DO DEMOCRATS HAVE ANY NON-GARBAGE CANDIDATES IN THE PIPELINE? Michigan Senate Candidate Abdul El-Sayed Deleted Post Calling Border Patrol ‘White Supremacists’ and Blaming US for Illegal Immigration.
Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
November 12, 2025
COMMUNISTS ARE JUST NAZIS WITH BETTER HAIR — AND PR.
108 years ago today, the Russian revolution changed the world.
Lenin and the Bolsheviks, under the banner of communism, unleashed policies that led to the starvation of 40–50 million people.
You should not be a communist. https://t.co/FFLcLbB1f9
— PragerU (@prageru) November 11, 2025
WHY DO DEMOCRATS HATE PARENTS AND SCHOOLKIDS?
Loathsome. He’s actually telling *parents* who want choices about their own kids’ education (his family can do whatever it wants because they’re loaded) to “f_ck all the way off.” https://t.co/leUmzWcymM
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) November 11, 2025
November 11, 2025
AN IDEA SO CRAZY, IT JUST MIGHT WORK!
Did they consider not lying for political gain? https://t.co/f8nuy1ZMjB
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) November 11, 2025
HIS EVIL TRANSCENDS TIME AND SPACE:
I can’t believe how Trump created and passed Obamacare. That bastard. https://t.co/InATeoMX93
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) November 11, 2025
OFFLOADING YOUR MENTAL TASKS TO DEVICES HAS ITS PRICE: Memory Problems Are Surging in Adults Under 40, Large US Study Finds. Cognitive offloading leads to cognitive atrophy.
OVERPRODUCTION OF ELITES: Grade Inflation Produced Mamdani’s Proletariat: Unemployable college grads blame capitalism, but the real culprit is higher-ed subsidies.
Palantir CEO Alex Karp attributed Zohran Mamdani’s election as New York mayor to a reverse class warfare: “I think the average Ivy League grad voting for this mayor is highly annoyed that their education is not that valuable, and the person down the street who knows how to drill for oil and gas, who’s moved to Texas, has a more valuable profession.”
He has a point. Colleges are graduating a surfeit of young people who lack hard or even soft skills. Even as employers complain about a dearth of qualified workers, a growing college-educated proletariat can’t find jobs they want to work. They believe their degrees aren’t being adequately rewarded by the free market and blame capitalism.
The real culprit is enormous government subsidization of higher education, which has distorted the labor supply. More than seven million bachelor’s degree recipients have entered the labor force since January 2020. Meanwhile, the number of workers without college degrees has declined by about 200,000 and those with associate degrees has shrunk by 1.1 million.
As baby boomers in blue-collar professions retire, labor shortages are growing in industries like construction, trucking and manufacturing. President Trump’s deportations compound the problem. Nearly 50% of small-business owners reported few or no qualified job applicants last month in a National Federation of Independent Business survey. “Finding qualified workers is proving to be impossible,” a Missouri manufacturer told the NFIB. The sentiment was echoed by a California auto shop: “We need to teach the trades in high school again. Trade jobs can pay well, but there is a real shortage of people willing/able to do the job.”
Too many young college grads are unemployed because they aren’t willing or able to do the jobs that are available. As of October 2024, 30.4% of 20- to 29-year-olds who had earned bachelor’s degrees that year weren’t working, compared with 21.9% for those who had earned associate degrees during the same period, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Fortunately for many college grads, they have parents with the means to support them financially while they search for the perfect job. Young adults with lesser pedigrees may not be as picky about jobs because they can’t afford to be. They will deliver packages for Amazon or man a supermarket cash register to pay their bills.
Recent college grads view such drudgery as beneath them and think employers are too demanding. “For Gen Z-ers, Work Is Now More Depressing Than Unemployment,” read a New York Times op-ed headline last week. “The entire process of getting and keeping an entry-level job has become a grueling and dehumanizing ordeal over the past decade,” the author writes. Young people grouse that employers are monitoring their productivity with “surveillance state technologies” and expect them to “do six jobs in a 40-hour workweek.”
Heaven forefend that they be asked to complete multiple assignments in a week—like kids in grade school once were expected to do before schools started banning homework. And how dare employers refuse to pay them for scrolling TikTok?
It’s understandable that grads might feel indignant about employer demands after having earned stellar GPAs for little effort and mediocre work. A recent Harvard report found that A’s account for about 60% of grades, compared with 25% two decades ago. Some 80% of grades awarded at Yale in 2023 were A’s or A-minuses.
It almost requires an effort to get a C. In a Substack essay, Johns Hopkins political scientist Yascha Mounk observes: “In one of the oldest jokes about the Soviet Union, a worker says, ‘We pretend to work, and they pretend to pay us.’ To an uncomfortable degree, American universities now work in a similar fashion: Students pretend to do their work, and academics pretend to grade them.” Parents and students who pay $80,000 a year expect high marks in return.
Yep.
I CERTAINLY HOPE THIS IS TRUE:
🚨BREAKING: Keirs Starmer's government is completely falling apart behind the scenes tonight, per Bloomberg
Starmer has days left… pic.twitter.com/2Q0XgJWXHh
— Inevitable West (@Inevitablewest) November 11, 2025
FOLLOW THE SCIENCE: The science of weight loss—and why your brain is wired to keep you fat.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: China’s Galactic Energy fails Ceres-1 rocket satellite mission launch.
FOLLOW THE SCIENCE: FDA removes black box warning on hormone replacement therapy.
WHEN CNN DOES ACTUAL JOURNALISM — CONCERNING A DEMOCRAT! — IT’S WORTH NOTING:
I can’t believe I’m saying this but CNN just did some amazing reporting
CNN used internet archives to find a top Democrat running for Senate in Michigan scrubbed his social media of thousands of posts showing his intention is to defund the police
Muslim Democrat candidate Abdul… pic.twitter.com/HQ7lqQsY1R
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) November 11, 2025
#JOURNALISM: “Bad edit.” You mean “deliberate lie.”
Have you noticed that whenever the press does anything bad, your “two cents” is always that it’s the fault of the “right wing” for noticing, that it doesn’t actually matter, and that, in fact, the real problem is that people are criticizing journalists? https://t.co/n57nP4Bawg
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) November 11, 2025
Related:
They are really trying to run with the "editorial mistake"
He goes on to say that the edit didn't change the message at all, and that this is all a political hit job on the BBC.
You do NOT hate journalists enough. https://t.co/Xew0JlhWzm
— Grummz (@Grummz) November 10, 2025
DIVERSITY IS OUR STRENGTH, MINNEAPOLIS EDITION: American Elections Are Now Being Decided Based On Tribal Blood Feuds In Africa: Somalis are divided into various clans, many of which are openly hostile to one another.
WELCOME TO THE 21ST CENTURY:
Literally https://t.co/8YoK1HRut2
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 10, 2025
JOHN LUCAS: Veterans You Should Remember Today.
Related: Sappers In The Wire.
#JOURNALISM:
NEW HOAX JUST DROPPED
“The Trump admin removed a memorial for black soldiers”
Only when you scroll alllll the way down do they admit that it actually works on a rotation and a panel which happened to feature a black servicemember was simply rotated.
You don’t hate the media… pic.twitter.com/gY6vL3fHhV
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 10, 2025
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:
Congress Prepares To Pivot From Doing Nothing Because Of The Shutdown To Doing Nothing Because They’re Congress https://t.co/U9FQCFuUnI pic.twitter.com/icNuKnIh6y
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) November 10, 2025