IT’S NOT EXACTLY A VICTORY LAP, BUT KINDA: Mark Judge: The end of the Washington Post. “The Washington Post is collapsing. Once one of America’s great media institutions, the paper lost $100 million last year and has shed 500,000 subscribers. Recent reports reveal that Post owner Jeff Bezos is going to be more hands-on to try and save the paper. Yet trying to get employees of the Post to do their jobs is like trying to get dogs to play baseball. Dogs just aren’t interested in baseball, and the breed of journalist now at the Post is just not interested in journalism.”

I THINK I SAW THAT TWILIGHT ZONE EPISODE:  Japanese village struggling with low population creates life-sized dolls to mimic feeling of bustling society.

WHAT DID COMMUNISTS USE BEFORE CANDLES? ELECTRICITY!

Cuba went from grand to slumming, to raffish, to faded, to distressed, to shabby, to squalid, to pitiful without ever once passing Communist.https://t.co/8YItFTHbik

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) October 25, 2024

HE’S NOT WRONG (AND HAS SCANT REASON TO INDULGE THEIR DELUSIONS):  Mayor Adams refutes Kamala Harris, says Trump is not a fascist as he urges Dems to ‘dial down the temperature’.

THE DEMS HAVE TAKEN HIM LESS SERIOUSLY SINCE HE RECOVERED FROM THE STROKE:  Fetterman calls Trump’s support in Pennsylvania ‘astonishing’: ‘You can see the intensity’.

THEY DON’T USE ACRONYMS TO INCREASE CLARITY:  The cult of VUCA and the New World Disorder.

IF A STUPID JANE FONDA MOVIE HADN’T SCARED PEOPLE [POOP]LESS WE’D ALL BE USING NUCLEAR POWER AND ‘GREENHOUSE GASSES’ WOULD BE IRRELEVANT:  The huge gulf in climate scaremongering.

HOW LONG WILL WE TOLERATE THIS?  Here Are States Where The Biden-Harris Admin Blocked Efforts To Ensure Only Citizens Vote In Elections.

AS HE SHOULD:  ‘A Child Would Know’ Better: Trump Blasts Biden’s Disastrous Afghanistan Withdrawal.

BEHOLD MY SHOCKED FACE. SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED:  House Committee Alleges Biden DOE Hid Study on Natural Gas Exports to Push Anti-Fossil-Fuel Agenda.

CAN YOU CONCEIVE OF ANYONE DOING THIS IF THEY THOUGHT THEY DEPENDED ON PEOPLE TO VOTE FOR THEM TO RETAIN POWER: Michelle Obama Suggests Those Who Don’t Support Harris are Sexist, Racist.

They can’t be that stupid, can they?

ELON MUSK, THE HERO WE DIDN’T KNOW WE NEEDED:  Why America’s future could hinge on Elon Musk.

TREATMENT TRIALS – THE LEGAL ONES OUGHT HAVE BEEN STARTED LONG SINCE:  Vaccine injury is treatable: let us start trials now!

IT SEEMS LIKE THIS NEEDS EYES ON IT:  Petition for the Restoration of Boulder City’s Historic Landmark.

WIKIPEDIA IS BOTH PARTISAN AND CORRUPT; AND IT’S ALWAYS A BAD IDEA TO LET GOVERNMENTS AND COURTS TAKE DOWN WEB PAGES:  Asian News International vs. Wikimedia Foundation.

READ THIS:  Open Letter to JD Vance.

WELL, YES:

Let’s remember that Trump will put on the biggest show of his campaign tomorrow at Madison Square Garden, and Madison Square Garden is the biggest wrestling venue of the modern world. I think Trump wanted to establish that great wrestling theme as his theme so it will work especially well when it plays over his entrance into Madison Square Garden.

Perhaps the newsfolk who’d be inclined to just call it something like “ominous instrumental music” will be up to speed by tomorrow. But perhaps not. They might prefer to string along their own followers with whatever descriptions they can type out that make Trump seem weak, weird, and confused. They’re so dishonest!

Well, yes.

OPEN THREAD: Saturday night’s all right for blogging.

WELL, THE FIRST TIME IS ALWAYS FRAUGHT: Starship Super Heavy booster came within one second of aborting first “catch” landing.

SOUNDS RIGHT: Fifth Circuit: Post-Election Day Ballots Constitutionally Invalid.

I DUNNO, THERE’S A LOT OF COMPETITION FOR THAT SPOT: TikToker who tore down Greek flags thinking they were Israeli dubbed ‘one of the dumbest people on Earth’ by frustrated locals.

SOME PARTS OF AMERICA STILL WORK: SpaceX sends 22 Starlink satellites into orbit in record-setting launch.

FLASHBACK: REMEMBERING AMERICA’S WORST PRESIDENT. Woodrow Wilson made democracy unsafe for the world. Well, worst President so far.

STEVEN HAYWARD: A Trump Agenda for Day One. One of the mistakes of the Reagan Administration, which got off to a comparatively fast start and achieved significant results, was that it was in retrospect neither bold enough nor fast enough. At the end of Reagan’s two terms, one senior official reflected that the failure to achieve some of their fundamental goals of shrinking government, cutting the welfare state, and reining in regulatory power was that ‘it required…boldness, more boldness, ever more boldness. This boldness was not always in evidence.'”

Millei is a better role model than Reagan. Trump’s big weakness in 2016 was that he thought he still lived in the America of his youth. I think he knows better now.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Harvard Doctor Confirms that Human ‘Brains Need Meat.’ Dr Georgia Ede, a Harvard-trained nutritional and metabolic psychiatrist, says eating meat is essential for good mental health.

Well, that explains the behavior of those who avoid it.