Flotsam and Jetsam - America Under Attack - Terror in New Orleans, Las Vegas

Terrorists decided to throw a going away party for the Biden?Harris administration, or was it a welcome to the party gift to the incoming Trump administration? In the early hours of New Years day, a American-born former Army Staff Sargent named Shamsud Din Jabbar, drove a rented truck with an ISIS flag into a crowd of people in the New Orleans French Quarter, got out of the truck loaded with explosives, and began shooting, whereupon he was swiftly killed by police. At least 15 people were killed, with many more in the hospital, some in critical condition. Around the same time, cameras picked up 3 men and one woman planting IEDs in the neighborhood, including one at St. Louis Cathedral. The Sugar Bowl, scheduled yesterday at a nearby stadium, was postponed until today so that more security could be imposed. The FBI reflexively reported that, despite the obvious ISIS connection, the attack was not terrorism, but then rapidly changed it's mind? and announced it was terrorism, and that it was looking for additional suspects. Later in the day, a Tesla Cyber Truck exploded in front of the front doors of the Trump Tower in Las Vegas, killing the driver, injuring some bystanders, totaling the truck, but not doing any serious damage to the hotel, probably because the Cyber Truck is so strong. Initially it was determined the truck was rented using the same app (Turo) as the one in NOLA, and subsequently the driver was identified as an Army vet who served at the same unit as the NOLA attacker, Matthew Livelsberger, a former Green Beret. Outgoing FBI Director Christopher Wray briefly stopped searching for J6ers, overly devout Catholics, and irate parents and  issued some platitudes about the fine special agents of the FBI  getting to the bottom of it all, and is scheduled give an unclassified briefing to Congress today. Even President? Biden took the stage to slur his way through a pre-written statement without taking any questions. Benny Johnson@bennyjohnson, "America is under Attack. This most important question in the country right now: How many hundreds of FBI counterterrorism agents were reassigned to ‘hunt’ peaceful January 6th protesters while terrorists poured into our country to organize and kill us. This is the REAL Crime."  Welcome to 2025!

PJM's Stephen Kruiser wants to know Can We Put a Rush Job on January 20? Leading Report @LeadingReport, "More FBI staff are allegedly threatening to resign if the Senate votes to confirm Kash Patel as FBI Director." Stop. I already want him! Gain of Fauci@DschlopesIsBack, "Let me get this straight... a white FBI Director (Chris Wray) gets fired and replaced by a brown minority Director (Kash Patel) and members of the FBI's DEI office are now protesting and threatening to resign? The irony is ALMOST too good to be true." Matt Margolis at PJM reminds us Tom Homan Puts Every Illegal Migrant on Notice. “The ones who pose the biggest threat to the country – they come first. The worst first,” Homan continued. “But let’s be clear, if you’re in the country illegally, you’re not off the table.” From Da Fetched, Border Patrol Union President Issues Warning to Democrats Planning to Defy Trump’s Deportation Plans. At the Pop Times, Liberals Exaggerated Cost of Deporting Illegal Immigrants Sevenfold – And Massively Underestimated Cost of Their Crimes. If so, it's the first time liberals overestimated the cost of a government program. NYPo reports Cops identify NJ woman as mystery straphanger torched to death in horrific NYC subway attack. 

Mike LaChance at LI notices WaPo Columnist Jennifer Rubin Insults Trump Voters, Attacks Her Own Paper for Trying to Reach Them, "there’s nothing that The Washington Post could possibly do that would have those people take out a subscription.” From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 01.01.24 (Afternoon Edition), Twitchy: Asparagus Fortune Teller Says Vegetable Told Her Trump Will Have “Health Scare” In The New Year and Donk Strategist Gets Bodied For Claiming Democrats Fix Economies Broken By Republicans.

White House Insists Jimmy Carter Is Still Sharp And Focused Behind Closed Doors https://t.co/SLkhhWPDLd pic.twitter.com/tZc2eWj1zb

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) January 1, 2025

From No Pasaran! RIP Jimmy Carter, the American Chamberlain whose naïve foreign policy led Iran to became the world's biggest sponsor of terror. 

From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 01.01.24 (Afternoon Edition), EBL, Democrats Lied About Biden’s Decline. NYPo ed board, Journos who joined gaslighting on Biden’s decline should never live it down. At Florida's Voice, Byron Donalds slams media, Biden advisors over ‘coverup’ of president’s cognitive decline. Jeff Blehar at NRO wonders Why Do We Accept Government by an Invalid? Matt Vespa at TownHall utters The One Name That Dems Should Remember Regarding Their 2024 Loss "When Special Counsel Robert Hur dropped his report on his investigation into Joe Biden’s mishandling of classified information, his annotations about Biden being a frail man with memory issues sent Democrats into a rage despite no charges being filed. Why so serious, Democrats?". Something I didn't realize, "Hur’s notes on Biden’s mental health were following department policy. He might disagree with his wording, but these investigators must include anything that could be problematic for the prosecution at trial. Joe, being viewed as an old frail man with a bad memory, might be sympathetic to a jury." Driscoll at Insty, on the VOYAGE OF THE DAMMED: Pete Buttigieg Comparing Biden Admin Accomplishments To Construction Of Hoover Dam Is A Massive Fail. Althouse finds "The idea that [Lloyd] Austin would even attempt to fob off a catastrophe like this with mumblings about his surprise amid ineffectual efforts to avert it is absurd." "Says the Editorial Board of the New York Post, in "Plea deal for KSM & other 9/11 terrorists is a final Biden ‘Screw you!’ to America.""

Mia Cathell at TownHall  thinks we should Thank Trump We Won't Have to Celebrate Kamala's Commie Holiday, Kwanza with a history of the holiday that includes ''People think it's African, but it's not,'' Karenga said of the long con. ''I wanted to give black people a holiday of their own, so I came up with Kwanzaa. I said it was African because, you know, black people in this country wouldn't celebrate it if they knew it was American. Also, I put it around Christmas because I knew that's when a lot of people would be partying," Karenga confessed."

Ace likes Comedian Whitney Cummings Roasts CNN and the Democrats Live "I've seen her on podcasts. I don't know what her politics are, but she did not seem to be part of the woke left and I think I saw her knocking feminists for their own toxic attacks on men." She's been seen here before. 

🚨 LMAO! Comedian Whitney Cummings is absolutely ROASTING Kamala Harris and CNN… while on CNN 🤣🔥

“Kamala was forced on us so hard you’d think she was patented by Pfizer!”

“I’m now playing like 3,000 seat theaters, which is about the viewership of CNN these days.”

She’s… pic.twitter.com/aZvnH6o5AQ

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) January 1, 2025

Victory Girls ask Don’t Let Democrats Or Media Get Away With Their Lies. Sundance wants to remind us  Elon Musk Gave DOJ the User Data of Every MAGA Account on Twitter, under subpoena. From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 01.01.24 (Afternoon Edition), Vox Popoli calls  2024 The Year the Masks Came Off and Don Surber on Why NPR wanted that congressional pay raise.

Dave Strom at Hat Hair is Calling Pete Hegseth...

How much more convincing do we need to demonstrate that our military is not a trained and ready force for WAR?

Our U.S. Navy has “insufficient gender experts?”

I’ll tell you what, how about ensuring our ships don’t crash into each other at sea or not shooting our own damn… https://t.co/SNsUOkHOUC

— General Mike Flynn (@GenFlynn) December 30, 2024

Jesse Singal at Singal Minded reports Yale’s “Integrity Project” Is Spreading Misinformation About The Cass Review And Youth Gender Medicine: Part 3. "This was all really, really bad."