Sunday, May 31, 2026
Inverse Bigotry
While I don't, in principle, object to politicians respectfully adopting traditions for the sake of their audience, there is something especially bizarre about AOC, a truly radical feminist, wearing a hijab to speak in front of a crowd that appears to be exclusively male, and largely uninterested in what she has to say.
She has unconsciously adopted the traditions of a culture that respects women even less than the one portrayed in The Handmaid's Tale—you know, that horror that Donald Trump is supposedly bringing about in the United States with the help of the docile women who surround him and the openly gay men in prominent administration positions.
All the men around her, with the exception of Mamdani himself, are dressed like the Afghan Taliban, so obviously rejecting the Western society that has welcomed them. AOC spends an inordinate amount of time condemning people who have no intention of oppressing women, but when given the chance, she embraces a crowd that is filled with people who do.
An all-male crowd, from the look of it, except for a woman who likely is either the mayor's or AOC's staffer.
One of the more bizarre things about leftists is their inverse bigotry regarding brown and black people. They so obviously expect them to behave like savages that they excuse behavior that they would never tolerate in white people. They spout out excuses, trot out claims of oppression, and claim that any bad behavior is caused by white oppression.
Poisonous
The Palestinians, who are the new hot group of "victims" in the West, are notably excluded from settling in Muslim countries, which want nothing to do with them. A Palestinian "refugee" from Gaza will be welcomed in Europe, but not in Egypt, Lebanon, or Saudi Arabia. Because they are poisonous to civilization itself.
Selective Open Borders
Opposing the Trump policy clearly doesn't stem from a concern for the illegal migrants per se—they can get a very good deal, in fact, and even the chance to return legally.
What's really at stake is the commitment to open borders. And by that, it's not even a commitment to the principle of open borders, since none of these advocates are up in arms about the fact that Mexico's immigration laws are far harsher than the United States, and Mexico wants nothing to do with feeding or housing illegal immigrants.
It's open borders for the United States, and more generally for First World countries. The goal is to redistribute our income, which amounts to pillaging our country.
But It's a Civil Violation!
I must be missing something in this story. The fact that Vang had a conviction for armed robbery explains why he may have been a priority case for deportation, but it is the fact that he is an illegal alien, not the fact that he committed a crime, that makes him subject to deportation. I don’t understand why a pardon from the State of Minnesota would have any bearing on his impending deportation. If he is an illegal—a fact that I take it no one denies—he is subject to deportation, period. As a matter of policy, ICE might decide to leave Vang alone, but the pardon would have no impact on that. What am I missing?
Labor Theory of Math
DEI math teaching is based on the labor theory of math: your effort, not achievement, is what counts in K-12 grading, and the demand that students get the right answer is white supremacy.
If so, it takes white supremacy to build a bridge or study physics.
It's striking how, during the George Floyd/COVID years, teachers' unions agitated to eliminate standards, and universities seized on the trend, doing much the same. The claim was that testing was racist; the reality was that standardized testing exposed the rot in our educational system.
Deserved Mockery
Generation Z is famously facing more dire financial conditions than previous generations.
We hear that constantly, and I certainly don't deny that in many respects, they have gotten a raw deal. Housing prices are high, and the job market is not particularly aligned with the education they were told would set them up for a comfortable life.
These kids, after all, were convinced that a degree in Women's Studies and Gender Confusion was the path to prosperity as they agitated for a communist revolution.
But you have to admit, these kids have no financial sense. It's obvious when you look at how they spend their money.
It turns out that Generation Z loves to eat out and get food delivered, despite not having the financial means to sustain the lifestyle they feel entitled to. You and I, when younger, made macaroni and cheese, ramen, and inexpensive meals to extend our food dollar.
When this is pointed out, our favorite indeterminate age journalist explains that it is not their fault. As poor people, they don't have the capacity to actually make meals such as mac and cheese, spaghetti with Ragu, salad, fresh vegetables, hummus, or any of the cheaper foods you can pick up at any grocery store and spend a few minutes making.
They have no choice but to order avocado toast for delivery to their door.
Gospel-of-Thomas Talarico
The Gospel of Thomas was not "omitted" from the Bible by "church leaders"; it was never an accepted part of the prophetic writings. Every reference to it in the early Church condemned it as false, used to advance the Manichaean heresy of dual gods of good and evil (and perhaps the Gnostic heresies as well). Any seminarian building a theological argument on the Gospel of Thomas about the true teachings of Jesus should be flunked out of school. And there are a lot of Bible-taught Baptists in Texas who know the difference, not to mention Catholics, Episcopalians, Presbyterians, and so on.
The Cultural Enrichment Is Real
Georgia Meloni should follow Keir Starmer's lead and step up the surveillance of white Europeans, because they will no doubt overreact to the culturally vibrant, diverse behavior of the Muslim migrants who drive their cars into crowds and jump out to stab people as they try to escape.
It's just part of their culture, don't you know?
Islam is the religion of peace, but apparently an awful lot of Muslims didn't get the memo. Ramming incidents are becoming more common in Europe and serve as an easier version of the IED, allowing people to commit random mayhem without all the fuss of building a bomb.
One of the least spoken of features of Muslim migration is that the second generation, born in their adopted countries, is often even more radicalized than the first. Studies in Nordic countries, where they actually keep track of such things, show that 2nd generation migrants (children of migrants) are just as dependent on social services and no more integrated than their parents.
100% Insane
Most of us, on hearing that 20% of Fairfax County, the bedroom community of our nation's capital, are "deportable" or live with somebody deportable, recoil. Even though most are not actively committing crimes, that concentration of migrants distorts how the people who govern our country view the world. The people who govern us don't live like us, and that explains why they don't share our concerns.
If one in five is deportable, that probably explains why housing costs are artificially high. That probably explains why Fairfax County's values differ so significantly from those of the rest of Virginia. That explains why the County has a two-tier criminal justice system that allows predators to roam the streets.
Life-Loser Mayor
In sum, Seattle's budget is too big and Mayor Wilson has been treating the companies and people that pay all those taxes like they are not wanted and not needed exactly when they are most needed. Maybe this week she's finally decided to pull her head out of her DSA backside but I'm not too optimistic. It took her months to fix this one mistake. She'll probably keep mouthing off and watching as the millionaires and big businesses wave, like, bye.
More Mythical Problems
Some things are too on-the-nose to be believed immediately, so when Jonathan Turley read about the City of Ann Arbor, Michigan spending $18,000 to remove Community Watch signs in order to foster "inclusivity," he had to check whether it was a Babylon Bee story or if it was real.
It was, of course, real, because Ann Arbor isn't just a Blue city, but a Blue city with a far-left academic population that considers itself the most virtuous group of people in the world.
And virtue, these days, does not mean what it used to mean, but rather something closer to one-upping everybody else on making symbolic moves that either don't make things better or make things significantly worse.
Now removing Neighborhood Watch signs is an example of the former. Nobody takes Neighborhood Watch signs seriously, and Neighborhood Watch groups almost never really exist; when they do, city authorities work mightily to ensure they do nothing that actually reduces crime. That would be vigilantism, which is a no-no, and these days, reporting a crime is almost a purely symbolic act unless there is blood flowing in the streets.
Activism 101
There is a reason why student performance in schools is tanking fast, particularly in Blue states. As Mississippi is zooming ahead in teaching kids to read because they dropped the stupid liberal methods of teaching and went back to phonics, teachers, administrators, and school boards in Blue areas are focusing their attention and their school funding on indoctrinating children and turning them into leftist activists.
And:
To a certain extent, that used to be true, but that time is long in the rear-view mirror, as is the myth that most teachers are underpaid. While some still are, including new teachers whom the unions work hard to keep underpaid to ensure they can trot out somebody with a low salary, teachers in many districts make far above the median income.
In cities like Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and many others, teachers are well-paid, the schools are grossly overfunded, and the kids are learning basically nothing. Kids can graduate with A averages and also be illiterate.
Public schools in general have plunged in performance for any number of reasons, but one of them is that many of them don't even bother to teach things like reading and math. They exist as jobs programs for left-wing activists and indoctrination centers for the radical left.
Moral Inversion
Now, 20 years later, Haynes has not only been released from prison, but is being paid $4.5 million by the State of Minnesota. His conviction was obviously not wrongful, but Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty, who is unabashedly pro-criminal, sided with Haynes in overturning his conviction on essentially non-existent grounds. Instead of playing her proper role in our judicial system, representing the public and prosecutors, she colluded with a murderer to spring him from prison and make him a wealthy man.
There is more to the story. My colleague David Zimmer tells it all here. It is impossible to overstate the moral inversion that takes place when we turn government over to leftists.
The Far Left
Thus, Prime Minister Keir Starmer denounced this year’s rally as “peddling hatred and division,” saying “we’re in the fight for the soul of this country.” Hatred apparently meaning love for one’s country, and the soul of the U.K. apparently consisting exclusively in importing millions of unassimilable third-world immigrants.
Dems Prefer Addressing Mythical Problems
Instead of doing the Republican thing of laying out detailed policy proposals and taking veiled shots at the failure of Democratic Party policies, Pratt goes for the jugular.
He asks the simple question: Do you want to live in squalor? In Los Angeles, of all places, which has every natural advantage, and one big disadvantage: Democrats.
Bass is a Democratic Party politician from central casting. Her answer to arsonists who revere Luigi Mangione is to discuss climate change, and her response to allowing residents to rebuild their burnt-down houses is to pile regulations on top of regulations to ensure they cannot do so.
Bass' allies can't figure out how to fight back because Pratt's message is too powerful to ignore. Instead, you get insane attacks on the fan-made videos that mock the establishment. It's not the message, but the medium, because again, that is how Democrats think.
Bass' major problem is that Pratt exposes the insanity and corruption of the Democratic Party machine, and there is no way to deny the basic facts of his case.
Saturday, May 30, 2026
Dissolution
As I have written before, I think it is increasingly questionable whether we conservatives can continue to share a country with liberals. It saddens me to say it, but there seems to be little basis for any common citizenship. The Left’s demented reaction to Mangione’s cold-blooded murder is one more data point on that question.
More Red vs. Blue
There are a lot of these kinds of complaints on social media too, claiming that Texas, Florida, and Tennessee made these changes "without a vote." That's not true at all; state legislatures voted on these redistricting plans in all three states, and other red states will do the same. The real difference in this fight is that blue states passed amendments to state constitutions that passed authority for redistricting from legislatures to so-called "independent" commissions to lock in previous gerrymanders. Red states kept redistricting authority where it belongs, in state legislatures, while Gavin Newsom and Abigail Spanberger had to reverse those previous amendments via referendum first before their legislatures could act.
The History of Fantasyland
It is no surprise that those who trust our education establishment are the most ignorant. But the idea that one-half or more of Americans believe that Indians were peaceful until the white man came along is astonishing. It means that they know absolutely nothing about pre-Columbian American history, and they ascribe to natives virtues that the Indians never would have claimed for themselves.
Tribes like the Iroquois, to name only one, were in warfare among the most vicious peoples in history, ranking perhaps even worse than the Assyrians and the Mongols. Indian tribes were pretty much all proud of their martial prowess, and would be horrified to learn that, several hundred years after the fact, they are regarded as having lived in peace and harmony with their neighbors, whom they despised.
Our education system is irredeemably awful, and needs to be blown up so that we can start over from scratch.
Infiltrator
As shown in a number of other instances, Justice Jackson is either a person of extremely limited intelligence or a political operative, rather than a legitimate judge. Her repeated personal attacks on her colleagues are unprecedented, at least in the modern history of the Court. They can best be understood, I think, as part of the Democratic Party’s effort to delegitimize the Court in order to lay a political foundation for court-packing or for disregarding the Court’s rulings in Democratic jurisdictions. Jackson’s role on the Court can perhaps best be seen as that of an infiltrator, rather than a judge.
Tucker is Israel First
Carlson's overall argument is that we should care very much about the behavior of Israel killing people in Gaza. We should all be righteously angry not only at Benjamin Netanyahu but at anyone who supports him. But also, who cares if someone is making light of the Holocaust and celebrating Hitler and Stalin as heroes.
There's no way to square this circle, morally speaking.
