Author Archive: Stephen Green
June 16, 2026
June 15, 2026
BREAKING: Military Plane Crashes at California Air Force Base “On Monday, around 11:20 a.m. PDT, a B-52 Stratofortress plane crashed at Edwards Air Force Base, which is located in Kern and San Bernardino Counties in California. The aircraft had just taken off, according to reports.”
EMMANUEL RINCON: The Long Tradition of Wealth-Extracting Socialists.
From Karl Marx to Vladimir Lenin, from Fidel Castro to Hugo Chávez, many of these figures denounced private wealth and entrepreneurship, despite the fact that few, if any, lived according to the austere principles they publicly promoted. Instead, many enjoyed lives marked by privilege, luxury, and the very economic advantages they claimed to despise.
This pattern is not confined to communist regimes. In the United States, self-described socialists have often criticized wealth accumulation — until they themselves became wealthy. Senator Bernie Sanders is among the most notable examples. For years, Sanders condemned millionaires and argued that extreme wealth accumulation was immoral. Yet after purchasing multiple homes and earning millions of dollars through book sales criticizing capitalism, his rhetoric shifted largely toward attacking billionaires instead.
Today, the methods have changed, but the underlying dynamic remains the same.
Read the whole thing.
ICYMI: Will No One Rid Me of This Turbulent Musk? “Italics in the original, because otherwise some lefty freakazoid with a rifle might not get the subtle shout-out to assassinate the man who gave the world cheap access to space, universal high-speed internet access, the first mass-produced electric vehicles, and Neuralink brain implants for the disabled.”
THE MORE THINGS CHANGE…: Peace? Top Iranian Minister Praises Hezbollah, Threatens Israel.
THAT’S WHAT LEFTIES DO: Nurse Bloomberg Is Destroying 3D Printing. “‘No person, firm, partnership, association, or corporation shall sell or deliver any three-dimensional printer in the state of New York unless such printer is equipped with blocking technology that is going to be able to tell if you’re printing a firearm or a firearm part.’ And the definition of 3D printer is so wide. Any machine capable of rendering a three-dimensional object from a digital design file using additive or subtractive manufacturing. This means that dental devices, construction devices, food devices, jewelry devices, all different types of CNC mills are going to be covered under this and they would have to have the spyware installed.”
FABLE 5 IS OFFLINE: Why Did the Smartest AI in the World Just Go Dark?
NOVEMBER PREVIEW/DON’T GET COCKY:
CNN: Dem Lead Much Smaller Than Previous Blue Waves
Generic Congressional Ballot June Polls:
2006: 🔵 Dem +11
2018: 🔵 Dem +10
2026: 🔵 Dem +5Democrats Lead is also shrinking:
NBC: 🔵 Dem +6 -> 🔵 Dem +5
MU Law: 🔵 Dem +4 -> 🔵 Dem +1
Ipsos: 🔵 Dem +3 -> 🔵 Dem +3 pic.twitter.com/nnBKeCxhxI— OSZ (@OpenSourceZone) June 15, 2026
I’M EXPECTING AN EARTH-SHATTERING… NOPE, NEVER MIND: NASA X-59 Flies At Mach 1.4 ‘Mission Conditions.’ “The latest flight, the 19th for the Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works-built aircraft since it took to the air for the first time on Oct. 28, marks a key milestone for the program as it works through the initial phase of envelope expansion flight testing. The aircraft is next due to begin an acoustic validation phase to confirm its slender shape and long nose work as designed to produce a low intensity, sine-wave-shaped sonic boom.”
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Will No One Rid Me of This Turbulent Musk?
IT SHOULDN’T BE DIFFICULT TO SAY, “I’M AGAINST GIRLS GETTING RAPED”:
You can have whatever opinion you want on economics and still be on the left, but if you say "young white girls shouldn't be raped and murdered by foreign men", you will be expelled from the left.
Therefore young white girls getting raped and murdered by foreign men is what the… https://t.co/AWAmSlxHqA
— John Carter (@martianwyrdlord) June 15, 2026
THANKS, FELLAS: IDF says it killed Hezbollah commander tied to 2007 murder of US soldiers.
The IDF said Sunday that it killed senior Hezbollah commander Ali Musa Daqduq in a precise strike south of the Litani River in southern Lebanon over the weekend.
According to the military, Daqduq was a senior Hezbollah commander and a veteran source of operational knowledge within the terrorist organization, having held a series of senior posts over the years.
The IDF said that in recent years, Daqduq played a central role in advancing terrorist attacks and combat operations against Israel and IDF soldiers, including operational planning along the Lebanon border.
Israel can’t afford to slack off against Hezbollah now.
HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY: Tales of Patriotic and Brave Heroes for U.S. Army’s Birthday.
PARTY OF YOUTH UPDATE:
Every anti-Trump counter-programming effort always looks like a talent show at a senior center – but with a little bit less energy. https://t.co/bzNmCWhxi0
— Matt Whitlock (@MattWhitlock) June 15, 2026
I’m so old, I still remember when Bette could carry a tune — even a good one.
THE COPE MUST HURT:
Doomers must have mental whiplash at this point.
1. China kicked out of Panama
2. Venezuela secured and friendly without a war.
3. EU and Canada whimpering like babies
4. No Russian tanks rolling across Germany or the rest of Europe.
5. No ww3
6. China in a major…— unseen1 (@unseen1_unseen) June 15, 2026
And all the way down at #34: “Do I need to go on? There are about 100 more domestic policy issues I could list…”
THE LEFT WANTS HIM DEAD, AND THEY AREN’T SHY ABOUT TELLING EVERY TRIGGER-ABLE NUTCASE OUT THERE:
They chose that headline and photo on purpose.
It’s clear they are hoping to inspire the next Luigi Mangione.
We still don’t hate journalists enough. pic.twitter.com/bCJcz8DndX
— Melissa Chen (@MsMelChen) June 14, 2026
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Then there’s the once-apparently-sane Ken White:
You know they’re the good guys by the way they keep calling for violence and bloodshed against those they view as their ideological enemies https://t.co/kXn0neaR48
— Enguerrand VII de Coucy (@ingelramdecoucy) June 12, 2026
METAPHOR ALERT: Obama Presidential Center’s $470M safety net under scrutiny as subcontractors say they’re owed millions.
Concern is mounting that taxpayers could be left holding the bag if the Obama Presidential Center runs into financial trouble, as the foundation behind it has yet to establish a promised $470 million safety net to guard against a public bailout.
The scrutiny comes as a Fox News Digital investigation found multiple contractors and subcontractors claiming losses ranging from hundreds of thousands of dollars to millions on the project, with some alleging they remain locked in payment disputes and face financial ruin just days before the center’s grand opening.
Under its agreement with the city, the Obama Foundation pledged to create the fund, known as an endowment, as part of its 99-year deal to take control of the publicly owned 19.3-acre section of Jackson Park for a one-time payment of just $10.
Fox News Digital previously reported that the foundation had deposited just $1 million into the reserve fund in 2021 and that the balance remained largely unchanged in its most recent publicly available filings.
Exit quote: “Grogan said reports that contractors remain unpaid only reinforce the need for closer scrutiny and called for an investigation if allegations that subcontractors were left holding the bag prove accurate.”
DISPATCHES FROM AIRSTRIP ONE:
I've just heard 3 people who were reporting on riots in Northern Ireland using their YouTube accounts have been arrested.
They were not involved in any rioting, they are not involved in any criminal activity.
They are looking to do anther Southport to clamp down on free speech.… pic.twitter.com/AlSuT1UzK7
— Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 (@TRobinsonNewEra) June 15, 2026
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Sane People Aren’t Triggered by Elon Musk’s Wealth. “Their hatred isn’t distributed evenly among the super-rich, of course. No one in the Democratic Party is upset with George Soros, for example. We don’t hear many complaints about Bill Gates from them either. It’s more than Musk’s money that sends them spiraling though. They’re harboring a lot of resentment because Musk broke the stranglehold they had on the social media false narrative machine when he purchased Twitter. His work with DOGE at the beginning of President Trump’s current term was a direct attack on their god: the federal government.”
MUST BE A PRETTY GOOD LIST: Beijing blasts Pentagon’s latest Chinese military company list. “The Defense Department’s updated 1260H list, published Monday, classified dozens of new companies and their subsidiaries, including e-commerce giants Alibaba and Baidu, and the electric vehicle manufacturer — and major Tesla rival — BYD, as ‘Chinese military companies operating in the United States.’ The listing doesn’t bar them from operating in the U.S., but it prohibits them from doing business with the Pentagon and imposes a reputational stigma at a time of rising concerns about Chinese espionage operations. The intelligence agencies of Britain, the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand warned last week that China is increasingly using professional networking sites and job platforms — including LinkedIn and Indeed — to gain access to classified information.”