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.”

SALON SALONS THE MOST SALON HEADLINE EVER:

Salon with an instant classic. pic.twitter.com/mYHKAtEpj4

— Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) June 15, 2026

TIM O’BRIEN: Elon Musk and the Politics of Envy “Envy is the lifeblood of leftist politics, and Musk is merely their latest, biggest, and most convenient target. But it’s worth being reminded that to the left, you are no different than Elon Musk. Let me explain.”

2028 PREVIEW: Support broadens beyond Harris, Newsom in Democratic primary poll.

In the latest The Center Square Voters’ Voice Poll conducted from June 4-6 among registered voters who identify as Democrats and left-leaning Independents, Harris maintained a strong lead, capturing the support of 27% of the 1,224 polled. Newsom was a distant second among the names listed, with 14% support.

But both Harris and Newsom have slipped from where they landed in October and March Voters’ Voice Polls. Harris was at 33% in the fall, 31% in March and is now at 27%; Newsom had 21% in the fall, then 16% in March, and now, 14%.

Looks like an opportunity for a DLC-style moderate to step in, but they seem to have been hunted to extinction.

SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE HAS LEFT THE BUILDING:

🚨 THE MASK HAS COMPLETELY SLIPPED.

Keir Starmer is banning social media for teenagers, but guess which app is magically exempt?

Bluesky. 🤡

They are blocking every platform that allows independent free speech, while leaving the ultimate left wing echo chamber wide open.

This…

— David Shaw (@David90shaw) June 14, 2026

HE HAS LEARNED NOTHING AND FORGOTTEN NOTHING: Jeffries Just Told America What Democrats Will Do if They Win the House.

WELL, WHEN YOU PUT IT THAT WAY…:

The people who created 40 Trillion in debt are angry that Elon Musk created 1 Trillion in wealth.

— Andrew Wilkow (@WilkowMajority) June 14, 2026

From the replies: “And he created immeasurable wealth for others. That’s just his share.”

BREAKING: Trump Announces Peace Deal with Iran Is Complete.

SAD AND INFURIATING, BUT PROBABLY CORRECT:

i came to the conclusion that this story is so awful that we have no way to punish it. to commit to an appropriate measure of justice is beyond our willingness to do it. https://t.co/RVRyG600vn

— GregGutfeld (@greggutfeld) June 14, 2026

IF THIS DOESN’T LOOK AT LEAST A LITTLE FUN, YOU MIGHT NOT BE AMERICAN:

I’ve never been to a UFC fight, but I once went to a monster truck/motocross rally in rural Maine and saw a part of America I’d never experienced before. Trump is opening the White House to those Americans and it’s awesome. If you’re offended by that you may be an elitist snob. https://t.co/g9XPRdl4YG

— Marc Thiessen (@marcthiessen) June 14, 2026

ANALYSIS: TRUE.

i’m not stuck in line behind Elon Musk at walmart listening to him lose his mind cause he can’t put Zyns on an EBT card. https://t.co/1TT5cVNwvw

— Phil Labonte 🇺🇸 (@philthatremains) June 13, 2026

From the replies: “Elon Musk is not telling me how privileged I am after I make a 60 hour work week to pay for my own groceries and bills.”

CHUTZPAH:

Leftist publication The Intercept blamed Donald Trump and his supporters for multiple bomb threats on Jewish institutions in February 2017. It turned out the threats came from one of The Intercept's staff reporters, Juan Thompson. He was convicted and sentenced to 60 months in… pic.twitter.com/CBxVaO7q3Y

— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) June 12, 2026

IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA:

Is she actually lecturing us about rich people from the back of a limousine 🤣 https://t.co/RiZ12pYLxc

— Jessica (@JessicaTetreau) June 12, 2026

SAME AS IT EVER WAS:

When you realize DSA members are just a bunch of people who failed at everything, refused to get real jobs, and then decided leeching off taxpayers was the next best thing, their entire ideology starts to make more sense. https://t.co/0A5jP5VZbq

— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) June 13, 2026

And since I seem to be in a Churchill-quoting mood today: “Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy.”

YES:

If the socialists had their way, Elon would have had his paypal profits taken and redistributed for the greater good.

The world would never have seen Tesla, nor SpaceX.

And the world wouldn't know it, because they were uncreated, and thus unseen.

Imagine the companies that…

— Erik Voorhees (@ErikVoorhees) June 13, 2026

And from the replies: “I can imagine, look at Europe, in 50 years not a single great company has been created there.”

THE BOLSHEVIKS ALWAYS DESTROY THE MENSHEVIKS:

Lmao it’s funny how it was actually the leftists who pushed their whole “diversity” alliance to get the Muslims in charge in Hamtramck.

Then these guys take over the entire council and one of the first things they do is ban the LGBT flag from city property (haram).

Anyone… https://t.co/CVt8pamZxe pic.twitter.com/R46XF2sDMs

— Rothmus 🏴 (@Rothmus) June 12, 2026

See also: “An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.”

WHAT HAPPENED TO THAT COLOR-BLIND SOCIETY?

In a study on race and juror decision-making, participants evaluated an identical defendant whose name was either Bradley Schwartz or Jamal Gaines.

Black respondents were significantly more likely to convict and more harshly sentence the white-named defendant, while white… https://t.co/Nifej2uHeb pic.twitter.com/d7G9zJrK1y

— Dimitri (@thedimitri) June 12, 2026

I guess we never got there: OJ Simpson Juror: Not-Guilty Verdict Was ‘Payback’ for Rodney King.

UNEXPECTED HEADLINES: Pokémon Go players unwittingly contributed to tech with military drone uses. “A decade after the global craze for Pokémon Go peaked, an AI company has been using billions of real-world images captured by millions of players to develop navigation technologies for delivery robots and possibly military drones. That represents an intriguing but potentially discomfiting legacy for an augmented reality mobile game that has incentivized gamers to capture short smartphone videos of physical neighborhoods and landmarks.”

FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: He Played Hide’n’Seek With a K-9 and Lost. “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week, we’ll learn the difference between hurricane-proof and chainsaw-proof, how not to tip the DoorDash driver, and to keep your pants on in Austin.”

ANOTHER STUDY SAYS POORER, ACTUALLY: How Britain Became as Poor as Mississippi.

Britain has been left behind. The country’s output per person is now only just above that of Mississippi, America’s poorest state—and that slight lead is only achieved thanks to London. Outside the capital, in places where tourists do not visit, living standards fall well below Mississippi’s. Brits visiting the United States find that their currency has depreciated to the point where the pound today buys only about $1.35. British wages have lagged well behind those in the U.S., and also those in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Denmark; once you account for inflation, they’ve barely grown at all. Within the next decade, the typical Pole will have a standard of living equal to the typical Brit, if current trends continue.

One generation ago, Britain was a major global power; today, it is a middling one, gripped by sclerosis. Taxation is at the highest level since World War II, yet public services have deteriorated. The National Health Service, the celebrated pillar of the British cradle-to-grave welfare state, has a backlog of 6 million patients—almost a tenth of the population—waiting for treatment. The health service now has to spend more money settling maternity-malpractice claims than it does on actually providing maternity care. Many Brits can neither obtain an appointment with a publicly funded dentist nor afford a private one; in a 2023 survey, one in 10 reported doing DIY dental work, in extreme cases extracting their own teeth or gluing broken crowns back together.

Previously: Sorry, Britain, but You’re Just Another Europoor Country Now.

IT’S TIME FOR VICTORIA TAFT’S West Coast, Messed Coast™: Hosts World Cup, and Fans From Third World Feel Right at Home! “Maybe not the U.S. as much, but el mundo is watching the World Cup, and those fans from el tercer mundo are probably thinking, as they take in the sights of Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle, ‘Damn, what a s**thole country this is.’ And they’d be right.”

IT’S BIG: New Look at America’s Next Ballistic Missile Submarine. “The Columbias feature several qualitative enhancements fostered in the 5 decades since the inception of the Ohio-class, including a quieting and propulsion technology leap (including electronic input for the control surfaces), new sonar arrays and other sensor upgrades, and additional space granted by the Columbia’s larger size. Despite the Columbia’s increased size, the amount of Trident missiles aboard drops from 24 on the Ohios to 16, with the jury still out on uses for the extra tonnage.”

I’d really like to know, but those who do know can’t say.

THAT WOULD BE NICE: Can We PLEASE Stop Mass-Importing Third-World Medieval Butchers?

DID ANYONE THINK THAT? Just When You Thought the Platner Tattoo Scandal Couldn’t Get Worse…