Author Archive: Ed Driscoll

November 8, 2025

IT’S THE DEMOGRAPHY, STUPID:

Posted at 8:45 am by Ed Driscoll on Nov 8th, 2025

THE CHURCH OF CLIMATE LOSES ITS PULPIT AT CBS:

Cutting the “climate desk” wasn’t censorship — it was a long-overdue correction to years of sanctimony.

The great tragedy of our time, at least to those who dwell in the climate-alarmist press, is not hurricanes, floods, or famine—but a network trimming its propaganda department. When CBS News laid off most of its “climate crisis” staff, the media class responded as though free speech itself had been outlawed. According to Truthout, “CBS News has fired most of its climate crisis production staff” and, in the process, “gutted” its sacred climate desk. The story was dressed up as an obituary for truth itself, complete with talk of “bloodbaths” and “new conservative management”.

To anyone outside the activist echo chamber, it looked like a normal corporate reshuffling. CBS’s parent company had merged with Skydance, and the incoming leadership did what executives always do after mergers—trim redundancies, change direction, and try to make the business profitable again. But to those who had mistaken climate coverage for a holy mission, this was blasphemy.

At the heart of the melodrama was Tracy Wholf, the now-former head of CBS’s climate desk, who had urged colleagues to insert a line into hurricane coverage reading: “The above-average Atlantic Ocean temperatures, made worse by climate change, helped Melissa rapidly intensify into a category 5 storm.” That suggestion was presented in Truthout as “accurate reporting.” In reality, it was speculative editorializing—a sentence of moral certainty grafted onto a story about weather.

The URL of the above post at Watts Up With That is “cbs-turns-off-the-climate-alarm-clock” – the climate “alarm clock” has been going off non-stop at CBS for about 55 years now. In his 2012 biography of Walter Cronkite, fellow leftist Douglas Brinkley wrote:

At the CBS Broadcast Center in New York, there was a post–Silent Spring belief that the Tiffany Network had an obligation to spread the gospel of the age of ecology. A CBS Reports segment in September 1962 had Eric Sevareid famously interviewing the literary biologist Rachel Carson about the perils of the insecticide DDT at her home in Silver Spring, Maryland. Cronkite, at the time, had been focused on the Earth-orbiting flight of the second Mercury launch. But now that Neil Armstrong had walked on the Moon, Cronkite sensed that ecology would soon replace space exploration as the national obsession. CBS News producer Ron Bonn recalled precisely when Cronkite put the network on the front line of the fight. “It was New Year’s Day, 1970, and Walter walked into the Broadcast Center and said, ‘God damn it, we’ve got to get on this environmental story,’ ” Bonn recalled. “When Walter said ‘God damn it,’ things happened.”

Cronkite pulled Bonn from nearly all other CBS duties for eight weeks so he could investigate environmental degradation. He wanted a whole new regular series on the CBS Evening News—inspired by Silent Spring, the philosophy of René Dubos, and those amazing photos of Earth taken by the Apollo 8 astronauts. The CBS Evening News segments were to be called “Can the World Be Saved?” “We wanted to grapple first with air pollution, the unbreathable air,” Bonn recalled. “But then we wanted to deal with the primary underlying problem, which was overpopulation.”

In January 1970, the promise of a new environmentalism brought about the end of The Twenty-First Century (which had succeeded The Twentieth Century in June 1967). No longer would Cronkite tolerate Union Carbide (a major polluter) as a sponsor. The Texas-based Fortune 500 company was the enemy of “Earthrise,” he told Bonn. At Cronkite’s insistence, CBS canceled The Twenty-First Century to coincide with the debut of the “Can the World Be Saved?” segments.

No one at any of the Big Three networks, with the exception of Charles Kuralt, cared about environmental issues with the passion of Cronkite. By assigning his science producer Bonn, a trusted ally since their trip to South Vietnam together in 1965, Cronkite was getting way ahead of the news curve on the environment. In the mid-1960s, Bonn had done a couple of landmark CBS News Special Reports on global warming and overpopulation. Together, Cronkite and Bonn decided to begin CBS’s coverage of the environment with an eight-minute piece on April 20—two days before Earth Day. CBS Evening News’ graphics department made a special bumper slide for the “Can the World Be Saved?” segment that consisted of Bonn’s hand clutching Earth (a photograph taken by the Apollo 8 crew). “Earth, you understand, wasn’t in the palm of my hand,” Bonn explained. “We were trying to show humanity squeezing the Earth to death.” The image became synonymous with the CBS Evening News, essentially the show’s visual calling card.

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The Nixon administration’s top environmental lawyer, William Ruckelshaus, who in December 1970 became the Environmental Protection Agency’s first administrator, believed that Cronkite’s coverage was a key factor in getting Nixon to back a spate of environmental legislation in the early 1970s. “Once Cronkite got on the environment, everybody started talking about it, worrying that we were destroying America,” Ruckelshaus said. “Back when Sevareid interviewed Carson, the environmental problem was in black and white. By 1970, with Cronkite’s ongoing ‘Can the World Be Saved?’ series, the belching smog and landfills and burning rivers were in color. That’s what grabbed the public’s attention.”

Sandy Socolow, along with many others at CBS News, thought that Cronkite had gone eco-mad. Riled up about polluters, Cronkite was, as Socolow put it, the “grizzly bear” at CBS who insisted that the ecologically charged “Can the World Be Saved?” be a prime feature on the Evening News. “Walter was almost a nutcase about the environment,” Socolow recalled. “He was really, really bothered by big companies’ pollution and the destruction of America’s natural resources. Everybody bemoaned that their stories were getting crowded out due to Walter’s need for a new environmental awareness. He was over the top, a real pioneer in getting the mass media to profile American landscapes being desecrated.”

Many of the CBS News technicians and producers thought that Cronkite was going a little gaga with his “Can the World Be Saved?” obsession. Whenever Cronkite ran an ecology story, the “Earthrise” graphic would appear behind him, with Bonn’s hand holding the planet. CBS Evening News director Ritchie Mutchler would regularly bark to his assistant, “We’ll need the hand job tonight!” To CBS News correspondent Bob Schieffer, it was akin to “Quiet on the set!” Feeling that he was being mocked, Cronkite, usually unflappable, called Mutchler aside. “Uhmm, could we call that thing something else?” he asked. “Every time I hear you call it that, my mind sort of wanders.”

I don’t know, I think “hand job” nicely sums up the masturbatory theme of radical environmentalism quite nicely.

Speaking of “Earth Day:” Earth Day predictions of 1970. The reason you shouldn’t believe Earth Day predictions of [2024].

55 years on, to paraphrase the late Kathy Shaidle on Trump as Hitler, I’m already on (at least) my fourth apocalypse:

Posted at 8:15 am by Ed Driscoll on Nov 8th, 2025

November 7, 2025

FAFO:

Posted at 4:14 pm by Ed Driscoll on Nov 7th, 2025

GOOD AND HARD, FUN CITY: “New York City is About to be Governed by the Columbia University Student Body.”

William F. Buckley Jr. once quipped that he would rather be governed by the first 2,000 names in the Boston phone book than by the Harvard faculty. New York City is about to be governed by the Columbia University student body. A city that used to think of itself as grown up has just elected a mayor who seems the very embodiment of the American college student: uninformed, entitled and self-important, enjoying a regal quality of life that depends parasitically upon a civilization about which he knows nothing, yet for which he has nothing but scorn.

American college students regularly act out little psychodramas of oppression before an appreciative audience of diversity deanlets and associate vice-provosts of inclusion and belonging. Zohran Mamdani, the quintessential product of the academy, is poised to take such performative grievance to one of the biggest stages in the world. The results will not be pretty.

No they won’t (see also: New York in the de Blasio era), but: Let Them Burn It Down.

Let the left run their lab. Then, quietly and strategically, build alternatives. Offer lower taxes. Sharpen school choice. Rebuild neighborhoods. Attract employers with sensible rules. Invest in once-neglected towns that still believe in American possibility.

If Democrats want a crumbling, socialist, failing society in certain places, give them one. Let it be contained. Let it be visible. America will not fall because one city chooses differently. It will rise where people choose opportunity over ideology. That is the conservative playbook. That is our hope. And in the end, success will not be measured by who shouts the loudest. It will be measured by where people choose to live, work, and raise their kids.

Let them have their experiment. We will build the rest.

Regarding New York, Shana, they bought their tickets, they knew what they were getting into…

As for the rest of us:

Posted at 2:22 pm by Ed Driscoll on Nov 7th, 2025

‘I MADE A MISTAKE:’ Heritage Foundation President Apologizes to Staff for Video Refusal to Cancel Tucker Carlson and Throws Shade at Former Chief of Staff.

“I made a mistake and I let you down and I let down this institution. Period. Full Stop,” Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts told the staff of the conservative think tank on Wednesday, a week after he posted a video decrying a “venomous” coalition attacking the right-wing podcast host Tucker Carlson—and declaring the Heritage Foundation would always defend him against “the slander of bad actors who serve someone else’s agenda.”

Roberts said he was willing to resign but felt a “moral obligation” to repair the situation and had told the organization’s board of directors: “I made the mess, let me clean it up.”

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While Roberts stated unequivocally in his original video that the Heritage Foundation would never cancel “our friends,” he said Wednesday he should have made clear there was a “limiting principle.”

“You can say you’re not going to participate in canceling someone … while also being clear you’re not endorsing everything they’ve said, you’re not endorsing softball interviews, you’re not endorsing putting people on shows, and I should’ve made that clear.”

He added that he wasn’t actually very familiar with the white nationalist, Stalin fan, and J.D. Vance critic Nick Fuentes, with whom Carlson conducted a friendly interview last week on his podcast, though Roberts has spoken several times in recent days about the size of Fuentes’s audience and argued that “canceling” him, given his listenership, which Roberts pegged at 5 million people, will simply make him more popular.

“I didn’t know much about this Fuentes guy,” he said. “I still don’t.”

Norm Macdonald, call your office!

In sharp contrast to playing footsie with white nationalists: BEASTMODE: ‘Everyone In His Country Is Eating Dog:’ Ben Shapiro Savages Tucker Carlson’s Defense of Commie Drug Lord Nicolas Maduro.

“Who gives a shit!” That was Ben Shapiro’s response to Tucker Carlson’s argument that Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro has some great qualities, like his opposition to gay marriage.

“Who gives a shit!” Shapiro said. “The guy’s a communist dictator. Everyone in his country is eating dog. He’s shipping fentanyl to the United States to kill Americans. I don’t give a shit whether he’s anti-LGBTQ rights. This is the number one thing about Nicolas Maduro? Do you know how far down the list you have to get before you can get to anything remotely recommendable about Nicolas Maduro?”

Shapiro, appearing with Megyn Kelly for a live taping of The Megyn Kelly Show in Jacksonville, Fla., was responding to Kelly’s summary of Carlson’s argument: “Tucker has made the point—I’m not going to be here to be Tucker’s defender—but he’s made the point that Maduro is culturally conservative,” she said.

“There is a long pattern of him ideologically laundering terrible ideas over the course of the last two years, ranging from traveling to Russia to sniff the bread and explain why the Russian regime is actually wonderful, to saying last week that the Venezuelan regime of Nicolas Maduro is actually not that bad because they’re being attacked by, in his words, ‘Globohomo,'” Shapiro said.

Exit quote:

Posted at 1:35 pm by Ed Driscoll on Nov 7th, 2025

COLBERT SAYS THE ROLE OF LATE NIGHT TV IS TO TELL YOU HOW TO THINK ABOUT THE NEWS: Following The Late Show’s Cancellation Drama, Stephen Colbert Weighs In On Why Late-Night Talk Shows Should Continue To Exist.  “Well, we are like your friend who at the end of the day paid attention to what happened today more than you did. And then we curate that back to you at the end of the day. But it’s really more about how we feel about—or I, as the person who is the vehicle for that—how we felt about today.”

We’ve come a long way from when Johnny Carson told 60 Minutes’ Mike Wallace the exact opposite in 1979:

Incidentally, the GQ scribe interviewing Colbert seems to have quite a different approach to his subject than Sydney Sweeney’s interlocutor, who was desperate to finally be the one who got Sweeney to cancel herself: Sydney Sweeney Is Repeatedly Badgered by a Woke Ugly Karen “Journalist” To Apologize for Being White and Pretty, and Keeps On Not Apologizing.

The woke left media is still demanding Sydney Sweeney apologize for her “great genes/jeans” ad. They are still after her to admit it was a Race Crime to make so many neurotic, hysterical, internet-addicted Karens upset by making a dumb pun Brooke Shields made in her jeans ads in 1980.

This gross, manipulative cow interviewing her even demanded she apologize for being “white” and speaking, she claims, of “genetic superiority.”

Sweeney — get this — refused to apologize.

This was the same leather helmet-era playbook the DNC-MSM tried on Taylor Swift a decade ago and similarly crashed and burned, but hey, keep flucking that chicken, I guess.

Posted at 1:22 pm by Ed Driscoll on Nov 7th, 2025

November 6, 2025

ACTRESS ADMONISHES AUDIENCE:

Posted at 8:45 pm by Ed Driscoll on Nov 6th, 2025

BYRON YORK: Dick Cheney’s complicated legacy.

Trump called the Iraq war “a big, fat mistake,” and Republican crowds applauded. He called the entire Bush-Cheney administration a “disaster.” He dumped all over the Bush-Cheney legacy and went on to win the Republican nomination. Things had changed.

Still, Cheney actually supported Trump as the Republican nominee in 2016. Only after the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot did Cheney declare Trump a “coward” and a “threat to our republic.” Cheney ultimately cast his last vote for president for Kamala Harris in 2024.

By then, Cheney’s brand of Republican politics, whatever you might think of it, had receded far into the past. The man who was Gerald Ford’s chief of staff half a century earlier could find no place in today’s GOP politics. The bitter irony was that Cheney, with the misadventure in Iraq and the calamitous end of the Bush-Cheney administration, had himself contributed to creating Trump’s Republican Party.

Bush’s “misadventure in Iraq” might be remembered a bit differently, if Obama hadn’t thrown all of America’s gains away for a 2012 reelection selling point.

Meanwhile, at America’s Newspaper of Record:

Posted at 8:30 pm by Ed Driscoll on Nov 6th, 2025

SYDNEY SWEENEY REFUSES TO APOLOGIZE ABOUT AMERICAN EAGLE JEANS COMMERCIAL: “The Ad Spoke For Itself.”

Katherine Stoeffel [of GQ] first asked Sydney Sweeney if she was surprised by the reaction and backlash that the ad was met with. The talented actress was very quick to admit that she couldn’t believe how big it had gotten, and that in her mind, she was just doing a clothing commercial:

“I did a jean ad. The reaction definitely was a surprise, but I love jeans. All I wear are jeans. I’m literally in jeans and a T-shirt every day of my life.”

The GQ features director then followed that up by asking how it felt to see that the President of the United States was weighing in on the matter (Trump called the ad “fantastic”). Stoeffel said that she would have probably been grateful to have high-profile people like the POTUS having her back, which kind of felt like a set up to get Sweeney to say the same thing.

But Sydney kept things cool and said she was busy filming a TV show when everything was really getting out of hand:

“It was surreal… it’s not that I didn’t have that feeling, but I wasn’t thinking of it like that. Or like, of any of it. I kind of just put my phone away. I was filming (Euphoria) every day.”

Finally, the interviewer from GQ stopped beating around the bush and opened the floor for the actress to say anything that was on her mind about the ad and the backlash. But what she was really doing was ever so graciously giving Sydney a chance to apologize for her involvement in the jeans/genes ad.

Sydney Sweeney didn’t take the bait, and refused to apologize:

 

Stoeffel may become a meme based on her exasperated reaction to Sweeney refusing to bend the knee to the stereotypical Condé Nast wokeness:

Posted at 8:14 pm by Ed Driscoll on Nov 6th, 2025

BOMB CANADA, THE CASE FOR WAR:

Posted at 6:45 pm by Ed Driscoll on Nov 6th, 2025

NUREMBERG: What Russell Crowe’s new film gets right — and wrong.

The movie’s script — adapted by Vanderbilt from the 2013 book The Nazi and the Psychiatrist by Jack El-Hai — is better than some of its acting. Goering accused the prosecutors of “American hypocrisy” and he was by no means wrong. It was a mistake to include in Nuremberg’s prosecution evidence of such episodes as the 1940 Luftwaffe bombing of Rotterdam, when Allied air forces had since flattened half the cities of Europe. It seemed even to many contemporaries a travesty that Soviet judges sat on the bench at Nuremburg alongside the British, French and Americans: until at least 1942 Stalin had murdered far more people than Hitler.

It is chilling to hear Goering offer some of the same excuses for dispensing with the processes of democracy that are offered today by American Maga chiefs. This does not brand the latter as Nazis but it reflects a matching, terrifying contempt for law.

So terrifying and contemptuous, that the fascistic Drumph and his minions in the Führerbunker have gone along (albeit sometimes grudgingly) with every rogue judge’s decision, appealing them to the Supreme Court (unlike his predecessor). I missed similar scenes in Laurence Olivier’s The World at War. 

Posted at 6:22 pm by Ed Driscoll on Nov 6th, 2025

CHANGE: Ford’s electric dream in tatters as automaker plots ending battery-powered version of America’s best-selling truck after huge losses.

Ford is considering scrapping the electric version of its F-150 pickup — once billed as the future of American trucks — after racking up billions in losses and watching demand collapse.

Executives are in active talks about axing the money-losing F-150 Lightning altogether, sources told the Wall Street Journal, in what could become the first major casualty of America’s faltering electric vehicle revolution.

The Lightning, launched with fanfare in 2021 and hailed by CEO Jim Farley as a ‘smartphone that can tow,’ was supposed to mark a new era for Ford. President Joe Biden even took one for a spin, calling it ‘quick as hell.’

But the hype faded fast. Mainstream truck buyers balked at the steep price tag — starting closer to $50,000 instead of the promised $40,000 — and worried about the trucks’ limited range, especially when towing or driving in cold weather.

In October, Ford sold just 1,500 Lightnings nationwide — the fewest of any F-Series model — compared with 66,000 gas-powered trucks. The company has lost around $13 billion on electric vehicles since 2023.

‘The demand is just not there,’ said Adam Kraushaar, owner of Lester Glenn Auto Group in New Jersey. ‘We don’t order a lot of them because we don’t sell them.’

Good ol’ boys don’t want to drive electric pickup trucks? Who on earth could have seen this coming?

Posted at 4:14 pm by Ed Driscoll on Nov 6th, 2025

November 5, 2025

ROSS DOUTHAT: Mamdani Is at the Top of the Cyclone But It’s All Downhill From Here.

We’ve seen this play out before, and not just with mayors. New York voters elect someone on the far left and the whole country is obliged to get excited about them. It was true of AOC obviously and while she could be running for the Senate soon, she’s probably the exception that proves the rule. Other lefties who’ve made a splash recently haven’t been as successful.

Jamaal Bowman won a seat in congress in 2020 and was inaugurated in the squad. Cori Bush was elected in Missouri that year too. Both of them were examples of the young, vibrant left that had defeated stale Democratic incumbents. They were going to shake up Washington and be part of a resurgent left-wing.

And now, just a few years later, both of them are gone. The original four members of the squad—AOC, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, and Rashida Tlaib — are still around but their numbers aren’t growing and their impact seems pretty limited.

Mamdani’s best outcome, according to Douthat, is that the complete novice at any kind of work manages New York City so well that he, like AOC, can move on to some statewide office. But if things don’t go perfectly, he could just as easily wind up like Bill de Blasio, another leftist mayor who promised voters the moon and wound up disliked by most of them, to the point that he couldn’t win a seat in congress.

Mamdani’s problems have already started.

FDNY Commissioner Robert Tucker tendered his resignation Wednesday, the morning after Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral election victory at the polls, the Daily News has learned.

In a letter to Mayor Adams sent less than 12 hours after Mamdani’s win over former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and GOP candidate Curtis Sliwa, Tucker announced his last day will be Dec. 19…

Tucker, who is Jewish and a Zionist, felt he wouldn’t mesh well with Mamdani, a Democratic socialist, and his team, the source said.

Jim Geraghty adds, “I don’t want to soft-pedal the amount of damage Mamdani can do as mayor. But in the coming months and years, he is likely to be frustrated with how little unilateral power he has as mayor:”

The mayor cannot unilaterally raise taxes in the city. The New York City Council sets property tax rates, and the personal income tax rates are set by state law and administered and collected by the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance. Any tax hikes will have to be approved by the state legislature in Albany. Mamdani gets sworn into office on New Year’s Day; Governor Kathy Hochul and members of the New York state senate and state assembly are up for reelection in November 2026. None of them will be particularly eager to raise taxes in an election year.

Mamdani wants to make it free to ride city buses. Bus fares are controlled by the Metropolitan Transit Authority board. The MTA structure is . . . complicated, but the bottom line is that the mayor has limited influence over it:

Legally, it is an independent corporation, run by a board of directors. As the MTA told its bond investors as recently as February, it is “a corporate entity separate and apart from the state, without any power of taxation.” The MTA board has 14 voting members — six recommended by the governor directly, including the MTA’s chairperson and CEO, and four recommended to the governor by the mayor (the remainder come from other downstate New York counties) and approved by the state senate.

For Mamdani to establish his city-run grocery stores, he can use the city’s Economic Development Corporation, which already runs six New York City public markets.

Given how hamstrung Mamdani could be in office, America’s Newspaper of Record notes that America’s best-known Communist slacker may not have thought through his career ambitions sufficiently:

Posted at 4:30 pm by Ed Driscoll on Nov 5th, 2025

CONSERVING CONSERVATISM MOST CONSERVATIVELY! Worst Case of TDS On The Planet?

One of the most virulent cases of TDS ever observed on earth is the one that has absolutely ravaged the mind of former Republican commentator, Bill Kristol.  How bad has it gotten?  Well, if his TDS were a physical disease, Kristol would be on his deathbed, wasted away to 98 pounds, barely breathing, with barely a pulse, and a priest would be administering last rites.  As a psychological condition, though, it’s made him the equivalent of just another muttering lunatic on the subways or streets of New York, which will soon become more chaotic than ever when Mamdani takes over.

And speaking of Mamdani, when asked during an interview with Claremont McKenna College student newspaper The Forum if he would vote for Mamdani if he lived in New York City, Kristol replied, “You know, I think so.”

Case closed.  That should be the final nail in the coffin of Kristol’s destroyed reputation and credibility, when he says out loud in an interview that he would vote for an anti-Semitic Islamic communist if he were able to vote in that election. There is no path of rationalizations or pretzel logic that could lead anyone who ever called himself “conservative” to this place.  He has been utterly broken by Trump, and his TDS causes him to support anyone who is anti-Trump, even a commie.

“The idea of going back to Cuomo is just, I think, ridiculous,” Kristol said.  Right.  But voting for a 33-year-old communist Muslim who grew up in the lap of luxury, never had a real job, and whose policies would destroy the nation’s largest and most important city isn’t ridiculous?  Well then, what about voting for Curtis Sliwa?  I guess the subject never even came up.  Because Sliwa is the Republican.  But Kristol isn’t anymore.  So, he would vote for the grinning commie.

What exactly is Kristol now, an independent, a Democrat?  He makes no such claim, simply calling himself an “ex-Republican.”  He is editor-at-large of The Bulwark, whose “About” page says, “The Bulwark was founded to provide analysis and reporting in defense of America’s liberal democracy.  That’s it.  That’s the mission.”  What does that mean? It means . . . Never Trump.  And that means all the “analysis” and “reporting” will be intellectually polluted by the taint of TDS.

Related: “Inner:”

 

 

Posted at 4:14 pm by Ed Driscoll on Nov 5th, 2025

OLD AND BUSTED: No Kings!

The New Hotness? These Kings!

B.B. King:

Freddie King:

Albert King:

Carole King:

King Curtis:

Clarence Clemons, the King of the World:

And Jason King of Department S: 

Posted at 2:35 pm by Ed Driscoll on Nov 5th, 2025

ROGER KIMBALL: Time for a reckoning on the 2020 election.

In 2008 the super-smooth historic cleans-up-well rocket man Barack Obama got 69.4 million votes, crushing John McCain. (In 2012, Obama snagged just shy of 66 million.) In 2020 sleepy Joe Biden, campaigning from his basement, seems to have blown by Obama’s historic victory. Biden, remember, clocked in at 81.3 million votes. Turnout in that election was an astonishing 66.6 percent, a number that dwarfed Obama’s 61.6 in 2008. Amazing. Astonishing. Or anomaly number two?

It was such numbers that led some observers to speak not of “turnout” but rather of “turn-in” in the 2020 election. All those mail-in ballots. All those drop boxes. There were plenty of recounts following the 2020 election. But how many audits were there? It is one thing to count the number of pebbles in a box two or three separate times. It is something else to find out how the pebbles got there in the first place.

We haven’t done that. And, as the canny former prosecutor who writes on Substack under the soubriquet “Shipwreckedcrew” observed in a newsletter on October 26, it may well be “impossible to know with any certainty… whether Joe Biden or Donald Trump received more validly cast and counted ballots in the 2020 election.”

And that fact, the fact that we just do not know what happened in the 2020 election, means that lurking just behind the word “anomaly” is the word “fraud.” As Shipwreckedcrew notes, because every state has its own procedures for administering presidential elections and for dealing with challenges to the results, “there is no uniform standard for what is to happen if outcome-determinative fraud isdiscovered.” Moreover, “we do not have a solution for the problem of fraud that changes the outcome of a presidential election.”

Flashback: Time for Consequences: The “Cabal” who bragged about rigging the 2020 election stuck us with an incapable president at a time of crisis. Examples need to be made. “I would like to see some accountability for the election of 2020. A cabal of insiders colluded to control the outcome, through all sorts of underhanded tactics. (Tech companies censored the Hunter Biden laptop story broken by The Post, and retired intelligence officials falsely claimed it was fake, Russian disinformation). The press allowed Biden to campaign from his basement, covering up the truth that he was already unfit for office.”

Posted at 2:22 pm by Ed Driscoll on Nov 5th, 2025
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