THEN THEY SHOOT THEMSELVES ANYWAY:
"If you don't give trans people hormones, they'll shoot themselves!"
Well, if you do give them hormones, they'll shoot young Christian children
— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) August 27, 2025
Author Archive: Stephen Green
August 27, 2025
SAY ANYTHING: Dank Gavin Just Declared Victory Over Cracker Barrel. “Whether or not Trump eats at Cracker Barrel, you know a major MAGA contingent does — and Trump’s post spoke to them, even though (obviously) Masino had her about-face ready to go first. If there’s a major Cracker Barrel contingent among Newsom voters, I’ll eat both the cracker and the barrel.”
“MY STUPID PEOPLE DON’T KNOW WHAT’S BEST FOR THEM” WOULD BE QUITE THE TAKE, IF IT WEREN’T SO COMMON: Luis Guzmán: Latino Trump Voters Are ‘Ignorant.’
VICTORIA TAFT: Smell Yourselves Lefties: Loon Attacks Couple Wearing MAGA Hats. Then She Turns Around and Wow. “It was the moment that lefties, if they have any introspective tendencies, should consider the moment when the mirror was held up and everyone saw the ugliness. And hatred. Yes, plenty of hatred. And lunacy. Plenty of that, too. “
DAN ZIMMERMAN: The Time is Now: This May Be Our Last Chance to Finally Dismantle ATF. “For decades, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has stood as one of the most tyrannical agencies in Washington, with a long history of abusing its power against the American people. From Waco to the murder of Bryan Malinowski in Arkansas last year, the ATF’s record is littered with tragedy, government overreach, and open hostility toward law-abiding gun owners.”
DISPATCHES FROM AIRSTRIP ONE: The New Face of British Resistance Is Just 14 Years Old. “Culturally, things are so crazy that the BBC didn’t just blur out our heroine’s face, they even blurred out her blades. And now you understand the screencap at the top of this column. Mustn’t ruffle any feathers, you see.”
KEYSTONE COPS, WEST COAST EDITION:
San Francisco police have a robbery suspect from Los Angeles pinned down, until they don’t… https://t.co/zcZnsGDiOF
— Kevin Dalton (@TheKevinDalton) August 26, 2025
You couldn’t put that in a movie because nobody would believe it.
JON CALDARA: Consolidation of radio a cautionary tale for local TV news.
We’ve seen this type of conglomeration here before, in radio, and it’s served no one well, including, ironically, the companies that did it.
Before 1996, the Federal Communication Commission’s rules usually allowed only two radio stations to be owned by one entity in any one media market, an AM and FM station. It made for the “WKRP in Cincinnati” period of radio — local, often independently owned, stations with a variety of styles and personalities. In other words, lots of choice for listeners.
It also gave birth to the heyday of local talk radio, arguably the most potent force for limited government news and views we’ve ever had. It’s what drew me to work in talk radio for nearly 27 years now.
In Colorado, we had local giants like Mike Rosen and Peter Boyles who would dive into local politics and bring out stories and opinions the newspapers and TV stations wouldn’t touch. They kept the mainstream media honest
Talk radio was a political force. Those days are gone.
The FCC changed their rules so one company could own up to eight radio stations in any market. It started a buying spree. Companies went into debt to buy as many stations as they could as fast as they could.
The plan was to centralize the operations of the radio stations; thus, saving a lot of money by taking meat cleavers to the local stations.
Why have a newsroom crew serving only one station when you could have that one newsroom serve eight radio stations? Lay off all the other newsrooms’ employees, and there’s your profit.
If you’ve ever heard the same voice on different radio stations report the same news item, it’s because they record the story once and send it out to eight “sister” stations. No option of hearing how up to seven other stations might have covered that story differently.
If you’ve ever heard a radio traffic reporter mispronounce a common Colorado street or city name, it’s because they’re not in Colorado. They’re in another studio in a different state reading off some computer screen; then the guy does the same for the next city.
Fallout for local news
But the biggest damage done was the death of local news coverage and talk shows. Oh, yes, they’re still around, but they are not nearly the influencers and power brokers they once were.
Less local news/talk means less local accountability.
MINNEAPOLIS UPDATE:
Nearly an hour later, credible journalists (including @karol) have ID'd the Minneapolis shooter as Robert Paul "Robin" Westman, whose motives are known. @ABCNewsLive continues to play dumb.https://t.co/eXaO9ZkG5R
— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) August 27, 2025
And for as long as X allows it, here’s the shooter’s video manifesto.
BREAKING 🚨🚨 🚨
WARNING HIGHLY DISTURBING
This is an 11 minute video posted by the psychotic school shooter today in Minneapolis. It was posted 2 hours ago on a YouTube channel named Robin W.
In it he shows a manifesto and an arsenal of guns with writing on them while… pic.twitter.com/w5VNufJWXL
— Champagne Joshi (@JoshWalkos) August 27, 2025
Joshi isn’t exaggerating — it is disturbing.
Between the “Kill Trump” stuff and his “I’m a girl!” hairdo, it’s an easy guess the shooter isn’t exactly MAGA.
AND WHY WOULD ISRAEL LET THEM IN?
WSJ: Egypt is training 10,000 Palestinian forces at its military academies to secure postwar Gaza, drawing exclusively from West Bank PLA/Fatah ranks, Hamas’ main rivals. pic.twitter.com/wdSIhTeMAa
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) August 27, 2025
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: It’s Official: Bill Gates Now Contains 2 Percent Less Bond Villain. “That’s because of who Gates just cut off from his charitable foundation’s metric crap-tons of money.”
CALIFORNIA FAILIN’:
For a bit of perspective, 62 Amish dudes in Pennsylvania did in 48 hours what Gavin Newsom couldn’t do in 2 years.
Oh yeah, and they did it at 4% of the cost https://t.co/2jLYv7fqwj pic.twitter.com/uAY1umWO1B
— Kevin Dalton (@TheKevinDalton) August 26, 2025
The Amish came to work, not to grift.
I KEEP TELLING PEOPLE NOT TO COUNT OUT THE DEMOCRATS…
Overall turnout was 1/3rd of November for this district. Much worse for local GOP. Yikes.
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) August 27, 2025
…because their voters are angry, they are energized, and they keep scoring wins whenever Trump isn’t on the ticket.
LANGUAGE RULES FOR CRAZY PEOPLE: Columbia Law School Tells Students To Avoid Offensive Terms Like ‘Crazy Uncle’ and ‘Grandfathering.’ “The session, audio of which was obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, came in the wake of the Trump administration’s deal with Columbia University, which pledged to mandate anti-Semitism training for all students and faculty. Though a Columbia official said that the training was not intended to meet that obligation, it appears to have been crafted with the deal in mind.”
BIDEN APPOINTEES OFTEN SEEMED TO HAVE ONE THING IN COMMON: ENTITLEMENT.
2021: Dallas Fed president Kaplan busted for suspicious stock trades, resigns
2021: Boston Fed president Rosengren busted for suspicious stock trades, resigns
2022: Fed vice chair Richard Clarida busted for suspicious trades, resigns
2025: Lisa Cook vows to stay on
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) August 26, 2025
OUR BROKEN IMMIGRATION SYSTEM, EXHIBIT #1,000,006:
An indian Walmart VP was making $30,000 a day in illegal kickbacks by discriminating against American applicants in favor of indian h1b applicants who were paying him the kickbacks for hiring them. https://t.co/pBVXIjvfDm pic.twitter.com/FDHLafxrK7
— Aesthetica (@Anc_Aesthetics) August 25, 2025
Related:
Funny story:
Ever click the button to cancel your order in Walmart, but it didn't work and you got the item anyway?Well one Indian engineering team programmed that button, and another Indian engineering team forgot link APIs to make that button work for third party orders.
— Mark Mitchell, Rasmussen Reports (@honestpollster) August 25, 2025
Full text:
So every time that button got clicked, for every marketplace order, the seller was never informed the customer didn’t want the item anymore.
Hundreds of thousands of people, for years, clicked that button thinking their order would get cancelled, but then they got the order anyway And had to bring it to UPS.
I was the first to discover this, among many other things, And both engineering teams didn’t want to fix it because their bosses didn’t want marketplace revenue to seem lower, even though most of these items would be returns.
I just had my team run a query and cancel these orders everyday to fix the issue within days. I could never get anyone to sign off on it, so I just did it.
I assume that the long-term fix has been sitting on some Indian engineering team’s road map for years at this point.
We uncovered dozens of major issues like this that Indian engineering teams were sweeping under the rug.
It’s weird how corrupt hiring practices and corrupt business practices seem to go hand-in-hand.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Wearisome Dem Tough Bros Would Soil Themselves in a Faceoff With Trump. “Yesterday, we saw doughy Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker put down his sandwich long enough to tell Trump not to come to Chicago to slow down the murders. He held the press conference in front of a Trump building, which someone told him would be cool. It wasn’t. And Trump, being the President of the United States and everything, will go wherever he damn well pleases in this country.”
BEGUN, THE OIL WARS HAVE: Russia raises August oil export plan after drone strikes disrupt refineries, sources say.
Russia has revised up its crude oil export plan from western ports by 200,000 barrels per day (bpd) in August from the initial schedule after Ukrainian drone attacks disrupted refinery operations and freed up more crude for shipment, three people familiar with the matter said.
Export planning remains uncertain, however, due to ongoing strikes and shifting repair schedules, so delays and volume revisions are likely, they said.
“Attacks are ongoing and repair deadlines change daily. It’s unclear how much Russia can load this month or next,” one person said.
Russian oil sellers were yet to receive final loading plans for September, though normally they have the full plan a week before the loading month.
Russia’s Energy Ministry and Transneft oil pipeline monopoly did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
They’re probably a bit preoccupied at the moment.
Meanwhile: Ukraine’s Attacks Are Forcing Russia to Ration Its Fuel. “The intensifying Ukrainian drone campaign against Russian refineries has taken some 13% of Russia’s fuel production offline, according to analysts. Sanctions imposed by the West after the 2022 invasion, meanwhile, have limited Moscow’s ability to repair infrastructure and service remaining installations.”
The Reuters estimate is 17%, but who know which is correct — if either.
THE NEXT GENERATION OF AMERICANS IS COMING ALONG JUST FINE:
Every zoomer I know wants to run guns to the English and Scotts. It brings a tear to this old Irish boi's eyes. Because we Irish Yanks pioneered that skillset 50 years ago.
— Ælþ (@Aelthemplaer) August 26, 2025