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May 12, 2025
DON’T HAVE TO LIVE LIKE A REFUGEE:
Hey, liberals!! This is how real asylum seekers look like: COMPLETE families with women and children, and definitely not just large groups of military age males .
— booker9e1 (@booker9e1) May 12, 2025
UKRAINE HAS A WAR OF NATIONAL SURVIVAL TO FIGHT; WE HAVE LOBBYIST-CONTRACTORS — THIS IS THE DIFFERENCE:
This will be purchased at 1/100th the price of a equivalent US drone design🤷♂️⬇️ https://t.co/BgMYJvuDnn
— Trent Telenko (@TrentTelenko) May 12, 2025
EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN: This Exotic Italian Sports Car Pairs a Free-Breathing V-8 with a Manual.
Between Alfa Romeo, Ferrari, Lamborghini, Maserati, Pagani, and countless others, Italy has a rich history of producing jaw-dropping sports cars. Now there’s another name to add to the list: Automobili Mignatta, a new startup that is based out of Valfenera d’Asti in Piedmont, around 25 miles outside of Turin. The company’s first car, the Rina, was revealed this week and pairs classically beautiful bodywork with the equally classic combination of a naturally aspirated V-8 engine and a manual transmission.
The Rina’s monocoque is made from carbon fiber, as is the handcrafted barchetta-style body, which draws inspiration from Italian sports cars of the 1960s. The curvature of the fenders, oval-shaped headlights, and lack of a windshield call to mind classics like the Shelby Cobra or Maserati 450S. The Rina has an athletic stance and perfect proportions, and small visors sprout up in front of each occupant to divert the air flowing over the long hood.
Beneath the bodywork lies a 5.0-liter V-8 that remains free from both turbochargers and superchargers. The naturally aspirated unit is hooked up to a six-speed manual transmission that delivers power to the rear wheels only.
If an Italian startup can stick a naturally aspirated V-8 and a manual transmission into an exotic sports car, surely Ford or GM could do the same for a no-frills pickup…
…if Washington would just get out of the way.
I KEEP SAYING THAT DEMOCRATS CAN’T STAY THIS STUPID FOREVER, BUT THEY SURE SEEM DETERMINED TO PROVE ME WRONG:
Excellent news for Republicans here in Semafor. To "detoxify their brand with moderates and independents," Democrat groups asked "Bulwark stars" (?/LOL) to brief Democrat donors. pic.twitter.com/g3FZaRSNiR
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) May 12, 2025
Some of the replies are priceless.
CDR SALAMANDER: The US Navy is Sleepwalking into Defeat.
We must put to the side the system of incentives and disincentives we use to promote our most senior leaders. This last quarter century’s process has a record of consistently producing sub-optimal performance. This isn’t just my opinion. Look at everything from how we manage our people using a Cold War framework, to program management that cannot design a laudable warship or a fit-for-purpose airwing, to the shambolic results of Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and the Horn of Africa.
The results speak for themselves.
No, even if we ignore that dysfunction, we have to look at the potential conflict that presents the greatest danger to our nation’s power, economy, and that of our allies—the threat that would, if it has its way, change the international order in ways that will reverse centuries of progress.
That challenge is in the Pacific.
Read the whole thing.
MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: Child Sex Trafficking Ring Busted. “It may be a false impression, but it sure seems like the Trump47 Administration has been a whole lot more aggressive pursuing child sex trafficking crimes than the Biden Administration was, maybe because some of their precious illegal aliens were involved in it.”
SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE IS ENJOYING AN AT-HOME SHIATSU MASSAGE: It Turns Out That Even More of Joe Biden’s Jobs Creation Numbers Were Fake.
BUY, SELL IS BETTER THAT WAR, WAR:
🚨 JUST IN – TRUMP: "I said [to India/Pakistan] – let's stop it. If you stop it, we'll do trade. If you don't stop it, we're not gonna do any trade… and all of a sudden, they said, 'I think we're gonna stop.' And they have."
"We're gonna do a lot of trade with Pakistan, with… pic.twitter.com/IOYS87bLQ1
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) May 12, 2025
Meanwhile: India-Pakistan ceasefire: Life returning to normal in border districts of Punjab.
IT’S COMPLICATED: Russia’s Plans Are Bigger Than Conflict With the West or Camaraderie With China. “When it comes to Russia’s relationship with China, economic and strategic cooperation has visibly intensified but falls short of a ‘partnership’ or ‘overreliance,’ despite frequent claims in Western media. Indeed, there is an asymmetry in the economic relationships that is forecast to increase. In 2023, China-Russia trade jumped to $250 billion, compared to a meager $147 billion in 2021. But there is a lot of noise coming in the other direction too, which signals Putin’s long term game plan to derisk from China. Russian businesses have been quick to voice their concerns over Moscow’s increasing economic ties with China, and remain distrustful of China’s intentions.”
MISSED IT BY THAT MUCH: Berkeley Finally Learns the Truth About the Homeless Crisis… Almost.
THE NEW SPACE RACE IN TECHNICOLOR AND PANAVISION:
X now finally supports 4K video!
Starship Flight 9 will be streamed in 4K. Thank you so much, @elonmusk and the @X team 🫡
Here’s a clip from the previous flight recap in 4K. Enjoy! 🍿 pic.twitter.com/tS2nzVGUdg
— Space Sudoer (@spacesudoer) May 9, 2025
Indications are that Starship Flight 9 might take place as soon as May 20.
IT’S EASY IF YOU TRY: See If You Can Spot the Biggest Difference Between Biden’s and Trump’s China Deals.
THIS IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF CORY DOCTOROW’S “ENSHITTIFICATION”
wait WTF pic.twitter.com/ZDHrj3bnwh
— Peter Wildeford 🇺🇸🚀 (@peterwildeford) May 11, 2025
“The worse, the better,” as one dedicated lefty put it.
PUBLIC SERVICE: Fed-up AOC constituents in Bronx, Queens mock absentee ‘rock star’ who’s never in the district: ‘This woman has done nothing.’
Frustration with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has reached a breaking point on her home turf, with fed up Queens and Bronx constituents telling The Post they’re sick and tired of being second fiddle to the jet-setting socialist’s primary focus — herself.
Her district offices in the Bronx and Queens offer little to justify the $1.9 million the congresswoman gets to run them — one is only open a single weekday and the other is closed on Fridays, with phones that go unanswered and constituents urged to discuss their problems “by appointment only.”
AOC’s town halls used to be monthly events – now are only held once in a blue moon, there’s virtually no way to get in a question, and sometimes she only phones in and doesn’t bother coming in person, galled constituents said.
“This woman has done nothing for the community she was once again elected to serve,” said Lauro Vazquez of Woodside, Queens.
So stop electing her.
THE GREAT NANNY RAID THAT WASN’T: WaPo’s ICE Hysteria: All Panic, No Nannies. “Remember that even neurotic crazy people are the heroes of their own story — and that the Washington Post is happy to lend them a cape.”
STORIES THAT HELP REPUBLICANS AREN’T NEWS:
I paid $2.87 for a gallon of gas today, the lowest price I can remember paying in years. That’s down by nearly half from peak-Biden gas prices in the summer of 2022. Should be a major talking point, instead it’s almost completely ignored by media.
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) May 12, 2025
HMM: Democratic senator says GOP is trying to woo Fetterman.
Arizona Democratic Sen. Ruben Gallego said Republicans are trying to pull John Fetterman to the right and argued Democrats should keep the Pennsylvania senator in their corner as he faces mounting questions over his health and shifting political persona.
“There needs to be space for Fetterman and for other senators in our caucus,” he said in an interview Saturday. “He still is a senator that fights for working-class people. We may not be 100 percent in agreement a lot of times in a lot of areas, but we don’t have to be.”
While some Democrats have distanced themselves from Fetterman, top Republicans have rallied around him in the wake of news reports that his current and former staffers are concerned about his mental and physical health. Several GOP senators, including Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Dave McCormick (R-Pa.), have come to Fetterman’s defense on social media.
“The radical left is smearing him with dishonest, vicious attacks because he’s pro-Israel and they only want reliable anti-Israel politicians,” Cotton said.
Asked if Republicans are trying to tug Fetterman to the GOP, Gallego said “of course.”
Except for Israel and the occasional show vote Trump nominee who was going to be confirmed regardless, Fetterman is a reliably lefty Democrat. I’m not sure if he’s woo-able or whether he could fit in at all.
Related: Republicans Trying to Woo Senator Fetterman To Join the GOP Are Wasting Their Time.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: My Favorite Thing About Trump Being President Is All the Trump Stuff. “It’s stunning to watch the tug of war between what Trump and his administration are doing in the real world and the alternative reality that the Democrats and the media are shrieking about. They so desperately want President Trump to fail that they’re hoping that the country falls apart.”
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO “EVERYONE GETS THEIR DAY IN COURT?” OH, RIGHT — DEMOCRATS:
…In prior years, Democratic groups unleashed a campaign to pressure firms to fire lawyers who represented Trump, the Republican Party, or conservative causes. It worked. I know lawyers who were told to drop Republican cases or else find new employment.
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) May 12, 2025
DECOUPLING:
This is great… the only problem is that there actually are – checks Bloomberg – exactly 53 ships headed for California's top ports, more than there were on this day one year ago. https://t.co/7uyg2tjI5c pic.twitter.com/lvwna4TWjy
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) May 10, 2025
Two possible takeaways from this one.
The first is that the “Stores will have empty shelves!” scare stories from last month might not amount to much. The other is that China very much — desperately? — needs to keep the export machine working overtime, even if they have to eat a substantial fraction of the tariffs. Maybe Beijing is kicking in? Or maybe US importers are counting on the super-high tariffs being temporary. Who knows.
Again, we’re early into this process and predictions are probably a fool’s game.