Flotsam and Jetsam - He's Making a List and Checking it Twice, Kash Patel is Coming to Town

WokeSpy reports Incoming FBI Director Kash Patel Releases “60 Deep State Names” He’s Going After. A long and interesting collection. Most of the names will be familiar to those who have kept up with the reading. At OTP, Here Comes The Deep State: 100YO Spymaster Opposes Patel, Gabbard. At Da Caller, DAVID BOSSIE says Musk, Ramaswamy’s DOGE Must Make America Solvent Again and Herald Hutchinson posts ‘Somebody Got Stuffed In A Locker’: Scott Jennings Weighs In On Ramaswamy Squabble. Sundance at CTH, A Highly Toxic Silicon Valley Meltdown Over Well Documented H1B Visa Fraud Explodes. Scott Pinsker at PJM thinks There’s a Judas in the MAGAverse, we just don't know who it is yet. "Beginning on Jan. 20, there’s going to be an open casting call for a MAGA traitor. Call him (or her) a Judas, a Brutus, or a Benedict Arnold; the fact remains that the first person to plunge a dagger into the back of Trump will be showered with candy, flowers, and wild, passionate love from the left. And someone in MAGAville will take the bait." At AMP America, How Low Will They Go? Matt Gaetz Continues to Fight Allegations and Politically Motivated Attacks. Release the Epstein files. 

Althouse finds "Remarkably, Trump’s margin of victory in Florida in 2024 was larger than Kamala Harris’s in New York." "Writes Jeffrey H. Anderson, in "How Trump Remade the Electoral Map/The president-elect has shaken up state-level results across his three campaigns" (City Journal)." At OTP, Infighting Over Vote On Speaker Could Delay Trump’s Certification. Breitbart has a Poll: Mike Johnson’s Favorability Drops as Speakership Hangs in the Balance and hears Thomas Massie Doubles Down: ‘I Will Vote for Someone Other than Mike Johnson’. Pop Times has A Trump Rebellion? “I Do Have My Own Mind” –  Senator-Elect John Curtis Vows Not To Be Trump’s “Rubber Stamp” My own view is the Republicans should bite the bullet, elect Johnson, and deal with the fallout later. 

Steve Moore at Hat Hair has 10 New Ideas to Make America's Economy Great Again in 2025. They strike me as good, but not new.

Sarah Arnold at TownHall, Top AG's Words Come Back to Haunt Her After Refusing to Comply With Trump's Deportation Plans, Arizona’s Democrat Attorney General Kris Mayes. At WokeSpy, Gavin Newsom Planning to Help Illegal Migrants Escape Trump’s Deportation Efforts. Da Caller, Guatemala Reportedly Open To Accepting Central American Deportees Kicked Out Under Trump.

MUST WATCH: Rep. Mike Lawler gives a masterclass on the evidence against the Biden crime family, after CNN Host Abby Phillip claims there's no proof of Joe Biden enriching himself.

She then ends the segment as soon as possible. pic.twitter.com/wfO74pzWP3

— Media Research Center (@theMRC) December 27, 2024

Sarah Arnold at TownHall sees Retiring Sen. Joe Manchin Writes Scathing Tweet About Joe Biden, about his commutations. NYPo, Biden regrets leaving presidential race, thinks he could’ve beaten Trump.  From NewsMax, Murder-Rape Victim's Mother: Biden Can't Justify Commutations. At Fox, Biden still regrets dropping out of 2024 presidential race, believes he could have beaten Trump. "The president has been careful not to blame Harris while insisting he could have won re-election." Althouse finds "In private, Biden has also said he should have picked someone other than Merrick Garland as attorney general..." ""... complaining about the Justice Department’s slowness under Garland in prosecuting Trump, and its aggressiveness in prosecuting Biden’s son Hunter, according to people familiar with his comments.... Writes Tyler Pager, in "Joe Biden’s lonely battle to sell his vision of American democracy/In his presidency’s final chapter, Biden has mused about whether he should have handled some decisions differently" (WaPo)(free-access link). This feels like an effort to puff up Biden. Few analysts deny Biden’s accomplishments?! Maybe the trick is to ascribe special meaning to the word "analysts" — if you don't think this is an impressive accomplishment, you're not an analyst. Or maybe the idea is that any accomplishment is an accomplishment, so what's to deny? But look how clearly the article states that Biden intended to use the Justice Department to destroy his political adversary!" (My bold). 

Misty Severi at JTN, Court orders Biden administration to stop selling border wall material. "Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said the Biden administration has confirmed that it will oblige the court order and stop disposing of any further border wall materials over the next 30 days." Matt Vespa at TownHall, Joe Biden's Border Fiasco Contributed to This Issue That Left Him With Another Black Eye, "rising homelessness." At OTP, Biden Admin Paying Wyoming $100M For 1 Square Mile Of Land Next To Grand Teton Park. WaEx, Wyoming governor approves $100 million sale of state land to join Grand Teton National Park. 'Strief' at RedState sees State Department Leaves a Stink Bomb for the Trump Team "The US State Department has declared a US citizen who has been imprisoned in Russia for three years on drug smuggling charges is "wrongfully detained." Marc Fogel, a history teacher from Butler County, PA, was arrested in August 2021 as he returned to Russia for his tenth year teaching there. Fogel had 17 grams of cannabis, which he alleges was obtained by prescription for treating chronic back pain. The Russians looked at it as drug possession and smuggling. They had a point." Matt Vespa again, What the National Archives Just Did Is a Total Scandal. Releasing the photos of Joe, Hunter and the Chinese after the election. 

Joel Kotkin at Am Mind says Democrats Need to Get Over Their Delusions. OTP, One-Time Biden Rival Dean Phillips Says Dems ‘Totally Devoid Of Leadership’. John Sexton at Hat Hair, Progressive Senator: 'This Magic Words Thing Has to Go Away'. Madeline Leesman at TownHall finds a Retiring Congresswoman  who Torches Older Democrats for Staying in Congress ‘Forever’. From Da Blaze has The growing list of lawmakers ditching the Democratic Party. 

Hoyt at Insty, HE ALSO ACCUSES FIRE OF BEING HOT AND BEARS OF DEFECATING IN THE WOODS: Trump accuses Dems of paying celebs millions to endorse Harris’ presidential campaign: ‘What is going on here???’ WaEx, Shawn Fain’s luck goes from bad to worse after Trump victory. "United Auto Workers union head Shawn Fain has experienced a series of misfortunes since his gamble to go all-in with Vice President Kamala Harris failed."

At Da Blaze, Fani Willis may have to testify before Georgia Senate for alleged misconduct in Trump case. That should be amusing. WaEx lists Five Jack Smith moments Republicans could investigate.

At RedState Nick Arama finds the New Rasmussen Poll Has More Bad News for Liz Cheney About FBI Investigation. Breanna Morello@BreannaMorello, "57% of voters favor an FBI probe into Liz Cheney, according to @Rasmussen_Poll. Did you hear that, @Kash_Patel?" Brittany Sheehan at RedState, DOJ Tries to Block January 6 Defendants From Trump’s Inauguration, but One Gets Approval. Bernard Hudson at Am Mind examines DEI and the CIA "To underscore how deeply DEI has metastasized inside the host, in a recent enlightening and publicly available statement, the CIA’s Chief DEI officer said there are three criteria by which an intelligence officer can be promoted at America’s most important foreign intelligence service. Only one of them is related to mission impact. The others are a rather vague “corporate mindset”—and DEI."

At Insty, MATT TAIBBI: 2024: Year of the Coverup: The most ignored real stories of 2024, a year in which national media made the mass production of “pseudo-events” a stand-in for news. At Da Mail, CNN journalists offer brutal assessment of why their network is failing, "CNN's stubbornly leftist journalists think they know why their viewers are abandoning ship in record numbers - they're not going hard enough against Donald Trump anymore."

Sundance, Mike Pence and Mitch McConnell Urge Supreme Court to Uphold Tik Tok Ban – President Trump Urges SCOTUS to Delay.

From Da Blaze, Scientific American attacks Jay Bhattacharya for prioritizing Americans' autonomy over 'the science'. We gave up our subscription years ago when they went off the rails. Leslie Eastman at LI finds Europe’s Medical Students Being Trained to Consider Climate Impact of Inhalers and “Green Prescribing”, "Meanwhile, Association of American Medical Colleges did a survey and found that 55% of medical schools reported that the health effects of climate change were a required topic in their courses."

Capt. Ed at Hat Hair hears the WSJ Declares Progressive Moment Is Over -- Globally. Prematurely, I suspect. At the College Fix, UVA alumni group accuses university of ignoring rampant campus antisemitism.

At Campus Reform, University of Iowa drops Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies department. At WokeSpy, High School Athlete Suffers Life-Changing Injury in Volleyball Match With Transgender Opponent. "On September 1, 2022, Payton’s team faced an opponent with a male player claiming to be female. A spike from this transgender competitor struck Payton in the head and neck, leaving her unconscious on the gym floor, as reported by The Western Journal. . . . The injury led to life-altering consequences for the once-promising athlete. Payton was diagnosed with a traumatic brain injury, leaving her partially paralyzed on her right side. She struggles with vision, speech, and basic motor functions."