HE’S NOT GETTING A LOT OF PURCHASE OFFLINE, HONESTLY: I despise the Groyper movement, but if you want to understand where Fuentes gets purchase with young men I will tell you how it happened by telling you about my experience at the orientation night when my son joined elementary school band.
That said, some of us have been defending men for a long time.
And for the Xcommunicated.
BUT WE STILL NEED TO BE SURE THEY GET IT: They Deserve It.
SPEAKING OF SOCIAL SCIENCE: Quote of the day–Greg Hamilton.
IN HEINLEIN’S DEFENSE, FREUD WAS CONSIDERED SCIENCE: I tried to invent family. Because I didn’t know what it meant.
And let’s not talk of the lies from sociology, etc. Humans are not bonobo monkeys. But the mind that read science magazines back then didn’t know how irreproducible most social “science” was.
But yes, it’s time to start rebuilding from the wreckage of the 21st century.
CAN THEY DO ANYTHING ELSE? Disney Getting Ready to Deliver It’s Next Woke Box Office Disaster.
DEFINITELY: The Great Thing About Freedom Is Leftists Don’t Get a Say.
TELL YOUR CONGRESS CRITTER TO CUT THE CRAP AND PASS THE BILL: US faces travel armageddon this weekend if Congress doesn’t end government shutdown, Duffy warns.
EASY PREDICTION: Mamdani will rot the Big Apple in record time.
TRUMP’S GONNA HAVE HIS LAWYERS TEACH SOME FOLK WHAT IT MEANS TO BE SOMEBODY’S BITCH: The BBC anti-Semites who peddle the lie that Trump is ‘Bibi’s bitch.’
REMEMBER WHEN UC-BERKELY WAS HOME OF FREE SPEECH? GOOD TIMES, GOOD TIMES: Absolute Mayhem Broke Out During TPUSA Event at UC Berkeley.
THEY SHOULD ESCHEW THEIR FAMED BRITISH RESERVE AND SPEAK OPENLY: The BBC is a stinking Augean Stables of bias and fabrication whose licence fee is no longer tenable.
IT ALWAYS WAS: The BBC licence fee is now a tax on stupidity.
AN IDEA SO CRAZY, IT JUST MIGHT WORK!
Did they consider not lying for political gain? https://t.co/f8nuy1ZMjB
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) November 11, 2025
HIS EVIL TRANSCENDS TIME AND SPACE:
I can’t believe how Trump created and passed Obamacare. That bastard. https://t.co/InATeoMX93
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) November 11, 2025
OPEN THREAD: Gozer the Traveler. He will come in one of the pre-chosen forms. During the rectification of the Vuldrini, the traveler came as a large and moving Torg! Then, during the third reconciliation of the last of the McKetrick supplicants, they chose a new form for him: that of a giant Slor! Many Shuvs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the open thread that day, I can tell you!
RICHARD FERNANDEZ: When You Can’t Take the High Hand.
The resignations underscore the violence of the impact. Interestingly, BBC director Tim Davies actually makes a version of the “fake but true” argument. In his resignation statement, Davies says, “I have to take ultimate responsibility [for lying but] … I am proud that the BBC remains the most trusted news brand globally.” But, alas, in “these febrile times” I have to go. “In these febrile times” is one of those wonderful British phrases that roughly translates to “in this lynch mob atmosphere where people are a-hootin’ and a-hollerin’ fer my scalp” and conveys his slightly wounded feeling of having been punished for what is no big deal. Or didn’t seem a big deal at the time. Because even if the documentary was fake, it was true. Davie’s concluding line — “I will always be a passionate cheerleader for civilised society” — is a proclamation of innocence. You would understand what I did and forgive it if you were civilized. And he would have a case if it were but an error among gentlemen sipping whiskey at a club. But it is also a confession of profound ignorance. Davies is the director of a great bureaucracy, and his careless handling of January 6, an event that some observers call a foundational rupture in American politics, is careless to the point of recklessness.
Unlike ordinary people, MI5, MI6 and the BBC have a duty that ordinary people can dispense with. They have to act with a solid appreciation of the situation, not out of morality but because it is their job to preserve the British state from the consequences of stupid mistakes.
Read the whole thing; though I don’t think many at the BBC care much about “preserving the British state,” and haven’t for quite some time.
THIS WILL END WELL: Fannie Mae removes minimum credit score requirements from DU.
Fannie Mae‘s November 2025 Selling Guide, released on Wednesday, detailed several updates, including expanding Fannie’s Day 1 Certainty offerings to include representation and warranty relief for undisclosed non-mortgage liabilities, expanding the eligibility for the age of credit document exception for single-closing construction loans and removing minimum credit score requirements from Desktop Underwriter (DU).
As a result of the latter update, Fannie Mae will remove minimum credit score requirements for loans submitted through its DU system starting Nov. 16. This means that the current 620 minimum representative or average median credit score will be removed for new loan case files created on or after that date.
Other related updates will apply to files submitted or resubmitted beginning the weekend of Nov. 15, 2025, an announcement from Fannie Mae said. Instead of applying a minimum score, DU will use its own analysis of borrower risk factors to determine loan eligibility.
Fannie Mae also updated requirements for documenting nontraditional credit and homebuyer education. The DU system will notify lenders when they need to establish a nontraditional credit history or require homebuyer education in cases where a borrower has no traditional credit or installment account on record.
Don’t worry, I’m sure this time around it will work just fine.
RIOTS FOR THEE, BUT NOT FOR ME, PARTE DOS: Mexican president rejects new U.S. border wall construction.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Friday voiced strong opposition to the construction of a new segment of the U.S. border wall in the state of New Mexico, calling it a unilateral move by the U.S. government.
Speaking at her daily press conference, Sheinbaum emphasized that Mexico is not involved in the project in any way and is not contributing funding.
“They’re building it on their own. We don’t support the wall. We’ve achieved a safe border through cooperation and coordination, not walls,” she said.
Sheinbaum described the construction as a decision made solely by U.S. President Donald Trump and emphasized Mexico’s preference for development-based cooperation and respect for Mexicans living in the United States.
—The Hans India, July 18th.
But Sheinbaum does support some walls:
MUCH MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: America at 250 Needs Energy Overhaul. ARC Is the Place To Start.
Aimed as a corrective to the “Green New Deal” priorities that took hold during the Biden administration, the ARC [“The Affordable, Reliable, Clean Energy Security Act”] would direct federal agencies to reorder their policies with attainable objectives aimed at increasing attainable and cost-effective domestic energy production – and providing benchmarks allowing for effective congressional oversight.
The bill would formally require government regulators to prioritize these three words when evaluating energy projects: Is it affordable? Is it reliable? Is it clean? Most politicians give lip-service to these concepts, but under current law they are left open to interpretation by the executive branch and they shift from one administration to the next, Balderson points out. His bill would essentially codify a true “all of the above” energy approach – and would benefit all Americans regardless of their ideological leanings.
If enacted by Congress and signed by the president, his legislation would require the Department of Energy, Department of the Interior, and the Environmental Protection Agency to submit a report to Congress within 180 days documenting what they are doing to incorporate all-of-the-above into our national energy strategy. Windmills and solar farms wouldn’t be suddenly sidelined. (On the other end of the energy scale, neither would coal.) But this bill would virtually assure that all viable, affordable, and reliable energy sources – including nuclear power and natural gas – remain in the nation’s energy mix. In other words, it replaces old habits and ideological fads with practicality as a way of supporting American families and businesses.
I don’t question liberals’ commitment to a cleaner environment. But Democrats campaigned this autumn on the need for “affordability” – and found a receptive electorate. This legislation would turn that rhetoric into action. And just as important to poor and middle-class families, it fuels our nation’s efforts to rebuild and onshore the energy sector that fuels economic growth.
Greater reliance on natural gas and nuclear power will deliver green and clean dividends. ARC is a win, win, win. The status quo is a lose, lose, lose.
Diversity of energy production is always welcome. As a wise woman once said, drill baby, drill!
RIOTS FOR THEE, BUT NOT FOR ME: Minneapolis City Councilman Carjacked in His Own District.
While I have long thought that the residents of [Minneapolis] had an outsized ego regarding its nearness to paradise, I have to admit that on many levels it punched above its weight. While not especially beautiful, and far less “cultured” than it believed, it has been a decent place to live until COVID hit.
Far too liberal for my taste, and often annoying, but what city isn’t? We should have moved to the suburbs, but we were younger and dumber then.
Since COVID and the George Floyd riots, the city has rapidly gone downhill, although there is still enough resistance that Omar Fateh lost his bid to oust Mayor Jacob Frey, meaning that the city is governed by a progressive rather than a radical.
Still, the city is struggling. Property crime is still off the charts, and while carjackings have been slowly declining, the decline has been from record levels. Until recently, carjackings were so rare that the police didn’t even bother to count them as separate crimes, and the state didn’t have a law specifically aimed at the crime. They were lumped in with theft and robbery. It was only in 2023 that the legislature created the crime of carjacking and made it a felony with severe sentences.
I’m not at all surprised that Osman has locked down replies to all of his tweets: The Minneapolis City Council is being irresponsible with public safety.
The decision by a majority of the Minneapolis City Council to strip critical funding from the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) is not only shortsighted — it’s a huge blow to the stability and safety of our community. The MPD is but one part of an entire public safety ecosystem overseen by the Office of Community Safety Commissioner Todd Barnette, and includes behavioral crisis response teams and neighborhood safety teams. While Mayor Jacob Frey’s public safety team, including Commissioner Barnette and MPD Chief Brian O’Hara, is committed to public safety reform with the goal of balancing and integrating all of these public safety resources to provide the right response from the right team at the right time and place, the City Council is undermining that goal.
By slashing vital recruitment budgets, Council Members Emily Koski, Elliott Payne, Robin Wonsley, Jeremiah Ellison, Jamal Osman, Katie Cashman, Jason Chavez, Aisha Chughtai and Aurin Chowdhury have effectively reversed the modest but tangible progress the MPD was making toward restoring its ranks and reforming its operations. These council members also diverted $1.8 million from the MPD along with $1.1 million in funds from coordinated citywide beyond policing work to ward-specific projects with no proven track record in handling the urgent public safety needs of Minneapolis.
—The Minnesota (nee: Minneapolis) Star-Tribune, December 19th, 2024. (Emphasis mine.)
(Classical reference in headline.)
OFFLOADING YOUR MENTAL TASKS TO DEVICES HAS ITS PRICE: Memory Problems Are Surging in Adults Under 40, Large US Study Finds. Cognitive offloading leads to cognitive atrophy.
OVERPRODUCTION OF ELITES: Grade Inflation Produced Mamdani’s Proletariat: Unemployable college grads blame capitalism, but the real culprit is higher-ed subsidies.
Palantir CEO Alex Karp attributed Zohran Mamdani’s election as New York mayor to a reverse class warfare: “I think the average Ivy League grad voting for this mayor is highly annoyed that their education is not that valuable, and the person down the street who knows how to drill for oil and gas, who’s moved to Texas, has a more valuable profession.”
He has a point. Colleges are graduating a surfeit of young people who lack hard or even soft skills. Even as employers complain about a dearth of qualified workers, a growing college-educated proletariat can’t find jobs they want to work. They believe their degrees aren’t being adequately rewarded by the free market and blame capitalism.
The real culprit is enormous government subsidization of higher education, which has distorted the labor supply. More than seven million bachelor’s degree recipients have entered the labor force since January 2020. Meanwhile, the number of workers without college degrees has declined by about 200,000 and those with associate degrees has shrunk by 1.1 million.
As baby boomers in blue-collar professions retire, labor shortages are growing in industries like construction, trucking and manufacturing. President Trump’s deportations compound the problem. Nearly 50% of small-business owners reported few or no qualified job applicants last month in a National Federation of Independent Business survey. “Finding qualified workers is proving to be impossible,” a Missouri manufacturer told the NFIB. The sentiment was echoed by a California auto shop: “We need to teach the trades in high school again. Trade jobs can pay well, but there is a real shortage of people willing/able to do the job.”
Too many young college grads are unemployed because they aren’t willing or able to do the jobs that are available. As of October 2024, 30.4% of 20- to 29-year-olds who had earned bachelor’s degrees that year weren’t working, compared with 21.9% for those who had earned associate degrees during the same period, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Fortunately for many college grads, they have parents with the means to support them financially while they search for the perfect job. Young adults with lesser pedigrees may not be as picky about jobs because they can’t afford to be. They will deliver packages for Amazon or man a supermarket cash register to pay their bills.
Recent college grads view such drudgery as beneath them and think employers are too demanding. “For Gen Z-ers, Work Is Now More Depressing Than Unemployment,” read a New York Times op-ed headline last week. “The entire process of getting and keeping an entry-level job has become a grueling and dehumanizing ordeal over the past decade,” the author writes. Young people grouse that employers are monitoring their productivity with “surveillance state technologies” and expect them to “do six jobs in a 40-hour workweek.”
Heaven forefend that they be asked to complete multiple assignments in a week—like kids in grade school once were expected to do before schools started banning homework. And how dare employers refuse to pay them for scrolling TikTok?
It’s understandable that grads might feel indignant about employer demands after having earned stellar GPAs for little effort and mediocre work. A recent Harvard report found that A’s account for about 60% of grades, compared with 25% two decades ago. Some 80% of grades awarded at Yale in 2023 were A’s or A-minuses.
It almost requires an effort to get a C. In a Substack essay, Johns Hopkins political scientist Yascha Mounk observes: “In one of the oldest jokes about the Soviet Union, a worker says, ‘We pretend to work, and they pretend to pay us.’ To an uncomfortable degree, American universities now work in a similar fashion: Students pretend to do their work, and academics pretend to grade them.” Parents and students who pay $80,000 a year expect high marks in return.
Yep.
I CERTAINLY HOPE THIS IS TRUE:
🚨BREAKING: Keirs Starmer's government is completely falling apart behind the scenes tonight, per Bloomberg
Starmer has days left… pic.twitter.com/2Q0XgJWXHh
— Inevitable West (@Inevitablewest) November 11, 2025
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