Monday, January 20, 2025

Flotsam and Jetsam - Today's The Day!

Trump's second inauguration. Althouse is still running the timer, but you can just look below, if it hasn't expired by the time I finish this. At Fox, Trump inauguration: Carrie Underwood, Kid Rock, Jason Aldean lead musical lineup "Carrie Underwood is set to sing 'America the Beautiful' during Trump's swearing-in ceremony." Karli Bonn says Trump Sending a Message With His Music Choices Last Night. At Twitchy, Susan Crabtree: The Decision to Move the Inauguration Indoors Isn't Just About the Weather. It's cold, but not that cold. OTP reports the National Guard Says Security Plan Is Still ‘Sound’ After Inauguration Changes. At Althouse, “I still have that throbbing feeling in my ear.” "Said Trump at his rally just now." Roger Kimball at Spec World is Heading to DC to celebrate two zero hours, "The mists will begin to clear and sanity will start to return tomorrow at 12:01 on the clock." At OTP, Trump Inauguration Will Be First Attended By Foreign Leaders. Speaking of foreign leaders NewsNation reports Pence expected to attend Trump inauguration, He's polite to a fault, literally. 

'Streiff' at RedState claims President Trump Is Expected to Sign Over 200 Executive Orders Monday, Here's What to Expect. I hope he's been exercising his hand and wrist. Twitchy, President Trump Unveils Shocking Slate of Executive Orders Set to Shake the Nation on Inauguration Day. Da Signal, Executive Orders Coming Day 1, Border Czar Tom Homan Says ‘I Think We’re Going to Take a Lot of Hate.’ Sarah Arnold at TownHall, Tom Homan Delivers on Promise: Chicago Braces for Trump’s Mass Deportation Sweep. Fox, Trump administration planning illegal immigrant arrests throughout US on ‘day one’. OTP, Trump NSA Pick Waltz: President-Elect Ready To Go ‘Minute One’ On Deportations and Trump To Classify Cartels As Foreign Terrorist Organizations. No mercy. At NewsMax, Speaker Johnson: No Better Investment Than Trump's Deportations. NYPo claims Trump to suspend security clearances of 51 intelligence officials who falsely implied Hunter Biden laptop was Russian fake. Good. OTP, Trump Expected To Quickly Revive ‘Global Gag Rule’ On Abortion. Megan Brock at Da Caller proposes What Trump Can Do ‘On Day One’ To Reverse The Spread Of Transgender Ideology. Fred Lucas at Da Signal lays out Trump’s Big Agenda for First 100 Days. 

Althouse says I'm reading and listening to "Curtis Yarvin Says Democracy Is Done. Powerful Conservatives Are Listening." "This is an interview in the NYT (free access link to the edited transcript/I listened to the full audio in the NYT audio app). Here's an excerpt..." Mike Miller at RedState WATCH: Hack MSNBC Host Blasts Voters for 'Giving Up on Democracy,' Embracing 'Authoritarianism'. End Wokeness @EndWokeness "AOC on the verge of tears: "This is the eve of an authoritarian, 21st century fascism"" Martk Tapscott at Insty, DARK DAY OR JOYOUS CELEBRATION; "Richard Pollock surveys the multiple groups on the Left planning demonstrations and disruptions for the Trump inaugural. Even before the weather went south, Pollock found evidence that the organizers of the protests knew turnout could be a problem. But hanging over the whole event is the question of national security, as Pollock explains: “The question dogging national security officials is the fear there are sleeper cells inside the city designed to assassinate Trump." The Telegraph reports Limp cheers and tiny crowds: March protesting against Donald Trump falls flat "The event billed itself as the ‘People’s March’ yet compared to the crowds in 2017, not many marched at all," At Twitchy, Ya' Don't SAY! Leaked Confidential Doc Shows Anti-Trump People's March Is NOT a Grassroots Effort -Thread Asra Nomani@AsraNomani, "@FoxNews. Media say a “grassroots” #PeoplesMarch protested Trump today. But a document I got @NatlParkService—marked “confidential”—reveals for-profit professional protest firm “Movement Catalyst LLC” got the permit & organized the protest. READ." ZeroHedge, TIME Magazine Suggests Leftists Form 'Crying Groups' On Inauguration Day. Time, 11 Things to Do on Inauguration Day That Are Great for Your Mental Health. Twitchy again, WATCH: Black Trump Supporter Wearing MAGA Hat Triggers Oh-So-Tolerant Anti-Trump People's March Crowd and Federal Employee OPENLY Talking Trash About Trump TRIES Deleting Post BUUUUUT We Got It (Screenshot). Newt Gingrich at Da Signal worries about Trump’s First Battle: Bureaucratic Resistance. Start a list. If they do anything to resist after the inauguration, fire them and let the courts sort it out later. Chris Arps at RedState warns Beware of Wolves in MAGA Clothing.

Joy Taylor
At OTP, Megyn Kelly Thanks Harris-Supporting Celebs By Name For Helping Bolster Trump’s Win. Peter Parsi at Da Signal, Put Up or Shut Up: Time for Trump Derangement Syndrome Sufferer Celebrities to Leave Country. I'd kinda miss Cher. At RVM, Fox Sports Host Involved in Sex Scandal Takes A Cheap Shot at Trump Live on Air [WATCH], Joy Taylor.

At RCD, Donald Trump Faces Boromir’s Test. NewsMax reports Three Israeli Hostages Are with Israeli Forces in Gaza as Ceasefire Passes First Hurdle and opines Brinkmanship to Breakthrough: Trump Seals Mideast Peace Deal. NYPo, The Gaza cease-fires is the first win for Trump’s ‘big stick’ diplomacy. OTP, First Three Hostages Released In Israel-Hamas Ceasefire. Sarah Arnold at TownHall hears Greenland PM Has Strong Message for Trump Amid Potential Buy, we know what you are, we're just arguing over the price. 

At Da Caller, Key Trump Cabinet Nominees Face A Daunting Energy Policy Mess. Thanks, Brandon. TN Star, Trump Picks Penny Schwinn, Who Declined to Enforce Tennessee’s CRT Ban and is Affiliated with Prominent Never Trumper, for Key Education Position. All the better when they kill the Dept. of Ed. Nick Ballasy at JTN reports Trump says he will likely visit Los Angeles next week in response to wildfire damage.

Da Signal, on Congress Republicans, It Is Time to Deliver Results. I'm not holding my breath. At OTP, Feds Offered Epstein Sweetheart Deal For Dirt On Trump: Report. That's why he had to die. That and his little disappearing black book.

At NYPo, Biden burns it all down on his way out the door. John Kass on Joe Biden’s Long Goodbye "What is the Joe Biden Democrat legacy? Lies and using the government hammer to make their fortune as they sold their country to foreign powers like China." Shawn Fleetwood at Da Fed has a list of 12 Disgraceful Acts Biden Has Committed (So Far) On His Way Out The White House Door, and three hours left to go, as I write this. OTP, Biden Issues 5 More Pardons Including One For Late-Black Nationalist Marcus Garvey From No Pasaran! The Smug Liars' "Screw-You" Party. At WaEx, Paul Bedard's White House Report Card: Biden out with a whimper, Trump in with a bang. Sarah Arnold at TownHall, Social Media Has a Field Day As Joe Biden's Belongings Seen Being Moved Out of the WH. Say, who owns that stuff, really?

Gail Hariot at Insty on the  ZOMBIE EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT: Now that Biden thinks he has made the ERA part of the Constitution, here’s another zombie for you. I wrote this essay in 2007 (published in 2008) after Ted Kennedy and Barbara Boxer announced a renewed effort to adopt the ERA, so it’s a little dated. But its main point still comes through: The last thing progressives should want is the ERA. It will make preferential treatment for women and woman-owned businesses illegal. “Feminist” organizations knocked themselves out to oppose Proposition 209 in 1996 and support the effort to repeal it (Proposition 16) in 2020. If they wanted ban discrimination by sex, they should have supported 209. Driscoll at Insty sees  GREAT MOMENTS IN MAGICAL THINKING: "Law professor lauds Biden’s ‘carefully considered’ decision on Equal Rights Amendment. "As noted by CNN, the amendment was passed by Congress in 1972, but during the individual state ratification process (38 states need to approve), the amendment “sat stagnant for decades” and its deadline came and went." . . . Two questions: Will we ever know the name of the 25-year-old social media intern in the White House who tweeted that out under Biden’s name? . . ." Ace, Senile Octogenarian Molestation Suspect Begins New Career As Constitutional Scholar. "Yes, Biden is doing damage with his last-minute, baying at the moon insanity, but on the bright side, he is tarnishing the reputation of the Democrat party, and further exposing it as a clown show and a party in existential crisis." Nick Arama at RedState wants you to WATCH: Biden's Latest Unbelievable Statement on Hamas Has People Calling Him 'Nuts' Aaron Rupar @atrupar "REPORTER: Any concerns about Hamas regrouping? BIDEN: No" Because he wants Hamas to regroup. Da Caller, ‘It Turned Into An S-Show’: CNBC Hosts Grill Mayorkas On Biden’s Role In Border Policy Missteps. At Hat Hair, Its Rotting Chunks of Junk: Interior Secretary Smacks at Trump 'Wind Here to Stay'. Althouse, "And then... Covid hits, which was a giant radicalizing moment. And at that point, we had lived through eight years of what was increasingly clearly a social revolution." ""Very clearly, companies are basically being hijacked to engines of social change, social revolution. The employee base is going feral. . . . Says Marc Andreessen, in "How Democrats Drove Silicon Valley Into Trump’s Arms/Marc Andreessen explains the newest faction of conservatism" (NYT)(free-access link, because there is a lot of great material in this interview, with Ross Douthat)." NYPo Ed Board, Open-border lefties like AOC should take a cue from the Nordic nations they so admire.

Matt Vespa at TownHall, Here Are the Six Ringleaders of the Biden Mental Health Cover-Up. Matt Margolis at PJM reports The Six Key People Who Covered Up Biden's Senility Have Been Unmasked “Jill Biden, the first lady, and Hunter Biden, his surviving son, fervently believed in his ability to win. Mr. Donilon and Steve Ricchetti, the counselor to Mr. Biden, knew when and how to deliver information, along with Annie Tomasini, the deputy chief of staff. She and Anthony Bernal, the first lady’s most senior aide, took tight control over the president’s public schedule.” Fox, Biden's efforts to show 'vigor' backfired, showed his advanced age. Jerry Dunleavy IV @JerryDunleavy, "Larry Sabato claims he received a call from a Dem senator in late Jan. or early Feb. 2024 telling him Biden literally couldn’t function & that the Dems could not run him, & instead of revealing this truth about Biden’s incapacitation he… tried to downplay the Biden age concerns." Bob Hoge at RedState, is Shocked Not Shocked: Biden Couldn't Even Get Through Private Fundraisers Without Major Assistance. Matt Vespa goes Inside the Ongoing War Between Pelosi and Joe Biden. Nancy Pelosi's Daughter Comes Up With a New Nickname for Jill Biden...and It's Perfect. “If I was Lady McBiden, I’d put on my big girl pants, play the long game and think about my husband’s legacy.” Scott Pinsker at PJM, When Donkeys Have Claws: Epic Cat Fight Between the Pelosis, Joe Biden, and ‘Lady McBiden’ Exposed. The Guardian whines about An American tragedy: how Biden paved the way for Trump’s White House return. From the Free Bacon, Kamala has The Joy of Losing, probably avoiding becoming the next worst president ever.

NYPo, Vallejo, California residents beg Newsom for help with surging crime as LA burns: ‘We need leadership!’ Leslie Eastman at LI reports Los Angeles Times Owner Now Deeply Regrets Paper’s Endorsement of Bass for Mayor with "An open letter to Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong on the importance of freeing his paper from ideological capture." At RVM, Bill Maher Blasts California’s Failed Democrat Leaders Amid Wildfire Devastation [WATCH]. At Da Signal, California’s Politicians Didn’t Start the Fires, They Made Them Worse. The ReModern Review, L.A. Fires Demonstrate the Predictable Marxist Pattern that Today’s Obedient Flock Will be Tomorrow’s Barbeque. NewMax opines Left Leaves Calif. Homeowners Stuck With Wildfire Insurance Bill and LA a Devastating Lesson for Blue Cities Nationally. Driscoll at Insty, MOVE ALONG, NOTHING TO SEE HERE, CITIZENS: L.A. officials stop use of disappearing Google Chats, citing Palisades fire. "For years, Los Angeles city employees could communicate through Google Chat messages that were automatically deleted after 24 hours. Even after the practice, which was sanctioned by the city, was uncovered last year by a community group and good government experts questioned whether it violated public records laws, city officials declined to stop it. This week, after wildfires devastated Pacific Palisades, Altadena and other communities, the city abruptly changed course. All one-on-one and group Google Chat messages will now be saved." But all is not ugly. At The Mix, Jelly Roll, Earth, Wind & Fire, Stephen Stills, and More To Perform At Benefit Concert For LA Wildfire Victims. NYSun, Tortoise’s Terrifying Escape From Palisades Wildfire, Moments Before Home Burns to Ground, Goes Viral on TikTok.


The off again on again sage of TikTok continues, with much attention from Althouse, "I'm able to watch TikTok on my desktop computers using Safari (and Chrome), "And the embedded Rand Paul video from yesterday is displayed in the blog post, even on my phone, and it plays. Screenshot from the phone, made just now:", TikTok is working in the app now, "UPDATE: I'd been enjoying TikTok for the last hour, and then when I re-opened the app, I saw this message:" and "Calling themselves 'TikTok refugees,' [American] users paid the 'cat tax' to join RedNote by posting cat photos and videos," "They answered so many questions from their new Chinese friends: Is it true that in rural America every family has a large farm, a huge house, at least three children and several big dogs?" At AP, TikTok restores service for US users based on Trump’s promised executive order. Insty, TIKTOK HAS CUT A DEAL WITH TRUMP AND IS RESTORING SERVICE.
At Hat Hair, BREAKING: Trump Save TikTok...for the Moment UPDATED. Beege Welborn adds "Okay - here's the deal, everyone. There's a provision IN THE LEGISLATION that the president can extend the deadline by 90 days if there's a possible deal in the works." Sundance at CTH, TikTok Platform Returns for U.S Users After President Trump Vowed Supportive Executive Order. 

Tim Burchett@timburchett "I just heard on @NPR that “God Bless the USA” by @TheLeeGreenwood is propaganda. That’s good to know." I hope defunding NPR is one of Trump's 200 executive orders today.

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