The News of Today is the History of Tomorrow
IN POLITICAL NEWS
1) DemoKKKrats have successfully forced Matt Gaetz to withdraw from AG consideration. Gaetz cited his nomination becoming a "distraction" to the Trump team. Trump nominated former FL AG Pam Biondi as AG. Not thrilled about this pick. She has been ok at some low level stuff, but there is no indication she will be the Vlad the Impaler that this administration is going to need. And even worse, the Hoax News Media keeps insisting Trump is looking at an absolute Deep State, Mike Rogers, the failed MI senate candidate, for FBI. If he is the pick, Trump's war on the Swamp would come to a screeching halt. Meanwhile, Marty Makary, a China Virus protocols critic, is in line for FDA commissioner.
2) President Trump's new press secretary Karoline Leavitt opens every staff session with prayer. How nice to have God invited back into government. Dan Bongino is being considered for head of the Secret Service.
3) By the way, my court guru Zen Master notes that it is entirely constitutional for V.P. J.D. Vance to break ties in Senate confirmations. The Constitution declares so unequivocally (i.e., no stated limitations) and it was used by both Biden and Trump already to confirm candidates.
4) The Wall Street Journal labeled Trump's election a "hostile takeover" of the Deep State.
5) Although this is spun as a MAGA victory, in reality the Rs in the senate gave the DemoKKKrats 13 lower level judicial picks now for four higher level picks next year. They could have held out for all of them. Zen Master counters that many of the spots are in blue states and the "blue slip" process where by a sitting senator can kill an appointment in his state would have meant Trump wouldn't get many of his picks. However, two of those we supposedly "got" for next year at the appellate level were based on judges retiring. Now they may reconsider if it is Trump doing the selections. To put in football draft analogy: we traded 13 backups who we could not trade for 3 starters, two of whom may decided they don't want to help us and stay on the field hurting us.
6) Colorado must pay a web designer $1.5 million for stifling free speech regarding Lorie Smith's refusal to make homosexual wedding invitations. Too bad the governor and members of the state legislature don't have to pay this instead of the taxpayers.
7) The onrushing fracture in the DemoKKKrat Party (yes, another one) is the tecchie vs green split. The techhies need power and lots of it---far more than solar/wind/batteries can even remotely produce. So their are what are called "nuclear power greens." But don't be mislead. They really don't like ANY current nuclear power, and the changes they would make would possibly make nukes as impractical as solar is. In a related column, Ruy Teixeira, one of the few sensible DemoKKKrats left, pointed out that the woke "groups" should be "thrown under the bus," and the DemoKKKrats should return to the working class. Don't think they can. But the techhie vs. green split in the DemoKKKrat Party that is coming is like an asteroid and none of them, including Ruy, see it. More proof they are collapsing: DemoKKKrats want Cackles to run again in 2028. As the Duke of Wellington said of Napoleon at Waterloo, 'They keep coming on in the same old way and we keep sending them back in the same old way."
8) Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk have put out a road map for their Department of Government Efficiency.
9) Remember the national "popular vote compact" that would give all the electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote? If DemoKKKrats honored that and if it were in place now, Donald Trump would be sitting on another 212 electoral votes if I added right.
10) A federal judge ruled that an MSNBC pundit Andrew Weissman defamed Trump attorney Stefan Passantino by saying he coached Cassidy Hutchinson to lie. Good sue the mofo out of his pants.
11) Rutabaga's DEI agenda was a cash cow for K street consulting firms such as McKinsey.
12) A Florida man was arrested for planning to bomb the New York Stock Exchange. I'm sure the Muslim name was irrelevant.
13) How good were "polymarkets" and betting markets in predicting Trump's victory? He led all year, the shooting and lawfare gave him a boost, and after the VP debate it was straight up.
14) Austin, TX has doubled down on electric busses, which are not even working, and the manufacturer went broke.
15) A House oversight committee found that the Pentagram, er, Pentagon deliberately delayed sending in national guard troops on January 6, 2020 (Patriot Day) to help facilitate a riot.
16) A partial victory as Judge Juan Merchan canceled Trump's sentencing in the Boast 'n' Bragg case---but did not dismiss it.
17) In a sick repeat of Katrina-like malfeasance, FEMA trailers sit empty as people face freezing weather.
18) Team Trump is already preparing steps to challenge the International Cirminal Court over the arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu.
IN ILLEGAL CRIMINAL ALIEN NEWS
19) President Trump's border czar Tom Homan will prioritize locating 300,000 children. Tom, I love ya man, but they are already in the sex trafficking system. President Trump is going to invoke a national emergency to deport illegals.
IN CULTURAL NEWS
20) The great Ryan Burge looks at the most religious countries and the least religious countries. He does not include Islamic countries or much of Africa (wasn't in the original sample) but of the US. Latin America, Asia, and Europe, by far the most religious country is . . . India! The least? China, followed by Spain, England and France. By the way, the U.S. on a happiness scale is #1 in the recovery from the China Virus among the "religious" who assessed their well being.
IN ECONOMIC NEWS
22) To quote the Pointer Sisters: "I'm so excited." The Washington Compost lost $77 million last year. What a great start.
23) Home sales rose---just barely---for the first time since 2021.
24) Bad news from the Rush Limbaugh of Energy, David Blackmon: there will be no new Keystone XL Pipeline. The company has been sold, the permits are gone, and getting new investors after Rutabaga screwed the last group will likely be impossible.
25) Two years ago an MSNBC stooge predicted Twitter/X was on the verge of collapse. Today X is the #1 app and MSNBC is on the verge of collapse.
IN INTERNATIONAL NEWS
27) The Danish Navy is hunting a ChiCom ship suspected of damaging fiber-optic cable lines in the Baltic.
28) Ukraine launched Army-supplied tactical missiles at Russia, and Russia fired back with ICBMs (non nuke)
29) Northvolt, Europe's biggest battery maker, is kaput. It started with $15 billion and is now %5 billion in the hole, while another green scamster, one of India's richest men, Gautam Adani, has been indicted again for bribes related to solar subsidies. Oh, and about the Euros buying LNG from Trump's America? Good luck. That LNG is already spoken for in Asia, and to get it, the Euros would have to pay through their stuck-up little noses.
30) Lib Noah Smith is just baffled why no one can stop the population from falling. Gee, after 50 years of ridiculing families, emasculating men, making marriage irrelevant, and permitting anti-family/anti-child policies such as legalizing homosexuality and transoidism. Gee, Noah, I'm puzzled too.
31) Jaguar has one of the most amazingly bad rebrands ever with a new ad campaign that sent stock prices tumbling.
IN ENTERTAINMENT NEWS
32) Hoax News crashed after the election, with the yout market hit the hardest. "Did you say youts?"
33) Idiotic actor/director Rob Reiner had to check himself into a facility for his severe Trump Derangement Syndrome. That said, I am eternally grateful to Rob for directing one of the best movies ever, "A Few Good Men."
AND FINALLY . . .
34) Feel good story of the day as Tampa Bay Buccaneers QB Baker Mayfield saved a high school football program that was out of money by donating enough for every player to have a uniform and helmet. The team merely went on to win the state championship.
Larry Schweikart
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