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In The Mailbox: 10.02.25 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | October 3, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.02.25 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: I, For One, Welcome Our Self-Driving Overlords, also Hollywood Is Insane
EBL: GOLDEN TRUMP, The Senior, Holy Guardian Angels, and Make Lobster Rolls with this Fish
Twitchy: Iowahawk’s Hilarious Take On Des Moines Superintendent Scandal, CNN & MSNBC Cut Off Speaker Johnson As He’s Explaining Dems’ Desire For Illegal Alien Funding, and J.D. Vance Gives Joy Reid “Honest, Non-Trolling Advice
Louder With Crowder: Gavin Newsom shares “AI deep fake” video of JD Vance after making “deep fakes” illegal in California, JD Vance makes promise to Hakeem Jefferies about “sombrero memes” that leaves the press corps laughing, Woke rocker confirms that the “racist country star” she sung about was Morgan Wallen, and AOC Calls on GOP to Negotiate The Shutdown With Her…Forgetting That She’s Not a Senator
Vox Popoli: France Seizes Russian Tanker, Paypal is Turned Off, A Political Conundrum, The Foundation of Sand, and Fighting the Previous War x4
Cedar Sanderson: Days of No Ink

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Don’t Restart the Afghanistan War, also, Can Iran Diplomacy Be Salvaged?
American Greatness: Swalwell Says If Dems Win Majority in 2026, They’ll Subpoena Private Citizens Who Worked With Trump, Father Of Murder Victim Unloads On Dems’ Soft-On-Crime Policies, Rep. Darrell Issa Drafts Legislation for FBI ‘Most Wanted’ List of Antifa Leaders, Trump Deploys National Guard to Portland to Beat Back Anti-ICE Antifa Mob and Restore Order, and Many Educators Revel over Charlie Kirk’s Death
American Thinker: Transgender Ideology Killed Charlie Kirk and It’s Destroying America
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News, also, Animal’s Red Thursday News
BattleSwarm: Schumer Shutdown Soros Sponsored, also, Abbott Creates Houston Crime Task Force
Behind The Black: Sunspot update: For one month the Sun does what the scientists predicted, Satellite propulsion startup Portal successfully tests new and radical thruster design, Update on the plans to observe interstellar Comet 3I/Atlas using interplanetary spacecraft, The growing mystery of the little red dots in the early universe, and Climategate global-warming activist Michael Mann resigns from PennU after celebrating murder of Charlie Kirk
CDR Salamander: Yes, I Can Say Nice Things About LCS
Don Surber: Dems swing at Trump and hit themselves
First Street Journal: The poor economics of Starbucks
Gates Of Vienna: Hamas Comes to Berlin, Memo to the UK Authorities, 20 Years After the Muhammad Cartoons, and What Could the Motive Possibly Be?
The Geller Report: Muslim Named Jihad al-Shami Slaughters Jews at Synagogue on Yom Kippur, the Holiest Day for Jews, Jihad Mamdani Vows to Increase Funding For “Hate Crimes Programs” By 800%, TrumpRx – Trump Announces Lower Prescription Drug Costs, New York’s Financial Sector Losing Ground to Rivals, and DEMOCRATS SHUTDOWN THE GOVERNMENT
Hollywood In Toto: Smashing Machine Retires Johnson’s Rock Persona for Good, The Canceled Movie Hollywood (Still) Won’t Defend, Fallon’s ‘Both Sides’ Political Defense Is Fake News, Influencers Jolts Indie Franchise with A.I. Twist, and Could These Skits Save ‘Saturday Night Live’ from Itself?
Legal Insurrection: ‘Put Americans in Danger’: FBI Ends Comey-Era Ties With ADL, Upcoming Big Supreme Court Cases – Preview, Green Meltdown Continues as Russ Vought Axes $8 billion From ‘Climate Crisis’ Projects, Maxwell House Coffee Changes Name to Maxwell Apartment for Limited Time, and NYU Law School Cancels Federalist Society Event With Ilya Shapiro Over Fear of Protesters
Matt Taibbi: Jim Comey – A Man Of Many Faces, None Of Which Are Speech Martyrs,
Outkick: A Coach Is Too Expensive To Fire? Mark Stoops’ $38 Million Buyout Has Kentucky Stuck, NCAA Tournament Is Going To Expand, Unfortunately, Rams Fumble, Bad Kicking Spoil Comeback Effort Versus 49ers, Yankees Rookie Stuns Red Sox with Masterful Postseason Pitching Debut, and God’s Blessing: Riley Gaines Celebrates The Arrival Of Daughter Margot
Power Line: How Trump Is Doing, Motive unclear [Update: suspect named], America’s Most Dishonest Politician, New woes for Iowa Man, and What States Have the Best Schools?
Shark Tank: Byron Donalds Criticizes David Jolly For “Rational” Democratic Party Claim
Shot In The Dark: New System, 21 Jump Lane, and Para Bellum?
The Political Hat: Hate Speech & The Left, also, Quick Takes – Shutting Down DEI In Academia: LGBT Spectrum Center Closes; DEI Discontinued At Emory; Inclusive Excellence Out At VCU
This Ain’t Hell: Jessie Mahaffey, USS Oklahoma survivor, passes, Government shutdown – Democrats wanted to extend pandemic era Obamacare subsidies, Approved VA Claims Rubber Stamped, Hegseth’s All Hands, and Remember Iraq?
Transterrestrial Musings: Secretary Hegseth, Pot, Meet Kettle, and Professor Mann
Victory Girls: Sherrill Campaign Has More Explaining To Do As Polls Tighten, also, Somali Fraud in Minneapolis Was Hiding in Plain Sight. Now What?
Watts Up With That: An Energy Trojan Horse, DOE’s “Forbidden Words” Fake Scandal – Politics by Semantics, An Open Letter to Governor Newsom and the California Air Resources Board, Feds deaf to eagle-kill warning, and To Permanently Unleash our Federal Lands, Congress Must Reform the Antiquities Act
The Federalist: Data Doesn’t Lie – Political Violence Is An Overwhelmingly Left-Wing Problem, After Promising Review Of Deadly Abortion Pill, FDA Greenlights A Copycat Version, 2500% Spike In Google Search Results For ‘Trump’ And ‘Fascist’ Shows Dems’ Violence Incitement Problem, Delaware University Won’t Punish Students Who Thanked Charlie Kirk Assassin In School TV Program, and ‘That Era Is OVER’: FBI Ends ADL Partnership After TPUSA ‘Extremist’ Designation
Mark Steyn: What the U.N. Hath Wrought, Live Around the Planet – Shutdown Theatre, The Permanent Globalist Wanker Class, and Morning Fire. Warrior Faith

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In The Mailbox: 10.02.25 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | October 2, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.02.25 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Thanks to everyone who bought stuff through my Amazon links last month.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

We’ll probably be seeing more anti-nuclear nonsense soon.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: The Illustrated Spygate Scandal, Part XX
EBL: Jane Goodall RIP, Butcher Whole Mutton Snapper, MAGA – Democrats Shut Down Government, Dead Kennedys “Government Flu“, and A Place to Call Home
Twitchy: Keir Stürmer Bravely Says Manchester Synagogue Attack Was An Attack On Jews Because They Were Jews, Hamas Rejects Trump’s Peace Plan, Will Continue Fighting, and Jessica Tarlov’s Freakout Over Project 2025 Goes Hilariously Wrong
Louder With Crowder: JD Vance explains how Democrats shut down the government over illegals slowly enough for even the media to understand, Hakeem Jeffries has another meltdown over Trump putting him in a sombrero… so of course Trump did it again, Troon congresscritter dials up the cringe with a TikTok video blaming the GOP for the Democrat shutdown, DC Police Union Chief goes off on Dem Senator for obsessing over Jan. 6, ignoring EVERY OTHER DAY cops are assaulted, and Drag Queen and California (of course) senate candidate makes ridiculous DEMAND of immigration officers
Vox Popoli: The Transformation of the EU, A New Standard of Nothing, The Inevitable, Junior Classics 9 and 10, and Soul-Selling is Lucrative
Upstream Reviews: Just Stab Me Now 
Cedar Sanderson: The Lamb & Pipers
Stoic Observations: Farewell To A Dream Of Baldwin
Gab: Why Modern Life Feels Empty

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: We Don’t Need A New Force Design Or National Strategy
Don Surber: Trump’s war and peace
STUMP: RIP Robert Redford & Claudia Cardinale – The Death of Beauty

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Acme Law School Alumni Update

Posted on | October 1, 2025 | Comments Off on Acme Law School Alumni Update

Sometimes, you have to explain the set-up for a joke before it makes any sense to a general reader:

The Acme Corporation is a fictional corporation that features prominently in the Road Runner/Wile E. Coyote animated shorts as a running gag. The company manufactures outlandish products that fail or backfire catastrophically at the worst possible times.

If you’re my age, you grew up watching Road Runner cartoons every Saturday morning, so the concept of ordering a product from the Acme mail-order catalog (and then suffering the disastrous consequences) is an obvious comic plot device. So, during the Brett Kimberlin saga, when the Pro Se Pipsqueak was filing peace orders and bogus lawsuits against various “enemies” (notably leading to Aaron Walker getting handcuffed during a Maryland court hearing), we began joking about Kimberlin — who had boasted of the number of lawsuits he’d filed as pro se litigant — as being an alumnus of The Acme Law School. At the time, the diminutive pipe-bomber was vocally supported by a clique of progressive blogger types who had a habit of offering ill-informed legal opinions about the various torts and crimes of which my friends and I were guilty, and we’d mockingly dismiss them as practitioners of Acme Law.

All that is preamble to recent legal news from California, where the pro se litigants Ariel and Maridol Mendones sued their former property management company Cushman and Wakefield over a tenant dispute. Acting as their own lawyers, the plaintiffs then manufactured fake “evidence” using artificial intelligence (AI):

The Court finds that Plaintiffs violated section 128.7(b) of the Code of Civil Procedure by submitting fabricated evidence in support of their motion for summary judgment….
The Court finds that exhibits 6A and 6C are products of GenAI and do not capture the actual speech and image of Geri Haas. In other words, these exhibits are deepfakes….
While the “person” depicted in exhibits 6A and 6C bears a passing resemblance to the person depicted in exhibit 36, they are not the same person. The accent, cadence, volume, word choice, pauses, gestures, and facial expression, among other characteristics, of the person depicted in exhibit 36 are vastly different from those demonstrated by the “persons” depicted in exhibits 6A and 6C….
The Court finds that a terminating sanction is appropriate. This sanction is proportional to the harm that Plaintiffs’ misuse of the Court’s processes has caused. A terminating sanction serves the appropriate remedial effect of denying Plaintiffs— and other litigants seeking to make use of GenAI to submit video testimonials—of the ability to further prosecute this action after violating the Court’s and the Defendants’ trust so egregiously.
Further, a terminating sanction serves the appropriate deterrent effect of showing the public that the Court has zero tolerance with attempting to pass deepfakes as evidence.
This sanction serves the appropriately chilling message to litigants appearing before this Court: Use GenAI in court with great caution.

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.) This is the most extreme pro se shenanigans I’ve ever seen, and I was sued by Brett Kimberlin, which makes me an expert on pro se shenanigans. Wile E. Coyote could not reached for comment.



 

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Chuck Schumer’s Sombrero Shutdown

Posted on | October 1, 2025 | Comments Off on Chuck Schumer’s Sombrero Shutdown

Perhaps you didn’t notice, but the federal government is “shut down” because they ran out of money. It’s all Kabuki theater, of course. Two weeks ago, the House of Representatives passed a continuing resolution (CR) to keep the government going, but it got filibustered by Senate Democrats. Why? Well, six months ago, in a similar situation, Schumer threatened a shutdown before backing down — and then got roasted by his party’s left-wing grassroots nutjobs, who want to FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! against TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP! Scorched by this blowback, Schumer decided this time he’d actually go over the cliff to appease the lunatic fringe Democrats, and so after the House passed its CR, Schumer and the Senate Democrats issued a laundry list of “demands.”

Well, guess what? Elections have consequences, and Republicans are in no mood to kowtow to Schumer’s lunatic fringe party. So the response to Chuck and his demands was, “OK, you really want to shut down the government? Do it. Double-dog dare ya, you little sissypants.”

Maybe they didn’t say that in so many words, but considering the nature of the Democrat demands — including funding free healhcare for illegal aliens — Republicans calculated that Schumer’s temper tantrum would hurt Democrats far worse than it might hurt Republicans. Despite polls showing the shutdown was a loser, Chuck did it anyways, so . . .

An AI video with a sombrero and cheesy Mexican music is not exactly my idea of statesmanship, but in its memetic function — making the point about taxpayer-funded healthcare for illegals as the basic Democratic demand, while also inviting mockery — this is excellent online messaging. It also projects the confidence at the White House, knowing that most voters are against the shutdown. In fact, 43% of Democrats don’t want it, so Schumer is losing, and Trump is winning.

Despite any apocalyptic rhetoric you might hear about the shutdown, it’s not like Democrats actually believe it:

We don’t know how long the Schumer Shutdown will last, but we do know that every day — heck, every hour — that it does, the Democrats will be screeching in front of every microphone they can find that it is the apocalypse for the American people.
But, as we all know by now, it is far more important to watch what Democrats do rather than listen to what they say.
And last night, we found out what Democrat leadership is planning for early October. (Hint: it does not involve negotiating with Republicans or fighting to serve the American people.)

(Hat-tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.) Democrats are completely cynical, using scare-mongering rhetoric to gin up hysteria among their dimwit voters, who aren’t smart enough to understand that they’ve being hoodwinked and bamboozled. It’s truly pathetic.



 

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In The Mailbox: 09.30.25

Posted on | October 1, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.30.25

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Annie Agar reports on the NFL’s Week 4
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

He’s not wrong.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Good Guys 2, Bad Guys 0
EBL: The World’s Strongest Snapper, President Trump Delivers an Announcement, Saint Jerome, and The Village
Twitchy: Trump Launches Another Meme At Hakeem Jeffries Ahead of the Shutdown, Bulwark’s Bill Kristol Gets Dragged By Retired Colonel After Hegseth/Trump Tantrum, and John Kennedy Explains – The Schumer Shutdown Is All About Love
Louder With Crowder: Sunny Hostin thinks it’s so weird how Pete Hegseth believes there should be physical requirements for our military, Democrat governor, who calls Trump fascist, says it’s dangerous that Trump labels Democrats “fascist”, Muslim Democrat Senate candidate makes alarming anti-Second Amendment comments (and Michigan may elect this guy), JK Rowling SAVAGELY responds to Emma Watson now that the woke actress wants to be friends again, and Joy Reid freaks out on the DANGEROUS MAGA agenda of… making a lot of money and giving it to your children
Vox Popoli: A Real Russian Attack, Fake Democracy in Europe, Dear Vidiots, The Eighth Front, and The Weirdness Escalates
Cedar Sanderson: September in Writing
Incensepunk Magazine: Our Lady of the Asteroid Belt
Weird Catholic: Jerome The Lion

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: The Normalization of Assassination, also, Trump, Hegseth Address U.S. Generals
American Greatness: Rep. Darrell Issa Drafts Legislation for FBI ‘Most Wanted’ List of Antifa Leaders, Former FBI Director Comey Facing Possible Indictment for Lying to Congress, The Obamacare Sweeteners Poisoning Budget Negotiations, Federal Air Marshal Describes How His Wife Was Put on TSA Domestic Terror Watch List After Attending Trump J6 Rally, and Is There Any Role for the United Nations in Trump 2.0?
American Thinker: Why Trump Wants to Ban the Muslim Brotherhood – And Why America Should Care, Wise Up, New Yorkers! An Unabashed Paean to Curtis Sliwa, Revenge Or Justice, That Is The Question, Why Trump Hates His Enemies, and Trump Created An ‘Emperor’s New Clothes’ Moment At The UN
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday, also, Animal’s Daily Schedule Update News
BattleSwarm: Six Staffers Jailed At NHS “Hospital of Horrors”, “Here’s Some Money To Build A Library.” “Right. We’ll Use It To Hate Jews.”, Moldova Votes Against Moscow, and Scenes From The Transsexual Madness Rollback
Behind The Black: Inspector General says the state of NASA’s spacesuits on ISS is becoming critical, Next Starship/Superheavy test set for October 13, 2025, Firefly loses first stage for next launch when it explodes during static fire test, China launches two “test satellites”, and Study suggests low dose radiation reduces severe knee pain
Cafe Hayek: Thought Experiment – Trump Attends the Wedding at Cana, There’s Nothing Fishy About Free Markets, More on Alleged Middle-Class Economic Stagnation, and Progressives Played A Huge Role In Putting Trump In the White House
CDR Salamander: Russia’s Baltic Gambit
Chicago Boyz: The Milley Plan
Da Tech Guy: Ignoring the Kingdom of Noise
Don Surber: Trump Tower vs. Obama Library
First Street Journal: Who can seriously believe that this will happen?
Gates Of Vienna: Another Culture-Enriching Success Story in France, Culture-Enricher Molests Six Infidel Women in Three Days, An Object Lesson, Culture-Enriching Brawl in Gelsentürken, and We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Infidel Music
The Geller Report: PAID STOOGE – Greta Thunberg Funded By Hamas, Documents Show, Trump Vows to Reopen Mental Institutions, “One Of The Greatest Days Ever in Civilization”, FINALLY! Eric Adams Drips Out of NYC Mayoral Race, and ‘Make Assassinations Great Again’ Bumper Stickers and Music
Hollywood In Toto: Shane Gillis Drops Truth Bomb on Kimmel’s Defenders, What If One Battle After Another Glorified Right-Wing Terrorists? Why Wolf Man Deserves a Second Look, Strangers: Chapter 2 Is Best Film in Slasher Franchise, and Gabby’s Dollhouse – Please, Make It Stop!
Legal Insurrection: Feds Launch FACE Act Lawsuit Against Anti-Israel Protesters at NJ Synagogue, Backlash Forces UK’s NHS to Withdraw Report Praising First Cousin Marriage “Benefits”, Dems Plan Luxury Retreat in CA Wine Country While Complaining About Shutdown, Federal Judge Dismisses Lawsuit From Florida Professors Challenging DEI Funding Ban, and Hegseth Lays Out New Culture at Pentagon: No DEI, No Identity Months
Matt Taibbi: My Senate Testimony on Surveillance, Not Only Tulsi – Three Members Of Congress Also Spied On By Quiet Skies Program, Activism Uncensored – A Return To ICE Protests In Illinois, 
Outkick: University of Colorado Condemns Hateful Chants Toward BYU Fans, Football Team. Big 12 Fines CU, Tyreek Hill Might Have Played His Last Game For The Dolphins But He Goes Out With A Smile, Deion Sanders Apologizes, Blames A Group Of Drunk And High Kids For Anti-Mormon BYU Chants, Napheesa Collier Torches WNBA Commissioner: ‘Worst Leadership In The World’, Shohei Ohtani Belts Two Homers as Dodgers Roll Past Reds, and It’s That Time Of Year Again: Paige Spiranac Announces Her 31 Days Of Sexy Halloween Is Returning
Power Line: The Misbegotten Comey Indictment, Operation Twin Shield, Ms. Dhillon reports, Arrested for a Tweet, and Twice is coincidence
Shark Tank: Biggest Winners & Losers In Miami’s Fiery Mayoral Debate
Shot In The Dark: Conspiracy Theory
The Political Hat: Digital Big Brother Proposed In Michigan, also, The Totalization Of People And State
This Ain’t Hell: Troops Sue Military Housing LCC, Government Shutdown Again, Captain Dylan Blaha criticized President Trump’s use of the military in cities, WWII nurse, age 106, donates bullet from husband’s heart to Pearl Harbor museum, and Last? Tuskegee Airman dies
Victory Girls: Hillary Is Still Part Of The She-Woman-Man-Hater Club, Gavin Newsom Proves the Left Learned Nothing From Political Violence, and Temple to His Own Ego: Obama’s Chicago Library Pushes People Out
Watts Up With That: Trump’s UN Speech – The Climate Emperor Now Stands Exposed, Dr. Michael Mann finally gets his comeuppance, California needs Biomass Energy to Meet its Wildfire goals but its Policies Keep Burning them Down, Trump Admin Moves To Demolish Biden-Era Coal Crackdown, and Net Zero Hobbits Encounter Realities Outside Middle-earth
The Federalist: Georgetown U. Won’t Say How It’s Protecting Free Speech After Leftist Threats On Campus, Spanberger Refuses To Condemn Male Sex Offender Using Girls’ Locker Rooms, Democrats’ Relentless Demonizing Paves Way For The Next Political Assassination, The Left’s Love Affair With Terrorists Isn’t New — It’s The Playbook, and Justice Thomas Is Right. SCOTUS Has An Obligation To The Constitution, Not Bad Precedent
Mark Steyn: The Big Questions, A Trip to Space – The Right Stuff, The Seventh Age, Autumn Leaves, and The Terror Has Come

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‘The Best People’: MSNBC’s Podcast for Trump Derangement Syndrome Sufferers

Posted on | September 30, 2025 | Comments Off on ‘The Best People’: MSNBC’s Podcast for Trump Derangement Syndrome Sufferers

Has anyone else ever wondered what happened to Nicolle Wallace? She entered politics as a Republican Party operative, becoming press secretary for Florida Gov. Jeb Bush at age 27, in which role she helped fight the month-long battle over the 2000 Florida election recount.

Wallace joined the White House staff during George W. Bush’s first term, serving as special assistant to the President and director of media affairs at the White House, where she oversaw regional press strategy and outreach. In 2003, Wallace joined Bush’s 2004 presidential campaign as its communications director . . .
On January 5, 2005, Bush named Wallace White House Communications Director. . . . She left the White House in July 2006 to relocate to New York City, where her husband Mark was representing the Bush administration at the United Nations.

Perhaps it was her role in the 2008 John McCain campaign, during which she developed an incurable hatred of Sarah Palin, that explains how Wallace (née Nicolle Devenish, who has since divorced her first husband, Mark Wallace, and married New York Times reporter Michael Schmidt) became a televangelist for the religion of Trump-hatred. Palin was the first iteration of the populist sentiment among grassroots conservatives that subsequently sparked the Tea Party movement (2009-2010). The same populist energy drove the Herman Cain presidential campaign in 2011 (before Cain was taken out by a dubious “scandal”), and eventually coalesced around the Trump campaign beginning in 2015. One might see Nicolle Wallace as a typical example of the snooty elitist attitudes of the Bush-era GOP establishment, which explains why she’s now on MSNBC pumping up the paranoid fear of Trumpist “fascism.” In May, MSNBC announced she would be hosting a new weekly podcast:

On her new podcast, “The Best People,” Nicolle Wallace sits down with the smartest, funniest, wisest people she knows. These are the people who are the best at what they do and use their success to help others.

You will probably not be surprised to learn that all “the smartest, funniest, wisest people” Nicolle Wallace knows are afflicted with terminal-stage Trump Derangement Syndrome. Among her guests have been Stacey Abrams, Jason Bateman and Tim Miller. This week, however, she plunged deep into the abyss of Trump-hating craziness:

Former talk show host Rosie O’Donnell on “The Best People with Nicolle Wallace” Monday said even her therapist questioned why she was so devastated by President Donald Trump’s administration.
O’Donnell fled to Ireland to escape Trump’s second term, but continues to emotionally opine on the president. She said on the podcast that she could not comprehend why others did not share her emotions, including her therapist, who she said questioned her about them.
“When people say ‘I changed my mind,’ we have to say ‘Welcome back to reality. Let’s all be Americans together.’ Right? Because what’s happening is not only happening to Democrats,” O’Donnell told host Nicolle Wallace. “It’s happening to everyone. And when the Medicaid cuts go in, old people are going to start to die, to die.”
“What he’s done hasn’t even hit us yet. And if he’s not stopped now, we have lost our country,” she continued. “And I don’t know, Nicolle, how it is that some people cannot see it. My therapist said, ‘Why are you so upset?’ And I said to her, ‘Why are you not?’”

(Hat-tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.) Have you ever dealt with someone in the grip of paranoia? Whatever phantasm they’re obsessed with — their idée fixe — they will try to convince you it’s very real, and they will accuse you of being ignorant if you don’t share their hair-on-fire hysteria about it: “Don’t you understand how the Freemasons and the international banking conspiracy are threatening our very existence?”

The real “tell” in Rosie’s rant — what reveals the source of her madness — is her repeating the lie that Republicans intend to cut Medicaid so “old people are going to start to die.” This is just a Democratic Party propaganda line, one they’ve been using for 30 years to frighten senior citizens, and has no basis in fact. The people responsible for this propaganda know full well that it’s a lie, but are utterly cynical about the needless fear that they’re inciting — whatever helps them win elections, they’ll say, and who cares about the stupid chumps who actually believe it? Remember the video they made with Paul Ryan pushing granny off a cliff? Just total cynicism. Yet here you have Rosie O’Donnell, one of “the smartest, funniest, wisest people” Nicolle Wallace knows, repeating this dishonest fear-mongering bullshit as if she believes it.

It’s like the QAnon cult or something — seclude yourself inside a echo-chamber bubble where all you see or hear is feeding confirmation bias for conspiracy theorists, and you’ll drive yourself crazy.

In Rosie O’Donnell’s case, of course, that was a very short drive.



 

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In The Mailbox: 09.29.25

Posted on | September 30, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.29.25

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

Ugh, again?

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: The Illustrated Spygate Scandal Part XVIII, and Part XIX
357 Magnum: I Miss Living in a Civilized Society
EBL: Warsaw Grouper Medallions, Save Up Your Money, John D. Rockefeller, Dark City: The Cleaner, The Rest of the Fish: Chinook Salmon, and MAGA Portlandia 
Twitchy: More than 100,000 Federal Employees Set To Resign Tomorrow, Trump Shares Video Zinging Democrats’ Budget Priorities, and NYT Shares Sob Story Of Woman Who Lost Job Over Facebook Post
Louder With Crowder: High school can’t find any other school willing to play their volleyball team because one of the players is a dude, Eric Adams mocks Mamdani’s support for girls in the boys’ locker room, leaves Charlamagne tha God laughing, Those Two Monsters Who Fired On A Texas Baseball Field? Guess Their Legal Status, Donald Trump arrives at the Ryder Cup, the crowd’s patriotic response is electric, and Kamala Harris Claims Without Evidence Rally Crowds Would ‘Pass’ Babies Around in Bizarre Ramble
Vox Popoli: The Selling of Burrito Mussolini, The Schools Aren’t Magic, ESR Speaks With Authority, Succession Failure, and More False Flag Warnings
Upstream Reviews: 1-800-Starship, October New Releases, and The Revenant & The Tomb
Cedar Sanderson: Quitting Time
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Good Morning Blue Chekists! Meditations on Objectivity, and Get Training
The Abbey of Misrule: The Hare and the Lamb
Draw & Talk Comics: At What Point Do You Just Give Up?

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: China, Rested & Ready…with Dean Cheng on Midrats, also, How To Respond To China’s Growing Nuclear Capability?
Dana Loesch: LDS Church Attacked, also, The Millionth Plan For Peace In Gaza
Don Surber: The 47th Amendment
Elizabeth Nickson: Do You Know What Starts During A Great Awakening?
Glenn Reynolds: Anchors Aweigh
Shark Tank: Power Slams Fried Over Inability To Define “Woman”
STUMP: The Week(s)/Year In Meep – St. Michael, Movember, & An Inclusive Art Exhibit,

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Rule 5 Sunday: Boots & Bikinis

Posted on | September 29, 2025 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: Boots & Bikinis

— compiled by Wombat-socho

The way it ought to be.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five “WTF Pete Hegseth” Friday, also, the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song”, Charlie Kirk Memorial, Sinners Holiday, “Maverick” Theme, Taxi (1932), Morgan Ortagus, Bella Heathcote, Barefoot In The Park, “Gilligan’s Island” Song, Oktoberfest 2025, and Saturday Night Girls With Guns

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Bri Teresi, Big Jim Comey Indicted, Fish Pic Friday – Capt. Natalie, Thursday Tanlines, RIP: Claudia Cardinale, The Wednesday Wetness, The Devil Wears Converse, Fall Is Fell, Gone Fishin’, The Monday Morning Stimulus and Palm Sunday.

BACON TIME: Rule Five Butt It’s Friday

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

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