CHRISTIAN TOTO: Goodbye, Stephen Colbert: The End of ‘Cheap Fakes’ Lie.
Late-night partisans like Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, Jon Stewart, John Oliver and Jimmy Fallon ignored Biden’s decline. Sure, they told their fair share of “Biden’s old” jokes, but that’s where it stopped.
He’s ancient but “sharp as a tack.”
Stephen Colbert of “The Late Show” fame was a huge part of that misinformation campaign. Until, one day, he had to tell the truth.
Finally. Why?
Read the whole thing.
CHANGE:
Breaking news: Harvard faculty votes to cap the number of A's awarded in course grades, a big step in combatting the grade inflation that has been dumbing down our courses, conveying the wrong message to students, and making universities a national laughingstock.
— Steven Pinker (@sapinker) May 20, 2026
THEY SHOULD BE ACCUSTOMED TO DISAPPOINTMENT BY NOW: ‘I Can’t Believe This Is the Field’ — California Dems Reel Over Mediocre Governor Candidates.
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Minnesota’s Gun Rights Battleground Moves From the Capitol to the Campaign Trail. “Rep. Stephenson admitted it — if DFL lawmakers win the majority, they intend to pass these bills into law in 2027. That means bans on commonly owned firearms, magazine restrictions and new burdens on lawful gun owners and firearm retailers are not hypothetical. They are already written and already waiting.”
SAME OLD, SAME OLD: The New York Times: What ‘Journalistic Standards?’
YOUR RACE CARD HAS EXPIRED:
Not surprisingly, Ohio Dem tries to imply @lukerosiak's fraud investigation is RACIST:
DEM: "For you to imply the racist information…You're implying that most of the fraud is happening in communities of color."
LR: "I'm not implying it. I'm stating it." 🔥 pic.twitter.com/eeY70xoi0h
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) May 19, 2026
NOVEMBER PREVIEW: Current polling shows Hilton and Becerra as top 2 in California governor race. “Under California law, the two highest vote getters in the June 2 primary, regardless of party affiliation, will go on to the Nov. 3 general election. The VOTER Index poll says that could be Hilton, a former Fox News host, and Becerra, a former California attorney general and congressman who served as secretary of health and human services during the Biden administration.”
IT’S A COLD ONE ON THE FRONT RANGE AND SO ARE NATURAL GAS PRICES: It’s a Hot One on the East Coast and So Are the Electricity Rates. “Nuclear domes and towers do not sprout like mushrooms, but those massive electric bills will feel like a thermal runaway in no time, with no cooldown in sight.”
RECYCLING: The Pentagon’s Next Critical Minerals Source Is Already in Its Own Warehouses. “A new generation of hydrometallurgical processing, including biosorption, can recover high-purity metals from end-of-life electronics at commercial scale without the footprint of a smelter. These facilities can be built in about 15 months for roughly $40 million each. They maintain full chain of custody from waste stream to refined metal. And the upstream supply chain already exists: some 900 certified e-waste recyclers operate across the country today. What’s missing is the domestic processing capacity to keep those metals here.”
CUBA FALLING: These Sanctions Are Getting Mighty Personal.
DON’T MESS WITH TEXAS: Abbott Seeks New Crime Fighting Tools. “Texas is a law-and-order state, but soft-on-crime Democrats are hellbent on undoing public order in blue cities, so Texas Governor Greg Abbott is asking for new tools to correct the errors of their ways.”
DIGITAL DECOUPLING:
🇨🇳 FT: "One more on data decoupling. Scoop: @MorganStanley issues China-only iPhones & iPads to HK bankers. Covers entire IBD of 300+ from junior to MD. Devices carry only work email & zoom. GS, JPM etc have yet to implement such policy".
Hong Kong has been legally Chinese… https://t.co/PQSzDA34j1 pic.twitter.com/4KK2kOxeLj
— The Tectonic (@thetect0nic) May 20, 2026
This one is a bit dry, but still important.
I’d say I was amazed that it took these firms so long to protect themselves from Beijing’s prying eyes, but I already spent the last three decades watching American firms give up their IP and trade secrets to the exact same Communists.
RECORD REVENUES, PERMANENT DEFICITS: I’m Sorry, but California Is HOW Deep in the Hole?
DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT TAKES TO OUST AN INCUMBENT DEMOCRAT BIG-CITY MAYOR?
Keisha bailed out on running for reelection as Atlanta mayor because she was despised by Atlantans for letting the city burn in 2020
She fled to a job in the Biden White House
The general election for GA Governor is going to be a reckoning for what she did to Atlanta https://t.co/jcxehFKx69
— Phil Holloway ✈️ (@PhilHollowayEsq) May 20, 2026
Keisha Lance Bottoms is Lori Lightfoot levels of awful, and thinks she deserves a promotion.
KEEP IT REAL: Lies, Toxins, and Engineered Ticks: The Menu No One Asked For.
While Gates and the WEF have been pushing fake food as the future, Harvard-trained psychiatrist and nutritional researcher Dr. Georgia Ede has spent twenty-five years documenting what happens to the human body—and brain—when we stop eating real meat. Her conclusion is unambiguous: “Meat is the only food that contains every nutrient we need in its proper form and is also the safest food for our blood sugar and insulin levels.” Vitamin B12, omega-3 fatty acids, zinc, choline, iron, iodine—these nutrients are either impossible or extremely difficult to obtain adequately from plants. And the mental health consequences of removing them are measurable. Studies cited in her work show vegetarians have a 35.2% chance of developing major depression compared to 19.1% in meat-eaters. A 2022 survey of 14,000 Brazilians found that vegans were twice as likely to suffer from depression—even when consuming equivalent nutrients from plant sources. A 2020 meta-analysis of 160,000 meat-eaters and 8,500 meat-avoiders showed that those who excluded meat were significantly more likely to suffer from depression.
We are being sold sickness as wellness.
Many people seem to have a natural revulsion to unnatural foods, which probably serves as a strong evolutionary protection against eating unhealthy things and also against Bill Gates.
THAT’S NOT MUCH OF A COALITION:
By the time Massie got to tonight, he’d ticked off the tax cut crowd, the gun crowd, the hard core Trumpers, evangelicals who love the Holy Land, & the GOP normies who think we shouldn’t vacate Speaker’s chair. All he had left were atheists, libertarian weirdos & never Trumpers.
— Brad Todd (@BradOnMessage) May 20, 2026
Related:
The whole point is that there's nothing to blow open. The last time that Massie read names on the House floor, he defamed four random civilians who had nothing to do with Epstein other than being in a random police lineup with him.
Massie was a fraud, a faker, and now he's done https://t.co/V4AN6wSnud
— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) May 20, 2026
This is how Massie chose to go out.
MORE MONEY: How China enables American domination.
Never has the gap in financial power between the world’s two largest economies been this wide. Follow the list of empires from the US down through Britain, France, the Netherlands and back to the 15th century. Usually, the emerging challenger built broad strengths from military to trade. China is typical in every way except finance. Unlike rival currencies past and present, the renminbi is far from fully convertible and has gained little traction as an international currency.
Normally after an empire gains economic might, its currency takes an increasing share of reserves held by central banks. With a 17 per cent share of global GDP, but only 2 per cent of central bank reserves, China is trailing 30 to 40 years behind previous superpowers at a similar stage of their ascents.
Likewise in trade, as an emerging power gains ground, the rest of the world accepts more payments in its currency — even if the new power is not directly involved in the transaction. Britain at its peak accounted for 40 per cent of trade, but 60 per cent of trade payments were in sterling. China by contrast has a leading 15 per cent share of global trade, but only 2 per cent of trade bills are invoiced in renminbi.
Much more at the link. But the TL;DR is that nobody trusts China — China is asshoe.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Republicans Finally Get Serious About Purging the Squishes. “Rude and dishonest is required behavior for Never Trump Republicans, so Massie will fit right in when he inevitably becomes a CNN or MS Now contributor.”
Kruiser beat me to the column I wanted to write this morning — and he did not waste the opportunity.
BIG RIGS: Tesla’s Newest Electric Vehicle Could Jolt the Trucking Industry.
Cost and range are two of the main reasons that many logistics and delivery firms have been reluctant to buy electric trucks, which cost at least twice as much as diesel models and account for only a sliver of heavy truck sales.
“The problem with the technology that’s out there right now is their range is limited. They’re quite heavy, and they’re very expensive,” said Jennie Abarca, owner of King Fio Trucking in Long Beach, Calif., which has ordered 20 Tesla Semis. “This is something new coming to the market that kind of answers all those problems.”
Demand for the Semi appears strong. California trucking firms have asked the state government for subsidies to help them buy more than 1,200 Tesla trucks. That’s more than all the applications for other electric trucks since the state’s incentive program began in 2019.
Ivan Torres, a driver for Nevoya, a San Francisco-based trucking company, is a big fan of the Semi. He was at the wheel of one last month hauling power tools from the Port of Long Beach to Ontario, Calif., 60 miles away. Nevoya operates only electric trucks.
As the truck climbed a steep hill that separates Ontario from greater Los Angeles, Mr. Torres marveled at its power. “It hauls the load like nothing, just up,” he said from the padded driver’s seat, which sits atop a shock absorber that smooths out the bumps. Screens on either side of the steering wheel provided a view of the traffic around him.
They sound great — so why should Sacramento pay trucking companies to buy them?
ASTROTURF ALL THE WAY DOWN:
A story in 4 parts. pic.twitter.com/3hnRxZr1ym
— Leftism (@LeftismForU) May 20, 2026
Don’t miss the highlighted text in that last panel, courtesy of X’s best new feature.
DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: A Very Bad Session for Second Amendment Rights (And This One Bright Spot).
SORE LOSER:
.@ScottJenningsKY doesn’t hold back on Thomas Massie’s way out the door: “Despicable, anti-Semitic, nasty, gutter politics… it needs to be condemned.”
President Trump didn’t just beat Thomas Massie.
He made an example out of him.
Then Massie ends his career with this line… pic.twitter.com/lNmUo4tZAN
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) May 20, 2026
“Then Massie ends his career with this line about Ed Gallrein: ‘I had to find him in Tel Aviv.'”
For Luther, the real dynamic behind the recent spike couldn’t be more basic: The overall dollars America’s paying for goods and services is rising a lot faster than the quantities of cars, appliances, or hotel rooms we’re producing and supplying. “There’s a grain of truth in the tariffs and oil price argument,” he says. “But those price increases mainly take money away from what’s spent on other things, and don’t have a major impact on overall inflation. The fundamental problem is that more money is chasing the same number of goods. We have an aggregate demand issue, not a supply disruption issue.”
Luther explains that “aggregate demand” or “total spending” comprises all domestic expenditures by consumers, government, and businesses for everything from plants to inventories. So where is all this excess money coming from? A major source is a ramp in government spending: the CBO forecasts that federal outlays will rise a lofty 6% in FY 2026 (ended in September). An obvious contributor, also cited by Powell, is the king’s ransom being lavished on AI data centers, projected to reach almost $1 trillion this year, multiples of the number three years ago. To boot, consumers—especially the well-to-do—continue to spend big time on everything from dining out to health and wellness. The “wealth effect” from a stock market led by an S&P that’s gained 28% in the past year also likely emboldens folks to reach deeper into their wallets.
The main culprits remain in Washington, where they print whatever money they require to cover their spending addiction.
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