We still seem to be basking in the glow from Trump's first full week in office.At the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 01.27.25, Don Surber had A very Trumpy weekend, "Colombia capitulates and why delaying Bondi as AG helps Trump. . . .Here's the GENIUS part: They found a LOOPHOLE to make this stick. Federal regulations generally protect career employees from being reassigned for at least 120 days after new leadership takes over. But Pam Bondi hasn’t been confirmed yet. The firings come from the ACTING AG." Tom Knighton at TAW, Trump proves Daddy's really home. At WaEx, Paul Bedard's White House Report Card: Trump delivers on promises in first week. TCW, My TCW week in review – no one says it better than Steyn. Kurt Schlichter at TownHall says Trump’s Shock and Awe Campaign Is Our Conservative Dream Come True. Stephen Kruiser at PJM, Trump 47, Week One — The Democrats Don't Know What Hit Them. Althouse finds "[Stephen Miller] had these big thoughts of execution... what I'll just call flood the zone." The Great Victor Davies at Da Signal tackles The Absurd Outrage Directed at Trump. According to Hoyt, Thank G-d Almighty, Free At Last. Atlantic Council has a Dispatch from Davos: Trump is both symptom and driver of our new geopolitical era. Buck Throckmorton at Ace's helpfully provides Additional Executive Orders to Put Before President Trump. Mark Mitchell, Rasmussen Reports@Mark_R_Mitchell, "Trump approval currently has NO racial demographic signal. Wild! White - 55% Black - 57% Hisp/oth - 58%."
Capt. Ed at Hat Hair likes 37 Minutes: FAFO, Colombia Style. VodkaPundit at PJM says Trump's Golf-Cart Diplomacy Is a Revolution Against the Deep State. Cynical Publius@CynicalPublius, "To fully understand just how remarkable today’s exchange with Colombia was, you need to understand how Washington DC has traditionally worked through these sorts of issues, and the different way it works now under Trump. I’ll illustrate." Dave Strom at Hat Hair, That Colombian President the Left Sides With Against Trump? He Was a Marxist Terrorist. Ace, Socialist President of Colombia Gets Roar of Approval from Anti-American, Pro-Crime Media For Refusing to Take Back His Criminals And Then He Folds. Breitbart reports Colombia Sending Emergency Delegation to D.C. to Fix Leftist President’s Mess. Althouse, "But, if the new tariff regime has been hyper-publicized, it has also been somewhat undertheorized." "From "Why Is the Mastermind of Trump’s Tariff Plan Still Sitting at Home in Florida? Robert Lighthizer, the former U.S. Trade Representative, lost his bid to rejoin the White House, but he still believes the President’s protectionist instincts can jump-start American manufacturing," by Benjamin Wallace-Wells" (The New Yorker)." NewsMax cites the WSJ: Advisers Pushing Trump for Tariffs on Mexico, Canada. ""He’s as serious as a heart attack," Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D."
At ET, Vance Gives First Media Interview as Vice President: 5 Takeaways. NewsMax, Vice President Vance Says US Intelligence Bureaucrats Are 'Out of Control' Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius, "Understand what happened with Pete Hegseth's nomination and confirmation. Pete was overwhelmingly supported by the veterans' community. We know he is a dirty boots warrior who has the gumption to straighten out the mess that is the DoD, and collectively we have been his greatest voice of support. Who vehemently opposed his nomination? -The senior generals, the senior admirals and the SESers in the Pentagon. -The entire defense lobbyist community. -The entire defense industry. -The entire Democrat Party. -Three "Republican" senators who receive massive campaign contributions from the defense industry. . . " 'Bonchie' at RedState, Margaret Brennan's Revealing Mask-Off Moment During Her Interview With JD Vance. Dave Strom, I'd Like to Report a Murder: JD Vance Just Killed Margaret Brennan on Live TV. Ace, "I Don't Really Care, Margaret." "Happy Monday! What a newsy weekend. Vance went on propaganda node CBS' propaganda show and talked to queen of propaganda Margaret Brennan. She attempted a Martha Raddatz-style objection. Raddatz, of course, objected to Vance saying that Tren de Aragua had taken over apartment buildings. "Only a few," she said, as if this were some crushing point." Ryan King at NYPo, JD Vance has blistering response for Catholic bishops who criticized ICE raids in churches: ‘Worried about their bottom line.’
Sundance at CTH hosts Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Gives Remarks Upon Arrival for Work at Pentagon. From Twitchy, HEAP BIG OUCH! James Woods DROPS Elizabeth Warren for Screeching About Pete Hegseth As Only HE Can. From Ace, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (Eat It, Bitch McConnell) Reverses Insubordinate Malicious Compliance from Woke Air Force Official and CIA Director Ratcliffe Releases Suppressed CIA Report: Yes, Covid Was Created in the Wuhan Lab, "They knew, and they lied. Biden knew, and he suppressed the report. The media knew, and they lied. They all knew. They all lied. Please believe the next lies they have upcoming!" NewsMax cites Hegseth: Trump to Order End to DEI in Military, Reinstate Vax-Refusers. Beege Welborn at Hat Hair wants to Break Out the Van Halen - Marco's Going to Panama! At NewsMax, Rubio Threatens Bounties on Taliban Leaders Over Detained Americans. At TownHall Matt Vespa thinks How Elon Musk Is Handling the Fake Nazi Salute Allegations Is Absolutely Hilarious "“Don’t say Hess to Nazi accusations! Some people will Goebbels anything down! Stop Gőring your enemies,” Musk wrote on his social platform X. “His pronouns would’ve been He/Himmler! Bet you did nazi that coming,” he added with a laughing emoji."
Sundance is excited about Three Significant Senate Confirmation Hearings This Week – RFK Jr, Gabbard and Patel. I don't care much about RFK or HHS, it's a waste of money anyway. At Da Wire, Tom Cotton Defends Tulsi Gabbard: No One Should Question Her ‘Patriotism Or Integrity.’ Cotton said that Gabbard's background came back "clean as a whistle." At RedState Nick Arama thinks former? communist John Brennan's Latest Rant Provides Best Accidental Endorsement for Tulsi Gabbard for DNI. From Da Fetched, Rachel Maddow Suffers Full-Blown Meltdown over Tulsi Gabbard’s Appointment as Director of National Intelligence, another endorsement. At Da Fed Elle Purnell notices The New York Times Still Refuses To Admit Kash Patel Was Right About Russiagate "Few people understand the FBI’s Russia hoax abuses as well as Kash Patel, which is probably why The New York Times hates him." OTP notes that the Letter From Doctors Opposing RFK Jr. Reportedly Includes Fake Names.
Tyler O'Neal at NYPo explains How Trump’s team will break down the woke bureaucracy. From Fox, Trump's federal DEI purge puts hundreds on leave, nixes $420M in contracts, "President Trump's executive order on DEI was among dozens he signed on his first day in office." At Althouse,
"The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve." "Writes Matthew J. Vaeth, Acting Director of the Office of Management and Budget, in a memo titled "Temporary Pause of Agency Grant, Loan, and Other Programs."" VodkaPundit at PJM, says Death to DEI: This Is the Real Reason White Lefties Are Panicking. Pop Times sees a DOGE Win: Trump Orders all Federal Employees to Report to Work in Person, How it Affects DEI. Insty, WELL, IF “EDUCATED” PEOPLE THINK IT’S OKAY, CAN IT REALLY BE ILLEGAL? Megan McArdle @asymmetricinfo "Everyone understood that this was going on, in private business as well as universities. Acquaintances would just outright say "We're looking to hire a woman of color/queer person/etc for this position". I never figured out how to politely ask why they were confessing a crime to someone they barely knew." 'Strieff' at RedState is happy Trump's Education Department Fires Biden 'Book Ban' Czar and Dismantles His Office. Gary Anderson at Am Spec reports the Marine Corps Commandant Tells a Whopper, "General Eric Smith denied the existence of DEI programming in the Marine Corps, disgracing himself and the entire Corps in the process." From the Free Bacon, Read the Frantic Memo Eric Holder Sent Clients After Trump Declared War on DEI , "The companies who hired him for 'diversity audits' could face legal jeopardy." Astonishing if true: "Shred and burn all documents bearing the name of "Eric H. Holder Jr." and the "Covington & Burling" law firm." Insty says MAKE THEM PAY: Inez Stepman @InezFeltscher, "They had a choice between following the law and bowing to their most ridiculous cultural revolutionaries. They chose the latter, they broke the law, and now there’s a sheriff in town that’s going to make them pay the price for it." Ace, Oh, No! Trump Prepping Exec Order to Ban Transgenders from Military. "What will the military do without its most unreliable, most hospitalized, and most drug-dependent "warriors"?"
At Reason, Will Trump Make An Article II Override Argument To Justify Firing IGs Without Providing 30 Days Notice? "Does Trump think the 30 day notice requirement infringes his Article II powers? Will he cite President Obama's refusal to provide notice of the Bowe Bergdahl transfers?" From Twitchy, Former Federal Employee Spills ALL THE BEANS on What's REALLY Going on with Fed Employees and Wow (Watch). Paula Bolyard at PJM reports Deranged Women Use Coded 'Cute Winter Boots' Vids to Resist Trump on TikTok. Dave Strom at Hat Hair VIP say The #Resistance Is Real. Driscoll at Insty has GREAT MOMENTS IN SELF-OWNS . . . Thompsonblog is amused when Our Betters Issue Threats. Cam at Bearing Arms hears Schumer Claim Trump Illegally Disbanded DHS School Safety Board.
From NewsMax, Trump Order Gives FEMA, Other Agencies Authority Over Calif. Water and Trump to Sign Order to Create 'Iron Dome' US Missile Shield. From Althouse, "The United States Military just entered the Great State of California and, under Emergency Powers, TURNED ON THE WATER flowing abundantly from the Pacific Northwest, and beyond." ""The days of putting a Fake Environmental argument, over the PEOPLE, are OVER. Enjoy the water, California!!!" Writes Trump, at Truth Social."
At WUWT, How To Rescind the Endangerment Finding in a Way That Will Stick, Free Our Energy Sector From Crippling Regulations and Inflationary Spending on So-Called “Green Energy” and Mine, Baby, Mine!
At LifeZette, MSNBC Meltdown: Elie Mystal Comes Unglued, Blames ‘White Folks’ for Price of Eggs.
The FOO@PolitiBunny, "I get what you’re doing here but technically data for egg prices won’t be based on Trump’s actions for at least a month because they just released December’s data on Jan 15. So if eggs are at an all-time high you can still thank Biden. :)" Quote Democratic Wins Media@DemocraticWins, "BREAKING: Under Donald Trump’s leadership, egg prices in the United States have hit an all time high." Nevada News and Views, Nevada’s Egg Crackdown: How Democrats Scrambled Your Wallet. Jeff Carlson @themarketswork "Eight years ago Chuck Schumer was openly threatening President Trump: “The Intelligence Community has six ways from Sunday…” Now he’s whining about eggs. What a difference a few years can make." Quote Chuck Schumer@SenSchumer, "President Trump owes American families some answers about what he is going to do about the high price of eggs that’s being exacerbated by Bird Flu."
Capt. Ed, Ch-ch-ch-Changes: Iran Tells Proxies to Cool It in Trump Era. Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson "And just like that airlines are already catching on “Ladies and Gentlemen if you look out the right side of the aircraft, you will see the GULF OF AMERICA” Incredible." Leslie Eastman at LI, It’s Beginning to Dawn on Denmark that Trump is Serious about Greenland. "Danish leaders grandstand while Greenland’s Prime Minister indicates a meeting with Trump is being set up and Sec. of State Rubio begins discussing Arctic Security Plans with Danish officials."
At the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 01.27.25, EBL: Tulsi Time, Colombia accepting its illegal immigrants back and Vice President JD Vance’s first interview on Deface the Nation, Twitchy, Honest Question – What is The Benefit Of Banning Treansgender Troops? Intel Officer Forgets To Remove Her Name From “Secret” Post About Sabotaging Trump Administration, and SecDef Hegseth “Deadnames” Bases Whose Names Were Changed, Louder With Crowder, Of course! Woke, Soros-funded district attorney looking for state-level charges against pardoned J6ers, Donald Trump has NOT forgotten North Carolina (unlike Democrats) and he let hurricane victims take the mic, Beware MAGA! Leftists are totally threatening you for eating Mexican food over Trump’s deportation orders, JD Vance gives his first interview as VP, “Face the Nation’s” Margaret Brennan’s face tells you how bad he CRUSHED it, STUMP: 2025 Update On Senate Demographics.
Breitbart, Trump ‘Building the Wall’ to Fill Gaps on New Mexico Border. Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson, "BREAKING: America’s Border Wall is Being Built Again! New photos just released show construction crews building miles of NEW border wall across New Mexico. These rural areas were some of the worst for human trafficking and drug smuggling. White House Officials just confirmed to me that new walls are going up “at lightning speed” and Border Patrol is “reenergized” and “morale has not been this high in 4 years” Trump has only been in the White House for 4 days" Twitchy, Bill Melugin Reports There’s Something Happening at the Southern Border He’s Never Seen Before "Per sources, Border Patrol recorded just 582 illegal crossings at the southern border yesterday, with not a single one of the nine sectors hitting 200. I’ve never seen anything this low in all of my border coverage." Beege Welborn at Hat Hair VIP, Getting Hit by a Hardball Hurts: Investigating Officials 'Obstructing' Lawful Immigration Enforcement. OTP reports Gov. Abbott Deploys Texas Military To Join U.S. Border Patrol.
Althouse finds "Birthright citizenship obviously doesn’t apply in case of war or invasion. No one to my knowledge has ever argued that the children of invading aliens..." ""... are entitled to birthright citizenship. And I can’t imagine what the legal argument for that would be.” Said 5th Circuit Judge James C. Ho, quoted in "Is Trump’s Plan to End Birthright Citizenship ‘Dred Scott II’?/The 14th Amendment overturned the 1857 decision that denied citizenship to Black people. Scholars say President Trump’s proposal betrays that history" by Adam Liptak (NYT)." At Da Caller, Jonathan Turley Flags Constitutional Issue That May Help Trump End Birthright Citizenship. “Well, I think the initial argument of the Trump administration might be a little bit different in the sense that you have an amendment that has clarity on both ends, that if you’re born in this country, you are a citizen. But in the middle are these six maddening words that people have been debating over since it was first enacted or ratified,” Turley said. “I think that members of the Supreme Court may want to look at that,” Turley added. “When the 14th Amendment was drafted, some of the individuals involved in that process, some of the members of Congress said that they believed it did not extend birthright citizenship and that has really fueled a lot of this debate.” Jeremy Frankel at TownHall sees the Question of Illegal Aliens Having Second Amendment Rights Go to Appeals Court "Margaret Steindorf, who represents the federal government in the case, said Flores’ immigration status is important, stating that “[T]here is the common thread here of felons not abiding by the law and those unlawfully in the country also not authorized to be in the country” when arguing court precedent for certain people to not be allowed to possess a firearm."
'Bonchie' sees Joe Biden's Scandal Deepens Post-Term After 'Accidental' Commutation Is Revealed, Dem Hypocrisy Exposed. Max Meyer@mualphaxi, "So, Biden's staff didn't double check the ACLU's list of "nonviolent drug offenders" and gave clemency to a drug lord in Connecticut who murdered an 8 year old boy and his mother to stop them from testifying. CT Sen. Blumenthal : "someone dropped the ball... This was a really vicious murder that changed our laws"" John Sexton at Hat Hair, One of the 'Non-Violent Criminals' Biden Released Murdered an 8-Year-Old and His Mom. Ace, Braindead Husk Joe Biden -- Or Really, the Staffers Illegally Running the Government -- Pardoned a Drug Kingpin Who Murdered a Mother and Her 8-Year-Old Child to Keep Her From Testifying Against Him as a "Nonviolent" Drug Violator. "James Comer has posed a question: Unless Biden can prove he is mentally fit, and that he actually took part in the decision-making here, are these pardons legally binding?" At Fox, ABC, CBS, NBC spent over 46 minutes covering Trump Jan. 6 pardons, 3 minutes on Biden pardoning his family "Networks covered Trump's controversial pardons 15x more than Biden's." From the Free Bacon, Biden Admin Quietly Spent $15 Mil To Distribute 'Contraceptives and Condoms' in Afghanistan—and Said Doing So Would Take 'Some Coordination' With Taliban.
Bob Spencer at PJM, finds ESPN Leftist Stephen A. Smith Sorry He Voted for Kamala, Explains Why Trump Won. "Here’s the deal: the man was impeached twice, he was convicted on 34 felony counts, and the American people still said, ‘He’s closer to normal than what we see on the left.’" Capt. Ed at Hat Hair, sees The Grift Continues: Second Gentleman to Lobbyist in Chief.
At UnHerd, Joel Kotkin says LA fires extinguish Gavin Newsom’s presidential dream. Beege Welborn, Wiener Brainer: Hey! The Oil Companies Can Pay for the LA Fires! Insty, WELL, FOR ONE THING BIDEN’S FEMA OPENLY DISCRIMINATED AGAINST REPUBLICANS: Matt Van Swol @matt_vanswol, "ABSOLUTELY MASSIVE CLEANUP EFFORT IS UNDERWAY IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA TODAY!!! THE ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS ARE EVERYWHERE!!!!! WHY DIDN’T JOE BIDEN DO THIS 4 MONTHS AGO?!!!!!!!"
Cathy Salgado at PJM has an Exclusive with a J6er who Speaks Out on Pardoned Prisoners Still in Jail. Find out who's doing it an charge them with kidnapping and violation of civil rights. Misty Severi at JTN reports Judge reverses order banning Oath Keeper leader Rhodes from Washington D.C. “It is not for this court to divine why President Trump commuted Defendants’ sentences, or to assess whether it was sensible to do so,” Mehta wrote. “The court’s sole task is to determine the act’s effect."" Atop Da Hill, Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump shot, killed by sheriff’s deputy. Matt Margolis, Questions Raised After Pardoned J6 Protester Fatally Shot During Traffic Stop. It appears to be unrelated to J6. Appears.
Reuters whines Trump administration fires team of lawyers who prosecuted him, official says. Fox reports Justice Department fires more than a dozen key officials on former Special Counsel Jack Smith's team. Acting Attorney General James McHenry 'does not trust these officials to assist in faithfully implementing the President’s agenda'" Ya think? Ace, Trump Fires "More Than a Dozen" DOJ Officials Involved In Investigating Him; New DC US Attorney Opens Investigation Into DOJ's Overcharging of J6ers. "A statement was issued stating that Trump cannot trust the DOJ prosecutors who used lawfare against him to implement his agenda "faithfully." Indeed, we're seeing malicious compliance in the military. You can bet that Merrick Garland's/Norm Eisen's Special Lawfare Operators will likewise subvert Trump's orders." Victoria Toensing and John Yoo at Da Fed say Prosecute The Architects Of Trump Lawfare For Election Interference. At Am Think Stephen I. Siller thinks about Jury Nullification in New York. RVN, ‘Democrats Have Proved Every Conspiracy Theorist Right’: Chalamagne tha God. Bob Hoge at RedState sees John Fetterman Delivers Some Hard Reality to the Never-Trumpers on 'The View,' and It's Glorious "While discussing Trump and former President Joe Biden's controversial pardons, Fetterman said, "I also agree that the trial in this city, in New York, was politically motivated, that wouldn’t otherwise have been prosecuted if it was someone else."
Joe Cunningham at RedState, Supreme Court Fast-Tracks Case of FBI Botched Raid That Traumatized a Georgia Family. "The FBI had the wrong house. In fact, they weren't even on the right street. The house they were looking for was 3741 Landau Lane, while Martin's home address was 3756 Denville Trace. According to Google Maps, the addresses were over 450 feet apart. The FBI says they used a GPS device that allegedly misled them." That's a pretty poor GPS. You won't catch any fish that way. Cernovich @Cernovich, "This should be a huge story. Not only did the DOJ official harass a subordinate, he lied about it. But DOJ declined to prosecution the official for obstruction of justice." Quote Oversight.gov@OversightGov, "New OIG report about DOJ: Investigative Summary: Findings of Misconduct by a Senior DOJ Official for Ethical Misconduct, Sexual Harassment, Sexual Assault, and Lack of Candor to the OIG https://oversight.gov/node/17506." Allowed to retire with full benefits.
Stacy McCain, Radical Vegan Transgender Cult Implicated in Border Agent’s Death, "UPDATE: Landlord ‘Impaled With a Sword’ by ‘Vegan Sith’ Cult Members." Being vegan would make me cranky too. John Sexton, Shooter in Inauguration Day Killing of Border Agent Connected to Another Murder Suspect.
At Da Fetched, James Comer: ‘We Have Evidence Banks Are De-Banking Conservatives’ We’ve heard numerous instances of conservatives being debanked and what we want to know is this a process of the bank’s ESG policy, or is this our government stepping in like what we found with Twitter and Facebook, where the government stepped in and said they wanted certain conservatives deplatformed and censored,” Comer said. “We want to know again, is this is the government involvement another dirty trick by the Joe Biden administration, or is this just bad liberal policy that discriminates against conservatives by the bank.” John Sexton, At University of Colorado, DEI and Illegal Hiring Practices Went Hand in Hand.
OTP, Colorado School Board Could Allow Teachers To Fly BLM, Transgender Flags In Classroom. "“By designating it government speech and adopting [them] as symbols of our school district, it avoids a First Amendment problem,” board member Rick Petersen said." John Sexton observes Palo Alto Schools Drop Honors Biology, Adopt Ethnic Studies Requirement. Breitbart outraged when Pennsylvania Democrats Propose Erasing Sex from Birth Certificates, Call Practice ‘Antiquated.’ How else will they know who to draft?
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