HUH:

Just got off the phone with a sales rep from Tesla.

She said today is one of the busiest days they’ve EVER had for sales.

— Matt Van Swol (@matt_vanswol) March 12, 2025

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT [VIP]: The Thursday Essay: America’s Postmodern Red Guards, Our Digital Brownshirts…

BARACK OBAMA HURT MOST: Iran Could Lose Iraq.

Iraq’s politicians also seem more eager than usual to appease the United States. Iraq’s government is led by Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani and his Coordination Framework, a coalition closely allied with Iran. But Sudani’s team made three compromises with U.S. officials in late January: removing an arrest warrant on U.S. President Donald Trump for ordering the killing of terrorists in Baghdad during his last administration; agreeing to release the Princeton researcher Elizabeth Tsurkov, who has been held hostage by Kataib Hezbollah, an Iran-backed militia; and passing a vital budget amendment that has long been sought by Iraq’s Kurds, the segment of Iraqi society that has the closest ties to Trump. These compromises indicate that Iran’s allies in Iraq are feeling vulnerable.

Washington should take advantage of this moment to permanently reduce the level of Iranian control in Iraq. It should do so not through wide-scale military action but with tough diplomacy, the threat of sanctions, and intelligence operations. Such measures would deprive Iran of a vital source of funding and give the United States leverage in any negotiations with the regime’s leaders. Most important, it would lead to better governance for Iraqis, who have suffered for too long under Iran’s thumb.

Stay tuned — and keep an eye on Marco Rubio.

PEACE? MAYBE…: Putin agrees in principle with Ukraine ceasefire proposal but says more discussions needed. “‘The idea itself is correct, and we certainly support it,’ Putin told a news conference in Moscow. ‘But there are issues that we need to discuss, and I think that we need to talk about it with our American colleagues and partners and, perhaps, have a call with President Trump and discuss it with him.’”

SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE WAS LEAST SEEN SIPPING MIMOSAS AT BRUNCH: Gavin Newsom Is a Bust. “They claim that Newsom fundraised to help buy the bust of himself. Newsom, whose reputation as an F-5 level blowhard forced the dictionary to expand room for its definition of self-aggrandizement, was told by his political team that he should look embarrassed by this resurgent revelation while denying it at the same time.”

Much more at the link.

FAIL, BRITANNIA: In This English Village, Asylum Seekers May Soon Outnumber the Locals.

The British government is using the old air base at Wethersfield as a camp for asylum seekers. It’s unclear when they came to the UK, as the government does not release information on how long their processing takes. But we do know this: All are adult men. Many crossed the English Channel from France, arriving on small boats and claiming asylum when they hit the beach. They are from countries such as Afghanistan, Eritrea, Iran, Iraq, and Syria. They are allowed to come and go freely from the camp, to the village and beyond.

Currently, 580 of them live on the base. Their number is about to rise to 800. The government won’t say exactly when, but it had initially stated that a total of 1,700 migrants would eventually move here.

Before the migrants arrived, the village of Wethersfield reportedly had a population of 707.

Gad Saad calls it “suicidal empathy,” and maybe that’s how it started. But now it’s more like a culturally murderous vindictiveness on the part of Britain’s elites against the British people.

THE UNFIT HOBBLING THE UNFIT: ‘No Daylight’: How an Insecure Old Man Sabotaged Kamala’s Presidential Campaign. “Kamala Harris had (roughly) 100 days to convince the American people that she deserved to be the next president. With President Biden’s “no daylight” demand, it was impossible for her to stake her own identity. Biden’s ego was such that he’d rather Harris spend 100 days defending the Biden record and lose than to denounce it and win.”

The question is why Harris didn’t refuse a politically suicidal demand from a senescent lame duck. Clearly, this is just one more way she was unfit for office.

CRAZY BUT IT’S TRUE:

THIS IS SUCH AN INSANE THING TO VISUALIZE pic.twitter.com/aJcPskSBWF

— Liz Wolfe (@LizWolfeReason) March 11, 2025

The population won’t decrease by 96% that quickly. But good luck having a functional society and economy in a country with about 90 working-age people supporting up to 200 retirees.

The good news, if you can call it that, is they’ll only have eight kids to support.

SUGGEST? I’M GOING TO INSIST YOU CAN’T HATE THE PRESS ENOUGH:

The Trump administration stopped social security bank routing numbers from being changed over the phone (because it's so easy to commit fraud), and journalists rushed to claim seniors couldn't make claims anymore.

Some might suggest you can't hate the press enough.

— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) March 12, 2025

Does the media still play that bullshit “layers of editors and fact-checkers” card, or are they finally openly admitting that they’re nothing but left-wing propagandists?

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Could We Please Maybe Draw the Line at Cannibalism? “What do you call an OnlyFans sex worker who brags about the size of his endowment and refers to women as ‘prey’ that he’d like to either eat or keep as breeding pets? In Lynwood, Wash., you address him as Madam Councilwoman Jessica Ann Roberts. Because of course.”

DIDN’T EARN IT: Listen to leaked audio of DEI activist SHARING air traffic controller exam answers with minority candidates.

Shelton Snow, a powerful figure in the National Black Coalition of Federal Aviation Employees (NBCFAE), can be heard promising advance access to test answers in a shocking audio clip obtained by DailyMail.com.

‘There are some valuable pieces of information that I have taken a screenshot of and I am going to send that to you via email,’ says Snow, an air traffic operations supervisor based out of New York.

‘I am about 99.99 percent sure that it is exactly how you need to answer each question.’

The inside info was made available in 2014 to African Americans, females, and other minority candidates – but whites were left out of the loop to ‘minimize competition’.

Exactly how many applicants were able to capitalize on Snow’s brazen offer to secure coveted controller jobs responsible for the safety of millions of fliers remains a mystery.

But one former NBCFAE member, Matthew Douglas, told DailyMail.com: ‘I know several people who cheated and I know several people who are controlling planes as we speak.’

Let’s not find out the hard way.

WOW:

This is an absolutely wild chart from Semafor

Did you know that American aid – just through USAID – amounted to 40%!!!! of Somalian GDP? pic.twitter.com/AgIlgzG4iP

— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) March 13, 2025

This from the replies is probably correct: “USAID is taking money from poor people in America to give it to rich people in Somalia…with a big cut for bureaucrats and Lib NGOs in America.”

VICTORIA TAFT: What’s In Your Wallet? A Lawsuit From Trump World Claiming Discrimination for Conservative Views. “The Washington Post got the ball rolling with its story, ‘The four-hour insurrection: How a Trump mob halted American democracy.’ Thereafter, the die was cast. Political and corporate America took heed and acted accordingly. Now, the Trump family is looking for some justice, and it could be huge for everyone who’s been discriminated against by their banks for their political views.”

ACTS OF VIOLENCE MEANT TO FRIGHTEN PEOPLE INTO POLITICAL CHANGE ARE CALLED WHAT AGAIN?

MSNBC justifies violence against Tesla as "a form of protest, NOT domestic terror" pic.twitter.com/WPtQvQejlh

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) March 12, 2025

Tesla dealerships under attack are fiery but mostly peaceful.

WHAT, ANOTHER WHITE GUY WHO ISN’T EVEN GAVIN NEWSOM? Will THIS GUY Be the Savior of the Democratic Party?

I HAD BEEN ASSURED BY ALL THE VERY BEST PEOPLE THAT THIS WAS IMPOSSIBLE WITHOUT AN ACT OF CONGRESS: Migrant crossings through Panama’s Darien Gap drop 99% after Trump takes office.

The report found that only 408 migrants traveled through the treacherous jungle route in February 2025, a 98.8 percent decrease from the 37,166 who made the journey in February 2024. Of those migrants, 151 were from Venezuela, 43 from Cameroon, 22 from Bangladesh, 21 from Colombia, 17 from Iran, and the rest from various countries across Latin America, Africa, and Asia.

The Darien Gap is a well-known jungle trail used by migrants passing through South America to Central America, as it is the only land bridge connecting the two regions. In 2023, the area saw record crossings, with Panama documenting over half a million migrants—more than double the number from 2022. Many Venezuelans have used this route in recent years to flee the socialist regime of President Nicolás Maduro.

The February total marks the lowest recorded number of migrants crossing the region since April to November 2020, when travel was significantly reduced due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Additionally, data from Panama’s Migrant Authority shows that no Chinese nationals were recorded crossing the Darien Gap in February. A report by Breitbart noted how there has been a steep decline from nearly 3,000 Chinese nationals in January 2024 to just five in January 2025.

Nope, still not tired of all the winning.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Let’s Take Some Time to Remember Why We Despise the Leftmedia. “A two-sentence headline, neither of which have any truth in them. That’s a real commitment to prevarication. If there were any editors with an ounce of decency in them at Politico, the first sentence would have been laughed away. The second one is a real hot mess of a lie, as the protests are not at all anti-war. They are anti-Israel and anti-Semitic. Politico is running interference for modern day Nazis.”

WHO’S IN CHARGE HERE, ANYWAY?

Guess what? Across the board, 2/3 of voters reject the idea that government workers should get special treatment. https://t.co/hebh2mzYrZ pic.twitter.com/LHTijNheYX

— Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) March 12, 2025

Only two-thirds?

I’M OK WITH A SHUTDOWN: Shutdown Schumer and the Shifty Democrats Plot to Bring Government to a Standstill.

THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT: High school seniors reject Columbia over campus chaos: ‘Why would you want to go there?’

Over the next month, high school seniors across the country will find out whether or not they got into their first-choice college. But for some students who had dreamed of going to Columbia University, acceptance suddenly doesn’t sound so hot.

“If you were to compare Columbia with virtually any Ivy League, virtually any other Ivy League will win [in terms of desirability with students] — and even non-Ivies like Duke, Emory and Washington [University] in St. Louis,” college admissions consultant and Command Education CEO Christopher Rim told The Post.
…
One 21-year-old from Sydney, Australia, who asked to withhold his name for fear of retribution, is on the fence over whether or not to attend Columbia. As an Israeli citizen, he originally applied so he could represent his community.

“I thought that being a Jew on campus could be empowering in a sense, kind of like sticking the middle finger to some people, by advocating on campus and demonstrating for Israel,” he told The Post.

But as illegal protests have continued to ramp up, he’s grown increasingly concerned, to the point that receiving his acceptance letter on March 1 wasn’t the thrill he’d envisioned: “I guess what has me second guessing is, How dangerous is it on campus? Will professors grade me differently if I’m outspoken about Israel?”

His family is strongly opposed to his attending Columbia. “They are like, ‘Why would you want to go there? It sounds like hell. It’s not worth the money to be discriminated against,’” he said.

Indeed.

ICYMI: Here’s the Latest Sign That the Woke ‘Snow White’ Reboot Will Be a $300 Million Flop.

OF COURSE, THE WORST SIGN IS THAT THE PICTURE LOOKS AWFUL: Here’s the Latest Sign That the Woke ‘Snow White’ Reboot Will Be a $300 Million Flop.

PUBLIUS:

Since Democrats are once again engaged in Kristallnacht-style violence because the electorate rejected their policies, it’s time once again for my periodic reminder that all Democrats are fascists.

I love the fact that whenever I point this out, some Democrat invariably claims “Derrrrr… you don’t even know what fascism is!” So let’s explore fascism a little, shall we?

Listed below are attributes and practices that all 20th Century fascists have in common with the Democrat Party of 2025:

1. Laws promoting the seizure of guns from law-abiding citizens and/or the denial of gun ownership rights for law-abiding citizens.
2. Censorship of free speech by pretending such censorship protects the citizenry from faulty information (i.e., so-called “disinformation”).
3. Government control of industry.
4. Government control of the mass media.
5. Control of the entertainment industry as a means of propaganda. (See: Leni Riefenstahl; Walt Disney Corporation.)
6. Children belong to the State and not their parents.
7. Political dissidents and opposing political leadership are to be persecuted for fabricated “crimes” under the color of law through the courts.
8. Political dissidents are locked up for months/years without a trial.
9. Leading political opponents who are a threat to the fascist order are to be assassinated.
10. Extreme nationalism (Democrats hate the United States of America, but are extreme nationalistic zealots for the Woke States of America).
11. Purposeful division of the population along racial and ethnic lines as a means to power.
12. Leadership of the ruling fascist party is chosen by party leaders without any input from rank-and-file party members, but an illusion of democracy is perpetuated. (See: Kamala as nominee with zero votes.)
13. Certain party criminals are turned into martyrs upon their demise. (See: Horst Wessel; Saint George Floyd.)
14. Destruction of statues, symbols and art of the pre-fascist order.
15. Accuse dissidents of the very crimes you yourself commit.
16. Justify all of it for the “common good.”

The Democrat Party of 2025 is a fascist party. Spread the word.

They aren’t all fascists. Some are commies.

FOR FOUR YEARS THEY LIED AND THE PRESS HELPED: Old Joe’s Fake Oval Office — and Its Fake News Apologists — Exposed. “We know that now, but there was a time when the media said all claims that Joe Biden was working from a virtual or fake Oval Office were considered to be ‘fake news.’ Now, with Trump White House adviser Alina Habba personally finding the fake Oval Office set and showing it to the public in a video, people are discovering the story all over again.”

SAY, WASN’T THAT AROUND THE SAME TIME BIDEN AND CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS BEGAN FLOODING THE ECONOMY WITH FUNNY MONEY?

🚨BREAKING: American gas prices have hit their lowest since March 2021, according to GasBuddy pic.twitter.com/Wce8CeVUIu

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) March 12, 2025