THEY’VE BEEN LOOTING AMERICA FOR DECADES:
HOLY CR*P 🚨
– Democrats did give MILLIONS of illegals Social Security Numbers
– They were REGISTERING TO VOTE
– Elon Musk has confirmation THEY DID VOTE
– Democrats qualified illegals for MAX SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS
– They enrolled in Medicaid with their new Social Security… pic.twitter.com/ixWAObSyoL— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) March 31, 2025
INTERESTING POINT:
The centrality of the new product development cycle is what's missing from the tariff debate. Tariffs, for all their defects, have the possibility of reshoring the entire new product development cycle. If production is offshored to China parts of that cycle will be out of scope.
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) March 29, 2025
YES, MUCH OF THE MEDIA’S POWER, AND THE LEFTS (BUT I REPEAT MYSELF), WAS TO BULLY AND SHAME THE RIGHT INTO GOING ALONG. THAT’S OVER. When Conservatives Refuse to Play Along, the Dems and Regime Media Lose.
IS THIS ONE OF THOSE “DAY ENDING IN Y” REPORTS? NYT Panics Over Religious Freedoms, ‘Particularly Christian’ Groups.
THIS HAD BETTER COME WITH SOME TAX RELIEF ELSEWHERE OR IT MIGHT COME WITH HELL TO PAY FROM PEOPLE WHO ELECTED TRUMP TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE HIGH COST OF LIVING:
White House promises that next week, it will impose the largest peacetime tax increase in America history outside of World War II – $6 trillion over the decade.
Middle and lower earners hit hardest. Indefensible that Congress handed presidents the power to do this unilaterally. https://t.co/jbhszrkfXS
— Jessica Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦 (@JessicaBRiedl) March 30, 2025
WOEING: NASA Is Investigating Boeing Starliner’s ‘In-Flight Anomalies.’
But when — or if — Starliner will make its next launch attempt, with or without a crew on board, remains to be seen.
“Once we get through these planned test campaigns, we will have a better idea of when we can go fly the next Boeing flight,” said NASA’s Commercial Crew Program manager Steve Stich in the update. “We’ll continue to work through certification toward the end of this year and then go figure out where Starliner fits best in the schedule for the International Space Station and its crew and cargo missions.”
“It is likely to be in the timeframe of late this calendar year or early next year for the next Starliner flight,” Stich added.
Another flight test would be paid for out of Boeing’s pocket. There are rising costs (the company has already lost $1.6 billion on the fixed-price Starliner program) and only so many more manned missions remaining before the ISS is deorbited in 2030.
ROBERT SPENCER: Whose ‘1984’ Is It, Anyway? “The Times can call Trump’s words about Jan. 6 ‘Orwellian’ because it is familiar with the old leftist tactic of accusing the enemy of doing what the accuser is actually doing himself.”
READER FAVORITE: Anker iPhone 16 USB-C Car Charger. #CommissionEarned
HMM: 2025 Multistate Bar Exam Scores Fall To All-Time Low. Bar exam scores usually correlate pretty closely with LSAT scores; I wonder if this means that the people being admitted in 2021 had lower LSAT scores? Weren’t a lot of schools admitting people without test scores back then?
WAIT, THE UAW? Trump’s Auto Tariffs Just Got a Huge Endorsement.
PRIVACY: 23andMe bankruptcy: With America’s DNA put on sale, market panic gets a new twist.
DNA testing has become a valuable tool for hobbyists and novice genealogists. For some, learning they are the 10th cousin of Paul Revere or the 15th great nephew four times removed of the last King of Prussia is worth the perceived risk of sharing a DNA sample. But what happens when the company harvesting the DNA goes bankrupt?
That was the question posed to millions of Americans last week when 23andMe, the company that popularized consumer genetic testing and had early backing from Google, filed for bankruptcy, leading to a wave of calls for Americans to delete their DNA from the company’s database.
While it’s not 100 percent clear if the “delete your DNA” calls were warranted, privacy experts are alarmed, and Americans who had taken the genetic test took the advice to heart.
According to data from online traffic analysis company Similarweb, on March 24, the day of the bankruptcy announcement, 23andMe received 1.5 million visits to its website, a 526% increase from one day prior. According to Similarweb, 376,000 visits were made to help pages specifically related to deleting data, and 30,000 were made to the customer care page for account closure.
What were people thinking, sending DNA samples like that?
HOLLYWOOD IN TOTO: The One Thing Conservatives Need in Today’s Hollywood.
Conservatives are the champions of complaining about (il)liberal movies, documentaries, television, award shows and art. But do you know what liberals do that we don’t?
FUND art.
They support the next generation of artists and storytellers. Who cares if the content they/them make is garbage? Liberals help out other liberals.
While you’re reading this, Netflix has already greenlit a live-action “Pokémon: Rings of Power.” And do you know who’s writing and directing it? The same progressives who made the 2027 $250 million-budgeted “Dirty Harry” reboot flop (star Chloë Grace Moretz refused to hold a gun).
Where’s our Tyler Perry? Where’s our Dream Collective? Where’s our non-woke Sundance Lab?
Who does the Right have? Mel Gibson? He’s just one man, and no one should bother him while he’s making “The Resurrection of the Christ.”
Zachary Levi? He’s a cool dude, and I want him to succeed, but he’s not a billionaire producer.
The Daily Wire? They’re just one company and most of their stuff is behind a paywall (side note: put your movies up for rent on Amazon; people will pay to see “Run Hide Fight” and “Terror on the Prairie” if made available to them).
The only thing that comes close to a conservative cultivation program is the Palladium Pictures Incubator, but it’s for short documentaries, not narrative film.
Also… have you even heard of this program before I told you? Has a single conservative influencer promoted it?
As a filmmaker who wants to tell traditional stories with heartland people, I feel s*** out of luck.
There are so many talented people who are passed over because we don’t want to tell tacky and exhausting Lefty stories. We don’t want to make crap like “Velma” or “Snow Shite” or “Shout Your Abortion: Electric Boogaloo.”
We want to entertain and enlighten.
But we need you conservative and moderate higher-ups to support the true underrepresented voices. We need non-diversity contingent fellowships, labs, film festivals and opportunities for traditional storytellers.
Read the whole thing.
Without conservative movies being funded, this is the career path for many conservatives, and even non-woke center-left Democrats behind the camera in Hollywood: Rachel Zegler’s Snow White flop sparks anti-woke U-turn: Hollywood whistleblowers reveal how trans actors and liberal films are being dumped in ‘crisis mode’ panic.
One woman who is white and in her late 50s could not get hired but was called in to rescue a DEI project, which ended up winning a slew of major awards.
‘The kids who had been handed the film had no experience,’ she says. ‘The budget was out of control, and they were off partying every night.
‘The studio sent me to oversee things and get them back on track. But when the movie won awards, I wasn’t allowed to go up on stage because they didn’t want a middle-aged white woman standing in the middle of the young African American cast members. I was told it wasn’t good optics.’
A male writer, who is 60, tells a similar story. He has worked on some of the most successful shows ever made. He says: ‘When DEI started, my phone stopped ringing. Then it started ringing again with big names at the studios asking me to take a look at scripts and rewrite them.
‘Their DEI hires couldn’t actually do the job. So, they had old white men like me re-writing things. The money was good, but I couldn’t get any credit. That’s the hypocrisy of Hollywood.’
As Conquest’s Third Law of Politics states, “The simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies.”
UPDATE: Brian Stelter accidentally admits which ideology has been controlling Hollywood for the last half century: Try Not to Laugh: Brian Stelter (and Ben Folds) Lament MAGA ‘Authoritarianism’ In Entertainment.
EXPECT TO SEE A LOT OF THIS KIND OF THING: Arizona State University changes names of segregated graduation ceremonies but keeps them in place.
THIS ONE’S IMPORTANT AND THE LEFT IS FIRED UP: Elon Musk Goes All In on the Wisconsin Supreme Court Race.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: 1st-ever orbital rocket launch from European soil falls to Earth and explodes seconds into flight.
Germany-based Isar Aerospace attempted to launch the first orbital rocket from European soil on Sunday morning (March 30). The company’s Spectrum rocket lifted off from Europe’s Andøya Spaceport in Norway, but suffered an anomaly 18 seconds into the flight.
Dramatic video from the launch shows the rocket tumbling just seconds into flight before plummeting to the icy ground below and exploding in a brilliant fireball.
It’s unclear what caused the anomaly, but it appears that Isar’s Spectrum rocket began tumbling just seconds into its debut flight. Video from the incident shows the rocket plummeting to the ground with its engines off, so it’s likely that flight controllers terminated the flight once the vehicle began tumbling.
There were no payloads aboard Spectrum’s first test flight today. Isar Aerospace was simply attempting to collect data about the vehicle during the maiden launch.
Here’s the video:
Another angle showing the Isar Aerospace Spectrum hitting the water by @AndoyaSpace https://t.co/bRjekL60W3 pic.twitter.com/SkNlG83V8w
— VSB – Space Coast West (@spacecoastwest) March 30, 2025
Better luck next time.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Dems’ Media Water-Carriers Are Starting to Get Sore Backs. “In the past, the Democrats would have identified at least one legitimate problem that could have helped them change course, then gotten back to the hunt for bogeymen. What’s the difference now? Why, Trump Derangement Syndrome, of course.”
THE SOVIETS USED TO HOLD FAKE ELECTIONS IN WHICH THE PEOPLE COULD ELECT ANY CANDIDATE THEY WANTED, SO LONG AS IT WAS ONE OF THE TWO PRE-APPROVED COMMUNISTS:
Marie Le Pen, front runner in the next French election, has been barred from running. The Romanian courts throw out the primary and order new elections because their chosen candidate lost.
Because 'We Must Save Democracy!' So sayeth the Elites, and the Elites are honorable men! pic.twitter.com/BcOBp4POWk
— John Ringo SF Author (@Jringo1508) March 31, 2025
I’m afraid Glenn had it right about the lampposts.
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Colorado Senate Bill 3: Gun licensing scheme much broader than claimed.
The Colorado legislature is close to final passage of Senate Bill 25-003, to impose one of the most restrictive licensing systems in the nation on many, but not all firearms. Legislators and the public should understand that the bill would apply to all semiautomatic centerfire handguns. The kinds of handguns that Coloradans typically choose—from companies such as Glock, Ruger, or Smith & Wesson—would become much more onerous to purchase.
Senate Bill 3 seems cunningly written. It purports to apply only to the “gas-operated semiautomatic handgun.” (p. 4). The bill then provides five types of gas operation. Cumulatively, the definitions cover almost every centerfire semiautomatic handgun.
The bill does not apply to semiautomatics that fire the puny .22 rimfire cartridge.
There is only one centerfire semiautomatic handgun model that does not fall within the bill’s definitions. That unique item is the Benelli B-80, a collector’s item last manufactured in 1990. The identical gun was produced in six different calibers, model numbers 76 through 82.
As for every other model of semiautomatic pistol, Coloradans will be forced to navigate their way through one of the most onerous systems in the nation, far exceeding even California’s.
The new system includes three additional fees on top of the ones already charged to firearms purchasers in Colorado, and none of those fees are capped. Unlike Colorado’s system for issuing handgun carry licenses, no government official has any obligation to make a decision on an application within a time frame.
That’s a whole lot of infringement.
IMPRISONING POLITICAL OPPONENTS IS ALL THE RAGE IN EUROPE. THIS WON’T STOP WITHOUT SOME POLITICIANS HANGING FROM LAMPPOSTS. Marine Le Pen Barred From Public Office in France. “The prosecutor called for a €300,000 fine and prison term, as well as ineligibility for running for public office for five years. This would impact Le Pen’s ability to seek the French presidency in 2027. The court ruled that Le Pen will be barred from running for public office with immediate effect for five years.”
UPDATE:
Marine Le Pen in France, Bolsonaro in Brazil, Imran Khan in Pakistan, Matteo Salvini in Italy, Donald Trump in America, Calin Georgescu in Romania
The criminal prosecution of every populist challenger is a dagger in the heart of the credibility of democracy. https://t.co/YVKtAXODoq
— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) March 31, 2025
In western liberal democracies jailing or shooting the opposition candidate is quickly becoming the preferred election strategy
— Auron MacIntyre (@AuronMacintyre) March 31, 2025
IN A NUTSHELL: Yes, The Left Supports Domestic Terrorism; Liberals Remain Silent About It.
Flashback: “It is impossible to understand the politics of the Left without grasping that it is all about deniable intimidation.” That’s why they don’t want you to own guns.
DEMS ON SOCIAL MEDIA: TRUMP VOTERS HAVE BUYER’S REMORSE.
HISTORY DOESN’T REPEAT, BUT IT DOES OCCASIONALLY PEENEMÜNDE: Germany’s largest rocket since V-2 crashes and explodes seconds after launch.
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