OF COURSE SHE WAS: The Knife and Axe Girl Was Right. “What the people in Whitehall and at No. 10 Downing Street should be asking is WHY 14-year-old girls feel the need to carry weapons. Why are they living in fear? We all know the answer, as, I am certain, do they. The government set Britain down this path and seems determined to continue, so it turns its wrath on the people they are there to defend.”
Related:
Britain. https://t.co/vBdmTiQtlx
— Wilfred Reilly (@wil_da_beast630) August 29, 2025
RETURN OF THE MONROE DOCTRINE? The U.S. and Venezuela: What’s Happening and What Comes Next?
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Democrats Want to Kill You If You Pray. “I’m now going to be carrying a gun to Mass every Sunday. It’s insane that we’ve gotten to this point, but the Democrats are, in fact, insane. People of faith have to protect ourselves from the Trump Derangement Syndrome psychosis that plagues the Democrats. As long as they are telling the faithful that violence is a valid response, every conservative is at risk.”
UPDATE (FROM GLENN):
“Where is your God now!?” cries the 2028 presidential hopeful after a deranged freak he affirmed murdered Christians while praying.
Just incredible stuff from the Democratic Party. You’re doing great, guys. I’m sure this will be what turns it around for you. https://t.co/ls5hwvsmN4
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) August 29, 2025
A REVIEW OF DAVID BARON’S NEW BOOK: The Long History of Life on Mars.
The book is The Martians, and it’s about America’s life-on-Mars craze in the late 19th Century. One difference between then and now, of course, is that we have explored Mars widely with machines — it’s the only planet we know currently inhabited solely by robots — and will soon be going there personally.
TRUMP HAS BROKEN THEM: Dems Double Down On Anti-Prayer Rants Following Minnesota Church Shooting.
THE ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC AREN’T THE MOATS THEY USED TO BE:
Please note this passage:
"Some drones were allegedly made in Iran and may have launched from ships in the Baltic Sea, making them harder to trace."
This (enemy sea launch) can and will happen to the USA. https://t.co/IquPicMiTr
— Trent Telenko (@TrentTelenko) August 28, 2025
HEH: Americans Can Thank Their Lucky Stars the Politicians Who Want to Roll Back Their Rights are So Blindingly Ignorant and Inept. “Imagine how much more of a threat these people would be to your rights — speech, guns, religion, search and seizure, and lots more — if they were actually competent. At anything.”
IT’S MORE LIKE PRE-ELECTION COSPLAY: Don Surber: Democrats become crimefighters. 5 years after the Summer of Thugs comes the Autumn of Arrests. “Donald Trump is writing the 2028 presidential platforms for both parties. It is amazing to see Democrats try to go Republican Lite. Their problem is they also are the Party Of Dylan Mulvaney.”
WHEN YOU LOSE THE NYT: The NYT Just Nuked the Left’s Narrative About the Bolton Raid.
UH, SURE, GO WITH THAT: We’re All Going to Miss the CDC’s BDSM Scientist Who Just Quit in Disgust.
Related:
Hey everybody, the people who completely screwed up Covid are upset https://t.co/NzBRgc6TNt
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) August 29, 2025
UPDATE:
Professional signs. Press. Fans.
Who do you think funded this? https://t.co/IuEIqdgpbY— The Redheaded libertarian (@TRHLofficial) August 29, 2025
ICYMI, IT’S MY THURSDAY ESSAY FOR VIP SUBSCRIBERS: Ukraine Found Russia’s Weak Spot — and It’s ON FIRE.
#JOURNALISM: Don’t Say Trans: How Mainstream Media Outlets Referred to Minneapolis’s Transgender School Shooter. “The transgender perpetrator of Wednesday’s attack on a Catholic church and school in Minneapolis, Robin Westman, was born Robert but changed his name at 17 years old because he identified as a female, court records show. Here’s how mainstream media reports described him.”
COMMUNIST DICTATORSHIPS ARE LIKE THAT: Life Has Gotten Surreal in China.
This past November, in the town of Zhuhai, in southern China, a man named Fan Weiqiu got into his car and plowed into a crowd at a sports center, killing 35 people and injuring 43. Apparently distraught over a divorce settlement, the 62-year-old Fan was found inside the car with severe self-inflicted knife wounds to his neck.
The incident immediately became a political problem. Such a tragedy should never have happened in the happy, harmonious society that Xi claims to have created, free of the violence and divisions that plague other, inferior countries. China’s vast security state quickly got to work making sure it hadn’t: Censors scrubbed videos, articles, and comments about the incident from social-media platforms. Workers at the sports center cleared away the bouquets of flowers that mourning residents had laid there. Police chased off curious visitors. Fan was executed two months later.
Disappearing inconvenient truths has always been a feature of Communist rule in China. In an episode of The Simpsons, Homer and the family visit Beijing, and as they pass through Tiananmen Square, they find a plaque that reads On this site, in 1989, nothing happened. But Xi has lately taken his efforts to convince people that they live in a socialist utopia to a new extreme.
The Chinese people are content, the state’s propaganda organs insist, as they feed the public good news and suppress discussion of the country’s many economic and social problems. The result is a surreal environment, where public discourse is ever more detached from everyday life, and the government is ever less responsive to the concerns and difficulties of its people.
At the same time, the state intrudes more and more into daily life. My wife and I have experienced this directly. Over the past year, teams of police have made regular visits to our Beijing apartment—four of them just this month. Officers check our passports and visas while recording the interaction with small video cameras. We have already provided this information to the police, as required by local regulations; these repetitive visits are likely meant simply to intimidate.
The resulting atmosphere is a throwback to an earlier era of Chinese Communist rule, before the economic-modernization program of Deng Xiaoping.
Read the whole thing.
LIGHTNING DEAL: WA Series Japanese Chef Knife. #CommissionEarned
A PINK SLIP FOR BLUE SLIPS? Trump Tells Grassley to Tell Democrats ‘Go to HELL’ Over Blocked Judicial Nominees.
GUN FREE ZONES ATTRACT SHOOTERS, BECAUSE THEY’RE CRAZY, NOT STUPID:
Disturbing decoded parts of the Minneapolis trans mass sh—ter’s manifesto reveals he picked the Annunciation Catholic Church and school, where he once went and where his mother had worked, because it’s a “liberal school [that] does not allow teachers to carry [firearms].” https://t.co/q9kj1JXVWo
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) August 28, 2025
THOUSANDS OF DOUBLE-DIPPING BUREAUCRATS? Oh surely not! Oh surely yes, declares Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), chairman of the Senate DOGE Caucus, in a new report that points to multiple agencies where, cumulatively, literally thousands of federal workers are still drawing paychecks and Pandemic-related unemployment checks.
But wait! There’s more!! Thousands more federal workers, according to the report, are using their insider access to steal millions of tax dollars that are paid to fake contractors, suppliers, beneficiaries, etc. et.
“Why are government employee unions fighting so hard, all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, to block [DOGE] from accessing the information necessary to stop fraud and abuse? The answer is obvious. The deep state doesn’t want those meddling whiz kids at DOGE exposing the Washington corruption that’s been hiding in plain sight for way too long. Unscrupulous bureaucrats have been ripping off public assistance programs intended to help the needy, disabled, hungry, out-of-work folks, veterans, small businesses, and even children who lost a parent,” the report contends.
Unfortunately, there is yet more to this expose, which you can read all about in The Washington Stand this morning.
NEWS YOU CAN IN FACT USE: News update: 45th Prometheus Awards show set for Zoom at 2 p.m. Saturday (EST) Aug. 30.
VARIANCE FROM THE ESTABLISHED NARRATIVE IS NOT PERMITTED: Hounded and sacked – brave academic who dared speak out about covid and Lucy Letby.
HE’S SHOWN THEM HOW TO FIGHT BACK AGAINST THE NARRATIVE LIES: How the Donald Factor is transforming the European right, Part Three.
THIS IS NOT EDGY AND AMAZING. THIS IS JUST: An OLD Kind of Dumb.
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