Archive for 2025

October 16, 2025

THE NARRATIVE ON THIS HAS NEVER MADE ANY SENSE:  Behold my shocked face.

Posted at 5:00 am by Sarah Hoyt on Oct 16th, 2025

HOW MANY MORE IAN ROBERT’S ARE LACED THROUGHOUT OUR INSTITUTIONS?  Lessons Learned.

Posted at 4:30 am by Sarah Hoyt on Oct 16th, 2025

ISN’T IT?  Good Question.

Posted at 3:00 am by Sarah Hoyt on Oct 16th, 2025

October 15, 2025

THERE SEEM TO BE A LOT MORE PEDOPHILES AND SYMPATHIZERS THAN I ONCE BELIEVED POSSIBLE:

Posted at 10:01 pm by Glenn Reynolds on Oct 15th, 2025

OPEN THREAD: There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences, and participate in tonight’s open thread.

Posted at 9:41 pm by Ed Driscoll on Oct 15th, 2025

WITH FUNDING CUT, PBS TURNS TO RERUNS TO FILL THE PROGRAMMING GAP:  Leftist, Language-Twisting PBS News Sees ‘Orwellian’ Era Dawning Under Trump.

Sunday’s PBS News Weekend devoted eight minutes to the tired leftist cliché that Republicans have ushered in a new Orwellian era, using a new documentary about writer George Orwell by director Raoul Peck.

After years of PBS News capitalizing “Black” but not “white” in transcripts, calling illegal immigrants “undocumented,” and insisting men can choose to become women and boys choose to become girls in the twisted name of transgender rights, PBS has discovered the danger to plain language comes from the political right. (PBS’s math isn’t so hot either.)

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No one at PBS seemed to think it was weird to interview a guy who made a boosterish movieon The Young Karl Marx and his “urgent and necessary” analysis as an opponent of authoritarianism.

Everything that pleases the left meets the anti-Trump “moment.” [William] Brangham’s math was about as reliable as that of Winston Smith’s 1984 antagonist O’Brien (who made the original “2 +2 = 5” claim).

BRANGHAM: As you’re listening to him speak, overlaid with images of modern day. Several times watching the film, I had to remind myself these were words written almost half a century ago.

Orwell’s 1984 was in fact published in 1949, making it far more than “almost half a century” old. Did Brangham get the title confused with the publication date? An unfortunate mistake to make when discussing a film whose title condemns faulty arithmetic.

As Kyle Smith wrote near the start of Trump’s first term in 2017 when the left had their first dose of 1984 fever: Please stop comparing Trump’s presidency to Orwell’s ‘1984.’

Here’s a simple test for detecting whether you are living in George Orwell’s “1984.” If you feel free to tell everyone you’re living in “1984,” you aren’t.

Proving that they remain completely unable to distinguish between “I don’t like this” and “This is some serious HitlerStalin stuff right here,” America’s Party of the Intellectuals (™) has been screeching that the Trump era represents a fulfillment of Orwell’s prophecy.

CNN, The New Yorker, The Atlantic and other outlets have all run pieces warning that “1984” is here.

My voice is being silenced, the citizens scream. Protest is being stamped out, cry the protesters. Dissent is no longer allowed, people say as they watch a clip of Alec Baldwin ridiculing Trump for the 45th time.

In November of last year, Peter J. Hasson of the Washington Free Beacon tweeted, “People forget how truly insane 2017 was.” Including when leftists thought that the answers to their woes could be found in Orwell’s 1984, which they bought en masse that year, but apparently never bothered to read, given their embrace, two years later, of AOC’s apocalyptic environmental ravings, out of which spawned her totalitarian Green Nude Deal proposals.

Followed of course in 2020, by Dr. Fauci’s actual totalitarian shuttering of the economy in March, which the left loved so much that Dr. Fauci action figures and bobblehead dolls can still be found on Amazon. At least they loved it until the spring, when Oceania declared it had never been at war with East Peoria, and decided large gatherings were perfectly fine, as long as they were happening in the name of “social justice.” Or as the Ministry of Truth NPR declared at the beginning of June: “Dozens of public health and disease experts have signed an open letter in support of the nationwide anti-racism protests. ‘White supremacy is a lethal public health issue that predates and contributes to COVID-19,’ they wrote.”

It can happen here – and it did. (Just ask Shelley Luther.)

Don’t worry lefties — I’m sure Mayor Mamdani will do his level best to make a Fun City version of IngSoc a reality.

UPDATE: More lame reruns from early in Trump’s first term: Kathy Griffin Crowned Queen of Crazy: Calls Trump a ‘Fascist Dictator’ and Pushes ‘No Kings’ Protests.

Comedian Kathy Griffin went on a 10-minute-long rant as part of a promotion for this coming weekend’s left-wing “No Kings” protests, slamming President Donald Trump by referring to him as a “dictator” who she believes “didn’t win a free and fair election.”

Given what happened in 2020 and the way people like Griffin treated MAGA folks who questioned the results of that presidential election, her statement is chock full of irony and hypocrisy. Griffin clearly isn’t the sharpest knife in the drawer.

But it makes you wonder. Who’s got the smaller IQ? Griffin, or those who, for some strange reason, still buy tickets to see her do “comedy” in person? Might as well put your cash directly in the toilet and flush.

“I am going to be 65 on November 4. So listen to Aunt or Grandma Kathy when I say our country has never been through anything this horrible in my lifetime,” Griffin kicked off her screed. After going on to compare Trump to former President Richard Nixon, Griffin said, “The current so-called president is a fascist.”

He’s doing a really lousy job of being either a king or a fascist, considering he did nothing in response after you posted this in 2017:

Speaking of “No Kings:”

Posted at 8:45 pm by Ed Driscoll on Oct 15th, 2025

OLD AND BUSTED:

The New Lameness? Justice Jackson’s DEI Disaster: Equating Race to a Disability in a Bizarre Supreme Court Meltdown.

Or as America’s Newspaper of Record notes:

Posted at 8:30 pm by Ed Driscoll on Oct 15th, 2025

NEWSOM AGREES CAL STATE UNIVERSITY SHOULD BE GIVEN $$$$ TO “STUDY” REPARATIONS:  The push for slavery reparations in California hasn’t died just because Newsom vetoed this year’s crop of reparations bills.  Cal State University is being given money to try to determine how individuals should prove that they are such descendants (just in case actual reparations are approved later).

This task may be harder than the supporters of reparations think.  If they throw up their hands and say, “Hey, if you just show us that you had black ancestors back in 1900, we’ll assume you are descended from American slaves somewhere in the past,” they are relying on race (which they probably can’t do).  On the other hand, my understanding is that more than 99% of the 1890 census records were lost in a fire, so tracing one’s ancestors back further than 1900 will be difficult for lots of people.  Once you get back to the censuses of 1860 and earlier, it gets really difficult.

As soon as I am through writing the book I’ve been working on, I hope to write something on the California reparations issue.

Posted at 8:29 pm by Gail Heriot on Oct 15th, 2025

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Kamala Harris freaks out over devastating nickname (video).

Harris is currently in the midst of a 15-city book tour following the release of her new book “107 Days,” recounting her presidential campaign against President Donald Trump.

For the most part, Harris’ whirlwind promotional tour has been uneventful — until last night.

In now viral footage circulating across social media, a far-left activist group called “Climate Defiance” abruptly interrupted Harris’ commentary, calling her a “right-wing war criminal.”

Socialist Kamala is right-wing? Laughable. But the jab clearly upset Harris as she stood up and yelled back at the protesters, who were quickly escorted out of the venue by security.

Take a look:

Was Harris more upset with being labeled “right-wing” … or “war criminal?”*

While last night’s protest and disruption was the most vocal, Harris has quietly been the subject of pro-Palestinian protests throughout her book tour. She has at times rebuffed the protesters and also given airtime to their concerns, but last night was clearly not the case.

“I was the first person at the highest level of our United States government or administration to talk about the fact that the people in Gaza were starving,” Harris told protesters at a book event last month, according to The Washington Post.

Uh, they are?

* Well, Kamala certainly went out of her way last year to collect the endorsements of former “right-wing war criminals,” which probably didn’t do much to help her case with her fellow radical leftists: Kamala Harris’s gushing tribute to Dick Cheney backfires spectacularly: ‘The single most evil man in the 21st century.’

Posted at 8:14 pm by Ed Driscoll on Oct 15th, 2025

AND ANOTHER ONE:

Posted at 6:18 pm by Stephen Green on Oct 15th, 2025
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