Althouse: Sunrise.

May 26, 2026

Sunrise.

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60 comments:

Jim at said...: Here's hoping John Cornyn gets his ass handed to him tonight.

Twenty two percent reporting:
Paxton - 61 percent
Cornyn - 39; 5/26/26, 7:11 PM
Jim at said...: At 40 percent reporting?
Paxton 62.6 to 37.5; 5/26/26, 7:21 PM
RJW said...: Jim, careful what you wish for.; 5/26/26, 7:39 PM
narciso said...: Tough call #2; 5/26/26, 7:44 PM
narciso said...: https://x.com/CynicalPublius/status/2059290852602904772; 5/26/26, 7:44 PM
Leland said...: Heck Jim, look at that endorsement Paxton just got. Meanwhile, Dems look stuck with trans-rights Talarico.; 5/26/26, 7:44 PM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ along with $1.8bn of Kleptocracy said...: Paxton, read the history of the man. The fact that he is still free and not in jail, never mind running for one of the most powerful political positions in the country tells you all you need to know about the dire state of US politics and more importantly the precarious position that the republic now finds itself in.; 5/26/26, 7:45 PM
narciso said...: 80-Year-Old President Gets Standard Checkup — Chris Cillizza Acts Like It's a Crisis – Twitchy https://share.google/WB7ACLnBApdN6Ds31; 5/26/26, 7:48 PM
narciso said...: We were talking about snakes talarico is right up there; 5/26/26, 7:49 PM
Jim at said...: Jim, careful what you wish for.

Yeah. Because Texas Republicans are going to vote for that freak leftist instead of Paxton in the general.

/rolls eyes; 5/26/26, 7:51 PM
Iman said...: Pic#2: “The Lonely Duck” Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass (1962); 5/26/26, 7:56 PM
Jimmy said...: Paxton winning will send a message to the other Rinos.
And do the trolls on this blog ever offer a better alternative??. It is always a BS negative slur- seems like they have nothing better to offer.; 5/26/26, 7:58 PM
wildswan said...: Somehow I've become a fan of the ducks. I think I want to be one of them on the lake at sunrise.; 5/26/26, 7:59 PM
Iman said...: Lefties has a SAD, as they watch their mid-term fantasies turn to excrement.; 5/26/26, 8:01 PM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ along with $1.8bn of Kleptocracy said...: Is Trump still negotiating his surrender to Iran? 🏳️; 5/26/26, 8:01 PM
Quayle said...: “… one of the most powerful political positions…”

“…precarious l…”

Wow, I2E 1.8K (not thousand K, some other K) is really got the LLM fired up tonight.; 5/26/26, 8:02 PM
Aggie said...: I'd much rather be careful who I vote for.; 5/26/26, 8:04 PM
narciso said...: We were speaking about dr who specially the tom baker years

Which was where i first got on the train in 1978 even though were originally aired in 1974 even with some of cheap effects the stories held up like in robot where the title character was not the greatest villain, a technocratic society bent on world domination (clearly fiction) the one on the space station was genuinely creepy; 5/26/26, 8:08 PM
Leland said...: And do the trolls on this blog ever offer a better alternative?

They wouldn’t be trolls if they did. I’m still laughing at their morning bragging about the collapse of the stock market, then the S&P and Nasdaq close at a record high. It was barely a year ago they were suggesting the price of oil was going to collapse.; 5/26/26, 8:10 PM
narciso said...: More like ugnaughts deep in the bowels of bespin; 5/26/26, 8:12 PM
narciso said...: Eddie luce has turned the salmon colored times into a joke tabloid; 5/26/26, 8:14 PM
narciso said...: Actually most of the publications have gone to the dogs like businessweek even fortune; 5/26/26, 8:16 PM
Aggie said...: Over 50% of the vote is in, and it's still about 63% Paxton. Some of the outlets are starting to project him as the winner.; 5/26/26, 8:16 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: No wonder Zelensky is allies with USA and Israel. He loves killing School girls too:

"Starobelsk college was hit on Friday by several waves of Ukrainian drones. According to the Russian authorities, UAVs struck the college’s academic building and dormitory while 86 children, aged 14 to 18, were inside. The attack killed 21 students, mostly teenage girls, and 60 more sustained injuries.

Moscow has described the strike as a “monstrous crime” and accused Kiev of deliberately targeting children at an educational facility."

Expected Response: "That's war baby. You cant win a war unless you murder school girls and little kids."; 5/26/26, 8:17 PM
Saint Croix said...: I say to Mr. Talarico, who claims to be a follower of Christ...

God calls on us to love our children.

God calls on to have love in our hearts when we have sex, because we might be making a child.

God calls on us to recognize our children and to love them.

You say, that a billion dollar abortion industry is fine, and that parents paying a doctor to terminate their child is fine. You say the Bible says nothing about this.

Is it infanticide?

Do you think Christ would approve of a doctor stabbing a baby in the middle of birth?

Follow Christ and love your child.; 5/26/26, 8:18 PM
Leland said...: Early night, Decision Desk already calling it for Paxton. Meanwhile, Democrats having problems with voting machines as usual in TX18 runoff. And while losing, badly, Cornyn may end up with more votes than cast in the Democrat Primary for Lt. Gov and AG (the most contentious statewide elections for Dems).; 5/26/26, 8:20 PM
imTay said...: Robert Barnes had been a huge supporter of DJT, like I was, and he still has many connections inside the WH, after working hard to get Trump elected in the 2024 election.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fONhN2kXJ-I

Boomer-Cons might have been just over half the electorate in Massey's Republican Primary, which had pretty strict rules about who could vote—retired people have time to vote— but Boomer Cons are going to be more like ten percent of the mid-terms electorate. Less in 2028, and a tiny part of the electorate in 2032. Basically Israel has screwed itself, and nuked the MAGA coalition in the process.

Anyway, Barnes maintains that his WH connections are saying that this is not the same DJT that so many of us supported, the war skeptic DJT. They are saying that the man who turns 80 in a couple of weeks, is suffering dementia, and it's being used to manipulate him.

The problem with the 25th Amendment is that, first, it is kind of like a coup, and second, if the President is incapacitated mentally, there will be factions in the WH who use it to seize power, and this faction has frozen out the part of the MAGA coalition that represented me and people like me in the movement. Tulsi being the latest victim.

Trump already surrendered to Israel in starting the war, and he needs to get out of the war, the disaster happened, it only gets worse the longer Trump tries to win an unwinable war. It is not in America's interest to further destroy the American brand because Israel is trying to build a thousand year reich, err, I mean, "permanent security."; 5/26/26, 8:21 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: THose who will leave the Senate in 2026:

Cassidy (LA)
Cornyn (Texas)
Mitch the Bitch (KY)
Thong Tillis (NC)
Joni Ernst (IA)
Daines (MT)

Hopefully, Miss Lindsey (R-Gooberville) and Collins (RINO) will lose re-election.; 5/26/26, 8:23 PM
john mosby said...: Iman: " “The Lonely Duck” Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass (1962)"

Ha! I remember the album cover: Herb in a matador suit, brandishing a duck call. CC, JSM; 5/26/26, 8:24 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: Thong Tillis has dropped the mask, and announced he will spend the rest of 2026 trying to block Trump from doing anything. Reason? Thong thought Trump was DOA and started moving Left in 2022. When Trump won he made it clear he was going to support a challenger, so Thong "Retired". He's still bitter about it.; 5/26/26, 8:25 PM
Aggie said...: Cornyn's best performance tonight so far, has been in Kenedy County, Texas, where he has amassed a decisive lead, capturing over 75% of the votes, with 99% of the votes counted. All 8 of them, so far.; 5/26/26, 8:26 PM
narciso said...: Wars in the Caucasus are never an easy thing; 5/26/26, 8:26 PM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ along with $1.8bn of Kleptocracy said...: Trump's multiple trips to Water Reed demonstrate the need for a ballroom -- ASAP.; 5/26/26, 8:27 PM
Saint Croix said...: Zionist alert: dog shooting in Nebraska; 5/26/26, 8:28 PM
narciso said...: Ruh roh if kristof had any shame...; 5/26/26, 8:29 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: Its amazing how Zelensky and Israel can commit assassinations, war crimes, and refuse to negotiate and no one gets upset. But that's 'murcians. They don't really care about morality except to use as a weapon against others.; 5/26/26, 8:32 PM
john mosby said...: It's like the K9 Corps in Starship Troopers. Although Heinlein didn't anticipate dog rape. CC, JSM; 5/26/26, 8:32 PM
Political Junkie said...: JC is being crucified.
He will rise from the dead.; 5/26/26, 8:33 PM
narciso said...: He didnt the crazy years would go so far off the rails; 5/26/26, 8:34 PM
john mosby said...: Catching up to History Channel's "World War II With Tom Hanks." Nothing really earth shattering, but also no Ken Burns wokery. Talking heads include Simon Sebag Montefiore, Antony Beevor, and Dishy Dan Snow. Not bad, really. CC, JSM; 5/26/26, 8:36 PM
narciso said...: Another day ending in y with tillis going michigan j frog; 5/26/26, 8:36 PM
narciso said...: Thats a good selection although beevors a little dodgy; 5/26/26, 8:36 PM
john mosby said...: Dodgy Beevor would be a great name for a rock band. CC, JSM; 5/26/26, 8:38 PM
narciso said...: I recall when ted cruz waa a terrible candidate because he deigned to challenge dewhurst ths railroad commissioner; 5/26/26, 8:40 PM
narciso said...: Soecially his take on the spanish civil war; 5/26/26, 8:46 PM
john mosby said...: ciso, yes, ref Dr Who, the Tom Baker years were quite good writing-wise. Like everything else from the BBC in that era, the set budget was low, and the FX nonexistent. But the writing started to get into some moral quandaries. I remember the Dr refusing to kill the first Dalek, for instance. Didn't really get to that again until Christopher Eccleston. CC, JSM; 5/26/26, 8:48 PM
narciso said...: Its this sentimental notion even when you have the right outcome despite this the Soviets didnt really move against Franco until they aided the eta by proxy; 5/26/26, 8:48 PM
narciso said...: Well he didnt want to risk a butterfly effect (even in the initial outcome was good); 5/26/26, 8:50 PM
narciso said...: For action pertwee really got things going i didnt those till later; 5/26/26, 8:51 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: YouTube: Bobby Finn explains Food Delivery Fees; 5/26/26, 8:52 PM
narciso said...: Yeah thats crazy how about just go to the coffee shop; 5/26/26, 9:00 PM
narciso said...: The nazi therapist seems to losing; 5/26/26, 9:03 PM
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narciso said...: Who knows if thst person is the right lizard; 5/26/26, 9:04 PM
narciso said...: Well they cant be worse right; 5/26/26, 9:06 PM
Dr Weevil said...: RCOCEAN II repeats Russian propaganda lies in his 8:17pm. There are plenty of pictures from the 'girls school' in Starobilsk before the Ukrainian strike destroyed it, in which Russian soldiers are showing off all their fancy drone-controlling and drone-operator-training equipment. It was, like everything Ukraine targets, a legitimate military target, though it was a (Ukrainian) civilian school before the Russians captured it and turned it into a military base.

The Russians, on the other hand, continue to attack nothing but civilian targets. In the last week they destroyed half of the Chornobyl Museum in Kyiv, burned down a UN warehouse full of food supplies for civilians, blew up some civilian gas stations and a regional post office, and killed dozens of civilians by hitting their apartment buildings. They also hit the entrance of a subway station being used as a bomb shelter, forcing those inside to run for their lives. They've been hitting moving civilian trains, too, while Ukraine has been hitting military trucks on the highway from Rostov to Crimea.; 5/26/26, 9:06 PM
narciso said...: I gave up trying to correct dutchboy

His dunce cap is made of iron; 5/26/26, 9:10 PM
LibertarianLeisure said...: After reading this blog for 10 + years, finally dawning on me 5 out of 6 articles sources are NYT.; 5/26/26, 9:13 PM
Iman said...: Mr.Mosby @8:24PM… 😆👌; 5/26/26, 9:14 PM
narciso said...: The guy who was warning about iran in 1980 is getting senile now al righty that; 5/26/26, 9:14 PM