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Trump Derangement Syndrome: Some Historical Perspective on Political Manias

Posted on | May 30, 2026 | No Comments

When you look at that kind of headline, how can you doubt that the pandemic of Trump Derangement Syndrome has become toxic?

A TikToker has lost her job after posting a video that appeared to pray for former Attorney General Pam Bondi to suffer permanently from cancer, prompting outrage across social media.
In the video, the TikToker says, “Dear MAGA Lord Jesus, please let her end up with a hole in her throat that she has to push every time she speaks. Dear God, if there is a MAGA God, please let Pam Bondi’s throat cancer be the worst case of cancer anybody’s ever seen.”
The TikTok, posted by @glitterandcrossbones, which is currently set to private, appeared to have been posted by Caitlyn Aguiar, who had worked as an assistant vice president for the Inbound Contact Center at Jeanne D’Arc Credit Union since January 2024, according to her LinkedIn page, which appears to have been taken down.
Bondi, 60, who was fired from the Department of Justice in early April, has been diagnosed with thyroid cancer and undergone treatment.
In the TikTok, Aguiar continued, “Please let her have to take on the suffering that she’s unleashed upon the thousands, millions, dare I say, of Americans in this country. . . . Please, dear MAGA Lord Jesus…”
She added, “Please let this be the karma that she so justly deserves, MAGA Lord Jesus. Amen.”

How can it be that someone working as the assistant vice president of a financial institution could think this way? And believe she could post something like that online without consequences?

The problem is not just that a lot of Democrats are insane — although, of course they are — but that so many people, including Republicans, are incapable of thinking outside of the here-and-now of politics, the 24/7 news cycle reinforced by constant immersion in social media noise.

For me, as a journalist, the tyranny of the news cycle is a danger that I must struggle to resist. It helps that there was no Internet at all when I got started, and that it was only after more than 20 years in the newspaper business that I launched out into the world of blogging and social media. Like, I remember when dial-up modems, Usenet boards and AOL were “the new thing,” and therefore have some perspective on the contemporary madness that spawns TikTok meltdowns.

Lose your job for ranting about Pam Bondi? Of the many Cabinet secretaries I’ve seen come and go in my lifetime, there were certainly quite a few I intensely disliked, but I am certain I never said anything about, e.g., Janet Reno that would even begin to compare with what this woman said about Pam Bondi. And why? What is the “suffering” that Bondi allegedly “unleashed”? Pretty doggone sure she never ordered an attack that incinerated 86 Americans, as was the case at Waco.

Political passions come and go. Today’s headline news will disappear when some new controversy comes along tomorrow, and within 10 or 20 years, almost everything we are currently arguing about will be entirely forgotten. How often do I find myself having to explain to people exactly what happened during the Lewinsky scandal, or how the invasion of Iraq went sideways? These are events that dominated the headlines for months at a time, in recent memory, and yet are just vaguely remembered by most Americans. The people burning down their own lives with toxic TikTok rants are trapped in short-term thinking.

When I was packing for our trip to Alaska, knowing I’d be without an Internet connection for many hours, I brought along the third volume of Winston Churchill’s A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, which I’ve read at least twice before, but enjoy re-reading every so often because it’s fascinating. Here you have world-historical events, involving some of the most eminent figures in British history, and most people nowadays know absolutely nothing about it. Here is the Duke of Marlborough smashing the French at Blenheim — arguably the greatest victory ever won by an English army — and it means nothing to the average American. Blenheim? Never heard of it. Marlborough? Isn’t that a cigarette brand? Even among college-educated Americans, how many of them can even tell you one fact about the War of the Spanish Succession?

Marlborough at Blenheim, 1704

If the entire War of the Spanish Succession can vanish from popular memory, what are the chances that any of our grandchildren will ever hear the name Pam Bondi? How crazy do you have to be to think you’re going to “make a difference” in the world by whipping out your phone to record a TikTok diatribe about the former Attorney General?

One of the most interesting characters of the 1700s was Robert Walpole, the first to be called Prime Minister of England. During the reign of King George I and continuing into the reign of King George II, Walpole did something both commendable and remarkable — he made politics boring. The unchallenged ascendancy of the Whigs, and a policy aimed at peace and prosperity, had the effect of causing the English people to forget all the controversies that had previously divided them. It was only after Walpole left the ministry (he died in 1745) that the course of events began that led ultimately to the American Revolution.

America today could use a Walpole, a president who could usher in an era of quiet competence, resting upon a decisive and durable political majority. If you look back over the past 40 years, you see why our politics have become so toxic. Despite the 12-year White House tenure of Reagan-Bush (1981-93), Republicans never had a majority at the congressional level during those years. After Clinton was elected in 1992, however, the reaction to his first two years in office produced the “Republican Revolution” that led to 12 years of GOP control of the House. Since then, we’ve gone through the Lewinsky scandal (1998), the Bush-vs.-Gore Florida recount 2000), the 9/11 attacks in 2001, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and repeated changes of the congressional majority (2006, 2010, 2018, 2022). The balance between the two major parties is so close that it seems impossible for either of them to maintain control for very long, and the result of this fragile balance is a relentless intensification of political conflict, as each side appeals more desperately to the prejudices of its partisan base. Consequently, emotionally vulnerable people are quite literally driven mad by the nonstop bombardment of political messages intended to incite “grassroots energy,” as the consultants call it.

If we are to have an American Walpole, I think, he will have to be Republican, and he will need a majority so strong as to push the Democratic Party into a very long period of political eclipse. The opportunity is there for Marco Rubio (or J.D. Vance, or Ron DeSantis) to do this if (a) Republicans can manage to hold onto both houses of Congress in this November’s midterms, (b) any Republican can win the White House in 2028, and (c) the Trump agenda of strong border enforcement can be continued until (d) the 2030 Census peels enough House seats away from “blue” states to make a Democratic majority a forlorn hope for the next decade. This is a series of hypothetical contingencies, each dependent on the most favorable developments for Republicans, but it is nevertheless possible. All we need is a few breaks, and the next decade could finally bring us a prolonged relief from the tremendous strain we’ve endured since the 1990s.

Pray for it. Pray hard, and then pray harder.



 

Category: Donald Trump, History

What $100,000,000 Buys

Posted on | May 30, 2026 | No Comments

Do I want to pick a fight with Erick Erickson? No, I do not. Erick has done yeoman’s work for the conservative cause for more than 20 years, and 99 days out of 100, I have no problem with him. But his reaction to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s victory in Tuesday’s GOP primary runoff against John Cornyn is a reminder of something most people never think about — there are professional campaign operatives who earn a lucrative living from politics. Erick Erickson is close friends with a lot of Republican operatives and, it seems obvious to me, some of Erick’s friends were getting paid by Team Cornyn. It’s estimated that the Cornyn campaign (including allied super PACs, etc.) spent upwards of $100 million on his doomed reelection bid, and no doubt many of the people who got paid by Cornyn are very bitter over their defeat.

Because the regular readership here shares my own populist sentiment, I assume that you view the Texas primary the same way I do: Cornyn is a useless RINO who should have retired long ago, and we are all therefore overjoyed that Paxton won the Republican nomination. You are probably miffed at Erick Erickson for badmouthing Paxton, and wondering if Erick is turning into a RINO. No, that’s just Erick being Erick, echoing the arguments against Paxton that the Cornyn campaign spent $100 million promoting, arguments that some of Erick’s consultant buddies got paid to promote, and which they may also sincerely believe. That’s the thing about campaign consultants — who can tell where their personal opinions end and their financial interests begin? They’re political mercenaries.

You cannot survive a career in politics if you take everything personally. As someone who writes for a living, and whose usual subject matter is politics, I’ve had to deal with this reality for many decades. There are people who hate me in ways that strike me as starkly irrational, even though I’m just a commentator on this crazy game, and all of us have witnessed how politically motivated hatred has spiraled out of control during the long pandemic of Trump Derangement Syndrome.

What about the substance of the anti-Paxton arguments? Even many of those defending Paxton feel the need to stipulate that he is “a sleazy politician,” in David Harsanyi’s words, but my thought is: Why should we do Democrats’ work for them? The facts regarding Paxton can be researched, and people can make up their own minds. Caveat emptor.

After five terms in the Texas House and another as a state senator, Paxton was the Tea Party favorite in the 2014 Republican primary for state Attorney General, where he defeated the establishment favorite, before winning the general election by a 20-point margin. In 2018, a “high tide” year for Democrats, Paxton squeaked to reelection by a 51% to 47% margin, and won reelection again in 2022 by nearly a 10-point margin. After his 2014 election, Paxton faced charges of, uh, ethical impropriety. He survived that and, in 2023, Paxton also survived impeachment proceedings in the Texas legislature, which he blamed on “the RINOs in the Texas Legislature,” accusing them of being “on the same side as Joe Biden” and attempting to “sabotage [Texas’s] legal challenges to Biden’s extremist agenda.” You can view all that however you like, just the same as you can view Paxton’s marital problems however you like. But is it true, as Erick Erickson says, that Paxton is an example of “the GOP offering up awful candidates”?

No, it’s not “the GOP” which is “offering up” Paxton, rather it is Texas voters who picked Paxton over the choice “offered up” by the Republican establishment. Paxton has won three consecutive statewide elections despite all the scandals, and the dissatisfaction of Republican primary voters with Cornyn was sufficient that Paxton beat him by 27 points, even after Republican donors poured $100 million into Cornyn’s campaign.

There can’t be any new “dirt” on Paxton that Cornyn’s campaign didn’t already reveal and even if 2026 turns out to be another “high tide” year for Democrats, it is unlikely that Paxton will lose to the “Beto 2.0” Democratic candidate James Talarico. Erick Erickson may lament that Christian conservatives are compelled to support Paxton, and I may even sympathize with Erick’s lamentations, but it doesn’t change the fact we are now in the general election campaign and it’s “game faces” time, as Ace of Spades sometimes says. Erick’s Republican consultant buddies have lost a valuable client, and I’m sure they feel bad about that, but it’s not like they didn’t cash some fat paychecks along the way.

Speaking of fat paychecks, did I mention that my wife and I are now visiting our Army son in Alaska? And that the Five Most Important Words in the English Language are Hit the Freaking Tip Jar?



 

Category: Blogging, Republicans, Texas

Our Sudden Alaska Road Trip

Posted on | May 30, 2026 | No Comments

Passing by Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson (JBER)

PALMER, Alaska
The walls at my son’s house here are adorned with hunting trophies — deer, caribou, turkey, duck, etc. His military exploits are just his day job. What he really cares about is hunting and fishing, and he’s obviously quite successful at that. Our flight left at 6 a.m. Friday, which meant we had to be up at 2 a.m., in order to make it to the airport by 4 a.m., just to allow for contingencies. We then flew to Chicago, where our connecting flight was delayed by a mechanical issue. The flight that was supposed to leave from Concourse E was scratched, and we were instead sent to Concourse C which you know, if you’ve ever been to O’Hare Airport, meant a long hike. That was more of a cardiovascular workout than I’ve had in a while. We finally arrived in Anchorage about 5 p.m. local time, which is 9 p.m. ET. Even though I was able to nod off for a while on the plane, that doesn’t really count as “sleep,” does it?

49th State Brewing Company

Years ago, I’d hear people talk about “jet lag” and didn’t comprehend it, but I was definitely feeling it by the time we landed in Anchorage. While waiting for our son to come pick us up, my wife and I had a quick bite at the 49th State Brewing Company location at Ted Stevens International Airport. Enjoyed a tall glass of their Eight-Star Lager and a margherita flatbread, which was nice. After my son (accompanied by granddaughter Eliza) picked us up, he explained he had to make a couple of stops on the way home, including one at the Bass Pro Shops in Anchorage.

Because I’d never visited a Bass Pro Shops location before, this was an eye-opening experience. Have you guys ever been to one of these? It’s not just a store, it’s like a sporting goods museum — something you’d take a school bus full of fifth-graders to see. There’s all kinds of stuffed animals (including a seven-foot-tall Kodiak bear) and more outdoor gear than you could ever imagine. It occurs to me that Bass Pro Shops might be the most American thing ever, combining the frontier spirit with the glories of capitalism in a way that makes you start humming Brooks & Dunn:

Only in America,
Where we dream in red, white, and blue.

When we visited Army son three years ago, he and his family were still in base housing at Joint Base Elmendoff-Richardson, which all the locals call JBER (an acronym pronounced “Jay Bear”). Since then, my son’s bought a house near Palmer — not inside the Palmer city limits, but with a Palmer address — and it’s very nice, with a high vaulted ceiling in the living room and big bay window in front. Didn’t spend much time looking around, however, because the jet lag was catching up fast, and I crashed out, waking up at about 1:30 a.m. local time, which is 5:30 ET.

So that’s the story of how we got here, and I’m sure I’ll have more for show-and-tell later this week, but for now, it’s back to the regular news, and the Five Most Important Words in the English Language are still:

HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR!



 

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In The Mailbox: 05.29.26 (Normal Evening Edition)

Posted on | May 30, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Doug Ross: A Day at Fort Sumner With Abner Doubleday (1861)
357 Magnum: Alabama Sheriff Ousted for NOT Working With ICE, also Two Good Guys with Guns Stop a Bad Guy
EBL: Cod Pil-Pil, Women: How To Find A Man, Normandie, and The Fall of Constantinople
Twitchy: Talarico’s Mystery Gal Pal, Daily Beast Hits Rock Bottom, and Democrats Turn On Sen. Fetterman After Appearance On Katie Miller Podcast
Louder With Crowder: James Talarico is all in on abortion for women…or, “all of our neighbors with a uterus”, Spencer Pratt Exposes Communist Karen Bass’s Younger Years Training to Be A Communist, AOC panders in hijab to celebrate Muslim holiday, but the men-only crowd ignores her, The Most Offensive Ad Ever, and Seattle’s socialist mayor’s excuse to NOT investigate Somali daycare fraud?
Vox Popoli: The Goalposts Move, Two Book Reviews, and Did the Exit Begin?
According To Hoyt: The AI Psy-op, Am I a Libertarian? Today We Remember, Busy, with A Chance of a post later, and The Clankers Did Sing
Cedar Sanderson: Child of Crows
Jim McCoy: Let’s Get These Made Into Video Games

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Greatness: One in Three American Men No Longer Working, Anti-Trump Entertainers Bolt from Freedom 250 Celebration, and Americans Savings Rate Falls to Lowest Level Since 2022
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For May 29
Behind The Black: ULA’s Atlas-5 rocket launches 29 Leo satellites for Amazon, SpaceX launches another 29 Starlink satellites, Firefly announces new stock sale aimed at raising more than a half billion in new funds, Curiosity drill samples taken at different elevations show different Martian climates, and Hundreds of NASA-funded researchers violated the law that bans working with China
Cafe Hayek: Worker Capitalists, also, Call for Papers (Seriously)
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: The most expensive HR decision in human history, Communication that human cognition is adapted for,
Don Surber: Making DC worthy of our greatness
First Street Journal: Well, of course he did!
Flopping Aces: Trump Just Nuked The Lawfare Machine
Gates Of Vienna: The Bureau of Missed Clues Strikes Again
The Geller Report: ‘YOUR WIFE. YOUR KIDS. ALL DEAD’, TRUMP EFFECT: From ‘HAMAS IS COMING’ to Old Glory, The Trump Transformation of Washington, Jihad Jew-Hater Mamdani Refuses To Attend Israel Day Parade, THE BIG LIE OF OCTOBER 7, and Kuwait Targeted by Missile and Drone Attack From Iran
Hollywood In Toto: Breadwinner Broadsided by YouTube Horror Sleepers, also, Is Music Industry’s Blacklist Worse than Hollywood’s Version?
Legal Insurrection: Jill Biden Says She Thought Joe Was ‘Having a Stroke’ During Disastrous Debate Performance, ICE Agent Arrested After Minneapolis DA Files Charges in Migrant Shooting Case, Far Left Activists Are Doubling Down at Utah Valley University, UC Faculty Warn Test-Optional Policies Are Failing STEM Students and Hurting Real ‘Equity’, and MI Senate Frontrunner ‘Struggles’ With Israel’s Right to Exist as a Jewish State
Nebraska Energy Observer: Jasmin’s Canada
Outkick: Rafael Jodar accused of pushing French Open ball girl, Brendan Sorsby admits wagering nearly $90,000 as NCAA fight heats up, Brewers pitcher Abner Uribe gets one-game suspension for crotch chop, Will Clark slams losing Giants for doing pelvic thrusts in the outfield, and Comedy prophecy finally comes true and you’re not allowed to eat McNuggets on roller coasters
Power Line: Asymptotic peace deal, A 50/50 State, Another Faux Sports Controversy, A response to Graham Platner, and Dr. Jill’s diagnosis
Racket News: New Show – Get Lit With Matt & Brad, 6/1 4:30 ET
Shark Tank: Everglades Trust Thanks Legislature For Allocating $600+ Million to Restoration
Shot In The Dark: Convention Weekend
STUMP: NY Pensions – Making Things More Expensive In The Latest State Budget
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday: Vietnam: Pull Out? Stay In? Escalate?
Victory Girls: Trump Gets UFC – No Kings Gets Jane Fonda
Watts Up With That: Pressure Causes Temperature? It’s Time to Climb Down from “Mount Stupid”, The ‘Dr Willie Soon got $1.2 million from Exxon’ Accusation … just got an increment more dicey, Guardian: US Illegal Immigrant Deportation Flights are Worsening the Climate Crisis, and Claim: Climate Change Could Make Hailstorms Worse
The Federalist: There’s No Such Thing As Pro-Life Feminism, Everything About E. Jean Carroll’s Half-Baked Hit Job Against Trump Was A Mess, Trump’s Counterterrorism Focus Shifts From Christian Parents To Antifa Thugs, Drug Cartels, Judge Blocks DOJ Victim Restitution After Leftists Complained The Victims Were Conservatives, and Virginia Democrats Are Back In Court For Deceptive Abortion Amendment
Mark Steyn: Tal Bachman: An Odyssey To Ignore?

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In The Mailbox: 05.29.26 (Very Early Morning Edition)

Posted on | May 29, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.


OVER THE TRANSOM
Doug Ross: Time-Surfing Boston
357 Magnum: We Have a Star Wars Movie
EBL: Harambe, Pan Fried Wahoo, Talarico : Too Low T for Texas, and Michelin Tires Delight
Twitchy: Jimmy Kimmel Whines About Spencer Pratt, Greg Gutfeld Has Jill Biden’s Number, and Jim Acosta & Katie Couric Laughingly Claim CBS & CNN Are Turning Into Propaganda Outlets
Louder With Crowder: Clothing company Patagonia sues “Pattie Gonia” the drag queen, There’s A Lot Of Misinformation About Data Centers. Here’s What You Need To Know, Jill Biden NOW claims she thought Joe Biden was having a stroke during the debate debacle, James Talarico claims he “regrets” his “cringe” comments about God being a non-binary vegan with six genders, and Verdict in Henry Nowak Murder Trial 
Vox Popoli: Replacement Theory in Britain, Stabbings in Switzerland, The Bubble is Popping, and Can’t Stop the Shine
Cedar Sanderson: Planning Ahead
Upstream Reviews: Shadow Hunter


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Greatness: Why the SAVE Act Matters, The Next DNI Must Finish the Job and Eliminate the ODNI, Acting AG Blanche Says Anti-ICE Agitator Will Be Arrested For Threating Agent During NJ Riot, Blue States Begin Scaling Back ‘Free’ Healthcare Benefits for Illegal Aliens, and Newsom Vows 100 Percent Tax on Trump ‘Anti-Weaponization Fund’ Payouts
BattleSwarm: Cornyn’s Slaughter: A Postmortem
Behind The Black: Blue Origin’s next New Glenn rocket explodes during static fire test on the launchpad, An icy Martian crater filled with brain terrain, New study using Chandrayaan-2 data again suggests ice in crater near Moon’s south pole, More opposition to the EU’s new space law, this time from European companies, and FAA grounds Starship/Superheavy pending completion of SpaceX’s investigation
CDR Salamander: Someone Called A Code Red On LaNeve
Da Tech Guy: American Success Stories: Kathleen MacMillian Owner of the Cozy Corner Coffee Shop in Fitchburg MA
Don Surber: You want the party back?
Flopping Aces: First Blood In Texas
Gates Of Vienna: Knife Jihad in Winterthur, also, How Does Islam Get Away with Treating Women Like Prey?
The Geller Report: Santa Monica – Violent Jew Hater Attacks Random Jewish Couple With a Bat, Then Sics His Dog On Them, 300 Crosses Disappear from Austrian Classrooms, New Jersey Poised to Elect AL QAEDA-Linked Muslim Candidate, Justice Department Files Challenge to California Electoral Maps, and US Launches Fresh Defensive Strikes Against Iran
Glenn Reynolds: Bringing Back Normality
Hollywood In Toto: Backrooms A Bold, Eerie Horror Debut Worth the Hype, Tuner: A Smart Crime Romance with Perfect Pitch, Supermodel Meets Artistic Genius in Underwhelming Moss & Freud, and Is Kimmel’s Pratt Assault Start of New Late-Night War?
Legal Insurrection: Democrats’ War on Meat Meets Texas Reality as Talarico’s Vegan Campaign Resurfaces, SPLC Wants Indictment Thrown Out For “Vindictive Prosecution”, Report Suggests More Than 400 American Colleges Could Close Over Next Decade, DOJ’s Criminal Probe of E. Jean Carroll Goes Well Beyond Lawfare, and SBA Chief: Biden Admin Tried to ‘Hide,’ ‘Forgive’ $200 Billion in Fraudulent PPP Loans
Nebraska Energy Observer: Tooling Up Friday: Wrenches
Outkick: Rams troublemaker Puka Nucua says he’s a changed man, Chiefs have no plans to release Rashee Rice, Hailey Van Lith waived by Connecticut Sun, D-backs fans catch same player’s homer on back-to-back nights after showing up for wrong game, and Burning Man’s Orgy Dome seeks help to recover from last year’s pounding
Power Line: On Climate, Theory vs. Observation, Emergency pardon, The Better Part of Valor, Blackwell’s folly, and Peace is at hand?
Shark Tank: Florida AFL-CIO Endorses Jose Javier Rodriguez For Attorney General
The Political Hat: Quick Takes – Discrimination In Academia
Transterrestrial Musings: How Did Version 3 Do? Kids These Days, Sarah Hoyt Is An OWL, and Whoa!
Victory Girls: Salon Hot Take: Trump’s Vulgarity Is Poisoning Public Life
Watts Up With That: The 1947 Heatwave, Which The Met Office Keeps Quiet About, No, Climate Central, Summer Warming Isn’t Due to Climate Change, AI Revolution: Leaving Green Energy States Behind, and Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair: “Abandon Net Zero and Move Closer to Trump”
The Federalist: What Does All-American Patriotism Look Like? Rachel Campos-Duffy Asked Her Coworkers, The Only Problem With NFL Star Jaxson Dart Meeting Trump Is Leftists’ Meltdown About It, If 1 In 5 Fairfax Residents Is Illegal, We Need Mass Deportations In Virginia Immediately, Under Spanberger, Illegal Aliens Face Less Scrutiny Than Law-Abiding Virginians Buying Guns, and Biden’s Trans-Crazed Effort To Flip Title IX On Its Head Is Finally Dead
Mark Steyn: Live Around the Planet, also, Live with Kindness

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In The Mailbox: 05.27.26

Posted on | May 28, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Tuna Melt, King John, and Ken Paxton Wins Republican Texas Senate Primary
Twitchy: WaPo Asks A Pool Guy If Trump Picked The Right Color For The Reflecting Pool,  ABC News Claims ICE Detainees Are Suiciding At “Alarming” Rate,  and NY Assemblyman Introduces 100% Tax On “Trump’s January 6 Slush Fund”
Louder With Crowder: Socialist LA mayoral candidate demands less money to protect Los Angelinos, but more money to give to the homeless, Chicago mayor finally takes stand against criminal teen takeovers…by going after social media companies, Woke state democrats declare war on health, push new initiative to criminalize killing animals for food, Joy Reid Claims Republicans Only Want Reparations For White People, and Real Cubans Explain How Communists Are Destroying Their Home
Vox Popoli: A Glimpse of a Post-Kantian World, We’re Number Two, An Existential Crisis, The Irony of the 8s, and Kant vs Kant
Upstream Reviews: Finnian and the Seven Mountains
Cedar Sanderson: Always Up and Up Again
John Wright: Everything is Proof of God
Stoic Observations: Sonny Rollins Brass

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Greatness: Sen. Sheehy Calls for IG Investigation of Montana Research Lab After Lapses Involving Deadly Viruses, Biden DHS Released Nearly 90 Percent of Border Migrants Through Parole Program, Department of Justice Charges American Journalist in Anti-CCP Sting, Sen. John Cornyn, Rep. Chip Roy Defeated in Texas Election, and Democrats Skip Fraud Roundtable at White House
BattleSwarm: Paxton Slaughters Cornyn, Middleton and Thomas Win, French Leading
Behind The Black: Space Force awards SpaceX $2.29 billion contract for military data constellation, A review of what happened and what’s next for Starship/Superheavy, German rocket startup signs deal with Nova Scotia spaceport, China launches communications test satellite, and A call to my readers: Find the location of NASA’s lunar base!
CDR Salamander: The Hard Math of Big Wars
Chicago Boyz: Random Thoughts – The Narrative Is Not The Terrain, also, Dangerous lies
Da Tech Guy: 100 Word Fan Fiction Part 3: Don’t Mention the War
Dana Loesch: About That Tuesday Night Texas Flood
Don Surber: Wacky birds whack Cornyn
First Street Journal: James Talarico: a representative of failing ‘progressive’ Christianity, and a hypocrite to boot
Flopping Aces: Democrats’ Redistricting Betrayal
Gates Of Vienna: ISIS in Reggio Emilia
The Geller Report: Toronto Police Block Jewish Customers From Entering Restaurant, After Escorting Keffiyeh Clad Pro-Terror Jew-Haters Into Same Restaurant, Team Trump Says Welfare Fraud Is So Vast It Could Wipe Out The Federal Deficit, DEMOCRATS LOSE – Florida Democrats Suffer Major Defeat As Judge Blocks Redistricting Challenge, Allows GOP Congressional Map To Stand, and PAXTON CRUSHES CORNYN
Hollywood In Toto: Liberal Film Critics Torch Woke Ladies First, ‘Daily Show’ Host Justifies Violence Against Trump, Pressure Reveals Untold Weather Battle That Shaped D-Day, Adam Carolla Curses Out Woke Chelsea Handler, and Horror Has Never Been Hotter…But Why?
Legal Insurrection: Hamas’s New Gaza Chief Eliminated in Israeli Strike, Have You Ever Heard of Turtle Island? How Intersectionality Ideology Drives Anti-Americanism, Buffoonish Democrat Rep. Al Green Defeated in Texas Runoff Election, Taxpayers Have Sent Millions To The Southern Poverty Law Center, and Inside Mamdani’s Plan to Seize ‘Neglected’ Properties, Redistribute to ‘Responsible Stewards’
Nebraska Energy Observer: The Surplus Store
Outkick: Bomani Jones Becomes Latest Commentator To Criticize Jaxson Dart, Caitlin Clark Spotted At Giants Game Before Heated Fever/Valkyries Showdown, WNBA Coach Doubles Down On Jalen Brunson, SEC Football Doing Away With “Cupcake Weekend” means the death of another college tradition, and Rep. Anna Paulina Luna rocks rifle in viral tweet featuring beautiful scenery
Power Line: Deep state, In the U.K., Violence Works, In camera inspection, Whistling Past the Graveyard, and Fraud, Iran, Texas Senate Race and Snakes
Shark Tank: Shevrin Jones Not Seeking Re-Election In SD34, Sparking Speculation
Shot In The Dark:
STUMP: RIP Kyle Busch – Sepsis Death Trends In The U.S.
The Political Hat: The Greatest Threat To Wales? Racist Babies!
Transterrestrial Musings: The Demonization Of Israel
Victory Girls: Trump Holds Cabinet Meeting While Iran Tries To Outlast Him
Watts Up With That: The WHO is at it Again: Climate Change Repackaged as a Health Emergency, Offshore Wind Confusion: Refunding a Lease is not a Buyout, New York State Renewable Permitting Scandal, Pope Leo’s First Encyclical is a Warning about Artificial Intelligence, and Energy Quango Costs Balloon Amid Miliband Net Zero Push
The Federalist: How California ‘Health Charities’ Funnel Money To Karen Bass And Other Democrats, Trump Admin Targets Big Immigration’s Legal Industrial Complex, No ‘Autopsy’ Is Going To Fix The Democrat Party’s Raging Anti-Americanism, Judge Hands Russia Hoaxer Marc Elias Major Loss By Upholding Florida’s New Congressional Map, and Complaint Accuses L.A.’s Incompetent Mayor Of ‘Blatant Electioneering’
Mark Steyn: A Change in Schedule

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In The Mailbox: 05.26.26 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | May 27, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Doug Ross: The Foreign Plot To Kill American AI
357 Magnum: Another Homemade Gun from Brazil, also Can You Stop a Home Invasion With a Cellphone?
EBL: Tuna Salad, “Inno di Garibaldi”, Mystic Massacre, and “Taps” American Cemetery Normandy
Twitchy: Jaguar – “Watch Us Alienate Our Customers”/Ferrari – “Hold My Chianti”, Oregon Petition To Ban Hunting & Fishing Qualifies For The Ballot, and Dan Bongino Torches “Piece of S***” Massie
Louder With Crowder: Judge waves fines for migrant who spread feces in a girl’s face…because he’s broke, Scouts were told to bow to Allah to “learn” about Islam, but one brave boy refused, CBS Reporter Cries Crocodile Tears To Medal Of Honor Recipients After Claiming America’s History Is Consumed By Darkness, Hasan Piker’s Downfall May Be Just What Unites America, and That democratic “nazi” candidate from Maine tried bonding with Dave Portnoy, but El Pres was NOT having it
Vox Popoli: Kiev Meets Mr. Hazel, The Energy of the Old World, The Nineteenth of March, A Hard Target, and I Think That’s a No
Ammo.com: Defensive Gun Use Statistics 2026
The Abbey of Misrule: The Return of Buccmaster

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American Greatness: House Oversight Committee Launches Probe into California’s $189 Million ‘Porn For Prisoners’ Tablet Program, Declining Fertility Rate Becoming ‘Existential Crisis’, States Toughen Penalties for Disrupting Religious Services, Trump Insists Muslim Nations Must Join Abraham Accords to Be Part of Iran Deal, and Trump Says Iran’s Enriched Uranium Will Be Turned Over to U.S. or Destroyed
Animal Magnetism: Animal Magnetism LIVE Ep. 89 – Alaska and Intelligent People
BattleSwarm: Memorial Day: Honoring William Gordon Windrich, Reset The “Days Since Last Trump Assassination Attempt” Sign Back To Zero, Movie Review: The Best Years Of Our Lives, and Texas Runoff Election Roundup
Behind The Black: NASA outlines new program of unmanned missions to Moon, Colorful Martian dunes, NASA approves lunar habitation module design from Italy’s space agency, Redwire completes testing on robot arm prototype for ESA, and Voyager wins $16.5 million DARPA contract to give solid-fueled rockets variable thrust
Cafe Hayek: On Private Money, also, Who’s Behaving as an Obnoxious Elite?
CDR Salamander: Do We Need To Rethink The Light Replenishment Oiler (T-AOL) Program?
Chicago Boyz: The Wall of Faces, Memorial Day at Lowe’s, Memorial Day & The Deprecation of Freedom, 3 PM, and What then shall we do?
Da Tech Guy: 100 Word Fan Fiction Part 2: The Still Faithful Short One, also, Interviews With Immigrants: Hanna From Iraq Seven Years Later
Don Surber: Ti-i-ime is on Trump’s side
First Street Journal: You in a heap o’ trouble, girl!
Flopping Aces: Todd Blanche Just Showed Republicans How to Handle Democrat Hearing Theater
Gates Of Vienna: Justice, Austrian-Style, No Comment, There Ain’t No Justice, Lest We Forget, and Culture-Enriching Brawl on a Flemish Tram
The Geller Report: The Perils of Foreign, Especially Muslim, Doctors in Europe, Syria Refuses To Take Back 700,000 Syrians From Germany, The Islamization of New York’s Government, TIME Magazine Gives Glowing Cover Article to Nazi Platner, and Masked Muslims Parade a Jew Being Hanged Through The Montreal Streets
Hollywood In Toto: This Trump Derangement Victim Is Saddest Case of All, Saccharine Serves Up Ultimate Dieting Supplement, Obsession Director Is Shaming Hollywood to the Core (UPDATED), Midway Point (Barely) Overcomes Familiar Teen Romance Tropes, and Fox and the Hound – Disney’s Dark, Underrated Gem
Legal Insurrection: U.S. Strikes Iranian Missile Sites, Mine-Laying Boats Near Strait of Hormuz, Opinion: Treasury is Rightly Focused on Nonprofit Transparency, President Trump Approves Emergency Declaration for Orange County Chemical Leak, Dem Rep Sparks Liberal Fury After Calling Graham Platner’s Nazi Tattoo ‘Disqualifying’, and Federal Court Temporarily Blocks Alabama’s New Congressional Map
Nebraska Energy Observer: So tomorrow is Memorial Day what to do for the Sunday Matinee? Look! Look! Here Are the Americans! and Steam Tour
Outkick: Kirby Smart Supports SEC Leaving NCAA If There Aren’t Major Changes, How Many Times Has Gilgeous-Alexander Flopped To Get Foul Calls In The NBA Playoffs? Spurs Fans In Low-Cut Tops Say They’ll Be There For Game 6, FIFA Faces Lawsuit Over Planned Ban On Iranian “Lion & Sun” Flag, and Former Prison Guard Whose Sex Tape With Prisoner Went Viral Now Filled With Regret, Now Focusing On Being A Mom
Power Line: Red States Clobbering Blue States, Include us out, Memory versus anti-history, Stock market paradox, and Who’s Behind the War on Data Centers?
Racket News: Humanity Needs To Get Offline
Shark Tank: Catalina Lauf Slams Madison Cawthorn Over Memorial Day Meet & Greet
Shot In The Dark: Living Memory
The Political Hat: Your Digital Papers, Please
This Ain’t Hell: Still at it, also, The Struggle Is Real
Transterrestrial Musings: Cuba, The Church Of TDS, Why Democrats Need To Call Republicans “Nazis”, Best Practices, and “Free Palestine”
Victory Girls: Jeffries Tries to Define What is/is not Acceptable anti-Semitism in Democrat Party, Occasional Cortex Beclowns Herself in Alabama, Residents Not Amused, and Graham Platner Gets Smacked Down For Chris Kyle Commentary
Watts Up With That: Energy Apartheid Denying Africa Tech Future, Guardian Reveals Secret Plan by BHP to Backtrack on Climate Action, UK Climate Change Committee’s Latest Weather Witterings Indicate Met Office Chief Should Step Down, Rage, Rage Against the Dying of the Net Zero Dream, and Climate Anxiety? Get A Life!
The Federalist: ‘Cherish Them All’: Racing Fans Will Never Forget NASCAR Legend Kyle Busch, Ken Paxton Unseats John Cornyn In Latest Blowout Defeat For Establishment GOP, SCOTUS Case Makes Freight Brokers Responsible For Crashes Caused By Commercial Immigrant Drivers, By Sabotaging Redistricting, South Carolina Republicans Beg Voters To Hand Them The Pink Slip, and New Sci-Fi Novel Tells A Very American Story On Mars
Mark Steyn: Mbube Switcheroonie! High Society, “Some Enchanted Evening” – Rodgers and Hammerstein, AND Frank Sinatra, The Swallows Skim, and All Is Hushed, and The (New But) Lost Frontier

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In The Mailbox: 05.26.26 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | May 26, 2026 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

This post is brought to you by the Nye County Elections Board, whose ballot scanner isn’t working today.
So I got the day off to annoy people on X and do this post.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Doug Ross: A Day With MSG Roy Benavidez In Cambodia (1968), A Day on Okinawa With Desmond Doss (1945),
EBL: Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Memorial Day Snook, The National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, “Arlington”, and Housemaid
Twitchy: Mike Pence Tries Scolding Republicans About Civility and OUCH, Daily Mail Roasted By Funniest Community Note Ever On Troon Yoinked From Womens Locker Room, and Iran’s About To Get Dog-Walked
Louder With Crowder: Three teens film themselves raping schoolgirls they targeted online, but the judge is giving them a second chance, Sunny Hostin Rants 2020 BLM Riots Were Not That Bad, Claims Jan. 6 Was Far Worse, Spencer Pratt fires back at Chelsea Handler’s attack on him being straight, white, and male, LAPD Releases Videos of SHOCKING Rat-Filled Conditions Homeless People Live In, and Brawl Breaks Out At Kindergarten Graduation After Family Confronted For Hogging Seats
Vox Popoli: PROBABILITY ZERO 2nd Edition, Round Three Warning, A Certain Degree of Irony, Rejecting the Empire’s Protection, and The Atheist’s Genetic Fallacy
Upstream Reviews: Of All The Gin Joints In The Universe (3/4)
Cedar Sanderson: Why Do You Read Books? also, Memorial Day
Jim McCoy: Minutegirls, Reluctant Emissaries, Edenet, also, Storm Between The Stars
Stoic Observations: Outfitting
Based Book Sale: Craig Wilson Makes Hard SF Meet Deep Time
Defending The Wood Perilous: Defending The Wood Perilous {part 1 of 8, start here}
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: AI Mania

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Don Surber: Sheriff or inmate?
Elizabeth Nickson: Elite Confiscation of Property Rights Is The Base Of Our Collapsing Prosperity
STUMP: Memorial Day 2026 Weekend Warnings {Better late than never. W-s.}

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