SHE WAS THERE:  In At the Beginning.

Note that money from government always corrupts.

THE TRULY TERRIBLE THING IS THAT, BECAUSE OF GOVERNMENTAL INTERFERENCE HOSPITALS AND DON’T DOCTORS DON’T ACTUALLY KNOW WHAT ANYTHING COSTS:  Now this is an idea.

AND THIS IS THE LAST DAY OF THE SALE AT: Tilting at Windmills.

NERDS ALWAYS MOCK THE MEAN GIRLS: “Musk is notorious for sharing edgelord memes on X, the kinds of things that might be passed around by teenage boys.”

They do that because they’re not trying to have sex with the mean girls, and they’re not in the social hierarchy of the mean girls. So they are the only ones who can mock them, and they do — when they notice them at all.

Quote above is from Media Mean Girl Jill Filipovic, who is displaying a Margaret-Dumontish level of offended hauteur.

Plus, from the comments:

Elon also does nine impossible things before breakfast. He’s got a paralytic operating a computer with his mind. His rocket launches cost 10% of what other rockets cost. He catches boosters with chopsticks. He started a car company and a rocket company, two endeavors that shouldn’t have worked at all.

He’s exposing the dark money machinations that have been going on in government for decades, and cutting their frivolous waste, all by returning to first principles, which is his superpower.

So he posts dank memes. So what?

I’ll take Elon over our “sophisticated betters” posting fetish obsessions in their chat rooms.

All day, every day.

Plus:

Now we need to see the reverse angle shot. Tell us more about Laurene Jobs and the magazine she bought. Wikipedia will provide a few bullet points to get you started:

• In the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Powell Jobs donated $2 million to Hillary Clinton and raised a further $4 million for her.

• Powell Jobs’s philanthropy has been described as of limited “transparency and accountability.” In 2019, Powell Jobs was designated the “Least Transparent Mega-Giver” by Inside Philanthropy.

• In 2025, she visited India for Maha Kumbh Mela 2025. During her visit, she adopted the Hindu name “Kamala” and participated in the traditional Kalpavas ritual, which includes daily baths in sacred rivers, meditation, and a strict vegetarian diet.

• In October 1989, Steve Jobs gave a “View from the Top” lecture at Stanford Business School. Laurene Powell was a new MBA student and started up a conversation with Jobs, who was seated next to her. They subsequently had dinner together that night.

Grrrrrl Power!

It always comes from the same place.

And of course the Mean Girls hate to be mocked. Shallow, useless people always do.

JUST IN TIME FOR THE OSCARS:

MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE:

OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.

OCEANIA HAS ALWAYS BEEN AT WAR WITH TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE: Hilarious: Jake Tapper to Explain Biden Brain Coverup and Why It Was a Bad Idea.

The book isn’t out yet so I could be wrong, but I think the chances that Jake Tapper will spill the beans on how he and the rest of the Pravda Media colluded with the White House to cover up Biden’s senility are about zero.

For years, my recurring headline for Joe’s innumerable gaffes was “Super Gaffe-O-Matic ’76,” a takeoff on Dan Aykroyd’s classic Saturday Night Live TV commercial parody. I ran my first “Trunalimunumaprzure!” headline near the end of the 2020 election, after Biden screamed his way through a speech, badly garbling the script on his teleprompter. On September 29th of 2020, William Voegeli of the Claremont Institute published his column headlined “The Weak Leading the Woke,” in which he debated, “Is Biden still, you know, all there?” In contrast, Tapper was a loyal trooper until Biden’s disastrous debate with Trump in June of last year, when the new marching orders went out:

Tapper now tells us that he and others saw Biden’s “health problems,” but that sure isn’t what he told us all at the time. He was just as much an attack dog against Biden critics as any MSNBC flak, and his network was as much in on the conspiracy to hide Biden’s decline and slander those of us pointing it out as Karine Jean-Pierre.

A decade ago, John Nolte of Breitbart.com coined the phrase “Bensmithing” to describe how the Buzzfeed (later the New York Times and now Semafor) Democrat stenographer Ben Smith would feign being bored anytime conservatives pointed out how Obama was screwing up and dismiss each issue as a nothingburger. Perhaps Tapper will be employing Will Smith to shoot the commercials for his new book:

UPDATE:

I’M SO OLD, I REMEMBER WHEN ANTI-IMMIGRANT BIGOTRY WAS SUPPOSED TO BE BAD:

Of course, if you think this is bad, just wait until 2028, when Hispanic voters overwhelmingly turn out for J.D. Vance. . . .

ET TU, CONNECTICUT?

When Scott Presler is finished in New Jersey, can we please get him out here to Colorado?

BOOM:

Congress, it’s your turn next.