October 23, 2025

TUCKER CARLSON, CANDACE OWENS, AND GRAHAM PLATNER: THE RISE OF THE NEW AGE NAZIS:

Weird, huh? After ten-plus years of calling Trump a Nazi (and Elon Musk… and Steve Bannon… and JD Vance…. and pretty much every non-Democrat), Democrats now have a senate candidate with a literal Nazi tattoo on his chest!

(But please, tell me more about Musk and his clumsy hand motion.)

Related: The NEW ‘Worse Than Hitler’: The Extraordinary Rise of JD Vance

Meanwhile, Platner based his entire senate campaign on his opposition to Israel — accusing the only Jewish nation on Earth of “genocide” and highlighting his steadfast opposition to AIPAC (and all that evil, corruptive Jewish money).

I mean… who would’ve thought that someone who hated Israel and vilified “Jewish money” would ALSO be a Nazi? What are the odds?

Narrator’s Voice Over: “The odds were actually quite good.”

Oh, well. If Platner ever needs to rehab his image, there are quite a few podcasts that’d love to host him. Beginning with Tucker Carlson, who’s “just asking questions.”

Last year in Washington Jewish Week, Eric Rozenman wrote about the “Keffiyeh as Neo-Swastika Fashion Statement:”

Did you notice the three members of Congress wearing swastikas during President Biden’s State of the Union address early in March? They adorned U.S. Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Cori Bush (D-Mo.) and Summer Lee (D-Pa.), of the Democratic Party’s progressive squad, now up to eight sworn members.

They sported not the hooked cross symbol of Nazism, but rather its contemporary equivalent, the keffiyeh. The traditional Arab head-covering is de rigueur among friends of Hamas. One sees them everywhere in the West, from London streets to American college campuses, and now in the U.S. Capitol.

In nations on the winning side of World War II, the swastika as an emblem of Adolf Hitler’s imagined Jew-free Thousand Year Reich remains a bit déclassé. The keffiyeh, however, provides a wonderful work-around for adherents of re-ghettoized diaspora Jewry and a Jew-free Middle East.

But in addition to the keffiyeh-wearing congresspeople, there’s quite a rogue’s gallery in the Mos Eisley Cantina these days:

Finally, great moments in working class cosplay: ‘Working Class’ Graham Platner Attended Elite $75K a Year Prep School Known for Famous Government Alumni.

Posted at 2:35 pm by Ed Driscoll

FETTERMAN: I Knew When Kamala Harris Called Trump A Fascist, We Lost The Plot At That Point.

When Vice President Harris referred to president Trump as a fascist and I knew absolutely we lost the plot at that point. If you call the president or somebody like a fascist you are effectively calling the people that are going to vote for them they must be fascist as well, excuse me they support fascism and those things and that is just not true that is not it.

I happen to know and love a lot of people that voted for the president and they are not fascist, they are not Nazis, trying to destroy the Constitution all those things, they just have different priorities and they love our country in the same ways that Democrats do as well.

Kamala calling Trump a fascist concurrently with her campaign aggressively seeking endorsements from Republicans her party had previously screamed the F-word at was one of the great moments of cognitive dissonance in American politics.

Fetterman’s admission is in accordance with the prophecy:

Posted at 2:22 pm by Ed Driscoll

THE NEW SPACE RACE: The next space race will be won at night.

On the lunar surface, every “night” lasts roughly 14 Earth days. With the sun out of view, temperatures plunge to nearly minus 300 degrees Fahrenheit, solar panels stop generating power, batteries drain and electronics freeze. In 2024 and 2025, the United States made its return to the moon with three commercial landers thanks to investments by NASA and industry. Each completed its primary mission but lacked the thermal and power systems needed to survive the lunar night, dying within two weeks. By contrast, Chinese landers equipped with nuclear power systems have remained operational for more than 2,400 days.

Since 2013, multiple Chinese landers have used radioisotope power systems, or nuclear batteries, to keep vehicles and infrastructure warm and operational through the lunar night. Chang’e-4 has been continuously operating for more than five years on the far side of the moon, out of sight of U.S. monitoring capabilities. The more advanced Chang’e 8 will reach the south pole in 2028 to test resource extraction, paving the way for a permanent Chinese lunar base.

A recent Commercial Space Federation comprehensive assessment of China’s space progress stated that “China’s ambitions to develop super-heavy lift vehicles, autonomous in-situ resource utilization, and nuclear power on the moon raises strategic challenges to U.S. technological advantages.” If the U.S. is to catch up, it needs to embrace nuclear power as soon as possible.

Yes.

Posted at 1:47 pm by Stephen Green

NBA COACH, PLAYER ARRESTED IN DOJ SPORTS-BETTING PROBES: “For decades, professional sports leagues created firewalls to protect the integrity of their games from the corrosive nature of gambling. Starting several years ago, the leagues started linking arms with bettors and gambling platforms. especially on line. The money began rolling in to their coffers, but at what cost? The NBA may be discovering it this morning. Feds arrested the head coach of the Portland Trail Blazers and the Miami Heat’s point guard in unrelated investigations into gambling and corruption. And it may not end with these two, either.”

Which brings us to: LeBron James dragged into NBA mafia gambling scandal after his private information is ‘leaked’ as Chauncey Billups and Heat star are suspended: Live updates.

Say, just how deep does the sports-betting scandal go?

Posted at 1:22 pm by Ed Driscoll

WOMEN ON TESTOSTERONE: ‘I’m on Fire’: Testosterone Is Giving Women Back Their Sex Drive — and Then Some. “One woman in her 50s told me that after years of revulsion at so much as the thought of her husband’s breath, she now looked forward to having sex with him almost every night; even in the middle of sex, she said, she was thinking about the next time they could have sex. Another woman told me she’d had more orgasms in the past two years on testosterone than in the entirety of her previous life; a third said that after years of ‘wanting to rip someone’s face off’ if her husband so much as touched her, she now actively pursued sex with him — if anything, she now worried, she wanted it more often than he did.”

Plus: “When women go on testosterone, Casperson said on the panel, ‘they start businesses!’ They report, she said, that their math skills improve; one woman told Casperson that she started suddenly remembering how to speak German, her first language.”

Posted at 1:00 pm by Glenn Reynolds

RICHARD HAMMOND DRIVES THE NEW PORSCHE 911 GT3 AT THE TOP GEAR TEST TRACK (Video):

Posted at 12:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

ANARCHO-TYRANNY:

Posted at 12:10 pm by Glenn Reynolds

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Posted at 10:56 am by Stephen Green

IF YOU’VE EVER WONDERED: Speaking of the Issues & Insights (I&I) crew, a critical comment from one of their many readers prompted a lengthy explanation of why they don’t like the Democratic Party. The explanation is full of interesting insights, including these two:

“The Democratic Party’s intersectional politics are why Greta Thunberg can shift from climate warrior to a Hamasnik wearing an Arafat keffiyeh (also known as the ‘hipster swastika’) and no one on the left blinks. They furnished the stage for Barack Obama to promise that if elected, he’d get busy ‘fundamentally transforming the United States of America,’ and be cheered as if he were a deliverer having descended from Olympus.

“The revolution that the Democratic Party has been pressing for at least six decades would abolish capitalism and free markets, seize the means of production, destroy the nuclear family, erase Christianity and Judaism, defund law enforcement, reopen the borders, censor speech, pack the Supreme Court, ration energy and health care, overturn our civil order and uproot Western civilization.”

There’s more, much more, worth your perusal.

Posted at 10:42 am by Mark Tapscott

BEND OVER, NEW YORK: Beards, protests and ‘addiction of revolution’: Mamdani’s time in Muslim Brotherhood-ruled Egypt.

Mamdani wrote an article in August 2013 for the Bowdoin College student newspaper about his time in Egypt that summer, explaining how he had grown (and then soon shaved off) a thick beard that he was repeatedly told made him look like a supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood, how he grew to understand the “addiction of revolution [and] of protest” as he saw groups gather against the failed rule of the Muslim Brotherhood, how his Arabic language professor in Cairo was a supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood, and how he left Egypt in the wake of the ouster of Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Morsi out of concern that he — as a foreigner — might be targeted by the Egyptian military or its supporters.

He seemed critical of the Muslim Brotherhood’s rule during his time in Egypt, but seemed even more critical of the Egyptian military — particularly the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF). He was also critical of the “fulool” — described as remnant supporters of the former regime of longtime Egyptian president and military strongman Hosni Mubarak — and urged people not to be fooled by their efforts.

The future mayoral candidate also seemingly questioned the wisdom of the decision by the Egyptian Revolutionary Socialists to join in protests against the Muslim Brotherhood, asking if a socialist revolution would really be easier with the Egyptian military back in charge.

Everything always circles back to the revolution.

Posted at 10:41 am by Stephen Green

YOU THINK ICE IS BAD NOW? The Issues & Insights guys provide a lengthy list of reminders about the conduct of ICE agents when Barack Obama was in the Oval Office.

Posted at 10:35 am by Mark Tapscott