May 20, 2026

DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT TAKES TO OUST AN INCUMBENT DEMOCRAT BIG-CITY MAYOR?

Keisha Lance Bottoms is Lori Lightfoot levels of awful, and thinks she deserves a promotion.

Posted at 10:55 am by Stephen Green

KEEP IT REAL: Lies, Toxins, and Engineered Ticks: The Menu No One Asked For.

While Gates and the WEF have been pushing fake food as the future, Harvard-trained psychiatrist and nutritional researcher Dr. Georgia Ede has spent twenty-five years documenting what happens to the human body—and brain—when we stop eating real meat. Her conclusion is unambiguous: “Meat is the only food that contains every nutrient we need in its proper form and is also the safest food for our blood sugar and insulin levels.” Vitamin B12, omega-3 fatty acids, zinc, choline, iron, iodine—these nutrients are either impossible or extremely difficult to obtain adequately from plants. And the mental health consequences of removing them are measurable. Studies cited in her work show vegetarians have a 35.2% chance of developing major depression compared to 19.1% in meat-eaters. A 2022 survey of 14,000 Brazilians found that vegans were twice as likely to suffer from depression—even when consuming equivalent nutrients from plant sources. A 2020 meta-analysis of 160,000 meat-eaters and 8,500 meat-avoiders showed that those who excluded meat were significantly more likely to suffer from depression.

We are being sold sickness as wellness.

Many people seem to have a natural revulsion to unnatural foods, which probably serves as a strong evolutionary protection against eating unhealthy things and also against Bill Gates.

Posted at 10:40 am by Stephen Green

THAT’S NOT MUCH OF A COALITION:

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This is how Massie chose to go out.

Posted at 10:24 am by Stephen Green

MORE MONEY: How China enables American domination.

Never has the gap in financial power between the world’s two largest economies been this wide. Follow the list of empires from the US down through Britain, France, the Netherlands and back to the 15th century. Usually, the emerging challenger built broad strengths from military to trade. China is typical in every way except finance. Unlike rival currencies past and present, the renminbi is far from fully convertible and has gained little traction as an international currency.

Normally after an empire gains economic might, its currency takes an increasing share of reserves held by central banks. With a 17 per cent share of global GDP, but only 2 per cent of central bank reserves, China is trailing 30 to 40 years behind previous superpowers at a similar stage of their ascents.

Likewise in trade, as an emerging power gains ground, the rest of the world accepts more payments in its currency — even if the new power is not directly involved in the transaction. Britain at its peak accounted for 40 per cent of trade, but 60 per cent of trade payments were in sterling. China by contrast has a leading 15 per cent share of global trade, but only 2 per cent of trade bills are invoiced in renminbi.

Much more at the link. But the TL;DR is that nobody trusts China — China is asshoe.

Posted at 9:38 am by Stephen Green

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Republicans Finally Get Serious About Purging the Squishes. “Rude and dishonest is required behavior for Never Trump Republicans, so Massie will fit right in when he inevitably becomes a CNN or MS Now contributor.”

Kruiser beat me to the column I wanted to write this morning — and he did not waste the opportunity.

Posted at 9:07 am by Stephen Green

BIG RIGS: Tesla’s Newest Electric Vehicle Could Jolt the Trucking Industry.

Cost and range are two of the main reasons that many logistics and delivery firms have been reluctant to buy electric trucks, which cost at least twice as much as diesel models and account for only a sliver of heavy truck sales.

“The problem with the technology that’s out there right now is their range is limited. They’re quite heavy, and they’re very expensive,” said Jennie Abarca, owner of King Fio Trucking in Long Beach, Calif., which has ordered 20 Tesla Semis. “This is something new coming to the market that kind of answers all those problems.”

Demand for the Semi appears strong. California trucking firms have asked the state government for subsidies to help them buy more than 1,200 Tesla trucks. That’s more than all the applications for other electric trucks since the state’s incentive program began in 2019.

Ivan Torres, a driver for Nevoya, a San Francisco-based trucking company, is a big fan of the Semi. He was at the wheel of one last month hauling power tools from the Port of Long Beach to Ontario, Calif., 60 miles away. Nevoya operates only electric trucks.

As the truck climbed a steep hill that separates Ontario from greater Los Angeles, Mr. Torres marveled at its power. “It hauls the load like nothing, just up,” he said from the padded driver’s seat, which sits atop a shock absorber that smooths out the bumps. Screens on either side of the steering wheel provided a view of the traffic around him.

They sound great — so why should Sacramento pay trucking companies to buy them?

Posted at 8:36 am by Stephen Green

JEREMY CORBYN SMILES:

Posted at 8:35 am by Ed Driscoll

ESCHEW ALL MODALITIES OF COCKSUREDNESS:

 

Posted at 8:22 am by Ed Driscoll

ASTROTURF ALL THE WAY DOWN:

Don’t miss the highlighted text in that last panel, courtesy of X’s best new feature.

Posted at 8:20 am by Stephen Green

SORE LOSER:

“Then Massie ends his career with this line about Ed Gallrein: ‘I had to find him in Tel Aviv.'”

Posted at 7:49 am by Stephen Green

WHICH WAY TO THE FRONT?

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Tweet concludes, “The two teens who killed themselves after the shooting appeared to have left behind manifestos praising Hitler. The mosque is infamous for having some of the 9/11 hijackers among its members.”

(Classical reference in headline.)

Posted at 7:45 am by Ed Driscoll

MONEY: Forget tariffs and the Iran oil shock—a top economist says the Fed is blind to the real inflation threat.

For Luther, the real dynamic behind the recent spike couldn’t be more basic: The overall dollars America’s paying for goods and services is rising a lot faster than the quantities of cars, appliances, or hotel rooms we’re producing and supplying. “There’s a grain of truth in the tariffs and oil price argument,” he says. “But those price increases mainly take money away from what’s spent on other things, and don’t have a major impact on overall inflation. The fundamental problem is that more money is chasing the same number of goods. We have an aggregate demand issue, not a supply disruption issue.”

Luther explains that “aggregate demand” or “total spending” comprises all domestic expenditures by consumers, government, and businesses for everything from plants to inventories. So where is all this excess money coming from? A major source is a ramp in government spending: the CBO forecasts that federal outlays will rise a lofty 6% in FY 2026 (ended in September). An obvious contributor, also cited by Powell, is the king’s ransom being lavished on AI data centers, projected to reach almost $1 trillion this year, multiples of the number three years ago. To boot, consumers—especially the well-to-do—continue to spend big time on everything from dining out to health and wellness. The “wealth effect” from a stock market led by an S&P that’s gained 28% in the past year also likely emboldens folks to reach deeper into their wallets.

The main culprits remain in Washington, where they print whatever money they require to cover their spending addiction.

Posted at 7:34 am by Stephen Green