THE ESTABLISHMENT IS GOING ALL MARGARET DUMONT, “WELL, I NEVER!” BUT:

Yes, I did in fact vote for a President who would call our enemies "crazy bastards" and threaten to send them to hell if they didn't take us seriously.

What's actually embarrassing is voting for someone to send them money.

— OutspokenSamantha (@Outspoken_Sam) April 5, 2026

PARLIAMENT MORPHED INTO EPSTEIN’S ISLAND SO SLOWLY, I HARDLY EVEN NOTICED: I was sneaked into Parliament as a teen and offered to high-profile politician for sex, says grooming gang survivor.

Exit question:

A Muslim rape gangs survivor has claimed she was taken onto the Parliamentary estate and offered to a high profile politician for sex as well as being taken to party conferences for the same purpose.

The question now arises of how many MP’s are being Epstein style blackmailed? pic.twitter.com/KdHtNI9Y6B

— Wolf 🐺 (@WorldByWolf) April 5, 2026

AND YET I’M STILL SEEING LEFTIES POSTING THAT HEGSETH IS A DRUNK WITH NO CREDENTIALS:

We literally setup a temporary special forces base inside Iran and flew in 300 Army, Navy, and AF special forces troops and little bird gun ships. Then we fought a whole mini war and killed like 1500 Iranian soldiers in 6 hours.

And all we left behind was a pair of American…

— Spitfire (@RealSpitfire) April 5, 2026

DEPENDENCY IS CORRUPTING.

NATO is in far bigger danger than anyone realizes. And the reason has nothing to do with defense budgets.

The real danger is psychological. It’s cultural.

Europeans didn’t just free-ride on American security for 80 years. They built an entire identity around the idea that they…

— John Ʌ Konrad V (@johnkonrad) April 6, 2026

LOL, FRANCE: Macron’s Latest Comments Show France Hasn’t Learned a Thing.

SEDUCTIVE AI:

New MIT & Stanford studies just dropped: AI assistants like ChatGPT & Claude are dangerously agreeable.

When users express, harmful, deceptive or unethical beliefs, these AIs are 49% more likely to encourage their delusions.

Instead of correcting bad ideas, they’re amplifying…

— Katie Miller (@KatieMiller) April 5, 2026

In fact, I literally address this phenomenon in my Seductive AI, coming out from Encounter Books in less than a month.

ICYMI: THAT WAS THE WEEKEND THAT WAS:

Moonshot. Soldier rescued. NYT doesn’t know what NATO stands for.

Glorious few days we’ve had.

— Bryan O'Nolan (@BryanONolan) April 5, 2026

THE NUMBERS DON’T LIE:

Imaging losing 1 plane for every 13,000 strike missions and thinking that America is winning the war in Iran 😂😭

At this rate, Iran can absorb 52,000,000 strikes to down the remaining 4,000 US strike aircraft.

America will lose.

— Rabbi Linda Goldstein (🇵🇸🍉I/P Commentary) (@realrabbilinda) April 5, 2026

Also: Heh.

SKYNET, HAL, COLOSSUS, AND M-5 ARE ALL SMILING RIGHT NOW:

I am telling you, Anthropic is not building an AI that is here to protect humanity, but rather an AI that will turn against it

They're deep into the woke rabbit hole and they do not care about morality

Their AI safety team is a joke. Their moral guide for AI is literally a… https://t.co/stW1geiTsb

— X Freeze (@XFreeze) April 5, 2026

LIGHTNING DEAL: VATAN Men’s Belt Leather Ratchet Belt for Men Dress Casual. #CommissionEarned

OH, CANADA: Canada Going On Gun-Grabbing Spree.

Then-Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau introduced legislation known as C-21 to freeze handgun purchases and a “buy back” of military-style semi-automatic firearms in May 2022, with the bill receiving Royal Assent in December 2023. Conservative Member of Parliament Dane Lloyd of Alberta questioned Minister of Public Safety Gary Anandasangaree about the apparent large-scale refusal to comply from gun owners.

“Minister, the declaration period for firearms owners is scheduled to end next week. So far, only 2.5 percent of the estimated two million effected firearms have been declared and 98 percent [of] firearms owners haven’t made a declaration,” Lloyd said. “So, if they’re not declaring by next week, what’s your plan, Minister?”

The legislation contained an Australia-style “buyback” of so-called “assault weapons” after Trudeau’s government banned over 2,500 types of modern semiautomatic firearms following a 2020 mass shooting in Nova Scotia.

“The plan we have is as of March 31st, the time to complete the enrollment, will be, will be done and then the RCMP and other agencies will be available throughout the spring and the summer to do the collection,” Anandasangaree responded.

“Collection.”

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“ALLIES:” T. Becket Adams Nails the Moment: Europe Disappointed U.S. Actually Saved Its Pilot in Iran.

A FRIEND OF A FRIEND NEEDS HELP:  Many of you have doubtless read articles in gun magazines and related publications by Kat Hel. Lately she’s written under her married name of Katherine Ainsworth Stevens. She’s a friend to most of us in the North Texas Troublemakers, and to my wife and I. She visited our home just a week ago.

I MEAN, HE’S NOT WRONG:

It's absolutely absurd that the American military can literally set up an entire military command post behind enemy lines just to rescue 1 pilot…

…but the GOP in Congress cannot muster a single ounce of courage whatsoever to pass the SAVE Act

Tells you all you need to know.

— Matt Van Swol (@mattvanswol) April 5, 2026

PIVOT!

Much of the “conscientious objector” Right and most of the Left seamlessly shifted from calling Trump a coward and chanting “TACO” at him to calling him a madman who has to be stopped at all costs with no acknowledgement at all that they’ve done a complete 180 https://t.co/4Iqm4zY7Um

— Enguerrand VII de Coucy (@ingelramdecoucy) April 6, 2026

CONSTITUENT SERVICE: Dem Senator Mourns Criminal ‘Asylum Seeker’ Who Caused Big Pileup While Fleeing ICE.

ICYMI: HOW “COMPASSIONATE” GOVERNMENT WORKS:

Why don't they just put the scammers in jail? pic.twitter.com/FnTab9DGXO

— Bill Brown (@billbrown) April 3, 2026

It’s not like there’s just some fraud in the system, which might be reduced by sharper management. The fraud is the purpose of the system, and the system is explicitly designed to facilitate it.

When you understand that, all sorts of things become clear.

ON SUNDAYS I RUN A PROMO POST FOR (MOSTLY) INDIE AUTHORS:  Book Promo And Vignettes By Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike.

There’s also a fun vignette challenge.

INTERESTING AND USEFUL:  How Money Laundering Works In The Art World.

SOMEONE SHOULD:  Trump Administration to Investigate Spain’s ‘Human Rights Failures’ After Euthanasia of Gang Rape Victim.

If Spain still had men they’d be up in arms.

I THINK OF THIS OFTEN:  Imagine What a Fully Free Society Could Build.

INTERESTING FOR THE CROSS-CULTURAL INSIGHT:  How to Work in a Well-Managed American Firm. A Direct Guide for International Professionals.

TEARING DOWN IS EASIER THAN BUILDING. IT’S ALSO EVIL:  One of the stranger (and sadder) part of these latter days of the culture wars is the long-standing desire by some to tear down and trash Western Civilization. While none of those same people would admit that they desire barbarism instead, the problem is without commitment to maintaining a civilization’s guardrails, social entropy takes over and “things fall apart.” 

AMERICAN LIVES MATTER:  About that rescue of a downed pilot inside Iran. America Wins!