ONLY JEALOUS PINKO LOSERS begrudge Elon Musk his well-deserved success.

Americans call them 'Democrats'.

POLITICS BEFORE PROFITS: Stop corporate ‘rackets’ from shortchanging Americans’ retirement income.

My retirement assets are doing quite well, thank you very much, but I hope it's from growing the economy and not by advancing a leftist political agenda.

[VIP] SMART STATES WIN CHEAP ENERGY; dumb ones fail America.

I THINK THEY'LL HAVE TO: Can bombs bring Iran back to the negotiating table?

This time it has to be complete capitulation, not negotiation. Otherwise, parking lot....

SO WHAT IS LEVERAGE FOR? These people are nuts!

[VIP] KURT SCHLICHTER: Savages versus civilization.

I wish we were more civilized....

HOW DEEP ARE THE NEWSOMS IN IT? This deep.

THE POLITICS OF ENVY: They doesn't want to earn anything; just steal it.

BY ANY MEASURE, California is a failed state — and a national embarrassment.

Democracy is dead in California.

THE REVOLUTION HAS BEGUN. Players on a MLB partner team refuse to wear 'Pride' jersey.

'Partner teams' used to be called 'farm clubs' but I guess that's too rural for the MLB sophisticates...

SALENA ZITO: 'It's Only a Matter of National Security'. America's Workforce Academy's mission to fill the workforce gap.

CALIFORNIA’S INSANE ‘Prove You’re Gay’ law.

KURT SCHLICHTER: Fiery but mostly peaceful riots are the language of the unheard.

SEATTLE’S SOCIALIST MAYOR doesn’t plan on limiting her attacks to the rich.

Her father (who supports her financially) doesn't seem to mind. He lives in New York.

THE “BOOM BELT” is basically America’s new economic engine.

Linked from Instapundit here.

EVER WONDER WHY LEFTISTS ARE SO CRAZY? A new study just confirmed the Left's worst-kept secret.

IT'S TIME TO REINTRODUCE IRAN TO AMERICAN BOMBS: Iran announces Persian Gulf Strait Authority, sets stage for tolls.

METAPHOR ALERT: Obama Presidential Center’s $470M safety net under scrutiny.

If taxpayers have to bail it out it should be turned into an American Museum of Progressive Failure.

GRAHAM PLATNER'S greatest vulnerability isn't what you think it is.

MASSACHUSETTS 'HOMEBASE' PROGRAM: a hundred million dollars for (illegal) migrants.

If you work -- in the private sector, obviously -- get out now.

ABOUT TIME: The FBI is finally going after the services that enable cybercrime.

BOOMERS (1946-1964): A generation of Scrooge McDucks?

As a pre-Boomer (a year early) my parents lived through the Depression and the economic restrictions of WWII and I spent the formative years of my life hiding under my desk at school during nuclear war drills to survive (?) mutual assured destruction (MAD).

Do you think that may -- just may -- have something to do with our 'Scrooge -ish' behavior?

HASAN PIKER GOES FULL STALIN: cheers plan to throw Republicans in prison.

Even if he could, they would still be outnumbered by Democrats....

ANTI-AMERICANISM: It’s the law!

AMERICA AT 250: Remember the Tenth Amendment?

OBAMA’S PRESIDENTIAL CENTER looks like his ego cast in stone.

Heh.

IS ANYONE SURPRISED BY THIS? “Mental illness is emerging as its own political identity and is most heavily aligned with leftist political ideology and causes.”

So Democrats are batshit crazy. Who knew?

MIRANDA DEVINE: Pete Hegseth’s warning to Europe – be smart or be invaded.

BERNIE'S STUPID SCHEME to 'socialize' artificial intelligence must be stopped.

Translation from Bernie-speak: "I want my (un)fair share."

After all, he's not a billionaire.

R-I-I-I-G-H-T: Election fraud "is against the law, so nobody would ever do it."

DEMOCRATS WILLING to throw Black voters under the bus to gain power.

They'll throw anyone under the bus who gets in their way.

SO WHAT'S NEW? Hillary Clinton is back and lying again.

Hillary Clinton suggests rural voters are too stupid to show ID to vote and Black and Latino Representatives can only be elected if voters are segregated by race.

Of course, since she is herself both dumb and racist.

BE SURE TO INVITE THE REVOLUTIONARY GUARD. Khamenei funeral finally set for July.

NOT SO RANDOM A THOUGHT: AI search engines are effing worthless. They don't search for what you want; they search for what they know you should want.

To the extent I can, I keep mine turned off. Unfortunately it (thinks it) knows better and keeps turning itself back on....

THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE: Everyone is talking about this photo.

Those aren't from the latest tranche of UFO photos?

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Stop destroying civilization!

BY THE TIME YOU REACH RETIREMENT AGE YOU SHOULD HAVE STOLEN ENOUGH: Chip Roy has a plan to drain Congress of its elderly swamp creatures.

SOME OF THE MORE PUBLIC IDIOTS IN AMERICA: The Left has plans for seizing and spending Elon Musk's money.

Basic economics is beyond their ken.

IRAN'S REVOLUTIONARY GUARD: potential big hurdle to a U.S.-Iran deal.

Give them to Israel for disposition....

IT DOESN'T LOOK LOOK LIKE Spencer Pratt is going away anytime soon.

Good for him....

THE SCUM ALSO RISES: Graham Platner makes history as first vanity oysterman with Nazi tattoo to win U.S. Senate nomination.

DON’T PANIC about Trump’s Iran strategy just yet.

Longish, but it's Kurt Schlichter on his (Trump's) miltary/economic strategy.

CALIFORNIA IS WHERE the Democrats test out all of their insanity.

Just a thought: Should Maine be renamed 'East California'?

HEH: Platner’s "certainly good enough getting other people’s money to qualify for employment in Washington."

THEY ALREADY HAVE; WE CALL THEM 'DEMOCRATS': Humanoid robots will soon fill U.S. homes.

POORLY, I SUSPECT: Let's see how this experiment plays out.

HEINLEIN: “A government-supported artist is an incompetent whore.” The same applies to so-called 'journalists'.

ESPECIALLY BY OUR INFERIORS: Americans have had enough of being lectured.

RANDOM THOUGHT: Now that Fox News has gone to 'live updates' on its web site it's not worth bothering with any more. I'm moving to Newsmax

VIRAL INFLUENCER: How Bill Gates’ billions shape U.S. medical research.

I think I've discovered why health care has gone downhill over the last 20 years....

ARE YOU NOW OR OR HAVE YOU EVER ... been anti-American?

HEH: It’s fun having a POTUS enjoying himself.

Linked from Instapundit here.

SAY NO to the "warmth of collectivism."

GO PRATT: Spencer Pratt is still in the fight, and he'll do more than get by with a lot of help from his friends.

[VIP] ENERGY DENSITY: The physics rule renewables can never escape. The metrics are here, here, and here on X (Twitter).

Closely related.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Iranian endgames.

The only acceptable solution to Iran is to obliterate the Mullahs and their Revolutionary Guard and send them to meet their 72 virgins wherever Allah resides.

BECAUSE THEY'RE DEMOCRATS? Why are male-identifying Democrat candidates all creepy weirdos?

ANOTHER HUGE VICTORY: The transgender movement's grip on American medicine is loosening fast.

If you want to be transgender, fine. But do it on your own dime. Not mine.

'MOMMA' IS IN FEAR FOR HER LIFE from the long arm of the legislators.

How long must this woke mind virus continue to exist until normal America decides to kill it, stomp its remains into dust, and then salt the Earth it has been ground into?

MAKE AMERICA BEAUTIFUL AGAIN: The deeper agenda behind Trump’s Reflecting Pool glow-up.

And it should be the tag line for the next Republican presidential candidate.

RANDOM THOUGHT: Who put the 'Dim' in Dimocrats?

THE FIRST (AND ONLY) COMMANDMENT FOR CONGRESS:

From the Non Sequitur cartoon site.

NOW THAT THE ELECTION HAS BEEN CALLED (FINALLY):

YOU DON'T SAY: California is ground zero for election fraud in the United States.
Linked from Instapundit here.
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OF COURSE THE CALIFORNIA VOTE WAS RIGGED! Here’s why it’s obvious.

SHORT ANSWER, NO: Can California still be saved? Confine it and let it rot.

IMPRIMIS: Launching a second scientific revolution.

It's worth a try. I hope it succeeds.

HOPEFUL SIGN: A seismic third-world revolution.

Linked from Instapundit.

LATEST UPDATE: Children are more adult than grown-up progressives.

I tend to agree, based on the comment sections I occasionally choose to read on various blog posts.

JONATHAN TURLEY: Eight years after Kavanaugh, Democrats have stopped believing all women.

They lied when they said they did believe.

RANDOM THOUGHT: Today the accepted definition of credentialed progressive idiot is 'expert'.

FORCE MULTIPLIER? Theodore Roosevelt carrier strike group gets new Seahawk drone.

BATSHIT CRAZY. What in the actual hell is a Democrat these days?

IS CALIFORNIA'S VOTE RESERVOIR depleting?

Apparently not.

THE FUTURE OF WORK belongs to people who master Artificial Intelligence.

Or maybe to Artificial Intelligence for mastering people.

I'm reminded of the science fiction book The Marching Morons:

In 1988, real estate agent and con artist John Barlow is placed in suspended animation after a freak accident. He is revived in the distant future, in a confusing world filled with hypersexualized advertisements, vapid entertainment, and people who exhibit erratic, nonsensical behavior. Shortly after being revived, Barlow is introduced to two men, Tinny-Peete and Ryan-Ngana, who inform him that the lamentable state of society is the fault of the "morons", the world's vast population of unintelligent people, who greatly outnumber the much smaller population of intelligent people.

Sound familiar? I hope I'm wrong, but I suspectthe morons have won, and the best those of us who aren't morons can do is to slow the decline. At my age it ain't worth the trouble. Good luck.

THE EGO has landed crashed.

THE WASHINGTON FREE BEACON: Harvard’s slide into stupidity.

'Slide' is being kind; 'dive' is more appropriate....

Instapundit agrees.

MY ANSWER IS 'NO': Is going to college still worth it?

WELL, THAT’S BECAUSE THEY DON’T: Bill Maher says artists quitting America 250 concert makes it look like Democrats ‘don’t love America.’

BECAUSE IT IS NOT AND NEVER HAS BEEN DECENT. Why is the 'Party of Decency' running so many questionable characters?

They've just come out from behind the curtain.

BREAKING: California is beyond redemption.

SEATTLE MAYOR acknowleges she's an idiot.

YES! Trump signs order to make it easier to fire 8,000 federal workers.

But as Stephen Green points out, those are rookie numbers. He still has over 2 years left to finish up, though....

AND NOW ON TO POWERLINE'S Week in Pictures with the latest midterm election update:

Go see the rest.

DECEMBER 6TH WAS D-DAY, the day of the Normandy invasion and 81 years after World War II began to crumble in 1944, and I missed it. So here are a couple of reminders.

THE GUNS WERE GONE AT POINTE DU HOC ON D-DAY, so the Rangers went looking.

LOOK AT THEM. Really look at them.

SECRETARY OF WAR PETE HEGSETH remembers those who fought during 82nd D-Day Commemoration at Normandy.

CLOWNS HAVE EGOS TOO: Clown show in Congress.

TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE: Mayor Katie Wilson says she'll 'act now' after locals fortified streets with planters.

But that's the Democrats' way....

BECAUSE SHUT UP. Dozens of anti-ICE protesters won't face state charges for storming Minnesota church service.

Read it all, then imagine the result if it had been Christians invading a Muslim mosque.

On the brighter side, federal civil rights charges remain pending against 39 people who interrupted worship to protest immigration enforcement. It's Minnesota, so they'll get off too, but at least they'll be paying some legal fees....

FROM POWERLINE'S Week in Pictures, a personal favorite:

Now go see the rest.

HERR PLATNER is taking Democrat credibility down with him.

Assuming the Democrats had credibility to start with, they appear to be fine with that....

DEMOCRATS SOLD THEIR SOULS FOR PLATNER, but they're not going to like this new shock data.

They have souls to sell?

NOT SHOCKING: Poll shows AOC voters don't like America, prefer foreign countries.

Then they should move there. I would add that one-way tickets are cheaper....

STRAIGHT OVER THE CLIFF: The increase in crazy.

One does have to marvel at the stunning timing of all these "incidents" suddenly flooding the news cycles for the last 18 months or so. That surge in what Sky News Australia's brilliant Rita Panahi has dubbed "Lefties Losing It" is, shall we say, difficult to ignore. Funny how the explosion in reported incidents tracks almost perfectly with the left's increasingly tenuous grip on, well, everything — the media, the narrative, the whole carefully-tended garden of approved opinions. Purely coincidental, I'm sure.

Next stop, Crazytown. Except ... we're already there.

WHICH NGOS ARE ORGANIZING THE NUTWARK NEWARK PROTESTS, and how are they doing so?

It's just now showing up on network televisions, so read the whole post.

It's well past time to tax all NGOs, good and bad alike.

WITH GRAHAM PLATNER IMPLODING, Former Gov. Janet Mills reminds Maine voters that she's still on the ballot.

CALIFORNIA ELECTION RESULTS still undecided as Los Angeles begins counting ballots.

How much of their 873,000 registration reserve will the Democrats have to activate to win?

GLENN REYNOLDS [INSTAPUNDIT] The Left's violence is what insurrection looks like.

KURT SCHLICHTER: The Democrats’ soon-to-fail 2026 midterm campaign to turn America into a more gender-confused version of Cuba.

SLEEP IN YOUR OWN BED: Gen Z may be angry, but Boomers are not the enemy.

Quit whining. As a (bit too) early Boomer, we didn't whine about what the Greatest Generation left us, we lived with it, and made it better. If you don't like what we left behind, then fix it yourselves and make it better -- it's your bed now.

[VIP] TRUMP GAVE HIM A SECOND CHANCE; he used it wisely.

NOW IS THE TIME to go back to kinetic action with the specific purpose of crushing the Islamists. Not Muslims, Islamists.

TOP SENATE DEMOCRAT backs scandal-plagued candidate in bid to 'take back' the Senate.

Unfortunately Shumer will not be up for reelection until the 2028 elections. If he's smart he'll retire then, but it's a safe bet that he isn't.

TIME TO CHANGE the Islamic Regime in Iran.

Just the Mullahs, IRG and Basij. But they should be exterminated and whatever remains be ground into salted Earth.

TEXAS JUST WON A BORDER FIGHT that common sense settled years ago.

Unfortunately common sense isn't. It's rare.

THESE MONSTERS are the foundation of today’s Democratic party.

NOT STUDENTS. WHO 'OWNS' UNIVERSITIES? Academic armageddon advances.

LOOK: Trump administration unveils latest improvement to nation's capitol after graffiti mess.

Democrats will have to accelerate the decline after President Trump leaves office in 2028 (assuming they win).

ONE WITH TEETH: To restore public order, Chicago must enact a nuisance ordinance.

JUST DESSERTS: Scott Pelley fired at CBS News.

Scott Pelley is a pompous ass. His firing is well deserved.

NO EBOLA ON AMERICAN SOIL: Trump opens emergency treatment center in Kenya to contain the spread.

Apparently Kenya objects. I guess they don't want ebola either.

I'm sure the Democrats are happy; they really, really want a pandemic in the U.S. in time for the midterm election. They tried monkey pox; it failed. Then hantavirus; it also failed. Now ebola is (almost) their last chance before the election.

NEWARK MAYOR IMPOSES CURFEW around Delaney Hall after clashes over immigration detention center.

It looks like New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill failed to 'calm things down' but I will give her this -- she did authorize New Jersey police to replace the ICE/Border Patrol agents who had been protecting the detention center.....

UPDATED: Police at New Jersey ICE facility arrest at least 20 agitators in another chaotic scene. Paid thugs. They should be jailed until their paymasters can be found, arrested, jailed, tried, and sentenced to a minimum of 20 years in prison without any chance of parole.

DON LEMON DISCOVERS RULES after a church service gets disrupted.

But, but ... he's a Democrat. Rules don't apply to Democrats. I'd like to see him tried, convicted, and sentenced to jail time. But that won't happen, so I'll be happy with having his 'journalist' card revoked.

JUDICIAL WATCH scrutinizes 873,000 inactive voter registrations in California.

Translation to the obvious: they're not 'inactive'; they're the Democrats' cheating reserve.

UPDATE: With the election in progress today you can count on the reserves being called into service within the next day/week/month or so as ballots are being 'counted'.

SHE'S CAUGHT THE PRATT! The audio works just fine, but the video doesn't. Nevertheless it's still good.

Linked from PowerLine here.

MAY ALL SIDES LOSE: The imminent Democrat party civil war.

LANDLOCKED NATION steps up to guard world's most critical oil choke point for U.S.

SOME SOMALIS ARE OUR FRIENDS: Breakaway Somaliland now challenging Iranian, Houthi dominance in Red Sea.

KURT SCHLICHTER: Savor our victory over the establishment.

HARD, VERY HARD, BUT POSSIBLE? Bringing back normality.

RANDOM OBSERVATION: Once upon a time, America's oldest apparatchik, Bernie Sanders, railed against millionaires. Now that he is one himself, he attacks billionaires and "oligarchs."

THE GREATNESS OF JUSTICE CLARENCE THOMAS: "It may well be the most vital and energetic explanation of the American founding since Madison, Hamilton and Jay collaborated on The Federalist Papers."

The link in the post is to text that is small and hard to read. I've been unable to find a readable text link, but a downloadable pdf is here. His address is also available on YouTube here but you'll have to skip through a number of advertisements.

SERIOUSLY? YES, SERIOUSLY: Tom Steyer vows to make women second class citizens when he's Governor of California.

Absolutely disqualifying. Why should young girls suffer injuries because they’re forced to compete against boys? Or lose out on medals and scholarships? This is peak beta male behavior. Tom Steyer is a clown. All that money and he can’t buy common sense.

To call Steyer a clown is to insult professional clowns.

FROM POWERLINE'S Week in Pictures, my favorite this week:

Now go see the rest.

AND AWAY WE GO: Entering the Promised Land.

AOC SLAMMED BY SOUTHERN CONSERVATIVES after 'pull up to the South' rally comment.

Speaking at the "All Roads Lead to The South" rally on May 16, the prominent "Squad" member claimed the U.S. was not a true democracy until the 1960s when the Voting Rights Act was passed, and took direct aim at the Supreme Court, accusing the high court under Chief Justice John Roberts of being "part of that long history of regression and repression in America."

Ocasio-Cortez then issued a highly controversial call to action, demanding that "the North" travel to red states like Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Tennessee and Mississippi to fight what she described as political injustice.

She doubled down on social media following the event, writing, "If you're not from these states, it's time to pull up."

Only after they've visited our Welcome Wagon.

WHY DO SO MANY ATTACKS ON TRUMP involve individuals with mental health issues?

Democrats?

I see two fundamental options: (1) we can either kill them as the rabid and incurable animals they are or (2) confine them involuntarily to mental hospitals. My personal preference is the latter but current trends lead (to me, at least) toward option 1. Are there any state-run insane asylums left?

FRANCE HAS A NAVY? French Navy seizes Russian shadow fleet oil tanker.

They must be really desperate for oil....

FEEL THE BERN? Bernie Sanders (and AOC) spent lavishly on private jets, limos for their ‘Fighting Oligarchy’ tour.

Because their 'work' is so damned important ... understand?

GARY SINISE ON LEAVING CALIFORNIA and the power of his vets foundation.

His foundation does great work, is humble about what it does, and I donate every year. You should too.

HERE'S AN INTERESTING ARTICLE that (partially) explains the huge disparity between Shadow's World views and views of Shadow's World posts (typically thousands to one). And from what I can make of the 'stats' page, most are from Windows operating systems, Google Chrome browsers, and from out of the United States (97%). So the internet universe is infested with bots that (to my mind) scrape the internet for information bits that can be sold.