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Sports fan and family man. Go Cubs, Bulls and Bears!

[Random old guy @Skeptical_Dr]

@RightWingDad Highly recommended.

[Erick Erickson @EWErickson]

Go back to the original reporting on Stephen Colbert’s cancellation.  The press, at that time, made clear that Colbert’s show was at an end because CBS was saving money getting rid of a late night show that cost too much to produce.  Colbert was not interested in cutting costs.  He got canceled.  That was well documented at the time.

Now, the very same media that reported that is paying homage to Colbert and insisting he was canceled for political reasons. The data does not actually support that.  The both on the record and, more importantly, on background sourcing at CBS News does not support that.  But progressives believe every progressive lie, including stolen election lies, that the media helpfully amplifies.

CNN recently had a reporter claim Nick Shirley, in Minnesota, was wrong about a child learning center he accused of participating in fraud.  The owner of that learning center has now been indicted for the fraud CNN insists was not happening.  Now, CNN, which reported at the time that Colbert’s cancelling was just a cost saving move without the political implications people insisted were there, is lamenting the cancellation of Colbert for political motives.

The willingness of the press and Left, in an echo chamber, to amplify each other’s lies is why more and more Americans believe they may not like Trump, but they cannot trust the Left. It also explains why so few Democrats can tell you what a boy is these days.

[Random old guy @Skeptical_Dr]

@neoavatara Sadly, progressive Jews are very progressive and not so much Jewish. I am a conservative Jew and see this a lot.

[Random old guy @Skeptical_Dr]

@AdamHoge I really hope you asked Warren about the design of the stadium. We do not want a Vegas clone.

[Random old guy @Skeptical_Dr]

@BuckSexton Lenard 6 with Bill Cosby. Look it up. It was awful!

[LHGrey™️ @Grey_0G]

Oh, well this is rich, Megyn. Really fucking rich.

You slither out here with your thousand-word manifesto of self-exoneration, clutching pearls you never earned, and somehow convince yourself the world will buy the act...that you’re the magnanimous Christian mediator, the wounded friend, the bold truth-teller who just happens to have misplaced her spine the exact moment a widow is being ritually slandered as a murderer and Epstein-adjacent conspirator.

Spare us the therapy-speak deflection, darling.

This isn’t reconciliation; this is pathological avoidance wrapped in lavender-scented sanctimony.

First, the core pathology:

projection laced with narcissistic injury.

Ben calls you out for refusing to shield Erika Kirk from Candace’s grotesque blood libel...the widow of a man freshly assassinated, her dying mother dragged through the mud...and your immediate reflex isn’t defense of the innocent.

It’s “I tried privately, now fuck off.”

Translation:

I will not risk the Tucker-adjacent social capital by naming the monster in public.

Classic DARVO playbook...Deny the moral imperative, Attack the messenger...Ben’s the real coward for not texting first, apparently...Reverse Victim and Offender..until the widow vanishes from the frame.

You’ve spent years preening as the fearless prosecutor of sacred cows; now, when the cow is your faction’s sacred cash cow...Candace’s grift...suddenly silence is “forgiveness.”

Psychology 101:

this is not mercy. This is the cowardice of the status-conscious operator who fears excommunication from the isolationist coven more than she fears enabling the defamation of a grieving woman.

Pattern recognition, Megyn...because you’ve done this dance before.

Remember when you rode the NBC wave until it suited you?

Loyalty isn’t your brand; opportunistic realignment is.

Selective outrage isn’t principle; it’s tribal calculus.

Tucker’s Israel skepticism demands your fealty; Charlie’s widow gets the shrug.

The pattern is as old as fallen empires: the courtier who swears eternal friendship until the king’s enemies offer better seating.

You checked Ben’s “cohort” and decided they barely know Erika?

Christ, the arrogance...you barely knew the depth of your own betrayal until the mirror of public scrutiny forced the flinch.

And the pièce de résistance: “Christians like me are pretty big on forgiveness.”

Oh, Megyn.

The venom here is almost artistic. You weaponize Christ’s mercy like a get-out-of-accountability card while Candace’s followers bay for Erika’s arrest on Epstein fantasies.

Forgiveness requires repentance, not radio silence while the lie metastasizes.

This isn’t theology; it’s moral laundering...a sophisticated psychological sleight-of-hand where your private texts become public virtue and Ben’s stage rebuke becomes proof he’s the petty one.

You learned Ben was a “family guy, not a friend guy”?

Darling, the mirror begs to differ: you’re the archetype of the performative ally who ghosts when the cost hits your brand metrics.

The pathology is textbook cluster-B adjacency...grandiosity masked as wounded dignity, entitlement disguised as “I tried.”

This isn’t 2025 infighting anymore. It’s the 2026 fracture laid bare: one side still tethered to objective reality, widows, dead friends, and basic human decency; the other orbiting the gravitational pull of Tucker’s revisionist gravity well, where skepticism curdles into conspiracy and silence becomes solidarity.

You chose the well.

Fine.

But don’t piss on our boots and call it holy water.

You want approval, Megyn?

Here it is, raw and lethal:

you’re not a coward in the passive sense.

You’re something far more contemptible...a calculated architect of plausible deniability, expertly pathologizing accountability as drama while the real victims bleed out in your comment section

There.

Now run back to your reconciliation fantasies.
The rest of us will protect widows the old-fashioned way...out loud.

👌🏻

[Ben Shapiro @benshapiro]

Don’t worry, Megyn. I’d never ask you to protect me. You won’t even protect Charlie Kirk’s widow from the monster accusing her of murdering Charlie.

[Random old guy @Skeptical_Dr]

@SamHouseholder Should have both teams come off a bye

[Random old guy @Skeptical_Dr]

@startkyIeorton A future 4th is still too much!

[Random old guy @Skeptical_Dr]

@startkyIeorton Would have been ridiculous.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

The “honeymoon phase” is one of the most harmful marriage myths. Young couples go into marriage expecting immediate bliss. Even worse, they believe that however happy they are in the first few years, that’s the happiest they’ll ever be. The truth is exactly the inverse. It’s hardest at the start. Anything worth doing is always going to be most difficult when you first start doing it. Gets better and better as you go. Stick with it. The real honeymoon comes later. You need to grow into it.

[AG @AGHamilton29]

It is still crazy to think about how one day changed the world.

On October 6, 2023, the Islamic Republic was at the height of its power. It had spent decades developing well-coordinated terror proxies throughout the Middle East. It had effective control of Lebanon via Hezbollah, Gaza via Hamas, Yemen via the Houthis, Iraq via militias, and Syria via Assad. It had encircled Israel and was spreading destabilizing violence and Islamist ideology throughout the region. It killed hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of innocents in that effort. It was also steadily developing a powerful ballistic missile program, heading toward obtaining a nuclear deterrent, and regularly backing terror attacks abroad. Meanwhile, it had completely crushed dissent on the domestic front.

The United States was retreating from foreign interests, so other countries were turning elsewhere. China became a substantial player in both the Middle East and South America. Arab states were looking to form a partnership with Israel to counter the Islamic Republic. Then everything changed on 10/7.

Hamas launched one of the deadliest terror attacks in world history. They massacred 1,200+ people, thus beginning a war they couldn’t win. Hamas was clearly hoping that the Islamic Republic and all its other proxies would jump in, killing any chance of an Israeli-Arab alliance to counter the Islamic Republic. But they only did so to a limited extent, which spelled doom. Israel then systematically took out each of the Islamic Republic’s terror proxies and all their capabilities. They started with Hamas, then Hezbollah, and then strategic strikes on the Houthis (with U.S. help on this one). Leading terrorists for the last 3–4 decades, including Nasrallah, Sinwar, and Haniyeh, are all dead. Then Turkey took advantage of the moment and backed militants to help take out Assad. Suddenly, the entire terror infrastructure that the Islamic Republic had spent decades building was gone. When Israel came for the head of the terror snake, they showed no ability to defend themselves. This inspired Iranians to believe they might finally be able to stand up to the regime.

The regime panicked; in fighting for its survival, it massacred Iranians and decided its only path to survival was to rush toward a nuclear deterrent. Now that might spell the end of the regime because the U.S. retrenchment it had heavily relied on is no longer a reality. This shift isn’t just affecting the Islamic Republic, but the entire world. The Arab Gulf states are no longer as threatened by the instability caused by the Islamic Republic, which also means they do not feel the same sense of urgency to partner with Israel. But it has made them more interested in seeking close relations with the United States at the same time as China’s alliances and strategies are falling apart. The changing environment also led the United States to seize the opportunity to combat China’s growing influence in South and Latin America. That’s what our actions in places like Venezuela, Cuba, and Brazil have really been about. In Europe, Russia became heavily reliant on shifting focus to the Middle East to allow it to regroup and recover from its losses in Ukraine. But it was also building an alliance with the Islamic Republic, which became a major weapons producer for them—and that is now effectively dead. You will notice that Europe’s role in all of this evolution is extremely limited because they can’t seem to even figure out how to deal with their ongoing domestic issues.

In summary, we live in a completely different world than we did on 10/6/2023. Some of it is worse, and no doubt many innocents have been caught in the crossfire, but a lot of evil has also been taken off the board. What happens next is what matters most.

[Andrew Klavan @andrewklavan]

This is absolute crap. I'll grant there are commentators who are far too quick to throw names and insults. If Jews are sometimes hyper-sensitive, only an ignoramus who knows nothing of history could blame them. I hope and believe that @MegynKellyShow is not antisemitic. But if @TuckerCarlson isn't, he does a great imitation. He has credulously received the distortions of pro-Nazi and Jew-hating guests. He has denounced the unavoidable deaths of children and civilians in the Gaza war while ignoring the openly genocidal murder of Jewish children and civilians on 10/7. He has strongly (but with despicable coyness) suggested that Jews took over America after WWII and since then, we have mostly killed Christians in war. (as opposed to when? The Civil War, The Revolution, WWI? Those were all Christians killing Christians). And when he talks here about the Jews hoping for "regional hegemony," he is talking about Israel wishing to defeat Iran, a country wholly dedicated to destroying Israel only as a sort of warm-up for destroying the United States of America. That Israeli purposes and ours should share a fairly large swath of the Venn diagram is no surprise. Megyn, you are a delight to know, and I understand Tucker is a friend and I have friends with appalling views, it's not a crime. But he is luring you in with distortions and half truths. His views are disgusting.

[Damani Felder @TheDamaniFelder]

I just needed to vent after tonight's #SOTU address. Because the main takeaway is simple and undeniable.

[Zalmy Fogelman @thevillagerabbi]

"There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom.

[Ben Shapiro @benshapiro]

.@RealCandaceO is evil.

[Random old guy @Skeptical_Dr]

@shane_riordan Tell that to the residents of Kansas City in Missouri

[Random old guy @Skeptical_Dr]

@neoavatara Hammond is on the state border.

[Random old guy @Skeptical_Dr]

@neoavatara @jimgeraghty Hammond

[Random old guy @Skeptical_Dr]

@startkyIeorton It’s about more than public dollars. No business can pay $150 to $200 million annually for property tax. That’s ridiculous and the number 1 priority for the Bears. As for public dollars, getting infrastructure set up in AH is something the public should do.