THE BEST AND BRIGHTEST, BIDEN EDITION:
This whole interview is a mess. She starts half her answers with "no, no, no, wait a minute" because she has to clean up her previous response. And it's still not clear by the end what she thinks about anything. How this person was picked for this job is incomprehensible.
— Colin Duffy (@TheRightDuff) October 27, 2025
Exit quote: “(I know why she was picked.)”
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Dear Gavin: Oh Dear Lord PLEASE Run for President. “Here’s the thing you don’t and maybe can’t understand: Just because you’ve risen to the top of California politics doesn’t mean you’re ready for the national stage. California is a bubble. You are the boy who lived inside it for 58 years. National politics is a leaky Wuhan lab. Get the picture?”
DATING IN THE 21ST CENTURY: I Tried to Have Sex With AI Clive Owen. “I RECENTLY HEARD that a former friend was now heavily into an S/M relationship with Pedro Pascal. This was moderately surprising, as she’s a lesbian and he’s an AI chatbot, but what is fluidity for if not to explore previously untapped facets of ourselves? Let’s not get all rigid about identities. I decided I wanted in on this.”
Maybe we need red flag laws for AI and extremely neurotic, lonely people.
OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY: The Left’s Concept of Charity Begins and Ends at YOUR Wallet.
DRONE DEFENSE: Everything Old Is New Again. “With the widespread advent of drone warfare, a whole lot of air defense doctrine needs to be rewritten. Ground-To-Air interceptor missiles that were cost-effective for multi-million fighter planes aren’t for thousands upon thousands of cheap drones, some of which cost less than $1,000 a pop. Cheap kinetic kill shells, AKA ‘ack-ack,’ the mainstay of World War II, are making a comeback in a big way.”
I’m reminded of something then-CNO Admiral Mike Boorda said 30 years ago, lamenting the retirement of the Navy’s battleships: “It is nice occasionally if the target costs more than the bullet you shoot.”
IT’S AMAZING WHAT YOU CAN DO WHEN YOU TRY:
Portland (Oct. 26) — In a final move to argue the city doesn’t need the National Guard to maintain order, @PortlandPolice and state troopers dismantle & confiscate leftover Antifa riot camp supplies. Why didn’t they do this months ago? Video by @nicksortor:pic.twitter.com/zpboCeoqi1
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) October 27, 2025
Trump got Portland to police itself… there really isn’t anything he can’t do.
DEAL WITH THE DEVIL: UK Muslim Tells UK Progressive This Brutal Truth.
MUCH MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: Trump Administration Cuts Flow of Tax Dollars Funneled to Leftist Gun Control Orgs and NGOs.
DESPERATE AND DOWNWARDLY MOBILE:
I think conservatives understand Zohran was an avatar for downwardly mobile creative affluents and that he focused on their status and income anxieties.
I don’t think he has any real prescriptions to fix their problems but he is an effective instantiation of their political and… https://t.co/yaqMTuayu7
— Coddled Affluent Professional (@feelsdesperate) October 27, 2025
It might be much simpler than even that: Mamdani isn’t just a lefty — he’s a young and trendy lefty.
MOST CORRUPT ADMINISTRATION IN AMERICAN HISTORY: Arctic Frost probe targeting Trump conservatives born at highest levels of Biden White House, DOJ.
SOME SMALL MEASURE OF ACCOUNTABILITY: College Fires Staffer Who Said ICE Agents Should Be ‘Wiped Out.’
ANALYSIS: TRUE. The More Disturbing the Dirt, the Better Democrats Like Their Dirtbags.
Am I shocked by the myriad scandals of Graham Platner, the cosplay workin’ man running for the Democrat nomination for Maine senator, a guy with more baggage than the third wife of a Middle Eastern emir? Absolutely not. Sure, he has a Nazi tattoo and a history of training Antifa terrorists – who of course don’t exist because Antifa isn’t a thing, even though he seems to think it is. Platner also has some controversial critiques regarding African American tipping habits; regardless, here’s another tip—bet that if he gets nominated, he still wins the votes of all the black people in Maine, both of them. The party poobahs are scared because he’s a nut who’ll likely lose in the general, and they’ve dropped a bunch of other revelations obtained in what had to be the world’s easiest opposition research gig, but none of that matters. What matters is that he really, really hates Donald Trump, and that’s enough for his party’s base. He’s their man, polling at 58 percent in the primary, and I am whatever the opposite of being surprised is.
The Democrats are having some serious candidate selection problems, but their solution is to march ahead with whatever psychopath they’ve anointed, regardless. They’re going to keep doing it because it’s working, at least in blue areas. In a few weeks, we’re going to have a mayor of New York City who is both a communist and a jihadist. The other day, he had a meet and greet with an unindicted co-conspirator from the first World Trade Center bombing. Oh well, who cares? Free buses and take that Trump! All the bad stuff that’s come out about him makes them like him even more.
It’s Kurt Schlichter, so read the whole thing.
AN OPEN LETTER: Dear Gavin: Oh Dear Lord PLEASE Run for President.
NOBODY LIKES A SCOLD: They Tried to Guilt Trip Us Over the East Wing. Conservatives’ Response is Delicious.
EVEN ARTIFICIAL LIFE FINDS A WAY: Are AI Models Developing Their Own ‘Survival Mode’? This New Study Is A Wake-Up Call. “Palisade is one of the companies that is evaluating the possibility of AI developing potentially dangerous capabilities. It described scenarios where the AI models were given a task and explicitly told to shut themselves down. Certain models, particularly Grok 4 and GPT-03, attempted to sabotage shutdown instructions in the updated setup without any explanation.”
Everything needs a hardware cutoff switch.
THAT’S THE WAY TO BET: The Fight to Deport Mamdani May Fizzle.
WELL, WHEN YOU PUT IT THAT WAY…:
You mean the richest man on earth saved our civilization from a woke low-IQ tyranny instigated by your friends and risked 44B to turn Twitter into the only free speech haven?
That is correct.
And personally, I am very grateful. https://t.co/unoY1voMuJ
— Jo Bhakdi (@JOBhakdi) October 26, 2025
GABRIEL ROSSMAN: The Coming AI Cataclysm.
One sometimes hears that instead of waging the impossible fight of getting kids not to use AI, we should teach them how to use it. There is a logic to this. When a technology becomes more available, wages go up for those who have human capital that complements the technology. But this raises the question of what sort of human capital is a complement to—as opposed to a substitute for—artificial intelligence and the corollary of whether such human capital is best cultivated through use of artificial intelligence or abstention from it? The usual assumption is that the most valuable skill one can acquire is prompt engineering. This is indeed an important skill to have, but I am skeptical that one learns to interact well with an AI through off-loading reading and writing tasks to it during one’s education.
My experience when I have caught university students making unauthorized use of AI is that the cheaters are too ignorant and lazy to know what good output would look like. Sometimes these errors are very obvious, as when two of my students turned in memos that did not summarize the assigned reading but one with a similar title. Knowing what good output looks like requires skills and knowledge that can only be acquired the old-fashioned way, by doing one’s own work. And I am talking about students at a selective university a few years into the AI boom. How much worse must it be at a junior high chosen at random? And how much worse will it be when students who used AI for their entire time in junior high and high school age into first college and then the labor force?
Maybe those kids would have been better off learning trades, even before AI.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Kamala Harris Is Spending a Lot of Time With Her Imaginary Friends. “We’ve been having a grand time poking fun at her train wreck of a book tour. Her delusion has actually metastasized since her ignominious defeat last November. This loon turns every major defeat into a perverse self-affirmation. That breakfast Franzia sure is powerful. Now it appears that she’s completely unaware that she has been doing nothing but firebombing bridges with her book and the tour interviews.”
SEXY, TOO: Rebels turn right: Questioning leftist ideas is ‘dangerous, alluring.’
“The real political energy” on campuses is “on the right,” writes Julia Steinberg, a recent Stanford graduate, in The Atlantic. She started college as a progressive, but was frustrated by classrooms where “everyone was afraid of offending everyone else.” It wasn’t socially acceptable to disagree about ideas.
She ended up with other ex-liberals on the Stanford Review, where the staff “included MAGA diehards, traditional Catholics, anti-Trump neoconservatives, isolationists, anti-identity-politics liberals, Luddites, and (in my case) techno-capitalists, all challenging one another’s ideas.”
When Steinberg talked to students who wanted to write for the Review, they talked about Covid lockdowns, cancel culture and the “stifling” progressivism of their high schools. “Questioning ideas seemed dangerous — and alluring,” she writes. “Preachy, judgmental authority has never sat well with young people. The young people of today see that authority in the establishment left, not the right.”
This right here is why “No Kings” and so many other protests look like Metamucil ads.
SAD, BUT HARDLY UNIQUE TO RUSSIA — PUTIN’S STUPID WAR JUST SPED THINGS UP: After the Purges and the Wars: Why Russia Keeps Running Out of Tomorrow. “Slogans can’t hide the hard truth: Too many people have died, too many women have left, and too few believe the future is worth having children for.”
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Chicago Declares War On Lawful Gun Owners. “Both McWilliams and Washington are black, and CBS heavily pursues that angle. I guess we’re supposed to believe that a city with radical leftwing black Democratic Mayor Brandon Johnson, running a one party Democratic city who hasn’t had a Republican mayor since 1931, in a state run by Democratic Governor J.B. Pritzker since 2019, is institutionally racist against black people. Maybe. But judging from their rhetoric and actions, Chicago and Illinois Democrats seem institutionally hostile to lawful gun owners of all races.”
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