SO CALIFORNIA HASN’T GONE COMPLETELY SUICIDAL… YET: California’s Billionaires Exhale as Prop 40 Goes Down.

Several Democratic state leaders campaigned against it. Gov. Gavin Newsom opposed it, as did Xavier Becerra, who cruised to victory over Republican Steve Hilton Tuesday night, and former Rep. Katie Porter, warning it would drive wealthy residents and their tax payments out of California.

In June, the day after Prop 40 qualified for the ballot, Newsom proposed a national “billionaires’ tax” instead: a federal minimum tax on Americans worth more than $100 million, new rules on inheritance, and a national public equity fund that would give Americans a stake in AI-driven wealth.

A Newsom spokesperson told ABC News last month that the governor supports a national tax on billionaires and proudly joined teachers, firefighters, reproductive health clinics, and others in opposing what the statement called a “poorly written state measure that will harm California.”

Clearly, Newsom only opposed the tax because he couldn’t build a Berlin Wall around the state to keep the billionaires in.

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THE NEW SPACE RACE: China Publicly Discloses Plan for a Lunar Landing Within Three Years.

SELLING OUT FOR FUN AND PROFIT:

The real winners last night were the podcasters who spent the last two years sowing discord among conservatives and now get to spend the next two cashing in on the division they helped create.

— Frank McCormick (@CBHeresy) November 4, 2026

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Well the foreign op on Iran worked. Great job, Qatari assets. Enjoy your Doha vacation houses.

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) November 4, 2026

DISPATCHES FROM SCHRÖDINGER’S AYATOLLAH:

The process of the US's collapse has accelerated.

— Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei (@MKhamenei_ir) November 4, 2026

Whether or not Khamenei is still alive, his collapse was certainly accelerated this year: Mojtaba Khamenei Is (Still) Dead.

LIMITED TIME DEAL: COOFANDY Mens Quarter Zip Pullover. #CommissionEarned

YEP: The Democratic ‘Civil War’ Is Over. The Crazies Won.

OH, FOR THE LOVE OF BOB! IN STAR TREK?  “Gunboat Diplomacy” and a Few Thoughts.

THE FREE PEOPLE (SUCH AS WE ARE) MUST NOT LOSE SPACE:  China outlines its launch program leading to its first manned lunar landing.

THEY WON’T. SO BE READY. IT’S GOING TO GET UGLY:  FIRST ELON, THEN YOU: “If the Democrats are willing to pick this type of fight with someone like Musk, why would they show mercy to any of the rest of us?”

OKAY, THEN:  Where’s the Rib? McDonald’s Faces Lawsuit Over McRib Marketing.

FASTER PLEASE, BEFORE THE BARBARIANS TAKE US DOWN:  A cancer treatment for brain tumors.

HIS WAS WAY BETTER THAN MINE IN CO IN 12, BUT I NOTICE HE SEES WHAT I SEE:  Election Work?

A note, though, I love William Lehman, but the democrats already said the filibuster is dead when they come in, so you know what? Yeah. Do what you have to do in dead duck session to keep us from dying under what’s coming.

SOMEHOW THE BLUE WAVE DIDN’T TOUCH CONSERVATIVE DOWN BALLOT MEASURES: It’s possible, of course. strangeness happens. But consistently? Across the board? It usually indicates… sing it with me, fraud, delicious fraud:  Washington state voters appear to pass first-ever ballot measure separating boys and girls sports. Initiative 638 held a 13.6 percent lead with 60 percent of ballots counted, marking a historic first in a blue state.

ALL ONLINE. ALL FREE. ALL WELCOME:  LegendHaven returns on December 5-6! Celebrate our Christmas Book Fair. Our very own LegendFiction convention is back, this time with a Yuletide flair! It’s all free, all online, and all weekend. Bring a friend, come hang out!

CULTURE MATTERS:  On the social media site formerly known as Twitter, Eva Chipiuk points out that high-trust societies can only absorb a small proportion of immigrants from low-trust cultures before the society begins losing some of the advantages of being a high-trust culture.

I CAN’T BELIEVE IT’S NOT FRAUD. STOP THE CIRCULAR FIRING SQUAD. IT IS FRAUD:  James Talarico got more ‘votes’ than any Democrat candidate has EVER gotten in Texas history. He got 500,000 more ‘votes’ than Kamala Harris got two years ago in a Presidential election year. The demographics of Texas have not changed significantly in two years. You can talk about gas prices, or Iran, or Trump’s personality until the cows come home, this still seems … odd, to say the least.

Again and again I say to you, no way the left outperformed polls. Have you ever met a lefty that didn’t tell everyone his or her opinion, loudly? At the top of his/her voice? Not believable. I believe in unicorns more.

OH, YEAH. IT WILL BE LIT. PROBABLY LITERALLY:  “Saving Democracy” By Prosecuting Political Adversaries: A Roundup.

I GUESS WE KNOW WHO BOUGHT THE FRAUD THIS TIME: Voters reject data centers in nearly 50 ballot initiatives during midterms in major setback to AI bigwigs.

Spring time for China, y’all.

OF COURSE NOT, ONLY ONE PARTY IS CAPABLE OF RACIAL MILESTONES.

A black man raised by a single mother and born in 1970s Crown Heights, last night became the first elected black governor of Florida, a state whose slave-owning Civil War-era governor actually committed suicide when he realized the war was lost.

Seen any celebration of that…

— Sunny (@sunnyright) November 5, 2026

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HAHA:

The Bundeswehr in Poland?

If I were commanding so much as a platoon of the Polish Army, I’d make it my business to put as many German “soldiers” upside down in garbage cans. Give them swirlies.* Pull their flecktarn jackets over their heads, and boot their heinies in the… https://t.co/t5hG0q1WOa

— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) November 5, 2026

They’re lucky if it’s not a “dirty swirly.”

OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.

EL PERIÓDICO DE REFERENCIA DE MÉXICO:

Millions Of Texans Seen Crossing Rio Grande Into Mexico https://t.co/kEFt9wrr7L

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) November 4, 2026

GOODER AND HARDER, LA: Raman ousts Bass as Los Angeles mayor.

Los Angeles City Council member Nithya Raman (D) is projected to become the next mayor of Los Angeles after ousting embattled Mayor Karen Bass (D) after one term, according to Decision Desk HQ.

The race was called Wednesday evening with Raman leading by about 26,000 votes—roughly 3 percent—out of 784,262 votes cast, per DDHQ.

Raman defeated Bass after the two advanced from the June 2 nonpartisan jungle primary, ousting former reality TV star Spencer Pratt from the race.

In other words, Los Angeles citizens have chosen the socialist who massively inflated their homeless population, rather than the socialist who burned their city down:

I'm just absolutely amazed at the gall of someone who had never once lived in Los Angeles, moved there in the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Fucking Thirteen for a city government job, founded a "homeless outreach" "non profit" in 2017, ran for city council in 2019 on a "fix…

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) May 7, 2026

Tweet continues, “in 2017, [Raman] ran for city council in 2019 on a ‘fix homelessness,’ promptly firehosed infinite taxpayer cash at other ‘homeless non-profits,’ and now suddenly says ‘it’s not okay for people to be sleeping on the streets.’ ‘We can fix this’? Yeah, we can, if the ‘we’ doesn’t include you.”

People generally nod their head in agreement that there exists a Military Industrial Complex with a financial interest in endless wars. At this point we should also agree there's a Homeless Industrial Complex with deep financial interests in perpetuating homelessness

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) May 7, 2026

It's not that hard. The left lets institutions and communities break down to a point of total degradation to prove why more government and non profits are the answer. The goal is to purposely not solve problems and make life and safety worse. See the entire defund the police… https://t.co/emoIbBFjVa

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) June 6, 2026

Tweet concludes, “See the entire defund the police movement and homelessness nonprofits in California. Gavin Newsom promised to end homelessness and instead it ballooned on purpose. This is why there was such enormous flip out over Trump renovating the reflecting pool or Spencer Pratt’s campaign. Once people realize that things can be improved a lot of nonprofits and public union/money dries up. There is a reason why cities like Chicago, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, and now Denver all look the same because they are all run by the same people running the exact same scam. Mostly the concern I see on the political right over AI is cultural because there’s nothing more that the political left and the Democratic Party wants them to get their claws into AI. Because once an AI is programmed to tell people that boys can become girls it’s the death of truth. Data centers being built isn’t the problem, the data in those data centers is.”