KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Corrupt Legacy Media Hacks Are Stepping on Rakes All Over the Place. “President Trump is just fine, by the way. It’s his haters who are sick in their heads. This idiocy is really a lot to take after four years of the media commies pretending that the doddering idiot Joe Biden was the picture of mental and physical fitness. I’ve lost count of how many health crises they’ve concocted out of the ether in the past year regarding the president.”
April 6, 2026
SEDUCTIVE AI:
New MIT & Stanford studies just dropped: AI assistants like ChatGPT & Claude are dangerously agreeable.
When users express, harmful, deceptive or unethical beliefs, these AIs are 49% more likely to encourage their delusions.
Instead of correcting bad ideas, theyโre amplifyingโฆ
— Katie Miller (@KatieMiller) April 5, 2026
In fact, I literally address this phenomenon in my Seductive AI, coming out from Encounter Books in less than a month.
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HE’S NOT WRONG. BUT THEN HE SELDOM IS.
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Victor Davis Hanson opens with a claim that sounds hyperbolic until he backs it up: we are watching ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ ๐ซ๐๐๐ญ๐๐ฌ๐ญ ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ญ๐๐ซ-๐ซ๐๐ฏ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐งโฆ pic.twitter.com/6gXd3bnYF6
— M.A. Rothman (@MichaelARothman) April 6, 2026
THEY ARE ON THE OTHER SIDE: A Hezbollah-linked terrorist sought to murder dozens of children in a Michigan synagogue, but NPR reporters thought the real story was how the terrorist’s terrorist relatives in Lebanon felt.
Link to public editor column, and to tweet.
HMM: China Reports Outbreak of Livestock Disease Near Russian Regions Hit by Mass Cattle Culling.
Chinese officials reportedly said the highly contagious strain, which is immune to vaccines that are currently available domestically, likely entered โfrom abroad.โ Xinjiang borders Russia, Mongolia and Kazakhstan, including a narrow frontier with the Siberian republic of Altai, adjacent to the Altai region, where most of Russiaโs recent cattle culling has taken place.
Chinaโs agriculture ministry said last week that 219 cattle across two herds of 6,229 tested positive for a variant of foot-and-mouth disease. Officials have since ordered culling and disinfection measures in Xinjiang and the neighboring Gansu province, as well as stepped up patrols to prevent the disease from entering through smuggling or the illegal transportation of livestock.
The outbreak follows the culling of roughly 90,000 head of cattle across nine Russian regions since February, with analysts estimating that around 80% were in the Altai region. Russian authorities have attributed the losses to rabies, pasteurellosis and other unspecified illnesses.
The scale of the culling in Altai and other regions has raised suspicions that Russia may be concealing a more serious disease outbreak.
Ugh.
ANALYSIS: TRUE. Joel Kotkin: Newsom is Gruesome.
Gavin Newsom is hiring a New York PR firm to sell California โ ahead of his likely presidential bid โ at a cost to taxpayers of $19 million.
Why does California need outside help? After all, as Newsom likes to remind us, the state is one of the largest economies on earth.
But the governorโs actual record could be a problem for his presidential bid. Hence his familiar solution: To portray California as a vibrant economy, and to counter โmyths driven by misinformation and political rhetoric.โ . . .
US News places California, despite the tech boom, as 42nd in fiscal health among the states. The stateโs Legislative Analyst Office projects continued operating deficits through 2028.
The rich and ultra-rich โ many of whom are already leaving โ are all that stands between the state and fiscal disaster. Without their outrageous income, the whole system tilts toward failure.
One reason for this dependence lies in the sad fact that the income outlook for the rest of the population is far from bright.
Newsomโs neo-feudal California has hemorrhaged 1.6 million above-average-paying jobs in the past decade, more than twice as many as any other state. It has created five times as many low-wage as high-wage jobs.
And not enough of those.
THE ESTABLISHMENT IS GOING ALL MARGARET DUMONT, “WELL, I NEVER!” BUT:
Yes, I did in fact vote for a President who would call our enemies "crazy bastards" and threaten to send them to hell if they didn't take us seriously.
What's actually embarrassing is voting for someone to send them money.
— OutspokenSamantha (@Outspoken_Sam) April 5, 2026
PARLIAMENT MORPHED INTO EPSTEINโS ISLAND SO SLOWLY, I HARDLY EVEN NOTICED:ย I was sneaked into Parliament as a teen and offered to high-profile politician for sex, says grooming gang survivor.
Exit question:
A Muslim rape gangs survivor has claimed she was taken onto the Parliamentary estate and offered to a high profile politician for sex as well as being taken to party conferences for the same purpose.
The question now arises of how many MPโs are being Epstein style blackmailed? pic.twitter.com/KdHtNI9Y6B
— Wolf ๐บ (@WorldByWolf) April 5, 2026
AND YET I’M STILL SEEING LEFTIES POSTING THAT HEGSETH IS A DRUNK WITH NO CREDENTIALS:
We literally setup a temporary special forces base inside Iran and flew in 300 Army, Navy, and AF special forces troops and little bird gun ships. Then we fought a whole mini war and killed like 1500 Iranian soldiers in 6 hours.
And all we left behind was a pair of Americanโฆ
— Spitfire (@RealSpitfire) April 5, 2026
DEPENDENCY IS CORRUPTING.
NATO is in far bigger danger than anyone realizes. And the reason has nothing to do with defense budgets.
The real danger is psychological. Itโs cultural.
Europeans didnโt just free-ride on American security for 80 years. They built an entire identity around the idea that theyโฆ
— John ษ Konrad V (@johnkonrad) April 6, 2026
ICYMI: THAT WAS THE WEEKEND THAT WAS:
Moonshot. Soldier rescued. NYT doesnโt know what NATO stands for.
Glorious few days weโve had.
— Bryan O'Nolan (@BryanONolan) April 5, 2026
THE NUMBERS DON’T LIE:
Imaging losing 1 plane for every 13,000 strike missions and thinking that America is winning the war in Iran ๐๐ญ
At this rate, Iran can absorb 52,000,000 strikes to down the remaining 4,000 US strike aircraft.
America will lose.
— Rabbi Linda Goldstein (๐ต๐ธ๐I/P Commentary) (@realrabbilinda) April 5, 2026
Also: Heh.
SKYNET, HAL, COLOSSUS, AND M-5 ARE ALL SMILING RIGHT NOW:
I am telling you, Anthropic is not building an AI that is here to protect humanity, but rather an AI that will turn against it
They're deep into the woke rabbit hole and they do not care about morality
Their AI safety team is a joke. Their moral guide for AI is literally aโฆ https://t.co/stW1geiTsb
— X Freeze (@XFreeze) April 5, 2026
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OH, CANADA: Canada Going On Gun-Grabbing Spree.
Then-Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau introduced legislation known as C-21 to freeze handgun purchases and a โbuy backโ of military-style semi-automatic firearms in May 2022, with the bill receiving Royal Assent in December 2023. Conservative Member of Parliament Dane Lloyd of Alberta questioned Minister of Public Safety Gary Anandasangaree about the apparent large-scale refusal to comply from gun owners.
โMinister, the declaration period for firearms owners is scheduled to end next week. So far, only 2.5 percent of the estimated two million effected firearms have been declared and 98 percent [of] firearms owners havenโt made a declaration,โ Lloyd said. โSo, if theyโre not declaring by next week, whatโs your plan, Minister?โ
The legislation contained an Australia-style โbuybackโ of so-called โassault weaponsโ after Trudeauโs government banned over 2,500 types of modern semiautomatic firearms following a 2020 mass shooting in Nova Scotia.
โThe plan we have is as of March 31st, the time to complete the enrollment, will be, will be done and then the RCMP and other agencies will be available throughout the spring and the summer to do the collection,โ Anandasangaree responded.
“Collection.”
A FRIEND OF A FRIEND NEEDS HELP:ย Many of you have doubtless read articles in gun magazines and related publications by Kat Hel. Lately she’s written under her married name of Katherine Ainsworth Stevens. She’s a friend to most of us in the North Texas Troublemakers, and to my wife and I. She visited our home just a week ago.
I MEAN, HE’S NOT WRONG:
It's absolutely absurd that the American military can literally set up an entire military command post behind enemy lines just to rescue 1 pilot…
…but the GOP in Congress cannot muster a single ounce of courage whatsoever to pass the SAVE Act
Tells you all you need to know.
— Matt Van Swol (@mattvanswol) April 5, 2026
PIVOT!
Much of the โconscientious objectorโ Right and most of the Left seamlessly shifted from calling Trump a coward and chanting โTACOโ at him to calling him a madman who has to be stopped at all costs with no acknowledgement at all that theyโve done a complete 180 https://t.co/4Iqm4zY7Um
— Enguerrand VII de Coucy (@ingelramdecoucy) April 6, 2026
ICYMI: HOW “COMPASSIONATE” GOVERNMENT WORKS:
Why don't they just put the scammers in jail? pic.twitter.com/FnTab9DGXO
— Bill Brown (@billbrown) April 3, 2026
It’s not like there’s just some fraud in the system, which might be reduced by sharper management. The fraud is the purpose of the system, and the system is explicitly designed to facilitate it.
When you understand that, all sorts of things become clear.
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