STARMER STORMS OFF?
I assume we'll be treated to one of those exit speeches where it is explained to the electorate that they failed him.
Unless he's a bigger man than he has been thus far. https://t.co/ggs91Oidb9
— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) May 11, 2026
WHERE WE ARE: SOME THOUGHTS FROM COMMENTER “PORKYPINE:”
I’ve been saying for a while, the modern radical-left Dems have maybe 10% of the country as true-believer supporters. Maybe less. Then there are Blue-Bubble herd followers, who get them to maybe 35%. In a good Dem year low-info moderates who swallow the Dem lie du jour bring it to maybe 45%. Then if cheating can make up the rest, Dems once again control all that sweet grift. It’s been working for decades now.
The obvious conclusion is, the Dems are vulnerable on several of those points, and Trump is indeed working those angles hard. The longer-term conclusion is, the US system rewards two leading parties vying for the center, and punishes all others. But the Dems can’t compete for the center anymore (other than by lying) because any move that way is anathema to the lefties who’ve taken over.
So yeah, they now have to try everything, legal or otherwise, except centrism to win. And they’re desperate because they’re beginning to perceive their likely future as a rump radical 10% ignored and marginalized by some new two-centrist-parties national realignment. Desperate people steeped in violent revolutionary tropes… It’s gonna get ugly until they finally internalize that they’ve lost.
It’ll get far uglier if we do let them win — no tyrant worse than one who’s just had a good scare. Best we don’t let this crowd win national power again, ever.
Yep.
MY NEXT COLUMN TALKS ABOUT THIS:
The US mission in Iran is being judged by a standard in which only complete capitulation is victory for the US but mere survival is victory for Iran. This is nonsense as the post below makes clear. https://t.co/huVexJoSVx
— Brit Hume (@brithume) May 10, 2026
OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.
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IT DOES: Yes, Creatine Can Cause Weight Gain. This is How Much Is From Muscle Vs. Fat Mass.
The scale may tick up after you start taking creatine because the supplement can increase the total amount of water in the human body, explains Aubrey Grant, MD, director of sports and performance cardiology at MedStar Health in Washington, D.C. “This happens because creatine is stored in skeletal muscle, where it pulls water into the muscle cells through osmotic effects,” he says.
The result is usually a 1- to 3-pound weight gain in the first week or two of supplementation. “It is a predictable physiological response, and for most users, it is not harmful,” Dr. Grant says.
Again, he emphasizes that the extra pounds is not from fat.
Good to know.
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HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE:
Boise State just created a university program to fight “gym bro culture” and what they call “harmful masculinity.”
In other words, they want to stop young men from working out and trying to improve themselves
These people run our universities 🤡
— Clown World ™ 🤡 (@ClownWorld) May 9, 2026
Sad that the try-hard, pick-me leftists at places like Boise State are allowed to drag the institution’s reputation down with lame bullshit.
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TRUE:
REMINDER:
The worst scandal in U.S. history is the Trump/Russia Collusion Hoax.
This was literally a coup attempt, executed by a sitting incumbent President (to block his successor) and the losing Presidential candidate (to overthrow the man who defeated her in a fair…
— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) May 9, 2026
HOW IT’S GOING:
🚨 The United States executed a brilliant military gambit that forced the Islamic Republic to expose parts of its hidden naval and missile network in the Persian Gulf.
As Sun Tzu wrote: “Offer the enemy a bait to lure him; feign disorder and strike him.”
That is exactly what… pic.twitter.com/CRU0TglPSY
— The Iran Watcher 🇮🇷 (@TheIranWatcher) May 9, 2026
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