Author Archive: Stephen Green
July 21, 2025
DON’T GET COCKY, BUT DO ENJOY THESE NUMBERS:
Cash on hand as of June 30:
Republican National Committee: $80.8 million
Democratic National Committee: $15.2 million
— Teddy Schleifer (@teddyschleifer) July 21, 2025
VOTING WITH THEIR FEET: Billionaire In-N-Out heiress Lynsi Snyder and family leaving California for Tennessee.
“We’re building an office in Franklin [Tennessee,] so I’m actually moving out there,” Snyder said on an episode of the podcast Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey that aired on Friday, per Fox 11.
“There’s a lot of great things about California, but raising a family is not easy here,” Snyder said. “Doing business is not easy here now.”
Last year, the company closed a location in Oakland that had been operating for 18 years, citing crime issues that impacted customers and employees. It was the only location to have closed in its 77-year history. It currently operates more than 400 locations.
“I mean, there was a lot,” Lynsi Snyder told the PragerU video network in December, SFGate reported. “There was actually — gunshots went through the store, there was a stabbing, there was a lot.”
“For the safety of our associates, we just felt like, this is not OK,” she added.
It really isn’t.
IT’S TIME FOR SOMETHING MORE SERIOUS THAN CUTE SOCIAL MEDIA SHARES: Trump Shared Hysterical AI Video of Obama in Jail But I’m Not Laughing.
I’M NOT SAYING THAT EVERYTHING ABOUT LEFTISM COMES DOWN TO EUGENICS, BUT PRETTY MUCH EVERYTHING ABOUT LEFTISM COMES DOWN TO EUGENICS:
The Left is working very hard to normalize their final position: existence itself is bad https://t.co/j8Q4U8tBcJ
— Sulla (@gaulicsmith) July 20, 2025
It isn’t all bad, of course. People who hate people taking themselves out of the gene pool is likely a net benefit to the gene pool.
THEY COULD DO WORSE — AND PROBABLY WILL: Will the 2028 Democratic nominee be ‘none of the above’?
In a recent poll from a company called Echelon Insights — which describes itself as “erasing old industry lines that separate the process of conducting research from the tools to act on it” — Harris was leading the Democratic field with 26 percent of the primary vote, followed by Buttigieg at 11 percent, Newsom at 10 percent, Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) at 7 percent and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) at 6 percent.
I have spoken with numerous Democrats in or around the business of politics over the last few months. Not one believes that Harris will — or should be — the nominee. Similarly, none believe the other four names topping the poll will be the standard-bearer come November 2028.
As has been stated many times in the past, a good lawyer can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich. The same holds true for polling. Depending on where you poll and how you shade the questions, a poll can bolster the views and desires of one partisan entity over the other, be they Democrats or Republicans.
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Not only has the party not done so, but it has doubled and tripled down on “woke” and “DEI” rhetoric while still loudly pushing its main “policy” plank from 2024: “We hate Trump.”
The ’28 Dem primaries promise to be a wild ride, but the most fun might be watching party elders try to rig the process for their version of a winning candidate.
SCOTT PINSKER: The Scariest, Creepiest, DARKEST Theory About Jeffrey Epstein Has NOTHING to Do With Blackmail. “What if Epstein’s actions have absolutely nothing to do with blackmail or espionage — and he was simply a sick, twisted monster who hurt little girls for the fun of it?”
DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: CA bill would fine stores for theft of their shopping carts.
The California Senate and now a key Assembly committee have passed a bill that would allow cities to charge businesses up to $650 for returning shopping carts stolen from them.
The measure, Senate Bill 753, was introduced at the urging of the city of San Jose, which faces major homelessness and budget crises.
“[San Jose] Mayor Mahan has a homelessness problem and a budget problem, and his solution to solve both of those is to charge retailers more to get their stolen property back,” said Daniel Conway of the California Grocers Association at the California Assembly Local Government Committee hearing that advanced the bill. “Our property is being stolen and taken offsite.”
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“This is happening because people are taking the shopping carts off the property, and I do not think it is fair to allow the city to impose something without giving them the opportunity to retrieve what is stolen property.”
Taxes, fees, and penalties will continue to increase until morale improves.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: GOP Finally Gets the Importance of Nuking Teachers’ Unions. “The leftist indoctrination of American school children (which I wrote about in ‘Don’t Let the Hippies Shower’) is at the root of most of the ills that plague this country. Sexy or not, it is the issue that should get the most attention. You don’t get a Kamala Harris within sniffing distance of the presidency without a sufficiently brainwashed electorate.”
SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE IS ENJOYING A SPA DAY:
NEW 🔴
U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent says China is a major buyer of oil from both sanctioned Russia and Iran. pic.twitter.com/w0ziKU8v5U
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) July 21, 2025
“GIVE ME FOUR YEARS TO TEACH THE CHILDREN AND THE SEED I HAVE SOWN WILL NEVER BE UPROOTED”: A Tale of Two Experiments.
In 1973, 221 fifth-grade students in Pirkkala, Finland, became part of a quiet experiment. Their curriculum was rewritten to reflect Marxist-Leninist ideology. Capitalism was depicted as oppression, the Soviet Union as a moral compass, and the free market as a source of inequality.
Researchers compared them to a control group of students who received standard education. They tracked these individuals over decades, analyzing data on taxable income, months worked, job choices, educational attainment, and cognitive ability.
The study found that the students exposed to the special curriculum earned roughly 10% less as adults. This wasn’t due to differences in education or intelligence, but because they made different career choices: public-sector jobs, artistic paths, and professions that aligned with values they had been taught early on—solidarity over self-interest, ideology over income.
A similar pattern emerges from Poland, where a 1954 nationwide reform quietly removed political indoctrination from school curricula. Researchers Costa-Font, García-Hombrados, and Nicińska studied what happened next. Their natural experiment exploited school enrollment cut-off dates to compare students just slightly more or less exposed to the old Stalinist education. This included removing content explicitly praising the importance of obedience to the Soviet regime and adherence to Marxist-Leninist values, along with Stalin-themed recitation competitions.
Students who experienced one fewer year of Marxist-Leninist schooling were more likely to complete high school and college. Decades later, they were also more likely to be employed. When you stop rewarding obedience and start rewarding merit, students begin to believe that their choices matter. Ambition wakes up.
Both studies underscore a basic truth: early education fills students with information and perspectives that shape their values. School is one of the first places where we learn what kind of person is admired. Who the heroes are. What the system rewards.
Read the whole thing.
DAVID MANNEY: The Anniversary They Want You to Forget: TWA Flight 800 and the Deep State’s Deadliest Lie. “The people who peddled Russiagate, the Hunter laptop hoax, and the now-laughable myth of President Joe Biden’s cognitive abilities are the same types of bureaucrats who sterilized the truth in 1996 to protect their golden boy: President Bill Clinton.”
An off-duty US Customs and Border Protection officer was shot in the face after being robbed by a moped-riding illegal immigrant in a New York City park — but he shot back and wounded his attacker, according to sources.
The suspect has been identified as Miguel Francisco Mora Nunez, a 21-year-old Dominican national with a lengthy rap sheet in New York according to sources — but he was let go each time he was busted, despite having a deportation order.
Mora entered the US illegally via the southern border under the Biden admin, the Department of Homeland Security said Sunday.
The 42-year-old federal agent and a female companion were sitting on a rock along the Hudson River in Fort Washington Park in Manhattan when they were ambushed by the two men on a moped around 11:50 p.m., according to police sources.
Had he been doxxed?
JUST HERE TO DO THE BEHEADINGS AMERICANS WON’T DO: ICE Catches Illegal Accused of Beheading Victim.
July 19, 2025
TIMES CHANGE:
Whenever a news headline says "Far-right protesters", you can usually interpret that as "Good, hard working people who want their country back".
— Kobie Thatcher (@KobieThatcher) July 18, 2025
Previously, from P.J. O’Rourke’s Parliament of Whores:
Not long after Andy [Ferguson] and I met, we were driving down Pennsylvania Avenue and encountered some or another noisy pinko demonstration.
“How come,” I asked Andy, “whenever something upsets the Left, you see immediate marches and parades and rallies with signs already printed and rhyming slogans already composed, whereas whenever something upsets the Right, you see two members of the Young Americans for Freedom waving a six-inch American flag?”
“We have jobs,” said Andy.
We still have jobs, but the Left finally pushed normies into activism. They had thought that was exclusively their turf.
ACCOUNTABILITY IS MANDATORY:
Thanks to explosive new document releases, the Russiagate hoax is now exposed, commencing a new era that will be about accountability for the guilty
https://t.co/xF9MyfmTq1— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) July 18, 2025
More:
This corruption in this story dwarfs the worst Trump scandals. It’s unprecedented. It’s now in writing that the whole Trump-Russia thing was invented. But feel free to think it’s still a Fox fantasy. https://t.co/jICihVzV6P
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) July 19, 2025
July 18, 2025
LEAVE THEM KIDS ALONE:
Migrant punches a man holding a baby at a London underground station, baby falling to the floor.
The English team up and take him down.
The country has had more than enough of this shit!
pic.twitter.com/0aWk5cjRn9— Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 (@TRobinsonNewEra) July 18, 2025
(The original URL was to a community note and doesn’t automatically expand. This is to the original tweet now. — Charlie)
GRIFTING WILL WAIT: CA Bill creating LA fire rebuilding agency on hold over backlash.
A controversial California bill that would have created a powerful “Resilient Rebuilding Authority” for the Los Angeles fires was put on temporary hold by state Sen. Ben Allen, D-Santa Monica, in response to widespread community concerns.
“I appreciate the input of the folks who have weighed in about the bill, and along with legislative colleagues have decided that it would be best for us to pause the bill until next year to give us more time to see if we can get it right,” said Allen in a statement on SB 549.
At the Assembly Local Government Committee hearing on Wednesday night, Allen conceded the bill’s lack of clear path for community input into the RRA’s decision making, while hinting at future changes to the legislation in 2026.
“I’m not looking to jam this down people’s throats,” said Allen. “On the community input question, it doesn’t cut out community input. It just doesn’t specify one path or another, so we’re going to have to build significant community input into the governance structure in order for this to pass the smell test with the locals.”
Translation: Dems got caught with their hand so deep in the cookie jar that even the locals noticed
IT’S TIME FOR VICTORIA TAFT’S West Coast, Messed Coast™: Outraged Victims Stop Dems’ Palisades Land Grab at the Point of a Fire Hose. “Between the bizarre woke politicians, woke universities, and woke saboteurs, however, there was winning.”
SUSTAINABILITY: America’s Debt Situation Will Soon Be Worse Than Right After World War II.
The difference between then and now is, now there’s no end in sight.
WAIT, WUT? Woman Who Helped Kamala Harris Demonize Brett Kavanaugh Now Works for Trump at DOD. “Samantha Goldstein, who gave more than $19,000 to Democrats in the past three years and called Trump ‘unfit to hold office,’ nonetheless works as an associate deputy general counsel in the DOD under him. She previously served as a special counsel for Harris in 2018.”
FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: He Did WHAT With His Prized Lamborghini? “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week, we’ll learn what not to do in the Dollar General arts and crafts aisle, why the chicken shouldn’t cross the road, and when France Man has had enough of that Palestine stuff.”
WELL, WHEN YOU PUT IT LIKE THAT…:
"Stephen Colbert's legacy will be this…
"He was a gerbil of a man, an establishment shill, a toadie to big government, a follower instead of a trailblazer, a self-involved statist, a moral coward in the face of Woke McCarthyism, and a divisive, self-regarding loser who killed…
— John Ocasio-Rodham Nolte (@NolteNC) July 18, 2025
Full text:
“Stephen Colbert’s legacy will be this…
“He was a gerbil of a man, an establishment shill, a toadie to big government, a follower instead of a trailblazer, a self-involved statist, a moral coward in the face of Woke McCarthyism, and a divisive, self-regarding loser who killed an entire late-night franchise because he sought applause from those who agreed with him instead of laughs from the rest of us.
“Most unforgivably, he sought only the approval of elites because he saw himself as too superior to entertain the rest of us.
“In short, Stephen Colbert will be remembered as a dick.”
Assuming he’s remembered at all.