Flotsam and Jetsam - FBI Declares NOLA Attacker a Lone Wolf

As far as they know now. The original reports of 3 men and 1 women planting the IEDs have turned out to be bystanders, and what's his name, oh yeah, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, planted the IEDs and was carrying a detonator. Stacy McCain, on Terrorism on Bourbon Street. "When I woke up Wednesday morning and first heard about this incident, I did not immediately think “terrorism.”" At RedState, Jen O'Connell sees Biden and Trump Issue Statements on the NOLA Terrorist Attack, and Hoo Boy, What a Difference, "January 20 cannot come soon enough," and Nick Arama says Don't Worry, Folks! Biden Posts About Being on the Case of Attacks—but a Photo He Shared Is Concerning. Needs name cards to keep track of his cabinet. Capt. Ed at Hat Hair, FBI: On Second Thought, New Orleans Terrorist Acted Alone. USAToday, New Orleans attacker planted explosives on Bourbon Street, Biden says. NewsMax, FBI: New Orleans Attacker Worked Alone, Las Vegas Blast Not Linked, despite many disturbing "coincidences." Dave Strom at Hat Hair says It's All One Fight. From Ace, Both the NOLA and Vegas Terrorists Served at the Same Army Base; FBI Claims "No Definitive Link." Kurt Schlichter @KurtSchlichter "Least shocking thing I’ve heard today," Quote Breanna Morello @BreannaMorello, "The New York Post was at the New Orleans ter*orist’s home before the FBI. Let that sink in…" Nick Arama again, Elon Helped Cops Track Vegas Explosion Suspect, Nails Media for How They Painted Incident. "Maybe they should be reporting on how Musk helped track this person down, including video from the charging stations to track the guy." All of the news that fits the narrative, and none of the news that doesn't. Matt Vespa at TownHall finds CNN's National Security Analyst Dropped an Interesting Take About the Tesla Cybertruck Bomber "And leave it to CNN to have a national security expert say that we don’t know if Livelsberger was anti-Trump or not." 'Bonchie' at RedState, NEW: Possible Motive in Cybertruck Explosion Revealed. "Before this report, all we had were smiling pictures of him and his wife, with the reasonable assumption being they were still together. But if she left him over infidelity, that would go a long way in providing a reason for him to be suicidal. It would also explain why someone with Livelsberger's expertise on weapons and explosives would stuff some fireworks and gas canisters in the back of a steel-bodied truck and call it a day. If you assume he was trying to kill other people, that seems like a pretty big mistake. If you make the counter-assumption that he wasn't trying to kill other people, though, then it all starts to make a lot more sense. Authorities are even looking into the idea that he chose a Cybertruck specifically because it would limit any collateral damage. Further, Livelsberger's uncle claims that despite his wife's reported anti-Trump feelings, Livelsberger himself was very supportive of the incoming president." The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee "Tesla Cybertruck Voted 'Worst Vehicle' By National Association Of Terrorist Car Bombers https://buff.ly/4j240wQ."

Guy Benson@guypbenson, "A jihadist just committed a lethal terrorist attack in one American city — and terrorism supporters are marching in another one, hours later." Ace, In Wake of Twin Terror Attacks, Hundreds of Muslims and Pro-Jihad Terrorists March for "Intifada" In New York City, "Why are we importing tens of thousands of foreign guerilla terrorists into the country?" Sister Toldja at RedState, Woke Influencer Accidentally Provides Exhibit A on How Not to Act on Social Media After Terrorist Attack. Joe Concha@JoeConchaTV "This utter clown celebrates terrorism and somehow gets more than 300,000 likes for the effort. Several people were injured. It could have been much worse. Ron sees it as a perfect time for a cheap laugh. Just a sick human being." Quote "Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski, "A real photo and perfect metaphor heading into 2025." Beege Wellborn at Hat Hair, So, About Yesterday: Do Not Allow the Left to Do the Jihadi Two-Step." Althouse, "Love you always brother! You inspired me every day, now you get to be with me in every moment. I got this family, T, don’t worry." "Wrote Jack Bech, to his brother Martin “Tiger” Bech, 27, who played football for Princeton and died in the Bourbon Street massacre."

From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 01.02.25, EBL, At least 10 killed after vehicle hits crowd of people in New Orleans, and ISIS Terrorist Shamsud Din Jabbar, Twitchy, NOLA Terrorist’s Mosque’s Response To Terror Attack Filled With Red Flags, and FBI Totally Did The Meme AGAIN, Vox Popoli, Magic Dirt Fail in New Orleans, Dana Loesch: Terror Attacks In New Orleans & Las Vegas To Start The New Year, Don Surber: New Year, same FBI-NYT lies.

At PJM VodkaPundit asks What Will You Miss the Least About Joe Biden?, Stephen Kruise says I Can't Wait for All of That Biden Decency and Dignity to Go Away, Matt Margolis notes All Is Not Well in the Biden White House and Cathy Salgado finds Expert Breaks Down Bidenomics ‘Incompetence’ or ‘Fraud.’ Embrace the healing power of "and." At WaEx Paul Bedard examines the Biden legacy: Most red tape ever and more in pipeline. Hat Hair's Dave Strom thinks the Biden Regime Has Nothing to Lose.

Matt Margolis thinks James Carville Destroyed His Reputation Cheerleading For Kamala Harris. What reputation? Insty cites KURT SCHLICHTER: How did my predictions for 2024 pan out? “I was doing pretty well until I got here: ‘Joe Biden is not going to be replaced, and he will be on the ballot in November. I’m not sure if he’ll know it, though. Man, picking Kamala Harris was the greatest insurance policy anybody ever took out.’ I further opined that ‘the Democrats will win in November.’ In my defense, I said that hoping ‘my track record of being wrong about my predictions holds up.’ It held up, thankfully.” Ruy Teixeira at The Liberal Patriot decries The Democrats’ Culture Denialism "They just don’t get it."

And Jimmy Carter is still dead. John Solomon at JTN, Sincere tributes aside, Jimmy Carter’s legacy still hampers a world Trump must fix "From Iran and the Panama Canal to the U.S. Education Department, America is still feeling the impact of a Carter presidency 44 years later." Matt Margolis, Yeah, Jimmy Carter's Post-Presidency Actions Were 'Borderline Treasonous' 

At Hat Hair, More, Please: Trump's New Year's Wish Is So Normal. Trump War Room @TrumpWarRoom "REPORTER: Have you got any New Year Resolutions for 2025? PRESIDENT TRUMP: I just want everybody to be happy, healthy, and well." NewsMax posts President-Elect Trump's 4 Big New Year's Resolutions "Bring peace to Ukraine and Russia . . . Securing the Border . . . Reviving the U.S. economy . . . Make America strong again." Paul Bedard has a poll, Most expect Trump to achieve top campaign promises. At AMAC, A New Dawn for American Justice. The Verge, US soldier arrested after allegedly posting hacked Trump and Harris call logs. Bipartisan mischief. 

Duane Patterson at Hat Hair not looking forward to Mike Johnson's High Noon Moment Tomorrow (today). C'mon Republicans, get your shit together. Sundance at CTH hosts Mike Johnson Discusses the Terrorist Attack in New Orleans as well as His Conversation with Donald Trump About Speaker Vote.  

A Driscoll post at Insty, CRISES BY DESIGN: "Pure Gold: MSNBC Sadly Admits How Bad Biden Was on Immigration, Trump Was Right. But they did run a segment on “Morning Joe” where they surprisingly did something I don’t think I’ve ever seen before: admit that Trump was right and illegal immigration did in fact shoot up under Biden. The funniest thing was how regretful host Joe Scarborough seemed about having to say it." Rich Lowry at NYPo, Forget Musk’s H1-B visa spat — merit immigration is the fight we need. At AMP America, Elon Musk Channels ‘Tropic Thunder’ in Defense of H-1B Visas. At TNP, REVEALED: Tesla Laid Off THOUSANDS of U.S. Workers, Replaced Them With H-1B Migrants.

From the Pop Times, Georgia AG Requests State Supreme Court Not to Reinstate DA Fani Willis in Trump’s Election Interference Case.

From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 01.02.25, From Twitchy, Biden Proves J6 Committee WAS Totally Political AND Makes Liz Cheney Look Even WORSE in One Fell SWOOP. Also at the Pop Times, Biden Honors Two January 6 Committee Panelists Cheney and Thompson With the Second Highest Civilian Award. Sundance calls it Purposeful Antagonism – Biden Awards Liz Cheney the Presidential Citizens Award for Meritorious Bipartisanship and Exemplary Citizenship. "This is nothing more than purposeful antagonism and a stick in the eye on his way out the door. Team Joe Biden award former House Rep Liz Cheney with the Presidential Award for Outstanding Citizenship." Breitbart has a Report: Andrew McCabe Targeted Trump After Comey Firing, Using ‘Dossier’ Author. Is it really news?

The Redoubtable Julie Kelly at her substack, reports a House Report Discloses New Information on Unsolved J6 Pipe Bomber, "House Republicans reveal stonewalling, major security lapses, and misrepresentations by top law enforcement officials related to the still at-large J6 pipe bomber." Matt Vespa says FBI Decides to Punch Itself in the Face Again With This Update on the J6 Bomber "The latest from the FBI: this person is about five-foot-seven inches. That’s it. . . . It took five years to release the height of this person." At this point, I think we can assume the FBI either knows who did it, or was in on it, and it's up to them to prove me wrong. Althouse, "Who planted pipe bombs outside offices of the Democratic and Republican national committees in Washington on the eve of the attack on the Capitol?" ""Hoping to generate new tips from the public, the FBI is releasing more information about its pipe bomb investigation, including an estimate that the unidentified suspect is about 5 feet 7 inches tall. The bureau also is posting previously unreleased video of the suspect placing one of the bombs.... From "FBI releases new video of a suspect planting a pipe bomb near DNC offices on eve of the Capitol riot" (AP). ADDED: Why is the FBI releasing this now? I assume it's part of a defense against the incoming Trump Administration, a way to claim they're been working on this all along. Ridiculous news about the person's height and the shoes they wore 4 years ago!"

Stacy McCain, ‘There Was Never Any Evidence’: FBI Lied About White Supremacist Terrorism. "“According to the intelligence community,” said Biden in 2021, “terrorism from white supremacy is the most lethal threat to the homeland today. Not ISIS, not al Qaeda — white supremacists.” . . . Between 2012 and 2021, Islamic extremists committed five acts of domestic US terrorism that killed 77 people, whereas white supremacists committed four acts of domestic terrorism that killed 49 people." At Am Think Jack Cashill is thinking about The FBI's Oblivious Terror Agenda. "To understand the obscenely disproportionate time, effort, and expense wasted on pursuing the J6ers first multiply Lavrenz’s case by 1600 and then recall that the Kavanaugh rioters got off with $30-$50 fines. Now, keep this calculus in mind next time you learn of a lethal attack on American citizens."

Capt. Ed approves of the NY Post: Make the Media Pay for the Largest Cover-Up in US History. From Twitchy, We Did NOT Have Keith Olbermann Attacking Brian Stelter for Reporting the TRUTH on Our Bingo Card But .... Althouse is delighted when the "community notes" feature of X backfires on Elon Musk, The power of X community notes.

At Da Wire,  DOJ Spent Over $100 Million Pushing DEI, Restorative Justice In Classrooms, Report Finds 'It's appalling, although not surprising, that DOJ bureaucrats would prioritize DEI initiatives over student safety.' From Campus Reform, Ohio could pass comprehensive college DEI ban in 2025. Jacob Sullum at Reason is outraged when A University President Accused of Squandering Public Money Resigns in Exchange for a $2 Million Payout "Western New Mexico University's Board of Regents approved the severance package for Joseph Shepard after a state audit highlighted $364,000 in "wasteful" and "improper" spending." Cheaper to keep him. 

Althouse is bemused, This is not a bad right-wing comedy sketch. This is a scene in the movie "Emilia Pérez," which was honored with 10 Golden Globe nominations.

 

Some things are beyond parody.

A Driscoll post at Insty, BOB BARKER SAYS, REMEMBER TO HAVE YOUR COMEDIANS SPAYED AND NEUTERED! "Comedian Says It’s ‘Dangerous’ For Dave Chappelle To Joke About Trans People."