CO Bill Penalizes "Misgendering," "Deadnaming" in Public Places, Forces Gender Pseudoscience onto Families and Schools

The blue team is still insane.

We have always been at war with Eurasia, bigot.

Happy Liberation Day Everybody!!!

[sigh]

This is gonna be real bad, idn't it?

   This is my guess about how it all goes sideways: tariffs and mass Federal firings do major (even if only short-term) economic damage. The Dems bounce back, e.g. winning the midterms. Suddenly red-team triumphalism is a joke on the order of their confidence in the "red wave" of '22...and then we're right back on the road to 1984...
   Apparently Trump has a point--though perhaps not as strong a point as he thinks--about tariffs. But this isn't a hill I want the counterrevolution to die on. Trump's got so many irons in the fire, and is shocking and aweing on so many fronts... I'd say that several failures are virtually guaranteed, just on the basis of how much he's doing, and how fast. It might not take all that much to change the national mood. And once the left is off the ropes, and the media regains control of "The Narrative"...we're back to playing defense...

   The last thing we need right now, IMO, is to let the Dems think they can stay crazy and still win. Which, well...see Wisconsin just now... To have a healthy democratic aspect of our democratic republic, we really do need two sane parties.

   Also, of course, there are some worrying signs of right-wing crazy getting out of the bottle... That's the other last thing we need right now...

   And as for Trump himself: Well, I knew the Trump fatigue was coming...but I didn't think I'd already be in stage 3 by April...but here we are.

Crawford Wins WI Supreme Court Race

Sorry, badgers.

Not sure "in rebuke of Trump, Musk" is part of a legit news headline...but what do I know?

No Statutory Basis for Universal/Nationwide Injunctions?

John Kennedy FTW.

Wisconsin Supreme Court Election

Ugh. This is a big one.

The polls I've seen put Crawford ahead. If they were just routinely blue-leaning polls that wouldn't matter much--but one was Atlas Intel.

Nate the Lawyer: Time's Illegal Alien of the Year Deported

Trump Again Threatens Military Action to Take Greenland

Insanity.

Bullshit Studies: "The Earth is a Big Badass Butch Dyke in Menopause"

Behold, academia.

Jeb Rubenfeld: Trump's (Unconstitutional?) War on Big Law

Train wreck.

Brendan O'Neill: Woke Elites, Not Trump, Purged Museums

Tearing down statues and covering up exhibitions and whatnot is not purging, bigot.

Putting them back up or uncovering them is purging.

John Naughton: Scientists Fear Being Refused Readmittance to the U.S. After International Conferences

Sounds very bad...but it's the Grauniad, so...

Andrew Noymer: COVID-19: The Evidence Lopsidedly Favors a Lab Leak

As it always has.

Well, I think there were a few brief periods when it wasn't clear, or when the needle pointed slightly in the other direct after some big pro-zoonotic publication. I'd have to go back and look at my past ranting about this.

Perhaps it looked different from the perspective of experts--but, if so, they didn't or couldn't adequately articulate their reasons in the public discussion. And many of the reasons that were represented as expert opinion in favor of the zoonotic hypothesis were outright bad.

Wait, there was the stuff that was hot for awhile about finding DNA in the drains at the wet market...hard to remember the details of that argument now, and I'm too lazy to look it up.

Of course we still could be surprised.

But it's very, very clear that the bizarre anti-lab-leak propaganda was just more Lysenkoism, basically from the blue team. The lab-leak hypothesis was never crazy.

And why politicize this issue?

It's almost as if they're not happy unless they can politicize every issue that comes along.

Though, TBF, the red team often does its fair share. See e.g. the anti-vax hysteria among the reds. Holy crap did they ever lose it about that. The blues were way nutty about it, too--treating it as almost some kind of sacrament, and sometimes identifying themselves as "team Pfizer" or "team Moderna"...weird...

Crazy times.

2WAY: Trump Forces Lefty Law Firm Paul Weiss To Surrender

My gut is kinda with Spicer, but I fear Halperin and Turrentine may be right.

I mean, what these psychos like Perkins Coie did to Trump...my non-lawyer reaction is: they belong in jail...

But that doesn't mean that the President should do what Halperin claims he's doing.

I supported Trump--not in the primary, but in the general--because the Democrats have lost their collective mind. But, as I've said many times, it was a gamble. He's doing good things and bad things. Thus far the former outweigh the latter...but there's no excuse for it being a close call.

And, of course, even if Trump does do more harm than good, he's very unlikely to do as much more harm than good as Harris would have done. But, again: there's no excuse for it being a close call.

I do want to see these Democrat lawfare firms wrecked. But not by the President.

The Bee: Atlantic Journalist Reveals Shocking Trump Messages

Trump Signs EO Requiring Proof of Citizenship in Federal Elections

On the one hand, I tend to favor this...OTOH, I tend to favor leaving things to the states when possible.

So I don't know.

There seem to be substantial evidence that voter fraud by noncitizens isn't that common.

OTOH, there's at least some evidence that some of it is slipping through the cracks.

One reasonable observation is that elections need not only to be fair, but to be obviously fair. This in order to produce confidence in the outcomes. And the Dems' bizarre recent radicalization on this (and many other) issue(s) does the opposite--it obviously decreases the confidence we can have in the results.

Tightening restrictions on mail-in ballots is good. Apparently it's fairly common knowledge that mail-in ballots are less-secure than in-person voting. I agree with the Pubs that we should go back to having an election day, with mail-in ballots only for absentee voting and suchlike--e.g. for people too old or sick to make it to the polls.

Given the Dems' bizarre radicalization over the past decade or so, I'm suspicious of their efforts to loosen up voting laws. They've gone to the mat for de facto open borders. Many are now certainly speaking and acting as if they believe that deportation is never, or almost never, permissible. Some Democrat cities have begun allowing noncitizen voting in local elections. Thing is, I've become suspicious of the general ideas that are motivating the left in this respect (and in others, of course). It just seems that they don't quite believe in a hard-and-fast distinction between citizens and noncitizens anymore. It kind of seems that they just don't think that noncitizen voting would be such a big deal. And IMO this is cause for concern.

Yglesias: "Trump's War on Science"

Weak sauce.

After a decade of the left Lysenkoizing science, this is decidedly unimpressive.

JFKj is basically the only notable entry in his list.

He's not nothing--he does concern me. (Though he's not wrong about everything.)

Look, here's a prediction that is barely even a prediction because we know it will be confirmed: if the right continues its ascent, it'll start messing with science, too. We pretty much know this will happen.

But right now, what it's mostly doing is unLysenkoizing it.

Hence the girlish blue-team shrieking.

Here's another prediction: I'll likely be slow to acknowledge it when the right starts doing it. Because I'm so appalled by what the left has become that I've developed a fondness for its most salient enemies.

So don't expect me to be the canary in the coal mine on this one.

In fact, I was very slow to recognize how loony and politicized both climatology and criminology had become. The race stuff and sex (now "gender") stuff I've been on about in one form or another since grad school--though I really though it had died out, so I didn't say much about it for a while.

Anyway.

Shellenberger: Climate Change Hysteria Is Waning

The left has been wrong about just about all its big, hysterical freakouts for the last decade.

Climate apocalypticism being, of course, among them.

The Supreme Court Killed March Madness

Whoever done it, it's dead.

Or at least dying.

I've found myself watching less and less.

Of course this coincides with Roy leaving and more ACC expansion. Though Roy left largely because of the transfer portal--and perhaps NIL.

Anyway. It's just not the same game. Stanford is in the Atlantic Coast Conference. Absurd. Carolina is likely to leave the ACC and join the SEC. Discussion boards are now filled with talk of how much NIL money we have to spend.

Might as well watch the NBA...and the NBA sucks.

Blehar: The Last Defense of the Signal Scandal Died This Morning

Yep.

Those are definitely war plans.

I have only a vague conception of what the conventions are here, but this does, indeed, seem like a massive fuckup.

I don't know what the right response is. 

Of course the Dems are squealing and trying to get maximum mileage out of this. But just ignore them: even people at eg National Review are calling for firings.

Over on the right, they've been circling the wagons since the get-go--and I fell for some of it.

I don't much care what's done, honestly, as long as it doesn't happen again.

Looks Like the Signal/Houthi-Attack-Plan Dust-Up Story Was, In Fact, Bullshit

Full Signal text chain has been released.

There's nothing in it but the pros and cons of striking now vs waiting a month.

It's not war plans. It's not classified info.

It's a conversation, and nice to see cabinet members and staffers hashing out the best way to move forward.… pic.twitter.com/OTNYgHr3VP

— Shawn Farash (@Shawn_Farash) March 26, 2025

The Signal Scandal Maybe NBD

Apparently the Signal app was approved for use by the Biden administration and came pre-loaded on the principal's phones. And, according to Gabbard, MSM reports that "highly classified" information was discussed were false.

   I view stories about such things in the MSM as being roughly equivalent to DNC press releases...though sometimes even the DNC gets things right...

   Basically we know that the media will rabidly spin things against Trump whenever possible. So, bad as this incident may have been, I try to mostly discount the first wave of hysteria from the Fifth Column. No, wait...fourth. Oh and: estate.

   I'm perfectly willing to admit that a lot of guys in the administration may be clowns, and that this may be really bad. But Jeffrey Goldberg is a lying, TDS-addled moonbat. And we just won't really know what's going on until the initial hysteria dies down. Right now the goal of most of these stories is get Trump, not find truth.

   Ultimately, I kind of doubt that this will even be important for us to look back on it with the sobriety of hindsight.

Jeffrey Blehar: Why Even Both Classifying Our War Plans If We're Just Going To Give Them Away?

Kinda sounds like I'm wrong about this one.

Lowry: Progressives Like Michelle Wu Can't Give Up Their Near-Theological Commitment to Illegal Immigration

This is right.

Can Dems Recover From Record-Low Approval Ratings?

They can and they will. The only question is: how soon?

A lot of conservatives are saying that they hope the Dems stay crazy so that they will continue to lose elections. But that's a dangerous hope. Remaining radical will lower their odds of winning elections, but will make them more destructive when they do, inevitably, win again. Which is likely to be, y'know, next year.

Mass Blue Temper-Tantrum Scheduled for April 5th

Whatever.

Super Hornets Now Carrying Stormbreakers

Nice

The Heseth/Golderg/Houthi/Signal Defense Leak Dust-Up

By induction, I conclude that Golberg is lying about this...

If something did happen, I don't know how bad this is.

If it's bad, then the normal things should happen--whatever those are. Firings or whatever.

Very much of the reaction I'm seeing seems to be the blue team and blue-team outlets taking advantage of this to score political points against Trump--

--but there still could be enough there there to warrant major repercussions.

Another thing I don't know.

Josh Blackman Rebuts Judge Luttig's NYT Op-Ed

It seems laughable to me to say that this dust-up would "cripple" Trump's Presidency if he lost.

Sounds like little more than wishful thinking on Littig's part.

Blackman seems right to me.

Alan S. Blinder: More Worries About Recession and Stagflation

Whatever else is true, it'll all be on Trump...and the Pubs.       link