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.

The Redistricting Decision Meltdown

I think it's important not to gloat at times like this.

You get a cheap, fleeting charge from it, but it just stokes the fires of resentment and division.

...

buuut...

The lefty meltdown sure is irritating.

People who have absolutely no idea what they're talking about are declaring this the greatest injustice in the history of the Commonwealth.

Listen:

As we now say, just take the 'L.'

And, yeah, I know I'd be singing a different tune if it had gone the other way...

...but...

TBF

We're right and you're wrong.

AOC: "You Can't Earn a Billion Dollars"

Some of my best friends are lefties...

...but...honestly...I kinda think that socialism is economics for people who have never read a book on economics...

There are, in fact--and of course--many ways to earn a billion dollars.

Here's one:

Make a thousand widgets that people will pay a million dollars each for.

I used to have a crush--a very embarrassing crush--on AOC...but I think I'm gettin' over it...

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Michelle Jump came from Henrico to protest the Supreme Court of Virginia’s ruling.

She is shouting “shame” and says the Supreme Court silenced the people.

Hear more from Jump tonight on @8NEWS. pic.twitter.com/ZzeBK9qYtb

— Tyler Englander (@TylerEnglander) May 8, 2026

$70 Million

Virginia Democrats spent $70 million on this map… for it to be canceled in court

I can't stop laughing pic.twitter.com/2J75W4ysft

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) May 8, 2026

SCOVA Slaps Down VA Gerrymandering

Thank you, sweet baby Jesus.

KBJ's Campaign Against the Court

The DEI Justice strikes (out) again...

Among Joe Biden's many crimes against the nation, appointing her is one of the worst.

Also: expect more court-packing-talk by Dems.

Also: I wish Thomas and Alito--great as they are--would retire. There's a decent chance that Trump fatigue will land us with a Democrat president and Senate by '28...and, though both Justices may have five-ish years left in them, I doubt that they have all that much more.

And again: thank the powers what be for Mitch McConnell. Without him, we'd have Justice Merrick Garland...