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April 28, 2025
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KURT SCHLICHTER: Just Bomb Iran Already.
Nor do I want to hear any crap about how “America started it.” It’s objectively false – we did not start this, except in the sense we refuse to embrace their brand of primitive fanaticism – but I don’t care if we did. You don’t ever get to threaten or kill Americans, two things these savages have been doing for nearly half a century. They took our people hostage in 1979, and eight of our men were killed trying to rescue them. They were behind the Beirut bombings that killed hundreds of American diplomats and Marines. They backed terrorists who slaughtered Americans around the world. They armed and led the Shia thugs who maimed or killed thousands of our troops in Iraq. Payback is in order.
We talk a lot about a Jacksonian foreign policy, where America doesn’t go looking for trouble. But there’s another side to that coin. And that side depicts us wiping out anybody who dares kill Americans. The fact that we’ve allowed these barbarians to murder our people without retaliation is not only a moral disgrace but an invitation for every psychopath with a religious vision and an IED to make some Americans dead.
This is intolerable. The proper state of the world is one in which the mere thought of harming an American never arises because of the certainty that to do so will bring death to the terrorists, to everybody around the terrorists, and to everybody who helped the terrorists.
Andrew Jackson wasn’t just a big talker. If you messed with him, you died. This is actually the peaceful way – you come down hard once, and you don’t have to do it again. To be weak is to invite more conflicts; we’ve had plenty because of our weakness. Many of America’s foreign policy disasters since World War II, when Harry Truman had the stones to nuke Japan until it begged to surrender, have been a direct result of our refusal to make attacking America or Americans something less than an automatic apocalypse.
True Jacksonian foreign policy is tough but fair. It’s tough because if you screw with us, you die. It’s fair because if you don’t screw with us, we leave you alone.
But it offers insufficient opportunities for graft to interest most of our leadership class.
MARK JUDGE: Night Train: Pope Francis and Catholic Death.
THE OPERATIVE: “IT’S WORSE THAN YOU KNOW.”
Capt. Malcolm Reynolds: “It usually is.”
Mal usually gets it right:
This is truly bananas: all of Europe appears to have been seconds away a continent-wide blackout.
The grid frequency across continental Europe plunged to 49.85 hertz — just a hair above the red-line collapse threshold.
The normal operating frequency for Europe’s power grid… https://t.co/5qyZLpammm pic.twitter.com/83eCl5B1Ux
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) April 28, 2025
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This is truly bananas: all of Europe appears to have been seconds away a continent-wide blackout.
The grid frequency across continental Europe plunged to 49.85 hertz — just a hair above the red-line collapse threshold.
The normal operating frequency for Europe’s power grid is 50.00 Hz, kept with an extremely tight margin of ±0.1 Hz. Anything outside ±0.2 Hz triggers major emergency actions.
If the frequency had fallen just another 0.3 Hz — below 49.5 Hz — Europe could have suffered a system-wide cascading blackout.
At that threshold, automatic protective relays disconnect major power plants, and collapse accelerates.
And it’s disturbingly easy to imagine multiple scenarios where that could have occurred…
Previously: The Power Is (Literally) Going Out All Over Europe.
A LONG TIME AGO, IN THREE-MARTINI LUNCHES FAR, FAR AWAY:
Thirty years on: A failed media response to the emergent digital world
➡️The year 1995 was an ominous time for mainstream news organizations, a time that presaged cutbacks, layoffs, and decline hastened by the emergent online world.
The threats of the #internet and world wide…
— W. Joseph Campbell (@wjosephcampbell) April 28, 2025
Of course, there are many precedents for those who bet quite wrong on emerging technologies. In 1977, Arthur C. Clarke described the skepticism in many quarters regarding the arrival of the telephone on the centennial anniversary of its invention:
Man is the communicating animal; he demands news, information, entertainment, almost as much as food. In fact, as a functioning human being, he can survive much longer without food — even without water! — than without information, as experiments in sensory deprivation have shown. This is a truly astonishing fact; one could construct a whole philosophy around it.
So any major advance in communications capability that can be conceived can be realized in practice, and that same advance will come into widespread use just as soon as it is practicable. Often sooner; the public can’t wait for “state of the art” to settle down. Remember the first clumsy phonographs, radios, tape recorders? And would you believe the date of the first music broadcast? It was barely a year after the invention of the telephone! On April 2, 1877, a “telegraphic harmony” apparatus in Philadelphia sent “Yankee Doodle” to sixteen loudspeakers — well, soft-speakers — in New York’s Steinway Hall. Alexander Graham Bell was in the audience, and one would like to know if he complimented the promoter — his now forgotten rival, Elisha Gray, who got to the Patent Office just those fatal few hours too late…
Gray was not the only one to be caught out by the momentum of events. When news of the telephone reached England through Cyrus Field’s undersea telegraphic cable, the chief engineer of the Post Office was asked whether this new Yankee invention would be of any practical value. He gave the forthright reply: “No, sir. The Americans have need of the telephone — but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.”
In 1998, nine years after Tim Berners-Lee created the When the World Wide Web, soon-to-be Enron advisor Paul Krugman was succinct: “By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet’s impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine’s.”
BREAKING:
According to CNN, today’s incident in the Red Sea involving the loss overboard of both a F/A-18E “Super Hornet” and tow tractor from the main hanger bay of the USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75), occurred while the Truman was carrying out “evasive maneuvers” to avoid incoming fire from… pic.twitter.com/zFoRZdCAnm
— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) April 28, 2025
It certainly looks like something went seriously wrong, probably several things.
SPOILER ALERT: THEY WON’T. The media must admit to covering up Biden’s decline.
The media’s role in deflecting from Biden’s decline started in January 2020. John Hendrickson wrote at the Atlantic, “His verbal stumbles have voters worried about his mental fitness. Maybe they’d be more understanding if they knew he’s still fighting a stutter.” However Biden was not battling a stutter and had said he overcame it as a child.
The “stutter” line would serve as the fallback excuse for almost the entirety of his presidency. Jake Tapper, Thompson’s co-author, attacked then-RNC chairwoman Lara Trump when she said Biden was clearly in a state of cognitive decline. Tapper used the stutter line. Tapper’s entire book appears predicated on the idea that neither he nor any of his colleagues had any idea about Biden’s state until Tapper saw it at the debate he moderated. It’s worth nothing that CNN hired Kate Bedingfeld, the Biden White House communications director, in 2023.
NBC’s Jonathan Allen is currently promoting his book about the 2024 race and the behind-the-scenes scheming to force Biden out of the race. But it was also Allen’s network who said Republicans were floating a “quiet conspiracy” that Biden would not be on the ticket. One of the authors of that piece, Dasha Burns, is now White House bureau chief at Politico. MSNBC’s flagship program Morning Joe boldly declared Biden to be in the best shape of his life, just three weeks prior to calling on him to withdraw. Neither Joe Scarborough nor Mika Brzezinski have offered an explanation or apology as they attempt to distance themselves from the Biden family and advisors.
In October of 2004, with the presidential election a month away, fellow network anchormen Tom Brokaw and Peter Jennings immediately circled ranks around Dan Rather, even as his career was imploding. Beginning a decade or so ago, CNN’s Brian Stelter made him a regular guest on his Orwellian-named Reliable Sources Sunday show. But Dan Rather and his producer Mary Mapes were two people. Virtually the entire DNC-MSM apparatus protected Biden from attack. They hoped that a second Biden inauguration, followed quickly by Kamala replacing Biden would provide sufficient time and cover for the American public to forget their role in carrying Biden over the finish line. Today, they’re hoping that their nonstop attacks on Trump will do the job. Hillary famously invented “the vast right-wing conspiracy” in 1998. But we’ve seen the real thing in action on the left attempting to protect Sundown Joe. As Stephen Miller concludes, “Until journalists volunteer the truth about how, exactly, they worked with the Biden White House, their books should be written off as attempts to cover their asses.”
MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: Protester Confronts Vivek at a County GOP Event. What Happened Next Was… Unexpected. “”All right, if some few of you want to come as my guests, you’re welcome tonight. All I ask is keep an open mind… We’ll do the same. We’re not going to agree on everything, but as long as we’re talking to each other in a respectful, civil way, then I do think that we’re going to be successful as a state.”
PHYSICIAN, HEAL THYSELF: When Death Comes to the Intensivist.
WELL, GET TO IT: NATO calls for ‘quantum leap’ in defence spending, as annual outlay tops $1.3 trillion.
NATO nations boosted their collective spending on defence by around $120 billion in 2024 from the previous year, with the 32-strong alliance’s total outlay estimated to have been around $1.3 trillion.
Detailing individual nations’ contributions in its secretary general’s annual report, published on 24 April, NATO says: “European members and Canada invested a total of $486 billion in defence last year: a 19.4% increase in real terms.”
The commitment from Washington, DC was worth $818 billion, or 64% of spending, according to the alliance’s calculations, which were made using 2021 prices and exchange rates. This markedly exceeded the USA’s 53% share of the members’ combined gross domestic product (GDP).
Also, Europe has been more talk than action — during a great big shooting war going on right there in Europe.
NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH ELECTRICAL DECOMPOSITION! Blackout risk ‘made worse by net zero.’
A reliance on net zero energy left Spain and Portugal vulnerable to the mass blackouts engulfing the region, experts said last night.
In what is believed to be Europe’s largest power cut, tens of millions of people were left without electricity, while flights were grounded, trains halted and whole cities were left without power, internet access or other vital services.
The cause of the initial fault in the region’s electricity grid is still being investigated, and the EU has insisted that there were no indications that it was a cyberattack.
However, energy experts have blamed a heavy reliance on solar and wind farms in Spain for leaving the region’s power grid vulnerable to such a crisis.
A state of emergency was declared in Spain, while in Portugal, water company EPAL said supplies could also be disrupted.
Queues formed at shops of people seeking to purchase emergency supplies like gaslights, generators and batteries.
Thanks to the EU, AlGore, Greta, and the “Just Stop Oil” crowd, the European mind cannot comprehend the existence of reliable electrical power:
The European mind can't comprehend this… pic.twitter.com/TBfyydGhqT
— Pradheep J. Shanker, M.D. (@neoavatara) April 28, 2025
YES, PLEASE: Making the U.S. Seafood Industry Great Again?
STAY SAFE: Headlamp Rechargeable 990,000 Lumens Super Bright LED Head Lamp for Adults. #CommissionEarned
WHAT DICTATORS DO: Meet the man whose lies put an innocent sailor in prison for 20 years. “The government’s case against Patrick ‘Tate’ Adamiak was led by two Assistant U.S. Attorneys, but their main witness became the real reason why a jury found Adamiak guilty, and a federal judge sentenced him to 20 years in prison. To be clear, Adamiak was railroaded by Jeffrey R. Bodell, who works out of a small ATF office in Martinsburg, West Virginia.”
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MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: The Lamps Are (Literally) Going Out All Over Europe.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Data architecture is paramount for Golden Dome success — and the Department of Defense is not ready. “The primary limitation to achieving the capability will not be the physical hardware, but the ability to connect all the components. Of all the development tasks, the most critical technical hurdle in Golden Dome will be its data architecture. And of all the personnel hires, one of the most critical will be the Chief Data Officer (CDO), directly reporting to the Program Director, who will have direct control over the overall data architecture and network, and its implementation on Golden Dome hardware. In an environment with a greatly expanded number of interactions between sensors and shooters, the likelihood of a gap or security blind spot increases exponentially — unless the supporting data architecture is built to account for it from day one.”
THE PASSWORD IS SWORDFISH ESCALATION: Staying on Script: The Legacy Media Coordinates Messaging with the DNC and Here’s How We Know (Watch).
There’s always a script. pic.twitter.com/58BCCRy17e
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) April 28, 2025
OLD AND BUSTED: Fiery, But Mostly Peaceful Protests.
The New Hotness? David Brooks: Judge Dugan’s Actions Were Illegal but Also ‘Heroic.’
NYT’s David Brooks doesn’t “know the specific details” of the Judge Dugan case — but says she was “heroic.” “If the federal enforcement agencies come to your courtroom and you help a guy escape, that is two things…” “One, it strikes me as maybe something illegal, but it also strikes me as something heroic.” Un. Freaking. Real.
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Are judges and criminal illegal aliens above the law? The shock emanating from elected Democrats makes it pretty clear that many on the left expect them to be. The fact that the Trump administration refuses to play along is blowing their minds. Here’s Tom Homan saying, in so many words, no one is above the law.
🚨Tom Homan hits hostile media with cold reality on Judge Dugan arrest:
“I said from DAY ONE…when you cross that line to impediment, or knowingly harboring concealing an illegal alien, you will be prosecuted."
“JUDGE, OR NOT."
No one is above the law. pic.twitter.com/XCyMXjb70c
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) April 28, 2025
Much more like this, please.