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In The Mailbox: 06.13.25 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | June 14, 2025 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

You know what today is.
Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

Everything is a JoJo reference if you want it bad enough.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Lafayette: France’s forgotten hero, America’s beloved patriot, Israel Strikes Iran’s Nuclear Program, Friday the 13th, and The Mullahs Strike Back
Twitchy: Woman Causes Nuclear Meltdown With Child’s Name But Posters Have Even BetterWorse Ones, No Jessica, Mothers Helping Daughters Get Abortions Isn’t A Crime, But Guess What Is? and Gov. Hairgel Steps On Self-Awareness Rake Over “Weakness” Slam On Trump/Army Parade
Louder With Crowder: Sheriff will “notify your family where to collect your remains” if leftist protesters try their LA nonsense in Florida, Karoline Leavitt leaves journalismer in shock with her response to No Kings Day protests, Democrat Senator aggressively confronts Kristi Noem, gets dropped and put down by her security, Democrat official demands local police OBSTRUCT ICE operations, and Failed vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz REFUSES to let go of comparing ICE to the Gestapo
Vox Popoli: Israel’s Satanic Elite Revealed, Why Iran Won’t Strike Back, Owning the Alphas, and Introducing AI Central
According To Hoyt: By Firelight, Long Ago, It Must Be, Everything’s Gonna Tumble, and It’s Just A Step To The Left
Upstream Reviews: The Words of the Night
Stoic Observations: The Iranian Nuclear Annex, Things I’m Actually Doing With AI
Gab: Whose Flag Actually Flies Over America?

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Washington as Seen From Georgetown Salons
American Greatness: U.S. Senator from California Forcibly Removed from DHS Immigration Press Conference, Anti-Trump Communist Group ‘Refuse Fascism’ to Stage Protest in D.C. Saturday Ahead of Grand Military Parade, Rep. Jim Jordan Launches Investigation Into Illegal Immigrant Suspected in Boulder Terror Attack, We Need a ‘Kill Switch’ on Foreign Powers Tampering With Our Electric Grid, and Israel Wipes Out Iran’s Top Military Chain of Command
American Thinker: Trump Won in that Trade Pact with China — In More Ways Than One, also, Ashli Babbitt Didn’t Have to Die—For Multiple Reasons
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Don’t Mess With the Bull Friday
Baldilocks:
BattleSwarm: LA Riot News Roundup, Abbott Calls Out National Guard Before Leftists Can Loot, Israel Hits Iran’s Nuclear Sites, and LinkSwarm for June 13
Behind The Black: The mad mountains of Mars, SpaceX launches 23 more Starlink satellites, French startup The Exploration Company launches its own recovery ship, and Kazakhstan moves west
Cafe Hayek: Full Text of Gramm’s and Boudreaux’s “Yes, the U.S. GDP Decline Is an Ominous Sign”, also, The Profit Motive Will Ensure Adequate Supplies of Rare Earths
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: The Smile on the Face of the Tiger, also, “What’s Next?”
Da Tech Guy: Dear Iran: We Believe You Signed: Israel
Don Surber: Sucks to be Iran this morning
First Street Journal: Today’s left truly hate #FreedomOfSpeech…for people other than themselves, World War III Watch: Israel tries to destroy Iran’s nuclear capabilities, and Will the “No Kings” protests be peaceful?
Gates Of Vienna: Trump Administration Not Vetting Appointments Properly — Jihadis Slipping Through, also, Pas d’Islam Pour Moi!
The Geller Report: NEWSOM OVERTURNED: Appeals Court Rules in Trump’s Favor , Breathtaking Ingenuity – Israel’s Surgical Precision, One For the Ages, President Trump ENDS Insane EV mandate , Trump Unapologetic as He Works to Restore Law and Order and The Large Majority of American Public is With Him, and FBI Is Investigating Funding Behind Violent Riots in LA
Hollywood In Toto: DHS Hammers Kim Kardashian Over Anti-ICE Screed, Is George Clooney a Deep State Asset? Katy Perry’s Woke Land Acknowledgement, Explained, Materialists Gets to Ugly Heart of Romance, and Late-Night Hacks on L.A. Riots – Riots? What Riots?
The Lid: Dr. Phil Blasts Leftists and Media Lapdogs for Lying about Why L.A. Riots Started
Legal Insurrection: “I think it’s been excellent” – Trump Reacts To Israel Attack On Iran’s Nuclear Program, Dem Senator Compares Padilla Takedown to John Lewis Fighting for Civil Rights in the 60s, NY Times Lovingly Defends Rioters Flying Mexican Flags, Netanyahu calls on Iranian People to stand “up for your freedom from an evil and oppressive regime, it has never been weaker”, and Florida Sheriff Offers Grave Warning to Would-be Rioters: ‘We Will Kill You’
Outkick: What Happens When College Athletes Don’t Disclose NIL Deals In House Settlement Era? Angel Reese Turns In Another Terrible Game As Brittney Griner, Dream, Dominate Chicago Sky, Do The Florida Panthers Have A Miami Dolphins Problem? Thunder Will Bounce Back At Pacers In Game 4 Of 2025 NBA Finals Like They Always Do, Right?, and MAGA Bikini Congresswoman Humiliates Tim Walz, CBS’s Jenny Dell Goes Cowgirl & Maggie Sajak Takes A Bath
Power Line: Tim Walz, Chinese Agent? No Daylight, Rising Lion, and Thoughts from the ammo line
Shark Tank: Concerned About FEMA Disappearing, FL Senate Spends Millions On State Guard 
Shot In The Dark: Just Like Every Flag Day, also, Picture If You Will
STUMP: Men’s Health Week 2025 – RIP Brian Wilson
The Political Hat: Quick Takes – Mandatory & Prohibited In Academia: Equity Lens For Football; Illegal Race-Based Admissions; Cultural Items Forbidden From View
This Ain’t Hell: Renamed military bases will have their former Confederate names restored, Soldier criticizing Marine deployment goes viral – The fact that she has been out for five years is left out, Ships to be renamed, too, Valor Friday, and The Department of Homeland Security receives Medicaid data that could help them locate illegal aliens
Transterrestrial Musings: Brian Wilson, Los Angeles, Of Monasteries And Universities, and The Real War Has Finally Begun
Victory Girls: Gavin Newsom’s Primetime Speech Was A Political Failure, also, Democrats Rediscover The American Flag
Watts Up With That: The Great Climate Murder, Making the Power Grid Great Again, CNN’s Climate Photo Op Exposed, and Oh where, oh where is the Energy Transition?
The Federalist: How The L.A. Riots Demonstrate Democrat-Media Complex’s Loss Of Narrative Control, Dems Find Second Judge To Block More Of Trump’s Order Enforcing Election Law, It’s Friday The 13th. Here Are 13 Signs That You May Be Unlucky, Or Just A Schmuck, Here’s How The Media Are Lying Right Now: Alex Padilla Just ‘Asking A Question’ Edition, and Report Says L.A. Riots Force ‘Rescheduling’ Of 600 Veteran Health Care Appointments
Mark Steyn: Demography All the Way Down, Live Around the Planet – Decline & Fall, Surrendering to the Left’s Framing, Carney Games, and Mannsplaining

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One Standard Deviation: How Israel Targeted Iran’s Top Air Force Leaders

Posted on | June 13, 2025 | No Comments

Say hello to Brig. Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh and, while you’re at it, go ahead and say good-bye because, as Clemenza said of Paulie, you won’t see him no more:

The commander of the IRGC [Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps] air force, Brig. Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Iran overnight, the IDF announces.
According to the military, the top brass of the IRGC Aerospace Force was killed alongside him as they met in an underground command center to prepare to attack Israel.
The command center was struck by fighter jets, the IDF says. . . .
Among the senior officials killed were the commanders of the IRGC’s drone unit and air defense unit, the military says. . . .
“Hajizadeh publicly pledged allegiance to the idea of destroying Israel on multiple occasions in recent years and played a central role in formulating the plan to destroy Israel,” the army adds.

Did you know Jews are smart? I mean, on average, despite such utter dummies as Joy Behar. “Jews — specifically, Ashkenazi Jews of European origins — test higher than any other ethnic group. . . . [T]heir mean IQ was .97 standard deviation above the rest of the [U.S.] population” (The Bell Curve, p. 275). A “standard deviation” is about 15 IQ points, the difference between “bright normal” and genius.

Israel is a nation born in war, and which has been under attack regularly since its modern founding in 1948. Since the 1980s, Israel has had an influx of Ashkenazi migrants from the former Soviet Union, including many ultra-Orthodox Jews with large families. Thus you have a nation of approximately 7 million Jews, the entire population of whom are, on average, one standard deviation smarter than their Arab neighbors, and devoted to military activity as their only hope of survival.

The Israelis fight smart, you see:

As it became clear Israel was about to attack, the commanders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ air force convened in a bunker to coordinate the response.
But Israel knew that emergency protocol, and the location of the bunker. They destroyed it, killing the overall commander and the heads of the drone and air defense forces. “The fact that there was nobody to give the order neutralized an immediate Iranian response,” an Israeli official said.
They were among the more than two dozen Iranian commanders targeted in a sprawling attack on Iran’s military command-and-control. The heads of the IRGC, the Iranian military and Iran’s emergency military headquarters were all eliminated in the opening salvo.
Another key target was Iran’s air defense systems and radars. Israeli intelligence mapped their locations, and most were hit by the Israeli Air Force in the opening strike. That gave the IDF virtually unchallenged freedom of operation in Iran’s skies.
Meanwhile on the ground, Israel’s Mossad spy agency was conducting a series of covert sabotage operations deep inside Iran to take out air defenses and ballistic missile launchers. . . .
n central Iran, Mossad commando units had positioned guided weapons systems in open areas near Iranian surface-to-air missile launchers.
In another area inside Iran, Mossad covertly deployed weapon systems and sophisticated technologies hidden in vehicles. When the Israeli attack began, these weapons were launched and destroyed Iranian air defense targets.

You see why I started out with a Godfather allusion. Like Michael Corleone eliminating the heads of rival Mafia gangs, Israel is settling all the family business in Iran. And they’re just so much smarter than the Iranians, it almost seems unfair. Can you imagine the kind of long-term surveillance and planning that went into this operation? Like, figuring out where the Iranian air force leaders would meet in an emergency, mapping out the location of that bunker, giving them some kind of signal of an impending attack, then watching them scurry to their bunker and — WHAM! — you took out the leadership at the outset of the campaign, so “that there was nobody to give the order” for the Iranian counter-attack. Meanwhile, you’ve got Mossad spies sneaking around all over Iran, ready to play their part in wrecking the enemy’s air defenses, so that the Israeli Air Force can fly in without danger of getting shot down.

One standard deviation — it’s a lethal advantage.



 

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In The Mailbox: 06.13.25 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | June 13, 2025 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Bumped due to last night’s decapitation strike, or rather, Stacy’s post on same.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Car-ma in Ohio
EBL: Brian Wilson RIP, Stockholm Bloodbath, MAGA Karoline Leavitt and the Los Angeles riots, Democrats Dump Hogg, and So How Is The Harvey Weinstein Trial Going?
Twitchy: Judge Rules Trump Can’t Use National Guard In LA, Eric Swalwell Promises Death of Democracy If Americans Skip “No Kings” Riots, and “That’s Not What We All Just Watched”
Louder With Crowder: Democrats just fired David Hogg over a silly “diversity” quota, and you almost feel bad for him, “No amount of words is going to clean up your failed record”, Democrats think this woman’s sob story about food stamps will make you feel bad, Drag queens show up to “defy” Donald Trump at Kennedy Center performance, and Fifty-nine Percent Of Americans Approve Of Deployment of National Guard in LA
Vox Popoli: A Clue to the Next Phase, Dialectic > Rhetoric, NATO is Dead, Israel Attacks Iran, and Is Israel Rolling the Dice Again?
Cedar Sanderson: This Week In Reading
Stoic Observations: Theory Behind XR – viz. Groupthink, also, Minimal Group Paradigm
Toni Airaksinen: Where Are All The Pro-Israel Professors?

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Ukraine’s ‘Spider’s Web’ Could Ensnare Kiev and the West
American Greatness: NJ Rep. LaMonica McIver Hit With Federal Charges, Faces 17 Years in Prison, Rep. Stefanik Blasts ‘Heartless’ Gov. Hochul For Not Knowing Names of ‘Illegals Who Burned Alive, Raped, Molested New Yorkers’, Trump Warns ‘Any’ Protesters at Military Parade Will Be ‘Met With Heavy Force’, House Oversight Committee Launches Investigation into Neville Singham, and Senator Chris Murphy Is Doing What?
American Thinker: Learn From The Romans – You Cannot Welcome Armed, Unassimilated Enemies, No One’s Illegal on Stolen Land—And Other Nonsense Shouted Between Acts of Arson, Our Fiery but Mostly Peaceful Foreign Invasion, and White Lives Don’t Matter
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News, also, Animal’s Red Thursday News
Behind The Black: SpaceX launches 26 more Starlink satellites, Voyager Technologies raises nearly $400 million in first public stock offering, Europe’s Solar Orbiter takes first images of the Sun’s south pole, Axiom manned mission delayed further because of new Zvezda leaks on ISS, and Why Kennedy’s decision to fire everyone at the CDC advisory panel was only a start
CDR Salamander: Send Our Best & Brightest To Grad School?
Dana Loesch: Israel Strikes Iran
Don Surber: NYT complains Florida’s taxes are too low
Gates Of Vienna: The New, Improved Greta Thunberg, All Hell is Breaking Loose, and The Balloon Goes Up
Matt Taibbi: In Defense of Terry Moran
Shark Tank: Uthmeier Announces Initiative To Protect ICE Agents From Doxxing
Shot In The Dark: The Numbers

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‘An Earth-Shattering Kaboom’: Israel Wipes Out Top Iranian Military Leaders UPDATE: ‘Decapitation Strike’ — List

Posted on | June 13, 2025 | No Comments

Wednesday I spoke to a colleague who said to me in a very matter-of-fact way that Iran was going to get hit soon. He isn’t some kind of security-clearance type, but he does have a few “sources close to the Trump administration,” as an Objective Journalist would say, and I don’t know how he knew it, but he was certainly correct. It has been pointed out that, on April 12, Trump said Iran had 60 days to reach an agreement on ending its nuclear weapons program, and today? Yeah — Day 61.

Anyway, this is YUGE:

Iran’s state-run Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) confirmed in the early hours of Friday morning local time that Israeli airstrikes on targets in the country eliminated Major General Hossein Salami, the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
Other arms of Iran’s state news apparatus confirmed several other high-profile regime members, including two nuclear scientists, were killed in the strikes. While unverified reports suggested that Salami may be far from the only high-ranking Iranian regime official to have been targeted successfully in the operation, he is the only one whose death the Iranian government has confirmed at press time.
Salami has sustained a place as one of the most prominent and belligerent senior leaders in the Iranian Islamist regime, regularly threatening attacks on America and Israel. In what was perhaps his final public appearance on Thursday, Salami declared that his forces were “war-tested and experienced,” prepared for war against its enemies.
The IRGC is both a U.S.-designated terrorist organization and a formal wing of the Iranian Armed Forces. Among its chief operations is to sustain relations between the Iranian terror state and its jihadist proxies, such as the Houthis in Yemen and Lebanese Hezbollah, and with fellow rogue states such as Venezuela and Cuba.
IRNA confirmed Salami’s death in a brief message that offered no details on the occurrence. It confirmed that Salami died in Tehran and claimed him a victim of “assassination.” In a separate report, the state news outlet confirmed a barrage of airstrikes over the capital city by the Israeli Air Force.
Another Iranian state media outlet, PressTV, reported early Friday that the strikes had “martyred … several other senior IRGC commanders and nuclear scientists.
“Veteran nuclear scientists Mohammad-Mehdi Tehranchi and Fereydoon Abbasi have also been martyred in the attack,” PressTV reported . . .

The list of targets eliminated already is very long — nuclear sites and missile sites among them — and Israel’s attacks are continuing.

UPDATE: Known kills so far:

  • IRGC Chief-of-Staff Hossein Salami
  • IRGC General Gholamali Rashid
  • Chief of Staff Mohammad Bagheri
  • Ali Shamkhani, Senior Advisor to Khamenei

And these nuclear scientists:

  • Dr. Fereydoun Abbasi
  • Dr. Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi
  • Dr. Abdolhamid Minouchehr
  • Dr. Ahmad Reza Zolfajari

Various sites associated with Iran’s nuclear and missile programs were also hit and, as I say, the Israeli strikes are continuing — it’s almost 10 a.m. in Iran now — so we can expect this list to grow.

UPDATE II: Associated Press (1:44 a.m. ET):

Israel attacked Iran’s capital early Friday in strikes that targeted the country’s nuclear program and killed at least two top military officers, raising the potential for an all-out war between the two bitter Middle East adversaries. It appeared to be the most significant attack Iran has faced since its 1980s war with Iraq.
The strikes came amid simmering tensions over Iran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program and appeared certain to trigger a reprisal, with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warning that “severe punishment” would be directed at Israel. Israel said Iran had launched drones in an initial response.
Multiple sites around the country were hit, including Iran’s main nuclear enrichment facility, where black smoke could be seen rising into the air.
The leader of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, Gen. Hossein Salami, was confirmed dead, Iranian state television reported, a development that is a significant blow to Tehran’s governing theocracy and an immediate escalation of its long-simmering conflict with Israel.
The chief of staff of Iranian armed forces, Gen. Mohammad Bagheri, was also confirmed dead by Iranian state television. Other top military officials and scientists were believed to have been killed. . . .
Some 200 Israeli aircraft took part in the opertion, hitting about 100 targets, Israeli army chief spokesman Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin said, adding that the attacks were ongoing.
In the aftermath, Defrin said Iran had launched more than 100 drones toward Israel and that “all the defense systems are acting to intercept the threats.”



 

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In The Mailbox: 06.12.25 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | June 12, 2025 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Reminder that pre-registration for Son of Silvercon closes Saturday, so if you want your military/N3F/veteran discount, get to the website and either hit the PayPal button or send us a check.
I guess Sabrina Carpenter has a new album out and it’s reminding a lot of people of a Spinal Tap album. I thought it owed more to the Scorpions, myself.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: “Long Live the V8”, also Good Guy With a Gun Stops a Bad Guy with a Knife
EBL: Stick
Twitchy: Mollie Hemingway Wrecks Jake Tapper For Refusing To Testify About Biden Senility Claims, TikToker Exposes “No Kings Day” For Paying Influencers $200/Day To Support Riots, and Rep. Elise Stefanik Makes NY Gov. Hochul Face Tragic Effects Of Sanctuary Policies
Louder With Crowder: Mexican official calls for Mexico to take to TAKE BACK all the land America has conquered, Gavin Newsom fake cries through a “national address” blaming Trump for the riots, Criminal Alien Charged with Attempted Murder After Allegedly Throwing Molotov Cocktail at Police During LA Riots, Typical white liberal protesters mock a black woman as they block her from going to work, and “La manifestante muy grande” calls on LA rioters to bring leaf blowers, tells Trump to suck her left… wait, what?
Vox Popoli: The Next Domino Falls, The Expansion of Human History, Vampires Hardest Hit, AI is Killing College, and Marching Orders
Cedar Sanderson: For The Fathers
Jim McCoy: Message For The Devil
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Popular Misconceptions

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: The Israeli Navy Strikes Yemen From The Sea
Don Surber: X Is Winning On The LA Story
Matt Taibbi: Activism, Uncensored – The LA Riots
Shark Tank: Poll Shows Byron Daniels With Comfortable Lead Over David Jolly In FL Governor Race
Shot In The Dark: Like Dunkirk Only With Robots
STUMP: Public Pensions April Update – Assets Edition

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In The Mailbox: 06.10.25

Posted on | June 11, 2025 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

There’s a new Starquest Kickstarter!
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: Civil Unrest Inc. 
EBL: Last Breath, Sly Stone RIP, and ABC News’ Terry Moran: You’re Fired
Twitchy:  Legacy Media Rolling Out Cheap Fakes 2.0, Gov. Hairgel On Verge Of Tears Pushing Back Against Trump Not Rioters, and Watch A Rioter Throwing Fireworks At Cops Allegedly Catch A Rubber Bullet In The Face
Louder With Crowder: Speaker Mike Johnson’s eye roll when asked about crazy Maxine Waters says it all, Anti-ICE protester melts down over simple question asked by cop, LA anti-ICE rioters realize the lack of American flags is bad optics, Based TikToker goes on brilliant rant why he SUPPORTS the anti-ICE protests, and Los Angeles Riots Push Donald Trump to the Edge of the Insurrection Act
Vox Popoli: A Coming Catastrophe, The Collapse of Scientific Materialism, America is Gone, The Dissolution Proceeds, and Peaceful Protests in LA
Toni Airaksinen: Arabic Prof On Leave Claims “I am Hamas. We are all Hamas.”
Postcards From Barsoom: The Class of 2026
Gopher Wood Lounge: What is Incensepunk? With D.J. Butler
Jim McCoy: Tentacles of the Dominion

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: The Hero With a Thousand Pages
American Greatness: Al-Qaeda Leader Urges Followers to Assassinate Trump And Others Over Gaza War, Rep. Darrell Issa Seeks Answers to LAPD’s Delayed Response to Besieged ICE Officers, Harvard Cries Foul Over $3 Billion Grant Cut—But Guess Who Funded It in the First Place? California Sues Trump Over National Guard Deployment in Los Angeles, and Who Really Are the Lawless and the Dictatorial?
American Thinker: The LA Riots Prove that Democrats Need Illegals, also, Of Course It’s Legal: The National Guard Is Doing Its Job—Because Gavin Newsom Wouldn’t
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Insurrection News
BattleSwarm: Soros Tries To Buy Texas Again
Behind The Black: SpaceX launches 23 more Starlink satellites, Scientists increase the odds asteroid 2024 YR4 will impact the Moon in 2032, Blue Origin again delays 2nd launch of New Glenn, Mexican officials demand investigation into Starship/Superheavy debris on its beaches, and Trump eliminates restrictions against supersonic flights over the U.S.
Cafe Hayek: Predatory Pricing Is A Foolish Strategy
CDR Salamander: What Happened To Command Accountability & Responsibility?
Chicago Boyz: An Interesting Parallel
Da Tech Guy: Same Old Democrat Song and Dance on Obeying Federal Law: 1861, 1957, 2025
Dana Loesch: Tuesday Night Thoughts
Don Surber: Why are Democrats choosing war?
First Street Journal: The only good immigrant is a legal immigrant
Gates Of Vienna: The Rectification of Names, also, There’s No Political Solution
The Geller Report: ‘Palestinian’ Authority Top Dog Abbas Praises October 7 massacre Ahead of Pro-‘Palestinian’ Summit, Jihadi Jew-Hating NYC Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani Defends Boycotting Israel, Vows to Arrest Netanyahu At Synagogue Event, and Trump Holds Phone Call With Netanyahu to Discuss Iran’s Jihad Nukes
Hollywood In Toto: Raunchy Tires Finds the Funny in Season 2, Colbert Minimizes L.A. Riots in Cringe-Worthy Fashion, and Jason Bateman: Trump Supporters ‘Need a Talking To’
The Lid: Don’t Look Now, But Trump Is Winning Most of the Court Cases Brought Against Him
Legal Insurrection: Researchers Create Mosquito STD to Combat Malaria, Effective Against Insecticide-Resistant Bugs, 2020 DIA Assessment Pointed to Lab Leak from Wuhan Institute of Virology, CNN Analyst Says No Group Has Flipped Harder Right on Immigration Than Legal Immigrants, Democrats Planning Nationwide ‘No Kings’ Anti-Trump Protests This Weekend, and Notice Anything Different About the LA Riots on Monday?
Matt Taibbi: The “Mostly Peaceful” Revolution
Outkick: Riley Gaines Accepts Simone Biles’ Apology, Hey USA Soccer, This Is An Absolute Joke, Shohei Ohtani Might Be Back On The Mound Sooner Than Expected, Oilers Defenseman Jake Walman Slapped With Fines For His Part In Penalty-Filled Game 3, and Gigi Paris Has A Bone To Pick With Sydney Sweeney & Tyrese Haliburton’s Girlfriend Gets Feisty
Power Line: The Nullification Crisis of 2025, Riots boost Trump, and The Europeans Get Serious
Shark Tank: Debbie Mayfield Seeks Return To FL Senate In SD-19
Shot In The Dark: Red Zone
The Political Hat: Wokeness vs. Classical Liberalism
This Ain’t Hell: Epstein and Trump, Send in the Marines, and California governor dares Trump official to arrest him – Cries foul when Trump called for it
Victory Girls: Senator John Fetterman Tells Democrats LA Riots Are “Anarchy And True Chaos”
Watts Up With That: We Need a ‘Kill Switch’ on Foreign Powers Tampering With Our Electric Grid, Empty Seats and Hurricane Histrionics, DOT asked to terminate illegal floating wind grant, and Sunnova Declares Bankruptcy
The Federalist: Mexico Is Complicit In The L.A. Riots, And There Should Be Consequences, NYT ‘Disinformation’ Experts Blame Online Conservatives, Not Rioters, For LA Riots, New Election 2024 Report Raises ‘Serious Questions About The Health Of Michigan’s Elections’, Today In Republicans Being Useless – Josh Hawley Pushes Failed Left-Wing Economics, and Left’s War On Law And Order Shows Where Its True Sympathies Lie
Mark Steyn: Who We Are, Here and There

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In The Mailbox: 06.09.25

Posted on | June 10, 2025 | No Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: Dear Kash Patel…,Top 20 Scenes From The Democrat Insurrection In LA, 
357 Magnum: Citigroup Drops Anti 2nd Amendment Policy
EBL: LA Leftists Riot, Bridget Fonda, Pentecost Sunday, ‘Bold Nelson’s Praise’ , and Secretariat
Twitchy: White House Dropped A Video That Puts a Mushroom Cloud Over “Peaceful Protest” BS, Pickup Truck Seen Delivering Pricy Riot Masks To LA Rioters, and Cynical Publius’ Ten Keys To Understanding The LA Riots
Louder With Crowder: ABC News dismisses the LA riots because it’s just a “bunch of people having fun watching cars burn”, As LA burns (again) over illegals, Donald Trump drops a banger quote on bringing law and order, whether CA likes it ot not, Boston’s woke mayor just compared immigration inforcement to neo-Nazis, NAACP announces special award to any school board member who defies Donald Trump’s executive orders, and Media claims it’s a catastrophe that illegals are being deported from Martha’s Vineyard, thinks we forgot two years ago
Vox Popoli: World Health = Converged Population, The Irrelevance of the US Navy, AI Estimate for US Breakup, The Vessel of Dreams, and Hell No, They Won’t Go
Upstream Reviews: Rock & Roll Mercenaries, also, Need Something To Watch This Summer?
Cedar Sanderson: The Luddites Are Winning, also, Rules For Hot Humid & Thirsty
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Hmph, You Get The Behavior You Tolerate, and Needs Must Drive
Toni Airaksinen: ER Doctor Says “Don’t Let Zionists Into Hospitals & Professional Groups”
Stoic Observations: Still Squinty

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Are Musk, Paul, and Massie More MAGA Than MAGA?
American Greatness: RFK Jr. Fires Entire CDC Vaccine Advisory Panel, DHS Tells California Dems to ‘Call Off Their Rioting Mob’ After Weekend of Violent Anti-ICE Chaos in LA, L.A. Protests Stretch Into Third Night After Chaotic Sunday, Gavin Newsom and His Cruel Notion of ‘Cruel’, and We Need a ‘Kill Switch’ on Foreign Powers Tampering With Our Electric Grid
American Thinker: The Hard Truth about ‘L’Affaire Chauvin’, Politicians and Bankers Are Crooks, Anatomy of A(nother) Blood Libel, Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Is a Boon to Working Americans — Not a Handout to the Wealthy, and Is Long COVID Actually Vaccine Injury?
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
BattleSwarm: Left Cranks Up Riot Season For Alien Felons, Russo-Ukrainian War Roundup For June 8, 2025, and Why No One Stopped Stalin
Behind The Black: The dusky mountains of Mars, Starlink approved for India, SpaceX launches 26 more Starlink satellites, Axiom charges $70 million per ticket to fly to ISS, and White House issues new orders to streamline federal broadband regulations
Cafe Hayek: Question for Fans of Tariffs and of Tariff Man, also, Exposing More of the Lame Excuses For Trump’s Protectionism
CDR Salamander: The Fictional Officer Corps From Hornblower To Stark, also, The Naval Academy History Department Is In A Spot Of Bother
Chicago Boyz: Another Road Trip, US Steel, LA Story, and Random Thoughts: LA Burning Edition
Dana Loesch: The Return Of “Maryland Man”, also, If Robots Turn On Us It’ll Be Because Of The Waymos
Don Surber: Fire & Ice
Elizabeth Nickson: Every City Should Be Dubai, also, Never Forget – Climate Change Was An Invention
First Street Journal: Bad causes attract bad people
Gates Of Vienna: The Perils of Being Visibly Jewish in France, Culture-Enriching Vehicular Assault in Passau, and Schwerin: A Violent Multicultural Playground
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Sweden-Kampuchea Friendship Association 2.0: Illegal Immigrants Are the New Khmer Rouge or Something

Posted on | June 9, 2025 | No Comments

Dana Pico was thrashing Philadelphia Inquirer liberal columnist Will Bunch, who loves Kilmar Abrego Garcia more than he loves his own mother, and it got me thinking about the utterly reflexive nature of left-wing politics. Liberals see the world as a great dramatic conflict between the Forces of Evil (Republicans generally, and Donald Trump specifically) and the Innocent Victims of Oppression. This is the only explanation for why, after Democrats lost an election in which all polling showed the electorate tilting sharply right on the immigration issue, liberals have now embraced criminal foreigners as their beloved mascots.

Over there in their Bluesky echo chambers, liberals like Will Bunch are convinced they’re on “the right side of history,” and the fact that polls show a majority of voters support mass deportation of illegal immigrants — it was a crucial issue last November — doesn’t make a dent. They claim to be defending democracy, and yet when the president actually does what voters elected him to do, liberals scream “fascism.”

“War is peace,” “ignorance is strength,” democracy is fascism.

This kind of knee-jerk reaction could have devastating political consequences for Democrats, as NBC News observed in reporting on the recent human trafficking indictment of Abrego Garcia:

The apparent strength of the government’s case could reignite debate among Democrats about the risks of focusing on Abrego Garcia’s case. For weeks, Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., and other Democrats emphasized that their criticism targeted Trump’s decision to unilaterally deport Abrego Garcia without judicial oversight, not a defense of Abrego Garcia himself. . . .
Van Hollen defended his stance in a CNN interview. “You know, I will never apologize for defending the Constitution,” he said. “In fact, it’s the Trump administration and all his cronies who should apologize to the country for putting us through this unnecessary situation.”

Did you catch that? The Constitution is at stake, according to this eminent Democrat, because DHS made a paperwork error, loading the MS-13 gangster onto a deportation flight without taking notice of a judge’s 2019 grant of “protected” status for Abrego Garcia.

Anyone making a common-sense assessment would say, “So what?” It would probably be easy — although requiring a court hearing or two — to rescind the “protected” status, which appears to have been granted (a) entirely on the basis of Abrego Garcia’s assertion that he would be at risk of violence from rival gangs if he were returned to El Salvador and (b) without knowledge of his criminal activities in the United States. What is known now about Abrego Garcia was not known to the judge in 2019, and therefore Abrego Garcia’s “protected” status may be regarded as invalid, yet Chris Van Hollen seems to believe the entire Constitution depends upon this, and the lunatic Will Bunch is shouting “Free Kilmar” as if the wife-beating gang-banger were a heroic martyr.

Voters elected Donald Trump for a reason, and if Chris Van Hollen, Will Bunch or anyone else thinks they’re going to fool the electorate into sharing their sympathy for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, they’re simply delusional. But we have often seen the Left enthralled by such delusions.

The Sweden-Kampuchea Friendship Association in 1978

Jan Myrdal, Marita Wikander, Gunnar Bergström and Hedvig Ekerwald were Swedish socialists who enthusiastically supported Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, a widespread sentiment in Sweden at the time:

The Indochinese revolutionary movements enjoyed widespread support in Swedish society, particularly among supporters of the Swedish Social Democratic Party. When the Khmer Rouge captured Phnom Penh [in April 1975] and expelled its inhabitants, 15,000 Swedes greeted their victory by spontaneously celebrating in the center of Stockholm.

The arrival of Year Zero in Democratic Kampuchea was, as we now know, the beginning of one of the most murderous tyrannies in all human history. The best estimates are that Pol Pot’s communist regime killed about 1.5 million people, nearly 25% of the country’s population.

The first widely noticed account of the ongoing massacre in Cambodia was published by the Reader’s Digest in February 1977, and immediately sparked widespread controversy. The Left, having embraced the Communist regime in Cambodia, denounced the Reader’s Digest account as “propaganda.” To quote Wikipedia:

According to Joel Brinkley, “Khmer Rouge apologists [among Western academics] easily outnumbered those who believed a tragedy was under way.” . . .
[H]uman-rights activist David Hawk . . . claimed that the West was indifferent to the atrocities taking place in Cambodia due to “the influence of anti-war academics on the American left who obfuscated Khmer Rouge behavior, denigrated the post-1975 refugee reports, and denounced the journalists who got those stories.”

In the prevailing worldview of the intelligentsia, the Communists must be good, because America was bad. Therefore, reports about atrocities in Cambodia (based on accounts from those who had escaped) must be false or exaggerated. Such was the background of the August 1978 trip to Cambodia by Myrdal, Wikander, Bergström and Ekerwald as a delegation from the Sweden-Kampuchea Friendship Association (SKFA). They spent two weeks as guests of the Khmer Rouge, even having dinner with Pol Pot, and “returned to Sweden where they undertook a speaking tour and wrote articles in support of the Democratic Kampuchea regime.” Bergström expressed the belief that, under the Khmer Rouge, Cambodia could become “a very special model for the third world … an ideal society with no oppressors.” And this, keep in mind, was a brutal regime that killed a higher percentage of their national population than any known dictatorship in all human history. Among the victims were Marita Wikander’s husband. She had married a Khmer Rouge diplomat, who returned to Cambodia in 1977. During the SKFA trip to Phnom Penh in 1978, she asked to see her husband. The request was denied. It wasn’t until years later that she learned he had been executed by the regime shortly after his return to Cambodia. Such an “ideal society“!

The analogy to current liberal politics is obvious enough. Viewing Trump as the Sum of All Evils, liberals reflexively attack any policy advocated by Trump. Therefore, if Trump wishes to deport criminal illegal aliens, liberals must defend criminal illegal aliens: “Free Kilmar!”

Yeah, now, about those so-called “peaceful protests” . . .



 

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