Spanberger Makes Anti-Gun Bills Worse

Sends them back to the General Assembly.

The Democrats are just awful...in case you hadn't noticed....

Although it won't happen, I wish the voters would just crush them for this.

I suppose I'll retire some day...but when that day comes, it won't be here.

Trump Shoots Himself in the Ass Yet Again: Retweets Trump-as-Jesus Pic

What the hell is wrong with that guy?

Susie Wiles:

For the love of God (as it were):

Take.

His.

Phone.

Away.

USA Rebuilding Air Bases on the "Second Island Chain" (Guam, Peleliu, Tinian, etc.)

Friend of mine has worked on some of these as a landscape architect preserving some of the old parts of the bases--e.g. Tinian.

Ryan McBeth: Trump's Blockade Will Run China Out of Oil by 6/8

Now Trump's Beefing With The Pope

eyeroll

Seriously?

You're gonna tell the pope what he should think about Christianity?

I mean, I'm no christian, and I think full-on pacifism is nuts.

But Trump just can't let anything go.

My main worry about the Catholics is their role in assisting illegals in entering the country. Maybe christianity is no respecter of borders. I don't know. But it would seem to make a certain amount of sense.

But we're a secular republic. The pope speaks with no authority so far as the USA goes.

I don't care about the pope--who's alleged to be another Woketarian--at all...

But I'm just sick of Trump and especially his unhinged tweeting.

Just STFU and do your job.

Evil Dictator Orban Overthro....No, Wait...

How did Orban’s ‘autocratic regime’ end?

He was… voted out? https://t.co/RaxBv9xLye

— Coddled Affluent Professional (@feelsdesperate) April 12, 2026

Communism

New Leftist Acronym Just Dropped: MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+

They left out the 'R' for 'retarded'...

It's hilarious that the Newsweek contributor is taking this nonsense seriously...and is pissed that no one else is.

Spanberger: VA Not A Sanctuary State

If she's telling the whole truth, I have to grant that it's a much more reasonable set of policies than I've been led to believe:

Noonan: Trump Shocked His Followers With His Vulgar, Threatening Social Media Post About The War

Agreed.

That was the last straw for me.

He's been maintaining my reluctant support because he's done so many good things--but mostly because the Democrats are so abjectly insane. They are not an option anymore. That leaves Trump.

Who is, of course, better than just not-the-Dems--he's done a credible job of rolling back a fair bit of the damage they've done.

So: on the domestic front: he's been good.

But foreign policy has always been the sketchiest part of this deal with the devil.

The mullahs deserve to be stomped. They are an insane, murderous, occupying force--as I understand it, anyway. I absolutely want them turned into small piles of ashes. 

But the threat to destroy the entire country...the entire civilization...WTF wat that??

Combined with the apparently poor planning (by Trump and...shudder...Hegseth...not by the military), the loony swinging back and forth, the apparent ceding of the Strait of Hormuz...the off-and-on declarations of victory... It just seems like a big pile of stupid and crazy.

Trump was a gamble.

I big, fat, gamble.

He's done a lot of good--and has been incalculably better than (shudder again) Harris or any other major Dem would have been.

And, of course, much of the left's criticism of him is itself nuts.

But I've gotta say, these unhinged midnight tweets about annihilating whole civilizations...that's just it for me.

Somebody should have taken his phone away ten years ago.

And it doesn't help how full of shit the wingnuttier regions of the wingnutosphere are in their defense of him. They really will say anything to avoid facing the truth about him.

Iran Does Not Have A "Government" That "Kills Its Own People;" It Is Under Arab-Islamic Occupation

This is Tehran now. They are not Iranians. They don’t speak our language. They are Hashd Al shabi jihadists from Iraq speaking Arabic.

Iran does not have a “government” that somehow kills “its own people”. Iran is under Arab-Islamic occupation for 47 years. The Ayatollahs just… pic.twitter.com/6JCxv1U4uu

— Gazelle غزاله شارمهد (@GazelleSharmahd) April 10, 2026

Are We in the Worst-Case Timeline?

I've predicted for years now that the Dems would soon learn their lesson and start moving back toward sanity.

I was just flat-out wrong--as e.g. the Virginia debacle illustrates.

And Trump seems to be completely losing his shit--not that he had all that much to begin with.

This is starting to seem to me like a worst-reasonable-case timeline.

It's not global thermonuclear war, obvs...but it is not good.

Speaking of which--just to kinda illustrated the crazy on both sides right now:

So Trump threatens to kill Iran's whole civilization...whatever the hell that means...

The moonbat left insisted that the only thing this could possibly mean was that he was going to nuke them...and freaks the fuck out accordingly...either actually believing or pretending to believe that we were on the brink of Armageddon.

WTF?

Obviously most people are still sane...but seriously WTF?

Can't anyone control Trump? How is it that the President of the United States is saying this kind of crazy shit???

John Sailer: How The Mellon Foundation Funds "Trans" Ideology

Bullshit Studies is a plague on academia.

In addition to packing normal disciplines with such bullshit, the left has created a vast network of pseudo-disciplines specifically devoted to spewing out bullshit, indoctrinating students, and advancing leftist dogma.

   Much of this stuff seems to be a kind of soft-core pr0n. It's also a branch of "me studies," wherein pseudo-scholars just talk about themselves all th time.

   This bullshit is not scholarship, and it has no place in any real university.

   Allowing these people to promote their bullshit at a university is like allowing religious kooks to use their positions to advance their religious dogmas. It's like we're not only allowing Scientologists into e.g. sociology and English departments, but we're setting up special Scientology Studies departments for them...and allowing them to teach courses to proselytize to their students. And giving them tenure on the basis of publications in publications specifically devoted to Scientology. Or: allowing Amway salesmen to teach courses specifically aimed at bringing new marks into their pyramid schemes.

   Utter.

   Bullshit.

WSJ: Trump Declares Premature Victory in Iran

link

He really seems to have lost it.

The wild oscillations between I DESTROY UR CIVILIZATIONZ!!!!111 to Peace in our time!...it's just not sane. Of course the MSM is doing everything it can to spin it all in the worst possible (often inconsistent) directions...but even controlling for that...Trump's just got to be stopped.

   One of the only hypotheses that seems to make any sense so far as I can tell is: he's just basically bullshitting about the ceasefire so that we can send our destroyers back to base to reload their launch tubes (which still can't be done at sea).

   Look, I'm starting to wonder whether supporting the Democrats might be starting to make sense again. I continue to hope we can get rid of him somehow and get Vance in the Oval office. Rubio would be better...but there's no realistic way to work that out. Just getting Trump out of there seems like Job One at this point.

McCarthy: Trump's Iran Miscalculation: Madman Theory Doesn't Work Against Other, Actual Madmen

Maybe.

Everybody's acting like they know what's going on.

Either we obviously lost

or

We obviously won.

But whichever it is, it's obvious.

Seemed to me that our odds of actually winning dropped significantly once it was made clear that we wouldn't prosecute the war beyond a few weeks.

Though that probably should have been clear from the get-go.

The left is madly spinning this as everything bad they can think up: a loss, a genocide, a chickening out...

The right is just going along with what Trump wants...as usual.

Me, I still think it had to be done at some point.

And the Dems obviously aren't going to do it.

And the Eurotards are going to do it...

But we have too many domestic problems Trump needs to attend to.

The Woketarians are farther from defeat than the Iranian regime--and a greater threat to the West.

As Spanberger has shown, they know what to do: pretend to be moderates and then go full speed to port as soon as they're elected...

NPR on MI Synagogue Attack: Terrorist's Cousins in Lebanon Hardest Hit

One thing you can say for NPR: it captures the ideas and sensibilities of the upper-middlebrow American left extremely well.

Joe Kent Re-Tweets Iranian Propaganda Saying U.S. Couldn't Recover Downed F-15E WSO, So Tried to Kill Him

Kent has garnered some fans, including at least one of my sharp and well-informed friends. I've watched/read some stuff said friend has passed along. I was willing to be impressed, but wasn't.

But this thing...

Even ignoring the fact that it was Iranian propaganda, nobody who knows anything about this sort of thing could believe that for a second. Even if Trump would give or ok such an order--and he would not--there is exactly no chance the order would be obeyed.

Basically, you've got to have some kind of major malfunction to believe such a story.

For the record, though, I do agree with Kent that Epic Fury is not a response to a predicted sneak attack. I don't think we have a clear answer to the Why now? question.