Showing posts with label politics as usual. Show all posts
Showing posts with label politics as usual. Show all posts

Monday, August 10, 2026

Flotsam and Jetsam - More DIY

 I hate to do this two days in a row, but we have people visiting, and grandchildren to entertain:

Trump World

The Good and the Bad of the Common Good – HotAir
Vice President JD Vance Extensive Interview - The Last Refuge
Another Mysterious Drone with Ukraine Signature Hits Bulgaria - The Last Refuge
OSINTtechnical on X: "US defense giants Lockheed and Raytheon are reportedly resistant to licensing Patriot missile production to Ukraine because they fear that Ukrainian manufacturers will be able to “improve the Patriot and then produce them at scale faster and for much less money.” -The Atlantic https://t.co/Eb7z9i4yWN"
Sunday Combat: Dr. Jay Bhattacharya -vs- Margaret Brennan - The Last Refuge

Iran 

The Battle for Hormuz Will Reshape the Global LNG Market
Secretary Bessent Outlines Reality of Capital Markets Making the Strait of Hormuz Irrelevant - The Last Refuge

The Disloyal Opposition

Abdul El-Sayed blasts Trump's marriage to Melania after prez's social media comparison
Clean Up in Aisle 4! Abdul El-Sayed Makes a Mess on ‘Meet the Press’ – PJ Media
Althouse: "Is that Peter Thiel’s boy with that Ohio charisma he’s got? That guy. I think we’ve had enough of him."
Media Fawning of Senate Candidate Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed Begins - The Last Refuge
Barbara Boyd Looks at the Money Trail Behind Zohran Mamdani and Abdul El-Sayed - The Last Refuge
Exclusive | Mamdani is ‘thin-skinned and hyper-sensitive' in private despite unflappable social media image: political sources
Resurfaced: Talarico Brags About Hiding Illegal Aliens, Calls Texas Christians ‘Christo-Fascists’James Talarico - the Gift That Keeps On Giving - Victory Girls Blog
Instapundit - AOC DECLARES MISSION ACCOMPLISHED ON THE GREEN NEW DEAL: AOC starts process of freezing her eggs
Jonathan Turley on X: "Former DNC Vice-chair David Hogg just told establishment figures like Chuck Schumer that the "Big Tent" of his party is not big enough. He and other moderates have to go. When asked about Democratic moderates, Hogg replied, “They don’t have the right values"..."
Althouse: "Starting in the mid-2000s, the Democratic Party adopted a position that retail politics was due for an internet upgrade."
You Think We'd Let This Dem Congressional Candidate Forget What She Said Five Years Ago
NYC tenant activist who calls rent 'ransom' is daughter of Grammy-winner
¡No Pasarán!: Isn't It Time to Gut the 26th Amendment? (The Marxist Undertones of "Old Enough to Fight, Old Enough to Vote" Exposed)
DOJ Refutes Fishback Claim, Says Donalds Isn’t Under Investigation - The Daily Caller
Things Don't Sound Good for Cancer-Stricken Joe Biden – PJ Media
Why the woke left loves dancing on people’s graves - spiked
James O'Keefe on X: "BOMBSHELL: Undercover Video Shows Non-U.S. Citizens from Iran Allowed to Vote in Michigan Primary Without ID The Non-Citizens Allowed to Vote Are Sex Offenders, on DHS's "Worst of the Worst" List, and Previously Arrested by ICE Iranian Subject Confirms With OMG He Voted in the https://t.co/BH7eHTDLDw"

The Just Us System

En Banc DC Circuit Reinstates Funding Of The Most Corrupt Program Ever Enacted — Manhattan Contrarian
Doug Powers on X: "Wait'll you find out who was JFK's Attorney General."
A Massive Red Flag Was Just Found on Fauci's COVID-Era iPhone – RedState
Western Lensman on X: "Writing the diary vs hearing back what you wrote in the diary

Immigration, Legal and Otherwise

Immigration Court Backlog Falls Below 3.5 Million
Bessent Enlists Banks in Trump Immigration Crackdown
Illegal alien students demand U. California system comply with court ruling, hire them for campus jobs - The College Fix
Employers Using J1 Student Visas for Seasonal Work Pay NO Social Security Taxes - The Last Refuge

The Great Culture War

Wesley Yang on X: "Jason Arday’s utility is that you can defenestrate him and thus pretend that the rest of these folx are real scholars"
Hans Mahncke on X: "No chance. America remains the global leader in this field. Making Jason Arday a Cambridge professor so everyone involved can congratulate themselves on their virtue is beginner level stuff. America took a serial plagiarist with embarrassingly poor scholarship and made her"
Nick Dixon on X: "All this talk about Jason Arday, but people still don’t realise what DEI has done. One, it has destroyed millions of lives (they’re all white men, so no one cares). Two, it has destroyed entire industries and even art forms, potentially forever. There’s no sign that literature,"
One Bad Dude on X: "The WNBA is what the entire country would be like if run by white liberal women."
Plagiarist Claudine Gay getting paid $3.1 million/year after "resigning" from Harvard - Philip Greenspun’s Weblog
Great and Unfortunate Fabrications - American Greatness
Campus Reform - Kentucky anti-DEI law seemingly ends NIH-funded professor's 'white ally' therapy training
Clay Travis on X: "Sports Illustrated’s headline is “Sophie Cunningham got a bitter taste of karma” by getting clotheslined. Sports media is broken. It’s way more left wing than political media. https://t.co/svrY06F0JP"
Retard Finder on X: "DiJonai Carrington for clotheslining Sophie Cunningham then posting "white privilege" while appropriating white culture with fake ass straight blonde hair. Retard of the day
David Burge on X: "Apparently if you dare complain about her gettin eye-gouged or throat-punched, it's a dog whistle to encourage Emmett Till-style lynchings. Not according to some 6-follower straitjacket X rando, according to a staff sports columnist for USA Today."
Looks Like the WNBA's Absurdity Is About to Sink the Entire Transgender Movement – PJ MediaWNBA to Hold Meeting to Discuss What the 'W' Stands for
WNBA's Terrible, Horrible, No-Good Very-Bad Week – HotAir
Restoring the West on X: "Modern feminism can't agree on what a woman is. It's defended violent male predators in women's prisons and stayed silent on UK rape gangs to avoid being called racist. Ayaan Hirsi Ali: "I will always defend the rights of women—and therefore I cannot call myself a feminist."
Nicola Sturgeon Loses Another Round to JK Rowling – HotAir


Sunday, August 9, 2026

Flotsam and Jetsam - Another DIY Sunday

Trump World
Check the data, doom-and-gloomers — food costs aren't what you think
Ranger Who Quit Over Trump Policies Calls Removing Grand Teton Placard Censorship | Cowboy State Daily
Well, the New U.S.-Colombia Relationship Escalated Quickly. It's Officially FAFO Season. – PJ Media
China's Window Is Closing. So Is Its Command Structure | RealClearWorld
Russia Is Far from Defeated - CEPA
🇺🇸RealRobert🇺🇸 on X: "Here it is: The Federal Reserve CONFIRMS: U.S. NGOs collectively hold assets worth half the size of the U.S. national debt—$14.2 trillion—of taxpayers’ money. Government Funded-Non-Governmental Organization: An NGO Family Endeavors (Endeavors), a San Antonio-based nonprofit https://t.co/ZeQRYMorfd"
Pentagon Revokes Ex-Air Force Secretary's Classified Access - Newsmax.com

The Disloyal Opposition

DSA Stands for Freeloaders – Hold Onto Your Wallets – HotAir
How Pittsburgh Became the Early Alarm Bell for the DSA's Rise – HotAir
Hogg to Schumer: Get Out of Our 'Big Tent' and Take Moderates With You – HotAir
'Leftists Hate Fun': Skateboarder Taylor Silverman and Rejecting the Culture of Complaint – HotAir
Abdul El-Sayed Responds to End Wokeness and Doubles Down on 'I Hate Mackinac' – TwitchySpencer Pratt on X: "The path of life never gets easier. The climb doesn’t get less steep. Your legs just get stronger. Never quit. We have communists to wreck."
Geiger Capital on X: "The media loves to focus on the political leanings of young men, while completely ignoring the fact that it’s young women who have become far-left radical extremists." / XInez Stepman ⚪️🔴⚪️ on X: "Of course they can immediately see the problem with a fifth column bureaucracy the second the shoe is on the other foot lol"
Instapundit - CHABLIS IS A HELLUVA DRUG: https://twitter.com/jtLOL/status/2085877650992623929 Kamala may hav
Jenn Pellegrino 🇺🇸 on X: "Jimmy Carter in 2005 on voter ID: "It will not restrict people from voting." He even described Voter ID as “a move forward in getting more people to vote." Republicans need to share this video far and wide. Voter ID was bipartisan then. It should be bipartisan now. https://t.co/szZarfscjw"

Iran

What the Situation on the Ground in Iran Actually Looks Like

Just Us
Senate Narrowly Confirms Blanche as Attorney General - Newsmax.com
A CNN Guest Said This About Fauci...and All Hell Broke Loose
Congress Turns Up the Heat on Fauci While Blanche Passes Senate Test – HotAir
Five Lessons Learned From the Fauci Fiasco – HotAir
Bill Maher Obliterated Anthony Fauci Last Night
Watch 'Unbiased' Leftist Judge Become Completely Unhinged in Open Court in Election Case – PJ Media
The Week In Pictures: Winner and Still Champion Edition - Power Line
Illegal Immigration
Who’s to Blame for the ‘Ceuta Surge’?
Birth Tourism’s Next Evolution: Commissioned Citizenship - The American Mind
Spain: Pedro Sánchez Declares Border War on His Own Country - The American Spectator
Geiger Capital on X: "Holy shit. Since Trump took office, 1.3 Million foreign-born workers (legal and illegal) have lost a job. Meanwhile, 1.7 Million native-born Americans have gained a job. A sharp reversal of the last few years. https://t.co/b4b97fPQPS"
Basil the Great on X: "🚨NEWS: Authorities fear others will copy a group in Seville, Spain who spread pig bones on the construction site a Mosque was set to be built on, making the land impure and stopping the work. The group received widespread praise on social media for their efforts." / X
The Culture War
Instapundit - QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED: “Does the [military] leader sound like a human LinkedIn post? If so, he
Mary Katharine Ham on X: "Finally, a ray of hope for higher ed and they shut it down immediately" / XNorthern Barbarian on X: "OK, I need to figure out how to add to a community note. "Jason Arday is fakking hilarious and has singlehandedly blown up Cambridge University and the entire DEI industrial complex." How do I do that?"
Fusilli Spock on X: "Being educated is always good Being a credentialist, know-it-all, douche is bad Clear enough?"
The WNBA Has an Idiotic Response to Conservatives Pointing Out Their Woke NonsenseWNBA Commissioner Reacts to Two Male Ex-NBA Players Vying to Join the Women’s Basketball League – Twitchy
Clay Travis on X: "If you could 10x your salary by saying you were a woman, wouldn’t you do it too? WNBA is cooked."
Not the Bee on X: "In order to make a real change, some dude needs to take the L and actually pretend to be a chick for a year, dominate everything and then admit it was all a ruse afterward. We need somebody with the balls to do it."