THEY’RE FLAILING: The Atlantic Wants a ‘Liberal Tea Party’ and I Can’t Stop Laughing.
February 25, 2025
OUR LONG NATIONAL NIGHTMARE MAY SOON BE OVER: Kathleen Kennedy Reportedly Leaving Lucasfilm After Disastrous 13-Year Run.
Lucasfilm may see the end of one of the worst leaders it’s ever had as it’s been announced that “the force is female” Kathleen Kennedy is leaving Lucasfilm after she brought absolute destruction to every brand under that umbrella.
According to Puck, Kathleen reportedly turned in her resignation notice, ending her 13-year run as head of Lucasfilm at the end of the year:
After years of speculation, and polite urging from observers like me, Kathleen Kennedy has informed Disney, as well as friends and associates, that she will exit as Lucasfilm president by the end of the year, per three sources. Disney and Kennedy’s personal publicist declined to comment.
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Kennedy has been telegraphing her exit lately, selling her and husband Frank Marshall’s Malibu house, offloading art, and talking to friends about working with Frank more. She’s also been collecting career honors from everyone from the Austin Film Festival to the American Society of Cinematographers to this week’s Oscar Wilde Awards in L.A. Departing this year will allow a successor to handle the 2026 release of The Mandalorian and Grogu, the first Star Wars movie since 2019’s The Rise of Skywalker. This year she’s got only the second season of Andor, which will likely be an Emmy contender (the trailer looks good), and some kids’ stuff on Disney+.
These rumors have been circulating for some time, and while it’s still not wholly confirmed, as Puck notes, the reports are likely true.
Hopefully South Park will take a well-deserved victory lap if Kennedy does actually leave: Disney Executives Reportedly “Butthurt” Over South Park: Joining The Panderverse Special.
IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA:
Elon musk is worth $400 billion because he owns significant stakes in Tesla, SpaceX, and X, and XAI.
Elizabeth Warren is worth $20 million AND UP because…???
I'll wait.
And show your work.
— Joey Meugniot (@realjoeymUS) February 18, 2025
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Just another occasional reminder that outside income earned by any elected official should be taxed at 100%, along with a 100% tax on investment returns over the 7% that individual investors hope to make.
— Stephen Green (@VodkaPundit) February 25, 2025
Incentives need to change, starting with whom our elected officials actually work for.
DIY: WGGE WG-015 Professional 8-inch Wire Stripper/wire crimping tool. #CommissionEarned
ANALYSIS: TRUE. By Defending Free Speech Worldwide, Team Trump Reclaims America’s Global Moral High Ground.
In the span of four years, the Delaware Democrat morphed the United States from the world’s leading champion for natural rights into a knock-off version of an increasingly despotic Europe.
Which brings us to Vice President J.D. Vance’s monumental speech at the Munich Security Conference.
America’s vice president could have easily used his address to regurgitate the same worn-out platitudes about diplomatic “cooperation” and “improving relations” routinely espoused by Washington and European dignitaries. Instead, he took a much bolder approach.
Throughout his nearly 20-minute remarks, Vance gave a full-throated defense of free speech. While acknowledging the Biden administration’s censorship practices, Vance eloquently explained the importance of maintaining open discourse in civil society and lambasted self-professed “democratic” European states for deploying authoritarian tactics to silence their own peoples.
Indeed. The Western alliance might be in better shape if major members like Germany and Britain were respecting their citizens’ rights the way governments should.
YOUTHQUAKE: 3 in 4 college-age voters support Trump’s DOGE cuts: poll.
Also:
Everyone sees right through this narrative. The only people who don't want government corruption exposed are part of the corruption. https://t.co/dgtFJgzrNz
— Jeff Carlson (@themarketswork) February 24, 2025
WHY DID IT HAVE TO BE THE COFFEE? I Could Live With the Egg Shortage, But NOT THIS… NOT THIS.
PROF. GIORDANO: Congress must dismantle the Department of Education.
FAIL, BRITANNIA: Fury deepens over ‘sinister’ Thought Police targeting of a grandmother who criticised Labour as voters call for Starmer to go over ‘abuse of power.’
Two police officers were caught on camera paying a visit to a grandmother simply for criticising Labour politicians on Facebook.
Detectives have been accused of acting like East Germany’s Stasi secret police for quizzing Helen Jones over her calls for the resignation of local councillors embroiled in the WhatsApp scandal exposed by The Mail on Sunday.
Police conceded that the 54-year-old had committed no crime – yet Mrs Jones said she has effectively been silenced by the officers, as she was intimidated by them calling at her door and is too terrified to post on social media again.
Voters have rallied to her defence and blasted the ‘shocking’ incident as a waste of police time and accused the Government for alleged ‘abuse of power’.
Former Tory Cabinet minister Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg called the behaviour ‘extraordinary’.
It is the latest in a string of incidents in which police have investigated people for social media posts, including newspaper columnist Allison Pearson, feminist writer Julie Bindel, and former policeman Harry Miller, whose name was added to a database for his ‘non-crime hate incident’.
Greater Manchester Police has one of the highest crime rates in Britain and fails to solve almost three out of four shoplifting incidents.
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“The Britain I grew up in was the most peaceful, gentle & homogenous society that has ever existed with extraordinarily low levels of crime & high levels of public trust. That has been deliberately destroyed.” — Historian David Starkey, 2024.
Britain needs #Remigration. pic.twitter.com/6A7OuSQILb
— Sapphire (@sapphire18_) February 18, 2025
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: The Dems’ America Is a Dark, Awful Place, and I Hope They Stay There. “The Democrats invested so much hate and tomfoolery (I’m being kind; it probably won’t last) in attempting to prevent the Trump 47 era from ever happening that the loss they suffered last November has broken them just a smidge. The condition is of course compounded by the fact that they weren’t mentally well before Trump kicked them to the curb.”
MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Privateers ahoy! Hit cartels where it hurts with this old-school tactic.
Yes, I know I had a substack on this topic, but the Post people wanted me to do a column based on that essay.
In 1965, Warren Buffett took control of Berkshire Hathaway. The stock has since returned 19.9% annually, while the S&P 500 has compounded at 10.4% annually. That outperformance is due in large part to shrewd investments made by Buffett, which makes his recent capital allocation decisions a dire warning to Wall Street:
Berkshire sold $143 billion in stock in 2024, while purchasing only $9 billion. That brings its net sales to $134 billion last year. Berkshire has never been a net seller on [sic] that magnitude at any point in its history.
Berkshire had $334 billion in cash and equivalents on its balance sheet, as of December 2024. That figure doubled in the past year, and it represents a new record for the company.
Importantly, in his most recent shareholder letter, Buffett wrote, “Berkshire will never prefer ownership of cash-equivalent assets over the ownership of good businesses.” That implies Buffett struggled to find good stocks at reasonable prices last year, which itself is a clear warning to Wall Street.
“Buy the dip” remains solid advice for billionaires and small investors alike.
IS DONALD TRUMP FDR? LINCOLN? JACKSON? WARREN HARDING? Harding was bold and enlightened on civil rights & civil liberties and ushered in peace, prosperity, bipartisanship, cautious internationalism, and innovative management.
CHANGE:
Business confidence hits fresh records as 63% of CEO’s now expect a boom. Under Biden it was just 19%.
They’re eager to invest — and create jobs — to ride the wave. pic.twitter.com/XFZZC0jbWB
— Peter St Onge, Ph.D. (@profstonge) February 25, 2025
FIRST THE USAID GRAVY TRAIN IS SHUT DOWN, NOW THIS: Democrat Donors Pull Funding From Party: The Party ‘Is F***ing Terrible.’
SHELDON WHITEHOUSE, SLEAZY? SHOCKED.
Dem Sen. Whitehouse in hot water over wife's nonprofit's millions in federal grants. FOX: Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., is being accused of violating ethics rules after backing laws that financially benefited his wife's environmental organization. https://t.co/YC0tAHJ5y0
— John DePetro Show (@JohnDePetroshow) February 24, 2025
YEP, PATRONAGE WAS MUCH MORE ACCOUNTABLE: The Administrative State Is So Corrupt It Makes The 19th Century’s Patronage System Look Good.
Flashback: Abolish the Civil Service.
HOW DARE MUSK GO AFTER THOSE DEDICATED, EXPERT CIVIL SERVANTS: NSA Intelligence Sharing Chatroom Filled With Transgender Fetishism Discussion.
LIGHTNING DEAL: 12×30 Compact HD Binoculars for Adults and Kids. #CommissionEarned
GOLDEN STATE FOLLIES: Voters here in California would like their elected leaders to do something to prevent wildfires. Behold Senate Bill 653 (introduced by Senator Dave Cortese): While the bill’s title is “Wildfire prevention: Environmentally sensitive vegetation management,” the entire text reads. “Section 1: It is the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation to define ‘environmentally sensitive vegetation management’ and to encourage the use of environmentally sensitive vegetation management practices.”
That’s it. Maybe they’ll get around to it later; right now they just wanted us to know that they’re thinking about us. Cortese sent around an email bragging about having introduced this very important … bill about wildfire prevention statement of vague intent. Not surprisingly, the email doesn’t quote the bill’s text, it only quotes the title.
Meanwhile, the California legislature is swimming in slavery reparations bills. For example, one bill would establish a “Bureau for Descendants of American Slavery.” Another would give the descendants of slaves “priority” for certain professional licenses. A third would give admissions preferences at California universitiesto descendants of slaves. There are more.
The folks in the Cal Legislature never learn. They have their priorities. But they don’t look much like the voters’ priorities.