The end State of class warfare

Jonathan Turley: "Welcome to Hotel California: Democrats Push Retroactive Billionaire Tax"

The “2026 Billionaires Tax Act” would impose a one-time 5% tax on individual wealth exceeding $1 billion. While technically using 2026 wealth figures, it would apply to billionaires who resided in California in 2025. So you cannot hope to flee… at least with your wealth intact. It is a penalty for those who stayed too long hoping that rational minds would prevail in California.

The tax is a familiar tactic of many in politics who attack the wealthiest citizens as somehow ripping off the poor. If states can do this for billionaires, it is likely to do it for those in lower tax brackets as they face the choice between financial discipline and tax increases.

When I heard about this my first response was: "Are retroactive taxes legal?"  As Professor Turley explains, the question of legality is complicated.  What is not complicated is unfairness of reaching back in time to pick a man's pocket. 

The Left hates free speech

Federalist: "Democrats Would Like To Suppress Free Speech The Way Britain Does" - "The American left doesn’t look at the United Kingdom and see a cautionary tale, it sees a template to follow." 

This again?

Hot Air: "Boston Judge Steps In to Rescue Planned Parenthood Again."

The Judiciary branch is destroying its credibility.

Media-on-media catfight

PJ Media: "NYT to WaPo: You Lied About Hegseth."

Hot Air: "It Sure Looks Like WaPo Hegseth Story Is Another Hoax."

Townhall: "The New York Times Just Blew WaPo's Hegseth War Crimes Story Out of the Water."

I've said it before and I'll say it again: litigation is the only proper response to this "journalism." 

It is the year 2025, almost 2026.

Our major American media is indistinguishable in terms of accuracy and impartiality from the Soviet Union's Pravda, circa 1970.

Fact.

— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) December 2, 2025

Follow the money

Washington Post: "New York won’t reign forever. Bring on Y’all Street. - As Dallas gets a Nasdaq exchange, Texas looks more like America’s financial center."

The timing could hardly be better. Just as New York prepares to install a radical democratic socialist as mayor, Nasdaq Texas is being launched. It will join NYSE Texas and the Texas Stock Exchange in turning Dallas into a serious financial center. Indeed, the city’s mayor, Eric L. Johnson, confidently predicts that “Y’all Street” will replace Wall Street as the beating heart of American business. And the really interesting possibility is this: That might be an improvement.

It remains to be seen how Zohran Mamdani’s experiment in creating East Berlin on the Hudson works out. One point is clear, however: If he is successful in imposing the higher corporate and income taxes he wants, not everyone will stick around to pay them. Florida would be one potential alternative. But Dallas is starting to look even better. Nasdaq Texas expects to open for business early in the new year, the NYSE announced in February that it would relocate its Chicago operation to Dallas and the new Texas Stock Exchange has backing from big hitters including BlackRock and Citadel. If you want to spend the morning trading Tesla and Nvidia before heading off to your ranch, you won’t be short of options.

The Left is fond of opining that the "rich" will never leave New York City because it's the financial center of the world.  To which I say: impose your socialist policies and call their bluff.

See what happens.

The end of clapter

Hollywood in Toto: "2025: The Year Late-Night TV Collapsed - Colbert canceled, Kimmel benched and Gutfeld stayed the course." 

Not worth it (except for engineering)

NBC News: "Poll: In a dramatic shift, Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as worth the cost - The latest NBC News poll shows two-thirds of registered voters down on the value proposition of a degree. A majority said degrees were worth the cost a dozen years ago."

Appropriate musical interlude. 

TDS only strengthened Trump

That's the upshot of this article by Jason Willick in the Washington Post: "Georgia’s prosecutor drops a Trump case. If only Garland had done the same. - The decision to bring a flawed Jan. 6 case led to presidential immunity."

Maybe the voices urging caution shouldn’t have been stigmatized as riot apologists. Leonnig and Davis report that some lawyers in Garland’s department believed that while Trump “behaved reprehensibly by pushing a lie,” the evidence that he “plotted to defraud the American public seemed thin.” It was a “great story,” one said, “but not a great criminal case.”

Bad cases make bad law, as the saying goes. The first case criminalizing a president’s official acts should have been overwhelming and airtight. Instead, President Joe Biden’s Justice Department jammed the Supreme Court with a legally vulnerable prosecution of Biden’s top political rival on a rushed election timeline. It was foreseeable that this would disturb the justices. Their sweeping immunity opinion, in turn, has given Trump leeway to take more radical actions in his second term.

Congratulations, Democrats: you created a king. 

He rode his bike until the lights came on

Twitchy: "NYT Finally Exposes Walz's MN Fraud Fiasco: $1B Stolen from Safety Nets, Somali Schemes Ignite Firestorm." 

The New York Times reported something critical of a Democrat?  Wow!

Great job, hair pick

PJ Media: "Klobuchar Humiliated Herself and Accidentally Destroyed Biden." 

Yet they have "Tolerance" bumper stickers

Jonathan Turley: " 'Fight Fiercely Harvard': Harvard Club of New York Cancels Dershowitz Book Event." 

Not long ago, I had a debate at Harvard Law School with Professor Randall Kennedy on the lack of ideological diversity at the school. I respect Kennedy and I do not view him as anti-free speech or intolerant. Yet when I noted the statistics on the vanishing number of conservative students and faculty in comparison to the nation, Kennedy responded that Harvard “is an elite university” and does not have to “look like America.”

The problem is that Harvard does not even look like Massachusetts, which is nearly 30 percent Republican.

Hey, I'm in that 30%!  I've said this many times before but the Left has no interest in "dialogue" - they only want monologue.  Sheesh, look at the dozens of YouTube channels of conservatives risking life and limb to challenge the positions of the Left.

LARPing for Luigi

Legal Insurrection: "The Purpose of the ‘Illegal Orders’ for Military Narrative is Beginning to Take Shape - “It’s about the Nuremberg trials of the Nazis after World War II — and following orders is not a defense. So these soldiers have to pay attention”

Sasha Stone (natch) has a similar take here. 

Happy Thanksgiving, everybody

The detritus of Biden's Afghanistan disaster

Hot Air: "Shooter Identified as Illegal Afghan National."

That's right: if you read the full post at Hot Air, this was an Afghan rushed into the country with zero vetting after Biden's pullout from Afghanistan, all so he could say he ended the war on the 20th anniversary of 9/11.

That f'n guy.  Worst President ever.

What a way to start Thanksgiving, normally the best holiday of the year.

48-hour rule applies

Red State: "Investigators Say National Guardsmen Shot Near White House Were Ambushed in Targeted Attack." 

But they sure feel good about themselves

Reason: "The U.N. Has Now Held 30 Climate Change Conferences That Have Accomplished Almost Nothing." 

Speaking of grifters

Twitchy: "NYC Mayor-Elect Mamdani Says ‘Free Stuff’ Is Coming but First He Needs $4 Million to Fund His Transition." 

Kafkaesque

California regulation or inspectors looking for a bribe?  You make the call.

Now that everybody is above average

Megan McArdle: "The signs of educational decline are now impossible to ignore - UC San Diego report shows students are not prepared for college, especially in math."

That’s what happens when you silence the alarm instead of responding to it: The fire burns out of control. It should be a warning to the growing number of politicians who think they can fix other problems — like soaring rents or rising electricity costs — by simply freezing prices. The prices are telling us that there’s too little supply to meet demand, or that something (such as renewables mandates or too few natural gas pipelines) is driving up supply costs. Freezing prices doesn’t fix that any more than a courtesy A gives students what they actually need to succeed in college.

This is the end result when your primary goal is to not hurt anybody's feelings. 

The new secessionists

Victor Davis Hanson: "Insurrection Chic - Democrats now celebrate the very nullificationist tactics they once decried, embracing a neo-Confederate defiance of federal authority to undermine a president they despise." 

Imagine believing this

Twitchy: "Jen Psaki and Katie Couric Say the ‘Sycophantic’ Press Is Throwing Softball Questions at Trump." 

Margaret Atwood: "banned" into riches

T. Becket Adams: "Margaret Atwood, Patron Saint of Non-Martyrs - Come down off the cross. We could use the wood." 

Everybody's a victim. 

Parents choose homeschooling

Reason: "Homeschooling Hits Record Numbers - Last academic year, DIY education grew at nearly three times the average rate it did during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new research." 

It's pretty funny at this point

Hollywood in Toto: "‘Acolyte’ Creator Plays The Fascist Card (Yawn) - Leslye Headland attacks 'Star Wars' fans for daring to dislike low-rated show"

Damn you, Trump for [checks notes] not watching this terrible Star Wars series!  

Temu Obama never answers questions

Hakeem Jeffries is the Karine Jean-Pierre of Congress: he never answers the question he's asked.  It doesn't matter if it's a yes/no question or "what's your favorite ice cream?"  He won't answer.

Maybe - just maybe! - the mainstream media is catching on: "'Shame On You': Jeffries Loses It on CNBC When Pressed on ObamaCare."

ICYMI: "CNN Asks Hakeem Jeffries About Soliciting Money From Epstein AFTER He Was Convicted." and "Hakeem Jeffries Goes Full Obama-Spin When Asked About Epstein Donating to His Campaign." 

New gif for your future Hakeem replies pic.twitter.com/0KMglxsTwS

— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) November 21, 2025

Quite suddenly, this is an issue of concern

Washington Post: "How billionaires took over American politics."

What changed? Republicans long characterized Silicon Valley as a bastion of liberalism. But over the past half-decade, many of tech’s wealthiest titans rebelled against the Biden administration’s criticism and policing of their industry. Last year, many tech barons threw their support behind the GOP, which they saw as more aligned with their often-libertarian ideals and their companies’ economic interests. Trump and his party actively wooed influential tech leaders, embracing cryptocurrency and promising to limit AI regulation. His vice president, JD Vance, formerly worked as a venture capitalist in San Francisco, forging ties to Thiel, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and venture capitalist Marc Andreessen.

Let me get this straight: the Democrats alienated billionaires with their policies and class warfare while the Republicans listened to their concerns and forged personal relationships?

Those monsters.

The unicorns will provide!

Red State: "Magic Fairies and Pixie Dust: Listen to What Mamdani Says About Funding for 'Free' Buses in NYC."

It's sure nice that Mamdani is giving precise details on his spending plans now that the election is over.  Great job, NYC.

Fang Fang's boyfriend is running

NBC News: "Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell enters crowded California governor's race."

He went on Jimmy Kimmel to announce his candidacy.  Gee, I wonder if Trump came up.

40 million people, and the two most likely individuals to become governor of California are a dude who fell for a Chinese honeypot and a woman who poured scalding mashed potatoes on her husband’s head.

Cooked. Absolutely cooked. pic.twitter.com/m5Qbf22Awh

— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) November 21, 2025

The clowns are out again

Federalist: "Theater Kids In Congress Vaguely Urge Military To Disobey Commander-In-Chief." - "More mush from the wimps. Donald Trump is very bad, because mumble mumble mumble." 

ABC is about to make another contribution to Trump's library

I don't know all the details of what constitutes defamation so I often depend on the lawyers over at Power Line or Legal Insurrection.  John Hinderaker is pretty sure there's a case against Joy Behar on "The View":

On paper, it is hard to imagine a clearer case of defamation. Behar’s only defense would be the supposition that it is open season on Donald Trump–liberals can say anything they want about him, without recourse, because we all hate him, right? But that is not, technically speaking, the law.

In the past, a producer has whispered to those demented hens to "clarify" their remarks before they land in hot water but I guess that didn't happen this time.  

Extra - PJ Media: "Joy Behar Just Put ABC on the Brink of Another Huge Trump Lawsuit." 

Take the mainstream media with you

Ace: "Hollywood Is Dying and Good Riddance."

What's funny about both the American press and Hollywood is that they're both in Year 10 (since Trump came down the escalator) of their own self-destruction.  You would think that with all the accumulating evidence that Americans no longer want their respective products they would change direction but, no, they're too wedded to their sense of moral vanity.

Don't change now and learn how to code.

Defenders of democracy

Hot Air: "House Rebukes Rep. Chuy Garcia Over Dishonest 'Coronation' Scheme." 

Epstein claims his first Democrat

Boston Globe: "Senator Warren tells CNN that Harvard should cut ties with Larry Summers over Jeffrey Epstein emails." - "He was a treasury secretary in the Clinton administration and a top economic adviser in the Obama administration." 

The updated headline for this story is now "Ashamed Larry Summers to step back from public commitments amid Senator Warren criticism." 

You'll be shocked he didn't answer the question

Shocked and surprised, I say.  Twitchy: "Chuck Schumer Quizzed on Why the Biden Administration Didn't Release the Epstein Files." 

Extra - PJ Media: "The Most Important Question About Epstein Files the Dems Don’t Want You to Ask."

Democrats controlled the White House and both houses of Congress for two years under Joe Biden, yet the Epstein files remained sealed. Now that they’ve tried weaponizing selective emails against Trump, the question becomes unavoidable: if they were really about transparency, where was their urgency when they had the power to release everything?

We all know the answer.

We sure do. 

"How many packs ya want?"

Reason: "Cigarette Taxes Are Costing States Billions in Lost Revenue - Punitive levies drive black markets, fuel criminal enterprises, and—perhaps counterintuitively—help people evade the tax man."

Obligatory Goodfellas reference:

Field of weeds

Watts up with that?: "Green dreams turn to rust." - "The Napa fiasco isn’t just an accident—it’s the logical destination for a sector riddled with hype, corporate churn, regulatory quicksand, and political FOMO. “Build it and they will come” has turned into “build it, and ten years later, call a demolition crew.” 

Trump's Presidential library is going to be plated in gold

Looks like another donation is incoming: "Trump says he will take legal action against BBC, despite its apology." 

Straight fire

Twitchy: "Bill Maher Has a Socialism vs. Capitalism History Lesson That Mamdani Voters and Dems Will Ignore." 

The Lefty Awards

The Ringer: "Can You Win Best Picture If You Flop? - ‘One Battle After Another’ won’t turn a profit. ‘Sinners’ was a bona fide smash. Does any of it matter come Statue Season?"

Antifa love letter "One Battle After Another" will win best picture for the same reason that Steven Colbert (finally) won an Emmy and Al Gore won a Nobel Prize and Bad Bunny will sweep the Grammys.

There's a reason why nobody watches these award shows anymore. 

They don't care

Sasha Stone: "The Left's Gender Cult is Worse Than Anything in the Epstein Files." - "So I don’t want to hear it now. I don’t want to hear them pretend to care about children under SNAP benefits or potential victims of Epstein and his black book of mysterious billionaires, oligarchs, and foreign nationals. As long as hundreds of thousands of children are still sucked into the cult, they can’t pretend to care about them. They do not care." 

This woman is straight out of central casting

NY Post: "Katie Wilson — a 43-year-old socialist who still lives off parents’ money — wins Seattle mayoral race."

The 43-year-old, who moved to Seattle in her 20s with her now-husband, admitted last month that she relies on her parents, both New York professors, to help with childcare expenses.

The money goes toward day care for Wilson’s 2-year-old, which costs $2,200 per month, she told KUOW.

Wilson also dropped out of college just six weeks before graduation — but debt-free, thanks to her generous parents, the outlet said.

This female-Mamdani, nepo-baby AWFL is like something from a piece of conservative fiction: a life-long parasite with zero real world knowledge but boundless ideology.  This know-nothing recently declared that her solution to food deserts is to (somehow) deny the ability for supermarkets to close.

“Access to affordable, healthy food is a basic right. We cannot allow giant grocery chains to stomp all over our communities, close stores that will leave behind food deserts,” Wilson said.

Oh brother.  Good luck with this loon, Seattle.

The walls are closing in

Twitchy: "Investigative Reporter Unearths Another 'Bombshell' Connecting Trump with Jeffrey Epstein."

What a scoop!  Surely somebody would have noticed the sitting President attending a meeting with Epstein.  In Paris.

Journalism!

BBC backtrack

BBC: "BBC apologises to Trump over Panorama edit but refuses to pay compensation." 

I've seen this movie before.  That's what CBS and ABC said, too. 

I thought we were fighting the Orange King

Fox News: "California to revoke 17,000 commercial driver’s licenses given to immigrants amid Trump admin pressure." 

Somebody help this girl

Or woman, really.  Federalist: "Kelsea Ballerini’s ‘I Sit In Parks’ Exposes The Heartbreak Of Buying Girl Boss Lies."

This story is kinda sad: the country music star voices her regrets at not starting a family while she pulls on a vape.  The song closes with her wistfully (jealously?) noting that her friend's baby is due in June. 

It's called journalism

Ace: "To Honor Veterans Day, the Repulsive Traitor Media Launches a Military-Cemetery Race Hoax."

It's Newsweek, so only like a dozen people saw this story anyway.

Dude totally called it

October 11th: "Senator John Kennedy recently said that he believes Schumer will ask eight Democrats in the Senate to vote to end the filibuster to extricate him from this stupid standoff."

PJ Media: "Sen. Kennedy Perfectly Called How the Shutdown Would End Weeks Ago." 

These "renegade" Democrats were chosen carefully: "And, the Democrats who crossed over to reopen the government were not exactly profiles in courage. Every single one of them either plans to retire or won’t face voters for years." 

This is a crazy story

Red State: "The End Is Near. Tehran Faces Evacuation As Water Supplies Reach Zero and the City Sinks Into the Desert."

They're (nearly) out of water and the depleted aquifers are causing Tehran to sink at a rate of about 5 inches/year.  That's a lot! 

Invest in popcorn futures

 

is there a more perfect portrait of the average mamdani voter than “I arrived thinking everything would be free” https://t.co/7jxFLx2sBR

— Mike Solana (@micsolana) November 8, 2025

Good

PJ Media: "Thune Will Keep the Senate in Session Until a Funding Deal Is Struck." 

The decline of Aaron Sorkin

The Continental Congress: "What Would it Look Like for Hollywood to Moderate its Politics?" - "I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait for the Variety op-ed assuring me that “no, really, The Social Reckoning is not a left-wing movie, you fascist dope.” 

They had 38 days to write something down

Twitchy: "A Fuming Chuck Schumer Did NOT Like a GOP Senator's Questions About His Proposal So He STORMED OFF."

This is incredibly telling: the Democrats haven't even written down the ransom note to re-open the government.  It's another "we need to pass it to find out what's in it" proposal.  Clown show.

Scope creep

NY Times: "The Sierra Club Embraced Social Justice. Then It Tore Itself Apart. - The environmental group gave up its singular focus on climate change for a broader agenda. The ensuing internal strife left it weakened as it takes on the Trump administration."

Instead of focusing on the environment, the Sierra Club went woke then broke.

You can vote your way into socialism but you have to shoot your way out

Washington Post editorial: "Zohran Mamdani drops the mask - The mayor-elect divides New Yorkers into two groups: the oppressed and their oppressors."

Across 23 angry minutes laced with identity politics and seething with resentment, Mamdani abandoned his cool disposition and made clear that his view of politics isn’t about unity. It isn’t about letting people build better lives for themselves. It is about identifying class enemies — from landlords who take advantage of tenants to “the bosses” who exploit workers — and then crushing them. His goal is not to increase wealth but to dole it out to favored groups. The word “growth” didn’t appear in the speech, but President Donald Trump garnered eight mentions.

People’s lives, in Mamdani’s world, can be improved only by government: “We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve, and no concern too small for it to care about.” The crowd cheered, of course, but a thinking person might wonder whether it’s good for the institution that has a monopoly on violence to insist that nothing is beyond its purview.

As the editorial concludes, Mandani won among newcomers and the "educated" while long-time New Yorkers were skeptical of his promise of free stuff and his message of victimhood. 

Conjunction junction, what's your function?

I saw this video today and, man, what a rush of nostalgia.  At the risk of dating myself, "Schoolhouse Rock" was the defining learning experience for Generation X.

So sexy

Outkick: "Sydney Sweeney Turns On America With Something Bigger Than Her Boobs."

Jim Treacher: "Sydney Sweeney Rejects the Premise." 

Never give these clowns an inch because it will never be enough.

Republicans lose the messaging war

Byron York in the Washington Examiner: "Fighting the government-closing Democratic filibuster."

If they do press on, if they do keep the government closed, Democrats will be acting with confidence that comes from a number of polls that show more people blame Republicans for the shutdown than blame the Democrats, who actually caused the impasse. Two polls out just before the election, one from the Washington Post and the other from NBC News, both found that more people blamed Republicans for the shutdown than blamed Democrats.

That seems odd, given the plain facts of the case: Democrats are filibustering the government-opening bill. But it makes more sense after looking at media coverage of the standoff. In a new report, the Media Research Center’s NewsBusters studied broadcast newscasts for October and noted that “the big three broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) have hammered both congressional Republicans and President Trump with a wall of negative shutdown coverage, while largely shielding Democrats from blame for the now-historic gridlock.”

This is maddening.  Of course the mainstream media was going to cover for the Democrats!  Have Republicans forgotten all the alternative media skills that won the last election?  Go on podcasts, flood social media, hold daily press briefings.  For heaven's sake, stop depending on the media to play fair. 

At least we can still laugh

 

Zohran Mamdani Horrified To Discover He Now Has A Job https://t.co/wvmNh6NjJ8 pic.twitter.com/MHYO3AiqCT

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) November 5, 2025

The song remains the same

I saw this story linked through Real Clear Politics and knew it would yet the latest rehash of the same tired "solutions" to fix Social Security.  Washington Monthly: "How Democrats Can Save Social Security—and Win Elections."

Spoiler alert: it was.  Here comes raising the income cap, once more with feeling is taxing financial transactions and capital gains, stop me if you've heard about means-testing again.  These remedies are at the heart of every single "fix" for Social Security and there's nothing new under the sun.

Social Security is supposed to be a universal system with benefits proportional to what people paid into the system.  The Left insists on turning it into a welfare program and will not offer any solutions that do not lead to that end.

Blue states hiding their SNAP rolls

PJ Media: "I'm Sorry, But HOW MANY Illegals Get Food Stamps?"

Lots.

Illegal immigration in England

Spiked: "A stabbing in suburbia - The senseless murder in Uxbridge demands a reckoning on illegal migration."

You may have noticed… it is never the elites who pay the price for their own feckless virtue-signalling. Poor and working-class communities have borne the brunt of the small-boats crisis, simply because the hotels and rental properties are cheaper there. One analysis found that a quarter of all asylum seekers housed by the Home Office had been placed in just 10 local authorities, nine of which are among the most impoverished in the country. Illegal migration is a class issue. The bin man slain on a once-safe street is perhaps the grimmest symbol of this.

Sacrifices need to be made...by you.

It's "clown nose off" time

"How did we get to this terrible state?" asked the guy who set the standard.

Extra - Hollywood in Toto: "Jon Stewart Betrays 9/11 Work with Fawning Mamdani Interview"

"How did we get here?" lamented the navigator https://t.co/Uf1QT1wALw

— jimtreacher.substack.com (@jtLOL) November 1, 2025

If only *somebody* had warned us this would happen

Remember when Obama said Republicans would stop calling the Affordable* Care Act "Obamacare" once it became successful?  I 'member.

Boston Globe: "A $33,000 increase for a Vermont family? Obamacare marketplace insurance prices slated to skyrocket."  

It's a shame nobody warned Americans that the individual mandate was unworkable and the resulting insurance pools would not have enough healthy, young participants to make it economically viable.  If only.

* not affordable.

Extra - Washington Post: "The unaffordability of Obamacare comes home to roost - ACA subsidies are a Band-Aid for a fundamentally broken health care system." 

Tiresome

Red State: "Michelle Obama Takes Victimhood As Currency to Another Level in Latest Interview."

Good heavens.  I'm old enough to remember the absolute tongue-bath given to the Obamas by the mainstream media, Hollywood phonies, and a huge chunk of the public.  Michelle Obama is the Meghan Markle of first ladies. 

The Washington Post again

You know, when you've been beaten down so long by the mainstream media, it's jarring to see a little fairness and objectivity.  Here's the Washington Post blaming the Democrats, again, for the government shutdown:

Nevertheless, this program [SNAP food assistance] is vital. The quickest solution to protecting it is for Democrats to join Republicans in voting to reopen the government, and then they can fight over public policy.

It's the Schumer Shutdown now the Schumer starvation.

It's a sacrifice Democrats are willing to make

Hot Air: "Everything's 'For the Children' Until Democrats Need 'the Leverage'."

Democrats Vow To Starve As Many Food Stamp Recipients As It Takes To Get Free Healthcare For Illegal Immigrants https://t.co/QbPfrmwa2K pic.twitter.com/F3oUGA3EXb

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) October 29, 2025

Gotta commit to that obvious lie

There's a funny YouTube video called "How to get out of a speeding ticket" where a guy gets pulled over and tells the cop he's racing to the hospital because his wife is giving birth.  The cop follows him to the hospital where the speeder finds an accomplice to pretend he's the father.  But the cop follows the (new) couple for decades as "their" child grows up and the guy has to stick to the lie.

That's how I feel about both the Kamala Harris and Karine Jean-Pierre book tours: they're just going to deny the evidence of your eyes and ears.  Mediate: "‘Really?’ Kamala Harris Stuns Jon Stewart By Declaring Biden Was ‘Competent’ To Serve Another Four Years."

I think the reason this question gets asked over and over is because there's a kind of disbelief that people can lie so obviously and boldly.  It's also the reason why Joe Biden was asked dozens of times whether he would pardon Hunter.  Nobody believed his denial.

Story of the year

Twitchy: "Wrong Bill de Blasio Pranks Times of London With Fake Endorsement via Ring Doorbell—Real Bill seethes."

The Times of London asked a guy on Long Island named "Bill deBlasio" his opinion about the NYC mayor's race without ever checking to see if he was the former mayor.

Extra - National Review: "The Most Wonderful Journalistic Disaster of the Year." "Yet there was no fraud at play, only reputation-torching irresponsibility. Get this: the Times in its infinite wisdom apparently interviewed the wrong Bill de Blasio." 

She done gone and did it

Me, on Monday: "Go, Bari, go"

Ace: ""BLOOD BATH," "WAR ZONE:" Purge Begins at CBS; Biased Trump-Deranged Anchor John Dickerson Out, Gayle King Says She's Leaving, Trump-Deranged and "Geriatric" 60 Minutes Facing Shake-Up."

Since it looks like I'm now wishing things into existence: fire Scott Pelley.  Do it, Bari!

Fiscal sanity is bigotry

Makes sense to me, what's your problem?

Capitulation is at hand

Hot Air: "The Dike Holding Back Democrat Discontent on Schumer Shutdown Is Cracking."

What a stupid shutdown.  All because Schumer wanted to save his phony-baloney job from AOC.

Go, Bari, go

NY Post: "CBS News boss Bari Weiss eyes major shakeup at ‘60 Minutes’ — and star anchors could get the ax: sources."  

Nobody is above the law

Isn't that what we were told?  A vital review from Byron York: "How John Brennan lied to Congress."

Taken together, these passages show that significant portions of Brennan’s congressional testimony about the dossier and the Intelligence Community Assessment were untrue. When he said the dossier “was not in any way used as a basis for the Intelligence Community Assessment” — that was untrue. When he said “I was not involved in analyzing the dossier at all” — that was untrue. When he said “the CIA was not involved at all with the dossier” — that was untrue. When he said “The CIA was very much opposed to having any reference or inclusion of the Steele dossier in the Intelligence Community Assessment” — that was untrue.

Here’s the bottom line, which Republicans have believed for a long time. In the politically supercharged atmosphere of late 2016 and early 2017, the FBI and CIA both knew the dossier was BS. They knew they had no business including it in their assessment of Russia’s 2016 activities. But they included it anyway because it told them what they wanted to hear — that Donald Trump had colluded with Russia. And then, under oath before Congress, John Brennan lied about it.

I hear 51 intelligence experts say Brennan is innocent, so it must be true.

TIL the White House used porta-potties

The Washington Post (!) comes out in favor of a new ballroom at the East Wing: "In defense of the White House ballroom."

In classic Trump fashion, the president is pursuing a reasonable idea in the most jarring manner possible. Privately, many alumni of the Biden and Obama White Houses acknowledge the long-overdue need for an event space like what Trump is creating. It is absurd that tents need to be erected on the South Lawn for state dinners, and VIPs are forced to use porta-potties.

Right this way, your majesty!  Oh man, that's just embarrassing for the nation.  As the editorial notes, the State Dining Room seats 140 which is barely enough for a visiting dignitary and his/her retinue.

How do you like that lawfare now?

Legal Insurrection: "Democrats Post Support for Tish James Amid Arraignment on Federal Mortgage Fraud Charges - “This is about all of us, and about a justice system which has been weaponized. A justice system which has been used as a tool of revenge. […] And a justice system which unfortunately is being used as a vehicle of retribution. “

The difference is that she's actually guilty of a crime.

This is an excellent tweet

I for one am shocked that NBA employees are gambling. How did they get sucked into that kind of activity?

I really hope they address this on the FanDuel Pregame show sponsored by bet365, right before the big game at DraftKings arena

— Joey- Cade Smith enjoyer (@GuardsJoey) October 23, 2025

Republicans buy sneakers, too

Hollywood in Toto: "Boss Bomb? ‘Deliver Me from Nowhere’s’ Sad Tracking - Could Springsteen's anti-Trump tirades impact biopic's bottom line?"

I grew up in New Jersey and there was a time - not so long ago it seems - that I would have been first in line to see a Bruce Springsteen biopic.  I loved "Born to Run" and "Darkness on the Edge of Town" and even part of the commercial grab "Born in the U.S.A."  Springsteen was a kind of blue-collar Everyman who would play the occasional surprise concert at the Stone Pony in Asbury Park.

He even played an impromptu concert to overnight workers in the main Iceland airport which is pretty cool (pun intended).

Somewhere along the way he decided to make his concerts inaccessible to the blue collar fans he cultivated for decades: "$5,000 freeze out: Bruce Springsteen fans feel betrayed by ‘crazed’ concert ticket prices."

As one of the most beloved figures in popular music, Bruce Springsteen has enjoyed decades of absolute devotion from his legion of fans. A national tour with his E Street Band typically means his hardcore followers bounce from state to state, taking in as many of the Boss’ legendary three-or-four-hour marathon concerts as their wallets will allow.

Next year might be different. When Springsteen’s loyal fanbase logged in on July 20 to purchase tickets for the opening seven dates of his 2023 U.S. arena tour, Ticketmaster’s “dynamic pricing” program sent the face value for some floor seats to a dizzying $4,000 to $5,000 a piece. In an attempt to cut off the multibillion-dollar resale business, ticket prices jumped to a “fair value” based on demand to approximate the secondary market. Rather than scalpers, the money would instead go to the artist and promoter.

Look, man, those show horses ain't gonna pay for themselves.

The metamorphosis into a Trump-hating liberal was inevitable because you need to stay on the good side of the Hollywood set, the same crowd that will make a fawning biopic about your life.

I'd like to think that fame and fortune changed the Boss but maybe it was an act all along.

Chef's kiss

Impressive that Jesus managed to be born in a Muslim-majority county more than 6 centuries before Islam was even founded.

The Columbia School of Journalism in the bio really brings the whole thing full circle. pic.twitter.com/l3gQv7bitc

— AG (@AGHamilton29) October 24, 2025

This headline is infuriating

PJ Media: "Deadly Illegal Alien Truck Driver Failed CDL Test 10 Times." 

When I asked you to name one person I didn't expect an answer

Jonathan Turley: "The name game: Democrats keep asking for names...and getting them."

Conservatives have wised up to this game and are ready to play. 

There's no saving the mainstream media

Hot Air: "Sleazy, Unethical Journalists Ask: Why Doesn’t Anyone Trust the Media?"

Harper’s magazine, the left-wing monthly, has a cover story asking, Why Doesn’t Anyone Trust the Media? The November “forum” features three journalists attempting to answer this question: Jack Shafer, Jelani Cobb, and Taylor Lorenz.

You read that correctly. To ask why Americans don’t trust the media, Harper’s interviewed three of the most untrustworthy, hackish, godawful journalists in America. 

I did a word search on the Harper's article for "bias" - there are two mentions and they are dismissed out of hand:

The FCC is run by Trump’s appointee Brendan Carr, who has pretty enthusiastically embraced the president’s mission to combat what they call media bias.

"What they call."  Sure, sure.  The choice of these clowns for a conversation just proves what I've been saying forever: the Left doesn't want a dialogue, they want a monologue.  This round trip through their echo chamber just proves it all the more.

The government is shut down?

The Corner: "How’s That Government Shutdown Fight Going, Democrats?" 

This is overdue

Red State: "'Time to Stop the Killing': Treasury Dept. Signals Ramping Up of Sanctions on Russia."

I don't think there's any convincing Putin to back down, unfortunately.  Trump wanted to believe he could "make a deal" but there isn't one to be made. 

Amy's self-own

Twitchy: "Klobuchar’s Pity Party Flop: Posts Sob Story About Early Retirees Big Bills, Gets Roasted Instead." 

What a time to be alive

Hot Air: "Too Fun to Check: Will Bari Take Over CNN Too?" 

KJP confirms she's an idiot

Reason: "Biden Press Secretary Gets Skewered by Stephen Colbert for Defending Biden's Fitness - Former White House press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, has no explanation for her failure to notice Joe Biden's cognitive decline."

The uncomfortable and unavoidable fact of the matter is that the news media—conservative and mainstream—had already taken notice of Biden's diminished mental acuity well before the debate. A majority of the American people had noticed it. A majority of Democrats had noticed it. The difficulty of concealing Biden's decline was such that the president's innermost circle shielded him from press scrutiny, kept the Cabinet at bay, and scheduled can't-miss meetings with legislators during the periods of time throughout the day at which he was sharpest. She was the press secretary, and she didn't notice any of this? It's frankly unbelievable, unless she was unusually out of the loop. (She certainly isn't claiming she was out of the loop, however.)

One wonders, then, why she would bother telling her story in book format, and discussing it on national television, if she cannot honestly reckon with these incredible shortcomings.

I think it was Scott Jennings who said that there was the public version of Biden that everybody could see and then there was the White House version where he was sharp as a tack and turning cartwheels behind closed doors.  KJP needs some cash so she needs to gaslight everyone that she never saw Biden's obvious decline.  She's dumb enough to think she can get away with it.

A question they never asked themselves

Daily Mail: "CBS News editor Bari Weiss stuns 60 Minutes journalists to silence as she asks humiliating question on 'slanted' coverage."

Anti-woke CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss left the 60 Minutes team stunned when she asked them to consider why viewers think their coverage is slanted. 

The self-proclaimed centrist, 41, who has made political neutrality a focal point of her plans for the network, hit journalists with the seven-word question during a private Tuesday meeting, The New York Times reported. 

'Why does the country think you’re biased?' she asked - leaving the staff and stars of the country's top news program baffled and unable to respond. 

I'll bet.  It's like asking them their favorite WNBA team - what?  who?  us?

Going back a bit but there's a reason why Barack Obama did 17 interviews with Steve Kroft of (then) 60 Minutes: he knew it was going to be softball city.

The Atlantic, pre-TDS: "Steve Kroft's Softball Obama Interviews Diminish '60 Minutes'."

On 60 Minutes, the news-magazine show that prides itself on "hard-hitting" investigations and interviews, correspondent Steve Kroft, who has won most of the highest awards in his industry, has just broadcast another softball interview with the most powerful man in the world, a performance that ought to earn him a rebuke from his peers in the news business but almost certainly won't. His CBS bio page proudly touts his unparalleled access to President Obama: He scored the first post-election sit down after Election 2008, another exclusive following the killing of Osama bin Laden, and a third sit-down as the president kicked off his reelection campaign.

Little wonder that Obama keeps going back. The 60 Minutes brand is associated with probing interviews, and Kroft is adept at using his tone and manner to create the impression of tough questions without actually asking any.

Read the questions this toadie asked in this interview with Obama, probing insights like "Americans give you high marks!"  Nothing has changed all the way up to Kamala's special edit.

Vanity show

Nick Gillespie: "What I Saw at the No Kings Rally in New York City - Fully peaceful protesters who hate President Donald Trump with intensity but not much specificity took to the streets on Saturday."

Yet whenever I asked someone what they hated about Trump, the answer was almost always the same: "Everything!" This was true of men and women, young and old, black and white. When pressed, they would detail a list of personal qualities and moral failings.

It's "mean tweets" all over again.

The nutjobs are out on the streets again

Sasha Stone: "No Kings: The Lunatics Are Running The Asylum - "Do you have any idea how crazy you are?"

Who are they trying to convince by now with these protests? Who would be drawn in and want to vote for them? It’s mostly aging Baby Boomers and Jen Psaki viewers, naked grandpas on bikes, women with septum piercings calling babies parasites, and single women who shop at Erewon and Lululemon after high-priced pilates on Sunday.

Why would you want to showcase all of that madness when most Americans are just trying to get through the work week? Have a beer on the weekend, maybe take a walk at sunset, maybe drive their Tesla that isn’t smeared with feces or keyed down the side. And hope that their kid doesn’t have to decide which gender to be in preschool or, god forbid, catch a glimpse of a naked appendage while coming upon a protest in the park or just trying to use the girls’ bathroom.

It's just aimless shouting at the sky.  They've invented a Hitler to oppose so they can groom their own egos in a fantasy about saving the country. 

Merry-go-round broke down

Hot Air: "Stacey Abrams' Voter Mobilization Group in Georgia Is Shutting Down." 

Sheer stupid bravado

Ace: "Joy Behar: Republicans Don't Want to Come on to "The View" Because We're So Smart and Incisive They Know We'd Carve Them Up."

Sure thing, toots.  Needless to say, a bunch of Republicans are waving their hands in the air like Arnold Horshack.

(Man, I'm really dating myself with that reference.)

The great experiment in NYC

CNBC: "New York City braces for wealth flight with Mamdani’s political rise."

It's going to wild to watch the evolution of America's biggest city during Mamdani's term.  He's already running out of other people's money. 

Extra - NY Post: "Zohran Mamdani can’t explain how policies will fund $10B in ‘freebies’ during NYC mayoral debate." 

Can you imagine?

Twitchy: "Trump Says ‘Great Progress’ Was Made in Phone Call With Putin, Meets With Zelensky Friday."

It would be just crazy if Trump resolves Ukraine just after Gaza.  They should give him the Nobel Peace Prize in July to coincide with America's 250th birthday. 

A change is gonna come

Boston Globe (!): "Interest in Charlie Kirk’s conservative youth movement has surged after his death."

ICE up

Daily Wire: "Staggering Number Of Americans Apply To Join ICE" = "It really is encouraging to see that patriots see through the charade of the media."

DEI on SC

Townhall: "Kantanji Brown Jackson Proves Once Again She is Not Qualified to Sit on the Supreme Court."

I forget where I saw it but some legal blogger noted that KBJ is well on the way to setting the record for solo dissents where the other Justices don't want to have anything to do with her opinions. 

Extra - Daily Caller: "Every SCOTUS Justice Seems Annoyed At Ketanji Brown Jackson — Even The Other Libs." 

Hawaii judges at it again

Twitchy: "Judge BLOCKS Trump From Firing Federal Employees During Schumer Shutdown."

The Supreme Court has already ruled on this issue and, furthermore, has admonished lower courts not to go rogue.  But Hawaiian judges are gonna Hawaiian judge. 

The filibuster exists, Chuck

Townhall: "The Schumer Shutdown Continues: Senate Dems Once Again Refuse to Open the Government."

Charles C.W. Cooke has a good article here: "Chuck Schumer Is Incoherent on the Shutdown."  In it he notes that the Democrats are at once claiming the Republicans control all the branches of the government and that they need to negotiate with the Democrats.

Of course, if the Republicans controlled everything, why would they need to negotiate?  It's just more silly rhetoric from the guy who puts cheese on raw hamburgers. 

The peacemaker

PJ Media: "Here’s How Trump Forced Hamas to Accept Peace Deal."

Well, I was very much on record saying that Hamas would back down from a peace agreement, but I'm happy to be wrong.

You know who really is seething at this development?  Joe Biden, who never stopped believing he was the greatest gift to foreign policy ever. 

Never change, New York

Reason: "New York Doubles Down on Delivery Wage Disaster" - "After restaurant delivery drivers quit in droves and costs soared, the city is expanding minimum wage rules to grocery couriers."

Driven to madness

Joe Concha: "No longer the party of joy, Democrats clearly in need of anger management." 

ICYMI, just the latest example: "NJ school board race shaken up by vile text attacking conservative mom and her body: ‘This bitch needs to die’." 

Is the tide turning for the mainstream media?

Red State: "Trump Cheered in Israel, As Liberal Media Makes Stunning Statements Praising Him and Chiding Obama."

I've previously written about a noticeable change in tone at the Washington Post and there have been signs of - how to put this? - fairness in other newspapers and news sources.  The same outfits that praised the Nobel Prize for Saint Obama were forced to admit that Trump deserves the prize for actual achievements.

Because they agree with it

Issues & Insights: "Here’s Why Democrats Won’t Condemn Jay Jones’s Assassination Fantasies." 

Cracks are showing

Townhall: "Dem Unity Might Be Breaking on the Schumer Shutdown."

Senator John Kennedy recently said that he believes Schumer will ask eight Democrats in the Senate to vote to end the filibuster to extricate him from this stupid standoff.

I love this tweet so much

I don't think we need two-factor authorization to sign up for Jersey Mike's rewards program. I think we can play that one a little loose.

— Allen Strickland Williams (@TotallyAllen) October 9, 2025

This is a special pet peeve of mine: the need to set up authorization for everything under the sun.  My wife is probably exhausted hearing me say things like: "Who wants to pay my electric bill?  Is there somebody who's going to hack into my system to pay the gas bill?" 

Random setup of pieces

Victory Girls: "Ferguson Plays Chess With A Houseplant."

Why haven't we seen a statement from Joe Biden about the Mideast peace plan, one of the biggest foreign policy achievements of the past decade?  Don't answer: we know why.

SNL season premiere flops

Hollywood in Toto: "Bad Bunny’s ‘SNL’ Debut Bombs in Ratings Race - First new episode features same hard-Left gags but smaller audience"

It’s just one episode, but given the season premiere angle and the buzzy host, it suggests “SNL” may be in for a rough season … unless it rediscovers why the show mattered in the first place.

Funny. Irreverent. Unpredictable.

Without those core elements, “SNL” is just another clapter machine.

The "unpredictable" slam goes to the heart of the problem: did anybody in the entire world expect anything other than a Trump skit to start the new season?  This one-note content is the main reason why I stopped watching, back when Alec Baldwin was opening every show.

This, right here, is what you need to do SNL.  Play against type for laughs:

We'll see

Fox News: "Israel, Hamas agree to phase 1 of Trump peace deal to release hostages, begin ceasefire." 

I want to believe

Let's see the hostages released first.  Fox News: "Hamas accepts Trump peace plan ending 2 years of war in Gaza, returning hostages." 

This video is awesome sauce

Red State: "Must-See: Hakeem Jeffries Confronted by Mike Lawler, and It Goes All Kinds of Wrong for the Democrat."

Virtually everything Temu Obama says is ad hominem attack and when he does try to present facts they're easily-proven lies.  I especially liked when Jeffries tried to imply that, because Republicans control the House and Senate, they own the shutdown.  Lawler responded (correctly) that the Senate needs 60 votes and Jeffries deflected - as he is wont to do.

Democrats simply cannot answer any questions about the shutdown and even the biased media is noticing.

Meanwhile, the AP is gonna AP

Hot Air: "The Associated Press in Two Headlines."

Ace: "Marxist Gaslight Media Goes Into Overdrive to Hide Jay Jones' Wish That the Young Children of a Political Enemy Be Murdered and Die In Their Mother's Arms."

I've heard rumors of a "Torricelli option" for Jay Jones but I think it's more likely we're in the "Joe Biden trap" where the Democrats try to pretend everything is OK until the internal polling comes in.

It's a new day at the Washington Post

The Washington Post axed most of their editorial staff last week:

The Washington Post launched a sweeping round of layoffs Friday in its Opinion section, cutting veteran journalists and longtime staffers.

The Washington Post ignited a firestorm inside its own newsroom after reportedly axing more than a dozen editorial staffers, according to multiple reports. NBC News reporter Mark Segraves said that Marc Fisher — a 39-year veteran of the paper and one of its most recognized voices — was among those terminated.

Today we see the new direction on the editorial board with an editorial that would have been unthinkable in recent memory: "The shutdown conversation no one wants."

President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats used covid-19 to justify chasing the mirage of a European-style welfare state without raising the necessary taxes to pay for it. Now, prodded by the left, party leaders have shut down the government in a bid to permanently extend what was sold in 2021 as emergency subsidies to help people struggling during the pandemic afford health insurance.

Two paragraphs in, the WashPost reminds us that 1) Democrats are responsible for this shutdown and 2) they're shutting down the government to support subsidies that were sold as "emergency" and temporary.  Amazing.

To be sure, there's plenty of criticism of Trump for also expanding the national debt but I never thought I'd see statements like this:

Yet Democrats have demanded that Republicans agree to extend the covid-era insurance subsidies without proposing any way to pay for it. The Congressional Budget Office estimates this will cost $350 billion over the next decade. These temporary benefits were included in the American Rescue Plan of March 2021 and extended the next year in the misnamed Inflation Reduction Act until the end of 2025.

The "misnamed" Inflation Reduction Act!

The real problem is that the Affordable Care Act was never actually affordable.

Did I land in some Bizarro world where the Washington Post would voice a discouraging word about Saint Obama?  It truly is a new day at the Paper.  At this rate, we'll be seeing an endorsement of J.D. Vance for President in three years.

Marco does it all

Marco Rubio was on the Sunday talk shows this morning and, boy, he looked tired.  Reminded me of this Babylon Bee post:

Entire Federal Workforce Replaced By Very Tired Marco Rubio https://t.co/XMDTfYRMrQ pic.twitter.com/yrOk0c9Sgj

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) October 5, 2025

I don't know how people live in that state

Los Angeles Times: "California’s home insurer of last resort seeks 36% rate hike following January fires."

Unreal.  California chased away all the insurers with restrictions on premium increases until all that's left is the California system.  Enjoy your price hike, dummies. 

Meet the new boss, NOT the same as the old boss

Washington Post: "This billionaire Trump ally and his son are building an unprecedented media empire - Larry and David Ellison’s holdings span movies, TV networks, CBS and soon a stake in TikTok, in a paradigm-shifting portfolio with huge influence."

If the mainstream media produced a successful and trusted product, they wouldn't need to be taken over by the likes of Bezos and Ellison.  

Burn the heretic

Newsbusters: "New York Magazine Irked that Jimmy Fallon Hasn't Fully Embraced Trump Hate."

He probably wants to keep his job. 

Excellent column from Andrew Sullivan

I run hot and cold with this guy but he nails it here: "How utterly lost is the Left?"

We’re not stupid. No amount of fake rhetorical moves to the center will work. When very basic things that most human beings take for granted — that foreigners are not citizens and citizens come first, that men are not women, that children are not adults — are deemed fundamentally immoral in one political party, that party deserves to lose.

And they will.

Sullivan here reports that the Left (he gives examples from the UK and the USA) is addicted to its moral preening on issues that turn off voters and those voters are turning away.

Here comes the rug pull

Legal Insurrection: "Hamas Gives “Yes, But” Response To Peace Deal, Trump Celebrates."

Yeah, keep that champagne on ice, Donald.  Hamas has been playing this game for two years now and I don't believe for a second they'll comply with a cease fire agreement. 

Extra - Powerline: "Hamas dangles the bait." 

Why CBS?

Semafor: "Trump in talks to appear on CBS’ ‘60 Minutes’."

Why reward a show you just sued into a $16 million settlement?  I can only guess that's it so he can rub it in their face.

Incredible impersonation

The times they are a changin'

Well, not the Times but the Washington Post: "Bezos’ Washington Post Hires New MAGA-Friendly Columnists - They will work for its new opinion editor who admits its readers are “overwhelmingly liberal.”

No kidding.

Lifetime grifters and their luxury beliefs

Sasha Stone: "Why Zohran is Now the Leader of the Democrats - A Living Meme, Hyperbole Personified."

The truth is that neither Bernie nor Zohran ever had to work a day in their lives. These are luxury beliefs by the ruling class that pretend to solve the problems of the underclass. Fighting it only feeds their pathology.

The Republicans should stand back, lay off the attacks, and allow the Democrats and their party to be swallowed up by fanaticism and socialism. At least they’ll stand for something and the American people will have a real choice. That obviously makes the Republicans the moderates. People like Hillary Clinton surely know that. But you can’t stop what’s coming.

In other words, the only way to stop the Democrats is to get out of their way.

The joke going around is that Zohran is now the top real estate agent for Florida.

These stories are strongly related

Gallup: "Trust in Media at New Low of 28% in U.S."

NY Post: "Bari Weiss to lead CBS News as part of major Paramount Skydance shakeup: sources."

Paramount Skydance is poised to name Bari Weiss as editor in chief of CBS News in the coming days — giving the hard-charging journalist unusual clout to revamp the struggling network as it also acquires her scrappy news site the Free Press, The Post has learned.

Weiss — a 41-year-old former New York Times opinion writer who has built the Free Press into a buzzworthy site with a contrarian bent — is expected to be named to the top post in a Monday announcement, although the talks are in flux and the timing could change, a source close to the situation said.

In a remarkable reshuffle of CBS News’ decades-old management structure, Weiss will report directly to Paramount Skydance Chief Executive David Ellison as she helps set the editorial direction at the Tiffany Network’s third-place news division, a source close to the situation said.

Bari Weiss is a rare bird: a liberal in the classic sense open to debate.  She famously stormed out of the New York Times after - gasp! - allowing a Republican to write an article causing a newsroom mutiny.

Anyway, as the Gallup poll indicates, the mainstream media is bottoming out and something different must be done to survive. 

We've entered stage 2

Hot Air: "Dems Now: Oh, It's Just a Teeny, TINY Little Number of UNDOCUMENTED on That Healthcare Thing."

Twitchy: "Rep. Ro Khanna Admits the Portion of Medicaid Going to Illegals Is Really Small."

As the prophesy foretold:

Step 1: It's not really happening

Step 2: Yeah, it's happening, but it's not a big deal

Step 3: It's a good thing, actually

Step 4: People freaking out about it are the real problem

— Rob Henderson (@robkhenderson) June 14, 2021

The memes will continue until the Schumer shutdown ends

Twitchy: "Mexican Standoff? JD Vance Promises Hakeem Jeffries Sombrero Videos Will Stop If He Ends Schumer Shutdown."

You can sense that absolute glee that Trump and Vance evince at the Democrats self-own.  Don't threaten me with a good time, y'all. 

Chuck gets a chuckle

Gateway Pundit: "Cryin’ Chuck Schumer Is Laughed Out of the Senate after Alleging NYT Poll Blaming Dems for Shutdown Is “Biased”."

Ah, yes, the notoriously biased New York Times.  I laughed too, Chuckles. 

This is great news

The Argument: "Illiteracy is a policy choice - Why aren’t we gathering behind Mississippi’s banner?"

This article is full of eye-popping statistics on Mississippi's educational reform.

Here comes the Schumer shutdown

Ace: "Democrats Are Going to Shut Down the Government at Midnight."

They're really going to let their hatred of Trump overwhelm political common sense.  They're really so lost.

Also, is this picture real?  Something seems off about Schumer's tie.

Extra - Accurate headline: "Democrats to force shutdown to block spending levels set under Biden."  That's right: this is just a continuing resolution to keep spending levels set by the last budget.