Author Archive: Ed Driscoll

April 2, 2026

BLESS THEIR HEARTS:

The Brits used to be made of sterner stuff — back when they produced two series in the 1970s about colonies on the moon:

To boldly go where Gerry Anderson has gone before! (Pardon the split infinitives and mashed-up Angelo-American sci-fi references.)

Posted at 8:22 am by Ed Driscoll on Apr 2nd, 2026

SPRINGTIME FOR KAMALA:

Team Kamala in 2024: Rehabilitate Dick Cheney and George W. Bush by seeking their endorsements, both of whom the left endlessly compared to Hitler from 2001 to 2008:

Team Kamala in 2026: Promote favorably the man who thought Winston Churchill was the baddie in WWII:

Posted at 7:14 am by Ed Driscoll on Apr 2nd, 2026

April 1, 2026

BRIDGET PHETASY: Leave Me Behind.

My grandparents were Depression-era kids and survived World War II. Big deal, I thought at the time. They don’t know what I’m going through now. I was so certain their experience had nothing to teach me. And they had the grace not to argue about it. They just waited. Because they knew something I didn’t: That wisdom isn’t persuasive to people who haven’t earned it yet, and that trying to make it persuasive is a fool’s errand.

I was a fool. Now I’d give anything for their wisdom and it’s too late.

The part the platform-chasers don’t understand: You cannot reason a twenty-three-year-old out of positions they were algorithmically radicalized into. You’re not going to win them over by learning their dumb slang and nodding along with their worst impulses. All you’re going to do is lose yourself. And your audience—your actual audience, the people who showed up because you had something to say—will watch you do it in real time.

I never peaked. I say that without self-pity. I got a late start, I never had the massive Fox show or the viral Comedy Central moment, and for a while, that bothered me. But it turns out never peaking is a kind of freedom. There’s no high to chase, no glory days to recreate, no slide into irrelevance to panic about. There’s just the work. Territory, not hierarchy. You do it because it’s yours to do, and you hope the right people find it, and if the coveted demographic thinks you’re an oldhead who doesn’t understand the vision—good. I only want to do my work.

Read the whole thing.

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

HOLLYWOOD FOR UGLY PEOPLE: Op-ed: Let’s talk about TMZ turning its sights on DC politicians, and why that’s a good thing.

To be fair, they’ve been there before, sans the traditional Hollywood ending: Ex-DEA public affairs chief pleads guilty to brazen scam. “A former head of public affairs for the Drug Enforcement Administration who later worked as a producer for TMZ has admitted to a fraud scheme that involved posing as an undercover CIA operative in order to swindle government contractors out of over $4 million. Details of the complex scam carried out by Garrison Courtney, 44, became public Thursday morning as he pleaded guilty to a felony wire fraud charge in Alexandria, Va., before U.S. District Judge Liam O’Grady.”

 

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

INSIDE EVERY “PROGRESSIVE” IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT:

(Classical reference in headline.)

Posted at 12:30 pm by Ed Driscoll on Apr 1st, 2026

NEW CIVILITY WATCH: ‘F*ck Him To His Face:’ Democrat Lawmaker Deletes Unhinged Late-Night Post About Trump.

Rep. Susie Lee (D-NV) deleted a profane X post about President Donald Trump after it drew backlash online.

Lee made the comment early Wednesday in response to reports that Trump planned to attend Supreme Court oral arguments in a high-stakes birthright citizenship case.

“So f*cking f*cked up. I’ll pray they f*ck him to his face,” Lee wrote at around 1 a.m. Eastern Time Wednesday in the replies to an Associated Press story about the visit. “Sorry, I say f*ck a lot these days.”

The post was later deleted, but she appeared to defend herself in a subsequent post on Wednesday morning.

“Clearly my language touched a nerve — my nerve was touched by the attacks on our Constitution and its separation of powers. I took an oath to protect and defend it,” Lee wrote.

The posts were both made from her personal account, where the banner touts a claim that she is “America’s #1 Most Bipartisan Member of Congress.”

Past performance is no guarantee of future results:

Posted at 12:00 pm by Ed Driscoll on Apr 1st, 2026

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Supergirl Adopts Insane ‘Lady Ghostbusters’ PR Push.

The finished film even included a scene where the Lady Ghostbusters deal with online trolls.

Perhaps the key players realized they had a turkey on their hands, and it was time to do some creative marketing to deflect that sad truth? Or, they figured the Victimhood Card would rally progressives to movie theaters nationwide.

Are you sure about that?

The film dramatically underperformed. Sony later re-rebooted the franchise with modest success.

The “Supergirl” rollout feels very similar. But this isn’t 2016. Movie fans smell this desperation a mile away, and it’s already building bad buzz on the project.

This film exists in Superman’s corner of the DC universe, but Alcock’s strategy sounds awfully reminiscent of a line spoken Batman’s nemesis Bane at the beginning of The Dark Knight Rises: “Crashing the plane — with no survivors!!!”

Posted at 10:35 am by Ed Driscoll on Apr 1st, 2026

March 31, 2026

IT’S COME TO THIS: Kristi Noem’s husband seen ‘pouting in photos with fake breasts.’

Bryon Noem, the husband of former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, was reported to have a secret double life as a model for adult entertainers.

Hundreds of online messages reviewed by The Daily Mail, involving three women in the “bimbofication” scene, in which performers dress as real-life Barbie dolls. The alleged messages indicate that Bryon praised the performers’ surgically-enhanced bodies and even, allegedly, confessed to how he lusted for “huge, huge ridiculous boobs.”

In one selfie shared by the insurance mogul, Bryon can be seen slipping into a flesh-colored crop top and skintight pink shorts. It also appeared that Bryon managed to stuff two balloons inside his shirt to resemble breasts and positioned the knots to resemble nipples.

• Trump grills aides on Kristi Noem’s alleged lover profiting off her $220M ad campaign

• Kristi Noem caught in awkward moment with husband as she’s questioned about alleged lover

Another photo obtained by The Daily Mail shows the father of three wearing a form-fitting pair of green leggings with a white top over two orbs. In a bizarre twist, Bryon’s face is fully visible in both photos.

Well, now we know why Noem was fired by Trump at the beginning of the month. But perhaps her husband is angling for a job in the next Democratic administration:

UPDATE:

Posted at 8:30 pm by Ed Driscoll on Mar 31st, 2026

DISPATCHES FROM THE GAYS OF HORMUZ:

Classical reference in headline:

Posted at 4:45 pm by Ed Driscoll on Mar 31st, 2026

HMMM: Trump “is priming the the public (and world) with a new mental frame: the Strait of Hormuz is not Iranian sovereign territory anymore:”

And at the moment, it seems to be moving again:

Related: In other aquatic news:

Posted at 1:35 pm by Ed Driscoll on Mar 31st, 2026

“IT’S REALLY HARD TO OVERSTATE JUST HOW BADLY CHINA’S MILITARY INDUSTRY HAS BEEN HUMILIATED IN THE PAST YEAR:”

Posted at 1:22 pm by Ed Driscoll on Mar 31st, 2026

ALL THE DEMOCRATS HAVE TO DO IS NOT BE CRAZY, AND THEY CAN’T EVEN DO THAT:

 

Posted at 12:35 pm by Ed Driscoll on Mar 31st, 2026

ED MORRISSEY: Hegseth: ‘Decisive’ Days Ahead for Iran; Regime ‘Fractured?’

Trump sounds like he wants to abruptly leave; Hegseth wants to go the full Curtis LeMay; Rubio wants to talk with rational alternatives. Either this is the most incoherent winning side of a war in human history, or there’s a strategy in place.

Eli Lake argues vociferously for the latter. Trump and his team are waging “psychological warfare” against the Iranian regime, Lake declares, and it’s working:

Trump is waging psychological warfare with the remnants of a battered regime. Israel has killed 16 top regime leaders since the fighting began on February 28. These include Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, national security adviser Ali Larijani, and minister of intelligence Esmaeil Khatib. Then there are the lower-level commanders in the Revolutionary Guard Corps and Basij state militia who have perished in drone and missile strikes. The current supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, has not been seen in public since he ascended to the post held by his father.

“If you are sitting in Tehran, you are underground if you are in the leadership tier,” Joel Rayburn, former U.S. Army colonel and senior diplomat in Trump’s first term, told me. “You know if you can be located you will be killed. Your command and control is severely disrupted, and now you see the United States is a few days away from having a half a division worth of ground forces in the Gulf region and you can offer no resistance. Your leverage is waning.”

In such an environment, who wants to be the leader of a “new and more reasonable regime”? For the true believers left, like the recently promoted Ahmad Vahidi, who now heads Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps after the former chief was killed, negotiations with Trump are tantamount to capitulation. For the unlucky Iranian president, Masoud Pezeshkian, who is stuck with managing an economy that’s ground to a halt, Vahidi’s escalations are national suicide.

As Ed concludes, “Stay tuned.”

Posted at 12:00 pm by Ed Driscoll on Mar 31st, 2026

RELIGION OF PEACE UPDATE: Six Pittsburgh-area men charged with antisemitic hate crime, conspiracy to obstruct justice.

Posted at 8:22 am by Ed Driscoll on Mar 31st, 2026

YES, MEMORIES OF THE IRAN HOSTAGE CRISIS REMAIN RATHER GALVANIZING:

More details here:

Posted at 7:14 am by Ed Driscoll on Mar 31st, 2026

March 30, 2026

OPEN THREAD: So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the depths of the Open Thread.

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

KONNICHIWA, JAPAN! Americans and Japanese Bond on X Over BBQ’d Meats and Mutual Respect.

Translation: “The high level of trust in a beaver wearing an American’s red baseball cap is abnormal lol.”

Buc-ee’s, always ripe for expansion, may have just discovered a whole new territory to explore.

Naturally of course, “it’s total crickets [from the MSM] when Japanese and Americans voluntarily, joyfully, and directly bonded on X. Why? Because this lovefest is not anti-Western. It’s not anti-American. It’s not pro-authoritarian. It’s two free peoples with no pretensions looking at each other going ‘hey, you’re pretty cool actually.'”

Posted at 9:00 pm by Ed Driscoll on Mar 30th, 2026

HILARIOUS! Rubio to George Stephanopoulos: Maybe You Need to Write It Down.

Rubio had to remind him that not everything is made public and for good reason. Apparently, George is sad that he’s not allowed in on national security briefings or something. “Well, what I mean is – yeah, so you have people that are saying some of the right things privately. Obviously, they’re not going to put it out in press releases, and what they say to you or put out there for the world doesn’t necessarily reflect what they’re saying in our conversations,” Rubio said. “But at the end of the day, we have to see if these people end up being the ones in charge, seeing if they’re the ones that have the power to deliver. We’re going to test it.”

Then came the best part. George implied that if these talks failed, the war would expand.

“This operation is about very specific objectives,” Rubio replied. “The President laid them out on the first night of the operation. I’ll repeat them to you now because I hear a lot of talk about we don’t know what the clear objectives are. Here they are.”

But before he laid them out, he said to George, “You should write them down.” It was so beautifully condescending. And then Rubio laid out the objectives… yet again:

Number one, the destruction of their air force. Number two, the destruction of their navy. Number three, the severe diminishing of their missile launching capability. And number four, the destruction of their factories so they can’t make more missiles and more drones to threaten us in the future.

All of this so that they can never hide behind it to acquire a nuclear weapon.  That was our objective from the beginning; that remains our objective now. We are on pace and in fact ahead of schedule on some of those things, and we are going to achieve those things in a number of weeks, not in a number of months.

After that, George cut the segment. Whether he actually ran out of time or knew he’d been owned is to be determined.

Video at link.

Posted at 8:43 pm by Ed Driscoll on Mar 30th, 2026

AN ARMY OF SNAKE PLISSKINS:

Related: Adam Carolla on Gavin Newsom and why people are leaving California. (Topic starts at 11:35 of this new Reason TV video in case auto-cue fails): 

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

A COOL AND LOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE BICYCLE MENACE: 85 bikes seized after authorities stop planned Bay Bridge takeover.

The California Highway Patrol said they alerted San Francisco police of a large group of cyclists riding recklessly on city streets, believed to be heading to the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge to enter the roadway and take over the bridge.

Officials noted the cyclists were seen riding directly at moving cars, swerving in and out of traffic and coming close to pedestrians on city streets.

As CHP and San Francisco PD responded to the area, authorities said SFPD Real Time Investigations Center began tracking the group and updating the officers.

Eventually, the group entered the bridge riding the wrong way up the Harrisson Street off-ramp, according to police. There, they met a group of CHP and SFPD personnel.

The California Highway Patrol said 85 participants were detained, cited for riding a bicycle onto a freeway and released. 85 bicycles were also seized by law enforcement on scene, according to authorities.

Much more like this, please.

 

(Classical reference in headline.)

Posted at 8:14 pm by Ed Driscoll on Mar 30th, 2026
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