May 22, 2026
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THE LEFT PROTECTS ITS OWN, ALWAYS:
I started to ask why Democrats would be upset about a communist dictator being indicted.
But then I realized that’s a really dumb question. https://t.co/ZimnVpuBYh
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) May 21, 2026
THE PAST IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY; THEY SELL COLA DIFFERENTLY THERE:
It was a different country. Despite the trauma of the 1960s and early 1970s, people were glad, even relieved to be able to celebrate being American.
Whoever does that now will be seen as divisive. https://t.co/lpXVJnVMKC
— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) May 22, 2026
This was the last gasp of a shared culture and a mass media, which only two years earlier had gone all-in on removing Richard Nixon from power. As I wrote on July 4th, 2020, in-between Walter Cronkite droning on about the impending eco-disasters of a new ice age and overpopulation to viewers of the CBS Evening News, and episodes of M*A*S*H as a thinly-disguised Vietnam War commentary full of moral equivalence between the US, North Korea and Communist China, CBS could still muster up some of its biggest stars to host “Bicentennial Minutes” on the important events that led up to the nation’s founding. Today, the network would likely draft Stephen Colbert and Colin Kaepernick [hey, remember them, 2026 readers?] to opine on how the nation was born in Original Sin. Perhaps it was the lack of a 24-hour cable news cycle, or the increasingly left-leaning network remembering that it still needed to serve a wide swatch of viewers. In any case, even with a Republican president in the White House, the Bicentennial proved that as late as 1976, the Democratic Party-dominated overculture still offered room for all, decades before today’s “no escapism” mentality on the elite left.
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ED MORRISSEY: DNC Autopsy ‘Paints Dismal Picture’ While Burying the Biden Cover-Up and Harris’ Incompetence.
What about the report itself? People can directly access the 192-page report, but it’s not easy to parse, thanks to the lack of effort in finishing the product. It’s unfinished in another sense, too: there is apparently no mention of Joe Biden’s cognitive decline or the effort to cover it up in the autopsy. The words “cognitive,” “dementia,” “senile,” and “mental” make no appearance in this document. The June 2024 debate barely gets a mention at all, and the report completely ignores its impact and what it revealed about Democrats’ attempts to sell a sick old man as “Sharp As A Tack™”:
Before the candidate switch, the pollsters never reviewed ad copy or content – and commented how they did not see ads until after they were airing, in some instances reading about the ads in the media. They also reported they had little insight into the data provided to leadership from the analytics team.
As the June 2024 debate neared, there were discussions about polling around the debate and after the convention. The polling team was informed the plan was for them to poll three times during the general election, and the post-convention polling would count as one of those three polling waves. They attributed this minimalist approach to research to members of the media team not believing polling data was essential to decision making.
The debate obviously changed many things. The dial-testing during the debate demonstrated the weakness of the President’s performance, and a post-debate survey was scrapped.
Whoever wrote this passage must have majored in Passive Voice Deflection while attending Progressive U. “The debate obviously changed many things,” the author(s) write, without ever explaining what changed or why, even though the necessity of that switch was the single biggest problem Democrats faced.
The autopsy never addresses the “candidate switch” in detail either, choosing to ignore the back-room “switch” that took place and the option Democrats had in using the convention to choose their nominee by a representative vote. This literally never gets discussed in the report, despite it being the single biggest DNC process issue in the 2024 cycle.
If the first step is admitting you have a problem, for the DNC the second step is going back to ignoring it.
NOVEMBER PREVIEW:
Democrats are currently running 3.1pts ahead of where they were on this day in history back in 2018, a 9.2pt swing from 2022.
After South Carolina redistricts, Democrats will need to win the U.S. House vote by ≈5pts to ensure they secure the majority.https://t.co/b5ycDSw9H4 pic.twitter.com/NSDXb5ICSy
— Rich Baris THE PEOPLE'S PUNDIT (@Peoples_Pundit) May 21, 2026
Almost left unsaid: Don’t get cocky.
OLD AND BUSTED: “What is a Woman?”
The New Hotness: What is a Women’s Museum?
In case you’re wondering about the current state of House Democrats: they just voted against establishing a Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum.
Their objection? It didn’t include a dedicated wing for trans history.
You almost have to admire the consistency. They…
— Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) May 22, 2026
THIS GUY IS SUCH A TWO-FACED JERK:
Tillis voted for a $500,000 per senator fund for senators who were illegally spied on by the Biden. It wasn’t available to any normal Americans whose rights had been violated—just senators. But now Tillis is mad that actual American citizens might receive restitution. What a… https://t.co/M5GZER43yI
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) May 21, 2026
TOM KNIGHTON: Of Tilting At Windmills is running an Instapundit only sale of 25% off for life.
THE SUICIDE OF EXPERTISE (CONT’D): Trust the Experts. “Some Experts™ are worse than others, because they not only believe they know everything, but they work assiduously to destroy those who actually have good ideas about the way things work in the real world. They aren’t bad engineers; they are cult leaders who think they know everything. Such was the case with the economists who campaigned to destroy Javier Milei and prevent him from becoming President of Argentina. Milei was a dangerous crank, they said, and would destroy the already sputtering economy of Argentina. What the country needed wasn’t more capitalism, but more socialism.”
Economists endorsing socialism is like chemists endorsing Phlogiston.
Related:
This is one of the keys of his campaign. Nonprofits pay a lot of people to not solve the problem they claim to be solving. Remember when Mr. Beast went to Africa and built two clean water wells, and the NGO nonprofits over there criticized him for it, as some white savior complex… https://t.co/m8z8wKDlwR
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) May 21, 2026
WE SHOULDN’T FORGET THEM: Words of Power.
YEAH, IF THIS IS NORMAL, IT SHOULDN’T BE: Tom Kean Jr.’s Absence Highlights Washington’s Ghosting Problem .
THAT’S NICE. BUT WHAT WE NEED IS A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT TERTIARY EDUCATION SYSTEM: The Trump Administration Is Cutting College Costs.
MAYBE MORE WILL FOLLOW: Waking Up To Reality.
I’ll note the make work people aren’t all women. Men in these positions are even more poisonous. OTOH we are at great need for companies to concentrate on doing the thing and not the poisonous politics of the serraglio.
WHAT WE NEED TO DO IS BETTER VET IMMIGRANTS AND NOT HAND OUT CITIZENSHIPS LIKE CANDY: Excluded!
NOTHING. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING GIVES THEM THAT RIGHT: The climate scaremongers: What gives Ofcom the right to censor the truth about weather data?
YEAH, BUT THEY MELT AT THE DROP OF A HAT: Green Energy Cultists Meltdown Over Proposed EV Road-Use Fees.
WELL, THIS IS HOW DEMOCRATS ARE THESE DAYS: Dem Who Claimed Bondi Beach Massacre was ‘Zionist False Flag’ Wins House Primary.
INTERESTING: Anthropic’s “Profitability” Swindle.
