THERE WILL BE NO CIVIL WAR HERE. SORRY, GUYS, BUT THE LEFT AIN’T GOT IT IF IT EVER DID:  A New Free Europe.

Unfortunately there won’t be a a free Europe is. Look, it would be nice, but you can’t recover for someone else. Even when the someone else is a continent. There might be countries that pop free here and there. But Europe as a whole? There’s so much to recover from, and so much pride to swallow there.

OPEN THREAD: All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to find it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act out their dream with open eyes, to make tonight’s Open Thread possible.

THE CRITICAL DRINKER: The Golden Globes Happened, I Guess…

Back in 2010, when the gulf between reality and what the legacy media was reporting was too big to ignore, I wrote, “A few years ago, the news industry built a mausoleum of their own — remember the Newseum? And that’s not the only place where they’ve entombed themselves. Their news product, particularly on TV, is essentially a closed-circuit system designed to assuage the ruling class. That you and I can choose to also watch is merely a byproduct.”

But that’s the news. I’d call the material released by Hollywood the industry’s own closed-circuit system, but I doubt the people who make this material are actually sitting down to enjoy it themselves. Who is consuming Hollywood’s “entertainment” product these days?

QED:

UPDATE: Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Already a Flop — Free YouTube Premiere Draws Shockingly Low Viewership.

MORE: Dispatches from United Earth’s Newspaper of Record:

OBVIOUSLY THEY MUST BE STOPPED FROM TAKING POWER — BY, TO COIN A PHRASE, “ANY MEANS NECESSARY.” To protect our democracy.

REDNECK NATION:

(Classical reference in headline.)

UPDATE (FROM GLENN):

WHEN HE INVOKES THE INSURRECTION ACT, THE FIRST THING HE SHOULD DO IS CUT OFF ALL FUNDS TO MINNESOTA. That will hurt more than a couple of divisions of paratroops.

PLAIN SPEAKING:

KEEP THE PRESSURE ON:

THOMAS SOWELL: My Experience With Artificial Intelligence.

Another target of this particular AI fraud is military historian Victor Davis Hanson. In addition to his profound scholarly writings on military history, Prof. Hanson has also spoken out strongly on many current and controversial issues.

Apparently those who do not agree with him cannot argue effectively against what he said. So they use AI to make him seem to be saying something different.

Political or ideological reasons for creating fraudulent imitations of people on the internet are not the only reasons. Some of the creators of these deceptive imitations have things to sell or donations to seek. These are the easiest imitations to tell are not mine.

My own website—FactsAgainstRhetoric.org—sells nothing and asks for no donations. It contains not only things that I have actually said, but also a great many things that others have said—on subjects ranging from affirmative action to medical issues, education issues and geographic influences.

This is a website set up in hopes of helping young people get an education, despite being in college.

Heh, indeed. Read the whole thing.™

AIRPORT PIRATES:

Here’s the interesting bit:

WHY Minneapolis?

Well, after some quick discussing with regular travelers of the MN airports.

The Somalis run the airport.
They’re the ground crews.
They’re the airport staff.
They’re friggin TSA.

We have an airport in the United States of America run by pirates.

The Minneapolis airport needs to be completely shut down until we can figure out what in the hell is going on.

WOW: Georgia race to succeed Marjorie Taylor Greene attracts 22. “The March 10 special election will put all candidates on the ballot. Georgia law requires candidates to receive 50% of the vote plus one to avoid a runoff. If needed, the runoff is April 7.”

“If needed,” eh?