OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.

THIS:

BIG WOW FOR HUNG CAO: New Navy Secretary, Hung Cao, ‘Grabbed on to the American Dream.’

At his confirmation hearing, Cao said, “Take it from this warrior. War must be the last resort, but if war comes, let it be swift and decisive. … To our enemies and those who mean to do us harm, you can run but you’ll only die tired.”

Read the whole thing.

(Headline via Power Line.)

THE WRAP-UP SMEAR IN ACTION:

 

IT’S TIME FOR VICTORIA TAFT’S West Coast, Messed Coast™: Newsom’s Billion Dollar OP to Replace Californians With Illegals. “This week, your humble correspondent brings you the latest spasms and utterances from the leaders of Washington, Oregon, and California. The destruction of the West Coast, Messed Coast™ didn’t happen by accident. It was planned, vision-boarded, war-gamed, and paid for, as you’ll see. We take you now to the latest imaginary meeting of the Western States Coalition, where individual freedoms are ritually sacrificed for power.”

WHEN MEMES HIT HARD:

RIDE THE SOUTHERN POVERTY MOBIUS LOOP!

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FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: Meet Mayor McDUI. “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week, we’ll learn that you’re always the mayor of Naples, how to dress for a night out at Jensen Beach, and how to have a cow in upstate New York.”

OH, TO BE IN ENGLAND AIRSTRIP ONE:

As Wikipedia notes:

The head of BBC history, Robert Seatter, has said George Orwell in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), “reputedly based his notorious Room 101 from the novel “on a room he had worked in whilst at the BBC.”[52]

On 7 November 2017, a statue of Orwell, sculpted by the British sculptor Martin Jennings, was unveiled, outside Broadcasting House. The wall behind the statue is inscribed with the following phrase: “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear”. These are words from his proposed preface to Animal Farm and a rallying cry for the idea of free speech in an open society.

Serious question: Why doesn’t “the right to tell people what they do not want to hear” work both ways in 21st century England?