The Morning Report — 1/3/24

Good morning, kids. As many of you had rightly pointed out yesterday, Claudine Gay might have resigned her post as president of Harvard, but she's not going anywhere. Not only is she not going anywhere, but here's something to make your covfefe come out your nose:

She won’t be leading the Crimson, but green shouldn’t be a problem. Outgoing Harvard President Claudine Gay will still likely earn nearly $900,000 a year despite being forced to resign her position as the school’s top administrator. Political Science professor Gay — who stepped down amid a tempest of allegations she did not do enough to combat antisemitism and academic plagiarism Tuesday — will now return to a position on the Cambridge, Mass., school’s faculty. Prior to being named president just six months ago, Gay earned $879,079 as a Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean in 2021 and $824,068 in 2020, according to records published by the university. Her new position was not specified Tuesday, but she is expected to receive a salary comparable with what she previously received — if not higher. It was also unclear how much of her presidential salary of roughly $1 million Gay would be entitled to after only serving in the post for six months. Her predecessor, Lawrence Bacow, pulled in $1.3 million annually before his departure, according to the Harvard Crimson. Alan M. Garber, who currently serves as provost and chief academic officer, will serve as interim president until the school selects a new chief, officials said Tuesday.

Insult meet injury. Meanwhile, this Alan Garber has a bit of 'splainin' to do too:

Harvard University’s Provost and Interim President Dr. Alan Garber has made millions from sitting on pharmaceutical company boards during his time with the school. Garber made more than $2.7 million from board seats with pharmaceutical firms Exelixis, Inc. and Vertex Pharmaceuticals since becoming Harvard provost in 2011, the Harvard Crimson reported in 2019, citing company filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Both firms confirmed to the outlet Garber received compensation without performing any additional duties beyond his board memberships.

Meh, is that a tempest in a Teapot Dome? For sure, he's not a diversity hire. He's a legitimate MD and considering he graduated in the late 70s early 80s timeframe, likely knows his stuff. Then again, Anthony Fauci graduated years before him and set up shop with the government, and arguably guilty of crimes against humanity for helping to both create and unleash the Chinese COVID plague and then covering up his crimes in a bid to save his skin as well as help the globalists lay the groundwork to sabotage the 2020 election. As for Garber, a cursory look at his record and just the fact that he is where he is proves his own leftist-in-good-standing bona fides. No way he could've risen up the ladder at Harvard were he not a true believer.

That said, he is interim for a reason: there is no way that Harvard is going to hire anyone who is not superficially identical to Claudine Gay: Black and female. If they can find one who's also a crippled, obese, Muslim, transexual lesbian midget, even better. Maybe if they hired Carol Swain, who is black, female and one of the authors Gay shamelessly ripped off, that might make up for it. But, of course, the idea is for Harvard – like Gay and every other Leftist who commits a crime – to circle the wagons and blame the victims.

It's both a blessing and a curse that she was forced to step aside. Curse in that anyone with eyes to see knows that along with the litany of proof of both her lack of ethics and lack of real-world qualifications to run what was once considered the nation's premier university (let alone clean the blackboard for Miss Crabtree), the root cause of why she was hired in the first place, mirror universe MLK Jr. that strives for color of skin over content of character, is an abject failure at best and a cancer on society at worst.

It's a blessing (for them) because every crackpot leftist, racialist, grievance-mongering scumbag is crawling out of the woodwork to denounce those who exposed her as the real racists and bigots. I don't need to quote any of the Ibram X. Krements and their bilious, spittle-flecked bullshit straight out of Jive Kampf. You can quote that shit in your sleep. Whether the protestations fall on more receptive than deaf ears is the question.

But I digress, as is my wont to do. On top of all of this, let's not forget that the exposure of the plagiarism and inventing shit out of whole cloth that constitutes the majority of her work, the volume of which is wafer-thin, only happened after her 100% genuine enthusiasm for the annihilation of the Jews was exposed in Congress. The chutzpocrisy of her, and the other two stooges from U-Penn and MIT, using the First Amendment to declare allowing their universities' Hamas boosting "Einsatz-groupies" the right to their opinion when conservative non-leftists are hounded, threatened, censored and even fired from their posts, was just astonishing to behold.

That alone was shitcanning-worthy, and while at most it received a yawn, a few billionaire donors to their credit were disgusted enough to take back some very hefty donations. As I had been saying since this whole thing broke, while I find it interesting that so many libs I know were shocked to see the rabid Jew-hate on campuses all over the country seemingly come from out of nowhere, they were completely blind to the aforementioned hounding of non-leftists and conservatives. In fact, they were cheering it. The anti-semitism, horrible as it is, is merely a symptom of the rot that has been creeping slowly, then all at once, through academia and indeed every segment of our society for nigh on six decades and even longer.

Claudine Gay in and of herself isn't the problem. She's merely a symptom of a much deeper, darker and deadlier disease that we as a society are dying from:

Claudine Gay is a mediocre scholar—having authored 11 insight-less papers and no books—and hardly a superstar of the Ivy League constellation. But she comes from a privileged background and was elevated for advancing progressive orthodoxy while checking the right intersectional boxes. Her ascent thus epitomizes the illiberal takeover of higher education. She is the apotheosis of an anti-intellectual movement that values DEI, identity, and activism over truth-seeking, merit, and education.

This illiberal takeover goes beyond what conservatives have criticized for decades: hippies invading the faculty lounge at Berkeley. It manifests in the shifting and narrowing of the range of permissible views, such that everyone on campus walks on eggshells and is unable to discuss certain ideas. University officials placate, facilitate, and even foment mobs that can’t be reasoned with, while everyone else keeps their heads down so as not to be caught in the cancellation crossfire.

The system those students and officials have created is designed to prefer political commissars over rigorous scholars, and it took a giant leap forward last year when Harvard picked Gay as its next leader and trumpeted her status as the first African American and second woman to hold the post. Gay now makes history again, this time for serving the shortest tenure—barely half a year—beating out Lawrence Summers, whose time at Harvard’s helm was cut short in 2006 after his “off-the-record” comments about the dearth of women in science and engineering were deemed politically incorrect.

Gay was previously the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, through which she made a name for herself—not for educational initiatives, but for deepening identitarian structures. For example, she shut down the research lab of brilliant young (and black) economist Roland Fryer, now my Manhattan Institute colleague, after he produced empirical work on policing that contradicted the progressive narrative. In 2020, Harvard’s alumni magazine breathlessly reported that Gay had announced “a series of initiatives to address racial and ethnic equality—including faculty appointments and the addition of an associate dean of diversity, inclusion, and belonging” despite Harvard already having an entire office dedicated to “equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging.”

Ironically, these efforts at making students feel welcome have backfired. In its most recent rankings, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression named Harvard the worst school in the country for free speech—the only one earning an “abysmal” rating. . .

. . . It doesn’t take long to destroy reputations built over decades and centuries. The question now is whether Harvard and its peers are willing to “do the work” to restore their tarnished stature. A month ago, celebrated Harvard professor Steven Pinker laid out a five-point plan to accomplish just that. Given the lack of contrition in Gay’s resignation letter and her willingness to blame her situation on a racist witch hunt—both points supported by the Harvard Corporation’s parallel statement—I’m not holding my breath.

Speaking of that letter, after being forced to step aside as a result of mountains of irrefutable evidence of plagiarism what does she do? Hands in a resignation letter that itself she copied from someone else!

At first glance, you might think she's just flipping the bird to everyone. But is she really that clever? I don't think it's clever at all. In fact I don't think she gives two shits that she plagiarized her own resignation letter because I think she too believes the corrosive, cancerous Big Lie that she's a victim and therefore she's actually entitled to do things that are not only wrong but beyond the pale in a civil society. She didn't Burn-Loot-Murder anyone and then ride the coattails of the ACLU and SPLC mafia and use "victim of an unjust society" defense, like so many of the Trayvons, Gentle Giants and Freddie Grays of this world. That is the Sharptons, Jacksons, and Farrakkkans who use their corpses to beat us into submission.

And that's because the poison her brain is pickled in, that she swims in and the she was chosen to spread to every student on that campus has as its base element that American society and culture are illegitimate and any non-minority is literally irredeemably and genetically pre-disposed to be racists, bigots and slavemasters intent on keeping her and every other minority in chains.

This is another aspect of the horrific phrase "by any means necessary." When you believe the bromide that you are a victim, then anything goes in redressing your supposed oppression; whether it's robbing someone at gunpoint or faking your qualifications to run a university.

Beyond that, the hideous nature of affirmative action, now known as D-E-I, is that by giving undeserving individuals college scholarships and other advantages when they are far from prepared, you set them up for failure. So many black youths who leave high school with C's or even D's and enter college find themselves dropping out after their first year, if not their first semester. Anyway, that used to be the case. For all we know, thanks to the lowering or even complete abandonment of standards, they get that sheepskin four years later just for showing up. If that. Because these days, if you fail any student who isn't white, Jewish or Asian, you better have a very good reason, if you as the responsible professor are allowed to have one in the first place.

Psaki-psircling back to that first point about the dropouts, you can imagine what all that false hope and esteem building bullshit does to someone who suddenly can't cope. You get bitter and then believe the tropes of an unfair, unjust racist society where minorities cannot and will never get ahead. Not in a white man's world. Lather, rinse, repeat. And it's all intentional.

Recall the Bakke case from the late 70s. Ultimately Allan Bakke did become a very successful doctor while the black student Patrick Chavis who took his seat . . .

In 1997 Chavis had his license suspended by the Medical Board of California, who spoke harshly of his “inability to perform some of the most basic duties required of a physician.” As McGowan later wrote, the board condemned Chavis’ “poor impulse control and sensitivity to patients’ pain.” A doctor who had worked with Chavis had given the board’s investigators “a tape recording of patients screaming horrifically, with Chavis responding, ‘Don’t talk to the doctor while he’s working,’ and ‘Liar, liar, pants on fire.’”

Chavis was also found guilty of gross neglect and incompetence in his treatment of three liposuction patients, two who somehow escaped bleeding to death (one had lost 70 percent of her blood) and one who wasn’t as fortunate. Tammaria Cotton, the woman who died, complained during her liposuction of sudden difficulty in breathing, to which Chavis responded, “If you can talk, you can breathe.” Chavis did not stay to administer emergency medical treatment to any of the three. Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby discovered that Chavis’ sole training in liposuction had been “a four-day course at the Liposuction Institute of Beverly Hills — only half of which he completed.”
had his medical license revoked and ultimately wound up shot dead in LA while being carjacked.

LATE ENTRY: Co-blogger and friend KT has this link to Bill Ackman's reaction about Gay's resignation.

UPDATE: One final thought. Claudine Gay is not an outlier. It's a fair bet that an alarmingly large swathe of academia at every level has likely done the same things Gay has to gain their credentials, especially in any field of study that is not the hard sciences, i.e. liberal arts. So long as they are as committed to brainwashing students, then they have nothing to fear, unless their big mouths and social media accounts put them beyond the range of effective wagon-circling.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• "While leftists may feel like they run the place because they dominate certain indoor professions, the truth is that they are still a mere half of the U.S. population, and they are also inept at numerous crucial tasks and skills. They had better learn to get along with the other half of the country if they want to keep enjoying their current lifestyle." (But still . . . - jjs)
  Fascinating Charts Show the Rise of Uniform Leftism Across America's White Collar Professions
  
• Michael Walsh: "In 2024, we hold these truths to be self-evident . . . "
  Enough!
  
• A court filing in Washington, D.C., said the government recommends the “high end of the applicable guidelines range” of six months of incarceration, one year of supervised release, and $500 in restitution after the 62-year-old Epps pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of disorderly or disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds. Epps is reportedly set to face sentencing next Tuesday. (While dozens of his victims rot in the Garland Archipelago and have their lives destroyed?! - jjs)
  Prosecutors Recommend 6 Months of Prison for FBI/Pelosi Confederate Ray Epps
  
• "If things go bad on toast, it’s going to be ugly, but without near-universal military and police support for tyranny, the outcome is going to be bloodily bad for those who try to impose it."
  If It All Goes Wrong, with Whom Will the Police Side?

GAY PRIED
• But her hiding behind the First Amendment (which is denied all non-leftists) as a defense of her pro-genocide wish for the Jews is no big deal, eh? - jjs
  Harvard President Claudine Gay Resigns amid Deepening Plagiarism Scandal
  
• "Gay’s resignation came after she faced multiple accusations of plagiarism — and in the wake of her disastrous Capitol Hill testimony on campus anti-Semitism — which led to calls for her ouster from students groups and a host of others."
  "Clearly a Witch Hunt": Lefties Blame "Racism" for Ouster of Allegedly Plagiarizing Harvard Prez
  
• ". . . now her resignation letter was pinning the plagiarometer."
  Here's Why the Harvard President's Resignation Letter Set Off the Plagiarism Klaxons Again
  
• Gay — who said she was stepping down to allow the school to stabilize amid the firestorm — added in her resignation statement she’s looking forward to returning to a faculty post “and to the scholarship and teaching that are the lifeblood of what we do.” (Total farce; I'd wager a majority of professors teaching similar bullshit courses are equally guilty of plagiarism and fabulism, not to mention Jew-hate - jjs)
  Harvard’s Claudine Gay Set to Keep her Near $900,000 Annual Salary Despite resigning as University President
  
• "Claudine Gay’s departure doesn’t fix what’s wrong at Harvard or elsewhere: the illiberal takeover of higher education."
  The Real Problem Remains
  
• "They’re the ones who hired the least qualified Harvard president ever in the name of diversity, then tried to keep her on after her shameful congressional testimony and ever-growing evidence of her careerlong plagiarism. Worse, who tried to cover up that ultimate academic crime. It is they, not the Gay, who have sunk the reputation of one of the finest colleges in the world."
  The Harvard Board That Covered for Claudine Gay Must Go, Too
  
• "University leaders defend a two-race paradigm in a multi-racial country."
  College Presidents and the New Multi-Racial America
  
• "Recall the last time a prominent leftist lost some influential post and sauntered off to live out the rest of her days in obscurity. I’ll wait . . . Enjoy the little victory while it lasts, right-wingers. Gay isn’t going anywhere. She’s here to stay and with more power than she had yesterday."
  Claudine Gay Was Forced to Resign, But She Will Thrive Personally and Professionally. It’s the New, Ugly American Way.
  
• Heather Mac Donald: "Claudine Gay’s resignation as president is unlikely to change much at Harvard."
  Onward with Inclusiveness
  
• "Garber made more than $2.7 million from board seats with pharmaceutical firms Exelixis, Inc. and Vertex Pharmaceuticals since becoming Harvard provost in 2011, the Harvard Crimson reported in 2019, citing company filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Both firms confirmed to the outlet Garber received compensation without performing any additional duties beyond his board memberships."
Harvard’s Interim President Dr. Alan Garber Collected Millions From Big Pharma Boards While Working For School

  ISRAEL AT WAR

• "There were other casualties, apparently, but they were not identified. The drone may have targeted a meeting of terrorist officials."
  Report: Israeli Drone Takes Out Hamas #2 Leader in Beirut Hideout
  
• "This is not a land dispute but a war to terminate Israel."
  The "Two-State Solution" Echoes Hitler’s "Final Solution"
  
• "Former vice president offers full-throated support for eradicating Hamas."
  Ponce Pence Heads to Israel for Meetings on Gaza War
  
• Robert Spencer: "Where a leftist [so-called quote-unquote "president's"] loyalty lies."
  Biden Panders to His Far-Left Base, Hangs Up On Netanyahu
  * * * * *

• “Free 'Palestine'! Fucking die, bitch!”
  "You’re a Whore! Free 'Palestine'!": Anti-Israel Protesters Accost Teenage Girl in IDF Sweatshirt in New Jersey
  
• "Blocking highways and disrupting public events on behalf of Nazis." (The party of Bull Connor, police dogs and firehoses is now nowhere to be found - jjs)
  Hamas Terrorist Supporters Hijacking the Public Space
  
• Robert Spencer: " . . .pro-terror savages are shutting down a major American airport, so…be prepared for delays! Not: 'We are not going to tolerate this and will arrest all those who are involved.' Not: 'We are launching a major investigation into support for Hamas in the United States and will shut down all Hamas-linked organizations and deport non-citizens who are involved in promoting Hamas’ goals in this country.' Instead, the Post noted laconically that 'no arrests had been made by early Monday evening.'”
  JFK Airport Protesters Show That They've Learned the Lesson of the George Floyd Riots
  
• “Once you divide humanity by race or creed or nation into two camps — the good and the evil — you have adopted the mentality of the despot.” (You have to confront and overcome Leftism simultaneously - jjs)
  Rabbi in Harvard Crimson: It’s Time to "Confront and Overcome" Anti-Semitism on Campus

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• "After 2023, surely no one will deny that Western civilisation is under threat from without and within." (Hat tip to commenter MTF - jjs)
  The Unholy Alliance Between Wokeism and Barbarism
  
• Daniel Greenfield: "A terror plot in Berlin shows the Islamic terror group has a bigger plan."
  A Hamas Terror Network in Europe
  
• "What kind of screening will be done?"
  Canada: New Arrivals From Gaza

  OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY

• "Even if it appears to be getting worse, it is nothing new."
  Campus Anti-Zionism Dates Back to 1967

  SHAMPEACHMENT 1.0, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION

• Margot Cleveland: "As the Fischer case may soon prove, the convictions the special counsel seeks could be for crimes that don’t exist."
  Why SCOTUS Will Likely Smack Down Two of Jack Smith’s Get-Trump Charges as Non-Crimes
  
• “I long have thought we are likely to again see former intelligence officers be politically active against Trump or whomever the Republican presidential candidate is next year, and I expect leaking to resume. The activities of ‘formers’ have resumed already, a bit before I expected.”
  Ex-CIA Analyst Confident Intel Community Will Try to Interfere Against Trump in 2024 Election
  
• “Seventy-seven million Americans have criminal records.”
  Donald Trump, Defendant in Chief
  
• ". . . a private citizen to receive extraordinary criminal law enforcement power under the title of Special Counsel.” “Not properly clothed in the authority of the federal government, Smith is a modern example of the naked emperor. Illegally appointed, he has no more authority to represent the United States in this Court, or in the underlying prosecution, than Tom Brady, Warren Buffett, or Beyoncé.”
  Appeals Court Hints It May Consider Constitutional Questions About Jack Smith’s Appointment
  
• Jeffrey Lord: "They should take the time to do their homework before attacking their former boss."
  Ex-Trump Aides Go "Full Judas"

  COLORADO & MAINE TRUMP 2024 BALLOT BANS

• [Bellows] “denied President Trump due process by failing to give him adequate time and opportunity to present a defense. The Secretary lacked statutory authority to hear the challenges directed to President Trump’s supposed disqualification under to [sic]  Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment.”Trump Appeals Maine Secretary of State for Blocking Him from Ballot

  BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS

• When [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden hosted his first state dinner, with French President Emmanuel Macron, the Nevilles attended as guests, raising ethics concerns due to Biden’s vacations at their property. Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, raised these matters in a recent interview: “Hunter’s laptop and other evidence show Biden’s record of converting his public office into private gain. So it is no surprise Biden is getting a free luxury vacation from a wealthy donor who ‘coincidentally’ received primo White House state dinner tickets.” Joe Biden has routinely failed to disclose free vacation stays at the home
  Biden Spent New Years at the Home of Donors Bill and Connie Neville, Whose Software Company Powers Corporate Media Newsrooms

  CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION

• “Hundreds of cases have been and will be affected by the scope of Section 1512(c)(2), including a case against the former President,” Fischer’s petition states. “In addition, the use of Section 1512(c)(2) outside evidence impairment crimes is an extraordinary and unprecedented extension of the statute’s reach.”
  Pending Supreme Court Ruling Throws Wrench into Slew of Jan 6 Cases
  
• "Joe Biden has broken the policy of the Democrats going back to 1948 of not embracing the far-left, communist element of the Democrat Party." (The problem started way before 1948 because the problem has always been the party itself - jjs)
  The United States is in A Dark Place
  
• "With the 2024 election season set to begin, will Americans' discontent with big government be bad news for Biden Democrats?"
  Americans Overwhelmingly "Frustrated," "Angry" With Federal Government: I&I/TIPP Poll
  
• "Notably, the office refuses to even open an investigation into the matter, despite numerous formal complaints being filed about the segregated party." (Name That Melanin Content! Meh, name the party - jjs)
  State AG Says Boston Mayor’s No-Whites-Allowed Party Was Totally Fine

  FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH

• "Welcome truth from the New York Times."
  Hamas’ Mass Rape of Israeli Women Exposed in Unlikely Place
  
• ". . . the Times has an odd habit of hiring staffers, writers, and freelancers who traffic in anti-Semitism, including a freelancer who praised Hitler."
  The New York Times' Israel Problem
  
• "Demonizing the most moral army in the world."
  Drooling, Clown-boner John Oliver Ignores the IDF’s Strenuous Efforts to Avoid Civilian Casualties
  * * * * *

• In a recent appearance on CNN, KJP said that it is "shameful" that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is "using migrants as a political stunt," when he sends busloads to another state. Shameful is the correct word, but it's not what Abbott is doing that deserves the description. It's that he has to do it in the first place. 
  KJP Comes Perilously Close to Getting Something Right for Once
  
• "To some conservatives, this ‘unproductive’ Congress represents a feature, not a bug." (THIS - jjs)
  New York Times Laments House Republicans Didn’t Ram Through Enough Big-Government Legislation
  
• "The court claimed there was no public interest served by the term as it was allegedly used to insinuate pedophilic behavior where there was no such evidence. The incident occurred in a small Canadian town called Dryden, a little over 200 miles north of the U.S. border-town of International Falls in Minnesota. Local blogger Brian Webster, posting on Facebook, accused a drag queen story hour hosted at a local library of being “groomers” and indicated participants were plotting to abuse children."
  Canadian Judge Says Calling Drag Queens "Groomers" is a Slur, Not Protected Speech
  
• "Given what we know now, a coronavirus pandemic that emerged out of Wuhan more than three years ago seems less like a coincidence."
  More Evidence Emerges Confirming Covid Lab-Leak Theory, But Corporate Media Stay Silent
  * * * * *

• "It's not about convenience. It's so that every single time that you do something or say something that the government doesn't like, they can ruin your life, you know, screen goes red, it's like, 'you have the wrong opinions, Jack. Sorry, no cheeseburger for you.'"
  Digital IDs and "Convenience" Technology are the Next Phase of the Great Reset

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• Biden’s muddled spiel about rising prices is not in touch with the reality the rest of the country currently faces. A majority of voters, 59.7 percent, say they disapprove of the president’s handling of the economy. In general, nearly 92 percent of voters say they are somewhat or very concerned about inflation heading into the new year.
  Biden Welcomes 2024 With More Lies About His Flailing Economy
  
• "If Powell did this, would it amount to election interference? Obviously, it would, and Trump acknowledged that in the interview."
  Former POTUS Predicts Fed Will Lower Rates to Help the Democrat Nominee

  RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM

• “Hundreds of small businesses at every aspect of oil and gas development are at risk, and sadly that is contributing to the state’s overall decline. If the majors are unwilling to bend to Sacramento’s never-ending lust for regulation, how can small family-run businesses with limited resources begin to comply?”
  Oil Giant’s Massive Impairment Could Be The Latest Sign Of Trouble For California’s Economy, Experts Say

  AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

• "Illegal immigration at the southern border has hit record highs in recent years, with the number of Border Patrol encounters of illegal migrants surpassing 2 million in fiscal year 2023 and 2.2. million in fiscal year 2022, according to federal data."
  Man Who Was Arrested at US Capitol for Carrying Machete Was an Illegal Immigrant Released by Biden Junta Authorities
  
• "And do college students see it as a problem?"
  Prager U Video: How Many People Crossed Illegally into the U.S. this Year?
  
• Betsy McCaughey: "In blue state after blue state, Democrats are pushing to give migrants taxpayer-funded health coverage. It’s a knife in the back of hardworking Americans who struggle to pay medical bills. It will also doom this nation to a never-ending flood of strangers seeking government handouts."
  The Growing Lunacy of Free Health Insurance for Illegal Alien Invaders

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• "CSP maintains this is an isolated incident from the court’s decision to kick former President Donald Trump off the state ballot, however local police will continue to investigate a possible motive."
  Gunman Arrested After Opening Fire Inside Colorado Supreme Court Building, Holding Security Guard at Gunpoint
  
• "Congrats on being a decent person who knows that taking things without paying for them is wrong. Unfortunately, the same can't be said for a growing number of jackholes across the country, who've taken shoplifting to a whole new level. Smash-and-grab looting was all the rage this holiday season, with cities across the country seeing shocking levels of brazen theft that left busted glass, broken doors, and frustrated retailers in their wake."
  Smash-and-Grab Robberies Lit Up the Christmas Season Across the US

  SECOND AMENDMENT

• “Shall not be infringed.” Four words. Direct. Pretty simple concept. Just, apparently not to the communists over in California. Chalk one up to the government-funded education system, I suppose. Apparently, the simple notion that you can’t deny law-abiding citizens of their right to keep and bear arms for self-defense is lost on Governor Gavin Newsom and California Democrats, who passed a law in 2023 banning Americans from carrying legally owned firearms in more than two dozen public places - even if those residents have legal concealed carry licenses.
  Blatantly Unconstitutional Cali Law Banning Concealed Carry Goes Into Effect

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• "The recommended resources push the 'diversity of gender' and discuss the use of puberty blockers on children."
  California Schools Push Kids To Watch Films On Transgenderism That Showcase Puberty Blockers

  THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH

• “In a race as close as this, an irregularity affecting even a single vote cannot be disregarded,” Crichton wrote.
  Louisiana Supreme Court Allows Election Do-Over After 11 Illegal Votes Found In Race Decided by ONE Vote

  
  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY

• “The only thing that I can say about President Trump is that he is the only person who in 2009, when I served a lot of subpoenas against a lot of people … he is the only person that picked up the phone and said, ‘let’s just talk, I’ll give ya as much time as you want, I’ll tell ya what you need to know,'” Bradley explained.
  FLASHBACK: Lawyer For Epstein’s Victims Says Trump Was The Only Powerful Figure Who Helped Him With Investigation
  
• "The announcement was universally condemned by conservatives as well as those in the crypto world, who believe there needs to be a full accounting of the alleged crimes Bankman-Fried committed while leading the now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange FTX."
  Venture Capitalist Nic Carter: Biden DOJ Overlooking ‘Biggest Campaign Finance Scandal in a Generation’ By Not Charging Sam "Bank-Fraud" Bankman-Fried
  
• "The report calculated the returns of the members whose portfolios performed the best. Among them are Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY), Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX), and Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY). The top member was Rep. Brian Higgins (D-NY) who represents the Buffalo area. He was first elected in 2005 and sits on the House Committees on the Budget and Ways and Means." (It must be because of their collective business acumen, right? - jjs)
  Stock Report: Congressional Democrats Beat S&P 500 by 7 Points in 2023
  
• The wristwatches allegedly offered to Menendez were valued between $10,000 and $24,000, according to the new indictment. Fred Daibes, the co-defendant, was quoted in the indictment as saying, “how about one of these?” to Menendez in a message alongside photos of the watches. The two men allegedly attended an event in New York hosted by the Qatari government. . . The indictment further claims that Menendez “continued to receive things of value” from the Qataris.
  Sen. Bob Menendez Accused of Accepting Bribes from Qatari Royal Family

  POLITICS

• "Trump said he thinks he can compete in a number of states that Republicans have not won in many years in presidential elections. He said he plans to do rallies in these states, and work to try to win them—but maybe not as hard as the traditional battleground states like Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Nevada, Arizona, and Georgia. Trump even threw out a possible idea of renting out the iconic Madison Square Garden to hold a rally in the heart of Manhattan in New York City." (Total waste of time, money and energy. . . unless he knows something we don't - jjs)
  Trump Plans Aggressive Expansion of Electoral Map, Says He’ll Make ‘Heavy Play’ for New York, New Jersey, Virginia, New Mexico, Minnesota
  
• "Trump has accrued more than 90 endorsements in the GOP-led House, along with 18 senators and seven governors, according to The Hill’s tracker as of the end of last year. The numbers put Trump well ahead of his remaining Republican rivals."
  No. 2 House Republican Scalise Endorses Trump
  
• "That includes Donald J. Trump."
  No Republican Can Singlehandedly Rescue This Nation
  
• "Realistically, there is only one thing that could prevent Donald Trump from winning the GOP nomination and very possibly from reclaiming the White House – and that is Donald Trump." (No, it's the media that will try and take him down by his words, as even the author admits - jjs)
  Like It or Not, 2024 Is the Year of Trump
  
• "The vacancies in the chamber will need to be filled by special elections, which have been called in both Santos and McCarthy’s former districts. [Rep Bill] Johnson represents Ohio’s 6th Congressional District, which has a partisan lean of R+16, according to the Cook Partisan Voting Index."
  House GOP’s Majority To Shrink Further After Member Announces Resignation

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• "Activists slam Dem senator for stalling bill that overwhelmingly passed in House."
  Ben Cardin, He of the Jew-Hating Gay Porn Actor Assistant, Blocks Bipartisan Bill To Sanction Iranian Leaders for Human Rights Abuses
  
• "Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni finds herself in a quandary."
  Italy Signals "Unease" With "Settler Leader" as Israel’s Next Ambassador to Rome
  * * * * *

• "Country reeling from 150 quakes in the last 24 hours."
  Japan Begins Recovery Efforts After New Year’s Day Swarm of Earthquakes
  
• “Rishi Sunak’s promise made a year ago to end asylum hotel use has been disastrously broken – with a 20 per cent increase to 56,000, costing the British taxpayer more than £2billion a year,” Kinnock noted. “This is yet more evidence of an asylum system broken by the Conservatives.”
  Britain’s ‘Conservative’ Party Lets Another 51,000 ‘Asylum’ Claimants In, Highest Since Records Began.
  
• "It was an early, prescient, and devastating attack on the foreign policy of the George W. Bush administration."
  The Folly of Empire, 20 Years Later

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• "The crisis of military readiness is a predictable result of the culture of liberalism."
  "Be All You Can Be" and the TikTok Mutiny
  
• "The people of the United States are paying too much for too little. We need systematic changes in line with the real geopolitical and military situation that we face today."
  The Future of War

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• Robert Zimmerman: "These predictions however all depend on everything continuing as it has, and there are many signs this is not going to be the case. More and more it appears the political world will act to interfere with free world of private enterprise, in some cases intentionally, in others indirectly."
  The global launch industry in 2023: A record third year in a row of growth, with dark clouds lurking

  FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY

• "DeWine’s refusal to protect Ohio children from transgender insanity should disqualify him from winning office in a red state ever again."
  After Veto Siding With Trans Lobby, Ohio Voters Should Transition Mike DeWine Out Of Office
  
• Brian C. Joondeph, M.D.: "A man is a man, and a woman is a woman. Claiming otherwise is magical thinking, fine for one to indulge personally, but not at an athletic, societal, or cultural level."
  Scientists Shocked to Discover That Male and Female Athletes are Different!
  
• The Age, an Australian publication, reported that a group of 120 medical professionals sent a letter to the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), warning “that blurring the lines between biological sex and gender identity on medical forms and in research threatens” their ability to collect accurate data and “can lead to serious medical errors.”
  The Left’s Transgender Hysteria Is Harming People In Ways We Never Could’ve Imagined

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• Christian Toto: "Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy reads from Disney's disastrous playbook to kick off 2024."
  New Jedi Order Director Gives Super Woke Film Update
  
• It was also the Baby Boomer hippies who infiltrated universities and turned them into the "permanent factories of wokeness" that the US is dealing with today. "The moral superstructures of all of society were torn down," Posobiec said, while this group was told they could do and have anything they wanted.
  "Revolution" of the 1960s is What Led to Woke Outcomes in Today's US
  
• "In your heart, you know I’m right."
  Aaron Sorkin is the Real Villain Behind the Senate Sex Scandal

  HITHER & YON

• "The tiny 19.4 mm (0.7 inch) object is a gilded silver relic, adorned with intricate designs appearing to show an animal looking over its shoulder, according to The Telegraph. The piece is believed to be at least 1,200 years old and archaeologists reportedly can’t determine the purpose of the mysterious object."
  Archaeologists Totally Confused By Bizarre Anglo-Saxon Find

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