CONSTITUENT SERVICE: California Billionaire Tax Is So Bad That Even Newsom Wants to Ditch It.
Author Archive: Stephen Green
January 30, 2026
IF YOU THINK MISSILE DEFENSE IS EXPENSIVE, TRY LOSING A CITY: U.S. Approves Quadrupled THAAD Interceptor Production to Counter Rising Missile Threats. “U.S. Company Lockheed Martin has signed a landmark framework agreement with the U.S. Department of War (DoW) to expand Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptor production from 96 to 400 units per year. This decisive industrial ramp-up responds to advanced missile threats and signals a Pentagon shift toward sustained high-volume strategic defense manufacturing.”
IT’S FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: His Car Was So Hot… “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week, we’ll learn how not to get into the cocaine industry, what not to do with a vacuum cleaner, and too much about Louisiana’s not-so-littlest mermaid.”
HERE WE GO AGAIN: Democrats Charge Forward With Shutdown Threat Over ICE Funding. “Republican Sens. Ted Budd of North Carolina, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Mike Lee of Utah, Ashley Moody and Rick Scott of Florida, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Tommy Tuberville of Alabama also opposed advancing the funding package. The conservative group of lawmakers contains several leading fiscal hawks and opponents of abortion. Budd told reporters he voted “no” over concerns about ‘abortion funding’ in the package.”
IT’S IMPOSSIBLE TO TELL A LEFTY ANYTHING THEY DON’T WANT TO KNOW:
This is a very important point.
Yes, the Trump administration brought the charges, but a federal grand jury in a BLUE STATE (Minnesota) indicted him.
He must be held accountable. You cannot lead mobs into churches & attempt to intimidate Christians while they are worshipping! https://t.co/5vsYOcuC6B
— Alex Bruesewitz 🇺🇸 (@alexbruesewitz) January 30, 2026
WELL, GOOD: Paul introduces legislation to halt welfare funding for non-citizens.
Of course, if the Dems don’t kill it, I suspect the Republicans will let it die on the vine.
IT’S TIME FOR VICTORIA TAFT’S West Coast, Messed Coast™ — Finally, a Little Justice for Victims of Seattle’s ‘Summer of Love.’ “This week, we see a little justice in Seattle, insanity from Oregon, and welcomed scrutiny in California.”
WELL, GOOD: Canadians Tell Their Authoritarian Government Where They Can Put Their Gun Confiscation Scheme.
Canadian media is reporting that half of all the provinces, plus the Northwest Territory and Yukon governments are telling Ottawa the country’s massive gun “buyback” scheme is a non-starter, and they will not participate.
“This is a remarkable—and welcome—wake-up call to Canada’s liberal national government, and it is long overdue,” said Alan Gottlieb, chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, one of the largest U.S. gun rights organizations. “Gun control in Canada has crossed the line when it pushes a massive ‘buyback,’ which is really nothing more than compensated confiscation. What the governments in those provinces, and the territories are saying on behalf of the citizens is that this massive gun control scheme is a non-starter.”
According to published reports, the Newfoundland and Labrador government is the latest to reject the gun “buyback” proposal, for which Canada’s federal government has reportedly allocated $250 million to compensate gun owners for the firearms they would be required to surrender because they were banned by the stroke of a pen.
Canadians might need a lot more guns before Mark Carney and the Liberals are done with them.
IT WOULD TAKE A HEART OF STONE NOT TO LAUGH:
🚨🚨 BREAKING : Quick – take a look at the front page of StopICE dot net 🚨🚨
For context, StopICE is the biggest ICE doxxing website out there.
Follow @astrarce and @bitchuneedsoap . pic.twitter.com/ySw3KGEWth
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) January 30, 2026
TO BE FAIR, FAVREAU ISN’T JUST A HACK, HE’S A HAM-FISTED HACK WHO HELPED CREATE THE CURRENT MESS:
Kamala Harris literally arrested a legitimate journalist because she didn't like he had exposed Planned Parenthood for the barbaric and illegal practice of selling aborted baby parts.
You voted for her anyway. Don't pretend you care about this. https://t.co/FNWvtxA2wE
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) January 30, 2026
More:
Left-wingers have gotten really used to being able to jail their opponents while threatening the jailing of more of their opponents as a way to avoid liability for crimes they commit.
Those days are over. Whatever deference once existed, they blew it up. pic.twitter.com/scrM71pPBK
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) January 30, 2026
We warned the Left for 15 years that they wouldn’t like it when the Right started playing by their new rules, but they didn’t listen.
WHERE’S THE OFF SWITCH? AI’s HAL 9000 Problem, and What It Portends For the Future.
We are repeatedly told that large language models (LLM) will soon “plateau.” Likewise, we were repeatedly warned that “Moore’s Law,” the observation that microchip transistors double approximately every two years, was dying. But both claims miss the point.
Even as raw transistor scaling has dramatically slowed, real computing power has accelerated through architectural specialization, algorithmic efficiency, massive parallelization, and domain-specific hardware. AI supercomputer performance is currently doubling every 9 months, fueled both by increasing the number of AI chips and improving chip efficiency. A new chip from NVIDIA apparently will compress that, at least temporarily, to six or seven months.
Likewise, we will find a way around the LLM plateau. When one scaling regime saturates, engineers invent another. And even at a 9-month doubling, in 10 years the computers will crunch 10,000 times faster and a million times faster in just 15 years. Yet, it was beating us at GO a decade ago.
The implication is simple: AI won’t level off; it will change gears.
And once it changes enough gears, it stops being a tool and becomes a system, widely referred to as “Artificial General Intelligence” or AGI.
That matters, because systems do not “obey.” They optimize.
I’m still dubious about AGI, but smarter people like Michael Fumento here insist it’s just a matter of time.
So here’s to hoping we don’t get “optimized.”
EVERYBODY LOVES THE FA, BUT THEN THE FO COMES ALONG:
Don Lemon actively participated in a federal crime. It's on camera. He filmed it . He went with the mob, joined in what they were doing, and actively and verbally encouraged and affirmed their actions the entire time. He deserves to be thrown in prison. He is not above the law. https://t.co/KV6ANrMd5v
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) January 30, 2026
TREK’S DEAD, JIM:
In Starfleet Academy Jay-Den is from a polyamorous Klingon family where both of his Fathers abandoned him. pic.twitter.com/HE7olrTLxP
— Nerdrotic (@Nerdrotics) January 29, 2026
And to think I found just the first episode unwatchable.
WELL, GOOD: Meta Restricts ICE Agent Doxing Site Across Facebook, Instagram. “Meta spokesperson Andy Stone told the outlet the decision was tied to the company’s policy prohibiting the sharing of personally identifiable information or content that asks users to provide such information about others.”
DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES:
Something something warmth of collectivism something something. https://t.co/BbX5mkeDVb
— RBe (@RBPundit) January 30, 2026
BREAKING: Don Lemon Arrested by Federal Agents for His Role in Church Mob.
UPDATE (FROM GLENN):
Communists think Don Lemon was arrested because he’s the political opposition and not for anything he did because that’s how communists themselves think the justice system should be used. https://t.co/aG0tE2gxQE
— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) January 30, 2026
Plus:
A federal grand jury indicted Don Lemon.
He was not just magically arrested.
A federal grand jury indicted Don Lemon.
He was not just magically arrested.
A federal grand jury indicted Don Lemon.
He was not just magically arrested.
Pass it on…
— James Blair (@JamesBlairUSA) January 30, 2026
When Trump was indicted it was treated as proof of guilt.
THEY’RE SHOCKED, SHOCKED TO FIND INCREASED TAXES IN THIS DEMOCRAT-RUN ESTABLISHMENT:
🚨 JUST IN: Virginia voters are shocked as Democrats roll out a tidal wave of new taxes — from deliveries to cars, gyms, and even pet services.pic.twitter.com/lH9AsPUJe4
— Derrick Evans (@DerrickEvans4WV) January 29, 2026
Gooder and harder, Virginia.
IN OTHER NEWS, I DECLINE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE OLYMPIC DECATHLON: Gov. Walz says he “will never run for an elected office again” once term ends.
WHAT FRESH HELL IS THIS? Dhar Mann Named NFL’s ‘Chief Kindness Officer’ As League Kicks Off Super Bowl Creator Blitz.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: ICE Protest Teachers Are Trump’s Reminder to Shutter Dept. of Education. “Look, if the protest brats want to cut off their snotty noses to spite their stupid faces, I’ve got no problem with that. What’s really galling me is that there are schools closing here in Tucson to join the protest. It’s a perfect snapshot of all that is wrong in this country right now. It’s the public school union teachers who are the root of leftist evil in the United States.”
IT’S A MIXED-UP, MUDDLED-UP, SHOOK-UP WORLD:
The irony of seeing a Russian-flagged tanker sail as close as possible to a NATO coastline in order to avoid an attack by Ukrainian drones.#OOTT #Tankers #Russia #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/9WUZ2g6LPO
— TankerTrackers.com, Inc. (@TankerTrackers) January 30, 2026
RELIGION OF PEACE UPDATE: Iran rounds up thousands in mass arrest campaign after crushing unrest, sources say.
They said detainees had been placed in secret lockups.
“They are arresting everyone,” one of the activists said. “No one knows where they are being taken or where they are being held. With these arrests and threats, they are trying to inject fear into society.”
Similar accounts were given to Reuters by lawyers, medics, witnesses, and two Iranian officials speaking on condition of anonymity to avoid retribution by security services.
They said the roundups appeared aimed at preventing any serious revival of protests by spreading fear just as the clerical establishment faces rising external pressure.
Things might get exciting again soon, but who knows?