‘SOFT POWER’ IS A POLITE TERM MEANING ‘NO POWER:  The end of Europe’s ‘soft power’ delusion, Part 1.

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THE GREEN CULT KILLS:  How close Europe came to a real-life, no bs disaster.

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THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY WE WERE PROMISED:  Talk to the first @Neuralink recipient with ALS.

And for the x-less.

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OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.

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MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: At White House Correspondents’ Dinner, fake remorse over Biden ‘mistakes.’ “Imagine a neurological disease that changed your perceptions in subtle, damaging ways. Stubbing your toe would bring pleasure. Rotten meat would taste delicious. Deadly cold would feel comfy. Meanwhile, a gentle neck massage would make you feel sick, and fresh food would taste disgusting. You wouldn’t last long with such a disease. But our society is facing something similar. The news media, which are supposed to act as a sort of nervous system for the body politic, instead give us misinformation.”

Plus: “Journalists didn’t ‘miss’ the story. They lied about it. They chose not to cover what Americans could see with their own eyes.”

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If only Europe built more power plants instead of listening to Greta Thunberg they’d never be in this situation https://t.co/IbMrReOJpB

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) April 28, 2025

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KURT SCHLICHTER: Just Bomb Iran Already.

Nor do I want to hear any crap about how “America started it.” It’s objectively false – we did not start this, except in the sense we refuse to embrace their brand of primitive fanaticism – but I don’t care if we did. You don’t ever get to threaten or kill Americans, two things these savages have been doing for nearly half a century. They took our people hostage in 1979, and eight of our men were killed trying to rescue them. They were behind the Beirut bombings that killed hundreds of American diplomats and Marines. They backed terrorists who slaughtered Americans around the world. They armed and led the Shia thugs who maimed or killed thousands of our troops in Iraq. Payback is in order.

We talk a lot about a Jacksonian foreign policy, where America doesn’t go looking for trouble. But there’s another side to that coin. And that side depicts us wiping out anybody who dares kill Americans. The fact that we’ve allowed these barbarians to murder our people without retaliation is not only a moral disgrace but an invitation for every psychopath with a religious vision and an IED to make some Americans dead.

This is intolerable. The proper state of the world is one in which the mere thought of harming an American never arises because of the certainty that to do so will bring death to the terrorists, to everybody around the terrorists, and to everybody who helped the terrorists.

Andrew Jackson wasn’t just a big talker. If you messed with him, you died. This is actually the peaceful way – you come down hard once, and you don’t have to do it again. To be weak is to invite more conflicts; we’ve had plenty because of our weakness. Many of America’s foreign policy disasters since World War II, when Harry Truman had the stones to nuke Japan until it begged to surrender, have been a direct result of our refusal to make attacking America or Americans something less than an automatic apocalypse.

True Jacksonian foreign policy is tough but fair. It’s tough because if you screw with us, you die. It’s fair because if you don’t screw with us, we leave you alone.

But it offers insufficient opportunities for graft to interest most of our leadership class.

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THE OPERATIVE: “IT’S WORSE THAN YOU KNOW.”

Capt. Malcolm Reynolds: “It usually is.”

Mal usually gets it right:

This is truly bananas: all of Europe appears to have been seconds away a continent-wide blackout.

The grid frequency across continental Europe plunged to 49.85 hertz — just a hair above the red-line collapse threshold.

The normal operating frequency for Europe’s power grid… https://t.co/5qyZLpammm pic.twitter.com/83eCl5B1Ux

— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) April 28, 2025

Full text:

This is truly bananas: all of Europe appears to have been seconds away a continent-wide blackout.

The grid frequency across continental Europe plunged to 49.85 hertz — just a hair above the red-line collapse threshold.

The normal operating frequency for Europe’s power grid is 50.00 Hz, kept with an extremely tight margin of ±0.1 Hz. Anything outside ±0.2 Hz triggers major emergency actions.

If the frequency had fallen just another 0.3 Hz — below 49.5 Hz — Europe could have suffered a system-wide cascading blackout.

At that threshold, automatic protective relays disconnect major power plants, and collapse accelerates.

And it’s disturbingly easy to imagine multiple scenarios where that could have occurred…

Previously: The Power Is (Literally) Going Out All Over Europe.