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I’ve got four predictions about serious things (and one about something not quite that serious) that I’ll throw your way in this 5QT entry.

That’s all the introduction you’re going to get. It’s all you need.

1. CNN Isn’t Going To Make It

I don’t know exactly when or how it’ll end, but at some point in the relatively near future, CNN will close its doors and either disappear from the cable dial altogether or it’ll be re-branded as something else. (RELATED: CNN’s Credibility? Totally Obliterated!)

The Origami Channel. Or the Yoga Network. Maybe Pokémon Central.

What it won’t be is CNN. Because CNN isn’t operable anymore.

I’m saying CNN is inoperable, because that’s the word Israel’s Atomic Energy Commission used to describe what the bomb damage from U.S. airstrikes on the Iranian nuclear facility at Fordo has done.

CNN’s Natasha Bertrand attempted to paint a different picture this week. Bertrand ran with a story based on a leaked Defense Intelligence Agency assessment, rated “low confidence” (otherwise known as garbage), which said the bombs hadn’t really done much harm.

The leak was politically driven, and the leaker or leakers were the usual Deep State clowns who’ve put their own politics over U.S. interests for the last 20 years. It shouldn’t have been considered newsworthy, as there is no corroboration of this “report,” but Bertrand put CNN’s credibility on the line in running with this report, and the suits at CNN let her do it.

That happened, and then this happened…

Bye, Natasha. Bye, CNN. There’s no recovering from a Massive Ordinance Penetrator like that.

You’ve already heard that Warner Bros. Discovery is spinning CNN off as part of its new “Global Networks” island-of-unwanted-toys company. Global Networks is being built to die. It can only survive on a shoestring, because there isn’t enough viewership in the bad cable channels in its collection to bring in real advertising dollars, and the days of raking in a piece of cable subscribership dollars as part of basic cable packages are rapidly coming to a close.

If anybody respected CNN’s news coverage, it might be able to survive as an online news outlet. That’s also coming to a close.

There’s no way this thing survives another 10 years. I give it maybe three.

2. Zohran Mamdani Will Be an Albatross so Heavy Around the Democrats’ Necks as to Cause a Schism

You might have seen this video. It’s from an NRCC tracker who’s harassing New York Democrat Congressman Tom Suozzi, and it’s a little on the obnoxious side. I’m showing it to you not as an own-the-libs thing but rather as an exposition of just how uncomfortable establishment Democrats are over what happened on Tuesday.

Here’s a meltdown…

My last column was on Mamdani and what he’ll do to New York if he gets elected. But this is an indication of what he’s already doing to the Democrats. (RELATED: The Fourth Era Comes to the Big Rotten Apple)

And it’s obviously not just Mamdani. The fruited plain is crawling with insane, lunatic radical progressives who are ascendant within that party as it loses ground among the American people.

Suozzi is no conservative. He’s pretty nondescript as liberal-to-socialist establishment Dems go. But backed Andrew Cuomo against Mamdani, and he doesn’t want to answer the tracker’s question about the Adams-Mamdani matchup because there is no winning answer. Adams isn’t exactly a centrist; he’s more your run-of-the-mill urban black Democrat who’s perhaps socially centrist and economically illiterate. But compared to Mamdani, whose defining quote is “Queer liberation means defund the police,” Adams might as well be Alphonse D’Amato.

Which makes for an ugly choice if you’re Tom Suozzi. Back Adams and you now infuriate the Far Left who increasingly run your party, and you’ll be lucky if you don’t draw some wannabe Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez neocommunist in a primary. But back Mamdani and you own whatever destruction he brings to the Big Apple, and who knows what next year’s midterms will bring.

That’s George Santos’s district, you know. Suozzi only won it with 51.8 percent of the vote last November. And now he’s going to get sandwiched between two very high-profile, bad options.

And he isn’t going to be alone. There are a lot of Tom Suozzis out there who are going to watch their political fortunes unravel over the leftward lurch of the Democrat Party.

Before this is over, you might well see the Democrats break apart. When your party’s orthodoxy becomes the 20 percent position in every 80-20 issue, you can’t hold very many politicians to it.

3. The Pro-Palestine Thing Has Peaked, and Its Decline Will Be Swift

I’ll just give you one data point among many on this, and then we can discuss it.

Have you ever heard of the rapper Azealia Banks? She’s kind of a big deal. And she was booked to play two sizable music festivals in the U.K. — Maiden Voyage and Boomtown — but just pulled out of both.

Why? Because she wouldn’t toe the promoters’ line…

Her screed has some NSFW language in it, and not everything she says in the X thread that follows the announcement is particularly brilliant, but if you manage your standards at a realistic level, what you’ll take from this is a couple of things.

First, Banks is making a definitive allegation that music promoters are essentially extorting political messages out of the acts, which is pretty ugly stuff. It’s one thing to tell an artist you’re promoting that, for marketing purposes, maybe taking controversial political positions isn’t a good idea; that’s not what this is. This is an affirmative demand, if she’s telling the truth, that she throw in behind a specific stance.

Which, second, is a little window into just how organic the dumb leftism you get from music acts, actors, and other pop culture celebs really is.

Astroturfing the pro-Palestine position among music acts is completely unsurprising. Banks blowing the whistle on it makes this a suspicion proved true, and you’re going to see a notable backlash and a petering-out of the pro-Hamas boomlet.

Besides, Hamas is a bunch of losers. Who really wants to identify with them? When you understand that most of the leaders of the “pro-Palestinian” movement are paid or extorted shills, the cool factor drops to zero pretty quickly.

4. Tim Walz Is Going To Come To Grief Over His Past

No, this isn’t about Vance Boelter and his rather amusing accusation that Tim Walz, who appointed him to Minnesota’s state workforce commission, had directed him to assassinate Amy Klobuchar so her Senate seat would open and give Walz a chance to fill it.

Instead, it’s this…

I’m not saying that allegation is any more credible than Boelter’s.

Well, yes, I am.

Walz’s affinity for China is unmistakable and well-documented. The fact that he and his wife ran a kooky business consisting of bringing school kids to China for “educational purposes” is enough to make it obvious he’s a ChiCom asset.

We’re also finding out that the FBI has been covering up Chinese meddling in American politics, like, for example, with respect to fostering illegal votes in the 2020 election…

Remember when the Chinese consulate in Houston staged such a bonfire of its files before that facility was shut down that the fire department had to be called? At issue, at least in part, was China’s involvement in promoting the Black Lives Matter riots that suspiciously sprang up all over the country, starting in…

Minneapolis.

So there would seem to be a lot out there, and who knows how deep the rabbit hole goes?

Anyway, this is a suspicion and a prediction: we’re going to find out some things about Tim Walz in the next weeks and months that he would very much not like us to learn.

And then we can ask exactly how Kamala Harris came to the conclusion Walz was fit to be her vice presidential nominee.

5. College Baseball’s New Dynasty Has Begun

I’m noticing that more and more Americans are paying attention to college baseball, though it appears, based on the limited numbers available so far, that the College World Series might have had slightly less viewership this year than last.

But changes in the sport portend that it’s going to be a major growth item in future years, now that the NIL and revenue-sharing rules are being implemented. It’s more and more frequent that top-flight high school players are choosing to head to college rather than turn pro right away, for the obvious reason that they don’t have to forego a six-figure revenue deal while in school. The days of enforced poverty and partial scholarships for college baseball players have ended, and the quality of play is rising — and along with that, the interest in the sport seems to be ascending.

So I’m not completely out of line in noting that LSU, which is the most prominent program in the sport, just won its eighth national championship with a 5-3 victory over Coastal Carolina last Sunday.

That was head coach Jay Johnson’s second College World Series title in three years. Johnson has made four CWS appearances in the last 10 years, going back to his previous head coaching job at Arizona, and he’s put his team in the final weekend’s championship series three times in that four. Interestingly, the first of those appearances was in 2016, and it was Coastal Carolina who bested Johnson’s team.

LSU won that title with pitching and defense. The Tigers’ double aces, Kade Anderson and Anthony Eyanson, are both future major leaguers and likely first-round picks, with Anderson very likely to be the first pick in next month’s Major League draft. Reliever Chase Shores, who sports a virtually unhittable 101 mph fastball, will go before the second round is over. Shores was utterly dominant throughout this year’s festivities in Omaha.

And it’s interesting that this was how LSU won, because the program’s brand is Gorilla Ball; a lineup full of mashers who bash homeruns on their way to championships. Johnson is known, also, as a great hitting coach. But this year’s team was more athletic and better in the field, and so they won with timely hitting and run prevention.

Being able to win different ways with different rosters is the mark of a great coach, and Johnson is taking on just such a look. One way to describe him would be that he’s the Nick Saban of college baseball coaches, especially if you consider LSU’s first recognized master of college baseball, Skip Bertman, as the Bear Bryant of the sport.

Neither Johnson nor LSU is going anywhere. And LSU fans are certainly feeling their oats right about now. College baseball might be a relatively small niche, but it is tightly wrapped in purple and gold as of today.

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