I’M SO OLD, I CAN REMEMBER WHEN JOE BIDEN MADE RAMBO LOOK LIKE A PANTYWAIST:
Stop what you're doing. Watch this.
The way they effortlessly lied to the public about Biden's health should infuriate you. Never trust these propagandists again.pic.twitter.com/geHe0Q2FFO
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) May 18, 2025
When did Democrats in the media and on Capital Hill start taking their cues from the earlier, funnier years of Saturday Night Live?
MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: Report from Down South.
OPEN THREAD: It’s there. It’s there for you. It’s what you want.
Bonus points for anyone who can find this Shaeffer beer ad from the 1980s online.
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I HAD THIS ON MY FACEBOOK PAGE THIS EVENING:
See the double dodge here? The AP does a little fluffy piece on what “86” means. And the chatter is that Comey — God’s gift to law enforcement — had to know what it means.
But see, the real whopper gets assumed away, missed or ignored. His Comeyness says: “I posted earlier a picture of some shells I saw today on a beach walk….”
Who in their right mind believes that he “just came across” this?
AP’s story at link below:
The old slang term ’86′ probably started as restaurant-worker jargon. Suddenly it’s in the news.
I’M GONNA GO WITH “USING BOATS,” BOB: We’re Still Slowly Learning How Polynesian Voyagers Navigated Entire Oceans.
DEVELOPING: Biden Diagnosed With “Aggressive Form of Prostate Cancer.”
Flashback to CNBC in February of 2024: Biden is a ‘healthy, active, robust 81-year-old male,’ his doctor says after physical.
Joe Biden is fit to continue his presidential responsibilities “without any exemptions or accommodations,” the White House physician said Wednesday after conducting the president’s annual physical.
Biden “is a healthy, active, robust 81-year-old male, who remains fit to successfully execute the duties of the Presidency,” Dr. Kevin O’Connor said in a summary of the president’s health.
The results of the routine examination carry extra significance this year, as Biden seeks to tamp down concerns about whether he is physically and mentally capable of serving another four years in the White House.
The Democrat has weathered relentless attacks about his age and fitness from his political opponents, especially Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump, who will turn 78 in June.
Despite their closeness in age, polls show voters are less concerned about Trump’s fitness than Biden’s.
Earlier in February, a Department of Justice special counsel investigating Biden over his handling of classified documents described the president in a report as an “elderly man with a poor memory.”
Biden angrily pushed back on that report, acknowledging his age but declaring, “I know what the hell I’m doing.”
But of course, he really didn’t, as Matt Margolis of PJM wrote the following month: Things Just Got a Lot Worse for Joe Biden.
Last month, the Hur report found that Joe Biden willfully retained, mishandled, and disclosed classified information but determined that he was essentially too senile to stand trial. According to the report, Biden struggled to remember details, and he couldn’t remember when his son Beau died.
Joe Biden angrily defended his memory in his unplanned address and attacked Special Counsel Robert Hur for bringing up Beau during his interview during the investigation, which managed to make things worse for him.
“There’s even a reference that I don’t remember when my son died,” Biden said. “How in the hell dare he raise that? Frankly, when I was asked the question, I thought to myself, it wasn’t any of their damn business.”
Except that Hur didn’t bring it up. Biden did.
Exit questions:
Here's the thing, how are we supposed to know or believe? See the damage both he his family and the media have done? https://t.co/wqSd9jxHxr
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) May 18, 2025
UPDATE: Trump’s comms team issues well-worded response:
BAD NEWS: The Supreme Court is Already Packed.
It’s all part of the judiciary’s class war.
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🚨 Breaking: Head of H×mas Muhammad Sinwar confirmed eliminated. He replaced his brother Yahya Sinwar, who was eliminated.
Muhammad Shabana, his second in command and the top candidate to replace him, was also eliminated together with him. pic.twitter.com/fKPNzYvCv1
— Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) May 18, 2025
If confirmed, will @SkyNews apologize for its embarrassing hit piece denying Israel had targeted tunnels underneath a Gaza hospital? https://t.co/Au1sdbYwSp pic.twitter.com/Z370ezA6fq
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) May 18, 2025
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CARS: This is the Cheapest Car for 2025. “The Nissan Versa is one of the last automobiles you can buy in the United States for less than $20,000. Even so, is it worth the price?”
MARK JUDGE: Teen movies have changed a lot over the decades.
Someone coming across the new book Hollywood High: A Totally Epic, Way Opinionated History of Teen Movies might be fooled. The cover, a fun sky blue color and featuring the head shots of Matthew Broderick, Molly Ringwald, Sean Penn, James Dean, and other teen stars, makes the book seem like a breezy read through a cotton candy subject.
Hollywood High author Bruce Handy worked at Vanity Fair for 20 years. His book examines “movies about teenagers,” and breaks down into different eras: Mickey Rooney’s Andy Hardy films (1937–1946); teen rebellion movies such as the iconic Rebel Without a Cause (1955); the Beach Party movies of the 1960s; American Graffiti and the 1970s; Fast Times at Ridgemont High in 1982; the John Hughes 80s classics Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off Boyz N the Hood and black filmmakers of the 1990s; Mean Girls in 2004; the Twilight saga (2008–2012); and finally The Hunger Games series (2012–2015).
Handy is great at revealing things about these well-known films you may not have thought about. He also, while not politically conservative, gives the conservative side a fair hearing. He quotes an academic who argues that 1982’s Fast Times at Ridgemont High was a lament by children who missed the 1960s.
Read the whole thing.
A 25-year-old self-described “pro-mortalist” has been identified as the attacker who detonated a car bomb outside a fertility clinic in Palm Springs Saturday — killing himself and injuring four other people, according to sources.
Guy Edward Bartkus, of Twentynine Palms, is believed to have detonated an explosive device in his car outside the American Reproductive Centers, which performs IVF treatments, egg collections and other procedures, law enforcement sources told The Post.
Bartkus allegedly described his fanatical pro-death beliefs in written and recorded manifestos as being against bringing people into the world without their consent to spare them from future suffering, KCAL news reported.
On Saturday, FBI agents swarmed his home and evacuated the neighborhood, declaring it a “blast zone” over concerns that he could have left explosives behind, ABC7 reported.
During a late-night press conference, Akil Davis, assistant director in charge of the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office, confirmed the agency was handling the investigation but declined to say whether the raid was directly connected to the recent fatal explosion outside an IVF clinic in Palm Springs.
The FBI had confirmed the suspect was the sole fatality of the bombing.
Andy Ngo adds:
I’m looking forward to Law & Order turning him into a born-again Christian when and if they “rip this story from the headlines.”
SCOTT JOHNSON: Minneapolis 5 years later, NY Post edition.
As soon as it became apparent that the authorities would let the city burn, the city became a magnet for malicious actors from around the state who wanted to get in on the action. The arson, looting, and destruction didn’t end until Minnesota Governor Tim Walz deployed the Minnesota National Guard too late to prevent the vast damage that was done.
But what an incredible olfactory experience! Tim Walz’s Wife Gwen Kept Windows Open During BLM Riots to ‘Smell the Burning Tires.’
Leave it to failed Democrat Governor Tim Walz to find a way to lie while tongue-tied. He gave a commencement speech at the University of Minnesota on Saturday and warned graduates that President Donald Trump was sending out ‘Geskapo’ agents to round up people.
Here’s the verbal flub. (WATCH)
Governor Walz calls ICE agents modern day "Geskapo" pic.twitter.com/b4XjYWkA9h
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) May 18, 2025
Marjorie Taylor-Greene received plenty of well-deserved scorn from both sides of the aisle when in February of 2022, she referred to Nancy Pelosi’s infamous and terrifying “gazpacho police.” Naturally, Walz’s flub will quickly be forgotten by his party’s operatives with bylines.
EVERYTOWN SAYS A LOT OF THINGS, MOST OF THEM BULLSHIT: Everytown Calls NFA Stamp a ‘Critical Safety Tax,’ Says Zeroing It Would Be a ‘Tax Break for Gun Manufacturers.’
SENATE JUDICIARY DEMS BLAST BONDI, SILENT ON OBAMA MEDIA ABUSES: Attorney-General Pam Bondi’s recent announcement of new rules making it easier for Department of Justice (DOJ) officials to subpoena journalists drew a blistering letter from the 10 Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats.
All the usual stuff about “threatens press freedom” are in the letter, but it was crickets when The Washington Stand asked spokesmen for the 10 what their bosses said back in the day when issuing subpoenas was far from the worst media abuses of the Obama administration.
Maybe they just forgot since that was “old news,” right?
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I’D FEEL BETTER ABOUT IT IF THERE WAS A DECENT TREATMENT: Do people really want to know their risk of getting Alzheimer’s?
APPLE CARPLAY ULTRA, First Look. “It’s not Apple taking over all the software programming in your dashboard but rather inserting itself between you and the automaker’s software. To do that, it’s expanding CarPlay’s reach beyond the central infotainment screen to every screen on the dashboard. The biggest target: your digital instrument cluster.”
Um.
UPDATE (From Ed): New Apple CarPlay Ultra: Apple Just Took Over Your Car! (Video.)
OH TO BE IN ENGLAND: We live in Britain’s ‘valley of strangers:’ Inside Muslim-majority northern town where locals say there is ‘no point speaking English’ and others say ‘no one talks to each other.’
Tariq Hussain admits he knew nothing about Keir Starmer’s plans to get tough on immigration, mainly because he’s been preoccupied with more pressing concerns lately.
His day job selling traditional Asian female clothes takes up a lot of his time and business has been slow. And when he gets home, he is on the phone to relatives and friends in Pakistan to check on their safety following recent tensions between the country and neighbouring India, which almost led to war.
But there is another more troubling reason why Mr Hussain was completely oblivious to Sir Keir’s pledge to overhaul a ‘broken’ immigration system, despite the fact that it could directly affect him and his family.
Speaking in his native Punjabi he confessed: ‘I speak little English even though I have been in this country for quite a long time. I don’t watch the British news because I don’t understand it, so what’s the point?
‘All my work involves dealing with other Pakistani people and my friends are all Pakistani so I don’t need to speak English. If I do, I get somebody to help me.’
In March, the London Daily Mail published an interactive Webpage headlined: How many people can’t speak English in YOUR neighbourhood? Interactive map covering England and Wales’s 36,000 districts reveals 43% of residents struggle with the language in one part of the country.
Naturally, this has made some of England’s more, umm, left-leaning and diversity-focused citizens quite cross:
We’ve gone from ‘immigration is our greatest asset’ to ‘we must cover up what is happening or there’ll be a revolution’ https://t.co/oQQCNKtaUP
— Calgie (@christiancalgie) May 18, 2025
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