Flotsam and Jetsam - Stocks Dip in Reaction to Trump Tariffs

Not unexpectedly, the stock markets reacted to Trump's new tariffs with a selloff of around 3%, reducing the amount of funny money in stock values by something like $3 trillion, the largest since the Covid crash. I've lived through more than one of these, and I expect the market to recover in due time. People who sell stocks for a living gotta eat. Dave Strom at Hat Hair looks at the question Are Trump's Tariffs a Good Idea or Not? At PJM , VodkaPundit make The Case For (and Against) Trump's Tariffs (VIP), Matt Margolis explains Here's Why Trump Will Win the Tariff Standoff and Scott Pinsker claims Trump Is Now a Wartime President, trade war. Sundance at CTH has a bunch, hosting President Trump Remarks at Make America Wealthy Again White House Event, Vice President JD Vance Outlines Expectations of Tariffs and Global Trade Reset, USTR Jamison Greer Discusses Tariffs and Trade Policy with Senior White House Team, President Trump Global Trade and Tariff Reset – Resources and Discussion, President Trump Ends Duty-Free De Minimis Treatment for All Chinese Goods and Canadian PM Mark Carney Says Will Match Trump Auto Tariffs at 25%. Matt Vespa at TownHall, Sen. Bernie Moreno Had the Perfect Response to a CNN Host's Questions About Trump's Tariffs Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47, "Sen. @berniemoreno: "If one car goes up in price because there's a tariff, that person will just buy the other one that doesn't have a tariff, which is your American-made automobile — and places like Ohio benefit because your neighbor is employed as a result." Fox, Some countries targeted by Trump tariffs seek negotiations, China says 'no winners in trade wars', "Global leaders react to Trump's 'Liberation Day' tariffs with disappointment, threats and calls for negotiation." At Da Fetched, 4 GOP Senators Side with Dems, Vote to Undo Trump’s Canada Tariffs. From NewsMax, Trump Can Expand U.S. Energy Independence Exponentially. From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 04.03.25 (Morning Edition), Twitchy, IT’S ALL A PLOT! LOL! Chris Murphy's Thread 'Exposing' Trump's REAL Tariff Plan Is Accidentally HILARIOUS, Former Anti-Trumper Shocks Lefties With Straight Fire Pro-Tariff Rant, and Angry Staffer Calls BS On Gas Under $3 And It Goes Impressively Bad.

Dave Strom at Hat Hair, has BREAKING NEWS: Elon Musk Is Doing Exactly What He Said He Would And We Are SHOCKED!, will step down as special employee after the legislatively mandated 130 day term passes, will remain advisor. Stephen Kruiser at PJM says  I'll Just Be Over Here Relaxing While Media Dems Read Too Much Into WI Supreme Court Race. TNP has DOGE Data: Almost 50% of National Jobs Cuts are DC Govt Workers. I can almost hear the weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth from here. From Ace, DOGE Discovers That the VA Was Paying $350,000 - $380,000 Per Month For Minor Tweaks to Its Website. "This was almost certainly a payoff. I don't know many website managers who charge $350,000 - $380,000 per month to give the hamsters a kick. The contract has now been cancelled." At the Free Bacon, Green Energy Company on Brink of Bankruptcy Months After Winning $375 Million Biden Loan. "Biden's green energy loan czar personally urged Li-Cycle holdings, which recycles lithium batteries, to apply for the funds." It was a grift. From WokeSpy, Gavin Newsom Rages as Trump Cuts Planned Parenthood Funding in California. Dave Strom again, The NGO Complex Is Irredeemably Corrupt. I don't see it that way, they're just acting as social parasites taking advantage of their host's vulnerabilities. Even tapeworms have to eat. From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 04.03.25 (Morning Edition), Louder With Crowder, Don’t let the media lie, Donald Trump and MAGA had a huge victory in Wisconsin, also, CNN’s Abby Phillip repeats lie after lie about Elon Musk, but her GOP guest refuses to let her get away with ANY of them.

At Da Blaze, Tesla owner vows to 'make an example' of masked intruder who wrecked his Cybertruck: 'That's basically declaring war on me'. At Am Great, Nice Deb reports Texas Tesla Owner Sues Vandal for $1 Million For Keying His Model X. "Nachawati told CBS Texas that his client wants to “send a message” with the lawsuit to discourage further acts of political violence." It's Texas; he might win. Vicky Taft at PJM says Well, Lookie Here: Congresswoman and Harvard Prof Are Caught Planning Massive Anti-Trump Riots? "Rep. Pramila Jayapal (☭-Wash.), who just left her perch as chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, and Harvard professor Erica Chenoweth are holding “resistance” training sessions to get leftists “street ready” for mass protests against President Donald Trump. The goal is to cause so much unrest that Trump would be forced to resign."

From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 04.03.25 (Morning Edition), Louder With Crowder: The Media Wants You To Believe Trump Deported A Loving Father – They’re Lying. Pop Times, Obama Judge Defies Trump, Rules 350,000 Illegals Can Stay in U.S. At Drew Berquist, Homan Slams ‘Stupid’ Ruling on Temporary Protected Status, ‘Not Meant to be Decades Long’. From Da Caller, Gingrich Says Federal District Judges Aren’t Just Tying Up Trump But Another Branch Of Government As Well. At the Center Square, Gingrich: Sobering rebuke to judges will rebalance Constitutional authority. At Althouse, "[Al] Gore said he believed the courts would prevent Trump from implementing some of his most extreme moves," ""I don’t think he’s going to be able to get away with that,' he said. 'I think we’re more resilient as a constitutional, representative democracy than a lot of people of fear,'" From "Why Al Gore Is Shifting His Climate Activism Abroad/Given the Trump administration’s recent moves relating to climate, the former vice president is looking to the developing world for the next generation of climate activism" (NYT)," and "The long con of the left is corruption of the judiciary.... It has been brewing in legal academia for 20 to 30 years." "Says Elon Musk." Ann Coulter at TownHall asks Who's Defying Court Orders Again? Not Trump. Jim Hoft at GateWayPundit reveals Chief Justice John Roberts Caught in Elitist Club of Judges and Lawyers That Includes James Boasberg, Beryl Howell, Amit Mehta and Ketanji Brown Jackson. At AMAC, Left-Wing Lawfare Goes Global with the embezzlement conviction and banning of Marine Le Pen. 

Atop Da Hill, Man to plead guilty to attempting to kill Kavanaugh at home. "Court documents show Roske had told authorities he was suicidal and wanted to assassinate the justice to “make the world a better place.” He also connected his desire to the leaked draft opinion showing the court was poised to overturn Roe v. Wade and the court’s forthcoming gun rights decision, according to the documents." At Althouse, "While in [Justice] Kavanaugh’s neighborhood, Roske kept the gun, unloaded, in a locked box in the suitcase." ""When police searched the luggage, they also found 37 rounds of ammunition, according to earlier court filings, along with a tactical flashlight with a laser that could be mounted on the gun, a 'James Bond' lock pick set, a black face mask, a pair of 'hard-knuckled' tactical gloves, four black zip ties and hiking boots with padded soles affixed to their bottoms that police earlier said were for stealthy movement...." From "Man accused in 2022 Kavanaugh assassination plot to plead guilty, lawyers say/Nicholas Roske, 29, was accused of flying from California and approaching Brett Kavanaugh’s Maryland home with a gun before turning himself in" (WaPo)."

From Fox, FBI flooded with record number of new agent applications in Kash Patel's first month leading bureau. "The FBI saw 5,577 new agent applications in March alone and more than 10,000 since January." At NYPo the Divine Ms. Devine reports New FBI chat logs reveal extraordinary ‘gag order’ senior leadership used to shut down any Hunter Biden laptop discussion. I would hope most of that senior leadership is gone, and any left that participated in this will go soon. Da Caller claims Nina Jankowicz Defends 51 Former Intel Officials Who Cast Doubt On Hunter Laptop. The Queen of Fake News, "Nina Jankowicz, previously the head of former President Joe Biden’s administration’s short-lived “Disinformation Governance Board,” defended the 51 former intelligence officials who signed the letter casting doubt on the Hunter Biden laptop emails during a Tuesday hearing. . . Jankowicz, during a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing, said the former officials were merely using their “right to free speech” and asserted their claim was accurate “based on the evidence at the time.” Except, that the intelligence agencies knew the laptop was real, and Hunter's and if their security clearances (now revoked) were worth the toner to print them, they would have (and almost certainly did) know it.

At Da Fetched, JD Vance Slams Media’s Deportation Narrative: “We Do What the American People Want.” From Da Wire, Trump Immigration Agency Halts Biden Era Gender Policy ‘Effective Immediately’ "Data collected from immigrants should have "meaningful and useful basis for identification," agency states." Da Blaze, Boston judge holds ICE agent in contempt for depriving illegal alien of due process by detaining him in the middle of his trial. "The judge also dropped the charge against the suspect because he was unable to attend the trial." At TownHall Tom Knighton says This Explains the Left's Immigration Policies Completely "See, the influx of illegal immigrants was to try and create a new voter base that would support the left indefinitely. Trump's executive order means those people can't, in fact, become the voting base Democrats so deeply desire." Peechy Keenen at Tom Klingstein says The Cruelty Is the Point."One of the Left’s favorite talking points is that the Right is cruel, heartless, uncaring. How dare Republicans deport murderers and gang members? Won’t someone think of the poor child rapists? How dare Elon Musk volunteer to eliminate waste and fraud from the federal budget and prevent economic collapse? Who does this monster think he is? "

VodkaPundit at PJM hears TikTok Might Have Found an American Buyer, and It's a Perfect Match, Amazon? Da Caller notices Zuckerberg’s Right-Wing Metamorphosis Still Has A Long Way To Go. Althouse hears Elon "Tesla is the only company with all the ingredients for making intelligent humanoid robots at scale." "My prediction is that Optimus will be the biggest product of all time by far. It will be 10 times bigger than the next biggest product ever made." Dave Strom notices Geez, Man. Even Tech Blogs Are Lying Because They Are Too Political. 

Dave Strom says like skinning a cat, There's More Than One Way to Shape a Narrative™. Matt Vespa interprets the NPR CEO: We're Not Biased in Our Coverage, but We'll Drag Our Feet on Stories That Make Dems Look Bad. Ace, A Consensus of Experts: French Academy of Medicine Agrees Near-Unanimously That Covid-19 Leaked from the Wuhan Lab. "It's so strange how the media and Deep State only credit some consensuses of experts but not others. Like: There are two sexes."

Da Caller reports Elite University Targets Student For Trying To Uncover Where Millions In Federal Funds Are Going. From the College Fix, Brown U. student journalist started looking into administrative bloat. Now he’s being investigated. At Hat Hair, John Sexton reports a Wisconsin University Professor Suspended After Overturning College Republican's Table, Trump Gives Public Schools 10-Days to Certify They Have Done Away with DEI and Dave Strom asserts Universities Are Beyond Repair. 

Ward Clark at RedState reports Shocker: Covenant School Shooter Final Report Released - Attack Was Plotted for Years. "Rather than a highly anticipated manifesto, the report found that killer Audrey Hale left behind numerous notebooks, art books and computer documents about her plans to commit the attack and gain notoriety, partly inspired by the Columbine school shooting in 1999. Hale, the 28-year-old attacker and biological female, began "fantasizing" about and researching mass shootings as far back as 2017, according to investigators. A year later, she wrote "detailed fantasies" about shooting up the Isaac T. Creswell Middle Magnet School for the Arts, killing her father and killing her psychiatrist." Ace, Nashville Trans Shooter Plotted Attack for Years, Was Obsessed with Other School Shooters "I'm starting to think that maybe treating juvenile mental illness with powerful exogenous hormones and telling kids they were "born in the wrong body" isn't as medically effective as our "experts" believe." Tyler O'Neil at Da Signal thinks the Police Report on Nashville Transgender Shooter Plays Into Left’s Narrative "The police report seems to follow the same trend Americans have seen from the “experts” time and again. Whenever a mass shooter can conceivably be connected to a conservative cause, be it anger at illegal immigration or a hatred of certain types of people, the manifesto appears almost immediately, and the Left pounces on evidence of “right-wing extremism.” Yet, when a shooter motivated by gender ideology or hatred against Christians carries out an act of evil, the “true motives” remain a mystery." At Da Wire, Nashville Police In Final Report Downplay Covenant Shooter’s Transgender Identity, Hatred Of Christianity. "Nashville police said the attacker was motivated by "notoriety.""

At Twitchy, 'Will You Side With the Truth?' Matt Walsh BLISTERS California Legislature on Trans Ideology. NotTheBee, New Colorado bill would penalize "misgendering" in public places, use it as justification to take your kids away. WokeSpy, Georgia Dems Walk Out of Chamber in Support of Sex-Changes for Criminals. From Breitbart, Lia Thomas Feels ‘Devastated,’ Stricken with ‘Grief’ Over Trans Athlete Ban (wah!) and Women’s Fencer Takes a Knee in Protest, Refuses to Face Trans Opponent: ‘This is a Man’, Unilad, Female fencer handed severe punishment after refusing to partake with transgender opponent, "Just as Redmond warned, referees at the event responded by giving Turner a black card; the most severe penalty in the sport, which can lead to expulsion from the event for serious rule infractions or unsportsmanlike behavior. In a statement to UNILAD, a spokesperson for USA Fencing said Turner was not penalized for her protest, but for simply refusing to fence an 'eligible opponent'."

At Da Caller,  Army Reserve ‘Taking Appropriate Action’ Against Captain Who Accused Trump Admin Of Erasing Trans People "Captain Winters slammed the Trump administration for its recent actions related to transgender individuals, including a prohibition on transgender people serving in the military and a ban on medical facilities providing sex changes for minors. . . Although the post included a disclaimer noting it does not “represent the views or opinions of the U.S. Army,” Winters wore an official uniform in the video. The Army Reserve said it is “taking appropriate actions” in response to the post. “Army regulations prohibit soldiers from wearing official uniforms when speaking in an unofficial capacity. As such, Capt. Winters’ command is taking appropriate actions. Under the Privacy Act, the Army Reserve cannot comment on those actions,” the public affairs office for the Army Reserve said in a statement to the Caller . . . While the Army used female pronouns, Winters appears to be a biological man." 

Christina Winters, a man pretending to be a woman, is a Captain for the US Army Reserve.

He claims that the Trump administration is trying to remove trans people from their homes and is encouraging individuals to be "annoyingly" proud during Trans Day of Visibility. pic.twitter.com/Y0eeCePlag

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 31, 2025

WaPoo Wants You to Find Teeth

WaPoo has a very nice article on fossil hunting in Maryland, featuring a few of the people I know from the Facebook Calvert Fossils and Trip Reports page, New fossil-hunting group aims to help Marylanders find buried treasures. "Fossils from more than 600 species can be found in the area dating back to 23 million years ago."

Forgive Felicia Ludwig for getting all cosmic about it, but that’s just how she feels about fossil hunting. Ludwig found her first fossil on the sandy expanse of Calvert County’s Matoaka Beach in 2017. It was the mouth plate of an ancient stingray, a tiny bit of fossil that can easily be mistaken for a rock or bleached wood or even trash. But no — this was millions of years old.

“There is magic in feeling so small,” said Ludwig, 37. “You’re the very first human picking some of these things up. They’re 30 million years old, and you’re 37 years old. That idea that you are so insignificant — that really sings to me.”

A Maryland native who had enjoyed the outdoors as a child but now spent her days at a computer compiling data, Ludwig learned about fossil hunting from a friend. Ludwig tagged along on her friend’s next hunt and has been hooked ever since.

Ludwig is now in the middle of building a nonprofit group called Maryland Fossil Finders. Launched in September, the group aims to encourage more Marylanders to fossil hunt via learning the basics from webinars and gathering for regular guided walks.

And there’s good reason for them to give it a try: Maryland is uniquely peppered with remnants of long-gone geological eras. In 2023, scientists discovered a “bone bed” in Laurel, containing fossils from a number of dinosaurs dating to the early Cretaceous period, about 150 million years ago. That same year, an amateur fossil hunter and his family were searching the Calvert County coastline when they discovered a 650-pound whale skull that was 12 million years old. The find was taken to Calvert Marine Museum for further research.

I walked over that one more than a few times without seeing it. 

With so much history waiting to be discovered in the region, Ludwig hopes to expand the ranks of fossil hunters.

“If you’re out there, you can find it,” she said. “But if no one is there, it’s possible it’ll get washed out into the ocean and nobody will ever find it again.”

The majority of the fossils in Maryland date to the Miocene age, which ran from about 23 million to 5 million years ago. Saber-toothed cats and mastodons prowled alongside the first dogs and bears. Elevated temperatures also meant higher sea levels, and much of Maryland was underwater, part of a shallow sea, said David Hoppe, a graduate student in Earth Systems Science at George Mason University and an avid fossil blogger. That area went as far west as Interstate 95 and as far south as Richmond.

In 2023, Ludwig went to the Calvert Cliffs the day after her grandmother passed away. “Granny, tell me where the big ones are,” she said to herself, and she found a pile of shark teeth.

“This sea was teeming with life, like fish, saltwater crocodiles, dolphins, whales and sharks,” Hoppe said.

Shark teeth are the most common fossil locally, Hoppe said, because these ancient sharks, like their modern equivalents, drop up to 10,000 teeth throughout their lifetimes.

It was a tough day for fossils on our beach today, only 3 teeth. Georgia found a pretty good White Shark tooth, but sadly, part of the root was missing. 

I guess I don't mind if Felicia gets more people looking, as long as they don't find my teeth.

Flotsam and Jetsam - Zuck Renounces Facebook Censorship

Charlie Martin at PJM, Meta Announces Reduced Censorship and Elimination of ‘Independent’ Fact Checkers as Too Biased. "Alternate headline: “Trump and Musk Win Again!”" Nick Ballasy at JTN, Meta to replace its fact-checking program with system like X’s community notes. "Meta CEO Marc Zuckerberg said the 2024 election was a “cultural tipping point.”" Matt Taibbi at Racket, On Mark Zuckerberg's Speech Announcement. "The Meta chief's surprising public address on free speech hints at a coming battle between the U.S. and the rest of the world." Sundance at CTH, calls it a Trump Effect – Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Admits Platform Censorship Has Gone Too Far, Promises Fundamental Changes. At Ace's , Zuckerberg Announces "Drastic Reduction" in "Censorship;" Says "Fact-Checkers" are "Too Politically Biased," Says US Government "Has Pushed For Censorship", claims "Total vindication. You're going to see so much vindication you'll get tired of all the vindication." Jordan Schachtel at The Dossier, Zuck orchestrates hiring blitz to take Meta back from the woke mob. A firing blitz might work better. Breitbart, UFC Head, Trump Ally Dana White Joins Meta Board of Directors. Althouse finds "It’s time to get back to our roots around free expression... We're going to get rid of fact-checkers and replace them with community notes, similar to X, " "The fact-checkers have just been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they've created, especially in the U.S...."" and "This shows how Mark Zuckerberg is feeling that society is more accepting of those libertarian and right-leaning viewpoints that he’s always had. This is an evolved return to his political origins, " "Said Katie Harbath, "chief executive of Anchor Change, a tech consulting firm, who previously worked at Facebook"" "I'd like to think that the idea of freedom of speech won out in the marketplace of ideas, but I can understand how the speech controllers gravitate toward the idea that Zuckerberg was always a right-winger and he's just regressing after faking aspirations to higher values." Beege Welborn at Hat Hair, Dude. Babylon Bee, Guy Who Said Facebook Was Not Suppressing Free Speech Announces Facebook Will Stop Suppressing Free Speech.

John Sexton at Hat Hair hears Fact-Checkers Call an Emergency Meeting as Meta Cuts Their Funding. Glenn Greenwald@ggreenwald ""The International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) has convened an emergency meeting" - hilarious. It's long past time for the fraudulent, politicized self-anointed "disinformation" and "fact-checker" industry to come crashing down on its shattered foundations." At Fox, Internet roasts NYT headline about fact-checkers ruling Meta criticism of fact checks 'false:' 'Beyond parody.' "'They really wrote this and then published it,' senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute Chris Rufo marveled." From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 01.07.25 Twitchy, Brian Stelter Claims Meta’s “MAGA Makeover” Will Lead To More Lies And Confusion and Louder With Crowder REEEEEEE! The insufferable CNN duo of Brian Stelter, Jim Acosta cry over Zuckerberg ending Meta’s censorship, Mark Zuckerberg makes MAJOR changes to Facebook, credits Trump’s reelection for bringing back free speech, American Greatness, Zuckerberg Announces META Will End Fact-Checking Program and Move to Community Notes Model to ‘Restore Free Expression’, The Federalist, We’re Still Waiting For Facebook To Atone For The 11 Times (We Know Of) It Censored The Federalist, and Mark Zuckerberg Just Admitted To The Big Tech-Government Censorship The Supreme Court Ignored. Matt Vespa at TownHall finds CNN's Media Reporter Did Not Just Tweet This About Facebook's Changes to 'Fact-Checking' Brian Stelter@brianstelter, "Big picture: Mark Zuckerberg just announced sweeping changes to the social internet, all in line with the desires of President Trump and Trump voters. Out with the fact-checkers that conservatives deride. In with more permissive rules for posting conservative opinions." VodkaPundit at Insty, MAYBE CNN DOESN’T WANT THE COMPETITION: Stephen L. Miller@redsteeze, "CNN is currently in court at this moment over defamation and lying." Ace, Leftwing Media and Censorship Complex Seethes Over Meta's Abandonment of Leftwing "Fact"-Checkers; "Fact"-Checkers Worry They Might Lose Their Funding and Their Jobs. "Brian Stelter, CNN's Chief Deplatforming Officer, who for years and years has made "combating misinformation" his main mission, calling up social media monopolies every time Media Matters ran a hit on a right-leaning speaker and demanding why are you allowing this Russian Disinformation on your platform!?!, is now shrieking that his censorious grift has taken a big hit."

My own interactions with Facebook have been calm, but then I never broach politics. However, my dear departed brother, Ted, quit Facebook in a huff when it started censoring his gun posts. 

At the Other McCain, Vindicated: Britain’s ‘Grooming Gangs’ Finally Get the Attention They Deserve. Insty cites Capt. ED MORRISSEY: EU Leaders to Musk: How Dare You Interfere With Our Interference! Ben Kew@ben_kew, "According to BBC Newsnight, Britain's socialist government are considering ending their security partnership with the U.S. unless Donald Trump distances himself from Elon Musk's views on grooming gangs." Sundance at CTH, EU Not at All Happy with Elon Musk Tinkering with Long Standing Control of The Proles.

'Bonchie' at RedState, Sunny Hostin Accidently Exposed Her Husband's Alleged Insurance Scam, Now He's a Defendant in a RICO Case. Twitchy, Sunny Hostin's Hubby Caught in Massive NYC RICO Scandal: Doctor's Oath Meets Fraud Allegations. Nicholas Fondacaro@NickFondacaro, "Sunny Hostin's husband has been named in a massive insurance fraud RICO case. WACTH: Hostin implicates her husband in such a scheme: "[He] operates on someone even though they don't have insurance and then has to sue health insurance companies to get paid for the work...""

Jeff Charles at TownHall worries Are Leftists Planning an 'Insurrection' Against Donald Trump's Inauguration? Will there be a repeat of 2016s inauguration riots? Maybe, if Democrats can't control their mob. "A coalition of left-wing organizations has announced a “We Fight Back” National Day of Action set to take place on January 20 as Trump is inaugurated. The purported aim of the demonstrations is to “defeat Trump’s extreme right, billionaire agenda,” according to its website." Matt Vespa, Libs Are Not Going to Like What CNN's Scott Jennings Said About the 2024 Election Certification. Byron York@ByronYork, "It should be noted that today's proceeding was the first time no Democrat objected to the certification of a Republican president since the certification of George H.W. Bush in 1989." (((tedfrank)))@tedfrank, "The January 6, 2025 certification of Trump’s election victory is the first time in fifty-two years that no Democrats challenged the certification of a GOP victory in a presidential election. Dems in the House challenged the results in 1981, 1985, 1989, 2001, 2005, & 2017. /1" Scott Pinsker at PJM, The Age of Covfefe Has Officially Begun! "The whole January 6 certification spectacle has been a “riot” to watch, if you’ll “pardon” the pun. What a show! (Democrats are sort of cute when they’re out of power.) With sweeping brushstrokes, they painted themselves in a corner: After four long years of hysterical caterwauling about the so-called “insurrection,” the dangers of election denialism, and Trump being “literally Hitler,” they had absolutely no card left to play. All they could do was eat the s**t sandwich and pretend it was yummy."

DC_Draino@DC_Draino, "We are about to experience something that’s never been done before Republicans have only controlled the White House, Senate, and House for 10 years in the past century And you know how many of those years included a 6-3 conservative Supreme Court plus a powerful MAGA media ecosystem with hundreds of millions of followers to hold RINOs accountable? Zero This is why we call it the Golden Age Republicans have never held this much power in modern history. Let’s use the hell out of it and save this country." Teri Christoph at RedState, Senate Democrats Force Delay on Tulsi Gabbard Confirmation Hearing, Put United States at Risk. Sundance, Curious Outcome – Senate Intel Committee Vice Chairman Mark Warner Met with DNI Nominee Tulsi Gabbard, Has More Questions. Bob Spencer at PJM, Elizabeth Warren Finds One of Those Right-Wing Extremists the Biden Regime Has Been Warning Us About. "The far-left Warren professed to be particularly worried about a tattoo on Hegseth’s bicep, which says “Deus Vult,” or “God wills it.”" Matt Vespa, John Fetterman Announces Which Trump Nominees He'll Vote to Confirm.

Sundance, President Trump Holds a Press Conference in Mar-a-Lago – Hussain Sajwani to Invest $20 Billion For AI Datacenters. Press conference at link. Ace, Trump Press Conference: He'll Rename the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America," Still Wants Greenland, "All Hell Will Break Loose" if Hamas Doesn't Release Hostages by His Inauguration. Cynical Publius@CynicalPublius, "I'm hearing MAGAs complain that the whole Greenland thing is a "distraction" and Trump should instead be focused on his key campaign promises. IMO, at a certain level this definitely IS a distraction, one that Trump has purposely created. . . " Beege Welborn, Denmark Strikes Back at Trump: How Do You Like Us Now, Tough Guy? "“We are open for business, but we’re not for sale,” Greenland’s foreign minister, Ane Lone Bagger, said." Twitchy cites Harry Sisson: MAGA Said Trump Was 'Anti-War' but Now He's Going to 'Invade' Greenland. At NewsMax, Trump Hits at Trudeau, Pushes Perks of US-Canada Merger. Fox, Trump reacts to Trudeau resignation: 'Many people in Canada LOVE being the 51st State', "Trump says if Canada merged with U.S., there would be no tariffs." Stephen Kruiser at PJM, Canada's Commie Soy Boy Trudeau Slithers Off to Ignominy. Bari Weiss@bariweiss, The problem with Trudeau’s government is not the name at the top of the ticket. The problem is bad ideas, strongly held. The comprehensive failure of Justin Trudeau:" Jeff Charles, Trump Does a Bit of Trolling After Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Announces His Resignation. From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 01.07.25, American Thinker: Trump’s Arctic Policy Is No Folly.

Althouse, Respect for the recently deceased Jimmy Carter outweighed by unquenchable need to disparage Trump. "At The Daily Beast:" Sister Toldja want you to WATCH: Donald Trump Shuts Down Reporter Who Got Fauxfended Over His Jimmy Carter/Panama Canal Criticisms. Curtis Houck@CurtisHouck "The AP's Will Weissert is mad at Donald Trump that he criticized the late Jimmy Carter for his decision about turning over the Panama Canal. Trump reminds this complete hack he said he "liked him as a man and I disagreed with" him on "his policy."" Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson "BREAKING: President Trump announces plans to push for all votes to be fully counted by 10:00 PM on future Election Nights.

Leah Barkoukis at TownHall, The Laken Riley Act Is Back. Teri Christoph, Fetterman Just Threw a Wrench Into Dem Plans to Block Laken Riley Act From Making Its Way to Trump's Desk. Eric Daugherty@EricLDaugh, "BREAKING: Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) sponsors the Laken Riley Act in the Senate. Fetterman is the first Senate Democrat to sponsor it. This bill will ensure detention and deportations of criminal aliens before they can commit heinous crimes like what happened to Laken Riley." From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 01.07.25, Twitchy: Laken Riley Act Passes House Despite 158 Votes Against From Pro-Illegal Democrats. Da Signal, BIPARTISAN: Laken Riley Act Passes With Many Democrat Votes. Henry Rogers at Da Caller points out 159 Democrats Voted Against The Laken Riley Act, for murder. 

From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 01.07.25, American Greatness: Trump Vows to ‘Terminate’ Joe Biden’s ‘Costly and Ridiculous’ Executive Orders, Including His New Ban on Offshore Drilling,

At NewsMax, Trump Weighs Executive Order to Protect Gas Stoves. From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 01.07.25  CDR Salamander wonders Is Trump a Navalist? "President-elect Trump tells Hugh Hewitt."

WokeSpy, Biden Gets Confused While Singing “Happy Birthday” to Kid He Invited on Stage. OTP asserts Joe Biden Falls Asleep During New Orleans Prayer Service. Breitbart, Democrats Begin Dumping on Biden After Years of Claiming He Was Fit to Serve. Ace of Spades@AceofSpadesHQ. "the criminals who covered up Biden's senility and illegally ran the country without constitutional mandate must be named, shamed, and arraigned." Capt. Ed at Hat Hair hears Gallup: Biden Is The New Nixon. Leslie Eastman at LI, Biden Shames Presidential Medal of Freedom Even Further by Giving it to “Science Guy,” "Bill Nye "Nye is to science as Biden is to great statesmen." Da Caller, Left Eats Its Own After High-Profile Activists Accept Medals From ‘Genocide Joe’. If only it were literal. At Twitchy, LOOK on Van Jones Face As Scott Jennings OWNS CNN Panel for Canonizing Saint Kamala Is PRICELESS (Watch). Eric Daugherty@EricLDaugh, "NEW: Scott Jennings reins in CNN panel that got a little too excited about Kamala Harris. Van Jones' reaction is priceless. "Before we canonize Saint Kamala here on the high holy day of January 6th, let's remember: the Electoral Count Reform Act of 2022 makes it perfectly clear that the Vice President has nothing but purely ministerial duties on this day." "She didn't actually certify the results - that was done by the voters and people of the states." HOST: "Nobody's trying to canonize her..." JENNINGS: "Oh, they're not? She put out a video trying to canonize herself."" Ace, Liberals Agree: The Democrat/Progressive Failure Is Epochal and Democrats and Progressives Are Incapable of Reform. "POC liberal Fareed Zakaria knocks down the idea that there's a "Crisis of Democracy" in the west. No, he says. It's a crisis of progressive governance, which is a catastrophic failure."

Althouse, "The Pentagon carried out the secret operation in the early hours of Monday..." "From "U.S. Sends 11 Guantánamo Prisoners to Oman to Start New Lives/The secret mission left the smallest number of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay since the day the detention center opened in 2002" (NYT)." Da Caller, How The Biden FBI Let An ISIS Acolyte Slip Right Past Them. At Da Signal, Biden Administration Admits Defeat by Withdrawing 7 Woke Rule Changes. Balmer Sun, Jimmy Carter federal holiday: What’s open, what’s closed Jan. 9 for National Day of Mourning.

NewsMax, La. AG Orders Security Probe as Biden Directs Resources to Better Protect New Orleans. At Task and Purpose, Army says New Years bombers overlapped at Fort Liberty and were both in Afghanistan ‘surge’. I still don't think they're related.

NewsMax, Trump Tries to Stop Release of Special Counsel Report. Althouse, Judge Merchan and Judge Cannon respond to Trump requests. "Merchan says no: "N.Y. judge denies Trump effort to block sentencing in hush money case/Lawyers for Donald Trump asked a New York judge to stop Trump’s sentencing scheduled for Friday on his convictions for falsifying business documents" (WaPo). Cannon says yes: "Cannon temporarily blocks report on Trump classified-documents probe/Two Trump employees charged alongside him in the classified documents case separately asked Judge Aileen Cannon to block the release" (WaPo)." Sundance, Judge Aileen Cannon Blocks DOJ Release of Jack Smith Report. Ace, Trump Files Emergency Appeal to Delay Merchan's Political Rush to Brand Him a "Convicted and Sentenced Felon;" Judge Aileen Canon Blocks Release of Jack Smith's Hitjob "Report" "Jack Smith needs some prosecutorial attention. If it's good for the goose, it's even better for the rogue prosecutor bending the law to persecute the goose." John Sexton at Hat Hair, Trump Seeks Delay of Sentencing (Does Judge Merchan Expect to Lose This Fight?) Margot Cleveland at Da Fed, Efforts To Sentence Trump In Sham NY Criminal Case Confirm Democrats’ Crazy Lawfare. Pop Times reports Trump Decimates Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg after “HACK” Judge Schedules “Hush Money” Sentencing 10 Days Before Inauguration. Jonathan Turley opines atop Da Hill, The Trump sentencing: Curtain to fall on Merchan’s Hamlet on the Hudson. 

Capt. Ed, Hmm: FBI Redacts Origins of RussiaGate in Final Report.

Kaelan Deese at WaEx, Biden DOJ floats charging 200 more Jan. 6 defendants. Twitchy, 'Justice Is COMING': Mike Davis Goes SCORCHED EARTH on Biden Agents Who 'Hunted' J6 Protesters (Watch). Cathy Salgado at PJM, J6ers Ask Trump for Pardons in DC as Election Is Certified. Matt Vespa, What This CNN Commentator Said About Trump and J6 Left CNN's Acosta Aghast. Joy Pullman at Da Fed, Homeland Security Targets Democrats’ Opponents Instead Of Stopping Terrorists.

At Insty, VodkaPundit, SOME? McDonald’s is ending some of its DEI practices. "McDonald’s is the latest US corporation – and among the largest – to back off some of its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) practices, as a Supreme Court ruling against affirmative action and conservative backlash to those programs continues to lead businesses to reevaluate their diversity pledges . . .", and I FINALLY FOUND THE TOXIC MASCULINITY THE LEFT IS ALWAYS GOING ON ABOUT: 𝗡𝗶𝗼𝗵 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗴 ♛ ✡︎@NiohBerg "This is a very important symptom of mass immigration: The gradual disappearance of women from crowded public spaces out of fear of harassment. People don't talk enough about this." John Sexton at Hat Hair VIP, Washington Post Doing Away with Gender Columnist Role.

The Wombat has FMJRA 2.0: New York, New York up on time and under budget at The Other McCain.

Flotsam and Jetsam - FBI Involvment in J6 Detailed, Biden Mass Pardons

Two stories stand out among the rest today. First, the DOJ's IG released a report claiming that while the FBI had dozens of Confidential Human Sources (CHS) inside the capital riot, including several who entered the Capitol building, they had no actual undercover FBI agents involved, and that none of the CHSs were prosecuted for the trespass etc. Second, Joe Biden issued a mass pardon, but not the one many on his side long for. 

The Redoubtable Julie Kelly@julie_kelly2, "BREAKING: DOJ IG claims 26 FBI informants were in DC on Jan 6. (Guarantee this is not accurate) At least 17 committed offenses for which other J6er have been federally charges. Three of the CHS were given authorization to go, and at least one was actually paid. No CHS was charged." Mary Chastain at LI, DOJ IG: Dozens of FBI Confidential Sources at Capitol on January 6, "These CHSs gathered information before January 6th and guess what. The FBI didn’t do much. I bet you know what I want to ask the FBI." At the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 12.12.24 (Afternoon Edition), Twitchy, IG Report Lists How Many 'Confidential Human Sources' FBI Had at the Capitol on J6 (BS Called). Ace, IG Report on January 6th Admits That Fed Agents Entered the Capitol, But Denies That the FBI Urged Them to Commit Illegal Acts or Encourage Others to Commit Illegal Act, "Another whitewash from our deplorable and corrupt government." Sundance at CTH, Inspect General Outlines Extensive Use of FBI Confidential Human Sources on January 6, 2021. At Althouse, "The report... includes details that will almost certainly fuel the 'fedsurrection' narrative that has been growing on the right and amongst Donald Trump supporters..." "... The false notion that the federal government was responsible for instigating the attack.While the review found 'no evidence in the materials we reviewed or the testimony we received showing or suggesting that the FBI had undercover employees in the various protest crowds, or at the Capitol, on January 6,' the inspector general's office said that there were 26 confidential human sources in Washington on Jan. 6." From "FBI missed 'basic step' when gathering intel in the lead-up to Jan. 6, DOJ watchdog finds/Investigators found no evidence of undercover FBI employees at the Capitol, but the presence of FBI informants could further fuel right-wing 'fedsurrection' conspiracy theories" (NBC News). JD Vance@JDVance, "For those keeping score at home, this was labeled a dangerous conspiracy theory months ago." Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy "If you uttered the facts in this IG report last year, you were labeled a “conspiracy theorist.” It’s also notable that the IG report came out literally the day after Christopher Wray resigned." Vicky Taft at PJM, The FBI Paid People to Go to the J6 Riot. DC_Draino @DC_Draino, "So the FBI will raid Trump’s house and indict him twice But a report on the FBI’s involvement in J6 was delayed until after the election so that it “didn’t cause any election interference”? This is why Kash Patel is needed for a deep clean of the corrupt FBI" Quote, Jack Poso @JackPosobiec, "How convenient the IG Report confirming 26 FBI assets at Jan 6 comes out one month *after* the election How convenient, indeed." While this may be true of the FBI (I'm sure they're still hiding as much as they can), there were certainly other agencies involved, and we aren't sure of their level of engagement either. Capt. Ed at Hat Hair VIP, Trump to J6ers: Hold On, I'm Coming. From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 11.12.24 (Evening Edition) Louder With Crowder: Trump Pledges To Pardon Most J6ers Within “The First Nine Minutes” Of Being In Office,  Sh*t and Chicago Boyz: Thoughts on J6 Pardons and Investigations,

The Biden/Harris administration announce the pardons or commutation of a large mass of people yesterday, mostly of criminal cases where the sentences were longer than what normally be given today. Sundance, Biden Delivers 1,500 Pardons During First Wave of Executive Clemency Announcements  At Da Signal, Biden Nullifies Crimes in Biggest Day of Clemency to Date, Nick Sortor@nicksortor, WTF?! Joe Biden just pardoned multiple Chinese spies and an individual convicted of possessing child p*rnography WHY? 39 MORE DAYS UNTIL THIS CRAP IS OVER. Oilfield Rando @Oilfield_Rando, "We all know Biden had nothing to do with working up the pardon list. The question is: who did?" For the most part, I don't object to this. While I'm sure some are more worthy than others, I don't propose to nitpick. This is not the mass pardon of as yet unknown crimes committed by federal bureaucrats and legislators in their war against Donald Trump, that some desperately seek. Stephen Kruiser at PJM, Just Sayin' — I Never Asked to Be Pardoned for Crimes I Haven't Committed " The people being mentioned as being in need of "Get Out of Jail Free" cards in the next month haven't been publicly lobbying for themselves, but it's an almost certain bet that they're jumping up and down screaming, "Me next!" behind the scenes. As Scott wrote last week, Adam Schiff, Liz "I'm Just Like Lincoln" Cheney, and alleged physician Anthony Fauci headline the group of people most in need of an assist from President LOLEightyonemillion. Schiff and Cheney are sweating bullets because they were members of the J6 House Soviet Select Committee on Daddy Issues, a pathetic un-American charade that only succeeded in wasting the taxpayers' money. Anthony Fauci is on the list for being Pol Pot, M.D. during the pandemic, of course. Four years later, we're still waiting to see if he told the truth about anything other than the spelling of his name in 2020." Beege Welborn at Hat Hair, Did POTATUS Release the Brother of a Hamas Mastermind and...Get None of OUR Hostages Back?

At PJM, Stephen Kruiser thinks Christoper Wray Is Busy Googling 'No Extradition Treaty With United States' and Matt Margolis says Christopher Wray Is Preparing to Sabotage Trump and Patel, "Reports suggest Wray is actively promoting loyalists within the bureau, embedding establishment figures even deeper into the FBI. The move appears to be a calculated effort to sabotage Kash Patel’s expected plans to overhaul the agency and implement meaningful reforms at the nation’s top law enforcement institution." Ace, Kerry Picket: Sources Say Christopher Wray is Promoting Regime Loyalists in the FBI to Thwart Trump's Efforts to Reform the Criminal Organization. At TownHall, Kurt Schlichter proposes  Tactics, Techniques and Procedures to Keep Deep State Bureaucrats From Obstructing Donald Trump’s Agenda. "First, they must resolve to never be reasonable. The fake “reasonability” argument is a weapon they always deploy against a change agent." At the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 12.12.24 (Afternoon Edition),  Twitchy, Adam Schiff Thought It Was SMART to 'Go There' Sucking UP to Christopher Wray and WOOF Was He EVER Wrong. From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 11.12.24 (Evening Edition) Director Blue: Top 20 Reasons Christopher Wray Is The Worst FBI Director In History and EBL: FBI Director Christopher Wray off to find new grifting opportunities.

At Splice, Mark Judge predicts Pete Hegseth Will Be Confirmed. Breitbart looks at Pete’s Big Week: How Hegseth Turned His Confirmation Fight Around in 7 Days, Sarah Arnold at TownHall explains John Fetterman Agrees to Meet With Pete Hegseth. Here's Why. A strange voice of reasonability in the Democrat party. Althouse finds "This article is based on interviews with nearly a dozen people who have direct knowledge of how and why Mr. Trump salvaged Mr. Hegseth’s bid, at least for now." "I'm reading "Power, Intimidation and the Resurrection of Trump’s Support for Hegseth/The president-elect became convinced that letting Pete Hegseth fail would set off a feeding frenzy among senators. What followed was a MAGA swarm that helped salvage his bid, at least for now," by Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman in the NYT."

From NYPo, Elon Musk asks if the IRS should be ‘deleted’ after agency  begs for $20 billion – here’s how X users responded. Charlie Martin at PJM has a Memo to Elon and Vivek: What Are The Incentives That Drive Inefficient Government? At Twitchy, DOGE Asks Twitter for Examples of Government Waste and WHOA, NELLIE Do People Have Some Ideas. Capt. Ed reads Politico: Dems Get Strange New Respect For ... Elon Musk. Ace, Fire Them All: The Democrats' Manueverings Have Granted Trump the Power to Fire Anyone He Wants, "Back in 2021, Biden terminated the appointment of Sean Spicer to a Navy body. The Democrats have no standing to claim that Trump can't do the same."

At Hat Hair Beege Welborn is enjoying a Spicey Deep Dish Pie Fight: Homan v Chicago. Sundance, New York City Mayor Eric Adams Affirms His Intent to Support Border Czar Tom Homan – 500,000 Children are Missing and Likely Being Exploited. Ace, MSNBC Shrieks at Trump's Promise to End Birthright Citizenship, "I'm glad Trump is revisiting this issue, which he brought up but abandoned in his first term." At Da Caller Nicole Silvero hosts as Josh Hawley Confronts Witness Point-Blank To Explain How Flooding Job Market With Illegal Migrants Helps Americans. Center Square CA reports San Diego passes 'super sanctuary' ordinance closing 'loophole' for deporting felons. Heritage Foundation@Heritage, "President Biden and Secretary Mayorkas are doing everything they can to keep our borders open as long as possible." Quote, "Daily Wire@realDailyWire", "EXCLUSIVE: Weeks before Trump takes office, Biden is racing to auction off unused border wall materials. Video shows trucks hauling wall materials off the border to a government auction site, where a massive amount of wall is waiting to be sold."

Dr. Janette Nesheiwat

Paula Bolyard sees SHE NEEDS TO GO: Trump Surgeon General Pick Parrots the Left's Gender-Bender Propaganda. At a minimum, she must recant it in confirmation hearings. Use the better data excuse. 

Althouse, Time didn't have much choice: Trump is the "Person of the Year." "Here. It's a very long article." At Twitchy, Ooh, That's Gotta' Sting! CNN Reports Huge Support Numbers for Trump's Transition and Second Term. Benny Johnson@bennyjohnson, "”USA” chant breaks out after President-elect Donald Trump rings the bell at the New York Stock Exchange" and Vice President JD Vance: “It’s 9:48am shouldn’t you be making money?!” Capt. Ed, sees the Trump Inauguration, Brought to You By ... ZuckBucks? and CNN Poll: Mar-a-Lago's a Honeymoon Hotel.  A Victory Girl calls it Mark Zuckerberg’s One Million Dollar Reparation. Pocket lint. Althouse finds "[F]ew on the populist right view Trump as the genuine article—they tend to politely describe the president-elect as a 'transitional figure'...." Writes Tyler Austin Harper, an environmental studies professor, in "Is This How Democrats Win Back the Working Class? Embracing populism could help the party build a lasting political coalition — if the Republicans don't do it first" (The Atlantic)." Has he really talked to any? Also, "By the way, do you want hors d’oeuvres or anything?" "Said Trump, quoted in "Read the Full Transcript of Donald Trump’s 2024 Person of the Year Interview With TIME." I corrected the spelling of "hors d’oeuvres." TIME wrote "hors d’Oevres." I think it's funny, both Trump suddenly offering hors d’oeuvres and TIME, which would probably jump at any chance to portray Trump as dumb or lowly, not managing to spell "hors d’oeuvres" correctly in a written transcript." Da Signal, Bernie Sanders Hints at Support of Some of Trump's Plans, "Is ‘Crazy’ Bernie Sanders Not So Crazy Anymore?"

John Sexton at Hat Hair catches the NY Times worrying Democrats Are Losing Tomorrow's Elections Today, as people leave blue states. "Most people are making these moves for affordability. Shockingly, it turns out that places run exclusively by Democrats are really expensive. Taxes are higher, home prices are higher, the prices of gas (in the case of California) is a lot higher. Most of the people voting with their feet are moving for livability." Althouse cites the NYT, "Trump Allies Appear Before Judge in Wisconsin Election Interference Case/The case is one of five related to 2020 election interference that are proceeding even as Donald J. Trump prepares to return to the White House." 

From the Free Bacon, Tony Blinken Tells Congress ‘No One Anticipated’ Taliban Takeover of Afghanistan. "One month before the Taliban took control, diplomats sent Blinken a dissent cable warning of Afghan government's collapse." I guess they were nobodies. Hat Hair's Duane Patterson looks at Antony 'Bloody' Blinken's Awful, No Good, Very Bad Day. 

Paul Bedard at WaEx says Ouch: Just 32% of Democrats want Kamala Harris to run again. That many? From Da Caller House Panel Subpoenas Biden-Harris Official Accused Of ‘Stonewalling’ Probe Into Tim Walz’s China Ties. Ace reports Democrat Criminal Fundraising Organization ActBlue Allowed Foreigners to Donate To Biden and Kamala Throughout the Past Election Cycle, "They deliberately allowed foreigners to donate to American leftwing politicians through foreign gift cards -- basically just a debit card containing an amount of money loaded on to it. You'd think that the fact that these are foreign gift cards would be enough that ActBlue would ban donations made via these cards, but you'd be wrong. They allowed foreigners to illegally donate until the near the end of the election." From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 11.12.24 (Evening Edition).  At Am Great the Great Victor Davis Hanson expounds on The Evaporation of the Obama Mystique. "Obama's behind-the-scenes political maneuvering culminated in a failed Biden presidency that ultimately led to a significant Democratic electoral defeat and rejection of his political legacy."

Insty, BROUGHT TO YOU BE THE SAME PEOPLE WHO WON’T STOP YAMMERING ABOUT SUSTAINABILITY:

This is bad: after just two months into fiscal 2025, the US has already raked in a $624BN budget deficit.

This is the worst start to a year on record pic.twitter.com/Oeta4diK5Q

— zerohedge (@zerohedge) December 11, 2024

And now that the election is over it can be revealed, E.J. Antoni, Ph.D.@RealEJAntoni, "Not only did wholesale inflation for Nov come in red hot, but the last 3 months were also revised higher; headline exploded 0.4% M/M, pushing Y/Y to 3.0% while core (pictured here) jumped to 3.4% Y/Y and continues rising much faster than the pre-Jan '21 average:"

Hat Hair's Dave Strom finds Lefties Still Committed to Lawfare, which is precisely why we need to do it to them. Jen van Laar at RedState finds a LA County Sheriff Threatens Investigative Journalist With Lawfare Over X Post

From YaHoo! Luigi Mangione was not insured by UnitedHealthcare, say police, so it was purely a political assassination. Robert Sterling@RobertMSterling. "Brian Thompson went from Jewell, Iowa (population 1,200) to leading 140,000 employees and overseeing $280B of revenue at one of the world’s most important companies. His mom worked as a beautician, his dad at a grain elevator—they were probably really proud when he graduated valedictorian of his 50-person high school class. He played basketball and the trombone, got elected homecoming king, and worked in soybean fields and meat processing plants during summers. While studying at the University of Iowa, he met the woman who would become his wife, with whom he would have two kids. By all accounts, he was smart, hard-working, funny, and a thoroughly decent man. This guy—not the person who murdered him in cold blood—was everything that’s right and good about America, and the American Dream. May his memory be a blessing, and may his example inspire all of us to do better." Dan Crenshaw@DanCrenshawTX, "A CEO is assassinated, and now “wanted” posters are appearing across the country, targeting others simply for being successful. Someone even put up a highway sign calling for more murders. This isn’t just outrage—it’s mob mentality, and it’s tearing at the fabric of who we are as Americans." At PJM Sarah Anderson, Sickening 'Wanted' Posters Targeting Corporate Execs Pop Up Across NYC and Rick Moran sees Democrats Exploiting CEO Shooting by 'Never Letting a Serious Crisis Go to Waste.' Guy Benson at TownHall sees Based John Fetterman Strikes Again — and Again, “He’s the asshole that’s going to die in prison. Congratulations if you want to celebrate that. A sewer is going to sewer. . . ." John Sexton at Hat Hair thinks The Left is in a Murderous Mood. Jon Gabriel@exjon "Elites endorsing the targeted assassination of other elites seems poorly thought out." Quote Sean T at RCP@SeanTrende, "The advent of "well some people just need killin'" on the quasi-mainstream left wasn't really on my scorecard for 2024, but I guess we're in just before the jump!" The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee, "Assassin Luigi Mangione Takes Lead In 2028 Democratic Primary Polls https://buff.ly/3DaaEAp" Also, 'Now Now, Let's Not Be So Hasty To Find And Assassinate Everyone Responsible For The Healthcare Crisis,' Says Nervous Obama.

Joel Kotkin at Spiked thinks The American university is rotting from within. Althouse finds "She was accused of saying in a conversation at a conference in March that the university was 'controlled by wealthy Jews'...."From "D.E.I. Official at University of Michigan Is Fired Over Antisemitism Claim, Lawyer Says/The official, an administrator of multicultural programs, was accused of making antisemitic remarks in a conversation. Her lawyer said that the school fired her this week, and vowed to sue" (NYT)." Seth Mandel at Commentary sees  What Happened When Oxford Anti-Semites Were Exposed to Facts, no minds were changed. Charles Lipson at the Telegraph  has Two reasons why DEI is dying, as it’s abandoned by the University of Michigan. 

Althouse, "Britain is to ban indefinitely the use of puberty blockers for young people under 18 with gender dysphoria, except in clinical trials..." ""... the government said on Wednesday, making permanent a set of temporary restrictions put in place earlier this year....  From "U.K. Bans Puberty Blockers for Teens Indefinitely/A freeze placed this year on their use to treat gender dysphoria will remain in place for young people under 18, except in clinical trials, Britain’s government said" (NYT)." At the Telegraph, Matt Walsh opines, Mutilating children in the name of trans ideology is modern-day barbarism, "The Supreme Court case over Tennessee’s ban on transgender surgery for minors is about protecting our young from the evil of Leftist dogma." At the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 12.12.24 (Afternoon Edition), Don Surber says Hey, J.K., Trump is the man for you. "J.K. (Rowling) should look at what she has had to endure from people she considered friends and allies for daring to stand up to misogyny. If NYT is rewriting her history, what does that say about its history of Trump?"

The Wombat has Ruke 5 Sunday: Little Mischief Baker (sic) and FMJRA 2.0: The Draft Plays On up and garnering clicks at The Other McCain.