FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: The Great Train Hijacking. “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week, we’ll learn how to hijack a train, how not to hitchhike with UPS, and the surprising way a freezer can be used as a weapon.”
Author Archive: Stephen Green
July 11, 2025
HIS PATIENCE DOES SEEM TO BE WEARING THIN:
[Q]: Mr. President, Russian drones hit a maternity hospital in Ukraine overnight.
"You'll be seeing things happening," Trump's remark on Russian drone attacks in Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/CddyloRcnJ
— Polymarket Intel (@PolymarketIntel) July 11, 2025
PRIORITIES: You Can Get a Job in This Senator’s Office, Unless… “This is a perfect opportunity for a young person who is interested in politics to gain valuable experience and insight into the inner workings of our political process, so apply now! — unless, of course, you’re of the wrong race, gender, or sexual orientation.”
HE SEEMS NICE: Minnesota HR director now on leave after saying ‘white folk’ are ‘morally bankrupt’ and ‘liars.’ “Minnesota Pollution Control Agency HR Director Vonnie Phillips then called an Alpha News reporter a ‘f-cking rotten b-tch’ from his official state email.”
THEY’VE BEEN ANGRY ABOUT THIS SINCE 1865, AT LEAST:
Weird how @CAgovernor @GavinNewsom tolerated minor slave labor on pot farms then got angry because @realDonaldTrump freed the enslaved children.
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) July 11, 2025
RELIGION OF PEACE UPDATE: Hamas Co-Founder’s Son Warns That Muslims Will Make Europe ‘Rubble.’
KRUISER: Dems’ Perverse Deification of Government on Full Display After Texas Floods. “There are religious and faithful Democrats out there, they just aren’t running the party. That’s pretty much the recurring theme for all that ails the Dems. The party elites are not just out of touch with Dems in flyover country, they tend to be out of touch with reality.”
COLORADO: ‘Persons of color’ postpartum training off limits to white therapists.
In the email, sent to its members in late June, the CPA said it was proud to host two training courses as part of Postpartum Support International. According to its website, CPA “advances the profession of psychology through advocacy and education”
Postpartum Support International’s website says its organization is dedicated to increasing “awareness among public and professional communities about the emotional changes that women experience during pregnancy and postpartum.”
Nothing on its “about” page says anything about being focused only on women of color. However, in bold print the email specifically says: “These September trainings are facilitated by persons of color for persons of color and will focus on serving the needs of BIPOC families. The trainings are open to Black, Indigenous, and other Professionals of Color.
BIPOC is an acronym for black, indigenous, and people of color.
Additionally, the information page for the two-day event as well as a separate one-day training on “advanced perinatal mental health psychotherapy training,” says: “The training is open to Black, Indigenous, and other providers of color.”
Providers of pallor not wanted here.
HIS PATIENCE IS FINALLY RUNNING THIN: Trump opens door to Senate sanctions bill as frustrations with Moscow grow. “Trump, impatient with Putin’s unwillingness to entertain even a temporary ceasefire, has grown warmer towards the idea of a sanctions bill which has encouraged the Senate to act. After previously calling the bill ‘very harsh,’ Trump now says that he is now ‘looking at’ the measure ‘very strongly.'”
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: The Dem 2024 Election Post Mortems Are Marvelous Entertainment. “The Dems just can’t figure out that a lot of voters don’t have historic diversity at the top of their priority cards when they choose a president. In both 2016 and 2024 they assumed that the chance to make history with a woman president would be enough. That was supposed to overcome the fact that they were running two of the least likable human beings in the history of politics.”
LARRY KUDLOW: Both Kevins Will End the Fed’s Deep State.
The Fed is in need of perestroika.
In other words, the Fed has to be cleansed of its Deep State dislike of all things Donald Trump, and frankly its Deep State bureaucratic groupthink of deadwood economists with models that haven’t worked in 50 years — who are now advising Chairman Jay Powell to fight Mr. Trump and his economic growth agenda.
The next Fed chairman has to go toe-to-toe with the hundreds of Fed economists who are spurring Mr. Powell on in his fight against Mr. Trump’s tariff and reciprocity fair trade policies. Also, against Mr. Trump’s tax-cut policies.
Economic growth does not cause inflation. Tariffs do not cause inflation.
As per the recent paper by the Council of Economic Advisers chairman, Stephen Miran, and even the interview by the Chicago Fed president, Austan Goolsbee, where he acknowledged the real-world fact that exporters and American companies will eat the tariffs, not consumers.
Of course, the Board of Governors has to be changed, and that will come over time.
Importantly, however, presidents of the regional reserve banks have got to be rotated out. The vast majority of them are Obama-Biden lefties who are heavily biased against Mr. Trump.
All this has to be changed: the chairman, the board, the regional reserve bank presidents, and the bulk of the Fed staff economists.
I myself started my career at the New York Fed — and am proud of it. I even had a chance to work with the great Paul Volcker.
But the Fed, over the past 50 years or so, has atrophied into a self-serving, central-planning Deep State that is essentially ignoring and opposing the wishes of the 80 million people who voted for Mr. Trump for president.
We all know what happened to the Soviet Union after the Kremlin embraced perestroika, and if the same fate were to somehow befall the Fed… cool.
BLUE CITY BLUES: Could City-Owned Grocery Stores Survive New York’s Shoplifting Plague?
An annual survey of chain stores in New York has documented the closing of hundreds of locations since 2020. Every one of the 13 largest chains in the city has fewer outlets today than it did in 2019. Collectively, these operators have shuttered a shocking 797 stores in New York. Essential retailers like drug stores and supermarkets have been disappearing. Rite Aid, whose top retailing executive told analysts in 2022 that it was almost impossible to stop retail theft in New York City, has closed 73 stores. Walgreens and Duane Reade have shuttered another 128 locations. Executives blamed not only losses from theft but also sharply declining sales, thanks to security efforts like removing all merchandise from shelves and locking it in cases. Key Food, a small supermarket chain, has closed 18 stores. The city also has 45 fewer 7-Eleven outlets. Discount chains Family Dollar and Dollar General have shut 20 stores.
In New York City and nationwide, retailers have struggled to respond to waves of shoplifting prompted by revisions to laws that raised the value of goods a shoplifter must steal before getting charged with a felony, and by bail reforms that result in the quick release of those committing nonviolent crimes. In 2021, to take one example, the NYPD arrested one individual 57 times, including 46 times for shoplifting; he never went to jail. In several instances, cops arrested the man twice in the same day. “This guy comes here every day stealing, every single day,” one Walgreens store manager told the New York Post.
A Manhattan Institute study found that, in the wake of the state’s 2020 bail reforms, shoplifting complaints in the city increased from fewer than 40,000 in 2019 to nearly 65,000 in 2022. Meantime, a study by criminologists determined that two-thirds of those released under the 2020 bail reforms get rearrested within two years. Police commissioner Jessica Tisch has argued that these so-called reforms “have rendered the criminal justice system in New York City a high-speed revolving door for recidivists.”
There’s little evidence that Mamdani’s agenda as mayor would address these problems.
Yes, but Mamdani could throw more Other People’s Money at his city-owned stores, effectively subsidizing criminality. Which is probably the point.
SURE WOULD HAVE BEEN NICE IF HE’D BEEN STOPPED AT THE BORDER: ICE Arrests Terrorist From 100 Most Wanted List.
July 10, 2025
COME SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM: Democrats Demand Blood For The Blood God. “You would think that the pathology that encourages left wing lunatics to attack federal officers would be self-defeating, but it’s part of a pattern of violence on the left, from Bernie Bro congressional shooter William T. Hodgkinson, to socialist Rand Paul assailant Rene Boucher to crazy tranny school shooter Audrey Hale, to the entire panoply of Antifa/BlackLivesMatter riot and looting sprees in 2020, violence has long been one of the left’s go-to moves when they don’t get their way (or even when they do).”
ABSURDIST VEEPSTAKES: The Mountain Dew That Sank the Dems. “I would understand if you went with someone else because I’m really nervous about the debate, and I don’t think I’ll do well.”
SOME INTERESTING THOUGHTS ON WHAT 2026 MIGHT MEAN FOR FIREARMS: This is a Really Good Time for Gun Companies to Think Smaller.
ATHENA THORNE: What’s Behind the Left’s ‘HOUSING CRISIS!’ Narrative? “This travesty is playing out across the country, in states red, blue, and purple. State legislatures, prodded by national and even trans-national organizations that purport to address the HOUSING CRISIS!!!, are passing laws designed to override local zoning authority in favor of empowering big developers to swoop in and save the masses from onerous housing costs.”
It never seems to work out that way, although the developers and the politicians usually seem to make out all right.
INSURRECTION, STRAIGHT UP:
🚨 INBOX: Democrats are fundraising to stalk ICE agents in real-time while they have seen a 700% increase in targeted violence.
They have already raised $200K through ActBlue. pic.twitter.com/Dvod660q3l
— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) July 10, 2025
YES: What does it mean to be a good man? Boys need fathers — or male mentors.
One in five children grows up without a father at home, she notes. Fatherlessness especially disadvantages boys.
Black boys, who are the most likely to be raised by a single mother, “do better in neighborhoods where there are more fathers around, even if not their own,” research has shown.
Even when disadvantaged children are matched with mentors, a majority are women, writes Miller. Mentoring groups find it hard to recruit enough men to meet the demand.
Sports, Scouts and church are the primary places where boys without involved fathers find male mentors. It makes a difference, young men told the Times.
Boys need dads. So do girls.
YES, I VOTED FOR THIS: Kennedy’s HHS Bans Illegal Alien Beneficiaries.
THEN DON’T COME HERE ILLEGALLY: Families and immigrant detainees allege ‘horrible’ conditions at ‘Alligator Alcatraz.’
Vladimir Miranda, a migrant from Cuba who has been at the facility since Sunday, said that “right now the generators apparently can’t cope and the electricity is going out,” he told Telemundo 51 via telephone call. When the electricity goes out there’s no water and the phones and air conditioners don’t work, “and we’re here sweating” profusely, Miranda said in his native Spanish.
His girlfriend, Eveling Ortiz told NBC 6 that Miranda crossed the U.S.-Mexico border and, like many Cuban migrants, was given the I-220A form that documents that a migrant has been released into the U.S. by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
“He had the final hearing two weeks ago,” she said.
But days later, Miranda, 32, was detained by immigration officials at his job in Orlando and moved to the Everglades facility.
“The conditions they’re going through, they’re horrible,” Ortiz alleged. “They don’t have water, they can’t use the bathroom properly. They’re not taking a bath.”
Seems to me like self-deportation might be preferable to all that.