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May 28, 2025
THE ARC OF HISTORY IS BENDING TOWARD FREEDOM: Poland Sets Gun Ownership Record, Argentina Drops Minimum Age: Another reminder that the right to keep and bear arms is a universal right. “While we disarm narco-terrorist gangs and organized crime, we celebrate the fact that good citizens can access weapons as legitimate users. Empty speeches are a thing of the past. In this government, we are making the right of Argentines to protect themselves and live in freedom a reality.”
THAT’S GONNA LEAVE A MARK: Gad Saad Gently Shreds Kyra Sedgwick’s Anti-Trump Fears. “This is the stuff I so often talk about when I discuss parasitized minds as being the most dangerous force of nature… This is a functioning human being who supposedly does not suffer from a mental illness, although one could argue that baffling imbecility could be a form of cognitive impairment.”
IMPEACH PRESIDENT AUTOPEN: The Biden Autopen Scandal May Be Getting Worse.
I would say, “How much worse can it get?” but, you know, let’s not dare them.
FINANCIAL AID FRAUD IS A BIG PROBLEM. “[F]inancial-aid fraud remains quite easy to commit and is rising at an alarming rate.” Yeah, it probably was easy right until this guy blew the whistle on it. Dangit, how come I always learn about the good scams only after it’s too late?
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WITH PURPOSE AND ENTHUSIASM: How California Has Destroyed Its Middle Class.
While the Trump interregnum has slowed the march of neo-feudalism in the rest of America, in California, the plan continues to move relentlessly forward. If you’re extremely wealthy, California’s abusive cost of living is not a big concern, and you stay for the scenic beauty and abundant sunshine. If you’re extremely poor, you stay because California’s taxpayer-funded assistance programs—financial aid, food assistance, healthcare, and other support services—offer a lifestyle orders of magnitude better than what you may have previously endured in the barrios of Tegucigalpa or the suburbios of Maputo.
But if you’re not rich, and you’re not poor, but just work, pay taxes, and pay for everything you need with after-tax earnings and without government assistance, California is a hostile environment. The numbers on out-migration are unequivocal. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, an astonishing 8.5 million people have moved out of California since 2010. In 2023 alone, the last full year for which estimates are available, 690,000 people left. In 2022, 818,000; in 2021, 841,000. No other state has sustained anywhere near this 15 years of unrelenting mass exodus.
There’s plenty of “churn” in any state’s population, as people move around the country. But California’s churn in large part is middle-class Americans moving out and poorer Americans and foreigners moving in. The percentage of Californians living in poverty increased nearly 50% this century, to 18.9% in 2023 from 12.9% in 2000.
AS ALWAYS, LIFE IMITATES THE BABYLON BEE:
Shot:
Chaser: “Germany offers to host Harvard ‘exile campus,’” the London Telegraph today:
Harvard University could establish an “exile campus” on German soil in response to Donald Trump’s attempts to purge the institution of alleged Left-wing tendencies, Berlin’s culture minister has suggested.
This week, the US president tried to block the US’s oldest university from enrolling any more international students by ordering his embassies to pause student visa interviews. It followed efforts to cancel the university’s funding after it refused to remove diversity policies.
Wolfram Weimer, Germany’s culture minister, told Bloomberg News: “I suggest that Harvard University establish its own exile campus in Germany. Our country stands for freedom of art and the press, for quality of studies and openness, discourse and diversity.”
Harvard has long been partying like it’s 1939 — why not make it official?
SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: New study: Teen drivers safer with more practice.
THE STATE OF NORTH MICHIGAN? Is Canada Now Interested in Becoming the 51st State?.
CHANGE: The Dems Declare War on the Obama Boys.
This morning — at 5 a.m. on the flippin’ dot! — NBC News dropped a triple-bylined, 40+ paragraph bombshell: “Obama world loses its shine in a changing, hurting Democratic Party”
(I think there’s a typo in the title? Maybe they meant “Obama world loses its shine in a changing climate,” or something like that. Nonetheless…)
Folks, NBC News was obviously working on this story for a very long time. They had three journalists collaborating on it, including Jonathan Allen and Natasha Korecki, their “senior national political reporters.” They name-dropped 50 or so people in the first 30 paragraphs. Donors, activists, and big-time operatives were all interviewed.
A [feces]-ton of resources went into this story.
And NBC’s message was 100% unmistakable, paralleling this scene in “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade:”
“Germany has declared war on the Jones boys!”
Only this time, the Democrats have declared war on the Obama boys:
More Democrats are openly criticizing Obama strategists and consultants, who were long treated as the high priests of their party’s politics. Democratic National Committee officials at a news event last month blamed Obama’s lack of investment in state parties over his two terms for setting back local organizing, with the party still feeling the effects. The so-called Obama coalition of voters — less politically engaged voters, younger voters and voters of color — is no more. In 2024, each of those groups shifted toward Trump in high numbers.
Going forward, it could mark a clean slate for a party whose course for nearly two decades cascaded from decisions Obama had made. It was Obama who chose Biden as his vice president, offering him the elevated perch that set up his 2020 election and his aborted 2024 re-election. Obama selected Hillary Clinton as his secretary of state, then anointed her for the Democratic nomination in the 2016 race against Trump. The operatives Obama and his top aides empowered have carved out leading, decision-making roles at the top of the Democratic Party since then.
But after 2024, more Democrats want to see that change. [emphasis added]
Pro Tip: When liberal journalists use a phrase like “high priests of their party’s politics,” you KNOW it’s gonna be followed by an angry slam. When your default setting is hostility to religion, you’re not using a phrase like “high priest” out of reverence, but out of snark.
We’ve come quite a long way from Newsweek’s Evan Thomas declaring in June of 2009 that “in a way Obama’s standing above the country, above – above the world, he’s sort of God.”
But then, as with their hagiography to prop up the sclerotic husk of Joe Biden, a lot of people who should have known better – and to be honest, did – crafted similar memes about “The Lightworker” during his time in office. Another pro tip: Don’t aim your heroes into the sun, and they won’t crash as badly during the descent.
YES, MICKEY IS RIGHT:
If you think of immigration as basically a social good–elite CW that many judges, even on SCOTUS, buy into–then sure, the only irreparable harm possible is to the individual immigrant. TRO granted! But if you think excessive immigration is bad–lowers wages, raises rents,… https://t.co/1IWfwgzhwI
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) May 28, 2025
As he often is.
YOU’RE GONNA NEED A MUCH BIGGER BLOG: The Blatant Lie of Germany’s Elite.
By longstanding tradition, the AfD should have been allotted committee chairmanships and vice chairmanships based on its February vote share. Doing so would have meant that the powerful budget, interior, and finance committees, along with three other committees, would have been under AfD direction, giving it the possibility of shaping legislation. But in a reversal of what is normally an automatic affirmation, on Wednesday, May 21, the other parties in Parliament voted down the AfD chairmanships and put those six committees in the control of other, often less popular, parties. The far-left Die Linke (the Left) party, which had garnered just 9 percent of the parliamentary vote, was awarded two chairs.
The rationale given for this anti-democratic coup is a recent designation of the AfD as a right-wing extremist party. On May 2, 2025, four days before parliamentary power was to change hands, outgoing Interior Minister Nancy Faeser from the Social Democratic Party announced that Germany’s domestic spy agency (the BfV) had slapped that label on the AfD, based on a 1,000-page secret dossier. According to press leaks, the dossier appeared to consist of public statements by AfD leaders, many already chewed over endlessly by the party’s opponents, relating to Germany’s mass migration problem.
AfD representatives have asserted, for example, that Germans have a cultural history tied to their ethnic and national identity; that this history and identity deserve protection; and that unchecked illegal migration threatens national cohesion.
The dossier also contained statements “implying,” as a scandalized Reuters put it, that “immigrants from Muslim countries were more likely to be criminals.” Actually, those AfD statements didn’t “imply” that immigrants from Muslim countries were more likely to be criminals; they asserted that fact outright, because that is what government crime statistics overwhelmingly show.
But think of the opportunities for cultural enrichment!
WELCOME TO The post-woke world.
The sudden rise in the early 2010s of critical social justice ideology – that sprawling, complex and disparate movement known colloquially as ‘woke’ – has meant that the terms ‘left’ and ‘right’ have lost much of their utility. Definitions of ‘woke’ are as varied as can be imagined, but it is best understood as a cultural revolution that seeks equity according to group identity by authoritarian means. Yet for all its institutional clout, this ideology has never enjoyed popular support. Estimates by More in Common, a nonprofit organisation committed to the promotion of social cohesion, suggest that, at its height, the woke movement was endorsed by approximately eight per cent of the population of both the US and the UK. As such, its power could only ever be sustained through misdirection and imposition.
We now find ourselves entering a new phase of the culture war, one in which the woke ideology is being tamed and will soon relinquish its chokehold on the Western world. The death rattles have become so audible that they can no longer be gainsaid. Major companies such as McDonald’s, Walmart, Ford, Amazon, Google and Meta have scaled back their diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies. Black Lives Matter is now a largely discredited movement. Leftist politicians, such as Democratic representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and former US secretary of transportation Pete Buttigieg, have quietly removed the pronouns from their social-media profiles. Multiple sporting bodies have barred men who identify as women from competing in female categories. Gay-rights groups are rejecting the forced teaming with divisive LGBTQIA+ campaigns. The UK Supreme Court has ruled that ‘sex’ means ‘biological sex’ for the purposes of equality law, meaning that men who identify as women have no legal right to enter women-only spaces – the Telegraph ran with the frontpage headline, ‘Trans women are not women’.
Good news, except for Britain, where the “authoritarian means” are already established well enough to survive whatever becomes of wokeness.
AS OTHER COUNTRIES HAVE DEMOCRATED, IT QUICKLY TURNS FROM A RIGHT TO DIE TO A DUTY TO BE KILLED: French National Assembly okays ‘right to die’ law.