Wednesday, May 13, 2026
Read all!-----The Steps a President Would Take to Destroy His Nation, According to Elon Musk's AI Chatbot, Grok | Open Culture
If a president of a superpower wanted to destroy his own country, what steps would he take?Just out of curiosity, and apropos of nothing, we asked Grok (the AI chatbot created by Elon Musk) the following question:
If a president of a superpower wanted to destroy his own country, what steps would he take?
Here’s what Grok had to say:
- Economic Sabotage: They could tank the economy by imposing reckless fiscal policies—massive, unsustainable debt..
- Undermining National Security: Militarily, they might weaken defenses by slashing budgets, pulling out of strategic alliances, or leaking sensitive intelligence to adversaries...
- Social Division: They could stoke internal conflict by amplifying divisive rhetoric, targeting specific groups with policies that breed resentment...
Liberals are already pushing masks for the hantavirus | Not the Bee
Will the DOJ indict Fauci? Or will the statute of limitations expire? | Blaze Media
Will the DOJ indict Fauci? Or will the statute of limitations expire? | Blaze Media:
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has filed multiple criminal referrals for former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci to the Department of Justice over the geriatric immunologist's apparent false testimony before Congress in 2021.
According to Paul, the statute of limitations on charging Fauci over his alleged perjury expires on Monday.
Instapundit - THE EVIDENCE IS PRETTY SOLID IN FAVOR
What we know.
I love this:
Testosterone’s reputation has had its ups and downs since the hormone was first synthesized in the 1930s... Despite the presumed risks, he says he still thought that the hormone could help some of his patients who had low testosterone and sexual problems. So, he started treating them while monitoring them closely.
They didn’t get cancer, Morgentaler says, and they benefited from the treatment greatly. Some of his clinical findings — along with the revelation that Huggins’s most dire warnings about the hormone causing cancer were based on observations of a single person — helped to clear the way for renewed interest in testosterone therapy.
Sample size: One.
So much received medical wisdom comes from this sort of thing. - Glenn Reynolds
History for May 13
History for May 13 - On-This-Day.com 
Dennis Rodman 1961 - Basketball player, nickname: "The Worm", actor
- 1821 - The first practical printing press was patented in the U.S. by Samuel Rust.
- 1846 - The U.S. declared that war existed with Mexico.
- 1865 - The last land engagement of the American Civil War was fought at the Battle of Palmito Ranch in far south Texas, more than a month after Gen. Lee's surrender at Appomattox, VA.
- 1888 - Slavery was abolished in Brazil.
- 1897 - Guglielmo Marconi sent the world's first wireless communication over open sea.
- 1985 - A confrontation between Philadelphia authorities and the radical group MOVE ended as police dropped an explosive onto the group's headquarters. Eleven people died in the fire that resulted.
Tuesday, May 12, 2026
Oregon Democrats Found a Way to Improve Roads. Now Their Gas Tax Goes before Voters as Prices Soar | Newsmax.com
Oregon Democrats Found a Way to Improve Roads. Now Their Gas Tax Goes before Voters as Prices Soar | Newsmax.com:
Under the legislation, Oregon’s gas tax would rise from 40 cents to 46 cents a gallon. That would make it tied with Maryland for the eighth highest gas tax of any state when factoring in other state taxes and fees, according to figures from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
At Flint Schools, teachers are doing great – students, not so much
Flint schools get $33,151 per pupil but 90% of third through eighth graders aren’t proficient at reading - Michigan Capitol Confidential Staff
- In 2024-25, nearly all of Flint Community Schools’ students in grades three through eight — 90% — were not proficient in English Language Arts, which is largely reading and writing.
- And 96% of students in grades three through six were not proficient in math...
Despite this track record, the Michigan Education Association announced it had honored Flint union president Karen Christian with its Paul Blewett Friend of Education Award on April 23.
The MEA award goes to someone who “did the most to improve the lives of teachers, to further the goals of the MEA or to further the cause of public education,” according to a nominating form available on the union website...
GM slams brakes on electric trucks as reality crashes the EV party | Blaze Media
GM slams brakes on electric trucks as reality crashes the EV party | Blaze Media:
The company has indefinitely delayed the next-generation refresh of its electric trucks and SUVs. No new deadline. No confident road map. Just a quiet admission that the plan isn’t working the way Washington, or the automakers themselves, promised.
Translation: The market isn’t cooperating.
Vivek Ramaswamy vows Medicaid crackdown after home health fraud report | Fox News
Vivek Ramaswamy vows Medicaid crackdown after home health fraud report | Fox News:
Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is calling for a sweeping crackdown on his state’s Medicaid program after a report alleged that companies billed millions of taxpayer dollars from vacant offices, including abandoned buildings with piled-up mail, "out to lunch" signs and no visible staff.
"We're going to have to take a deep, hard look at the way the $40-plus billion in state Medicaid dollars are being spent," Ramaswamy told "Saturday in America" host Kayleigh McEnany.
Must read all!-----Kevin Bass: I was a lifelong Democrat. I thought most conservatives were ignorant or evil or lying.
Bill Brindley - Kevin Bass: I was a lifelong Democrat. I thought... | Facebook - Bill BrindleyI believed almost everything written in the New York Times, The New Republic, and the Atlantic.
- I was horrified when conservatives criticized the authorities.
Every criticism I saw: I thought all of it was motivated by animus, resentment, self-interest, or ignorance.
Whatever truth there might have been in the criticism, I saw as a mere "half-truth": an exploitation of this or that cherrypicked fact being weaponized.
Whatever truth there might have been in the criticism, I saw as a mere "half-truth": an exploitation of this or that cherrypicked fact being weaponized.
- ...I saw liberal establishment institutions and figures as fundamentally good, so all criticism of them was automatically interpreted as being in bad faith.
Didn't the critics know that these institutions or figures were fundamentally good?
- If they didn't, they were ignorant.
- If they did, they were evil.
It was that simple...
𝐓𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐔𝐑𝐘 𝐒𝐄𝐂𝐑𝐄𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐘 𝐒𝐂𝐎𝐓𝐓 𝐁𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐉𝐔𝐒𝐓 𝐒𝐇𝐑𝐄𝐃𝐃𝐄𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐘𝐎𝐑𝐊 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒 𝐓𝐎 𝐈𝐓𝐒 𝐅𝐀𝐂𝐄 𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝟐𝟓𝐓𝐇 𝐀𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐃𝐎𝐔𝐁𝐋𝐄 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐀𝐑𝐃: “𝐈 𝐒𝐄𝐄 𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐌𝐏 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐄 𝐈𝐍 𝐀 𝐃𝐀𝐘 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐍 𝐌𝐘 𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐃𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐎𝐑 𝐒𝐀𝐖 𝐉𝐎𝐄 𝐁𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐍 𝐈𝐍 𝐇𝐀𝐋𝐅 𝐀 𝐘𝐄𝐀𝐑”
𝐓𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐲 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐒𝐜𝐨𝐭𝐭 𝐁𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭 sat down with the New York Times’ Andrew Ross Sorkin and was asked the standard NYT framing about whether Trump’s health raises 25th Amendment questions. 𝐁𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐤. - M.A. Rothman@MichaelARothman
𝐇𝐞 𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐚 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐜𝐲 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐫𝐚𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐉𝐨𝐞 𝐁𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧’𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬.
𝐇𝐞 𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐚 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐜𝐲 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐫𝐚𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐉𝐨𝐞 𝐁𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧’𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬.
“𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘠𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴? 𝘞𝘦 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘢 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦-𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘤𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘵 𝘮𝘦𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘺𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘥𝘢𝘺. 𝘍𝘰𝘳 10 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘴, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘥𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘢 𝘤𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘵 𝘮𝘦𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨. 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘰𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 25𝘵𝘩 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘵 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵?” “𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘥𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘑𝘰𝘦 𝘉𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯’𝘴 𝘥𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘺, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳-𝘶𝘱. 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘺 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘺 𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴.” “𝘐 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘺 𝘣𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘐 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘮𝘺 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘰𝘳 𝘴𝘢𝘸 𝘑𝘰𝘦 𝘉𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘧 𝘢 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳.”...
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