Typical Democratic Voter Inadvertently Explains the Great Mystery of Our Time

Posted on | October 8, 2025 | Comments Off on Typical Democratic Voter Inadvertently Explains the Great Mystery of Our Time

Did you ever wonder how the Democratic Party got so crazy? For example, how is it that the governor of Illinois is inciting violent mobs against federal immigration authorities and meanwhile, in Virginia, every Democrat is rallying to the defense of Attorney General candidate Jay Jones, who openly fantasized about murdering political opponents?

To summarize briefly: Bad causes attract bad people.

To understand the symbiotic relationship between toxic political movements and their toxic supporters, my advice is to first read Eric Hoffer’s 1951 classic, The True Believer, especially Part 2: “The Potential Converts.” Next, you should read Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom, focusing on Chapter 10, “Why the Worst Get on Top.” Among the personal experiences that led me to comprehend this phenomenon was being swarmed by a mob of “Occupy” protesters in 2011. If you ever had the misfortune to be in close proximity to a zombie horde like that, you would never doubt that the fundamental problem of the Democratic Party is that its grassroots “base” is composed of dangerous lunatics.

BREAKING: Hundreds of Islamists are outside Trump Tower in NYC, chanting “Allahu Akbar,” as they celebrate the October 7th massacre. pic.twitter.com/iyl93RAm1f

— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) October 8, 2025

If you ever needed a reason to vote Republican, this is it: Democrats are the party of people who celebrate terrorist massacres of innocent Jews.

All of which is preamble to introducing you to the person calling herself “Cloud,” who describes herself as “Pisces / 26 / ATL / Immortal Angel Femboy / Cosplayer” on an Instagram account with approximately 8,000 followers. If ever anyone needed a Kiwi Farms LOLCow file . . .

This summer, “Cloud” went viral with a video denouncing Taylor Swift’s engagement to “MAGA-adjacent” Travis Kelce:

“I can already feel myself regretting making this video. If ten people are sitting at a table, and one of them is a Nazi, and the other nine people are not telling the Nazi to fuck off, then you’re at a table with ten Nazis. When Taylor Swift first started dating Travis Kelce and Travis Kelce was so open about his ‘respect’ for Donald Trump, I already knew we were reaching the beginning of the end, right? When she was posting photos with, like, other NFL wives and girlfriends or whatever, and they were all open MAGAs, and Taylor was happily posing with them on Instagram, I knew we were at the beginning of the end. I just didn’t know how long it would take for the general populace to catch on that it was the beginning of the end. You cannot be friends with people who have different opinions on you when those opinions are life and death for other people — when the Supreme Court ruling today has decided that certain people’s lives are genuinely worth more on paper than others. This is a black-and-white issue. I’m sorry, but there is no nuance when it comes to Trump. You’re either chill with the guy who has death camps in El Salvador or you’re not. And the only reason I’m making this video is because I’ve been very open about how much I love Taylor Swift during the last few years. So I do feel obligated to come on here and say she is MAGA — or at least, MAGA-adjacent. And I’m sorry, as a trans person, if you’re Nazi-adjacent, that’s still a Nazi to me. Do with that info whatever you will.”

Oh, wow — where to begin unraveling this gigantic yarn-ball of dangerous craziness? To start with, the Supreme Court ruling she references (see “NY Times on the Left’s Skrmetti Bungle: ‘Somebody Set Up Us the Bomb’,” June 21) was a consequence of transgender activists overplaying their hand, trying to claim that a state law prohibiting transgender “treatment” for children to be a form of sex-based discrimination that violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Pause for a moment to ask yourself whether those who voted to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment in 1868 intended for it to protect the use of synthetic hormones and surgery to turn children into carnival sideshow freaks. As a legal theory, this is bizarre, and yet “Cloud” (who identifies as a “trans person” despite apparently having undergone no such treatment herself) sees the Skrmetti ruling as “life or death.” This over-the-top rhetoric is entirely consistent with her lazy formula “MAGA = Nazi.” If you don’t vote for Democrats, you are a latter-day Hitler, she contends, and therefore . . . ?

Violence is the logical conclusion of a syllogism built on such premises, and good luck trying to convince Democratic voters that their belief system is based on dubious premises and fallacies. Having convinced themselves that they are “on the right side of history,” they consider it a hate crime to disagree with them. This fanaticism attracts bad people to the Democratic Party banner, and the bad people expect their party to represent their beliefs, which is why the Democrats are so crazy.

How can any sober person take seriously a party which attracts support from — and claims to represent the interests of — both transgender perverts and Islamic jihadists? “Queers for Palestine” sounds like the punch-line of a Monty Python sketch, but it’s both very real and very much a constituency of the Democratic Party. And nobody in the party is permitted to point this out. For the sake of maintaining unity, Democrats are required to pretend that these kooks are perfectly rational, and so while there is a constant intake of nutjobs, Democrats simultaneously suffer an exodus of sane people who simply get tired of playing along with this craziness. So this cosplay personality “Cloud” is not merely a typical Democratic voter, but is the typical Democratic voter.

She is the sine qua non of the Democratic Party’s existence, the vital linchpin holding together the coalition, and her attitude — Taylor Swift must be denounced because she is “MAGA-adjacent” — is basically the party platform now. This is what all Democrats believe. Cancel culture has become the top item on their policy agenda, and it is foolish to expect Democrats to turn back from their Progressive March Toward Totalitarian Conformity, because anyone who might disagree is banished.

It would be easy to laugh at the Party of Ugly Glasses and Questionable Hairstyle Choices, were it not for the fact that 75 million Americans voted for Democrats in the last election, and it’s entirely possible that Democrats will win a congressional majority in next year’s midterms.

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In The Mailbox: 10.07.25

Posted on | October 8, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.07.25

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Today we remember Don Juan of Austria and the Battle of Lepanto.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Florida Man, Intoxication, and Firearms
Director Blue: The Illustrated Spygate Scandal Part XXIII
EBL: Pride of the Yankees, Our Lady of the Rosary, Rutgers “Doctor Antifa” Professor Mark Bray Flees To Europe, Hamas’ Oct 7th Attack – Two Years Later, and Bugs and Brew
Twitchy: Good Gravy! Mashed Potato Meltdown! Loudmouth Dems Go Mum When Reporter Confronts Them About Jay Jones Murder Texts, and The White House Just Upped Their Sombrero Meme Game – Cue The Leftist Shrieking
Louder With Crowder: Democrat congresswoman leads boomers in cringe singalong to claim Portland isn’t a war zone, Man warns daughter about avoiding migrant hotels, gets gross visit from police confronting his apparent thought crime, Is this what you voted for? CNN is shocked to discover that for a majority of Americans, the answer is still YES, Gay C-SPAN caller shocks host when they TORCH democrats for shutting down the government, and Whoopi Goldberg tells football fans to go brownface at the Super Bowl to confuse ICE
Vox Popoli: Be the Thing They Fear, Selling Out is Not Success, and Genetic Aberrations
Stoic Observations: No East, No West
The Bugscuffle Gazette: We Read History Books

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Can Jay Jones Still Win in Virginia?
American Greatness: Poll: 78 Percent of Americans Favor Deportation of Criminal Illegal Immigrants, Explosive FBI Memo Reveals Special Counsel Jack Smith Spied On Multiple GOP Senators, Texas AG Ken Paxton Launches Undercover Operations into Left-Wing Terror Cells, and Senate Dems Block GOP Bid to Reopen Government
American Thinker: No Debate, Just Hate
Animal Magnetism: Animals’ Daily Site Update News
BattleSwarm: Wesley Hunt Joins Texas Senate Race
Behind The Black: SpaceX launches 28 more Starlink satellites, The Juno mission at Jupiter is almost certainly over, Martian boxwork on the flanks of Mount Sharp, and Is the fate of the independent live streams in Boca Chica uncertain?
CDR Salamander: Two Years Since The October 7 Slaughter
Da Tech Guy: I Bet The Reason Why Jones Hasn’t Pulled Out in VA…
Don Surber: Trump is doing what Washington did
First Street Journal: That thing that never happens has happened again
Gates Of Vienna: Hell or Jail or Estonia
The Geller Report: Trump and the End of That ‘3,000-Year Catastrophe’, Leftists Put $10K Bounty on Killing ICE Officers, Chicago Mayor Johnson Escalates Violent Rhetoric, and MASTERS OF CORRUPTION – Biden BLOCKED Dissemination of Intel Showing Ukrainian Officials’ Concerns of Biden Family’s ‘Corrupt’ Business ties
Hollywood In Toto: Five Must-See Films to Remember October 7, also, The Movie Miracle Behind Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist
Legal Insurrection: UC-San Diego Says Asking Men Who Identify as Female to Use Men’s Room Creates ‘Hostile Environment’, Two Years After October 7 Massacre, Campuses Are Worse Under The Surface, Antifa Aligned Professor at Rutgers Flees U.S. for Europe, Citing Threats, Trump Will Use Tariff Revenue to Cover WIC Food Program, and Patel Fires FBI Agents, Ends CR-15 Squad After Learning Jack Smith Tracked GOP Senator
Matt Taibbi: Activism Uncensored – A Return To Chicago
Outkick: Cardinals Coach Jonathan Gannon Fined $100,000 For Sideline Exchange With Player Who Made Dumb Mistake, College Football Undergoes Massive Change With NCAA Transfer Portal, Including When Head Coach Is Fired, Bengals Want To Save Their Season So They Trade For… Joe Flacco? Bill Belichick’s Problems At UNC Grow As Assistant Coach Suspended For NCAA Rules Violation, and Alyssa Milano Now Panhandling on Substack — And Uses Her Breast Implants To Do It
Power Line: The Democrats’ Lust For Violence, More deportations, Banzai Bondi, and The new regime at CBS News
Shark Tank: AG Uthmeier Rips Monique Worrell Again For Being Soft On Crime
Shot In The Dark: Omar Fateh Is WORTH IT
The Political Hat: Government Is Not The Solution
This Ain’t Hell: Tuesday reunion, Friday suggestion
Transterrestrial Musings: Two Years On, also, The Left’s Deep-Rooted Violence
Victory Girls: Mamdani Vs. Fetterman: The Democrat Dilemma Of October 7th
Watts Up With That: Met Office Reputation Sinks To New Low, As Outright Lie Is Exposed, Japan’s Green Energy Failures Serve as a Warning to the US, Zeroing Out Taxpayer Funded Climate Propaganda, Biden Admin Streamlined Path For Offshore Wind Boondoggles Despite Internal Red Flags, and From the Surface to Space
The Federalist: Democrats Keep Persecuting Conservative Lawyers For Doing Their Jobs, Gorsuch, Barrett Blast Colorado’s Double Standard On Talk Therapy For Kids With Gender Dysphoria, Here’s How Republicans Should Fix Health Care Rather Than Bailing Out Obamacare, Every Senate Democrat Stands By Jay Jones After He Fantasized About Assassinating Republican, and Wisconsin Judge Orders State Election Regulator To Keep Noncitizens Off Voter Rolls
Mark Steyn: From the River to Manchester A&E

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In The Mailbox: 10.06.25 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | October 7, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.06.25 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Happy birthday, Stacy!
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Someday Corporate Executives Will Take Security Seriously
EBL: District Judge Karin Immergut of Oregon, Underrated Fish Competes With Snapper in Quality, Ballerina, The Jazz Singer, and Good Cop Bad Cop
Twitchy: To The Left’s Dismay Investigators Find No Evidence Of Arson At Judge’s House, Brian Krassenstein Attempts To Connect Charlie Kirk To Deaths Of Two Young Girls, and GOP Senators React To Being Spied On By “Biden’s Stasi”
Louder With Crowder: Portland Antifa doofus refused to walk and comply with ICE, so they had to improvise, Occasional Cortex demands her social media fans laugh at MAGA, while still claiming without evidence they’re “dangerous”, Black NYer shocks Don Lemon when he CELEBRATES Trump deporting illegals, Stephen Miller cements his legend status when he absolutely DOGWALKS CNN over their race-baiting attacks on ICE, and Woke mayor claims it’s not his job to send people to jail, even if they commit “six or seven” crimes
Vox Popoli: WARNING: Server Work, also, Immigration is a Luxury
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Conservative Speakers,
Jim McCoy: The Soulburn Talisman & Empress of Nymm
Monster Hunter Nation: Academy of Outcasts – Out tomorrow 10/7

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Tomahawks Cannot Save Ukraine, also, What Does the U.S. Want in Venezuela?
American Greatness: Comey Faces Indictment, but His Real Crimes Remain Untouched, Why Jimmy Kimmel is a Dishonest Provocateur, Not a Free Speech Martyr, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Signs Executive Order Establishing ‘ICE-Free Zones’ to Be Enforced By Chicago PD, Reactionary, Neo-Confederate Portland, and Comey Indictment: Retribution or Justice?
American Thinker: 50,000 Deaths and the Democrat Promise, Flip-Flopping Democrats Dancing an Immigration Jig for Political Gain, and The Shell Game Behind the Shutdown
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
BattleSwarm: Ukraine Conference: Drone Tech And Venture Capital, Followup: Attack SIM Farm Is China’s, and Welcome to The Torment Nexus
Behind The Black: A galaxy with a starburst ring within its nucleus, ESA looks to global private sector for its next ISS cargo mission, Firefly Aerospace buys defense contractor SciTec, Space Force awards SpaceX and ULA seven launches worth more than a billion dollars, and The left only has a short window remaining to stop its violence before the hammer strikes it hard
Cafe Hayek: And Now A Plea for Some Optimism, also, A Boon or (So Far) a Bust?
CDR Salamander: We Need To Rethink Retirement Ceremonies
Chicago Boyz: The Suburban Al-Qaeda
Don Surber: How to improve the news, CBS
First Street Journal: That thing that never happens has happened again, also, Enforcing our immigration laws works!
Gates Of Vienna: Defending Canadians Against Tyranny, The Pope’s a Fascist, Culture-Enriching Wife-Beating in Sweden, Nice Shooting, and We Are All Father Custodio
The Geller Report: One of the ‘Top 50 Influential Muslims’ Explains Why Jews Can Be Killed in Synagogues, “Hunting Rats”: HARVARD LAW PROFESSOR Fires GUN Near Boston Synagogue on Yom Kippur, Chicago Police ORDERED TO STAND DOWN, Abandon Federal Agents, Biden Judge Gives Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s Assassin Minimum Sentence Because He’s Trans, and “Allah’s Men on Earth”
Hollywood In Toto: The Friend Perfectly Captures Our Bond with Dogs, Stephen King’s Cat’s Eye – When King Ruled Pop Culture, Lord of Illusions Is Clive Barker at His Bloodiest, CBS’s Colbert Spreads Even More Fake News, and ‘The View’ Promotes Latino Face Painting at Super Bowl
Legal Insurrection: D.C. Officers Accuse Superiors of Downplaying Violent Crime Stats, NY Post Op-ed: Colleges Boost Illegal Immigrant Students, Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump From Sending National Guard to Portland, DHS Secretary Says Gangs & Cartels Placing Bounties on Heads of ICE Officials, and Hamas Flotilla Activist Detained for Biting Israeli Medic
Outkick: The Cost Of Hiring Bill Belichick Was Not Worth This Mess For North Carolina’s Future, Drake Maye Makes A Splash On Sunday Night Football In His NFL Prime Time Debut, Miami Dolphins Quarterback Tua Tagovailoa Has Lost His Clutch Gene, Freddie Freeman Plays Hero For Dodgers With Perfect Pick, and Jerry Neuheisel’s Wife Takes America By Storm, Sofía Vergara Busts Out & Petty Bill Belichick Draws A Line
Power Line: Another Democratic Party Scandal in Virginia [Updated Again], Cold Civil War runs hot [Updated], The battle for Chicago, “Freakout” at CBS News, and Democrat Party Porn Performer Back In the News
Shark Tank: Wassermann Schultz Claims Democrats “Ready To Work” To Reopen Government
The Political Hat: Secret Digital Unpersoning In Canada
This Ain’t Hell: Israeli Guards Mean to Virtue-Signaling Activists, Military Accountability in the Post-COVID Age, Peas In Our Thyme, and Gun safety?
Transterrestrial Musings: Trump’s Second Term, also, Confederate Theater
Victory Girls: The Party of Rage: Jay Jones Proves Democrats Have No Limits Anymore, JD Vance Calls Out Joy Reid: Try Gratitude Instead of Trump Hate, and ICE Agents Surrounded, Chicago Police Stand Down
Watts Up With That: The Devil’s Algorithm – Unplugging from the Climate Matrix, The Guardian Is Wrong – Cities Are Hotter Because of the UHI Effect, Not Increased CO?, Net Zero Business? Energy Prices Now Aussie Business’ Number One Concern, Met Office Deletes Huge Chunks of Historic Temperature Data After Fabrication Claims, and Green Attacks on Energy Guzzling Artificial Intelligence Ramp Up
The Federalist: Why Calling Charlie Kirk A Martyr Matters, Illegal Alien Who Ran Des Moines School District Had Long History Of Criminal Charges, Dems Openly Fantasize About Assassinating Republicans With Tacit Support From Their Party, Raddatz Shows Concern For Fat Generals But Not GOP Assassination Targets, and VA Dems Defend Assassination Fantasies By Asking: Who Hasn’t Wished Murder On Their Enemies?
Mark Steyn: On the Town: Tigers at Night, Hot Rocks – Jules Dassin Makes a Comeback with Rififi, Teach Me Tonight, and Ten-Four, Bacha Buddy

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In The Mailbox: 10.06.25 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | October 6, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.06.25 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Trying to get ahead a bit by cleaning up the weekend Substack stuff.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

Maybe Trump should start cleaning up Chicago and Portland by jailing Pritzker & Kotek for rebellion.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: The Illustrated Spygate Scandal Part XXII
EBL: Fishmonger’s Guide to Grilling Wings, Autumn Soup Time, “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road“, Deepwater Fish Filet, and Sydney Sweeney transforming
Twitchy: TIME Speculates on “Political Violence” After House Of Judge Criticized By Trump Set Ablaze, Bartender Says WHAT? and Karoline Leavitt Has a Journalism Challenge For CNN’s Kaitlan Collins
Louder With Crowder: Antifa stooge attempts to confront someone in a Charlie Kirk shirt, learns the hard way about f***ing around, Progressive thought leader attacks white people, calls them unable to “connect to humanity”, Meet Harvard’s newest professor, “LaWhore Vagistan.”, and Don Lemon lashes out with another anti-white rant
Vox Popoli: The Russians Know, Nationalist or Feminist, The End of Jordan Peterson, All That Fake Forgiveness, and The Brand Isn’t Magic
Upstream Reviews: The Mandalorian Trailer May Not Be For You, also, The Family Business
Cedar Sanderson: Word Salad, also, Research, Adapt, Cook
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Oh look, a Democrat, also, When the “Right To Die”…,
The Abbey of Misrule: The North American Thebaid,

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Elizabeth Nickson: Trump Is Rolling up The Drug Scourge
Matt Taibbi: Milken & Friends Build a $500 Million Monument To Their Version Of The American Dream,
STUMP: Federal Shutdown & The State Of The States 2025 – Public Finance Overview

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Rule 5 Sunday: Harvest Season

Posted on | October 6, 2025 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: Harvest Season

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Getting to be that time of year again when cute gals are out standing in their fields with their overalls on.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

Or not.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Basic Training Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, Sydney Sweeney Transforming, Play Dirty, The Paper, The Senior, MAGA – Democrats Shut Down The Government, A Place to Call Home, The Magic Flute, The Village, Dark City – Cleaner, and MAGA – Portlandia

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: That’s Dr. Miss Kennedy Summers to You, Fish Pic Friday, No Apology, The Wednesday Wetness, Tattoo Tuesday, The Monday Morning Stimulus and Palm Sunday.

BACON TIME: Rule Five Red Hot

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The Thrill of Victory: Niners Upset Rams; Mac Jones Now 3-0 as S.F. Starter

Posted on | October 5, 2025 | Comments Off on The Thrill of Victory: Niners Upset Rams; Mac Jones Now 3-0 as S.F. Starter

Excuse me for being absent from blogging duties the past few days. Heading into the Thursday Night Football match-up between the San Francisco 49ers and the Los Angeles Rams, I was so nervous I couldn’t think straight, and since the Niners’ wild overtime victory, I’ve spent the past two days in the gloat zone. Just checking the archives now, I discovered that I haven’t written about football since preseason, so I’ll have to bring you up-to-date on the saga of Mac Jones in Frisco.

The 49ers opened the season with a 17-13 road victory over NFC West division rival Seattle. After getting the win, however, it was revealed that starting quarterback Brock Purdy had suffered two injuries — one to his left shoulder and a “turf toe” injury to his right foot. That meant that my boy Mac Jones, QB2 on the San Francisco roster since being acquired as a free agent in March, would start the next game for the Niners, on the road at New Orleans. And let me tell you a few things . . .

Forty-Niners fans are known as the “faithful” (their hashtag is #FTTB, “faithful to the Bay”) and their devotion is impressive. While you wouldn’t expect a left-wing cesspool of urban degeneracy like San Francisco to be much of a market for the wholesome All-American sport of football, the 49ers faithful are among the most loyal fans in the NFL, rivaling the infamous Buffalo “Bills Mafia” and even the legendary cheese heads in Green Bay. So despite them having pronouns in their bios and “Coexist” bumper stickers on their Volvos, San Francisco fans love their team, and thousands of them will travel to every away game, staging a “takeover” of the opponents’ stadium. Such was the case September 14 in New Orleans, when Mac Jones threw for 279 yards and three touchdowns to lead the 49ers to a 26-21 victory over the Saints.

The #49ers didn’t just beat the Saints…
They took over New Orleans.

From the Super Dome to Bourbon Street:
“Who Dat?” turned into “WE DAT.” ?

Faithful everywhere. #FTTB pic.twitter.com/YhT47z0C7Y

— 49ers & NFL News 24/7 (@49ersSportsTalk) September 15, 2025

From my perspective as a Mac Jones fan, the victory over New Orleans was perfect — my boy steps in as a substitute, has an outstanding game against a weak Saints squad, and then returns to his backup role. Except, as it turns out, “turf toe” can be a pretty serious injury. The silly-sounding name “turf toe” makes it seem like something trivial, and an injury to the big toe might not be much for a tackle, but for a quarterback, it matters a lot. Brock Purdy still wasn’t ready when the Niners returned for a home game September 21 against another division rival, the Arizona Cardinals, so Mac Jones got the start again. My boy was heroic in the clutch:

The San Francisco 49ers had lost another star to an injury, given up a fourth-quarter lead on a safety and were relying on a backup quarterback and a brand new kicker to maintain their perfect start to the season.
Mac Jones and Eddy Pineiro delivered.
Jones calmly moved San Francisco down the field in the closing minutes to set up Pineiro’s 35-yard field goal on the final play that gave the 49ers a 16-15 victory over the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday.
“I failed a lot in that situation, to be honest, in the NFL,” said Jones, who was just 3-17 in his career in comeback chances before this win. “I just knew the guys had my back and like we talked about on the sidelines, go out there and rip it.”
Jones did just that and San Francisco (3-0) was able to overcome an injury to Nick Bosa and the absence of starting quarterback Brock Purdy to eke out the win. . . .
Jones took over at his 20 with 1:46 to play and completed five passes for 59 yards to get the Niners in position for the winning kick.

Mac Jones to Kyle Juszczyk for the lead!

AZvsSF on FOX/FOX Onehttps://t.co/HkKw7uXVnt pic.twitter.com/gsjSXj1KrK

— NFL (@NFL) September 21, 2025

The stat line on Mac against Arizona wasn’t spectacular — 27-of-41 passing for 284 yards and a TD with one interception — but that drive at the end to set up the game-winning field goal was the kind of hero moment he hadn’t had very many of before, and to do it in front of the home-field crowd against a division rival? Nice.

At this point, Mac had accomplished what he needed to do this year: Prove he was still a quarterback who could win games. Under a two-year contract with the Niners, all my boy needed was to get some wins, put some good plays on video, and know that he’d get his shot to be the starter somewhere in 2027. Brock Purdy said he was ready to go the next week, when the Jacksonville Jaguars came to San Francisco, and I was happy to see my boy Mac return to holding a clipboard on the sidelines.

PLOT TWIST: The Jags won 26-20 and Purdy looked awful. San Francisco’s “franchise quarterback,” who just signed a contract worth upwards of $50 million a year, threw two interceptions and lost a fumble on a strip-sack. And, guess what? Purdy re-aggravated his “turf toe” injury in the process. That meant that Mac Jones would return to the field for the next game, which was only four days away, as the 49ers were set to play a Thursday night game on the road in Los Angeles against the hated division rival Rams on prime time national TV.

The stakes could not be higher: Facing off with the Rams, on the road, with first place in the NFC West on the line, an injury-riddled Niners squad takes on the defending division champions.

The oddsmakers had San Francisco heavy underdogs. But the faithful believe, see? They bought 61% of the tickets to the 49ers-Rams game, neutralizing LA’s home-field advantage.

And my boy Mac Jones? Nothing less than magnificent:

Everything seemed to indicate the San Francisco 49ers were in for a long night when they traveled south on a short week without Brock Purdy, Nick Bosa, George Kittle and their top three wide receivers to face the surging Los Angeles Rams.
The Niners had a long Thursday night, all right — but after nearly 67 minutes featuring innumerable twists and turns, they headed home with an improbable victory that reasserted their dominance in their biggest NFC West rivalry.
“We talked about how tough we had to be for four quarters,” quarterback Mac Jones said. “It came down to who was going to be the toughest team, and I think it was us.”
Eddy Piñeiro hit a 41-yard field goal in overtime before San Francisco stopped Kyren Williams on fourth down with 3:36 to play, and the short-handed 49ers hung on for a thrilling 26-23 victory.
Jones passed for 342 yards and two touchdowns while playing through a leg injury for the 49ers (4-1), who scored on their first two drives and led 20-7 late in the third quarter.
Los Angeles finally mounted a rally, but with help from several glaring Rams mistakes, the Niners hung on to win their first OT game since losing Super Bowl 58 in February 2024.
The frantic fourth quarter featured Piñeiro’s tiebreaking 59-yard field goal with 2:52 left, Williams’ subsequent goal-line fumble and Joshua Karty’s tying 48-yard field goal for the Rams (3-2) with 2 seconds to play.
“They were unbelievable,” 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan said of his players. “We talked about how long this game was going to be, how focused we had to be, how competitive we had to be for the entire time. Started out great, but it’s a good team. They tightened it up. Got real tight, then lost a number of dudes. We had to overcome losing two D-linemen in that game, and the D-line is still stepping it up big. That was a huge character win.”
The Rams gave the ball to San Francisco to begin overtime, and Jones drove to set up Piñeiro’s fourth field goal with 5:51 left.
Los Angeles marched down the field, and facing fourth-and-1 at the San Francisco 11, coach Sean McVay elected to go for it — only to call a running play that he regretted almost immediately.
“I’m pretty sick right now,” McVay said. “I’m sick of the spot that I put our group in to end the game, but these are the tough beats that you’ve got to be able to learn from and move forward.”
Marques Sigle and Deommodore Lenoir got credit for smothering Williams well short of the first down.
“It didn’t look like they had anywhere to go,” Shanahan said. “Looked like a brick wall, which is similar to what we ran into all game, but it was awesome for us to get it done.”
Kendrick Bourne had career highs of 10 catches for 142 yards for San Francisco, while Jones played impressively through an apparent leg injury. Christian McCaffrey had 139 total yards for the 49ers, who snapped their three-game losing streak in this rivalry despite the injury absences of Purdy — who is “week to week” with his toe injury, Shanahan revealed — and the majority of their most famous players.
San Francisco then lost starting defensive linemen Kalia Davis and Yetur Gross-Matos to injuries during the game, but rookie backup lineman Alfred Collins made the biggest play of the night when he forced and recovered Williams’ fumble at the goal line with 1:05 left in regulation.
“It was a must-have-it play, because if I didn’t do that, they would have scored,” Collins said. “When I saw the ball, I cocked it back and hit it.”

Like that phrase “improbable victory.” Backup QB on a team without its top three wide receivers and all-pro tight end George Kittle, somehow guts out a win with a crew of rookies and second-teamers.

How crazy is this? Game on the line, 4th down and Kyle says, “Yeah, let’s send in the guy who got CUT by the fucking PANTHERS to try a FIFTY-NINE-YARD field goal.” #FTTB https://t.co/ANV87Bo9n6

— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) October 3, 2025

"He gets PACKED! I THINK HE'S SHORT TIM!"

Relive last night's drama through the voices of @GuyHaberman and Tim Ryan with the KNBR ?? calls of four of the biggest moments from a massive road win at Levi's South?? pic.twitter.com/6tSE9KDknc

— KNBR (@KNBR) October 3, 2025

#49ers Mac Jones was out there throwing up AND playing on a bad leg.

Mac stayed in the game, ate some bananas, and led the team down the field to grind out the W in overtime.

Might be one of the best guttiest QB performances of All time ? pic.twitter.com/tG3d11ZmhC

— OurSF49ers (@OurSf49ers) October 3, 2025

"Sky's the limit."@fred_warner has a ton of faith in his @49ers ? pic.twitter.com/tB6x9lN6PI

— NFL on Prime Video (@NFLonPrime) October 3, 2025

Good morning, world!
Isn't it a GREAT day to be a @MacJones_10 fan?
Niners now 4-1 (3-0 in the NFC West)
Mac 33/49, 342 YDS, 2 TD

AMERICA'S MOST BELOVED QUARTERBACK!#FTTB pic.twitter.com/CMM7tKPzfB

— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) October 3, 2025

What Mac Jones did last night was a statement to every player in the NFL.

Don't let anyone else write your story.

Loved the guts, the effort, and the story of last night's performance.

?@GetUpESPN? ?@ESPNNFL? ?@49ers? pic.twitter.com/GPU3UIEsf0

— Peter Schrager (@PSchrags) October 3, 2025

So when Sunday rolled around, it was the best kind of day — sitting on top of the division, watching everybody else lose. As weird as it seems — no Hollywood screenwriter could come up with a scenario this exciting — the San Francisco 49ers at 4-1 are now tied with the defending champion Philadelphia Eagles, the Detroit Lions and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for the best record in the NFC. Next Sunday? They travel to Tampa Bay for a showdown with the Bucs, and chances are that Brock Purdy will still be recovering from his “turf toe,” which means that Mac Jones will be leading the Niners in a game with potential Super Bowl implications.

Underdogs? Bah! We were 8.5 dogs at LA and how’d that turn out, huh? #FTTB https://t.co/0Hw5CmEQhk pic.twitter.com/7th35q6K5g

— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) October 6, 2025

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FMJRA 2.0: Draft Day 1974

Posted on | October 5, 2025 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Draft Day 1974

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I don’t think Pete’s draft list at Da Blog is up to date, but here’s how my draft went.

1st round: SS Bucky Dent, White Sox (because Ed Brinkman’s not getting any younger)
Traded SP Bill Lee to the Red Sox for Dave Winfield and a 5th round pick
2nd round: (to Atlanta for 3b Steve Braun – what was I thinking?)
3rd round: SP Steve Renko, Expos
4th round: C Dave Rader, Giants
5th round: OF Vada Pinson of the Angels and P Roger Nelson, Reds
6th round: SP Jim Bibby, Rangers
7th round: C Glenn Borgman, Twins
8th round: OF Tom Grieve, Rangers

Got a few more rounds to go, but we’re off the clock, so it could take a few days.
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