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.”

WHAT DID COMMUNISTS USE BEFORE CANDLES? ELECTRICITY!

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

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.

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.