Tuesday, September 29, 2026

 

Coward

Scott Johnson:

Klobuchar is running for governor. She seeks a position of leadership in which she could do something about the outrage with which Kendall has had to live. What did Klobuchar have to say?

Video of the hearing is posted on YouTube here. Klobuchar apparently attended the hearing briefly but left without speaking. The committee press release states: “Democrats called no witnesses and asked no questions.” They essentially boycotted the hearing.

Maybe some enterprising journalist who covers politics for a living will have the temerity to ask Klobuchar for her position on the issue. She is a little hard to pin down.


 

It's Kinda Their Thing

David Strom:

Liberals have a habit of destroying things even after wiser people warn them they will, and once the damage is done, they ask for a Mulligan.

It's infuriating. Time and again, the consequences of bad decisions are easy to see and predict, and those of us who do so suffer scorn and often cancellation for stating the obvious. And once the predicted disaster strikes, the people who caused it are empowered to do it all over again after the required "oopsie" is uttered.

And:

"Nobody had a Plan B?!" Gee, who was SUPPOSED to have a Plan B?

"Unforeseen?" How do you miss the fact that shutting down 25 percent of a city's power supply would present problems?

Who knew? I mean, really, who could have even imagined the possibility that the power supply would get shaky? What are we, fortune tellers?

Still, Hochul is nine points ahead in the race to become governor, and the odds-on favorite to be reelected. Voters, it seems, prefer to have people in power who do incredibly stupid things as long as they utter the "right" words. And, apparently, "oopsie" seems cute to them. After all, we enjoy watching cats push fragile things off tables. It's kinda cute. Destroying society, apparently, has the same appeal to liberals.


 

Because Diversity

Bill Glahn asks, "What does Britain gain, other than more Labour voters?"

The answer and a follow-up question:

Fairness. Generosity. Balance. So, in other words, Britain gains nothing, whatsoever. Who is asking for this?


 

Nothing But Trouble

David Strom:

Most countries bury statistics that reveal the fact that, as a class, migrants from some countries, regions, or religions present nothing but problems for society. They do poorly in school, consume more welfare than native-born or immigrants from Western countries, and commit far more crimes. And since the migrants come in through mass migration and are not selected based on their likelihood of contributing something valuable, as a class, they are nothing but trouble.

And:

Some people will look at these numbers and either scream RACISM or use them as irrefutable evidence that people with different skin tones are too stupid to contribute. Neither response helps when setting public policy. It really doesn't matter WHY admitting people from the Middle East or Africa is a losing proposition; it only matters whether it is or not. Refusing to recognize an obvious, irrefutable fact merely because it makes you queasy is a recipe for suicide.


 

These People Are Total Lunatics

John Hinderaker:

So, in this data set, 87% of Democrats say they would like to see President Trump impeached and removed from office. (For what? Who cares?) 84% of Democrats say they want President Trump to be removed from office on grounds of disability, under the 25th Amendment. Of course, unlike Joe Biden President Trump is obviously not disabled. 55% of Democrats would like to see President Trump die of natural causes. It is hard to imagine a similar result with regard to Republicans and a Democratic president. And, perhaps most shocking, 59% of Democrats would applaud a military coup that removed President Trump from office. Seven Days in May? The Democratic Party is fully on board!

I guess we should be reassured that “only” 32% of Democrats want to see Trump assassinated, while an equal number — 32% — are “very negative” about a Trump assassination. And Democrats pretend to be puzzled as to why people keep trying to murder the president!


 

The Downside

John Hinderaker:

So why is the Trump administration seemingly on the ropes, with the Republicans’ midterm prospects considered to be bleak? The main reason is the Iran war; not because of casualties we have suffered in that conflict, which have been almost nonexistent—rather, because of the transitory impact on the price of gasoline.

I think the root cause of the administration’s current malaise is the fact that Donald Trump is not a good politician. A competent politician would have handled the Iran conflict quite differently. It would have begun with an address from the Oval Office in which the president would announce the beginning of the conflict, explain the reasons for it, and outline the administration’s goals. Trump never did that, and his Truth Social posts—which he seems to think fill the role of the traditional address to the nation—have been sporadic, amateurish and inconsistent.

A competent politician would not have empowered the IRGC by wasting months trying to achieve a “deal” that would, in any event, have been worthless. Trump should have carried out the military operation until his announced goals had been achieved, and then terminated it.

And a competent politician, instead of spouting off on everything under the Sun on a daily basis, thus giving his opponents endless ammunition to attack him, would stick to consistent messaging on the most important topics, like the economy and immigration. Instead, Trump’s significant achievements have largely been lost in a blizzard of irrelevant news headlines, usually enabled by Trump himself.

Many people voted for Trump because they liked the fact that he was not a politician. He has done a lot of good things, starting with closing the Southern border. One can argue that everything else is a footnote. But he hasn’t gotten much credit for his achievements, and it is mostly his own fault. Trump has now run for president three times and is serving his sixth year as president, so, like it or not, he is a politician. Unfortunately, he isn’t a very good one, and his supporters are now paying the price.


 

What Laws Can I Break?

David Strom:

One of the most glaring facts about left-wing governance is that it simultaneously imposes huge costs in money and freedom on law-abiding citizens while subsidizing and enabling lawlessness and decline among the people most inclined to break the law, degrade society, and ruin things for everybody else.

And:

If anybody had a yard that looks anything remotely like that homeless encampment, they would be fined out of existence. But when homeless people do it, it's celebrated as "urban camping." Money pours in from the city and NGOs to keep everything going, and the result is a city that is both expensive to live in and that is declining around you.


 

Weirdo Update: Texas Edition

Ed Morrissey:

Whatever that means, indeed. Talarico has been a font of Academia-speak racism for the entirety of his career, not to mention an extremist on transgender issues and abortion. Now that the general election has begun, Talarico has had to reverse himself on allowing pediatric sex-change operations, declaring the existence of six genders (which he never named), God being "non-binary," whatever that means, and hating his own "whiteness" as well as Christianity, when it was unenlightened by "Islamic mystics." At present, the man who wants Paxton to be held accountable for racism is spending most of his time and resources in Houston and parts of Dallas to convince black voters to show up for him, after Jasmine Crockett accused Talarico and Texas Democrats of being the real racists in 2026.


 

The Conquest Model

Beege Welborn:

For all the progress in improving life in Sweden and beginning the effort to right the cultural balance again, the progressives were able to marshal the forces they had imported over the years and get them to the ballot boxes. And it's not only that they vote for the Social Democrats. Remember, these are coalition governments, so any Green or Left Party votes automatically boost the Social Democrats' majority in the Riksdag, their parliament.

See Minnesota for another example.


 

October Morale Booster?

Scott Johnson:

I met with two federal agents investigating Omar earlier this year on January 22. At the time they asked me as a courtesy not to publicize their investigation. Although I was free to do so, I have kept quiet about it out of a desire not to complicate their work. Events such as the disclosures by administration officials above have led me to believe I should be free to discuss my involvement now.

And:

Some of the issues raised by the agents related to Omar’s late father. He represents a part of her case that I have not explored or written about. He held himself out as a trainer of teachers. In her memoir, as I recall, Omar herself omits any details of his military career.

I helped the agents arrange a meeting with another witness whom they were interested in interviewing. On April 3, I got a call from the lead agent asking me to help put him in contact with another witness, which I did. That witness had a piece of evidence relating to Omar’s father that the agent wanted. I believe the investigation in which I was interviewed is the one that lies behind Secretary Mullin’s comment last week.


 

Vote Like Our Civilization Depends On It

John Hinderaker:

Can the Left succeed in getting its way by intimidating jurors? Yes, it can. In 2021, police officer Derek Chauvin was tried for the “murder” of George Floyd, who had, apparently by sheer coincidence, three times the lethal limit of fentanyl in his system, which is why he repeatedly complained that he couldn’t breathe—his lungs were filling up with fluid on account of the fentanyl overdose—a half hour before anyone knelt on him.

Chauvin should have had, at a minimum, a fighting chance at trial. But much of the city of Minneapolis had already been burned down by rioters, and leading figures in the Democratic Party were inciting mobs by demanding that Chauvin be convicted, or else. Pretty much every business in downtown Minneapolis shut down and put up riot barriers, for fear that the Chauvin jury might not reach the “right” verdict. The Hennepin County courthouse was shut down—eerily, it was completely dark, except for the one room where the Chauvin trial took place. The courthouse was surrounded by concrete barriers and barbed wire, in anticipation of attacks by liberals, especially if the jury didn’t do the “right” thing. Jurors assembled in an undisclosed location and were bused to the otherwise-uninhabited courthouse every morning, lest they be exposed to violence from the Left.

So, yeah: liberals are serious about trying to make it impossible for anyone who shows up for jury duty to fail to do their bidding.


 

Coexist?

John Hinderaker:

Unfortunately, it simply isn’t true that we are a single nation, divided over various political issues but united in our patriotism and our broader values. That may have been true once, but those days are long gone. Today, there is a significant segment of our population with which it is frankly difficult to coexist.


 

This Can't Continue

John Hinderaker:

We are raising a generation of moral idiots. It certainly does not bode well for the future; you can’t really have a functioning democracy if close to 40% of your people think political murder is a fine idea.


 

Far Right Future?

John Hinderaker:

Things could change, of course: politicians across the left-right spectrum often unite to block anti-immigration candidates, even where such candidates command a plurality vote. Why the European establishment is so determined to destroy Europe’s millennia-old culture, I cannot explain.

It does seem likely, at the moment at least, that France will go the “far right” route next year, and finally start to slow the process of national disintegration via third-world immigration.

A postscript: if Le Pen wins, she will be the first woman President in French history. Somehow, that possibility has not inspired the kind of enraptured press coverage from the left and from feminists that buoyed, for example, Hillary Clinton.

And:

Germany’s establishment parties are aghast at various AfD policies, about some of which they might be right. But they won’t consider the most obvious response: reversing their own support for mass third world migration, thus taking the most important and popular issue out of AfD’s hands. Bitter hostility to native European people and cultures is the one hill that European elites are determined to die on.


 

I'll Pass On This Cultural Enrichment

David Strom:

Noting that not all Muslims will slit your throat or rape your daughter is hardly an argument for the continuation of mass Islamic migration. That some Muslims integrate and that many of their children do well in school is a trivially true fact that tells you absolutely nothing other than that individuals are different, and even within groups that statistically are more likely to collect welfare, commit crimes, rape girls and women, and attack people who don't share their beliefs, there are plenty of good people.

So what? You don't make public policy based on the exceptions, or even the bare majority. If importing vast numbers of people, a third or a half of whom will cause enormous problems and drain the public purse, you should not do it. It's no different than following a policy where we let all felons out of jail under the correct assumption that some of them will never reoffend.

If I told you that 42 percent of a group whose members under 35 (the vast majority of Muslim immigrants fit into this category) believe that violence against anybody who disagrees with them on their religion deserves to be assaulted or killed, would you recommend importing millions of them?

Obviously not. It is insane. It's the basket-of-apples problem. Would you buy a basket of apples where 42 percent of them could poison you, hoping that the ones you eat or feed your children won't be one of them?

And that's not all of it: studies show that the second generation of Muslim immigrants are MORE, not less, radicalized. And mosques are often led by the radicalizers, and the mosques are popping up everywhere.


Friday, September 18, 2026

 

Short Man Syndrome: Islamist Edition

Ed Morrissey:

However, the ad has its problems. First off, the product stinks, and no amount of sexiness can mask its stench. Second, there is no sexiness. El-Sayed comes across as a guy whose self-perception is even more warped than his grasp of economics. El-Sayed barely clears the podium on stage, and while he looks fit, his candlepower falls somewhere between Jesse Eisenberg and Tom Green. The only people who would feel the intended effects of El-Sayed's flexing into the camera are AWFLs, and if he doesn't already have that demo locked down, El-Sayed and the Democrats are in deeper guano than previously thought.


Friday, September 11, 2026

 

25 Years

Mark Steyn:

So here we are, a generation later, when no jihadist needs to fly planes into western skyscrapers — because, in New York as in London as in other western capitals, we have handed Islam the keys to those skyscrapers. 

Ed Morrissey:

But eventually, a funny thing happened: We went back to sleep.

Not entirely, of course. We still have enhanced security in air travel to prevent a similar kind of terrorist attack. We recognize the necessity of dealing with radical Islamist regimes and networks, although even that seems to have faded when dealing with them impacts our gas prices. For the past three years, American campuses have churned with activists declaring their solidarity with an Islamist terror network that perpetrated a massacre on Israelis that far surpassed the scale of 9/11 on a population-adjusted basis and demand that Israel get handed over to radical Islamists whose ideology barely differs at all from al-Qaeda and the terrorists of 9/11.

We fret over "Islamophobia" rather than honestly deal with the threat of radical Islam, both abroad and at home. David will have an example in his next post, in fact.

That is one reason why writing these commemorative posts has become so difficult. It's not just the memories; it's the forgetting. No one needs another "I was in my office dealing with a shift change" memory post. What we need is a slap in the face and someone yelling, "Wake up!" With the exception of the anniversaries and perhaps a day or two on either side of them, 9/11 has gone to sleep in America.

And:

To discuss 9/11 is to admit the threat. To admit the threat requires recognition of those who threaten. That, in turn, requires action, not just by the Department of Homeland Security or the Department of War, but by all of us. It means action in controlling our borders. It means vigilance in choosing our leaders. It means fully funding law enforcement and ensuring its focus on mission. It means heightened awareness, or in the vernacular that erupted in the days after 9/11, it means "If you see something, say something."

David Strom:

But that's not the story you are getting from the media. It's all about Islamophobia, explaining that, despite the fact that more Muslims immigrated to the United States post-9/11 and that they and their children significantly outnumber the number of Muslims who lived here before it, they really are the hardest hit by the vicious, grossly unfair Islamophobia.

Islam, we all know, had nothing to do with the terrorism.

It was actually remarkable to me how little hate was directed at Muslims post-9/11, and sometimes I wonder whether the steady flow of pro-Islam propaganda didn't doom the West to an Islamist takeover by more peaceful means.

The Islamist interpretation of October 7th, now dominates American discourse, with politicians across the West isolating Israel and repeating absolute falsehoods about Israel, and liberals making pilgrimages to mosques and sometimes learning the language of the very people determined to colonize us.

We are now told that Muslim immigrants "built this country" and are the "fabric of America," but also that they are the recipients of a steady stream of hate.

Uh, no. There are few populations more catered to than Muslims in Western countries, at least by the Establishment, which in the UK now invites them to actually rape English girls. And after every terrorist attack, we are warned that it is hate speech to notice.

This is a prime example of suicidal empathy.

In the history of bloody conquests and the enslavement of people, Muslims stand at the top of the pyramid, and unlike the West, Islamists are as fully committed to the project of conquering the world. 

John Hinderaker:

We were angry, and we should have been. We should still be angry today.

The conflict in which the terrorist attacks were one battle continues today. The Iranian Republic declared war on America in 1979, and they have pursued that war ever since, even as Americans tried to ignore it. Radical Islam is as much a force for evil today as it was 25 years ago. Perhaps the reminders we are now seeing of the full horror of the terror attack of 25 years ago will cause Americans to get serious about ending the scourge once and for all.

Scott Johnson:

Someone should perform the same service for New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani and New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. As they used to say on Candid Camera, they they were caught in the act of being themselves — at today’s 9/11 Ground Zero memorial ceremony (video below). The New York Post covers the story here, Fox News here.

Mr. Johnson's annual tribute to Rick Rescorla is posted here.

John Sexton:

The big picture here is that on the 25th anniversary of 9/11 we're still targets for al Qaeda (the Sunni extremists) and we're also fighting against Iran and the Houthis (the Shia extremists). What all of these groups have in common is Islamic militancy and hatred for the United States.

That seems worth mentioning on the anniversary of the worst terror attack on U.S. soil, a day when American media is simultaneously awash in stories about Islamophobia and Islamic militants who want us dead.


Monday, August 31, 2026

 

Giant Toddler

David Strom:

Piker, who fancies himself a revolutionary communist with an iron will and the blood of a tiger ready to take on the entire capitalist establishment, has taken to whining about the criticism all day, every day. Or at least it sure seems that way. A guy who screams about the need for capitalist blood in the streets has become a whiner who complains about not being liked and advertisers being nervous about associating with him.

Many of the communists are hyperfragile.

 

Globalize the Reconquista!

John Hinderaker:

Good for the people of Ceuta. Europe is for Europeans, Spain is for Spaniards. We have seen this movie before: Muslims invaded Spain in 711 and it took until 1492 for Spaniards to drive the last of them out. Now Muslims are invading again, not just in Spain but in England, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, and other Western countries.

Muslims generally think they are winning the current conflict, as they certainly are in England, France, Germany, and some other European countries, and to a lesser extent—so far—in the U.S. and Canada. Why many Western authorities are unwilling to resist the current invasion—unlike, for example, Charles Martel and King John Sobieski—is a question to which I have no answer. For now, let’s applaud the people of Ceuta for standing in the gap.


 

Get Back to Me When the Muslims Pay Up

David Strom:

Which brings up the question: if reparations are the proper response to historical injustice, what other injustices and by whom, should reparations be paid?

Let's do a thought experiment: if white Americans should pay reparations for the European slave trade, then should Muslims pay reparations for their own participation in the African slave trade? After all, Muslims created the African slave trade, having invented it 700 years before white Europeans ever took advantage of the already-existing trade that was created by Muslims in the 7th century.

Muslims enslaved far more Africans than Europeans ever did, and Europeans almost never captured African slaves, but were sold those slaves by African rulers who raided other tribes. Venturing into Africa to capture slaves was far too dangerous for Europeans, who died from violence or disease, and many never even left the boat.

Muslims often participated directly in the capturing of slaves, including Europeans. The United States Marine Corps was stood up to fight Muslim slave traders.

And:

Should the Nordics pay reparations for the depredations of the Vikings, who rampaged throughout Europe and the Mediterranean for centuries? Should the Mongolians work to repay the descendants of Genghis Khan's victims? Should the Turks repay the Greeks for kicking them out of Anatolia? What about the Armenians, whose great-great-grandparents suffered through an actual genocide?

Who is doing the accounting for all this? Whose suffering counts, especially when nobody alive today experienced the actual suffering? Do 70 years of Affirmative Action count toward the reparations?


 

Clown League

Ed Morrissey:

Yep. That's it. It's literally the dictionary entry for the word, and the biological definition of "woman." That is what triggered an obscenity-filled public meltdown by a "professional" athlete in the middle of a game. It's what nearly emptied the Sky bench and derailed a game for which thousands of fans paid to see. It's not much of a wonder that Clark and her teammates trounced the Sky last night, 113-90, even with Aliyah Boston on the bench with an injury. The loss eliminated the Sky from the playoffs, in fact.

The absurdity of this meltdown belies the idea that the WNBA operates as a professional sports league. When was the last time anyone saw a player in the NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL, or even the minor leagues of these sports lose their minds and their focus over a T-shirt in the stands? When was the last time a fan got tossed for wearing a non-obscene T-shirt in any of these leagues? This is the second time in a week for the WNBA in which a team either threatened to expel or outright expelled fans for wearing T-shirts that only expressed support for biology as the definition of "women."

This isn't a sports league. It's a struggle session with cardio. It's a woke drum circle, and the only players who understand professionalism and mental discipline are those targeted by the struggle-session clique. Clark was smirking because she understands the necessity of mental discipline — and she sank eight three-pointers during this game to demonstrate it. Everyone else on the court, the sidelines, and in the offices doesn't have a clue what professionalism means. It's a clown show, run by clowns that indulge clowns, and all of the clowns punish those who refuse to don nose bulbs and size 40 Nikes.


 

Furthest Thing From the Working Class

John Hinderaker:

Things have gotten so bad that the New York Times has noticed. The subject of the Times story is Gustavo Gordillo, co-chairman of the New York chapter of the DSA. Gordillo has stopped talking to the press after a reporter asked him where he lives. Gordillo claims to reside in an apartment in Crown Heights, but it turns out that he really lives in a $1.5 million row house in Bedford-Stuyvesant.

The house was paid for by his father, also named Gustavo Gordillo. The elder Gordilla is the founder and CEO of Draft Pros, a telecommunications infrastructure design and construction company with eight national and international offices.

Gordillo Jr., the socialist, went to Yale and studied sculpture. He now claims to be a union electrician, but the union says his “enrollment in an apprenticeship program was terminated in March of this year after he failed to complete the required work.” So in other words, he is a complete fraud.

Like the rest of the organization that he leads. A friend comments, “Now do Mamdani.”

Also, David Strom:

If you look at the leaders of the DSA, it's hard to find anybody who has worked a day in their lives at anything that could be called a "job." You could slap the term "heir" or "heiress" to their bios, and few people would bat an eye. They are Marxists in more ways than one: their daily bread is handed to them by over-indulgent people around them, who egg them on as they pursue "social justice."

The DSA co-chair in New York City, who helps run the organization that Mamdani, AOC, and all the red-diaper babies get endorsed by, lives in a cozy $1.5 million duplex-turned single-family luxury home bought and renovated by his wealthy father. While it was being renovated, he rented a place, but stiffed the landlord on the rent. He pretended to be a union electrician, but like so many socialists, he failed to put in a day's work and was let go.


 

Defenders of the West

David Strom:

As the election of Trump has shown, the one place where there is a modest amount of hope that Western culture can be saved is here in the United States, and given our close ties and interdependence with Europe, it's important that we fight back at every opportunity.

I don't know anything about Nathan Cofnas aside from the most basic facts, but what is clear is that he is being punished for exposing Jason Arday, and not for any supposed unacceptable views on race. He was hired after making them clear, and the research he based them on was apparently of sufficient quality that the university gave him a position many academics would die for. So spare me the character assassination, because it is irrelevant. I know this because the university implicitly endorsed him when it hired him.

This is about whether speaking truths that the cultural and academic elite refuse to hear will get you punished, and the answer to that is obvious. The people who have perpetrated a fraud upon the world are either being lionized or excused without comment, while the people who exposed the fraud are being hounded, punished, and subject to enormous harassment.

The choice we face is about whether we, to the extent we can object, take that opportunity and do so in the strongest terms we can, and Rubio's State Department is doing so. It is about free speech, obviously, but also about much more: will we let the people and institutions that shape our society and help develop the policies that run our lives be a bunch of frauds with arbitrary power over us all?

It's not a small thing. Not only are academic institutions extremely powerful and influential, but the people with the power are talking about passing a law to shut everybody up when they get exposed.

Of course, the State Department should come down like a ton of bricks on these guys and use whatever power we have to push back. They need us more than we need them, and it most certainly IS our business. When academics come to us for money, they spin yarns about how vital to society and the economy they are; when they get into trouble, they act as if we have no stake in whether they are run properly.


Thursday, August 27, 2026

 

Wokeball News

David Strom:

Things went from bad to worse over the weekend, with a whole slew of WNBA-related news, all of which have to do with how Woke is destroying the reputation of the League.

The Atlanta Dream, for instance, refused to stand for the National Anthem at one game and subsequently refused to even walk onto the court until the Anthem had finished playing.

They did find time, though, to honor the President of Earth herself, Stacey Abrams, who, aside from her stint as a Star Trek near-goddess, is famous solely for losing two elections and spending years denying she did. She was an election denier when election denial was cool.

Oh, wait, I forgot: she should have been famous for being a fraudster, getting awarded $2 billion from the EPA for a bogus NGO she just invented out of thin air, but the media pretty much buried that.


 

Minds of Toddlers

David Strom:

She was speaking about Francesca Hong's stated positions as a sitting state legislator, over 30-years-old, and she held those positions until she started getting trashed for them in her current campaign for governor.

But really, she was just a kid and shouldn't be held responsible for anything she said outside the current context of her campaign.

We're not even talking, in most cases, about positions taken at the height of the George Floyd madness. Every DSA-supported candidate has held crazy views until they started running in their current campaigns; they are the very reasons why the DSA endorsed them, after all. It's just that they are so unpopular that they have started to temporize or disavow positions they have held throughout their adult lives.

As Organized Crime Democrats have freaked out, worried that these candidates who are adults with the minds of toddlers have captured the Democratic base and will destroy the Democrats' chances of picking up seats this year, a cadre of their supporters are trying to help out by downplaying the insanity. 

And:

This is an explanation? Who wants a person in a position of power who can become so emotionally unhinged that they adopt insane positions so casually and work mightily to destroy people who disagree with them?

Sure, I became a commie and tried to destroy Western Civilization, but that was sooooo 2021, you know.

Seriously, who would you rather have in power — somebody who kept their head under pressure, or somebody who blows with the winds with their peer group? The first is called an adult; the second is called a man- or woman-child.


 

Unearned Arrogance

David Strom:

But the DSA leadership is being tested already. As their candidates rise in prominence, DSA leaders are being put to the test by, of all people, the midwits in Pravda, and they are coming off looking quite stupid.

By that I don't mean that their ideas are stupid — nobody in Pravda cares much about that, unless it will harm the political prospects of the Democrat Party.

No, I mean the actual people who lead the Democratic Socialists of America. To say they have the political sophistication and depth of college sophomores at a third-rate college is being far too kind to them. These people are STUPID. Midwits have IQs around 115-120, which makes them above average in language fluidity. They are not so much stupid as sufferers of the Dunning-Kruger effect; they think they are smarter and wiser than they are, and will never be smart enough to realize they barely understand complicated topics.


Wednesday, August 26, 2026

 

When Your Worldview is Trash

David Strom:

What's beautiful about that video is how obviously fraudulent James and Cam are, and the absolute inability of the election officials to challenge their obvious attempt to commit voter fraud. You can see on the officials' faces that they KNOW they are being had, but they have to go along with the absurdity.

They are like the WNBA folks who know Enes Kantor Freedom isn't a woman but are incapable of calling it out using their own standards. The rules are the rules, you know, and in Rules for Radicals we are told to make your enemy live by his own rules.


 

How Does Anyone Defend This?

John Hinderaker:

These Islamic immigrants have adopted from Western liberals the false idea that “hate speech” is somehow subject to punishment or prohibition. They also have absorbed the leftist idea that pretty much anyone is entitled to be supported by the state, as two-thirds of “refugees,” who are overwhelmingly from Islamic countries, are on welfare. Taking money from a Western government obviously doesn’t obligate them to adopt the culture of the Western country that they have invaded.

Tell me again, who thought this was a good idea? And when did the British people—or anyone, for that matter—vote for it?


 

Don't Let Them Laugh It Off

David Strom:

Here, AOC is asked about a candidate she has personally gotten to the finish line, largely because said candidate is as bats**t crazy as she is, and AOC's response is basically "we aren't responsible for our crazy ideas."

People are DEAD because of those ideas. Entire police forces were decimated and are still trying to recover. Cities like Seattle, Minneapolis, Portland, and Chicago still haven't recovered — their downtowns emptied out and have remained so six years later.


Tuesday, August 25, 2026

 

America's Favorite Critical Theory League

David Strom:

Can we all admit now that DEI and "social justice" are about nothing more than expressing hate and resentment? I guarantee you that every single one of these rather unpleasant mothers of puppies (there are words I am not supposed to use) believes that Caitlin Clark is admired and watched solely because of her skin color and sexual preference.

Their own obscurity has nothing to do with the fact that they are unpleasant, talentless hacks.

Social Justice Warriors are motivated by hate, and committing violence seems to be a necessary catharsis for the players, and watching it play out is psychologically important for their "fans." The fact that the WNBA didn't even qualify as an also-ran league until Caitlin Clark showed up is, for them, proof that the deck is stacked against them, instead of a demonstration that nobody wants to watch s***ty basketball.

And:

Now some people are arguing that these former men are not REALLY transgender, but that argument doesn't fly. We don't get to tell people what gender they are; self-identifying is the only standard that we are allowed to use, right? How else are we supposed to know? Is there some third-party gender police out there? If you are not going by the definitions we all agreed on until five minutes ago, what other standards are there?


 

A Reliable Islamist Vote

Scott Johnson:

Ross quotes El-Sayed speaking last month in his race for the Democrat nomination: “AIPAC has spent a record amount in this race to elect my opponent [i.e., Haley Stevens] because she’ll be a reliable vote to a foreign government that is aiding, arming, and abetting a genocide.” Ross adds: “The El-Sayed campaign did not respond to a request for comment about whether CAIR’s support for his campaign constitutes foreign meddling in the election.”


 

We Have to Show "Leadership" on Destroying Our Economy

John Hinderaker:

Liberals are willing to sacrifice America’s economy, and turn world leadership over to the Communist Chinese, in order to reduce our emissions of carbon dioxide. Supposedly this is to save the world, but the reality is that our emissions are irrelevant.


 

Can We Try Not Electing Life Losers?

Betsy McCaughey:

But AOC refuses to pay back her student loans, despite earning $173,000 a year as a member of Congress. That's a red flag that she's fiscally irresponsible and holds taxpayers in utter disdain.

Her supporters claim her college loans make her relatable. One fan posts on X, "I need a president that's still drowning in student loan debt with me." Democratic activist David Hogg posts, "this is what happens when we elect normal people to Congress who have student debt and don't engage in insider trading."

Sorry: relatable to the elite but not to everybody. Households in the top fifth for earnings are three times as likely to have college debt as households in the bottom fifth of the economy. That means when doctors, lawyers and members of Congress don't pay their college loans, working stiffs who never got to go to college -- bus drivers, waiters and sanitation workers -- end up paying. Totally unfair.

Voters could soon elect a freeloader in chief to the nation's highest office. If that happens, hold onto your wallet. And prepare for financial calamity.

Political analyst Doug Schoen warned that AOC "carries massive ideological baggage." Sorry, that dignifies what's between her ears. She's hardly a Marxist scholar.


 

Limiting Principles Are Hard!

Bill Glahn:

Every day, I hear or read from some leftist that each and every one of the 8 billion people outside of America have an absolute and unchallengeable right to come here at any time, for any reason, and stay for any duration under the diplomatic theory, “no one is illegal.” No other nation has adopted that rule, to do so would be suicidal.


 

I Just Love the Lectures From Foreigners

Bill Glahn:

“Colonizer.” Reportedly, she is the child of Korean immigrants. So where does that leave her on the taxonomy of oppression?


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