All of this is unsurprising

Ace: ""The Motive May Never Be Known" Is Now "The Motive Is White Supremacy, Somehow"." 

This is some grade-A gaslighting

LA Times: "Anyone who says the Oscars have gotten ‘too political’ hasn’t watched the Oscars."

And the Oscars have never been particularly political.

Speeches that deviate from the ubiquitous laundry list of thank yous always get more attention, whether they’re political or not, for the simple reason that they’re so dang unusual. But taken as a whole, either by decade or particular telecast, the Oscars is mostly, and consistently, apolitical. As in, almost every minute of a three-hour-plus show, year after year after year.

Right, the guy who won for best sound editing didn't get political but the spotlight winners like Leonardo DiCaprio needed to lecture us on environmentalism before jumping on his private jet.

Here's the NY Times back in 2018 reminding us what happens when these Hollywood phonies start waving a finger in our faces:

Whether viewers of the Oscars want to listen to the resistance is another matter. Producers who specialize in awards telecasts have said that post-show research, compiled mainly from Nielsen, indicates that most viewers dislike it when celebrities turn a trip to the stage into a political bully pulpit. One recent producer of the Oscars said that minute-by-minute post-show ratings analysis indicated that “vast swaths” of people turned off their televisions when celebrities started to opine on politics. He spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss confidential metrics.

Not only are these political outbursts performative, they're tired.  We're a full decade into this Trump temper-tantrum.  Give it a rest, already.

The mainstream media's self-licking ice cream cone

Boston Globe: "One thing voters agree on: They don’t like the Supreme Court."

This will surely hurt the Supreme Court's re-election during the midterms.

You'll be shocked to learn that America's view of the Supreme Court just happens to correspond with the media's relentless attacks as the Court turned more conservative.  When then leads to deep thought opinion pieces about the state of the Court.

Good guys with guns

Townhall: "Security Guards Hailed As Heroes After Stopping Attack at Michigan Synagogue Housing 140 Kids."

This guy gets it

Hot Air: "Can We Talk About the So-Called Talking Filibuster and Why It Won't Save the SAVE Act?"

For the record, I am strongly against getting rid of the 60-vote threshold for a filibuster and word on the street is that deep red states (e.g. West Virginia) are against making the rule change.  That leaves the arcane and byzantine Senate rules which are designed to slow down the pace of legislating.

The Democrats will lie about the SAVE Act and the media will cover up for them.  It won't pass.  Sorry.

He's taking his (Star)bucks to Florida

PJ Media: "WA Dems Pass 'Millionaire' Tax and Business Icon Says Hmmm, Florida Sure Looks Good Right Now."

I, for one, am happy to see this new age of class warfare in America since it's going to quickly sort out the red and blue states.  The 2030 census is going to be epic.

Nick Shirley scooped you

Ace: "CBS Report: Billions of Dollars of "Hospice Care" Fraud in Los Angeles Alone; One Building Sports Eighty-Nine Fake "Hospice Care" Offices."

Mistakes that only go in one direction

Twitchy: "Yet Another CNN Reporter Steps on the Rake."

For those of you keeping score, there are now four representatives from CNN absolutely lying that NY Mayor Mamdani was the target of a bomb-throwing by two pro-ISIS men.  They so desperately want to make him into the victim here, they'll just declare it.

On the "news network" with the motto "facts first."

Extra - Red State: "Hot Takes: X Users Respond Accordingly After Yet Another CNNer Pushes Fake News About NYC Attack." 

Still doing this, huh?

Twitchy: "‘Media Personality’ Notes Pete Hegseth Doesn’t Salute Black Service Member."

When your only tool is the race card, everything is racist. 

It's called journalism

Federalist: "‘Smoking Jars Of Metal’: Media Obfuscate Alleged NYC Bomb Attempt And Its Islamist Motives."

Mixed message

Breitbart: "Trump says war is nearly complete."

Actually what he said was: "I think the war is very complete, pretty much" which is all over the place.  How can you put a qualifier on "complete"?  Either it's complete or it isn't.  Adding on "pretty much" just contributes another layer of contradiction.

The military action in Iran has been a wide-ranging success so far but I wouldn't say it's near complete.  I think Trump is trying to maintain command flexibility here while also calming the financial markets.

Checkmate, Great Satan!

You can't kill a guy who's already dead!  That's 4D chess there.  Hot Air: "Is Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei Actually Alive?" 

Mystery achievement

PJ Media: "Iran Has a New Supreme Leader, but They Won’t Tell Us Who It Is."

Update: "US-sanctioned Mojtaba Khamenei named Iran’s next supreme leader after father’s death: reports"

That's a pretty low bar

Townhall: "Bill Maher Made Adam Schiff and Don Lemon Look Like Morons Last Night." 

Welcome to the Hotel California

You can permit any time you like, but you can never build.  Hot Air: "California's Inferno of Regulations."

Regime change in Iran will be a tough lift

Washington Post: "Intel report warns large-scale war ‘unlikely’ to oust Iran’s regime - A classified U.S. report doubts that Iran’s opposition would take power following either a short or extended U.S. military campaign."

A classified report by the National Intelligence Council found that even a large-scale assault on Iran launched by the United States would be unlikely to oust the Islamic republic’s entrenched military and clerical establishment, a sobering assessment as the Trump administration raises the specter of an extended military campaign that officials say has “only just begun.”

The findings, confirmed to The Washington Post by three people familiar with the report’s contents, raise doubts about President Donald Trump’s declared plan to “clean out” Iran’s leadership structure and install a ruler of his choosing.

The U.S. is not putting boots on the ground and I doubt the Kurds have the firepower to take Tehran.  It's really on the people of Iran but, as the story notes, the opposition is fragmented.

Trump's the captain now

The New York Times (!) says Trump is showing Putin who's the boss: "As Trump Out-Putins Putin, Russia’s Global Influence Erodes - The conflict in Iran may give Moscow a short-term boost economically and in Ukraine. But it has also shown the limits of Russia’s partnerships."

For years, Mr. Putin supported anti-American authoritarian governments in Iran, Venezuela and Cuba, with little worry that Washington would use its overwhelming military power to kill, capture or push out their leaders. That has now changed, as Mr. Trump has demonstrated a willingness to disregard international norms and engage in foreign adventurism by fully exploiting Washington’s might.

Even though Iran came to Russia’s aid with critical drones at the outset of Mr. Putin’s bungled invasion of Ukraine four years ago, Russia has stood aside as the United States and Israel have pummeled Iran’s leadership and military. Moscow has issued little more than condemnatory statements that largely avoid naming Mr. Trump.

Guess we ain't gonna hear about "TACO" or "Putin's puppet" anymore. 

I can't believe people take this clown seriously

Hot Air: "Newsom Is the Barometer, and He Is Signaling a Leftist Hurricane."

There's a video embedded where Newsom is asked what positions or policy goals he holds as a candidate and he can't articulate a single thing.  Instead he launches into a Kamala-style word salad about "injustice" that is so substance-free that it flies around the room and perches on a windowsill.  At one point he says "I've struggled with being able to communicate" - no shit, Sherlock.

Newsom has no governing principles: he'll just pander and tell whatever audience he's in front of whatever they want to hear.  When he's in Israel, they're "extraordinary people."  Back home in front of a Lefty audience, then Israel is an "apartheid state."  Don't bother asking if a man can become a woman.

He's a completely empty suit and I keep waiting for him to look down, Wile E. Coyote-style, and plunge to the ground.

Why do they do this?

Such an obvious fake: "Sen. Tina Smith Calls Child’s Anti-ICE Letter an ‘Absolute Gut Punch’." 

One way out

This story from the WSJ cracks me up: "Iran’s Underground ‘Missile Cities’ Have Become One of Its Biggest Vulnerabilities - U.S. and Israeli aircraft are circling over the subterranean bases, destroying missile launchers as they emerge to fire."

Basically, the Iranian military built these massive underground bunkers to store missiles but there was only one entrance/exit to roll them out.  The US & Israelis just parked a couple of fighters overhead and waited for a battery to roll out so they could blow it up.

Great planning, guys!

Soy-boy cuck emasculated

Wait until his wife's boyfriend hears about this!  Washington Free Beacon: "Levi Strauss Heir Dan Goldman Distances Himself From Pro-Israel Wife Who ‘Liked’ Social Media Post From ‘God Bless Donald Trump’ - One meme that caught Corinne Goldman's eye mocked the slogan 'Jews for Palestine' as 'chickens for KFC'."

California is hopeless

Especially when it comes to trains: "Incompetent Los Angeles Leadership Fails To Open $3.3 Billion LAX Train Before World Cup - City leadership oversees yet another massive infrastructure disaster in LA."

Today's least likely headline

Fox News: "Justice Jackson authors unanimous SCOTUS opinion handing Trump an immigration win - Supreme Court rules federal courts must defer to immigration judges on asylum decisions."