THE ULTIMATE PROJECTION:
People in NYC used to say that Trump was "a poor person's idea of a rich person"–which was supposed to be a dunk and actually described his political appeal. Dems trying to tap that same populist energy instead selected a rich person's idea of a poor person. https://t.co/ihlW9oAiyh
— Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) July 8, 2026
EVERGREEN HEADLINES: Democrats: Addicted To Scumbags.
UPDATE:
One of the defining qualities of post-2010 elite media, culture, and academia is a crippling incapacity for basic social and psychological recognition.
Part of the reason for this is that elites come from a narrow, oversocialized milieu. Another big reason is that elite culture… https://t.co/Dae14iwPMr
— Coddled Affluent Professional (@feelsdesperate) July 8, 2026
“Another big reason is that elite culture (novels, films, etc) used to be brutally and unsparingly honest in its psychological depictions, and you could learn a lot from that and recognize all sorts of personalities you would encounter in real life. Post-2010 the purpose of culture has been to propagandize, lie, confuse, and dissemble on behalf of all sorts of inconvenient truths and now as a result elites tasked with sense making are poorly ‘educated’ to an unprecedented degree and don’t stand a chance in engineering the outcomes that they desire.”
KEEPING HIS CITY AFLOAT… FOR NOW: Mamdani Crows About Socialism’s ‘Success,’ but It’s Capitalism That’s Keeping His City Afloat.
RESHORING: Apple to invest $30 billion in US chip manufacturing. “The investment, in partnership with Broadcom, is set to produce 15 billion chips, creating hundreds of U.S. jobs. Broadcom’s facility in Fort Collins, Colorado, is expanding its capabilities to produce the chips.”
AI IS FREE SPEECH’S NEXT FRONTIER, OF COURSE POLITICIANS ARE REACHING FOR THE LEASH. Tyler Tone lays out why FIRE is fighting AI laws that could turn a tool for knowledge into a tool for political control.
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NICE TO HAVE YOU ON BOARD, MR. PRESIDENT:
In which Trump finalizes the point before the whole world, which didn't believe it a month ago yet: the IRGC is too reckless and lunatic to be dealt with reasonably. Upper hand fully regained. https://t.co/IutxLiETTs
— James Lindsay, anti-Communist (@ConceptualJames) July 8, 2026
AN EXCELLENT QUESTION: Why is Gun Rights the Only Civil Right With a Federal Bureaucracy Purpose-Built to Regulate Its Exercise?
And a good reason to abolish the ATF.
THE NEEDS OF THE PARTY ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE, COMRADE: Democrats Already Vetted Graham Platner, Why Bail On Him Now?
He was vetted. People knew all these things and a whole bunch of Democrats in Maine showed up and voted for him anyway. And a bunch of from around the country sent him money anyway. I agree with Alyssa’s question. What changed? Why are you bailing on Graham Platner now? You already signed off on Nazi tattoo, a self-described communist somebody who’s had rape fantasies, somebody who has been on a social media platform known as a playground for predators, and on, and on, and on, and on and on.
And the difference between this accuser and the previous one is simply this, she’s a liberal. It’s okay, I guess, for Democrats that their candidates assault conservatives. But he broke into someone’s house. And apparently, according to her, raped her. And because her politics are correct, they can now believe it.
But they still can’t force him off the ticket if he doesn’t want to go — and the clock is ticking.
YES IT DOES:
The system takes care of its own https://t.co/txBX4cPfL7
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) July 8, 2026
On the flip side, Rob Province added this: “She lost her law license. Cant ever be a judge again. Has a felony. I’ll take it.”
Not everything you might have wanted, but more than you might have expected.
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THEY ALWAYS HAVE BIG PLANS; THEY’RE JUST MORE OPEN ABOUT THEM NOW: Democratic socialists have big plans for 2028.
NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU DESPISE THE MEDIA…:
Worth noting that conservative outlets like the Free Beacon exposed his sham blue collar image long ago. Those facts were largely ignored by legacy media. Now that’s changed. A cynic might say it’s because he’s now seen as a threat to their partisan tribe’s power quest. https://t.co/7h7Xf48mhI
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) July 8, 2026
Well, I guess that makes me a cynic.
RESISTANCE IS NOT FUTILE. YET. Are we being assimilated?
HMM: Could Creatine Boost More Than Muscles? It May Also Help Depression.
It’s found in red meat, and it’s hard to get depressed with a big steak in front of you. . . .
DO AMERICANS KNOW WHO WE ARE? Lots of survey results in recent days prompted by the 250th July 4 celebration and, based on typical media reporting, it’s easy to conclude Americans, especially those in younger age brackets, have lost faith in the nation’s founding principles. Well, I say hold on there because that’s not the whole story. Check it out on The Washington Stand.
“RIGHT NOW,” MEGAN, REALLY? PROGRESSIVISM FROM THE START WAS A TOP-DOWN IDEOLOGY OF EXPERTS TELLING THE MASSES WHAT TO DO:
Platner is a private school screwup, of a type familiar to people who went to private school. The fact that he was cast as a man of the people by elites, while the working class rejected him, seems kind of emblematic of the whole progressive project right now. https://t.co/7CygguIiNh
— Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) July 8, 2026
WE’D BETTER HOPE THERE’S NOT ANOTHER PANDEMIC ANY TIME SOON: The Terrifying New AI Map Exposing the True Roots of the Next Pandemic. The public health establishment demonstrated itself to be incompetent and untrustworthy. Hardly anyone will listen next time.
HEY, BIG SPENDER: Amazon Floats $25 Billion Debt Sale to Fund AI.
Amazon is preparing to borrow $25 billion or more in the U.S. bond market, adding to a wave of jumbo debt financing as the world’s largest technology companies race to build artificial intelligence infrastructure, Bloomberg reports.
The e-commerce and cloud computing giant has already raised more than $82 billion in investment-grade bonds across several currencies since the start of 2025.
The deal would lift Big Tech’s global AI-related debt issuance to about $335 billion in 2026, more than double the amount issued in 2025, according to Bloomberg data.
Amazon is expected to invest nearly $200 billion this year, largely to expand data centers and computing capacity for its AI operations and Amazon Web Services customers.
Amazon last tapped the U.S. dollar debt markets in March, when it raised $37 billion. That was the fourth-largest U.S. corporate bond sale on record.
There are some very smart people arguing we aren’t necessarily in a bubble, but that’s an awful lot of spending and debt in pursuit of profits that have yet to materialize.
If they do come, great. But even then, expect a vicious shakeout along the way.
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