WINNING! – Page 3

By George, I think he’s got it!

Posted on March 4, 2026March 4, 2026 by Mike

I just can NOT resist bringing this superb comment out to the front page.

SteveP says:
March 3, 2026 at 3:44 pm

People either don’t know, don’t remember, or don’t want to say, that the Iranian regime formally declared war on the US and Israel in 1979 shortly after the embassy takeover. They have committed countless acts of war in the decades since. The US has never acknowleged this war declaration but it still exists. Pursuant to the prosecution of this war, the president has the legal authority to do pretty much anything he wants.

Nailed it, clean and tight. Well done, Steve, old son.

American badass

Posted on March 4, 2026 by Mike

DuToit, as is his usual wont, knows what’s up.

Frankly, I’m uneasy with the entire concept of “regime change” as a foreign policy goal, because if history has taught us anything — especially in the Middle East — it’s that most of these noble efforts are pretty much doomed to failure, because the entire premise is faulty. Changing a regime is no guarantee that the next regime will be any better than the previous one.

Here’s the unalterable fact: democratic capitalism, as a concept and guiding socio-political principle, doesn’t work outside the confines of Western civilization, and by “Western civilization” I mean pretty much the United States. This is because Western civilization cannot coexist within a nation along with lunatic and highly-flawed political systems like Marxism and/or lunatic medieval social systems like Islam.

One only has to see how the UK, to use but one example, has been undermined by the baleful effects of both the above — Marxism as a home-grown poison (hello, Labour Party) and Islam as an imported poison (hello, untrammeled Muslim immigration).

And that’s within a nation which pretty much gave birth to democratic capitalism. (They did, too; we just perfected it.) Now try to see how well democratic capitalism has worked in other countries which have never had that system as a bedrock principle — Iraq, Syria, Egypt, China, the whole of Africa etc. — and all you’ll find is a constant and comprehensive list of failures. You can change regimes, by all means: but the plain fact of the matter is that democratic capitalism is probably going to fail as the “new” regime will pretty much be just a (watered-down at best) copy of earlier regimes, none of which have espoused democratic capitalism. They’ll be kleptocracies like all the African shitholes, or neo-Communist like Vietnam, or military juntas like [insert South American country of choice here]. (Augusto Pinochet’s Chilean junta, by the way, was very much the exception.)

So I’m simply regarding the destruction of the current Iranian Islamic regime as a side-benefit of the whole exercise.

What we should be stating, in no uncertain terms, is that any regime which exports terrorism or socio-political poisons like Islam or Marxism are on notice that the United States may, at our own discretion, pound these regimes back into rubble rather than allow them to subvert peace and prosperity — the two are very much linked — in the names of their respective ideologies. “Regime change” is very much a subset of that goal, and not its primary purpose. (SecWar Pete Hegseth, at least, has the right of it.)

Not surprising in the least, that last; as I’ve indirectly as well as directly stated here ever since he first signed on as SecWar, he pretty much always does. Sec Hegseth is a lot like DuToit himself in that regard.

WHO said WHAT again, now?!?

Posted on March 1, 2026March 1, 2026 by Mike

Okay, I gotta admit, I did NOT see this coming. Not at all, I didn’t.

I don’t think they’re nearly masculine enough to achieve Boy George level.

— L A R R Y (@LarryOConnor)

March 1, 2026

Good on ya, George. Further kudos for a most righteous response go to COL Schlichter and Larry O’Connor as well.

I bring you good tidings of great joy

Posted on February 28, 2026March 1, 2026 by Mike

I have it from the ex-wife, who has it on very good authority herself (via this Instagram vid), that Nathan Fillion has been dropping some very direct, broad hints to the other cast members about some forthcoming…uhmm…developments in the Firefly/Serenity multiverse. Me being a tremendous fan of Joss Whedon’s masterpiece, I couldn’t be more excited about this, and I hope the ex has the story straight (it would be VERY out of character for her not to, honestly).

From the text messages and other things she forwarded me, originally sent by Fillion to Alan Tudyk, Gina Torres, Jewel Staite, Adam Baldwin, et al, it does indeed sound pretty serious…more so, even, than most of the other rumint which has made the rounds ever since the morning after Fox foolishly dropped Firefly from the roster. We shall see, I reckon. Meanwhile, a little reminder of just how great the show and the movie really were is in order.

Captain Mal’s justly renowned “I aim to misbehave” soliloquy from Serenity says it all extremely well, don’tchathink? Sadly, disturbingly, it rings every bit as true today as it does in the movie.

Update! In the course of watching all sorts of Firefly/Serenity-YewToob vids earlier today, I ran across a fun little tidbit: Whedon spent over 100k to have two (2) full-size replicas of Serenity’s interior spaces constructed, which the cast members promptly adopted as their own semi-official green room/clubhouse/hangout to kick back and relax in between takes.

Whedon came up with the idea of building each deck of Serenity as a contiguous set, so that he could establish the size of the spaceship, and film scenes where the actors could be followed as they moved around the ship. The two sets were built on separate sound stages, making second unit filming possible. The opening to the film highlights this: a 41⁄2 minute shot (technically two shots connected together) near the start of the movie follows Mal from the bridge as he walks along the entire upper deck set, down a set of stairs near the engine room (where the cut is hidden by a whip pan from Mal to Simon) and back along the lower deck set to the cargo bay. This shot (and similar shots in the early episodes) were intended to establish the space which made up the ship, and where locations were in relation to each

Having the sets constructed as contiguous decks had several advantages for the cast and crew: Joss Whedon would physically move around on the sets to help him in writing or blocking difficult scenes, Summer Glau (playing River Tam) would often walk around the set to get into character and prepare for filming, while other cast members would use the set as a green room or a place to relax. The sets were built with all walls and ceilings, but designed so that walls, ceilings, and large objects could be moved to facilitate filming. Director of photography David Boyd chose to use small hand-held cameras for interior filming, which in turn enhanced the ‘documentary’ feel Whedon wanted for the series. Lighting was provided by lights built into the ship, which were designed to appear practical and realistic.
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Having spent interminable hours of soul-searing boredom on several motion-picture sets myself as a “talent,” I can assure you that having access to a quiet, personal space to gather one’s wits, run lines for your next scene, have a soda or a snack from the catering tent, or just flop around and do not much, is worth whatever the production company has to pay for it. Yes, the ordinary motor home, bus, or travel trailer is fine and well, natch, but an honest-to-God spaceship?!? Now THAT is just too cool for school, kids.

A hundred grand sounds like a lot of dough—okay, okay, it IS a lot of dough—but I can also assure you that to Fillion, Torres, Tudyk, and Co, their Serenity hideaway was easily worth two or three times its weight in gold bullion. In fact, once they’d had a cpl-three days to get their heads around the idea of having their very own spaceship (!) to do them for a green room/lounge/retreat/off-camera hideaway, I seriously doubt they would’ve taken anything at all in trade for it, if only just to retain A) the Cool points, which would have to be considerable, and B) permanent bragging rights amongst their film-industry colleagues; sleazeball agents & managers; phony friends; fans, stalkers, and mentally disordered housebreakers; and/or assorted creepy rumpswabs for this unconventional perquisite.

Now just imagine the possibilities if the Serenity-interior set had locking doors to partition off the main bridge, the galley, the crew lounge/recreation spaces, the cargo bay, personal quarters, etc etc from the rest of the ersatz “ship.”

Another day, another shitlib hissy fit

Posted on February 23, 2026February 23, 2026 by Mike

The definitive, real-world example of “much ado about nothing.”

Pete Hegseth Comes Under Fire for Meeting the Standards He Demands of Others. Yes, You Read That Right
The left is engaged in an all-out attack on the policies of the Trump presidency. However, most of those attacks are not aimed at policies, per se; they are aimed at specific people and agencies. For instance, the nation remains in favor of getting rid of illegals, but, thanks to lies perpetrated by the left and their stenographers in the media, they are becoming dissatisfied with how Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are operating. Krisit Noem and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., are the targets of personal attacks. JD Vance has had his faith, his wife, and his marriage attacked. In fact, it seems that the more successful an administration official is, the more unhinged and deranged the attacks. Few members of President Trump’s cabinet have had a greater impact, and undergone more scurrilous attacks, than Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.

Hegseth’s changes began early with his famous “all hands” meeting that required attendance by all serving Flag or General Officers. Part of that speech was a call to physical fitness. Under the previous administration, the standards were corrupted to ensure that every variant of sexual perversion would be able to pass even the most demanding schools in the military.

One of Hegseth’s trademarks is physical fitness. Not only is he in great shape himself, but when he visits units, he makes a point of participating in physical fitness training sessions with the troops.

Friday, Hegseth was at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. While there, he reconnected with the unit he served with in Afghanistan. While an officer in the Minnesota Army National Guard, he served as an infantry platoon leader in 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, aka The Rakkasans, the Japanese words for “falling umbrellas” or parachutes. There, he earned a reputation as a tough, capable, and canny combat leader.

Predictably, Hegseth did PT with the Rakkasans and, just as predictably, he was excoriated for it. Most of the abuse was on social media by people who’d never done anything more strenuous than getting off the sofa; for instance, Pentagon Pete Hegseth Hits Up Old Platoon With U.S. on Brink of War With Iran. The insinuation that the Secretary of War should be bunkered down is ludicrous. Any operation planned in Iran is under the purview of U.S. Central Command. If the Secretary of War is tied up in operational planning, he needs to fire some people. Moreover, you can’t allow the movements of a single individual to serve as a warning to our enemies when operations are imminent.

What particularly got their goat was Hegseth bench-pressing. What really got them was his pressing 315 pounds.

And that’s when the hysterical shrieking began. Many libtards contended, contra the evidence of their own lying eyes, that Hegseth had faked the whole thing. One went so far as to count the weights on each side of the bar, the sum total of which added up to a paltry (!) 270 pounds, not the claimed 315. Left out of this supergenius’s calculations was the inconvenient fact that the bar itself weighed in at 45 pounds, and that weight must be added in also—it “raises the bar,” so to speak. The execrable Daily Beast haughtily pooh-poohed the SecWars’s bench press as just another “publicity stunt.” And on and on it went.

Bottom line takeaway? Whenever shitlibs are unhappy, America is winning.

Remembrance

Posted on February 21, 2026February 21, 2026 by Mike

Steyn on Limbaugh, now five years (!!) gone.

Five years ago today, a couple of hours before airtime, I was pottering about getting ready to guest-host The Rush Limbaugh Show when the telephone rang. It was Kraig Kitchin, his longtime friend (and head of the network that distributed his show), calling to break the news that Rush had died earlier that morning.

Post-Limbaugh, talk radio seems smaller to me than it once did – not just because Rush had a big personality, but because he managed to fit the flotsam and jetsam of the news cycle into the big picture. Whatever topic he’d alight on, he would enlarge, and connect to the great coursing currents of the age. He was also incredibly, naturally funny. I have nothing against any of his successors up and down the dial, but, on the very rare occasions I switch on the radio in his time-slot, it’s not the same.

Three years ago, the anniversary of Rush’s death fell on the day of our weekly Clubland Q&A. It wasn’t intended to be a one-hour remembrance of America’s anchorman, but, because listeners had so many questions about him and his show, it somehow turned into one. Listening to it later, I thought it was worth a re-broadcast – not just for the questions and answers, but for other aspects, too: a musical selection courtesy of his beloved Kathryn, a brief evocation of my guest-hosting days, and the last words Rush ever spoke on air.

Read the rest, natch. Steyn was far and away the best of El Rushbo’s stable of guest-hosts if you ask me, and if this short piece is any indication, is quite a dab hand as an obituarist as well.

The kids are alright

Posted on February 16, 2026February 16, 2026 by Mike

Well, these ones, at any rate.

Shocking homophobic display by high school students rocks California school district
A group of California high schoolers has reportedly been disciplined after they lined up on the bleachers last week wearing shirts that spelled out a homophobic slur — a shocking act that has rocked the district.

Oh, boo fucking hoo, you no-ball cockholster.

The 10 troublemakers from Redwood High School, located southeast of Fresno, including several student government leaders, smiled with their arms wrapped around one another and posed for a photo with white T-shirts that spelled out “F—-t,” according to an image obtained by YourCentralValley.com.

The “homophobic slur” daintily bowdlerized above would, of course, be “faggot,” for those of y’all who can’t work that out on your own hook. Anyway. Onwards.

The students had letters on their tees for a senior class photo inside the gym and had initially posed for a picture that spelled out, “Always Legit, Class of 2026,” Visalia Unified School District spokesperson Cristina Gutierrez told the San Francisco Chronicle.

But they pulled off the disturbing stunt afterward, using the “6” for the “g” in the slur.

School officials caught wind of the slur after the students’ photo started circulating on social media.

“This is unacceptable behavior and this matter is being thoroughly investigated and appropriate action will be taken,” the superintendent vowed.

Gutierrez told the Chronicle that the incident has shaken the school community, especially since some of those involved were student government leaders.

Yeah, I just bet it did at that, the bedwetting bitches.

Know what I find funniest of all about this, though? You know, I mean you just dead solid KNOW, that pretty much every kid in that gymnasium was laughing themselves sick over this sidesplitting prank.

With which I am perfectly fine, as should you be. SALIENT FACT: few if any of the students in the “faggot” shirts would ever dream of beating a homo to death, tying the carcass to the rear bumper of somebody’s pickup, and dragging it around for a few hours. Most people just aren’t wired like that, see.

No, what makes this abominable Hate Crime! *shudder* so gut-bustingly hilarious is that these kids weren’t so much trying to antagonize gays as they were looking to upset, piss off, and discombobulate the shrieking hysterics wielding authority over them: teachers, principal, school board, et al. Looked at from that angle, I can only say that the whole enterprise was a resounding success, in all the ways it was intended to be.

This is what Abraham Lincoln said

Posted on February 16, 2026 by Mike

As it turns out, it might not be exactly what most of us would expect.

The anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birthday was February 12. Since we now celebrate Presidents’ Day in memory of all our deceased presidents, Americans did not pause for a moment to remember Lincoln. This is very sad, given what Lincoln said that nullifies our contemporary outpouring of anti-White racism.

In our revitalized racism—this time against all White people—this neglect of Lincoln is unacceptable, for Lincoln gave the lie to such anti-White racism and its demand that there must be—today—acceptance by all of congenital White guilt for the evil of slavery.

But before I continue quoting Lincoln to refute that new racist narrative, let us note that the slavery that came to be practiced in southern American states originated with the Arabs and was brought to Europeans by the Umayyad Muslim conquest of Spain in 711 CE. We should also note in this connection that the Quran neither condemns slavery nor calls for its immediate abolition.

The merged narratives of critical race theory and intersectionality teach that all White people are incorrigibly, not to mince words, a source of evil thoughts and disgraceful discrimination. Thus, Whiteness as a mindset and way of living must be denounced, and recalcitrant Whites must be banished from the company of good people.

In total rejection of this racism stood Abraham Lincoln. He provided us today with an unimpeachable honoring of Whiteness by making reference to the actions of Union soldiers in the Civil War.

In his Second Inaugural Address, Lincoln argued that “every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn by the sword.” Thus, the Union dead had paid with their blood for the sins of other Whites, the slave owners and their plantation overseers. These dead were mostly young White men who had selflessly volunteered to fight and, if necessary, die so that others—very different from themselves in skin color, ethnic origin, education, and culture—could live in liberty.

Some 360,000 White men from the northern states died in the Civil War. In today’s dollars, the estimated economic value of their lost lives is $324,000,000,000.

Also, implicitly, Lincoln here gave a powerful moral answer to the question of whether, today, reparations should be paid for the suffering unjustly imposed on slaves with the assertion that the Civil War itself and all its deaths and woundings were just reparations imposed on the Whites of both North and South for having made money off slavery. Lincoln said that God himself had imposed the war and its sufferings as punishment on White Americans to be fought “until all the wealth piled by the bondsman’s two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk…”

White Americans of today need not hang their heads in shame nor feel guilty for what happened centuries ago. They need only accept responsibility and corresponding guilt or shame for what they do today—by themselves at their own initiative, intentionally or by negligence—to deny dignity to any other person of any gender or skin color or race or religion.

Nor should White Americans today be denied dignity and opportunity because of what happened before the blood recompense for those wrongs was made through fighting the Civil War.

Certainly shouldn’t. And yet, this is is precisely what the vile, vicious Left asks—nay, demands—of us nonetheless. For such as they, no “reparations” can ever be enough, no repentance sufficient, to expunge the burden of White Guilt with which they wish to unjustly saddle us. The very least they deserve in return for this hateful offense is to be scorned, mocked, and generally reviled.

The future is here!

Posted on February 16, 2026February 16, 2026 by Mike

Or at Hill AF Base, at any rate.

America Airlifts Its Nuclear Future as Pentagon Delivers Microreactor in Historic C-17 Mission
A C-17 Globemaster III lifted off from March Air Reserve Base in California on Sunday carrying cargo that would have seemed like science fiction a generation ago: a next-generation nuclear reactor, bound for testing in Utah. The reactor was flown to Hill Air Force Base in Utah and is expected to be transported to the Utah San Rafael Energy Lab in Orangeville for testing and evaluation, marking a turning point in America’s race to reclaim energy dominance.

The airlift wasn’t just a logistics operation. It was a declaration that the United States intends to win the advanced nuclear race while China builds Generation IV reactors and the rest of the developed world stumbles through energy crises of their own making. President Donald Trump’s executive order to modernize America’s nuclear energy infrastructure and strengthen U.S. national security set this moment in motion, and the Department of War wasted no time executing the mission.

The reactor being transported is part of a collaboration between the Pentagon and Valar Atomics, a California-based startup founded by 25-year-old Isaiah Taylor. The company’s Ward 250 reactor represents a fundamentally different approach to nuclear power: small, transportable, factory-built units that can be deployed wherever they’re needed rather than massive installations that take decades to construct. For military installations that currently depend on vulnerable civilian power grids or diesel generators, the implications are profound.

For the military, reliance on diesel generators when deployed and local electric grids here at home is widely viewed as a significant national security threat. Every forward operating base running on fuel convoys is a target. Every domestic installation tied to the civilian grid is one cyberattack away from going dark. The microreactor solution eliminates both vulnerabilities. These units can be transported by C-17, set up at remote locations, and provide reliable power independent of supply lines or grid infrastructure.

Lots of very intriguing, very enheartening stuff in this one, folks. Bottom line:

The image of a nuclear reactor loaded into a C-17 represents more than technological capability. It represents a shift in how America approaches both energy and national security. For too long, those domains were treated as separate concerns, managed by bureaucracies more interested in process than results. The Trump administration’s executive orders and the military’s execution of programs like Janus reflect a different calculation: that energy security and military readiness are inseparable, and that restoring American dominance in both requires breaking old patterns.

Whether Valar Atomics ultimately succeeds or another company takes the lead matters less than the broader trajectory. The reactor sitting in Utah for testing is proof that America can still move quickly when leadership decides that winning matters more than managing decline. The question now is whether that momentum continues or whether it gets buried under the same regulatory and political obstacles that have paralyzed American energy development for half a century.

Time will tell, as ever. Either way, it’s good to know that SecWar Hegseth is working on it for us in accordance with the tasking set forth by President Trump, with eyes set firmly on the road ahead and not the dim and distant past.

Still smokin’

Posted on February 15, 2026February 15, 2026 by Mike

After his grand-slam speech in Munich, slugger Marco Rubio blasts another one all the way out to the cheap seats.

Rubio’s European Tour Heats Up — WaPo and the Cuban Revolution Take a Beating
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has been in Europe this weekend for the Munich Security Conference and to meet with officials in Slovakia and Hungary. To be honest, when I saw his schedule, I thought, this will be a boring trip. I doubt I’ll even write anything about it. Europe bores me these days.

Witchya all the way on that one, cuz.

On Sunday, Rubio traveled to Slovakia to meet with President Peter Pellegrini and Prime Minister Robert Fico. He and Fico took questions from the press after their meeting, and one Washington Post reporter tried to play games with some little gotcha questions about Venezuela — Rubio wasn’t having it.

After asking Rubio a question about Iran, the WaPo reporter then turned to Fico and asked, “On Venezuela, you strongly opposed America’s removal of Maduro by force, saying it demonstrates a deepening breakdown of the international order. Do you still feel that way given where we’re at now? And also, you’ve denied saying that you were worried about President Trump’s psychological state following your meeting with him in Mar-a-Lago. Can you explain how this was potentially misinterpreted?”

(For context, Fico has been one of the more vocal European critics of our capture of Nicolás Maduro, saying it went against international law and calling it an “American adventure,” something about oil, yada yada. As for the talk about Trump’s “psychological state,” Politico did a story last month claiming Fico said he was worried about Trump’s “dangerous” mental state, but Fico has denied ever saying that.)

Anyway, Rubio answered the question about Iran, but before Fico could answer the one about Venezuela, Rubio continued Saturday’s display of unapologetic U.S. swagger. He not only called the reporter out for asking such a question, but he defended the Maduro move and even bragged about it a little.

He did at that, and it’s a thing of beauty to behold. Plenty more where the above came from, of which you want to read the all.

Update! Just gotta throw in this bit, on the doomed Commie shitrapy of Cuba:

At some point between all of these bada** moments, Rubio sat down with Bloomberg News for an interview. The interviewer, John Micklethwait, asked Rubio how long he thinks the Cuban regime can hold out with no oil. As we know, a couple of weeks ago, Trump threatened secondary tariffs on any country that offered the now isolated nation any oil, and Cuba has pretty much run out of it to the point that planes are grounded, ground transportation isn’t happening, people are gathering wood so they can cook, and everything from school days to surgeries have been canceled.

Rubio’s didn’t hesitate to call the situation what it is. “The revolution in Cuba ended a long time ago,” he said.

He continued.

Cuba’s fundamental problem is that it has no economy and its economic model is one that has never been tried and has never worked anywhere else in the world, okay? It just doesn’t have a real economic policy. It doesn’t have a real economy.

Now, put aside for a moment the fact that it has no freedom of expression, no democracy, no respect for human rights. The fundamental problem Cuba has it is has no economy, and the people who are in charge of that country, in control of that country, they don’t know how to improve the everyday life of their people without giving up power over sectors that they control. They want to control everything. They don’t want the people of Cuba to control anything.

So they don’t know how to get themselves out of this. And to the extent that they have been offered opportunities to do it, they don’t seem to be able to comprehend it or accept it in any ways. They would much rather be in charge of the country than allow it to prosper.

While he wouldn’t give the details of what he and President Trump are planning for the future of the island nation, he did say quite confidently that now that it’s not receiving handouts, it won’t survive because it’s never been able to survive without help before.

S’truth, right down the line.

Updated update! Compare, contrast.

Czech Politician Enrages Hillary Clinton in Munich
During the Munich Security Conference, Czech Deputy Prime Minister Petr Macinka pummeled Hillary Clinton with truth. She tried to talk about women’s rights and Ukraine as a digression away from the points he was making.

Macinka began mocking her TDS, which infuriated her.

Hillary wants the US to push the Ukraine war. She destroyed Libya with her approach and learned nothing from it. She wants to “inflict pain.” This is the woman who laughed when Gaddafi was tortured and killed. Torturing and killing aren’t funny.

I wasn’t impressed with the intelligence or comments by the people on this panel, especially Hillary, who can’t control her temper. She isn’t a world leader, why was she even there? She’s a three-time failed presidential candidate and failed miserably as Secretary of State.

At this point, I think it entirely safe to say that Hillary!™ is NOT the future of A) the “feminist” movement; B) the D卐M☭CRAT “Party”; the US of A; D) Western Civ; E) anything at all, frankly. Which, Her Herness© seems to be aware of this, explaining in part why she’s so touchy and ill-tempered of late.

Essentially, she turns out to have been wrong about absolutely everything, leading to her narcissistic ass being left behind on history’s ash heap of discarded lies. Now all’s she can do is sit there amongst the rest of the smelly trash—rotting banana peels, used Kleenex, mouse droppings, watermelon rinds, fish heads wrapped in old newspapers, and road-kill carcasses—muttering angrily to herself as the world continues to pass her by without a backward glance.

Update to the updated update! The bitter old hag might take a page from her former boss on how best to emotionally cope with having misread every sign, blithely skated right past every portent, missed every clue, and ignored every hint: screw up your face all serious-like, look sincerely concerned, poke out your forked tongue, and lie like a cheap rug. Yes, about EVERYTHING.

My favorite Obama “coming together” moment was when him and Hillary financed a phony dossier to sabotage the rightfully elected President https://t.co/rW522q6p7S

— The Drunk Republican (@DrunkRepub)

February 15, 2026

See, Hills? Grandmaster Bathhouse Barry, with many, many years of experience at this sort of thing, makes it look easy-peasy. Now all y’all have to do is hope like hell somebody out there still believes y’all’s arrant bullshit…or even cares, for that matter.

Updates, forsooth! Nuts-n-bolts details on Hillary’s™ spectacular Munich self-beclownment, from Nick Arama.

Clinton made a pretty stunning comment that migration had gone “too far, it’s been disruptive and destabilizing.” That’s a big indictment of the Democratic policies over the last several years, whether she understands that or not. The big question was why she was saying it. Was it because she’s trying to paint the Democrats as more moderate than they are as they scream about abolishing ICE? Maybe, but that isn’t going to work, given the mess they made of securing the border and dealing with illegal aliens.

She also appeared to attack the Trump administration’s approach to dealing with the mess that Joe Biden left him, which is a disgraceful thing to do while overseas.

Petr Macinka, a Czech deputy prime minister, took her to task, “First, I think you really don’t like him.”

“You know, that is absolutely true,” Clinton said. Then she tried to tell him what to do when it comes to Trump, “But not only do I not like him, but I don’t like what he’s actually doing to the United States and the world, and I think you should take a hard look at it if you think there is something good that will come of it.” She’s still so burnt that Trump beat her, even ten years later.

Macinka explained that what led to Trump winning was how extreme the left had become. “Well, what Trump is doing in America, I think, is a reaction. Reaction for some policies that really went too far, too far from the regular people.”

He then referred to things like cancel culture, the “woke” revolution, and gender ideologies, while Hillary made faces next to him.

Jeezum H CROW. How any sensible person still takes these retarded assclowns, these nitwit juvenile delinquents, even somewhat seriously is beyond my ken. Does it get even better from there, you ask? Why, yes; yes, it does.

Too much FUN

Posted on February 14, 2026February 14, 2026 by Mike

Schlichter has it.

It Is Right and Proper to Laugh at the Suffering of Journalists
If it’s wrong to spend a week celebrating the misery of your opponents, like that of the scores of just-fired Washington Post hacks who are crying like teenage girls learning there are no more “Twilight” movies coming, then I’m incredibly, totally, enthusiastically wrong. The former journos/current drive-thru operators still have not shut up about the WaPo’s mass layoffs, and I am taking unmitigated delight in their pain. Their suffering energizes me. Their tears nourish me. Their humiliation fuels my joy. Hey, maybe democracy dies in darkness, but as long as the WaPo dies, I’m good.

I would tell them to learn (to) code, but that’s old and cliché. Instead, I’ve been on X, inviting them to earn a little money for their kombucha and rent by buffing out my sweet luxury ride, which I paid for with my writing jobs. I’m a professional writer, and they’re not.

But hey, I’m sure that journalism degree from the University of College is going to get them another gig soon. Say it with me – “Would you like to supersize that, sir?”

They haven’t taken their involuntary career tangent particularly well. They are all over X moaning about it and about us being giddy about it. Some people have told me that, because of my hysterical laughter at their situation, I’m going to be the victim of karma, but I think I’m actually karma’s enforcer. After all, these are the people who have done nothing but lie to us and about us for decades. From Russian collusion to Hunter’s laptop to J6 pogrom cheerleading to every other fraud and scam, they’ve obediently held to the Democrat line and done everything they could to screw with us patriots. Now that they’re being laid off en masse, we owe it to ourselves to take a moment and laugh at their pain.

Look, how about if I agree to care about them as much as they’ve cared about me for the last few decades? Agreed? Great. Now, back to reveling in their agony.

And bang, zoom! Back to it he doth go, to wit:

Personally, I love their incessant whining that Jeff Bezos somehow owes them sinecures. Why, he’s got so much money he could easily continue paying for them to provide zero value! It’s his moral duty! One even referred to his “stewardship” of the Washington Post in a typically overwrought X post. Stewardship? He’s a steward? What, like some sort of ink-stained Denethor? Well, they’ve got the funeral pyre part down.

No, the word they’re looking for and not finding is “owner.” Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post. He can do what he wants with it. If he wants to turn it into a newsprint version of Maxim – is Maxim still a thing? – he can do it, although judging from the avatars of the canned reporters, they would need to seek out some outside talent. Most of the former writers look exactly like you think they would, SSRI-gobbling neuroticas and push-upaphobic soyboyz who, if they weren’t scribbling for a dying tabloid, would probably be out yelling obscenities at the heroic middle-class men of ICE who protect them from the savages.

What was Jeff Bezos getting for his money? Did you know that they had 13 people on the climate change beat? They were paying over a dozen people to write about a giant hoax. I think I’m going to go approach Storm Paglia at Townhall to see if I can get a personal research assistant to put on the Unicorn beat. Just kidding. We have to earn our views because we don’t have a zillionaire daddy subsidizing us.

Some people on the Right were kinder than I about the layoffs, cautioning that we shouldn’t take pleasure in our enemies’ suffering. This is so very wrong. I’ve never been a fan of the idea of conservatism without the concept of retribution. Too often, we are told that to be good people, we must forgo just consequences. But failing to pay back our enemies is only going to get us more reason to need vengeance. Our enemies aren’t going to take our weakness for anything but weakness. Time to give pain a chance. Time to laugh our tails off at the suffering of the fired Democrat transcriptionists of the Washington Post.

“Conservatism without retribution”—an excellent formulation, expressing an idea that I have no more patience with or use for than does COL Schlichter. “Right and proper”? You bet your sweet bippy.

Trump’s best hire?

Posted on February 14, 2026February 14, 2026 by Mike

Can only be the remarkable Marco Rubio for SecState. He just went to Munich and demonstrated why.

Rubio on Fire! We Won’t Be ‘Polite and Orderly Caretakers of the West’s Managed Decline’
Rubio told European leaders that the post–Cold War era is over, that the “euphoria of this triumph led us to a dangerous delusion: that we had entered, quote, ‘the end of history;’ that every nation would now be a liberal democracy; that the ties formed by trade and by commerce alone would now replace nationhood; that the rules-based global order – an overused term – would now replace the national interest; and that we would now live in a world without borders where everyone became a citizen of the world.”

He said that this idea was foolish and “ignored both human nature and it ignored the lessons of over 5,000 years of recorded human history.”

While championing the Donald Trump administration’s America-First foreign policy, he also reaffirmed the bond between our nations, saying that the Western Hemisphere may be our home, but we’re a child of Europe, and we share history, culture, and heritage. “We belong together,” he said.

But he also made it clear that the world has reached a turning point and course correction is required. Europe must save itself because, “we in America have no interest in being polite and orderly caretakers of the West’s managed decline.”

“The fundamental question we must answer at the outset is what exactly are we defending, because armies do not fight for abstractions. Armies fight for a people; armies fight for a nation. Armies fight for a way of life,” he said. “And that is what we are defending: a great civilization that has every reason to be proud of its history, confident of its future, and aims to always be the master of its own economic and political destiny.”

Rubio also spoke of how “we can no longer place the so-called global order above the vital interests of our people and our nations,” and how we must reform global institutions. He used the United Nations as an example, explaining that it has potential to be a “tool for good” but right now, it’s basically useless.

Great, GREAT stuff from the man Trump blithely dismissed as “Little Marco,” hurled right into the teeth of the dying Eurolion in his very den. At this point, I’m happy to say that Trump was all wet on that one; as he has shown again and again during his tenure at State, Marco Rubio is anything BUT “little.”

The biogenic carbon cycle

Posted on February 11, 2026February 11, 2026 by Mike

What it is, how it works.

Activist: “Every cow adds carbon to the atmosphere.”
Farmer: “Only if the total number of cows is increasing.”
Activist: “What?”
Farmer: “Stable populations are carbon neutral. Methane breaks down in twelve years back to CO2. Same CO2 the grass absorbed last year.”
Activist: “But… pic.twitter.com/hIFigijFNQ

— Sama Hoole (@SamaHoole)

February 3, 2026

Down with “Show more”! Down, I say!

Sama Hoole
@SamaHoole Activist: “Every cow adds carbon to the atmosphere.”

Farmer: “Only if the total number of cows is increasing.”

Activist: “What?”

Farmer: “Stable populations are carbon neutral. Methane breaks down in twelve years back to CO2. Same CO2 the grass absorbed last year.”

Activist: “But it’s still emissions…”

Farmer: “It’s a cycle. Carbon goes: grass to cow to methane to CO2 to grass. Round and round.”

Activist: “That’s not how it works.”

Farmer: “That’s exactly how the biogenic carbon cycle works.”

Activist: “I’ve never heard of that.”

Farmer: “Because admitting ruminants are climate neutral doesn’t sell plant-based products.”

Activist: “You’re making this up.”

Farmer: “Published research. Look up ‘biogenic carbon cycle.’ I’ll wait.”

Ahh, but see, that’s ACTUAL science. Shitlibs demonstrably don’t give a tinker’s damn about that stuff.

Via BRM, who continues:

That’s a beautifully simple explanation – and every word of it is true. You’ll never hear vegetarian and vegan activists admit to that, though. If they did, they’d expose their scam operation for what it is. They rely on scaring people into taking them seriously – and this tweet demonstrates that they’re anything but serious. Their loud screams about the permanent climate damage caused by eating meat and breeding cows are nothing more than “sound and fury, signifying nothing”.

Pass it on. The more people who understand this, the better.

Indeed. They can lie all the like, and they will. So why should sensible people make it easy for the stupid bastards?

“He builds”

Posted on February 10, 2026February 11, 2026 by Mike

Hey, remember when Trump was basically razing the White House to the ground so he could put up some kind of Trump Ego Museum or some such shite?

Yeah, about all that.

A Ballroom Built the Trump Way
God gave President Donald Trump the drive to move forward on passion projects; he doesn’t wait for permission slips to prove his competence: He builds.

His latest update on White House ballroom project follows a familiar pattern he’s perfected over the years: on budget, ahead of schedule, and paid for without touching taxpayer dollars.

Trump has stated that the Great Ballroom will serve future presidential inaugurations, turning a long-discussed idea into physical reality, funded largely from his own pocket and additional private donations.

The ballroom project spans roughly 90,000 square feet and includes a new East Wing designed to match the White House’s historic scale. Plans include a 22,000-square-foot banquet hall, office space for the first lady, and additional functional areas for state events.

There are echoes from Trump’s past that revive similar skepticism. Long ago, in a completely different New York City than today’s, the city spent years failing to renovate Wollman Rink in Central Park. Trump watched ballooning costs, stepped in, promised completion in months, and delivered ahead of schedule and under budget.

The rink reopened in 1986 and became profitable.

It’s a great example of the government stalling and private execution finishing the job. That pattern remains intact decades later.

Not to nearly as broad an extent as it ought to, but in Amerika v2.0 you takes whatever small favors you gets.

24k JUSTICE

Posted on February 6, 2026 by Mike

Served up piping hot, as fresh as tomorrow morning’s headlines.

Indians aren’t gonna let the Billie Eilish comments go. 😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/Bz82d1Hvs7

— Jeff X – memes🇺🇸 (@JeffXmemes)

February 5, 2026

Oh HELLS muthafuckin’ yeah! Thanks to Irish, who says it’s “perfect,” and he ain’t lying ’bout that, people. Backstory here.

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