Archive for 2025
June 7, 2025
OPEN THREAD: Saturday Night’s All Right for Blogging.
BECOMING LED ZEPPELIN IS NOW STREAMING ON NETFLIX: Absolutely recommended if you’re a fan of the group, or merely curious. Here’s my review from January: ‘Becoming Led Zeppelin’ – If You’re a Fan, Catch It on the Big Screen.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: China launches fourth group of Guowang megaconstellation satellites.
THIS IS CNN:
A left-wing terrorist set elderly Jewish women on fire this week, and far-left radicals are currently rioting in LA, but CNN's extremism reporter is hot on the case of asking the my pillow guy if he ever gets tired.
Just incredible journalism. https://t.co/BxYBvqyKHs
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) June 7, 2025
Based on his take on Luigi Mangione, I assume this is Donie’s response to the L.A. riots and last weekend’s antisemitic Molotov Cocktail enthusiast:
OCEANIA HAS NEVER BEEN AT WAR WITH EAST TESLA: Now the Dems Want the Guy They Called a Nazi for Six Months to Come Back to Their Side.
Khanna’s case was primarily based on the idea that having Musk on their side would benefit the Democrats. He stated: “Having Elon speak out against the irrational tariff policy, against the deficit exploding Trump bill, and the anti-science and anti-immigrant agenda can help check Trump’s unconstitutional administration. I look forward to Elon turning his fire against MAGA Republicans instead of Democrats in 2026.”
Khanna also said of Musk: “We should ultimately be trying to convince him that the Democratic Party has more of the values that he agrees with. A commitment to science funding, a commitment to clean technology, a commitment to seeing international students like him.”
Wait a minute. The Democrats have more of the values with which Musk agrees? Really? Does that mean that the Democrats are a National Socialist party? Of course they aren’t. They’re an international socialist party, and it’s grimly ironic that they’re now hoping to win the allegiance of a guy they’ve been smearing as a National Socialist for the last six months.
Is Ro Khanna unaware of the words of his California colleague, Rep. Robert Garcia, who back in Jan. 2025 denounced Musk for making what he claimed was a “Nazi salute,” and adding: “He didn’t just do it one time—he did it twice for emphasis. If you talk to anyone like historians, folks actually study the Nazis and study this actual kind of disgusting display, they’ve been very clear about what that was. He should not just apologize. He should be condemned for those kinds of actions. So gross.”
Then there was America’s sweetheart, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-You Wanna Open a Tab?) declared: “In this country, we fight Nazis. We don’t celebrate them.This is the United States of America. And I don’t care what Elon Musk is doing behind a presidential seal. In this country, we hate Nazis. Kind of like a foundational, defining thing. Two of probably the most foundational, defining things about American history is that we beat the Confederates and we beat the Nazis. And I don’t know what side people may be on today, but I still am not rocking with anyone sympathetic to Nazis.”
Wow, wait until 2025 AOC discovers what she and her Green Nude Eel architect were saying and doing in 2019!
And as I wrote yesterday, it took Dick Cheney and George W. Bush almost 20 years to lose their Nazi-branding among the left. It only took took Elon 24 hours.
Flashback: “The greatest cultural victory of the Left has been to disregard the Nazi-Soviet Pact” and toss it down the Memory Hole.
THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE ISSUE IS ALWAYS THE REVOLUTION: New: Violent Rioters in Paramount, CA Create Havoc, Pelt Fed. Law Enforcement Vehicles With Rocks
Looks like the chaos is continuing in Los Angeles.
Protesters tried to block ICE vans on Friday with one person finding out it wasn’t a good idea, when he appeared to fall in front of a van. Then the protesters went to the federal detention facility, got violent, and caused chaos there as they damaged property and threw things at law enforcement officials. The California SEIU President David Huerta was among the people detained, and the U.S. Attorney later said he was arrested for allegedly interfering with officers.
Homeland Security said that they were surrounded by 1,000 people, and it took over two hours for the LAPD to arrive despite being called “multiple times.”
ICE Acting Director Todd M. Lyons issued a statement on the violent June 6 assaults against federal law enforcement officers in Los Angeles:
“Our brave officers were vastly outnumbered, as over 1,000 rioters surrounded and attacked a federal building. It took over two hours for… pic.twitter.com/MDBxI4L4X0
— U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (@ICEgov) June 7, 2025
The rioters also defaced the building with graffiti, including anarchist symbols, “Kill ICE,” “Dead cops,” and anti-Elon Musk statements.
And displayed plenty of Mexican and at least one Palestinian flag:
Guys when you're waving a foreign country's flag, you're kind of giving the game away here. https://t.co/neVf9wDMaw
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) June 7, 2025
I’m not aware of ICE rounding up Palestinians.
Why is there a Palestinian flag in this protest? https://t.co/4PtNzDVqk6
— RBe (@RBPundit) June 7, 2025
Flashback: Welcome to protest season, where the cause changes but the tactics stay the same.
QED:
There is a direct line from the lawlessness of BML riots, through violent antisemitic protests on campuses and major cities, to what is happening right now in Los Angeles. Shared rhetoric, shared justifications, and eventually we'll learn more than a little shared infrastructure. https://t.co/i97wkXjCRn
— Omri Ceren (@omriceren) June 7, 2025
UPDATE (FROM GLENN):
A number of NGOs have been implicated in this. Foremost is Coalition for Humane Immigration Rights or CHIRLA, and the photos of signs show they were printed by PSLWEB / Party for Socialism and Liberation. pic.twitter.com/yS7jXkHGJ8
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) June 8, 2025
ANOTHER UPDATE (FROM GLENN):
Then crush the NGOs funding these riots.
— 🏔️ (@NomadicAnalytic) June 7, 2025
RICO prosecutions, asset seizures, give them the full J6 treatment and more.
But wait, there’s more:
Nick is correct.
POTUS must only determine that state authorities are unwilling or unable to make the streets safe. https://t.co/VRfddPZsJG
— Shipwreckedcrew (@shipwreckedcrew) June 8, 2025
And once Trump activates the Insurrection Act, he can recognize a new California Legislature, which can then vote to split the state into 5 red states and one blue state. A majority of Congress can approve it and it’s done. Okay, probably not going to happen, but this is the can of worms the left risks opening.
It’s been done before.
WHAT ABOUT MEN? Common Diabetes Drug Linked to ‘Exceptional Longevity’ in Women. The answer is that they only studied women. I hope it works for men, too. I take low-dose metformin for this very reason.
YES, DO THIS.
These are not organic. They are organized. Prosecute the organizers. See NGOs. https://t.co/fXrli8KdhV
— Robert Barnes (@barnes_law) June 7, 2025
SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Science Confirms: Social Media Could Be Making Kids Depressed.
WHEN CARS WERE FUN: King of the Hill: 1968 Cadillac Eldorado vs. 1969 Lincoln Continental Mark III.
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NEWSOM 2028 CAMPAIGN KICKING OFF NICELY:
If it looks like a foreign army invaded your country that's because it did https://t.co/8EA5OwCn2h
— Auron MacIntyre (@AuronMacintyre) June 7, 2025
CAN’T STOP THE SIGNAL: The Signal is Working: America’s 3D Printed Gun Culture Spreads to a Small Island in the Baltic Sea. “Mr. Andersson’s decision to design the Printax grew out of the long hours he spent during the Covid pandemic watching American gun-related YouTube videos, which promoted a far more aggressive brand of firearms ownership than he had experienced on the Aland Islands. And when Russia invaded Ukraine, he found a new purpose for the Printax’s earliest iterations: Urged by a friend, Mr. Andersson discussed with contacts in Ukraine providing the Printax to the country’s military.”
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WAIT, I THOUGHT THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE WAS JUST PARANOID FICTION:
🧵🧵 How did a communist become Mayor of the second largest city in America.
Let’s do a deep dive into Karen Bass. She had destroyed Los Angeles because that’s what she was trained to do.
— Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) June 7, 2025
Read the whole thing.
UPDATE: To be fair, the destruction of L.A. is very a group project: Attempted Obstruction of L.A. ICE Raid by SEIU President Makes Him New Poster Child for ‘Resist Trump.’
And:
Disgrace to the badge https://t.co/mXABGhWkEB
— Harmeet K. Dhillon (@HarmeetKDhillon) June 7, 2025
MORE:
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It just hit me that I've never seen a liberal protest by building something new.
They are always destroying something that someone else has built.
What does that tell you? pic.twitter.com/qNIF4xV6YC
— Matt Van Swol (@matt_vanswol) June 7, 2025
KURT SCHLICHTER: Patriots Are the Losers in the Trump v. Musk Feud.
My parents were Scottish and German, so they didn’t actually yell at each other. I can only imagine that this is how little kids with Latin parents feel like when Mami and Papi are fighting. People fight and then they make up. Now, some people are speculating that this is a giant put-on designed to blow people’s minds, and if I hadn’t been alive for the last decade of insanity, I would write that off completely. It’s possible this is some sort of 4D chess match between grandmasters that is beyond my capacity to comprehend. More likely, Elon is just really, really angry. And when somebody swings at Trump, he swings back
But it’s time to stop swinging. We need both of these guys on our team. We need Donald Trump on his A game, and we need Elon doing what Elon does. Elon’s at terrific personal risk here if this relationship goes completely off the rails. He’s got zero friends on the left. They are out for his blood. They will literally take everything he owns and throw him in jail – if not try to murder him – should the Republicans lose power. How do I know? Because we saw what they did to Donald Trump when he was on a temporary power hiatus.
But Republicans still love Elon Musk, and the Republican Party needs guys like Elon Musk, not just for his money but for his brains. There’s no going to the left for him. There’s no sitting out politics. He got in the game and now there’s no escape. Elon Musk needs the Republican Party because the Democrat Party wants him in a cell or a hole. The Republican Party needs Elon Musk because he’s Elon Musk.
Additional thoughts from Joel Kotkin: Musk’s outbursts reveal a deeper rift in MAGA: Trump is squandering the chance to build a coherent populist programme.
SIMON BILES AND RILEY GAINES DUKE IT OUT OVER TRANS ATHLETES:
Okay, buckle up folks, because something truly bizarre happened this week that you probably didn’t see coming. We’re talking about Olympic golden girl Simone Biles suddenly deciding to take a bizarre, unprovoked swipe at none other than Riley Gaines, the fearless advocate for saving women’s sports. I mean, seriously? Simone Biles attacks Riley Gaines? Didn’t have that on my bingo card.
Most of you know Riley Gaines. She’s the former NCAA swimmer who experienced the absurdity of competing against a biological male, Will “Lia” Thomas, firsthand. Since then, she’s become a national voice, tirelessly fighting to protect female athletes and the integrity of women’s sports. She’s been instrumental in getting legislation passed, and even President Trump signed an Executive Order on this issue back in February.
The whole dust-up started on X after Gaines reacted to a tweet from the Minnesota State High School League congratulating the Champlin Park Rebels for winning the state championships. Comments were disabled on the post because this is the team that cheated its way to victory by having a male pitcher.
Read the whole thing to see Biles sadly towing the establishment left’s party line:
Simone Biles Calls For All Female Athletes To Just Give Up Like She Did https://t.co/8zKIFEce1y pic.twitter.com/5mzlrvunDm
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) June 7, 2025
STOP BRO-FEUDING, TELL US HOW BAD SOCIAL SECURITY REALLY IS: Remember all those headlines earlier this year about millions of Social Security recipients on the rolls despite being 120, 130, even 150 years old? President Donald Trump and former DOGE driver Elon Musk appeared to be pushing differing data.
But a new analysis by OpenTheBooks points to an obvious reconciliation — of the conflicting data, not the conflicting super egos. Even so, as I explain in my latest PJMedia column, the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) laughable response to OpenTheBooks’ FOIA request suggests things are far more seriously wrong in America’s oldest entitlement benefits program than even the most extreme DOGE deductions.