DOOM AND GLOOM AND… A BOOMING TOURISM INDUSTRY?
In 2004, the BBC warned the Maldives were "soon to be uninhabitable," claiming sea levels were rising 0.9 cm per year and that 80% of the islands could vanish within a century.
More than two decades later though, reality says otherwise.
The Maldives haven't sunk, they've… pic.twitter.com/im8GNHlx4l
— Electroverse (@Electroversenet) April 9, 2026
UNSUSTAINABLE: U.S. added $1.2 trillion to national debt in six months.
The U.S. government added $1.2 trillion to the national debt over the past six months, borrowing $163 billion during March alone, the Congressional Budget Office reports.
At the current rate of borrowing, federal deficits are on track to top $2 trillion by October, the end of the current fiscal year.
But the president’s recent budget request – which lawmakers will use as a blueprint for the 12 fiscal year 2027 appropriations bills – calls for $2.1 trillion in discretionary spending alone, without touching entitlement program spending.
“Both Congress and the President continue to ignore the urgent need to get our borrowing under control,” Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, said in a statement.
“As lawmakers consider the budget process for the upcoming fiscal year, we hope that they come up with plans to reduce deficits from the too-high 6% of GDP to a more sustainable 3% of GDP; secure our nation’s ailing trust funds for Social Security, Medicare, and highways; and ultimately fix the broken process that got us into this mess.”
That would be nice, yes, but unlikely under a GOP Congress and impossible under a Democrat one.
TIMES CHANGE:
If the remainder of Spain in the 8th Century was ruled by weak men like Pedro Sanchez, it would have neever been able to decolonise.
It would have been a fully islamic nation today, indistinguishable from Morocco.
Spain fought 800 years against the forces it now bends over for. pic.twitter.com/3YvoDlMhPE
— 𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎ (@NiohBerg) April 9, 2026
I liked Spain better before the Counter-Reconquista.
HELL, NOBODY CAN SEEM TO AGREE WHICH COUNTRIES ARE EVEN INVOLVED IN THE CEASEFIRE: Who’s in Charge in Iran? A Splintered Government Makes Negotiations Nearly Impossible.
YOUR DAILY HELPING OF SCHADENFREUDE:
In 2024 George Conway said that Trump was most likely going to prison for the rest of his life. They laughed and declared that they were "taking back the red hats."
Now Conway is crying that he blew a million dollars on Biden. So perfect.pic.twitter.com/r4vCNUhOM6 https://t.co/bRUwLLUkYQ
— MAZE (@mazemoore) April 9, 2026
AND LIKELY NEVER WILL: Nothing Has Changed for Michael Moore. “I know… your immediate reaction is a quiet laugh. But he’s not kidding. He’s deadly serious, apparently hoping we’ve forgotten his track record of faux documentaries.”
OOPS: Russia Cracks Down On VPNs, Brings Down Banks. “Feeling that too much military information has been leaking out via such channels as Telegram (it only took them four years of war to figure this out), Russia officials decided to crack down on VPN use, leading to one of the greatest examples of unintended consequences in recent memory.”
MEANWHILE, ON M-SNOW:
“Say what you will about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it’s an ethos.” https://t.co/LjOdih36NW
— @instapundit (@instapundit) April 9, 2026
COLONIALISM, STRAIGHT UP: ‘Get over it’: Georgetown professor dismisses concerns about Muslim ‘rape gangs.’
The Alwaleed bin Talal Chair of Islamic Civilization at Georgetown University recently told social media users to “get over it” in response to concerns about a link between “rape gangs” and Islam.
Professor Jonathan Brown dismissed concerns about the crisis in the United Kingdom in two now-deleted X posts, the Daily Caller reported.
Rupert Lowe, an Independent Member of Parliament, wrote in a post on X, “There is a link between the rape gangs and one particular religion – we have seen it again and again and again at our inquiry.”
“That religion is Islam. As a country, we must have the courage to face up to that fact,” he wrote.
Brown replied, “get over it.”
He then wrote the same phrase in response to another user who called his remark “absurdly evil.”
The Alwaleed bin Talal chair was funded by a donation from Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal as part of a $40 million gift split between Georgetown and Harvard in 2005.
SOLDIERS ALWAYS KNOW WHO HAS THEIR BACKS AND WHO DOESN’T:
Disney needs to cast this guy to play Disgust in a live action Inside Out movie. pic.twitter.com/8cLXXmfuSW
— Rebecca Tucker (@RebeccaTucker85) April 9, 2026
TO BE FAIR, THAT’S HIS ENTIRE SCHTICK: Lawrence O’Donnell Gets the Vapors After Pete Hegseth Uses the Term ‘Man’ to Describe Rescued Pilot.
JONATHAN TURLEY: USC Bans Men from Gym Areas to Avoid Triggering Women and Non-Binary Students. “According to the New York Post, the University of Southern California has adopted a policy banning men from certain workout areas. The plan, pushed by an LGBTQ+ group, is designed to prevent the presence of males from triggering women or non-binary students. It may, however, trigger a major legal challenge.”
THERE ARE CERTAINLY TOO FEW TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE: There Are No ‘Moderate’ Democrats When it Comes to Gun Rights.
OOF:
Who better to advise on aiding and abetting mullahs? https://t.co/R9dUgZbzrw
— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) April 9, 2026
THIS DATE IN HISTORY: The Guns Fell Silent at Appomattox, and the Reconciliation Began.
OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY: Education is fond of fads: If it feels good, fund it. “Among other things, Pondiscio writes, change is how administrators show they’re leaders. The new superintendent” announces a bold vision, rebrands existing efforts, and introduces a new set of priorities. Three years later, often before results are fully visible, that leader departs,” and a new one comes in with bold new ideas. If the experiment is working, it’s hard to sustain the success.”
Too many administrators, not enough parental control and oversight.
WELL, THEY WOULDN’T WANT INELIGIBLE CANS GETTING COUNTED:
You need an id to return cans in CT. pic.twitter.com/JzUu3TjIpb
— Scott (@Thebigblackram) April 9, 2026
WHEN YOU’RE TOO FREE-SPENDING FOR ALBANY: Mamdani’s plan for free buses in NYC hits pothole, told by Albany ‘just not financially feasible.’
New York state Sen. Jeremy Cooney, who is chairman of the upper chamber’s Transportation Committee, said lawmakers want to make transit more affordable, but “making every bus in New York City free is just not financially feasible.”
“I would tell this to the mayor: I know you care about the most vulnerable,” Cooney said. “This is a way — working within the existing system — that we could increase support for the most vulnerable and start there, and then look to do an expansion of that.”
Cooney also said that while Mamdani has asked him for some things, he has not had a “direct ask” from the mayor about free buses.
Even Mamdani seems to know it’s a non-starter.
CRUEL BUT FAIR:
The Royal Navy is currently no match for the Russian Navy, which was defeated in the Black Sea by the Ukrainians, who do not have a navy. https://t.co/q4jXD29BMP
— Foster (@foster_type) April 9, 2026
WELL, WHEN YOU PUT IT THAT WAY…:
People forget that Neil DeGrasse Tyson and Bill Nye never put a damn thing into orbit besides their own egos, meanwhile it was chainsmoking rednecks with bachelor's degrees and fighter pilot jocks who got us to the moon on less computing power than a Gameboy https://t.co/gFEmX6OqOL
— Coop LoPresto (@LCplLoPro) April 7, 2026
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