Wednesday, December 24, 2025

Flotsam and Jetsam - Trump Owns the Economy

From the I&I ed board, Yes, Democrats, Trump Does Own This Economy. Matt Margolis at PJM, New GDP Numbers Just Dropped, and Democrats Should Be Freaking Out. "Democrats just watched economic reality obliterate their favorite doomsday talking point. The U.S. economy grew at an amazing 4.3% annualized rate in the third quarter of 2025, blowing past expectations and handing the Trump administration a massive win heading into 2026." Sundance at CTH, Third Quarter GDP Grows 4.3 Percent, Much Stronger Than Expected. With the Flaming Skull, Ace says BOOM! US Economy Grows By Big 4.3% In Third Quarter. kaitlin @thefactualprep, "my official statement to the american people is “you’re welcome”" Quote The Wall Street Journal @WSJ, "Breaking: U.S. economic growth accelerated to a 4.3% annual rate last quarter, blowing past expectations https://on.wsj.com/4p9FqMe." At Twitchy, Elizabeth Warren Hopes Nobody Saw Today's Economic News and Gets Ratioed to the Moon. MAZE @mazemoore "April, 2025. Elizabeth Warren claims that Trump's tariffs will result in millions of people losing their jobs, savings, retirements, and homes and will cause a recession that may take years to recover from. Nice call Pharmahontas." Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren, "46% of people are spending less this holiday season because of higher costs. Families are paying the price for Donald Trump’s chaotic tariffs." Mike Hahn @mikehahn_ "Fire the intern who scheduled this tweet before they left for Christmas!" At OilPrice.com, Christmas Day Gasoline Prices Set To Fall To Covid-Era Levels. Mark Tapscott at PJM has Three Reasons Why 2026 Could Be Donald Trump's 1934 FDR Mid-Term.

Important news on the Epstein front, at Twitchy a Report: Trump Flew on Epstein’s Plane Once With a 20-Year-Old Woman "The New York Post reports that Trump was sometimes accompanied by his second wife, Marla Maples, his daughter Tiffany, and his son Eric. Scandalous." Ace, Epstein Files Bombshell! Trump Was an Acquaintance of Jeffrey Epstein During the Period We Already Knew They Were Acquaintances and Trump Once Flew on an Epstein Plane With a 20-Year-Old Adult Woman On Board, "An adult woman? Wow. You had my curiosity, but now you have my attention." WaT, Justice Department discredits lurid claims about Trump in latest Epstein file reveal "The department released 30,000 additional documents related to its investigation and prosecution of sex offender and accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. The material includes claims that Mr. Trump was involved in the scheme and raped a young woman who was allegedly later found murdered. Democrats have seized on the unverified accusation as evidence of Mr. Trump's involvement and a motivation for the department's resistance to making all of the files public. But Justice Department officials said the claims against the president were politically motivated and were lodged against him just before the 2020 presidential election. "To be clear: the claims are unfounded and false, and if they had a shred of credibility, they certainly would have been weaponized against President Trump already," Justice Department officials said." Much like the 2000 women who stepped up to claim they were raped by Brett Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearings. Matt Vespa at TownHall, MS Now Host Wonders Why Trump Was So Against Releasing the Epstein Files. Did You See Today's Update? NYPo suggests It’s time to treat Bill Clinton like Prince Andrew — and banish him from polite society. I wouldn't call Washington DC polite society. PJM's Stephen Kruiser admits The Epstein Stuff Probably Won't Make Bill Clinton's Teflon Get Sticky.

VodkaPundit at PJM has an ESSAY: Trump's Big, Beautiful Battleships Are... What, Exactly? Victory Girls see a Golden Fleet Of Trump Class Ships To Be Built. "Haters are going to hate and I don’t give a fig or a feather." Driscoll at Insty, America’s Newspaper of Record has printed a helpful cutaway guide to the state of the art technology to be deployed on these soon to be nautical legends: Check Out These Amazing Features On The New Trump-Class Battleship.

Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh, " HOLY CRAP! The U.S. military recruitment numbers under President Trump are the highest in 15 YEARS Got what I voted for again! SEN. MULLIN: "[Lloyd Austin] was more worried about DEI and having some dude in a dress...Hegseth said, no, we're talking about lethality, and we're talking about the warrior!" "Then President Trump, who took our rightful place, instead of being apologetic about America's greatness, he said, no, we are the greatest, and we're not going to apologize about it. Of course, we're going to be breaking records!""

Michelle Wiese Bockmann @Michellewb_, "so we now have a (partial) explanation as to how Panama allowed the US to seize a Panama-flagged tanker (Centuries). From the brief explanation given by the Panama government in this story, it appears that Panama deleted the tanker from its registry after it loaded in Venezuela while spoofing its location. It was "not following the rules". Thus the tanker was effectively flagless and stateless after it sailed, allowing the US to intercept and interdict. . . ." At News Wax, Trump: US Will Keep Seized Venezuelan Oil, Ships and Trump Says It Would Be 'Smart' for Venezuela's Maduro to Step Down. "Go on, take the money and run." At Hat Hair, Capt. Ed cites the WSJ: Trump Aims at Dismantling Global Terror Networks Through Maduro and Beege Welborn interprets Trump: 'Yo, Dudes - We Still Need Greenland'. YaHoo whines US denies visas to EU ex-commissioner, four others over tech rules "accusing them of seeking to "coerce" American social media platforms into censoring viewpoints they oppose." As Teri Christoph at RedState puts it Rubio Targets Five Foreign Operatives Who Conspired With Big Tech to Censor Americans.

PJM's Scott Pinsker sees Something VERY Fishy Is Going on With the So-Called MAGA ‘Split’ Over Israel. It's being manufactured by the pundit class.

Hunter Biden went on a long podcast for the Shawn Ryan Show. Matt Margolis hears Hunter Biden Now Claims His ‘Laptop From Hell’ Wasn’t Even Real. Ace has more details, Hunter Biden: Of Course My Father's Calamitous Bug-Out from Afghanistan Was a "F***ing Failure;" And Of Course We Shouldn't Allow In Immigrants That "Drain Our Resources" "Is Hunter Biden now a racist? Wait a sec, he already was -- "no yellow." (Who doesn't like Asian chicks? Only a Nazi.) MXM:" His art career over, I guess he's trying for punditry, where being a crack addicts is not necessarily damning.

Nicole Silvero at Da Caller, Boston Democrat Mayor Michelle Wu Says Somalis To Thank For City’s ‘Every Achievement’ Nick Freitas @NickJFreitas, "I most appreciate when the Somali immigrants threw the tea in the harbor." Quote Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok, "Boston Mayor Michelle Wu says all of Boston’s accomplishments are thanks to Somalians." Sister Toldja at RedState hears James Comer Prepares to Make Political Life Very Difficult for Tim Walz, and I Am So Here for It "The walls are caving in on Tim Walz," Comer, R-Ky., said on "America's Newsroom." "This massive amount of fraud is affecting and impacting every citizen of Minnesota because they're having to cut services because so much of the money for social programs was wasted and defrauded by this Somali population." From NotTheBee, Somali girl says foreigners shouldn't be illegal in Minnesota because "this is literally, like, stolen land".


John Solomon at JTN reports John Brennan's lawyers confirm he is 'target' of Florida grand jury probe, asks judge to intervene. "The letter to chief federal judge in Miami is an extraordinary injection by Brennan's defense team and likely signals his lawyers fear an indictment is imminent." "Given the corrosive effect of judge shopping on the perceived fairness and impartiality of the criminal justice system – particularly when conducted by a federal prosecutor – we wish to alert the Court to the evidence underlying our concern." Sundance at CTH, John Brennan Lawyers Confirm Their Client Is a “Target” of a Grand Jury Investigation. "What the evidence shows is a focused targeting operation intended to fabricate a false premise by the United States Intelligence Community, centered around a fraudulent CIA analysis (ICA) led by John Brennan, and organized through the Office of former DNI James Clapper. The op was green-lighted by Barack Obama, as a way to impede the agenda of incoming President Donald Trump. All three branches of government eventually collaborated on the scheme. Lawyers for John Brennan are now seeking to proactively undermine the grand jury proceedings and influence the venue where any investigation and review might be taking place."

John Sexton at Hair hears Supreme Court: Trump Can't Deploy National Guard in Chicago. So now Trump can say, "We tried to curb crime in your city, but your politicians sued, and now the Supreme Court won't let us." PJM's Cathy Salgado is pretty happy that Parents Win, California Loses Over Secretive Transing of Kids: Court Ruling. Gays Against Groomers @againstgrmrs, "BREAKING: U.S. District Court rules in favor of parent's rights with a permanent injunction against California! Parents have a Constitutional right to get the truth when it comes to the "gender identities" of their children! Schools may not lie anymore! Summaries below:" Hat Hair's Dave Strom argues Impeaching Judges Is Not an Abuse of Political Power, it is a rebalancing of power. |The taboo on removing judges for anything other than criminality (Hannah Dugan, anyone?) is absurd. Obviously, judges should be given wide latitude in making their decisions, and removing them should not be a frequent occurrence, but it should really be much more common than it is. There are a lot of bad judges."

Dave Strom reports Charlottesville, VA Eliminating Use of Camera System Because Feds Might Track Illegal Aliens. Mike Letts at PJM says This Minneapolis Police Chief Has It Wrong When He Uses the Nativity Story To Push Back Against ICE Raids. From Fox, GOP governor lays out plan to ‘purge’ terrorists and terror supporters from state "'Any organization that supports terrorism, that harbors people who have provided material support for terrorism, is not allowed to exist in our state,' said Abbott." Beege Welborn notices The Frantic Clean-Up Begins: If It's at Brown, Flush It.

Stacy McCain discourses on Journalism, Credibility and ‘Experts’ "NPR’s standards chief, Tony Calvin, had to issue an unusual bit of guidance to staff this week: stop quoting Carl Tobias. The instruction came after Calvin found NPR reporters had quoted the University of Richmond law professor 77 times on a variety of topics. “If Tobias’s name sounds familiar, it’s because Professor Tobias’s hobby seems to be getting himself quoted about anything and everything in news stories,” Calvin told staff, according to Semafor. “Professor Tobias often emails reporters offering his expert opinion on stories of the day and while I don’t presume to judge his expertise in legal matters, the professor is certainly an expert at getting himself quoted.”" Clearly he is good at saying what they want to hear.

Capt. Ed cites Axios: 60 Minutes Lied About Trump Admin Response. They did have responses from Trump administration spokesmen. They simple chose not to include them. Ace, Axios: Insubordinate CBS Liar Sharyn Alfonsi Told Viewers That Trump Officials Had Refused Comment On the Story. In Fact, They Provided Comment -- She Just Refused to Air Their Denials. "For those wondering "How can this insubordinate liar not get fired?," I've got great news: I think she will be fired. I thought she would probably be fired before this for insubordination. I'm pretty sure she wrote her "Bari is a Trump censor" email with the knowledge that a confederate would leak it for her (or she leaked it herself). If I had to guess, I'd guess she already knew she was on the list of candidates for firing and decided on the Jimmy Kimmel strategy of raising a stink among her left-wing allies to create pressure on the network to keep her. But this new report from Axios means that no amount of pressure from her left-wing allies can save her. The media still pretends that straight-up lying is a fireable offense. Of course it's not; lying is the soul of their soulless profession."

Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer "BREAKING: In wake of our campaign, UN Hamas apologist Francesca Albanese has been removed from Georgetown University. L: Her “Affiliate Scholar” page R: Now deleted http://isim.georgetown.edu/profile/francesca-p-albanese Thank you, @Georgetown. It's time to expel all terror supporters from our universities." At NYPo, Herr Professor Jacobson and Kemberlee Kaye opine that the Toxic ideas fueling far-left terrorists came straight from our college campuses.

The College Fix is disappointed that a Judge rules against UCLA prof suspended after refusing lenient grading for black students. "A judge ruled against UCLA lecturer Gordon Klein, who was suspended after refusing to grade black students leniently in the wake of George Floyd's death, siding with UCLA on every issue." OTH, Ace is stoked that a Trans Teaching Assistant who Flunked a Christian Student for Rejecting Trans Propaganda Has Now Been Fired "I would say that the student's essay could be docked some points for relying so heavily on non-academic sources -- the Bible -- but then, the trans TA's rejection of all her arguments was based exclusively on quasi-religious fantasy and myth-making, wasn't it?"

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