February 9, 2026

JOHN HAWKINS: So Much of Liberalism Really is Them Pretending Not to Understand Things.

So, this has been floating around on X, and it has gotten a lot of traction because it’s so true:

Talking to liberals about political issues is nearly impossible, not just because they think disagreeing with them makes you de facto evil, but because they’re constantly feigning stupidity about so many things. Don’t get me wrong; liberals often truly believe completely ridiculous things, but they also frequently pretend not to understand the most basic concepts.

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How bad is it? Well, Matt Walsh rather famously made AN ENTIRE MOVIE about the inability of liberals to define a woman, something pretty much everyone from cavemen on has been able to handle without a lot of trouble:

Try explaining your problem with the idea of manmade global warming, socialism, or the dangers of refusing to secure the border, and they just don’t get it. Somehow, they claim that they can’t understand what you mean.

How do you have a dialogue with people who behave like this? You don’t, which is exactly how they like it.

Read the whole thing.

Posted at 12:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

KURT SCHLICHTER: Men Are Going to Strike Back:

It’s no surprise to anybody who is paying attention that the complex system that governed the relationship of men and women throughout the ages has been disrupted in the last 50 years. Two Helens have recently made a splash talking about this. Helen Andrews gave a powerful speech at last year’s Nat Con that got a lot of attention about the feminization of culture. More recently, Helen Smith, a.k.a. Mrs. @Instapundit, just published her important new book His Side, which commits the revolutionary act of asking men what they think about the current war on the unfair sex. We people with penises are not supposed to talk about any of this stuff. We’re not supposed to talk about how society has changed, for the worse, by the domination of feminine values over our institutions, institutions that were built to greatness through masculine values.

Posted at 12:17 pm by Helen Smith

ICYMI:

Posted at 12:08 pm by Glenn Reynolds

NO BUENO! Elmo Has Some ‘Splainin’ to Do After Creepy Reaction to Bad Bunny’s Very Adult Super Bowl Set.

There’s a reason he calls himself Bad Bunny.

Guess the NFL thought if Bunny sang in Spanish, it wouldn’t be a big deal if what he was singing was foul. What is odd, though, is seeing a Sesame Street character cheering the adult show. This proves that either Elmo doesn’t speak Spanish, or he has some serious explaining to do.

Even if Bunny didn’t sing adult songs, this is just a creepy reaction for a woke moron writing for a formerly beloved character.

We are seeing plenty of posts with Bad Bunny’s lyrics in English, but we don’t want Google coming after us (cough cough) so we’ll just include a post where you can go look for yourselves. Note, the lyrics are bad … really bad. And if he sang in English, he wouldn’t have been allowed to sing the songs he sang.

Ok, we’ll include a little since we can edit them this way; this is from “Safaera” which was on his set list last night:

Hell, what safaera
You have a f**king amazing a*s
Anything that gets you breaking the highway
Move it, move it, move it, move it

We promise, it doesn’t get better, EL OH EL.

And then there was the conclusion to his set:

To be fair though, he really had the entire stadium rocking out to his banging tunage:

Translated from Spanish: “Telemundo said they had lit up the entire stadium. Reality: 2 people dancing in a 75,000-person stadium 🤣😂”

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Posted at 12:00 pm by Ed Driscoll

#JOURNALISM:

Posted at 11:55 am by Glenn Reynolds

ANN ALTHOUSE ON HOW “THE CURRENT THING’ APPEARS:

Once you’ve said “2015,” you’ve got your answer staring you in the face! Why don’t you see it? That was the year gay people won their great victory, a right to marry, in Obergefell v. Hodges. McArdle has “an orthodoxy… crystalliz[ing]” — as if a mysterious disembodied force emerged out of nothing — ex nihilo!

But real human beings were involved and their incentive to acquire a new cause is obvious. The activists had won, but they still needed to work, they still needed contributions, they still needed to push conventional people to move forward into challenging new territory. They couldn’t just allow people to become decently accepting and empathetic to the gay people who, after all, are human beings who sometimes love each other and want a home and a family. Remember that moment?

That made too much sense. Ordinary people relaxed. Got comfortable.

The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution. And the grift, to the extent that those two are distinguishable.

Posted at 11:52 am by Glenn Reynolds

CAN’T STOP THE SIGNAL: California Sues The Gatalog, CTRLPew for Distribution of Code for 3D Printing Guns. “Frustrated by the spread of 3D technology and their inability to nationalize their increasingly oppressive gun control laws beyond a few like-minded blue states, politicians in California have looked for ways to spread their tentacles into free America. They took a big step toward doing exactly that on Friday when Attorney General Rob Bonta and San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu filed suit against two popular repositories of 3D printing files, The Gatalog and CTRLPew.”

Posted at 11:40 am by Stephen Green

THE EV BUBBLE CONTINUES TO… GOOD LORD, THAT’S A TOTAL IMPLOSION: Jeep maker Stellantis announces a ‘reset’ of its business and massive charges. Shares crumble.

The company said Friday that it would take charges of more than $26 billion, the bulk of which includes write-offs and cash payments for canceled EV products and costs of resizing its EV supply chain.

The announcement sent Stellantis (STLA) shares crashing. They fell as much as 30%.

The strategy revision follows similar — and expensive — actions from Ford and General Motors in recent weeks.

Many carmakers in the United States had invested heavily in EV plans in response to strict environmental regulations put in place by the Biden administration. They also expected some states to follow California and ban sales of gasoline-powered vehicles within a decade.

But the Trump administration has rolled back those emissions rules along with financial support for EVs. It is also challenging states’ authority to set their own tougher rules.

Commenting on the charges of €22.2 billion ($26.2 billion), Stellantis CEO Antonio Filosa said they “largely reflect the cost of over-estimating the pace of the energy transition.”

The company also said in a statement that the shift to EVs “needs to be governed by demand rather than command.”

You don’t say.

Posted at 10:38 am by Stephen Green

IT WOULD TAKE A HEART OF STONE NOT TO LAUGH: Vermont EV buses prove unreliable for transportation this winter.

Electric buses are proving unreliable this winter for Vermont’s Green Mountain Transit, as it needs to be over 41 degrees for the buses to charge, but due to a battery recall the buses are a fire hazard and can’t be charged in a garage.

Spokesman for energy workers advocacy group Power the Future Larry Behrens told the Center Square: “Taxpayers were sold an $8 million ‘solution’ that can’t operate in cold weather when the home for these buses is in New England.”

“We’re beyond the point where this looks like incompetence and starts to smell like fraud,” Behrens said.

“When government rushes money out the door to satisfy green mandates, basic questions about performance, safety, and value for taxpayers are always pushed aside,” Behrens said. “Americans deserve to know who approved this purchase and why the red flags were ignored.”

General manager at Green Mountain Transit (GMT) Clayton Clark told The Center Square that “the federal government provides public transit agencies with new buses through a competitive grant application process, and success is not a given.”

Why should a local transit manager care about success when there’s government money to be had?

Posted at 9:36 am by Stephen Green

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Dems’ Election Fraud Fetish Will Be What Ends America. “Because a collectivist brain rot affects the Democratic hive mind, they want everyone to partake in that misery. While I am having a good time here on the Trump 47 MAGA train, I am ever aware that we’re just one presidential election loss away from the Republic being brought to the cliff edge of oblivion. Look at how much damage the desiccated husk of Joe Biden and his commie puppet masters were able to do in just four short years. If the Dems get another two term president any time soon, we’ll all be speaking Mandarin and forced to watch those crappy movies that Barack Obama makes for Netflix.”

Posted at 9:05 am by Stephen Green

#JOURNALISM:

Posted at 8:38 am by Glenn Reynolds

I MEAN, COME ON, HE’S NO DADDY YANKEE:

Posted at 8:38 am by Glenn Reynolds

DO NOT TRUST CONTENT FROM THE CIA:

Or The Guardian.

Posted at 8:35 am by Glenn Reynolds

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: ‘We’re Not Criminalizing the Unhoused’: How a Homeless Encampment and Drug Dealers Are Destroying a Local Condominium Complex and Turning Its Residents’ Lives Upside Down.

From Prince George’s County, “which has the highest Democratic vote-share of any county in the United States, at 86 percent.”

“The dilapidation of this community was caused directly by the county,” said Phil Dawit, Quasar’s managing director. “The reason it’s so bad now is that everyone let it fester.”

This report is based on emails from county officials, interviews with residents of the Marylander, invoice records and maintenance logs, and dozens of hours of video footage, much of it from the body cameras that Quasar executives wore when they visited the condo.

It reveals a Kafkaesque battle between law-abiding citizens and the left-wing bureaucrats who abandoned them, as officials in a deep blue county vowed to be “compassionate” and avoid “criminalizing the unhoused.”

The costs of that compassion fell predominantly on poor, non-white condo-owners who saw the value of their homes evaporate as vandalism from the encampment pushed the complex into disrepair. That in turn made banks unwilling to finance security upgrades—without which the condo was more susceptible to crime—and caused inspectors to deem many units “unfit for human habitation” after the heating system was vandalized.

The county is now taking the condo to court to enforce an evacuation order against those units. If a judge rules in the county’s favor on Thursday, the residents who for years were terrorized by a homeless encampment will become homeless themselves.

“The people working hard and following laws are on their way to being homeless,” Dawit said. “Meanwhile, the homeless encampment gets to do whatever it wants.”

Read the whole thing.

Posted at 8:34 am by Stephen Green