IF SO, IT DOESN’T SEEM TO HAVE WORKED VERY WELL: Was Kimmel’s ‘Dismissal’ a Ploy? “It turns out that the return of Jimmy Kimmel to Late Nights on ABC wasn’t the ratings draw they’d hoped.”
Archive for 2025
September 29, 2025
YES:
I've noticed a common phenomenon. Let's call it the boomerang effect.
Lament the rise of an opinion or policy without noticing how your preferred policies helped cause it.
Vaccination rates down – because you wrecked the reputation of vaccines during the pandemic by over…
— Matt Ridley (@mattwridley) September 27, 2025
Bad Bunny was selected to perform the Super Bowl LX halftime show on Sunday, and the choice didn’t exactly sit well with NFL fans during the night.
The three-time Grammy Award winner has emerged as one of the most popular recording artists since he debuted in the mainstream in 2016. But as the Puerto Rican’s popularity has grown, so has his platform. Recently, he used it to express fears about U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Bad Bunny said earlier this month he didn’t book any U.S. dates on his tour over fears that his fans would be detained by ICE agents.
“But there was the issue of — like, f—ing ICE could be outside [my concert]. And it’s something that we were talking about and very concerned about,” he told i-D.
In June, he recorded and posted video of what he described as local ICE raids to social media in Puerto Rico.
“Look, those motherf——s are in these cars, RAV-4s. They’re here in Pontezuela,” he said in Spanish, mentioning ICE working on the Avenida Pontezuela in Carolina, a city east of Puerto Rico’s capital, San Juan.
“Sons of b——, instead of leaving the people alone and working there,” he added.
NFL fans didn’t appear to be eager about seeing Bad Bunny at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California.
Related question asked and answered: Why is an anti-American crossdresser being chosen to headline the most American event ever?
That’s why:
Still though, bonus points for being a snappy dresser with a de rigeour septum piercing:
But how does it feel to be one of the biggest recording artists on the planet and reap massive success in a nation that owns and continuously overlooks the island he calls home? “At the end of the day, my success in the United States I owe to the hardworking Latinos who have helped make the country what it is today,” Bad Bunny says. “I highly doubt the type of gringos I don’t fuck with listen to me. Those were all the people at the Super Bowl who were pissed off about how Latino the halftime show was.”
We’ve come a long way since the earliest Super Bowls; Super Bowl IV’s performers included these little-known heavily pierced and politicized radicals:
Evergreen:
BIG MONEY: Fraudsters stole about $320 million in SNAP benefits over 2-year period. “GAO noted that available data understates the actual scale of SNAP theft, given that states are not required to report every occurrence, so many thefts go undisclosed.”
2028 PREVIEW: Is This the Man to Save the Democrats? “The Democrat who once quipped, ‘You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do [big government] things that you think you could not do before,’ seems like an unlikely choice for tearing the party from the revolutionaries and radicals who increasingly make up its public face.”
THE WORD ‘FASCISM’ HAS NOW NO MEANING EXCEPT IN SO FAR AS IT SIGNIFIES ‘SOMETHING NOT DESIRABLE:’
(Classical reference in headline.)
THAT WOULD BE NICE: Vance says Russia has ‘to wake up and accept reality.’
“We want peace here,” Vance said Sunday on Fox News. “We have been actively pursuing peace from the very beginning of the administration, but the Russians have got to wake up and accept reality here.”
Earlier this week, President Trump said that Ukraine could win the war and referred to Russia as a “paper tiger.”
“After getting to know and fully understand the Ukraine/Russia Military and Economic situation and, after seeing the Economic trouble it is causing Russia, I think Ukraine, with the support of the European Union, is in a position to fight and WIN all of Ukraine back in its original form,” Trump posted on his Truth Social platform Tuesday.
The president met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly earlier in the day. He has previously suggested that Ukraine would have to accept territorial concessions as part of a peace agreement.
Russia currently occupies all of Luhansk and Crimea — the latter of which it annexed in 2014, and parts of Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson.
The death toll has continually risen in the conflict…
You don’t say.
TRUMP SHOULD HAVE SHUT IT DOWN MONTHS AGO, AS REQUIRED BY LAW: Will New TikTok Owner Be the Man Behind Digital ID Dystopia?
FAIL, BRITANNIA: Six Staffers Jailed At NHS ‘Hospital of Horrors.’
Lots of details at the link, few repeatable on a family-friendly blog.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Democrats Lie and People Die. “I was at a well-attended memorial event on Saturday and kept scoping out the entrances, so the fear factor is working. I’m sure that I’m not the only one who’s been on heightened alert out in public. Now that they’re attacking churches, there literally is a war on religion. Families should feel safe when worshipping, but we know that the Dems are trying to ruin families too.”
DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: ‘They’re Going To Florida’ — How Mamdani Will Change NYC.
In an online version of Mamdani’s “Homeowner Policy Memo,” the mayoral frontrunner says he plans to “shift the tax burden from overtaxed homeowners in the outer boroughs to more expensive homes in richer and white neighborhoods,” a dive into racial politics that may undercut his objective of being seen as a unifying figure.
In the memo, Mamdani explicitly puts forward a plan to “effectively lower tax payments for homeowners in neighborhoods like Jamaica and Brownsville while raising the amount paid in the most expensive Brooklyn brownstones.”
Both Jamaica and Brownsville are known for their large majority populations, while Brooklyn brownstones are of course popular investments for wealthier, whiter New Yorkers seeking more space at lower prices than what might be available in Manhattan.
I also came across this report from Union Bank of Switzerland claiming that Miami has the highest real estate bubble risk of any city in the world. Maybe that’s true now, but if Mamdani wins…
THIS’LL WORK:
NFL Hoping To Win Back Conservatives With Super Bowl Performance By Spanish-Speaking Man In Dress https://t.co/PbKWsamhQ1 pic.twitter.com/C74L9hFzVx
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) September 29, 2025
I’M NOT SURPRISED: 28 Med Schools Flunk Out in Anti-Woke Medical School Rankings. “These schools have a deep commitment to DEI, and it shows in the scores of the students they enroll.”
LEFTIST FRONT GROUP:
ADL on Antifa: They’re not really normally violent or extreme
ADL on TPUSA: They’re an extremist hate group
The ADL is a total joke pic.twitter.com/ddIY2zNAlZ
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) September 29, 2025
IF THEY’RE YAMMERING ABOUT “WHITE SUPREMACY” IT MEANS THEY HAVE NO ACTUAL ARGUMENTS:
The left has no new tricks and no new tactics.
They call you a racist, and if that doesn't work, they call you a racist again using slightly different words.
That's why they shot the debate guy. They hated him. Of course they hated him. Because he made them look foolish.… https://t.co/9pnAz8yfG4
— Devon Eriksen (@Devon_Eriksen_) September 28, 2025
Related:
The far left has basically destroyed the bite and power of some of the harshest words in the English language.
By calling everyone they hate a racist, the word “racist” has essentially become meaningless. Anyone with half a brain just shrugs off the accusation and carries on… https://t.co/GUlB2ebCRy
— Jason DeBolt ⚡️ (@jasondebolt) September 28, 2025
ANGRY HE WON’T GET HIS CUT? Another Hypocritical Dictator Attacks Trump for Striking Drug Boats. “And now, it’s time to add yet another dictator to the tally: Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega.”
SHE HAS NO IDEA ABOUT A LOT OF THINGS: Kamala Harris Has No Idea Why She Lost.
LIGHTNING DEAL: 9500W Solar Street Lights Outdoor. #CommissionEarned
NEVER CHANGE, BARACK: Obama Presidential Center deposits just $1M into $470M reserve fund aimed to protect taxpayers.
When the Obama Foundation snagged a sweetheart deal to build its beleaguered Obama Presidential Center on a Chicago public park, it pledged to create a $470 million reserve fund to spare taxpayers should the project ever go belly up.
But new tax filings show the foundation has only deposited $1 million into the fund and has not added to it in years, with critics saying the empty promise could potentially leave Chicagoans on the hook for hundreds of millions of dollars.
Under its agreement with the city, the foundation was required to create the fund, known as an endowment, in order to take control of the sprawling 19.3-acre section of Jackson Park — often described as Chicago’s Central Park equivalent — where the complex is now slowly rising.
The foundation ultimately secured the public land for just $10 in 2018, under a 99-year deal.
But when former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama turned the sod at the site in September 2021, just $1 million — or 0.21% of the pledged funds — had been deposited into the endowment, and that figure has remained unchanged ever since.
Exit quote: “It comes as the Obama Foundation’s latest tax return shows its finances under strain with revenue swinging wildly year to year, fundraising shortfalls and unfulfilled donor pledges.”
Th Obama Foundation has spent about $600 million on the $350 million brutalist monument to the Anointed One’s ego — with a reported $250 million to go.
At last count, anyway.
SOUNDS LIKE A SOLID CLAIM: Lawsuit Accuses NYC of Creating Hostile Work Environment Through Anti-White DEI Training.
TRUE:
Funny to think that Bill Clinton’s policies when he was President were essentially MAGA
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 28, 2025
IN THIS CASE, AN INSURRECTIONIST ONE:
What kind of “not an organization” has a lawyer’s guild, free legal representation, and designated legal observers?
“Antifa is an idea, not an organization” is a bold lie. https://t.co/mfY8s5pS6Q
— Grummz (@Grummz) September 28, 2025