CHARLAMAGNE THA GOD TO MSNBC: It isn't MAGA messaging; it's reality messaging.

A LOOK AT HOW THE SAUSAGE IS MADE: An insider's perspective on pharmacy benefit managers.

It isn't pretty.

THE BABYLON BEE prepares New Yorkers for moving to Florida.

My advice? Don't move; I might want to move back myself.

TILTING AT WINDMILLS: The NFL got its Butker kicked. As much as I (used to) enjoy watching NFL football, I'm pretty much giving it up.

Streaming and sports announcers have also given it a bad name.

GUESS WHAT? The U.S. is a banana republic.

WELL YES: Disinformation conspiracies turn out to be true again and again.

It's the Left, after all....

YES, PLEASE: Abolish the Ivy League?

I think this quote is getting traction: "Alumni should all ask their alma mater to disclose how much funding they have received from Qatar, China, and other foreign sources." I would only change 'ask' to 'demand' before I contributed another penny (assuming I were to contribute at all).

CDR SALAMANDER: Failure will continue until accountability improves. (Hopefully starting Nov. 5, 2024 and continuing beyond).

Empires don’t often die in a blaze of glory, no. More often than not they end in simpering apologies and excuses from poor leaders putting the wrong people in positions they have no place being, and when they fail - there is no accountability.

We are supposed to be a serious nation with serious obligations. We have serious competitor-nations who wish our nation and those we support harm.

We - and if we like it or not it is Uncle Sam and his taxpayers - inherited stewardship of the global system that cannot prosper when it’s primary force continues to demonstrate abject incompetence - from Afghanistan to Gaza - all the while holding no one accountable. Our enemies are encouraged and our friends disheartened. It is almost as if the humiliation and failure is the actual goal.

That last sentence rings true....

ANDREW MALCOLM: The story a black rock told me on a Montana mountainside.

Heartwarming.

HE MAY BE AN ASSHOLE, but he's my asshole.

THE DAILY CHART: Biden raids the Strategic Petroleum Reserve again.

But not to worry; he'll buy more from Iran, refine it in Venezuela, and replenish after he wins....

MY DECISION TO LEAVE ACADEMIA: What do you do when your passion and career trajectory have been infected with amorality?

KURT SCHLICHTER writes on what's next if Trump wins in November:

Between now and Trump's inauguration.

The first 100 days.

I'm looking forward to it.

AND THEY'RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT: Nearly half of all US governors urge drastic change for global health organization before new pandemic hits.

A global Fauci? You gotta be freakin' kidding!

HUNDREDS OF HUGE STARS DISAPPEARED FROM THE SKY. We may finally know why.

Arthur C. Clarke already told us.

JOE BIDEN COULD BOW OUT by feigning nobility. Here's how:

if Hunter is found guilty [in his gun trial], probably in September, he likely be sentenced to time in federal prison.

Would Joe make the family bag man, the son he loves, go to prison?

Here's the answer that would please everyone. Assuming Hunter's cases really go to trial — a big if [no, the gun trial has begun] — Joe would pardon Hunter, who then wouldn't go to prison, and since that pardon would be a presidential abuse of power, Joe would take the political 'L' and resign. It would be a win-win.

Unfortunately he's incapable of even feigning nobility.

ARGENTINA'S chainsaw revolution is underway. Instapundit notes "You’ve got to watch out for those wannabe fascists who [checking notes] want to dramatically shrink government and leave voters alone!"

THIS COULD WILL GET INTERESTING: Irrestible force to meet immoveable object.

THERE ARE PLENTY TO CHOOSE FROM: Iran confirms they are interviewing several new turban-wearing bearded genocidal psychopaths to replace deceased President.

Yes, America's News of Record is now reporting straight news...

WWII VETERAN ON THE STATE OF AMERICA TODAY: "I feel like a foreigner in my own country and I don't like it".

So do I.