JD Vance Appears on Bill Maher

Before that: Anderson Cooper, who was almost certainly about to be let go by Bari Weiss for being an expensive semen-hued Nepo Boomer who contributes nothing to the network, now lets it leak that he doesn't want to work for the Jew anyway.

And I don't mean that he doesn't want to work for Weiss at 60 Minutes, which is already a fait accompli. He already didn't sign a renewed contract, probably after Weiss offered him a lowball, "I want you to reject this" kind of offer.

I mean he says he wants to leave CNN, too.

Which is also probably a fait accompli.

CNN star Anderson Cooper has privately told colleagues he does not want to work for CBS News boss Bari Weiss if she is ultimately put in charge of the cable network following Paramount Skydance's proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, according to a report.

Cooper has made his feelings known internally as Paramount chief executive David Ellison weighs whether to give Weiss oversight of both CBS News and CNN once the roughly $111 billion merger closes, the New York Times reported.

Cooper's reported opposition comes as other top CNN figures are also signaling resistance to a potential Weiss-led future.

According to the Times, CNN chief executive Mark Thompson has told Paramount officials he will not share oversight of the network with another executive, while longtime anchor Jake Tapper recently met with Ellison in Los Angeles.

The Times said it was not known what the two men discussed.

What they almost certainly discussed is the fact that they're making $3-7 million per year to deliver moderate YouTube-level ratings, and how they could either reduce that salary or increase those ratings.

The report says Ellison remains supportive of Weiss despite months of upheaval at CBS News, where she has overseen a sweeping overhaul of the news division since taking over as editor-in-chief last year.

One option under consideration would pair Weiss with a seasoned television executive responsible for the operational and financial side of the combined news organizations while she retained editorial oversight, according to the Times.

...

Not long afterward, Cooper also chose not to renew his contract with "60 Minutes," ending a nearly two-decade run as a correspondent for the iconic newsmagazine while remaining at CNN.

Now on to Bill Maher:

Maher made the claim that Trump hadn't done anything about Iran's nuclear program.

Now, I'm very dissatisfied with Trump's jerky prosecution of this non-war, but I'd never say he did nothing about Iran's nuke program.

When Vance challenged him on this daffy claim, Maher resorted to typical shitlib CNN talking points that because Trump had not sent in ground troops to seize "the dust" (the buried radioactive residuum of Iran's nuke program), this means that Trump had effectively done nothing at all and Iran's nuke program was still at full force.

What a stupid, hackish, stupid (it's stupid doubly) thing to say.

Vice President JD Vance argued during an interview with Bill Maher Friday that "America wins" even if Iran refuses to sign a deal that would end the war.

"If we don't make the final deal, their nuclear program is still destroyed, they're still much weaker as a country," Vance said during his appearance on "Real Time with Bill Maher."

"So my attitude is America wins either way," he added.

Vance noted that President Trump tasked US negotiators with "something that frankly, nobody in 47 years of dealing with the Iranians has done, which is offer them an opportunity to fundamentally transform how they behave with the West."

"If they're willing to change, we're willing to change, too," the vice president said, adding, "If they're not willing to change, we still fundamentally have all the cards.

"I think it's a good place for us to be."

The 41-year-old veep jetted off to Switzerland last weekend for high-stakes meetings with Iranian representatives mediated by Pakistani and Qatari officials.

During his face-to-face remarks with Tehran's top negotiators last Sunday, Vance declared the Trump administration's goal was to "transform our relationship" with Iran.

"What the president has asked us to do is turn over a new leaf to transform our relationship with the people of Iran, and to extend an outstretched hand that says to the people of Iran that if your leadership is willing to give up being a driver of regional instability," Vance said.

"If they are willing to give up nuclear weapons ambitions for the long term, then the United States is willing to fundamentally transform our relationship with that country," he went on. "That is certainly our goal."

Of course, Iran once again fired on a ship in the strait. As anyone not part of the Trump Administration said they would.

The MOU between President Trump and Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian was meant to stop fighting and kick off 60 days of talks for a grand deal to end Tehran's nuclear program.

On Friday, hours before Vance's sit-down with Maher, Trump claimed Iran had violated the cease-fire after an Iranian drone struck Singaporean-flagged ship M/V Ever Lovely.

The attack came after Iran warned vessels to ignore a US-approved shipping lane through the Strait of Hormuz, along the Omani coast, instead hoping for the ships to use a passage of their choosing.

Following the "foolish violation," US forces conducted military strikes in Iran, targeting Iranian drone storage facilities and coastal radar sites.

On Saturday, Iran claimed it had struck targets linked to the US in response to Friday's strikes but didn't identify the targets, according to Reuters.

Not that I care about Bill Maher, but he did say that the left's headlong embrace of communism, Third Worldism, Hamas-ism, and antisemitism might make him vote Republican in 2028.

Overton
@overton_news

Jun 27

WHOA: Bill Maher looks JD Vance dead in the eye and says his "vote is in play" for 2028.

Maher openly admitted to Vance that if socialists take over the Democratic Party, he's likely voting for him or Rubio.

MAHER: "Like, if this is where the Democratic Party is going, where this Democratic socialist, this obsession with Israel, with the Jew hating, they don't believe in capitalism, no prisons..."

"If this is where they're going, my vote is in play."

VANCE: "Okay, I like to hear that."

MAHER: "It actually always has been. Every year, I don't make my decision by who has an R or a D, I actually always came to the conclusion that the Democrat was probably better and voted for them."

"And Trump can't run again and he'd be a little too exciting for me anyway."

"So it's either going to be you or Rubio."

Maher of course had to virtue signal about he and his fellow liberals are completely honorable about accepting the results of elections and demanded to know why Trump and Vance won't "concede" the 2020 election.

RedWave Press
@RedWavePress

Bill Maher: "Can you tell me you will do that? Will you bring us back to the middle at least on that, where we concede elections, where it's not either one of those two options?"

Vice President JD Vance: "So this is where I'm probably going to lose you here."

Bill Maher: "That happened about eight minutes ago."

Vice President JD Vance: "I don't think that we should not concede elections, but I don't think that's what's going on... The president and I have talked a lot about this."

"Is it true that large technology companies, some of whom have financial interests that exist outside the United States of America, were they censoring information in the run-up to an election?"

"The biggest criticism I had of the 2020 election is that you had technology companies that were quite literally censoring negative information about the left and promoting negative information about the right."

"If the First Amendment says we have a free and open debate and the American people judge on that free and open debate, the sense in which I think the election in 2020 was rigged, I'm sorry, is that you had technology companies that were putting their thumb on the scale in a way that completely obliterated the real open exchange of ideas."

Video here.

In 2017, Maher vigorously agreed with special guest Keith Olberman that Trump was an "illegitimate" president and only in office due to Russian interference.

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Nine Democrat-Led States, Plus Vermont, Refuse to Send any Delegation to the Nation's 250th Anniversary "National State Fair"

Julia 🇺🇸
@Jules31415

10 states--Connecticut, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, and Pennsylvania--have confirmed they will not send an official delegation to the "Great American State Fair" on the National Mall in celebration of America's 250th.

9 of the states are led by Democratic governors, with Vermont being the only Republican-governed state to decline involvement so far.

Notably, PA Gov. Josh Shapiro tops the list of highest paid governors.

It's the countdown to the nation's 250th anniversary, but it doesn't feel like it. The left is doing a good job of what it always does, ruining things with their endless, insatiable hatred and drive to destroy.

Here's some of what Wikipedia has to say about the bicentennial celebrations of 1976:

1976 events

1976 festivities included elaborate fireworks in the skies above major US cities. President Ford presided over the display in Washington, D.C., which was televised nationally. Celebrations in cities and towns across the nation opened into full effect including celebrations such as Operation Sail (Op Sail), a large international fleet parade of tall-masted sailing ships gathering first in New York City on Independence Day and then in Boston about one week later. Other large-scale events, such as reenactments, parades, and booms in commercialized commemoration, spread across the nation as the year went on.
New York

In addition to the presence of the 'tall ships', navies of many nations sent warships to New York harbor for an International Naval Review held the morning of July 4. President Ford sailed down the Hudson River into New York harbor aboard the guided missile cruiser USS Wainwright to review the international fleet and receive salutes from each visiting ship, ending with a salute from the Royal Navy guided-missile destroyer HMS London. The review ended just above Liberty Island at around 10:30 am.

Washington, D.C.

Johnny Cash served as the Grand Marshal of the US Bicentennial parade.[24]

The event was attended by Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip. The royal couple made a state visit to the United States, toured the country, and attended other Bicentennial functions with President and Mrs. Ford. Their visit aboard the British royal yacht HMY Britannia included stops in Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Virginia, New York, Connecticut, and Massachusetts.

The Smithsonian Institution opened a long-term exhibition in its Arts and Industries Building replicating the look and feel of the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, including artifacts from earlier exposition. The Bicentennial Festival of American Folklife, a collaboration of the Smithsonian with thousands of national and international scholars, folk artisans, and performers, hosted programs in the western part of the National Mall five days a week for twelve weeks in the summer of 1976.[25] The Smithsonian also opened the new home of the National Air and Space Museum on July 1, 1976.[26]

Government celebration

George Washington was posthumously appointed to the grade of General of the Armies of the United States by the congressional joint resolution Public Law 94-479 passed January 19, 1976, with an effective appointment date of July 4, 1976.[27] This restored Washington's position as the highest-ranking military officer in US history.[a]

NASA commemorated the Bicentennial by staging a science and technology exhibit housed in a series of geodesic domes in the parking lot of the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) called Third Century America. An American flag and the Bicentennial emblem were also painted on the side of the VAB; the emblem remained until 1998, when it was painted over with the NASA insignia. NASA planned for Viking 1 to land on Mars on July 4, but delayed the landing to July 20, the anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing. On the anniversary of the signing of the Constitution, NASA held the rollout ceremony of the first Space Shuttle (which NASA had planned to name Constitution but was, instead, named "Enterprise" in honor of its fictional namesake on the television series Star Trek[29]).

Delaware crossing reenactment

On November 20 and 21 of 1976, participants immersed themselves in the era by donning period-accurate uniforms and equipping themselves with the tools and weaponry characteristic of that Christmas night over two centuries prior.[30] The reenactment unfolded as a grand spectacle, featuring a flotilla of boats navigating the icy currents of the Delaware River.

Since then, the Crossing the Delaware reenactment has occurred every year to relive and recognize this moment.[31]

Trump is trying to do something with this National State Fair concept but the left is boycotting as usual.

Poll: Most Democrats want to leave the US but unfortunately they're all lazy and incapable of doing any of the things they say they want t o do.

A new survey from Elon University found that a majority of Democrats would prefer living in another country rather than the United States, underscoring growing ideological divides over patriotism, national identity, and perceptions of the American Dream.

One of the June 2 survey's most notable findings showed that 55 percent of Democrats answered "yes" when asked whether there is another country where they would rather live today than the United States. Only 10 percent of Republicans responded similarly.

The result suggests that many Democrats view the United States less favorably than Republicans, despite Democrats continuing to participate in the country's political and cultural institutions.

The survey found even more dramatic differences regarding America's upcoming 250th anniversary.

Sixty-eight percent of Republicans reported feeling proud about America250, while only 18 percent of Democrats said the same. Likewise, 75 percent of Republicans agreed that the American Dream remains achievable regardless of circumstance if people work hard enough, compared to just 25 percent of Democrats.

The gap suggests that attitudes toward America's history and founding ideals increasingly break along partisan lines, even as universities and civic organizations prepare for the historic anniversary.

Are you seeing any bunting or just feeling the 250th coming?

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So Close to Pride Month?

I linked a clip of this on Friday or Thursday.

Below, pro-trans, pro-gay, pro-sex-offender, pro-pedophile senator Scott Weiner is harassed and driven out of a "Pride" month by militant Hamas supporters who claim he's, get this, a "center-right shill."

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Supreme Court Rules That the Chief Executive Does In Fact Have the Power to Fire His Own Executive Branch Employees

Liberal congresses passed laws to establish so-called "independent agencies," which are executive branch agencies intended to be independent from the very executive they're part of.

This is plainly unconstitutional. The Constitution establishes that there is an Executive branch headed by a Chief Executive, the president, who is vested with all of the power of the executive branch of government. Congress may not set up fakey-fake "independent" agencies which are part of the Executive and yet not part of the Executive.

Today, an hour ago, the Supreme Court re-introduced the Constitution into constitutional law about firing the heads of "independent" agencies.

Benjamin Ryan
@benryanwriter

1h

NEWS: Supreme Court overrules a 90-year-old precedent and frees the president to fire independent agency heads

The Supreme Court ruled today that President Trump can remove Federal Trade Commission members at will, and in doing so it overruled Humphrey's Executor, the 1935 decision that has protected independent agencies for nine decades. The case is Trump v. Slaughter, and it reshapes the federal bureaucracy.

The fight began when Trump fired the FTC's two Democratic commissioners, Rebecca Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya, early in his second term. He did not claim cause. He simply said their service no longer fit his administration's priorities. Federal law says FTC commissioners can be removed only for inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance. Slaughter sued to get her job back and won below.

The Court reversed. Chief Justice Roberts, writing for the majority, said the Constitution vests executive power in one president who must be able to remove the officers who wield that power on his behalf. Because the FTC clearly exercises executive power, he wrote, its commissioners answer to the president. Humphrey's Executor, he said, has long been a result in search of a rationale, and the Court let it go.

The vote was 6 to 3. Roberts was joined by Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett. Sotomayor dissented, joined by Kagan and Jackson.

The Federal Reserve, however, keeps its unconstitutional independence from the Executive:

It's worth noting alongside the Cook decision handed down the same day. The Court protected the Federal Reserve's independence there while stripping it from the FTC here, drawing an explicit line around the central bank as a historical exception. So independent agencies lose their shield, but the Fed keeps its own.

In the typical way, Roberts and Coney Barret sided with the liberals in holding, 5-4, that the "Election Day" mentioned in the Constitution doesn't actually mean Election Day at all and that ballots can be counted no matter how long after Election Day they're received.

They do have be postmarked by Election day, though.

And no one could possibly fake a mail stamp.

SCOTUS Wire
@scotus_wire

🚨 In a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court ruled that federal law does not require mail-in ballots to be received by Election Day, holding that states may count ballots postmarked by Election Day but received afterward if state law allows it.

Full decision, by Barrett (of course), here.

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THE MORNING RANT: Trump-Bashing Felon John Bolton is Scheduled for a Fireside Chat Today with National Review to Discuss Character and Leadership

John Bolton is a megalomaniac felon who compromised national security by illegally retaining and sharing confidential documents. But he is also a Trump-basher who once served as National Security Adviser, therefore he is now a hero to the left and to the faux-conservative media that is still desperate to remove the elected President from office.

If you consider Bolton’s criminal behavior and hatred of President Trump to be inspiring, you have company – so does “conservative” publication National Review. Unless Mr. Bolton’s guilty plea last week has changed anything, you have the opportunity today to listen to Mr. Bolton discuss leadership and national security in a “virtual fireside chat,” courtesy of National Review.

But first, in case you missed the news last week, John Bolton has just pleaded guilty to illegally retaining and sharing classified national security documents. This is a felony offense.

“Former Trump adviser John Bolton pleads guilty in classified files case; Bolton served as national security adviser in Donald Trump’s first administration before becoming a vocal critic of the president” [Washington Post – 6/27/2026]

For his criminal behavior, Mr. Bolton faces penalties including:

• Up to 5 years in prison.
• Forfeiture of his government pension.
• Fine of $2.25 million.

The National Review Institute is hosting an “American Leadership & National Security” seminar in Newport Beach today. Jim Geraghty, Noah Rothman, and other Trump-hating “conservatives” are scheduled to join Mr. Bolton in discussing character and leadership.

Below the fold is the actual invitation from National Review inviting people to hear Mr. Bolton discuss the character he brings to the battle. National Review praises the felon for his “distinguished public service” and for his “principled leadership.”

For some inexplicable reason, National Review and its writers are still held in esteem by many actual conservatives. This is despite National Review’s false-flag effort to elect Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris over the past three presidential elections (for the alleged purpose of “saving conservatism.”

NR’s writers also sneer at Trump’s character, yet they embrace a felon such as John Bolton because he is willing to commit national security crimes to take down President Trump. There is little difference at this point between Tucker Carlson and National Review. Both are wearing the skinsuit of their former conservative identities while trying to help the left derail the conservative agenda at a time when conservatives have the electoral upper hand in Congress and the White House.

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

Crossing the Pasture
Winslow Homer

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The Morning Report — 6/ 29 /26

Good morning kids. Hope you all had a wonderful weekend, but there's lots to get to so let's dive right in. And given the insane deranged reactions over President Trump's renovation of the Capitol Reflecting Pool, the metaphors write themselves. And speaking of Scum on Parade...

Two of the “Team Algae” demonstrators photographed in front of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool wearing pro-algae tee shirts earlier this month, were also involved in loud and disruptive pro-abortion demonstrations outside of Justice Brett Kavanaugh home in 2022. Pro-abort agitators terrorized the entire neighborhood for weeks after the Supreme Court’s draft majority opinion overturning of Roe v. Wade was leaked to the media. A neighbor told Fox News in June 2022 that the agitators would show up at approximately 7:00 p.m. on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

“It’s a horrific experience,” the neighbor told Fox. “It’s not great if you have kids of any age, but it’s unbelievably stressful, and the kids are very upset. The kids have to be sent inside, and it’s so loud you can’t put your kids to sleep.” “They have drummers. They have a megaphone, and they chant. They yell all kinds of things … They have told neighbors ‘F-ck you, f-ck your children,’ things like that—and, so they’re abusive toward the neighbors and intimidating,” the source told the outlet. “They were very, very loud, very, very aggressive. They dance in the streets as well,” the person added.

And remember that a man was apprehended right outside Kavanaugh's house intending to kidnap and/murder the Justice and his family. This not very long after Chuck Schumer openly made a terroristic threat at him and Neil Gorsuch back in 2020.

there have been several arrests including a former Olympic athlete charged with vandalism to the pool, all because they hate President Trump. And if they're willing to do that as the previous stories illustrate as well as what we have seen over the past few years, these sick fiends have no qualms about coming after us. Not only them but those in power who will and have used their power to do just that under the cover of the law.

“These are not social Democrats, these are hard core, godless Communists. This is the most serious threat to our Country since its existence 250 years ago. Isn’t it ironic, we’re celebrating a very important Birthday, and instead of speaking about Christ, Freedom, and Victories of all different kinds, we’re speaking about yet another threat to the Foundations of America. These ruthless Communists will attack all Religions but, in particular, Christianity – They always do.” – President Trump. . .Trump’s statement follows recent New York primary wins for Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) backed candidates Claire Valdez, Aber Kawas, and Darializa Avila Chevalier, known for publicly criticizing black and Arab men for “fetishizing ugly colonizer [white] women,” in New York this week. This prompted longtime Democrat strategist James Carville to say on Wednesday that he is “done” with the Democrats if there is no “schism” with the far left. President Trump said on Friday that the Democrats are “afraid” to take on communist entryists, adding: “They’re not smart enough or tough enough to fight this plague. If they fought them the way they fight Republicans, or me, they’d be victorious, but they don’t have the courage to do so.”

Well, the problem Mr. President is that they do not want to fight the "plague" as you describe it because the Democrat Party as a whole is the plague, and always has been.

Just like there is no such thing as radical Islam but Islam itself, there is no moderate or sane Democrat Party just a party that has historically sought the destruction of the American experiment and with it the complete subjugation of the American people under Democrat control, forever. Period full stop.

Have a good day,

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• The crash raises questions about aviation safety and security in China’s capital, and highlights the lack of transparency from the Chinese authorities following such incidents.
  Plane Hits Beijing’s Biggest Skyscraper, CCP Censorship in Full Force.

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Daily Tech News 29 June 2026

Top Story

• Tokenmaxxing is dead. Long live tokenmaxxing. (12 Grams of Carbon)
  
  We have reached a tipping point where spending infinite amounts of money can sometimes make the result better rather than worse.
  
  
  
• AI coding costs are on track to match human payrolls. (Infoworld)
  
  But you are still spending infinite amounts of money.

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Sunday Overnight Open Thread - June 28, 2026 [Doof]

Howdy Hordelings! Welcome to the Sunday ONT. Hope your weekend has been a good one. Open thread, as always. Fashion and music, as always. What's on YOUR mind tonight?

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Gun Thread: Final June Edition!

Howdy, Y'all! Welcome to the wondrously fabulous Gun Thread! As always, I want to thank all of our regulars for being here week in and week out, and also offer a bigly Gun Thread welcome to any newcomers who may be joining us tonight. Howdy and thank you for stopping by! I hope you find our wacky conversation on the subject of guns 'n shooting both enjoyable and informative. You are always welcome to lurk in the shadows of shame, but I'd like to invite you to jump into the conversation, say howdy, and tell us what kind of shooting you like to do!

Holy Shitballs! How in the ever-loving Hell did it get to be the Final June Edition? Adios June! Coming soon: July Editions!

With that, step into the dojo and let's get to the gun stuff below, shall we?

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Food Thread: Don't Rib Me About My Failed Garlic Adventure!

I like lamb. I like lamb ribs. I like lamb ribs slowly grilled on indirect heat and then finished on high direct heat to get them nice and crispy!

But these did not satisfy! They are from a sort-of-local hipster company that my SiL enjoys, and she gave them to me, so who am I to say no?

But I should have. They were incredibly gamey, and not in that delicious lamb way that many people enjoy so much. They were greasy and strong-flavored and reminded me a bit of aged beef that is just a bit too old for consumption.

And the frustrating thing is that I cooked them perfectly!

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First World Problems...

The patio is shielded from the sun by a tall and dense canopy of trees. It's lovely, but these chairs take longer to dry after a rain than is normal, so they quickly pick up a patina of green mold. It is easily scrubbed off, but it is a task that one cannot ignore...like I did all of last summer.

I figure the best way to deal with this is to rent a Caterpillar 350 and dig down about 25 feet, dump in the furniture, then fill with gravel.

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The DSA Isn't Democratic, And They Aren't Of America!

Graphic courtesy of Dr_No

Socialism is communism with a pretty face, and Democratic Socialists of America are simply socialists wearing expensive clothing paid for by mommy and daddy. That they sound like stoned college sophomores sitting around getting stoned and talking politics is in part because that is exactly who they are. The recent primary in NYC is a sad example of how an organized socialist movement can co-opt the vote. Turnout was just 17%, and they carefully cultivated the young and the stupid, pumping them full of nonsense, promising nirvana paid for by billionaires, and a shift in NYC's foreign policy (hah!) to a vitriolic hatred of Jews, Israel, and the West.

That is about as far from a democratic result as one can imagine, and in the 13th Congressional district it was even worse!

Avila Chevalier drew roughly 33,000 votes from 449,000 active voters in the 13th House District covering much of Upper Manhattan, including Harlem, and a swath of the Bronx, preliminary election data shows.

Steve Rattner, an economic analyst, posted on X that election data showed college-educated, non-Hispanic voters were more likely to vote for Avila Chevalier.

“Last night’s big wins for Mamdani-backed candidates were driven by young college grads, often at odds with the party’s traditional working-class & minority base,” he wrote.

That is the fruit of all of the left's work taking over higher education, beginning in the 1960s. We have two generations of college professors who have been carefully indoctrinated into the socialist mindset, and their students are voting in the socialism that will eventually get them stood up against a wall. They have been taught to accept Marx's labor theory of value as gospel which, in addition to being arrant economic nonsense, creates unmanageable conflict between worker and owner. They have been taught to accept uncritically the concept of immutable class and race division within society, which flies in the face of American Exceptionalism and the principles upon which our country was founded.

And let us not forget the concomitant destruction of basic education in America. Many of us are of an age to remember civics classes in grade school and high school, reciting the Pledge Of Allegiance, studying the failures of socialism in history class, etc. But those college professors whose political philosophy was forged in the 1960s have also trained our teachers, and many of today's elementary school teachers are dyed-in-the-wool socialists, whose world-view of class and racial conflict is the backbone of their instruction.

Of course the conventional wisdom is that these people are too far to the left for the Democrat Party. But that is nonsense. The singular goal of the Democrat Party has always been and will always be the accumulation and use of power over us. The schism between the DSA and the traditionalists in the Democrat apparatus is one of strategy and tactics, not of political philosophy. James Carville's hysterical screeching is simply frustration that these young "Democrats" are saying the quiet part out loud. He and his ilk will never leave the Democrat Party, and his dishonest criticism of a DSA candidate ignores the long and sordid history of his own branch of the Democrat Party.

But all is not lost. The exposure of higher education in the wake of the Covid fiasco as a bald-faced money grab and indoctrination scheme has increased the number of young Americans who will forego college and actually do something worthwhile. And that exposure to the world outside of the cloistered and insular campuses is vital, since they will see reality, and not the nonsense of a socialist dream. And as AI gradually does more and more entry-level drone work, those college educated fools will scramble for employment.

AI cannot wire a home or fix plumbing or frame a wall or build a highway, so the demand for skilled labor will continue to grow, while the demand for useless "Studies" degrees will shrink. How many baristas does America need?

That, coupled with the demographic shift away from blue cities and states may be the tipping point that moves America firmly to a right-of-center country. Yes, NYC will probably always be socialist, but hopefully it will be isolated, and a prime example of the abject failure of its political philosophy.

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Sunday Morning Book Thread - 6-28-2026 ["Perfessor" Squirrel]

Welcome to the prestigious, internationally acclaimed, stately, and illustrious Sunday Morning Book Thread! The place where all readers are welcome, regardless of whatever guilty pleasure we feel like reading. Here is where we can discuss, argue, bicker, quibble, consider, debate, confabulate, converse, and jaw about our latest fancy in reading material. As always, pants are required, unless you are wearing these pants...

So relax, find yourself a warm kitty (or warm puppy--I won't judge) to curl up in your lap, and dive into a new book. What are YOU reading this fine morning?

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Daily Tech News 28 June 2026

Top Story

• You might not be interested in Langford's basilisk, but Langford's basilisk is interested in you. (Nerds.xyz)
  
  Langford's basilisk is a science fiction concept where images can be crafted specifically to rewire the brain.
  
  This doesn't work well on humans - and a good thing too, because in the original story it was instantly fatal. But guess what can also see and in some sense understand images and has no separation of instructions and data?

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Saturday Night Club ONT - June 27, 2026 [D&D]

Welcome to Club ONT - a collaboration of The Disco and The Dino. We built this place for you so you can have some fun. Come in in, grab a drink or 3. Keep it light and friendly. Jerks need not enter the premises (the moose out front is keeping track and you do NOT want to disappoint the moose).

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Music Thread: Quotations Are The Last Refuge Of The Scoundrel

But first...

Who knew that Bowie was that old!

If music be the food of love, play on.

-- William Shakespeare

Where words fail, music speaks.

-- Hans Christian Andersen

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Hobby Thread - June 27, 2026 [TRex]

Welcome hobbyists! Pull up a chair and sit a spell with the Horde in this little corner of the interweb. This is the mighty, mighty officially sanctioned Ace of Spades Hobby Thread. For this week, the Wheel of Hobbies (TM) is taking flight. It spun and spun and landed on a flight simulator theme for this Hobby Thread.

[Photo credit: National Air and Space Museum Dulles annex at the Udvar-Hazy Center]

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Ace of Spades Pet Thread, June 27

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Good afternoon and welcome to the almost world famous Ace of Spades Pet Thread. Thanks for stopping by. Kick back and enjoy the world of animals.

Would you like a treat?

Let's relax a little with the animals and leave the world of politics and current events outside today.

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Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, June 27

Silene regia, Platycodon "Hakone Blue"

Happy Saturday! Don in Kansas has posted several interesting recent snapshots, some of which remind me of fireworks. Flower fireworks could come in handy where sensitive pets live, or where drought has resulted in restrictions on noisy fireworks.

Balloon flowers are easy from seed and can bloom their first year, as can Silene regia.

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