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You know what you&#8217;re here to read.</em></p><div><hr></div><h3><strong>FAKE, GAY AND WEAK, an open letter to the political left</strong></h3><p>The Bolsheviks would turn away. Mao&#8217;s student radicals would be sickened. Stalin? Utterly disgusted.</p><p>Dear political left, why are you gay? &#8230; weak, and/or fake?</p><p>How can you possibly be expected to load us all onto trains when your spiritual avatars are elderly, long irrelevant women and men in women&#8217;s clothing?</p><p>Robert De Niro, Jane Fonda, Bette Midler and Patti Smith (who?) headlined your big Sunday night event. It was meant to compete with Trump&#8217;s astoundingly over-the-top America 250th UFC display. You called it &#8220;Rise Up, Sing Out: A Concert for the First Amendment,&#8221; as if we&#8217;re supposed to believe you care about speech after the last 10 years of unpersoning and imprisoning <strong><a href="https://dailycaller.com/2022/01/11/miguel-cardona-parent-domestic-terrorist-merrick-garland-fbi/">normal folks</a></strong> for making jokes online.</p><p>It had a crowd of tens of people who paid hundreds of dollars to sit in an air-conditioned auditorium listening to a parade of elderly women crow. At the same time, American servicemen attended Trump&#8217;s event for free to watch warriors ensconced in the American flag fight a brutal bloodsport in a literal arena.</p><p>A full 80,000 people stood in the <strong><a href="https://www.nps.gov/whho/planyourvisit/explore-the-southern-trail.htm">ellipse</a></strong>. No cover charge. Drinking ice cold beers and cheering on the display of hyper-masculine dominance.</p><p>While billions of dollars in American might jetted above the crowd to the sound of a classic rendition of the National Anthem, your event featured weak beatnik singing and dancing from the Vietnam era. A soundtrack set to the last struggling neurons of activist boomerdom firing hysterically before the impending darkness. Millionaires in designer outfits screeching resistance porn. Fragility wrapped faux courage. A geriatric larp of 60s radicalism.</p><p>It was gross negligence to carry through with this event and you did it with an oblivious, drooling enthusiasm previously associated only to those who suffer profound head trauma when they see pudding.</p><p>Hollywood is out, haven&#8217;t you heard? A writer/director most well known for dick and poop jokes on YouTube <strong><a href="https://x.com/chakravartiiin/status/2066384082142204300">just upended your whole business model</a></strong> with a horror satire on female mental illness. Your professional fakers still boast a $2 million food budget while producing unwanted, un-asked for half-billion dollar acts of vandalism all to boost the cause of diversity. It&#8217;ll bomb at the box office, by the way, because literally nobody wants a modern Odyssey that is fake, weak and gay.</p><p>And for the record, I could lobotomize the fully dysmorphed Ellen Page with a fart, and you cast her as Achilles.</p><p>Isn&#8217;t it perfect?</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://stateoftheday.us/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>You invited Joy Reid and Julia Roberts to motivate the crowd. A media diversity hire most recently famous for hallucinating time traveling Russians and a woman whose most profound contribution to the arts was playing a reformed prostitute 30 years ago.</p><p>We have Teddy, Abe and George. We have <strong><a href="https://stateoftheday.us/p/state-of-monday-and-lastly-michelle">Justin Gaethje</a></strong>, Dana White and Sean O&#8217;Malley. Our comedians are actually funny. Our actors do bombing runs in sequels that outperform your entire lineup.</p><p>At one point, Patti Smith, the punk poetess, got the crowd rehearsing &#8220;People Have the Power&#8221; in advance. Call-and-response choruses of &#8220;the people rule&#8221; and echoes about redeeming &#8220;the work of fools.&#8221; The pre-show rehearsal footage captured the scripted nature: lyrics projected, backups drilled, audience prepped for performative enthusiasm. Smith&#8217;s gravelly delivery and the song&#8217;s anthemic swell fit the evening&#8217;s theme of collective delusion &#8211; that singing folk rock will somehow dismantle &#8220;strongman politics.&#8221;</p><p>It&#8217;s all so fake and weak. No Kings and Indivisible &#8211; funded in large part by foreign communists and Alex Soros, an obviously gay man who hasn&#8217;t realized it yet &#8211; piped the steam over social to literally just hundreds. My guess is you got more views from people making fun of you online over the next two days.</p><p>The next day David Ellison was going bananas. He cold-called Dana White. The numbers on Paramount+ must have been earth-shattering. The witness to America&#8217;s strength was undoubtedly global.</p><p>For you, the theme of weakness permeated every element. Fonda at 88+ invoking nonviolence while history recorded her cheering actual murderous communists. Midler changing the lyrics for &#8220;our time&#8221; into Trump Derangement Syndrome folk clap because original protest songs aren&#8217;t quite on-message enough. Your heavy reliance on Broadway choirs and drag performers like Peppermint signaled a celebration of aesthetic fragility over martial virtue.</p><p>&#8220;Fake, weak and gay&#8221; isn&#8217;t crude slang here. It captures the effete, theatrical, identity-obsessed performance art that substitutes for substance. You don&#8217;t build or fight. You emote and signal.</p><p>Your America is a feelings circle, not a proving ground.</p><p>We embodied discipline, hierarchy by merit, resilience under pressure. No safe spaces, no trigger warnings, no corporate apologies.</p><p>&#8220;Push back from who?&#8221; said Dana White at a presser.</p><p>&#8220;From people who say &#8216;aw this event shouldn&#8217;t happen on the white house lawn?&#8217;&#8221; asked a reporter.</p><p>&#8220;Fuck em. I don&#8217;t give a shit about that.&#8221;</p><p>In the arena, skill met will to spectacular effect and a new champion was crowned. He thanked America&#8217;s servicemen and women. He thanked God.</p><p>Your counterprogramming, meanwhile, revealed a deep rot. You&#8217;ve abandoned the working man for coastal cultural clerisy. Your &#8220;First Amendment&#8221; defense was selective. You defend only speech that aligns with your priors. Book bans? You mean teaching kids how to have homosexual sex, literally. Also, you pioneered content warnings and curriculum purges! Cancel culture? You invented it. Corporate cowardice? Silicon Valley and Hollywood bent the knee to progressive orthodoxy for years. Now you cry when accountability arrives.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://stateoftheday.us/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://stateoftheday.us/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>Your aging icons reek of sour obsolescence. Dried bleach on the floor of a government-subsidized old person&#8217;s home. Your newer faces merely filled diversity checkboxes. They generated little fire. The bellies of Americans are unmoved. You are warmed over milk.</p><p>You are a movement of managed decline. Singing dirges for a cultural hegemony slipping away. You &#8220;rise up&#8221; on stage and &#8220;sing out&#8221; platitudes, but you lack the fortitude to engage in the actual contest of ideas or physical mettle.</p><p>You aren&#8217;t just wrong on policy, you&#8217;re soft where it counts. Fake in your toughness, effete in your aesthetics, weak in your vision. Your men are soft-penis debutants, your women are &#8220;men.&#8221;</p><p>Trump&#8217;s UFC night wasn&#8217;t just entertainment, it was a statement. The left&#8217;s concert was the rebuttal that proved the point. While warriors competed, the fragile sang and banged on tambourines.</p><p>America chooses strength. The rest is fake, gay and weak noise.</p><div><hr></div><h3><strong>MORE LINKS</strong></h3><p><strong><a href="https://dailycaller.com/2026/06/15/democrats-rival-programming-trump-freedom-250-ufc-views-critics/">You May Have Missed It (Like Everyone Else): Democrats&#8217; Rival Event To Trump&#8217;s UFC Bombs</a></strong></p><p>In case you want to see more, if you&#8217;re into that kind of stuff.</p><p>&#8212;</p><p><strong><a href="https://dailycaller.com/2026/06/16/do-no-harm-university-texas-admission-data-racial-preference-supreme-court/">New Report Says Major School System Hid Admissions Data Defying Supreme Court</a></strong></p><p>Shut &#8216;em down, take &#8216;em over.</p><p>&#8212;</p><p><strong><a href="https://dailycaller.com/2026/06/15/democrats-control-virginia-backfire/">Why Democrats&#8217; Total Control In One State Is Starting To Backfire</a></strong></p><p><strong><a href="https://dailycaller.com/2026/06/15/virginia-louise-lucas-spanberger-data-centers/">&#8216;She&#8217;s A Diva&#8217; &#8212; State Democratic Party Power Broker Escalates Feud With Governor</a></strong></p><p>New leader already reeling, more stormy waters ahead.</p><div><hr></div><p><em>Like what you&#8217;re reading? 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MICHELLE OBAMA IS A MAN!']]></title><description><![CDATA[It wasn&#8217;t just Trump who dodged a bullet in &#8216;24.]]></description><link>https://stateoftheday.us/p/state-of-monday-and-lastly-michelle</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://stateoftheday.us/p/state-of-monday-and-lastly-michelle</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Geoffrey Ingersoll]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:51:10 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!10se!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe9cc198-dfb2-4525-b107-cd860ece0488_2048x1084.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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It was a &#8220;pride event.&#8221; The gay little party even featured confused tranny men showing off their fake breasts, live and in color, from the official White House property.</p><p>It was gross sexual perversion on full display dressed up as an &#8220;inclusive&#8221; event.</p><p>Now, three years later, all I have to say is this: Thank God Trump is in the White House for America&#8217;s 250th birthday.</p><p>Trump&#8217;s approach to the celebration has been completely over the top. In expectation of guests from all over the country and the world, he &#8220;beautified&#8221; elements of DC. The historic Union Station, where many visitors will first see DC, has seen its fountains totally restored.</p><p>Then you have the White House&#8217;s South Lawn, which was turned into a UFC stage overnight. Dana White and the fighting league reportedly lost $30 million putting on the show. Fully half the event&#8217;s 4,000 seats went to active members of the armed forces, free of charge.</p><p>Main card fighters did their walkouts through the White House and out onto the lawn. A well-placed admin source tells me American fighter and unabashed Christian Justin Gaethje spent four solid minutes <strong><a href="https://x.com/passcoderonald/status/2066403971472699592">in the Oval</a></strong> &#8220;shadow boxing&#8221; and &#8220;doing the sign of the cross&#8221; before walking out to fight the undefeated Spanish phenom Ilia Topuria.</p><p>Topuria was heavily favored, but by the fourth round his face <strong><a href="https://x.com/PolymarketSport/status/2066395421161795774">was absolute hamburger</a></strong>. 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said Joe Rogan in the post-fight interview from the center of the octagon. &#8220;Justin, you have been waiting for this moment your entire career and to win it in such a spectacular fashion in a fight where you were in some points six to one underdog. How good does this feel?&#8221;</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://stateoftheday.us/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p><strong>&#8220;</strong>Hey, I&#8217;m from America; 250 years ago, we were way bigger than 6 to 1 dogs. And look at this thriving now,&#8221; Gaethje started off. &#8220;To all the current, former, and future military service members, thank you so much. Thank you so much to all the first responders, the police officers, firefighters, ambulance, EMTs. You guys have no idea how grateful I am. And for as long as I&#8217;m able to, I will use my name to make money and support you guys first and foremost. Thank you. And all glory to God. I prayed so much for this opportunity to do something legendary. And I know that was absolutely legendary cause I cannot even believe it.&#8221;</p><p>Absolutely legendary indeed.</p><p>The beauty of that statement from Gaethje is how much it reflects the beauty of what the Trump Admin is trying to do for America&#8217;s 250th. It&#8217;s accessible to anyone. It&#8217;s motivating for everyone, not even just Americans. It encourages service and sacrifice. It encourages belief in a higher power. It demonstrated humility and optimism in the face of adversity.</p><p>All of these concepts are available to anyone. Yes, even trannies. Liberals, conservatives, blue-haired baristas with crushing college debt. Foreigners in the third world, American allies in Europe.</p><p>Without even trying, it&#8217;s truly inclusive.</p><p>Trump&#8217;s plan for the 250th is likewise. They&#8217;re doing frickin motocross jumps in front of the people&#8217;s house! Nitro Circus, baby!</p><p>You really have to try to hate that.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0T-P!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5a7a44b3-52f0-4254-a4cf-b0e812a7097a_1224x1400.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0T-P!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5a7a44b3-52f0-4254-a4cf-b0e812a7097a_1224x1400.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0T-P!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5a7a44b3-52f0-4254-a4cf-b0e812a7097a_1224x1400.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0T-P!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5a7a44b3-52f0-4254-a4cf-b0e812a7097a_1224x1400.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0T-P!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5a7a44b3-52f0-4254-a4cf-b0e812a7097a_1224x1400.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0T-P!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5a7a44b3-52f0-4254-a4cf-b0e812a7097a_1224x1400.png" width="1224" height="1400" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/5a7a44b3-52f0-4254-a4cf-b0e812a7097a_1224x1400.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1400,&quot;width&quot;:1224,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0T-P!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5a7a44b3-52f0-4254-a4cf-b0e812a7097a_1224x1400.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0T-P!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5a7a44b3-52f0-4254-a4cf-b0e812a7097a_1224x1400.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0T-P!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5a7a44b3-52f0-4254-a4cf-b0e812a7097a_1224x1400.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0T-P!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5a7a44b3-52f0-4254-a4cf-b0e812a7097a_1224x1400.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Next up we&#8217;re going to <strong><a href="https://x.com/Freedom250/status/2066303602264547837">get two solid weeks of rodeo</a> </strong>on the National Mall for the Great American State Fair.</p><p>The messaging designed for the 250th was just as over the top as the public displays. We got a long vignette about how Teddy Roosevelt used to stage boxing and wrestling matches (for himself!) from inside the White House. We got another about the writing of the National Anthem. Another about Washington crossing the Delaware to slaughter Hessians.</p><p>None of these prepared presentations contained overtly partisan messaging. They are all our shared history. Accessible to anyone of any stripe or belief. Even gay people and Muslims!</p><p>And what would all this look like if Joe Biden had won again?</p><p>Well, we&#8217;d undoubtedly be getting bashed over the head nonstop about diversity. We&#8217;d hear endless soliloquies about how unchecked immigration is good actually. And slavery, my god, I&#8217;m sure if any celebration were organized on the White House lawn, it would be to further castrate ourselves over the American slave trade. They built the White House, didnyaknow?</p><p>America&#8217;s 250th under Biden would have put the grotesque Medieval Flagellants to shame (but hey, at least they were Christians). How could the left have celebrated the country without gross helpings of shame? They couldn&#8217;t.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://stateoftheday.us/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://stateoftheday.us/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>That&#8217;s why, among other reasons, I&#8217;m thanking God. Now is a time for good old fashioned Americana. And the beauty of Americana is it is by its nature inclusive. In its unabashed celebration of itself, it denies entry to nobody. All are welcome to celebrate America, especially those dorks in Europe, and yes, even the Brits.</p><p>And while the whole thing oozed class, I would like to give one brief shout out to my man Josh Hokit, who leaned hard into the mic after his TKO win and shouted:</p><p>&#8220;One last thing &#8230; MICHELLE OBAMA IS A MAN!&#8221;</p><p>It was, by my measure, the only overtly partisan attack all night. Off color, but heck, at least it was funny.</p><div><hr></div><h3><strong>MORE LINKS</strong></h3><p><strong><a href="https://dailycaller.com/2026/06/14/steve-kornacki-breaks-down-poll-declining-trend-feeling-proud-american-nbc-news-meet-press/">Data Guru Breaks Down Poll Showing Declining Trend Of Feeling Proud To Be American</a></strong></p><p>Sad.</p><p> &#8212;</p><p><strong><a href="https://dailycaller.com/2026/06/14/college-professor-stacey-patton-blames-austin-metcalfs-father-sons-murder/">&#8216;Black Children Have Boundaries&#8217;: College Professor Blames Austin Metcalf&#8217;s Father For Son&#8217;s Murder</a></strong></p><p>This is who is teaching America&#8217;s youth.</p><p>&#8212;</p><p><strong><a href="https://dailycaller.com/2026/06/12/katie-arnold-ratliff-new-york-magazine-intelligencer-children-gifted-concept/">There&#8217;s Nothing The Left Hates More Than Talent</a></strong></p><p>We need a total reset on this country&#8217;s education system.</p><div><hr></div><p><em>Like what you&#8217;re reading? 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isPermaLink="false">https://stateoftheday.us/p/state-of-friday-we-are-not-them</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Geoffrey Ingersoll]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:58:12 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!q-KB!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4be79c02-5e8e-4ff5-b2c4-2cb1d51ed9fb_5184x3456.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!q-KB!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4be79c02-5e8e-4ff5-b2c4-2cb1d51ed9fb_5184x3456.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Photo by Stephen Brashear/Getty Images</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><em>Greetings, Dear Reader,</em></p><p><em>Here it is, the week in review. Been a wild one, in some loud but also some subtle ways, once you stitch it all together.</em></p><p><em>The bottom line is ultimately &#8230;</em></p><div><hr></div><h3><strong>WE ARE NOT THEM</strong></h3><p>We are not them. We are better. Our morality is superior, and so is our culture. I am not ashamed to say it. You shouldn&#8217;t be either. In fact, you should feel compelled to say it. Now especially, it can mean the difference between survival and extinction. Forget tolerance. Bat away accusations of &#8220;white supremacy.&#8221; Appeals to &#8220;humanity&#8221; are exclusively felt for my family, my community, and my fellow countrymen, in that order. Equivocating is tantamount to suicide.</p><p>The West is under assault. It has been for decades. It has enemies and rivals on the outside, but also revolutionaries and sympathizers on the inside.</p><p>GOP Rep. Brandon Gill has recently devised the most incisive question paradigm since &#8220;what is a woman?&#8221;</p><p>In a recent hearing, Gill had just concluded an interview of Daily Wire investigative reporter (and longtime friend of mine) Luke Rosiak in which Rosiak outlined his findings on medicaid and medicare fraud in Ohio. Rosiak&#8217;s conclusion: Near 100% was from foreigners, particularly Somali and Bhutanese.</p><p>&#8220;Senator Antonio, thank you for being here,&#8221; Gill said, turning to Nickie Antonio, a left-wing senator in Ohio&#8217;s state senate. &#8220;Has Somali immigration been good for Ohio?&#8221;</p><p>Gill has stopped liberals in their tracks a number of times with this exact paradigm, &#8220;Has (X) immigration been good for (X state, community)?&#8221;</p><p>It&#8217;s a simple question, but impossible for a liberal to answer. For too long immigration has been an assumed good. So asking if it&#8217;s good is almost hilariously breaking for the liberal worldview. The answer is usually by the numbers simply no, in no tangible sense could you characterize the growing diaspora as &#8220;good.&#8221;</p><p>Antonio utterly imploded <strong><a href="https://x.com/scottadamsshow/status/2063477498566885883/video/1">(mark 4:24)</a></strong>. She sputtered. I would quote her but the words came out in incoherent spurts. She was &#8220;almost brought to tears&#8221; by the question. She called the question &#8220;hateful rhetoric&#8221; based on &#8220;false information,&#8221; presumably referring to Rosiak&#8217;s irrefutable reporting on public documents and fraud.</p><p>&#8220;There are good and bad people in every group,&#8221; was perhaps her strongest point, and it&#8217;s a calorie-free platitude. It&#8217;s meaningless. It&#8217;s a truism that becomes false under the most minute scrutiny. Zoom out a degree and it&#8217;s instantly incorrect.</p><p>Which culture is better? Somalia&#8217;s or Ohio&#8217;s? Third world, backward shitholes where rape, plunder and child mutilation are practically institutions or &#8230; the west?</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://stateoftheday.us/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>This is not a hard question to answer unless you&#8217;ve been taken by the new quasi religion of the left, which has inverted reality in so many ways. The victim is the villain. The good guys are the bad guys.</p><p>When it comes to the political left in America &#8211; unflinchingly the primary source of a growing insider threat &#8211; we are not them either. We&#8217;re better than them.</p><p>On nearly every moral quandary facing humanity today, Dems are far more permissive than Republicans. Democrats think pornography is good by almost 2:1 odds. They think doctors, and by proxy the government, should &#8220;assist&#8221; in patient suicide by more than 2:1 odds. By 12:1 odds they believe in permanent sex changes for minors. They are much more likely to allow for permissive device use among youth in an educational setting. They are much more likely to believe men in women&#8217;s lingerie make for good librarians. They also find promiscuity among teenagers more morally acceptable by a rate of 4:1. They are also much more likely to believe children can give informed consent for adult things. There&#8217;s only one political wing, Dear Reader, attempting to make pedophilia a sexual orientation.</p><p>They think abortion is <strong><a href="https://x.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/2065128033070334279">morally acceptable</a></strong> by almost 4:1 odds. Morally acceptable, Dear Reader, literally means not bad. Their top reason for seeking abortion isn&#8217;t rape or incest, despite the propaganda, <strong><a href="https://x.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/2065128033070334279">it&#8217;s &#8220;lifestyle change&#8221;</a> </strong>first and foremost. Then economics, then being a single mother and unmarried come in second, third and fourth.</p><p>In short: They believe all the things that are bad are good actually!</p><p>Still, it somehow gets worse.</p><p>Their youngest generation believes assaulting people over speech is morally acceptable by almost 6:1 odds. Thirty-two percent of Democrats under 30 thought the slaughter of Charlie Kirk was morally acceptable, 20 percent of Democrats overall.</p><p>This is not normal. It&#8217;s bad. We should not tolerate it. It should be viciously policed. I&#8217;m not ashamed at all to say it. We are better than them. Our culture is superior. We should exert our will aggressively and without equivocation.</p><p>Here&#8217;s a good example: The riots in Belfast. Are they good or bad?</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c9M5!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fee1c26e8-1e4a-4621-b252-3b6940fc6478_1174x1164.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c9M5!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fee1c26e8-1e4a-4621-b252-3b6940fc6478_1174x1164.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c9M5!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fee1c26e8-1e4a-4621-b252-3b6940fc6478_1174x1164.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c9M5!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fee1c26e8-1e4a-4621-b252-3b6940fc6478_1174x1164.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c9M5!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fee1c26e8-1e4a-4621-b252-3b6940fc6478_1174x1164.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c9M5!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fee1c26e8-1e4a-4621-b252-3b6940fc6478_1174x1164.png" width="1174" height="1164" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ee1c26e8-1e4a-4621-b252-3b6940fc6478_1174x1164.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1164,&quot;width&quot;:1174,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c9M5!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fee1c26e8-1e4a-4621-b252-3b6940fc6478_1174x1164.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c9M5!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fee1c26e8-1e4a-4621-b252-3b6940fc6478_1174x1164.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c9M5!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fee1c26e8-1e4a-4621-b252-3b6940fc6478_1174x1164.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c9M5!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fee1c26e8-1e4a-4621-b252-3b6940fc6478_1174x1164.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>It&#8217;s here there&#8217;s an expectation to characterize all rioting as bad. The left and leftist elites especially will aggressively pursue the GOP and the right more broadly on this question in times like these.</p><p>&#8220;Do you condemn?&#8221; is always the question.</p><p>Well, flatly, I don&#8217;t. I condemn the very real, measurable conditions that brought it about.</p><p>There is exactly no moral equivalence between nativists rioting in Belfast and dregs burning down convenience stories in Ferguson, Missouri. The Michael Brown story was fake. The entire story about police wantonly <strong><a href="https://fryer.scholars.harvard.edu/publications/empirical-analysis-racial-differences-police-use-force">targeting unarmed black men for slaughter was fake</a></strong>. It was apparitional.</p><p>The apparatus that conducted the most egregious apologia for the racial looting and rioting in 2020 will suddenly turn around and demand condemnation for Belfast. They are not the same. First and foremost, the cause for the former was a complete forgery. It was propagandic. There was never a modern black holocaust occurring. There is, in fact, a violent ethnic displacement occurring, both in Ireland and basically everywhere in the west.</p><p>One riot has a distinct moral underpinning, a legitimate cause that&#8217;s actually real, and the other does not. Plain and simple.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://stateoftheday.us/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://stateoftheday.us/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>Right now we&#8217;ve got various left-wing personalities attempting to equate Kyle Rittenhouse and Karmelo Anthony, vis a vis, the &#8220;self defense&#8221; argument. Likewise, these cases are not the same. There is no equivalence.</p><p>This is less about tribalism and more about abundantly evident moral clarity. One boy murdered another boy at the drop of a hat, the other defended himself justifiably under threat of death. This isn&#8217;t &#8220;tribalism,&#8221; it&#8217;s plain reality.</p><p>We are not them. We are morally clear. Our culture is morally and functionally superior. I have no problem saying it. Further, we must say it. We must identify it in order to protect it.</p><p>A bunch of Europeans are going viral right now because they&#8217;re touring the US for the first time. They&#8217;re driving big American trucks to Hooters and going ballistic about it. They&#8217;re touring fast food places, Walmart, and Bass Pro Shops. They&#8217;re marveling at the abundance, cleanliness and freedom.</p><p>An old woman was just beheaded by a migrant in Italy. This is the second attempted, first successful, public beheading in the western world. It&#8217;s unequivocally a result of the mass migration of inferior cultures.</p><p>This is not normal. We are not them. We should not import them. We should not allow their cultures to overwrite ours.</p><p>It&#8217;s not normal to hear the Islamic call to prayer in suburban America. It&#8217;s not good. We should not allow it to become normal. We should close the door for immigration from all Muslim majority countries.</p><p>It&#8217;s not normal for black children to plan and then execute riots with impunity. It&#8217;s bad. We should arrest and incarcerate them all. We should arrest their parents too. Build more prisons if you must.</p><p>It&#8217;s not normal to castrate confused children. It&#8217;s not normal to teach them about marginal adult sexual experiences in class. It&#8217;s bad. We should not allow it to become normal. We should investigate, render destitute, arrest and imprison the individuals involved.</p><p>It&#8217;s not normal for every person in the local 7-Eleven during rush hour, including the staff, to be illegal aliens. It&#8217;s bad. We should arrest and deport most if not all of them rapidly. We should investigate, fine and even arrest their employers. If 7-Eleven goes bankrupt, so be it.</p><p>It&#8217;s not normal for higher education to abandon standards and become vicious left-wing madrassas growing the ranks of internal threats to the American way of life. They should be purged and shut down, if necessary. I don&#8217;t care if Harvard goes out of business. I don&#8217;t care if 90% of colleges in America go out of business. They are bad. Their framework is inferior to historical American beliefs. They should thusly be destroyed by any and all means necessary.</p><p>It&#8217;s not normal to move to a host country and refuse to adopt their cultural norms. We should demand rapid saxonization of all comers. If you are unwilling to learn our language, obey our laws, and adopt our culture, you cannot come here. If we gave you legal status and you revert, consider it revoked, consider yourself deported. It&#8217;s that simple.</p><p>All of this is true, above all, because we are not them. We are better than them, and it has to be more than a memory. It&#8217;s not nostalgia. It&#8217;s real. It&#8217;s not only a thing we say in muted tones, but something we blare full bore, and a thing we exact with extreme prejudice.</p><p>Or &#8230; extinction.</p><div><hr></div><h3><strong>MORE LINKS</strong></h3><p><strong><a href="https://dailycaller.com/2026/06/12/armed-citizens-supermarket-shooter-missouri/">Armed Citizens Stop Supermarket Shooter</a></strong></p><p>Heroes.</p><p>&#8212;</p><p><strong><a href="https://dailycaller.com/2026/06/11/rooke-real-estate-american-workers-india-opendoor-ai/">ROOKE: Real Estate Company Dumps Entire Indian Workforce In Favor Of Homegrown Talent</a></strong></p><p>More of this, please.</p><p>&#8212;</p><p><strong><a href="https://stateoftheday.us/p/let-them-eat-dick-shaped-cake?r=24ixxv">ROOKE: Let Them Eat Dick-Shaped Cake</a></strong></p><p>Spicy Mary is the best Mary.</p><div><hr></div><p><em>Like what you&#8217;re reading? If so, please consider subscribing to State of the Day or sharing this with a friend. 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I&#8217;m a bit under the weather and overwhelmed by all the news recently. Its effect on our culture, while I think good and cathartic, will undoubtedly be ugly, as I wrote yesterday.</em></p><p><em>Today, in Axios &#8230;</em></p><div><hr></div><h3><strong>ELON MUSK, DISGUST AND AXIOS</strong></h3><p>Some of you may or may not have heard of the media company Axios. It&#8217;s a project of Mike Allen, who made his name writing Playbook, Politico&#8217;s beltway newsletter.</p><p>The business model for Axios, like Playbook before it, is essentially access journalism. It speaks to and for elite political machinery. It markets corporate access to elite political machinery and, in reverse, political access to elite corporate machinery.</p><p>That&#8217;s what makes it a &#8220;success&#8221; in the eyes of media elites. That&#8217;s also what makes its most recent reaction to Elon Musk so interesting.</p><p>Corporations over the years have succumbed to the &#8220;spiral of silence.&#8221; Vicious left-wing activists who have taken over academia, tech and the media in many ways have enforced the spiral. It works like this: Executive says obviously true thing that departs from leftist orthodoxy. Women prefer different professional pursuits than men do. Men in women&#8217;s lingerie shouldn&#8217;t be reading to children in public libraries. Or maybe just men cannot become women. Executive then suffers public shame and potentially even, more likely than not, professional censure. He is either fired or forced to step down, etc. Other executives see this and sprint to tweet pro gay race communism content on June 1, the first day of &#8220;Gay Pride Month.&#8221;</p><p>In recent years, both executives and even normal people have begun to wake from this malaise. The spell no longer works as well. Many more people of all stations in life are saying obvious truths.</p><p>Elon Musk is perhaps the most bright avatar of this trend. The one-time dedicated liberal has awakened, and he doesn&#8217;t like what he sees.</p><p>Axios, just this morning, their number one article in their morning newsletter is about how Musk is poised to achieve financial &#8220;escape velocity.&#8221;</p><p>Escape from what?</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RQIA!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F088aaac8-f671-4f88-b0ce-72a6766ab7c4_1186x846.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RQIA!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F088aaac8-f671-4f88-b0ce-72a6766ab7c4_1186x846.png 424w, 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x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>From consequences previously instated by the activist and political classes if one were to drift too far or, in Musk&#8217;s example, outright attack leftist orthodoxy.</p><p>He says true things with &#8220;impunity&#8221; that would otherwise be &#8220;disqualifying for almost any other CEO.&#8221;</p><p>And these things, Axios wants you to know, are &#8220;stoking far-right culture wars&#8221; and &#8220;white identitarian politics.&#8221;</p><p>These phrases are, as you should now know if you read me often, Dear Reader, negative euphemisms meant to do two things. First, they&#8217;re meant to mask the object of the debate.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://stateoftheday.us/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>Is immigration from certain cultures and countries a net good or net negative to the native population? Axios wants you to believe just asking that question is &#8220;xenophobic,&#8221; but while it might tamp down inquiry, it does nothing to the actual result.</p><p>The result, as Elon and others see it, is Pakistani rape gangs, public beheadings like the one that sparked the Belfast riots, or even things as mundane as bulging social services that no longer serve the interests of native peoples. These are all true things that are occurring as a result of leftist orthodoxy applied to policy.</p><p>Pointing them out is racist or parlaying &#8220;far right&#8221; fears.</p><p>Secondly, these phrases act as bright shining bat signals to anyone from those dedicated corporate and political power centers that Axios, for one, is still willing to try to enforce the spiral of silence.</p><p><em>If you&#8217;re even thinking of joining Elon, don&#8217;t do it, we&#8217;re watching &#8230;</em></p><p>Unfortunately, Axios admits the problem with the posture of leftist acolytes like themselves in the copy of their own piece: Folks who want to make money don&#8217;t really give a damn about liberal wishcasting.</p><p>It&#8217;s not a matter even of is &#8220;multiculturalism&#8221; good or does &#8220;white privilege&#8221; exist when it comes to both institutional and retail investors, such as myself.</p><p>Is SpaceX likely to become this generation&#8217;s first mega-tech company? By the numbers, yes.</p><p>Just like the hard truth Axios doesn&#8217;t want you to talk about: Is it good for Minnesota to import millions of Somalis? Is it good for there to be so many Sudanese Muslims in Ireland?</p><p>Dispense with the gay race mumbo jumbo. It&#8217;s straight up and down. It&#8217;s binary, like the code that made Elon his first fortune. Yes or no.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://stateoftheday.us/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://stateoftheday.us/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>Axios would like us to focus on the reactions. As usual, Republican reactions are the story rather than the story itself. But really it&#8217;s the simple question they want to avoid answering.</p><p>Can men be women? Are public beheadings bad? 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&#8220;street-by-street&#8221; and <strong><a href="https://x.com/NarodowySklep14/status/2064469831118700612">molotoving buildings</a></strong> known to house migrants (on the public dime). The tipping point was a Muslim immigrant attempting to <strong><a href="https://dailycaller.com/2026/06/09/sudanese-man-arrested-barbaric-alleged-beheading-attempt-belfast/">behead a man</a></strong> in the middle of the street in broad daylight.</p><p>I can&#8217;t say I&#8217;m shocked even slightly. I and many others <strong><a href="https://dailycaller.com/2025/12/03/ingersoll-afghan-migrants-oceans-blood-somethings-coming/">have predicted</a></strong> this outcome. What&#8217;s more shocking to me is that it took this long.</p><p>I remarked to my brothers and cousins recently, all US Marines, that it&#8217;d be hard to imagine foreign rape gangs in America going for long before a bunch of militias sprung up and started lynching people. The justice system is corrupt, we know that already. They allow repeat offenders of the most violent variety to skirt justice due simply to nothing else than their illegal status. Being illegal is a get-out-of-jail-free card.</p><p>The politicians are also corrupt. They want more illegals. They want more foreigners. Foreign cultures don&#8217;t just stop being what they are because they moved to Minnesota, or Michigan, or Northern Ireland and the UK.</p><p>You get codified, Western state-recognized cousin marriage, which is a staple in the Muslim world. You get welfare scams. You get gang violence, gang rape, knife attacks, and public slayings all set against the backdrop of the call to prayer, which elite liberal media has described as &#8220;beautiful.&#8221;</p><p>It&#8217;s haunting, actually. Hundreds of years of western experience makes it nothing short of the sound of conquest. Of subjugation. It&#8217;s the soundtrack accompanying the wanton slaying of western ideals.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://stateoftheday.us/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support State of the Day, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>The multiculturalists will read quotes off the Statue of Liberty and rip them out of context from the Bible to call you a bigot, as your kids are embalmed in a stew of Islamism and ironically, the childless, late-stage feminism that accelerated its adoption. Should you manage to protect your kids from that corruption, droves of third worlders will at best put housing out of reach for them, at worst rape and murder them at a bus stop, or while they&#8217;re running in a park, or while they&#8217;re riding a metro home from their hourly cashier gig.</p><p>And when that happens, should you have ever strayed even slightly from leftist orthodoxy in public, or should you stray even then, the hordes of elites who gave psychological currency to the foreign invasion and the marxist institutional perversion that brought it on will celebrate. <strong><a href="https://x.com/AFpost/status/1967610049846563076">They will drink your sorrow and dance in the blood of your loved ones.</a></strong></p><p>So, yeah, the fires in Belfast are long overdue. Peaceful, consenting people, for all their faults, primarily that of tacit consent in the first place, do have a line. There is a rubicon.</p><p>For Belfast, it was a public beheading. Who knows what it&#8217;ll be elsewhere, but it <em>will be something, </em>if we don&#8217;t shape up soon. Another Iryna, perhaps? Another apartment building taken over by a foreign cartel? Another couple billion lost to foreign scams?</p><p>It&#8217;ll be something, mark my words.</p><p>The wrath of peaceful men who wanted nothing more than to be left alone will be something else entirely.</p><div><hr></div><h3><strong>MORE LINKS</strong></h3><p><strong><a href="https://dailycaller.com/2026/06/09/anthony-fauci-to-face-rand-paul-again-letter-indicates/">Anthony Fauci To Face Rand Paul Again, Letter Indicates</a></strong></p><p>*Presses &#8216;popcorn&#8217; setting, microwave beeps*</p><p>&#8212;</p><p><strong><a href="https://dailycaller.com/2026/06/09/republicans-markwayne-mullin-dhs-sanctuary-cities-airports-processing-lines-sean-duffy/">Some Republicans Want To Punish Democrats And Their Sanctuary Cities Where It Hurts. 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PRATT]]></title><description><![CDATA[We all know it in our bones to be true.]]></description><link>https://stateoftheday.us/p/state-of-tuesday-nows-our-chance</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://stateoftheday.us/p/state-of-tuesday-nows-our-chance</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Geoffrey Ingersoll]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:15:37 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!X6yo!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F89d35901-849f-4c42-8c4f-831efeefd41d_2400x1600.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!X6yo!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F89d35901-849f-4c42-8c4f-831efeefd41d_2400x1600.png" 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Libs are saying all the right things. Namely, this is not happening and you&#8217;re crazy to think it is.</em></p><p><em>Key indicator that a thing is happening and we&#8217;re actually not at all crazy.</em></p><p><em>So what next?</em></p><div><hr></div><h3><strong>NOW&#8217;S OUR CHANCE, MR. PRATT</strong></h3><p>Spencer Pratt should sue. He was never going to win, I think that much is clear. It was always about how much damage he could cause on the way to losing. Now he&#8217;s got a chance to cause some serious damage.</p><p>Let me just clear my throat to start: I don&#8217;t think anything illegal happened. That&#8217;s actually the problem. The election was gamed and nothing illegal happened.</p><p>Something&#8217;s amiss. MAGA world smells it. If ever there were conservative pouncing to be done, now&#8217;s the time.</p><p>As if I need more motivation: Democrats and lib media are busy saying nothing weird happened.</p><p>So how&#8217;d it all go down? Ballot harvesting. Late AF ballot harvesting from highly organized far-left groups.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!INWj!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5289b91e-4324-4d5d-a090-c2eb6ef9c606_1196x452.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!INWj!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5289b91e-4324-4d5d-a090-c2eb6ef9c606_1196x452.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!INWj!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5289b91e-4324-4d5d-a090-c2eb6ef9c606_1196x452.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!INWj!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5289b91e-4324-4d5d-a090-c2eb6ef9c606_1196x452.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!INWj!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5289b91e-4324-4d5d-a090-c2eb6ef9c606_1196x452.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!INWj!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5289b91e-4324-4d5d-a090-c2eb6ef9c606_1196x452.png" width="1196" height="452" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/5289b91e-4324-4d5d-a090-c2eb6ef9c606_1196x452.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:452,&quot;width&quot;:1196,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!INWj!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5289b91e-4324-4d5d-a090-c2eb6ef9c606_1196x452.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!INWj!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5289b91e-4324-4d5d-a090-c2eb6ef9c606_1196x452.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!INWj!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5289b91e-4324-4d5d-a090-c2eb6ef9c606_1196x452.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!INWj!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5289b91e-4324-4d5d-a090-c2eb6ef9c606_1196x452.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>I consider it kind of wild that Nithya Raman would give a concession speech only to win FIVE DAYS LATER.</p><p>Talk about the right hand not knowing what the left is doing.</p><p>And Raman&#8217;s leftmost hand is a hodgepodge of NGOs and &#8220;get out the vote&#8221; organizations masquerading as nonpartisan. Sucking up taxpayer funds to canvass the urban sprawl for disaffected youth, homeless people, and bewildered elderly. In other words: People for whom civic duty is the farthest consideration imaginable.</p><p>They then &#8220;help&#8221; those people fill out &#8220;ballots&#8221; and those ballots are &#8220;dropped&#8221; days after election day.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://stateoftheday.us/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support State of the Day, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>Raman had no idea this was happening. She had no internals on this because those people don&#8217;t answer polls.</p><p>This is not how elections should be decided. We all know it in our bones to be true. You can bus people to polling places. You can raise hell in the town square and hope to motivate. But going door to door with ballots, that&#8217;s pure insanity.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mNSc!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff0f00990-b096-4b31-a915-d1ac2a44b92b_1206x760.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mNSc!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff0f00990-b096-4b31-a915-d1ac2a44b92b_1206x760.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mNSc!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff0f00990-b096-4b31-a915-d1ac2a44b92b_1206x760.png 848w, 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Take it to SCOTUS. Revoke the legality of ballot harvesting. <strong><a href="https://x.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/2064086886591631752">It&#8217;s ripe for abuse</a></strong>, it&#8217;s gross, and it&#8217;s obviously wrong. It puts untrustworthy individuals between citizens and the ballot box.</p><p>Then defund the NGOs. No more federal contracts to lefty front groups in states like California.</p><p>Then watch them lose. 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Have standards and do hard things.]]></description><link>https://stateoftheday.us/p/state-of-monday-benedicts-hates-a</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://stateoftheday.us/p/state-of-monday-benedicts-hates-a</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Geoffrey Ingersoll]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:32:29 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5G49!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F61cbf63c-c85b-4e8b-b327-2cdcfb3750f5_2048x1102.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[State of Tuesday: THE TRUTH BEHIND SCOTT PELLEY'S EPIC CBS MELTDOWN]]></title><description><![CDATA[He is almost certainly shrieking on the inside]]></description><link>https://stateoftheday.us/p/state-of-tuesday-the-truth-behind</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://stateoftheday.us/p/state-of-tuesday-the-truth-behind</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Geoffrey Ingersoll]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:11:49 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0SXd!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8daa7491-6c1e-41fd-8530-68dabe39af05_2048x935.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[State of Monday: 'KNOW THEM BY THEIR FRUITS']]></title><description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a phrase I&#8217;ve kept returning to as I&#8217;ve watched leftism recede, revealing wreckage.]]></description><link>https://stateoftheday.us/p/state-of-monday-know-them-by-their</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://stateoftheday.us/p/state-of-monday-know-them-by-their</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Geoffrey Ingersoll]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:37:20 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1E7N!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F475e5991-d0fa-4c84-9596-179aa659878a_6000x4000.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[State of Thursday: DUMB AND DUMBER]]></title><description><![CDATA[Who can blame &#8216;em?]]></description><link>https://stateoftheday.us/p/state-of-thursday-dumb-and-dumber</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://stateoftheday.us/p/state-of-thursday-dumb-and-dumber</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Geoffrey Ingersoll]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 13:48:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Wqdq!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbca71e20-4dcb-4942-9d63-1b823e4a9336_5871x3914.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[State of Wednesday: A NEW LEVEL OF STUPID]]></title><description><![CDATA[Get a load of this guy.]]></description><link>https://stateoftheday.us/p/state-of-wednesday-a-new-level-of</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://stateoftheday.us/p/state-of-wednesday-a-new-level-of</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Geoffrey Ingersoll]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 13:52:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Wp9j!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0d597784-8a53-48f7-a571-35cb8d9aecf4_2400x1600.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[State of Tuesday: WE NEED A GEORGE FLOYD MEMORIAL DAY]]></title><description><![CDATA[How many black lives have we lost since then?]]></description><link>https://stateoftheday.us/p/state-of-tuesday-we-need-a-george</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://stateoftheday.us/p/state-of-tuesday-we-need-a-george</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Geoffrey Ingersoll]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 13:47:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YKYZ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F695e7da9-3a35-46a9-b720-1f492b66b256_5073x3382.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[State of Thursday: THE OLDER AND BLACKER YOU ARE]]></title><description><![CDATA[Where have we seen this trend before?]]></description><link>https://stateoftheday.us/p/state-of-thursday-the-older-and-blacker</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://stateoftheday.us/p/state-of-thursday-the-older-and-blacker</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Geoffrey Ingersoll]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 13:57:23 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wOFs!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2cbbf51b-4ce7-4b40-a7cb-de400dd83525_2400x1600.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[State of Wednesday: WOMEN'S STUDIES]]></title><description><![CDATA[But there&#8217;s still hope.]]></description><link>https://stateoftheday.us/p/state-of-wednesday-womens-studies</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://stateoftheday.us/p/state-of-wednesday-womens-studies</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Geoffrey Ingersoll]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 14:50:47 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ay50!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F64bf6224-0025-44a4-8cd5-cd83b87dd64a_4000x2662.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[State of Tuesday: THE SOLUTIONS ARE QUITE SIMPLE]]></title><description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t let them tell you it&#8217;s complicated. It isn&#8217;t.]]></description><link>https://stateoftheday.us/p/state-of-tuesday-the-solutions-are</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://stateoftheday.us/p/state-of-tuesday-the-solutions-are</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Geoffrey Ingersoll]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 14:33:47 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!d4BS!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0a6043a9-ebae-46dc-af2d-694c61a91db8_3000x2077.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[State of Monday: JUDGE JEANINE GETS HER OPPORTUNITY]]></title><description><![CDATA[Now, will she actually carry through?]]></description><link>https://stateoftheday.us/p/state-of-monday-judge-jeanine-gets</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://stateoftheday.us/p/state-of-monday-judge-jeanine-gets</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Geoffrey Ingersoll]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 13:54:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!w_1K!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc10f9ac7-2e54-456b-801a-790228397ae6_1999x990.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[
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