FTX COLLAPSE AND POLITICS:

Only George Soros gave more in 2022.

PUPPETEER PRAISES PUPPET: Pelosi: Biden should run again in 2024.

OPEN THREAD: You know what to do.

NOW OUT FROM ANDREW WAREHAM: Cast Upon the Waters.

I love that he’s so prolific, but I do kinda wish he’d deliver the multiple sequels he owes in other series before starting new series.

WHERE’S MY UMBRELLA? Looks Like We’re Going to Have to Get Used to China’s Crashing Rockets: The core stages of the rocket have performed four uncontrolled reentries to date, posing a potential threat to human lives and property.

WELL, GOOD: Joe Biden Is Making China Squirm over Taiwan Before Their Summit.

I mean, it’s better than sending green-light signals, as he did to Putin about invading Ukraine.

IN 2022, SHARK JUMPS YOU! Watch: Hooked Mako Shark Jumps into Boat in New Zealand (Video).

HMM: “Dark ships” emerge from the shadow of the Nord Stream pipeline mystery: Satellite monitors found 2 vessels with their trackers turned off in area of explosions.

I suspect the powers that be know who did this, it’s just not convenient for us to know.

THIS HAS BEEN AN ISSUE ALL ALONG, BUT YOU DIDN’T USED TO BE ALLOWED TO MENTION IT: ‘Of’ or ‘With’ COVID? Pandemic Deaths Are Getting Harder to Count.

BIDEN’S ILLEGAL STUDENT-LOAN BAILOUT BOUGHT OFF GEN Z — AND STAVED OFF A RED WAVE.

GETTING CLOSER: Here’s Where the House Race Stands With Yet Another GOP Flip.

FTX FACES CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION IN BAHAMAS AFTER CRYPTO EXCHANGE COLLAPSES, POLICE SAY.

UPDATE:

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THE IRON RANGE USED TO BE COMMIE CENTRAL, WITH FAR-LEFT UNIONS: Iron Range, seething at the Twin Cities, continues right turn.

Iron Range Republicans have been waiting for an election like Tuesday’s their whole lives. No, really. There hasn’t been one this good for the local GOP since Hoover.

Republican Rob Farnsworth won the open State Senate seat in the central Mesabi Range by a solid seven-point margin. This is the beating heart of the Iron Range, an erstwhile DFL bastion that delivered 40-point margins for John Kerry not that long ago.

Redistricting paired two incumbents in House District 7A, Republican Spencer Igo and DFLer Julie Sandstede. Sandstede was endorsed by the United Steelworkers and the CEO of Cleveland Cliffs, a historically rare combination. Nevertheless, Igo won by a similar seven-point margin.

In the state’s geographically biggest House seat, District 3A, Ely Mayor Roger Skraba defeated incumbent DFLer Rob Ecklund, a former Steelworkers union president, by a mere 15 votes.

Only DFL incumbent Rep. David Lislegard held on in District 7B. Despite being arguably the most pro-mining legislator in the state, Lislegard won by just three points.

And so it’s time to consider that some of this isn’t really about mining. It’s about culture.

Some years ago I fell down a research rabbit hole writing about a campaign to create a new state from the northern portions of Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota. This new state would be called Superior.

This was before social media, back when people would leave comments on websites. Many of the comments I saw came from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula where the idea first originated. They rehashed the basic arguments: Local control for regions “forgotten” by their state capitals while keeping mining, logging and tourism revenue.

But then these comments would take a turn. At long last, in the Great State of Superior, Detroit would stop feasting on the hard-earned tax dollars of working people up north.

If you talk to people in northern Wisconsin, they complain the same way about Milwaukee. And we know how northern Minnesotans view the Twin Cities. Just look at the ads and mailers that fueled the Republican shift on the Iron Range. Voters in rural areas outside Minnesota’s big cities and regional centers rejected statewide Democrats by ever-expanding margins.

My paper on intrastate secession grows ever more timely.

STEPHEN KRUISER: Election Hangover: My Democracy Doesn’t Feel Saved at All.

That’s brought us to the point where we have a senile vegetable in the Oval Office who is being handled by a cabal that’s driven by extreme leftist fringe interests. These people wake up every morning bright and early thinking of new ways to get their puppet president to shred the United States Constitution.

In case you missed it, President LOLEightyonemillion is feeling pretty frisky after last Tuesday. Robert wrote on Friday that Ol’ Gropes has vowed to not change a thing now that the red wave didn’t make it to shore.

That means that his handlers have free rein to continue the executive abuses of power we’ve been suffering under since January of last year. In September I wondered how long the country could survive a rogue Justice Department and an attorney general hell-bent on revenge. Well, boys and girls, we’re about to find out.

It’s not just the Biden administration that’s ready to flex. Ryan has a post about Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts threatening Elon Musk with congressional action because Musk mocked him in a tweet.

Nothing unhinged about that at all.

Read the whole thing.

READER FAVORITE: Nakiri Knife – PAUDIN Razor Sharp Meat Cleaver. #CommissionEarned

BARRY SMOLLETT? Noose Nonsense at Obama Presidential Center. “Definitely a hate crime. I can’t imagine any other reason why a rope would be on a construction site. Also, this is Chicago. It’s not a place known for hate crime hoaxes.”

FACT-CHECKERS SAY THE BIDEN ECONOMY IS PERFORMING WONDERFULLY: Car Loan Delinquencies Keep Increasing, Who Is to Blame?

NOTHING NEW ABOUT THAT: The New #MeToo Movie Tár Makes Conservatives Into Monsters. Rich, coming from the town that gave us Harvey Weinstein.

MARK JUDGE: The New #MeToo Movie Tár Makes Conservatives Into Monsters.

How this opening scene plays out tells you everything you need to know about the next two-plus hours. Something related to time or turning back to something thought forgotten in the past is going to occur (teshuvah), and that will trigger the need for repentance (kavanagh). There’s also this wrinkle, which gives the game away. When Lydia Tár mentions “kavanagh” in her interview, she quickly adds that “to this audience that word might mean something else.” By this she means that they audience will probably think of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. As if on cue, the audience lustily boos.

Regular readers of The Stream know that I have spent the last few years writing about the Kavanaugh battle and my involvement in it that sprang from my friendship with Brett going back to high school. I won’t rehash it here. You can read about it in my forthcoming book. I can only say that it was a bit bizarre to step into a movie theater to see a well-acted drama and hear Mahler’s Ninth Symphony only to be confronted with a hostile New York audience booing my high school buddy, who was falsely accused of sexual assault.

The booing scene instantly made clear what I was about to watch. Tár would be another angry story about what heartless monsters conservatives are.

Hollywood just can’t help embedding a leftist sucker punch.