UNEXPECTEDLY: California’s Adam Schiff Has Picked Up Dianne Feinstein’s Ban-The-Guns Torch. “Sen. Schiff introduced S. 1531, the Assault Weapon Ban of 2025, and made the announcement through a video he posted to social media. Usurpingly, his claims about the previous federal ban are false. His video message immediately received a brutal Community Note, tagging the first-term senator’s message as ‘incorrect.’ Companion legislation was also introduced in the House of Representatives by Congresswoman Lucy McBath (D-Ga.) as H.R. 3115, with the same title.”
Author Archive: Stephen Green
May 16, 2025
FRIDAY AT 3PM EASTERN: ‘Five O’Clock Somewhere’ 5th Anniversary Extravaganza.
I DUNNO, I’M ENJOYING IT: Democrat Men Are Trying To Fake Masculinity And It’s Painful To Watch.
Among the ways Democrats are trying to stop hemorrhaging men voters is apparently by elevating guys who exhibit some comically stereotypical sense of “masculinity,” but who otherwise champion all the effete Democrat policies that the party loves and real men hate. Who knows! Maybe it’ll work!
Three such strapping lads come to mind of late, first and foremost being David Hogg, the lithe twink who is currently a vice chairman of the Democrat National Committee. (Though, some party officials are challenging his election on the grounds that he’s not DEI eligible — he’s apparently not gay). In an interview last week on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, Hogg proposed that Democrats are losing the support of young men, who “would rather vote for somebody who, even if they don’t completely agree with, they don’t feel judged by, than somebody who they do agree with, that they feel like they have to walk on eggshells around constantly because they’re going to be judged or ostracized or excommunicated.” He said young people more generally “should be able to focus on what young people should be focused on, which is how to get laid and how to go and have fun.”
True, Democrats have long-since been the party of nags, their chief mascots being perpetually offended black women — the “heart” and “backbone” of the Democrat Party — and “transgenders” forcing ladies to shave their scrotums. But Hogg’s assertion that men and young voters would be far more susceptible to the Democrat platform if party leaders were a little less menstrual ignores the problem: The two go hand in hand.
Exit quote: “The things Democrats want aren’t popular, so there is no natural appeal among the people who advocate for them; there is only admonishing and lecturing into compliance.”
GOOD LORD: Canada’s Peanut the Squirrel Moment. “Not long after Judicial Watch exposed New York bureaucrats’ disturbing plan to seize and kill Mark Longo’s pets, Peanut the Squirrel and Free the Raccoon, Canada is looking to outdo New York in killing beloved pets for no good reason.”
“MR. GORBACHEV, TEAR DOWN THIS WALL” SEEMS LIKE AN AWFULLY LONG TIME AGO:
So after the implementation of exit-taxes by many European countries, dissuading people from leaving, Germany is now the first to give people exit-bans, effectively preventing them from leaving.
You don't need a crystal ball to see where this is going. The borders will be closed…
— Dries Van Langenhove (@DVanLangenhove) May 16, 2025
DECOUPLING: What’s the Real Story on Trump’s ‘Deal’ with China?
Remember four years ago, during what they named “the supply chain crisis,” when Chairman Xi Jinping kept shutting down whole cities for a month at a time, allegedly due to COVID-19 outbreaks? Huge manufacturing centers like Shanghai and Shenzhen, Wuhan and Chengdu were locked down, with manufacturing and shipping banned, in some cases multiple times.
Because of those distant lockdowns, our American automakers were shut down, too — not of their own choice, but because a vehicle that’s 95% finished still can’t roll off the lot if it’s waiting for a dashboard, or a starter, or a printed circuit board to be shipped from a city that’s been frozen by a distant dictator.
People started to realize then that it wasn’t just American retailers that are too dependent on China; it’s American manufacturers as well. But the Biden-Harris regime tamped down such talk and blamed the containership lines or the seaports, saying the problem was unorganized transportation. The political party that had long been bankrolled by Chinese interests could never allow the message to stand that America is dangerously addicted to Chinese components.
That mistake won’t happen this time. The Trump-Vance administration is making sure Americans understand that our industrial dependence on China isn’t healthy. It may have taken a month of 145% punitive tariffs to drive home the point, but now it’s undeniable.
What if it weren’t a tariff that we could just turn on and off at will? What if the holdup were a Chinese blockade, or another series of Chinese urban lockdowns? Or the worst of all: What if the holdup were a shooting war?
Read the whole thing.
DAVID MANNEY: Si Vis Pacem: The Fear That Keeps Tyrants Awake
OH, CANADA: ‘If we’re going to play the independence game, we play to win’: Derek Fildebrandt on Alberta separatism.
On last night’s episode of The Ezra Levant Show, Derek Fildebrandt from the Western Standard discussed Alberta’s rising independence movement as separatist sentiment heats up following another Liberal victory in the federal election.
Fildebrandt explained that while some people in the province want to use the idea of independence simply as a tool in negotiations with the federal government, he doesn’t believe in that approach.
“Some in Alberta want to use it as leverage, I think that’s a failing strategy. If we’re going to play the independence game, we play to win because we want an independent country,” he said.
The Western Standard publisher also discussed whether he sees Alberta’s current independence movement as “revolutionary.”
“I think if we do achieve independence, then retroactively we get to call this a revolutionary period. If we don’t, then perhaps not,” he said.
Fildebrandt went on: “But Alberta and Saskatchewan — there is something very different happening right now. And no one’s talking about a radically new form of government, it’s in large measure keeping our form of government, keeping our institutions, but decentralizing them from a distant imperial government in Ottawa and repatriating the constitution to a local level.”
We should try more of that here in the US.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: James Comey Has Crawled Out of His Hole to Stink Up the Place. “It’s sad what depths those afflicted with TDS will sink to. The former head of the FBI is now a garden variety lunatic social media troll, and completely comfortable with egging on violence against President Trump. This is a 64-year-old man we’re talking about, not some Adderall-ridden kid in his 20s.”
DEI HIRE:
No way Ketanji Brown Jackson is actually this clueless
But she is… pic.twitter.com/ougPMKCeOw
— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) May 16, 2025
WAIT… THIS IS CNN? From free planes to crypto meme coins, Democrats seize on Trump’s deals to raise corruption concerns.
CNN just went with a “Democrats Seize!” angle on a Trump “corruption” report? Really?
Next thing you know, they’ll have Democrats pouncing.
MAYBE THROW IN A 5AM RAID FOR GOOD MEASURE: Tulsi Gabbard Calls for Jailing Former FBI Director for Suggested Death Threat Against President Trump
SO NOW THEY’LL ASK:
Brutal.
Hakeem Jeffries gets pressed for two straight minutes about covering up Biden's decline and refuses to answer a single question.
"Why should voters trust Democrats when it's clear so many in your party went to great lengths to keep Biden's condition hidden from the… pic.twitter.com/36xVucjysw
— Kyle Martinsen (@KyleMartinsen_) May 14, 2025
EVERYBODY WHO DIDN’T GET NUKED, FOR STARTERS: Who Won The India-Pakistan War?
I’m inclined to think that India won, because they successfully hit their targets and dirtnapped a lot of jihadis, and Pakistan doesn’t seem to have successfully struck anything of import. But I don’t know for sure, since the never-entirely-trustworthy American media has a done a poor job reporting the conflict (evidently it’s really hard to blame Donald Trump for a sectarian conflict over a century old), and the local media on both sides seem entirely too biased to trust. And as for this Reuters report that Trump says disputes are “settled,” that’s either the usual MSM incompetence or “figuratively, not literally” at work. The Indo-Pakistan dispute over Kashmir will probably continue as long as those two nations still exist.
So I’m at a loss to say definitively who won this most recent flareup.
Trump came away looking pretty good.
May 15, 2025
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG:
Just James Comey causally calling for my dad to be murdered.
This is who the Dem-Media worships. Demented!!!! pic.twitter.com/4LUK6crHAT
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) May 15, 2025
CHANGE:
🚨 JUST IN: Judge Jeanine Pirro has been sworn in as interim U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C. pic.twitter.com/ek8BOMmoa5
— TV News Now (@TVNewsNow) May 15, 2025
HE SEEMS TO BE CRACKING UNDER THE STRESS OF RUNNING FOR POTUS: In Unhinged Rant, Gavin Newsom Essentially Admits He’s at Fault for Homeless Crisis in CA.
#METOO:
They're all so deeply full of shit and I'm glad they had their asses handed to them https://t.co/S8RasQmSZY
— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) May 15, 2025
IT’S MY THURSDAY ESSAY FOR VIP SUBSCRIBERS: What’s a Journalism?
“I’m a journalism!” hapless Simpsons character Ralph Wiggum says in one of my favorite memes — a favorite because sometimes it takes a meek moron’s malapropism to express what we were all thinking.
Poor Ralph. He never quite understands what’s going on around him, but he always wants to help. Then there are Washington’s actual journalists — I’ve called them many other names over the years, none of them nice — who surely understand much but seem only to push partisan narratives.
That’s how Ralph’s “I’m helping!” while standing uselessly around became “I’m a journalism!” Some versions of the meme show Ralph with a finger jammed up his nose, as if for emphasis.
The everyday reporter brings biases — and increasingly, a near-total ignorance of anything that might add essential context. My concern today isn’t with them because they’re just following the lead of media-types much higher up the food chain.
So today, let’s take a look at three examples: the publisher, the talking head, and the fact-checker.
Much more at the link.
SKYNET FROWNS: Executives Are Pouring Money Into AI. So Why Are They Saying It’s Not Paying Off?
The general fear of being left behind by missing the boat on AI is still rampant.
“At this point, leaders who aren’t leveraging AI and their own data to move forward are making a conscious business decision not to compete,” IBM vice chairman Gary Cohn wrote in the report. “As AI adoption accelerates, creating greater efficiency, and productivity gains, the ultimate pay-off will only come to CEOs with the courage to embrace risk as opportunity.”
But how to leverage AI meaningfully — and convey that vision to workers — is proving extremely difficult.
According to a 2024 Gallup poll, only 15 percent of US employees felt that “their organization has communicated a clear AI strategy.” Only 11 percent said they feel “very prepared” to work with AI, a drop of six percent from Gallup’s 2023 survey.
Despite pouring tens of billions of dollars into AI investments and supporting infrastructure expansions, companies are still many years out from turning a profit. When, or if, they’ll ever get to the point where AI pays for itself remains to be seen.
“Are we using GenAI to solve real problems, or just optimizing slide decks?” Curioser.AI CEO Stephen Klein told Forbes.
In a study commissioned by Microsoft last year, researchers claimed that for every $1 invested in generative AI, companies would realize an average of $3.70 in return, claims that were never externally validated.
Even ChatGPT loses money, despite having all that money thrown their way.
WIKIPEDIA IS FREE AND WORTH LESS THAN YOU PAY FOR IT:
Somebody is trying to erase the Druze Massacres page from Wikipedia. pic.twitter.com/JpCBDrofr7
— Jacob Ben-David Linker 🪬🕎✡️🕎🪬 (@JacobALinker) May 15, 2025
OUR GRID WASN’T IN GREAT SHAPE EVEN BEFORE LEFTIES STARTED MUCKING WITH IT:
America is at high risk of blackouts because we decided to retire a bunch of power plants and replace them with solar and wind, right as demand for electricity started to rise.
We are still on the same track as Western Europe, just a bit behind. pic.twitter.com/PediUBTWPk
— Russ Greene (@GreenPlusAnE) May 15, 2025