YES. OF COURSE. AND THE USSR’S ARMAMENT AND PRODUCTION DWARFED OURS: Who on Earth believes the reports of totalitarians. Even totalitarians can’t believe anything reported to them. The problem of information is the biggest problem of communism. And yet, these naifs will open their mouths and swallow this crap without question. It makes me despair for mankind.  China has grown by over 500 TWh in the past 12 months.

AND FOR THE X-CANCELLED:  Here

I’m going to absolutely admit their production of pretty bar charts continues to be top notch.  There’s a fool born every minute, and most of them love the PRC.

I’M SOMEWHAT WORRIED ABOUT THIS, FOR SIMILAR REASONS, BUT ALSO … LOOK, THEY’RE USING AI  MODELS. AND PEOPLE KEEP TALKING ABOUT THE “BRITISH MODEL”:  This is either going to be the biggest wet petard since Covid, or we’re in for a spot of worry and possibly a lot of bother. Like Kim, if I got dark, things got dire:  Uncertain Weather.

TIRED? CONFUSED? DESPONDENT? DON’T BE. JOIN ME IN DANCING:  The Isekai Rag.

OH, I DID. THEY’RE FOLLOWING THE COMMIE PLAYBOOK EVERYWHERE:  I Never Saw This Coming.

They don’t seem to realize that in an era of distributed communications, the playbook is nonsense. They needed the storytellers in the news to convince people of their otherwise thin and unconvincing narrative. And they needed the approved news to be the only source of news.

EURO POSTURING IS SO PATHETIC:

HAHA, THAT SHIP HAS SAILED, DUDE.

OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.

NYU’S DISGRACE:

ADVICE FOR DOOMERS AND PANICANS FROM KURT SCHLICHTER: Being Emotionally Incontinent Does Not Help. “Normal people, queasy because law enforcement tactics employed against resisting people are aesthetically displeasing, suddenly got a good look at their future under Democrat rule. Now they understand why ICE does what ICE does.”

INCONCEIVABLE: