Get a load of this.

Two years ago, The Guardian reported that Spain and Portugal were becoming too dry thanks to climate change. ️

Now, The Guardian says that Spain is too wet because of climate change. ️

The narrative changes with the weather.

No matter what the weather… pic.twitter.com/TNyN5rfYD9

— Chris Martz (@ChrisMartzWX) November 29, 2024

Kamala Harris’ uncut message to her supporters. pic.twitter.com/r8ziUN8MkP

— Dr. Clown, PhD (@DrClownPhD) November 28, 2024

They can do hilarious stuff with AI these days.

Mike Franc, at Human Events in 2005, identified the real reason for celebration at the first Thanksgiving.

Writing in his diary of the dire economic straits and self-destructive behavior that consumed his fellow Puritans shortly after their arrival, Governor William Bradford painted a picture of destitute settlers selling their clothes and bed coverings for food while others “became servants to the Indians,” cutting wood and fetching water in exchange for “a capful of corn.” The most desperate among them starved, with Bradford recounting how one settler, in gathering shellfish along the shore, “was so weak– he stuck fast in the mud and was found dead in the place.”

The colony’s leaders identified the source of their problem as a particularly vile form of what Bradford called “communism.’ Property in Plymouth Colony, he observed, was communally owned and cultivated. This system (“taking away of property and bringing [it] into a commonwealth’) bred “confusion and discontent” and “retarded much employment that would have been to [the settlers’] benefit and comfort.”

Just how did the Pilgrims solve the problem of famine? In addition to receiving help from the local Indians in farming, they decided allow the private ownership of individual plots of land.

On the brink of extermination, the Colony’s leaders changed course and allotted a parcel of land to each settler, hoping the private ownership of farmland would encourage self-sufficiency and lead to the cultivation of more corn and other foodstuffs.

As Adam Smith would have predicted, this new system worked famously. “This had very good success,” Bradford reported, ‘for it made all hands very industrious.” In fact, “much more corn was planted than otherwise would have been” and productivity increased. “Women,” for example, “went willingly into the field, and took their little ones with them to set corn.”

The famine that nearly wiped out the Pilgrims in 1623 gave way to a period of agricultural abundance that enabled the Massachusetts settlers to set down permanent roots in the New World, prosper, and play an indispensable role in the ultimate success of the American experiment.

A profoundly religious man, Bradford saw the hand of God in the Pilgrims’ economic recovery. Their success, he observed, “may well evince the vanity of that conceit–that the taking away of property– would make [men] happy and flourishing; as if they were wiser than God.’ Bradford surmised, ‘God in his wisdom saw another course fitter for them.”

The real story of Thanksgiving is the triumph of capitalism and individualism over collectivism and socialism, which is the summation of the story of America.

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As published in the Massachusetts Centinel, Wednesday, October 14, 1789

No video like this would ever have been released by a politician who is not hated by her staff. https://t.co/q7Mbbq5SzB

— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) November 26, 2024

Public reaction

He’s an Alpine folklore figure. And there’s only one of him. Butin Norway, unaccountably, they had a whole Krampus parade. Very strange.

Norway, is everything okay? pic.twitter.com/b54WSoDgQ3

— @amuse (@amuse) November 27, 2024

This is the best thing I've ever seen!! pic.twitter.com/ZysZcz6TwI

— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) November 26, 2024

Employee of the year pic.twitter.com/woq368M1h6

— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) November 26, 2024

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— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 27, 2024

Every left-winger should have their eyes held open and be forced to watch this on repeat until it sinks in.

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— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) November 25, 2024

Dead right, except for the “we’re gonna run out of oil” malarkey. The doom-sayers kept predicting that and then we discovered fracking. The Russians may very well be right that petroleum is geologic-based, not fossil-based and you don’t run out. It keeps renewing itself. In any event, like the man said, “the Stone Age didn’t end because we ran out of rocks.”