The Morning Report — 1/15/25

Good morning kids. It is with a great deal of sadness that we learn the Democrat/Socialist Newsom/Bass wildfire has claimed its 25th victim.

So, that's roughly 130 million + 25 in just over 100 years. But who's counting. Funny how in their unquenchable lust for absolute power via the insane notion of changing human nature, for our own good (allegedly), the wretch-inducing expression "If it saves just one life" sprang into being, what ever any liberty-destroying edict, law or EO is proposed. The bitter irony is of course that if creating paradise on earth results in eradicating a few dozen or a few million lives, in their eyes it would've been worth it. Or as Leftist icon and hero Joseph Stalin once said, the death of one is a tragedy, but the death of a million is a statistic. No one ever asked if a million deaths one by one over time is a million tragedies or if a million are wiped out all at once is the statistic. Of course, anyone daring to ask him that would become an instant tragedy via sudden lead poisoning to the back of the neck on the steps to the basement of the Lubyanka or as part of the retaining wall somewhere along the path of the White Sea Canal.

While firefighters continue to battle to get the fires under control against steady strong winds, and of course the aftermath, clean up and debate of how to rebuild, other stories are making news this morning.

With just a week before Donald Trump is sworn in, Thank God, confirmation hearings for his cabinet appointees have begun, and yesterday's attempt to slime, smear and destroy his nominee for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth turned into an abject shotshow for the Democrats, led mostly by the coven of hectoring, hysterical, halitosis emitting desiccated diseased unguent-deprived uteruses and their clattering dentures. Primarily fake Injun Elizabeth Warren and Maizie Hirohito, warped, evil, progeny of an Hawaiian child prostitute pimp mother.

Compare and contrast them with the exemplary record as an American Patriot and human being of Pete Hegseth. That contrast alone is illustrative of just how far we have fallen as a nation and society. When scum of the earth harridans and criminal liar Democrats But I repeat, repeat, repeat myself manage to be elected and get to sit in judgement of such an exemplary American, it makes the blood boil.

And yet, Hegseth and Markwayne Mullin ripped them all to shreds. It was glorious to see. First Hegseth:

“The Defense Department under Donald Trump will achieve Peace Through Strength. And in pursuing these America First national security goals, we will remain patriotically a-political and stridently Constitutional,” Hegseth said. “Unlike the current administration, politics should play no part in military matters. We are not Republicans or Democrats — we are American warriors. Our standards will be high, and they will be equal (not equitable, that is a very different word).”

Since coming to power nearly four years ago, the Biden-Harris Pentagon has made implementing neo-Marxist ideologies such as “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) a top priority. These policies have undermined military readiness and contributed to the service’s ongoing recruiting crisis.

Hegseth stressed that the Defense Department must “make sure every warrior is fully qualified on their assigned weapon system, every pilot is fully qualified and current on the aircraft they are flying, and every general or flag officer is selected for leadership based purely on performance, readiness, and merit.” He further noted how, “Leaders — at all levels — will be held accountable,” and that “warfighting and lethality — and the readiness of the troops and their families — will be our only focus.”

Now Mullin:

. . . perhaps the most forceful part of Mullin’s rant came when he turned the tables, questioning the behavior of many senators. 

“How many senators have showed up drunk to vote at night?” he asked. “Have any of you guys asked them to step down and resign from their job? And don't tell me you haven't seen it, because I know you have.”

Mullin was far from done. “And then how many senators do you know have got a divorce for cheating on their wives? Did you ask them to step down?" he asked. "No, but it's for show.” Mullin’s statement underscored the disconnect between the sanctimonious standards some senators set for others and the tolerance they exhibited for their own flaws. “You guys make sure you make a big show and point out the hypocrisy because a man’s made a mistake and you want to sit there and say that he’s not qualified? Give me a joke,” he said, exposing how political theater often overshadowed actual qualifications and character.

Left unsaid was Mullin giving the Dems the bird and telling them to go fuck themselves in the heart with a rusty steak knife, but still.

Shifting back to Hegseth's comments about preparedness and capability, juxtapose that with the causes of the incineration of Los Angeles and you can see how crucial it is for us to have an Army (Navy, Air Force, Marines and Coast Guard manned top to bottom with Pete Hegseths. And not divisions of junk-tuckers and Lesbians named Kristin. And just the opposite for the Democrats and our enemies abroad).

And speaking on that, the other big story bubbling up is a potential ceasefire deal between Israel and the Hamas terrorists that evidently is being brokered by Trump and Biden that would have the Israelis release Hamas terrorists in exchange for Israeli hostages, alive and/or their corpses. With mere days to go before he takes control, I cannot for the life of me see any advantage to Trump forcing a hostages for terrorists deal on Israel. It has proven time and again to be tragically shortsighted and provocative, as well as at least to me counterintuitive to Trump and his advisers' mindsets with regard to Israel. What can he possibly be thinking, unless there is something going on behind the scenes that would give Israel a green light to do whatever it feels it must, like turning Gaza into Pacific Palisades on the Med.

Instead of crafting its own foreign policy, the Trump administration is being stuck with Biden’s policy of pandering to Islamic terrorists.

And that’s a disaster not only for Israel. but for America.

After the initial euphoria of freeing a few hostages, the Trump administration will be stuck managing Gaza, it will be stuck funding the mess, pressuring Israel not to go after terrorists and when the thousands of freed Hamas terrorists kill Americans, the Trump administration will be blamed.

The smart play was to let Israel win the war without getting involved. The dumb play was [Trump advisor and negotiator Steve] Witkoff doing whatever Blinken told him to do.

One lousy week. One miserable fucking week, and Trump couldn't wait?! Yes, that after 14 nightmarish months in captivity these poor people should spend even one additional nanosecond in the clutches of these subhuman barbarian fiends is a crime against humanity. But to allow a single Hamas prisoner to go free, in exchange is an even greater crime that desecrates the grave and memory of every single victim of Islamic terrorism (apology for the redundancy) going back to Munich and frankly, considering what Islam is and its history, going back to Mohammed Pig-Piss-Be-Upon-him.

to be fair to Trump, considering the ferocity and length of the combined Hamas/Hezbollah/Houthi/Iran assault on Israel, as well as the scummy duplicity and deviltry of the Israeli Left, Bibi's willingness to cave on this in that light is understandable, if certainly not excusable (IMHO despite my being Jewish though not a citizen of Israel, so they have to sort that out). I mean every terrorist for innocent Israeli hostage trade in the past has led to nothing but later rinse repeat, bigger and bloodier than ever. If 10/7 did not teach that lesson, what the hell will, Bibi? Trump?

Psircling back to the Los Angeles fires and the chicken and egg of ideology and competency, as well as the notion of an out of control bureaucracy running our lives, I give you a fascinating essay from noted Libertarian John Stossel and his debate with Michael Malice on the nature of governmental control in the guise of protecting us, via the bureaucracy:

. . . podcaster Michael Malice, in my new video, says not to worry, "We have so much further to go before we're lost as a country." Malice knows the damage real tyrants do. He's spent time in North Korea, and he was born in the Soviet Union. He detests political "leaders," saying the best political system is anarchism: self-government without a central authority, or, as the AI on my computer defines it: "a self-managed, stateless society based on voluntary cooperation and mutual aid."

Malice and I debate that. I'm no anarchist. I'm a libertarian. I believe we should be allowed to act as we wish, so long as we don't hurt others. I accept the need for limited government, one that adjudicates disputes, enforces pollution control, and funds police and a military to keep us safe. Malice says it's wrong to think that way, because all central government is a problem.

"Security is like anything else," he argues. "Should the government be producing books? ... No. Producing helicopters? ... No ... a government monopoly makes no sense. But somehow when it comes to security, you're OK with this. And then you live in New York and wonder why it ends up being the way it is."

It pairs up nicely with another good essay from Bruce Thornton of Frontpage Mag:

Thanks to over a century of progressive technocratic expansion through the metastasizing of federal agencies, their imperious regulatory regime has spread ever more widely, one that as Tocqueville prophesized “covers the surface of society with a network of small complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and most energetic characters can penetrate.” The purpose is “to keep them [citizens] in perpetual childhood.” . . . Regulatory hypertrophy began with the multiplication of laws. Progressivism, believing that credentialed “experts” are better at governing people than the people themselves, started increasing federal laws to fix “problems” or “crises” that states, counties, and cities––closer to their people’s circumstance, mores, and problems––were better placed to deal with. Yet firm believers in not letting “a good crises go to waste,” progressives began manufacturing crises, then passing laws and creating agencies tasked with managing those problems. . . Regulatory hypertrophy began with the multiplication of laws. Progressivism, believing that credentialed “experts” are better at governing people than the people themselves, started increasing federal laws to fix “problems” or “crises” that states, counties, and cities––closer to their people’s circumstance, mores, and problems––were better placed to deal with. Yet firm believers in not letting “a good crises go to waste,” progressives began manufacturing crises, then passing laws and creating agencies tasked with managing those problems.

And remember, the regulatory state is there not to protect you, but control you. Hence the mythological dangers of global warming and Carbon dioxide, etc. All as pretext to snatch and grab whole sectors of the economy and in essence deny you the freedom to choose how you want to live in service to the demonic desire of the Left and their apparatchiks to lord over you. Instead of protecting you from real dangers from criminals, foreign and domestic, terrorists ditto and ditto.

If setting a sleeping woman on fire in a NYC subway, allowing whole business districts to be looted and destroyed as a legitimate reaction to mythical white supremacy, and an entire city to be burned to the ground because having lesbians and blacks running the city is more important than actual competency and ability, and that doing what needed to be done would fly in the face of global warming and racism dogma as the real dangers, when in point of fact they are the weapons/cassus belli with which bureaucracy controls the citizenry -- if all that is not a cold shot of reality, then nothing will be.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• Robert Spencer: A deeply antisemitic, pro-Hezbollah imam is set to give a benediction at Trump’s inauguration next Monday, and many Trump supporters who had been happy to see Trump’s repeated affirmations that he would support, not betray, America’s ally Israel are now scratching their heads. What’s going on? Was this just an oversight, a failure to vet the Dearborn Imam Husham al-Husainy properly? Or does it herald a real policy shift in the incoming Trump administration?
  What’s Going On? Pro-Hezbollah Imam Set to Give Benediction at Trump’s Inauguration
  
• How progressives erode the guardrails of the Constitution.
  Our Regulatory Tyranny
  
• Michael Malice vs. John Stossel. Intersting piece from the latter, and a good companion piece to the previous link from Bruce Thornton - jjs
  Anarchists Versus Libertarians

  
  

• 'I was thinking about killing Brett Kavanaugh and then killing myself'
  Would-Be Kavanaugh Assassin Used Media Reports On Protests To Find Justice’s Home, Feds Say

LOS ANGELES WILDFIRES
• A whistleblower told The Federalist LAFD paramedics are left to use expired medications, strapped for resources amid the area’s wildfires.
  Whistleblower: A Year Later, LA Paramedics Are Still Left Working With Expired Medication As They Respond To Fires
  
• The area, dotted with broken electrical equipment and blackened trees, presents various possible causes for the blaze. The ground is scattered with burned utility poles and remnants of previous fires, including one believed to have been extinguished on New Year’s Day. Nearby, evidence of recent human activity, such as broken beer bottles, suggests that hikers and visitors have frequented the site.Satellite images and eyewitness accounts analyzed by journalists suggest the fire may have sparked near Skull Rock, a local hiking attraction. The site, identified through aerial imagery as an area of interest, is located several hundred yards across a rugged slope from the zone initially believed to be the fire’s starting point. Images captured at approximately 3:30 PM, about five hours after the fire ignited, show significant smoke plume activity at the site.
  Palisades Fire ‘Crime Scene’ Gives Clues to Inferno’s Origin.
  
• Have you heard of the “Lindsay Snowstorm?” It will soon have a companion story called the “Newsom Fires.”
  The Never-To-Be Forgotten 'Newsom Fires'
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• They really do hate humans, don't they? Just when you thought things couldn't get any dumber than dry fire hydrants, unusable reservoirs, and taking out dams, now comes word that Pacific Palisades went up in smoke in the name of preserving a shrub. 
  Stunner: California Saved a Shrub Instead of Protecting Humans From the L.A. Firestorm
  
• Harris roasted for ‘word salad’ advice to LA fire victims as lame-duck VP winds down term “So basically, these victims should be unburdened by what has been,” read one X post mocking Harris’ word salad.
  ‘CLASSIC KAMALA'
  
• "Southern California does not have a shortage of water for fighting the fires."
  CNN suggests the real heroes of LA wildfires are the fact checkers
  
• Actress and Black Lives Matter supporter Julia Roberts has suddenly discovered a disdain for looters after her posh neighborhood in Santa Monica was burned to a crisp in a wildfire this past week, leaving the remains of celebs’ homes open to thieves picking over the abandoned carcass of Malibu.
  (Some looting is more equal than others - jjs)
  BLM Supporter Julia Roberts Posts 'F.U. Looters' After Her Swanky Neighborhood Is Targeted
  
• Decades of Santa Ana winds fueling fires show California's failure to prioritize land management, instead focusing on politics while residents face predictable disasters.
  The Politicization of Wind and Fire

  ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS/Hezbollah . . . AND BIDEN

• Daniel Greenfield: The Trump administration is being tricked into adopting the Biden junta's Hamas policy.
  The Hamas Surrender Deal Sets Up Trump to Fail
  
• Neither party had formally accepted the draft agreement as of Tuesday morning, but Hamas issued a statement advising other 'Palestinian' factions that “progress” has been made toward a “clear and comprehensive agreement.”  Biden’s Middle East envoy Brett McGurk attended the talks in Qatar, as did President-elect Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff.
  Reports: Hamas Accepts Draft Ceasefire and Hostage Release Deal
  
• The deal has yet to be finalized by both sides, and is opposed by important factions on both sides, including by Israelis who believe that all the hostages should be released at once, and that Hamas should not be left in power after a deal.
  Report: Trump Did More to Free Hostages, Reach Ceasefire than Biden Did All Year
  
• “Senator, I’m a Christian and I robustly support the state of Israel and its existential defense and the way America comes alongside them is great.”
  Hegseth: ‘I Support Israel Destroying and Killing Every Last Member of Hamas’
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• Preposterous charge.
  Anglican Church of Ireland Canon David Oxley Claims Jews See Themselves as ‘Master Race’ (Funny, tell that to the rape gangs that are violently penetrating British and Irish children and adults, with penises, knives and meat cleavers. It should only happen to you Oxley - jjs)

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• Daniel Greenfield: From 9/11 to Oct 7 to the Muslim grooming gangs.
  Islamophobia is the Cover-Up for the Crime

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

• The term is a pseudo-intellectual term intended to negate the Bible while giving academic credence to Jew-hatred.
  ‘Anti-Semitism’? No Such Thing

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

• [Jack] Posobiec described how Trump's uphill battle is not in fact over, as people are trying to call the election a "scam" or a "setup." He revealed that almost half of federal employees are "planning to resist Trump" according to a new poll. "Bring it on," he said. (FIre all for cause - jjs)
  Trump takes office in 7 days—federal employees 'plan to resist' him
  
• Could January 20, which is less than a week away, become another Independence Day for Americans who strive for freedom against a tyrannical federal government?
  January 20 – A New Independence Day

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

• Of course he did.
  DOJ Drops Jack Smith Report on Trump in the Middle of the Night

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

• ‘If he doesn’t know the answer to that fundamental question I’d say we really need to pause this until we find out,’ a senior CNN editor warned
  'Might Not Be Fair at All': CNN Reporters, Editors Privately Questioned Story at Center of 10-Figure Defamation Trial, Emails Show
  
• For the first 100 days of Donald Trump’s presidency, the queen of the Russia Collusion Hoax,* Rachel Maddow, will once again deceive her gullible viewers five nights a week instead of just the one. Despite being paid a reported $30 million per year (tub-thumping for socialism is lucrative if you can live with yourself), back in 2022, Maddow slashed her work schedule from five days a week to just one. She only hosted on Monday nights, earning $577,000 per show. (Have I mentioned how much I love socialism?)
  Russia Hoax Queen Rachel Maddow Returns to Five Nights for Desperate MSNSDAP
  
• "The network also saw its primetime ratings in November decline by 22% from October."
  Head Of MSNSDAP Out As Ratings Plunge After Trump’s Election
  
• Russiagate purveyors continue to advance in mainstream media
  NYT Scoops Up WaPo Reporter Behind Botched Steele Dossier Reports

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• The index, which measures sentiment across key areas such as future sales, expansion plans, and hiring intentions, saw significant improvement in seven of its ten components. Notably, the share of businesses expecting better conditions in the coming months soared by 16 points, reaching the highest level recorded since monthly tracking began in 2002.
  Small Business Optimism Surges to Six-Year High, Buoyed by Trump Policies
  
• One journalist reacted by saying, "This is clever marketing."
  Trump Announces Plan To Create ‘External Revenue Service’ For Tariffs
  
• The White House’s new housing report completely ignores the underlying dynamics, choosing instead to scapegoat the market tools property owners use to set rents.
  The White House Blames Rent Increases On AI, But The Real Problem Is Bidenflation
  
• Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders are converging on a bad policy idea.
  Capping Credit Card Rates Won’t Help Consumers

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

• Biden junta setting up roadblocks for Trump's 'drill, baby, drill' agenda
  Biden Solidifies Anti-Oil Legacy With Flurry of Lame-Duck Attacks on Drilling and Mining
  
• Our federal government is filled with miscreants, grifters and incompetents.
  Biden EV Road Trip Stunt Was Worse Than First Thought
  
• Our nation has one thing going in our favor, in terms of this particular trade battle: American’s don’t want to buy an EV.
  China Prepares to Impose Restrictions on Export of Essential Components for EV Batteries
  
• The U.S. should conduct a sweeping scientific survey of offshore oil and gas resources.
  How Trump Can Unlock America’s Energy Options
  
• Highway robbery by the progressive elites.
  Congestion Pricing Scam

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• The law protects students from being manipulated and groomed — and teachers and counselors from being punished for telling parents the truth.
  Ohio’s New Parental Rights Law Protects Both Students And Educators
  
• GOP enters 2025’s legislative session unified behind one bill: “The stage is set for us to get something passed”
  Is This The Year Tennessee Wins On School Choice?

  THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH AND 2024 SHENANIGANS

• State elections officials had planned to charge PILF $5,000 for voter records. After the settlement, the fee is $600.
  Leftist New Mexico Secretary Of State Settles Lawsuit In ‘Win For Election Transparency’

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY

• Democrat Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, who ran his vice presidential campaign on defending democracy during the 2024 election, has notably remained silent as Democrat lawmakers in his state are threatening a legislative session boycott to deny GOP lawmakers a quorum to elect a speaker and conduct legislative business.
  After Running On ‘Protect Democracy’ Platform, Tim Walz Is Silent As State House Dems Refuse To Let GOP Take Control
  
• During this election, Democrats never missed an opportunity to lecture about their commitment to the peaceful transfer of power, but Kamala Harris, still lingering in the shadow of her humiliating defeat, is proving those claims to be nothing more than empty rhetoric as she opts for a spiteful exit.
  Kamala Harris Refused Vance Family Access to Vice President’s Residence

  POLITICS

• Flags had been lowered to half-staff after former President Jimmy Carter's death.
  Speaker Johnson Orders Flags At U.S. Capitol To Fly At Full-Staff For Trump’s Inauguration
  
• “While in Wisconsin in late October, the president-elect entered a garbage truck themed to his campaign, trying to draw attention to comments from [so-called quote-unquote] President Biden”
  Trump Garbage Truck From Viral Campaign Moment to be Included in His Inauguration Day Parade
  
• And it's glorious.
  Democrats Learned Nothing From the Election
  
• Joe Biden’s fatal flaw led to four years of weakness. (Note, it's a VOX article, but Hat -tip to commenter GREF - jjs)
  The [so-called quote-unquote] president who could not choose
• Even as Biden paints himself as a big success, a Gallup survey captures the truth: Large majorities say America has gone backward on key areas during his watch. . . The White House and Democrats spent much of the last four years denying what Americans could see with their own eyes. 
  Michael Goodwin: Perpetual screwup Joe Biden spins and stumbles on his way out of the White House – and proves Trump voters right

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• "We demand a return to democracy through the resumption of elections, starting with the second round."
  Over 100,000 Romanians protest in Bucharest against cancellation of presidential election after anti-NATO populist took lead
  
• "Although this occupation is forced, it is unthinkable for the Gaîté Lyrique to throw these people out onto the street in the middle of winter."
  250 African migrants occupy leftist-run Paris theater for 5 weeks, refuse to leave after free 'welcome' event
  
• Daniel Greenfield: The enemy within.
  Biden Gives Communist Cuba a Gift on the Way Out the Door
  
• Following America’s 2024 elections, President-elect Trump has made a concerted push for the U.S. government to retake control of the Panama Canal, stressing that it was built with American labor at the cost of thousands of American lives. Despite Panama having agreed to cede the former Panama Canal Zone to the U.S. in exchange for a one-time payment and annual annuity in 1903, the late Democratic President Jimmy Carter agreed to give it away to the Central American country in the 1970s.Trump and others have accused the Panamanian government of allowing the People’s Republic of China (PRC) to meddle in the canal’s operations. National security experts warn that increasing Chinese influence and control over the canal threaten U.S. military and economic interests.Rising c
  UN Chief Claims Trump Can’t Take Back Panama Canal.
  
• “Just as in the north they have an agenda of colonization, we have an agenda of liberation. The agenda was written by [Venezuelan independence hero] Simón Bolívar. The freedom of Puerto Rico is pending, and we are going to conquer it,” Maduro said, before pointing to an individual he described as “Breno.”
  Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro Threatens to Invade Puerto Rico
  
• “The former guerrilla was hell-bent on installing his own familial autocracy.”
  Nicaragua’s ‘Christian Socialist’ Dictatorship
  
• The new regime in Bangladesh accuses Siddiq’s family of embezzling billions of dollars from a nuclear power project. Siddiq allegedly helped organize meetings with the Kremlin, which financed much of the scheme. Siddiq lives in a multi-million pound home in London owned by a businessman said to be linked to her aunt’s party. She also owns a London apartment said to have been gifted to her by one of her aunt’s allies. Bangladesh’s new leader, Muhammad Yunus, wants Starmer to transfer the properties to the Bangladeshi government if it is proven they are the spoils of “plain robbery.”
  British Anti-Corruption Minister Resigns as Bangladesh Investigates Family for Corruption.
  
• Neither Denmark nor the EU can defend against Russian or Chinese aggression in the Arctic.
  Yes, Greenland is Strategic
  
• Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as the next Secretary of State, will take the globalist foreign policy establishment to task in his opening statement at his confirmation hearing on Wednesday. . . “Out of the triumphalism of the end of a long Cold War emerged a bi-partisan consensus that we had reached ‘the end of history,’” Rubio will say. “That all the nations of earth would become members of the democratic Western-led community. That a foreign policy that served the national interest could now be replaced by one that served the ‘liberal world order.’ And that all mankind was now destined to abandon national identity, and we would become ‘one human family’ and ‘citizens of the world.’ This wasn’t just a fantasy; it was a dangerous delusion.”
  Exclusive — Marco Rubio to Shred Globalists in Confirmation Hearing: ‘Liberal World Order’ Not Just a ‘Fantasy,’ But ‘Dangerous Delusion’

  BIDEN/HARRIS AFGHANISTAN BUG-OUT DISASTER AFTERMATH

• Hegseth told the committee “There has been no accountability for the disaster of the withdrawal in Afghanistan, and that’s precisely why we’re here today.” He continued, “Leadership has been unwilling to take accountability and it’s time to restore that to our most senior ranks.”
  Hegseth: ‘There Has Been No Accountability’ for Biden’s ‘Disaster’ Afghanistan Withdrawal

  HEGSETH SHORT-DICKS ALL THE CANNIBALS IN CONGRESS and MEDIA

• “A small handful of anonymous sources were allowed to drive a smear campaign and agenda about me, because our left wing media in America today, sadly, doesn’t care about the truth. All they were out to do [was] to destroy me. And why do they want to destroy me? Because I’m a change agent and a threat to them, because Donald Trump was willing to choose me, to empower me, to bring the Defense Department back to what it really should be, which is war fighting,” Hegseth said.
  Pete Hegseth Comes Out Swinging Against Anonymous Smears Pushed by Mainstream Media
  
• Generals cannot work in the defense industry until 10 years after retirement. How can Hegseth make a pledge to do that when he’s not a general!?
  Hegseth Shuts Down Warren: ‘I’m Not a General, Senator’
  
• By the end of his fiery speech, Mullin had delivered a powerful message: the Senate must hold itself to the same standards it imposes on others. If Democrats were truly interested in integrity, they would be just as critical of their own mistakes as they were of Hegseth’s. But Mullin, ever the realist, knows that’s not how the game is played. And in that moment, he reminded everyone that politics is often more about the show than the substance.
  WATCH: Sen. Markwayne Mullin Destroys the Democrats' Attacks on Pete Hegseth
  
• Speaking before the Armed Services Committee, the Army veteran noted how the “the primary charge” given to him by Trump was to “bring the warrior culture back to the Department of Defense.” He subsequently detailed how he intends to make the Pentagon into an agency “laser focused on warfighting, lethality, meritocracy, standards, and readiness.”
  Pete Hegseth Makes The Definitive Case Why He’s Qualified To Be Trump’s Defense Secretary
  
• Daniel Greenfield: The hearings were disastrous... for Democrats.
  Hegseth Hearings Show Dems Still Don’t Have a Plan

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• “Ms. Gabbard has demonstrated a commitment to addressing the critical disconnect between our intelligence agencies and local law enforcement in preparing for sophisticated and pervasive threats,” the Idaho sheriff wrote.
  National Sheriffs’ Association Calls on Senate to Expedite Tulsi Gabbard Confirmation.

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

• FEMA has abandoned residents: “We're doing this all by ourselves.”
  James O’Keefe: Revelations After Infiltrating FEMA Camps in North Carolina

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• If delinking legislation becomes law, PBMs will have less incentive to negotiate rebates. That means high drug prices and larger coffers for pharmaceutical companies. Economist Casey Mulligan estimates that delinking legislation would increase drug prices between 5 and 18 percent. According to Matrix Global Advisors, drugmakers’ bottom lines would improve by up to $32 billion.
  Removing Incentives To Lower Drug Prices Isn’t Pharma ‘Reform’

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• The prime payload was Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander, flying ten science payloads to the Moon for NASA. It will take about six weeks to get to lunar orbit. The second payload was Resilience or Hakuto-R2, built by the Japanese startup Ispace on that company’s second attempt to land on the Moon. It is taking a longer route to the Moon, 4 to 5 months.
  SpaceX successfully launches two commercial lunar landers
  
• Tomorrow the launch pace will continue. First SpaceX will attempt the seventh orbital test launch of its Starship/Superheavy rocket, lifting off from Boca Chica, with a launch window beginning at 4 pm (Central). Blue Origin will later that evening once again attempt the maiden launch of its New Glenn rocket.
  

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

• “The Protection of Women and Girls Sports Act passes the House with 2 Texas Democrats (Gonzalez and Cuellar) voting in support making it bipartisan,” Gaines wrote in response to the bill being passed. “On to the senate!”
  House Passes Bill to Shield K-12 Sports from Transgenderism

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• Jimmy Kimmel even accused Trump of being racist against firefighters — a laughably ridiculous claim that the comedian made by disingenuously conflating opposition to DEI with racism.
  Colbert, Jon Stewart, Kimmel Ignore Democrats Controlling California; Attack Trump, GOP over L.A. Fires
  
• Christian Toto: L.A.-based comics clash profoundly on California wildfire blame game
  Carolla v. Kimmel: ‘Man Show’ Alums on Collision Course?

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