JOY REID OUTDOES THE LEFTISTS WHO LIKE TO CALL TRUMP HITLER:

Reid then claimed that Rubio was hoping to inherit the MAGA mantle: “Marco Rubio is doing what he’s doing now because in his mind, he thinks that somehow he can inherit the cult of Donald Trump. That when Trump is aged out and when the devil takes him home, when he goes back below earth, from whence he came, when his soul — when the man — when the creature to which he has sold his soul takes him — he thinks that he will inherit that cult … they all think it. They think they can inherit the cult.”

Flying headlong into crazyville, Reid then likened Trump to Jim Jones: “What they don’t understand is that when Jim Jones was gone, there was no other Jim Jones. There was only one Jim Jones. And when he killed all those people in the forests of Guyana, even his son could not become the next Jim Jones. Because cults are sui generis. They worship one person — not even God — they worship one god. And these people are a monotheistic cult. And the mono — the god — is named Donald Trump.” Uh-huh. And so does Reid think that Trump is going to force all of his followers to drink poisoned Kool-Aid? Coming from her, it wouldn’t be a surprise in the least.

She’s not even the first to make the comparison. In August of 2021, the Washington Examiner’s Paul Bedard reported in his “Liberal Media Scream” column: New CNN low, comparing Trump ‘cult’ to Jonestown massacre.

This week’s Liberal Media Scream features CNN’s Brian Stelter’s Trump Derangement Syndrome hitting a new low, inviting a comparison of the “cult” of Trump to the Jim Jones cult killings in Jonestown, Guyana, in 1978.

On his Sunday show, Reliable Sources, the liberal media nag brought aboard Rep. Jackie Speier, who survived the Jonestown massacre, to equate the “cult of Trump” with the mass murder-suicide of 918 followers of Rev. Jim Jones. “I wanted to hear her thoughts about the comparison, the notion of the cult of Trump,” Stelter said in setting up the welcoming California lawmaker.

Stelter played along: “It’s scary to hear that when you have observed the Trump phenomenon, you have seen similarities to Jonestown.”

Stelter had opened the segment by relaying feedback from international viewers asking, “Why doesn’t the American media just call out Trump for what he is, call Trump fandom for what it is? Sometimes they use the word, cult.”

Do Reid and Stelter know that Jones was a central figure in the San Francisco Democrat machine in the 1970s? The Road to Jonestown.

RIP: Dave Parker, Baseball Hall of Famer and MVP winner, dead at 74.

Hall of Famer Dave Parker has died at the age of 74. The Pittsburgh Pirates announced Parker’s death before their game on Saturday.

Parker played for six teams during his 19 major-league seasons, 11 of those seasons with the Pirates. He also played for the Cincinnati Reds, Oakland Athletics, Milwaukee Brewers, California Angels and Toronto Blue Jays.

During his MLB career from 1979-1991, Parker batted .290/.339/.471 with 2,712 hits, 339 home runs, 526 doubles, 1,493 RBI and 154 stolen bases. He won World Series championships with the 1979 Pirates and 1989 Athletics, was a seven-time All-Star and earned consecutive National League batting titles in 1978 and 1979.

In 1979, Parker won the NL MVP award with a .334 average and .970 OPS with 30 homers, 34 doubles, 117 RBI and 20 steals. He finished second in NL MVP voting in 1985 with the Reds, leading the league with 125 RBI.

If there’s thunder tonight, you’ll know why:

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:

Back in December 2008, the face of NBC News begged the leader of the Democratic Party to raise gasoline prices: Tom Brokaw suggested that then-President Elect Obama tank the economy even more than it was by the end of the year, by sticking it to commuters’ wallets:

Let’s talk for a moment about consumer responsibility when it comes to the auto industries. As soon as gas prices dropped, consumers moved back to the larger cars once again. The SUVs are the big gas consumers. Why not take this opportunity to put a tax on gasoline, bump it back up to $4 a gallon where people were prepared to pay for that, and use that revenue for alternative energy and as a signal to the consumers: “Those days are gone. We’re not going to have gasoline that you could just fill up your tank for 20 bucks anymore.”

The New York Times and the Washington Post were also fine with this idea back then, when it might have been implemented on a national scale. Now that it could — pardon the pun — tank a potential Democrat front runner in 2028, omertà.

BOB VYLAN, GLASTONBURY AND THE BANALITY OF JEW HATRED:

If you can’t see it now, you never will. The sight of tens of thousands of people at Glastonbury yesterday joining in a spirited chant of ‘Death, death to the IDF’ was the sight of us officially becoming a very different country, I fear. One in which anti-Israel hysteria has so flawlessly rehabilitated Jew hatred that it has become unthinking, conformist, almost mundane. Something that Home Counties idiots can jive to before adjusting their hot pants and heading off to catch Charli XCX. Something that is broadcast by the BBC into millions of homes. The banality of the new anti-Semitism.

Let’s not muck about here. When punk-rap duo Bob Vylan called for the killing of Israeli soldiers yesterday – as they warmed up the crowd at the West Holts Stage for every Israelophobe’s new favourite Irish rap trio, Kneecap – they weren’t opposing war. They were calling for war, and on the one army on Earth charged with protecting Jews from genocide. The army now at war with a jihadist cult that murdered, raped and kidnapped its way through an Israeli festival not unlike Glastonbury on 7 October 2023. The army that almost all Israelis are expected to serve in. Indeed, those making excuses for that sickening call-and-response yesterday hopefully don’t know that Hamas justifies killing Israeli civilians on the grounds that they are basically all tainted by national service. That they are all enemy combatants. Death, death to that IDF?

Whether we got here by ignorance or conscious hatred is pretty much moot. The end result is British Jews – at Glasto or at home – watching thousands whoop as Jew-killing slogans are recited. Frontman Bobby Vylan also treated the crowd to a deranged rant about the indignities he suffered working for a ‘Zionist’ at a record label, because he had to listen to his boss talk favourably about Israel. I wonder if he knows that the vast majority of British Jews are Zionists. I wonder if he cares.

I wonder if he knows the back catalog of the man whose stage name he borrowed? I wonder if he cares:

Meanwhile, more peace and love coming from the British pop music scene: Met won’t prosecute Kneecap over ‘Kill your MP.’

How low is too low? Kneecap seem determined to find out, judging by their never-ending mission to troll the UK. But last month even the West Belfast trio seemed to go too far, after a video emerged of them calling for the death of British MPs. It prompted a grovelling statement from the band, insisting that they would not incite violence against any individual. Real hard men, eh?

Of course, cynics suggested that Kneecap’s capitulation had less to do with genuine remorse and concern for the likes of David Amess’s family, and more to do with an effect on ticket sales. But now the not-so-funny trio can sleep easy, for Steerpike has checked and counter-terror police have confirmed they will not be charging the group over a November 2023 video in which they say ‘the only good Tory is a dead Tory. Kill your local MP’.

I’m so old, I can remember back to last year, when such language could get one arrested in England: How one woman’s racist tweet sparked a free speech row.

In July last year, prompted by a false rumour that an illegal immigrant was responsible for the murder of three girls at a dance workshop in Southport, Connolly posted online calling for “mass deportation now”, adding “set fire to all the… hotels [housing asylum seekers]… for all I care”.

Connolly, then a 41-year-old Northampton childminder, added: “If that makes me racist, so be it.”

At the time she had about 9,000 followers on X. Her message was reposted 940 times and viewed 310,000 times, before she deleted it three and a half hours later.

In October she was jailed after admitting inciting racial hatred.

Three appeal court judges this week ruled the 31-month sentence was not “manifestly excessive”.

Stephen O’Grady, a legal officer with the Free Speech Union (FSU), said the sentence seemed “rather steep in proportion to the offence”.

His organisation has worked with Connolly’s family since November and funded her appeal.

Mr O’Grady said Connolly “wasn’t some lager-fuelled hooligan on the streets” and pointed to her being a mother of a 12-year-old daughter, who had also lost a son when he was just 19 months old.

He said there was a “difference between howling racist abuse at somebody in the street and throwing bricks at the police” and “sending tweets, which were perhaps regrettable but wouldn’t have the same immediate effect”.

It’s like Prime Minister Starmer has multiple different standards of justice for his nation. Two tiers, as it were:

One British comedian does an awesome Norm Macdonald impersonation:

Alas, England in general seems determined to remain a safe space for people who want to kill Jews, based on the ideology of current management.

UPDATE:

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MASSIVE RESISTANCE: Civil rights complaint filed against Cornell includes bombshell whistleblower emails.

IT’S TIME: Campus conservatives are cool again, and the left is lashing out.

PROMISES, PROMISES: In an about-face, Germany plans to build Europe’s biggest military.

The European buildup, merely by existing, creates an "army in being" that will stress the Putin government who will have to pay an insurance premium where there was none before.https://t.co/EJi4dOIgeG

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) June 29, 2025

HEH:

Nothing better than watching CNN admit President Trump is ON A ROLL 🔥
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— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) June 28, 2025

Even the media can't ignore the winning streak—truth hits harder than their ratings. pic.twitter.com/JQn7geveFX

— Politickle (@PolitickleNews) June 28, 2025

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THE STORY IS WHATEVER THE NARRATIVE REQUIRES AT THE MOMENT:

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— Amy Curtis 🇮🇱 (@RantyAmyCurtis) June 28, 2025

From “How dare you call that great, beautiful country a shithole?” to “How dare you send these poor people back to that shithole?” Overnight.

ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Dolphins Got Giant Testicles. We Got a Chin. Only One Makes Sense.

They both make sense when you realize it’s all about sex. Dolphins mate a lot, and need a lot of sperm. Human chicks dig a manly chin, and are. more likely to mate with men who have them.

You can put my Nobel in the mail.

THE GERMANS: ALWAYS WRONG, NEVER IN DOUBT.

Objectively speaking every single major policy/collective choice by Germany in my adult life has been astonishingly stupid:
– Giving their manufacturing technology to China
– Destroying Eurozone growth
– The Energiewende
– Letting in millions of Middle Eastern migrants
– Allowing… https://t.co/bMmUwMXo5n

— Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry (@pegobry_en) June 28, 2025

Meanwhile, my attitude on being mocked by the Germans:

LOL: Hypocrites Suddenly Claim ‘Constitutional Scruples’ About War-Making.

What a laugh. These jokers don’t have constitutional scruples about anything.

WEIRD, HUH?

And we still don’t know the name of the agent in charge of Butler. Unbelievable. https://t.co/RMa1UYxpV1

— John Ʌ Konrad V (@johnkonrad) June 28, 2025

SHOOTING DOWN ANOTHER STUPID LEFTIST IDEA:

Grocery store profit margins are *tiny*—usually 1-2 percent. (Liquor stores, by contrast, have margins around 20-30%.) It would be very hard for a shop run by the state—which isn't known for efficiency—to keep prices low while maintaining quality & selection. Defeats the purpose.

— Billy Binion (@billybinion) June 27, 2025

Of course, the big appeal of government grocery stores is that you can get bribes from developers for locating them nearby, and you can punish political enemies by moving them farther away. Plus the day-to-day skimming, no-show jobs, etc. Naturally leftists want this. And of course there’s their traditional desire to control people’s access to food in general.

FOLLOW THE SCIENCE: Flashback: The maddening saga of how an Alzheimer’s ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure for decades.

OPEN THREAD: Have a wild Saturday night.

DON’T WORRY, ONLY SPACEX EXPLOSIONS ARE NEWSWORTHY: New SLS booster design suffers anomaly during test.

Rocket engines blow up a lot under testing. But at $4 billion per launch SLS is a horrible deal even if everything works perfectly.

THERE’S GOLD IN THEM THAR GADGETS: Scientists Figured Out How to Extract Gold From Old Phones And Laptops.

THEY’RE ALWAYS IN THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK: Ancient Blueprint For Human Bodies Discovered in Sea Anemones.

EVERYONE IN EVERY MILITARY BRANCH SHOULD BE ABLE TO SHOOT:

Most naval officers can’t shoot and would be useless if their ship was overrun in port, if they had to defend their family overseas, or fight their way back on base.

And yet, getting them usefully proficient would take a small fraction of the time they spend on useless HR… https://t.co/oxIMSzvIEb

— John Ʌ Konrad V (@johnkonrad) June 27, 2025

One of my students who went off to JAG — we send a lot of people to JAG — said that at the abbreviated basic-training that they get someone said don’t worry too much about this, the lawyers aren’t likely to have to shoot. I told him yeah, but if the lawyers do have to shoot, things have gone to hell and you need to be good at it.

And honestly, every American should be able to shoot. It’s part of our culture.

UPDATE: Reader John Steakley writes: “My local gun club offers free range time to senior citizens and another day to women every week. It’s a luxurious gun club, welcoming and inviting to all. These sort of special accommodations are crucial to incorporating reluctant segments of the populace into gun ownership. If your local gun club isn’t doing this, encourage them to do so.”

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CHRISTIAN TOTO: Is Mel Brooks Torching His Legacy in Real Time?

Quick, what was your favorite scene from “History of the World, Part II?”

Don’t have one? Never saw it? Wasn’t even aware such a project existed?

You’re not alone. Hulu’s ill-fated attempt to revive Mel Brooks’ 1981 comedy didn’t rock the culture. Reviewers were mostly kind, but the streaming series came and went without much fuss.

Blame a crowded marketplace or the fact that it’s hard to duplicate Brooks’ brand of silliness even when he served as an executive producer on the miniseries.

Looking back, it was funnier to leave a film like “History of the World, Part I” as is. The title is part of the joke, no?

Now, Brooks is back. Twice. Is it wise to dust off his comedy classics to appease an industry desperate for IPs?

Will new, inferior Brooks titles diminish his canon?

He just announced a belated sequel to “Spaceballs,” his intermittently funny “Star Wars” spoof from 1987. The original isn’t a classic like “The Producers,” “Young Frankenstein” or “Blazing Saddles,” but it gently skewered George Lucas’ franchise in memorable ways.

Spaceballs isn’t that good as a film, but it’s become much loved because Brooks was one of the first to parody the sci-fi genre, doing for the Star Wars franchise what Blazing Saddles did for westerns and Young Frankenstein did for the 1930s Universal monster movies. But most of Brooks’ post-Young Frankenstein movies failed to work at that same level of excellence, but because of the titles that Toto mentions above, Brooks’ cinematic immortality as a comedic director is assured, no matter how bad the latest product that trades on his goodwill and small involvement turns out to be.

UPDATE: A Look at Mel Brooks’ Illustrious Life and Career in Photos As the Legendary Actor Turns 99 Years Old Today.

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Hertz Is Using AI to Scan Your Rental Car for Damage—and Fast-Tracking Repair Estimates.