ELON HAS HIGH-LEVEL ACCESS TO PALANTIR AND, I SUSPECT, AN EXTRA-STRENGTH VERSION OF GROK.

WEIRD, EH?

GOODER AND HARDER, FUN CITY:

Tweet continues, “She gave Chad a dirtier look than the guy who literally spit on her. Everyone just walked away. NYC is a sitcom.”

As Mamdani works tirelessly to return New York City to its Death Wish/Taking of Pelham One Two Three Bad Old Days, i.e., Detroit by the Hudson, it’s worth remembering what Jay Nordlinger once wrote about the Motor City’s own death wish. “If people are voting a certain way — maybe it’s because they want to. Maybe they know full well what they’re doing. Sometimes you have to take no — such as ‘no to Republicanism’ — for an answer.”

SCHLICHTER: Dem Hack Drops the Mask and Lets Her Fascism Freak Flag Fly.

The sour, bitter face of our enemy is the face of the chubby girl who always tried to get between you and her hot roommate — except instead of a double-bagger trying to block your shot, she’s now a Democrat trying to condemn you to serfdom. It’s the same face you see worn by malignant amphibians like Elissa Slotkin (D-CIA), a particularly loathsome creature who trumpets her time at the Central Intelligence Agency to establish her phony USA! USA! bona fides. This comes at the same time she supports a Jew-hating communist to be her co-senator who is, at minimum, a slobbering affiliate of the Muslim Brotherhood. Whether her flex is calculated or stupid is a puzzlement; does she think she’s exploiting him instead of being exploited herself? It is useful to remember how the Iranian mullahs took power and then immediately shot all their erstwhile leftist allies. Regardless, they deserve each other; we don’t deserve either.

When fascism comes to America, it will come from the left, because the left is where fascism comes from. It will come in the form of a Democrat, a Democrat who pretends to be patriotic and points to her résumé as if it’s proof. And it will be dressed like an HR director at a mid-tier company in a second-tier town.

Read the whole thing, I probably don’t have to say.

RASMUSSEN IS USALLY PRETTY SOLID, TOO:

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Fraud Sure Is Easy to Find When It’s Being Looked For. “The Dems wouldn’t look at SNAP for anything untoward because of reasons and feelings and stuff. The intent of the program is all that matters to them. Never mind the unconscionable fact that this hiccup came at the expense of those the lefties claim to care about.:

THE ANACONDA STRATEGY CONTINUES TO SQUEEZE: Iran’s Fleet of Shadow Tankers Has Run Out of Oil After Monthslong U.S. Blockade: Tehran had millions of barrels of crude in tankers in Asian waters that gave it a steady flow of cash. Now, that oil has dried up.

For most of the war, Iran had an invaluable cushion: dozens of oil tankers holding millions of barrels of crude sitting safely in waters in Asia. Tehran steadily sold the oil to China, bringing in billions of much-needed cash.

Now, that floating storage is gone. By mid-October, the reserves were fully depleted, according to analysts at Kpler, as a U.S. naval blockade prevented Iran from replacing the crude it normally sells to Chinese refineries.

“There’s no more oil to discharge to China anymore,” said Homayoun Falakshahi, head of crude-oil analysis at Kpler.

The drop in oil revenue is a further blow to Iran’s struggling economy, already facing runaway inflation and widespread shortages. U.S. Central Command, which is responsible for the Middle East, said Saturday that the blockade has denied Tehran at least $25 billion worth of oil revenue, which will, in turn, constrict Iran’s ability to replace destroyed factories and weapons.

U.S. actions have “imposed devastating costs on Iran’s security apparatus,” said Adm. Brad Cooper, head of U.S. Central Command.

Even as the U.S. pressure has choked off Iranian exports, oil from elsewhere in the Middle East is flowing, recently exceeding prewar levels, as U.S. protection helps secure the passage of non-Iranian oil through the Strait of Hormuz.

The plan is working, though you wouldn’t know it from most press coverage.

EVERY TIME WITHOUT FAIL: There’s Nothing Like a Tragedy to Expose Anti-Gunners and Politicians for the Ghouls They Are. “One of the very first public statements to be released by an elected official came from U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), who’s been in the Senate in Washington, D.C., since 1996. Sen. Wyden wasted no time to post a statement on social media calling for more gun control laws and disgustingly laying the blame at Republican lawmakers’ feet.”

THE RETALIATOR STRATEGY:

DISPATCHES FROM THE PERMANENT BIPARTISAN FUSION PARTY:

It’s the past quarter century in a nutshell: The man who Democrats condemned as Hitler from 2001 to 2008 until begging for his endorsement in the last days of the 2024 presidential race is endorsing the leftist who compared himself favorably to Abraham Lincoln, despite his party’s efforts to memory hole the 16th president during the 2020 color revolution: Texas Dem Who Fled State in Private Jet Compares Himself to Lincoln.

NOVEMBER PREVIEW: Nobody knows nothin’.

THAT’S NOT FUNNY: The Democratic Scolds of America.

Most of [Larry] David’s volleys succeed on the “it’s funny because it’s true” principle. How far is the distance, really, between his declaration that “anyone will be able to enter our country if they choose to do so” and the DSA official platform’s call to abolish ICE, end deportations, “legalize migration” and provide “amnesty for all immigrants regardless of status”? Or between Mr. David’s proposal to “close the jails and release all prisoners” and the platform’s taking “steps toward fully abolishing the police”?

But here I am, trying to judge Mr. David’s jokes on their own merits. Nowadays it’s much easier to object that he made them at all.

The DSA scolds surely got a kick out of Mr. David’s mockery of fellow comedian Bill Maher for having dinner with President Trump in 2025. Mr. David’s angle then was to imagine dining with Adolf Hitler, only to find himself unexpectedly charmed. Hitler is the comic’s perennial muse, as occasional David collaborator Mel Brooks knows well. Mr. Brooks has called the Holocaust “the great outrage of the 20th century.” So why make its perpetrators funny? In his view, “you can bring down totalitarian governments faster by using ridicule than you can with invective.”

If even Nazis can be funny, then surely the DSA can lighten up once in a while.

Historically, totalitarians rarely have much of a sense of humor — in part because of how absurd their worldview looks when you’re outside the cult. Why should this latest group who wish to nationalize socialism be any different?

YES: Elissa Slotkin Was Speaking for the Entire Democrat Party.

Slotkin responded to the inevitable backlash by doubling down on X and making clear exactly what she has in mind.

“America must be a place where the rule of law still matters,” she wrote.

“Those laws should apply to everyone equally. If you have aided in the corrupt use of U.S. taxpayer dollars to benefit the President or his family, or you have violated the law in order to carry out guidance from the President, you should be held accountable. And given how rampant that corruption appears to the average American, people looking to work for his Administration should realize that while the Supreme Court has granted the President immunity, it has not done the same for those who do illegal things at his behest.”

You don’t have to twist Slotkin’s words. Taken at face value, her proposal would give carte blanche to investigate and prosecute pretty much anybody who has done pretty much anything for the Trump administration since January 20, 2025, so long as it’s deemed to be “corrupt”—and corruption, like beauty, is very much in the eye of the beholder.

“Give me the man and I will give you the case against him,” another infamous lefty once said.