JUST THINK OF THE MEDIA AS DEMOCRATIC PARTY OPERATIVES WITH BYLINES, AND IT ALL MAKES SENSE: Why aren’t the news media celebrating trailblazers like Giorgia Meloni and Rishi Sunak?

OLD: “FEMINISM ISN’T ANTI-MALE.” NEW: The Boys Feminism Left Behind. “But male troubles are not just economic. Almost one in four school boys are diagnosed as having a ‘developmental disability.’ One in five fathers is not living with his children. Men are at three times greater risk than women from the epidemic of ‘deaths of despair,’ from suicide, alcohol, and drugs.”

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Matt Margolis: Democrats Can’t Even Tout Their ‘Accomplishments’ Without It Backfiring. “Stan Greenberg, a veteran pollster for the Democratic Party, claims that this messaging from Biden and Democrats is actually alienating voters.”

Rick Moran: Breaking Bad: For Democrats, the Races Are All Beginning to Break for Republicans. “It’s the Senate where Republicans will shock and awe.”

Yours Truly: Let’s Call Putin’s Ukraine War What It Really Is. “This is where the U.S. State Department is supposed to come in, except that it’s AWOL under Anthony Blinken.”

SOME INSIGHTFUL COMMENTS FROM A FRIEND: “Without making apologies for the leadership class anywhere, I would note that we appear to be at a system-maximization plateau. Things go on until they can’t, and we are at the point where they can’t. The default approach in any context is going to be a series of increasingly extreme efforts to extend the status quo. We are at the point at which those efforts are underway — globally, not just in the United States — and contending with their antagonists who recognize the imminent cessation of the status quo and wish to hasten it, without a comprehensive vision of its successor. Final phase will be the overthrow of the status quo married to a comprehensive successor regime, but that’s nowhere close. The transition is going to take some years, and it will be difficult in the extreme.”

Flashback: “To understand events around the world today, one must think in terms of the class struggle.” “Around the world in the postwar era, power was taken up by unelected professional and managerial elites. To understand what’s going on with President Donald Trump and his opposition, and in other countries as diverse as France, Hungary, Italy and Brazil, it’s important to realize that the post-World War II institutional arrangements of the Western democracies are being renegotiated, and that those democracies’ professional and managerial elites don’t like that very much, because they have done very well under those arrangements. And, like all elites who are doing very well, they don’t want that to change.”

COMING SOON, THE FOURTH OF THE SHIFTER SERIES. FROM SARAH A. HOYT:  Bowl of Red.

#COMISSIONEARNED

(Yes, there will be paper. Probably up and ready to be ordered tomorrow. And yes, number 5 soon. Probably six months. Meanwhile, other series will get continued.)

At the top of a tall mountain, there lives a dragon. And the dragon is the master of all animals.
Okay, let’s rewind that. Tom Ormson is a dragon shifter, the scion of a line that was created to rule both Chinese and Norse dragons. But he doesn’t want the job. He co-owns a diner with his wife, Kyrie, who is about to deliver their first child.
In fact, they just got married, when the entire shifter-world, which centers on their diner goes insane.
You see, it is a time of Ragnarok, which means all of the shifter clans are in turmoil, with changing leadership. And the lion clan, to which Kyrie belongs has just lost its leader. Also, the Queen of the Norse dragons has woken, and wants a word with the Great Sky Dragon.
Hold on to your hats. A wild ride is about to begin, with Tom, Kyrie and their friends at the center of it.
When it ends, the world will never be the same again.

MY HEAD HURTS:  What’s going on with this black hole’s star meal?

PAY IT?!!! I WOULDN’T DO IT IF THEY PAID ME FIVE TMES THAT:  Would you pay $57K to experience being buried alive?

GEE, PITY THEY AREN’T BETTER FUNDED:  Anti-police Seattle pol claims cops ignored poop-tossing attacks on her home.

NEVER CHANGE, CLOWN WORLD:  UPDATE: Yikes: According to a friend, Ron DeSantis….

THIS MEANS “IT’S TRUE AND BAD FOR DEMOCRATS”:  Kamala: Questions About Minnesota Bail Fund Promotion Is “Misinformation”.

THIS IS AKIN TO SAYING “WE’RE GOING TO WAR, WHERE’S MY GRAND PIANO?”:  Shots Fired In Korean Waters, Where’s Joe?

THEY ALSO DON’T KNOW WHERE CRIME COMES FROM:  New Crime Focus By Hochul In New York City Is Pointless Gesture.

BEHOLD MY SHOCKED FACE:  Student Test Scores Fall, So Narrative Changes.

MORE LIKE SINS OF THE SON: The sins of the father: January 6th and the Reffitt case.

This is pure Stazi. We have a lot do to clean this mess.

I WAS GOING TO SAY XI WON FOR NOW BUT HE STILL DOESN’T UNDERSTAND WHAT MONEY IS, OR WHERE IT COMES FROM:  Emperor Xi got his coronation, purges former leader Hu Jintao; Rishi Sunak apparently will be new British PM. [UPDATE: he is].

He is therefore doomed.  Then again, it occurs to me none of the current leaders in the west also understand what money is or where it comes from.

Pray or drink. And sometimes both.

IT’S TIME TO STOP THE STASI. CLEAN IT UP OR DISBAND IT AND SALT THE EARTH:  ABC Journalist James Gordon Meek Still Missing After FBI Raided His Home in April.

WE MIGHT BE HEADING THERE, BUT WE WON’T GET THERE:  Reader: “It is so overwhelming, I am getting too depressed about where our country is heading”.

I don’t think it will be as easy as he thinks it is. But I also don’t think we’re lost.  I think we’ve turned the corner. But as Bill Whittle said some time ago, you suffer most casualties after you’ve won the war. It’s going to be tough. The suffering has just started. But they can’t win. We can lose, but they can’t win. Take heart, and don’t go wobbly on me.

SO, CANDY, BUTTER… TURKEYS?  Bird Flu Deaths in U.S. Birds Approaching Record Numbers, Affecting Price of Thanksgiving Turkeys.

HISPANIC AND LATIN IMMIGRANTS CAME HERE TO ESCAPE THE CULTURE, NOT TO HAVE IT FOLLOW THEM:  Sorry, Dems. Florida Hispanic Voters Back DeSantis, Approve Migrant Flights to Martha’s Vineyard.

I LIKE TRUMP, WOULD SUPPORT HIM IF HE’S THE NOMINEE. WOULD ENJOY THE REVENGE FACTOR. But I think his day is passed, and that DeSantis really understands the kind of deep bureaucratic and legal warfare that’s needed. Plus he’s eligible for two terms. Trump only gets one, and I don’t think that’s enough to do what needs to be done.

AMONG OTHER THINGS HE WAS RIGHT ABOUT:

BOB MCMANUS: Vote ‘No’ on the three dangerous ‘equity’ proposals on NYC ballot.

THE MEDIA IS MOSTLY MADE UP OF GARBAGE PEOPLE, BUT NOT BRIGHT GARBAGE PEOPLE: How’s that media race-baiting thing going?

OPEN THREAD: Disport yourselves below.

PLANETARY DEFENSE: NASA’s DART asteroid crash: What scientists have learned about Dimorphos so far.