THE NEW SPACE RACE:

LA's burgeoning space industry has been supercharged by talented @SpaceX veterans.

@ahsleevance visits @VardaSpace, a startup that's trying to build the first space station dedicated to zero-gravity manufacturing. More on Hello World: https://t.co/6gCki5tt6V pic.twitter.com/3GJdSUH9ct

— Bloomberg (@business) October 6, 2023

JEFF DUNETZ: So, It Will Be War Between Us: Hamas Attacks Israel.

LOVE IS LOVE: Woman, 36, who fell for a 63-year-old man after dating women admits she was ‘upset’ after they first slept together because she’d never seen herself with an older guy. But it all worked out, because let’s be honest, older guys are awesome.

RE-SHORING:

Heavy endorse, literally making this happen. LFG. https://t.co/8M1dFc8xMX

— Aaron Slodov (@aphysicist) October 6, 2023

NOW MORE THAN EVER: Nixon’s the One?

UNEXPECTEDLY: Germany approves bringing coal-fired power plants back online this winter.

(Via SDA.)

‘THE WORLD IS WATCHING:’ Biden Affirms* U.S. Support for Israel amid Hamas Terror.

President Joe Biden addressed the ongoing Hamas attack against Israel today, reaffirming the U.S.’s commitment to the Jewish state’s security.

“In this moment of tragedy, I want to say to them, to the world, and to terrorists everywhere: The United States stands with Israel,” Biden said. “We will not ever fail to have their back. We will make sure they have the help their citizens need and they can continue to defend themselves.”

Referencing the spate of photographs and videos making the rounds on social media and elsewhere, Biden called the images from Israel “appalling.” He added that he has spoken with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as well as Jordanian king Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein and members of Congress, and has directed the U.S.’s national-security apparatus to engage with Israeli security on next steps.

* You spelled “feigns” wrong, guys. Or as America’s Newspaper of Record notes: White House Issues Condemnation Of Attack Biden Funded.

REALITY BITES: The scale of the gang wars in Sweden has grown to such an extent establishment media has seemingly begun to realise multiculturalism has ravaged the country.

“Everyone feels at risk.”

THIS IS CNN: CNN analyst: The “real problem” is Israel’s response, you know.

UPDATE Al Sharpton’s network concurs, of course: MSNBC Goes to Bat for Hamas in Stunning Coverage of Palestinian Invasion.

MSNBC's @MattMcBradley on Hamas terror attack: "I couldn’t think of a better gift for Benjamin Netanyahu right now than this kind of incursion … This is a very big gift for Benjamin Netanyahu." pic.twitter.com/9E8NeUdAJV

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) October 7, 2023

EVERY PRECAUTION EXCEPT ONE THAT WOULD HAVE WORKED: Canadian couple killed by ‘desperate’ grizzly bear were highly skilled hikers who ‘took every precaution.’ “When rescuers reached the couple’s campsite, they found the scientists’ mauled bodies, an empty can of bear spray, and their e-readers still open in their crushed tent. Rescuers encountered the female, underweight bear they believe carried out the attack and shot it, as it was still showing signs of aggression. ‘In their words, the bear was intent on killing them,’ Colin told the Herald.”

When I was in Alaska, people joked that bears regard hikers with bear spray as “Cajun food.” For grizzlies a rifle in a heavy caliber was recommended.

“SMART DIPLOMACY:” NSC spox appalled by assumptions a top state sponsor of terror used the $6 billion to fund terror.

STANDARDS MATTER: The Great NACS Migration: Who Is Switching to Tesla’s Charging Port?

READER FAVORITE: Gel Seat Cushion for Long Sitting. #CommissionEarned

RIP: Jamie Foxx pays tribute to Django Unchained actor Keith Jefferson, dead at 53.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China’s Doubling the Size of its Space Station.

THE UNITED STATES HAS USED NURSE PRACTITIONERS AND PHYSICIAN’S ASSISTANTS FOR YEARS. Now we’re told it’s a legacy of colonialism in Africa or something. I’m unimpressed with this argument.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Amazon’s Project Kuiper launches twin satellites from Florida to expand broadband access. So that’s good. I’m a fan of Starlink, but it’s always good to see competition. But I can’t help but notice that Elon Musk created Starlink basically to have a volume customer for SpaceX’s launches. Kuiper may be just as good as Starlink, we’ll see, but it can’t be a volume customer for Blue Origin launches because Blue Origin basically doesn’t have launches, and is very unlikely to be able to handle much volume.

TAMMY BRUCE: Biden Using Border Disaster as Campaign Stunt.

Take this from the Biden regime’s current flip-flop-flip – Nothing has changed for Biden or those obsessed with keeping our border wide open. This sudden (fake) passion about border security was meant as a distraction, a method with which to gaslight Americans into making them think Biden is serious about securing the border—a laughable assertion. This is busy work in an attempt to convince Americans they care. And they can’t even keep their lines straight.

Moreover, construction on “a few miles” of border wall will also provide video for vulnerable Democrat campaign ads during a time when two-thirds of Democrats want someone other than Biden to be the nominee. That disaffection is a disaster for Democrats as it will be felt from the top to the bottom of the election ballot.

No doubt polls are indicating the American people have had enough and are pushing the Biden White House to try to display some fake empathy about the issues. When Gallup asks, “What is the most important problem facing the country today?” their poll released last week reveals that of “non-economic problems,” the most important problem for Americans is “immigration” second only to “the government/poor leadership.” That same poll finds “Fifty-three percent of Americans believe the Republican Party will do a better job of keeping the country prosperous over the next few years, whereas 39% choose the Democratic Party. A slightly larger majority, 57%, have greater faith in the Republican Party to protect the country from international terrorism and military threats, while 35% favor the Democrats.”

Yikes!

Biden and his mob know exactly the damage they’re causing and are likely confident they have other methods with which to continue the immigration, crime, and economic abuse inflicted on this country. Sure, they can put up a few more miles of wall for election season, but their plan to keep the catastrophic flow of migrants will continue apace.

If the withered husk of John Gill Joe Biden runs again in 2024, the chutzpah of his campaign team running ads showing a few miles of wall going up will be astonishing to watch. It’s John McCain telling Vanity Fair in 2007, “I’ll build the goddamned fence if they want it,” pumped up on Barry Bonds levels of mega-steroids.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Our Establishment’s Alternate Realities.

One common denominator that explains why previously successful societies implode is their descent into fantasies. A collective denial prevents even discussion of existential threats and their solutions.

Something like that is happening in the United States. Eight million illegal immigrants have entered the United States by the deliberate erasure of the southern border.

Apparently, the Biden administration sees some unstated advantage in destroying U.S. immigration law and welcoming in would-be new constituents.

Yet, the more the millions arrive, the more President Joe Biden and his Homeland Security director Alejandro Mayorkas flat out lie that “the border is secure.”

They both live in a world of make-believe, passed off to the American people as reality.

And the more the Americans are lied to that the border is secure, the more they poll — currently 77 percent — that it is not.

It’s VDH, so read the whole thing.

RELIGION OF PEACE UPDATE: At least 100 dead as Hamas launches unprecedented attack on Israel, Netanyahu says nation is ‘at war.’

Related: Biden approved? Biden Administration Deletes Post Calling On Israelis Not to Respond to Hamas Assault.

When Hamas launched a brutal assault on Israel overnight, the Biden administration’s Office of Palestinian Affairs initially called on Israel “to refrain from violence and retaliatory attacks,” before deleting the post.

Here is the post before it was deleted:

Team Biden made a Day 1 decision to pour millions of dollars into Hamas areas. Internal emails show them saying it would boost Hamas terrorism, but they did it anyway.

Then Hamas launched an invasion of Israel.

Team Biden's immediate response was to tell Israel to roll with it. pic.twitter.com/PopoiBo3oM

— Omri Ceren (@omriceren) October 7, 2023

Flashback to August: Biden Admin Raised Concerns Palestinian Aid Would Boost Hamas. It Went Ahead With Aid Anyway.

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN OUR GOVERNMENT ENABLES TERRORISTS:  Breaking: Israel under rocket fire; UPDATE: dozens apparently killed, kidnapped.

Remember the pallets of cash and weapons left behind in the Afghanistan withdrawal?  Stolen elections in America have bad consequences around the world. And all the denial of election stealing in a vain effort to pretend that our left hasn’t gone that insane will only make things worse. Humpty Dumpty can only be put together again if we know he’s broken. And the world can not afford a broken America.

REMY: LOOK WHAT YOU MADE ME DO (TAYLOR SWIFT PARODY). New video from Reason TV:

PROMINENT BAD TAKE ON HAMAS MASSACRE, II:

Literally all Hamas had to do to ensure safety, peace and prosperity for Gazans is to announce that they were no longer going to attack Israel, and mean it. Israel has no such option.

PROMINENT BAD TAKE ON HAMAS MASSACRE, I:

Hamas, in fact, has been trying to murder or kidnap as many Israelis as it can for decades. And “No options for their future in Gaza?” How about “we announce that we will no longer launch attacks on Israel, mean it, and become a thriving Palestinian enclave that will eventually govern an independent Palestinian state?”

UNEXPECTEDLY! Cardi B’s latest political take is pretty terrible.

It’s a sad reality of modern life, but a reality nonetheless, that more young people get their political cues from celebrities than from actual thought leaders or intellectuals. One such celebrity whose political takes regularly go viral is rap star Cardi B—but her latest viral opinion is deeply misguided and misinformed.

During an interview on the wildly popular “Hot Ones” podcast, Cardi B spoke about how and why she “loves FDR,” referring, of course, to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who occupied the Oval Office from 1933 to 1945.

Cardi B’s admiration for FDR is on full display. And it’s not just her: it’s incredibly common for American liberals and progressives to cite FDR as a role model and icon. There’s just one problem: FDR was a vicious tyrant who committed atrocities these people never seem to reckon with.

One wonders whether Cardi B is aware of the fact that FDR carried out the horrifying practice of forcing “Japanese” (read: Asian-looking people, even US citizens) into internment camps during World War II. As History.com recounts:

“On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066, initiating a controversial World War II policy with lasting consequences for Japanese Americans. The document ordered the forced removal of resident ‘enemy aliens’ from parts of the West vaguely identified as military areas.

And it wasn’t just Asian Americans that FDR wanted to err, resettle: New Documents Reveal FDR’s Eugenic Project to ‘Resettle’ Jews During World War II. As the Holocaust raged, the American president secretly asked his government to study the possible resettlement of remaining European refugees in Africa and South America. His goal: for Jews to be ‘spread thin all over the world.’

But FDR’s fascistic tendencies were hidden by his brilliant economic policies: FDR’s policies prolonged Depression by seven years, UCLA economists calculate.

And the lack of partisan hyperbole in his speeches: In his 1944 State of the Union address, FDR smeared the laissez–faire Coolidge era of the 1920s as “the spirit of fascism.”

And his well-tempered demeanor: FDR gave a Nazi Iron Cross to a conservative reporter he didn’t like in 1942.

Flashback: Joe Biden, President Of Cardi B(abylon). Biden gave Cardi B (whose real name is Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar) an interview (of sorts) that was published by Elle magazine on the first day of the Democratic National Convention in August of 2020.