While we're still dealing with the fallout from the air disaster in the Potomac River, we have a new crash. A small medical transport jet leaving Philadelphia for Mexico crashed seconds after take off, apparently power diving at top speed into a residential neighborhood, killing all six on board and touching off a massive fireball where it impacted. We probably don't have an accurate count of casualties on the ground yet. While it certainly seems like some catastrophic equipment failure, it hit so hard I have my doubts they'll be able to reconstruct enough to make sense out of it. Meanwhile, back in D.C, 'Bonchie' at RedState hears What the Latest, Shocking Video of the DCA Mid-Air Collision Appears to Show. Some people resort to conspiracy theories early. Madeline Leesman at TownHall, says There’s Been a Disturbing Update About the Fatal D.C. Airplane & Helicopter Crash. "According to NBC Washington, one controller was left to handle both airplane and helicopter traffic on that fateful night. Reportedly, it is “allowable” but not “optimal” for one person to perform both jobs." Rick Moran at PJM, FAA Safety Report Says Staffing at Air Traffic Control Tower Was 'Not Normal'. Matt Vespa at TownHall, Here's Why a CNN Reporter Melted Down After Trump's Reagan Airport Presser, like they need an excuse? Da Fetched, Trump Mocks Reporter over Absurd Question on Plane Crash: ‘You Want Me to Go Swimming?’ "“Do you have a plan to go visit the site or meet with any of the first responders?” the reporter asked. “I have a plan to visit, not the site, because you tell me, what’s the site?” Trump responded. “The water?” “You want me to go swimming?” Trump asked." At Fox, FAA’s diversity push includes focus on hiring people with ‘severe intellectual’ and ‘psychiatric’ disabilities, "FAA says people with 'severe' disabilities are most underrepresented segment of federal workforce." PJM's Matt Margolis asserts Trump Was Right: FAA Turned Away Qualified Controllers Over Race. Althouse digs up "[T]he FAA under Trump in 2019 launched a program to hire controllers using the very criteria he decried at his news conference." ""'FAA Provides Aviation Careers to People with Disabilities,' the agency announced on April 11, 2019.... The link under 'targeted disabilities' is now dead, but the Wayback Machine retains links from June 2017 and January 2021 that show the page was unchanged during Trump’s tenure. . . . Writes Glenn Kessler, awarding 4 Pinocchios, in "Trump launched air controller diversity program that he now decries/At news conference, Trump read a list of disabilities he calls disqualifying, but his administration started such hiring in 2019" (WaPo)(free-access link)." True, but we hadn't had 4 years of extreme DEI rammed down our throats, and ruin our agencies. Trump 2 is not Trump 1. This one intends to tear out DEI root and branch. Matt Vespa, Here's the Information the Army Decided to Withhold About the Reagan Air Crash. The name of the woman pilot. Althouse, "The issue of the female aviator’s identity is particularly sensitive as Mr. Trump has also blamed diversity, without evidence, for the crash." ""In addition, Pete Hegseth, the newly confirmed defense secretary, has said that the military has diminished its standards by welcoming women and racial minorities into its ranks. He has echoed Mr. Trump’s comments on rooting out diversity programs in the government.... Mr. Hegseth said on Thursday that the Black Hawk helicopter was 'doing a required annual night evaluation' flight and was being flown by 'a fairly experienced crew.'..." From "Army Withholds Identity of Helicopter Pilot Killed in Crash/The names of two male crew members were released, but the family of the third aviator requested privacy" (NYT)." And adds "If we had the name, everyone would be able to research her, to read anything she may have written on social media, to look at photographs of her, and to express all sorts of opinions about her, including — taking a cue from Trump — theories about how she was promoted beyond her merit. Her death — and the death of everyone else in the disaster — would merge with the discussion of DEI and Trump's dramatic effort to snuff it out nationwide. Sooner or later, we will see the name, and the discussions will continue. The suppression of the name is and will still be part of the discussion, even after the name is revealed. The NYT deploys the classic "without evidence" phrase, which isn't inserted into every sentence that conveys a statement insufficiently supported by evidence but is used liberally in sentences conveying statements by Trump. How does the NYT know what evidence Trump has seen?" Ace, Trump Appoints New Acting Head of FAA, "A good pick, says the former acting head." America@america, "Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth: “One of the dumbest phrases in military history is ‘our diversity is our strength’… Our diversity is not our strength — our unity and our shared purpose is our strength.”
I find it hard to believe this needs to be said, but since Democrats vehemently deny it, it needs to be said pic.twitter.com/2OENW8Hu0B
— Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza) January 31, 2025
At the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 01.30.25, EBL, BREAKING NEWS: Plane crash at Reagan National Airport, American Greatness, Trump Blames Biden Regime’s DEI Policies For DC Plane Crash, Dana Loesch: Unhinged Left Attacks Trump Over Plane Crash, Legal Insurrection, FAA: Reagan Airport Air Control Tower Staffing ‘Not Normal’ Night of Crash, This Ain’t Hell, Military Black Hawk collides with American Airlines jet midair, and Pete Hegseth pushes to make promotion color blind, based on merit. And at the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 01.31.25, EBL, Crash Over the Potomac: What happened?, Chicago Boyz: Of Window Frames and Air Traffic Controllers,Legal Insurrection, DEI Is A “Manmade Disaster…. We’re Now Seeing The ‘Sudden’ Part of The Collapse That Has Been Coming”.
ET has 5 Takeaways From Kash Patel’s Senate Hearing for FBI Director, "Trump’s FBI director nominee faced questions over Jan. 6, Crossfire Hurricane, and whether he would seek revenge." Twitchy says HA! Adam Schiff Is NOT Ok After Getting Bodied Over and Over and OVER Again by Kash Patel During Hearing. At Fox, Kash Patel enrages Adam Schiff in Clintonian battle over the word 'we' and a January 6 song. A lawyer fight. Sundance at CTH thinks Cotton Admits Too Much Openly Visible FBI Corruption for Republicans to Block Kash Patel Nomination. Scott Pinsker thinks it's funny that Out of ALL the Kennedys, Caroline Kennedy Says RFK Jr. Is the Predator? LifeZette, CNN Makes Shocking Admission on How Bad Democrats Did Against RFK Jr. “Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders made him more confirmable. There’s nobody who Republicans dislike more than Elizabeth Warren, and it’s for all the right reasons.” At Althouse, "Stop trying to sane-wash, RFK Jr. Just. Stop. It." "That's the top-rated comment at The Washington Post's "Did RFK Jr. or Michelle Obama say it about food? Take our quiz" (free-access link)." Scott Pinsker wonders Would Trump WIN by Letting Bobby Kennedy and Tulsi Gabbard LOSE? "If the Democrats kill the nominations of Gabbard and Kennedy, it brands them as ideological fanatics who won’t tolerate internal dissent." Topher Field@TopherField, "I think I've figured it out. I've been watching the US confirmation hearings and something very deep has shifted. It's more than just the kinds of people being appointed, it's bigger than a 'vibe shift'... but I couldn't figure out what it was. It's the revolution eating it's own. Even Democrats are having their eyes opened as they watch their heros from the last few decades try to tear down the people who COULD have made the Democrats great again... People who SHOULD have been their next generation of Democratic heros." Dave Strom at Hat Hair highlights The Dumbest Thing I Saw Yesterday: sal@tevet, "Science by definition is not settled. If it were there would be no need for scientists. Get over that idea, it may sound good to spew forth but it's idiotic." Quote Chief Nerd@TheChiefNerd "SEN. HASSAN: "Sometimes science is wrong ... And when you continue to sow doubt about settled science, it makes it impossible for us to move forward.""
Althouse, "On Tuesday, federal employees got an email with the subject line 'Fork in the Road,' inviting them to resign..." ""... in exchange for getting to work from home — probably on administrative leave — until Sept. 30. It was very similar to an email Twitter employees got shortly after Musk took over, down to the same subject line. But while the Twitter email saw employees resign in 'droves,' the current round is unlikely to have the same effect. The Trump administration is about to discover why reforming the government is so different from — and so much harder than — reforming the private sector.... Federal workplaces... select people who are risk-averse and willing to trade higher pay and autonomy for a job that offers excellent benefits and a low likelihood of getting fired...." DataRepublican (small r)@DataRepublican "Cut off the Internet access of entire remote offices altogether and show DOGE can replace them with Python cronjobs." Elon Musk@elonmusk, "Reducing the federal deficit from $2T to $1T in FY2026 requires cutting an average of ~$4B/day in projected 2026 spending from now to Sept 30. That would still result in a ~$1T deficit, but economic growth should be able to match that number, which would mean no inflation in 2026. Super big deal." 'Strieff' at RedState notes The Resistance Attempts a Coup at USAID and It Doesn't Go Well. Susan Crabtree@susancrabtree, "A career
@USAID official tried to reverse a @DOGE decision to place 60 senior agency officials on admin leave earlier this week. DOGE immediately took punitive action for the attempt, and now that official is on admin leave too. This is the email the official sent . . ." Dave Strom hears the The Dying Establishment Lament and likens it to Setting Themselves on Fire. "Trump's strategy is clear: provoke the managers who are blocking his reforms into self-immolation. Either they #resist, in which case he has the cause to fire them, or they don't and Trump can neutralize them." From the Free Bacon, New FCC Chair Turns the Spotlight on Publicly Funded NPR, PBS, "Investigation comes a year after NPR editor resigned over outlet's 'devastating' bias." Capt. Ed at Hat Hair reads the NYT: Trump's War on NPR/PBS Is Real, and It's Spectacular. The Lectern Guy@lecternleader, "Trump, in 2016, tried to do something outside of his comfort zone. Play politics. Trump, in 2024, is doing what he was built for. A hostile takeover of a bankrupt and failing business."
Sundance hosts President Trump Signs Executive Orders and Delivers Remarks to Media from Oval Office and President Trump Plans for 25% Border Security Tariffs on Mexico and Canada Remain Set to Begin Saturday. Dave Zimmerman at NRO, Trump Administration Orders Federal Employees to Remove Pronouns from Email Signatures. Chris Queen at PJM, Trump Wants to Make American Buildings Beautiful Again. Buck Throckmorton at Ace's find it ironic that Free Trade Pundits Who Advocate for Offshoring American Jobs Can Now Have Their Own Jobs Outsourced, Thanks to AI. Althouse, "In technofeudalism, you’re just a digital serf. Your value as a human being, as someone built and made in the image and likeness of God... Said Steve Bannon, in "Steve Bannon on ‘Broligarchs’ vs. Populism/The fight for Donald Trump’s ear" (NYT)(listen and read the transcript without a pay wall here, at Podscribe)."
At the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 01.30.25, EBL, Kash Patel’s confirmation hearing for FBI director, Tulsi Gabbard DNI Confirmation Hearing, Twitchy, Bernie Sanders Posts Sel-Own During RFK Jr. Questioning, and Texas Democrat Gets Major History Lesson After Dumping On Robert E. Lee, Louder With Crowder: Kash Patel’s clapback at Amy Klobuchar rant that sent her into a hysterical tailspin, Did RFK Jr pop a Zyn while being berated by shrill Democrat senators?, Round 2! RFK Jr goes scorched Earth on Bernie Sanders being a sellout to Big Pharma, Why Trump is the most PRO-woman President ever, American Greatness: President Trump Signs Executive Order That Would Enable Deportation of Anti-Semitic Rioters, Trump Blames Biden Regime’s DEI Policies For DC Plane Crash, Tulsi Gabbard: ‘I Have No Love For Assad or Any Dictator–I just hate al-Qaeda’, and The Federalist: It’s Time To Start Treating Mexico Like A Hostile Foreign Power, Dems Worry Kash Patel Could Weaponize FBI Against Political Enemies Like They Did, 5 Military Officials Whose Damaging Left-Wing Antics Must Be Accounted For, Gabbard’s Senate Critics Are More Interested In Protecting America’s Spy Agencies Than Fixing Them, and Polls Show Majorities Of Americans Support Trump’s Mass Deportations. And at the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 01.31.25, EBL: MAGA Trump Tariffs, Twitchy: White House Records Angel Moms’ Response to Weepy Selena Gomez Illegals Video, Louder With Crowder: As the RFK Jr hearings wrap up, here’s how bought and paid for his Democrat haters are by Big Pharma, Democrat congresswoman gets sworn in, immediately suggests Trump voters are all white supremacists, American Greatness Mike Pence’s Evil Alliance with Big Pharma Won’t Stop RFK’s Confirmation, Cafe Hayek: MAGAnomics, Da Tech Guy: Five Trump Thoughts Under the FedoraDon Surber: FJB made the fringe mainstream, First Street Journal: Too old? Our 78-year-old President is getting things done, and done in a hurry, and The Federalist, Senate Confirms Burgum To Usher In America’s Golden Age Of Land Management, Trump Eradicates Gender Ideology From Federal Government, Team Trump Is Winning The Media Battle By Treating Left-Wing Press As The Propagandists They Are, The Violent Dems Turning Up The Heat In Escalating War On Trump, and ‘Zizian’ Trans Cult Connected To Multiple Killings, Including Death Of Border Patrol Agent.
John Sexton at Hat Hair, hears Paramount Looking to Settle 60 Minutes Lawsuit with Trump (and CBS Staffers Are Upset). At PJM VodkaPundit drinks to a REPORT: CBS in 'Detailed Discussions' to Settle Trump Suit. Althouse, "When Donald J. Trump sued CBS for $10 billion days before the 2024 election, accusing the company of deceptively editing a '60 Minutes' interview with Vice President Kamala Harris..." "... many legal experts dismissed the litigation as a far-fetched attempt to punish an out-of-favor news outlet.... From "Paramount in Settlement Talks With Trump Over ‘60 Minutes’ Lawsuit/A settlement, if reached, would be an extraordinary concession by a major U.S. media company to a sitting president" (NYT). Ace, CBS's Parent Corporation Paramount In Talks to Settle Trump's $10 Billion Election Interference Claim, Based on the Deceptive Editing of Kamala Harris's Word Salad Fake Interview, "They don't want to reveal the transcript and the tape of what Kamala Harris really said, before CBS's crew of election-riggers went at it with scissors and tape to make it sound nearly coherent." Also, Karoline Leavitt: Many Media People In This Very Room Attacked Trump as a "Conspiracy Theorist" and Lied About Covid's Origins, "I was working on a MAHA post but I'm tired and want to knock off early."
Vicky Taft at PJM, West Coast, Messed Coast™—And Suddenly 'Trump-Proofing' California Seems Like a Really Dumb Idea. Ace, Under Pressure From Voters, Newsom Walks Back His Plan to Spend $50 Million of Taxpayer Money to Sue Trump for... Whatever. "From Ed Morrissey: Even California Democrats have had their fill of Gavin Antoinette's "Let Them Eat Ideology" theory of governance."
VodkaPundit says Now Is the Time for Peace in Ukraine. Open Source Intel@Osint613, "UNBELIEVABLE, WATCH Trump says Egypt and Jordan will be taking in Palestinians REPORTER: The president and the king of Jordan have both said that they, won't take in, displaced people from Gaza like you suggested. Is there anything you can do to make them do that? I mean, tariffs against those countries, for example? TRUMP: They will do it. They will do it. REPORTER: What makes you say that? TRUMP: They're gonna do it. Okay? We do a lot for them, and they're gonna do it. Oh my. It’s really happening!" At WaEx, Dave Harsanyi insists Trump’s Gaza proposal makes complete sense.
Ace reports Trump Orders Senior FBI Officials to Retire, Resign, or Be Fired By Monday "JUST IN: Senior FBI officials have been ordered to retire, resign or be fired by Monday -- CNN. Oh no. How terrible." Kurt Schlichter@KurtSchlichter, "Excellent. I love that Donald Trump is doing the exact things that he promised to do when we eagerly voted for him." Quote Jennifer Jacobs@ JenniferJJacobs "CNN — The Trump administration is set to expand a purge of career law enforcement officials, with dozens of FBI agents who worked on January 6, 2021, US Capitol attack and Trump-related investigations as well as some supervisors being evaluated for possible removal as soon as the Show more." Shipwreckedcrew@shipwreckedcrew, "I would terminate all the probationary agents. Let them reapply - they’ll get hired back if it wasn’t DEI that got them hired. That creates more openings for non-DEI in 2025." Breccan Thies at Da Fed, ‘Prolific Anti-Trump FBI Agent’ Broke Protocol To Spearhead Election Lawfare: Whistleblower. Sundance, One FBI Official Fired, New York Times Goes Bananas Proclaiming Legion Level Bloodbath. Nick Sortor@nicksortor, "#BREAKING: The Trump admin has just FIRED David Sundberg, the FBI Assistant Director for Washington, DC Sundberg led the WITCH HUNT against J6ers, and failed to find ANY “leads” on person who supposedly placed pipe b*mbs around on J6." At the Daily Herald, Justice Department official orders firing of some prosecutors who worked on Jan. 6 cases. Capt. Ed, FBI Braces for Kash Cuts? Insty, THEY WERE UNTHINKING PARTY LOYALISTS: Slantic, Turns out signing the Hunter Biden Laptop letter was a bad idea. Bob Hoge at RedState, Consequences Delivered: Trump Expands Order Directed at 50 Gaslighting Intelligence Officers. Security clearances lifted, banned from federal buildings. Fred Fleitz at Am Great, thinks John Brennan’s Protests to President Trump Lifting his Security Clearances are Absurd, "John Brennan’s outrage over losing his security clearance is as hollow as the falsehoods he peddled to shield Biden in 2020."
Nick Sortor @nicksortor, " UPDATE: The White House has just called on Hakeem Jeffries to APOLOGIZE for his threat of violence this morning."Shooting News Weekly, ICE Now Deporting Violent, Gun-Toting Illegals After They’d Been Released by Sanctuary State Judges. Guy Benson at TownHall, Major Update: The Exploding Chicago Murder Scandal Just Got Even Worse. Matt Finn@MattFinnFNC "DEVELOPING: Two migrants who crossed the southern border in TX in summer 2023 are believed to be in custody in relation to the heinous murder of a 63-year-old Chicago man in his home this Sunday. A Top US official and multiple sources tell Fox. Piecing it together." John Sexton, The Trump Administration and Congress Go To War with Sanctuary Cities. Ace, The Trump Administration Keeps Giving the Media Simple, Direct, Candid, Straightforward Answers. The Media Keeps Rejecting These Answers and Demanding Different Answers. Update: FBI Firings Yuger Than First Reported, "As Border Czar Tom Homan says he'll continue doing." At WokeSpy, Scott Jennings Dismantles CNN Panel In Row Over Musk, Deportations And DOJ. Ian Miles Cheong@stillgray, "A Chinese national who organizes pro-Hamas rallies at UCLA just got arrested and her visa revoked. She’s going back to China." Cathy Salgado at PJM sees Disturbing Similarities between Dems on Slavery and Dems on Illegal Alien Labor. From Twitchy, Mad Mothers: White House Records Angel Moms Response to Selena Gomez Weepy Illegal Aliens Viral Video. The Great Victory Davis Hanson at the Blade of Perseus asks Mexico—Friend, Enemy, Neutral, or Something Else? NewsMax reports Noem Freezes Migrant Aid Funds Pending 90-Day Review. Dave Strom, So. Much. Winning. Colombia's President Calls on Illegals to Return Home.🚨 JUST IN: Democrat Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Trump’s Agenda — “we’re going to fight it IN THE STREETS.”
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) January 31, 2025
Is that a threat of violence?! pic.twitter.com/l9Brs8bIZ7
Leading Report@LeadingReport, "BREAKING: Outgoing DNC Chair Jaime Harrison believes Kamala Harris can win in 2028." Keep thinking that. I suppose it's possible if Trump fucks up big. End Wokeness @EndWokeness "DNC forum is currently talking systemic racism, slavery, 1619, diversity, equity, inclusion. They learned nothing." Capt. Ed, DNC: Learn a Lesson? Nous? At the Western Journal, Ex-Obama Adviser Jailed as Pedophile, Took Stuffed Animals and Condoms to Meet Little Girl, 9.
Twitchy, Outright Money Laundering: Oilfield Rando Notes EPA Has Shut Down $20 BILLION Biden Tried to Hide Oilfield Rando@Oilfield_Rando, "One IRA slush fund down. But it appears Biden’s EPA stashed $20 billion in other green slush funds with @Citibank before leaving office to keep it from being rescinded. This is outright money laundering."
USA Today, Chuck Todd exiting NBC News after nearly 20 years as Trump starts second term. Sundance responds Pundit Who Helped Collapse Media Credibility Leaves Media Due to Collapsed Credibility. Ace, Buh Bye: Chuck Todd Gonezers at MSNBC. "Happy Friday, everyone. We did it! Give yourselves all a head pat. More leftwingers are getting s-canned. It's a beautiful, beautiful day in America." A thread fromSean T at RCP, "The move to allow podcasters and bloggers into the Press Corps is part of a broader shift on the Right, that really starts with @elonmusk's acquisition of X. Before that, when conservatives complained about bias and censorship on social media, the left/lib response 1/"
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