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FMJRA 2.0: Aspiring to Mediocrity

Posted on | February 23, 2025 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Aspiring to Mediocrity

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Took two out of three from Atlanta on Tuesday and then lost two out of three to Pete’s Brewers. Spaceman Lee got two of the wins and Charlie Hough got the other in relief against the Bravos. Picked up several good hitters in the draft, but they ain’t hitting, and meanwhile the bullpen keeps lighting itself on fire.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

The ‘Red Pill’ Remains Undefeated
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FMJRA 2.0: Scalped
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Radical Vegan Transgender Death Cult Gets Mainstream Media Coverage UPDATE: Finally, the KiwiFarms Thread
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Rule 5 Sunday: Casual
Animal Magnetism
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‘Remembrance’ for a Criminal
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BREAKING: Cult Leader Jack ‘Ziz’ LaSota and Michelle Zajko Arrested in Maryland UPDATE: Third Suspect Also Captured
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MUGSHOTS: Jack ‘Ziz’ LaSota, Michelle ‘Jamie’ Zajko, Daniel ‘Hastur’ Blank
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In The Mailbox: 02.17.25
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Bail Hearing Today for Cult Suspects UPDATE: Judge Orders All Three ‘Extremists’ Held Without Bond
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The Future of Gaza is Neu Schwabenland
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‘Ziz’ Misgendered and Other Highlights of Tuesday’s Court Hearing for Cult Suspects
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In The Mailbox: 02.19.25 (Morning Edition)
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CPAC: Today Is Vice President Day
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CPAC: Too Early to Think About 2026?
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CPAC: New Heights of Awesomeness
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In The Mailbox: 2.21.25 (Morning Edition)
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In The Mailbox: 02.21.25 (Evening Edition)
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Joy Reid Is Out at MSNBC

Posted on | February 23, 2025 | Comments Off on Joy Reid Is Out at MSNBC

In December, I wrote about how Trump’s victory had humiliated his media enemies. It was predictable that there would be consequences, and now the consequences come home for one of Trump’s angriest critics:

MSNBC liberal mainstay Joy Reid’s show has been canceled as part of a major overhaul by the network’s new president Rebecca Kutler, according to a report.
The 7 p.m. program hosted by Trump critic Reid, 56, will be replaced by a new panel show featuring co-hosts Alicia Menendez, Michael Steele, and Symone Sanders Townsend, the New York Times reported, citing insiders.
The final episode of Reid’s show, “The ReidOut,” will air sometime this week, ending a mainstay of MSNBC’s lineup for the past five years, according to the Times.
It marks the first large-scale shake-up by MSNBC’s new president, Kutler, since she took over the liberal network earlier this month.
Reid, one of the most prominent Trump-bashers in the mainstream media, has been a long-serving anchor at the network, hosting the weekend talk show “AM Joy” since 2016 before being named anchor of the 7 p.m. slot in 2020.
She has made a series of infamous rants in recent months, including telling Trump supporters to “make your own dinner” at Thanksgiving, saying they should “suffer the consequences of your votes.” . . .
In December, Nielsen Media Research revealed that Reid had lost almost half her viewers since the election of Donald Trump, with MSNBC seeing a whopping 53% drop in primetime viewership following the Nov. 5 result.

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In The Mailbox: 02.21.25 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | February 22, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 02.21.25 (Evening Edition)

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SOTD
Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
The Boss has ordained a shoutout to No Pasaran, which has been on Blogspot for 25 years.
Worth putting in the rotation? Early Warning Roundtable For 2/21/25
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

Payback is a stone-cold bitch.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: New Jersey Concealed Carry Permits Hit Record High in January
EBL: Sanna Marin on European Defense Spending, MAGA FBI Director Kash Patel, Make CPAC Fun Again, Backstabbing Zelensky, and Restroom Keys and Yosemite National Park
Twitchy: Hosts Of The View Told To Dial Back Offputting Anti-Trump Ravings, DataRepublican Sets Her Sights On David Hogg & His PAC And OH THE BRUTALITY, and Israel Releases Horrifying Results Of Bibas Childrens’ Autopsies
Louder With Crowder: Trump’s transportation chair is INVESTIGATING California waste, but how he shut down protestors is where he shined
Vox Popoli: Germany Issues a Warning, ASOIAF vs AODAL, Reading Isn’t Stealing, Kash Patel Confirmed, and The Next James Bond
According To Hoyt: Grab Your Mallet, Writers (and others) Standing For Liberty Promo Post, and Battle Fatigue
Monster Hunter Nation: Educating the Stupid on How Audits Work In Real Life
Flappr: Hooters – Fallen Empire
Toni Airaksinen: Professor Fired For Antisemitism Gets New Job At The American Anthropological Association
Upstream Reviews: Time-Marked Warlock
Jim McCoy: Any Given Doomsday

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Twilight of the Fourth Estate
American Greatness: Netanyahu Enraged After Israeli Hostage Coffins Are Paraded in Gaza Strip and Put on Macabre Display, Trump Slams Zelenskyy as ‘Modestly Successful Comedian’ Who Played Biden ‘Like a Fiddle’, IDF: Hamas Terrorists Murdered Bibas Children ‘With Their Bare Hands;’ Failed to Return Body of Mother, Trump Threatens to Yank Federal Funding From Maine After Governor Defies His Executive Order Protecting Women’s Sports, and Is the DOE DOA?
American Thinker: Trillions in Graft, Kash Patel Is Poised to Lead the FBI Into a New Era, President Trump Is Wrong on Gaza, Canada at the Crossroads, and Never Again?
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Fort Knox Gold News, Animal’s Hump Day News, Animal’s Red Thursday News, and Rule Five CPAC Friday
Baldilocks: The U.S. Military Discriminates & Anyone Who Cares About Our Country Should Be Glad It Does
BattleSwarm: Paxton Argues For Free Speech Against Texas Agency, First 10 Days Of Trump = Sharp Decline In Illegal Alien Crossings, “The British Army Is Now Too Small To Effectively Perform Its Tasks.”, and LinkSwarm For February 21
Behind The Black: SpaceX launches more Starlink satellites, Airbus writes off $314 million for unnamed space program losses, New observations reduce odds of asteroid 2024 YR4’s 2032 Earth impact to practically zero, Musk says ISS should be de-orbited quickly! And he may be right, and Justice Department drops absurd Biden-era discrimination lawsuit against SpaceX
Cafe Hayek: The Spectacular Economic Ignorance of Peter Navarro, also, Gramm and Boudreaux on Trade Deficits
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: In At the Beginning, also, Trevor Noah and Brown v. Board
Da Tech Guy: Barbarians being Barbarians: Bibas family edition
Don Surber: Shut up, Mike, I just want my money back
First Street Journal: Bad causes attract bad people, also, Will any of the pro-#Hamas demonstrators rethink their positions following the brutal murders of Kfir and Ariel Bibas?
Gates Of Vienna: Open Season on First Responders in Rosengård, Don’t Use the Munich Attack to Stir up Hatred and Xenophobia, “No One Can Guarantee the Safety of Our Citizens”, Islamic School For Scandal, and The Streets Are Full of Targets!
The Geller Report: The Massive Large Scale Terror Attack in Israel That Would Have Dwarfed Oct.7 On Day Murdered Bibas Babies Returned, also, Bibas Babies Identified, They Were Brutally Murdered by Islamic Terrorists, The Mother’s Body Does Not Match, It’s The Body of An “Anonymous Woman”
Hollywood In Toto: Unbreakable Boy Puts an Imperfect Family First, Captain America: Brave New World to Sink in Week 2? UPDATE, Millers in Marriage Stalls Just When It’s Ready to Soar, The Chosen Teams with Amazon for Season 5, Last Supper, and Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong Dons Palestinian Flag in Malaysia
The Lid: Wokesters Blame MAGA for Lesbian Fire Captain’s Death, Facts Prove Otherwise
Legal Insurrection: Iowa Public Universities Return to Two Sexes: ‘Basic Biological Reality’, Brown Medical School Uses DEI to Determine Faculty Promotions, SCOTUS Punts On Whether District Court Can Prevent Trump From Firing Official, Schadenfreude: SSA Fraud Expert Benched for Helping DOGE, But Then Appointed Acting Commissioner, and Is It Time to Rethink the Culling of Poultry in Response to Bird Flu?
Nebraska Energy Observer: I couldn’t, Europe’s New Reality, Scattershot Friday, and What is the biggest fault in America?
Outkick: New Robo Ump System Could End Baseball TV Broadcast Strike Zones, Roki Sasaki Announces Surprise Marriage In Instagram Post, 4 Nations Championship Ratings Were Gargantuan, ESPN and MLB Both Losers In Upcoming Divorce, and Paige Spiranac Offers To Help Save Hooters As It Faces Bankruptcy
Power Line: The missing corpse, MSNBC Settles Defamation Case, Garcia Doubles Down, and Thoughts from the ammo line
Shark Tank: Reps Jacques & Tramont Seek To Safeguard State Election Systems
Shot In The Dark: Stragegy, Auditioning For “The View”, The Buck Stops Ne’er, Handicapping, The Right Victims, and The Problem Is Families
STUMP: NYC Congestion Pricing, We Hardly Knew Ye
The Political Hat: For Whose Good: The Common vs. The Collective, Election Shenanigans In New York, Quick Takes – Academic Discrimination & The Law: Discrimination Not Prohibited On A Technicality; Anti-DEI Claimed To Be Unconstitutional; Anti-Semitism, and Firing Line Friday: The Ozone Controversy
This Ain’t Hell: Canada, Greenland and the Gulf of America, Canada, Greenland and the Gulf of America, Valor Friday, Pete Hegseth set to fire generals and senior officers, and VA Chaplain penalized for preaching Romans
Transterrestrial Musings: Gaza, Pigs Get Fed, Hogs Get Slaughtered, Britain, Clearing The Regulatory Underbrush, and Thoughts On Doge
Victory Girls: Jasmine Crockett Doesn’t Know What $5k Will Do For You, Amanda Marcotte Wants Cat Ladies To Stay Strong, and Illinois Governor JB Pritzker Proves The Left Can’t Troll
Watts Up With That: £62 Million From Taxpayers For Wooden Bottles, Coalition to Burgum: “Stop offshore wind!”, A$18,000 Climate Doomsday Clock Unveiled in Melbourne, and Are Climate Scientists Lying About Their Work to Secure US Research Grants?
The Federalist: Education Department Launches Investigation Into Maine After Trump Slams Governor Over Boys In Girls’ Sports, WI Supreme Court Candidate’s Rich Leftist Friends Expect Much For Their Generosity, Here’s How The Media Are Lying Right Now: ‘Rewriting’ Ukraine War History Edition, Your ‘Farm Fresh’ Produce Might Be Fertilized With Forever Chemicals And Human Waste, and Will Someone Please Explain The Birds And The Bees To The Washington Post?
Mark Steyn: Thank You and Goodnight, Honouring Thy Parents, and Too Stupid Even for CBS News?

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In The Mailbox: 2.21.25 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | February 21, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 2.21.25 (Morning Edition)

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Yesterday was eaten by snakes and travel.
The Art & Craft of Writing Romance Kickstarter continues!
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

Somebody in Kiev hasn’t figured out that the neocons aren’t in charge any more.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: How Old Do You Need to Be to Defend Yourself?
Director Blue: Top 20 Insanities DOGE Has Discovered – So Far
EBL: Ukrainian Beggars Can’t Be Choosers, John Basilone, RIP, Steam Skies | Airships above the Retro-Future, Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor, and The odds of a major asteroid hit just went up
Twitchy: New Democrat Primary Poll Shows They Definitely Plan To Remain Burdened By What Has Been, Mike Lee Brutally Reminds Liz Cheney Who She Is After She Tries Trolling J.D. Vance On Ukraine, and Check Out Fearmongering BS Chris Coons Thought Would Scare You About DOGE
Louder With Crowder: Here’s the latest technique to prevent being stabbed in Germany, also, Senator John Kennedy offers some of his trademark advice to Democrats: “Try harder not to suck”
Vox Popoli: Write What Thou Wilt, Bring. Them. Home., You Don’t Own Your Ebooks, Not Much Room for Complaint, and The Problem of Perspectives
Bugscuffle Gazette: Once More Into The Breach, 
Toni Airaksinen: Trump Promised To Fix McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines – Will He Deliver?
Stoic Observations: DevOps The Hard Way
Upstream Reviews: We All Love The HALO Franchise, also, Galen’s Way
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: NATO, RIP
Cedar Sanderson: A Con, A Child, & A Pivot

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Baldilocks: The Heist
CDR Salamander: So A SAPR Rep Who Did A Two-Week Harvard Seminar Had Some 1990s Nostalgia While Changing FITREPs? also, Diversity Thursday
Dana Loesch: Ubisoft’s Fall Should Be An Example, also, It’s Not Cool To Be Progressive Any More
Don Surber: The question unasked, also, They forgot the Forgotten Man – Trump didn’t
STUMP: A Potential Large Source Of Junk SSA Data

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CPAC Scenes

Posted on | February 21, 2025 | Comments Off on CPAC Scenes

General Washington and Martha were nice.,

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland
There is nothing else on the planet like CPAC. As I’ve sometimes said, it’s basically Mardi Gras for right-wingers. You see all the earnest young College Republican types, with the boys in nice suits and the girls dolled up in dresses and heels, and you know they’re having the time of their lives. After the end of each day’s conference activities, there’s a swirl of private parties and just people hitting the night spots along Fleet Street.

Of course, you don’t even have to leave the hotel to find a good time. Over many years of attending CPAC, I’ve made the lobby bar my usually hangout to meet up with friends, or make new friends.

IWF’s Gabby Hoffman does a radio interview.

Tony Katz does his show on Radio Row.

Radio Row, outside the main ballroom, is always crowded, and it was nice to see familiar faces like popular talk-show host Tony Katz, and Gabrielle Hoffman. When I first met Gabby at CPAC 2011, she was a College Republican, and now she’s the director of the Center for Energy and Conservation at Independent Women’s Forum.

Newsmax has a big presence at CPAC this year.

Hogan Gidley (left) on a Newsmax panel discussion.

The media environment is constantly changing. Newsmax may not rival Fox News in audience size yet, but they’ve probably got more viewers than CNN in many hours, and they’re obviously pushing hard to expand their brand awareness, especially with the MAGA grassroots.

Jack Posobiec gives an interview.

The Trump Tribe of Texas

This afternoon, I went down to the exhibition hall and filled up a swag bag with freebies to take back home. Only spending two days at CPAC this year, which means I’ll miss President Trump’s speech Saturday, but I really want to get home and sleep in my own bed tonight. I’ll have to hustle to load into the car, if I want to beat the rush-hour traffic out of D.C.. It’s been a blast, and it was good to see old friends.

At the Irish Whisper on Thursday night with Mike LaChance



 

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CPAC: New Heights of Awesomeness

Posted on | February 21, 2025 | Comments Off on CPAC: New Heights of Awesomeness

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland
Watching Vice President J.D. Vance being interviewed on the CPAC stage by Mercedes Mercedes Schlapp yesterday morning, I couldn’t help but be impressed and encouraged. Vance is very, very good as a communicator, in a way that Donald Trump never has been. Certainly, many voters have been drawn into the GOP column by Trump’s rough-and-tumble style of rhetoric, and I’m happy about that — proving my long-held belief that Republicans needed a more populist style. At the same time, I think I’m not the only conservative who laments — what shall we call it? — the imprecision of Trump’s rhetoric. Accuracy matters a lot, when discussing public policy, and Trump’s tendency to boast and to pile on with superlatives when touting his own plans and accomplishments has always been problematic. He just says too many things that are either exaggerated or plainly false, and as someone in the communications business, I find it difficult to defend some of what Trump says.

J.D. Vance, by contrast, is an absolute ace communicator, and his skills in this department make me feel very hopeful for the future. Of course it’s way too early to predict what will happen in 2028, but if Vance is the next Republican presidential candidate, you like the GOP’s chances. All those college-educated suburban women who had problems with Trump are going to be easier to get with Vance atop the Republican ticket.

We are still just one month into Trump’s second term, and there’s no way of knowing what will transpire over the next few years, but if Vance is heir apparent of MAGA, the future looks very bright.



 

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CPAC: Too Early to Think About 2026?

Posted on | February 20, 2025 | Comments Off on CPAC: Too Early to Think About 2026?

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland
So I get on the hotel elevator with a couple, and the guy’s wearing a red shirt emblazoned, “RON ELLER FOR CONGRESS.” Curiosity being a journalistic habit, I ask the guy, “Who’s Ron Eller?”

“I’m Ron Eller,” he says, and then proceeds to tell me that he ran for Congress last year in Mississippi against Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson, who was handpicked by Nancy Pelosi to chair the infamous J6 witch hunt committee. Mississippi has four congressional districts, three of which are held by Republicans with about 70% of the vote, whereas Thompson’s 2nd District, covering the Delta region stretching down the western side of the state, is rated D+11 by the Cook Political Report. Thompson’s been in Congress more than 30 years, and the last time any Republican challenger got as much as 40% of the vote against him was in 2004. There is no logical reason to think Thompson’s could be vulnerable in 2026, however . . .

Ron Eller got 38% of the vote last year despite being outspent more than 5-to-1 by the incumbent Democrat. The national Republican establishment didn’t lift a finger to help and wouldn’t even return Eller’s phone calls. Eller is a determined fellow who can and will give you his stump speech extempaneously, and he’s planning to challenge Thompson again in 2026. You got to like Eller’s bio — 20-year military veteran and small business owner, a deeply religious and patriotic man in a region where Bible-believing Christian faith is still nearly universal.

What could Ron Eller do in 2026, if we could mobilize grassroots MAGA activists to support his campaign? What would it mean, even in a D+11 district, to have major GOP fundraising efforts to back a candidate like Eller, the underdog against the 30-year incumbent lapdog of the left-wing Democratic Party establishment? So, after hearing Eller give his impromptu stump speech — I’m telling you, the guy’s a campaign machine — I said, “You remember the Tea Party year? Remember that campaign against Barney Frank?” Sean Bielat ring a bell?

That’s what we need — grassroots energy in a longshot campaign like the one that forced Barney Frank to spend half-a-million dollars of his own money to fend off the underdog challenger.

Even if you don’t win a campaign like that, the point is you force Democrats to play defense in otherwise “safe” districts, which limits how much money and effort they can put into fighting in the “purple” battleground races. Can MAGA generate the kind of grassroots energy in 2026 the Tea Party had in 2010? I don’t know. But what I do know is, I like this guy I met in the hotel elevator.

RON ELLER for U.S. CONGRESS



 

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CPAC: Today Is Vice President Day

Posted on | February 20, 2025 | Comments Off on CPAC: Today Is Vice President Day

‘Badges? We don’t need no stinkin’ badges!’

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland
Still don’t have my media credentials. The appointed time to pick those up was 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday, so I showed up at the designated location about 4 o’clock and WHOA! A gigantic long line that wasn’t moving at all. So I figured there must be some kind of glitch in the system, and headed out to the lobby bar to mix and mingle, which is really the whole point of CPAC, right? Sure, the Vice President of the United States is giving a speech here at 10 a.m. Thursday, but you can see that on TV. What you can’t see on TV — and what most media coverage of CPAC ignores — is the continuous schmoozing that takes place all over this sprawling complex of hotels, restaurants and bars.

Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center

The Gaylord itself is massive, and the main ballroom — where people crowd in to hear the VIP speeches — is just one fraction of what goes on at CPAC. In the corridor outside the main ballroom is Radio Row and Media Row, with various talk show personalities, podcasters, etc., doing their thing live throughout the week. Each of these personalities has their own fandom, and CPAC attendees will crowd around to get a chance to see their favorites. And the various VIP speakers will go to Radio Row for interviews, so sometimes you’ll see a huge crowd form to watch some superstar in the MAGA galaxy do an interview. There’s also various panel discussions during the conference, which take place in meeting rooms scattered around the two upper floors of the convention center. Two floors below the main ballroom, there’s an exhibition hall where various policy institutes and activist organizations have their booths set up. Go down there and get a free canvas tote bag, and just fill it up with flyers, pamphlets, logo-embossed goodies, etc. My kids used to love it when I’d come home after CPAC and bring them a big bag of freebies.

Excuse the poor quality of the photo.

You may not recognize that guy on the right, but I did. Returning from dinner — fish and chips at the nearby Irish pub — I walked into the lobby and couldn’t believe my eyes. “Donut?” He turned when I called out to him, and sure enough it was “Donut Operator,” a/k/a Cody Garrett, an ex-cop whose YouTube has more than 5 million subscribers, which is about 10 times the size of the average hourly audience for CNN.

Donut Operator’s videos are mostly breakdowns of police body camera footage of officer-involved shootings, and I’m a stone junkie for that kind of stuff — car chases, shootings, suspects getting tased and pepper-sprayed, etc. Like, what part of “drop the knife” do I have to explain to these perps? Anyway, Donut is a bona fide celebrity in the 21st-century New Media universe, and it was kind of surprising to me that I was apparently the only one in the hotel lobby to recognize him, but maybe most CPAC attendees aren’t as into live police action as I am.

Erik Svane and me.

Speaking of action, the real action at CPAC is always in the lobby bar, a/k/a The Belvedere, which is where I bumped into my old friend Erik Svane who has been blogging at No Pasaran for more than 20 years. We first met at CPAC in either 2006 or 2007, during the G.W. Bush presidency, when the Global War on Terror was still the big thing for conservatives, and doesn’t that seem like a million years ago?

Erik and I talked about the old times, when “blogging” was still the New Thing, before social media, TikTok, YouTube and other such developments had revolutionized the information landscape. It was at CPAC 2007 (then held at the Omni Shoreham hotel in D.C.) that I first met Andrew Breitbart, and it’s stunning to think that it’s been nearly 13 years since Andrew died suddenly of a heart attack.

Well, I’m still alive, and still don’t have my media credential. Last night they were talking about opening up media registration at 5:30 this morning, so I woke up extra early and now must go over there and check in to see if I can get my badge. But failing all else, I’ll be in the Belvedere lounge. If you’re here at CPAC, just look for the fedora.



 

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