May 16, 2025

JUST SAW THIS AND IT’S KINDA PROFOUND:

Posted at 12:00 pm by Glenn Reynolds 18

I DUNNO, I’M ENJOY IT: Democrat Men Are Trying To Fake Masculinity And It’s Painful To Watch.

Among the ways Democrats are trying to stop hemorrhaging men voters is apparently by elevating guys who exhibit some comically stereotypical sense of “masculinity,” but who otherwise champion all the effete Democrat policies that the party loves and real men hate. Who knows! Maybe it’ll work!

Three such strapping lads come to mind of late, first and foremost being David Hogg, the lithe twink who is currently a vice chairman of the Democrat National Committee. (Though, some party officials are challenging his election on the grounds that he’s not DEI eligible — he’s apparently not gay). In an interview last week on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, Hogg proposed that Democrats are losing the support of young men, who “would rather vote for somebody who, even if they don’t completely agree with, they don’t feel judged by, than somebody who they do agree with, that they feel like they have to walk on eggshells around constantly because they’re going to be judged or ostracized or excommunicated.” He said young people more generally “should be able to focus on what young people should be focused on, which is how to get laid and how to go and have fun.”

True, Democrats have long-since been the party of nags, their chief mascots being perpetually offended black women — the “heart” and “backbone” of the Democrat Party — and “transgenders” forcing ladies to shave their scrotums. But Hogg’s assertion that men and young voters would be far more susceptible to the Democrat platform if party leaders were a little less menstrual ignores the problem: The two go hand in hand.

Exit quote: “The things Democrats want aren’t popular, so there is no natural appeal among the people who advocate for them; there is only admonishing and lecturing into compliance.”

Posted at 11:44 am by Stephen Green 53

HOW OUT-OF-TOUCH ARE DEMS? So far out they might as well be on another planet, according to the results of the latest Cygnal National Voting Trends poll. Turns out that 43 percent of swing voters want Congress to make inflation, spending and waste its top priorities, compared to only eight percent who see “threats to democracy” as the number one issue. And that’s just for starters!

Posted at 11:41 am by Mark Tapscott 6

GOOD LORD: Canada’s Peanut the Squirrel Moment. “Not long after Judicial Watch exposed New York bureaucrats’ disturbing plan to seize and kill Mark Longo’s pets, Peanut the Squirrel and Free the Raccoon, Canada is looking to outdo New York in killing beloved pets for no good reason.”

Posted at 11:13 am by Stephen Green 24

“MR. GORBACHEV, TEAR DOWN THIS WALL” SEEMS LIKE AN AWFULLY LONG TIME AGO:

Posted at 10:53 am by Stephen Green 103

DECOUPLING: What’s the Real Story on Trump’s ‘Deal’ with China?

Remember four years ago, during what they named “the supply chain crisis,” when Chairman Xi Jinping kept shutting down whole cities for a month at a time, allegedly due to COVID-19 outbreaks? Huge manufacturing centers like Shanghai and Shenzhen, Wuhan and Chengdu were locked down, with manufacturing and shipping banned, in some cases multiple times.

Because of those distant lockdowns, our American automakers were shut down, too — not of their own choice, but because a vehicle that’s 95% finished still can’t roll off the lot if it’s waiting for a dashboard, or a starter, or a printed circuit board to be shipped from a city that’s been frozen by a distant dictator.

People started to realize then that it wasn’t just American retailers that are too dependent on China; it’s American manufacturers as well. But the Biden-Harris regime tamped down such talk and blamed the containership lines or the seaports, saying the problem was unorganized transportation. The political party that had long been bankrolled by Chinese interests could never allow the message to stand that America is dangerously addicted to Chinese components.

That mistake won’t happen this time. The Trump-Vance administration is making sure Americans understand that our industrial dependence on China isn’t healthy. It may have taken a month of 145% punitive tariffs to drive home the point, but now it’s undeniable.

What if it weren’t a tariff that we could just turn on and off at will? What if the holdup were a Chinese blockade, or another series of Chinese urban lockdowns? Or the worst of all: What if the holdup were a shooting war?

Read the whole thing.

Posted at 10:42 am by Stephen Green 40

OH, CANADA: ‘If we’re going to play the independence game, we play to win’: Derek Fildebrandt on Alberta separatism.

On last night’s episode of The Ezra Levant Show, Derek Fildebrandt from the Western Standard discussed Alberta’s rising independence movement as separatist sentiment heats up following another Liberal victory in the federal election.

Fildebrandt explained that while some people in the province want to use the idea of independence simply as a tool in negotiations with the federal government, he doesn’t believe in that approach.

“Some in Alberta want to use it as leverage, I think that’s a failing strategy. If we’re going to play the independence game, we play to win because we want an independent country,” he said.

The Western Standard publisher also discussed whether he sees Alberta’s current independence movement as “revolutionary.”

“I think if we do achieve independence, then retroactively we get to call this a revolutionary period. If we don’t, then perhaps not,” he said.

Fildebrandt went on: “But Alberta and Saskatchewan — there is something very different happening right now. And no one’s talking about a radically new form of government, it’s in large measure keeping our form of government, keeping our institutions, but decentralizing them from a distant imperial government in Ottawa and repatriating the constitution to a local level.”

We should try more of that here in the US.

Posted at 9:40 am by Stephen Green 82

WHO WAS DRIVING: Biden’s Autopen Pardons May Just Get Invalidated.

Honestly, I’d bet an actual 58¢ American cash money that Biden comes out to say “of course I meant to pardon those people,” and that will be the end of it. But the shrieking should be fun.

Posted at 9:29 am by Charlie Martin 121

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: James Comey Has Crawled Out of His Hole to Stink Up the Place. “It’s sad what depths those afflicted with TDS will sink to. The former head of the FBI is now a garden variety lunatic social media troll, and completely comfortable with egging on violence against President Trump. This is a 64-year-old man we’re talking about, not some Adderall-ridden kid in his 20s.”

Posted at 9:09 am by Stephen Green 82

I’M BAACK! Returned home last night. Regular service will gradually resume today, with help from my loyal team. Thanks to them for keeping the lights on while I got some much needed R&R.

Posted at 8:57 am by Glenn Reynolds 88

THIS SEEMS RIGHT:

Posted at 8:39 am by Glenn Reynolds 73

MAYBE DELIBERATELY BREAKING THE LAW AND LYING ABOUT IT WAS A BAD APPROACH:

Posted at 8:30 am by Glenn Reynolds 54

SO NOW THEY’LL ASK:

Posted at 7:50 am by Stephen Green 95

EVERYBODY WHO DIDN’T GET NUKED, FOR STARTERS: Who Won The India-Pakistan War?

I’m inclined to think that India won, because they successfully hit their targets and dirtnapped a lot of jihadis, and Pakistan doesn’t seem to have successfully struck anything of import. But I don’t know for sure, since the never-entirely-trustworthy American media has a done a poor job reporting the conflict (evidently it’s really hard to blame Donald Trump for a sectarian conflict over a century old), and the local media on both sides seem entirely too biased to trust. And as for this Reuters report that Trump says disputes are “settled,” that’s either the usual MSM incompetence or “figuratively, not literally” at work. The Indo-Pakistan dispute over Kashmir will probably continue as long as those two nations still exist.

So I’m at a loss to say definitively who won this most recent flareup.

Trump came away looking pretty good.

Posted at 7:36 am by Stephen Green 50

SUPERB BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP PRO/CON: There’s a huge amount of foggy  misunderstanding of the issues involved in the issue of Birthright Citizenship under the 14th Amendment following its adoption after the Civil War.

But along comes tech entrepreneur Rod Martin and Yale Law Professor Christina Rodriguez to cut through the fog and provide a much-needed demonstration of the priceless value of civil, informed discourse on great issues. They do so on “The Disagreement,” a Substack based program devoted to advancing the restoration of such discourse and ably hosted by Catherine Cushenberry.

Even if you think you know this controversy backwards and forward, give yourself an hour to listen to Rodriguez and Martin as they sort through the arguments and history of an issue that has come to intense prominence

Posted at 7:12 am by Mark Tapscott 56