IT’S MY THURSDAY ESSAY FOR VIP SUBSCRIBERS: Let’s Talk About the REAL ’80s.

I come not to praise the ’80s, but to bury Ryan Reynolds’ stupid, ignorant, and frankly Canadian complaints about the most awesome decade ever.

Talking to Variety to promote Mayday — a watch-it-once-and-forget-it flick — Reynolds didn’t just diss the ’80s; he went off. And he was just so wrong.

“The ’80s was a brutal, brutal time for people,” Reynolds whined. “It was a f***ing mess and people forget that. It was a tremendous strife. Socio political tensions everywhere. We were still pretty fresh off a Cuban missile crisis, which was only 15-20 years before. It’s a tumultuous period, but you look back at it now and you’re like, ‘Oh, yeah. Top Gun. Cocaine!’ Like, ‘No!’ It was really scary.”

Gentle reader, this effrontery will not stand.

So much more at the link.

BAD NEWS:  A few weeks ago, the California Legislature voted to put a new referendum aimed at gutting Proposition 209 on the ballot.  I am obviously going to have to fight these blasted things for the rest of my life.  The only good thing is that it won’t be on the ballot until November of 2028.  Read about it in my Daily Wire essay.

I’ll write more about it here soon.  Right now I have to finish up another project–a lawsuit–that I hope will be better news.

Plus my book is coming out soon … more on that later too.

THE ENEMY WITHIN: Abdul El-Sayed Called on Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood To ‘Purge the Media and Police’ Shortly Before Islamic Government Arrested Reporters for ‘Insulting Islam.’

MEMORY-HOLED:

Did people forget about the southern poverty law center scandal already where the dems paid the KKK and other extremists groups? https://t.co/KaYTxfivAH

— unseen1 (@unseen1_unseen) September 24, 2026

FINALLY, A “WE ONLY HAVE FIVE YEARS TO SAVE THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT” WARNING THAT MIGHT ACTUALLY COME TRUE:

What this ultimately means is that Los Angeles has five years to prove it really wants movies made here. Otherwise, everyone (and I mean everyone) is moving out. Remove oppressive regulations, fees, and bureaucracy and make it cheaper to do business in Hollywood. https://t.co/IvZSe0gdIm

— Alan Ng @ Film Threat (@mypalal) September 23, 2026

AT AMAZON, Shop Early Prime Big Day Deals. #CommissionEarned

MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: A Tale of Two Centuries.

NOT GETTING MY HOPES UP, BUT IT’S GOOD TO PLAN: Why We Must Prepare for the Chinese Communist Party’s Collapse.

The international consequences would be enormous.

China is not merely another authoritarian country. It possesses nuclear weapons, the world’s largest standing military by personnel, enormous security and intelligence organizations, advanced biological laboratories, vast state enterprises, major financial institutions and supply chains embedded throughout the world economy.

The collapse of central authority could therefore create simultaneous military, financial, humanitarian, political and proliferation crises.

Who controls the nuclear arsenal? Who commands the People’s Liberation Army? What becomes of the People’s Armed Police, the militia, the Ministry of State Security and the vast domestic surveillance apparatus? Who secures dangerous biological facilities? Who prevents provincial military commanders or security chiefs from becoming warlords? What happens to the renminbi, China’s banks, sovereign obligations, state enterprises, foreign reserves and trillions of dollars of domestic assets?

From there, things get dicey.

WELL, HE’S RIGHT.

Argentine President Javier Milei:

"The United Nations has become a useless organization whose entire function is to feed a caste of arrogant parasites masquerading as well-intentioned officials.

Those who claim to defend human rights have backed bloodthirsty dictatorships and…

— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) September 23, 2026

NOVEMBER PREVIEW:

Texas DPS has confirmed a technical issue caused an unknown number of voter registrations to not be processed.

Civix, a company you’ve probably never heard of, received a $36M contract for the Texas Election Administration Management system, happens to be a steady employer of… https://t.co/NgZG86ye07 pic.twitter.com/WuXxNItgQC

— Nick Plumb (@PlumbNick) September 23, 2026

THAT’S BECAUSE IT ISN’T: Berlin May Get Its First Muslim Mayor and Germans Are Warning the Jews It’s ‘Not Safe.’

JUST LIKE THAT: Watch How Fast the Media Disappears This Story of a Black Woman Found Dead by Hanging.

JOSH BLACKMAN: Privatize the Smithsonian.

EVERYTHING FROM THE LEFT IS FAKE:

🚨 HOLY SMOKES! 🤯

The New York Times reports that a Democratic-aligned group, Project Bullhorn, paid more than 100 creators through SideShift to flood social media with “affordability” content ahead of the 2026 midterms.

$25–$30 PER VIDEO.

Many didn’t disclose they were being… pic.twitter.com/IJb8fWE35t

— Gina Milan (@ginamilan_) September 23, 2026

Related:

OMG

"Independent" candidate for U.S. Senate in Nebraska Dan Osborn, was just caught on undercover video admitting to TRICKING voters about his views

"I can go and I can be the voice for LGBTQ and immigration… Then I lose the election… At the end of the day, I’m gonna win…

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) September 23, 2026

WHY ARE LEFTISTS ALWAYS FAKING THEIR BIOS? ‘Palestinian Rachel Dolezal’ outed as white woman of ‘significant privilege and wealth.’

Hey, she’s trans-Palestinian and you’re a bigot if you don’t believe her. Plus: “In one video from December 2025, the activist teacher wears a keffiyeh and has a ‘blaccent,’ which she did not use in her apology post this week.”

I think we’ve had enough of “activist teachers.”

OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.

MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: A Tale of Two Centuries.

THIS IS THE FUNNIEST TIMELINE:

That would make the world that much freer https://t.co/16kqO7Wnaq

— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) September 23, 2026

LIFE IN SPACE: The future of spacecraft windows: ‘We can’t just live in a box.’

ALIENS: Astronomers Detect Radio Signals Coming Directly From an Exoplanet For The First Time.

THESE ARE THE CRAZY YEARS:

You see, when you make note of the fact that violence against trans-identified people has gone down under Trump, (and frame this as a welcome development), that is "anti-trans."

Being "pro-trans" means terrorizing people into baseless panic over non-existent threats because it… https://t.co/EwEte7T6DI

— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) September 23, 2026

WELL, GOOD: Researchers Test a New Way To Find Pancreatic Cancer Before It’s Too Late.

REPORTEDLY President Trump Will Be Attending the Tennessee/Texas Game on Saturday. Local leftists are already melting down. “This will be the first Tennessee football game a sitting United States president has attended in U.S. history.”

Richard Nixon came to Neyland Stadium while president, but that was to attend a Billy Graham revival. My dad was there.

HAHA:

Since the Obamas are trending, here’s a video of them thanking Harvey Weinstein. Don’t share this

This will make Barack and Michelle Obama upset pic.twitter.com/JqD6kCD9zB

— Deep Leaks (@DeepLeaksHQ) September 23, 2026

ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: What’s the Best Line in the Boston Globe Lesbian Bar Story?

Here is Charlie Cooke’s favorite:

Noire [one of the bar’s critics] spends the hours after the meeting posting furious Instagram stories about Matellian and Last Ditch. Matellian (who uses she/they pronouns) had been shedding “WHITE THEY THEM TEARS,” he writes. The bar was not “a safe environment not interested in revolutionary praxis.”

Yes. The bar was not a great venue for the pursuit of “revolutionary praxis.” That’s because it’s a bar.

Here is Jeff Blehar’s:

. . . [a patron] wonders aloud about holding a Lady Gaga themed night, but [the bartender] Mixxy demurs. “Gaga is canceled, she says. “Gaga is Zionist.”

That right there is gold.

Can the story get any better weirder? You bet it can!