NO. NEXT QUESTION?
Can you get Muslims to stop raping children?
That would be great. Maybe classes or something…
— John Ringo SF Author (@Jringo1508) September 3, 2025
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September 3, 2025
21ST CENTURY PROBLEMS: If you’re at the spa and the woman waxing your coochie is wearing Meta glasses then that’s a 21st Century problem for sure.
IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA: If Lisa Cook Committed Mortgage Fraud, Then It’s a Crime Still in Progress.
Note that the text states that Cook, in the space of two weeks during 2022, claimed two different homes as her main residence; the government alleges that she did this in order to obtain better loan terms. Banks charge a lower interest rate for an owner-occupied primary residence because, should a borrower come under financial distress, lenders assume the borrower will default on an occupied home loan last.
Cook was a public official acting in one of the most important bank supervision roles in all of government. She has been credibly accused, and has not denied, signing two different loan agreements in which she claimed to be entitled to a lower interest rate.
Cook’s lawsuit claims that these mortgage loan documents are old news and are all in relation to things that happened before she became a governor. On the contrary, unless circumstances have changed—and there’s no evidence in the public record that they have—Cook is still paying the lower rate and continues to benefit from the misrepresentations she made on loan documents in 2022. Again, if this is mortgage fraud—and Cook is entitled to the presumption of innocence—then the crime is still in progress.
It does appear to still be in progress, putting lie to Cook’s claim that “private conduct before taking office does not amount to cause.”
NEW: VIDEO PROOF
We have just received video proof that Lisa Cook’s declared “PRIMARY RESIDENCE” is being RENTED out to tenants.
Cook RECENTLY CLAIMED to the U.S. Government that it was her PERSONAL RESIDENCE, but she’s renting it out?
Good journalism, @Charlieleduff pic.twitter.com/YMIN2dHJGm
— Pulte (@pulte) September 2, 2025
TO BE FAIR, THEY ARE A BLESSING OF LIBERTY: David French Will Say Anything For A Paycheck.
The evil right-wing media just made up a totally fake controversy about Cracker Barrel, you see.
Every paragraph of French’s column is a strawman. Every claim is obviously false. He’s not even sort of describing surface-level reality. David French now gets paid to point at cows and say, “That’s definitely not a cow.” He’s a fabulist, and a talentless one. His sole value is that he gets to cosplay “conservative” while mindlessly doing all of the dumb leftist tropes, giving correct-thinking cadre the very small thrill of feeling righteous about the people they hate. He’s a professional reassurance artist: Yes, New York Times readers, people you disagree with are always wrong and never have a point about anything. Thanks, David, here’s a nickel.
So.
You must be blind and amnesiac, because French explains this about the “good jeans” thing with Sydney Sweeney, the other recent branding controversy that he discusses alongside the Cracker Barrel thing: “There was no actual groundswell of opposition to Sweeney.”
No, seriously: “There was no actual groundswell of opposition to Sweeney.” David French just wrote this sentence and got it published in The New York Times.
Right-wingers just made it all up, calculatedly stoking outrage about something that wasn’t even real: “But if there’s a conflict between telling the truth and stoking outrage, time and again, the right chooses outrage.” Read these paragraphs carefully, and watch how casually this man lies:
Exit quote: “This man is a shameful figure. He never so much as passes truth in the street. His schtick is too obvious now to pretend that he’s doing anything but a ‘real conservative’ minstrel show for pay. Imagine living that way.”
On the other hand, a lot of people in the Northeast Corridor have made an excellent living doing just that for decades:
(Classical reference in headline.)
I’ve written this article to try to collate the information I’ve gathered on the present state of the UK as an American observer. I am someone who, I like to believe, generally avoids the hysteric tendencies that are so common to online politics. That being said, it is very difficult for me to look at the situation I have laid out for you above and not be deeply perturbed.
I do not know what is going to happen in the United Kingdom in the next few years, but I am very confident that the present system will not last. Something will surely give, and when it does each piece of the situation I have just laid out for you will metastasize in rapid fashion, throwing one of the most clownish and intolerable political castes that presently exist anywhere on the planet into a nightmarish situation that far more competent men would barely be able to navigate successfully.
This all being said, with the magnitude of the rot laid bare it is almost impossible to not be bullish in a certain sense. If the core Anglo-Saxon population of the UK can last this long under such degraded and perverse conditions, if they can maintain a functional society in the face of such dysfunction, then it is hard to imagine what they will be able to do once the boot is taken off their necks.
Read the whole thing.
Earlier: America’s obsession with British decline.
UPDATE: Sure, comedy writers are being arrested for speaking out against the trans mob, and migration is out of control, and bringing with it a whole host of concomitant evils such as grooming gangs, acid attacks, stabbings, and immigrant-only hotels. But finally, Starmer has triangulated on the only way to bring order back to Old Blighty — banning Red Bull:
WELL, THIS IS A DRUG: FDA recommends child-safe packaging for nicotine pouches.
PARTY OF SCIENCE:
Here's the real scandal: I once heard E.J. Antoni whisper to interns at the Heritage Foundation that the median white male was taller than the median Asian female. He did a very scary, no-good, terrible race science!
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) September 3, 2025
DECLINE IS A CHOICE (LEFTIES ARE HAPPY TO MAKE ON YOUR BEHALF): The national security case for nuclear energy in Colorado.
While a real-life ‘Red Dawn’ scenario playing out is unlikely, with Soviets falling from the skies and taking over Colorado, the threats to national security posed by Colorado’s current decarbonization agenda are very real.
Colorado is home to some of the United States’ most important national security assets, including the U.S. Space Command, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), and many aerospace and defense contractors. The installations run by these assets require a dependable energy source in order to monitor threats, operate satellites, and carry out functions to protect the nation.
But as the state continues towards an unrealistic climate goal of 100% decarbonization by 2040, an important issue is raised: Can Colorado’s renewable energy scheme dependably support the infrastructure essential to national security?
The current sources, specifically wind and solar and their susceptibility to extreme weather and foreign interference, put these essential defense functions at risk. Nuclear energy offers both a green and reliable alternative.
Colorado has set one of the most ambitious clean energy goals in the country with a 100% decarbonization mandate by 2040. This aggressive plan includes the retiring of all 6 remaining coal plants by 2031, the addition of 3,400 megawatts of wind energy, 1,970 megawatts of solar energy, 1,170 megawatts of energy storage. Furthermore, 82% of new passenger vehicles sold must be electric or plug-in hybrid by 2032.
If Colorado continues to increase its dependence on wind and solar energy, the state is setting itself up for a potential power crisis.
After 30-plus years, I should be gone from Colorado long before the worst of Denver’s decarbonization efforts kick in.
PREDICTION: “SOLUTIONS” WON’T LOOK AT WHY RENTS HAVE BEEN SKYROCKETING IN THE FIRST PLACE. ‘Sex-For-Rent’ Arrangements On The Rise In Canada.
AND THEN BATMAN SHOUTED, GOTHAM CITY IS MAGA COUNTRY! Jeffrey Wright Slams Backlash to Him Playing Commissioner Gordon in ‘The Batman’ as ‘F–ing Racist and Stupid’: ‘It’s Absent All Logic.’
Ever since Lady Ghostbusters in 2016, Hollywood has attempted to gin up controversy by pitting fans against fans, and promoting inferior movies by screaming sexism! or racism! But in this case, there was no backlash to Wright playing Commissioner Gordon, nor was there any controversy over Wright playing Felix Leiter in the Daniel Craig James Bond movies. The only controversy over Robert Pattinson’s The Batman that I saw was, as John Nolte wrote in 2022, we’ve seen all this, “Many Times Before.”
We’ve also seen Wright’s attempt to gin up controversy before, but in the past, it actually existed on social media:
HIGHER ED NOT RESPONDING TO THE AI CHALLENGE. Yeah, I know, a shocker, but things could get really bad, really fast unless they take some seriously dramatic action. It was one thing when a diploma meant you could at least fake your way through stuff. If it doesn’t even mean that, college will lose perceived value ultra fast.
UM…:
Quite a hot mic moment on CCTV in Beijing today as Putin and Xi, both 72 years old, are caught casually talking about living to 150 and maybe forever thanks to organ transplants. (As picked up by Bloomberg.) pic.twitter.com/kC4VTRaobq
— Yaroslav Trofimov (@yarotrof) September 3, 2025
“President for Life” is bad enough, but “President for Eternal Life?”
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE:
Women are awarded about 80% of bachelor’s degrees in the various grievance studies (e.g., African-American, gender, queer, cultural).https://t.co/wZugp0TagG
— i/o (@avidseries) September 2, 2025
REFORM UK: Farage Vows Mass Deportations in UK. “I will deport every single one of them, and that’ll win me the election.”
Maybe Britons need to think hard about exile for their existing ruling class, too.
That’s a joke… but only barely.
STAY SAFE: High Lumens Headlamp Rechargeable 4000 Super Bright LED Head Lamp. #CommissionEarned
FIVE TIMES CBS WAS CAUGHT DECEPTIVELY EDITING INTERVIEWS WITH POLITICIANS: Why Can’t CBS Stop Deceptively Editing Interviews?
Yet again, the propagandists at CBS have found themselves in the midst of another deceptive editing scandal. On Sunday, the network was caught editing out the substantive portion of one of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s responses to a question on Face the Nation.
But this incident is just the latest in CBS’s lengthy record of journalistic malfeasance. Let’s look back at some of the worst cases.
Related: They Shoot Cats, Don’t They?
MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: ‘You rebel against a world that tells you mediocrity is good enough.’
Carlos Carvalho, president of the University of Austin, welcomed new students — this is the private school’s second year — with a speech defending inequality.
“Of course, all men are created equal,” said Carvalho, who was a professor of statistics in the business school at the University of Texas in Austin. “But all men are not the same. We have unequal curiosity, unequal intellect, unequal talent, unequal courage, unequal drive, unequal achievement.”
Alexis de Tocqueville, the great 19th century critic of American democracy, warned that “a dominating drive for equality suffocates the very people whose uncommon talent, courage, and vision could pull everyone else upward,” said Carvalho. He “famously observed that people in democracies might come to prefer equality in servitude to inequality in freedom. In the name of making all things equal, we end up equal only in mediocrity.”
If excellence were the norm we’d have to call it something else.
THE ENEMY WITHIN (IRELAND EDITION):
This probably sounds like a fake story, but I assure you it's 100% real.
Dublin City Council have requested a meeting with senior gardai (police) because…….
Too many Irish flags have been put up.
Let that sink in, the Irish flag is now offensive, in Ireland. pic.twitter.com/UZRPyPsvKI
— MichaeloKeeffe (@Mick_O_Keeffe) September 2, 2025
FEEL BETTER WHEN SURFING THE WEB: Dr. Arthritis Back Brace for Lower Back Pain Relief. #CommissionEarned
THE RUMOR MILL GRINDS ON: NYC Mayor’s Race: One Down, One to Go? “This week’s big conspiracy theory — at least until the next one — involves incumbent New York City Mayor Eric Adams quietly disappearing to Florida on ‘personal’ business, but perhaps to meet with Trump administration officials to discuss dropping out of the race.”
LOVIN’ IT: Coming price cuts at McDonald’s may signal a broader fast food price war.
McDonald’s is cutting prices on some combo meals to woo back customers who’ve been turned off by the rising costs of grabbing a fast food meal.
The price drop may induce its rivals, who have run into some of the same pricing issues, to follow.
Starting Sept. 8, McDonald’s will offer Extra Value Meals, which combine select entrées like a Big Mac, an Egg McMuffin or a McCrispy sandwich with medium fries or hash browns and a drink. Prices will vary by location, but McDonald’s said Extra Value Meals will cost 15% less than ordering each of those items separately.
To kick off the promotion, McDonald’s will offer an $8 Big Mac meal or a $5 Sausage McMuffin meal for a limited time in most of the country. Customers in California, Alaska, Hawaii and Guam will have to pay $1 more for those meals.
I don’t eat much fast food anymore — mostly due to middle-age concerns — but this is some welcome price relief.
HMM:
The Pfizer vaccine was announced six days after the election — Eric Topol, a cardiologist with 400K Twitter followers and a severe case of TDS, also heavily, and successfully, lobbied the FDA to hold off. MIT Tech Review wrote a glowing profile of Topol for his efforts. https://t.co/RrFi1NEmpq
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) September 3, 2025