Woke up on a tabby Tuesday, even my hangover’s fine …
Jasmine Crockett immediately runs the debunked “Trump’s main priority is the ballroom” hoax on her CNN hit.
The lie is so egregious, she actually gets fact-checked by Kaitlan Collins. https://t.co/HRfeoTZ3ys pic.twitter.com/lvdp4gkuGu
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) October 28, 2025
Ed: Democrat propaganda is so bad that even CNN can’t let it pass. They really need smarter people doing these media hits. On the other hand … do they have any?
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NY Times: In a lengthy memo released Tuesday, Mr. Gates sought to tamp down the alarmism he said many people use to describe the effects of rising temperatures. Instead, he called for redirecting efforts toward improving lives in the developing world.
“Although climate change will have serious consequences — particularly for people in the poorest countries — it will not lead to humanity’s demise,” he wrote. “People will be able to live and thrive in most places on Earth for the foreseeable future.”
Coming just four years after he published a book titled “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster,” Tuesday’s memo appears to amount to a major reframing of how Mr. Gates, who is worth an estimated $122 billion, is thinking about the challenges posed by a rapidly warming world.
Ed: David will have a lot more on this tomorrow morning (I peeked), but I suspect that the progressive elites now realize that the Chicken Little act about “twelve years to save the planet” has flopped. And no surprise there, because they’ve been flogging it for at least twice that long, and freaking out generally since “Silent Spring” and “Population Bomb” in the 1960s. However, there may be a little more to it …
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BREAKING: Senate Judiciary is investigating the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for funneling millions of dollars to Chinese PLA fronts in violation of IRS rules against charities funding foreign governments under Foundation’s 501(c)(3) nonprofit charterhttps://t.co/jmeLnlZEuT
— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) October 28, 2025
Ed: Wanna bet that this has Gates wanting to get out of the political fray, too?
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Free Beacon: With lengthy pauses and befuddled looks reminiscent of his longtime boss, chief Biden campaign strategist Mike Donilon testified to House investigators that he stood to make $4 million in bonuses—on top of a similarly sized base salary—if then-president Joe Biden won reelection last year, according to video of his testimony released Tuesday.
It took Donilon, whom one newspaper has described as Biden’s “conscience, alter ego and shared brain,” more than two minutes to describe his lucrative pay arrangement with the Biden campaign, which started with a base salary “just a little bit short of $4 million,” and a $4 million bonus should Biden win reelection.
Ed: I won’t say this is evidence of corruption per se. Bonuses in campaign work certainly make a great deal of sense. However, Democrat donors might be a little miffed about the size of the bonus offered to Donilon. And that money provided a very large incentive to cover up Biden’s cognitive incapacity for office, too.
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This is a sign of a party that does not care about winning: https://t.co/DicRgGvWFE pic.twitter.com/FOEIg8mJ56
— Josh Barro (@jbarro) October 28, 2025
Ed: It’s a party that cares about grifting, though! Barro’s right about the pandering to radicals inherent in “land acknowledgments.” The only people in the entire world who still worship the same deity and live on the same land as they did 5,000 years ago are the Israelis. And Democrats want to let Arab colonists destroy it.
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Zach Weissmuller at Reason: Socialism was tried, and failed, repeatedly in the 20th century, racking up a death toll of 100 million lives. Millions more still live under socialism’s long, dark shadow in North Korea, Cuba, and Venezuela.
So why does the socialist movement never seem to die?
One unsettling possibility is that economic reality is secondary to cultural shifts when it comes to 21st-century U.S. politics, and the culture necessary to maintain a free society is slowly deteriorating. …
Stepman describes Mamdani’s anticolonial views as a “terrifying meld of third-world resentments and modern sort of elite, woke views” that somehow reconcile enthusiasm for Palestinian statehood with gay rights in the form of “queers for Palestine” signs.
“Don’t you realize you’ll be thrown off a building there?” asks Stepman.
Ed: Let’s not get too precious with this question. Marxism won’t die as long as the appetite for global dominance remains. It’s only slightly less genocidal than Naziism, and perhaps only slightly less genocidal than Islamism, both of which replaces governance for cults, but it has proven far more difficult to stamp out or contain. I talked more about this with WIND host Dan Proft this morning; I’ll embed it at the end.
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This should forever eliminate @jonstewart from a seat at the culture table. I can’t think of anything more revolting than equating a terrorist socialist simp to Jackie Robinson. 🇺🇸 https://t.co/UuLKHiNrEM
— John Ondrasik (@johnondrasik) October 28, 2025
Ed: What John said. Unfortunately, it won’t have that kind of impact, because Stewart is shameless and the media environment has been shaped by radicals.
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Joe Palaggi at RealClearPolicy: Polls show Americans remain fixated on short-term economic stressors. A recent Pew survey found 63% of adults consider inflation a “very big problem,” while 67% say the same about healthcare costs. Only 57% cite the federal deficit. Virtually none mention supply-chain security, tariffs, or manufacturing policy. Voters tend to prioritize the immediate over the structural, and politicians usually respond in kind. The result is a national attention deficit — one that blinds the public to the groundwork being laid beneath their own economic recovery.
While headlines focus on day-to-day costs, Trump’s second-term strategy has quietly centered on rebalancing the global architecture that fuels those costs. The tariff policy of 2025 isn’t the scattershot trade war of 2018; it’s more surgical. Tariffs are now being used as levers in bilateral negotiations to extract real commitments from trading partners — from labor reciprocity to domestic manufacturing targets. Early trade data suggest the U.S. is seeing incremental growth in reshored manufacturing investments, particularly in the semiconductor and energy sectors.
On the supply-chain front, the administration is doubling down on redundancy — not efficiency. The pandemic exposed how fragile single-source dependency had become, particularly with China. Through tax incentives, procurement preferences, and infrastructure investment, key industries — semiconductors, pharmaceuticals, rare earth elements, fertilizers — are being nudged back to U.S. soil. This may not make grocery prices cheaper today, but it will make the nation far less vulnerable when the next global disruption hits.
Ed: The problem is that American political cycles do not reward longer-term thinking. However, Trump has been fortunate that prices aren’t rising fast, and that supply disruptions have not emerged. If that changes, then the prospects for the long game will dim significantly, but so far, Trump still has some runway.
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No, Lawrence, I do not have time to save your show. https://t.co/IHitdjp57O
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) October 28, 2025
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Newsbusters: For days, the liberal ladies of ABC News’s The View had been claiming that President Trump was not going to leave office at the end of his second term and would steal elections to stay in power; unfounded conspiracy theories that could incite another assassination attempt against him. While on Tuesday’s show to hawk his new anti-Trump book, ABC chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl actually reined in their far-left insanity by pointing out that Trump had told close friends he would leave when the term was over. Karl also argued that saying so in public would make him a lame duck. …
“Something in that last question alludes to what she’s saying, which is Steve Bannon floated the idea that there is a plan for Trump to stay and be president beyond 2028. Is he just trolling people or is that what some of these like renovations and things are? Is he preparing to stay in the future?” [Sunny Hostin] demanded to know.
Having to spell it out as though he was speaking to fifth graders, Karl spoke plainly: “I don’t think that Donald Trump is serious about running for a third term.” He explained that “the intention here” was to “freak out his opponents.”
Ed: And it’s working! How many times will they fall for the trolling?
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CNN: “The nation’s largest public sector union calling for you guys to pass a clean continuing resolution, does that change your position?”
Sen Welch (D-VT): ‘It doesn’t change it, but it’s a real indication of how this is really tough on people…’ pic.twitter.com/gbwYBLnySN
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) October 28, 2025
Ed: So end it by passing the clean CR.
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Ed: RHIP. WIND Morning Answer host Dan Proft and I get the final Final Word tonight.
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