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In The Mailbox: 10.29.25 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | October 30, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.29.25 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: The Illustrated Spygate Scandal, Part XXXIV
357 Magnum: How Do You Drive an EV Without Electricity?
EBL: Fleeing suspected cop shooter motorcyclist crashes, Diseased monkeys released in Mississippi, Lee and Grant, Golden Tilefish Sandwich, and Halloween comes early at CBS News
Twitchy: London Cops Urge Citizens Not To Spread Disinformation After Triple Stabbing by Afghan National, CBS Staffer Whines Layoffs Are a “Bloodbath” – Race & Culture Unit “Gutted”, and Wesley Yang’s Question Sparks A Laugh Riot
Louder With Crowder: Woke TikToker claims to be moving because MAGA “doxxed” her… after she celebrated Charlie Kirk’s assassination, Jasmine Crockett attacks Trump’s intelligence, Chicago’s Woke Mayor Bizarrely Accuses Trump Admin Of “Throwing Black Babies In the Back Of Vans”, The left’s newest podcasting darling demands Democrats condone violence against conservatives… or else, and Gavin Newsom’s latest comments on Charlie Kirk prove what a DETESTABLE human being he is
Vox Popoli: The Death of Wikipedia, Vol. 9 Sport & Adventure, and A US Military Withdrawal
Cedar Sanderson: Learning by watching
The Abbey of Misrule: The Monthly Salon – October
Defending The Wood Perilous: Fantastic Schools Familiars!
Weird Catholic: The Season of the Dead
Gab: The World Is Splitting In Two – Which Side Will You Choose?

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Zelensky’s Top Man Is a Big Problem, also, The Pro-Israel Billionaire Behind Jeffrey Epstein
American Greatness: Trump Calls For ‘Deranged Jack Smith’ And Other Arctic Frost Operatives to ‘Be Investigated and Put in Prison’, The Left is ‘Bleeding Kansas’, Let Commie Mamdani Take New York City, Operation Midway Blitz Commander Ordered to Meet With Chicago Judge Daily, Says He Looks Forward to Showing Her How Bad Things Are, and FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino: ‘Trump’s Crime Crackdown Is Paying Off’
American Thinker: Trump Hatred Explained, Illegals vs. the Deserving American Poor, Democrats Must Be Punished for Their Lawfare, Can Donald Trump Restore American Citizenship? and Where Is Trump’s DoJ On Denaturalizing Zohran Mamdani?
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday, Animal’s Daily Scumbag News, and Animal’s Hump Day News
BattleSwarm: Chicago Declares War On Lawful Gun Owners, SHORAD – Everything Old Is New Again, China Tries To Backward Engineer ASML Stepper, Wrecks It, Democrats In Democrat-Run Cities Threaten To Loot Supermarkets If Democrats Keep Welfare Benefits Shut Down, and When The AI Bubble Bursts, What Happens To The Secondary Bubbles?
Behind The Black: The alien landscape of Mars’ north polar ice cap, SpaceX launches 29 Starlink satellites, Blue Origin officials provide update on their lunar lander program, Startup semi-conductor manufacturer Besxar signs deal to use SpaceX’s Falcon 9 first stage as production platform during its short flight, and Lockheed Martin completes first flight of X-59 supersonic test plane
Cafe Hayek: Average Household’s Net Worth Considering Its Share of the U.S. Government’s Indebtedness to Foreigners, Yet More on American Household’s Real Net Worth, Protectionism and the “Primitive Mind”, and What’s Being Bargained For Matters
CDR Salamander: HII & HHI Partner To Save USN’s Tail
Chicago Boyz: A Road Trip With A Couple of Unexpected Twists, also, Random Thoughts (14): Platner Prop Bets Edition
Don Surber: Bill Gates throws in the towel on climate change
First Street Journal: The left really, really hate your #FreedomOfSpeech, Mikie Sherrill Hedberg believes you can’t handle the truth, You in a heap o’ trouble, boy, and Shouldn’t a journalist be aware of basic facts?
Gates Of Vienna: Dymphna, Patron Saint of the Insane, Dezinformatsiya, Canadian Style, Kidnapped in the Heart of Darkness, All Roads Lead to Dearborn, and You Say You Want a Revolution
The Geller Report: Islamic Jihadis Slaughter Thousands of Sudanese Civilians, Mainly Women and Children, Mamdani Campaigns With Jihadi Who Said “AMERICA DESERVED 9/11”, Jihadi Mamdani Says NYPD Boots ‘On Your Neck’ Were ‘Laced By the IDF’, Autopen Presidency, and President Trump Big Wins in Seoul, Big Stakes with Xi
Hollywood In Toto: How Motel Hell Outdueled Texas Chainsaw 2, Stop the Pop Culture Recycling…Now, Hall of Fame Rocker Pens Haunting Charlie Kirk Tribute, Adam Carolla Is Gavin Newsom’s Presidential Dreams Killer, and Is Anniversary Anti-Trump…or Just Confused?
Legal Insurrection: Trump is Making Halloween Great Again for College Students, Illinois Dem Congressional Candidate Indicted For Blocking ICE Vehicle, Obama’s Efforts to Help Abigail Spanberger in Virginia Prove Left’s Hypocrisy on Race and Gender, Painful to Watch: Top Biden Aide Admits to $4 Million Bonus if Biden Had Won Reelection, and 9th Circuit Vacates Ruling Allowing Trump to Deploy the National Guard to Portland
Matt Taibbi: Bill Gates Says We’ll Survive Climate Change – World Furious
Outkick: Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry Says He’d Let Donald Trump Select Next LSU Coach Before Current AD, Lions Safety Brian Branch Repents And Gets Saved After Punching Chiefs Receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster, Nancy Mace Defends Riley Gaines By Throwing An Absolute Haymaker At AOC Over Her Disgusting Sex Post, Here’s Why Nobody Takes The NBA Seriously Anymore, and Blue Jays Continue To Defy World Series Odds With Power Of Randomness
Power Line: The Environmental Disaster of Wind and Solar, Believe Nothing You Read In the New York Times, Mamdummy, and Which Facts?
Shark Tank: Dem State Rep Cherflus-McCormick Condemns Political Violence – In Cameroon
Shot In The Dark: French Kiss-Off
STUMP: California Pensions – Private Assets, Public Losses
The Political Hat: Wetware Mini-Brains: From Computers To Catgirls, also, Esoteric Plain Speak Of Marxism
This Ain’t Hell: Note from the Past, Wanna fly a Blackhawk? Maybe you can, That didn’t last long, What Kings Really Do, and Naval Aviation- Bad Day in the South China Sea
Transterrestrial Musings: Bloggus Interruptus
Victory Girls: Karine Jean-Pierre Is So Delusional Even The Left Can’t Ignore It, MSNBC Nicole Wallace: Who called Trump “Hitler”? Wasn’t us Democrats, and Federal Workers Union Demands Democrats End Shutdown Games
Watts Up With That: OpenAI Urges US Government to Fund 100GW of New Energy Per Year to Beat China, Nature Magazine Has “Abandoned Science for Social Justice” Says Richard Dawkins, Narco Terrorist Street War Erupts in COP30 Host Country, Hiding the Endangerment Finding’s Systemic Biases – Politico’s Failed Attack on DOE’s Climate Science Report-Part 2, and Don’t Believe Your Lying Eyes!
The Federalist: New Jersey Legislation Would Force Homeschool Parents To Teach Public School Propaganda , ‘100 Times Worse Than Watergate’, Dungeons & Dragons Sacrificed Its Brand On The Altar of Inclusivity, After Abusing Foreign Visa Program, Universities Claim Rules Shouldn’t Apply To Them, and Here Are 8 Creepy Ways Biden’s Handlers Tried To Hide His Mental Decline To Keep A Grip On Power
Mark Steyn: Strictly USA! (plus Slovenia), Twenty Miracles, If There’s a Hell Below: Jigoku and Japanese Horror, Time on My Hands, and Avocado on Lam

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In The Mailbox: 10.29.25 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | October 29, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.29.25 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Too burned out after I got home yesterday to blog.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

Circular firing squads are back, apparently.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: More Self-Defense in California
EBL: Hurricane Melissa, MAKE SHIPBUILDING GREAT AGAIN, Battle of White Plains, Local Fishermen Keep This Fish Secret, and Vision of the Cross
Twitchy: DeSantis Kicks Out H-1B Professors, Declares Florida Is “America First” In Higher Ed, Scott Jennings Argues With Dem Who Claims “Biden Is Sharp As A Tack” As Autopen Scandal Heats Up, and Mehdi Hasan Marks Anniversary Of Beeper Joke, Wonders If He’s Banned From CNN
Louder With Crowder: MSNBC Host Has On-Air Meltdown Over CNN Paying Scott Jennings, Mamdani confuses his aunt for his dad’s cousin during sob story about how mean Americans were right after 9/11, Nicole Wallace thinks you’re stupid and claims no Democrat has compared Trump to Hitler, Woke California mayor panics that her city will sink underwater from climate change, and Occasional Cortex rants, trying to convince Americans she’s not the crazy one
Vox Popoli: The Dancing Nurses of Covid-19, Six Years in the Making, The Last Bluff, Denninger Rejects Conservatism, and Grokipedia is Already Better
Cedar Sanderson: Dead Night – Snippet 2
Ammo.com: Cities With The Lowest Crime Rates
Stoic Observations: Beyond The Woke Moment
The Bugscuffle Gazette: Blind pig finding an acorn and all that
Upstream Reviews: Storm Between The Stars

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: Old & Busted – Pacific Pivot; New Hotness – Caribbean Pivot
Dana Loesch: EXCLUSIVE – Zohran Mamdani Accused Of Pocketing Donations For Food Distribution Program
Don Surber: Victory lap
STUMP: Chicago Head Tax (& Other Taxes) Proposal Reactions

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Who Is Paying the ‘Racist Trolls’ Who Disagree With Alonso Gurmendi?

Posted on | October 29, 2025 | Comments Off on Who Is Paying the ‘Racist Trolls’ Who Disagree With Alonso Gurmendi?

“Alonso Gurmendi Dunkelberg is a Fellow in Human Rights at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Sociology. His work focuses on the history of the international regulation of war and political violence, from a postcolonial perspective. Prior to joining LSE, Alonso worked at King’s College London, Oxford University, the University of Michigan, and the University of the Pacific. He is a contributing editor for the international law blog Opinio Juris and a member of the International Law Association’s Committee on the Use of Force. “

For more than 30 years — going back to a time when research involved sifting through card catalogs, poring over indexes of reference books and cross-referencing titles found in bibliographies, etc. — it has been my habit to begin any argument by seeking an answer to the question, “Who am I arguing with?” If a person’s argument is so unusual as to attract my attention, it is likely that this person has an unusual biography, a background that may explain why they are making whatever claim has inspired me to consider a response. This habit has served me well over the years, and there have been occasions when I found myself chuckling like Patton: “Rommel, you magnificent bastard! I read your book!”

The online argument that brought Alonso Gurmendi to my attention began with him endorsing a video by Zohran Mamdani:

“This is exactly what is needed. To stop. Take a step back. Break the flow of the news cycle and speak the truth: that Islamophobia is socially accepted in the West. That these people are racist. And deserve to be treated as such. That this racism needs to end. Now.”

As might be expected, critics slammed Gurmendi’s justification of the Jew-hating Mamdani’s sophistry, and (also not unexpectedly) Gurmendi then smeared these critics as mercenary trolls:

“I gotta say, the completely ridiculous amount of super aggressive racist trolls in this specific tweet on this specific day feels completely fabricated and paid for“

So, if you criticize Alonso, you’re a “racist troll,” and he suspects that your online activity is “paid for” — by whom? When you see that kind of insinuation, certain questions ought to immediately arise. Seldom have I ever accused anyone of being bought off, even though that it’s widely known that some online activity is subsidized by various entities, foreign and domestic. Such names as Pierre Omidyar, George Soros and the Koch brothers are often bandied about as funding pay-for-play activism online.

However, the specific nature of Alonso Gurmendi’s rhetoric — accusing Mamdani’s critics of being racist Islamophobes — casts a certain light on his claims that those who disagree with him are “paid for.”

This suggested a query: Has Alonso accused Israel of genocide in Gaza? Oh, yes. Yes, indeed. He wrote an entire article about it!

Published in January 2025, Gurmendi’s article assumes as a fact that Israel’s war in Gaza was an act of genocide:

“This process of hiding genocide has become painfully visible nowadays throughout the unfolding obliteration of Palestinians in Gaza. Despite repeated attempts at stopping the violence through various international institutions, international law appears powerless, with commentators repeating, almost as mantra, just how difficult it is to prove genocidal intent.”

Recall that the Gaza War began with Hamas launching a mass terrorist attack against Israeli civilians, murdering more than 1,200 and kidnapping 250. Recall also that the people of Gaza elected Hamas as their government with the full knowledge that Hamas is a terrorist organization dedicated to killing every Jew in Israel.

All of which is to say, it is not “difficult . . . to prove genocidal intent” on the part of Hamas. Israel is defending itself against genocidal enemies, and the only reason “the obliteration of Palestinians in Gaza” continued as long as it did is because Hamas refused to surrender. Yet somehow this reality is invisible to Alonso Gurmendi, whose motives seem rather obvious: He agrees with Hamas that Israel should be destroyed.

Alonso Gurmendi is a native of Peru who currently lives in London, and good luck getting him to explain why he’s obsessed with helping Hamas annihilate Jews in Israel, or why (to return to the original topic) he considers himself obliged to act as a campaign cheerleader for Zohran Mamdani in New York. Meanwhile, he’ll write entire articles to explain that anyone who disagrees with him is a Nazi.

Ah, but what about our headline question: Who is paying the “racist trolls”? What sinister force could be funding the “super aggressive” and “completely fabricated” criticism of Alonso Gurmendi?

Are his enemies being paid in shekels, perhaps? Isn’t that really what Alonso Gurmendi intended to insinuate, that anyone who objects to his anti-Israel propaganda is a hireling of Zionist Jews?

Well, I haven’t checked my PayPal balance lately, so maybe the Mossad is secretly paying me — keeping it a secret even from me — but I would gladly hate this particular son of a bitch for free. Anyone who wants to join the Volunteer Troll Army can just look at Alonso Gurmendi’s timeline on X and jump into the fight. Tell him the Mossad sent you.



 

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In The Mailbox: 10.27.25

Posted on | October 28, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.27.25

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Stopping overnight in West Wendover, 4/5 hours from home, after 11 hours on the road from Grand Junction.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

Sensurround has opinions about filthy Commies.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: The Illustrated Spygate Scandal Part XXXII, also Part XXXIII
357 Magnum: Does a “Report” from a Clueless AI Constitute Reasonable Cause?
EBL: Chronicles of the Sun, Javier Milei and his party winning midterms in Argentina, Weapons, June Lockhart, RIP, and MAGA Sure Like To Ball
Twitchy: Lawrence O’Donnell Creates “Jennings Derangement Syndrome”, Chuck Schumer Impotently Rants In The Senate While Trump Dances In Malaysia, and Tampon Timmy Lies That Trump Is Prioritizing New WH Ballroom Over Everything
Louder With Crowder: Female swimmer (the one in the photo) banned from World Aquatics swimming after she refused to prove she was a woman, Letitia James cries that the justice system she weaponized against Donald Trump is being weaponized against her now, CNBC explains how Dems are to blame for the shutdown AND healthcare crisis slow enough for even Hakeem Jeffries to understand, Joy Behar claims she was fired as a high school teacher over her leftist views, and California moms show how AWFL they are, flipping off students for saying boys shouldn’t be allowed to play girls’ sports
Vox Popoli: Odessa is Next, The Official Record, Cold War 2.0, Atheism is Autistic Midwittery, and President Trump’s Third Term
Cedar Sanderson: Small things, quiet stories, also, Hummingbird Muffins
The Bugscuffle Gazette: That’s What I Get For Thinking, Publisher Stuff, and Good Morning Blue Chekists!
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: Reflections on Broken Token Ring
Upstream Reviews: Nightmare Arcanist, also, End of Summer Box Office Review
Defending The Wood Perilous: Anticipation!
Gab: You Were Made For The Sun, Not The Screen
Jim McCoy: You Were A Good Man

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Baldilocks: Back In Time, Inferiority’s Children, and On The Dark Road, 
CDR Salamander: Maritime Statecraft & Its Future, also, The 21st Century Battleship?
Don Surber: Catching Up On The Weekend
Elizabeth Nickson: The Lesson of No Kings
Matt Taibbi: First Brands – Are the Cockroaches Coming Home To Roost? The Great Leftist Ignorance Scam, and Life Imitates Art
STUMP: The Week In Meep – Behind The Scenes, Sumo in London, June Lockhart RIP, and SEA PEOPLES!

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Rule 5 Sunday: Fall Colors

Posted on | October 26, 2025 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: Fall Colors

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Fortunately I have enough Rule 5 material stashed in various folders to get by…but I would really like to have my @wombat_socho account on X back.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

“…and so, by concealing everything, she revealed everything.”

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule 5 Funding Antifa Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, “Voices Carry”, Elkhorn, Emmylou Harris, Eat More Cheese, How To Have A Successful Marriage, Mussolini – Son of the Century, Boston Blue, Boccaccio 70, Tess Harper, Hitler’s Hollywood, Early In The Morning, MAGA – No Kings Day Was Lit, and “I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing”

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Natasia Still, Trump Wants Even Bigger Balls, Fish Pic Friday – Chelsea Morey, Call Out Your Name, Gone Fishin’, The Wednesday Wetness, Va Striped Bass YOY Index Comes in Just Average, Tattoo Tuesday, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Virginia To Lift Blue Catfish Limits, Flatheads Feed on Pennsylvania Fish, and Palm Sunday 

BACON TIME: Rule 5 – Yes, I Will Have A Beer

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FMJRA 2.0: Breaking Even On The Road

Posted on | October 26, 2025 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Breaking Even On The Road

— compiled by Wombat-socho

We lost two of three at Kansas City’s Municipal Stadium but came back in the frozen wasteland of Milwaukee County Stadium to win two out of three, the final game being decided by a six-run explosion in the 13th inning to give Charlie Hough his first win in relief. Hopefully I’ll get home early enough to play the Giants on Tuesday and not have to pull over somewhere between Wendover and Tonopah. After a week and a half of play, we’re 4-5, two games ahead of the last-place A’s.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

Rule 5 Sunday: Terrain Features Part II 
Osece Code
Animal Magnetism
A View From The Beach
EBL
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Strange Return of the Whore Aella 
American Free News Network
First Street Journal
EBL
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Third Saturday Was Historic This Year
EBL
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FMJRA 2.0: No Joy At Fenway
Enem Insights
A View From The Beach
EBL

In The Mailbox: 10.21.25 (Afternoon Edition)
A View From The Beach
EBL
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The Delusions of #Resistance 2.0: Did Democrats Forget They Lost the Election?
A View From The Beach
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In The Mailbox: 10.23.25
A View From The Beach
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In The Mailbox: 10.24.25
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A View From The Beach

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Is Jack Ciattarelli Winning in New Jersey?

Posted on | October 25, 2025 | Comments Off on Is Jack Ciattarelli Winning in New Jersey?

Jack Ciattarelli (left) and Mikie Sherrill (right)

Far be it from me to predict that Republicans are on the verge of winning this year’s gubernatorial election in New Jersey, but (a) Jack Ciattarelli came pretty close to knocking off incumbent Phil Murphy four years ago, and (b) with Murphy term-limited, Democrats nominated Rep. Mikie Sherrill, who hasn’t exactly been running away with it. Ever since an Emerson College poll last month showed the New Jersey race to be a dead heat, Democrats have been freaking out about it.

How bad is the New Jersey freakout? Bad enough that Molly Jong-Fast felt the need to write a New York Times column about it:

When you spend as much time around Democratic Party people as I do, you find that everybody is worried about something. The specter of 2024, and the reign of Trump terror that has followed, has the party on edge. The polls are mostly in Democrats’ favor, but, they worry, what are we not seeing? What are we not hearing? They’re worried they’ve lost their mojo in the face of MAGA.
Nowhere is this more apparent than in the governor’s race in New Jersey. Representative Mikie Sherrill, the Democrats’ great-on-paper centrist nominee, is ahead in the polls but still being second-guessed.
I felt this skittishness this for myself when I attended a “No Kings” rally last weekend in the blue town of Montclair. It’s a community full of commuters but also the home of Ms. Sherrill, a former Navy helicopter pilot and federal prosecutor who flipped her reddish district in 2018. Her opponent is the suspiciously well-tanned Republican Jack Ciattarelli, who is running for governor for the third time in a row.
Ms. Sherrill is ahead in the polls, but that doesn’t quiet the doubters. The pollster G. Elliott Morris of Fifty Plus One put it best when he texted me, “It would be surprising if Ciattarelli won, but bigger upsets have happened before.”
New Jersey is a Rorschach test for a party in full freakout. . . .

While I do not hold G. Elliott Morris in high regard (and he certainly has no regard for me), his summary of the New Jersey campaign is probably pretty accurate: Yes, a win for Ciattarelli would be considered an upset, but it’s not impossible. Not a single poll has shown Ciattarelli actually leading the race, and this is a state where Kamala Harris won by a six-point margin last year. If we were wagering, and I was willing to bet Sherrill wins by a three-point spread — in other words, half the margin Kamala won by in New Jersey — would you bet against me?

You see that, as a matter of probability, a Republican win in New Jersey would be surprising, as Morris says, but the fact that Democrats are even worried about it is a very good sign for Republicans. Molly Jong-Fast speaks of “the reign of Trump terror,” and if it were widely regarded as such, you’d expect the Democratic candidate in a blue state like New Jersey to have a cake walk — Mikie Sherrill on her way to winning by a double-digit margin — but that’s not happening, is it?

This paragraph of Molly Jong-Fast’s column is priceless:

One of the biggest problems facing Mikie Sherrill’s bid for governor may have nothing to do with Mikie Sherrill and everything to do with a certain pundit-class miasma about the supposed unelectability of women. After all, this is a party that has run two supercompetent women for president on its ticket, and they both lost against Mr. Trump.

“Miasma,” ma’am? Hunting around for a fancy substitute for “attitude” or “prejudice,” what on earth would lead you to miasma?

Awkward word choices aside, what color is the sky in your universe, where a candidate’s “biggest problem” is the attitude of pundits?

The pundit class weighed in on this topic:

Do you see what I mean about the New Jersey situation being a very good sign for Republicans? Whether or not Ciattarelli scores an upset victory, the strength of his campaign has backed Democrats into a corner where they’re second-guessing themselves and arguing with each other about tactics and strategy. And the credit for this goes to none other than Donald J. Trump, who defeated both of those “supercompetent women” and thereby demonstrated that identity politics can be a liability.

If somehow Ciattarelli wins this thing, I’ll give a lot of credit to Scott Presler, who’s been doing his ground-game magic in New Jersey. Presler’s work in Pennsylvania last year played a key role in helping Trump win there, and knocking off the allegedly “supercompetent” Mikie Sherrill in New Jersey would demonstrate his effectiveness again.



 

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In The Mailbox: 10.24.25

Posted on | October 25, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 10.24.25

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Google Maps Navigation can eat my entire ass for trying to get me to North Platte by every obscure county road in the northern part of Nebraska before I shut it off, hauled out the atlas, and barely made it to Grand Island in time to take two games out of three from Pete’s Brewers.
Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

Pretty soon they’ll be Maveriks, but it won’t be the same.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Racist Gun Control in Chicago, How Do You Spell “Unhinged?”
Director Blue: The Illustrated Spygate Scandal Part XXXI, 
EBL: Japanese Troops Shocked by 12 Gauge Shotguns, Eat More Cheese, How To Have A Successful Marriage, Gavin Newsom and Democrat policies likely contributed to fatal truck collison in Ontario California, and Mussolini: Son Of The Century
Twitchy: “I Can’t Believe They Did This To The People’s House” Memes, Tara Setmayer Compares WH Ballroom Construction To 9/11, and Deranged Kansas Legislator Thinks The Trump Team Is Planning An Escape To Argentina
Louder With Crowder: “We’re going to kill them”, Authorities Won’t Deport Migrant For Sexual Assault Because…, Dem Gov tries lying about Chicago’s murder rate, then gets smacked (figuratively) by facts and a chart, Migrant has major tantrum after seeing Halloween decorations, and Sunny Hostin accuses her white neighbors of racism over an alleged hate crime that hasn’t happened yet
Vox Popoli: Carriers to the Caribbean, The Consequences of Stupidity, Clown World Knows It’s Falling, The Name is Bezos. Jeff Bezos., and Isolation, Nietzsche, and Politics
According To Hoyt: Sunglasses, Parliamentary Procedures, A Civics Report from an EAA Meeting, Living in Interesting Times, and The Dragon Awakes
Ammo.com: What Percentage of Gun Deaths Are Suicides?
Defending The Wood Perilous: Not the only one
Upstream Reviews: Bleed More Bodymore
Cedar Sanderson: Mixing Up Dirt
Jim McCoy: The Wandering Inn, also, A Word To The Wise
Gab: Why We No Longer Know Our Neighbors
Stoic Observations: Southwall Homelab Update, also, Tennis Balls & Valve Caps

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Trump Calls Off Trade Talks With Canada
American Greatness: Deputy AG Todd Blanche Warns California Dems to ‘Stand Down or Face Prosecution’ After Pelosi Threatens to Arrest ICE Agents, Gov. Pritzker Confronted Over Chicago Having ‘Highest Murder Rate of the Big Cities’, Chicago Activists Accuse Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino of Violating Judge’s Use of Force Ban, ‘No Kings’ for Thee, But Not for Me, and White House Renovation Draws Criticism From Critics, Entire East Wing To Be Rebuilt
American Thinker: The Glorious Coming Lessons of the Mamdani Landslide, A Hidden Tax: What Americans Are Really Paying for Illegal Immigration, Mamdani Thinks New Yorkers Are Stupid and Unworthy, States Where it’s Almost Impossible to Prove Voter Fraud, and Governor Pritzker’s Gambling Profits … or Mobster Payoff?
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday, Animal’s Daily Trump Court Victory News, Animal’s Hump Day News, Animal’s Red Thursday News, and Rule Five Funding Antifa Friday
Baldilocks: When You Pray
BattleSwarm: Denmark Strangles Russia Oil Lifeline, Glock Discontinues Most Models, Is Abbott Finally Cleaning Up Austin’s Homeless Mess? “Hey, How About We Limit Voting To Citizens?”, and LinkSwarm For October 24
Behind The Black: Two lawsuits filed against NASA at its Marshall Space Flight Center, SpaceX launches communications satellite for the Spanish government, China launches a “communication technology test” satellite, Weird “What the heck?!” pedestal crater on Mars, and European companies Airbus, Leonardo, and Thales merge their satellite divisions
Cafe Hayek: On Rising American Living Standards, Phil Gramm and Me: Trump’s Trade War Was a Loser, Rodrik Misses the Point of the Pencil, Understanding Trump’s Misunderstanding of Trade, and Did U.S. Trade Deficits Mostly Fund Americans’ Consumption?
CDR Salamander: Overdue For De-NORKification of Our Uniforms, also, Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: Worthwhile Reading & Viewing, The Cuban Missile Crisis, as Viewed From a Soviet Launch Facility, A Blast from the Past, and Two Houses, Alike in Dignity
Da Tech Guy: I haven’t really written about DaDiet on the Blog, also, Are the Democrats REALLY that Stupid on EBT? (The GOP Ads Write Themselves)
Don Surber: Maine Kampf, also, Trump’s Ballroom Blitz
First Street Journal: There’s no threat quite like an empty threat, Christians cannot hate Judaism without hating themselves, That thing that never happens has happened again, The journolism of The Philadelphia Inquirer, and Hold them accountable!
Gates Of Vienna: Using Rat Poison to Escape Paying Child Support, Banning the Burka is “Discrimination Against the Muslim Community”, Where Islam Wanders, Abuse of Women Follows, “The Muslim Brotherhood Must Not Be Contained, It Must Be Eradicated”, and Is the Future of Russia Islamic?
The Geller Report: Ardent Antisemite Physician Continues to Practice at NHS, Senate Democrats BLOCK Bill to Pay Troops and Essential Federal Workers Working Without Pay During the Shutdown, 38 TRILLION! National Debt Surges As Democrats Hold Country Hostage For Even More Spending, Races to Watch, and “If You Can Have Your Church Bell, We Can Have Our Islamic Prayer Call”
Hollywood In Toto: This Too Shall Pass Is Unlike Most Teen Comedies, Wedding Crashers Is Back (And Wokesters Will Be Furious), Last Days Offers Dense Portrait of Possible Christian Martyr, Boss Bomb? Deliver Me from Nowhere’s Sad Tracking, and Few Movies Love Horror More than Popcorn
Legal Insurrection: Joe Rogan’s Audience Learns That Climate Hysteria Set Back Real Science by 50 Years, USS Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group Heads to Caribbean to Confront Narco-Terror Networks, U. Arkansas-Little Rock Fires Prof Who Celebrated Charlie Kirk’s Death, Mystery Donor Gives $130 Million to Pay the Troops, and Schumer Facing More Defections During His Shutdown
Matt Taibbi: Notes From A Recent Visit To Russia
Outkick: Tony Vitello Hopes San Francisco Giants Decision Doesn’t Give Him Lane Kiffin Status With Tennessee Fans, Minnesota Vikings Quarterback Situation Is Messy And They Can Only Blame Themselves, Nick Saban Isn’t Returning To College Football But Don’t Let His Wife Hear These Contract Numbers, MLB Star Confronts Shohei Ohtani With Hilarious Question: ‘Why Do You Hate Me?, and ‘Sex Warfare’ Spies Are Trying To Bone Our Horny Tech Nerds & It’s A Real Problem
Power Line: California Threatens to Arrest ICE Agents, Gradually, then suddenly, Our Nasty Democrats, The Weinhagen Vanishes, and Signs of the times
Shark Tank: AG Uthmeier Investigating CDL School After Deadly Turnpike Crash 
Shot In The Dark: Questions, Public Image, and Peace In Our Time
The Political Hat: Glock Block Crock, The Eschaton Is Always But One Immanentization Away, Queering The European Union, Quick Takes – Nature Rights: Indigenous Ways Of Knowing At Harvard; Democrats In Wisconsin; Gaia The Corporatist, and Firing Line Friday: A Firing Line Debate: Resolved: That the New Anti-Terror Bill Is Good for Americans
This Ain’t Hell: Coast Guard personnel fire in direction of a U-Haul truck, Man, who played ‘Imperial March’ at National Guard troops, sues for being arrested, Valor Friday, A bit of history, and Make Military Great Again!
Transterrestrial Musings: The Great Feminization, No Kings, It Begins, and John Brennan
Victory Girls: “I Don’t Care”: Virginia Democrat on Kids and Sexual Content, Gavin Newsom’s Pro-Illegal Alien Policies Claim Three More Lives, Usha And J.D. Vance Put On Blast By “Circle Back” Jen Psaki, Your Mom Did: Karoline Leavitt’s Snark Level? Presidential, and Bluesky App Gets Trumpian Trolling From This Administration
Watts Up With That: Sadiq Khan’s Ulez Expansion Had No Impact on Air Pollution, Study Finds, Climate Out, Affordability In, Green Transition? Coal Use Hits Record High, Aussie Climate Minister Slams Queensland’s Reliance on Intermittent Coal, and President Trump Cancels $700 Million of Battery Manufacturing Grants
The Federalist: After Losing At SCOTUS, Wisconsin Finds A New Way To ‘Target’ Catholic Charities, New York High Court Blocks Race-Grifters From Using Courts To Indoctrinate Children, Big Government Locks Young People Out of the American Dream, Jay Jones’ ‘Community Service’ Scandal Is Worse Than You Think, and NBC Is Helping Run Anti-ICE Ops For Dems
Mark Steyn: Ladies Choice: Clare Boothe Luce and the Nightmare of The Women, I Found a Million Dollar Baby (in a Five and Ten Cent Store), Live Around the Planet: Shutdown Landslide, Never Mind the Bollocks, It’s Islam, and So Long, Big Time!

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