Conservative pundit Candace Owens challenged history this week with a bold, provocative, dare I say important post on X: “The older I get the more absurd the concept of ‘dinosaurs roamed the earth until a great big meteor hit’ becomes to me,” she said. It remains unclear if Candace thinks the meteor is ridiculous, or the concept of dinosaurs themselves. But get used to the circus. Covid was a disaster for public trust, and here are the consequences. It’s a shame, really. The “experts” could have just said “listen, we don’t know what’s happening, but maybe x, y, z,” and “yes, no shit, it definitely came from a lab.” Instead they chose evil, which means we can expect at least a decade more of the dumbest discourse imaginable. Give Candace a few more months, and we’ll be litigating the shape of our planet. Haven’t you heard? It’s flat.

S&P Global’s most recent ESG scores were just released, and though careful observers will note that the first initial in this ratings system does indeed stand for ‘environmental,’ Tesla (see: the environmentally conscious, emissions-reducing electric car company) was given the surprisingly low score of 40 out of a possible 100. It was an especially confusing score given that the tobacco company Phillip Morris — yes, literally Big Tobacco — was given the much higher score of 85. Here’s a thought: if the company that uses thousands of acres of farmland, requires God knows how much water, and whose product is literally killing you scores twice as high as the electric car company, it might be safe to throw away your “good guy” rating system. Smh, and these ‘experts’ wonder why more people are turning to random dudes on Reddit for their investment advice.

Yesterday, SpaceX launched its 4th Starship — a rocket taller than the Statue of Liberty — which went to space, came back, flipped over, and landed right side up on the Indian Ocean. An incredible success: SpaceX has basically demonstrated it can re-use the biggest rocket in history (i.e., we’re going to Mars, guys). But the AP’s take was different: “SpaceX’s mega rocket completes test flight without exploding,” in apparent self-reference to its own dishonest reporting on the prior three launches. Frustrating, but perfectly inline with the MSM’s habit of blatantly misinforming readers about anything Elon-related, and — in the case of SpaceX — pretending not to understand rocketry’s iterative nature. But whatever, it’s not worth getting mad about. We have a choice: keep giving doomer news the attention (keeping it on life support), or ignore it, and let it finally die. I know what I’m going to do, and I’ll start right after finishing this take (promise).

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