LOL:

The rule of thumb for a recession has been “two back-to-back quarters at -1.5”. That happened under Biden, but they changed the definition knowing his entire base would be none the wiser. Y’all have no idea what I said even means as the economically retarded.

— The Redheaded libertarian (@TRHLofficial) April 3, 2025

Changing definitions has become a major democrat tool. Change the definition of recession, change reporting criteria for crime, change reporting data for sex, etc.

They keep changing so they become the experts and can claim that you don’t know what is really going on because…

— Valkyries for women🇺🇸 (@valkyriesrwomen) April 3, 2025

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Musk and DOGE Are Fun, but Tom Homan Is My Early Trump 47 MVP. “In addition to the radical shift away from open borders lunacy, the ‘new sheriff in town’ swagger and vibe that Tom Homan brings to this effort is essential. Republicans of yesteryear were easily drowned out by the constantly caterwauling Dem sanctuary politicians and the media hacks who abet them.”

ACTUALLY, IF YOU LOOK UP KRUGMAN’S WRITINGS ON TRADE FROM THE 1980S YOU CAN DO KRUGMAN VS. KRUGMAN: Krugman vs. Trump on tariffs. Krugman was pretty protectionist by comparison with many mainstream economists then, which won him the admiration of a whole school of anti-deindustrialization “industrial policy” Democrats who espoused policies that looked somewhat Trumpian. But that makes sense, when you remember that Trump is more or less a 1970s Rust Belt Democrat.

THEY’VE BEEN ROBBING AMERICA BLIND FOR DECADES:

Democrats would prefer that we ask, “Who needs to pay more in taxes?”

The American people want us to ask, “What the hell happened to the money?” pic.twitter.com/MWQpMuEIQY

— John Kennedy (@SenJohnKennedy) April 1, 2025

MIDDLE EAST: Israeli operation in Gaza expanding to seize ‘large areas,’ defense minister says. “Israeli leaders have consistently expressed their intention to fully destroy Hamas and remove the Palestinian militant group from power in Gaza. Israel intends to retain security control over the territory as part of any post-war settlement, Netanyahu, Katz and other top officials have said.”

Well, what else are they supposed to do?

YES: The NGO Complex Is Irredeemably Corrupt. We need a deep legislative cleanup.

I THINK WE SHOULD ELIMINATE NONPROFITS ENTIRELY: Bill Gates Foundation, Other Nonprofits Could Lose Tax-Exempt Status Over Anti-White Discrimination.

“DEMOCRACY” MEANS WHATEVER YOU WANT IT TO MEAN: “When Biden was President, ‘democracy’ meant gracefully accepting the result of the election and working on winning the next election. But with Trump as President, ‘democracy’ means stopping the duly elected President from doing what voters heard him promise he’d do.”

“GARBAGE!”: Karoline Leavitt Shoots Down Anonymous ‘Scoop’ About Musk Leaving DOGE.

ONE HAND WASHES THE OTHER: Newsom’s California Has Sent Nearly $18 Million in Taxpayer Funds to Soros-Backed Tides Center: The Tides Center has a long history of funneling funding to radical anti-police and anti-Israel groups.

CDR SALAMANDER: What Europe Should, Could, and Would do in a Great Pacific War.

The Anglo-French SSN fleet numbers 13 boats. Using the optimistic “it takes three to make one” formula, that gives you four operational boats.

Assuming a Great Pacific War will require the USA to pull almost all its operational forces from Europe to the Pacific, there will be a significant—and smart—argument in Europe that they need to keep their forces at home to cover any threat from their east should it arise, and to secure the Atlantic that has largely been abandoned by the Americans.

As such, any fight in the Pacific would be lucky to get 50% of available operational units. That gives us… two SSN.

Not nothing, but a rounding error in a Great Pacific War. I would give it 2/3 odds that the national caveats would limit them to operations south of Singapore and east of Guam.

So, in the end, with the Great Pacific War, we should not count on much from Europe for this fight. Perhaps some security for Australian airspace and territorial seas, but that would be about it.

It gets lonely out there real fast.

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CHANGE: Fed Up With Situationships, Gen Z Is Ready to Commit: The vague relationships that rule the dating scene are hard to navigate, even well after they end, and zoomers have had enough.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY IN GAVIN NEWSOM’S HOME STATE: SoCal Job Creation Drops 33%.

MARK JUDGE: The Stasi Left. “Nazi metaphors have become far too overused. To the Left, everything to the right of Chairman Mao Zedong is fascism. Such overuse of Nazi imagery is disrespectful to the unique evil of the Holocaust. It should stop. Still, a more modern and exact analogy can be applied to the modern American Left. It is the Stasi, the feared German secret police that terrorized East Germany from 1945 to the fall of the Berlin Wall. In a compelling new book, A State of Secrecy: Stasi Informers and the Culture of Surveillance, scholar Alison Lewis reveals that while dictators such as Hitler or Stalin sought to crush writers and other artists because they feared the freedom they represented, the German Stasi saw them as allies. While the Nazis and their counterparts, the Stalinists, attacked a wide range of artists as ‘degenerate,’ the Stasi worked with and supported entertainers and writers. The German communists had their own versions of people like Michael Moore, Stephen Colbert, the publishing industry, and Hollywood — useful idiots who echo whatever the leaders of the party tell them.”

We have Kimmel, Colbert, etc.

CHANGE? TikTok Might Have Found an American Buyer, and It’s a Perfect Match.

I’M NOW SKEPTICAL ABOUT IT ALL:

Fact Check: Possibly True https://t.co/gAnOdsMELm

— Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) April 2, 2025

"The data I'm looking at is showing absentee ballots being fed into the system to keep liberal Susan Crawford ahead at a certain rate .. almost as if an algorithm was at work."

But that would be totally impossible. Right @CISAgov ? https://t.co/RIjVg6eEqL

— Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) April 2, 2025

OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.

MAYBE SHE’S JUST ALWAYS LIKE THIS? Is She Drunk? Kamala’s Latest Public Appearance Was… Yikes….

THE NEW SPACE RACE: JAXA institute studying Mars lander concept.

SPACE: Fram2 Polar Orbital Flight: First Inside Views.

TIRED YET? NOT YET? Look Who’s Folding Under Trump’s Tariff Pressure

TYLER O’NEIL: Police Report on Nashville Transgender Shooter Plays Into Left’s Narrative.

According to the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department, authorities didn’t release the manifesto … because there wasn’t one.

“Early in the investigation, it was suggested Hale left behind a ‘manifesto’ detailing her motives and intentions,” the police report noted. “This has elicited a great deal of interest from the public and had led to repeated demands this manifesto be released for public study and comment.”

“In this case, a manifesto didn’t exist,” the report claimed.

Oh, really?

Police were at pains to define the word “manifesto” to justify their refusal to produce the documents Hale did leave behind.

“By definition, a manifesto is a mission statement or other document written and disseminated by an individual or group to enumerate or expound upon the guiding principles and beliefs that inform their actions,” the report noted. “Regardless of length, a manifesto is a single document that outlines all the factors, intentions, and objectives of an individual act or a series of actions.”

“Hale never left behind a single document explaining why she committed the attack, why she specifically targeted The Covenant, and what she hoped to gain, if anything, with the attack,” the report added.

Yet police did discover a treasure trove of information about Hale, her motivations, and her mental state.

Police found 16 notebooks; “assorted folders and loose documents”; seven sketchbooks and composition books; a yearbook; three VHS cassette tapes; eight memory storage devices with a combined 379.6 GB of data; six cellphones; three laptops; two Google Drive data cloud accounts; and more.

The report notes that the seven composition books and sketchbooks included 520 pages of content Hale wrote between 2009 and 2022.

In other words, the police had far more than enough evidence to determine the shooter’s motivations. Yet they would not release those materials because they “required a careful review of the material to understand Hale’s motive.”

Read the whole thing.

Incidentally, now that we have new management at the FBI, will we ever learn the motive of the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooter?

SO I VAGUELY REMEMBER THIS “Nick Rockefeller” guy from law school. Who wasn’t a Rockefeller at all, as it turns out, but a conman named Spiro Pavlovich III. He faked out Harvard, too. Twice!

This is not as unusual as it sounds. A guy who started with my class at YLS turned out to be a fraud as well, and was booted after a year when he was caught, not by the law school but by the law firm he worked at as a summer associate.

MICHAEL TOTTEN: How to Write a Killer First Sentence.