YES, INDEED. IN A WAR BEING MEAN TO THE ENEMY IS THE WHOLE POINT: He really is the model of a modern Major-General.
October 15, 2026
HE’S RIGHT. HASSAN COMMITTED TREASON: Death and Treason.
October 14, 2026
OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.
OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.
THEY JUST WANT TO AGITATE THEIR KOOKY FEMALE VOTER BASE FOR THE MIDTERMS: In Cornell Sexual Assault Case, Democrats Forget the Lessons of the Duke Lacrosse Scandal.
And if Cornell has to pay out $20 million to each (hopefully adjusted for inflation) that’s Cornell’s problem.
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:
God Pushes Up Date Of Apocalypse After Seeing Greta Gerwig's 'Narnia' Trailer https://t.co/TaDw4V3RS9
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) October 13, 2026
Bangin’ soundtrack though: Why Led Zeppelin said yes to Netflix’s $280m Narnia nightmare.
Like Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey this past summer, Netflix is presuming that the right will go absolutely insane over the stunt casting of Meryl Streep portraying the voice of Aslan, propelling them to box office fortune – and they’re likely correct:
It may bastardize CS Lewis but this is going to make roughly a trillion dollars. https://t.co/fFKpPjqp2a
— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) October 13, 2026
UPDATE: Greta Gerwig’s ‘Narnia’ Reportedly In Serious Trouble At Netflix.
A day after the first Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew trailer racked up thousands of dislikes and Marvel jokes, a new report says things are just as rough behind the scenes at Netflix.
Jeff Sneider reports in his InSneider newsletter that Greta Gerwig’s Narnia carries a $280 million budget, with some saying the real number is even higher.
One of Sneider’s sources says people at Netflix think the movie is “awful” and called it “a genuine problem.”
A second source, who attended a test screening over the summer, compared the movie to Disney’s 2018 A Wrinkle in Time, which reportedly lost close to $100 million.
Add to Narnia’s reported bad test screening more bad news for Netflix:
Isn’t it crazy how the moment the jihad against Paramount ended, Netflix started collapsing?
Hmm. Probably nothing. https://t.co/UrxkAVhMCD
— Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) October 14, 2026
Belgrad won’t be alone: Biggest Layoffs in Company’s History Hit Netflix. “Netflix announced about 1,000 employee layoffs this week, or about six percent of its 16,000-person staff. Previously, Netflix’s largest layoff was half that — 450 job cuts in 2022.”
STEPHEN MILLER: Sensing Midterm Blood in the Water, the Hibernating Woke Left Is Waking Up.
And just this past weekend, a media-driven mob has set its sights on comedian Shane Gillis (again), lashing out at his monologue as Saturday Night Live’s (SNL) guest host. Gillis performed his usual “every-man” bro-style of comedy and made comments on women’s gym attire. Gillis is usually the self-target of his own brand of self-deprecation, and this was no different. That has not stopped the BlueSkies and the media from attempting to get Gillis banned from hosting SNL for a fourth time.
Hollywood Reporter journalist Tony Maglio wrote:
“SNL attracts liberal talent and a similar audience. It films in New York City and its main target is Donald Trump. The show’s writers and cast members are generally a diverse group of Gen Z-ers that came up in improv, sketch and standup comedy. They don’t listen to Joe Rogan — Gillis’ buddy who, along with Theo Von (and Dan Soder, kind of) got a shoutout in the set — and they don’t drink the Bud Light Gillis endorses. Studio 8H is not the place for gay jokes and jokes against women.”
That kind of blatant admission is unusual. None of this is happening in a vacuum. The media, offering their as-usual friendly assistance to Democratic Party candidates, senses blood in the water for a perceived unpopular GOP heading into a midterm election where they can claw back some kind of congressional power and cultural relevance, and if you think Woke One was crazy, we’ve gotten just a minor taste of what Woke Two is going to look like.
Ideally, there will be some punching back in response, as a wise community organizer advises his constituents:
I laugh when I think about how horrified leftists are with current crop of Republicans.
You people have no idea what’s coming. The ones we have now are puppy dogs compared to the purposeful, angry men who are about to get involved in politics in a few years.
— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) October 14, 2026
ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: “F**k You!” Hollywood Civil War Erupts As Ari Emanuel Goes Nuclear On Legendary Kingmaker.
Emanuel claimed Katzenberg once offered to secure him a meeting with Biden in exchange for $1 million.
“Do you think I need to give you a million dollars so you can tell Joe Biden that I gave you a million dollars to meet with Joe Biden?” a stunned Emanuel recalled responding, pointing to his family ties to the former president through his brother, Rahm Emanuel, who served as chief of staff to President Barack Obama when Biden was vice president.
Emanuel also criticized Katzenberg’s role in Biden’s failed 2024 reelection effort, claiming he urged the influential Democrat fundraiser to help push the aging president out of the race.
“You say you got his ear, right? You’re the man. You’re talking to him all the time,” Emanuel recalled telling Katzenberg.
“You got to get him out,” Emanuel said he demanded, only to be met with silence.
“He gave us Karen Bass. He gave us this. And now he’s just moved on,” the superagent continued. “Most of the things he does are not about the situation. It’s about Jeffrey and the situation.”
“That shit I don’t like. I do not like it. And he did try to fuck us over twice. Fuck you,” he added.
Flashback to July of 2024: Hollywood donors ‘furious’ at movie mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg for ‘agewashing’ Biden: report.
Big-money Hollywood donors are reportedly enraged at movie mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg for the “agewashing” of President Joe Biden.
Katzenberg, who was named a campaign co-chair due to his prolific fundraising abilities, is being accused by his entertainment industry peers of misleading them by downplaying Biden’s age-related decline and failing to sound the alarm in time to allow the Democrats to pick a suitable replacement, The Ankler reported.
“Everyone in town is furious with him. Furious,” a top Hollywood observer told The Ankler when asked about donors’ views about Katzenberg, who has long insisted that the president is “fine” even though there were apparent signs of cognitive decline that came into full view during last week’s debate against Donald Trump.
The mass formation psychosis that led the entire institutional left to believe — or at least play act at believing — that Biden was in tip-top shape while fronting Obama’s third term will be analyzed for decades.
QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED:
This is a very good summary.
She has evaded all meaningful accountability because she and her supporters would scream “racist” at anyone who demanded it.
I think those days are at an end.
The record of her criminality is significant and compelling. https://t.co/7gZuoAz1Gw
— Shipwreckedcrew (@shipwreckedcrew) October 14, 2026
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ALEX BERENSON: A funny thing’s happening now that (almost) nobody gets mRNA jabs anymore. “Because so many Covid deaths occurred in people who were very old and sick and would likely have died in a year or two from their underlying illnesses, epidemiologists predicted as Covid began in 2020 that deaths would fall below normal when it ended. They called that potential future mortality lull the ‘pull-forward effect.'”
I HAD BEEN ASSURED CRYPTO MADE THIS KIND OF THING IMPOSSIBLE: Store-bought hardware crypto wallets had secret chips installed that enabled stealing crypto recovery phrases — $93 million and counting stolen thanks to implanted eSIM and LTE modules in Ledger wallets.
HE’S BEEN BUSY:
BREAKING: Lamar Cook, former aide to Democrat MA Gov. Maura Healey, has been arrested AGAIN on charges of SNAP and wire fraud after he allegedly "mistakenly" received over $30,000 in vacation pay and falsified his income to receive SNAP benefits.
Cook is already facing charges… pic.twitter.com/Xw2xFtjeCo
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) October 14, 2026
CHEATER: Runner Switches to Girls’ Track Midseason — School Says the Real Problem Is the Parent Who Noticed. “On September 5, the cross-country athlete finished 76th in a boys’ JV cross-country race, but on September 29, he magically finished first in a varsity girls’ meet against Union High. This could be the moment that this whole drama officially jumped the shark, because it’s almost impossible to argue that ‘changing genders’ right smack in the middle of the season is normal or reasonable.”
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ABE GREENWALD: The Joke’s on Everyone.
The left knows only how to take offense, and Shane Gillis doesn’t owe anyone an apology. But it’s hard to say that a joke is “just a joke,” if it’s also something else: a deliberate taunt. This kind of dual-use comedy is standard on the left—and it’s ruined many great talents. Why look to make the problem total? I don’t want to wind up with a comedy culture that forces me to choose between Bill Burrs and anti-Bill Burrs.
Anyway, what can the left possibly accomplish with its social media finger-wagging these days? We are post–cancel culture (except, of course, when it comes to Jews and Israel, which is its own category). A few years ago, Gillis’s joke and the reaction to it would have sidelined him for quite a while. In fact, that already happened to him. SNL fired Gillis in 2019 after discovering that he had previously made gay and ethnic jokes on his own podcast. His appearance on SNL last Saturday—the third time he’s hosted the show since then—demonstrates how thoroughly the culture has shifted since peak woke.
Donald Trump is back in the White House, and AOC is distancing herself from “woke 1” because she knows how most Americans feel about identity-driven leftism. A lot of conservatives don’t want to admit it, but the right came through Woke War I (mostly) triumphant. You don’t have to lob grenades from the stage. It’s safe just to do comedy again.
Okay, Gillis’ joke wasn’t a home run. But it was definitely a triple:
This Shane Gillis thing is huge for women because they all collectively get to be their favorite three things all at the same time
– the victim
– the hero
– sexy— Pub (@PubWanghaf) October 14, 2026
IT’S AMAZING HOW MANY PEOPLE DON’T REALIZE THIS IS SATIRE: “I know it was about me, because everything is.”
I was mid-hip thrust when I found out @Shanemgillis had called me a whore. Technically I found out four hours later, when I reviewed the footage of Saturday Night Live. My tripod was on the bench, my ring light was clamped to the squat rack and my boyfriend Tanner was holding the… pic.twitter.com/5pIZN9HKdn
— The Spectator 🇺🇸 (@TheSpectator) October 14, 2026
Related:
"a weird kind of prudishness where the prude isn't offended at the activity but at the noticing of the activity."
Perfectly put.— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) October 13, 2026
Jenna Bush is a weird spokesperson for propriety.
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: America’s Expanding Gun Culture: Cue the Lamentations of the Journalists.
AFTER ALL, THEY DID NAME IT PERSEVERANCE: NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover breaks interplanetary driving record — and it’s far from done.
In a milestone achievement, NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has broken the record for most miles driven on a world beyond Earth.
On Oct. 11, Perseverance hit 28.10 miles (45.22 kilometers) traveled on Mars, breaking the record previously held by NASA’s Opportunity rover which went 28.06 miles (45.16 km). It took Oppy 14 years to cover all that ground; Perseverance, by contrast, has been on Mars for just 5.5 years.
The new record is far from the end of Perseverance’s journey, however; the mission team thinks the rover could eventually more than double the distance it’s already traveled.
“Our original design was only planned to last for [about] 20 kilometers of driving,” Mark Maimone, a rover driver at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California, told Space.com.
Impressive.
