IGNORE THE STATIC AND VOTE AS THOUGH YOUR LIFE, LIBERTY, AND PROPERTY DEPEND UPON IT: The Left’s Choreographed ‘Lifelong Republican’ Demoralization Campaign Is Underway.
Author Archive: Stephen Green
October 16, 2026
CDR SALAMANDER: America’s Maritime Moment Will Not Wait.
I came to London last week for APEX Europe, a thought and defense tech conference where defense leaders from across NATO are talking about the approaches, capabilities and investments that will shape future security. Those conversations felt more urgent after spending time in Greenwich. The museums made clear that maritime strength is about much more than ships. It depends on industrial capacity, technological imagination, national will and the willingness to act before a crisis makes action unavoidable.
That raises a difficult question for the United States: Are we making the decisions today that will preserve American maritime power tomorrow?
I’ll acknowledge something up front. I know I can sound like a broken record on this subject: act now, make hard choices, invest in the industrial base, embrace new technology, take care of our sailors and save our Navy.
But it’s hard not to keep saying it.
I can’t read another story about shipbuilding, listen to another speech about maritime strategy or visit another American or allied naval museum without reaching the same conclusion:
This is our moment.
For the United States Navy. For the maritime services. And for the nation.
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AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:
'Ugh I Can't Believe Men Are Looking At Me At The Gym,' Says Woman Who Went To The Gym Specifically So Men Would Look At Her https://t.co/gFcXAGIAkM
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) October 16, 2026
IT’S TIME FOR VICTORIA TAFT’S West Coast, Messed Coast™: Let’s Hear It for an Oregon Good Guy With a Gun. “This week we hear the tale of two males: one who stepped up to kill a bad guy to save lives, and another who used his power to kill spirits. The world is reminded that an El Niño is a real thing and Rob Bonta still hasn’t read the Constitution. There’s more. LET’S GO!”
ROCKET REPORT: Stoke ships second stage for testing.
The reusable upper stage for Stoke Space’s Nova rocket has left the company’s factory in Kent, Washington, for what would be the last time, Stoke wrote on X this week. Now at Stoke’s test facility in Moses Lake, the second stage will undergo cryo-proof testing and a hotfire campaign with its Andromeda engine. The milestone follows the completion of “proto-qualification” testing on Nova’s first stage earlier this year. Nova’s booster section is a rather conventional reusable first stage, but the upper stage is what sets the rocket apart. Stoke designed Nova for full reusability, with the upper stage protected by a regeneratively cooled heat shield and powered by a ring of 24 thrusters, an engine collectively named Andromeda.
Next stop, Cape Canaveral … The upcoming tests at Moses Lake will be a linchpin for Stoke’s ambition to launch the Nova rocket next year. If all goes according to plan, Stoke will ship the reusable rocket stage to Cape Canaveral, Florida, where it will meet the other elements of the rocket for final launch preparations. The medium-lift Nova is the only fully reusable Western rocket other than SpaceX’s Starship in an advanced stage of development.
Godspeed…
WHAT DID AOC EVER BUILD?
🚨 AOC gets roasted in a brutal new meme as Tesla's flying Roadster soars right past her. The internet showed no mercy on this one. Somewhere, the Green New Deal just got lapped. pic.twitter.com/qE5bkNFKrW
— Next News Network (@nextnews) October 16, 2026
KRUISER: Now More Than Ever, the Survival of the Constitution Is on the Ballot. “Back in my ‘the Constitution can handle anything days,’ it wasn’t under relentless assault from the Democratic Party. There were attacks, to be sure, but they came from the radical fringe of the party. Here in the Year of Our Lord 2026, those in the mainstream Democratic Party establishment are so far left that they make the 20th century Dem radicals look like moderate Republicans.”
SETTLER-COLONIALISM, STRAIGHT UP:
Oregon politician Nafisa Fai just held a rally in MN, speaking Somali, with an American flag UPSIDE DOWN.
Enough with the pretending already.
These are not Americans. pic.twitter.com/UwBbhxOn1h
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) October 15, 2026
HMM: North Koreans Abuse ‘Work At Home’ Privileges. “Federal agents searched more than 40 Texas residences as part of an investigation into a North Korean cyber scheme that allowed foreign operatives to obtain remote jobs with American companies and generate revenue for the regime’s weapons program.”
THEY ARE NOT THE SAME:
liz warren: we’re gonna stop the mayonnaise company from buying a hot sauce company
elon musk: pic.twitter.com/DKI93YlBKq
— Mike Solana (@micsolana) October 16, 2026
Flying car on a life-size Hot Wheels track?
“Why not?” Musk asked.
TIM O’BRIEN: Compassionate Socialism? It’s Time to Have a Sit-Down With That Young Socialist You Know. “Normally, a single magazine cover is nothing to get overly concerned about, but the White House is rightly taking this very seriously, because this is about more than one magazine cover. That cover is a leading indicator that Americans are taking the threat of socialism too lightly.”
THE TROLL IS STRONG IN THIS ONE:
Top tier geopolitical troll https://t.co/ikmsYacKlW
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) October 15, 2026
Was he trolling or just speaking a difficult truth?
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Neutron’s first launch slips again amid trouble with carbon composites.
Engineers discovered voids, or air pockets, between layers of carbon fiber that make up the domes’ composite structure. Carbon composite manufacturing involves laying down carbon fiber layers in a mold, then curing, or heating, the material to bind the fibers together. But this is a tricky process, especially for large structures that won’t fit into an autoclave, a high-pressure thermal curing chamber common in modern aerospace factories.
The Neutron rocket’s first stage is the “largest pressurized structure ever made out of carbon composite,” Beck said. “Because of its scale, we’ve had to develop new out-of-autoclave processes to build Neutron, and this includes custom cure cycles for the very large pieces, like the forward and aft domes for the propellant tanks on Stage One.”
Space is hard, even when you don’t have to invent all-new manufacturing techniques.
SO WHAT WAS THE MONEY REALLY FOR, AND WHO GOT THEIR BEAKS WET? How Dumb Is Canada? Carney Spent Nearly $1 Million for Gaza Elections That Were Never Happening.
IT’S DIFFICULT TO REMEMBER SHE WAS FUNNY ONCE:
Resurfaced clip of Kathy Griffin in 2004 talking about muslims
"It's such a wonderful culture for women, unless you have a clitoris and you're 13… the muslims are not your friend"
I guess this is before TDS took over pic.twitter.com/zuznLE7XNs
— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) October 15, 2026
C’MON, MICHIGAN: Meet Abdul El-Sayed’s Academic ‘Inspiration’: A Muslim Brotherhood Scion Barred From Entering US Over Terror Ties. “The Democratic Senate hopeful told the SenseSustainability podcast in a 2011 interview that he draws inspiration from Tariq Ramadan, the grandson of the Muslim Brotherhood founder al-Banna, the extremist Egyptian imam. Ramadan is the son of Said Ramadan, who was married to al-Banna’s daughter and emerged as a top Brotherhood leader in the wake of al-Banna’s death.”
“F*** YOU, PAY ME,” THEY EXPLAINED:
Insane https://t.co/UD3WINUDx2
— Charlotte Gill (@CharlotteCGill) October 15, 2026
“Ministers plan ‘YouTube tax’ by extending licence fee to online platforms such as Netflix, Disney+ and Amazon – with new revenue used to boost journalism and tackle misinformation.”
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: El-Sayed Goes Full Talarico. Never Go Full Talarico. “Both have legitimate shots at winning, largely due to the fact that the MSM has given their problematic backgrounds and campaigns a generous glossing over. In order to successfully run for office, Talarico and El-Sayed have had to run from who they really are.”
MAYBE HITLER WAS TRANS:
Imagine being in a coma for the past 20 years and waking up to read this headline. https://t.co/DqTULaRsHf
— Christina Pushaw 🐊 🇺🇸 (@ChristinaPushaw) October 15, 2026
FUNNY HOW THAT KEEPS HAPPENING: The ‘Nonissue’ Of Noncitizens Voting Is Becoming A Bigger Issue.
New Jersey’s messy voter rolls scream for voter identification, according to the vast majority of Garden State residents. A Rutgers-Eagleton poll released on Tuesday finds more than four in five respondents support or strongly support requiring photo identification to vote in person and documentary proof of citizenship to register.
The results mirror national sentiments.
But Democratic Party politicians stridently stand against the will of the people. And RINOs in the U.S. Senate refuse to fight for the SAVE America Act, which would require documentary proof of citizenship to register and vote in U.S elections.
While Democrats keep pushing the talking point that noncitizens rarely show up on voter rolls, a Reuters review last month found states have added more than 30,000 noncitizens to their registration databases since 2000. Election integrity advocates say that’s an extremely conservative estimate.
The only reason I can think of for elected officials to tolerate election fraud is because they benefit from election fraud.
I LOVE COMMUNITY NOTES:
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ADDICT BEHAVIOR: The Federal Government Collected $5.4 Trillion. It Still Can’t Pay Its Bills.
The usual response to a deficit warning is that the government just needs more money. It doesn’t. Thanks to the remarkable strength of the private sector, federal revenue rose by 3 percent, to more than $5.4 trillion, over the fiscal year. But spending rose by 6 percent, reaching $7.4 trillion.
Some will blame the Supreme Court for striking down most of President Donald Trump’s tariffs and forcing the government to issue refunds. But even if Washington had kept the $130 billion in illegal levies, it would cover less than one-tenth of the gap. Tariffs were never a serious revenue source at our insanely high level of spending.
Look at where the money went. Spending on the three main entitlement programs—Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid—grew by 7 percent. That’s faster than total spending growth. Defense grew by 5 percent. Interest on the debt rose by 11 percent, exceeding $1.1 trillion.
Say it with me one more time: We have a spending problem, not a revenue problem.
CHUTZPAH:
…or not https://t.co/Uyq13QmNeQ pic.twitter.com/sUJtcIwLSV
— Hammy ✈🇺🇲🇮🇱 (@e2pilot) October 15, 2026
And at least Politico went with “Republican fodder” instead of the even more shopworn “Republicans pounce.”
HMM: Is Iran Planning an Attack to Bring Down Netanyahu? “That’s the assessment of Brigadier General (Ret.) Amir Avivi, the founder and CEO of the Israel Defense and Security Forum (IDSF). Avivi noted on October 14 that Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir recently canceled a planned trip to the United States because of a heightened alert level, and that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), Mossad, and Shin Bet are on full readiness. High-ranking officers in the General Staff and Northern Command have told Avivi that there is evidence that Iran and other enemies of Israel want to interfere in the election, specifically to bring down Prime Minister Netanyahu’s government.”