October 22, 2026

SCHLICHTER: Dem Hack Drops the Mask and Lets Her Fascism Freak Flag Fly.

The sour, bitter face of our enemy is the face of the chubby girl who always tried to get between you and her hot roommate — except instead of a double-bagger trying to block your shot, she’s now a Democrat trying to condemn you to serfdom. It’s the same face you see worn by malignant amphibians like Elissa Slotkin (D-CIA), a particularly loathsome creature who trumpets her time at the Central Intelligence Agency to establish her phony USA! USA! bona fides. This comes at the same time she supports a Jew-hating communist to be her co-senator who is, at minimum, a slobbering affiliate of the Muslim Brotherhood. Whether her flex is calculated or stupid is a puzzlement; does she think she’s exploiting him instead of being exploited herself? It is useful to remember how the Iranian mullahs took power and then immediately shot all their erstwhile leftist allies. Regardless, they deserve each other; we don’t deserve either.

When fascism comes to America, it will come from the left, because the left is where fascism comes from. It will come in the form of a Democrat, a Democrat who pretends to be patriotic and points to her résumé as if it’s proof. And it will be dressed like an HR director at a mid-tier company in a second-tier town.

Read the whole thing, I probably don’t have to say.

Posted at 9:39 am by Stephen Green

RASMUSSEN IS USALLY PRETTY SOLID, TOO:

Posted at 9:23 am by Stephen Green

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Fraud Sure Is Easy to Find When It’s Being Looked For. “The Dems wouldn’t look at SNAP for anything untoward because of reasons and feelings and stuff. The intent of the program is all that matters to them. Never mind the unconscionable fact that this hiccup came at the expense of those the lefties claim to care about.:

Posted at 9:08 am by Stephen Green

THE ANACONDA STRATEGY CONTINUES TO SQUEEZE: Iran’s Fleet of Shadow Tankers Has Run Out of Oil After Monthslong U.S. Blockade: Tehran had millions of barrels of crude in tankers in Asian waters that gave it a steady flow of cash. Now, that oil has dried up.

For most of the war, Iran had an invaluable cushion: dozens of oil tankers holding millions of barrels of crude sitting safely in waters in Asia. Tehran steadily sold the oil to China, bringing in billions of much-needed cash.

Now, that floating storage is gone. By mid-October, the reserves were fully depleted, according to analysts at Kpler, as a U.S. naval blockade prevented Iran from replacing the crude it normally sells to Chinese refineries.

“There’s no more oil to discharge to China anymore,” said Homayoun Falakshahi, head of crude-oil analysis at Kpler.

The drop in oil revenue is a further blow to Iran’s struggling economy, already facing runaway inflation and widespread shortages. U.S. Central Command, which is responsible for the Middle East, said Saturday that the blockade has denied Tehran at least $25 billion worth of oil revenue, which will, in turn, constrict Iran’s ability to replace destroyed factories and weapons.

U.S. actions have “imposed devastating costs on Iran’s security apparatus,” said Adm. Brad Cooper, head of U.S. Central Command.

Even as the U.S. pressure has choked off Iranian exports, oil from elsewhere in the Middle East is flowing, recently exceeding prewar levels, as U.S. protection helps secure the passage of non-Iranian oil through the Strait of Hormuz.

The plan is working, though you wouldn’t know it from most press coverage.

Posted at 8:52 am by Glenn Reynolds

EVERY TIME WITHOUT FAIL: There’s Nothing Like a Tragedy to Expose Anti-Gunners and Politicians for the Ghouls They Are. “One of the very first public statements to be released by an elected official came from U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), who’s been in the Senate in Washington, D.C., since 1996. Sen. Wyden wasted no time to post a statement on social media calling for more gun control laws and disgustingly laying the blame at Republican lawmakers’ feet.”

Posted at 8:37 am by Stephen Green

THE RETALIATOR STRATEGY:

Posted at 8:35 am by Ed Driscoll

DISPATCHES FROM THE PERMANENT BIPARTISAN FUSION PARTY:

It’s the past quarter century in a nutshell: The man who Democrats condemned as Hitler from 2001 to 2008 until begging for his endorsement in the last days of the 2024 presidential race is endorsing the leftist who compared himself favorably to Abraham Lincoln, despite his party’s efforts to memory hole the 16th president during the 2020 color revolution: Texas Dem Who Fled State in Private Jet Compares Himself to Lincoln.

Posted at 8:22 am by Ed Driscoll

NOVEMBER PREVIEW: Nobody knows nothin’.

Posted at 8:21 am by Stephen Green

THAT’S NOT FUNNY: The Democratic Scolds of America.

Most of [Larry] David’s volleys succeed on the “it’s funny because it’s true” principle. How far is the distance, really, between his declaration that “anyone will be able to enter our country if they choose to do so” and the DSA official platform’s call to abolish ICE, end deportations, “legalize migration” and provide “amnesty for all immigrants regardless of status”? Or between Mr. David’s proposal to “close the jails and release all prisoners” and the platform’s taking “steps toward fully abolishing the police”?

But here I am, trying to judge Mr. David’s jokes on their own merits. Nowadays it’s much easier to object that he made them at all.

The DSA scolds surely got a kick out of Mr. David’s mockery of fellow comedian Bill Maher for having dinner with President Trump in 2025. Mr. David’s angle then was to imagine dining with Adolf Hitler, only to find himself unexpectedly charmed. Hitler is the comic’s perennial muse, as occasional David collaborator Mel Brooks knows well. Mr. Brooks has called the Holocaust “the great outrage of the 20th century.” So why make its perpetrators funny? In his view, “you can bring down totalitarian governments faster by using ridicule than you can with invective.”

If even Nazis can be funny, then surely the DSA can lighten up once in a while.

Historically, totalitarians rarely have much of a sense of humor — in part because of how absurd their worldview looks when you’re outside the cult. Why should this latest group who wish to nationalize socialism be any different?

Posted at 7:45 am by Ed Driscoll

YES: Elissa Slotkin Was Speaking for the Entire Democrat Party.

Slotkin responded to the inevitable backlash by doubling down on X and making clear exactly what she has in mind.

“America must be a place where the rule of law still matters,” she wrote.

“Those laws should apply to everyone equally. If you have aided in the corrupt use of U.S. taxpayer dollars to benefit the President or his family, or you have violated the law in order to carry out guidance from the President, you should be held accountable. And given how rampant that corruption appears to the average American, people looking to work for his Administration should realize that while the Supreme Court has granted the President immunity, it has not done the same for those who do illegal things at his behest.”

You don’t have to twist Slotkin’s words. Taken at face value, her proposal would give carte blanche to investigate and prosecute pretty much anybody who has done pretty much anything for the Trump administration since January 20, 2025, so long as it’s deemed to be “corrupt”—and corruption, like beauty, is very much in the eye of the beholder.

“Give me the man and I will give you the case against him,” another infamous lefty once said.

Posted at 7:35 am by Stephen Green

FIND A GALLON JUG OF WINE, AND THERE’S PROBABLY A PORTUGUESE SETTLEMENT UNDERNEATH!  A chicken on Mars?

Posted at 7:32 am by Sarah Hoyt

RUBIO STRAIGHTENS OUT THE PRESS:

Here’s the crux: “I spoke to him today. We had a 45-minute conversation. Look, I’m seeing a lot of things in the media that are not accurate, so let me clear those up. And as I did in my conversation with him, number one is the Department of War. Everything they’ve been doing with Ukraine remains the same. That has not changed.”

Then there’s this: “I know one of the things that President Zelensky has been talking about is that he’s been trying to buy interceptors. And I understand. So does every other country in the world. I also talked to Saudi Arabia today. They’d like interceptors. Israel would like interceptors. We would like interceptors. Every country in the world would like interceptors. And many parts of the world are asking for that.”

It’s a real sellers’ market for anyone who can ramp up.

Posted at 7:19 am by Stephen Green

EVERYTHING’S BOTTOMS, ISN’T IT? Peggy Flanagan and Tim Walz Steered Millions To Pay for Disgusting ‘Booty Bumping’ Kits that Help Junkies Take Drugs Through ‘the Rectum.’

Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan’s (D.) administration spearheaded the awarding of millions of dollars in grants and contracts to a “harm reduction” group that supplies “booty bumping” kits to drug users to help them safely ingest drugs through “the butthole.”

The controversial funding was part of a $100 million grant—announced by Flanagan and Gov. Tim Walz—for “Minnesotans facing homelessness,” including so-called harm reduction for drug users. In the announcement, Flanagan, now running for Senate, said that “These grants will ensure that everyone can access the supports they need to find and secure safe, stable housing.”

The administration highlighted grants to Southside Harm Reduction Services, a nonprofit that “promotes the health and wellbeing of drug users” through “harm reduction” supplies like syringes, sterile water, and drug cookers to help junkies get high “safely.”

A key “harm reduction” offering from Southside is free lube and other supplies to help users in the “booty bumping” scene to ingest all kinds of drugs—including heroin, meth, and ketamine—”through the rectum (anus, butthole).” Southside is also required by the state of Minnesota to give the junkies voter registration materials.

Plus actual “boofing” takes place!

Southside Harm Reduction offers other instructions.

“Try to poop before. This is so your drugs are absorbed better,” Southside Harm Reduction Services advises in a pamphlet contained in the kits. “Stand, squat, or lay on your side in a comfortable position. It never hurts to have a boofing buddy!”

Boofing is controversial among harm reduction advocates. Because the drugs bypass the digestive system and enter the bloodstream quickly, it can increase the likelihood of fatal overdoses.

That’s a word I’ve not heard for a long time. A long time.

Flashback: The Democrats’ Insanity Defense.

Oh, and speaking of Flanagan, she seems to be doing her best impersonation of Jon Lovitz’s Tommy Flanagan character as well:

(Classical reference in headline.)

Posted at 7:14 am by Ed Driscoll

THIS WAS NO ACCIDENT:

“Myriam was a 7-year-old French Jewish girl. She witnessed a terrorist break into her school and kill two of her classmates.

She tried to run but tripped while grabbing her schoolbag, causing her ballet slippers to fall out. She stopped to pick them up. He chased her and grabbed her by the hair, shooting her in the head at point-blank range.

The man was Mohamed Merah, and a rap song honoring him and other Muslim terrorists has become the unofficial anthem of the ‘student protests’ in France.”

Posted at 7:10 am by Glenn Reynolds

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: I’m Fascinated By The Sex Gurus Of Cornell University. “I came across these materials because as the Cornell alleged frat-house rape scandal has percolated, so too have takes attempting to link the event to Cornell Health. Wesley Yang, for example, noted that ‘Cornell health educators, like health educators at colleges and high schools across America, promote pornography, group sex, open relationships, bondage, and S&M as normal and healthy in chipper instructional materials bearing the school’s official endorsement.'”

Posted at 7:00 am by Glenn Reynolds