Too much debt

Here come the bond vigilantes.  Washington Post: "Bond markets are a canary. Trump isn’t listening. - Fiscal mismanagement could expose the United States to bond vigilantes."

Trump isn't listening?  This debt bomb has been growing over decades and Covid-era spending just super-charged it.  

Enemy of the state

NY Post: "Why Abdul El-Sayed refuses to condemn Iran’s Revolutionary Guard thugs"

El-Sayed certainly believes that Western nations are as evil as jihadists, or worse.

That moral equivalence was on display in his now-deleted 2021 tweet commemorating 9/11.

“Today, I mourn the 3K lives, 6K injuries, & infrastructural devastation in NYC perpetuated ignorantly in the name of my faith,” El-Sayed tweeted — before adding, “Tomorrow, I’ll mourn ~1M lives, millions of injuries, & infrastructural devastation in 3 countries, perpetuated ignorantly in the name of my country.”

It’s clear from that comment that El-Sayed believes America is far worse than the Islamist extremists of the Middle East.

In a healthier era, any one of these relationships would have sunk a candidacy.

At this point, Michigan voters are well aware of El-Sayed’s radicalism — and yet he’s poised to become our first Islamist senator.

Of all the Democrats I want to see defeated in November, El-Sayed is #1.  But he's currently ahead in the polls in Michigan and part of me just can't believe it.  He's had a long list of anti-American statements, he's lied about being a doctor, and he simply refuses to distance himself from Hasan "America deserved 9/11" Piker, waving him away as a "Twitch streamer."

The media used to eat guys like this alive but they'll forgive anything and anyone on the other side of Trump.  That's where we are now.

Extra: PJ Media: "Nothing Says ‘Broaden the Coalition’ Like Threatening to Whup Bill Maher."

Don't commit murder while wearing your Apple watch

Townhall: "Is This the Cringiest Courtroom Moment in a Murder Trial?"

He allegedly murdered his wife and called 911 when he was woken by the "intruder" but his watch showed him walking all over the place before the call.

This reminds me of a story of a woman who found out her husband was cheating because her Fitbit weight scale kept reporting wide swings in weight.  Turns out the mistress was using the scale and the weight was automatically tracked in the Fitbit app.

C'mon, we all saw this coming

It’s all too predictable. https://t.co/WUqpf54AAY

— Steve McGuire (@sfmcguire79) September 25, 2026

It's a shame

Hot Air: "How Scared Are Students to Speak on College Campuses?"

No lies detected

Hot Air: "Milei: UN 'Useless Organization Whose...Purpose Is to Sustain a Caste of Fatally Arrogant Parasites'."

Grift might be over

Charles C.W. Cooke: "That Should Be Curtains for Nikole Hannah-Jones."

There’s nothing shameful about being wrong from time to time. We all are. But when you are catastrophically wrong on the one thing for which you are known, then it’s time to do something else with your life. There are many other people in this country who are thinking seriously about education and who have not been embarrassingly, publicly wrong on the topic. Nikole Hannah-Jones completely ignores them — seriously, search for the word “Mississippi” in her essay! — because their work is fatal to her worldview. Americans ought to respond to this by ignoring Nikole Hannah-Jones in turn.

What an own-goal.

The red carpet for red China

NY Post: "Don’t be fooled — Trump’s red-carpet rollout for Xi is a strategic coup."

Hmmm...

Is this something?  Red State: "Report: Senior IRGC Commander Taken Out in Armed Attack - by Iranians." 

Western Massachusetts update

This is the top story in the Boston Globe today: "A Western Mass. lesbian bar required KN-95 masks. When it changed the rules, all hell broke loose. - Last Ditch Bar in Greenfield wanted to build community. They got a firestorm instead."

Five years after Covid, a lesbian bar in Greenfield decided to make masking optional.  Here are some of the very measured and reasonable comments made by some patrons:

“Just say you’re being complicit in a mass disabling event and get it over with,” wrote one commenter.

“people like you kill disabled people in the name of your own leisure and convenience,” posted another.

“I hope your venue gets firebombed for robbing my fellow immunocompromised people of their Saturday plans just to scrape extra revenue from ablists [sic],” wrote a third.

Fun times!

Extra - Ace copycatted me and posted the same story 20 minutes after me.  LOOK AT THE TIMESTAMPS.  His post is much longer and makes a great point I should have included.  The owner of this bar tried to apologize and just made it worse:

Now, you're not going to believe this, but it turns out that apologizing to an SJW does not appease them, but encourages them to become even more shrill and hateful in demanding further concessions.

She started to cry and the response was "save your tears, racist!" 

Trump Derangement Syndrome

Federalist: "Poll: Death Wish Dems Want Trump Dead Or Taken Out By Military Coup."

The papers here the Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts are crammed with letters from insane people who are in a constant state of rage over every tiny thing Trump does.  They're incapacitated by the ballroom.  They seethe over "Lake America."

It's a mental illness, as this poll indicates.

Extra - PJ Media: "This Poll of Liberals Is Absolutely Terrifying." 

Gotta respect the commitment to the grift

Ace: "Nikole Hannah-Jones, Who Is Unaccountably Wealthy Due to Being a DEI Race Grifter and History Hoaxer, Sent Her Kids to Poor-Performing Schools As a Political Race Stunt."

As somebody noted, this is unintentionally the greatest advertisement for school choice.

Another reason to stay home

Red State: "Sigh: Ed Sheeran Caves to the Pressure From Left in New Statement About War in Gaza."

Let's just stay home

Washington Post: "How the surging cost of going out is changing American life - With the cost of concerts, sports games and restaurants far outpacing inflation, more people are staying home."

This story caught my eye because - just tonight - my wife and I were trying to figure out what to do for dinner after visiting Home Depot.  In the past, we would have gone to Chili's or some other fast-casual restaurant.  We ended up getting hot buffet meals at Whole Foods which, despite the Whole Foods cost, was (probably) cheaper than eating out and paying for drinks and tips.

Along the same line, it seems like we very rarely go to the movies unless there's a movie that needs to be seen on the "big screen."  We saw "The Odyssey" recently and before that was probably "Marty Supreme."  The movie industry is in a death fight against streaming and home-based theaters. 

Part of this is the detritus of Covid.  But part of this is that the value of eating out or going to events is no longer worth the cost.  I grew up on the outskirts of MetLife Stadium in New Jersey and it was really easy back then to get cheap tickets to a football game and then stop at McDonalds for a cheap meal.  Now?  I can't see spending a hard grand to travel to Foxboro just to watch Drake Maye throw interceptions.

Democrats for fraud

This Congressional vote was to establish a National Fraud Investigation Division in the Justice department: "What 72 Officials Would Oppose This?"

Unsurprisingly: all Democrats.  AOC was one of them which indicates the mindset.

But but global warming

Ars Technica: "This Atlantic hurricane season is about to do something that hasn’t happened in 175 years."

Last week, the Atlantic hurricane season blew through its traditional peak—which comes around September 10—with nary a tropical wave in sight, let alone a storm or hurricane.

I've been confidently told that a warmer ocean inevitably leads to more severe hurricanes and human disaster.

He's a 960 SAT kinda guy

Twitchy: "Gavin Newsom Helpfully Just Made It More Clear Than Ever That He's Insane (and a Liar)."

Dude is just plain weird and not very bright.