THEY’RE AWFL, OF COURSE THEIR TAKE IS BIZARRE:  Latest White Female Liberal Trend on the Cornell 7 Story Is Bizarre.

Ladies, you don’t know s**t about the case, just like you didn’t know anything about Clancy. Also, discussing a brutal, violent crime among those who play and make clay snakes is weird. Kids can’t process this; they don’t know what it is, and they’re repeating what you say. We’ve all been kids before, you idiot women.

DO THEY NOW? THAT’S INTERESTING! WHAT RESEARCH WERE THEY DOING WITH YERSINIA PESTIS?  Russia Walks Back Plague Claims After Siberian Lab Employee’s Death.

Honestly, sometimes I think we’re lucky our adversaries are so scientifically incompetent. If they haven’t yet managed to propagate a deadly virus within our borders, it’s lack of competence, not lack of malice.

OVER THE FIVE PLUS DECADES I’VE BEEN CONSCIOUS OF POLITICS, I’VE COME TO BELIEVE THE PRIME CHARACTERISTIC NEEDED TO BE A LEFTIST IS TO HAVE YOUR SENSE OF HUMOR ABLATED AT BIRTH:  Humour and the British Green Party.

THE RUDENESS AND CRUDENESS THAT PEOPLE SEE IN TRUMP IS JUST THE RETURN OF THE REPRESSED:  If you make things unspeakable, you give massive power to those willing to vocalize them.  When The Frogs Come Up.

THINGS CAN GET MASSIVELY WORSE:  Don’t Make This a ‘Mid’ Midterm. In the interest of not losing these upcoming midterms, let’s review some key issues that should decide the matter and dispense with the current loser talk.

It’s almost unbelievable how much worse they were just three years ago, from my personal POV. But rightly or wrongly I feel like we need eight years of victories (at least) and a complete restructuring of the Democrats just so some of us mouthy people don’t end up with bullets in the back of the skull.

HAHA, WINNER INDEED.

UPDATE (From Ed):

WELL, IT’S THE ATLANTIC:

JUST DO IT: President Trump Approves Execution of Fort Hood Mass Murderer Nidal Hassan. “Hasan — who laughably acted as his own attorney — was tried and found guilty in 2013 and sentenced to death. Now, finally, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has requested permission and President Trump has approved the execution of the useless oxygen thief who’s been needlessly living at taxpayer expense for the last 17 years.”

UPDATE (From Ed):

OPEN THREAD: Tuesday’s groovy.

REPORTS ABOUT TAKING OUT LOS ANGELES AND SAN DIEGO ARE GREATLY EXAGGERATED.

It’s four weeks until Election Day and Donald Trump is doing his utmost to dig Republicans out of their polling hole. In theory, anyway. Trump has been rallying through red states – Alabama, Oklahoma, Texas – to try and secure existing Senate seats. But today’s Democratic pile-on concerns a throwaway comment he made last night in Nebraska. Mid-weave, of course.

The President said: “It’s a small price to pay for keeping the world safe, keeping our country safe. They could take out a city… ‘let ’em, let ’em take Los Angeles, let ’em take out San Diego, that’s…’ this is a very small price to pay… and it’s gonna be over with very soon, it’s essentially almost over with.”

Now anybody who has followed Donald Trump, even passingly, in the last ten years, should be able to discern what he was getting at here.

He was acknowledging the cost of the Iran war, and attempting to justify his decision to start the now seven-month-long conflict.

The clips now going viral on X paraphrase Trump differently. “Trump on Iran: Let ’em take out Los Angeles and San Diego, it’s a small price to pay,” reads the caption of a tweet from “Headquarters,” an account that was previously “@KamalaHQ,” run by the Harris campaign’s rapid response team. The ensuing reaction from the media, and Trump’s opponents, is just as disingenuous. “Trump suggests letting Iran ‘take out’ Los Angeles and San Diego at campaign rally,” reads the Los Angeles Times headline. “After sending the National Guard and Marines to occupy California, Donald Trump is now saying our foreign enemies should ‘take out’ Los Angeles and San Diego,” tweeted Governor Gavin Newsom last night. “He is deranged and dangerous.”

Wait, isn’t Karen Bass doing a good enough job of nuking LA already, without bringing in the Iranians?

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: ‘Cornell 7’ frat boy leaves America for ‘Beverly Hills of Dubai,’ neighbor claims… as details of his international life of privilege and shock phone call with alleged gang-rape victim emerge.

One of the ‘Cornell 7‘ fraternity brothers hit with explosive sexual assault allegations stemming from an alleged gang rape at the Ivy League school is believed to have retreated to Dubai, the Daily Mail can exclusively reveal.

Umar Matthew Ingalls won a coveted place at Cornell University in 2023, but his promising future unraveled after a female former student accused him and six other men of sexually assaulting her during a fraternity party in October 2024.

Ingalls, 21, was later expelled from Cornell following an internal university investigation.

One of Ingalls’ neighbors told the Daily Mail they believe he has returned to the Middle East, where he enjoyed a privileged upbringing and attended an elite private school in Emirates Hills, the wealthy enclave often dubbed the ‘Beverly Hills of Dubai.’

Related: Kathy Hochul continues to put the band back together: