Author Archive: Stephen Green
October 29, 2026
October 28, 2026
CHRISTIAN TOTO: Adam Carolla Reveals More Proof of Hollywood Blacklist 2.0.
Adam Carolla isn’t a conservative, per se.
He’s pro choice, pro legal marijuana and you won’t catch him sporting a red MAGA hat.
He’s just not a doctrinaire progressive, and he knows hypocrisy when he sees it. That means he’s watched artists and crew members speak out on the latest political issues, both on camera and behind the scenes.
More importantly, he’s noticed who doesn’t say a syllable.
The silence is… enlightening.
THAT CERTAINLY LOOKS LIKE HIM:
Is this you @AbdulElSayed in Colombia in 2022? It’s a private retreat including Intuitive Solutions, the fundraising and contracting organization for at least five credibly accused Muslim Brotherhood offshoots and other terror-affiliates. Is that you grinning in a photo with the… pic.twitter.com/ANdQXnxLRh
— Peter Schweizer (@peterschweizer) October 28, 2026
THE MORE THINGS CHANGE… NAH, THEY HAVEN’T CHANGED AT ALL: Dem Candidates Lying to Rural Voters About Gun Control By Pissing On Their Legs and Telling Them It’s Raining.
TOURISM: Luxury cruise passengers stranded in Cambodia due to soaring fuel costs.
The US-based operator of the Villa Vie Odyssey said it was working with passengers on disembarkation plans and “temporary living arrangements”.
It is unclear how many were on board but the nearly 200m (656ft) vessel can carry up to 650 passengers. It departed Belfast in October 2024 for a “continuous voyage around the world”.
Global fuel prices have soared since the Iran war started earlier this year. The ship’s operator said the monthly fuel cost per cabin in parts of Asia has risen to as much as $8,000 (£6,000) from $1,800.
Ouch.
DEVELOPING…
Relativity Space has kept quiet since the takeover by @ericschmidt, but I'm continuing to hear anecdotal, but good things about their progress. A viable Terran R solves a lot of problems for the US commercial space industry.
— Eric Berger (@SciGuySpace) October 27, 2026
Slowly — and too quietly for the rocket-curious — but still developing.
HMM: How California Voters Could Surprise the Machine.
“Two measures—Proposition 41, the Prohibit Excluding New State Taxes from Spending Limit and Require Special Tax Audits Initiative and Proposition 42, the Prohibit New Taxes on Retirement Holdings, Personal Assets, and Savings Initiative—are also on the November 3 ballot in California and contain competing measure provisions that would nullify Proposition 40 [the wealth tax] if all the measures are approved, but Propositions 41 and 42 receive more votes than Proposition 40.”
And then there is Prop. 43, a citizen initiative championed by the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, the organization that was founded during the state’s 1978 tax revolt. In that year, beleaguered voters approved the legendary Prop. 13. Approved by a 65–35 percent margin, it has given California one of the lowest property tax rates in the U.S., and it remains one of the only reasons many small businesses and retired homeowners still survive.
For nearly 50 years, Prop. 13 has been attacked by the insatiable tax-and-spend progressives running California. Prop. 43, if approved by voters, will restore the original provisions of Prop. 13, including the requirement for a two-thirds vote on local special tax initiatives.
Altogether, these four ballot initiatives are transformative.
Voters will have their say in less than a week. And — who knows? — in a month or so, we might even know all the results.
EVERY TIME I THINK MAYBE WE AREN’T IN A BUBBLE, I SEE FIGURES LIKE THESE:
The Broadcom deal landed the same day Anthropic filed its S-1, and the same day Meta launched its $95 billion offering (upside to $97.5 billion). Add SpaceX closing its $40 billion Nvidia chip lease with Apollo, and Monday's AI capital call came to roughly TWO HUNDRED BILLION… https://t.co/rrM0jq4PKK pic.twitter.com/5V9ODqu1tI
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) October 28, 2026
CAUTIONARY TALE: Pittsburgh Is What the Country Will Look Like Under DSA Rule.
INFRASTRUCTURE: Pentagon loans Stoke Space $150 million to build launchpad at Cape Canaveral. “The War Department yesterday awarded the rocket startup Stoke Space a $150 million conditional loan, with the money to be used to build a second launchpad at Cape Canaveral to launch the company’s proposed larger Nova Block 2 reusable rocket.”
Nova Block 2 will have basically the same specs and reusability as the retiring Falcon 9. There’s still so much medium-term demand for the Falcon 9 that its upcoming retirement is causing a bit of a panic in the industry.
IF THERE’S ANYTHING LEFTIES UNDERSTAND, IT’S TAKING AND WIELDING POWER:
Yup, Republicans are busy defending the 109 year old blue slip rule and doing other totally inane things, while Democrats have all but perfected a lawfare machine designed to keep them in power for generations. https://t.co/5I2aqWduoU
— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) October 28, 2026
This is from the replies for the uninitiated: “The Blue Slip rule is far more consequential than most people realize. Ever wonder why most of the egregious fraud is in Blue States? It’s because they won’t let anyone in who isn’t on the left to prosecute.”
HMM: Why Saudi Just Abandoned Its Core Oil Rule. “Saudi Arabia’s desire to partner with other countries to expand its strategic oil stockpile marks a seismic shift in policy. Historically, the Kingdom responded to oil demand spikes by simply pumping more crude from its domestic oilfields, drawing down from its own domestic storage, or securing barrels in the international spot and forward markets. However, this announcement signals that Saudi Arabia can no longer rely solely on its own geography and security to guarantee oil delivery. By seeking access to the strategic, government-owned stockpiles of foreign nations — particularly in Asia — Aramco wants to double its overseas storage capacity. That necessitates moving enormous volumes of Saudi oil out of the volatile Gulf region ahead of time and placing it directly into the backyards of its biggest customers.”
Let this serve as another reminder that the US is now the most reliable energy exporter.
WASHINGTON WAS NEVER SUPPOSED TO BE MUCH MORE THAN A PART-TIME SWAMP DWELLING:
One of the most important priorities of the past two years should have been to break Washington DC’s monopoly over the adjudication of virtually anything that can be connected to the capital, however remotely.
The system is totally dysfunctional and fundamentally unfair,… https://t.co/hAkwW2lV6D
— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) October 28, 2026
“The system is totally dysfunctional and fundamentally unfair, whereby anyone who is not a Democrat has no chance of receiving a fair hearing, let alone justice, while Democrats themselves are completely shielded from accountability.”
KDJ: Big Trouble in Little China: Bad News for the Bolshies Just Before Election Day. “Next week’s elections are seen by many as determining the direction the nation will take: capitalism or communism. These last-minute defeats for the Democrats might make a difference for people who still haven’t decided which way to vote, which seems insane to me because one side promotes liberty and the other pushes misery, followed by starvation and a Holodomor-like death.”
21ST CENTURY HEADLINES: Bank of America kindly asks that you don’t share your banking password with your AI assistant.
In an email blast to customers titled “Protecting your finances in the Al World,” Bank of America urged customers to never share their username and password with another person or an outside service, “including an Al-enabled tool or agent that offers to act on your behalf.”
You can practically sense the frustration in the person sending the email. Still, customers are increasingly handing over their log-ins as personal AI assistants grow more popular. Sharing your banking username and password with an AI assistant runs the risk that it could do something with your finances without your knowledge, or that your bank thinks someone’s raiding your account and locks you out of it. Worse, a security flaw in the AI assistant could result in it leaking your banking credentials elsewhere, giving financially motivated hackers a way into your bank account.
People give their banking passwords to bots?
WE NEED A NEW COROLLARY TO CONQUEST’S SECOND LAW:
BREAKING: Switzerland suspends funding to Doctors Without Borders after it failed to report that its staff exploited refugee women and girls for sex—in exchange for aid, jobs and money. Previously, 🇨🇭 called MSF “a source of best practice and inspiration.” https://t.co/p8NopVkGuG
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) October 27, 2026
“Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes sex-trafficking racket.”
BUCKLE UP:
Here is the Democrat plan to steal the election & the country – Sen Markey lays it out gleefully. When he speaks like this, it means this plan is already in motion. They have prepped the battlespace for a massive show of people on the streets to support their false narrative that… https://t.co/cIoNwmdRHx
— Lara Logan (@laralogan) October 28, 2026
“So there you have it – this is how they plan to screw the President & the people of this country. And all those eating their own side alive every day are playing right into their hands.”
A field organizer for Democratic Socialist of America-aligned (DSA) candidate William Lawrence in Michigan—despite saying that it was “bad” that Charlie Kirk was assassinated—justified the shooting, claiming that Kirk “incited a lot of violence, and sometimes you get what you f*cking get.” Lawrence is running in Michigan’s 7th Congressional District and has billed himself as an average progressive.
In video obtained by The Post Millennial, Adrian Slear, a field organizer for Lawrence, told an undercover journalist that Charlie Kirk’s murder was essentially justified. “Someone gets shot with a gun: violence bad,” the man with a “Decolonize Palestine” shirt said.
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“So it’s like, my parents, like when I talk to them about it, it’s like, ‘Well violence is not good. We shouldn’t be allowing it.’ I’m like yes, but the violence happens. It happens. Sorry it happens. This is a world full of f*cking violence and Charlie Kirk incited a lot of violence and he encouraged a lot of violence. And sometimes you get what you f*cking get.”
When they tell you they approve of assassinating their political opponents, believe them.
AT SOME POINT, THE EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOM…:
10k Starship launches/year is just from Starbase Louisiana https://t.co/1fWbmUR7zG
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 28, 2026
…is just a constant rumble.
FIGHT THE POWER: How to Fight Back in the Surveillance Pricing Wars With This 1 Weird Trick. “The bot army my wife raised to automate work and household chores went public two weeks ago, but now she’s unleashed it on a new and most sinister target: surveillance pricing at her favorite online retailers.”
REQUIRED READING:
"It is impossible to overstate how wrong BLM and reform activists were on this count."
I have been a successful propagandist, and I have thoughts about this. Believing your own propaganda too much is risky even when it's true, and extremely dangerous when it's false.
This is a… https://t.co/jQko8ja21B
— Eric S. Raymond (@esrtweet) October 28, 2026
Key takeaway:
This is a chronic problem with left-wing propaganda. In an ideal world, or at least an ideal world from the point of view of a left-wing organizer, propaganda would usefully deceive and demoralize everyone outside the movement while the movement itself remains in contact with reality.
But it doesn’t work that way. Really skillful propaganda has the emotional hooks to deceive everybody, including your own people. This divorces them from reality and sets them up for rude shocks when the divorce is no longer deniable.
The result seems to manifest itself as increasingly violent temper tantrums at best, and outright authoritarianism at worst.
Or, “At worse… so far,” as Homer Simpson might say.
DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Colorado Ballot Puts ‘Tax The Rich’ And ‘Trans The Kids’ To The Test. “The midterms will show whether Colorado’s leftward shift continues by default, or whether enough residents have decided it’s gone far enough.”
Amendment 87 would eliminate the state’s flat tax and gut another provision of the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights. Propositions 134 and 135 would make boys compete on boys teams and prohibit sex “change” surgeries on minors, respectively.