SLIM JIM SHOCKER! Image on X Surfaces of a Valuable US Asset Iran Recovered After Pilot Rescue:
We will rain down delicious teriyaki beef sticks upon them and they will lay down their weapons and beg for more.
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) April 6, 2026
This is the Middle East equivalent of a Star Trek episode where a piece of advanced technology or a book on earth history accidentally transforms an entire planet:
BILL KRISTOL FINALLY DISCOVERS A MIDDLE EAST WAR HE OBJECTS TO:
Beyond the TVA and the Manhattan Project, has Bill never seen The Dam Busters?
“IF YOU FIX THE PROBLEM, THE MONEY STOPS. SO NOTHING EVER GETS FIXED:”
Just stop, we all know your scam.
>Democrats raise taxes.
>Money flows to NGOs packed with Democratic operatives.
>Those operatives take their cut, write a check to Democratic campaigns
> Report back that the problem still exists and needs more funding.If you fix the…
— Matt Van Swol (@mattvanswol) April 5, 2026
CBS SETS COLBERT’S REPLACEMENT: Byron Allen’s Comics Unleashed.
After The Late Show With Stephen Colbert ends — as in, one day after — CBS will usher in its next era of late night programming.
The network will air Comics Unleashed With Byron Allen in the 11:35 p.m. beginning May 22, followed by another Allen-produced series, the comedy game show Funny You Should Ask, at 12:35 a.m. The Late Show will sign off on May 21.
Comics Unleashed has been airing in the later spot this season and also aired there during the 2023 writers’ and actors’ strikes.
Notably — especially for CBS’ bottom line — Allen is buying time from the network to air the two shows, with his company, Allen Media Group, selling the available ad spots in the two hours. The change will likely see CBS turn a profit in late night.
“I created and launched Comics Unleashed 20 years ago so my fellow comedians could have a platform to do what we all love — make people laugh,” Allen, founder, chairman and CEO of Allen Media Group, said in a statement. “I truly appreciate CBS’ confidence in me by picking up our two-hour comedy block of Comics Unleashed and Funny You Should Ask, because the world can never have enough laughter.”
Setting aside Allen paying the network for the timeslot, the idea that people might want to wind down after a busy day with comedy and laughs rather than an extended MSNBC talk show is so radical, so experimental, that it’s clearly worth taking a chance on.
CHRISTIAN TOTO: ‘SNL’ Audience Cheers Trump Assassination Joke.
Once upon a time, we frowned upon wishing death on a sitting president.
Kathy Griffin’s career collapsed in 2017 after she shared an image of her holding President Donald Trump’s bloody head aloft, ISIS style.
That same year, actor Johnny Depp apologized after suggesting it’s time for another actor to kill a president, a Lincoln-Trump gag that landed badly.
That was then. Now?
Griffin wears that bloody image like a badge of honor. And “Saturday Night Live” not only joked about Trump’s possible death last night, but the show’s far-Left audience celebrated the crack.
This isn’t shocking. It’s the new, ghoulish normal.
Weekend Update co-anchor Michael Che noted that President Trump attended a showing of the Broadway musical “Chicago” this week.
“What’s the worst that could happen?” Che said, alluding to actor John Wilkes Booth’s infamous act.
Wild, sustained applause and cheers ensued. Not laughs, mind you. Cheers. Co-host Colin Jost couldn’t have smiled any wider at the crowd’s reaction to the Trump assassination joke.
That this joke aired also shows how badly NBC’s Standards and Practices Department have slipped. In their 1986 book Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live, Doug Hill and Jeff Weingrad wrote that about the time of the show’s second or third season writers Al Franken (yes, the same) and Tom Davis attempted to write an assassination sketch, only to be rejected by one of NBC’s censors:
A similar idea F&D had that never made it on the air was a David Susskind talk show featuring four guests who wanted to assassinate Ted Kennedy. Dan Aykroyd was to play a twisted character who lived over a muffler shop. “He’ll know me when he sees me,” was one of his lines. Garrett Morris was a man who had been dishonorably discharged from the Army and wanted to kill not only Kennedy but also the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Gilda Radner had seen Kennedy on TV and thought he was the Devil. F&D were invited to Herminio Traviesas’s office to discuss the sketch.
“I don’t believe you guys wrote this,” Travie told them. “Usually when I see the things you write they’re at least funny, but I don’t see what’s funny about this.”
F&D thought the piece was hilarious and explained its point: “It’s about how much insanity there is, about how stupid and out of control it all is.”
At length Travie began to concede the humor, but he still refused to let it on. “Suppose we air it and Kennedy gets shot next week?” he said. “If anything could ever get NBC closed down, that would be it. And this might increase the chance of that happening.”
It was F&D’s turn to concede the point, and they left the office.
As Toto concludes, today’s SNL audiences “are cheering on death, assassination dreams and arson. Hope Lorne Michaels and co. are proud of what they helped build.”
And I hope NBC’s censors are proud of the material they’re signing off on these days.
60 MINUTES: Steve Kroft ‘Hated’ Working for CBS Newsmagazine, He Says.
60 Minutes has been rocked by tumult recently, with high-profile talent shakeups and the $16 million parent company Paramount agreed to pay to Donald Trump last summer to settle a lawsuit regarding the newsmagazine.
When asked about the atmosphere at 60 Minutes during his July 2025 appearance on The Daily Show, Kroft said, “Devastating’s a good word. I think there’s a lot of fear over there. Fear of losing their job, fear of what’s happening to the country, fear of losing the First Amendment, all of those things.”
The “fear of losing the First Amendment” is pure hyperbole; beyond that 60 Minutes’ tumult hasn’t been just “recently.”
PARLIAMENT MORPHED INTO EPSTEIN’S ISLAND SO SLOWLY, I HARDLY EVEN NOTICED: I was sneaked into Parliament as a teen and offered to high-profile politician for sex, says grooming gang survivor.
Exit question:
A Muslim rape gangs survivor has claimed she was taken onto the Parliamentary estate and offered to a high profile politician for sex as well as being taken to party conferences for the same purpose.
The question now arises of how many MP’s are being Epstein style blackmailed? pic.twitter.com/KdHtNI9Y6B
— Wolf 🐺 (@WorldByWolf) April 5, 2026
SKYNET, HAL, COLOSSUS, AND M-5 ARE ALL SMILING RIGHT NOW:
I am telling you, Anthropic is not building an AI that is here to protect humanity, but rather an AI that will turn against it
They're deep into the woke rabbit hole and they do not care about morality
Their AI safety team is a joke. Their moral guide for AI is literally a… https://t.co/stW1geiTsb
— X Freeze (@XFreeze) April 5, 2026
PIVOT!
Much of the “conscientious objector” Right and most of the Left seamlessly shifted from calling Trump a coward and chanting “TACO” at him to calling him a madman who has to be stopped at all costs with no acknowledgement at all that they’ve done a complete 180 https://t.co/4Iqm4zY7Um
— Enguerrand VII de Coucy (@ingelramdecoucy) April 6, 2026
GREAT MOMENTS IN ENVIRONMENTALISM:
A company was paid more than 6 figures to bring in trucks and setup the No Kings Day protest at the Capitol in St Paul, Minnesota
“We provided the stage, the sound, the lighting and contracted in all the generators and infrastructure and video towers and set them up for the No… pic.twitter.com/EEFkvcXn2I
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) April 5, 2026
Tweet continues:
“We provided the stage, the sound, the lighting and contracted in all the generators and infrastructure and video towers and set them up for the No Kings three rally at the Capitol”
“We brought in, oh, about about a hundred speakers, which are kind of over here and all the electrical infrastructure — it had to have been 30 different trucks worth of stuff that came”
The company was Slamhammer Sound & Roadcase Co, they talk about the logistics and equipment used during the ‘No Kings’ protest in St Paul, Minnesota on March 28, 2026
It’s always paid and highly organized.
I don’t want to hear another word about Glenn Reynolds’ carbon footprint.
YOU REALLY NEED TO UNDERSTAND WHAT WE’RE UP AGAINST:
The story behind the New York Times’ 1903 claim that human flight was between one and ten million years away is even worse than it looks.
Once you understand the backstory, you realize that the New York Times story is not really about flight at all but about how elites and… https://t.co/6JlRT1nja8
— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) April 5, 2026
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Once you understand the backstory, you realize that the New York Times story is not really about flight at all but about how elites and credentialed “experts” mistake their own failures for the boundaries of possibility.
The New York Times did not dismiss the possibility of powered flight at random. There was a very specific reason behind it. At the time, America’s most prominent scientific authority, Smithsonian Secretary Samuel Langley, had been showered with large amounts of taxpayer funding to build an aircraft, the Langley Aerodrome. Despite all the money, institutional backing, and elite prestige, Langley and his team could not get it to fly, culminating in a series of very public failures, the last on December 8, 1903.
So when the New York Times declared that flight was millions of years away, what it was really saying was that if the most credentialed and well-funded “experts” cannot do it, then it cannot be done.
A mere nine days later, the elites’ proclamation of impossibility lay in ruins. Two totally unknown bicycle mechanics from Ohio achieved the first powered flight using improvised parts, a few hundred dollars of their own money, and sheer persistence.
The story of flight is, at its core, a story of the triumph of American individualism over elite credentialism. The fact that it was the New York Times that inadvertently delivered the proof is the most fitting conclusion imaginable.
At the link in the headline above, back in 2024, PJM alum Paula Bolyard wrote:
In an October 1903 article, the New York Times predicted it would take “one to ten million years” for man to develop a working “flying machine.”
We all know how that turned out. Sixty-nine days later, on Dec. 17, 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright made their historic first successful flight in the heavier-than-air Wright Flyer in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.
The New York Times was wrong then, and they continue to be wrong about many important things. One of the most dangerous in recent years was the Russia collusion story, for which they were awarded a Nobel Prize. For months before the 2016 election, the Times shouted Russia, Russia, Russia! from the rooftops, even after it became clear that the story was a psyops pushed by Hillary Clinton’s campaign. That was the real “election interference,” not the nonsense the Times was pushing.
There were also the myriad conspiracy theories: Hunter’s laptop was fake, Trump told people to inject bleach into their lungs and suggested they take horse pills, and conservatives (especially the scary Christian ones) are the biggest threat to democracy anyone has ever seen.
More recently, the Times, desperate to protect Joe Biden, claimed that videos showing him to be frail and confused are “cheap fakes.”
Having learned nothing from their mistake regarding terrestrial flight, in 1920, the Gray Lady mocked the idea of space flight: The Correction Heard ‘Round The World: When The New York Times Apologized to Robert Goddard.
And on January 13, 1920, the New York Times published an editorial insisting that a rocket couldn’t possibly work in space:
“That professor Goddard, with his ‘chair’ in Clark College and the countenancing of the Smithsonian Institution [from which Goddard held a grant to research rocket flight], does not know the relation of action to reaction, and of the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react — to say that would be absurd. Of course he only seems to lack the knowledge ladled out daily in high schools.”
Goddard pushed back against the wave of criticism in a Scientific American article later that year, but Newton’s Third Law doesn’t apply to public relations, and his response was mostly drowned out by the attacks. He retreated from the public eye, and from most interaction with other scientists, but continued his research.
Eventually, of course, Goddard would be vindicated by the 1944 launch of a German V-2 guided ballistic missile. But it took until July 17, 1969, the day after the launch of a crewed mission to the Moon, for the New York Times to take back its harsh words. The 1969 correction is almost comically dry and conspicuously doesn’t mention the Apollo mission.
“Further investigation and experimentation have confirmed the findings of Isaac Newton in the 17th century, and it is now definitely established that a rocket can function in a vacuum as well as in an atmosphere,” the Times editors wrote. They added, “The Times regrets the error.”
On the flip side, don’t get the Timesmen started gushing over those nice young men from Austria and Georgia:
● The Times’ necrophiliac 1953 obit for one of the 20th century’s most brutal mass murderers was headlined: Stalin Rose From Czarist Oppression to Transform Russia Into Mighty Socialist State.
SUCKING IN THE ’70s:
RW cultural nostalgia has now extended to 1970s NYC–when the city was defined by urban decay, high murder rates, and horrible governance. https://t.co/FPhaNM92Hi pic.twitter.com/9EzXpBIqT3
— Scott Greer 6’2” IQ 187 (@ScottMGreer) April 5, 2026
Twenty years ago, when Mike Bloomberg was still its mayor and had carried over most of Rudy Guiliani’s broken windows police methods, Dan Henninger of the Wall Street Journal wrote:
The actor John Leguizamo: New York in the ’70s “was funky and gritty and showed the world how a metropolis could be dark and apocalyptic and yet fecund.” Fran Lebowitz, a contributing editor for Vanity Fair: The city “was a wreck; it was going bankrupt. And it was pretty lawless; everything was illegal, but no laws were enforced. It was a city for city-dwellers, not tourists, the way it is now.” Laurie Anderson, a well-known New York artist and performer, admits the ’70s were considered “the dark ages” but “there was great music and everyone was broke.”
Let’s leave worshiping ’70s-era Fun City grime and crime to the left, huh?
“IT’S A TESTAMENT TO THE U.S. MILITARY THAT NO AMOUNT OF EQUIPMENT IS MORE VALUABLE THAN A SINGLE AIRMAN’S LIFE:”
It’s a testament to the U.S. military that no amount of equipment is more valuable than a single airman’s life. https://t.co/nAuwzovtnK
— Armchair Admiral 🇬🇧 (@ArmchairAdml) April 5, 2026
During World War II, Hitler was convinced that Americans lacked the will to fight and that any who did would be quickly overwhelmed.
When early reports arrived from the battles in North Africa, German observers noted that Americans fought differently from the Europeans.
Rather… https://t.co/1ls4Rl78MN
— Craig Fuller 🛩🚛🚂⚓️ (@FreightAlley) April 5, 2026
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Rather than charging aggressively and risking heavy infantry casualties, U.S. forces relied on overwhelming firepower—staying at a distance and expending vast quantities of artillery with little hesitation. Thanks to unmatched industrial production and logistics, fresh supplies were always available.
This approach allowed relatively smaller American units to wear down much larger and well-entrenched enemy forces.
In contrast, German and other European doctrines often emphasized aggressive maneuver and were sometimes more willing to accept high casualties to achieve objectives or preserve key equipment.
This material-heavy American style surprised many Germans, including Hitler, who had long dismissed U.S. soldiers as soft and lacking in fighting spirit. He believed soldiers were cheap and expendable; he discovered too late that Americans fought to conserve lives by expending machines and ammunition instead.
It was one of many reasons for Germany’s defeat—perhaps the hardest for some foreigners to fully understand.
Americans place a high value on the lives of our soldiers. Equipment and shells could always be replaced.
Why, it’s as if:
I’m noticing a lot of foreigners who seem to not understand why we’d risk hundreds of lives, spend millions of dollars, and sacrifice several aircraft to rescue one guy. And the reason they don’t understand is also the reason people can’t be made American by a piece of paper. https://t.co/mmRtDKQB56
— Lee (Greater) (@shortmagsmle) April 5, 2026
Sadly, the timing of the rescue probably ensures that there won’t be a Hollywood movie about it:
This is absolutely going to be a movie one day soon and the screenwriter better not miss the fact that he was lost on Good Friday in local time zone and rescued on Easter before sunrise. https://t.co/YPe0qOkdcY
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) April 5, 2026
Oh, and speaking of timing:
Checking in on “Le Dying Empire” meme:
The US lost one 40 year old fighter jet over the course of 12,000 combat sorties then immediately rescued the pilot in hostile territory – while simultaneously sending astronauts to the moon. https://t.co/5XAulhMCWG pic.twitter.com/0Oti3WLAE5
— Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 (@DrewPavlou) April 5, 2026
Related:
P.J. O'Rourke was always right. From the classic "Among The Euro-Weenies," 1986: pic.twitter.com/yVXTwvf3da
— Will Collier (@willcollier) April 5, 2026
UPDATE:
Notice how no one's honking or yelling about the blocked roads. Everyone is just casually standing around, calmly talking.
This traffic jam is on purpose. It's meant to slow down and even block IRGC and Bassij terrorists from getting to the pilot.
I told you that Iranians in… https://t.co/bvssWajkU1
— Goldie Ghamari | گلسا قمری 🇮🇷 (@gghamari) April 5, 2026
MORE:
If the amount of our own stuff we are willing to sacrifice to get one of our own back shocks you…
Just wait until you see how much of your stuff we are willing to sacrifice to get him back
— Voödoo 6 von Inyanga (@6Voodoo) April 5, 2026
THAT WAS THE WEEKEND THAT WAS:
Moonshot. Soldier rescued. NYT doesn’t know what NATO stands for.
Glorious few days we’ve had.
— Bryan O'Nolan (@BryanONolan) April 5, 2026
MY FAVORITE PART ABOUT THE OBAMA ERA WAS ALL THE RACIAL HEALING:
This is all intentional. Race relations were actually improving until the second term of Obama.
Then the propaganda media activated the Ferguson/BLM playbook — straight out of Critical Race Theory — and it's been downhill ever since. https://t.co/FS1YV5qqdA
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) April 4, 2026
UPDATE:
In case anyone is interested in the Hollywood side of this equation: https://t.co/JxKvlw1tfT https://t.co/6ny4ufF0O4
— George MF Washington (@GMFWashington) April 5, 2026
(Classical reference in headline.)
GENIUS MOVE: Did ICE Just Use the DMV as Bait to Lure Illegal Alien Truck Drivers?
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) may have dropped off the radar a little bit after things settled down in Minneapolis, but a flurry of arrests just outside Pittsburgh suggests that ICE is as active as ever and addressing a problem that’s been a long time coming.
ICE arrested a reported 13 people at a driver’s license center in a quiet, rural location 40 miles north of downtown Pittsburgh on April 3.
According to WPXI-TV, the local East Franklin Police Department placed calls to ICE “after concerned citizens reported an abnormally large amount of individuals outside the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) driver licensing center in Kittanning, Pennsylvania.”
The center, which is normally only open two days a week, was “overrun” by fighting-age young men from other countries applying for driver’s licenses and seeking other services. Witnesses said the center was filled with long lines.
EPIC!🔥🔥🔥
ICE carried out a major operation in Kittanning, PA. They sent letters to truck drivers about renewing their CDLs, prompting them to show up at the DMV. Agents then moved in and detained dozens of undocumented migrants.
Here’s the before-and-after result. pic.twitter.com/z2GCydOhRs
— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) April 4, 2026
When ICE arrived, federal agents were able to arrest 13 illegal aliens from countries including Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan. At least one person allegedly resisted arrest and reportedly assaulted a law enforcement officer.
Local residents praised ICE for its quick response to the situation and for taking their calls seriously.
In accordance with the prophecy:
“Now have ICE operate the DMVs.” pic.twitter.com/9t0p4GCPIq
— The Drunk Republican (@DrunkRepub) March 24, 2026
“FIGHTING US TROOPS ISN’T LIKE BEATING TEENAGE GIRLS:”
Hearing a bunch of dumb regime loyalists also got killed last night because they wanted the $60k bounty and climbed up the mountain only to realise fighting US troops isn't like beating teenage girls.
Good riddance really.
— 𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎ (@NiohBerg) April 5, 2026
QUESTION ASKED: Why Are They Here?
It seems that one can best explain America’s immigration policies with the supposition that they were crafted by our enemies to do as much harm as possible. That thought is prompted by news that the niece and grand-niece of Iran’s arch terrorist, Gen. Qasem Soleimani, killed by an American missile during the first Trump administration, are to be deported[.]
* * * * * * * * *
Afshar may have reviled the U.S. as the Great Satan, but she herself reveled in a luxurious Los Angeles lifestyle, presumably courtesy of the oppressed people of Iran[.]
If she appeared in public looking like that in Soleimani’s Iran–no head scarf, not to mention being scantily clad–she would be in danger of having her eyes gouged out. No such worries here in “Satanic” America.
Imagine how those photos are playing in Iran — and the rest of the Middle East — right now:
I was considering this from the American perspective, but from the Arabic, Iranian, and Muslim perspective this is a huge propaganda coup for the American government. These photos completely discredit Iran, at a moment when Iranian soldiers are deserting and demoralized. https://t.co/oGsNeTh97o pic.twitter.com/3zRcJ1eIMB
— Fugitive Caesar (@ThomBrady5) April 5, 2026
UPDATE:
Modern warfare is wild.
America will be at war with your country and the generals grand daughter will be doing coke at Coachella over the weekend.
God bless America. pic.twitter.com/8YTLLy21Gc
— Skely (@123skely) April 5, 2026
GIVE BARI WEISS CREDIT FOR 60 MINUTES REPORTING ON CALIFORNIA’S HIGH-SPEED RAIL BOONDOGGLE:
glad we're mainstreaming a conversation on california's rail disaster, as it's the gateway to understanding why america can't build anymore. but the msm is still afraid to spell it out: the purpose was never to build rail, but to buy union votes. in this, the dems succeeded. https://t.co/oh6Gtp55gR
— Mike Solana (@micsolana) April 3, 2026
LBJ had a similar “desire named streetcar” after the world witnessed the Japanese Bullet Train at the 1964 Olympics, but then Johnson’s Great Society attempted to do pretty much everything, simultaneously, with often disastrous results. Buying union votes was likely a key motivator for his own goal to bring a form of high speed rail to America — or at least the Northeast Corridor — in the form of the Pennsylvania Railroad’s Metroliner cars. And while those cars had numerous mechanical issues, at least they (usually) ran, which is far more than Newsom can say about his efforts:
BEN STEIN ON TELEVISION AS AN ENGINE OF CULTURAL DEMORALIZATION:
Here’s Ben Stein in 1979 describing television as an engine of cultural demoralization. He argues that a small clique of producers and writers pushed a left-coded inversion of reality onto the public. They despised traditional power centers and hated figures like Buckley. They… https://t.co/yeBN8o52es pic.twitter.com/ntfjdJyAHc
— Yuri Bezmenov's Ghost (@Ne_pas_couvrir) April 4, 2026
OH TO BE IN ENGLAND:
Once again, little boys are being targeted while the British State ignores the obvious problem.
British boys aren’t gang-raping little white girls above kebab shops.
British boys aren’t forcing 6 year old girls to marry them.
British boys aren’t stabbing little girls to death… pic.twitter.com/Typ6gjiBUN
— Samantha Smith (@SamanthaTaghoy) April 4, 2026
Flashback: Outraged by grooming gangs? You’re an extremist.
NEW RULES, SWANK CONTINENTAL EDITION:
The Europeans are not dealing with “a man.” They are dealing with the United States of America.
The United States needed the most innocuous kind of cooperation from them. They denied the United States that cooperation.
The implied argument is that their obligations within our… https://t.co/W5u3yUHCcC
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) April 4, 2026
Tweet continues, “The implied argument is that their obligations within our alliance depend on whether they like the guy we chose as our president. ‘Sure, we’re allies…if we approve of who you elected.’ Nope. We are not going to forget, and we’re not going to forgive. I’m indifferent to their excuses or their rationalizations. The United States of America needed their help and not very much help. They turned us down. That changes everything. And they aren’t going to like how it changes everything.”
(Classical reference in headline.)
BURIED LEDE: Local CBS station reports actual news!
Hahaha. CBS did a 6 month investigation and concluded that high California gas prices are entirely the fault of Gavin Newsom & CA leadership.
“55% of each gallon of gas includes California-specific costs.” https://t.co/hBc5eYTDnd— Rachel Keuler (@rkeuler) April 4, 2026
Flashback: Gavin Newsom: Californians Don’t Pay Enough For Gasoline.
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