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I DO KNOW ABOUT COMMUNIST INSURRECTION. ESR IS RIGHT. THEN AGAIN, HE’S WRONG:  I caught some flak in my replies at the time from people who thought an insurrection based in urban areas isn’t practical under modern conditions. Antifa thinks it is. It’s what they’re planning for. One of the things I have to remind myself of occasionally is that most people know essentially nothing about Communist theory and Communist revolutionary tactics.

For the xless.

He’s absolutely, no sh*t right that’s what they think they’re doing. That they think they can win this. He’s wrong because he doesn’t realize how dogmatic the left has become, and how wedded to … not even history but the fictional version of history they’ve told themselves for decades, as a playbook. No. They can’t take the country from urban zones for various reasons, among others because our urban populations aren’t all with them, and those that are are largely as useful as a chocolate hammer. This is why the summer of love never made it to the suburbs, let alone the exurbs. Also because America has for decades written off its urban cores. Oh, the third reason is that Trump simply isn’t going to let them. This is what’s causing their screaming and pouting and siding with criminals as the National Guard cleans places like DC.  No, they never had a chance, but they thought they did. Remember it worked in the past and therefore…  Bah. They suck at adapting to changed circumstances. Thank heavens. That’s why they’re dying.

TUESDAY IS THE DAY FOR HERESY:  The Good New Days.

OPEN THREAD: Comment on a groovy Tuesday.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. When You Meet Liberals, They Casually Assume You Share Their Opinions No Matter How Extreme.

In April of last year I was in the Austin area to watch the solar eclipse, relaxing in the shady back yard of the house we had rented for the occasion. We were hosting some local boomer relatives of one of the attendees to our eclipse party, and I was shooting the shit with an older gentleman, beers in hand, discussing how quickly one’s retinas might be damaged by foolishly looking at the sun unshielded. Surely it was fine to just take a peek real quick-like, I joked. His manner abruptly shifted. “You’d burn your eyes out like Great Leader did,” he snarled. It took me a moment to realize that he wasn’t talking about Kim Jung Un, but rather Trump, who had been photographed squinting up at an eclipse without eye protection during his first term in 2017.

This was an obscure non-story from seven years earlier, one of a countless sequence of similar “Experts Agree Orange Man Bad, Wrong” stories published during Trump’s first term. I only knew about it from “dudes rock” memes posted by right-wing jokers on Twitter. He must have been reminded about it by his own media bubble.

“You know, I really wish somebody would just blow his head off already,” he continued, not missing a beat. I made a non-committal noise in response, took a slug off my longneck, and changed the subject back to the eclipse.

This incident was weird, but not for the surface reason. The weird thing wasn’t this retiree I had met ten minutes earlier casually wishing death on a political figure supported by roughly half the country. No, the truly bizarre thing was how pedestrian this kind of occurrence had become in my own life, how inured to it I had become. It should be unusual for someone to make inflammatory political remarks to a fellow countryman after having known him only ten minutes. But it’s not. It happens thousands of times every day in professional middle-class circles like the ones I travel in.

This tendency to assume that everyone around you shares your far left ideology may work fine in day to day conversations in deeply blue urban areas. But this month, numerous lefties found out what happened they blasted their ravings about Charlie Kirk’s shocking assassination into the wide, wide world of social media: ‘Consequence Culture’ Comes for the Angry Left.

BRIAN CATES: The Thrill Is Gone.

“I’m so awesome I’m singlehandedly holding back the wave of long-anticipated-but-never-seeming-to-arrive-tidal-wave-of-white-male-right-wing-domestic-terrorism! I’m so noble, no one will ever know it was ME holding them back, getting them caught, defusing their bombs…because I’m so awesome!” – The Savant

This TV show needs to be preserved and kept in the Smithsonian as a benchmark of our strange times, in which ONE PARTICULAR NATIONAL POLITICAL PARTY was making EXTENSIVE USE of highly organized, violent, very dangerous and blatantly anti-American radical revolutionary groups loosely referred to as ANTIFA in order to try to DICTATE SOCIAL POLICY via threat against the public order and safety.

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You do have to maintain SOME semblance of popular support for your 1984 Party’s social policy agenda, especially the LGBTQ+ stuff, and so it’s not only Fake Rigged Elections and Fake Polls from Fake News that’s used to maintain the illusion; the ratings of certain TV shows and films are also used as cultural benchmarks to ‘prove’ the public ‘supports’ what the 1984 Cult Party is currently doing.

That brings me to ‘The Savant’ again, that now-indefinitely-shelved, not-inexpensive new television show created for the Apple+ Network. This show was green lit and produced over the last 5 years when the “Trump insurrection’ narrative on J6 was in full bloom.

Lead actress Jessica Chastain admits this in the post she made today expressing her keen disappointment at the series being indefinitely shelved by Apple+. The series was produced for an America that was SUPPOSED to have been convinced over the past 5 years what a huge and significant threat MAGA and Trump are to ‘democracy’.

Read the whole thing. As John Nolte adds: Apple’s Postponed Savant Is Another Dog Whistle to Justify Killing MAGA.  “Remember this: The corporate media, Democrats, and Hollywood don’t call us Nazis because we’re Nazis. They call us Nazis to justify their ongoing murder campaign against us.”

KAMALA COCKS UP COMEBACK: Kamala Harris Book Promotion Is New Cause Of Democrat Angst.

Democratic presidential candidates who lose don’t die, they just fade away until it’s time for a book tour. Kamala Harris is back on the media circuit, and Democrats are wishing she wasn’t.

As more details come forward from her newly released book, Kamala Harris is busy pushing her version of events, and creating some heartburn for the Democrats that they really would rather not deal with right now. Many of the details we learned about from other books, but Kamala is giving them new life in hers. Having them rehashed at the same time that the House Oversight Committee is digging through the Biden White House autopen and “Politburo” scandal, is reinforcing the idea to the American public that, no matter people’s issues or complaints about Donald Trump, the Biden White House was a insane asylum of incompetent tool bags.

So far, Kamala Harris has revealed that she thought the American people were too bigoted to accept Pete Buttigieg as a vice presidential candidate, that she knew she couldn’t deal with Josh Shapiro because he was “too ambitious,” so she “settled” on Tim Walz – whom she initially claimed was her “gut decision” – as vice president. She also has inadvertently revealed that she can’t think on her feet (a simple question about her getting enough sleep merited attention in the book because she wasn’t prepared for it), and existed in a perpetual state of frustrated “loyalty” to Joe Biden that resulted in her not trying to talk him out of running.

More thoughts from Megan Kelly and Mark Halperin: Kamala Harris is Back Rambling About Joy and Getting Slammed by Democrats. “She’s still got it – no one is better at the world salad!”

UPDATE:

SPRINTS ARE BASICALLY HOW I RUN: Adding This to Your Usual Jogs Can Boost the Health Benefits of Running. “Sprinting in short bursts during runs enhances endurance, metabolism, and fat loss. These gains come faster than with continuous exercise.”

I hate running, and tend to develop foot and ankle pain when I do. Sprinting feels freeing, not monotonous and repetitive, and is easier on my joints.

SERIOUSLY, WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO TUCKER?