HIRE SECURITY FOR YOUR SECURITY, ELON:

Related thoughts from Spencer Pratt: “Commies call you ‘dangerous’ so they can kill you. Every DSA candidate has a 2:1 fundraising advantage over their anti-communist opponent, because we have to spend half our funds on 24/7 campaign security & they don’t cuz communists are violent murderous animals and we aren’t.”

YOU HAD TO BE THERE TO UNDERSTAND:

UPDATE (From Ed):

“WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE TO LOSE AN INFORMATION WAR IN THE WEST:”

HEY, BIG SPENDER: Elon Musk’s America PAC Discloses First Wave Of Spending On Midterm Senate Races. “In July, the New York Times reported that Elon Musk has authorized America PAC to spend between $100 million and $120 million to back Republican candidates during the midterm cycle. The world’s richest man has donated more than $90.5 million for election spending for the midterms, giving primarily to his own super PAC.”

ASTROTURF ALL THE WAY DOWN:

THE BEST THING THE AMERICAN LEFT HAS GOING FOR IT…:

…is that the press has been largely successful in shielding the public from just how radical and dangerous the Left actually is.

Even so, people have a difficult time believing it when told: Republican activists say they have to water down the reality of their opponents’ agenda in focus groups. ‘They just don’t believe it’s true. It can’t be.’

A $600K BLOW TO MANDATORY ‘LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS’ ON CAMPUS. Congrats to University of Washington professor Stuart Reges and the FIRE litigation team who defended his right to parody the university-approved “land acknowledgement.” This is America. Public universities don’t get to write sacred texts and make you respect them.

FASCINATING:

Read the whole thing, but here’s the takeaway: “Palmer Luckey is the face of a new military-industrialist consensus which is seeking to hire American workers for American jobs, to build factories and weapons at home, to remilitarize and reindustrialize, to get away from asset inflation and FIRE (finance, insurance, real estate) as a sterile, parasitic rent-seeking economic system.”

ELECTING A RED-DIAPER BABY HAS CONSEQUENCES:

Of course, the electorate was also primed for a smooth-talking red-diaper baby, so maybe the cause and effect are all swirled together.

RYAN REYNOLDS JUST SLANDERED THE ’80S — PEOPLE HAVE OPINIONS:

The 80s was a brutal, brutal time for people,” he said for some reason. “It was a fu**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.”

Yo, bro. That’s people’s childhoods you’re talking about. It was a time of patriotism and hot dogs and Fourth of July fireworks. The only places where it was a “fu**ing mess” were communist hellholes like the Soviet Union, who ate it in the 1980 Olympics “Miracle on Ice,” and East Germany, where people were trying to escape the Stasi.

It’s unfortunate that modern liberals didn’t take the hint that you shouldn’t model your country on places millions of people try to flee — to the United States, by the way. When the Berlin Wall came down, we expected it to stay down — not for control freaks to put a Digital Curtain back up with Flock cameras.

Also, people really didn’t obsess about politics the way Woke Hollywood actors like yourself do today.

So, when you start attacking the 1980s as if you were given a script to revise American history, you’re really striking a nerve. And people weren’t bashful about letting Ryan Reynolds have it.

For obvious reasons:

Also, was it over when the Russians bombed Pearl Harbor?