Hot take: the Bad Bunny Super Bowl
Halftime show just got JD Vance elected President in 2028. How many politically disinterested or centrists became MAGA last night?