CDR SALAMANDER: Too Small U.S. Navy: Cliffs Notes Version. “We are tapped out sustaining operations against a 4th rate power.”
Related: Congress Must Save the Navy from Catastrophic Failure: Barreling toward a Hollow Navy.
September 19, 2026
THE NOT SO FINAL COUNTDOWN: If You Were Born Before 1980, The Left Has Killed You With Climate Change At Least 17 Times!
That’s SEVENTEEN. Dated. Sourced. Expired. Verifiable in about twenty minutes by anyone with an internet connection and the mild curiosity to actually look. And I didn’t even reach for the ones still technically ticking, AOC’s 2031 deadline, Bernie’s “eight or nine years” from 2019 running out around 2028, Bill McKibben’s “nine years left” from 2021 expiring 2030, or Leonardo DiCaprio’s “nine-year window” from 2022, which lands, shockingly, right around 2031 too. Funny how the math always seems to land somewhere comfortably past the speaker’s own current relevance and never, ever inside it.
Here’s the pattern, and I want to be fair about it, because I don’t think these are all stupid people. Some of them hold genuine credentials. What they’re responding to is an incentive, not a conspiracy. “Sea level may rise a meter or two over 150 years under a specific emissions pathway” does not get you a Vanity Fair cover or a standing ovation. “TEN YEARS TO SAVE THE PLANET” does. Every single time, somebody got the applause and moved on to the next stage before the receipts caught up with them.
NOW WATCH THE BODY COUNT CLIMB, BECAUSE THIS IS WHERE IT STOPS BEING FUNNY AND STARTS BEING GENUINELY STRANGE.
Once “years left” stops scaring people, the next move is always the corpse count. Watch the actual number inflate, in order, name by name.
Rush Holt, 2013: “millions will die.”
Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, 2006: showed Florida, Shanghai, and Calcutta going under from a Greenland-and-Antarctica collapse, and warned about the impact of “a hundred million or more” refugees. A UK High Court judge who reviewed the film for British classrooms called that specific section “distinctly alarmist,” and pointed out that a full Greenland melt plays out over MILLENNIA, not a news cycle.
Florida? In 1982, Dan Rather believed that would be underwater with (say it with me now) ten years:
Exit question: What Is Their Next Lie?
That’s a pretty easy one, to be honest:
The cover of Time magazine in 2006 and 2026. From "climate change will destroy humanity" to "AI will destroy humanity". pic.twitter.com/d59DCbTQFi
— Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) September 16, 2026
SURPRISE, SURPRISE, SURPRISE: DEEP DIVE: Abdul El-Sayed’s sister is a radical university professor.
“SHUT UP, NAZI,” THEY EXPLAINED:
Stand Up to Racism just posted a celebration video of Restore Britain being “chased out of Camden” for leafleting in the Holborn & St Pancras by-election.
Rupert Lowe says one of his team was hospitalised with burns.
Read that again.
A legal party, standing a candidate on 8…
— British Patriot 🇬🇧 (@EnglandUK) September 19, 2026
More:
Rupert Lowe says one of his team was hospitalised with burns.
Read that again.
A legal party, standing a candidate on 8 October, handing out leaflets. Then a mob. Then hospital. Then the attackers boast about it.
You can hate Restore Britain’s policies. Debate them. Vote against them. That is democracy.
What is not democracy is driving campaigners off the street and treating an injury as a win.
If the establishment keeps calling mass deportation voters “Nazis” this is what it produces. Not debate. A mob.
Ask yourself: would the same people cheer if the colours on the leaflets were reversed?
Mob rule is democracy in its purest form.
LIGHTNING DEAL: HOSHANHO 6 Inch Kitchen Knife, Ultra Sharp Japanese Kitchen Utility Knife. #CommissionEarned
IT’S CLEARLY NOT ABOUT EDUCATING CHILDREN: UCLA education department focuses on social justice and activism in courses for elementary education.
MORE ON THAT FIFTH CIRCUIT RULING FROM SHOOTING NEWS: Fifth Circuit Rules Federal Interstate Handgun Sales Ban is Unconstitutional.
NOT TIRED OF WINNING YET:
BREAKING: In a 2-1 vote, the Fifth Circuit ruled that the federal ban on direct interstate handgun sales violates the Second Amendment. pic.twitter.com/LT1WW93W7u
— SCOTUS Wire (@scotus_wire) September 18, 2026
ALWAYS TRUST CONTENT FROM SALENA ZITO:
There are times when I cover an issue in politics/culture on the ground that is seen so wildly different than what either polling shows, social media dictates or the manufactured fear demands it should be .
AI/data power centers is one of them
The story: https://t.co/HNbGAiJSuZ pic.twitter.com/YQyp3Dt6Xv— ZitoSalena (@ZitoSalena) September 18, 2026
THE MAP HASN’T CHANGED, BUT GREENLAND WILL EFFECTIVELY BECOME A US PROTECTORATE:
“Trump’s new deal with Greenland is exactly the same as the old one!”
Not true at all. Key new details:
Duration: The 1951 deal lasted only as long as NATO existed and Greenland remained part of NATO. Trump’s 2026 deal lasts indefinitely, even if NATO implodes or Greenland…
— Matt Morse (@MattMorseTV) September 18, 2026
Protrumptorate?
THE PRESS CAN STILL AMPLIFY, OR MUTE, STORIES AND MOODS: A Booming Economy: Who Cares?
I believe President Trump’s approval rating on his “handling of the economy” now stands consistently below 40%. This is rather weird, given that the U.S. economy is as strong as it has ever been. I suppose when most people say “the economy,” what they mean is gas prices.
But the most recent numbers released by the Census Bureau indicate that in 2025, the U.S. poverty rate was the lowest it has ever been, while median household income was the highest it has ever been, at $87,460. The stock markets hit record highs, too.
One would think that Americans would be happy about such a strong economy, but my guess is that most aren’t even aware of it. Either that, or the current anxiety about gas prices has overshadowed everything else.
I’m reminded of a passage from Mark Penn’s book on how the media treated the economy in 1992:
I have found over the years that there is often a huge disconnect between belief about the economy and the true economic state of affairs. Until the statistics are actually published, people tend to assess the economy through the eyes of the national media. In 1992, when Bill Clinton won the presidency based on worries about the economy, the statistics that came out after the election showed that the period leading up to November had actually been a period of record growth. . . . In his 1996 State of the Union speech, President Clinton said we had the best economy in thirty years — a statement that sent a flurry of reporters to check actual statistics rather than popular political movements and sweeping, politically motivated statements. The more people looked at the facts, the more they agreed, and six months later, there was near-unanimity that the economy was in good shape. Had the economy changed? No, what had changed was knowledge about the true facts of the economy.
Hmm. Regardless of the data, we get bad economic “news” when there’s a Republican in the White House., and good economic “news” when a Democrat is running for reelection.
Trump isn’t on the ballot, though.
THE BUFFOON TRUMP DOES IT AGAIN: Trump Secures a HUGE and Historic Deal with Greenland.
AT AMAZON, Shop Early Prime Big Day Deals. #CommissionEarned
EVEN THE GUARDIAN IS CALLING FOUL: Are you outraged by Sydney Sweeney – again? More fool you.
THE EV BUBBLE IS DEFLATING: Blue BlueOval City? Tennessee Taxpayers Deserve an Explanation.
The original vision was clear: Ford and SK would build a vertically integrated campus producing next-generation electric F-Series trucks and batteries. Production was scheduled for 2025. Ford later said the plant could eventually produce 500,000 electric trucks annually.
That is no longer the project being built. Ford now calls the assembly facility the Tennessee Truck Plant. Approximately 2,300 Ford employees are expected to manufacture new gas-powered “Built Ford Tough” trucks beginning in 2029.
The original electric truck is gone. The 500,000-EV annual production target is gone. Vehicle production has been delayed four years. Ford and SK On have also dissolved their BlueOval SK joint venture, with SK On taking ownership of the Tennessee battery operation. Layoffs were announced in March.
Will the AI boom turn out to be similar?
NEWS PUBLISHERS ALREADY FACE AN EXISTENTIAL THREAT DUE TO BAD STANDARDS: Staffers at tech giants knew AI tools posed ‘existential threat’ to news publishers: court docs.
TOO MANY OF THE LATTER, NOT ENOUGH OF THE FORMER: Covid Revision: Heroes and Believers. Hundreds gathered in Sydney, Australia, to demand a Royal Commission into Covid, but who wasn’t there? And who will deliver it?
IT DOESN’T NEED TO BE DEMOLISHED; THIS METAPHOR FOR DEMOCRAT GOVERNANCE IS FALLING DOWN FROM ABUSE AND NEGLECT: Could the Kennedy Center Be Demolished? What We Know Right Now.
SILLY ME, I’D THOUGHT IT WAS THE CONSTITUTION WHICH SHOULD GUIDE THEM: Virginia Democrat Shannon Taylor Says ‘Progressive Values’ Should Guide Every Government Official.
THOSE COWS ONLY WISH IT WERE TRUE: ‘The View’ Suggests That Donald Trump Might Have Sexual Affinity for Animals.
THE GREEN MOVEMENT HATES PEOPLE: Sacramento refuses to store more water — so get used to short showers.
HUMANS WILL NEVER BE ANGELS, BUT IT WOULD BE GOOD TO CLEAN THE CULTURE SOME: Land of corruption.
SHE WORKED THERE AS A MACHINIST FOR THREE DECADES. Ignored a deportation order in 2003. Submitted an I9 in 1996 and again this year claiming that she is a citizen and using a naturalization number belonging to someone else. I don’t think she’s a victim: Illegal migrant faked US citizenship to work at military contractor for 30 years.
HOW MUCH OF 2020’S SUMMER OF BURNING LOVE WAS PAID FOR OUT OF USAID? A Quiet Summer.
