Friday Links - 28 October

The Other McCain starts things rolling with Ted Cruz Schools ‘The View’

What was beautiful about this was that, while Cruz had gone to the trouble of bringing prepared notes, so he could quote verbatim, the hostesses were seemingly unprepared for his arguments.

Granite Grok - Net-Zero Reality: There Are Not Enough Resources To Make the Batteries and Replace Them Every Ten Years

Net Zero has a lot of problems, not the least of which is that it’s a lie. China is choking the planet with its industrial exhaust to build all these so-called earth-saving innovations while western elites pretend they’ve done the planet earth a solid. But wait, there’s more

Real Clear Politics - NY Gov. Kathy Hochul To Lee Zeldin: I Don't Know Why Locking Up Criminals Is So Important To You

"Anyone who commits crimes under our laws, especially with the changes we made to bail, has consequences. I don't know why that's so important to you, all I know is we could do more," Hochul said.

Ace at Ace of Spades HQ - "Burn In Hell You Piece of Shit:" Waukesha Christmas Parade Race-Murderer Darrell Brooks Convicted on Six Counts of First-Degree Murder

BTW, it was revealed that Brooks is also a registered sex offender.

Vodka Pundit - It's (Not) Official: Twitter Has a New 'Chief Twit'

“Chief Twit” Elon Musk — equal parts Henry Ford, Werner von Braun, and (never forget) P.T. Barnum — has sneakily made it all-but-official that he’s the new man in charge of that social media dumpster fire known as Twitter.

Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog - Cartels Buying Weapons From Mexican Military

For all that the Mexican government tries to blame American arms manufacturers for arming the cartels, it appears that they’re getting their weapons from a source much closer to home.

Again from The Other McCain - A Widespread Mental Disorder

This is what blind partisanship does to people. No matter who the Democrats nominate for any important office, that person is going to get 80% of the vote in Philadelphia. Hillary Clinton got 83% of the vote in Philadelphia and, while we’re on the topic of brain-damaged imbeciles, Joe Biden got 81% of the vote in Philadelphia. And because Philadelphia accounts for about 11% of the statewide vote in Pennsylvania, this lopsided 4-to-1 Democrat majority in Philadelphia almost always results in Democrats winning every statewide election in Pennsylvania.

Tatum Report - Democrats Attack Whistleblower Watching Out For El Paso, Texas Taxpayers

According to the New York Post, “Councilwoman Claudia Rodriguez exposed the scandal by speaking to The Post about her private conversations with the mayor, a Democrat, in which he admitted he’d been following orders from the top, but it has made her a target of the El Paso County Democratic Party.”