HMMM:
Mrs. Dr. Publius asked me to post something:
Go watch the anti-MAGA/DOGE protests and infiltrated town halls.
Notice anything?
Where are the black people?
They are not there because they are tired of being weaponized and used as human shields by rich white Democrats.
THAT…
— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) March 1, 2025
JONATHAN TURLEY: Democrats go full McCarthy with attacks on Musk’s nationality, loyalties.
Throughout the 2024 campaign, the Democrats, including President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, painted Republicans as either aspiring or actual fascists. That continued recently with Minnesota Gov. and former Vice Presidential candidate Tim Walz (D), who referred to Republicans as “fascists and Nazis.”
Even journalists and civil libertarians have been reviled using the same terms. After a hearing on censorship two years ago, MSNBC contributor and former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) attacked journalists and members who had spoken in favor of free speech. She denounced the member witnesses (Sen. Chuck Grassley, Sen. Ron Johnson and former Rep. Gabbard) as “Putin apologists” and Putin-lovers.
Stacey Plaskett, the Democratic delegate representing the Virgin Islands in the U.S. House, even suggested arresting respected journalist Matt Taibbi, who, along with Michael Shellenberger, testified on their investigation into a massive censorship system developed under the Biden administration.
The attack on Musk is particularly disgraceful, given his contributions to his adopted country. Ironically, filmmaker Michael Moore denounced the deportations of criminal illegal immigrants last week by noting that Trump was deporting someone who might cure cancer or be the next Steve Jobs. Well, this is a naturalized citizen who not only could be the next Elon Musk. He is Elon Musk.
Not surprisingly, I’m not sure if Moore thought his argument through to its conclusion:
AN IDEA SO CRAZY IT JUST MIGHT WORK: Don Surber: Report the News Already.
BIG APPLE CUOMOSEXUALS, THIS IS YOUR TIME! Cuomo jumps into New York mayor’s race, attempting political comeback.
Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) announced Saturday afternoon that he’s entering New York City’s mayoral race, adding a big name to the already busy Democratic primary challenging Mayor Eric Adams (D).
“Our city is in crisis. That’s why I am running to be Mayor of New York City,” he wrote on social platform X, along with a video. “We need government to work. We need effective leadership.”
He also included a link to his campaign website.
Cuomo’s entrance comes as little surprise after months of speculation that he would attempt a political comeback years after resigning as governor amid multiple controversies that eventually engulfed his administration.
Cuomo appears likely to be the immediate frontrunner in the race based on recent polling conducted that includes him, Adams and the half-dozen other candidates already running for the nomination.
That’s understandable, based on his brilliant track record as New York’s governor in 2020: Andrew Cuomo’s Macabre Pandemic Nostalgia.
What but personal gratification explains Cuomo’s otherwise inexplicable dredging up of his disastrous final year in office over the other nine? After all, his conduct during the pandemic remains a drag on his political prospects.
As recently as last week, state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli released an internal audit that confirmed the Cuomo administration had undercounted Covid deaths in nursing homes by more than 4,000. “The audit details how health officials undercounted deaths in nursing homes by more than 50% at certain points during the height of the crisis,” the New York Daily News reported. The findings underscore the conclusions New York Attorney General Letitia James revealed in a January 2021 report alleging that the Cuomo administration covered up the true death toll and its contributions to the body count. Albany’s “guidance requiring the admission of COVID-19 patients into nursing homes” put long-term care facility residents “at increased risk of harm,” that report revealed. All this only corroborates the many independent journalistic probes into how the governor’s administration contributed to the pandemic’s death toll and subsequently covered it up.
“In politics, like in life, you stand on your record,” Cuomo brazenly insists at the close of his comeback pitch. But Cuomo had more than a record. He had a cult of personality around him, and he loved every minute of it. What he wants isn’t just his name cleared and his career back. He wants the “Cuomosexuals” to fall back in love with the erstwhile object of their affections. Toward that end, Andrew Cuomo is dwelling on what for him must have been one of the best times of his life. That it was also the very worst of times for the rest of us seems to have escaped him.
New Yorkers can finally relive the magical thinking once again.
UPDATE:
A visual reminder of what 2020 was like. pic.twitter.com/VrEJEna3Jb
— Jerry Dunleavy IV 🇺🇸 (@JerryDunleavy) March 1, 2025
YES, THE REACTION REVEALED MUCH ABOUT THE SPOILED OLIGARCHS WHO RUN EUROPE: The Most Important Thing That the Zelenskyy Meeting Showed to Me.
SO IT’S AN UNMANNED MISSION: Katy Perry, Gayle King to be part of all-female space flight.
YES, THEY’VE ENTERED THE “FO” PHASE OF FAFO:
They were dancing around the coffins of Jewish children 5 minutes ago. pic.twitter.com/RAkxEZwfhp
— Ian Haworth (@ighaworth) March 1, 2025
MORE TO THAT NSA CULT THAN SEX: The Washington Stand’s Ben Johnson digs into the back story and finds the pro-DEI/pro-Marxist roots of a bunch of now-former Intelligence Community paycheck recipients.
IT’S LIKE BEING MADE CAPTAIN OF A MUTINOUS SHIP:
Imagine if you were suddenly appointed AG or head of the FBI.
You were just thrown on a ship with a hostile crew.
Until you appoint some new crew members and figure out the ropes, you can’t steer the ship effectively. It’s literally impossible. https://t.co/cN2fQnZtGR
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 28, 2025
HEART RATE AND FITNESS TRACKER: Oura Ring, Silver, Smart Ring. #CommissionEarned Has anyone tried these? If so, what did you think of it? Is it worth getting?
THE CRITICAL DRINKER: Cleaner — The Worst Die Hard Clone Ever (Video). “Ultimately, Cleaner is a perfect example of Die Hard if it was made by Hollywood today. It’s slow, boring, derivative, preachy, pandering, morally confused, striving to grapple with big issues that are far beyond its intellectual capacity. Bristling with tedious intersectional feminism, and boring unlikable girl bosses that went out of fashion years ago and an embarrassing failure that serves to remind us yet again how good we once had it.”
LIGHTING DEAL: Under Desk Elliptical Machine. #CommissionEarned
JOHN PODHORETZ: Review: The Brutalist. Very brilliant. Very important. Very bad.
The most impressive film of 2024, up for 10 Oscars this weekend, is The Brutalist. It is an extraordinary achievement—nearly three-and-a-half hours and never less than gripping, beautifully rendered dialogue, stunning cinematography and music, all in support of a re-creation of post-World War II America, striking in its specificity and level of detail. It is an epic vision of America on a genuinely grand scale.
The problem is that it gets everything wrong and is, therefore, in the end, bad. The Brutalist is a failure, even an offensive one, but it’s also kind of magnificent as it goes along. I’ve rarely had a more ambiguous or complex reaction to a work of cinema, and I hope I can get The Brutalist right as I talk about it so that I don’t follow director and cowriter Brady Corbet down the path of misrepresenting my subject.
Corbet is unapologetically aiming for greatness with his gorgeously rendered portrait of a Holocaust survivor and his journey through a mid-century America that is simultaneously welcoming of his talents and viciously destructive to his soul. There are two ways to look at the story of Laszlo Toth (Adrien Brody). One is that Corbet is telling a singular tale about a singular fictional Jew who undergoes a singular set of experiences as he comes into contact with a difficult, complex, highly intelligent, and very rich American Gentile with the very suggestive name of Harrison Lee Van Buren (that’s the key general of the Confederacy and three presidents combined in just one moniker).
Read the whole thing.
FLASHBACK: “The revolving door is just one symptom of a bigger picture: Whatever claims our political class makes about the general welfare, it is really running things mostly for its own benefit. That’s why comparisons to the Hunger Games, where the fat-cats in the Capital City live it up while the provinces starve, keep coming.”
THE LAMEST COMPLAINT OF “WHITE SUPREMACY” GETS NATIONAL COVERAGE, BUT NOT THIS: Meet The University Nurse Who Refuses to Treat Jews, Calls Them “Vermin,” “Dogs.”
THREE OF OBAMA’S BIGGEST FANS WONDER WHY IT ALL WENT SO WRONG DURING HIS THIRD TERM:
Bill Maher asks Rahm Emanuel why Chicago's mayor has such a low approval rating, and the panel agrees that Democrat policies have ruined large American cities:
Bill Maher: "I read that the current mayor of Chicago has an approval rating of 6.6%. What's going on in Chicago?"
Rahm… pic.twitter.com/Wn3rj5kQ9v— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) March 1, 2025
THE POST NEEDS MASSIVE LAYOFFS AND THEY’RE MAKING IT EASY FOR HIM: Bezos-Owned Washington Post Gives Readers a Guide on How To Boycott Bezos-Owned Amazon.
OH, TO BE IN ENGLAND: Are you Ramadan-ready?
Are you Ramadan-ready?’ That was the poster in Sainsbury’s advertising its delicious range of fast-breaking foods (rice was one). And the striking thing about it was… the ‘you’. That ‘you’ means the normal customer, the default Sainsbury’s shopper.
Same with the email I got from the swanky Belgravia hair salon I used to visit:
Here, we understand that Ramadan is a time of reflection, renewal and spiritual focus – and we also know how important it is to take a moment for yourself amid the busy days of fasting and prayer. That’s why we are delighted to announce that our salon will be open late during Ramadan, offering evening appointments so you can indulge in a little luxurious self-care after Iftar [the fast-breaking meal after sundown].
Belgravia is next to Knightsbridge where wealthy Arabs are the norm, so the email wasn’t surprising – but again, the odd thing was that ‘you’: the assumption that the recipient is more likely than not to be Muslim. Naturally, if I’d got an email in April saying ‘Are you Easter-ready?’ I would have regarded it as par for the course – though, come to think of it, I’d probably have been a little surprised. Harrods is offering Iftar dining on its website: ‘Tuck into an Iftar feast, starting with Medjool dates accompanied by a refreshing hibiscus cooler.’
But then Ramadan, which starts this week, is now very much part of the calendar, much more than, say, Diwali. For the third year there will be a switch-on of the Ramadan Lights in London – previously on Oxford Street, this year in Coventry Street, where the message will be ‘Happy Ramadan’ until it changes to ‘Happy Eid’. (Have you noticed the asinine default greeting is Happy Everything, from Halloween to Fridays?)
Once again, it’s the assumption that we’re all up for it that’s a little curious.
America’s Newspaper of Record is just doing straight-up reportage at this point:
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