Movie prices don’t bother me that much. Believe it or not, adjusted for inflation, ticket prices were at their highest in the early ’70s and have slowly declined since.
But the barrage of ads is a real turnoff.
Author Archive: Stephen Green
April 14, 2026
TO BE FAIR, MILEI IS RIGHT ABOUT PRETTY MUCH EVERYTHING:
In 2024, Milei warned that Pedro Sánchez's wife was corrupt.
All the media outlets and the establishment came out to criticize Milei and claim he was wrong.
Today, Pedro Sánchez's wife was convicted of four crimes, including corruption and bribery.
Milei was right. https://t.co/tnnsBznQEf pic.twitter.com/rMML7cglxj
— BowTiedMara (@BowTiedMara) April 13, 2026
BE TOLERANT, THEY TOLD ME, OR ELSE:
What’s impressive about this is that the education system didn’t just eliminate virtually all conservative thought as it moved toward left wing extremism, they got rid of almost anyone who was in the middle too. Anyone who doesn’t fully comply with the groupthink isn’t welcome. pic.twitter.com/1pvNKCGqxW
— Ian Miller (@ianmSC) April 14, 2026
JOANNE JACOBS: It’s a marathon, not a miracle.
As founder of the education nonprofit Mississippi First, Canter saw her home state start getting serious about meeting higher expectations in 2008. That change included state power to take over low-performing districts, A-F grades for schools and districts based on student achievement and challenging new learning standards.
The state’s literacy law passed in 2013: Schools screen students’ reading skills three times a year and report progress to parents. Students can’t read adequately by the end of third grade are held back a year. The law meant “everyone in the system would be in a hellfire hurry to teach children to read,” writes Canter. “No one wanted children to fail.”
Accountability works — who’d have thought?
IF BY WEIRD YOU MEAN BUSINESS AS USUAL:
Wild that banging a Chinese spy wasn’t what got Swalwell out of Congress, rather it was the democrat ruling class machine deciding he isn’t useful to them anymore
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 14, 2026
FRANCE SURRENDERED ITS INTERESTS IN LEBANON LONG AGO: Israel to Nix France From U.S.-Lebanon Talks?
IF ONLY EUROPE WOULD MAKE CRUSADES GREAT AGAIN:
Have you ever noticed that we never see Catholic cardinals or the Pope speak out about all the Christian churches being burned down around the world?
But yet, Pope Leo runs to showcase a mosque in a country that restricts Christians and other faiths, and coerces conversion to… https://t.co/leIOyn6SEF
— Kate (@kate_p45) April 14, 2026
Why, it’s almost as if…:
Update: Sorry, the embed is broken for some reason and just noticed. Hope the screencap helps.
THAT’S BARELY A DOWN PAYMENT ON OUR NEEDS: The Pentagon wants a 188 percent bump for missile procurement. Can industry deliver?
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG:
A California news team finds a left-wing group, “Build a Better California,” paying homeless people $5 a signature to sign petitions for ballot measures using other people’s names. This transpired in the Tenderloin area of San Francisco. The man became violent when the reporter… pic.twitter.com/75MdhInVCM
— Doreen Linder (@DorLinder) April 13, 2026
THIS IS EXCITING: Gentlemen, Start Your Stills — America’s Next Craft Boom Begins.
A REMINDER THAT NOT EVERY GOVERNMENT IN EUROPE HAS LOST ITS DAMN MIND:
Israeli and Czech foreign affairs ministers hold a joint press conference, announcing the establishment of a joint commission between Israel and the Czech Republic.
The body will serve as a formal channel to coordinate policy, expand cooperation in defense, trade, and…
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) April 14, 2026
CREEPY: Meta is reportedly building an AI clone of Mark Zuckerberg.
Picture this: You’re a senior Meta employee looking for feedback from the CEO. But, instead of hearing from the real Mark Zuckerberg, you get a response from a Zuckerberg AI character. As absurd as that sounds, it could eventually be a reality.
Meta is reportedly working on such an AI character, training it on Zuckerberg’s mannerisms, tone and publicly available statements, according to the Financial Times. The character is also learning about the CEO’s thoughts on recent company strategy, with the idea that it could offer advice to Meta employees.
The company has reportedly, for some time, been working on creating photorealistic, 3D animated AI characters that can manage interactions. However, it now appears to be focusing on this Zuckerberg AI character, which would interact with employees when the CEO can’t or doesn’t want to.
Clippy, only it’s the CEO?
No thanks.
HE’S RIGHT:
It is in the best interests of the Roman Catholic Church, the USA and the world that the Vatican publicly release details as to the subject matter of the recent meeting between Pope Leo XIV and Obama's political strategist, David Axelrod.
This incident is harming the Church in…
— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) April 14, 2026
So is Sunny:
Hey while you’re there honoring the people who violently drove Catholics from the country, if you find the time in between that and condemning us for killing genocidal Islamist leaders, could you swing by and lecture the people currently massacring Christians in Africa? https://t.co/UfClk3BZBj
— Sunny (@sunnyright) April 14, 2026
PODCAST:
"Why Should We Care if China is Building its Biggest Island Yet in the South China Sea?"
At the start of 2025, Antelope Reef was little more than a sandbar in the Paracel Islands. Months later, it's on track to become China's largest artificial island in the South China Sea. In… pic.twitter.com/rgM8AQpILp
— Why Should We Care: Indo-Pacific Pod (@IndoPacPodcast) April 11, 2026
Lots to chew on here.
COMPLIANCE COSTS: Taxpayers to spend $477 billion on tax season.
Taxpayers are expected to spend 6.93 billion hours and more than $477 billion to be in compliance with the 2026 tax filing season, according to a new report released Monday.
Tax Day is Wednesday. The National Taxpayers Union Foundation released a report with estimates on how much time and money Americans are expected to spend.
The report estimated the average American will spend 12 hours and $290 to complete their tax return. The report anticipated a decrease in compliance burdens from its peak of 7.93 billion hours in 2023.
The report estimates that tax compliance costs include $319.7 billion in lost time and at least $157.1 billion in out-of-pocket expenses, including tax software and professional services.
“Time is money,” said Damien Brady, vice president of research at NTUF.
The Founders assembled an army following much smaller impositions.
PEOPLE MAKE DECENT MONEY SPOUTING GIBBERISH ON X:
45K likes because people don't understand the blockade is of Iranian ports, not the Gulf states. pic.twitter.com/n1NwVSJDhi
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) April 14, 2026
THE BIG PICTURE: All in All, It’s Just Another Brick in the Wall Around China. “Last year, Chinese Communist Party boss Xi Jinping played the rare earths card, forcing President Donald Trump to slow his roll on decoupling from the Middle Kingdom. This year, Trump played the oil card against China — first in Venezuela, then in Iran — and he just slapped it on the table again in Indonesia.”
THAT’S RIGHT, WHEN YOU GO TO THE MOON, YOU GET TO NAME STUFF:
Amazing things are happening on Threads pic.twitter.com/Q0xqMYyJbm
— Natalia Antonova 🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@NataliaAntonova) April 14, 2026
According to her website, Halligan “has independently researched systems theory and the neurological basis for cycles of collapse, mapping how consciousness, trauma, and non-linear time affect human systems, identity, and the evolution of intelligence in form,” and now “writes, teaches, and consults on the evolution of intelligence and the design of future-conscious systems.”
But still can’t figure out how naming stuff works.
I DON’T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THIS: House Republican: ‘Rapists should be hung, period.’
Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) said Monday that “rapists should be hung” in the wake of Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) recently facing sexual assault allegations, but he insisted he wasn’t talking about the California Democrat.
“Rapists should be hung, period. No questions. And so — now I’m not — I don’t want the Secret Service to come, I’m not talking about Eric Swalwell, I’m not threatening a member of Congress,” Ogles told conservative influencer Benny Johnson on his show when asked about the allegations against Swalwell.
“But the point is, is we got to say enough is enough, we can’t allow this type of behavior,” he added.
The word Ogles left out is “public.”
Also, public hangings for rape and other high crimes might make a nifty alternative for those term limits we can never seem to get.
“DEMOCRACY” MEANS WHATEVER DEMOCRATS NEED IT TO MEAN:
ABSOLUTE CHAOS
With 4 minutes to midnight the Speaker RAMS the Voting Rights Act through with NO DEBATE from the Republicans who were all standing to be recognized!
This bill will give minorities in the state a right to sue their county if they don't like the outcome of their… pic.twitter.com/FE3EcZueHn
— Maryland Freedom Caucus (@MDFreedomCaucus) April 14, 2026
THE DARK NIGHT OF FASCISM IS ALWAYS DESCENDING IN TRUMP’S AMERICA AND YET LANDS ONLY IN BLUE STATES: California Democrats Find a Way to Shut Up Investigative Journalists and Cover for Illegal Aliens.
“AUTHORITARIAN” NOW MEANS “ANYONE AUTHORITARIAN LEFTIES DON’T LIKE”:
Viktor Orban didn’t cancel any elections and never arrested people for social media posts. He also stepped down after his election loss and is partaking in a peaceful transfer of power.
But, don’t forget, he was a dictator.
Keir Starmer attempted to cancel about 1,000 local…
— Joey Mannarino (@JoeyMannarino) April 14, 2026
More:
Oh, horseshit. Orban won four free elections in a row. He lost this one because the economy has been lousy for three years, & ppl wanted change. Fair play. It’s hard for globalists to understand, but it’s still democracy when ppl vote in ways you don’t like. https://t.co/J6Ljqp6Z38
— Rod Dreher (@roddreher) April 14, 2026
Poisoning the well is Obama’s specialty, always has been.
CONRAD BLACK: Trump Will Win the War With Iran.
There is not the slightest pretense of bipartisan support for the war effort and as the Democrats demanded peace they went on record proclaiming that Iran was not a threat to America, that the United States is losing the war, and had been dragged into a quagmire.
When the negotiations came, they denounced them. The negotiations did not last long. Iran’s failure to concede the verifiable and permanent elimination of its nuclear military program and the abandonment of funding for international terrorism, particularly on the borders of Israel, and end all pretense of controlling the Strait of Hormuz, means the war will be resumed and those goals will swiftly be achieved by the Americans and the Israelis.
At that point all the scaremongering of the Democrats as the “progressives” devour and intimidate whatever is left of moderate Democrats, will be exposed as a fraud. Congressman Ro Khanna’s demand for Mr. Trump’s removal because of mental incompetence and the disintegration of Congressman Eric Swalwell’s gubernatorial campaign because of his aggressive womanizing have lowered the farce of the California Democrats to hitherto unexcavated levels.
There is little that the voters of America like better than victory in a “splendid little war” at a low cost (Theodore Roosevelt on the Spanish-American War). This was the story of Presidents Polk in Mexico, McKinley in Cuba and the Philippines, and even, for a time, the Bushes in Iraq. In the aftermath of Iran’s refusal to concede the nuclear and terrorism issues, the United States and its allies will seize Kharg Island, close Iran as tightly by sea as it is by air, strangle it of the ability to support terrorism, and impose a permanent aerial arms embargo on nuclear military development; all at minimal cost to the United States and Israel in the lives of their servicemen.
Don’t get cocky.