DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

New York Post.

John Fetterman is a little less lonely these days, but not because his courage has proven contagious to Democratic elders.

The Pennsylvania progressive has been branded a Benedict Arnold for speaking the truth about the ascendant, anti-civilizational forces within his own party

Bernie Sanders “keeps pushing these communists and these . . . awful anti-American people,” Fetterman argued last month after the collapse of Graham Platner’s candidacy in Maine.

His “anti-American” modifier was of special import because it cut to the core of the conflict.

The Democrats’ bloody civil war isn’t about health care, or immigration, or LGBT issues, or marginal tax rates.

It’s about two irreconcilable worldviews: one that celebrates the United States as exceptionally commendable, and the other that scorns it as exceptionally reprehensible — often using Israel as a proxy.

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You thought woke was dead, but it turns out it’s gone to the moon.

Every time I hear an Australian accent these days I can’t help but translate it to retard.

That’s Dr. — yes, DOCTOR — Rebecca Allen, the co-director of the Space Technology and Industry Institute at Swinburne University of Technology.

This happened during a real segment on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation concerning a discarded SpaceX rocket stage that will apparently slam into the moon, creating a crater. Allen is concerned that Elon won’t have the proper respect for the “indigenous sky country” honored by people groups who never invented the wheel.

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Islam, the pit bulls of human religion.

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Well looky, looky, it seems Mamdani’s communist grocery stores are of the Jim Crow variety.

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People with friends waste a lot of time and trouble on other people’s problems, and don’t get me started on family….

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Far-left activists with apparent ties to the Democratic Socialists of America recently established their own autonomous zone in Wisconsin’s capital city, Madison.

The tent cities have become a familiar sight in far-left cities where the destructive and disruptive occupation is openly encouraged by government officials.

Imagine what would happen if Alex Jones or Nick Fuentes tried something like that.

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If Muslims don’t have any Jews or Christians handy, they’re happy to blow up other Muslims.

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And who could blame them?

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Crack-heads appear to be a core Democrat constituency.

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Which is exactly what impeachment is for.

An Obama-appointed federal judge just decided the Supreme Court’s rulings are more like suggestions, and Republicans in Congress are done pretending she has the authority to make that call.

U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs issued an order on Friday blocking the Trump administration from ending Temporary Protected Status for Somali nationals. It was a brazen display of judicial activism, and it took Republicans about a weekend to respond.

Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) announced he will file articles of impeachment against Burroughs on Monday, accusing her of trampling both the Constitution and a Supreme Court ruling that should have ended this fight already.

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And why not? What evidence exists that they aren’t entitled to feel entitled?

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The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) was shut down about a year ago. Since then, I’ve noticed a couple of things:

1) Latin American and other countries around the world are electing more pro-American leaders.

2) America’s Democratic National Committee is out of money.

It’s hard to say for sure, of course, but I don’t think that these two events are coincidences. I think they are direct results of USAID’s money spigot being turned off.

The vast majority of USAID money was used for leftist and other anti-American causes. So around the world, leftist and anti-American leaders are suddenly underfunded. And here in America, our leftist and anti-American party (the Democratic Party) is suddenly underfunded.

The Telegraph (UK).

Ministers have been accused of launching a “stealth clawback” of military pensions, leaving veterans who claim benefits thousands of pounds worse off.

Hey, they gotta get the money they spend from somewhere.

Officials at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have informed veterans that their military pension is considered “unearned income” and will therefore result in a pound-for-pound reduction in benefits.

In some cases this has resulted in veterans being ordered to repay tens of thousands of pounds, as well as having their monthly benefit payments reduced.

The Telegraph (UK).

A Cambridge professor hailed as a diversity poster boy claimed that he had featured in Seven Up decades before he was born.
Prof Jason Arday said he had appeared in the TV series, which follows the lives of a group of people for decades from the age of seven.
The inaugural episode was broadcast in 1964. He was not born until 1985.

Meet the ‘professor’ in question:

Construction Physics.

A battery technology that’s getting a lot of attention is solid-state batteries, lithium-ion batteries that replace the liquid electrolyte with a solid material. Chinese battery manufacturer CATL alone had more than 1,000 people devoted to solid-state battery research as of 2024, and battery manufacturers like BYD, LG, and Samsung are also working on the technology. US and European startups making solid-state batteries have collectively raised over $4 billion as of 2025.

Solid-state batteries have several potential advantages over the lithium-ion batteries with liquid electrolyte we use now. For one, replacing the liquid electrolyte with a solid should allow for lighter batteries, requiring less mass per unit of energy delivered. And because the liquid electrolyte currently used in batteries is flammable, replacing it with a solid could make batteries safer and less susceptible to fire.

I wanted to better understand why, exactly, solid-state batteries have these advantages compared to conventional lithium-ion batteries, and how they fit into the broader arc of lithium battery improvements.

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Prominent liberal podcaster and NYU professor Scott Galloway called out New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s publicly accessible database, saying it endangers landowners like himself.

Yup, sure does. Will he learn anything from that? Only time will tell.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani opened a new front in his ongoing battle with New York City’s wealthy after his administration published a searchable database identifying affluent property owners who could be subject to the city’s proposed pied-à-terre tax, a move critics say could expose them to harassment and public safety risks.

I’m waiting for him to call out millionaires like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. Waiting … waiting … waiting….

Galloway proceeded to read out the definition of doxing as “’publishing private identifying information to expose someone to public pressure or harm without their consent,’” and said that while he is a fan of the tax, he is not a fan of how the list has become a “wanted poster” for property owners.

Well, that answers the question of whether he’s going to learn anything from this. Survey says: No.

New York Post.

Steve Wynn has finally unloaded his jaw-dropping Beverly Hills megamansion, “Villa Lulu” — and the house definitely did not win this time.

The 84-year-old former casino head honcho just cashed out on his 27,150-square-foot Benedict Canyon estate for a final price of $47.75 million, listing broker Leonard Rabinowitz of Christie’s International Real Estate told The Post.

While that sum sounds like he hit the jackpot, for Wynn, it’s a bust.

The 11-bedroom, 14.5-bath castle with multiple kitchens, initially had an eye-watering $135 million whisper price in 2020.

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Rabinowitz blamed the pricing situation on California’s tax rate and tax on billionaires, which is causing residents to flee the Golden State for places like Florida and Texas.

When laws are passed targeting Jews, it’s time for Jews to leave.

When laws are passed targeting rich people, it’s time for rich people to leave.

This is not rocket science.

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In 1997, historians William Strauss and Neil Howe published “The Fourth Turning,” a cyclical theory of Anglo-American history built around generational archetypes and recurring saecular rhythms of approximately 80 to 100 years — roughly the length of a long human life.

Their framework identified four “turnings,” each lasting roughly 20 to 25 years, that repeat in sequence.

The First Turning, the High, is an era of institutional confidence and community solidarity following a great crisis. The rules work, people trust them, conformity is rewarded — think the post-WWII boom, or the post-Civil War Reconstruction era.

The Second Turning, the Awakening, is a spiritual and cultural awakening that challenges the institutional consensus of the High. Individualism resurges; the establishment is questioned — the consciousness revolution of the 1960s-70s, the Second Great Awakening of the 1820s-30s.

The Third Turning, the Unraveling, sees institutions weaken, individualism reach its apex, and civic order decay. Trust collapses — in government, media, corporations, each other — as it did through the Culture Wars era of the 1980s-90s, or the Gilded Age of the 1870s-90s.

The Fourth Turning, the Crisis, is a decisive era of institutional destruction and reconstruction, typically catalysed by an existential threat — war, economic collapse, or civilisational rupture. The old order is swept away; a new one is forged. The Great Depression and WWII. The Civil War. The American Revolution.

If you see a blonde riding a dragon, it’s time to leave.

MAGA Exiles Declare War on Trump: ‘He Betrayed Us All’ (Mary Papenfuss/The Daily Beast)

McGlinchey: Trump’s Damage To US Diplomacy Could Last A Generation  Who?

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Like medieval monks who preserved civilization after the fall of Rome, traditionalists can live active lives and work to keep the flame of Western culture alive. To do so, we must build loving families, construct independent schools, and erect parallel institutions to challenge those that have betrayed their purpose.

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If correcting nonsense costs you 10x the energy of the person producing it, and low-quality interaction measurably reduces your well-being, what does a rational actor do? They stop. Not because they’re mean, but because they do that math that you haven’t done yet.

Nothing personal—it’s just business; I always liked him.

“You cain’t fix stupid.” —Ron White

I used to feel bad about reading during meals but nowadays that seems positively extraverted.

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A Liberal Democrat council has secured a High Court injunction that effectively bans the unauthorised display of the St George’s Cross and Union Flag on lampposts and public highways across an entire English county.

What began as a grassroots campaign to raise the colours of the nation has been declared a threat to community safety, with the full force of the courts now deployed against it.

Oxfordshire County Council, run by the Liberal Democrats, won its landmark case after months of legal action against the Raise the Colours campaign.

If you can’t fly your country’s flag, it isn’t your country any more.

Democrats would love to do the same in America, I have no doubt.

I thank God every day that I don’t live in Britain.

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What a give-away: If you allow elections, the Court will ‘move to the right’.

Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly, a term-limited Democrat who opposes the measure, said gerrymandering and dark money have put the Legislature out of step with the state and, “to think you can make the judicial branch a part of that dysfunctional system is frightening.”

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Meanwhile, the national and state affiliates for abortion provider Planned Parenthood contributed another $1.6 million toward the vote-no campaign’s $8 million-plus in spending.

There’s that pesky ol’ democracy that Democrats love to talk about but never like to practice.

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Spanish authorities and their leftist allies are pushing the line that the tens of thousands of migrants who stormed Ceuta have mostly “gone home.” The claim is pure fantasy. Fresh video from the streets shows the city still under siege, with invaders assaulting facilities, smashing graves, clashing with locals, and turning a Spanish enclave into a no-go zone.

This is the same dangerous mass migration reality that open-borders ideologues keep denying, even as the evidence piles up in real time.

The official narrative landed hard on Friday. Spain’s Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares declared that “the practical totality of those who entered Ceuta have already returned to Morocco.” The Spanish Embassy in the UK amplified the message, insisting almost everyone was gone, that no one could reach the mainland without ID checks, and that Schengen integrity remained fully guaranteed.

And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

Locals on the ground immediately called it a lie. One Ceuta resident posted that around 50,000 invaders remained, the city was collapsed, and the official numbers were pure spin. Video filmed that same afternoon showed streets still packed, nothing like the “most have left” story.

Public Domain Review.

Centuries before Neo instantly mastered Kung Fu in The Matrix, medieval scholars found a shortcut to years of difficult study: a magical manuscript that promised to fast-track advanced learning. Anne Lawrence-Mathers investigates the Ars notoria, its supposed powers, and the demonic influence it had upon some users.

The author is female with a hyphenated last name, so read with caution.

Mastering the full range of subjects taught in medieval universities normally required many years of hard and expensive study. From the thirteenth century on, however, an anonymous work known as the Ars notoria promised, through diagrams, incantations, and arcane rituals, to rapidly transmit to scholars the total knowledge of anything they might need. Condemned by church authorities, the fifty-six extant manuscripts nevertheless testify to the seductiveness of that offer.

Alma Boykin.

Jones begins with pride, superbia, which was and is considered the worst of the seven, then through envy, wrath, sloth, avarice, gluttony, and lust. The medieval terms for each one differ from what we use today, and had different connotations. For each one the author provides a personal example, then medieval discussions, illustrations, what was recommended by the church as ways to turn error into something helpful or outward-looking, and a conclusion. I admit, some of the descriptions and discussions made me twitch, because they struck a little too close to home. These are things we all struggle with, even if we are not all church members, let alone Roman Catholics. Who has not flown into a rage, often over something that would otherwise be a minor irritation? Who has not ignored other people’s opinions, or tried to stand out a little too much at some point, with the idea that we are better than the other person or people? Many of us have probably been unhappy about someone else’s success, perhaps not to the point of trying to damage or destroy it (medieval “envy.”)

I have this book on order from Amazon, on her recommendation. (If you haven’t read her Familiar Tales series of books, I weep for you.)

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Former Vice President Kamala Harris has long spoken about the importance of being surrounded by other black or minority Americans. But her new $8.5 million home is located in an exclusive Malibu neighborhood where the population is overwhelmingly white.

And progressive—let’s not forget that part.

Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, purchased a 4,000-square-foot mansion in Point Dume, one of Malibu’s most exclusive coastal enclaves. Point Dume’s population is approximately 94% white and just 0.2% black, according to a Fox News report citing the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2019 American Community Survey.

She may be stupid but her husband is not.

Newsbusters.

On Friday, as socialists continued their rise as a part of the Democratic Party through primary election victories, Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough took his own route with socialism claims of his own and instead claimed the Republicans were actually the socialists. He also seemed to minimize the actual rise of socialists in the Democratic Party, a topic his show has recently covered extensively, as he called the DSA “fringe.”

The conversation started at the very beginning of the premier liberal morning show as, between Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski’s bickering about who would lead the segment, Scarborough remarked, “Let’s start with the socialists… that nobody’s talking about.”

After Brzezinski agreed, Scarborough continued, “but everybody should be talking about it because socialists are taking over some of the most important companies in America’s economy.”

Joe Scarborough, who once pretended to be a Republican when it was profitable, has been fully assimilated by the Proglodyte Borg.

Newsbusters.

The feminist psychological castration of men proceeds apace.

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New data exposes the purest form of Trump Derangement Syndrome yet: young Americans so thoroughly programmed that they will abandon church itself rather than sit in a pew next to someone who supports the president.

A survey from the Wheaton College Billy Graham Center Research Institute found that nearly half of Gen Z adults – 48 percent – say Christians’ support for Donald Trump has made them less likely to attend church.

Among strong Democrats the figure hits 76 percent. Atheists clock in at 72 percent. Even 30 to 44 percent of young people who still call themselves Christian claim the association turns them off.

I suspect that’s just a case of correlation, not causation. A lot of people call themselves Christian who aren’t, in any meaningful sense, much like the ‘trans community’.

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California, the most populous U.S. state and the one with the largest economy, ranked as the 35th best state in a new ranking published by U.S. News on July 28.

Utah ranked as the best state, followed by South Dakota, Minnesota, North Dakota, and Nebraska.

The ranking was based on scores in eight categories such as education, healthcare, economy, and fiscal stability, and it was weighted by survey opinions.

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Yeah. Quit being Woke socialists.

Canada is exporting its highest earners to the United States. This finding, highlighted in a recent Hub analysis on Canada’s GDP per capita crisis, including its causes and manifestations, generated substantial discussion and debate over the past week.

That discussion, coupled with a new article from The Economist entitled “Westerners are fleeing their countries in record numbers,” prompted a revisit of Canada’s brain drain.

BBC, a Voice of the Crust.

In a Stockholm suburb a man dressed in black appeared out of the winter night. Carrying a handgun, he approached 20-year-old Murad Abdelkader, a student on his way back from a shift at McDonald’s.

The gunman opened fire, shooting again and again as he approached his target. He fired the last shot into his victim’s head as he lay helpless on the ground.

The killer was 18-year-old Atilla Azimov. On that February night last year, he had killed the wrong man.

He had done it for money – hired by the Foxtrot Network, an organised crime group with links to the Iranian regime which has become notorious for its violence-as-a-service (VaaS) tactics.

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The current crisis in Ceuta, one of two Spanish enclaves in North Africa, involves African migrants swimming around the barriers designed to keep them out of Spanish territory. Last week’s sudden surge was prompted by a recent Spanish Supreme Court decision that prohibited authorities from pushing arriving migrants back into Morocco.

Which goes to show that those earnest Moroccan residents who long to become “New Spaniards” have been paying close attention to Spanish political affairs, so that they know when the time is ripe to make their move.

Ceuta is much closer to the Spanish mainland than Melilla, the other Spanish enclave on the Moroccan coast. As a result, the bodies of drowned culture-enrichers have been washing up on the shores of Malaga in Andalusia.

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The shooting was reported at 2:30 p.m. at the In-N-Out in Twin Falls.

At least three people were killed, with reports of two injured.

The shooter is among the dead.

A nearby civilian in a hat was also recorded firing back across the parking lot at the shooter.

Zero clue who this champ is or what kind of pistol he was packing.

Stuff you can get away with in a ‘gun-free zone’ get a stronger response in a Red state.

No word yet on whether the suppressed gunslinger was the one who killed the bad guy.

According to a 34-year-old local witness named Lane Koehn, the good guy with the gun helped an In-N-Out employee care for a wounded female coworker who had a gunshot wound to her chest. Koehn, who was at a red light when the shooting started, stayed with them as well until paramedics arrived.

“I hope she made it,” he said.

The Telegraph (UK).

Are Muslim police staff invited to fast during Lent? The question answers itself.

Non-Muslim officers and staff working at West Midlands Police have been invited to fast during Ramadan in an “act of solidarity”, The Telegraph can reveal.

The West Midlands Association of Muslim Police has said colleagues can take part in a fast for the day during the religious festival to raise money for charity.

West Midlands Police said the practice helped officers understand the “significance of Ramadan” for Muslim residents.

Every day I thank God I don’t live in Britain.

The Telegraph (UK).

Members of the group have also targeted a mackerel festival, proposing the fish be replaced by a cabbage

Oh,  I have no doubt.

PETA activists have demanded that the World Black Pudding Championships use vegan alternatives for the annual throwing competition.

In a letter sent to the contest’s organisers, the animal rights group said it was wrong for pigs to have their “blood and fat thrown at a target for a bit of fun”.

To compete in the annual event in the village of Ramsbottom in Bury, athletes throw blood sausages to try to knock Yorkshire puddings off a ledge.

Proglodytes are never happy unless they are pissing in somebody else’s soup.

The Telegraph (UK).

Traffickers take on new operatives to meet demand after chaotic storming of Spanish enclave fuels false hopes for thousands

But are they ‘false’? That’s the question.

People-smuggling networks are cutting prices on small boat crossings to Britain to exploit the growing European migrant crisis.

The Telegraph was offered a Channel crossing for as little as €600 (£513) per person on Friday afternoon – at least €200 cheaper than the week before.

Traffickers spoke of their “excitement” after 60,000 migrants stormed the Spanish enclave of Ceuta this week, even though most were quickly returned to Morocco.

The Telegraph (UK).

When Omar scrambled to the shores of Ceuta, his eyes drifted 1,000 miles to the north.

Having swam around the breakwater marking the border between Morocco and Spain, where dozens had died in the perilous journey, the teenager had made the first step of a journey eight years in the making.

“I came to Ceuta because I want to study,” the 15-year-old told The Telegraph.

“My sister already lives in Spain. She’s married and has a daughter. I want to study for six years in Tarazona and then maybe go to England.

“I really like England, but that doesn’t mean I don’t love Morocco.”

6 of the Wildest Details From the WSJ’s Trump Fundraising Report (Nia Prater/New York Magazine)  Here’s the playbook: 1. A Narrative Media ‘journalist’ cobbles together a menage of slur and inuendo about Trump; 2. Another Usual Suspect takes the first report as gospel-truth and proceeds to expand on it; 3. The rest of the Narrative Media pile on, just ‘reporting what’s in the news’. These people are shameless.

A Portrait of MAGA Psychodrama (William Kristol/The Bulwark)

Trump Administration Plans to Upend Head Start by Deregulating It (Coral Davenport/New York Times)  Note the statist assumption: Deregulating a program ‘upends’ it.

Florida Man Gets 2 Years for Threatening Trump  I’m willing to bet that he wasn’t a Republican.

Trump stands to profit off US policy announcements by selling fast access to his social media posts (Associated Press)  They’re just pissed that they didn’t think of it first.

The last day of a factory in Trump country, as its work moves to China (Peter Jamison/Washington Post) If there actually is a “Trump country”, I want to move there.

MD Gov. Wes Moore: ‘Concerned’ Trump Will Interfere in Midterms  In other words, they’re worried that the election will actually be more honest.

He’s Making It Worse on Purpose (Jim Swift/The Bulwark)  Nobody hates like the Kristol Krew.

Why Trump is at war with the International Criminal Court (Vox)  Because they declared war on him.

‘It Wasn’t Part of Trump’s Plans’: Venezuela’s Feeble Earthquake Response Undermining US Credibility (Eva Hartog/Politico)  Because, as we all know, earthquake ‘response’ is TOTALLY the responsibility of the U.S. government—and the U.S. taxpayer.

Trump’s Fixation on Arctic Ships Led to Billions in No-Bid Contracts (New York Times)  The Narrative Media would rather we didn’t have any arctic ships.

The Working Class Is Fleeing Trump (New York Times)  Actually, they’re fleeing the New York Times.

NBC Mourns Spanish Border Crisis Has ‘Been Seized On By President Trump’

Obama described Trump as an ‘idiot’ and Don Jr a ‘f****** moron’ in call to Fauci, diaries reveal (Erin Keller/The Independent)  I’m sure Trump would say the same about Obama and Obama Jr. (oops, my mistake—there is no Obama Jr.)

Newsbusters.

Even mind-readers have to have something to work with.

How long and warm were the handshakes? How was the body language? How did Trump’s voice sound?

What White House door did the Israeli Prime Minister use to go in and see the President?

On – and on and on – went these and other questions from the American media as Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu arrived at the White House for his latest meeting with President Trump.

There are multiple examples of this kind of media scrutiny of the President and the Trump White House, where minor details are over-interpreted and become major obsessions, as the two leaders met.

John Hinderaker at Power Line.

Muslims invaded Spain in 711 and conquered almost all of that country. They held Spain for centuries, until the Christian Reconquest finally drove out the last of the Muslims in 1492. The Reconquest has always been regarded as a glorious chapter in Spanish history, but its current far-left, socialist government seems to be on the other side.

Spain’s government had already given 500,000 illegal aliens, mostly Muslims, legal status in that country. That was the context for yesterday’s attack by Moroccans on the Spanish territory of Ceuta, which Bill Glahn wrote about here. Suddenly, thousands of Moroccans swam or boated around Spain’s fence into Cueta. Why did this happen all at once? They seem to have gotten word that the Spanish authorities wouldn’t stop them.

As usual in these cases, the “migrants” were nearly all military-age men. This wasn’t a migration, it was an invasion, as in 711. And Spain’s government seems to be on board with it.

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Speaking for the people with three degrees, I can vouch for all of this.

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A clear pattern is emerging: When the political left or their favorite pet migrants wreak havoc and commit heinous crimes, the immediate canned response from the activist fold is to blame the “right wing” or blame those devious Israelis. Why do they do this? Because it works.

Progressive politicians and third world invaders always seem to dodge accountability while conservative movements in-fight over the source of the problem.

There a people on both sides of the aisle that maintain a distaste for Israel, sometimes to the point that they attribute almost godlike abilities to the Israeli government. They seem to be downright omnipresent; everywhere all at once and always ten steps ahead. It’s positively astounding.

Strategists within leftist and elitist movements understand very well that many conservatives and independents are suspicious of Israeli influence and they use this built-in paranoia as a weapon to divert attention away from their own machinations. While there are plenty of valid criticisms to be made against Israel, some claims dive deep into the absurd.

For example, the political left is spreading a new narrative across social media asserting that the migrant invasion of Spain’s Ceuta enclave is part of a vast US/Israeli conspiracy to destroy the country. In other words, they believe that tens-of-thousands of Muslim migrants are taking marching orders from a Jewish-run government.

Truly, this is an unprecedented level of progress in Islamic/Israeli relations.

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Hee hee hee.,…

Husbands do ‘hubby work’, i.e. anything that requires height or upper body strength that the wife just does not have.

Otherwise, you’re on your own.

Newsbusters.

The main Democratic and media—but we repeat ourselves—conceit of the 2024 election that voters saw straight through was that former Vice President Kamala Harris is some sort of a moderate. Harris recently proved voters right again in a recent statement where she endorsed statehood for Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico, expanding the Supreme Court to 13 justices, and the need to “revisit” the Electoral College. However, on Friday’s PBS News Hour, The Atlantic staff writer David Brooks and MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart agreed, “That’s not controversial.”

Not at PBS, that’s certainly true.

Moderator Geoff Bennett teed up Brooks by playing a clip of Harris insisting, “We need to revisit the Electoral College. We need to revisit the point of expanding the Court to 13 justices, like we have 13 district courts. We need to revisit, if they so want, statehood for Puerto Rico and D.C.”

Bennett was not interested in examining the radical aspects of those proposals. Instead, he wondered if it showed Harris was in tune with the Democratic base, “So that’s the thing. Democrats are saying they want a candidate who will fight for the things that Democrats say they care about. What do you make of that message?”