June 22, 2026

TRUMP: Make Washington Beautiful Again.

Lefties:

Posted at 4:34 pm by Stephen Green

ICYMI: Meet the New Commie, Worse Than the Old Commie. “The U.K.’s most destructively feckless prime minister (since the last one) is history, but Keir Starmer’s likely successor could prove Britain’s final undoing — if the radical Liberian-born advisor who serves as Andy Burnham’s ‘brains’ gets her way.”

Posted at 4:19 pm by Stephen Green

CALIFORNIA DYING:

How Skid Row got to this point has been a long time in the making, with many guilty parties. In the 1970s, an unholy alliance of trade unions, business, activists and nearby nimby’s agreed on a ‘containment’ plan, that focused all homelessness, medical drug support and NGO activity to the area, with vagrants heavily discouraged from leaving that area.

At around the same time, then-Governor of California, Ronald Reagan, signed a bipartisan state bill that did for mental illness institutionalisation what that other notable leftie, Enoch Powell, did in Britain in the 1960s. It was scaled it back enormously and the area flooded with the former inmates of asylums.

Reagan was likely influenced by his alcoholic father and the belief that they should have been treated as patients, not prisoners. Cost cutting, too, played a part. Regardless, having so many unwell people “unhoused”, in the new nomenclature, went as badly as one can imagine with the benefit of hindsight — despite the fair weather.

Waves of further damaging factors followed. Crack, as cheap as it was addictive exploded in popularity in the 1980s. In the mid-noughties, hospitals were caught discharging patients onto the streets of Skid Row itself. And all the while, actual rooms to house these people in the area decreased.

Most recently, fentanyl has supercharged the drug problem and led to huge fatalities, often by contaminating other drugs and pulling more people into the hell now visible to the world through shocking videos on X. Having now seen the real thing, I can tell you that the footage of these fentanyl zombies doesn’t come close to capturing the awfulness it causes in people already near rock bottom.

Recent efforts by the Democrat super-majority in the city have been built around principles of housing first and harm reduction. It would be another cliché to tell you that I saw a blue haired woman, pride lanyard around her neck, an NGO worker looking over her total and utter policy victory. It reminded me of the line Tacitus gave to Calgacus attacking Rome: “They make a wasteland and they call it peace”. No one can say that this experiment has not been given a long trial time.

Just this weekend, a drug addict died on a Skid Row livestream. By some claims, that fatality will be one of 6 a day. The obvious truth is that these people need to be incarcerated in custom facilities that provide long-term rehabilitation and cold turkey programmes. And that crucially removes them from the mainstream population.

Exit quote:

Tweet concludes, “He went to report it, but was told it looked like it done by homeless, and the city doesn’t report petty thefts by homeless. (Crime is down!) Hope the Bass/Raman voters enjoy their free beer.”

Posted at 4:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG:

Posted at 4:03 pm by Stephen Green

IF THERE’S JUST ONE THING THE NAZIS AND THE COMMIES AGREE ON, IT’S THIS: Graham Platner Endorsed Comment From ‘RevolutionaryCommie’ Calling America a ‘Disgraceful Country’: ‘I’m an American, and I Can’t Disagree.’

The remark from “RevolutionaryCommie” came in response to an original post highlighting President Donald Trump’s famous American flag tweet sent after the January 2020 strike killed Soleimani, then the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ elite Quds Force, who was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Americans during the Iraq war. The self-described communist Redditor took issue with the “responses to the tweet: the racism, the cheering death, the calling for more killings, the mocking of the dead,” calling it “the most ghoulish and disgusting thing I’ve ever seen. They are a disgraceful country.” Platner, using the alias “P-Hustle,” responded with his endorsement.

“I’m an American, and I can’t disagree with you tonight,” he wrote.

The comment, which has not been previously reported, is the latest in a series of remarks from Platner denigrating the United States and its military veterans.

The mainstream media will demand Democrats disown Platner starting never.

Posted at 3:48 pm by Stephen Green

PRETTY MUCH LITERALLY TRUE, THOUGH IN FACT I THINK THE MUSLIMS HAVE BEEN LEADING HIM BY THE BALLS FOR A WHILE:

Posted at 3:33 pm by Glenn Reynolds

I CERTAINLY HOPE KURT IS CORRECT (GLENN, TOO):

Still, it’s odd that Vance is the public face of the MOU, while Rubio and Hegseth are largely MIA.

Posted at 3:32 pm by Stephen Green

CHRIS QUEEN: A Father’s Day Tribute for a Tar Heel Whose Dad Never Got to See Him in Carolina Blue. “I serve at church in various ways every Sunday, including Father’s Day. I don’t think I’ve had to lead worship since my dad passed away, but this Father’s Day, I did security, which I think my dad would be proud to see me do. But I can’t imagine carrying the weight of Father’s Day that Erik Paulsen, Jr., did on Sunday at the College World Series in Omaha, Neb., on Sunday.”

Posted at 3:17 pm by Stephen Green

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Never Mind Buc-ee’s, If This Message Spreads, the Entire World Cup Thing Will Have Been Worthwhile. “One of the things that’s become extremely apparent to me after spending a few days here with a group of Americans and other nationalities is how much of a fucking pussy English people are in general when it comes to arms, guns, and basically protecting their nation. We’ve been totally pacified in the UK and through removal of our arms, our right to bear arms, it’s caused a big problem for us.”

Posted at 2:46 pm by Stephen Green

RIP: Clive Davis dies at 94: Music executive titan responsible for careers of Whitney Houston and Bruce Springsteen passes away.

Clive Davis — who was responsible for the careers of many legendary musical acts including Whitney Houston, Bruce Springsteen, and Carlos Santana – has died at 94.

The longtime music executive and founder of Arista Records and J Records passed away at his home in New York City on Monday.

Just last month, he was hospitalized in his home state for a upper respiratory infection and was discharged days later.

Davis was a titan of the music industry as he also helped shape the careers of Aretha Franklin, Janis Joplin, Alicia Keys, Carrie Underwood, among many others.

Davis was president of CBS Records from 1967 to 1973, an era when the record label ran its infamous “But the Man Can’t Bust Our Music” ad in 1968:

The text read:

The Establishment’s against adventure. And the arousing experience that comes with listening to today’s music.

So what?

Let them slam doors. And keep it out of the concert halls. Nothing can stop great sound makers like Ives, Riley, Stockhausen, Varese or the Moog Synthesizer.

They’re ear stretching. And sometimes transfixing. And The Man can’t stop you from listening. Especially if you’re armed with these.

On Columbia and CBS Records

Considering how those at CBS News today have to pretend they’re still a bulwark against the establishment as they fight Bari Weiss’s efforts to produce content that’s remotely objective, surprisingly little has changed there in 60 years.

Posted at 2:35 pm by Ed Driscoll

MOSCOW’S AIR DEFENSES AREN’T WHAT THEY ONCE WERE:

Posted at 2:29 pm by Stephen Green

UPDATE NEWSPEAK DICTIONARIES ACCORDINGLY: Chicago Mayor Declares Citywide “Transfemicide State of Emergency:”

Posted at 2:22 pm by Ed Driscoll

SAY ANYTHING:

“The View” is actually part of ABC’s news division, if you wanted to know about their standards and practices.

Posted at 1:59 pm by Stephen Green

RADICAL CHIC AND MAU-MAUING THE FLAK TOWER:

UPDATE: Bill Maher shuts down Rep. Ro Khanna as he fawns over Mamdani: ‘He pals around with terrorists!’

Alas, he’s not the first Democrat to do so.

Posted at 1:35 pm by Ed Driscoll

GEORGE MF WASHINGTON: OK fine… Let’s Argue About The Odyssey.

Perhaps you’ve heard that director Christopher Nolan has a new movie coming out in July based on Homer’s manly epic “The Odyssey.” Until a few months ago there was nearly universal excitement over this prospect. The anticipation was riding so high that when advance tickets went on sale, a furious arbitrage market sprang up, one in which lucky ticket holders were selling the best seats on the best days for many multiples of face value.

But all that changed almost overnight after anonymous trolls looking to farm social media engagement scanned the cast list on IMDB and found Lupita Nyong’o and Elliot Page’s names listed there without any indication of which characters they were playing. These same trolls then decided (without evidence, as the liberal media might say) that Page and Nyong’o must be playing Achilles and Helen of Troy, for no other reason than those were among the only high-profile Homeric characters not spoken for on the cast list.

And so, just as Helen of Troy’s face once launched a thousand ships, this unsubstantiated casting rumor launched a million online hot takes, most beginning with a word which, here in the social media era, has come to symbolize pure unadulterated bullshit…

“BREAKING”

In the waves of outrage that followed, hardly anyone stopped to wonder if A) the rumors were true or B) whether or not it matters who might be cast in two minor roles which have almost no part to play in the story.

Within hours of the first “BREAKING” post, Nolan’s new movie found itself labeled “woke” by much of the online right and a long list of additional outrages, most of them every bit as unsubstantiated as those first rumors about Page and Nyong’o sprang up like weeds in an unsupervised lawn. Online critics even seized on one line from a 2025 interview Nolan gave in which he spoke positively about a controversial feminist translation of Homer’s epic, and decided this must mean Nolan based his entire film on that translation. Once again, as with the casting rumors, this conclusion was reached without any real supporting evidence.

I’m tentatively waiting for the reviews to roll in before deciding to go see the film; in the meantime, read the whole thing.

Posted at 1:22 pm by Ed Driscoll