IT’S TIME FOR VICTORIA TAFT’S West Coast, Messed Coast™” Newsom’s Free Chesticles for Illegals Helped Quadruple CA’s Medi-Cal Costs “This week your humble correspondent offers some advice for when Democrats pretend to give a rip about ‘affordability.’ Remind them that before the ‘excursion’ in Iran temporarily raised gas prices, President Donald Trump’s prices never reached the heights of the prices planned and in place for the poor saps living on the West Coast, Messed Coast™. Add in the cost of free body parts for illegal alien trans people, and whoa.”
Author Archive: Stephen Green
April 17, 2026
MAKE AMERICA MALE AGAIN:
If they can eliminate low testosterone,
A Democrat would never win another presidential election.
This is a scientific study, and I’m not being facetious. https://t.co/U26PmfuYYf pic.twitter.com/nzKzQKmo03
— Dr Manhattva (@Manhattva) April 16, 2026
CALIFORNIA FORBIDS OFFSHORE PRODUCTION, FORCES REFINERIES TO CLOSE, AND YOU’LL NEVER BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENS NEXT: California ‘running out of fuel’ as imports dry up, Trump needs to act to prevent crisis: experts.
These problems will extend far beyond the state. Nevada gets about 80% of its gasoline from California, and Arizona gets nearly half of its supply from the state. California is also home to a dozen ports through which a large portion of U.S. exports and imports are transferred, and the state is home to key West Coast military bases. It’s also nearly 15% of the U.S. economy. Without fuel, operations at California’s businesses and industries, and these important ports and bases, will be severely impacted.
While the war in Iran has raised the risk level from stressed to dangerous, Mische explained that the end of the conflict won’t immediately avert the crisis. If the exports of petroleum began to flow normally today, it would be a couple of months before the shortfalls would be addressed. Tankers would need to ship the products across the oceans. Refineries would have to be restarted, and back orders would need to be filled.
“You’re two months out. It’s crazy,” Mische said.
Self-government has proven a one-party-state disaster for California and its neighbors.
Alternate headline: What would we do without experts?
WELL, WE’LL SEE:
NEWS President Trump tells me:
-No ground troops will be required to remove enriched uranium from Iran
-Iran has agreed to stop backing all proxy groups like Hezbollah and Hamas
-I asked if Iran has agreed to stop enriching uranium *forever.” He said, “They’ve agreed to…
— Weijia Jiang (@weijia) April 17, 2026
FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: The $700,000 Foot Bath Fraud. “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week, we’ll learn the freakiest way to rip off health insurers, yet another reason not to use Mugshots.com as a dating app, and how they’re exiting the courtroom in Colorado these days.”
REQUIRED READING:
Scott Bessent is a goddamn economic warlord…
the kind of apex predator who doesn’t just play the markets…he weaponizes them into precision-guided ordnance that leaves entire regimes bleeding out in the dirt.
If you still don’t get why this man spent years in the belly of the… https://t.co/e0Xid8dTot
— LHGrey™️ (@grey4626) April 16, 2026
BUT UNLIKE CERTAIN MINNESOTAS, THEY SEEM TO BE WORKING ON IT: Texas Not Free From Welfare State Fraud.
HMM:
🚨 The Islamic Republic is showing a MAJOR internal fracture at the highest levels in real time.
After Araghchi and Trump both claimed the Strait of Hormuz is “open,” IRGC-linked Fars News is now openly questioning officials, warning of confusion inside the country, and… https://t.co/YoOAA46Fed pic.twitter.com/ahCEPsPdii
— The Iran Watcher 🇮🇷 (@TheIranWatcher) April 17, 2026
Meanwhile, the US naval blockade on Iranian ports and vessels continues, even with Iran suddenly announcing that Hormuz is open again.
MARCO RUBIO, VICEROY OF VENEZUELA: State Department on Venezuela: No Trust, Just Leverage.. and a Plan for Elections?
SPELING IS HARD:
You can't tell me that this is a legitimate system of government
I don't care if you're the silliest libtard on earth, there's no way you really believe this woman should govern a city of 6 million people https://t.co/Ljktqkm2Aa
— Bennett's Phylactery (@extradeadjcb) April 17, 2026
SPOILER: THE COUNTERPRODUCTIVE YAPPING WILL CONTINUE.
Every foreign policy genius who spent a decade collecting paychecks to tell us Iran was untouchable just watched a real estate developer from Queens reopen the waterway that moves a third of the world's oil.
The credential class should be embarrassed into silence. pic.twitter.com/HjKVfZq5T5
— Mehek Cooke🇺🇸 (@MehekCooke) April 17, 2026
A CONSERVATIVE GOES BEHIND ENEMY LINES: What I Saw at Kamala’s Book Tour Talk.
AND YET I DO BELIEVE IT:
You are not going to believe this
Utah Supreme Court ruled against a Republican-led amendment tied to a redistricting effort… just TWO weeks after a judge attended a party at the home of the lawyer who fought against it
She’s now UNDER INVESTIGATION for allegedly having a… pic.twitter.com/VwgSoQ0SYl
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 17, 2026
BRAVO, WELL PLAYED, SIR:
I mean this probably is the best tweet ever produced. It’s perfect like a diamond pic.twitter.com/AJsJSVAm8P
— BoiltOwl (@nealjclark1) April 17, 2026
If THERE’S ANYONE LEFTIES DON’T DESPISE (ESPECIALLY THEMSELVES, DEEP DOWN), I DON’T KNOW WHO IT MIGHT BE:
For the DSA Left the ‘working class’ is a theoretical abstraction that is invoked to justify the self entitlement and prerogatives of a class of affluent (but downwardly mobile) professional and creative elites. https://t.co/b0LsOzleWb
— Coddled Affluent Professional (@feelsdesperate) April 17, 2026
ANALYSIS: TRUE. AI Isn’t the Future of Our National Security. It’s the Present.
I covered just a small fraction of what AI already does for the military (in Operation Epic Fury) a couple of weeks ago, and it is impressive.
THE CORRECT ANSWER IS, “EVERYTHING BUT HORSESHOE”:
Which is it?
— Kosher (@koshercockney) April 17, 2026
CAUSE AND EFFECT, WHICH ORDER DO THEY GO IN?
The timing on this story is interesting because Trump *actually* canceled this contract with CC two weeks ago, before the kerfluffle with the pope took place.
Kinda makes it seem like the kerfluffle is a *response* to Trump taking steps to stop the flow of "refugees" https://t.co/vJOy8q00ws
— Theophilus Chilton (Scots-Irish Supremacist) 🇺🇲 (@Theo_Chilton) April 16, 2026
We don’t just have the worst media; we have the worst of all possible media.
21ST CENTURY PROBLEMS: How Dangerous is Mythos? Why Did Anthropic Decide Not to Release the New Model?
Anthropic’s Mythos has been able to independently complete a whole set of attack processes. From discovering zero-day vulnerabilities, writing exploit code, to linking multiple steps to access core systems, tasks that originally required top hackers to collaborate for long periods have been compressed to hours or even minutes.
This is also why, at the moment the model was disclosed, Scott Bessent and Jerome Powell would convene Wall Street firms to ask them to conduct ‘self-checks.’ When the ability to discover vulnerabilities is released on a large scale, the financial system faces not sporadic attacks, but continuous scanning.
The deeper change lies in the supply structure. In the past, vulnerability discovery relied on the experience accumulation of a few security teams and hackers, which was slow and non-replicable. Now, this capability is beginning to be output in bulk by models, lowering the threshold for both attacks and defenses. A metaphor from an insider is very straightforward: giving the model to an ordinary hacker is akin to equipping them with special operations capabilities.
Developing…
THE SAME COULD BE SAID ABOUT THE ENTIRE SOUTHERN AND EASTERN PARTS OF THE MED, SAVE ISRAEL — AND THERE’S A LESSON IN THAT:
In 1955, Algeria had 1 million Catholics and 140,000 Jews. Today there are 8,000 Catholics in Algeria and fewer than 200 Jews.
Christians and Jews had lived in Algeria since Roman times. Now they’re gone.https://t.co/BvwwQ15dYk
— Daniel Greenfield – "Hang Together or Separately" (@Sultanknish) April 16, 2026
JOURNALISMING: WaPo Mystified About Why No One Ever Noticed That Swalwell Was a Creeper. “One thing that modern ;journalists; do very well is blame other people for their propaganda-fueled derelictions of duty. The Jake Tappers of the world insisted that they were kept in the dark about Biden’s condition by his staff and the Democratic National Committee. Apparently, none of them owned televisions or had internet. Tapper even wrote a book about it. Bonus money for being awful at his job, then lying about it — not a bad gig if you are free from the burden of integrity.”
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