Author Archive: Ed Driscoll

July 8, 2026

UNEXPECTEDLY:

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

THEY SHOOT TESLAS, DON’T THEY?

One reason that might justify the headline is that Teslas are festooned with up to nine video cameras, but the article doesn’t explicitly mention them. It just refers to the “surveillance video” and “analyzing electronic evidence:”

Investigators said they identified Evans as the suspect after reviewing surveillance video, interviewing witnesses and analyzing electronic evidence. Evans was arrested last Wednesday in Stockton on a murder warrant.

Thus making the San Francisco Chronicle’s headline a variation on one of Rush Limbaugh’s bugaboos, spotting the DNC-MSM blaming SUVs rather than drunk drivers or illegal immigrants for a crime: “Pioneer Press reporting on her funeral, this was the headline: ‘St. Paul Teen Killed by SUV Remembered at Her Funeral.’ Killed by SUV. It’s an oldie but a goodie. These stories happened every day for a ten-year period starting in the late nineties.”

Posted at 7:14 am by Ed Driscoll on Jul 8th, 2026

July 7, 2026

TEN YEARS AGO TODAY:

Evergreen:

Posted at 9:45 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jul 7th, 2026

“WHAT HAS HOMER EVER DONE TO GIVE FEMALE CHARACTERS ATTENTION?”

 

Posted at 9:14 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jul 7th, 2026

ANALYSIS: TRUE.

Flashback: Peter Jennings and Tom Brokaw Defend Dan Rather, Who Sees Effort to “Smear” Him.

Evergreen:

Posted at 8:30 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jul 7th, 2026

DOWN THE DEMSOC MEMORY HOLE:

Posted at 8:22 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jul 7th, 2026

”A PEOPLE BUILDING TOWARD THE STARS HAS NO TIME TO BECOME BIG BROTHER:”

We are living through a civilizational tipping point, and almost no one is naming it properly. So I will.

Where we come from, where we’re headed, and why a chunk of the PayPal Mafia is changing the world for the better in the most literal sense of the term.

Where we come from.

World War II birthed the Europeanist then globalist project, with an originally noble intent: never again. But that project was eaten away from within by a deeply anti-civilizational matrix—the dissolution of nations, cultures, concrete attachments in favor of an abstract, interchangeable, desk-manageable man.

And to make it go down easy, it leaned on ideological vehicles: a wokism that functions as a substitute religion for a West that’s learned to be ashamed of itself. Not necessarily a coordinated conspiracy—more a convergence of forces that all hate the same thing: the free, rooted, self-proud nation.

The result: half a century of managed decadence, packaged as progress.

Read the whole thing.

Posted at 8:14 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jul 7th, 2026

TO BOLDLY GO WHERE GIULIANI WENT 30 YEARS AGO: Viral Video Shows Woman Learning the Hard Way That BART’s New Fare Gates Are a Real Pain in the Butt.

No, if and or butts: you have to pay the fare, according to San Francisco authorities who are taking a rare logical step in trying to slow the radical decline that has befallen the City by the Bay. It all went down last Wednesday, according to the local outlet SFist:

A woman who was clearly attempting to evade paying a fare became stuck under a BART entry gate at a San Francisco station last week, and a BART agent took some video of the situation that has since gone viral.

“This is terrible,” says the woman filming what is now a viral video clip, who it seems is a BART employee.

“We can’t even open it without harming you [now],” she adds.

Another agent can be heard telling the woman, “You could have just asked us,” suggesting they might have taken pity on her and let her through if she didn’t have money for the fare.

What a bum trip.

* * * * * * * * *

Who would have thunk?

Well, actually, the folks who came up with the “Broken Windows” theory, which asserts that overlooking small crimes inevitably leads to lawlessness. The concept was used successfully to tackle crime in New York City in the 1990s under then-Police Commissioner William Bratton, who served under former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, but California lawmakers have found it to be too big a pain in the butt to apply in the Golden State.

Although this lady’s plans may have gotten rear-ended, she also just proved that San Francisco may just be making sense for once.

Why did it take California leftists three decades to stumble onto the idea that stopping fare jumpers will lower the crime rates on your subways?

Posted at 2:35 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jul 7th, 2026

DISPATCHES FROM M-SNOW:

Morning Joe, huh?

“Start your tape right now,” [MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough] continued, “because I’m about to tell you the truth. And eff you if you can’t handle the truth. This version of Biden, intellectually, analytically, is the best Biden ever. Not a close second, and I’ve known him for years. The Brzezinskis have known him for 50 years. If it weren’t the truth, I wouldn’t say it.”

—Scarborough Goes Full Nutcase Defending Biden’s Mental Acuity, Matt Margolis, PJ Media.com, March 6th, 2024.

Posted at 2:22 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jul 7th, 2026

OLD AND BUSTED: The Bears Are Who We Thought They Were!

The New Hotness? The Nazi Tattoo Guy Is Exactly Who You Thought He Was.

The term “gaslighting” gets thrown around way too frequently in our political culture; sometimes it’s effectively used as a synonym for lying.  But this . . . this felt like an unprecedented, large-scale gaslighting effort. A lot of the mainstream media coverage of Platner felt like a weird, coordinated effort to convince the people of Maine that the scuzziest guy the Democratic Party could find was as solid and reliable as the Brawny Paper Towel Man.

Jon Favreau, one of the Pod Save America hosts, told his followers at the end of April, “Graham Platner isn’t just our best and only chance to beat Susan Collins, he’s a good, decent man who’s struggled and grown and is always trying to do better. I hope everyone with reservations takes a little time to get to know the real-life version of him, not what the algorithm throws in our faces.” I refer you to My Cousin Vinny.

On Monday night, Favreau was singing a dramatically different tune. “Platner needs to drop out ASAP — these are awful, credible allegations. Said on the pod after the (also credible) June NYT story that his biggest problem going forward would be credibility. It’s now abundantly clear that he just hasn’t been honest about his past and can’t be trusted as a candidate for office.”

Why did people trust Platner, Favreau? Because you told them he was a good and decent man!

This morning, New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg concedes she was completely fooled by the hype around Platner:

Last October, when stories about Platner’s tattoo and Reddit posts first broke, I went to Maine to write about him. I tried to convey what I saw: a campaign that was electrifying angry Maine voters. But I deeply regret that, impressed by Platner’s political charisma, I wrote that he was “nothing like the edgelord caricature I encountered online.” If anything, he seems to be significantly worse.

I do not say this lightly: If Platner fooled you, maybe you should find something to do with your life besides writing columns about politics. Because the U.S. political landscape is full of creeps, cretins, con artists, crooks, and cads of every kind, and it always will be. If the media has any useful role to play in our system, it is to look beyond the spin and the campaign-crafted image and to tell the world who these candidates really are, warts and all, so the electorate can make an informed choice.

F. A. Hayek figured this out decades ago, and Lord Acton long before him. Power does not just attract “good” people. Lots of bad people want to be elected to high office, because they want all the things that come with power.

To believe Platner, you have to believe that he accidentally got a Nazi tattoo, and didn’t notice for 18 years, and his political director made up a story about him warning her of a controversial tattoo, and no one he sexted on Kik was underage, and his exes are making up the worst possible accusations about him. You must believe that Platner, who’s already been caught in several lies about his past, is telling the truth, and that a whole bunch of people who knew him well for many years are telling vicious lies about him, at great risk to their reputations.

Mitchell and Webb, the British comedy team who wrote and starred in the viral “Are we the baddies?!” sketch, are wearing Totenkopfs on their hats. Including in the video’s title card:

Meanwhile, at America’s Newspaper of Record:

Posted at 1:35 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jul 7th, 2026

NIGEL FARAGE RESIGNING FROM UK PARLIAMENT:

Reform UK leader and British Member of Parliament (MP) Nigel Farage announced he was resigning from Parliament on Tuesday.

Farage claimed he was resigning to force a by-election in his Clacton district and claimed he would run in it.

“Today I will resign as a Member of Parliament for Clacton-on-Sea, thereby forcing a by-election, which will happen, I hope in short order,” he said in a press conference broadcast from the Reform UK YouTube channel.

“This will be a people vs. the establishment by-election. It’s a chance to stick two fingers up to the entire establishment, to frankly tell them where to go, and that is why I will be putting my name forward to stand in this by-election,” he said.

Farage’s resignation followed a series of scandals surrounding gifts he received from wealthy donors while out of office.

Farage denied any wrongdoing, stating: “Let me be absolutely clear. I have done nothing wrong. I have not broken the law in any way at all. I have not misused public money.”

As Leslie Nielsen said in Airplane!, good luck, I want you to know that we’re all counting on you: Farage’s gamble is all about seizing control of the narrative.

Posted at 1:22 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jul 7th, 2026

FLORIDA, MAN: Ex-Florida Democratic Governor Nominee Andrew Gillum Busted In Alabama For Drug Possession.

Posted at 12:30 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jul 7th, 2026

MARK JUDGE: The Trial: A Rare Documentary Reveals the Hell of a Communist Show Trial.

It is a stroke of genius that in The Divine Comedy Dante depicts Satan as trapped in a giant bedrock of ice. Hell isn’t necessarily flames, which can be beautiful and life-sustaining, but ice – cold, non-generative, deadly.

A cold Moscow winter in 1930 is the setting for The Trial, a rarely seen but vitally important 2019 documentary by Ukrainian filmmaker  Sergei Loznitsa. The Trial – which should not be confused with Trial, the great 1955 anti-communist drama starring Glenn Ford – is constructed of restored black-and-white footage from one of Joseph Stalin’s first show trials, recorded in 1930 in Moscow. Stalin had falsely accused a political rival of seeking to sabotage the USSR at the behest of French Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré and other Western leaders. In shocking footage, the accused, all innocent, confess to crimes they never actually committed.

Read the whole thing.

Posted at 7:45 am by Ed Driscoll on Jul 7th, 2026

CALIFORNIA MAGA STRONGHOLD ERUPTS AFTER SHOCK RULING ON CONSERVATIVE PARADISE: ‘They’re coming after us.’

Huntington Beach has erupted after a judge ordered the city to adopt ranked-choice voting for council members — amid fears it could destroy the Republican supermajority.

Orange County Superior Court Judge Craig Griffin ruled late June that the MAGA enclave needs to move away from its at-large system after a years-long court battle.

A wave of Southern California municipalities have been forced to change the way they vote in recent years as courts found at-large is unfavorable to minority voters under the California Voting Rights.

The push is being led by Malibu’s activist Democratic lawyer Kevin Shenkman, who has spent decades suing and threatening cities across the region to stop at-large voting.

It comes as Huntington Beach led the West Coast for its show of patriotism on Fourth of July, with an insane fireworks extravaganza that drew about 500,000 to its famous shores.

But the patriotic paradise could be under threat as locals claimed to the California Post the voting change is a desperate Democrat attempt to turn the town blue.

Gooder and harder, California.

Posted at 7:14 am by Ed Driscoll on Jul 7th, 2026

July 6, 2026

TWENTY MINUTES INTO THE FUTURE:

Posted at 8:55 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jul 6th, 2026

THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF OLIGARCHICAL COLLECTIVISM:

Posted at 8:18 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jul 6th, 2026

OYSTERGRUPPENFUHRER ENTERS STALINGRAD: Graham Platner Reflecting on ‘Path Forward’ After Latest Bombshell Sexual Assault Allegation.

UPDATE: We may be proceeding to the beginning of Downfall: 

MORE:

As the memory hole heats up, DemSoc is about to get its first unperson:

Posted at 4:34 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jul 6th, 2026
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