Oh boy, a task force

The ultimate corporate buck-passing strategy: "WNBA commissioner says league task force will discuss response to transgender debate."

Generation Snowflake

Pens & Poison: "How Columbia University Made Me a Conservative - The lesson I never expected to learn from an Ivy League education.  (Hat tip: Maggie's Farm)

Yet on Wednesday, November 9th, 2016, walking into an exam for my Abnormal Psychology lecture at Barnard, Columbia’s all-girls sister school, I was surprised to find that the morning’s most abnormal behavior patterns were not nestled in the exam questions but plastered on the faces of my classmates, many of whom burst into the classroom bawling, insisting that they were unable to sit for the exam because of the election results.

The professor acquiesced and moved the exam to the following week.

I was rightfully taken aback. What were these girls even crying over? No one had died. Barack Obama would still be president for the next several months. We would have a dullard for a president for the next four years, sure, but did these girls really think that they—members of the privileged elite whose parents were paying $80,000 per year for them to attend one of the best universities in the world—would be personally affected by the reign of Donald Trump?

What was more astonishing was that my classmates—girls who supposedly represented the apex of female empowerment—did not at all embody the feminist strength that my grandmother once taught me.

When victimhood is the coin of the realm, everybody wants to be oppressed.  This country is jam-packed with AWFLs who are traumatized by a ballroom.

Molon labe my turkey

Washington Post editorial on the Thanksgiving-hating candidate: "Wisconsin taxpayers will flee if Francesca Hong becomes governor - Her bad economic ideas matter more than bizarre social media posts."

JD = 48

Breitbart: "Trump tells donors he wants VP Vance to win in 2028: 'We need to elect JD.'"

I agree with Trump that a Vance-Rubio ticket would be "very unbeatable."  Both of these guys are excellent politicians and debaters. 

These people are so dumb

Twitchy: "Democracy Dimwit: DSA Co-Chair Cannot Explain What ‘Taxing the Hell Out of Millionaires’ Means."

I would say it's because - like Mayor Mamdani - they've never been challenged in their lives.  For example, look at Mamdani's ridiculous back-and-forth when asked if his new supermarkets will require an I.D.

Extra - NY Post: "Mamdani is ‘thin-skinned and hyper-sensitive’ in private despite unflappable social media image: political sources." 

Plot twist: it's a woman

PJ Media: "Talarico Confirms Inappropriate Relationship With Staffer."

It's his current girlfriend but the relationship started when she was a staffer in Talarico's office.  I've been reliably told that this kind of power dynamic is the definition of the #MeToo movement.

These courts are wack

Hot Air: "Awkward: DC Circuit Tells Trump Not to Knock Down East Wing of the White House."

The DC circuit gave standing to a private group that claimed the Trump ballroom would hurt their eyes and feelings.

Enemy of the people

PJ Media: "El-Sayed Drops the Mask."

When it comes to these Islamist candidates, I'm reminded of Turkey's President Erdogan who said democracy is like a streetcar: "You ride it until you arrive at your destination," he said. "Then you step off."

Exodus

Hot Air: "Jews Are Moving From Blue States to Red Ones."

If you want to understand why, here's Bernie Sanders on "Meet the Press" this past Sunday:

KRISTEN WELKER:

Okay, and I want to follow up on what you — you just said. Dr. El-Sayed has made Israel a central issue in his primary. He said he, quote, “often struggles with the question of whether Israel has the right to exist as a Jewish state.” In the past, Senator, you have been quite clear that you do support Israel as a Jewish state. Should Dr. El-Sayed speak with the same clarity?

SEN. BERNIE SANDERS:

Look, I think right now the immediate issue of the moment is whether or not we continue to put tens of billions of dollars into the extremist Netanyahu government, which has killed 75,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, wounded 150,000, destroyed their infrastructure. And what the American people are saying overwhelmingly, Democrats, many independents — the majority of independents, and many Republicans, especially younger Republicans, “We’ve got better things to do with our money than to continue to fund the military of Israel.”

So the answer to the question as to whether DSA candidates should "speak with the same clarity" is "no."  Never answer the question directly and without equivocation or the antisemitism at the heart of the modern Democrat party might be revealed.

Flashback - "Shapiro says Harris aides asked if he was Israeli agent."  Remember that one?

Here we go again

I think this is attempt #5: "CA Man Arrested at Trump National Golf Club Was Armed to the Teeth." - "A man in California was arrested for watching the security setup at Trump National Golf Club in Rancho Palos Verdes. The president plans to visit the site later. The suspect was identified as Jeanine John Taele, 38, who was later found to have body armor, an illegally modified AR-15 rifle, ammunition, and a notebook with suspicious statements at his home." 

Dude is weird

Twitchy: "A Very Masculine James Talarico Wields a 'Blowtorch'." 

Remember when Dubya won the Presidency by 527 votes?

Ace: "Politico: NJ Democrat Officials Anonymously Admit Far More Illegals Are Registered to Vote Than the Governor "Mikie" Is Admitting; Some Think the Real Number Exceeds Trump's Estimate of 35,000."

Officials admit they have no idea how many illegals are enrolled to vote -- but they're totally sure it's not a problem and never effects any elections, not a single bingle one.

"Affects," Ace, "affects."

Governor Mikie told us that this mistake was discovered two years ago but, gosh!, we have no idea why the previous administration didn't do anything.  Yeah, it's a mystery.

Mamdani to starve married women

Irony can be pretty ironic: "Mamdani: You Need Voter, er, Eater ID to Buy Groceries at Commie Basket!"

The mayor's new supermarkets will require ID to keep our non-Big Apple residents.  What if you're a married woman who can't get an ID with your new name?  Drop dead.

Islam is the religion of peace

Also "Muslim Oxford Union President Tells Islam Critics That Without Security, They’d Be ‘Cooked’ by Mob."

Watch the video of the guy about to release a picture of Muhammad and the slow-boil panic that fills the room.

By the way, whatever happened to the Oxford Union, once held up as the premier debating society in the entire world?  It has devolved into woke shouting match of juveniles who are easily debunked. 

I really don't think "You're lucky we've got paid security to prevent you being murdered by Islamists for speaking at the world's oldest and most prestigious bastion of free expression" is quite the pro-immigration flex you think it is, love. https://t.co/Kg1wuq1Hgj

— RAW EGG NATIONALIST (@Babygravy9) August 1, 2026

Cancel culture

Hollywood in Toto: "Yet Another Jewish Artist Cancelled (While Legacy Media Sleeps)." 

TFG

Peggy Noonan: "Anthony Fauci Unmasks Himself - His diaries make clear that he saw the pandemic less as a historic emergency than a media opportunity."

As has been reported, it isn’t about witnessing or capturing the size and scale of a crisis, or feeling shock or anxiety. It is about other things.

On Jan. 6, 2020, he goes to a “Super A list” party. At a meeting later that month, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi hugs and kisses him and tells everyone “how great I am.” At another, President Trump tells Dr. Fauci, “Lou Dobbs . . . told me that you were one of the smartest, knowledgeable and outstanding persons he knows.” Dr. Fauci was “very pleased,” others “stunned and impressed.”

Jan. 30: “All my friends kept saying I was a national hero” and that they “ ‘felt safe in my arms.’ ”

March 8: “Nice profiles of me in Politico and NY Times today.”

March 15: “I did all 5 Sunday Shows today (my 3rd ‘Fauci 5’).” Apparently this is his version of “the full Ginsburg,” named for Monica Lewinsky’s attorney, William Ginsburg, when he did five Sunday shows in one morning.

March 26: “Donuts are being named after me; T shirts have my picture on them.”

It goes on.  The media created this monster.

It's all a self-esteem hustle

Townhall: "The Virtue-Signaling Virus That Won't Die." 

Look at all the women and children

NY Post: "Thousands of illegal African migrants overrun Spanish enclave, turn streets into open toilets and bathe in fountains: ‘An apocalypse’." 

Once you decide how much somebody "needs"

All bets are off.  Twitchy: "Bernie Sanders Asks How ‘Poor’ Mark Zuckerberg Will Survive If CA Passes Wealth Tax."

Does Bernie really need three homes?  Can't he sell two to feed the poor?

Endgame in Iran

Victor Davis Hanson: "The Iran War at the Crossroads."

We know the tired Iranian strategy by now. We might call it “theocratic rope-a-dope.” For the theocrats and their terrorist proxies, survival means outlasting Trump, waiting for the next cash-laden Democratic administration, and using “moderates” to play good cop while haggling away months.

The mullahs and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps feign indifference even as their half-century, half-trillion-dollar investments in what is now essentially a vaporized military-industrial-nuclear complex continue to be destroyed.

The war has finally revealed the full extent of Iran’s vast conventional arsenal, nuclear program, and missile and drone industry.

The thing about the rope-a-dope strategy is that you're still being pummeled.  The Iranians don't seem to realize it but day by day their influence in the region wanes.  Countries and oil companies are adjusting with new pipelines and tanker routes.  Soon enough, it won't matter that the Strait of Hormuz is controlled (or not) by the Iranians.  The world will have moved on.