Ballroom? Which ballroom?

#WHCD #WHCD2026 

RantWoman has probably spent too much time down YouTube rabbit holes about the gunman at this year's White House Correspondents' dinner.

RantWoman has not watched every second of all the videos linked here but has tried to pull out points that seem important to her but is seasoning further comment.

Harry Litman outlines a lot of details without all the fluff and angles other sources are chasing.

Link to video above.

WILD New Details Emerge About Trump ASSASSINATION Attempt

Trump SEIZES on Shooting to Push Ballroom Plan

FBI Agent: The WHCD was “staged” by Trump but not in the way many believe

Dean Obeidallah and retired FBI agent Frank Figliuzzi.

Discussion of the shooter's manifesto and moral reasoning.

"Not staged but manipulated immediately afterward."

Why the Presumed Trump Assassination Attempt Will Not Improve His Polling Numbers

Trump Assassinated? Rushed Off Stage After Shooter Opens Fire at White House | Iran Lego Animation

Cenk Explains Everything STRANGE About The WHCD Shooting

🚨MAJOR RED FLAGS Surface on SHOOTING from Trump Admin….

Who actually fired the bullet that hit the Secret service officer? 

Paraphrasing: Now we need a taxpayer funded ballroom to respond to the threat environment

great statements from Congressmembers

Hitch funding to the reconciliation bill about DHS

White House Correspondents Dinner Attack Is Not Going Like They Planned

Reese Waters

Comics

Jimmy Kimmel on Melania & Donald Trump Demanding His Firing & The White House Correspondents’ Dinner

John Lovett on Jimmy Kimmel

Jon Lovett on The White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Jimmy Kimmel's Joke & the D.C. Grindr Party

"By the time I heard about it, the conversation was about ballroom....The WH ballroom does not become any more legal because someone did something illegal and stupid at another ballroom."

They’re LYING to Us….

AI version of security camera video

Manifesto: why is Kash Patel the only person not on the list?

Why buckshot not slugs?

"The best way not to ...is just not to do it."

MAGA started tweeting about the ballroom before the #Stablegenius held his press conference.

Trump Demands Ballroom After WHCD Shooting, Kash Patel "Likely to Be Fired": A Closer Look

Trump Spins Dinner Shooting for Ballroom Agenda & Blitzer Is CNN's One-Shoed Hero | The Daily Show

RantWoman appreciates the audio description

Gun violence? "What about the un-ballroomed rest of us?"

AOC

Trump STUNNED as SHOOTING PLAN BACKFIRES in CAPITOL!!!!

Ken Harbaugh

Trump Press Scheme RAMPS UP after SHOOTING…

And the #WHCD NOT at the White House but possibly not at the Hilton anymore

'It would be inappropriate': Carol Leonnig explains why WHCD wouldn't be held at Trump's ballroom

The White House Correspondents Dinner according to Cenk Uygur, with an academic digression

 #WHCD #WHCD2026 #SovietUnion

Cenk (Jenk) Uygur is as good a source as anyone to go point by point through a bunch of "too early to tell" points about the gunman outside the White House correspondents' dinner. Cenk has not picked up that security was less than usual for a gathering with 5 of 6 people in the Presidential line of succession in attendance.

The last part of the video Cenk heads straight toward all the ways Israel is not held to the same standards as everyone else and reads comments from his channels.

And some media clips

The Correspondents' Dinner shooting was WEIRD

Journalist in room next to WHCD attack suspect rips security: ‘never any searches’

Shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner in DC Tonight

White House Correspondent Dinner Definitely NOT FAKE 

Witness describes chaos at White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting

National security expert Hal Kempfer talks White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting

Retired Secret Service agent discusses White House Correspondents' Dinner attack

Details emerge in White House Correspondents dinner shooting

What we know about Cole Tomas Allen, the WHCD shooting suspect

Here’s Why we don’t believe Trump’s version of the White House Correspondent’s Dinner shooting

Behold The Ridiculous, Unbearable, God-Awful Trauma Theater in the Aftermath of The WHCD Shooting

WHCD shooting: Rep. Zinke says steps needed to address politicians’ vulnerability | The Hill Sunday

Trump SHOOTING Raises Major RED FLAGS - New LEGO Video

Full disclosure: the Washington Hilton hosts manty academic conferences. RantWoman once attended an area studies conference there. The conference was in November after the 1991 disintegration of the Soviet Union. Aside from a range of humanities topics, there were many papers about pipelines. There was a sense of many people needing to redefine their lives with the national security environment changing. Drug trafficking was on the minds of many as a national security concern. 

The moment that most sticks out to RantWoman: the session with a CIA recruiter getting regaled from the lobby / hallway by a flock of women attending a Salvation  Army event. As the recruiter was trying to interest area studies scholars in careers, the Salvation Army came through singing "Ain't gonna study war no more." 

TRUTH

RantWoman considers this divine intervention rather than a security problem and frets that there might be a much more uptight reaction these days.

Kash and the Secretary of #WarCrimes STARS of AI slopaganda

 Iran-linked video diss tracks based on the weekly news stream are one of RantWoman's very guilty pleasures, with the following additional comments.

Gee: shouldn't the people of Iran have the opportunity to make fun of their leaders without getting mowed down by the tens of thousands? Welp, hard to gain access right now with SEVERE internet information control within the country. Oh, and if only the fate of formerly very valuable examples of US democracy at its best, the Radio Liberty / Radio Free Europe franchise were not up in the air thanks to the ravages of DOGE and some step in court-based limbo.

Iran seems to be following the advice of Sun Tzu (?): never interrupt your enemy when they are in the process of making a mistake."

And US-based interests seem to be grabbing advice from an authoritarian playbook: penalize channels who host the content, oh and eat away at (or monetize?) the wayback machine internet archive all the better to try to make history tell only the most flattering stories. RantWoman almost feels as if she should download content in case key items get erased. Almost.  

With all that to set the mood, please enjoy the videos.

They reflect depressing truths which, among other things are serious deviations from concerns from RantWoman's grad school colleagues wanting to keep their reputations as clean as possible in order to qualify for security clearances.

IRANS New LEGO DISS TRACK Druken HEGSETH 🤭 #viral #fdt #war #funny #lol

Sea Shany with a side of misquoted Bible

Ezekiel 25:17 - Bible Gateway

Speaking of Overkill, both textually and in the "kinetic" sense, this link should yield the verse in all English translations available on Bible Gateway.

RantWoman is not going to chase down the Pulp Fiction quote. This quote is consistent with Hegseth's previous quote from the Psalms about breaking the teeth of enemies. Isn't that threat alone supposed to be a war crime?

And Kash Patel, the Epstein Class, hostile work environments

Kash Patel Gets NASTY SURPRISE After Iranian Diss Track Goes VIRAL

So many questions:

Shouldn't reasonable vetting have caught alcohol issues before confirmation.

Why would a security team need a battering ram. Couldn't they just think of some reason to ask for help from hotel staff or were they complicit in hiding the unacceptable behavior.

President #StableGenius promised to drain the swamp and hire only the best people. Instead everything is SO MUCH swampier and the best he can do is the bottom of the barrel, drunks when he hates drunkenness....

Oh swell. It's a wild Saturday night Play the sea shanty again.

The Secretary of War Crimes--and profiteering

 #Polymarket #Crypto

President #StableGenius is doing exactly NOTHING for ordinary people with affordability concerns but LOTS of people are making money on what looks like insider trading and market manipulation.

Here's hoping people will be constructively FURIOUS about this as the midterms approach.

Sal on the blockade and why ships get seized

 #Iran #StraitsOfHormuz

False flagged ships

Ships under sanctions or OFAC (Office of Foreign Access Control) sanctions

Making it Very, VERY hard to ship oil from Iran

Iran is running out of space to pump oil but shutting down production results in real difficulty restarting.

Reference to other channels

Some ships trying to run the strait in Iranian territorial waters but US blockade seems to be biting.

Dozens of tankers stopped and herded into Indian ocean port.

Russian propagandists start to speak out; Ukraine seizes FSB base

 #Ukraine #Russia

Look at all the people starting to speak out.

The "kinetic" details of the operation in detail in the first fideo. The main point: Ukraine has destroyed one FSB base but some small Russian progress.

More theology about our Embarrassing President and faith