Sunday, February 8, 2026

Flotsam and Jetsam - Super Olympic DIY Edition

I'm not sure what it is, but the news doesn't seem very cohesive today. Maybe it's the Olympics and the Super Bowl distracting people. But whatever it is, I'm not feeling it either:

Trump and the Republicans

Trump Had an Epic Response Regarding the Video Showing the Obamas as Monkeys
Founder member of Time's Up movement advised Jeffery Epstein before launching organization
Lyndon LaRouche Team Very Excited About Epstein File Release Creating Chaos in British Circles - The Last Refuge
wretchardthecat on X: "The background of this whole British drama is depicting New Labour and everything that went with it as the moral downfall of the British left. https://t.co/tyisW9qH38"
Althouse: "Is it inappropriate for a mother to suggest two naked women carrying a surfboard for my 15 yr old sons wallpaper?"
Europe Furious as U.S. Subsidy Ends - President Trump's Demand for Lower Rx Prices Means Immediate European Price Increases - The Last Refuge
Project Vault: Strategic Reserve is Next Step in U.S. Shift to Self‑Reliance in Critical Minerals
‘There'll Be Consequences’: Trump WH Warns Defense Contractors - RealClearPolitics
The Road to Pax Americana Runs Through Congress - The American Mind
Oilfield Rando on X: "David French went to a protest where they were celebrating the assassination of Charlie Kirk and yet he still has the audacity to morality-police the right."
Kurt Schlichter on X: "She’s not just a bad lawyer. She’s a freaking idiot. Understand why they do this – by pretending to be resisting some sort of all encompassing evil, it makes them the heroine in the young adult novel that is their life. She’s ridiculous. All of them are ridiculous."
Another Shutdown Looms & The AMA Caves On Gender Surgery – HotAir
Ernst Wants to Make It Easier to Sell Off Unused Federal Buildings
Midterm Palpitations - American Greatness
Trump Officials Have Been Working Hard to Alienate a Critical Core Constituency They’ll Need in November - Gun Owners - Shooting News Weekly
Ohio man charged with threatening to kill Vice President JD Vance and possessing child abuse files
Cynical Publius on X: "RE: Vance Getting Booed at the Winter Olympics So a bunch of Eurotards from Europe’s fashion capital booed our Vice President and Second Lady at the Winter Olympics opening ceremony. Democrats, of course, are thrilled by this because they too hate America. I, of course, could"

The Disloyal Opposition

Jim Hanson on X: "When even Joe Scarborough is forced to acknowledge it You know you knocked it out of the park. @Heminator dissects the diseased carcass of once-great Portland."
Instapundit - IT’S COME TO THIS: Somalis sign up for IDs, voter cards, but not all are sold on universal suffrage
The Babylon Bee on X: "Democrats Push For Death Certificates To Be Accepted As Voter ID https://t.co/2B0auATVZZ https://t.co/omBcRnvJFI" / X
Heartland Signal on X: "A Dane County (WI) judge granted a temporary restraining order for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Brett Hulsey against State Sen. Cory Tomczyk (R-Mosinee) after the Republican started a physical altercation last month. Here's Hulsey's video of Tomczyk shoving him. https://t.co/pqiIAfMPCj"
Why America's women are flirting with political violence
I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues – HotAir

Immigration Legal or Not

Hundreds Of Truckers Taken Off Road For English Proficiency Concerns In Nationwide OperationWatch: MN Anti-ICE Crew Has a Bad Day With Police, and They're Not Very Happy With Tim Walz – RedState
Woman With Autism Testifies She Wasn’t Trying to Interfere With ICE, Which Brought Receipts – Twitchy
Kurt Schlichter on X: "I’m not sure they understand who the good guy in the gospels is."
Some LA migrant protests fueled by taxpayer-funded group with Dem ties, another with CCP linkCounty Attorney Incensed That ICE Arrested Sex Offenders Outside Court – HotAir
The Choices That We Make – HotAir
Instapundit - PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE POLITICO:
The Trump White House Declares War on This Little District Judge
Immigration Enforcement Makes America More Affordable

The Just Us System

Senator Mark Warner and/or His Collaborator, NSA Whistleblower Lawyer Andrew Bakaj, Enlist British Intel and UK Media to Promote Impeachment Effort Against DNI Gabbard - The Last Refuge
The Underlying NSA Intercept - Whistleblower Claims Against Tulsi Gabbard Get More Absurd in Context - The Last Refuge
InfantryDort on X: "Tulsi Gabbard must be so close to the target it’s not even funny. The amount of heat on her and her team is being revved up to unforeseen levels. BS hit pieces to be sure. But they smear who they fear. And filth media is going hard in the paint right now."
TheLastRefuge on X: "This is what happens when you stop teaching civics in high school. This is why they stopped teaching civics in high school."

Media Matters

Don Lemon Gets the First Amendment Wrong - First Things
You Can’t Go on Destroying Wealth Forever, You Know. Ultimately, There Are Consequences. - The American Spectator
Just Days After Mass Layoffs, WaPo Returns to Lying About the Trump Admin
Lying 'Journalists' Are Never Punished – HotAir

Culture and Education

Instapundit - THE POWER LINE WEEK IN PICTURES: Get Off My Land Edition.
Matt Burgess on X: "Has any dean, provost, or chair been fired (even just sent back to the faculty) over this type of explicitly illegal behavior? Has any department been put in receivership for breaking these laws serially for years? It's striking that--in the context of the past decade in"
Fourth Circuit Rejects Facial Challenge to Two Trump Anti-DEI Executive Orders
American Olympians Bash Their Own Country As Democrats and Media Gush
Girls vs. Boys – HotAir
Olympic ‘Women’s’ Boxing ‘Champion’ Imane Khelif Admits the Obvious And Conservatives Take a Victory Lap – Twitchy
Althouse: "The reaction from the student body points to a larger issue: many people my age don’t want to take the easiest path but..."
Imane Khelif Admits to Having Male Chromosomes – HotAir
Eric S. Raymond on X: "This is the face of evil. Smiling, modern, technocratic evil, talking biological warfare all wrapped up in green/therapeutic language. Recognize it. Hate it as it deserves to be hated. Destroy it."
Parents of Public School Students: Do you know what their teachers are doing with, and to them? – Calling-all-RushBabes
Instapundit - HE’S SUPER-CEREAL, YOU GUYS: Bioethicist: Government Whole Milk Push Is Racist. The noted bioethi

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