Al Gore and the Politicization of Science w/ Roger Pielke Jr.

I'm still rather an Al Gore fan, for the record.

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John B. Judis: Tom Steyer's Disastrous Immigration Plan

Well, the radical left now has a central role in setting the agenda for the Democrat party. And the radical left wants open borders. At least in the West. Because its main goal is the destruction of the West...

   So these efforts to create de facto open borders--e.g. the "abolition" of ICE--are not going away until the Dems move back to the center and energetically repudiate their lunatic fringe...

...something I no longer think is inevitable...

   But just to pick one point out of this: Judis seems to regard himself as criticizing Steyer from a saner, more centrist position...speaking for the saner, more centrist Dems...who don't want open borders, but merely disagree with how Trump is enforcing immigration laws...

   But that's ridiculous.

   Most of those objections are based on videos of shrieking activists...and screaming illegals who--surprise!--don't want to be deported! Unless you think that shrieking should make you immune from prosecution, those videos should carry no weight. Unless you basically think we shouldn't be enforcing the laws, you have no real objection to how Trump is doing it. OH NOEZ! HE'S EVEN ENFORCING THE LAWZ IN DEMOCRATZ STATEZ!!!!!

Jesus Christ.

STFU you idiots.

The left has created chaos wherever it can whenever we try to enforce these laws.

It's just silly to pretend that Trump is somehow enforcing the laws unjustly, and the Dems would be just fine with some kind of reasonable enforcement.

Really what's going on is: the lunatic fringe is screaming and crying whenever any immigration laws are enforced, and convincing the bleeding-heart sorta-centrists on the left that this shows that the enforcement is bad.

Oh, and then there's the Z0MG THEYZ WEARIN MAZKZ!!!!

Yes.

As I keep pointing out: the left can end that tomorrow by not doxing LEOs and threatening their families.

Of course they won't.

Then there are the "concentration camps"--ie detention centers. Where the detainees can leave whenever they want, so long as they go back home. And we'll give 'em $3k to do so.

So oppression!

Very un-social-justice!

Jesus Christ.

Grow the fuck up.

Is "Third-Worldism" the Newest Manifestation of Marxist Nonsense?

I’ve warned you all.

Third-Worldism is the fastest growing ideological movement in the United States. https://t.co/OlsMxhAafX https://t.co/eGmzgwg1a0 pic.twitter.com/t2LYFI9Hh4

— Zineb Riboua (@zriboua) April 18, 2026

Iran Deal: Confusion Reigns

facepalm

Jesus Christ that guy.

Did Trump Just Win AGAIN??: Dow Jumps, Oil Tumbles After Iran Declares Strait of Hormuz Open

I'm fed up with the guy...but dayum...

McCarthy: Trump DoJ's Farcical Powell Probe Continues

For all the good things Trump has done, and even in light of the madness still infecting the blue team, I just can't really support him anymore.

This sort of lunacy seems obviously inexcusable.

Perhaps, of course, it is legally defensible. I've certainly learned over the past decade that I usually don't really understand what's going on.

But I don't think so in this case.

I'm starting to hope that the Dems take over both houses and impeach him.

Vance is, I think, like a sane Trump, basically.

Justin Fairfax Murder/Suicide

Oh my God this is horrible.

Just horrible.

Paul Al Rahe: There's a Case for Tariffs

This seems obviously right to me.

I'm no economist, and I don't really deserve an opinion here.

But I do find the gap between these two things surprising:

[a] the passion with which tariffs are opposed by the relevant people

[b] the apparent strength of their actual arguments.

I'm perfectly willing to accept that tariffs are generally bad. But I'm in no way convinced that they're bad in all cases. The two obvious cases being:

[i] another country has put tariffs (or their equivalent) on us

[ii] Rahe's case; the industry in question is crucial to defense.

One argument is:

It would be better for the industry in question to be efficient and resilient enough to compete on its own against adversaries.

Well, sure.

But if the adversary is subsidizing their widget industry...

Well, I should have probably stopped with I'm no economist...

Lefty WI Teacher Goes Full Retard re: Men in Women's Sports

Orange Man Bad; Make Iran Bad

Big if true.

But kinda seems to me like just another in the flood of Orange Man Badisms pouring out of the media.

It seems pretty unlikely to me that this has made Iran worse...

But what do I know?

Uchimata From Everywhere On Everyone

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.