Author Archive: Ed Driscoll

April 11, 2026

April 10, 2026

OPEN THREAD: Mr. Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: “Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it’s the Open Thread.”

Posted at 9:30 pm by Ed Driscoll on Apr 10th, 2026

WHY ISN’T SWALWELL BEING CALLED TO RESIGN FROM CONGRESS?

Posted at 9:00 pm by Ed Driscoll on Apr 10th, 2026

HELPING CALIFORNIA “LIVE UP TO ITS VALUES:”

Posted at 8:51 pm by Ed Driscoll on Apr 10th, 2026

ARTEMIS II DESCENDING TO EARTH:

Posted at 7:43 pm by Ed Driscoll on Apr 10th, 2026

#HIMTOO? Report: California Dems in Disarray As Former Staffer Accuses Swalwell of Twice Sexually Assaulting Her.

Flashbacks:

UPDATE:

Posted at 7:30 pm by Ed Driscoll on Apr 10th, 2026

WINSTON SMITH TRANSFERRED TO MINISTRY OF TRUTH’S L.A. OFFICE:

Posted at 5:45 pm by Ed Driscoll on Apr 10th, 2026

IS ERIC ADAMS NOW AN ALBANIAN?

Eric Adams has a well-documented penchant for travel, having made trips to places like Senegal, Cuba, and Turkey during his time as Brooklyn borough president, with his connection to the latter nation later evolving into a federal corruption case that was eventually dropped but marred his time in City Hall. But several outlets have reported that Adams has recently deepened his ties with one nation in particular: Albania.

The Albanian Daily News reports that the former mayor has officially been granted Albanian citizenship and issued an Albanian passport. According to the outlet, Adams’s new citizenship was approved by special decree by Albanian president Bajram Begaj. Euronews Albania echoed the same report with no additional details into how Adams’s alleged new citizenship came to be.

If Albania now has a former New York City mayor on its payroll, we need to dispatch Stanley Motts and Connie Brean immediately to get to the bottom of what this dangerous nation is planning next:

Posted at 4:14 pm by Ed Driscoll on Apr 10th, 2026

GOD AND MAN AT THE OBAMA LIBRARY:

Posted at 1:22 pm by Ed Driscoll on Apr 10th, 2026

TODAY TRUMP SETTLES ALL FAMILY BUSINESS*: Trump goes off on ‘NUT JOBS’  Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, Alex Jones over Iran war criticism.

President Trump lashed out at four right-wing critics of the Iran war Thursday, describing them as “NUT JOBS” and “losers” who will say anything for attention.

“I know why Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, and Alex Jones have all been fighting me for years, especially by the fact that they think it is wonderful for Iran, the Number One State Sponsor of Terror, to have a Nuclear Weapon — Because they have one thing in common, Low IQs,” Trump wrote in a lengthy Truth Social post.

“They’re stupid people, they know it, their families know it, and everyone else knows it, too!” the president raged. “Look at their past, look at their record. They don’t have what it takes, and they never did!

“They’ve all been thrown off Television, lost their Shows, and aren’t even invited on TV because nobody cares about them, they’re NUT JOBS, TROUBLEMAKERS, and will say anything necessary for some ‘free’ and cheap publicity.”

* Rather than a Godfather callback, maybe I should have gone with a Return of the Jedi reference:

UPDATE:

To boldly go where Bill Kristol went during Trump’s first term:

Related: Megyn Kelly is imagining Mark Levin as Luca Brasi:

Posted at 1:05 pm by Ed Driscoll on Apr 10th, 2026

DISPATCHES FROM THE TIME CAPSULE:

In his 1980 book The Third Wave, Alvin Toffler wrote:

No one today, from the experts in the White House or the Kremlin to the proverbial man in the street, can be sure how the new world system will shake out—what new kinds of institutions will arise to provide regional or global order. But it is possible to dispel several popular myths.

The first of these is the myth propagated by such films as Rollerball and Network, in which a steely-eyed villain announces that the world is, or will be, divided up and run by a group of transnational corporations. In its most common form this myth pictures a single worldwide Energy Corporation, a single Food Corporation, a single Housing Corporation, a single Recreation Corporation, and so forth. In a variant, each of these is seen as a department of an even larger mega-corporation.

This simplistic image is based on straight-line extrapolations from Second Wave trends: specialization, maximization, and centralization.

Not only does this view fail to take into account the fantastic diversity of of real life conditions, the clash of cultures, religions, and traditions in the world, the speed of change, and the historic thrust now carrying the high-technology nations toward de-massification; not only does it naively presuppose that such needs as energy, housing, or food can be neatly compartmentalized; it ignores the fundamental changes now revolutionizing the structure and purpose of the corporation itself. It is based, in short, on an obsolete, Second Wave image of what a corporation is and how it is structured.

On April 1st, 1976, Congress rolled up seven bankrupt Northeast Corridor railroads into Conrail, a 17,000-route mile behemoth that was eventually privatized 11 years later. Also on April 1st, 1976, two college dropouts formed Apple Computer in Steve Jobs’ parents’ garage, and unleashed the personal computing revolution.

As I wrote on Tuesday, Paddy Chafesky’s 1976 film Network is a brilliant movie, but it’s a time capsule of an era of mass media that was already in its twilight upon the film’s release.

Posted at 12:30 pm by Ed Driscoll on Apr 10th, 2026

M-SNOW’S STEPHANIE RUHLE PRAISES IRAN’S MORAL COURAGE:

My first reaction was, “No, you don’t have to hand it to them.” What the Iranians of whom she speaks are “sacrificing” for is pure evil. While it is true that self-sacrifice is a key component of any moral system, and the pursuit of pure pleasure is morally degenerate, the “what” of that which one is willing to sacrifice matters as much or more than the mere fact of being willing to die for a cause.

Suicide bombers die for a cause. Do I have to “hand it to them?” Parents who put their children in harm’s way to make them martyrs are sacrificing. That is morally abhorrent.

Walter Sobchak could not be reached for comment:

Posted at 12:00 pm by Ed Driscoll on Apr 10th, 2026

JIM TREACHER: We Need to Talk About the MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ Community.

It’s Thursday, April 9, 2026. I’m allegedly Jim Treacher. And I just learned a new acronym. You just heard it.

Okay, let me try this: MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+.

That stands for: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, Two-Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, Asexual, and additional identities.

Again, that’s MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+. I find it helps to go three letters at a time. Like when you’re giving your account number to the customer service guy, who says his name is Steve but he has an Indian accent.

The speaker there is named Leah Gazan. (Oops. There’s a warning sign right there.) Who is a member of Canadian Parliament. She’s in the NDP, whatever that is. No offense, Canada, but you don’t matter.

I can’t wait to see what the updated Gay Pride flag looks like in 2026. I’m sure it’s moved far beyond the stripped-down minimalism of its 2022 design:

I think that’s the interstellar wake the USS Enterprise produces, just after the warp drive has engaged.

Posted at 10:35 am by Ed Driscoll on Apr 10th, 2026

“IF YOU HAD SHOWN THIS OUTCOME TO EVERY PRESIDENT SINCE BUSH, THEY ALL WOULD’VE GIVEN THE ORDER:”

Posted at 10:22 am by Ed Driscoll on Apr 10th, 2026

“THE LEFT KNOWS THEY CAN’T GET CONSERVATIVE CATHOLICS’ VOTES, SO THEY’RE TRYING TO POISON THE WELL:”

Related: “Dems are so terrified of the Catholic vote becoming a permanent fixture of the Republican Party that they’ll continue making up fake stories like Trump declaring war on the Vatican:”

Related:

 

Posted at 8:35 am by Ed Driscoll on Apr 10th, 2026

SPRING FASCISM PREVIEW:

(Classical – and NSFW – reference in headline.)

Posted at 8:22 am by Ed Driscoll on Apr 10th, 2026

April 9, 2026

DISPATCHES FROM FORTRESS AMERICA?

Posted at 5:45 pm by Ed Driscoll on Apr 9th, 2026

THE 21st CENTURY ISN’T TURNING OUT AS I HAD HOPED:

Somebody’s seen Star Trek: The Motion Picture a few too many times:

UPDATE: Sam Altman’s Really Weird Week Just Got Even Worse. “OpenAI is under investigation after its chatbot, ChatGPT, allegedly helped plan a mass shooting last year at Florida State University.”

Posted at 5:30 pm by Ed Driscoll on Apr 9th, 2026

BUT IT’S THE BEST REASON TO JOIN THE NAVY! Pentagon removes Navy photo after people noticed sailor’s arm patch said “SAVE THE BIG BOOTY VENEZUELANS.”

The photo shows a sailor onboard the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier working on an EA-18G “Growler” Electronic Warfare Aircraft. The pic was uploaded to the Pentagon’s Defense Visual Information Distribution Service (DVIDS).

But then the comments started pouring in.

Indeed. This seems like pretty small beer when compared to WWII bomber nose art:

Posted at 5:14 pm by Ed Driscoll on Apr 9th, 2026

GLOBAL PUPPET MASTER EXPOSED:

Posted at 2:35 pm by Ed Driscoll on Apr 9th, 2026

THE HOTTEST OF HOT TAKES FROM THE GRAUNIAD: Are OnlyFans models the best way to explain the climate crisis?

The world, as we know, is in trouble. The last three years have been the hottest ever recorded. Global emissions are still at record highs. The planet is now consistently flirting with the 1.5C limit it promised not to cross. Increasingly, it feels as if we need a genuine miracle to stop us from sleepwalking into catastrophe. Could that miracle be an environmental warning from a woman in her [under]pants?

No, because OnlyFans models have to workout extensively to maintain their physiques, which they’re quite proud of. And we know from the Grauniad exactly what that means:

Posted at 2:22 pm by Ed Driscoll on Apr 9th, 2026

NOT ANTI-WAR, MERELY ON THE OTHER SIDE:

Posted at 1:35 pm by Ed Driscoll on Apr 9th, 2026

DAVID THOMPSON: Unto Others.

Lifted from the comments, which you’re reading of course, this strikes me as broadly accurate:

It comes up over and over again that liberals think conservative types are creating special exceptions for their enemies whenever the conservative has blindly applied their conception of justice.

That’s how you get liberals saying stuff like, “oh I’m sure you’d be jumping straight to execution if this were a white guy“ and then every single time a white guy commits a heinous crime the entire right in unison chants, “execute him.”

Or, to take another example, consider the way in which liberals always think that conservatives want and expect immigrants to behave in a certain way just simply because they hate immigrants, when the conservative is merely applying the same standard to which they would hold themselves in a foreign country.

In these cases and many others, liberals are confused by a straightforward and universal conception of justice.

QED: WaPo Columnist Makes the Case Against Muslim Assimilation.

Tweet continues:

At that point, saying you still need to prove yourself is like Taylor Swift insisting no one listens to her music.

If assimilation feels out of reach, it isn’t because the system has excluded you. By any reasonable measure, it has already brought you into its highest ranks. What remains is a decision about whether you’re willing to fully embrace where you already stand.

And all signs point to “no.”

This is a you problem.

Exit question: “I’m not sure if Hamid was born in the United States or if he’s an immigrant, but a lot of people asked the same question I ask: There are 57 Muslim countries in the world … why do you choose to move to a Christian country and then complain about being expected to assimilate?”

Posted at 1:22 pm by Ed Driscoll on Apr 9th, 2026
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