COVID Hysteria, a Very Special Retrospective: IF UR UNVAXXED UR AS GOOD AS DEAD BETTER MAKE A LIVING WILL, CORPSE-BOY

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVAXX URSELF, SHEEPS!!!!!

For the record, I'm still neither pro- nor anti-vax. I asked about getting it two years ago, when I was at the doc anyway...but they had run out.

This crap is pretty typical of our times:

There are hysteriacs on both ends of the spectrum. But the left-hysteriacs control the prestige institutions with the loudest megaphones...so their hysteria is more repulsive.

Though TBF the right-hysteriacs are REEEEEEEEally hysterical... Don't forget about all the microchips-in-vaxxes, 4G and blood clot lunacy. I even read someone in the depths of Free Republic claiming that, if you left the vax out-of-refrigeration, it would resolve into tiny aliens (described as being like teensy versions of the bugs in Starship Troopers...).

   Though it's one thing to find lunacy in the depths of fringey, super-conservative websites...and quite another to find it at Newsweek and Emory and CDC...

Patriot Front Fever...Catch It!

LOL I gotta say, I can see this going either way...but John Ocasio-Rodham Nolte's argument is pretty elegant:

In the same we know the moon landing was real because of it weren’t, the Russians would’ve said so, if these were actual right wingers, the corporate media would have doxxed them by now.

That is a very excellent point.

   We know the right's done similar stuff...e.g. the tiki-torch riot. But we know the left has run false flag ops just like this one--when Dems sent staffers to stand by Youngkin's campaign bus pretending to be tiki-torch-rioters...

   As many are pointing out, one difference between us and the left is that the left supports outright terrorists--so long as they're on the left (e.g. Antifa, BLM rioters, Bill Ayers et al.)...whereas the right thinks these "Patriot Front" clowns are...well...clowns. Or Feds. Or false-flaggots...

   However, some are saying we'd support arresting them...which is false.

   They haven't done anything illegal, no matter which side they're on.

   Let 'em do their thing...whatever it is.

BCP on the Latest Patriot Front Cosplay / Freakout

Honestly, I don't know whether "Patriot Front" is a blue team psyop or not.

We know that the lunatic right has done pretty much this before--in the tiki-torch riot march across UVA grounds the night before the Unite the Right rally. (Reminder: I consider those two things to be very different. UtR proper had every right to rally at Lee Park. They had a permit and everything. I don't know about the legality of the tiki-torch riot...but, to be perfectly honest, I would have had a strong urge to kick their asses...so...maybe I'm inconsistent on this one. So sue me.)

   Anyway, the shrieking lefty just before 1:25 is funny. But the really crazy shit comes after 1:25. Pretty much everything those two jackasses say is gold, baby...GOLD. They compare the picture of the black woman in a subway car filled by the Feds "Patriot Front" guys to a famous pic from integrating Little Rock schools. Now, in the latter pic, a black woman is surrounded by shrieking white racists...whereas in the former pic, a black woman is in a subway car filled with peaceful, polite cosplayers. Hell, even if they're for realz racists, they're not bothering her in any way. Perhaps the best part is when one of the lefties says "it's too early to start talking about Pulitzer Prizes..."

LOOLOLOLLLOL

Which isn't true at all!

Hell, go ahead and give the photographer a Pulitzer!

You get to keep those even if your story (or picture, presumably) turns out to be complete bullshit.

Neither the Post nor the NYT gave back Pulitzers they got for participating in the Russiagate hoax...so even if these guys are all on the SPLC payroll...hey...Pulitzer prize!

Some Grauniad Moonbat: "I Used to Revere the Great Experiment that is the United States; After Trump, I'm Not So Sure"

I went into this with a good attitude, since I think rational people can accept the idea expressed by the headline.

But meh.

Really not so good.

I'm sick and tired of Trump's bullshit.

But compared to the threat posed by the left, Trump's not such a terribly big deal.

Even though I agree that, when NOT compared to the contemporary left, Trump's shenanigans do seem--in some cases at least--to be a pretty damn big deal.

But any such article ought to start out by noting that the left spent the last decade trying to destroy free speech in America--and pretty much succeeded in destroying it everywhere else...

Trump, OTOH--with help from the likes of Elon Musk and Matt Taibbi--smashed those efforts.

He also gave us the best and most consequential SCOTUS of my lifetime.

Also: I pretty much lost interest when the author asserted that the Iran war had left Iran stronger and the U.S. weaker. The latter claim might be worth discussing. The former is pure TDS...

And don't forget: I don't think Donald Trump is fit to be President.

This is kinda the Trump paradox: who can someone so obviously unfit for the office in so many ways be doing such a good job in so many ways?

Well, the obvious answer is: because the other party has lost its fucking mind, and many of his best acts are just rolling back their obviously insane policies. It doesn't take a Washington or a Lincoln to recognize that men aren't women, and that any government programs saying otherwise absolutely have to be slapped down hard.. To take just one notable example...

Well, anyway.

NBC News: "Trigger Warning" for Using the Terms 'Biological Male', 'Biological Female'

What they ought to give is a redundancy warning.

INSANE: NBC’s Craig Melvin offers a trigger warning for trans people watching...

“Just a quick note here. The terms that we’re using here during our reporting, biological male, biological female, the high court put those terms in quotations in their decision and their dissent.… pic.twitter.com/Hx15swCfJ6

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) June 30, 2026

A P-40 Fires Its Guns Again

One of my absolute favorite fighters.

One of my main daydreams as a kid was flying with the Flying Tigers.

Republican and Democrat Coaches on: 'Merica!

Truck Nutz on Air Force One...actually a pretty good idea...

Happy 250th!

I remember the bicentennial well--it's part of what prompted my interest in early American history and American political thought.

Celebrate, ya 'Mericans!

Conservatives and the Left: What If Each Ran the Country?

Look, when it comes down to it, a nation run by conservatives wouldn't be as much fun. Probably: no legal weed. Significant penalties for getting caught with it. No sexual revolution. Let's say: no hookup apps, social stigma discouraging casual hookups and high body counts (gross term). Teh gayz: back in the closet with you! Prayer in school, abstinence propaganda. Probably not free pr0n on the interwebs all over the place... Flag-burning: illegal. Illegal aliens: all deported. Maybe some creationism in bio classes. Lower taxes and lots fewer public services. No abortion. I dunno. I'm not really thinking of all the things... It'd be a much churchier place. Much more straight-laced.

   Anyway, the point is: not a super-fun place.

   I'm against it.

   OTOH, imagine a world in which the left got what it wanted: socialism. Gender ideology brainwashing in schools and the brainwashed kids getting sexually mutilated left and right. DEI for everything everywhere, including NSF and NIH grants. CRT and indoctrination into it everywhere. Open borders and no deportations. All science ideologically infected--possibly by law. Universities fully converted into re-education camps. Extremely high taxes, especially on the rich and corporations--including punitive "wealth taxes." Censorship a la Biden's "mis-/dis-/mal-information" bullshit pervading government and media. Money lavished on leftists NGOs that then distribute it to leftists to feed it back into the Democrat party--and shower it on other countries for drag queen story hours in Ulan Bator and everywhere else... No controls on elections...draconian control of firearms, criminals released willy-nilly...

   In short: a catastrophe.

   Conservatives are wacky in their own way. And I don't want them to have unbridled control of the country.  But we know they won't destroy the country, because they used to control it and we did just fine.

   Leftism is made up primarily of these components: (a) insane policies that have never been tried, but which will obviously lead to disaster (e.g. decarceration); (b) policies that have been tried over and over and failed every time (e.g. socialism), and (c) people with mental problems (see: the psychological differences between progressives and conservatives).

   If you wanted to draw up a blueprint for the destruction of the USA, ergo the West, ergo the world, you really couldn't do any better than the blueprint the contemporary left is already trying to implement.

   We know conservatism won't destroy us because we've been there, and it didn't. Nothing similar can be said about contemporary woke leftism. In fact, it's more likely than not to lead to our destruction.

Mandami's Rent Freeze Leads to Bankrupt Landlords and Fewer Apartments for Rent

Leftists don't believe in the rest of science...so why should they believe in the law of supply and demand?

"Transgender" Mayoral Candidate (Hamilton, Ontario) "Scarlett" Gillespie Uses "Emotional Support Sock Puppet"

 Mr. Gillespie pretends to be a woman. He is also a "sex worker," and also goes by the name 'Jelena Vermillion.'

Leftism is a type of insanity.

SCOTUS: Good News, Bad News: States Can Keep Boys Out of Girls' Sports; But We're Stuck With Birthright Citizenship

What's insane, of course, is that this is happening anywhere...and that it had to go to SCOTUS to be defended... "Transgenderism" isn't a real thing--or, you could say: it's a mental disorder. Some people do wish they were the opposite sex...or like to cosplay the opposite sex...but there's no such thing as a male girl or woman, and no such things as a female boy or man.

Anyway: no surprise here. Sanity prevailed at SCOTUS on this one.

OTOH, it looks like we're stuck with birthright citizenship...which was a cool idea...but it's doing significant harm to the nation. We'd have been a lot better off if the Supremes had ruled the other way...but their job isn't to make the most beneficial ruling. Their job is to stick to the law.

   Now...seems to me like there's pretty good reason to doubt the standard interpretation of the 14th Amendment...but obviously my half-assed understanding doesn't exactly outweigh the judgment of the majority of the Court... No surprises here, either.

French Politician: U.S. A/C Responsible for European Heat Wave

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL no

The IPCC has said that no individual weather event can be linked to global warming...and, in fact, it's not at all clear that any general type of weather phenomenon can be linked to it--other than warming itself. Certainly not the notorious--and fictitious--increase in hurricane frequency/severity. Maybe, they say, heat waves are related--but the data are equivocal.

   As for U.S. a/c causing this--oh, sorry...I mean "being not unrelated" to it--no. It didn't cause even 1% of it.

   This is just more religious faith from the cult.

   And, listen: I think we overdo it with a/c. I don't see why some people and some businesses keep it freezing in their homes and stores. We always kinda just used a/c to take the edge off--and lower the humidity. People walk around in 80 degree weather outside just fine...what'd be wrong with keeping your a/c at that temp most of the time? 

   Now...we don't do that anymore. One of our dogs, Ajax, is a big furry monster of a GSD+?...and he likes to sleep under my desk...and that's upstairs. And they need it cool at night sleep. So now we keep it down more near 70. But, then, we drove dinky little econobox cars for years, back when we believed climate apocalypticism...so now our attitude is: fuck it. Also we have two trucks. Also fuck it...

Never Forget: AZ Police Officer Philip Brailsford Outright Executed Daniel Shaver and Got Away With It

Sonofabitch should have rotted in prison.

That article is shit. Brailsford and other cops were yelling contradictory orders at Shaver, and pointlessly making him crawl towards him. He had his hands up and was begging them not to shoot him. His loose basketball shorts started to ride down over his butt, and, obviously not thinking, he moved to pull them up. Then Brailsford (and perhaps other officers--I don't remember) did not merely "fire his gun"...he mag dumped Shaver--still on the ground, hands up, begging not to be killed.

   It was murder.

   I hope Brailsford gets what he deserves some day.

Geraghty: Iran Makes a Mockery of the MOU

What a mess.

Though, honestly, I understand almost nothing about the situation.

Heaton: Gavin Newsome Called Trump a Socialist. Is He?