KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Talarico’s ‘Resident Alien’ Campaign Keeps Getting Weirder. “James Talarico is a native Texan who often seems as if he is visiting the state for the first time. He makes Beto O’Rourke look like Sam Freakin’ Houston. It’s obvious that his campaign knows they need to Texan him up a lot, but looking like he thinks that Cracker Barrel is a place he needs a passport to travel to isn’t going to accomplish that.
Author Archive: Stephen Green
September 3, 2026
ANALYSIS: TRUE. Talafreako Is A Socialist Weasel. “Either he’s a woke-infected socialist hiding his true colors to try to get elected, or he’s Zelig-like chameleon with no core beliefs willing to say or do anything to get elected.”
Whichever, he’s a bad fit for Texas.
SOMETHING A LITTLE LIGHTER IN THIS WEEK’S THURSDAY ESSAY FOR VIP SUBSCRIBERS: Five Perfect Little Thrillers You Might Have Missed or Forgotten.
THE ONE THING THEY SHARE IN COMMON IS HATRED OF AMERICA:
Red-Green-Brown alliance. https://t.co/M0C7Eyd3XP
— Eli Lake (@EliLake) September 3, 2026
Well, that and each believes they’ll come out on top of the other two to rule over the ruins.
A LITTLE SOMETHING FOR THE KIDS: Two major airlines join $1,000 Trump Accounts matching efforts.
Both Delta Air Lines and American Airlines announced plans to match the government’s contributions for the children of their employees, according to the White House’s post on social media. The investment accounts allow every child born in the United States between Jan. 1, 2025, and Dec. 31, 2028, to receive $1,000 from the federal government, according to the Trump Accounts website.
Parents maintain control of the account, which is created in the child’s name, until age 18. Up to $5,000 can be contributed each year, providing a way to build a child’s investment portfolio while under custodial care.
Delta and American join companies including Chipotle, SoFi Technologies, and Vanguard in pledging the funds, according to Yahoo Finance.
These are great — and sort of a youth version of the Social Security fix that Democrats celebrated killing 20 years ago.
ROBERT SPENCER: Are You Ready for the TRUMP STRAIT? “MS NOW quickly took the bait, posting less than two hours later a huffy article trying to portray Trump’s trolling as a problem for Republicans.”
September 2, 2026
Oil Flowing Through the Strait.The Trump administration has been saying for a while that as many as nine million barrels of oil a day are traversing the Strait of Hormuz. That claim has been “fact checked” and derided by just about everyone. Politico is one of many instances: “Trump’s rosy Hormuz claims collide with tanker data.”
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Only – oops – it turns out that President Trump and Secretary Wright, one of his cabinet’s most impressive members, were right all along, as Kpler now confirms.
If only the correction were as big as the original report.
Actually, any correction at all would be nice — I couldn’t find one at Politico.
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: U. Maryland lab begs students to sign up for class on ‘Indigenous Feminism’ and ‘monsters.’
Only six students were signed up for the 21-seat class “Indigenous Feminisms 101” with Professor Shelbi Meissner as of Monday afternoon, the first day of classes at the public university, according to the Office of the Registrar website.
This is despite the Instagram account for the UMD Indigenous Futures Lab, which Meissner runs, promoting the class several times in mid-August.
One post read: “sign up for Shelbi’s class please it’s really fun we make monsters and learn stuff about Indigenous Feminisms.”
Maybe the kids are starting to wise up.
IF THEY’LL MURDER THE RICH AND POWERFUL…:
Weird to see the side that claims to own compassion lining up behind cold-blooded murderers. One after another.
Cheering Charlie Kirk’s murder. Building an entire fangirl club for Luigi Mangione. Shrill pink shirts for a mother who strangled her infant and toddlers. Having sads… https://t.co/SKyevI5PwJ
— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) September 2, 2026
…it’s easy to guess what they’d do to people who are neither.
UPDATE (From Ed): What is a Tuey-Rodriguez charge? Judge gives instruction to deadlocked Lindsay Clancy jury.
PROFILES IN COWARDICE: House Passes Gov’t Funding Bill That Does Nothing To Fix Debt Crisis. “The national debt surpassed $40 trillion on Aug. 20 and the deficit reached $2 trillion in the 2026 fiscal year. The 30-year Treasury bond yield reached a 19-year high due to the soaring government debt, prompting the Department of Treasury to double the size of its long-dated Treasury buybacks from $2 billion to at least $4 billion per operation.”
“If something cannot go on forever, it will stop,” the wise man once said.
HOW’S THAT POST-RACIAL SOUTH AFRICA COMING ALONG? Plan for a ‘white tax’ in South Africa.
Lamberti said that there is an increasing proliferation of transformation funds requiring businesses to pay into them.
“This represents a whole new offshoot of BEE. This could be a manifestation of the latest phase of BEE or of the direction the policy is generally moving.”
He said this shifts the transformation to where, instead of structuring equity deals, businesses just put money into a big government slush fund through equity equivalents.
“So, you just pay the money. Just pay the ‘white tax’, so you can pay to play. Once you’ve paid the tax, you’re allowed to participate,” he said.
Lamberti said that there are several problems with the transformation funds, which are essentially a white tax.
“Beyond the ethical issue, it still represents a considerable cost. This cost can easily be ratcheted higher at the government’s discretion,” he said.
Related: The Creeping Tide: South Africa’s Race Law Index Updated – More Laws, More Concerns.
THIS WAS INEVITABLE:
Dear @MarkJCarney
I appreciate it might be difficult to keep up with all of the memes. So I made a montage specifically for you.
I hope you enjoy! pic.twitter.com/w2jGnu6A5V
— Viva Frei (@thevivafrei) September 2, 2026
BEEGE: Smiles in Ayn Rand: Von der Leyen Tells EU Citizens ‘All Your Monies Are Belong to Us.’
Maybe, just schmaybe, those cod-clasping Vikings in Iceland knew what they were doing on Sunday evening, when, by the hairs on their bearded chinny chinchins, they extricated themselves for the foreseeable future from any discussions about becoming a European Union vassal state.
Oh, excuse me – European Union ‘member,’ as if that implied some sort of chummy club filled with bonhomie, and all looking out for the other fellows’ best interests.
As someone said, it’s more the Hotel California. And at the rate the unelected Empress of Europe, current European Commission president, and epic Bond villainess Ursula von der Leyen is going, no one will be left standing to wonder how to check out, even if they could.
Once again, Beege is having way too much fun today.
ELON MUSK: The Future Is Power, Chips, and Data Centers. “SpaceX CEO and founder Elon Musk spoke some harsh truths to EU leaders at a G20 conference in North Carolina on Tuesday — and a reminder to Americans about where the future lies.”
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: $400K for AI Cheaters Luxury Camp: How many colleges will survive?
“I just don’t see a world in which parents continue to indefinitely fork up nearly half a million to send their kids to AI Cheating Young Adult Luxury Camp,” tweets Tyler Austin Harper, a professor turned Atlantic writer. “Some will, but how many? Enough to sustain most colleges?”
He envisions a “black-swan-esque event where significant chunks of higher ed collapse suddenly.” Colleges are playing chicken with parents, he tweets. “The wager seems to be that college is so entrenched as the default that parents will continue to pay for it even as the value proposition and quality collapse due to AI. I think that bluff gets called.”
The Syracuse University is in trouble, reports Douglas Belkin and Roshan Fernandez in the Wall Street Journal. Total cost of attendance at the private university increased to $98,544 this year. Enrollment fell short.
Syracuse borrowed “nearly half a billion in debt to build desperately needed new dorms,” they write. To fill the dorms, the university may need to lower admissions standards, risking its prestige and reducing its appeal to students whose parents can pay tuition.
To be fair, most universities have done much worse than that to damage their prestige.
“FOR THIS REASON, ACADEMIA DOESN’T JUST ATTRACT LEFTISTS, IT ATTRACTS THE MOST NEUROTIC, EMOTIONALLY FRAGILE, AND INTELLECTUALLY CONFORMING LEFTISTS”:
Western academia is a giant, supra-national safe space for leftist ideologues. Within its hallowed halls, leftists can spend their lives in a kind of fantastic alternate reality, confident that no one around them will be so gauche as to confront them with facts. For this reason,… pic.twitter.com/NdqdUoBogX
— Collin Cleary (@collin_cleary) September 1, 2026
THE QUESTION SOMEBODY WAS SUPPOSED TO ASK BEFORE MAKING HIRING DECISIONS: Who Is the Market for Gay NFL Cheerleaders?
KEEP YOUR POWDER DRY…:
Zohran/hasan/Ilhan fans now just directly calling for gangs of people to murder bank employees — as their ‘job.’
Understand, they want us dead. They aren’t joking.
There is no way to share a civilization with these people and something will have to be done. pic.twitter.com/uaHJfoUHNv
— Hon. Vickie Paladino (@VickieforNYC) September 2, 2026
…and keep lots of powder.
And if you don’t click through to the second screencap, it contains this gem: “All leftist teaching says unity!”
Except, of course, for all the people lefties need to murder.
HMM: Pentagon Will Own 35% Of Venezuela Oil Venture, White House Reveals.
The announcement comes three days after Trump unveiled the agreement without naming the private partner or the terms of the deal. The Pentagon’s Office of Strategic Capital (OSC) will hold the 35% ownership stake in the venture while the State Department will also hold the right to buy 20% of the venture’s output at cost and the right of first refusal on the rest, according to a Monday fact sheet from the White House.
The Trump administration identified the partner in the deal as North American Blue Energy Partners (NABEP) — a Venezuelan-owned firm that is the country’s second-largest oil operator behind Chevron.
State ownership doesn’t usually go very well.
THE FRESH YOUNG FACE OF THE DEMOCRAT PARTY:
Great job by my talented colleague @mVespa1, Managing Editor at @townhallcom. Every talk radio show, podcast and cable news show should be highlighting his work today!
We Found Every 9/11 Tweet Abdul El-Sayed Didn't Want You to See https://t.co/UVbKTaDqqo
— L A R R Y (@LarryOConnor) September 2, 2026
HE’S MERELY TRANSITIONING TO “GOOD COMMUNIST”: Report: Raúl Castro Is on His Deathbed
EXERCISE YOUR RIGHTS: William English’s National Firearms Survey 2.0 Should Terrify Assault Weapons Ban Fans.
“The new survey also shows at least 25 percent of American gun owners currently own an AR-15 type rifle, 12.9% currently own other similarly styled semi-automatic rifles, and 30.0% – approximately 26.4 million adults – currently own at least one firearm in one of these two categories,” noted CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “This updated National Firearms Survey is loaded with information and it is presented in an easy-to-understand narrative. Honestly, this new survey comes at a very important moment, considering that we’re looking at a major Supreme Court case on the constitutionality of laws banning AR-15 type rifles and pistols, probably sometime this fall.
“The Citizens Committee is particularly interested in the number of law-abiding Americans who carry firearms for personal safety in public places,” he added. “With all of those millions of legally armed private citizens responsibly carrying firearms, it explodes another myth of the gun ban bunch, that more guns in private hands leads to more crime. As we recently noted, thanks to updated FBI data, that is simply not the case.
“More guns, less crime,” the wise man once said.
HISTORY:
On this day in 1945, Japan signed the instrument of surrender aboard the Battleship Missouri.
Officially ending the deadliest war in human history. pic.twitter.com/AaAaAhs2qv
— InfantryDort (@infantrydort) September 2, 2026
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Begun, the Meme Assault on Canada Has… “They’ve all lost their way up there ever since we took hockey from them. Canada’s biggest export in recent years has been reasons to mock it. Canadian Maple Festival King (also called the ‘prime minister’) Mark Carney (no relation to Art) has just given us the best one yet. He doesn’t want to engage in talks about a trade agreement because Americans have been giving him a good taunting.”