November 11, 2025

CLASSISM, POSTMODERN STYLE:

Posted at 12:56 pm by Stephen Green

UNCHARTED TERRITORY: Hysteria and High Cap Magazines: The Arming of America’s Violent Left Wing. “Perhaps, in some dark corner of their minds, the new progressives believe they’re the heroes in history’s next great moral war. They forget that history has a habit of eating its heroes. It also has an excellent memory. It remembers every bullet, every boast, every cause that mistook fury for faith. And it will remember who called it justice when they started killing the innocent.”

Posted at 12:43 pm by Stephen Green

ROD DREHER: What I Saw And Heard In Washington. “I don’t know what you did on Friday night, but I spent about 90 minutes in the vice president’s study with him and the men you see above, talking geopolitics, Hungary, and the survival of Christianity in Europe, among other things. Of course I can’t be indiscreet about the discussion, but it was rich and vigorous. I’m really glad that JD got to experience the actual, living Viktor Orban in person, and to see for himself how wrong the propaganda is. They got on very, very well,” later adding, “I talked to one MAGA Zoomer, a policy wonk who is a person of color. He is beside himself with frustration over the rise of Groyperism in his circles, and within the party:”

Well, they do want to burn it all down, I was told. And I came away with the feeling that they are only tenuously dedicated to democratic politics. I told one very smart and decent Zoomercon who despises the anti-Semitic turn in his circles that I’ve been hearing that fascism — actual ideological fascism, not the media’s idea of anybody to the Right of Lindsey Graham — is gaining traction among young white British males.

He said, innocently, “So what’s wrong with fascism?” He meant it, not in a challenging way, but in a way that conveyed the sense of we have to think about this now. He talked about how the disintegration of our culture is accelerating, and liberal democracy seems impotent to stop it. He went on to explain that if he had to choose between living under left-wing authoritarianism or the right-wing version, then that wouldn’t be much of a choice. To be clear, he wants neither, but he fears that the disintegration of our culture is going to put us all in the position to have to reconcile ourselves to one or the other.

We talked about the Spanish Civil War, and how neutrality wasn’t a live option for the Spaniards back then. He brought up Gen. Pinochet in Chile. Not a good man, he said, acknowledging that Pinochet killed tens of thousands. But (said the young man) Pinochet saved his country from communism, and we know very well that communism’s historical record is far bloodier. That is true.

Let me emphasize here that my interlocutor was NOT cheering for fascism. As our conversation went on, I heard real despair — and well-informed despair — that democracy is going to hold in the West, because the conditions that make for a viable democracy are disappearing: the dissolution of a common culture, the collapse of religion in his generation, the material impoverishment of his generation, and so forth.

I tell you, it was dark. But I kept hearing this, over and over, and I concluded that it cannot be dismissed.

The inability of us older people — Boomers, Xers, and older Millennials — to comprehend the world through the eyes of Zoomers is a big, big problem. Another strong theme: while it’s important to take a clear stand against anti-Semitism in the ranks, there is no way to gatekeep our way out of this. You cannot simply point at the Zoomers and say, “Thou shalt not,” and expect it to work. The problems are too deep and complex, and anyway, they have learned to have no respect for authority.

Why should they? The institutions of our society, as they see it, have lied and lied and lied, and still lie. They still lie in many ways about race (e.g., refusing to be honest about black crime), they lied about Covid, they lied about males and females, and they forced the insanity of gender ideology on us all. The military lied about Iraq. The universities embraced and enforced ideologies of lies. The Catholic Church lied about sexual abuse, and the connection to the prevalence of sexually active gay priests honeycombing the institution. They lied about the benefits of mass migration and diversity. They lied about Trump and Russia. The political parties and their corporate allies lied about what globalism would mean for ordinary people.

Speaking of which, the very definition of the Education Apocalypse:

Posted at 12:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

TERRORISM: PM Modi speaks to Amit Shah on phone from Bhutan; 13 people dead.

The conspirators of the Delhi blast will not be spared as the probe agencies will get to the bottom of the case, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday (November 11, 2025), as the death toll in the explosion rose to 13.

Government sources told The Hindu that the occupant of the car in which an explosion was reported on the evening of November 10, 2025, was likely Dr. Umar, a resident of Pulwama, Jammu and Kashmir. Additionally, Delhi Police registered an FIR under the The Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and Explosives Act in connection with the blast.

Meanwhile, Union Home Minister Amit Shah chaired a high-level security review meeting in the wake of the blast. Mr. Shah had earlier said that “all possibilities are being explored and a thorough investigation will be conducted, taking all options into account.”

The national capital has been placed on high alert with strict vigil being maintained at the airport, railway stations and bus terminals.

Developing…

Posted at 12:27 pm by Stephen Green

DISPATCHES FROM THE MINISTRY OF TRUTH: How the BBC became the propaganda arm of Hamas.

Funny how it was the Trump thing that cost BBC director-general Tim Davie and his head of news, Deborah Turness, their jobs. Of course, doctoring footage of The Donald’s ‘January 6’ speech, to make it appear as if he had explicitly incited the Capitol riot, was remarkably egregious and brazen, a prime example of the BBC deciding not to bother with the mask for once. But what about its relentless bias – also exposed by that recent internal memo leaked to the Telegraph – against Jews and Israel?

In a way, that is the more serious problem. All over the world, antipathy towards the Jewish minority and their national home is simply the tip of a spear of hostility towards the West and everything it stands for.

How biased is the BBC on this topic? BBC forced to correct two Gaza stories a week. “The BBC has been forced to correct two stories a week about the Gaza conflict since the Oct 7 attacks on Israel, The Telegraph can reveal. BBC Arabic has had to make 215 corrections and clarifications over the past two years on stories that were found to be biased, inaccurate or misleading.”

 

Posted at 12:00 pm by Ed Driscoll

WE HAVE A SPENDING PROBLEM, FULL STOP: Current Federal Deficit.

For FY25, the deficit was $41 billion below last year’s level. However, October 1, 2023, fell on a weekend, thereby causing certain federal payments to be shifted into the previous fiscal year (FY23) and artificially reducing the deficit in FY24. Without that effect, the deficit for FY25 would have been $113 billion less than last year’s adjusted total.

For FY25, total outlays were $7 trillion, $275 billion higher than the same period in the previous year. Adjusting for the timing shift, spending was $202 billion above the same period last year. That increase was driven mainly by three categories: Social Security spending was up by $120 billion, stemming from cost-of-living adjustments and some retroactive payments; net interest rose by $89 billion; and Medicare outlays increased by $78 billion (adjusted for timing shifts). Partially offsetting those and other increases was a $235 billion decrease by the Department of Education due to several loan estimation adjustments and a $63 billion decrease in outlays by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation related to the resolution of bank failures that occurred last year.

Continuing resolutions don’t cut it. We need Congress to get back to actual budgeting, which ought to start with the question, “How much income do we have?” instead of “How much spending can we get away with?”

Posted at 11:41 am by Stephen Green

IT’S EVIL! DON’T TOUCH IT! Just When You Thought You Hated the Media Enough… “Some days it feels like I ask too much of you, gentle reader, and yet here I go again, asking you to hate the mainstream media more than you already do. But I have three new reasons just this morning.”

Posted at 11:10 am by Stephen Green

DIPLOMACY, YOU’RE DOING IT WRONG: Chinese Diplomat Threatens to Behead Japan’s PM Takaichi.

A Chinese diplomat issued a violent threat toward Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi after she warned that a Chinese blockade of Taiwan could pose a “survival-threatening situation” for Japan.

Xue Jian, China’s consul general in Osaka, Japan, posted on social media that he would “cut off a dirty neck without a moment of hesitation,” in a message that included a news article describing Takaichi’s remarks.

Xue’s post has since been removed.

You’d think a diplomat would know better, but I guess not in Xue’s case.

Posted at 10:39 am by Stephen Green

GREG BYRNES: The Ragged Old Flag and Veterans. “Current Veterans Affairs estimates are that there are about 35,000 homeless veterans on America’s streets on any given night. Eight percent of total homelessness. It is one of the great unsolved problems of our time. It is a scandal that, like most intractable problems, will probably only end when each of these troubled souls goes to his reward. There is no easy solution, but it is worth our attention. Resources that can help are listed at the end of this story.”

Posted at 10:08 am by Stephen Green

FA, MEET FO:

Posted at 9:53 am by Stephen Green

2026 PREVIEW: Another House Dem drops out of 2026 rat race as party faces generational reckoning.

Continuing a trend of retiring figures in the 119th Congress, Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, D-N.J., announced that she will not seek re-election to the U.S. House of Representatives next year.

“I made a commitment years ago to always lead the charge on behalf of those I represent, and I believe I have fulfilled that commitment to the very best of my abilities. I have always stood on the front lines in the fight for principled progressive policies,” Coleman said in a post on X.

“While I am not seeking re-election, there is still more to be done in my last year in public office. I absolutely intend to continue serving my constituents in the 12th District straight through to the last day of my term.”

Coleman has represented New Jersey since 2015 and before that served the Garden State as a state legislator from 1998 until her arrival in Congress. She last won re-election in 2024 in a 61.2%-36.4% victory over Republican challenger Darius Mayfield.

Even without the advantage of incumbency, Republicans are unlikely to capture New Jersey’s 12th Congressional District.

Another reason not to read to much into this: Coleman is 80.

Posted at 9:37 am by Stephen Green

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Will SCOTUS Bring a Modicum of Sanity to Mail-In Ballot Madness? “This is anecdotal, but it is a thing that happened. For the last six years that I lived in California, I was on the permanent vote-by-mail list, a list that I never once opted in on. Every election, I would fill out a provisional ballot, and request to be taken off of the vote-by-mail list, which never happened. After I had been back in Arizona for a few years, I checked and I was still registered in California and on the list.”

Posted at 9:06 am by Stephen Green

WHEN CNN DOES ACTUAL JOURNALISM — CONCERNING A DEMOCRAT! — IT’S WORTH NOTING:

Posted at 9:01 am by Glenn Reynolds

STRANGE BEDFELLOWS:

Can’t we all just get along with paper ballots?

Posted at 8:51 am by Stephen Green

I KNOW, YOUR “SHOCKED” FACE IS GETTING TIRED: Just the News moved a story this morning that gets to the heart of the sh*tshow that is Obamacare.

“The 42-day federal shutdown forced by Democrats thrust the economics of Obamacare into the limelight, and exposed an uncomfortable truth: An insurance industry whose executives are increasingly liberal donors has seen its earnings soar with the injection of taxpayer-funded subsidies that propped up Barack Obama’s signature health program from collapse.”

The gaslighting and laziness of mainstream media is a stunningly bad combination.
Bad Orange Man wants to starve children!
Since when did the Dems become the Wu-Tang Clan?

Posted at 8:47 am by Charles Glasser

#JOURNALISM: “Bad edit.” You mean “deliberate lie.”

Related:

Posted at 8:46 am by Glenn Reynolds

HMM: Tesla’s Engineering Exodus Comes Amid Shift From Core EV Mission.

Tesla shareholders just overwhelmingly backed CEO Elon Musk’s unprecedented pay package that could be worth $1 trillion over a decade, but engineers running the company’s main vehicle programs, for its top-selling Model Y, Model 3 and the controversial Cybertruck, aren’t sticking around to see how things turn out.

Emmanuel Lamacchia, an eight-year Tesla veteran and program manager for the Model Y, said late Sunday in a LinkedIn post that he was leaving the Austin-based company. His announcement came just a few hours after a similar post by Siddhant Awasthi, another eight-year veteran who ran the Model 3 and Cybertruck programs. Neither gave reasons for their decisions, though both mentioned new career steps, which they didn’t detail.

They’re just the latest high-profile engineers to leave as Musk seeks to shake up Tesla’s business, prioritizing AI-powered businesses – namely robotaxis and humanoid robots – that don’t generate revenue currently, rather than selling more electric vehicles, batteries and charging services, which do. Earlier this year, Musk fired the company’s head of manufacturing and sales in North America and Europe. In August, the director of Tesla’s battery team left the company, as did the head of its former “Dojo” supercomputer team and vice president of North American sales and service. Even Musk’s much-hyped “Optimus” robot project, which the billionaire said last week is likely to be Tesla’s biggest new business, quit in June.

Aside from the fact that the poor-selling, much-derided Cybertruck ranks among the auto industry’s biggest flops, Musk’s prioritization of non-EV businesses is making the company less attractive to auto engineers, according to a former Tesla executive.

Given the state of the EV market, reprioritization had to happen sooner or later. The company already reinvented itself once, going from a boutique maker of EVs to a mass manufacturer.

Now it’s adapting again.

Posted at 8:35 am by Stephen Green