Basic Optimism

If you think the left can't get any dumber, wait until you see this. Sánchez and his union allies have shut down Spain in a strike "against the opposition." He's been in power for eight years. It's probably the first time in history a government has paralyzed its own country to protest against the opposition.

Diversity requires hypocrisy.

The most impressive thing about @JMilei is that he's the only politician who might actually want less power.

“Everything within the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State.” That was Mussolini’s vision of fascism. Funny how familiar it sounds to today’s self-proclaimed antifascists.

The left has taken over universities, and it's making young women more depressed than ever. Among women aged 18 to 40, only 12% of liberals are completely satisfied with life, compared with 37% of conservatives. Marriage and faith explain half the gap, and elite campuses teach young women to distrust both. College used to teach kids how to think. Now it teaches them what to think, and they come home lonely.

They’re burning restaurants in Paris to protest for Gaza. Meanwhile, this is what a restaurant in Gaza looks like.

If you think you're stupid, imagine being a liberal woman voting for him.

If you ever feel stupid, just remember there are socialists who think looting a phone shop is a protest for better education.

Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam found that in more diverse communities, people trusted their neighbors less, even people from their own group. A 2020 review of 87 studies found the same thing: more diversity in a neighborhood goes with lower trust between neighbors..

The people claiming to speak for the workers almost never are workers

If you really think about what these pictures mean, it breaks your heart. Berlin, Madrid, Brussels, Milan, Paris. Shop owners nailing plywood over their windows on a Friday afternoon because they know that on Saturday, neither the police nor the courts will protect them from the hordes coming to loot them. Hard to believe Europe could fall this low, this quickly.

Can Greta and Macklemore explain this?

Meet @oscar_puente_, possibly the most shameless politician on the planet. He's Spain's Transport Minister, but he's better known for insulting people and blocking them on X than for doing his job. In 2024, he said Spanish trains were going through their best moment ever. In January 2026, 46 people died in the Adamuz train crash. He refused to resign and said the chance of it happening again was "extremely low." Last week, he was on a TV show joking about trains in Spain. Today, more than 64 people died in another crash on the same line. And again, he refuses to resign. This morning, he was busy tweeting that the left is morally superior to the right.