THIS WAS INEVITABLE:

Dear @MarkJCarney

I appreciate it might be difficult to keep up with all of the memes. So I made a montage specifically for you.

I hope you enjoy! pic.twitter.com/w2jGnu6A5V

— Viva Frei (@thevivafrei) September 2, 2026

WELL, BYE: Keir Starmer’s Exit From Parliament Makes His Mockery of Rishi Sunak Look Even Worse.

BEEGE: Smiles in Ayn Rand: Von der Leyen Tells EU Citizens ‘All Your Monies Are Belong to Us.’

Maybe, just schmaybe, those cod-clasping Vikings in Iceland knew what they were doing on Sunday evening, when, by the hairs on their bearded chinny chinchins, they extricated themselves for the foreseeable future from any discussions about becoming a European Union vassal state.

Oh, excuse me – European Union ‘member,’ as if that implied some sort of chummy club filled with bonhomie, and all looking out for the other fellows’ best interests.

As someone said, it’s more the Hotel California. And at the rate the unelected Empress of Europe, current European Commission president, and epic Bond villainess Ursula von der Leyen is going, no one will be left standing to wonder how to check out, even if they could.

Once again, Beege is having way too much fun today.

ELON MUSK: The Future Is Power, Chips, and Data Centers. “SpaceX CEO and founder Elon Musk spoke some harsh truths to EU leaders at a G20 conference in North Carolina on Tuesday — and a reminder to Americans about where the future lies.”

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: $400K for AI Cheaters Luxury Camp: How many colleges will survive?

“I just don’t see a world in which parents continue to indefinitely fork up nearly half a million to send their kids to AI Cheating Young Adult Luxury Camp,” tweets Tyler Austin Harper, a professor turned Atlantic writer. “Some will, but how many? Enough to sustain most colleges?”

He envisions a “black-swan-esque event where significant chunks of higher ed collapse suddenly.” Colleges are playing chicken with parents, he tweets. “The wager seems to be that college is so entrenched as the default that parents will continue to pay for it even as the value proposition and quality collapse due to AI. I think that bluff gets called.”

The Syracuse University is in trouble, reports Douglas Belkin and Roshan Fernandez in the Wall Street Journal. Total cost of attendance at the private university increased to $98,544 this year. Enrollment fell short.

Syracuse borrowed “nearly half a billion in debt to build desperately needed new dorms,” they write. To fill the dorms, the university may need to lower admissions standards, risking its prestige and reducing its appeal to students whose parents can pay tuition.

To be fair, most universities have done much worse than that to damage their prestige.

“FOR THIS REASON, ACADEMIA DOESN’T JUST ATTRACT LEFTISTS, IT ATTRACTS THE MOST NEUROTIC, EMOTIONALLY FRAGILE, AND INTELLECTUALLY CONFORMING LEFTISTS”:

Western academia is a giant, supra-national safe space for leftist ideologues. Within its hallowed halls, leftists can spend their lives in a kind of fantastic alternate reality, confident that no one around them will be so gauche as to confront them with facts. For this reason,… pic.twitter.com/NdqdUoBogX

— Collin Cleary (@collin_cleary) September 1, 2026

THE QUESTION SOMEBODY WAS SUPPOSED TO ASK BEFORE MAKING HIRING DECISIONS: Who Is the Market for Gay NFL Cheerleaders?

KEEP YOUR POWDER DRY…:

Zohran/hasan/Ilhan fans now just directly calling for gangs of people to murder bank employees — as their ‘job.’

Understand, they want us dead. They aren’t joking.

There is no way to share a civilization with these people and something will have to be done. pic.twitter.com/uaHJfoUHNv

— Hon. Vickie Paladino (@VickieforNYC) September 2, 2026

…and keep lots of powder.

And if you don’t click through to the second screencap, it contains this gem: “All leftist teaching says unity!”

Except, of course, for all the people lefties need to murder.

HMM: Pentagon Will Own 35% Of Venezuela Oil Venture, White House Reveals.

The announcement comes three days after Trump unveiled the agreement without naming the private partner or the terms of the deal. The Pentagon’s Office of Strategic Capital (OSC) will hold the 35% ownership stake in the venture while the State Department will also hold the right to buy 20% of the venture’s output at cost and the right of first refusal on the rest, according to a Monday fact sheet from the White House.

The Trump administration identified the partner in the deal as North American Blue Energy Partners (NABEP) — a Venezuelan-owned firm that is the country’s second-largest oil operator behind Chevron.

State ownership doesn’t usually go very well.

THE FRESH YOUNG FACE OF THE DEMOCRAT PARTY:

Great job by my talented colleague @mVespa1, Managing Editor at @townhallcom. Every talk radio show, podcast and cable news show should be highlighting his work today!

We Found Every 9/11 Tweet Abdul El-Sayed Didn't Want You to See https://t.co/UVbKTaDqqo

— L A R R Y (@LarryOConnor) September 2, 2026

HE’S MERELY TRANSITIONING TO “GOOD COMMUNIST”: Report: Raúl Castro Is on His Deathbed

EXERCISE YOUR RIGHTS: William English’s National Firearms Survey 2.0 Should Terrify Assault Weapons Ban Fans.

“The new survey also shows at least 25 percent of American gun owners currently own an AR-15 type rifle, 12.9% currently own other similarly styled semi-automatic rifles, and 30.0% – approximately 26.4 million adults – currently own at least one firearm in one of these two categories,” noted CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “This updated National Firearms Survey is loaded with information and it is presented in an easy-to-understand narrative. Honestly, this new survey comes at a very important moment, considering that we’re looking at a major Supreme Court case on the constitutionality of laws banning AR-15 type rifles and pistols, probably sometime this fall.

“The Citizens Committee is particularly interested in the number of law-abiding Americans who carry firearms for personal safety in public places,” he added. “With all of those millions of legally armed private citizens responsibly carrying firearms, it explodes another myth of the gun ban bunch, that more guns in private hands leads to more crime. As we recently noted, thanks to updated FBI data, that is simply not the case.

“More guns, less crime,” the wise man once said.

HISTORY:

On this day in 1945, Japan signed the instrument of surrender aboard the Battleship Missouri.

Officially ending the deadliest war in human history. pic.twitter.com/AaAaAhs2qv

— InfantryDort (@infantrydort) September 2, 2026

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Begun, the Meme Assault on Canada Has… “They’ve all lost their way up there ever since we took hockey from them. Canada’s biggest export in recent years has been reasons to mock it. Canadian Maple Festival King (also called the ‘prime minister’) Mark Carney (no relation to Art) has just given us the best one yet. He doesn’t want to engage in talks about a trade agreement because Americans have been giving him a good taunting.”

HMM: US Mysteriously Waives Sanctions Against Iran’s Bloodthirsty State Broadcaster, Again, Even as Network Puts Bounties on Trump Family’s Heads.

The Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) is the hardline regime’s chief propaganda organ, responsible for blasting Tehran’s virulent brand of radicalism to a domestic audience and supporters across the globe, including inside the United States. The IRIB has become instrumental to the regime’s survival in the past year, since nationwide protests inside Iran threatened the mullahs’ hold on power in the lead-up to the U.S.-led war. In recent weeks, the IRIB—which oversees a wide network of media including newspapers, websites, and social media channels—has been responsible for publishing a series of disturbing death threats against Trump, his wife Melania, and their son Barron. This includes an Aug. 23 video, since taken down, purporting to document both Melania and Barron’s movements as part of an assassination scheme that the Secret Service says it is actively monitoring.

But during this time, the State Department waived longstanding sanctions on the IRIB, permitting it to freely operate and access satellite services that are pivotal to its existence, the Free Beacon has learned. Crippling financial sanctions and taking steps to block the IRIB’s technical operations would make it hard for the regime mouthpiece to broadcast outside Iran, and would undermine its internal broadcasting and publishing operations as well.

In 1999 and 2003, the United States and its allies bombed state television in Belgrade and Baghdad, effectively shutting down state media for a time. The United States is not believed to have targeted Iranian state broadcasting in its current campaign.

That’s… odd.

DEMOCRATS DESPISE THEIR OWN CONSTITUENTS, EXHIBIT #1,000,006:

🚨 WTF?! The State of New York has ordered Elon Musk's X Money to STOP paying out 6% interest to any New Yorker with their bank account

Instead, interest has to drop to 0%. X is trying to reverse it.

New York leaders hate their own people! pic.twitter.com/qNzAz8eGbC

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) September 1, 2026

X Money is basically a PayPal-type transmitter account (there’s an optional physical debit card) that pays 6% on deposits.

YOU GOTTA PUMP THOSE NUMBERS UP: DHS Arrests More Than 2,000 Illegal Aliens in New York ‘Operation Rotten Apple.’

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Gravitics Wins Lockheed Martin Deal to Build Three Orbital Carriers for Golden Dome.

The spacecraft, described as orbital carriers, are platforms designed to support space-based missile defense operations. Golden Dome has been discussed largely in policy terms, and the contract signals the program is moving into the hardware phase.

Gravitics will build three orbital carriers under the arrangement. The work falls under the Golden Dome space-based missile defense program, and the platforms are intended to support demonstrations of missile defense technologies in orbit. Gravitics is a startup rather than a traditional prime contractor.

Broader Golden Dome industrial activity was visible this week. A Space Force general and U.S. Senator Jim Banks visited L3Harris to review Golden Dome work separately from the Gravitics selection, indicating activity across multiple companies tied to the program.

This is almost 22nd Century stuff.

THE SECOND-ORDER EFFECTS ARE OUTSTANDING:

Canada is enticing academics to leave the US due to Trump’s crackdowns on research funding for topics like climate, equity, and gender studies. pic.twitter.com/6hoaA1j90S

— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) August 31, 2026

SCOTT PINSKER: JD Vance and the Jews: The Political Fallout From the Vegas Sit-Down Heard Round the World.

THAT’S HOW I REMEMBER IT:

What made the 80s special was that almost NO ONE — except some teachers who still thought it was the 60s — was uptight.

Everyone was cool. Everyone could take a joke. You never had to walk on eggshells. The girls were cool. Race relations were cool. We all had part-time jobs.…

— John Ocasio-Rodham Nolte (@NolteNC) September 1, 2026

UPDATE (From Ed): Not everything was “cool” in the 1980s, but the decade was lots of fun, particularly when compared to the one that preceded it:

This may be the best advertisement for the greatness of everyday 1980s American life that I’ve ever seen … pic.twitter.com/Jx01GZioa3

— Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) September 1, 2026

MEGAN FOX: Pregnancy Faker Laura Owens Pleads GUILTY! “Clayton Echard and Greg Gillespie’s long nightmare with serial pregnancy faker and fraudster Laura Owens seems finally to be at an end. On Friday, Owens pleaded guilty to four felonies related to the scheme to defraud Echard and Gillespie by pretending to be pregnant with twins while using the court system as a weapon to harm them over many years.”

ICYMI: You Gotta Be Kidding Me: We’re Still Playing ‘Let’s Make a Deal!’ With Iran?

AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:

Suspicions Of Ayatollah's Death Rise After His Name Appears On California Voter Rolls https://t.co/Rpq9LWU7ac

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) September 1, 2026

HE’S ONE OF THOSE GUYS WHO JUST CAN’T STAY OUT OF TROUBLE: George Santos Permanently Banned From Kalshi for Insider Trading. “George Santos has become the first person permanently banned from prediction market Kalshi after the company found evidence the former New York congressman engaged in insider trading tied to his own attendance at President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address. Kalshi also fined Santos $71,356, according to the company.”