OR THEY FIGURE CONSEQUENCES ARE FOR OTHER PEOPLE: The Socialists Are on the Rise in the Democratic Party Because They’re Not Dead. “The wretched educational system in our largest cities guarantees enough low-information voters to elect Karl Marx himself. Voters not understanding the consequences of electing a socialist is how Zohran Mamdani will win the election on Tuesday.”

FRIENDS DON’T LET FRIENDS VOTE FOR THE GUY WITH THE HAIR GEL:  Kenin Spivak gives you details on something I hope you already knew in your gut:  Gavin Newsom must never be the President of the United States of America.  Make sure your parents, spouse, siblings, children, cousins, nieces, nephews, neighbors, and friends know too.

TWO LEGS GOOD, FOUR LEGS BAD: Study: Genetic tweaks allowed early humans to walk on two legs.

ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Would a Fabulously Bedazzled Pistol Play Better in a Jury Trial? “It’s not a glock, it’s a rhinestone emblazoned brick of a pistol. It’s not a shotgun, it’s a pink pony club lead dispenser. It’s not a scary AR-15, it’s a pride flag mag holder.”

RABBI MICHAEL BARCLAY: In Memoriam: Yitzhak Rabin.

DOOMER BAIT: This Looks Like the Smoking Gun in the Case Against James Comey.

YOU DON’T SAY: Rivian’s CFO hints the end of EV tax credits means manufacturers are being forced to finally make more affordable electric cars.

DEVELOPING…

Fishy things going on in Pennsylvania https://t.co/DuO5KEINUH

— Patient Speculator (@ThePatientSpec) November 4, 2025

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Londonistan and the Death of Tolerance.

NOW OUT: From Clay Travis, Balls: How Trump, Young Men, and Sports Saved America. #CommissionEarned

FINALLY, SOME GOOD NEWS OUT OF BRITAIN:

🚨Tommy Robinson acquitted of all charges under the Terrorism Act.

The judge was blistering in his criticism of the police, saying their testimony lacked “credibility” and that they had in fact targeted Tommy for political reasons, which is illegal.

Incredible outcome. pic.twitter.com/SdtpP5UqjM

— Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 (@ezralevant) November 4, 2025

RIP: Dick Cheney, One of the Most Influential Vice Presidents in U.S. History, Dies at 84.

UPDATE: Ed Morrissey writes, “RIP to an American Original:”

Cheney and Bush himself lived to see a profound shift in the identities of the two major American parties. I wrote about this yesterday to some extent, analyzing the impact of massive amounts of foreign money on the Left that turned a working-class party into a globalist, socialist party that has now almost entirely detached from the American electorate. Few if any Democrats of note have stuck with the party’s identity as a farm and labor party representing blue-collar Americans; John Fetterman may be alone (and I’ll have more on him in a later post). By the time Barack Obama won office the first time, the transition to a party more oriented toward the European cognoscenti than rural America and tradespeople had been completed; the socialsm emerged from the shadows over the next sixteen years.

Republicans also transformed, in part because of the failure of Cheney’s efforts to change the world through democratic reforms imposed by American arms. Referred to as “neoconservative” both then and now, it required the same kind of global engagement and massive resource expenditures, only to not just fail but also backfire in key ways. Cheney certainly didn’t intend the failures, and there were some significant successes too, such as the way in which our forward strategy against terrorists prevented more attacks on the American homeland, at least on the scale of 9/11. Cheney never tired of pointing that out, and with justification.

At PJ Media, Matt Margolis adds, “As of this writing, former President George W. Bush has yet to release a statement. Cheney’s later years were marked by significant political shifts. He endorsed Trump for president in 2016 but later became a critic after Trump attacked his daughter, former Rep. Liz Cheney, and he bizarrely endorsed Kamala Harris over Trump in the 2024 election.”

GOOD QUESTION: Why are we sending illiterate high school grads to college? “Graduating from high school is easier than ever. Most states have abandoned exit exams. Online ‘credit recovery’ is enabling students to pass classes they never attended. High schools brag about graduation rates and students who say they’re headed for college, but don’t track whether graduates are able to pass a college class or succeed in job training.”

Give them a diploma and get them out the door — then they’re somebody else’s problem.

That’s where our public schools are in terms of accountability.

I REMEMBER WHEN HIGHER EDUCATION WAS SUPPOSED TO PROMOTE OUR HIGHER VALUES: Harvard Crimson defends resident dean who called cops ‘racist, evil’ and said ‘if [Trump] dies, he dies.’

LLMS LIE: AI Bias: Google AI Says GOP Senator Is a Sex Offender.

LIMITED TIME DEAL: Keurig K-Elite Single Serve K-Cup Pod Coffee Maker. #CommissionEarned

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Northwestern provost steps down after anti-Israel messages and controversy at university: The resignation follows months of scrutiny over the university’s handling of anti-Israel activism and federal investigations into discrimination against Jewish students.

LIES, DAMNED LIES, AND WEF STATISTICS:

“If women are behind on a metric, it’s recorded as inequality. If men are behind, it’s recorded as parity. You read that correctly: The index is explicitly designed so that men cannot be seen as disadvantaged, no matter how far behind they fall.”

[Link below.] pic.twitter.com/Y4p2YO9OUg

— Steve Stewart-Williams (@SteveStuWill) November 3, 2025

JOEL KOTKIN: Mayors to Cities: Drop Dead.

Perhaps never in recent history have American cities so badly needed strong, pragmatic mayors—and gotten so few. Congressional Republicans, with few urban constituencies, won’t be of much help with mass transit or other city services; big cities will have to “go it alone.” But rather than realigning city budgets and working toward self-sufficiency, many mayors favor far-left policies on policing, rent control, education, and taxation that amount to what the late Fred Siegel described three decades ago as “a suicide of sorts.”

This autumn could well see a neo-socialist, Zohran Mamdani, win the mayor’s office in New York. In Minneapolis, a Mamdani clone, 35-year-old state senator Omar Fateh, won the endorsement of the dominant Democratic Farmer Labor Party (later rescinded, following allegations about voting irregularities at the party’s July convention). Leftists have also scored victories in smaller cities like Oakland, Cincinnati, Syracuse, Albany, and Buffalo. And Seattle, which suffered some of the most destructive effects from 2020’s “summer of love,” as its clueless then-mayor called it, appears likely to replace the moderates elected in the 2020 aftermath with a new slate of far-left politicians.

Cities cannot afford such choices. Today, major American metropolises constitute a smaller portion of the nation’s population than at any time in the past half century. Employment has steadily shifted away from cities since the 1950s. The production of great office towers, those temples of urban prominence, has fallen to levels a small fraction of those of the 1990s and may soon dip below the rate of spending on new data centers. According to the Financial Times, many global firms are planning to reduce their office footprints by between 10 percent and 20 percent. The industries that traditionally drive high-end employment, like finance and professional services, are also those most often receptive to remote or hybrid work.

I don’t think Walter Becker and Donald Fagen were referencing America’s big cities when they wrote, “Things may get a whole lot worse/Before suddenly falling apart.”

But they might as well have been.

WHAT SOROS REALLY WANTS:

I just came across this in an Open Society Foundations document about how to fix public “mistrust” of liberal "democracy," and I honestly feel sick reading it. I've read many alarming quotes, but few are so "mask off" like this.

"I believe the time has come for a responsible,… pic.twitter.com/aD1kd5H28j

— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) November 4, 2025

Read the whole thing, but this part stands out: “This woman is not a raving Soros rando. She has been decorated with the highest civilian honors in multiple countries – Italy, France, Germany, Council of Europe for her democracy work.”

What the elites want is not what you want, and they are no longer shy about stripping you of your rights to get it.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: It’s Come to This — Republicans Rooting for Andrew Cuomo. “As is almost always the case with the Dems, when one we especially don’t like is finally gone, he or she is usually followed by someone much worse. Current New York Governor Kathy Hochul wasted little time proving that when she replaced Cuomo.”

BIG DAY, VOTE ACCORDINGLY:

Republicans, Go Vote!

California
❌ NO on Prop 50

Georgia
✅ Tim Echols & Fitz Johnson

Maine
✅ YES on Question 1
🚩 NO on Question 2

New Jersey
✅ Jack Ciattarelli

Pennsylvania
❌ NO to Wecht, Donohue, Dougherty, Dubow, & Wojcik

Texas
✅ FOR Proposition 16

Virginia
✅…

— ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) November 4, 2025

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Drones seen near air base storing U.S. nuclear weapons resemble ‘spy operation,’ Belgium’s defense minister says.

Defense Minister Theo Francken confirmed that drones had flown into the area near the Kleine Brogel air base in northeast Belgium in two phases on Saturday and Sunday night.

The first phase involved “small drones to test the radio frequencies” of Belgian security services, then later came “big drones to destabilize the area and people,” Francken told public broadcaster RTBF.

“It resembles a spy operation. By whom, I don’t know. I have a few ideas but I’m going to be careful” about speculating, he said. Last month, several drones were spotted above another Belgian military base near the German border. The operators were not identified.

Russia has been blamed for a number of airspace violations, notably in Estonia and Poland, in recent months. But the perpetrators of a series of mysterious drone flights in Denmark and Germany have been harder to pin down.

We are badly prepared for what’s coming.

KJP’S LEGACY: A Book So Bad It Shattered Liberals’ Faith in DEI.

HOW MANY OF YOU LIVE IN OR NEAR ITHACA, NEW YORK?  Don’t tell me, let me guess:  Not many.  It’s kind of off the beaten path.  But some Instapundit readers must live there.  If you do, and you would like to meet and hear me speak about civil rights law, I’ll be at Cornell University in connection with its  Program on Freedom and Free Societies on Monday evening, December 8, 2025.