Flotsam and Jetsam - Tucker Accuses Feds of Setting Jan. 6 Bombs

At Breitbart, Polls: Donald Trump Towers Over Nikki Haley in Granite State with Majority Support. Matt Margolis at PJM, Oof. Team Nikki Is Lowering Expectations for New Hampshire. Glenn Beck to Newsmax: Haley 'Delusional' to Think She Can Win. Aaron Decorte at Da Fed, Like Trump Or Not, Republicans Must Accept The Reality Of The Imperfect Candidate. "Are voters blind to Trump’s flaws? His legal situation? Nope. It’s that they have decided perfection isn’t the goal." At the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 1.19.24 (Early Evening Edition) Twitchy: We Thought Geraldo Retired But He Has Thoughts On Iowa, Geraldo Rivera@GeraldoRivera, "Congratulations to fmr #PresidentTrump on historic win in Iowa. I do not support him, but numbers don’t lie. He has nomination in his grasp. I did not support #VivekRamaswamy either, but his cheeky campaign raised legit issues of bloated government & errant interventions abroad." At The Wombat's In The Mailbox: 01.19.24 (Late Night Edition) Twitchy: Nikki Haley Accused of Cheating, the Victory Girls: Joy Reid Burns With Bigotry After Trump Win in Iowa, Is The Republican Primary All Over Except For The Shouting?, American Conservative: Will Illegal Aliens Choose the 2024 Republican Nominee in Arizona?

From Da Caller, Meet The Donors Funding The Shadow Campaign To Stop Trump’s Second Term Before It Even Begins. At The Prickly Pear, The Republican Party May Be Trying to Throw the 2024 Election in Key States  Nancy Van Deest at Am Think thinks ‘Their’ Democracy: Tyranny Comes to the US. PJM's Rick Moran, reports the No Labels Party Asks Justice Department to Investigate 'Conspiracy' to Block Ballot Efforts by Democrats. Good luck with that. At TNP, New Hampshire AG: DNC Engaged In Unlawful Voter Suppression. At The Wombat's In The Mailbox: 01.19.24 (Late Night Edition) The Federalist  Why Doesn’t The FBI Want To Get To The Bottom Of Alleged Massachusetts Cash-For-Vote Scheme? Ballots Cast Without Proof Of Citizenship ‘Exploded’ After Lawfare Crippled Arizona Election Laws and Infamous ‘Zuckbucks’ Group Tries To Election-Meddle Again — This Time With Federal Tax Dollars.

Da Lid thinks there are Signs Pointing to Michelle Obama Angling to Replace Joe Biden as Democrat Presidential Nominee, if she skip on to the coronation. I&I ed board, Biden Has ‘Delivered For The American People’ All Right, And They Want A Refund. At Da Caller, McDonald’s, Missiles & Marches: Biden’s Thursday Devolves Into All-Time Gaffe Reel. 

NewsMax reports Hunter Biden to Appear for House Deposition Feb. 28. That should be amusing. Not productive, but amusing. Expect him to take the 5th and make a speech. 

Ace, The Biden Administration Is Now Embezzling Funds Appropriated for Counter-Terrorism To... Woke Black "Arts" Groups, "Unless John Lithgow is commanding a terrorist force to stop people from dancing, then Biden is, once again, violating the law."  Also, Biden to Spend $700,000 on "Trans-Inclusive Sex Ed" for 14-Year-Olds, to Tell Girls Who ARe Pretending to Be Boys That They Can Still Get Pregnant, You Know, In Their Masculine Vaginas "What about if they claim to be cats? Are we also going to spend $300,000 to tell teenagers under the delusion that they are cats that they can still get pregnant even if a human fertilizes their cat ova?" The Free Bacon reports Biden Houthi Sanctions Include Carveout Allowing Lucrative Energy Deals With Terror Group. "Critics say exemption neuters sanctions meant to choke off Iranian proxy’s resources" 10% for the Big Guy? Also,  Biden’s $2 Trillion COVID Bill Made Inflation Worse. Jamaal Bowman Wants To Spend Seven Times as Much on Reparations. 'Where did that money come from? We spent it into existence,'  At Market Watch, Inflation is ‘far from dead’: Why one large asset manager doubts U.S. can hit 2%.  

Hat Hair's Jazz Shaw hears Biden: 'I'm Ready to Act' on the Border. "Joe Biden has no intention of actually closing the border and removing the eight to ten million illegal aliens he’s allowed into the country on his watch. He’s just maneuvering to get that Ukraine money approved, caring more about Zelinsky’s borders than our own."

From Da Caller, Fani Willis Handed Lucrative Contracts To Her Alleged Lover’s Law Partner. It’s Starting To Raise Eyebrows and Fani Willis’ Alleged Lover Paid For Plane Tickets In Her Name, Bank Statements Show. NewsMax, Fani Willis Seeking to Quash Subpoena in Divorce Case. Kaelen Dease at WaEx, hears the  Fulton County committee chairman asks Fani Willis if she ‘misused’ funds. Capt. Ed says "Looks like the courtroom isn’t the only danger Willis and Wade may be facing. Keep an eye on this track, too." Technofog, Fani Willis’s Affair: There Are Receipts "The likelihood of recusal just increased." Capt. Ed again, "Techno Fog has the actual receipts produced thus far, if you want to see them for yourself. What amazes me is that Willis and the media tried to slough this accusation off as “unsubstantiated” in the first place. The hearing hadn’t even taken place and people just assumed that Roman’s attorneys didn’t have any evidence. They wouldn’t have filed the motion without already having testimony and/or documentation to back up their assertions." Ace, Predatory Hosebeast Fani Willis: If You Have a Problem With Me Spending $654,000 to Hire My Current Hookup, Mr. Darrius "Sweetdick" Honeycum, Esq., Then Your Real Problem Is With a Strong Empowered Black Woman Taking Charge Of Her Own Orgasms. "You tell 'em, Fani! You talk that stupid racist talk! The judge overseeing Fani Willis' political witch-trial has ordered a hearing into the allegations against her."

TNP reveals ‘Expert’ Who Claims Trump Cost E. Jean Carroll $12.1M Admits No Experience in Reputation Management, is Long-Standing Democrat Donor ,  E. Jean Carroll Just Testified To Owning an Illegal Firearm and Ammo in New York State.  and Trump Slams Epstein Guest ‘Piglet Reid Hoffman’ over Carroll ‘Hoax’, "Donald Trump has brutalized LinkedIn founder and Democrat megadonor Reid Hoffman for funding E. Jean Carroll’s rape and defamation lawsuit against him in New York. Hoffman has also funded Fusion GPS, Nimrata ‘Nikki’ Haley, and other anti-Trump endeavors."  At Althouse, "Following the E. Jean Carroll trial feels like watching one 80-year-old woman realize there is just nothing she can do to rid herself of this omnipresence..." ""... and then realizing that we are, all of us, that 80-year-old woman. That we have been, for some time, subsumed and consumed by one man and his very strong MAGA base''. . ." Writes Monica Hesse, in "E. Jean Carroll used to be somebody/Once you enter Trump’s world, your own world evaporates" (WaPo). "Trump is responsible for whatever bad acts he's committed, such as, if Carroll is right, raping a woman in a department store dressing room, but subsuming and consuming the entire world and coating it with thin smog... that's something that you're doing to yourself."

At The Wombat's In The Mailbox: 01.19.24 (Late Night Edition)  Am Think's Ted Noel thinks about The Final Four Cases Against Donald Trump. Breitbart, Holder: SCOTUS ‘Legitimacy Is at Stake’ in Trump Rulings. Vicky Taft at PJM, Who's More Arrogant, the School Teacher Trying to Erase Trump From Wash. State Ballot or This Reporter?. Tough call. 

At Da Fed, Joy Pullman admits I Bought A Bible, Slingshot, And Sports Gear. So I’m Probably On A ‘Domestic Terrorist’ Watchlist. PJM's Ben Bartee notes the FBI Defies Legal Ruling, Refuses to Hand Over Seth Rich Laptop. What are they hiding? At Twitchy, WATCH: Tucker Carlson: So … the Government Kinda Planted Those Pipe Bombs, Right? 

It seems likely that government officials were involved in planting pipe bombs in Washington, DC three years ago, as part of an effort to keep Donald Trump from running for president again. Darren Beattie has details. pic.twitter.com/jsM5jCDeBd

— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) January 18, 2024

At HE, Why can't law enforcement stop anti-Israel protests from getting out of hand? Because they don't want to. 

At The Wombat's In The Mailbox: 01.19.24 (Late Night Edition) Da Fed's  Anita Duffy-Alfonso has a Survey: Two-Thirds Of Elites Say There’s Too Much Freedom In America . Also at Da Fed, Tristan Justice reports Hawley Blasts DHS Propaganda Grant To ‘Counter’ Conservatives. At HE,  The #1 topic at WEF is 'censorship of the internet', "They are painting a target directly on Elon Musk's forehead, and they're labeling it X."

The Free Bacon notes House Dem Shares Stage With Anti-Semites and Holocaust Deniers at 'March for Gaza' Rally and an Anti-Israel Student Group Threatens 'No Business as Usual at MIT' Until Jewish State is Eradicated. At LI,  Katya Rapoport Sedgwick says  Let the Haters Hate. "The word antizionist, although not for the lack of trying, might not have the same bloody history as antisemite, but it is objectively more shrill." Am Thinks Hugh Iwanicki goes behind enemy lines, Surrounded by Raging Protesters at a Jihad Jamboree. 

Da Wire is proud that Campus Censorship Attempts Targeted Michael Knowles More Than Any Speaker In 2023. "The cancel campaigns, which also targeted Matt Walsh, were all in reaction to the hosts' views on transgender ideology." Greg Lukianoff at the Eternally Radical Idea, makes the case that Administrators — not just DEI administrators — are the biggest threat to free speech on campus. "There is no way out of the current academic freedom and free speech crisis on campus while universities remain as bureaucratized as they are." Hat Hair's John Sexton explores What Do College Administrators Do? Mostly spend money. At Da College Fix, Penn faculty upset about ‘viewpoint diversity’ proposal, say could mean more GOP hires. Capt. Ed, Diversity Is Our Strength … except when it’s not, I guess. This sounds like a Babylon Bee sting, but it’s real, and delicious. Bruce Fleming at RCP claims DEI Destroys Excellence, Military Cohesion at Service Academies, and that's the point, isn't it? 

Althouse, "[Authentic Brands Group] has owned [Sports Illustrated] since 2019 and sold the publishing rights to a company called the Arena Group."

"The Arena Group missed a recent payment for those publishing rights, prompting ABG to pull the publishing license.... 'As a result of this license revocation, we will be laying off staff that work on the SI brand,' the note to staff read...." From "Sports Illustrated lays off most of its staff, threatening iconic brand’s future" (WaPo).

IN THE COMMENTS: There are many variations on "Get woke, go broke" — including "Sports Illustrated Bud-lit itself" (from Ice Nine) — but I like this from Prof. M. Drout:

Beege Welborn at Hat Hair, Go Woke, Go Look For a Job: Entire Staff of Sports Illustrated Kicked to the Curb. "Here is a harsh truism, straight from a Marine: Obese women in bikinis and trans freaks in French-cut suits do not sell magazines. NOBODY WANTS TO SEE THAT SCHLITZ."

Breitbart, FBI Arrests Radical Transgender Person Suspect over Threats to ‘Kill Transphobes’. I'm a little surprised they didn't let it get a few first. 

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