July 8, 2026
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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.
GRAHAM PLATNER: The Left’s Caricature of the American Everyman.
This is the basket-of-deplorables strategy in reverse. Progressives have long viewed Middle American men through a lens of condescension, seeing us as racist, sexist, gun-clinging, beer-drinking relics who need saving from their own vices. Rather than engage their real concerns about economic stagnation, cultural displacement or family breakdown, far Left operatives bet on manufacturing a proxy: a flawed but “relatable” everyman who mouths the right policy lines. Platner was elevated as the vessel with veteran credentials for patriotism points, manual labor for blue-collar credibility and veteran struggles with PTSD and alcohol repurposed as humanizing rather than disqualifying. The hope? That this caricature would lure disaffected working-class voters away from populists on the right, delivering Senate seats without conceding ground on core cultural issues.
Flashback:
Consider the possibility that the DNC saw Graham Platner’s Nazi affiliation to be a PLUS.
Maine is a swing state and Collins is practically a Democrat. They can’t run to the left of Collins, not really.
So maybe they want to run to the RIGHT of Collins, and since these…
— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) June 1, 2026
SUICIDAL EMPATHY, INDEED:
Despite living in Ireland for 20 years, Parnell stabber Riad Bouchaker still had such bad English that he needed an Arabic interpreter in court. He also uttered anti-Irish slurs and said Ireland was "shit". Despite this, he was given citizenship.
Asked by @Ben_Scallan whether… pic.twitter.com/9YLgAzcFy0
— gript (@griptmedia) July 8, 2026
More:
Asked by @Ben_Scallan whether there should be culture and language requirements to gain citizenship, Social Protection Minister Dara Calleary rejected the idea, saying “Don’t isolate one case, Ben – don’t do that”, arguing that “citizenship is a much broader thing than just language” and that “contribution to the economy” mattered as well.
I wasn’t aware that stabbings contributed to the economy. Good to know.
SCIENCE, UNSETTLED: 13,000-year-old bones found near SoCal coast could rewrite human history. “Evidence found on the Channel Islands suggests humans could have arrived via boat instead of crossing an inland ice corridor. If true, it would overturn the conventional thinking that Americans crossed a land bridge from modern-day Siberia and traveled south.”
QUESTION ASKED:
Remind me again, which one died? https://t.co/6hZTvYhTwR pic.twitter.com/VWe6royw91
— Lauren Chen (@TheLaurenChen) July 8, 2026
Perhaps the woman in the left hand photo felt safe because the Reuters photographer was there as well to compose the image.
BELMONT CLUB: The Utility of Civilization. “By and large, the world needs the skills of the developed world. The vaccine example illustrates that, in the grand scheme of things, the West, despite the hatred directed at it by progressives, is the workshop of the global south. It invents medicine, cell phones, computers, airplanes, high-yielding crops, transportation, long shelf-life food, etc., that even the pirates use, and without which the lives of people in the Third World could not be lengthened to historically unheard-of heights. Life expectancy at birth in Africa has risen to approximately 64.2 years, marking an increase of almost two decades since the 1970s. Lifespan on the continent has improved dramatically from historic lows of 26 to 37 years in the mid-20th century, driven largely by successful public health measures. Absent these underpinnings, the stage collapses.”
WHAT PUBLIC POLICY SCHOOL SHOULD TEACH. As the article points out, maybe the Trump Administration would be a little less, er, exciting if right-leaning students didn’t have every reason to avoid public policy schools. Heck, I knew to avoid them back in the year 2000. I can only imagine what 20+ more years of that trend has wrought.
I SURE HOPE SO: Why Heavy Lifting Is the Best Anti-Aging Medicine You Can Use.
THOSE AIRFRAMES ARE OLDER THAN I AM: Poor B-52 Readiness Creating Testing Challenges For New AGM-181A Nuclear Cruise Missile.
SCHRÖDINGER’S SENATOR: Republican leaders say they talked to Mitch McConnell on Tuesday but no one believes them and now the memes have begun.
Related: Some Ouija boards are more powerful than others:
I spoke with Gerald Ford for about 20 minutes this morning. I thanked him for inventing the car and being our greatest living president.
— Three Year Letterman (@3YearLetterman) July 8, 2026
ISLAMIFICATION:
Austria's ruling party just published a 29-page strategy document on the Muslim Brotherhood.
It names exactly where the infiltration is happening.
Political parties. State-sponsored NGOs. Schools. Childcare facilities. Associations. Umbrella organisations. Educational…
— Ihsan Horani (@neutralground90) July 8, 2026
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Political parties. State-sponsored NGOs. Schools. Childcare facilities. Associations. Umbrella organisations. Educational institutions. Not mosques. Political structures.
The document is precise about the method:
“Islamization from below.” Train individuals ideologically. Insert them into civic life. Let them work their way into the institutions that shape how a society thinks and governs itself.
Austria’s parliament has simultaneously submitted a formal question asking whether intelligence chiefs were ordered by ministers to suppress surveillance results on political Islam.
Read that again. MPs are asking whether the government was told to look away.
Austria is further ahead than any other European country in naming this. It has banned Brotherhood symbols, closed radical mosques, expelled imams and now published a comprehensive counter-strategy naming specific institutional targets.
The EU designation question has been sitting unanswered since January.
Brussels knows what’s coming yet refuses to act.
KEVIN DOWNEY JR: Release the Clowns! Desperate Dems Send in the Odd Squad, Hilarity Ensues. “It appears that, just when you think you’ve seen the grand finale of progressive flunkies, the Democrats throw us an unsettling encore.”
CEASEFIRE UPDATE: US revokes Iran oil waiver after Hormuz attacks.
YEP, THAT ABOUT SUMS IT UP:
The state of white men in the Democrat party:
Guy who dresses like a hobo recovering from a stroke tells a pretend socialist with multiple homes to stop promoting a rapey guy with a Nazi tattoo. https://t.co/cjKUYwqQak
— FischerKing (@FischerKing64) July 8, 2026
I’M HAVING WAY TOO MUCH FUN WITH THIS: Platner Down but Not Out. “Every second Platner clings to his nomination like Hitler in his bunker is another second his replacement won’t have to run against Collins, and he knows it.”
