Starmer to Stand Down?

Good riddance.

Judson Berger: Democrats' Magnificent Meltdown in Virginia

The Dems' actions since they took both houses of the GA and the Governorship have basically made it clear that, if we want an even minimally free and rational state, we have to do everything within reason to win next time--and, y'know...all the next times. Actually: win big enough to undo the damage they've done...and then never lose this big again... Unfortunately, it's NoVa's Commonwealth now...the rest of us just live in it...

   Dems have made it clear that they will implement the most radical leftist policies they can get away with--and their actions strongly suggest that they will do what they can to make it impossible for the Pubs to win back power. This kind of rabid radicalism is an absolute blueprint for disaster in my opinion. Once a party becomes dedicated to that kind of partisanship or radicalism--let alone both--I worry that it's just a matter of time before it gains an intolerable permanent advantage. Whereupon violence becomes a rational option for the other side. The left is currently far more prone to imposing such totalitarianism, as we have seen over the last decade--and, in VA, over the last six months...

   The national Dems are openly discussing--with apparent seriousness--some extremely radical options for the next time they gain power: packing the Court, ending the filibuster, making DC and Puerto Rico states, and prosecuting members of the Trump administration. They're also discussing "re-educating" or prosecuting Trump supporters...but I can't believe that even they would try that. Some of these aren't realistic without huge majorities. Which they're unlikely to get...

   Though this touches on another problem: with the new interpretation of the Voting Rights Act, Pubs currently winning the redistricting wars, and the possibility of changing Congressional apportionment rules...we may actually be looking at a significant, long-term red advantage. The blues have--according to the view I'm currently inclined to accept--enjoyed many illicit electoral advantages for decades. Losing that would be strategically disastrous for them. It would, IMO, be a win for the nation, as it would force them back toward the center... Of course they don't see it that way...

   Pubs are discussing e.g. de-retrocession--making DC square again...though it seems just to be loose talk. Believe me, it's tempting. And Constitutional. But I think that would be the last straw. It would drive the blues even farther over the edge--if there are degrees of being over the edge...

   OTOH, another view on the right is basically: we can't hold back for fear we'll drive them over the edge. They're already over the edge. We have to utilize every advantage we have while we have it. Specifically, this line of thinking says that, if we can gain significant advantage by nuking the filibuster--e.g. to pass the SAVE America Act--we should do it. Because the filibuster is already toast. The Dems will nuke it as soon as they can. So we might as well do it while we can make big changes in our favor. (However, formally amending rule XXII requires a 2/3 majority. But new precedent can be established in particular kinds of cases via the nuclear option with just 60 votes...)

It's appalling that we can't pass the SAVE America Act...but it doesn't seem worth nuking the filibuster over...

   Anyway

   I continue to think that our only hope as a nation is for the Dems to return to their senses. But I no longer believe that to be inevitable. I'm not even sure I think it's likely...

McCarthy: Be Skeptical of Claims the U.S. Hasn't Damaged Iran's Military Capabilities Much

LOL I never even considered taking these reports seriously.

Anybody who takes reports like these from the NYT seriously is a very slow learner indeed.

Anonymous NYT report to the effect that some obviously very successful Trumpian project is secretly unsuccessful?

Why, I could hardly be more convinced!

For that report to be right, this would have to be the most unsuccessful major American military operation since...uh...I couldn't even...maybe Operation Eagle Claw, the failed Iran hostage rescue mission in '79? And it's a stretch to call that major... I guess you could say Vietnam...but that wasn't so much a military failure as a lost propaganda war at home...

Anyway.

I don't believe that anyone but the deep blue left believed that.

I used to take every report like that seriously and either dive into it or automatically retreat to suspended judgment...

Now I just chuckle and move on...

The serious concern--seems to me--is the concern that the Iranian regime can just endure the pain longer than we can keep dishing it out. The left is already calling this a "forever war" and banging that drum... I mean...we're going on nearly 10 weeks or so! Practically the Hundred Years War over here...

UK: Sikh Psycho Stabs White Man; Tells Cops the White Dude was Racist; Cops Cuff the White Dude; He Bleeds to Death

You really can't make this shit up.

Dan McLaughlin on "Barfare": Disbarring Eastman Breaks More Norms

This generally coheres with my pathetically ignorant views of the subject...FWTW...

   The left's longstanding commitment to lawfare is another one of the asymmetries that make me more sympathetic to Trump's hardball response. I don't like his use of the DOJ to push his pet cases...but I've got to say...I think fighting fire with fire is generally acceptable...and sometimes the only effective response...

The Woke Odyssey

So, word on the web is that the new Odyssey:

Is based on a recent woke/feminist translation

Features Ellen Page--who is currently cosplaying a man ("Elliot") as Achilles

and also:

features a black Helen of Troy

So...miss me with that shit...as we now say...

Look, I don't--or didn't used to--mind messing around with such casting decisions. You want to cast a woman as Achilles...well...your choice I guess...

And generally I don't--or didn't--care about race-swapping in roles because I don't--or didn't--think race was really an important characteristic of people...

But that's not the point in this case.

In this case, the director, Christopher Nolan, is clearly using the Odyssey to make a woke statement. He's casting page to cohere with the woketarian view that people can change their sex by proclamation. (Of course that point is concealed in a fog of Orwellian jargon about "gender"...). And race-swapping Helen of Troy is just intentionally provocative, obviously. I'm not interested here in the question whether, sub specie aeternitatis, race shouldn't matter...I'm interested in the intentional subordination of one of the most important works of Western Civilization to woketarianism. As others have noted, the left would probably hit the roof if they made Cleopatra white in a movie...even though she was, in fact, white...

And, as for the translation: 

The translator seems to variously claim it's feminist, and that it's just more accurate. If the latter is true--which, almost certainly, it isn't*--well, then that's that... But, again: it isn't.*

*It's not that I read Ancient Greek, nor know that much about the Odyssey...it's rather that, after at least a decade of this bullshit, we no longer have to give such claims the benefit of the doubt. We know they're almost certainly bullshit.

Spanberger Signs "Assault Weapons" Bill

Stupid.

Thank God for the Trump administration: the DOJ is taking 'em to court.

The Democrats are just wrong about everything now.

Nate the Lawer: DC Officials Caught Faking Crime Stats to Hide Police Defunding Disaster

The left was ranting and raving about low crime rates in D.C. and blah blah Trump was nuts and martial law and blah blah blah. People not locked up in the left's echo chamber were mostly saying that they were skeptical about the data--but most weren't outright denying its accuracy. Many people were saying basically Look, this just doesn't comport with our experience. There's crime everywhere and we don't feel safe. This is to their credit. And this is par for the course for the last decade. The left passionately embraces the leftist "narrative"...even when it seems utterly cracked. Sane people, unfortunately, are still hesitant to just reject the left's bullshit...and so are more circumspect.

   No.

   Just reject it.

   By this point it's clear that they are basically either lying or delusional about everything...

   If by some chance they turn out to be right about something you can always go back and admit error.

   But, look: by this point, the safe bet about anything they say is: they're crazy / lying.

   Once again, the left's ideologically-driven story turns out to be false--and obviously so. But the lefty Powers That Be, combined with the quasi-religious True Believers in the lefty herd...just installed an official myth that propped up their preferred worldview...and, of course, entailed that Orange Man Bad....

   But it did its job: it got them over the hump when exposure could have been genuinely politically harmful. Sure, epistemically this is much worse, and it reveals, yet again, their Orwellian lunacy...but nobody cares about that. It's a price they're obviously willing to pay...

The Return of the Moderate Spanberger?

Well...by the standards of the WaPo, I guess...

I mean, look: good for Spanberger.

I shouldn't be churlish about it.

Good on her. Right decision, in my expert economicalistic opinion...

But apparently there was some pushback against this bill by Dems, too.

So it's not like she's totally going moderate rogue or anything.

But still: good job, Governor.

Fauci & co. Covered Up Laboratory Origin of COVID

link

The refusal to acknowledge that the lab-leak theory was more plausible was/is one of the left's outright denials of reason that just left me dumbfounded from the beginning. It was always obvious that it was more likely. I mean, you can acknowledge a hypothesis is more prima facie plausible and still think it's overridden by other evidence or whatever...not that such evidence existed... But to refuse to acknowledge that it's prima facie more likely...that's just nuts. That's what really gave the lie to the left's position. But man, the word went out and they fell in line--right away.

   It was crazy enough that they politicized even this...it had something to do with their strange sinophilia, and their tendency to make up stories about the racist origins of any theory they don't like...but also, of course, with TDS... Once Trump acknowledge that the bug came from China, the left rocketed to the other side. Remember that one airhead reporter babe who asked something like "Why do you insist on calling it the China virus when there is no evidence that only Chinese people get it?"

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

You almost can't make this stuff up.

I still love his reponse:

"Because it's from Chi-Na"

LOOOOOOOOOOL

I mean, he drives me crazy, but he drives them crazy too...and that's SO much more important...

Anyway.

Now it turns out that the left wasn't just denying plain facts...which is hardly even notable for them anymore...but their hero, Fauci, was actively covering up the origins.

Jesus Christ.

You almost can't make this shit up...

"It is BRITISH" to be Diversity

You fucking Orwellian retards.

Nicholas Kristof Claims Israel Has a Policy of Raping Palestinian Prisoners...With Dogs...

I know Kristof is not the left...but madness is like a plague over there.

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEdistricting, con't

Wow, interweb Dems are still throwing tantrums over this. This person--"Krystal Ball"...if that is her name--is borderline hysterical. She has no idea what she's talking about. 

Jesus Christ.

Most Democrats aren't like this.

These professional shriekers are not helping your cause...

They all keep repeating the same dumbass arguments. e.g.; BUT REDISTRICTING HAPPENED IN SOME OTHER STATES BUT NOT VA EVEN THOUGH THE VOTERS APPROVED IT THERE WHAAAAA....

This Ball woman also thinks that SCOVA approved the referendum and then took it back.

Bitch, read something other than your leftist propaganda.

You have no idea what's going on.

Don't watch this except to ridicule her:

They also keep almost calling for violence...and sometimes actually doing so.

Emily what's-her-name just rolls right over and goes along with the other woman.

Totally Not to the VA Dems

The Most Effective Spencer Pratt Ad Yet

CA Dems are so out of touch that they think this is an anti-Pratt ad:

Spencer Pratt will have to report this as an in-kind donation or he may run into campaign finance problems.

Perhaps that's what the game plan was all along. https://t.co/hLptEYSTl8

— Christian Heiens 🏛 (@ChristianHeiens) May 10, 2026

LOL "our unhoused neighbors" 

VA Dems Threatening to Lower Retirement Age for SCOVA so Spanberger Can Appoint a Whole New Court

Just take the 'L' you stupid bastards.

People won't stand for such a thing.

It's not worth starting Civil War 2.0 over.

I kinda thought the left might be starting to sober up a bit there for awhile...

...shows what I know...

What Happens When the Europoors Figure Out How Poor They Really Are?

link

ICE Deported Me to Britain--It's Dump

"Ted" is awesome.

He's totally objective, acknowledging that he deserved to be deported--and that London sucks.

The retarded, slow-talking Brit reporter pretends that it's somehow difficult to understand him:

Lefties Unhappy b/c Their Patronage Network Being Dismantled; Righties Unhappy b/c of 20 Years of Discrimination Against White Men

That's basically the size of it:

Leftists feel despair because their patronage networks are being dismembered piece by piece. Trump supporters feel despair because they were locked out of career development by DEI racial discrimination and suffered 18 years of decline since 2008. That's what's driving this. https://t.co/7glEYUZ6JW pic.twitter.com/n7D6s5nGWY

— Fugitive Caesar (@ThomBrady5) May 8, 2026

Jamelle Bouie is an Idiot

Still.

Still an idiot.

This isn't worth watching.

I just think the guy deserves ridicule:

UK: Labour Gets Whupped

Of course none of the "five things we've learned" from this, according to the AP, is: Britains don't want to be replaced on their own island(s). I mean, of course they're "anti-immigration"...(and razizt, as goes without saying...)

Well, anyway, good news.

Maybe Farage and Reform can save the Brits from themselves...but I'm not all that optimistic.