OPEN THREAD: You know what to do.
October 1, 2026
PEOPLE KEEP SAYING ELON CAN’T DO THINGS, BUT THEIR TRACK RECORD IS POOR: AT&T CEO says Elon Musk’s SpaceX phone strategy not “viable.”
PEOPLE I KNOW IN THE BOOZE INDUSTRY ARE WORRIED ABOUT THIS: Ozempic-Like Drugs Could Have a Surprising Effect on Alcohol Cravings.
LIGHTNING DEAL: SimplyVital Face Moisturizer Retinol Collagen Hyaluronic Acid Cream 1.7 oz. #CommissionEarned
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Taking Vitamin C? This Is the Most Important Thing to Remember.
NO OTHER WAY OUT AT THIS POINT:
There will be war. My son is a firefighter. If that were happening to him, and the crowd sat around and watched, I would be their mortal enemy. https://t.co/MvB4tWJFiS
— Rod Dreher (@roddreher) October 1, 2026
And the screencap:
It’s already war.
HOW OBSESSED CAN THEY BE? How Ford’s ‘Obsession With Details’ Aims to Fix Years of Reliability Struggles.
DISPATCHES FROM AL-BRIṬĀNIYĀ: Problem: Labour Is Deeply Unpopular For Importing Unassimilated Muslims. Solution: Import More Unassimilated Muslims.
DISNEY’S DANA WALDEN ON JIMMY KIMMEL’S LATE NIGHT FUTURE: “It’s a Challenging Daypart.”
Speculation about Jimmy Kimmel Live!‘s future has swirled since an early September Page Six story claimed Kimmel’s contract wouldn’t be renewed. ABC quickly denied that was the case, but other reports said the network is looking for significant budget cuts to keep the show going.
“The truth is, it’s a very challenging daypart,” Walden said Thursday at the Bloomberg event. “That’s not to say that Jimmy is not doing a phenomenal job, and his ratings are up. But they’re up relative to a smaller audience that’s watching late night on broadcast television.”
Kimmel and the show also have a big presence on YouTube and social media platforms, but those views and clicks bring in a fraction of the revenue that on-air advertising does. “That is not a lucrative opportunity for a very premium talk show,” said Walden.
As Stephen Krusier asked in May: Now That Colbert Is Gone, Can We Start the Clock on Kimmel? “Kimmel will no doubt use Colbert’s absence as an excuse to become more execrable than ever. ABC can keep him afloat for a while. The network is still a for-profit business, though, and not a weeknightly charity for the Democratic National Committee. ABC execs will almost certainly take a cue from their counterparts at CBS. Kimmel’s petulant attitude won’t do him any favors, either.”
PLEASE, BARACK, WON’T YOU GIVE US THE OPPORTUNITY TO MISS YOU?
Toxic, bitter former President who spent eight years dividing this nation is wondering how the nation got so toxic, divided, and bitter. https://t.co/m90Gl1V9ba
— 𝓐𝓵𝓵𝓮𝓷 𝓡𝓪𝔂 (@2CynicAl65) October 1, 2026
JOHN NOLTE: Tom Cruise’s Global Warming Propaganda Digger About to Lose $100+ Million.
Here’s a movie designed in a Woke Lab to hit the sweet spot of critics…
- Evil white men.
- Evil businessmen.
- Oil bad.
- Global Warming/Climate Change is real (it’s not).
- All of this delivered by Hollywood’s biggest movie star.
…and what’s the result? A rotten 52 percent rating at Rotten Tomatoes. And as I have said a thousand times, if left-wing critics pan a left-wing movie, that movie must suck like nothing has ever sucked in the kingdom of Suckdom, because these critics always-always-always grade on a curve for leftist propaganda.
Hilariously, as if to say Please-please-please David Ellison, buy us out before we destroy ourselves, Warner Bros. dropped $160 to $180 million into this bloated, anti-science lecture, and that does not include promotion costs, which probably lift it into the $250 million range. That puts break-even at right about $500 million worldwide.
And now it’s about to open wide all across America and, per the professional estimates, humiliate itself and its star with an $8 million to $12 million opening. If these projections hold, a movie made for no Normal Person could lose more than $100 million.
Meanwhile, Christian Toto spots more leftist propaganda that’s likely to flop: Jan. 6 Themed Social Reckoning Expected to Bomb at Box Office.
World of Reel shares a pointed reaction to the film and its subject matter:
January 6th eventually comes up, the entire film builds toward it. The film’s arc leads naturally to the suggestion that January 6th was, in part, a product of Facebook itself.
Sorkin has literally said the same thing on the record regarding Facebook and Jan. 6.
The problem?
Who will actually see the movie? Box office projections have “The Social Reckoning” opening to a very soft $6-$10 million on its opening weekend. The competition won’t be stiff.
The only other major new release is “Other Mommy,” a horror film starring Jessica Chastain.
Audiences may not want a lecture on Facebook’s alleged ills. They also won’t rally around a Jan. 6 movie, an issue that likely has exhausted Americans at this point in the culture.
That may explain why “The Social Reckoning” trailers leave out that fateful day.
Nolte used to call this Hollywood’s “liberal sucker punch.” They’re much harder for the industry to successfully pull off in the era of social media.
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IF THEIR POLICIES ARE SO SOUND, WHY DO THEY HAVE TO LIE SO MUCH? Violent Crime May Be at Historic Lows, but Guess Where Anti-Gun Orgs Still Point the Finger of Blame.
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Virginia AG is Making the Process the Punishment in the Old Dominion’s War on Guns.
Jay Jones, the anti-gun but pro-bullets to the head Virginia attorney general, announced on September 15 the creation of the Firearms Accountability & Industry Responsibility Unit within the Civil and Criminal Justice & Public Safety Divisions of his office. The unit’s job will be to bring civil enforcement actions against firearm industry members under the recently enacted Virginia Firearm Industry Standards of Responsible Conduct.
True to the Orwellian spirit of the gun control enterprise, the process promises to be anything but fair. The fact that the AG’s office is spinning up an entire unit to target a lawful and constitutionally protected business sector begs the question, just what are Virginia’s gun dealers doing wrong? The answer, under Virginia’s new legislation, is that they’ll find out when they get sued for it.
Gun bans get most of the attention when it comes to firearm policy, and this applies to both sides of the issue. But with the U.S. Supreme Court poised to determine the constitutionality of banning some of the nation’s most popular firearms, gun prohibition advocates are already planning their next offensive. Their target is the U.S. firearms industry, already one of the most heavily regulated in the country.
As Virginia’s law illustrates, however, compliance with known rules will no longer be enough under the new regime.
“Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime,” the old checkist is supposed to have said.
“OBSCENE” IS JUST ANOTHER WORD FOR “MORE THAN WE HAVE”:
🚨Just in: Chuck Schumer says Republicans would Steal the Midterms Elections
He said: “Two things could have us to lose. One, they steal the election. The second thing is money. They have obscene amounts of money.” pic.twitter.com/mCTtv5xbfc
— The Calvin Coolidge Project (@TheCalvinCooli1) October 1, 2026
It is not obscene when the Democrats have more because reasons.
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WHEN YOU’RE A SOCIALIST WHO’S LOST JAYAPAL…: ‘I’m not confident she knows what she is doing’: Pramila Jayapal questioned socialist Seattle mayor’s competence during mass shooting response.
OLD AND BUSTED: “Get in their faces, and punch back twice as hard.” “Typical white person.” And then there were his supporters and colleagues. “God damn America.” “Go for the throat!” Sources: Biden likened tea partiers to ‘terrorists.’
The new amnesia?
Sometimes it takes your breath away. President Middle Finger, “You can keep your doctor,” “the ‘80s called” and “Tell Vladimir that after the elections….” https://t.co/cIZFnMx5q5
— Hugh Hewitt (@hughhewitt) September 30, 2026
COLONIALISM, STRAIGHT UP:
“We’ll make sure no non-Muslims live in our city.”
How?
By charging a “service fee”, and funneling 75% of it to the mosque.
“We’ll name our streets after the greatest Islamic conquerors, like Khalid bin al-Waleed.”
“If they keep saying Muslims want to take over… pic.twitter.com/DDKXg7i9Ng
— Dan Burmawi (@DanBurmawy) September 29, 2026
The clip is from 2024, but it’s also timeless.
UNEXPECTEDLY: UK-Iranian dual national arrested over RAF Fairford incident, police say.
A UK-Iranian dual national has been arrested on suspicion of preparation of terrorist acts in connection with the incident at RAF Fairford, counter-terror police have said.
The 27-year-old man was arrested in Westminster, London. A second man, a 26-year-old UK national, has also been questioned under caution, and two properties in the area have been searched.
Five men in their twenties who were arrested near the Gloucestershire airbase on Sunday remain on police bail. All five were UK nationals from London.
Counter-terror police are considering “all possible angles – including foreign state involvement”, the force’s senior national coordinator Vicki Evans said.
Exit question:
Well there’s an Iranian link.
Is this going to be another catch and release? https://t.co/4Uze8svE6w
— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) October 1, 2026
MR FROG, MEET MR SCORPION. HE NEEDS A RIDE:Platner’s Replacement Nukes His Campaign With Disgusting Holocaust Remark.
