The Morning Report — 12/19/24

Good morning kids. Well, evidently President-elect Trump, with the help of key allies like Elon Musk have seemingly (seemingly!) driven a stake into the heart of this radioactive pork-laden shakedown of the American people that was being spearheaded by GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson. It is one thing to continue to pimp the outrageous lie that if the Federal Government shuts down due to lack of a budget/funding, even for one nanosecond, life as we know it will come to an end, and Republican speakers (spielers perhaps more accurately) from shambling bipedal gin blossom Boehner, up to John Boehner to Frank Luntz's Cabana Boy Kevin McCarthy and now the one for whom he was removed, as supposedly fiscally responsible.

The bureaucracy and the Deep State and all its depredations, also known as the Swamp, are what propelled Trump to victory in three straight elections, (which is why the aforementioned were energized to steal 2020) and are now energized to redouble their efforts from his frst term to sabotage him at every turn. It would've been bad enough if merely the previous waste of money continued as it had before, but within this 1,500-plus page abomination are the very things that saved the bacon, pun-intended, of the GOP and allowed them to ride Trump's coattails back into power. Not the bill, but the promise to end these massive frauds and wastes disguised as budgets.

Most egregious include a massive pay raise for these criminals as well as money from your pocket to muzzle you after cutting your tongue out.

House Speaker Mike Johnson is, once again, handing Democrats a gift and the American people a defeat with a massive and irresponsible omnibus spending bill — which includes an extension on a censorship entity that was supposed to be dismantled this year. How can Republicans expect to win the next election if they keep doing the same thing that Democrats would do? Donald Trump has raised hopes by establishing a new Department of Government Efficiency to slash federal spending and activities, but he and DOGE could find that hard to do in 2025 if this continuing resolution is passed. Among the disturbing provisions of the 1,500-page legislation is a provision for extending the existence of the censorship-funding Global Engagement Center (GEC). The State Department had previously notified Congress that GEC was being dismantled, according to Washington Examiner reporter Gabe Kaminsky, but here comes Johnson to save the day for censors and bring GEC back from the dead. Do Republican leaders just let Democrats write legislation and sign off on whatever it is?

Umm, when they said Malig-Nancy Pelosi got a hip replacement, it wasn't meant to be Mike Johnson. About as hip as Bob Hope impersonating the Fonz. In the immortal words of Ace, the GOP can go fuck itself in the heart with a steak knife.

The pressure campaign trumped. The bloated Congressional funding bill that faced a mass Republican revolt aided by President-elect Donald Trump has been scrapped, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise confirmed Wednesday night. Scalise affirmed to reporters that the spending package — which would have funded the government until mid-March — is dead, leaving Congress scrambling to come up with a new agreement ahead of a looming government shutdown Saturday.

“There’s still a lot of negotiations and conversations going on,” Scalise said, noting there’s no agreement on how to proceed. A large contingent of House Republicans guffawed at the 1,547-page continuing resolution that Speaker Mike Johnson drafted in a negotiation with Democrats, who would likely try to hold up the bill in the Senate if they didn’t get their measures in.

The revolt was spearheaded by Elon Musk, one of Trump’s closest advisers and co-chair of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), as he went on a tirade on X Wednesday against Republicans who supported the stopgap measure.

Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance then weighed in on the GOP battle in a lengthy statement issued from the Ohio Senator’s X account, in which they called on Republicans to be “tough” and “smart” and not give into Democratic requests.

Well, to be honest, during Trump's first term there was precious little he did to try and curb the excesses of congress, and on top of it were the massive multi-trillion dollar COVID handouts. Hopefully this time around, he really is serious about cutting the heart out of the freedom and prosperity killing bureaucracy, the lifeblood of which are dollars directly stolen from the American people or their progeny via borrowing and the printing presses of the treasury department. That's the swamp, right there.

Over the past few weeks we have linked to though not extensively discussed how the Executive branch can indeed control if not cut the purse strings of the apparatchiks and Little Eichmanns of the Bureaucracy.

The password is IMPOUNDMENT

Most Americans are unfamiliar with impoundment, but that is likely to change as Trump and his allies set the Richard Nixon-era law in their sights. . . Impoundment is a power enumerated in in Article II of the Constitution permitting a president to decline to spend the full amount of funds that Congress appropriates – essentially, the founders intended congressionally appropriated funds to present a ceiling, not a floor. . . Russ Vought, Trump’s nominee to return to lead the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), has called restoring presidential impoundment authority “a necessary remedy to fix our fiscal brokenness.” Vought, who through his outside group the Center for Renewing America has advocated cutting trillions of dollars in federal spending, will be a central figure in the Trump administration’s fight against the spending status quo. . .

. . . “The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 has unjustly complicated the President’s constitutional impoundment authority for far too long,” Clyde said. “Every President from George Washington to Richard Nixon possessed this tool to cut wasteful spending until the ICA purported to divest the President of this critical power. In the fifty years since, America’s national debt and Washington’s spending habits have soared out of control. We must defend the presidential power of impoundment to get America’s fiscal house back in order.” Trump himself has argued for impoundment during his trademark rallies. He and his allies seem determined to use it.

Impound the shit out of the Deep State, Mr. President. Of course, the beast will not go quietly into that good night, as the shampeachments, law fare, mass insubordination, propaganda/smear campaigns in the media, a stolen 2020 election, hinky shenanigans in the '22 midterms as well as in '24 in several Senate and House races, as well as the assassination attempts have clearly demonstrated.

One of the handful of Republican politicians who I respect and trust to do the right thing is Louie Gohmert, who, in reacting to this recent drone hysteria made this observation:

Now citizens are asking whether the Biden junta would be willing to use a national emergency, whether contrived or authentic, arising out of these or other circumstances, to declare martial law and refuse to swear in the new President on January 20 as constitutionally required.

We have seen during the last sixteen years that Democrat leaders have quite often accused Republicans of engaging in exactly the sort of questionable or illegal conduct that the Democrats were in fact guilty of themselves. The whole Trump-Russia hoax, we eventually learned, was fabricated by a British former spy in collusion with, among others, the Hillary Clinton campaign and the DNC. Ultimately, Christopher Steele admitted that the people who provided the fabricated story for the dossier may well have been working for Putin.

President Trump was even charged by the Democrats through impeachment with using his official position to demand a quid pro quo from Ukraine. As it turns out, President Trump did not commit this offense, but Vice President Biden is on video bragging about his doing that very thing. . .Most Americans are well aware that the world has become a powder keg, and the United States is much worse off than it was four years ago. The last thing we need is for the Biden administration to hang around beyond noon on January 20th. Even if the D.C. leadership and the Biden junta have provoked the city and nation into turmoil, all we need is for President-elect Trump and Vice President-elect Vance to quietly meet the Chief Justice in an undisclosed location and be sworn in. President Trump will then have full authority to do what is necessary to bring about law, order, and a little peace beginning at noon on January 20, 2025.

He can start with abolishing the Democrat Party and all its tentacles such as the WFP, DFL, DSA et al. As what should have been done in 1865 when the curtain came down at Ford's Theatre.

Well, if this item from this abomination actually gets funded, it can go towards rope and lamp posts for the D.C. Federal Triangle. Those in the GOP who have their snouts in the trough should be included as well.

A “Feral Swine Eradication” program

Elsewhere, it looks like the Israelis are taking care of business and sending a very long distance message, especially about their capabilities to send long distance messages.

Israel conducted its third long-range airstrike on the terrorist Houthi militia in Yemen early Thursday morning, hours after the rebels fired a ballistic missile at Israel’s population centers that was intercepted outside Israeli airspace. The ballistic missile was the seventh fired at Israel by the Houthis in recent weeks, in addition to five drone launches. . . Israel’s Army Radio reported that Israel had struck targets in Sana’a, the capital city of Yemen, for the first time.

A quick look at a map shows Yemen's capital can only be reached by flying over the Red Sea or directly overflying Saudi Arabia, and no doubt would require aerial refueling if IDF aircraft are to deploy enough ordnance on target. Also, of note is that distance is about the same as between Israel and Iran. And for sure that would likely require either overflying Saudi Airspace or the Saudis and/or Emiratis allowing the IDF to preposition aircraft on their territory to fly directly over the Gulf to attack Iranian targets.

There is speculation that the Mullahs are on the ropes with the evisceration of their Hamas and Hezbollah allies as well as the collapse of the Assad regime (although with the installation of Islamic terrorists as their replacement, that is likely a temporary setback for the Iranians). A quick series of attacks by Israel could be enough to finally bring down the Ayatollahs. Especially if Israel knocks out their oil refining capacity, which would totally wreck their already faltering economy and cause a massive revolt by the people.

More alarming for the Israelis is the confirmation that Iran is now a red nether hair's breadth from a nuclear breakout and perhaps weaponization into bombs and warheads. Bibi has repeatedly declared he would never allow that to happen.

If the Mullahs are close enough to a bomb, they'd use it to save their asses with the added bonus of wiping out thousands of Jews all in one go.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• Scalise confirmed the bill was dead and that Republicans did not have an agreement on how to move forward yet.
  Bloated federal funding bill is scrapped after Trump-boosted revolt, Rep. Scalise confirms
  
• A “Feral Swine Eradication” program (sound of Al Sharpton breathing a sigh of relief - jjs)
  The Craziest Things Congress Snuck Into Its Pork-Packed Christmas Spending Spree

• Trump is about to be handed a very difficult situation on January 20. And that, by the way, is an interference and an interruption with the peaceful transition of power.
  The Democrats are sabotaging the peaceful transfer of power
  
• Americans should be deeply concerned that our government and financial institutions are not only spying on us but also potentially abusing their power to target Americans for their political views.
  Report: Your Bank Might Be Spying On You For The Feds
  
• Louie Gohmert: A reflection on the last thing we need from the Biden regime.
  Delay Inauguration? No Need and No Thank You

• Victor Davis Hanson: Drone swarms over American cities spark frustration as a distrustful public suspects the Biden junta knows more than it admits.
  Dronomania

ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS/Hezbollah . . . AND BIDEN
• A short while ago, following the approval of strike plans by the Israeli Minister of Defense Israel Katz, IAF fighter jets, with the direction of the Intelligence Directorate and the Israeli Navy, struck military targets belonging to the Houthi terrorist regime on the western coast and in inland Yemen. The Houthi terrorist regime has repeatedly attacked the State of Israel, including by attacking Israeli territory using UAVs and surface-to-surface missiles. Most of these projectiles were successfully intercepted.
  Israel Hits Houthis in Yemen; Strikes Capital, Sana’a, for First Time

• “For the last eight days, PA security forces have battled Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad fighters in Jenin.”
  Hamas, "Palestinian" Authority Go To War Against Each Other In Samaria (Pass the halvah!- jjs)

  ASSAD REGIME COLLAPSES"

• It was the Obama/Biden junta that elevated Iran and its terrorist proxies in client states like Syria and Lebanon in the first place. 
  Biden Wanted to Save Assad

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• Daniel Greenfield: It’s not Israel that it needs to be worried about.
  Ireland is Committing Genocide Against Itself
  
• Daniel Greenfield Part Deux: The first rule of Muslim mass migration is we have to find something else to blame.
  UK Cracks Down on Homeschooling After Muslim Honor Killing

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

• This is the Jewish version of John O’Sullivan’s “first law” about the inevitable fate of conservative organizations.
  In San Francisco, leftists turn a Jewish-funded grant foundation into an anti-Israel organization

  MADISON WI CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SHOOTING

• “During an FBI interview, Paffendorf admitted to the FBI agents that he told Rupnow that he would arm himself with explosives and a gun and that he would target a government building,” the two-page emergency restraining order from the Carlsbad Police Department states.
  California man Alexander Paffendorf, 20, detained after allegedly ‘plotting’ coordinated attack with Wisconsin school shooter Natalie ‘Samantha’ Rupnow

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

• Chauvin's legal team was granted permission to examine George Floyd's blood and tissue samples.
  Biden DOJ Tries To Stop Derek Chauvin From Appeal

• Patel, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the agency, has an opportunity to reform the bureau and regain the trust of Americans, former agents told the Caller. Trust in the FBI — particularly among Republicans — has plummeted over generations.
  Kash Patel Wants The FBI Out Of The Spying Game — Here’s Where He Could Start

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• Biden said all his clemency recipients were 'convicted of non-violent crimes'
  ‘Black Widow,’ Who Murdered 3 Ex-Lovers, Freed in Biden’s Historic Clemency Spree (Shouldn't that be the "Widow-of-Color?" - jjs)
  
• Wendy Hechtman admitted to producing and selling carfentanil, fueling overdoses in the process
  Biden Clemency for Drug Kingpin Devastates Detective Who Took Her Down
  
• For years, federal laws have accurately branded people who break the law as “criminal offenders.” The passage of the newly introduced House omnibus would change that by marketing the outlaws — specifically those in the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act — with vocabulary that seeks to not only downplay their criminal reputations, but words that could easily be mistaken as descriptors for superheroes.
  House GOP Omnibus Redefines Criminals As ‘Justice-Involved Individuals’
  
• In other words, the laws beloved of woke lefties everywhere — laws meant to hamstring police and coddle criminals — are working as intended: hobbling cops and protecting criminals, while sending a clear message to law-abiding citizens to sit on their hands and do nothing.
  Walmart bodycams are the latest sign of how much pro-crime lefties hate average Americans

  TRUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS AFTERMATH

• Following the assassination attempt, Routh fled north on Interstate 95, leading to law enforcement shutting down traffic in both directions. His apprehension in Martin County precipitated a multi-car crash on the highway, which nearly resulted in the death of the young girl.
  Would-Be Trump Assassin Ryan Routh Almost Killed Girl, Six, During Escape, Feds ‘Stonewalling’ State Investigators.

  "BIDEN/HARRIS BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

• A multi-agency manhunt resulted in the arrest of a South African migrant and suspected terrorist in Brooklyn, New York. Texas Highway Patrol troopers initially detained the unidentified man in Texas in September 2024. He was arrested for criminal trespass as part of Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star and was turned over to federal immigration authorities for removal proceedings. Despite being identified by the state authorities as being the subject of an alert on the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Database, federal authorities released the migrant to pursue an asylum claim.
  Biden Junta Released Suspected Terrorist After Texas Warned of Connection, Later Re-Arrested
  
• "[T]he IC must have strong, courageous and competent leadership – that leader is Lt. Col. Gabbard."
  Top Border Patrol Union Endorses Tulsi Gabbard For Intel Post As She Courts Capitol Hill

  BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS

• Miranda Devine: The outrage over Hunter’s pardon has been buried in an avalanche of other pardons Joe Biden has been doling out like candy to assorted scumbags. (Pardoning Archer is tantamount to admitting he himself is the biggest criminal scumbag of all! - jjs)
  Miranda Devine: If Joe Biden can pardon his son Hunter, why can’t he do the same for ‘best friend’ Devon Archer?

• Apparently, [Hilary Rotten Clinton] wasn’t the only one in the Obama junta trying to get around disclosure requirements. According to a report from Just the News, “New email records released by the National Archives show then-Vice President Joe Biden was briefed about sensitive foreign policy matters by then-advisor Antony Blinken on his private email account, including details about a failed North Korean missile launch.” These records show that Biden used a private email account, robinware456@gmail.com, to receive sensitive foreign policy briefings — a practice that may have introduced significant vulnerabilities. Biden’s private email usage first came under scrutiny after messages involving pseudonym accounts were discovered on Hunter Biden’s laptop. But these new disclosures paint a clearer picture of how Biden operated outside official channels during his time in office.
  A Biden Email Scandal Worse Than Hillary’s?

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

• "I've been talking about the need for reciprocity, the need for justice, the need to balance the scales, the need to say 'look, we have to return to a one-tier system of justice.' And if you don't do that, if you don't hold people to the same standard, then you will have an issue of elites and everybody else."
  It's time for Liz Cheney to face reciprocity

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

• This CR must not pass, no matter what talking points Johnson spouts to justify it. It is bloated, wasteful, and anti-constitutional in its funding. In fact, it is business as usual in Washington, D.C.; nothing has yet changed in House Republican leadership’s behavior despite the massive GOP victory in the 2024 election. American taxpayers deserve better.
  Johnson’s Massive CR Extends Censorship Entity’s Life
  
• Heaven forbid we have soldiers who would want to fight for their country. (against enemies foreign and domestic, especially the latter, like Politico! - jjs)
  Politico Panics That Hegseth Will Make Military ‘Patriotic’
  
• And when I say “all-time” lows, I mean the lowest lows in the fake news outlet’s 44-year history.
  Nolte: CNN Hit All-time Rating Lows in 2024 That Worsened After Trump Victory
  
• Consider the backdrop: Old Man Biden tried to ban TikTok. 150 million Americans use TikTok.  Donald Trump saved TikTok! He’ll be a hero to millions of young people. It’s actually quite clever. The Great Realignment is still underway, and the president-elect is playing 3-D chess. And another big piece is just about to topple over.
  I’ve Figured Out Trump’s Endgame With TikTok, and It’s Brilliant

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

• Despite generous subsidies, automakers are having trouble selling EVs for the simple fact that the American people do not want to buy them.
  EPA greenlights Cali EVs

  AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE+Fauci-created CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS

• And what he has to say is just as irritating and harmful as ever.
  Fauci Is Back!

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• Public schools are increasingly failing to enforce age-appropriate academic and behavioral standards.
  Students Should Be Accountable, Not "Protected" from Discomfort
  
• Parents Defending Education explains that the district held race-based professional development programs.
  Minnesota School District Hit With Federal Complaint Over Race-Based Discrimination

  ABORTION

• Pro-life Republicans are leaving meetings with Kennedy confident he will enact Trump's pro-life agenda
  RFK Wins Praise From Pro-Life Senators On Capitol Hill
  
• "Taxpayer dollars should never fund abortion providers."
  Supreme Court Takes Up Planned Parenthood Medicaid Case

  THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH AND 2024 SHENANIGANS

• Targeting localities may be a more politically viable strategy for proponents of ranked-choice voting and other measures.
  To Reform Voting, Advocates Should Focus on Cities, Not States
  
• Sometimes, an appellate court still needs to weigh in to prevent the inappropriate conduct from reoccurring in the future. 
  Pennsylvania Case Shows Why Courts Shouldn’t Dismiss Controversies When The Election Ends

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY

• The 1,547-page spending deal released Tuesday night includes a multitude of controversial items, including a pay raise for members of Congress.
  Rand Paul: Bill ‘Full of Pork’ Shows Speaker Johnson Is a ‘Weak, Weak Man’

• Go figure. These people are unbelievable. They’d rather your sons and daughters be sent to die for little to no reason than have peace and prosperity for the country. Who am I talking about? I’m talking about the “Deep State” that those who would be considered in that realm want you to believe doesn’t exist.
  Shocker...Not! Gabbard DNI Nomination Opposed by People with Ties to Defense Contractors, George Soros

  POLITICS

• Dear Gen Z:The 2024 election of Donald J. Trump will be a defining moment in your lifetime.
  Gen Z: You Have Your Own Ronald Reagan!
  
• His unique mixture of incompetence, cluelessness, disdain, arrogance, and sleaziness has been on full display.
  Biden Seals His Legacy As Worst President In History

  THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"

• On Tuesday, Finland‘s President Alexander Stubb addressed the issue before a defense cooperation summit in Tallinn, Estonia. He emphasized, “We should not get ahead of ourselves” when considering operations in Ukraine.
  New NATO Member Warns Against Deploying Western Troops in Ukraine.
  
• Beyond the obvious political causes, don't dismiss personal intentions, too.
  Joe Biden's Immoral Reasons for Fixating on Ukraine

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• Iran was the fourth-largest oil producer in OPEC last year, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Yet it cannot provide for its own fuel needs — despite the easing of sanctions by the Biden-Harris junta.
  Oil-rich Iran Short of Fuel, Electricity; Billions Spent on Terror
  
• “It has uranium at 60 percent—90 percent is military grade—and is thus practically at the same level as nuclear-armed states,” Grossi warned earlier this week. Meanwhile, earlier this month, the Biden government admitted its Iran policy has failed to deter the Islamic Republic from continuing its pursuit of nuclear weapons. The December report, released by the Office of the United States Director of National Intelligence, alleges that “Iran now has enough fissile material to make more than a dozen nuclear weapons.”
  UN Inspector Warns Iran Nears Nuclear-Armed State Status.
  
• Canada, Germany, France and other liberal governments have faced popular backlash, with issues like inflation, unchecked immigration and distrust of their ruling classes fueling conservative party victories, according to multiple sources. Moreover, the grievances expressed in the nations seemingly mirror those that propelled Trump to his 2024 election victory.
  Things Are Going From Bad To Worse For The World’s Most Powerful Liberal Elites
  
• Milei got lucky because things had hit bottom in Argentina and the public was willing to give him a chance.
  The other guy with funny hair
  
• Chinese businessman Yang Tengbo, also called Chris Yang, recently tried to appeal a court’s 2023 decision to ban him from the UK. The court declined to rescind the decision because, as the BBC reports, Yang “had been involved in an ‘elite capture’ operation — a tactic of the Chinese state to exert influence in western nations.”
  Prince Andrew's Association With an Alleged Chinese Spy Gets Him Disinvited to Christmas (Told to go out and have Chinese food with the Moskowitz's - jjs)
  
• According to the Pentagon's annual "China Military Power Report," the country is currently on track to develop 1,000 warheads by 2030.
  China expanding nuclear arsenal at rapid rate: Pentagon
  
• Returning to foreign policy realism, traditional wisdom, and common sense.
  The End of Obama’s Foreign Policy Delusions – and Ours?

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• The Center to Advance Security In America (CASA) filed the lawsuit Wednesday with the Washington, D.C., district court, compelling DOD to release communications and other materials related to Ronald Clark, who was nominated in July for Commanding General at Fort Shafter, headquarters for the U.S. Army in the Pacific Ocean. Clark said DEI “was a goal” in the Army, while also praising renaming military bases that use confederate names as a “huge step forward.”
  EXCLUSIVE: Biden DOD Sued After Stonewalling Records Request Into ‘Radical’ General’s Nomination

  HURRICANES HELENE and MILTON AFTERMATH, BIDEN/HARRIS GOV'T DEBACLE

  
  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

• A collapsing state with roughly $1.6T in debt indicates otherwise.
  Not satire: Gavin Newsom calls DOGE a ‘promo project,’ says he’s been making California cheaper and more efficient for years

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• The bird flu case in Louisiana is a different genotype than the one Newsom declared an emergency over, which infects mostly cows.
  America’s First Severe Case Of Bird Flu Confirmed; California Declares Emergency
  
• The data is grim. Americans are sicker and living shorter lives since Obamacare’s implementation, contradicting the administration’s rosy claims. Yet Democrats continue to dismiss alternatives like low-cost catastrophic insurance, which could provide basic coverage for the healthy while avoiding the bureaucratic chokehold of today’s plans. For years now, the narrative has been that Americans like Obamacare. But do they? Perhaps it's time to reexamine it and get something better to replace it. (the real free market, and no more welfare parasites and freebies for illegals- jjs)
  Obamacare Is Killing People

• The vaccine is reportedly tailored to individual patients, aligning with Western cancer vaccine development approaches. Details regarding the specific cancers it targets, its efficacy, and the logistics of its rollout have not been disclosed as of the time of publication. The vaccine’s name also remains confidential
  Russia Says It Has a Cancer Vaccine.

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• The development of synthetic bacteria is still in its nascent stages, with experts predicting that a fully functional mirror bacterium could emerge more than a decade from now. A recent study in the journal Science concluded that creating such organisms should be avoided due to their potential danger.
  Scientists Experiment With ‘Mirror Bacteria,’ Prompting Huge Warnings.
  
• The uncertainty of science: Scientists doing computer simulations now posit that Saturn’s rings are not young, between 100 to 400 million years old as has been believed for the last few decades, but formed instead when Saturn formed, 4.6 billion years ago.
  New computer simulations suggest Saturn’s rings are not young but formed at the same time as the solar system
  
• In the past seven years SpaceX had raised about $12 billion in private
  investment capital to build both its Starlink constellation and its
  Starship/Superheavy rocket. Starlink now produces that amount of money
  for the company each year.
  Starlink revenue in 2025 now projected to be $11.8 billion
  
• Trump gets elected and now suddenly the agency is interested in reducing red tape? What you are seeing instead a lot of bureaucrats desperately trying to convince the incoming administration that the delays for the past three years were not their fault, that they were really against red tape!
  AA issues license for SpaceX’s seventh test flight of Starship/Superheavy

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

• 'A new hands-on activity to help talk about gender and bodies!'
  University Of Minnesota Offered To Pay Five-Year-Olds To Play With Transgender Dolls With Genitals
  
• The State Department circulated the cable, which includes Blinken's signature, among "all diplomatic and consular posts."
  In Wake of Trump Win, Biden State Department Issued Internal DEI Cable Touting 'Reflection Rooms' and 'All-Gender Restrooms' at US Embassies

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• The most recent cancellation to spark the ire of activists is the end of the Peacock/Netflix comedy series Girls5Eva.
  Outrage After Netflix’s Latest Cancellation ‘Joins the Depressingly Long List of Queer Shows Axed in 2024’
  
• “When it comes to animated content for a younger audience, we recognize that many parents would prefer to discuss certain subjects with their children on their own terms and timeline,” Disney said in a statement. Um…ya think?
  WIN: Disney Pulls Trans Storyline From Upcoming Kids Show Over Worries About Parents' Reaction

  HITHER & YON

• “We are all tourists who despise tourists.”
  Toward a Politics of Tourism
  
• Christian Toto: Franchise star slays in dual role, can't camouflage threequel's diminishing returns
  ‘Sonic the Hedgehog 3’ Gets Double Dose of Jim Carrey

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