Flotsam and Jetsam - Fauci Files Freed

Rand Paul, who as a fellow Dr., has had it in for Anthony Fauci for quite a while for lying to Congress about the origin and seriousness of Covid, got his hands on Fauci's private diary somehow (he probably kept it at work), and it revealed the either Fauci was lying to Congress and the public or himself, was a double-dealing little glory hound weasel while also being the most highly paid government employee ever, while leading the effort to fight the disease. Fox, Fauci's newly released COVID diaries reveal bizarre fixation on fame as pandemic deaths mounted. "Fauci wrote that his "national and international fame is explosive and really unimaginable" and that it was "not hyperbole" to say he was "the most famous and talked about person in the country."" Hat Hair's Dave Strom hopes Will Fauci Fall Finally? From Breitbart, Fauci, CNN Condemned ‘Small Household Gatherings’ Week Before Fauci-Tapper Dinner. From Sundance at CTH, Ahead of Anthony Fauci Testimony to Senate, Rand Paul Releases Files Outlining Serious Manipulation of COVID-19 Information. At Ace's they're charged up, Rand Paul Publishes Anthony Fauci's Private Diaries, In Which He Confesses He Knows Covid Didn't Come from "The Wet Market" and Has a Lethality of Only 0.2-0.3%; "The Media Refuses to Cover. And they won't cover it because the diaries also expose this deranged dwarfish narcissist as being their dinner-guest and "friendship building" pal." And THE MORNING RANT: As Bombshell Fauci Docs Drop, Faux-Conservative Media Indignantly Covers Story It Suppressed in 2020. Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_, "NEW: On page 302 of the new personal records of Dr. Fauci released by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), Fauci complains that in 2013, HHS didn't let him do a CNN television interview because of "pure jealousy", adding that it was because he's a "rockstar" who was "stealing their thunder."" C3 @C_3C_3, "Photo 1: A man who claimed Covid had a mortality rate of a flu in his diary. Photo 2: A man who claimed Covid had a mortality rate 10X of a flu under oath in front of Congress." Tara Servatius @TaraServatius, "DAMN. In early 2020, Fauci recorded in his diary how much he was able to make the stock market drop with his lie that covid was 10x more deadly than the flu. At the same time, in the same diary, he wrote that covid wasn't any more deadly than the seasonal flu. While he was going on TV saying the opposite to terrify the public into shutting down the economy. It was all a lie designed to take out Trump's most formidable weapon for reelection: his booming economy." Clay Travis @ClayTravis, "Fauci claimed he didn’t shut down schools. Then bragged in his diary that California and New York shut down schools based on his recommendations." Quote, "Tom Elliott @tomselliott, "Dear Diary, Today I shut down NYC and all California. Tony." KanekoaTheGreat @KanekoaTheGreat, "Fauci’s own diary just dropped. Feb 1, 2020. The secret call that produced "Proximal Origin." 12 scientists on the line. Only 2 thought the virus was natural. The other 10 — per Fauci's own notes — "felt that deliberate insertion was possible." They flagged Shi Zhengli's gain-of-function work on coronaviruses in Wuhan by name. 8 days later, Fauci went on Newt Gingrich's podcast: "I've heard these conspiracy theories. And like all conspiracy theories, Newt, they're just conspiracy theories." Then Facebook and Twitter banned you for saying the same thing his own scientists were telling him privately." Hans Mahncke @HansMahncke, "It is a new week, but I still do not think it has sunk in for most people, and perhaps it never will, that the event that upended our lives and changed the world was man-made. Some of us understood that from the beginning. Rand Paul’s recent document releases have now put the case beyond any doubt. The Wuhan lab created Covid and unleashed it on the world. And it could not have done so without Fauci’s help. Those are the facts. So what happens now? When does accountability begin? ..." Northern Barbarian @xnoesbueno, "From the Russia! Russia! Russia! conspiracy, through Covid, through the 2020 election fraud and the suppression of Hunter Biden's laptop, through Joe Biden's cognitive decline, they've learned that simply ignoring massive scandals works." Quote Jimmy Dore @jimmy_dore, "What is most amazing is not that we have the black-and-white evidence of Fauci being a criminal lying fraud maniac mad scientist who operated on fear and lies. But the fact that the people who worshiped him in the first place are not going to take in any of this information nor going to take in any of this information nor get angry or upset. Their worship of Fauci, and all the lies, he told about: -masks, -the infection fatality rate of the virus, -the vaccines stopping transmission, stopping contraction, -the toxic side effects that are off the chart, -the excess deaths caused by the vaccine, -the damage to children’s hearts, kidneys, neurological disorders from the vaccine, -the lies about NOT inventing the virus in the first place. Will still be ignored by the people who most ardently enforced the Fauci Covid narrative because to admit to themselves, all these lies, would mean that they were monsters acting in an evil way and poisoning themselves and their own children, and they just can’t live with that..." The Great Victor Davis Hanson @VDHanson, "Dr Fauci and Mr. Science The Fauci files reveal not just a sociopathic narcissist, but also a pathological schizophrenic. For years, Fauci was assuring the public of Covid narratives that he either knew were untrue, or knew little about. He posed as a non-partisan, even as he collaborated with the leftwing cable news grandees and liberal columnists to hound his enemies and magnify his godhead. From the virus’s origins and effects of the lockdowns, to the efficacy of the mRNA vaccinations to the always changing 0/1/2 masks wearing protocols, Fauci used his massive government agency, and sycophantic media, to promote his always fluid narratives by punishing enemies and rewarding friends—on the basis of their loyalty to Dr. “I represent science”. He seemed to be obsessed with firing White House Covid advisor Scott Atlas, and demonizing Jay Bhattacharya, Sunetra Gupta and Martin Kulldorff—for the crimes of questioning the Fauci party line..."

And a bit more recent Covid news, From Fox, Alleged $32M COVID-19 fraud fugitive captured in Jamaica and returned to US, FBI says, "Elaine Angene Escoe was charged in a $32M COVID-19 pandemic relief fraud scheme allegedly involving wire fraud, money laundering." Matt Vespa at TownHall, There Was a Huge Win for Those Screwed Over by the COVID Vaccine Mandate. Appeals court rules a woman was wrongfully terminated for refusing the vaccine for religious reasons.

PJM's Stephen Kruiser argues John Thune Is the Most Effective Democrat in Congress Right Now. To be fair, he has poor material to work with. Rep. James Comer to Newsmax: Senate Stalling Trump's Agenda. Ace, Thune Schemes to Put the Senate Into Recess Until Late August, Ending Any Chance of Passing SAVE Before the Elections. In a Hat Hair vid Johnson Delivers House Wins as Pompeo Warns: Iran Still a Threat. Politico crows about the power of propaganda, Poll: Republicans’ gas price problem is even worse than it seems. "Three in five Americans believe gas prices in their area have risen by more than they actually have, according to a POLITICO analysis." But Dave Strom sees Americans Sour on Trump, Still Trust Him More Than Democrats.

ABC whines that Alaska sends 3,000 letters asking voters to verify their citizenship ahead of this year's elections.

Kyle Becker at RedState reports U.S. Ambassador Storms Out of U.N. Meeting After France Says Unthinkable About Trump Administration. France ONU Genève @FranceONUGeneve, "The US used to be a beacon of human rights. Not anymore. Today, it stands alongside North Korea, Nicaragua, Mali & Russia, isolated. And the world no longer listens to it." But they sure want our money, and help when the chips are down.

Jen Van Laar at RedState reveals, Biden Ghostwriter Tapes, Transcripts Are Out - and They're Already Raising Big Questions. He openly bragged about telling his ghostwriter classified information, and revealed he knew about the classified files in the garage. Matt Vespa, The Biden Ghostwriter Tapes Are Out...and They Confirm What We've Known for a While.

The Democratic National Committee Is Imploding says PJM's Matt Margolis, hopefully. "According to a New York Times report, the Democratic National Committee can't pay its bills and Chairman Ken Martin is paranoid and unhinged. In other words, the committee is drowning in internal chaos."

Capt. Ed at Hat Hair cites the DSA Co-Chair: You're Darned Right We'll Order the Code Red on America! RNC Research @RNCResearch, "DSA Co-Chair Megan Romer confirms their platform includes: - Abolishing the Senate, presidency, & Supreme Court - Abolishing ICE, borders, & prisons - Defunding the Pentagon - Mass amnesty for illegals." VodkaPundit at PJM puts it this way, DSA's Solemn Vow: We Win an Election, You Lose a Country. Steve Cook at RCD, From Ration Stamps to DoorDash: How Comfort and Socialism Are Disarming America. Dave Strom, For Some Strange Reason, Utopian Ideas Keep Failing. PJM's Eric Florack, Six Times the Bodies, Half the Outrage: Communism's Missing Reckoning. Joe at The View From North Central Idaho says They Never Stop Lying.

RedState's Rusty Weiss outraged, What in the Actual? Mamdani Doxxes NYC’s Wealthy by Publishing Their Names and Addresses. "How? By publishing a searchable database of properties that could fall under the new pied-à-terre tax, complete with the owners’ full names and addresses." Capt. Ed thinks it's Too Dumb to Check: Did Maine Dems Anoint an Ineligible Jackson to Replace Platner? Eric W. @EWess92, "Maine has a "sore loser" law that says a candidate that runs for one office and loses cannot run for another office in the same cycle. After Graham Platner dropped out, Maine Dems are poised to nominate Troy Jackson. But Jackson ran for Governor (and lost the primary). Eligible?" Quote Kat @katagious2, "GOP Rep. James White (Maine) points out that Troy Jackson may not legally be eligible to be the nominee for Senate." "However, as we saw in the Robert Torricelli switcheroo, any ambiguity in these statutes will provide the excuse needed for Bellows and state courts to refuse to enforce those standards. That's especially true given today's deadline for ballot changes in the general election. Enforcing these statutes properly, as White demands in his challenge to Bellows, would leave the Democrats without a challenger to incumbent Republican Susan Collins. Even if the statutes had no ambiguity, the courts would moan about robbing the voters of a choice in the general election, even though Maine Democrats actually robbed those same voters of their choice by pushing Platner out in the first place." 

From Da Caller, Karen Bass Blames Trump Administration For Increasing Homelessness In LA Ahead Of New Count. Amy Curtis @RantyAmyCurtis, "It's adorable you think people are stealing because they're hungry. They're stealing because they're feral and don't care about civilized society." Quote Ashton Forbes @AshtonForbes, "Downtown St. Paul Whole Foods closed last year. Too much crime. It's heart breaking watching people steal food because they're hungry. Cities can't even keep them open with subsidies."

Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok, "33 counties in Illinois have already voted to separate themselves from Illinois 7 more counties just approved to add the referendum onto the ballot JB Pritzker and Brandon Johnson are total failures!" They're a little far away to join Greater Idaho, but perhaps they can get together with Ohio to make a Grander Ohio!

At 1945, Trump Has Already Won the Iran War, a Twenty-Five-Year Army Veteran Argues — ‘the Enemy Gets a Vote’, "In a new analysis, national security expert James Jay Carafano argues President Trump has already achieved America’s key objectives against Iran and is de-risking rather than escalating — stripping Iranian assets with every exchange, discounting the midterms, and fighting the rest of the war on what he calls Trump Time." CDR Salamander is Squinting at the Iran Decision Brief. Reason whines about Waltz: Interceptor Shortage Is Biden's Fault, Fake News, and Illegal To Discuss, "The Trump administration official contradicted himself as he tried to explain away bad news from the Iran war."

At RCW, Eastern Mediterranean Gateway Act Is a Win-Win-Win. Aust BC, Israeli air strike kills top Hamas official in Gaza, Wael El-Ledawi. Another Dorito gone from the bowl.

From Althouse, "Critics say T.P.S. is a problem because it’s not really temporary. Look at the Salvadorans, they say." "They first became eligible for T.P.S. in 1990 because of the violent civil war in their country. Another wave came after two devastating earthquakes in 2001. Decades on, there are about 190,000 of them here, living and working legally. (At least for now — their protected status is slated to end in September.)" From "Protected No More" (NYT gift link)."

Don Surber on Journalism 2026, "Any time President Trump gives a speech, it must be described as rambling." To be fair, it usually is, but he knows where he's going.

At Hat Hair, Capt. Ed says Quelle Surprise: Berlin Terror Perp Killed; Known Wolf With Long Track Record while Beege Welborn has Some Last Minute Updates and Thoughts on the Islamic Attack in Germany Yesterday and Dave Strom notes on the Berlin Pride Attack: Organizers Worry About Islamophobia, Blame White Men. At Althouse, "[A]nti-queer' crimes more than tripled in [Berlin] between 2016 and 2025. Violent anti-queer crimes rose by half." "Some people at the memorial on Sunday said German leaders had contributed to a sense of insecurity. They singled out the far-right Alternative for Germany party, which has climbed in national polls with a platform that defines a family as a man and a woman with children. Others criticized Friedrich Merz, the chancellor, who defended a decision not to fly a Pride flag over the federal parliament building last year by saying Parliament was 'not a circus tent.'..." The New Reform Club notices the BBC’s Passive Voice, ‘A van drove into a crowd ....’ Gad Saad @GadSaad, "Ahmad attacks people at a Pride Parade because Islam. White liberal woman with aposematic hair coloring concludes white men are to blame. Suicidal Empathy is a fatal disease of the human spirit." Quote American AF @iAnonPatriot, "OMG. Liberal women are blaming “white men” for the Islamic extremist who ran over people at an LGBTQ parade in Berlin. “You’re not going to scapegoat the Muslim community like they’re the violent ones, when it’s actually you (white men).”" Ace sees another Maryland Man Goes on Stabbing Spree in Paris, Saying Allah Sent Him to Kill Women, "The police say that you should ignore his self-stated motive. It doesn't matter that he says Allah sent him to kill women. The man, you see, is "crazy."" "The suspect, Lebanese-heritage Abdul Ballut, 21, was shot and killed by police on Sunday after a 20-hour manhunt in the German capital." So, not really a Maryland Man, rather a "Maryland Man."

At the College Fix, Left-wing activist turns out to be professor. Insty at his NYPo gig notes Even the left is now flagging the gross bias at America’s universities. Beege Welborn notes In the Pantheon of Worthless Degrees to Waste Money on, This Is Up There "Arizona State launches degree on becoming an influencer — exactly the career more than half of Gen Z adults dream of." It helps to have big tits. Dave Strom calls the University of Minnesota: Taxpayer-Funded Groomers. VodkaPundit at Insty, WELL, WHEN YOU PUT IT LIKE THAT…: End Wokeness @EndWokeness, "This is who's calling you an extremist on the internet."

From ZeroHedge, Activists Target WNBA Player After She Takes Stand Against Trans Agenda. 

Flotsam and Jetsam - Manic Monday

Just another.  Steve Richards at JTN reports Memos reveal FBI faced roadblocks to prosecute possible 2020 Michigan voter registration fraud. "The FBI collected witness interviews alleging voter registration fraud in Michigan in 2020. Newly-disclosed documents show the case was delayed, and ultimately “killed” by the Biden administration." Tim O'Brien at PJM, Did Former FBI Agent Nikki Floris Run a ‘Shadow Government' During the 2020 Election? Teri Christoph at RedState astonished ABC News Just Caught Democrat Senator Mark Warner Telling a Massive Lie About Voter ID. Not astonished that Warner told a lie, but astonished that ABC called them on it. Victory Girls note Democrats saying “Mad King” Trump Should Be Impeached For Nuclear Election Speech. Speech is free for everybody but Trump.

Eric Florack at PJM has suspicions Is Trump Grooming Marco Rubio As His Successor?. Rubio/Vance, or Vance/Rubio. Leslie Eastman at LI sees Science Over Climate Narrative: Dr. Matthew Wielicki to Lead America’s Climate Research. "Dr. Matthew Wielicki’s appointment signals a course correction toward true scientific rigor and away from narrative-driven climate alarmism." About time. 

At Althouse, "I was in a bad position, and they preyed on me, bro. They were chasing the money." "Said Boosie BadAzz, quoted in "Boosie Lobbied for a Trump Pardon. It Never Came. He Wants a Refund. The Southern rapper paid $600,000 to two right-wing operatives. Now, they’re in a dispute over a contract the rapper believes entitles him to at least half his money back" (NYT)." I didn't think lobbying came with guarantees.  

From Flopping Aces, China Doesn’t Have to Beat Us at AI … We’re Busy Handing Them the Win by Letting Doomers Panic Over Power Lines and Cornfields. Ars Technica examines the question Could China and Russia really destroy Starlink? Only with a boomerang. “We will likely have similar concerns and discussions when China fields its Starlink-like constellation.”

TownHall's Derek Hunter worries we have Half a Nation of Traitors. Sundance at CTH hosts Sunday Talks – Martha MacCallum Interviews DSA Co-Chairman Gustavo Gordillo About Using Vehicle of Democrat Party to Install Communist Government. "Gordillo explains the immediate DSA demand to control housing (govt), control food distribution (grocery stores), give free daycare for children, and create affordability for lower income citizens/aliens by taking the wealth from the high-income earners and giving the wealth to the lower income group." Amy Curtis at TownHall notes One of the DSA's Biggest Influencers Wants to Shred the Declaration of Independence, Too Milli Sands at Am Think thinks Communism Hasn't Been Done Right. (Yeah, That’s The Ticket.) "The current crop of young Democrat/DSA politicians is testing the leftist theory that communism will work if you just put the right people in charge." At Da Signal Victor Davis Hanson scoffs at The Left’s Search for a Working-Class Candidate. Bonchie @bonchieredstate, "They really thought they could just walk into the Democrat Party because muh Trump and tame the dragon." Quote Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25, "At some point Dems are going to have to grapple with the reality that in the face of all of Trump and Republicans’ manifest horribleness and incompetence, people aren’t rushing toward the Democrats. If you think the DSA stuff is helping, you’ve never talked to a swing voter." Richard Grenell @RichardGrenell, "Sarah Longwell has come to the end of her TDS journey only to realize that Trump is the better choice. She’s now trashing Democrats." Fusilli Spock @awstar11, "Correct. This is what they want." Quote Charles C. W. Cooke @charlescwcooke, "The fun thing about this is that, per Article V, the Senate can’t be abolished without the consent of all 50 states, so this is functionally indistinguishable from a call to abolish the Constitution. x.com/cspanwj/status…" Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius, "I am really getting sick and tired of "moderate" Democrats (as if such a thing actually exists) shouting that the DSA is some sort of new, existential threat to their party and to America. In reality, the DSA is the entirely logical and foreseeable outcome of the way Democrats have been pandering to the most extreme and perverse elements of our society for the past 40 years. Logical. Foreseeable. Stop acting surprised. You are what you are, you get what you deserve." Quote Jamie Metzl @JamieMetzl, "I am a lifelong Democrat. I served on President Clinton’s National Security Council and in the State Department under Madeleine Albright. I am also a lifelong human rights and civil rights advocate. But every Democrat and every American should recognize that the DSA." The Patriarch Tree @PatriarchTree, "“Supporting Hamas is not progressive.” — @VanJones68 DSA going to lynch him for that." Quote Van Jones @VanJones68, "I'm tired of being told that, to be a progressive, I now must swear allegiance to crazy ideas. I'm a strong Democrat, with a winning bipartisan track record. I'm rooted in progressive ideals and policies: criminal justice reform, Green New Deal, Medicare for All, free education, clean air and water. These are ideas I have fought for my entire adult life. But some people in groups like the DSA are pushing an agenda FAR outside those ideals. Supporting Hamas is not progressive. "No police, no prisons, no borders" is not progressive. Celebrating the murder of Israeli civilians is not progressive. These ideas are REGRESSIVE..." Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald, "I'll admit to having struggled to find coherence or consistency in liberal rules of identity politics. But even given this "complexity,", I will never understand why AOC has license to use a fake black preacher accent when speaking to black audiences:" At Althouse, That could be taken 2 ways. ""We’re well on our way to getting the government that we fuckin' deserve." Says Troy Jackson, in this video posted by his campaign. That's linked to in the NYT article "Maine Democrats Take Step Toward New Senate Pick, With Jolt of Momentum for Jackson/Troy Jackson, a progressive former State Senate president, showed signs of significant strength, as half the state’s counties picked delegates to a convention where they will choose Graham Platner’s replacement." Reminds me of that old political joke: "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.""

At Da Signal, Victor Davis Hanson on Why Mamdani Wants to Erase Europeans From New York’s Immigration History. At NYPo, Critics slam Mamdani for threatening to arrest Netanyahu in NYC: ‘Delusional’ and ‘reckless’. From Fox, Controversial program paying drug users for used syringes becomes permanent in NYC. Instead of paying for treatment, they pay to keep people using. Betsey McCaughey at Hat Hair, Tolerating Homeless Encampments Violates the Rights of Everyone Else.

Driscoll at Insty, GOODER AND HARDER, LA: Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt, "Your tax dollars are now subsidizing illegal food carts while 100 legitimate restaurants go out of business every year in LA. We live in a cuckoo clock. Are they gonna give restaurants free stoves, too? Or is this only for people who violate all the rules and pay no fees?" At NYPo, Supermarket takes drastic action to prevent meat theft: ‘Welcome to California’.

Larry Elder at Hair Hair claims On the Iran War, NATO Chief Agrees With Trump -- The Media Buried the Lede. At Da Signal Victor Davis Hanson warns Trump Has Just Weeks Left to Finish the Iran Conflict.

Hat Hair's Josh Hammer has hopes As AG, Todd Blanche Will Finally Seek Justice for Dems' Dirty Lawfare.

CTH hosts Sunday Talks – Border Czar Tom Homan Discusses Value of ICE Body Cameras Showing Insanity of Criminal Aliens and Leftist Agitators. CBD at Ace's Physical Deportation Is The First Step, And Cutting Illegals Off From Our Society Is The Next Step! Debanking. Hey, liberals did it to conservatives so it must be legal, am I right? Alex Muse at The Enterprise, Careful What You Gavel For: How Boasberg's Lecture Became Trump's Weapon, "Thanks, Your Honor: Trump Activates the Court Boasberg Told Him About." Lauren Chen @TheLaurenChen, "If you ever wonder why migrant rapists get slaps on the wrist while white people go to jail in Europe - It's because the majority of their judges are female." Quote Stefan Schubert @StefanFSchubert. "A majority of judges are women in all EU countries except Ireland." I'd like to see that by state in the US.

Greg Lukianoff at The Eternally Radical Idea reports FIRE weighs in on Oversight Board AI report, Canadian free speech up in smoke, Colleges settle Kirk comment cases, & more! Joe Chalfant at TownHall, hears This Law Means That Praying at a Northern Ireland Hospital Could Land You in Trouble With the Police.

Jonathan Turley cites Gallup: Higher Education Hits Another Low in Public Trust as the Public Rejects Institutional Bias. "According to the latest Gallup poll, only 38% of U.S. adults have a “great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in higher education." Campus Reform reports Northeastern Illinois gender studies major enrolls just 4 students. Eliminate the department.

From NYPo, Historian says it’s racist to question her — after book about slavery pulled from shelves over inaccuracies. From Twitchy, Cops Tried to Edit THIS Part Out of Sunny Hostin's DON'T YOU KNOW WHO I AM Incident With Her Son and WOW.

At NYPo, a Chaotic bodycam video shows trans Florida student freak out on cop for ‘misgendering’ him — before being cuffed. From State of the Day, State of Friday: ELLEN PAGE'S MANFACE "She is the reality they always imagined. ... No matter how hard they try, Ellen Page is not going to explain masculinity to me." Liberty Unyielding reports a Transgender neo-Nazi assigned to women’s prison, despite wearing a mustache and being biologically male, in Germany.

Maryland, My Maryland

From the Free Bacon, ‘We’re Not Criminalizing the Unhoused’: How a Homeless Encampment and Drug Dealers Are Destroying a Local Condominium Complex and Turning Its Residents’ Lives Upside Down

The sign outside the Marylander Condominiums, a 200-unit complex in Prince George’s County, Md., describes it as a "private community."

But for members of a homeless encampment in the condo’s backyard, the complex also serves as a crackhouse, a bathroom, and the entrance to an open-air drug market, which has become a magnet for organized crime and caused millions in property damage.

Transients break into buildings and smoke crack in the stairwells. Tenants traversing the property must navigate needles, feces, and sleeping bodies as addicts nap half-naked in the hallways and sprawl themselves like welcome mats outside residents’ doors.

Half of the complex has gone without heat since Thanksgiving after vagrants allegedly vandalized the boiler room, causing pipes to burst in several buildings. Some units have lost electricity, too, due to the overuse of space heaters. Though the county instructed those without heat to "vacate immediately" in December, most have defied the order and tried to weather the cold. They say they have nowhere else to go. . . .

Long and short?  "Prince George’s County, Md, is going to court to evict legal residents over damage allegedly caused by the camp."

Flotsam and Jetsam - Scott Bessent Scores

I'm not really feeling a lead-off subject today so let's just start at the top of the Trump administration bin. People are still finding things to enjoy from Scott Bessent's visit to Capitol Hill. Matt Vespa at TownHall, Here's the Question Scott Bessent Pitched to a Dem Senator...and It Really Set Him Off. Cathy Salgado at PJM sees Fauxcahontas get Tomahawked: Bessent Flips the Tables on Sen. Warren Over Affordability “Senator, it may be a bit nuanced for you, but what President Trump is referring to is the media saying that the affordability crisis was generated by this administration, when it was you and President Biden who destroyed the buying power of the American people. So there is an affordability crisis — and you were front and center in it.” Sundance at CTH, Senator Elizabeth Warren Complains that Half of Something She Tripled is Not Less. Victory Girls, Scott Bessent Breaks Mad Maxine’s Broom. From Ace, "Will You Shut Up!:" Low-IQ DEI Congresswoman Maxine Waters "Asks a Question" of Scott Bessent, Then Tells Him to Shut Up When He Answers "The " " " questions " " " were about Bessent's claim that tariffs are not inflationary (so long as they are absorbed by foreign countries and foreign companies)." Twitchy sees Scott Jennings Comes Up Empty in Attempt to Teach Econ 101 to CNN Panelists After Bessent's Testimony. From Sundance, Peter Navarro Warns Congress Seeking to Reinstall de Minimis Tarriff Loophole (sic). From WUWT, CO2 Border Tariff? Don’t Even Think About It, DOE!

Althouse finds "There is an easy familiarity between the two men that allows Bannon to call Epstein a 'schmuck' and 'criminal' and even ask if he is 'the devil' fallen from paradise.", ""At one point, Bannon comments: 'There’s something deeply fucked up with you.' The interview also becomes an exercise in intellectual peacocking as they invoke Socrates, Isaac Newton and quantum physics but pay little attention to Epstein’s crimes. Epstein reveals himself to be a living museum of racial prejudice...." From "'Do you think you’re the devil himself?': highlights from the bizarre, newly released Bannon-Epstein interview/The interview,⁠ revealed in the latest tranche of Epstein files, was reportedly intended for a sympathetic documentary" (The Guardian)." Overton @overton_news, "Bill Maher couldn’t believe he was actually saying it — but he asked the question anyway: “Where does QAnon go for the apology?” ”"

Sundance hosts President Trump Extended Interview with NBC – Full Interview Video, President Trump Makes a Prime-Time Announcement on Healthcare and Lower Cost Pharmaceuticals – 7:00pm ET Livestream and Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Outlines Dramatic Decrease in Violent Crime During Briefing.

1945 asserts Russia Can’t ‘Win’ the Ukraine War with 1.2 Million Casualties: Putin’s Great Disaster. I'm not convinced. Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer, "U.S MARINES SECURE FLAG DETAINED BY WHO: The World Health Organization refused to return the American flag that hung in front of it, saying it has not approved the U.S. withdrawal from the agency—and that owes them compensation. Good news: the U.S. Marines now have the flag."

It looks like the carbuncle that is Georgia's 2020 election is coming to a head. From L. Jagi Lamplighter at Defending the Wood Perilous Election Fraud 101. Hans Mahncke @HansMahncke, "It is almost beyond belief that the agent in charge of a major FBI field office sent this astonishingly shoddy letter to the Fulton County election office, effectively giving advance notice of an impending federal action. His firing does not even begin to address the gravity of what he did." From Ace, Fulton County, GA, Election Office Sues to Get Its Dodgy "Votes" Back (So That Tulsi Gabbard Can't See Them), "The cleanest election in the history of the Earth, and a Report: Fulton County, GA -- Home of Fanny Willis and Darrius "Sweetdick" Honeycum, Esq. -- Had 25,000 More Absentee Votes in 2020 Than Absentee Voters, "Whoops! Whoopsie!" Viva Frie on YouTube, Brian Kemp Buried Credible Election Fraud Evidence – Greenlit Fani Willis Trump RICO! Jesse Kelly @JesseKellyDC, "The Democrat Party is fighting for its very survival in ways it had never had to fight before. Fraud, foreigners, and cheating hold up the Party. All three are under attack. For them, these are not standard political times. The stakes of this for them are extinction." Sundance, SSCI Vice Chair Mark Warner Finds Out DNI Tulsi Gabbard Has Puerto Rico Voting Machines, and is less than keen on the idea, and Senate Intel Chair Tom Cotton Reviews IC “Whistleblower Complaint” Against DNI Tulsi Gabbard and Finds it “Not Credible.”

Matt Margolis at PJM likes how Gutfeld Destroys the Democrats’ Voter ID Double Standard, and It’s Glorious. Althouse, "The Supreme Court... cleared the way for California to use a new congressional map intended to give Democrats five additional seats in the U.S. House of Representatives." ""In a one-sentence order, the justices turned down a request from a group of California Republicans that would have required the state to continue to use the map in place for the last several federal elections in the state while their challenge to the map moves forward. There were no public dissents from the court’s ruling." SCOTUSblog reports." 

At Insty VodkaPundit calls it UNEXPECTED! Mayor Mamdani is failing at his core job: keeping NYC functioning, and Sarah Hoyt says it's a GOOD THING NY CITY HAS A BUGHET SURPLUS … OH, WAIT: Mamdani Offers ‘Free’ Legal Help for Haitian TPS Holders. John Sexton at Hat Hair VIP wonders when DOT Says No to Free Buses. Will This Help or Hurt Mamdani? Probably help. He's going to need a lot of excuses. Ace, Communist Foreign Jihadi Theater Kid Zohran Mamdani Loves the Homeless So He Stopped All Police Sweeps of Homeless Encampments During Severe Weather.
Now He's Killed 17 Homeless People With His "Caring"

At PJM, Kamala Harris Teaches the Young Hep-Cats About This Whole Internet Thing. Althouse finds "Walz only seemed like a football coach to voters with no preexisting relationship to football. His image embodied the liberal conception of nontoxic masculinity, a reverse Margaret Thatcher." Dave Catron at Am Spec discourses on The Abigail Spanberger Bait-and-Switch, "Virginia voted for a ‘moderate’ — and got a sanctuary state, tax-and-spend ideologue." Matt Margolis hears a Bombshell Report Links Rashida Tlaib to Terrorist Groups. I'm not shocked, are you? VodkaPundit at Insty reports a Newsom Win: High-Speed Rail Sort-Of Almost Nearly Ready to Connect Madera to… More Cows. 

John Sexton hears Mayor Bass Watered Down the Palisades Fire Report and Then Lied About It. LAT admits Bass directed watering down of Palisades fire after-action report, sources say. Say, how's that rebuilding going? From NYPo, CA Congressman Kevin Kiley calls for Congressional investigation into billions of dollars of fraud. From Fox, Four defendants, including 2 Venezuelans, allegedly used 115 stolen identities in massive food stamp fraud. "Joel Vicioso Fernandez and three others allegedly used 115 stolen identities to stock the El Primo Restaurant using fraudulent SNAP benefits."

John Sexton also hears from the NIH Director: 'The Pandemic Was the Result of a Lab Accident', Jay Bhattacharya. Not The Bee reports the FBI finds Chinese biolab in Vegas with vials labeled “Ebola,” “Malaria,” and “Dengue Fever” (the house was also an Airbnb). That's the second one. I'm sure there are more.

From the Chicago Boyz, When Ideology Trumps Everything Else. At Unlicensed Punditry, Mike Smith, claims Power Is a Posture "Why Democrats govern like owners and Republicans like renters—and how confidence, not ballots, often decides who actually leads." Dave Strom, For All That Talk About the 'Far Right,' It Is the Left That Has Radicalized.

Sundance reports Trump Attempted Assassin, Ryan Routh, Sentenced to Life in Prison Plus 84 Months. At Althouse, "Mr. Routh, a former roofer from Greensboro, N.C., never fired a shot during the thwarted assassination attempt on Sept. 15, 2024..." ""... a fact that his lawyer, Martin L. Roth, emphasized on Wednesday. . . . Mr. Routh told the judge before his sentencing on Wednesday that he was a do-gooder, saying, 'I’ve given every drop of who I am, every day, for the benefit of our nation.'" Ace, Would-Be Trump Assassin Ryan Routh Sentenced to Life In Prison, Plus 84 Months "Just when you're looking forward to the end of your life sentence, bang, now you have to serve 84 months." But crazy Democrats remain undeterred. John Sexton reports a Maryland Man Attempted to Kill Trump Official to Prevent 'Fascist Takeover'. A real Maryland man, not a "Maryland" man. Sundance, Maryland Man, Colin Demarco (26), Arrested on Attempted Murder Charges for Plan to Assassinate OMB Director Russ Vought. Driscoll at Insty notes “BIGLAW WOULD RATHER REPRESENT TERRORISTS THAN PATRIOTIC AMERICANS:” Don Surber calls Antifa a wholly owned subsidiary of a billionaire.

Sundance, Ed Martin Removed from Now Dissolved DOJ Weaponization Working Group, Report of Leaked Grand Jury Information. He seems to find it credible. 

VodkaPundit, sees CHANGE: Utah formally expands its Supreme Court by two justices. "Utah Gov. Spencer Cox has signed legislation expanding the state’s Supreme Court from five justices to seven. . .
It’s only unfair court-packing when Republicans do it."

Cathy Salgado hears Riot-Torn Minneapolis Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize "In its Nobel nomination, The Nation gushed inanely about the people who deliberately iced streets to cause federal vehicles to crash and who made assaulting federal officers a daily recreation: “While individuals and organizations have been granted this prize since its inception in 1901, no municipality has ever been recognized."" Capt. Ed at Hat Hair VIP notices What the Media Won't Say About Minnesota: Trump Won. Streif at RedState reports Trump Takes a Sledgehammer to Deportation Process and Sets Up a Court Fight With Another Activist Judge "The Trump administration will publish a notice in the Federal Register on Friday that will demolish the slow-moving process of deporting illegals. The proposed rule aims to streamline the current process and reduce the backlog of cases that has nearly brought the system to a screeching halt. That said, we know it faces an uphill fight as federal judges, acting without jurisdiction, will certainly declare the changes improper at some point." Ace, Another One of Biden's Third World Assassins Kills Four in Highway Massacre, "He was given a commercial drivers license by "moderate" Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro. And he's now murdered four people. Doing the murders Americans just won't do."

Mediaite opines The Washington Post Disaster is an Indictment of Both Publishers and Society. John Ocasio-Rodham Nolte @NolteNC, "Please note that nowhere does he say the Washington Post should stop doing this: · ‘Melania’ Doc Is a Box Office Flop Hoax · The Rural America Can’t Live Without NPR/PBS Hoax · The ICE Detains Five-Year-Old Hoax · The Hegseth ‘Kill Everybody’ Hoax · Trump “Destroying” White House Hoax · Photo of Starving Gaza Baby Hoax · Israeli Troops Murdered Food-Seeking Palestinians Hoax · Trump Tariffs Will Explode Prices Hoax · Maryland Man Hoax · Black Newborns Much More Likely to Die If Doc’s White Hoax · Elon Musk Nazi Salute Hoax · Mass Hysterectomies Performed on Immigrants Hoax · The All-White Trump Party Hoax · Springfield Bomb Threat Hoax · Trump Called for Liz Cheney to Be Executed Hoax ..." Quote Jim VandeHei @JimVandeHei Replying to @JakeSherman @washingtonpost and 3 others. "My breakfast crack at it…You’re on the clock… Mission: Restore @washingtonpost to its glory • 2 reporters on every federal agency, small WH team w/ 3 top-tier reporters and governmentwide specialists in federal rule-making and contracting and spending • Entice Post stars who left to return as service to their city, profession and nation. They talk a big game on X - call their bluff! • Two reporters on each of top local biz sectors: defense, tech, HC, lobbying & influence, etc. . . . " Physics Geek @physicsgeek, "Media when thousands of Americans lost their jobs: Haha, learn to code, stupid peons haha. Media when they lose their jobs: OH THE HUMANITY Everyone else in response: Yes, very sad. Anyway..."Seth Dillon @SethDillon, "If your position at The Washington Post was recently eliminated, please consider applying to write for The Babylon Bee. We are seeking applicants experienced in writing fictional content presented in the tone and style of a legitimate news organization." John Kass seems to regret The Loss of Trust in Legacy Media.

Dave Strom sees the House Judiciary Committee Outline a 10-Year EU Campaign to Silence Americans. News Wax is justifiably upset that the NYC Borough President Targeting Newsmax Called Trump Nazi, Wanted Ban on MSG Rally.

PJM's VodkaPundit hears An L.A. Eviction Lawyer Has a Message for Billie Eilish, and I Can't Stop Laughing. Real Estate Lawyer @SinaiLawFirm, "FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Sinai Law Firm is offering to evict Billie Eilish from her Los Angeles home on a pro bono basis on behalf of the Tongva Tribe. Sinai Law Firm is the premier eviction firm in the county." The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee, "'The Injuns Are A-Comin!' Cries Billie Eilish Loading Musket To Defend Home From Tribe Of Redskins https://buff.ly/nmbIt2I" Western Lensman @WesternLensman, ""They don't want to be thrown out of the club." @adamcarolla dissects the Hollywood lockstep leftism on display at the Grammys on Sunday: "If those people started saying, we support Trump, guess who's out? Yeah, you’re f*cking out. . . ."

The Wombat has Rule 5 Monday: Boots & Bikinis and FMJRA 2.0: Better Late Than Never up and garnering clicks at The Other McCain.

Flotsam and Jetsam - Trump Gets Nobel Peace Prize, Threatens MN with Insurrection Act

Early in the day, Hat Hair's John Sexton wonders Will Trump Get a Nobel Prize Today? (Update: Machado Gave Him the Medal). To thank him for not making her President of Venezuela? Driscoll at Insty, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROPHECY: Aishah Hasnie @aishahhasnie, "NEW: Venezuela opposition leader MACHADO just told Fox she presented the Nobel Peace Prize to TRUMP today “I presented the President of the United States the medal, the peace, the Nobel peace prize…” Sara Hoyt at Insty, THEREBY SLAPPING THE NOBEL COMMITTEE IN THE FACE: Machado Presented Trump With Her Nobel Peace Prize. "Which, after their farcical award of a Nobel peace prize to the despicable Obama before he did anything, is the least they deserve. A series of kicks in the rear all around the major capitals of Europe is more like what they need." Althouse, "I presented the President of the United States the medal of the Nobel Peace Prize as a recognition for his unique commitment with our freedom." "Presumably, she did not give him any of the money — about $1 million — that came with the award. That money means much more to her than to our billionaire President, but more important, visitors to the President can't be handing over piles of money. And she wants something from him. She wants a lot. He wanted something too, the Nobel Prize, and now he's in the ambiguous position of sort of having it. You just have the medal. It's like Putin's Super Bowl ring. What do you have when you have the token of winning and you did not win? It's not the token of winning with respect to you, so what is it?" Hat Hair's Dave Strom notes the Capture of Maduro Wildly Popular in Latin America. From Althouse, "Republican leaders were able to garner enough support for their procedural maneuver to kill the resolution after Senators Josh Hawley of Missouri and Todd Young of Indiana flipped their position..." ""... and joined the effort to stop it from coming up for a vote. The shift brought about a 50-50 tie, which was broken late Wednesday in favor of Republican leadership by Vice President JD Vance, in his role as president of the Senate." From "Republicans Block Effort to Check Trump’s Power in Venezuela/G.O.P. leaders succeeded in pressuring fellow senators who initially supported the measure that would have limited President Trump’s military authority in Venezuela" (NYT). That was close. Sufficient garnering occurred."

So the next question is, shall I deal with the rebellion in Iran or Minneapolis next? Let's go with Minnesota! Leading off with Stacy McCain's Crazy People Are Dangerous: Minnesota Lesbian Suicide-by-Cop Edition and Please Stop Slandering Jefferson Davis . At Hat Hair, John Sexton sees even the NY Times admits Prosecuting the ICE Agent Who Shot Renee Good Would Be Difficult, and FBI Looking for Illegal Alien Who Assaulted ICE Agents in Dallas, Beege Welborn reports MN Anarchists Loot ICE Vehicle, Score Weapons Locker and Documents, Dave Strom sees Walz Inching Toward Civil War... and MN Democrats WANT Trump to Invoke Insurrection Act and Capt. Ed, Trump Warns Walz: My Next Step Is the Insurrection Act. At Althouse, "If the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don’t obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the Patriots of I.C.E., who are only trying to do their job..." ""I will institute the INSURRECTION ACT, which many Presidents have done before me, and quickly put an end to the travesty that is taking place in that once great State. Thank you for you attention to this matter!" Writes "President DJT" at Truth Social." Sundance at CTH hosts Secretary Noem Remarks on Discussing Possible Use of “Insurrection Act” with President Trump. Ace, After Night of Riots and Attacks on Federal Agents, Trump Threatens to Declare Minnesota to be in a State of Insurrection. At Twitchy, Man Who Stole Rifle From FBI Vehicle During Minneapolis Rioting Arrested. Rusty Weiss at RedState, Homan Vows to Expose Lefty Agitators: Reveals New Plan to 'Make Them Famous'. Ace notes Who's Funding the Domestic Terrorist and Insurrectionary Groups in the US? Why, George Soros, the Ford Foundation, and Democrat Dark Money Groups, Of Course "Seize their assets. We don't tolerate insurrection in this country. And we don't tolerate anyone who tolerates insurrection. Right?"

Michael Barone at TownHall, What's the Matter With Minnesota? Scott Jennings @ScottJenningsKY, "Refers to the federal government as an “occupation.” Walz channeling 1860’s Democratic energy here. Unbelievable." Quote Julio Rosas @Julio_Rosas11, "Gov. Walz's livestream about federal immigration operations is having a delayed echo when he speaks: "Let me say once again to Donald Trump and Kristi Noem: End this occupation. You've done enough." Curtis Houck @CurtisHouck, "CNN's @BradOnMessage Todd on Tim Walz: "Well, wait a minute. Wait a minute. Tim Walz said it was a federal occupation. He put the National Guard on notice. he's everything short of Fort Sumter right now." John Sexton, Walz Changes Course, Appeals for Calm. Caroline Cummings @CaroRCummings, "Per the governor's office: Walz is attempting to get ahold of President Trump directly and is also convening business leaders, members of Congress, other governors to "make an appeal to the administration to reverse course and turn down the temperature."" At Insty, KEEP THE PRESSURE ON: Will Chamberlain @willchamberlain, "Walz is on the ropes. We’re at the bargaining stage. But Walz has nothing to bargain with." Raised by Germans warns Don't Underestimate Tim Walz. At Twitchy, Dude. So CLOSE! LOL! Mayor Jacob Frey's Whiny 'ICE Invasion' Meltdown Backfires Spectacularly (Watch) Greg Price @greg_price11, "Frey: "Imagine if your city or town was invaded by thousands of federal agents that do not share the values that you hold dear." Funny how this logic never applies to the invasion of illegal aliens." Ace, Minneapolis Mayor and Insurrectionist Jacob Frey Justifes Attacking ICE Agents, Saying Hitting Federal Agents With Shovels Is Just "Defending Our Neighbors" "It's time." Brit Hume @brithume, "If Minnesota's view somehow carries the day, we will be living in a very different county than the one that would not let Southern politicians block school integration during the civil rights era in the 1960's and beyond." Quote Byron York @ByronYork, "Minnesota: Federal law shouldn't apply to us. Minneapolis to ICE: We're tracking you. We're blowing whistles. We're blocking you with our cars. We're getting into shoving matches with you. Some of us are doing more than that. And yet you won't go away. What is it you don'tShow more" Nicholas Giordano @PasReport, "That’s right. States don’t get to decide which federal laws apply to them. We settled that question decades ago, at great cost, and the answer hasn’t changed. These are the same people who constantly warn about “threats to democracy,” yet believe they can bypass the Constitution and congressionally enacted law whenever enforcement conflicts with their feelings or preferred narrative." At Althouse "The last thing we need to do, again, is to make the same mistake when it comes to 'Defund the Police' rhetoric." ""That ended up not actually helping communicate what people wanted. People want a slimmed-down ICE that is truly focused on security." Said Senator Ruben Gallego, Democrat of Arizona, quoted in "Abolish ICE? It’s a Slogan Some Democratic Critics of ICE Would Abolish/As Democrats grow more alarmed about the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration raids in American cities, some worry that calls to eliminate the agency will distract from efforts to rein it in" (NYT)." Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh, "HOLY CRAP. Border Commander Greg Bovino confirms Minneapolis Police received the STAND-DOWN ORDER, leaving federal agents to face insurrection alone "Even in Illinois, under Governor Pritzker, they still allowed state locals to come in and work with the federal government to make that Broadview Facility safer." "That's all we ask here at the Whipple Facility here in Minnesota, is we want safety, so we can continue to conduct these Title VIII immigration operations!" "Anytime we can work with the state and locals, as we did in Louisiana, somewhat in Illinois, and North Carolina, and other places, that's always a success for all of us." DISGRACEFUL." Mark Hemingway @Heminator, "Look, the moment ICE agents show up in Minneapolis, they’re just as Minnesotan as people that have been there for generations. I’ve been repeatedly told that’s how this works." Sundance thinks Corrupt Minnesota Officials Request Public to Conduct More Chaotic Actions to Coverup Criminal Fraud by Public Officials.

From State of the Day, State of Wednesday: THE ARRESTS BEGIN, "Liberals in Minneapolis have a lot of learning to do, and school is decidedly in session." PJM's Kevin Downey quips It's 10 a.m. — Do You Know Where Your Grandma Is? She's Getting Pepper-Blasted by the Feds. Amy Curtis at TownHall, Florida Woman Tried Messing With ICE. It Did Not Go Well for Her. Beege Welborn, When Resistance AWFLs Don't Realize Not Every State Thinks Their Tantrums Are Adorable. Carl Paulus @CarlPaulus, "The people obsessed with the Confederacy for the past decade have essentially adopted the stance of the fire-eaters. That’s one of the weirder parts of this entire ordeal." Quote Shipwreckedcrew @shipwreckedcrew, "The ICE Officers are ENFORCING federal law. Those like ICE Watch are lawbreakers when they go beyond protesting and actively interfere in ICE operations." Kurt Schlichter @KurtSchlichter, "That was before your friends started trying to murder them." Quote Carl @HistoryBoomer, "None of the ICE agents in this segment were masked. It's almost as if when you dress like thugs, you'll be seen as thugs." RBe @RBPundit, "Hi, Latino here. I give ICE agents a "wassup" nod whenever I see them and the give me a "wassup" nod back. Cops, too. Maybe it's a you problem?" Quote Luis Moreno @LuisMorenolg, "If you're not Latino, married to a Latino, live with Latinos, you really have no idea how terrifying it is to be targeted for the way you look, the way you speak, how you're dressed or even what you're doing. Walk a mile in my shoes has never been truer in this country. x.com/ChrisMurphyCT/…" Driscoll, THE PRESIDENT IS A HEARTLESS NAZI! “You know why you haven’t heard about this story? Because it happened under Obama. Imagine if this happened under Trump. Imagine how many Democrats would fly to Mexico to find this woman and exploit her story,” the tweet goes on to note." Teri Christoph at RedState thinks you should Watch: Karoline Leavitt Absolutely Levels Lefty Reporter After Dishonest ICE Question – 'You're a Hack'. PJM's Sarah Anderson calls it MUST WATCH: Karoline Leavitt Destroys MSM 'Journalist' Over ICE Question.

NYPo ed board, Minneapolis schools betray kids to feed ICE hysteria "Pathetic: Minneapolis Public Schools last week announced they’ll allow remote attendance for students at least through mid-February — and teachers unions are pushing for similar policies throughout the metro region." Mitch Berg at Hat Hair, Saint Paul Public Schools: In Lieu Of Educating... At BA, Cam is concerned, Did a Pro-2A Sign Lead to Illegal Immigrant's Deportation?

At NYPo, The disturbing reason Iran appears to have stopped slaughtering protesters. NRO's Jim Geraghty worries about Trump’s Sudden Reversal on Iran. I don't think he's reversing; he's waiting for the time to get ripe. Scott Pinsker at PJM, Idiots at Al Jazeera: The Iranian People Are Rebelling and It’s All Donald Trump’s Fault!, but I already like him! From TNP, WAR? Trump Redeploys Carrier Strike Group to Middle East. From Hat Hair, John Sexton sees US Military Assets Are Heading Toward Iran, Capt. Ed watches NBC: Trump Will Only Order Military Attack On Iran If 'Decisive' and Beege Welborn says Let's Engage in Baseless Speculation for a Moment, Shall We? The Skies Over Iran Have Emptied MORE. Reuters claims an Exclusive: Trump questions support for son of Iran's last Shah inside country. Althouse, Trump questions the Shah's support-garnering capacity. "The news as displayed at Memeorandum:" The problem with the idea of royalty is "regression to the mean". The guy who seizes an empire is very likely to be exceptional, for better or worse. His son, less so, and his grandson might as well be picked out of the phonebook.

VodkaPundit at Insty, OH: Danish intel warned last year about Russian and Chinese military goals toward Greenland and Arctic. Twitchy, Emmanuel Macron Says the French Military Is on Its Way to Denmark and Greenland. AMAC says Europe Should Be Begging Trump to Buy Greenland. Sundance thinks President Trump Identifies the Roadblock to a Ceasefire Between Ukraine and Russia, Zelenskyy.

Sundance, President Trump Announces “The Great Healthcare Plan.” "DETAILS HERE" Getting out ahead of it, Am Great reports Big Pharma Raises Drug Prices for 2026. Matt Vespa at TownHall hears Reconciliation 2.0 Is Getting Some High Marks. This Is a MUST-Pass for the GOP This Year. PJM's Stephen Kruiser thinks It's Refreshing When the GOP Acts Like It's Winning.

Ace cites Trump: "I Don't Think We Need" Antisemites in the GOP "Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes, Megyn Kelly, and Candace Owens hardest hit. Or are they? Carlson and Owens barely pretend to be Trump supporters, and Nick Fuentes urged his "Groyper" followers to vote for Kamala Harris. "Grandma Groyper" Megyn Kelly, meanwhile, just supports whatever position she thinks is hot with the TikTok generation this week."

From Twitchy, DataRepublican and Walter Curt 'Follow the Money' and EXPOSE Huge Somali Fraud Op at Minneapolis Airport. Walter Curt @wcdispatch, "Okay @DataRepublican, and I did some general numbers on the SomaliFraud cash going through Minneapolis airport. According to reports, over 2 years, they moved roughly $700MM through the airport. That means (if they used $100 bills) they moved 7.7 metric tons of cash, and keep in mind, this is just what was flagged over the past 2 years. Couple notes on that number: That would essentially mean that the Somalis were taking a $1 million dollar duffle bag through the airport — EVERY SINGLE DAY — for two years. Further, we can assume that this is only the money that was flagged. If the Somalis were just wandering through without declaring every cash bag, we could be talking 10x the amount. The question then became: WHY Minneapolis? Well, after some quick discussing with regular travelers of the MN airports. The Somalis run the airport. They’re the ground crews. They’re the airport staff. They’re friggin TSA. We have an airport in the United States of America run by pirates. That’s kind of a problem. More on where we think the money is going later…" Ace, wakes up and watches the New Nick Shirley Video: Somali Pirates Are Defrauding Us for Hundreds of Millions of Dollars by Running Fake Taxpayer-Funded Transporation Companies, "All of this enabled by free-spending Democrats desperate to loot the public treasury to put money in their voters' pockets." At Hat Hair, a Chloe video, Nick Shirley Exposes a SHOCKING Cash-Smuggling Scheme at U.S. Airports — Tim Walz is Screwed, Dave Strom reports Nick Shirley Exposes More Somali Fraud and The Entire Daycare Industry Has Become a Scam. 

The Free Bacon is scandalized when Kamala Harris Buys $8.2 Million Seaside Mansion After Warning 'Sea Levels Are Rising' Due to 'Climate Crisis' "Harris's new home features many of the same amenities—such as a gas stove and fireplace—that the Biden-Harris administration targeted with regulations." In Malibu; as Greg Gutfeld quipped, "she got it at a fire sale." Also, ‘White, Middle-Class Homeowners Are a Huge Problem’: Mamdani’s Communist Housing Czar Called To ‘Undermine the Institution of Homeownership,’ "Cea Weaver’s anti-white statements have already drawn scrutiny from the Justice Department." Amy Curtis, Cea Weaver Identifies the 'Huge Problem' Obstructing Her Communist Housing Agenda, and Guess What It Is. You. 

PJM's Aaron Hanscom has The Video Gavin Newsom Doesn't Want You to See. Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius, "When people think of 20th Century fascism, they usually think of fully-installed, oppressive central governments. But when you trace the rise of 20th Century fascism, it usually starts with a criminal political party that does everything it can to undermine the legitimate authority of a prior democratically elected government. Fascist governments come to power through denial of legitimate laws, violent protests, media propaganda, the creation of martyrs out of criminals and rigged elections. In the USA of 2026, can you name a political party that seeks to gain power through denial of legitimate laws, violent protests, media propaganda, the creation of martyrs out of criminals and rigged elections? I can. How about you?" Mike Solana @micsolana, "they keep telling us that when they’re back in power they’re doing mass incarceration for political dissidents as if this is as normal a thing to say as “we disagree with your views on abortion” or something" Quote Hakeem Jeffries @RepJeffries "REMINDER: To all members of the Trump administration. The incitement and engagement in state violence against the American people is a serious crime." Capt. Ed, Axios: Even Some Dems Getting Tired of 'Performative Bull****' Impeachments.

Dave Strom, Fauci Knew That Natural Immunity Was Superior to Vaccine and Still Pushed to Require It.

Capt. Ed, Hmmm: FBI Executes Search Warrant on WaPo Reporter’s Home "Three years ago, keeping classified material at home justified not just full-on FBI raids but felony prosecutions of presidents … at least those who had not reached the non compos mentis stage. At the time, the media treated the search of Mar-a-Lago as a necessary defense of national security, and in some cases, evidence of Donald Trump’s risk to the country. Now, however, FBI search warrants for classified material may suddenly become completely illegitimate when it comes to reporters, at least to the media covering the story. The FBI conducted a search pursuant to a warrant obtained by the Department of Justice in connection with a leak investigation. The target of the seach was Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson, who normally covers issues relating to the federal workforce." She was not the target; the target was whoever gave it to her. 

Jeff Charles at TownHall, Appeals Court Just Handed the Trump Administration Major Victory in Mahmoud Khalil's Case.

Driscoll at Insty cites COLEMAN HUGHES: Scott Adams Made Me a Better Thinker. Christopher F. Rufo @christopherrufo, "I hope my own New York Times obit is even more unhinged and vitriolic. We miss you, Scott, and trust that you'd think your haters are hilarious." The New York Times @nytimes, "Breaking News: Scott Adams, whose comic strip “Dilbert” was a sensation until he made racist comments on his podcast, has died at 68. https://nyti.ms/49lBuDy." From Da Wire, ‘Can Men Get Pregnant?’: Reproductive Doctor Refuses To Answer Senator’s Simple Question. "You wont even acknowledge the basic reality that biological men don't get pregnant. I thought we were past all of this." From Ace, Paramount's "Landman" Takes on Fragile SJW Pronoun Sissies; Newest, Gayest Star Trek Ever Crashes In Ratings. 

Linked at 357 Magnum in Saturday Roundup of Link Roundups - 17 January. The Wombat has FMJRA 2.0: Suddenly, A Winning Week awaiting your digital amusement at The Other McCain.