Two more days, but who's counting? The Pop Times, that's who, Countdown to Inauguration. Instapundit, at his substack says Happy DJT Day "Monday marks a new kind of holiday." The Free Bacon sees Apex Trump " Donald Trump's power arrives before the presidency."
Of course, you've probably heard, from Sundance at CTH, Citing “Weather Concerns” President Trump Announces Inauguration Ceremony Moved Inside Capitol Rotunda. "Citing concerns with “cold weather,” nudge-nudge, wink-wink, say-no- more / say-no-more, President Trump announces via Truth Social that his swearing in and inauguration speech will now be moved inside and take place in the Capitol rotunda." The weather Monday is supposed to be mid-20s, with wind chills bringing the "feels-like" into the teens. No big deal for a midwesterner or an Alaskan, but a bit daunting for us mid-Atlantic folk. No need to subject large crowds to it. At Twitchy, David Axelrod, Twitter's Own Petty Betty, Scoffs at Trump's Indoor Inauguration and via the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 01.17.25 (Evening Edition), Twitchy: Tim Walz Tries To Dunk On Trump For Moving Inauguration Indoors & Gets Rekt and The Federalist, Federalist CEO Sean Davis Drops Stunning Details About The Butler Trump Assassination Attempt In Tucker Carlson Interview, Of course, security concerns may be playing a part; there have only been two near miss assassination attempts on the former President and President-to-be in the past year. Insty is PROBABLY TOO SUSPICIOUS. BUT I HOPE SECURITY IS EXTRA TIGHT. @instapundit @instapundit, "All these absences make me nervous for Trump’s safety." Quote Miranda Devine@mirandadevine, "The good news just keeps coming! Nancy Pelosi won't attend Trump's inauguration." Susan Crabtree@susancrabtree, "BREAKING: Trump to announce Sean Curran, the head of his Secret Service campaign detail, as Secret Service director, according to three sources who I've spoken over several days this week. Curran is on the right in this iconic photo from the July 13 Butler assassination attempt. More to come..."
Sundance hosts DHS Nominee Kristi Noem Senate Confirmation Hearing – 9:00am EST Livestream. From Fox, Trump DHS pick Noem pledges to end controversial app used by migrants on 'day one’ "Nearly 1.5M have been paroled in through CBP One and a linked parole program." Dave Strom at Hat Hair hears Senator Blumenthal say to Kristi Noem: Ignore the 300,000 Missing Children... under Biden. Bad Hombre@joma_gc, "Sen. Moreno: Mayorkas let in about 12,000 murderers. How many would you let in? Gov. Noem: None. Sen. Moreno: Mayorkas let in 6,000 rapists into this country. How many would you let in? Gov. Noem: My goal would be none. Sen. Moreno: Mayorkas let in 600,000 with criminal convictions. How many would you let in? Gov. Noem: Those with criminal convictions will be immediately removed. Sen. Moreno: How many private jets will you send to fly people into this country? Gov. Noem: We won’t be undertaking that program. Sen. Moreno: How many illegals will you be housing in luxury hotels? Gov. Noem: That will not be a part of this new administration. Sen. Moreno: How many sex change operations for illegals would you fund? Gov. Noem: We will not allow that." At the Balmer Sun, Alsobrooks questions Trump's EPA nominee Lee Zeldin. From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 01.17.25 (Morning Edition), from Twitchy, Yup, She BROKE Him! Adam Schiff Still CRYING to Nicolle Wallace About Pam Bondi and It's GLORIOUS (Watch). At WUWT, Live at 1 p.m. Eastern Time: Trump’s Climate Cabinet – The Climate Realism Show #141. Wombat's In The Mailbox: 01.17.25 (Evening Edition), Louder With Crowder: Bernie Sanders tries playing the “oligarchy” card with Trump’s Treasury Secretary, gets hit with a reality check, MAHA for the win!, American Greatness: 145 House Dems Vote Against Bill to Deport Illegal Aliens Who Commit Sexual Assault, Nearly Half of Federal Employees Say They Plan to Resist Trump’s Incoming Administration, and Pete Hegseth is the Leader Our Military Needs, Legal Insurrection, Sen. Mazie Hirono Establishes that No Trump Nominees Have Made Unwanted Sexual Advances, Victory Girls: Tammy Duckworth Dragged By Fox News Joey Jones, The Federalist Conservatives Say, Noem Confirmation Hearing Highlights How Much DHS Rot She’ll Have To Clean Out, and Good Riddance, Deb Haaland.
Sundance, Stephen Miller Encapsulates Immediate Objectives of President Trump. "Stephen Miller articulates the non-pretending reality of what the people around Joe Biden have done with horrific outcomes for our nation. Then Miller quickly moves to articulate what exactly President Trump is going to do about it." The NYSun wonders Will Trump Call Biden’s Bluff on Cuba? "Senator Rubio, at his confirmation hearing for secretary of state, makes it clear that he knows what the Castroite communists are up to." Shooting News Weekly sees ATF Reverses ‘Zero Tolerance’ Enforcement Policy That Shut Down Hundreds of FFLs Nationwide, Trump effect? At WaEx, Trump brings hope for shoring up the steel industry. At Oil Price, U.S. LNG Industry Prepares for Boom Years Under Trump. From Da Wire, Energy Experts Urge Incoming Trump Administration To Stop EPA Abuse. From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 01.17.25 (Morning Edition), Louder With Crowder, Oh no, you guys! Mike Pence is OPPOSING RFK Jr’s nomination as HHS Chairman and Sources: Hegseth’s Confirmation. More Trump effect? at Ace In a "Huge Win," the Woke Corporate Cartel "Net Zero" Stops Operations as Corporations Back Away from Toxic Wokeness, "This was the group of financial services companies using their immense power to force countries to immiserate themselves by not producing energy."
Sundance, Speaker Mike Johnson Selects Arkansas Rep Rick Crawford to Chair Powerful House Intel Committee
Also at Da Wire, Greenland PM: ‘We Don’t Want To Be Americans … But We Want A Strong Cooperation’ "Egede said he wants the U.S. to maintain its military presence in Greenland." Algemeiner, Mike Waltz Vows Trump Admin Will Support Israel Resuming Operations in Gaza if Hamas Violates Ceasefire Deal. Mark Simon on Substack, The CCP Was Expecting a Harris Win. It Didn’t Happen and Trump’s Election is Changing Xi’s GamePlan.
Capt. Ed at Hat Hair, More Biden: I Hereby Commute ERA's 1982 Deadline Too. President Biden @POTUS "Today I'm affirming what I have long believed and what three-fourths of the states have ratified: The 28th Amendment is the law of the land, guaranteeing all Americans equal rights and protections under the law regardless of their sex." WaT, National Archives rebuffs Biden’s attempt to add Equal Rights Amendment to Constitution. It doesn't work like that. Noah Rothman @NoahCRothman, "When you think about it, it’s nice to live in a system where the commander of the armed forces declares that the founding legal charter is permanently amended and we all just laugh at him and nothing happens." Mark Hemingway@Heminator, "*RECORD SCRATCH* "Yup, that's my wife ratioing the president of the United States. You're probably wondering how I ended up here, well..." Quote, Mollie@MZHemingway "Replying to @POTUS Sir, this is not how the Constitution works. Dementia is not a magic ticket to become a dictator that asserts Constitutional amendments into existence." Ace, Demented Tyrant Biden Now Presumes to Change the Constitiution By His Kingly Pronouncement, Adding an Amendment to the Constitution Via a Tweet.
PJM's Matt Margolis, Biden Issues Thousands More Commutations in New Clemency Blitz. Sundance, Biden Pardons 2,500 “Non-Violent Drug Offenders” and Indicates More Pardons Likely. From WokeSpy, “We Did It, Joe!” – Poll Finds Biden Is Set To Go Down As One Of America’s Worst Ever Presidents. Althouse, "Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.’s obituary will be stalked by the counterfactual: What if he hadn’t made the selfish decision to run for reelection?" ""What if he had passed the torch a year or even six months earlier?... The way that events unfolded—his catastrophic debate performance, the stark clarity with which the nation came to understand his geriatric state–-beggars belief. Why didn’t Democrats stage an intervention earlier? Why didn’t his aides stop him from running?" Writes Franklin Foer in The Atlantic, in "How Biden Destroyed His Legacy/The president’s accomplishments are considerable, but on his signature issue of preserving democracy, he failed spectacularly."" "ADDED: I keep rereading this sentence: "A cabal intent on preserving its own power would never have blundered in such tragically self-defeating fashion." It gets funnier every time." Matt Vespa at TownHall, The NYT Details the Dem Plot to Oust Joe Biden...and It's a Doozy. Scott Jennings@ScottJenningsKY "Step 1 - engage in the largest coverup of a president’s mental condition in the history of the United States" Quote, Axios@axios, "How to lead like Biden chief of staff Jeff Zients: 8 skills to know https://trib.al/VULXBj6"
From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 01.17.25 (Morning Edition), Louder With Crowder, Let’s take a dump on Joe Biden one final time – his farewell address was a derptastic swan song, Don Surber: Best farewell speech of my life, First Street Journal: It was never about “protecting democracy”. Via the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 01.17.25 (Evening Edition), The Lid: Another Poll Shows Americans Think Joe Biden is the Worst President in History, Shot In The Dark, The Bullets We Dodged, The Federalist: An Embarrassment For Every Month: The Worst Blunders, Failures, And Flops Of Biden’s Final Year,
At Da Blaze, Here are the top oddities and falsehoods from Biden's farewell address. Bob Hoge, Peter Doocy Reveals What Actually Happened After Hot Mic Caught Biden Calling Him a 'Son of a B' "The Fox News correspondent, who has covered Biden since the launch of his 2020 campaign, said the president called him to address the name call and promised to take him out for lunch, which never ended up occurring." Robby Soave at Reason, Biden's Farewell F-You to Elon Musk, "The president opposes the tech "oligarchy" because it has stopped listening to him." Sister Toldja at RedState hears The Assessments From Biden Insiders on Karine Jean-Pierre's Tenure Have Started - and They Are Brutal. "“I am not sure there is someone that did more damage to the president’s reputation than her — it is really sad.” At 1945, Blame Joe Biden If Ukraine Loses the War to Russia. Ace, The CIA Analyst and Traitor Who Leaked Israel's Military Plans to Iran Pleads Guilty in Court, Asif Rahman.
Via the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 01.17.25 (Evening Edition) American Greatness: 145 House Dems Vote Against Bill to Deport Illegal Aliens Who Commit Sexual Assault, Da Fetched reports 145 Democrats Vote Against Deporting Illegal Alien Sexual Predators from U.S. Duane Patterson at Hat Hair has a list of what he thinks were The Top Ten Dumbest Things Said By A Democrat...Thursday. So many to chose from.
VodkaPundit at Insty, "MANDATES ARE DUMB: And Suddenly, Gavin Newsom’s Electric Car Mandate Looks Pretty Dumb to LA Fire Victims “No mocking these poor folks, America, because this Caltastrophe may have bought more time for the rest of the country to shout down the climate cultists in state houses across the country. California’s proof of concept showed that climate nirvana doesn’t protect the environment for humans.” I’m OK with more mocking." Da Signal reports How a Woke Newsom Appointee Dismantled California’s Volunteer Firefighting Force. Capt. Ed reads the LAT: People Fleeing Dem-Controlled States May Be a Problem For Progs. Via the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 01.17.25 (Evening Edition) ,357 Magnum: The Mayor of LA and the Governor of California Wanted the City to Burn, American Greatness, Man Seen Starting Fires With Blow Torch in LA County Not Charged With Arson, Chicago Boyz: The Fire Next Time, First Street Journal, How the severity of the California wildfires is Donald Trump’s fault, Hollywood In Toto, Andrew Schulz Thinks Fire Fallout Will Turn California Red, The Lid: Another Poll Shows Americans Think Joe Biden is the Worst President in History, We Can Change The World-Together, and California’s Largest Lithium Battery Plant Goes Up in Flames, Legal Insurrection: Recall Effort Against Gov. Gavin Newsom Ignites in California, Nebraska Energy Observer: So the fires continue in Cali along with the demands for politicians to resign, Watts Up With That:Massive Fire Engulfs Moss Landing Battery Plant,
MD Kittle at Da Fed reports Wisconsin Court Race Is A Buyer Beware Election, Conservatives Say.
Althouse, Supreme Court upholds the TikTok ban. "Opinion here. Per curiam. Sotomayor concurs, but let's read the Gorsuch opinion, concurring:. . . " Pixie at Ace's Daily Tech News 18 January 2025 "Top Story "In a groundbreaking decision that will have lasting consequences for Chinese spyware apps, the Supreme Court said "yeah, whatever" and waved the TikTok divest-or-die law through the gate. (CNN) The law is due to go into effect tomorrow, but since the Biden Administration is currently busy looting the treasury and fleeing the country, will be left to Trump to enforce."
Stacy McCain has the Least Surprising News of the Week? "I’m not surprised. You’re not surprised. Nobody’s surprised: A Trump-bashing, Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist — whose illustrations have been published by the Washington Post, New Yorker and Los Angeles Times — was arrested for possession of child pornography." Ace, Trump Bashing WaPo Cartoonist -- the First Black American to Win a Pulitzer for Cartooning -- Arrested for Possession of Child S*x Exploitation Materials. "Oh, you don't say. You don't say. A leftwinger? And a cartoonist? Likes looking at naked children? You don't say, you don't say, you don't say." Althouse, The death of “Democracy Dies in Darkness." "I'm reading "The Washington Post’s New Mission: Reach ‘All of America’ /This week, The Post began trying out a new mission statement: 'Riveting Storytelling for All of America'" (NYT) . . . The new slogan is terrible. The old slogan was also terrible, but at least it was ridiculous. "Riveting Storytelling for All of America" is just really dumb — a dumb slogan expressing the opinion that America is dumb, but what are you going to do?"
Hollywood in Toto, sees Dueling Bills: Maher Slams Dems While Burr Blasts Conservatives. From Slay, Joy Behar: ‘Convicted Felon’ Trump Is ‘Not a Normal Person’. Pot, kettle. Will her head explode on Monday?
The redoubtable Julie Kelly @julie_kelly2, "Sounds like the DC judges held quite the banger in court today--partisan hacks until the very end. Per Politico: Tanya Chutkan before sentencing a J6er to 10 days in prison on misdemeanor: “I only wish the rest of the country could see some of the things I see. This may be, based on what happens outside these courthouse walls, the last one of these. I don’t know. . . .” Lorraine Yuriar at Chapter and Verse, Trump Case Report Volume 1. "This report deals with J6; The FL case report has been held back due to the ongoing trial of Trump's employees, Nauta and DeOliviera."
At Fox, FBI assistant special agent in charge who said New Orleans attack 'not a terrorist event' reassigned, "The FBI later put out a statement confirming the Bourbon Street attack was 'terrorism.'"
From TNP, EXC: San Francisco Settles With Judicial Watch, Will End Taxpayer-Funded Transgender Guaranteed Income Program. If you want more of something, subsidize it.
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