Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - January 21, 2025 [scampydog]
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Good evening, Horde. 47, first day post inauguration!
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Head Tilts Cafe
—Ace
Borgund, Norway, and its 12th century Viking church
"OMG did you hear what the woke pastor said this morning? LOL!!!"
I would like more pets, please.
Dog tries to bring back the ca. 1900 "game" of rolling wheel down the street.
Perfect James-Bond-style sudden reversal on a villain.
He's a very spirited but willful young lad.
He learned to appreciate being henpecked.
Is this real? I can't tell without Jake Tapper to hold my hand.
A pit bull can't change his spots.
Poor horse can't eat the sweet grass due to the muzzle someone forgot to take off of him so he gets all stompyboots with frustration. Another horse helps him get the muzzle off.
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Quick Hits
—Ace
Jennifer @babybeginnerA court in Australia found that lesbians who are females are a minority of all lesbians which includes males. Therefore, the female lesbians may not gather without the male lesbians or it is discrimination.
Read this ten times. Yes. It just happened.
Dirae @megszzzzzzzzLAG v AHRC - application fails, and an exemption to hold biologically female, lesbian-only, public events is refused
Why?
The tribunal found that lesbian women who define themselves by biology and wish to publicly organise along those lines are a "minority"...
The pardon addresses any COVID-related offenses, and is backdated to 2014--the year a U.S. ban on so-called "gain of function" virus research took effect -- research Fauci is accused of outsourcing to China.Despite reporting that Trump is bent on revenge, the appetite among MAGA appointees for holding Fauci accountable hasn't been particularly vocal. But former Senate investigator Jason Foster, who now runs the whistleblower nonprofit Empower Oversight, says that Biden's pardon creates new legal jeopardy for Fauci. Sen. Rand Paul has vowed to continue investigating the COVID origins question, and sources tell RealClearInvestigations that Sen. Ron Johnson and House Republican investigators plan to do so as well. When testifying in those inquiries or answering written depositions, Fauci will be unable to dodge questions by invoking his Fifth Amendment protections against self-incrimination. "They can ask him if he lied before, replough old ground," Foster said. "And if he lies about any prior lie, he can be prosecuted for that or held in contempt."
I saw someone else point out that the Biden Crime Family -- and Fauci, who got millions from Big Pharma -- may be immune to criminal process, but not to civil penalties like Civil Asset Forfeiture. The US government could force these people to disgorge their ill-gotten gains.
I think it's unlikely Trump would do that, or that it would be successful if his AG Pam Bondi tried.
But there's always hope.
Rod D. Martin @RodDMartin
BREAKING: Why Trump's latest move against the Deep State is more revolutionary than you think.A thread on how revoking 51 security clearances could change everything...
Last night's bombshell: Trump plans to strip security clearances from 51 former intelligence officials who called Hunter's laptop "Russian disinfo" before 2020 election.
In DC, this isn't just news. It's an earthquake.
Let me tell you why this matters SO MUCH. These aren't just random bureaucrats - they're the REAL power players in DC who never truly "retire."They keep their clearances. They go on CNN. They shape narratives.
THINK ABOUT IT: These 51 officials KNEW the laptop was real. The FBI had it since 2019. Yet they used their authority to lie to Americans.
Post-election polls show this swayed up to 17% of Democrat voters!
This is the Deep State's playbook:
- Claim special knowledge
- Push false narratives
- Interfere in elections
- Blackmail and jail opponents
- Face zero consequencesUntil now.
The truth? These "retired" officials never stopped wielding power. They're part of a shadow government that's been running things while Biden can barely remember his own name.
Key point: This isn't just about clearances. It's about BREAKING the permanent power structure that's been controlling our country from behind the scenes.
Remember: These are the same people who:
- Pushed the Russia hoax
- Censored real news
- Manipulated elections
- Defrauded the voters
- Protected their ownThe REAL revolution isn't just about elections - it's about dismantling this unelected power structure that thinks it can override the will of American voters.
Why haven't previous presidents done this? Simple: FEAR. These people know everyone's secrets. They're the ultimate DC protection racket.
Here he includes a photo of Bill Clinton with his good friend Jeffrey Epstein, who did not kill himself. How this is related to a discussion of the Deep State's blackmailing abilities is a mystery to me.
But Trump's doing it anyway. That's why this is different.That's why this matters. This isn't just politics. This is war against the Deep State.
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Critics will say this is dangerous. They're right - but not for the reasons they think. It's dangerous to THEM and their power structure.
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LOL: CNN and the Insane Left (But I Repeat Myself) Claim a Cavalcade of Horrors In Wake of Trump's Recognition of the Reality of Biological Sex
—Ace
CNN is so worried that this order will "upend" the passport system."
Because Biden ordered the State Department to issue passports based on pretend-gender rather than sex, creating an "X" gender.
Weird that CNN wasn't upset that Bidens order then would "upend" the passport system.
Trump two-gender edict will upend 'X' identity on passportsThe federal government will only recognize two sexes, male and female, under an executive order that President Donald Trump signed Monday.
The order reverses efforts by the Biden administration to broaden gender identity designations, including on passports.
"As of today, it will henceforth be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders, male and female," Trump said during his inaugural address Monday, taking an early step to fulfill one of his culture war campaign promises.
Titled "Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government," the order says that "sexes that are not changeable, and they are grounded in fundamental and incontrovertible reality."
The federal government will also shift from using the term "gender" to "sex," and that sex is "an individual's immutable biological classification," a Trump administration official told reporters Monday.
All government agencies will ensure that official documents, including passports, visas and Global Entry cards, "accurately reflect the holder's sex," the executive order says. Also, departments running federal prisons, migrant shelters, rape shelters and other "intimate spaces" will be directed to protect single-sex spaces for privacy. And employee records will also adhere to the executive order, as will federal departments' messaging.
"Agencies are no longer going to promote gender ideology through communication forms and other messages," the official said, adding that grants and contracts will be reviewed to ensure that "federal funds shall not be used to promote gender ideology."
Reversing Biden expansion
Trump's executive order will dismantle efforts by the Biden administration to be more inclusive of Americans' gender identification.
As of 2022, US citizens have been able to select "X" as their gender marker on passports. One's marker does not need to match the gender on citizenship documents or photo ID, nor is medical documentation needed to change one's gender, according to the State Department.
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Later that year, Americans were able to start changing their sex identification with the Social Security Administration without needing to provide medical certification. However, Social Security's record systems still require a designation of male or female, though the administration said it was exploring policy and systems updates to support an "X" designation.
This shrieking outrage about rolling the clock back to, checks notes, the savage and barbaric year 2022, isn't going to work this time.
I mentioned this poll yesterday, quoting Megyn Kelly talking about it, but I didn't know it was a NY Times poll. The most liberal of all liberal polls.
Americans never supported this bullshit, but were bullied into pretending they did.
Asked about society's accommodations of transgender people, just under a majority of the respondents thought "society has gone too far in accommodating" this population, including 77% of Republicans and 23% of Democrats. Only 21% of the overall group thought "society has not gone far enough in accommodating" trans people, including 16% of Republicans and 39% of Democrats....
Asked about natal males who identify as female and whether they should be permitted to compete in women's sports, the overwhelming majority--79%--of the respondents said no, including almost all Republicans (94%) and two thirds of Democrats (67%). Such opposition from Democrats in particular is remarkable, given the blowback that Representatives Tom Suozzi (D-NY) and Seth Moulton (D-MA) incurred from the left after making statements in the immediate wake of the election that were disdainful of girls' sports remaining open to natal boys who identify as female. That said, the Times poll asked about women and not girls specifically. It is possible Democrats would have more nuanced answers based on the age of the children and type of sport.
...A sizable majority of the poll's respondents--71%--said that no minors should have access to blockers or hormones for trans care, including close to all Republicans (90%) and a majority of Democrats (54%). Among the 26% of the overall group who said that minors should have such access, only 10% of the overall group thought children as young as 10 to 14 should access these drugs, including just 2% of Republicans and 19% of Democrats.
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The poll result regarding sports suggests that over the past couple of years, Americans have increasingly soured on natal males who identify as female participating in female sports. About 62% to 65% said they were opposed to such participation in the 2023 WaPo poll, compared with 79% in the new Times poll.
Whereas the 2023 WaPo poll found that 42% of respondents thought that 15 to 17 year olds should have access to cross-sex hormones, just 26% of the new Times poll respondents thought that 15 to 18 year olds should have access to blockers and hormones.
Via David Strom, who writes:
Something important happened during the campaign: it became OK to speak your mind again. At first the change was tentative, and now it is turning into a flood. Progressive ideology is losing its power to intimidate. It's still out there, but it will be more and more marginalized.Corporations are dropping their DEI programs, female athletes are speaking up, Americans are vocally objecting to alphabet ideology, and the courts are pushing back on institutions punishing people for speaking their conscience.
Correct. It's liberating. As Justine Bateman said, we're free to speak our minds again "after four years of walking on eggshells." (Longer than that, of course, but you get the point.)
The WSJ writes that being MAGA has gone from being a social/career death sentence to being... hip?
Across many facets of society--in sports, entertainment, the classroom and the workplace--there are signs that MAGA isn't just retaking the White House. It is gaining a firmer foothold in the broader culture.Instead of taking a knee to call for social justice, NFL players are doing the "Trump dance" in the end zone at football games. Mainstream entertainers, among them the country singer Carrie Underwood and the rapper Snoop Dogg, agreed to perform at events celebrating Donald Trump's inauguration, something music stars largely shunned eight years ago.
A new generation of Trump-friendly comedians and wellness influencers is populating YouTube and other social media, while a snippet of audio featuring Barron and Melania Trump has become one of the hottest online memes, with celebrities such as Paris Hilton and brands including Frontier Airlines using it in their TikTok and Instagram posts.
"Every time I walk on campus, I see a few MAGA hats. That's definitely new," said Carson Carpenter, 19, a senior at Arizona State University. Conservatism, he said, "has really become intertwined in our pop culture.... It's really showing that conservatism is cool now."
Guys, this is kind of stressing: Have we gone mainstream?!?!
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Julie Kelly: The DC Gulag Is Slow-Rolling the Release of J6 Political Prisoners
—Ace
Fire the bitch in charge of this gulag, stat.
And yes, it's a woman. Who else would it be, after four years of DEI hiring.
Ask and it is done: She was fired yesterday.
Colette Peters has resigned as Director of the Bureau of Prisons after 30 months on the job just as President Donald Trump was inaugurated on Monday. Deputy Director William Lathrop will take over as acting director. An agency outsider, Peters took the BOP job after heading the Oregon Department of Corrections.
On President Donald Trump's first day in office, he signed pardons for around 1,500 people charged and arrested in connection with January 6. As of Tuesday morning, journalist Julie Kelly told Steve Bannon that the DC jail housing some of those who had been pardoned is "holding back" on their release.Kelly told Bannon that in the wake of those pardons, "J6ers are gradually being released from federal prisons across the country. Of course, DC gulag is holding out because that's what they do, because this is a political gulag, so they're going to do whatever they can to extend the torment of Trump supporters in custody there."
She added that she has seen "really moving videos and photographs of men and women who are being released from federal prison who are cutting off their ankle bracelets. You know, this is really such a joyous moment."
Outside the DC jail, Ben Bergquam spoke with William Sarsfield, who had been released from the Philadelphia Detention Center at around 3 in the morning on Tuesday and traveled to DC to join the protest outside the jail.
Sarsfield told Bergquam, "We got to stick together. Where we go one, we go all. It don't matter who's in front of us and who's going to stop us. We'll just walk right over them. We're here to say we're free and the rest of us need to be freed."
One of those who is reportedly being prevented from being released is Rachel Powell.
Cynthia Hughes, founder of the Patriot Freedom Project, wrote that she had received a call at 3 am to pick up Powell. She and others went to DC to pick her up, waiting until 4:30 am, but the jail was not releasing her. "They said come back at 7 AM and here it is 10:20 and they are still refusing to release her," Hughes said. Powell had been held at FCI Hazelton in West Virginia but in the DC jail because of a sentencing hearing.
"We are in a 98% Democratic district where they hate Trump and his supporters. The officer literally said they had to verify the President's executive order, like WHAT!! This low level broken and corrupt jail needs a thorough investigation immediately," she added.
Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk wrote in response, "Outrageous!! They're refusing to release J6 prisoners just pardoned by President Trump. There must be very severe accountability for DC if they refuse to comply with the law."
A family member of J6er Jake Lang, likely his fiancée, accused via Lang's X account on Monday evening that he was assaulted by prison guards, handcuffed, and thrown back in his cell while in the process of being released. Lang has been in jail for four years without a trial in inhumane conditions, much of it in solitary confinement. I was subsequently able to reach Lang by text, and he confirmed that the D.C. Gulag was refusing to release some of the J6 prisoners."The GULAG doesn't want to cough up its hostages!!! After 1465 days, every second is like an eternity!! I'm ready to go home!!! God will deliver!!!" Lang wrote me in his message.
Early Tuesday morning, Lang posted an update: "Hey @elonmusk they are STILL HOLDING me & 20 other J6 Political Prisoners hostage inside the Washington DC Jail Gulag & WONT LET US LEAVE!!!" He reiterated the accusation of assault. "I was swarmed & assaulted by prison officials including Lt. Allen & his Emergency Response Team (ERT) Thugs last night while sitting all packed up to leave!!!! Our were families are standing outside in below freezing 10° weather until 1am when they released 2 hostages, there are still 20 of us in here!!! [sic]"Lang addressed Musk because, as noted above, the X owner and Trump administration official had posted the night before to confirm that Trump's executive order did indeed demand the immediate release of all J6 prisoners. But prison guards have been reported laughing at or harassing individuals who showed up to reunite with Jan. 6 prisoners.
Woke DEI Female Commandant of the Coast Guard Fired for Elevating DEI over Core Mission of Protecting the Coast, Failing to Stop Fentanyl Smuggling, and a General "Erosion of Trust"
—Ace
This is important and telling. The GOP Establishment, of course, would be too frightened to ever even contemplate a #DEIApocalypse of firing woke DEI hires. Even first term Trump would have been talked out of by woke-traitor staffers, who would lie to him and tell him "It's illegal to fire a lesbian."
I don't know if she is a lesbian -- her Wikipedia "Personal Life" entry is very sparse and only says she has a daughter. No husband or father mentioned.
But they would have told Trump "It's akshually illegal to fire a lesbian" whether she is or isn't. Let's say she's Lesbian Adjacent.
Second term Trump is the Trump we all wanted but didn't get due to constant gaslighting and crisis-making by government bureaucrats. First term Trump had a loud bark and a gentle bite, second term Trump has quieter bark and a savage bite.
Ian Miles Cheong @stillgrayAdmiral Linda Fagan, who oversaw the US Coast Guard, has been terminated for operational failure and misdirecting all of the organization's resources away from training, retention, and border security over to Diversity, Equity and Inclusivity (DEI) initiatives within the USCG.
amuse @amuseDEI: Trump fired the DEI-hire Commandant Admiral Linda Lee Fagan for her utter incompetence and failure to secure the border, meet recruitment goals, and for an 'Erosion of Trust...'
Coast Guard commandant terminated over border lapses, recruitment, DEI focus: officialEXCLUSIVE: The Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard has been terminated over concerns about the border, recruitment and an "erosion of trust," a senior DHS official confirmed to Fox News.
Adm. Linda Lee Fagan, 61, has been terminated by the Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Benjamine Huffman, the official said.
Fagan has demonstrated leadership deficiencies, operational failures and an inability to advance the strategic objectives of the Coast Guard.
These include the failure to address border security threats, insufficient leadership in recruitment and retention, mismanagement in acquiring key acquisitions such as icebreakers and helicopters, excessive focus on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and an "erosion of trust" over the mishandling and cover-up of Operation Fouled Anchor, which was the Coast Guard's internal investigation into sexual assault cases at the Coast Guard Academy.
Fagan is accused of ineffective deployment of Coast Guard assets to support national border security, including in intercepting fentanyl and other illicit substances. She also had insufficient coordination with DHS to prioritize operations along maritime borders.
The DHS official said Fagan had significant failures in recruiting personnel, which worsened issues related to operational readiness. The official added that the lack of innovative strategies to address retention struggles in critical specialties weakened workforce sustainability.
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Fagan also made DEI policies a priority, including at the Coast Guard Academy, which diverted resources and focus from operational essentials.
Confirmed in June 2021, Fagan presided over multiple years when the service came up short on its recruitment goals by as much as 20%, before barely exceeding the threshold for active-duty and reserve coasties in fiscal year 2024.Congressional Republicans had accused Fagan of impeding military readiness, noting that the low recruitment rate had forced some ships to be decommissioned.
"Also contributing to lower retention and recruitment is indoctrination training," wrote Reps. Eli Crane (R-Ariz.) and Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) in an August 2024 letter to then-Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
"We have heard from service members concerned with trainings and events they believe to be extraneous to mission-critical tasks, specifically Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) inclusivity training programs, including ... examples of official USCG announcements encouraging service member participation in Transgender Shipmates Inclusion Training," they added.
Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) also highlighted how so-called "woke" Coast Guard policies affected other service branches.
"Our service academies are critical institutions for the security of our nation, not laboratories for the far-left's social experiments," the now-senator told The Post in October 2023. "Forcing radical gender ideology on the young men and women who want to serve their country is dangerous and wrong."
Banks especially excoriated officials for implementing a policy at the Merchant Marine Academy on Long Island that let midshipmen undergoing gender transitions seek exemptions from their military service requirement.
You tell 'em Trump's comin' and he's bringin' hell with him.
So Trump ordered the "termination of all discriminatory programs, including illegal DEI and 'diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility' (DEIA) mandates, policies, programs, preferences, and activities in the Federal Government, under whatever name they appear." He tasked the director of the Office of Management and Budget, the director of the Office of Personnel Management, and the attorney general with enforcing this change.
"Americans deserve a government committed to serving every person with equal dignity and respect, and to expending precious taxpayer resources only on making America great," the order reads. "Federal employment practices, including Federal employee performance reviews, shall reward individual initiative, skills, performance, and hard work and shall not under any circumstances consider DEI or DEIAf actors, goals, policies, mandates, or requirements."
The order tells the AG and director of OPM to "review and revise, as appropriate, all existing Federal employment practices, union contracts, and training policies or programs" for compliance.
It directs administration officials to "terminate" the following: "all DEI, DEIA, and 'environmental justice' offices and positions"; "'equity action plans"; "'equity' actions, initiatives, or programs"; "'equity-related' grants or contracts"; and "all DEI or DEIA performance requirements for employees, contractors, or grantees." Deputy heads must "assess the operational impact ... and cost" of Biden's DEI policies and recommend steps for compliance.
Huh. So the New Policy is "hire based on merit, retain or promote based on results." What an exciting innovation in employment. It's almost completely unprecedented, except for the first million years of human existence.
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The Democrats' Woke "Pastor" Delivers Progressive Policy Demands Disguised as Biblical Commandments at Ostensibly Non-Partisan National Prayer Service
—Ace
I've just about had it with the "Reverend" Pflegers and G*d-D*mn America black radical preachers and the tranny rabbis.
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HISTORIC: Kamala Harris Is the First Black Woman to Deliver a Word Salad Speech as a Private Citizen
—Ace
The Sphinx of San Francisco uncorks another Riddle of the Sands for us:
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Trump Pardons 1500 J6ers (But Not Ray Epps or the Antifa Provocateur)
—Ace
President Donald Trump pardoned nearly all individuals charged in connection with the January 6, 2021, Capitol protests, fulfilling a central campaign promise. The sweeping clemency addressed what Trump described as politically motivated prosecutions, sparking sharp debate over the justice system's handling of the cases.Key Details:
Trump's pardons covered more than 1,500 defendants, including prominent members of groups like the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers. Some of these individuals had been convicted of serious charges, including seditious conspiracy, while hundreds of other cases were dismissed.
The pardons undid years of prosecutions that the Department of Justice under President Biden described as its largest investigation ever, which secured over 1,100 convictions. Critics of the prosecutions cited long pretrial detentions and harsh sentencing as evidence of bias.
Trump condemned the treatment of the defendants, calling it "brutal and unjust," and commuted the sentences of more than a dozen individuals still incarcerated. "We hope they come out tonight," Trump said of those awaiting release.
This damp liberal explains the situation to his fellow damp liberals:
Sean T at RCP @SeanTrendeTo understand the Right re J6: They believe that the reason the dividing line between J6 getting prosecuted and, say, Portland rioters not is because norms are set by liberals to protect liberal ingroups while allowing the prosecution of outgroups. 1/
This is also the dividing line between Trumpy populists and GOP establishment types; the latter says "well we should prosecute the goons in OR too" while the former says that is hopelessly naive bc, again, the lines are set by liberals to protect their ingroups. 2/
This isn't a defense of the populists at all. This is just to explain the "burn it down" mindset: "it" is a rigged game with rules set by liberals. If this sounds like left critiques of the past decade, well, it's why we're getting this horseshoe effect of, say, RFK & Trump. 3/3
Final thought: This is why the "but J6 was so much worse" argument doesn't work for them. Even conceding that is true, they will say, the point is that the dividing line between "punish" and "don't" is always magically set to excuse the left and punish the right. 4/3
And the populist Right's main deviation from the Establishment Right is a belief that they can and should use their power to set what are viewed arbitrary rules to their benefit when they have the chance. 5/3
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The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition
—CBD
We are hostage to an 1898 Supreme Court case that held that a man who was born here is a citizen, which makes sense. However, the case didn't address the immigration status of his parents, because that wasn't a big deal in 1898.
Well, it's a very big deal now, and it is time to revisit that case. The idea that one can commit a crime -- and crashing our border is a crime! -- and gain unimaginable benefits as a result of that crime is an insane misreading of the concept of citizenship, and an equally insane reading of the rule of law.
Luckily, Donald Trump is our president!
Trump Signs Executive Order Ending Birthright Citizenship
President Donald Trump on Monday, in one of his first official acts as president, signed an executive order ending birthright citizenship.The executive order clarifies that the federal government does not automatically recognize birthright citizenship for children born to illegal immigrants in the United States.
Earlier, Trump acknowledged in comments that the order could be controversial and that he was expecting an imminent legal challenge.
Birthright citizenship has been enshrined in the U.S. Constitution since the 1898 Supreme Court case United States v. Wong Kim Ark.
Trump said that automatic citizenship was “just ridiculous” and that he believed he was on “good [legal] ground” to change it.
That court case doesn't seem to apply to our current problem: possibly millions of anchor babies born in the United States for the express purpose of subverting our immigration law! United States v. Wong Kim Ark is a narrow finding that simply does not address the status of the parents of anchor babies. That question needs to be answered, and the law needs to be clarified by Congress.
The obvious answer is that the fruits of an illegal act are also illegal. Can I rob a bank, use the money to buy a house, and keep the house? Can I kill my wife and collect the life insurance? The answer is a resounding "NO!"
But the illegal act of the parents confers citizenship? That's nuts. And it gets worse. Once anchor babies reach 21 years old, they can sponsor their parents for citizenship. That seems completely at odds with a plain understanding of the rule of law.
I think Americans will support a law that clarifies that the offspring of legal immigrants are citizens, since the pathway from legal immigrant to citizen is clear, and taken by many hundreds of thousands of legal immigrants each year.
But the gaming of our system must stop, and hopefully the current anchor babies will be reclassified as illegals and deported. Yes, those wonderful "Dreamers" need to be tossed out and told to get on line like all of the law-abiding folks who want to come to America.
Is that mean? Is that cold-hearted? Is that callous?
I don't care.
[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter]
The Morning Report — 1/21/25
—J.J. Sefton
Good morning kids. At the risk of invading CBD's purview in the arena of art, there is a term called Chiaroscuro which loosely defined means a use of bold contrast between dark and light.
While yesterday's inauguration of Donald Trump as POTUS 47 was indeed a glorious burst of brilliant sunlight after four years of an abject black hole of despair, misery and suffering that threatened to engulf everything we hold dear for all time.
It's rather appropriate that the use of chiaroscuro in art came most notably to prominence during the Renaissance, which please God is what Donald Trump's return to the White House will herald for us as a nation, as a society and in our individual lives. That said the contrast between what was and God-willing what will be could not have been more in evidence when you compare the actions of the incontinent vegetable puppet president Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants just prior to his being ejected from behind the Resolute Desk and that of President Donald Trump as the words "So Help Me God" left his lips and he took his hand off of the Bible.
Biden handed out blanket pardons not only to his family members, but to traitors like Liz Cheney, the J-6 committee members who oversaw the persecution of innocent Americans and Donald Trump himself, but in the case of Anthony Fauci, who actually worked for and with Red China to engineer a biological weapon of mass destruction in COVID-19, unleashed on the world to destabilize America and give cover to the theft of the 2020 section to prevent the Left's and Xi's greatest threat to their planned dominance, Donald Trump. The pandemic and then the poisonous vaccines themselves killed several million people across the globe. One could make the case that Fauci, Daszak, Birx and everyone associated with them are guilty of an actual crime against humanity. But of course, tell that to the world court which is more interested in going after Israel and Bibi for the crime against humanity of existence and self defense while Jewish. And so Three cheers for POTUS Trump moving to withdraw the US from the World Health Organization, who aided and abetted in the COVID lockdown hysteria, albeit for monetary reasons. But still.
Meanwhile, while Biden among other scum, pardoned Leonard Peltier.
The FBI Agents Association expressed outrage after now-former President Joe Biden granted clemency to Native American activist Leonard Peltier, who was convicted of killing two FBI agents.The former president issued a number of pardons and sentence commutations in his final moments in the Oval Office this week, chief among them being Leonard Peltier, who was convicted in 1975. Per UPI:
Among the names granted clemency Monday was longtime jailed Native American activist Leonard Peltier, who many say was America’s “longest-serving political prisoner” after he was convicted in 1975 of allegedly killing two FBI agents on his property in a trial many viewed as a sham.
Biden “was right” to commute the life sentence of the Indigenous elder and activist “given the serious human rights concerns about the fairness of his trial,” Paul O’Brien, executive director of Amnesty International USA, said Monday in a statement. In a statement released on Monday, the FBI Agents Association (FBIAA) called the former president’s commutation of Peltier’s sentence “disgraceful,” noting the “brutal murders of FBI Special Agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams.”
“This last-second, disgraceful act by then-President Biden, which does not change Peltier’s guilt but does release him from prison, is cowardly and lacks accountability. It is a cruel betrayal to the families and colleagues of these fallen Agents and is a slap in the face of law enforcement,” it said.
Funny but I don't remember the FBI agents association getting exercised when Merrick Garland and Christopher Wray went after grandmothers protesting at abortion abbatoirs or parents at school board meetings, and certainly not Donald Trump, based on evidence faked by their compatriot traitor Christopher Steele at the behest of Hillary Clinton.
And when the 2020 election was stolen, there were several dozen FBI agents in plain clothes and/or MAGA gear among the so-called "rioters" and "insurrectionists" who invaded the Capitol building by cleverly having Pelosi-controlloed Capitol PD goons open the doors for them and escort them inside.
President Trump issued pardons Monday night to hundreds of participants in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot — staying true to his promise to grant clemency to people involved in halting the counting of Electoral College votes that day. Trump, 78, said he issued “approximately 1,500” pardons after returning to the White House from a day of inaugural festivities, telling reporters present that “I hope they come out tonight.” The newly sworn-in 47th president signed a document commuting 14 prison sentences and offering “a full, complete and unconditional pardon to all other individuals convicted of offenses related to events that occurred at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021.” “I will say this, they’ve been in jail for a long time already. I see murderers in this country get two years, one year and maybe no time. So they’ve already been in jail for a long time. These people have been destroyed,” Trump said in the Oval Office when asked if any beneficiaries had assaulted police. “What they’ve done to these people is outrageous. Even people that were aggressive, and in many cases, I believe they happen to be outside agitators. But what do I know? But I think they were. I think they were outside agitators. They were outside agitators. And obviously, the FBI was involved.” The Justice Department criminally charged 1,583 people in connection with the riot, which broke out after Trump, while serving the final days of his first term, told thousands of supporters that the 2020 election was being “stolen” from him. . . The orders require the Federal Bureau of Prisons to immediately release the inmates.
Yet, Kurt Schlichter correctly notes:
All of the J6 prosecutions are illegitimate, not because the actions of the J6 defendants are all pristine – the vast majority are guilty only of thinking that as part of the People, they had a right to walk through the People’s House – but because they were not treated exactly the same way as those politically aligned with the people persecuting them. And there is no way to undo the taint of the two-tier justice system. There are reports that President Trump will commute sentences to get people out of prison, then follow up with a pardon “process” to evaluate each conviction. No, no, no. Every conviction – every single one, including those by people forced to plead guilty (and they were forced) – is tainted by the actions of the DOJ, the actions of biased judges, and the fact that the venue in DC was manifestly unjust. No J6 conviction can stand. Every conviction was unfair and unjust. . .
. . . The savage cruelty and maliciousness of the corrupt Department of Justice and FBI must be repudiated. President Donald Trump must pardon every single one of their victims. There is no other alternative. There is no compromise. Anything less than a total repudiation of this pogrom validates the unspeakable evil perpetrated upon these patriotic citizens. And that’s not all. President Trump should also apologize to them on behalf of the American people and government, as well as direct the Department of Justice to settle their multimillion-dollar civil rights claims without litigation. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. It all starts with pardoning every single one of them on Day One of the Trump 2.0 administration. Not commuting – commuting implies some validity to the convictions – but pardoning, because prosecutions that are unjust cannot stand in whole or part, and every single one in those kangaroo courts was unjust.
Leonard Peltier was and remains a terrorist, but as Schlichter correctly notes: "Hey, did you hear about that Trump-loving J6 couple who threw a bomb and permanently injured a cop? He got five years. His wife got no years. Yeah, those J6ers really got off easy. Oh, wait, my mistake. They were not J6 defendants. They were a couple of Antifa scumbags who were mad because conservative commentator Michael Knowles was going to speak about transgender baloney. Instead of being treated with the same scorn and harshness that the J6 defendants have been, this federal judge actually said they were something along the lines of very fine people. How many years do you think a J6 defendant would get if he permanently injured a cop with a bomb? About a million. But there’s a vital difference. The Biden Administration (sic) likes Antifa terrorists and hates patriots."
Mumia Abu Jamal, the evil fiend who murdered a Philadelphia cop remains behind bars and will hopefully die there because he did not commit a federal crime. Had it been Federal, I have no doubt he'd be free as a bird and probably running to primary John Fetterman, who is giving Democrats fits for being the unlikely voice of reason opposing quite a bit of their madness, BUT for the unforgivable crime of treating Trump with relative respect and willing to at least listen to him.
In any case all the right/wrong heads are exploding not only because of what Trump said but because this time around they and we get the sense that he will do everything he can to make sure he delivers on cleansing the nation of the rot, criminality and degeneracy that have laid us so low these past four years and really a lot longer than that.
As the SUN RISES, a glorious long awaited sunburst definitely indicates that it is once again morning in America. While the sundowning debasement of Biden is re-interred in its crypt of a Rehoboth DE basement, never to return. But as we all know, evil never rests and in one form or another it too will return. We must be ever vigilant to guard against it. And that means protecting future generations from hearing the siren song of paradise on earth if only they surrender their souls.
Well, the torch has been passed, and no its not from a Guatemalan illegal alien savage who immolated a sleeping subway rider. Please God, we have seen the last of those nightmare scenes.
Oh happy day. God bless the United States of America, Godspeed to President Donald J. Trump, his staff, advisers and all of us who kept the faith. May the black hearts of the Democrats, Globalists, RINOs et al finally feel the warmth of truth and justice that they are willfully or otherwise blind to and be redeemed. If not, then may they know only defeat and despair for all time.
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Daily Tech News 21 January 2025
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- President Trump has signed a stay of execution for TikTok for 75 days. (Tech Crunch)
He signed a whole lot of things, but I'll leave that to others to cover.
The law is still in effect, and TikTok still has to divest to an owner that isn't covertly at war with pretty much everyone, but they have a little longer to refuse to do so.
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Monday Overnight Open Thread - January 20, 2025 [Doof]
—Open Blogger
Howdy Hordelings, and welcome to the FIRST!!! ONT of the Trump 47 era! The big story of the day obviously is the inauguration of Donald J. Trump as the 47th President of the United States. Tonight's content is limited to things pertaining to the day. But as always, the ONT is an open thread, so if there's something else on your mind (such as a big college football game), by all means opine and comment as you wish. Your humble host has copious amount of bourbon flowing freely today. Care to join me in raising a glass to POTUS 45/47?
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Invasion of the Apple Snatchers Cafe
—Ace
German shepherd's gonna pop out for a sec, do you need anything from 7-Eleven?
Handsome boy but ugly smile.
Dog takes the long walk to the execution chamber (Human Term: the bath.)
Senior wiener dog competes in agility contest. She's more spry that Joe Biden. And also, she can speak more clearly.
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At Last Night's Rally, Trump Was Joined on the Stage By His Strongest Totally-Not-Gay Supporters
—Ace
Some good news:
Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 @julie_kelly2 26m My sources indicate J6ers are already being released and been notified release is imminent.Julie Kelly @julie_kelly2 25m
This includes defendants across the spectrum.Julie Kelly @julie_kelly2 17m
The abusive, destructive prosecution of J6ers is over.Pardons and next, restitution.
Julie Kelly @julie_kelly2 2m
The president just confirmed J6ers are being released "today."Posted by: andycanuck
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Quick Hits
—Ace
Trump says he'll be signing pardons for the J6ers tonight. It's like they're staging an Insurrection in My Heart!
Megyn Kelly read out some poll numbers: 79% of Americans agree that "we have gone too far in accommodating trans people," 77% agree that men (or "trans women") should be banned from women's/girl's sports, and 71% agree that children should be banned from being injected with puberty blockers. (The Democrats only agreed 54% with that last one -- they're the Party of Groomers.)
Politico's Jonathan Martin is a totally neutral and objective journalist with unerring judgment, which is why he decided to launch an incredibly petty rant against Trump for (checks notes) making a joke that the broad rim of Melania's hat might be caught by the wind and lift her off the ground like a helicopter.
Martin urges his other "straight journalists" to portray this as abnormal and deserving of condemnation:
Jonathan Martin @jmartNow TV networks get to pretend like a newly inaugurated president riffing on his wife’s hat and how it is shaped so that the wind could elevate her up with (the former) Marine One is totally normal
"Riffing." He spoke two sentences about it.
Walgreen's decision to close stores which are losing money due to the rampant theft Chicago "citizens" decided to authorize is (checks notes) "racist" because black people have a right to steal and any burdening or inconveniencing of this right is a Constitutional violation or something.
A nice thread summing up the failures and miseries and evils of the Biden Usurpation in pictures.
Physics Geek comments, and links a video of the new stupid protests:
Physics Geek @physicsgeekChicago: We're not gonna prosecute shoplifters
Walgreens: We're losing too much money so we're closing some stores
Chicago: This is obviously racist
Non-stupid people: You could just arrest the shoplifters
Chicago: Nope, still racist
Non-stupid people: What is your proposed solution?
Chicago: Keep letting them steal without consequences while you burn through piles of cash.
Non-stupid people: I guess we're gonna go with "racist" here
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Surprise: Defender of Normzzz and Protector of the Criminal FBI Pardons Terrorist Who Murdered Two FBI Agents
—Ace
Every Democrat president eventually gets around to pardoning leftwing terrorists. Bill Clinton pardoned the Puerto Rican FARC terrorists who set off bombs at the New York Stock Exchange, for example.
But they're not allies with the revolutionary/terrorist left. Oh dear no! It's just that they're always pardoning leftwing terrorists because it just happens to work out, coincidentally, that leftwing terrorists are always deserving of presidential clemency.
And so Biden pardons another terrorist.
And Jake Tapper will be just beside herself when Trump pardons people guilty of nothing more than (checks notes) "parading in a public place."
Just moments before leaving office, President Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, who was convicted in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents.Peltier was denied parole as recently as July and wasn't eligible for parole again until 2026. He was serving life in prison for the killings during a standoff on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. He will transition to home confinement, Biden said in a statement.
Biden issued a record number of individual pardons and commutations. He announced Friday that he was commuting the sentences of almost 2,500 people convicted of nonviolent drug offenses, and he issued a broad pardon to his son Hunter, who was prosecuted for gun and tax crimes.
He pardoned the 2500 drug dealers as a smokescreen in which to hide the pardons of his family members and co-conspirators.
Those aren't the only murderers of law enforcement personnel Biden pardoned on his stinking, filthy exit from the Usurped White House.
Governor Glenn Youngkin today released the following statement after President Joe Biden announced the clemency of violent criminals Ferrone Claiborne and Terence Richardson, two men who admitted to being responsible for the brutal killing of Officer Allen Gibson, a Sussex County police officer.
"I am beyond outraged and in utter disbelief that President Biden would announce clemency for Ferrone Claiborne and Terence Richardson--two men who admitted for being responsible to brutally killing Officer Allen Gibson, a hero and dedicated servant to our community," said Governor Glenn Youngkin. "What makes this even more unconscionable is the Biden U.S Attorney advised the White House not to commute these sentences as they are violent offenders. The pain and sorrow this clemency causes the Gibson family is unimaginable. To know that the men who took Officer Gibson's life will walk free is not just a grave injustice--it is a heartbreaking blow to those who continue to mourn his sacrifice. This is despicable; a grim day for justice and for the families who trust that our system will hold the guilty accountable."Both prisoners admitted to being responsible for the brutal killing of Officer Allen Gibson in Sussex County Circuit Court. The evidence presented and the details surrounding Officer Gibson's death are deeply disturbing and tragic.
With only 15 minutes to go as president, Joe Biden snatched infamy from the jaws of obscurity.
With record-low polling and widely viewed as a "failed" president, Biden completed his one-man race to the bottom of ethics by issuing preemptive pardons to members of his own family.
The pardons were timed to guarantee that the media would not focus on yet another unethical act by this president. He need not have worried. For four years, the media worked tirelessly to deny or deflect the corruption scandal surrounding the Biden family.
The pardoning of James Biden, Sara Jones Biden, Valerie Biden Owens, John Owens and Francis Biden brought an inescapable clarity to the corruption of what is known in Washington as Biden Inc.
I have written about the Biden family's corruption for decades. Influence-peddling has always been the favorite form of corruption in Washington, but this city has never seen the likes of the Biden family. Millions of dollars were secured from foreign sources and distributed to various Biden family members.
Biden repeatedly lied about the influence peddling. He long denied knowing about his son's foreign clients or business. He denied ever meeting Hunter's clients. Later, photos and emails showed that Biden had clearly met these clients and knew about the business deals. He was fully aware that his family was cashing in on his name and various offices.
Even Biden's claims about handling the Trump cases were recently contradicted. While long claiming that he left these cases to the Justice Department and took no position on the merits, the Washington Post recently reported that Biden was irate over the failure to prosecute Trump before the election. He also reportedly lashed out at Attorney General Merrick Garland and said he regretted his appointment in light of the failure to nail Trump.
One of the most glaring lies was that he would never pardon his son. Few people believed him. Indeed, Hunter Biden's bizarre criminal defense made no sense unless he knew that he had a pocket pardon if all else failed.
Once he was forced out of the presidential race, Biden was freed up to sign a pardon for any and all crimes committed over a ten-year period by his son. He insisted that he really hadn't been lying. He claimed that no ordinary person would have been tried for his son's crimes -- a manifestly untrue statement. He also emphasized that he had to take this step as a father of a son who was a hopeless addict and has now been clean for years.
However, the latest family pardon shatters even that rationalization. These Bidens are not even charged with any crimes, but Biden wanted to give them cover from any possible prosecution for anything. It was the ultimate sign of contempt for the intelligence of the American public and the integrity of his office.
Biden has long exercised situational ethics and, with his powers coming to an end, the situation demanded that he cash out before his credit ended. In granting these pardons, Biden was seeking to protect not just his family but also himself. He was the object of the influence peddling and repeatedly lied to bury the scandal. This insulation of his family serves to move the threat farther from himself.
Biden, however, may have been too clever by half this time. In the final moments of his presidency, He broke into the open and exposed not just himself but his allies in the media. Reporters are now fully visible as willing dupes in one of the greatest corruption scandals in the history of this country.
Turley says it is imperative that the Biden Crime Family still be probed for its corruption, and now that they have pardons, they cannot interpose the Fifth Amendment to refuse to testify.
Rep. James Comer
@RepJamesComer
STATEMENT ON PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN'S PREEMPTIVE PARDONS FOR THE ENTIRE BIDEN FAMILY:"President Biden's preemptive pardons for the Biden Crime Family serve as a confession of their corruption as they sold out the American people to enrich themselves. Our investigation revealed that at least ten members of the Biden Crime Family and their associates raked in over $30 million by selling Joe Biden's influence to corrupt foreign entities and individuals in China, Russia, Ukraine, Romania, and Kazakhstan. The legacy media should be ashamed of themselves for covering up Joe Biden and his family's abuse of power, corruption, and obstruction. The American people have seen through the legacy media's coverup and the Bidens' lies, and they know the truth: President Biden abused his public office to create a slush fund for his family. President Biden will go down as the most corrupt president in U.S. history, and our investigation will be remembered as one of the most successful ever conducted by Congress."
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Quick Update on "Team DeLulu" Cope
—Ace
"Dark MAGA Carmen Santiago," as Mary Katherine Ham joked,
watches her husband begin his third elected term by
signing executive orders
Your periodic reminder that every Democrat "man" is toxically feminized:
Joe Concha @JoeConchaTVJake Tapper goes full Burn Book to an audience of tens on CNN: "The number of texts I'm getting about what Melania Trump is wearing is zero."
The last time I saw something that gay when I walked in on a furry in a pink fox costume getting gang-scritched in a YMCA locker room.
"Team DeLulu" are the mentally ill progressives and communists who swear -- or swore -- that they had inside information that Trump would never take office. They claimed that they were shown the signs of this by astrology, tarot readings, Reading their period blood (!!!), and various BlueAnon "leaks" from government insiders.
Why do they call themselves "Team DeLulu"? It sounds like Team Delusion. Do they realized they're deluded? Are they making fun of us for wrongly thinking they're deluded? I do not know.
Who can fathom the mind of an idiot.
The latest theory I heard was this: That government agents were preparing to swarm-arrest Trump for electoral fraud, but what they needed to cinch the case was for him to take the oath of office, which would... I don't know, complete the crime or show intent or something.
So this entire transition and inauguration has been a legal trap for Trump, and now he's just moments from being carted off to Levinworth to await his hanging.
I gotta tell you, I don't see this panning out.
Obviously the media reports none of these insane conspiracy theories. Because half of them want to protect their fellow insane leftist allies, and the other half believe the conspiracy theories.
I think the fourth guy in this episode of The Cope Files discusses this Interesting Theory.
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Border Patrol Trucks Are En Route to the Southern Border
—Ace
A Revolution of Common Sense:
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