IT’S CERTAINLY A TALE AS OLD AS THE DNC:
We've seen this movie before, it's a very common attempt to manipulate the voter pool.
Phase 1: Bogus polls put the Democrat way ahead during most of the run-up in an attempt to demoralize Republican voters.
Phase 2: Bogus polls are allowed to tighten to a very narrow D lead… https://t.co/4CC7ens8Mk
— Eric S. Raymond (@esrtweet) October 18, 2026
THEY AREN’T IGNORANT…:
Starting with the Coleman Report in 1966, continuing with studies of prison rehabilitation, job training programs, causes of poverty, race differences in IQ, and causes of sex differences in occupational preferences. To name a few. https://t.co/PXZ6Nt9QF1
— Charles Murray (@charlesmurray) October 18, 2026
…it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so, the wise man once said.
ROBERT STACY MCCAIN: Michael Tracey: Hero for a Crazy Time.
Having flattered Tracey by comparing him to Christopher Hitchens, I’ll further flatter him with another comparison. Like Hunter S. Thompson, Tracey knows the value of using vivid language. In the very first sentence of this piece about Kristy Makuta, we find “the defamatory maelstrom of Epstein hysteria” — a decisive choice of words, an upfront declaration of authorial intent. Promoters of Epstein hysteria are responsible for “a tornado of unrelenting slime … noxious falsities … a tsunami of pure sleaze … loads of demented garbage,” Tracey declares in the space of a single paragraph. Further displaying his penchant for strong and colorful description, Tracey labels Makuta’s claim to Epstein victimhood ”one of the craziest cons in all of Epstein lore,” involving “brazenly faked” evidence in “a whirlwind of unvarnished lunacy.”
To back up these strong phrases, Tracey has the receipts. He knows how to obtain court records and utilize them to debunk the bogus victimhood claims by which these grifters have profited through litigation. You really need to read the whole thing to understand how the “Epstein files” has spiraled completely out of control, with clearly innocent people (including Democratic Party fundraiser Dana Chasin) being smeared as participants in child sex-trafficking. Decent people out to be outraged about these lies, and yet somehow Michael Tracey is the bad guy for telling the truth?
Read the whole thing.
IT ISN’T LIKE THEY WEREN’T WARNED:
The look of a leftist discovering reality – this is not how she imagined it – it is called a cognitive dissonance.
The French leftists are going to get a lot of that. https://t.co/K9GEpu5FRU pic.twitter.com/8SRaxw5EEk
— Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 (@Kristof_Poland) October 17, 2026
ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTION: What Caliber For Giant Nocturnal Ten-Pound Crabs?
REMEMBER THIS?
Like it never happened.
Insane. https://t.co/rpKDxWWhwo
— C3 (@C_3C_3) October 17, 2026
WELL, YES:
🚨 OMG. Stunning resurfaced footage shows Ugandan Mayor Mamdani saying the plan is to manipulate white leftists into electing 3rd worlders like him
Spoken in his 3rd world accent: "You need someone to be a validator, tell them to TRUST US."
🤯🤯
"Minority communities, because… pic.twitter.com/dtIsGUOmSz
— Pulse Leaks 1.0 (@Pulse_Leaks) October 16, 2026
We’ve seen something similar play out in Europe, and we know what comes next:
If this isn’t civil war, what is it? https://t.co/hpfVOeaZJj
— Rod Dreher (@roddreher) October 17, 2026
It’s an invasion, Rod — those people were never French.
RELIGION OF PEACE UPDATE:
What they simulated on this statue's eyes is also what the Bataclan terrorists did to countless victims 10 years ago.
Believe them when they tell you who they are. pic.twitter.com/UzPl8zq6oX
— 𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎ (@NiohBerg) October 17, 2026
HONESTLY, IT’S BEEN A LONG TIME…:
Un. Fucking. Believable.
I went to war for GWB. I regret every moment supporting him. Ever. https://t.co/kAC2rlVvO2
— Buzz Patterson (@BuzzPatterson) October 17, 2026
…since this kind of thing from a Bush family member was unbelievable.
THAT’S (D)IFFERENT BECAUSE SHUT UP:
Rashida Tlaib after Mar-a-Lago was raided:
"No one is above the law, no matter how rich or powerful they are. Let justice be served."
Rashida Tlaib after Ilhan Omar's house was raided:
"DHS raiding a Member of Congress's home is exactly what a fascist police state does."
— Nick Adams (@NickAdamsinUSA) October 16, 2026
Double standards are the best because you get twice as many.
REAL-WORLD HERO:
A 16-year-old girl was kidnapped at gunpoint while waiting for her school bus. Just 30 minutes later, she stood beside her alleged kidnapper inside a gas station and silently mouthed one word to the clerk: “Help.”
It happened in Michigan, where a stranger had forced the teenager… pic.twitter.com/A0EUmphcad
— Hosna ⚖️ בניטה (@DOGEQEEN) October 16, 2026
More:
It happened in Michigan, where a stranger had forced the teenager into a van at gunpoint. When the man brought her into a Sunoco gas station and demanded that she buy him cigarettes, clerk Abdulrahman Abohatem immediately sensed something was wrong. The girl was visibly frightened, and her desperate attempt to signal him confirmed his worst fears.
Abdulrahman had no idea what the man might do next. But instead of staying safely behind the protective glass at his counter, he stepped out and confronted him. He physically placed himself between the stranger and the girl, told her to get behind him, and ordered the man out of the store.
It was an extraordinary act of courage. Abdulrahman was an ordinary gas station employee putting himself in harm’s way to protect a teenager he had never met.
More at the link.
THE FUTURE…:
2 nights ago I saw a car fly.
This morning I saw a taxi without a driver.
A few weeks ago I saw a rocket caught out of mid air.
In Vegas I got to the convention center going through a tunnel.
During the floods in Texas, I used Starlink to connect to First Responders.…
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) October 17, 2026
…and its enemies:
"I don't want flying cars. I want raw nature and real human connection."
Brother…
YOU are CURRENTLY SELLING $50 worth of protein bars that were not foraged, not hunted, and not hand-pressed by a village elder at dawn but manufactured in a FACILITY on a production line powered… https://t.co/AGARQeCue0
— Matt Van Swol (@mattvanswol) October 17, 2026
How many years — decades? — closer has Musk brought the future?
So far.
REINDUSTRIALIZATION:
The manufacturing recovery cont'd in Sep w/ industrial production up 0.7% M/M and 2.2% Y/Y, fastest annual increase in 4 yrs and closing in on record high; capacity utilization also cont'd marching higher, up 1.2 percentage points Y/Y: pic.twitter.com/sU9WXB07du
— E.J. Antoni, Ph.D. (@RealEJAntoni) October 16, 2026
RELIGION OF PEACE UPDATE: A nightmare for pilgrims traveling to holy sites amid Houthi strikes. “Activist ‘Islamophobia’ articles and condemnations about Israel’s war on jihadists occupy more space and get more attention among the Western woke mainstream media, than: Muslim on Muslim violence, Palestinian violence on Jewish civilians, black-on-black violence, which is a massive problem everywhere (not just in American inner cities, but across the Caribbean and Africa as well), and the ever-ignored Christian persecution, including a genocide in Nigeria by Muslims.”
THAT’S DIFFERENT BECAUSE SHUT UP:
Also interesting is his bio on Wikipedia, which calls him a former litigator. Folks were very unhappy with our recently departed Press Secretary for purporting to be a General Counsel. Litigator seems as bad if not worse. It all seems likely to violate New York Jud. Law 478 pic.twitter.com/fZ5lqlOV3s
— Eric W. (@EWess92) October 17, 2026
And of course the woman didn’t get a pass — because she’s a Republican.
WHEN YOU’RE A TAX HIKE AND YOU’VE LOST THE DENVER POST…: Denver Post editorial board endorses ‘no’ on Amendment 87. “The Denver Post’s editorial board has come out against Amendment 87, the proposed graduated income tax ballot measure. In an Oct. 11 editorial, the board argued that extracting $2.7 billion in a single year from the state’s largest businesses would ‘do more harm than good.'”
You don’t say.
STANDARDS AREN’T DISCRIMINATION:
For god’s sake do not bend to this lobby seeking to corrupt a basic standard required for minimum standards of safety on the roads and look with skepticism at any lobby that would seek to exploit claims of “discrimination” toward that end.
We must discriminate against all… https://t.co/VbC3iaskQa
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) October 16, 2026
FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: The (Almost) All U-Haul Edition. “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week, we’ll learn three times why the U-Haul is not your getaway vehicle, which has got to be at least four more times than Florida Man ever figured it out. Plus a rip-current hero, and the best place for doughnuts in Indiana.”
WELL, WHEN YOU PUT IT THAT WAY…:
Salem's Witch Trials look less crazy by the day https://t.co/iqOoSj48SV
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) October 16, 2026
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: 1836 LLC Sues ATF Challenging Constitutionality of Regulating Silencers Made, Sold and Kept in Texas. “At the center of the case is a straightforward constitutional question: If a suppressor is manufactured in Texas, sold to a Texan, and never leaves Texas, what constitutional authority does Congress have to require the manufacturer to obtain a federal license?”
The Commerce Clause could use a revisit.
I DON’T LIKE THE SOUND OF THESE BONCENTRATION BAMPS: DSA Senate Hopeful Found a Use for Prisons: Her Opponent.
Classical reference in the headline.
[BLANK] WITH FRICKEN LASER BEAMS: Army Wants High-Energy Laser Weapons It Can Put On ‘Any Vehicle In The Motorpool.’ “The U.S. Army is pursuing a family of modular and scalable laser directed energy weapons that can be fitted to any vehicle in its inventory. The service sees this as key to expanding the operational use of lasers, particularly to provide an extra layer of defense against drone threats, and outside of dedicated units. The Army is already fielding high-energy lasers operationally on a limited basis, including along the border wth Mexico, but the technology has faced continued hurdles to more widespread use in recent years.”
Look, nobody said putting lasers on any vehicle in the motorpool was going to be easy. That doesn’t mean it isn’t worthwhile.
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