The Morning Report — 1/21/25

Good morning kids. At the risk of invading CBD's purview in the arena of art, there is a term called Chiaroscuro which loosely defined means a use of bold contrast between dark and light.

While yesterday's inauguration of Donald Trump as POTUS 47 was indeed a glorious burst of brilliant sunlight after four years of an abject black hole of despair, misery and suffering that threatened to engulf everything we hold dear for all time.

It's rather appropriate that the use of chiaroscuro in art came most notably to prominence during the Renaissance, which please God is what Donald Trump's return to the White House will herald for us as a nation, as a society and in our individual lives. That said the contrast between what was and God-willing what will be could not have been more in evidence when you compare the actions of the incontinent vegetable puppet president Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants just prior to his being ejected from behind the Resolute Desk and that of President Donald Trump as the words "So Help Me God" left his lips and he took his hand off of the Bible.

Biden handed out blanket pardons not only to his family members, but to traitors like Liz Cheney, the J-6 committee members who oversaw the persecution of innocent Americans and Donald Trump himself, but in the case of Anthony Fauci, who actually worked for and with Red China to engineer a biological weapon of mass destruction in COVID-19, unleashed on the world to destabilize America and give cover to the theft of the 2020 section to prevent the Left's and Xi's greatest threat to their planned dominance, Donald Trump. The pandemic and then the poisonous vaccines themselves killed several million people across the globe. One could make the case that Fauci, Daszak, Birx and everyone associated with them are guilty of an actual crime against humanity. But of course, tell that to the world court which is more interested in going after Israel and Bibi for the crime against humanity of existence and self defense while Jewish. And so Three cheers for POTUS Trump moving to withdraw the US from the World Health Organization, who aided and abetted in the COVID lockdown hysteria, albeit for monetary reasons. But still.

Meanwhile, while Biden among other scum, pardoned Leonard Peltier.

The FBI Agents Association expressed outrage after now-former President Joe Biden granted clemency to Native American activist Leonard Peltier, who was convicted of killing two FBI agents.

The former president issued a number of pardons and sentence commutations in his final moments in the Oval Office this week, chief among them being Leonard Peltier, who was convicted in 1975. Per UPI:

Among the names granted clemency Monday was longtime jailed Native American activist Leonard Peltier, who many say was America’s “longest-serving political prisoner” after he was convicted in 1975 of allegedly killing two FBI agents on his property in a trial many viewed as a sham.

Biden “was right” to commute the life sentence of the Indigenous elder and activist “given the serious human rights concerns about the fairness of his trial,” Paul O’Brien, executive director of Amnesty International USA, said Monday in a statement. In a statement released on Monday, the FBI Agents Association (FBIAA) called the former president’s commutation of Peltier’s sentence “disgraceful,” noting the “brutal murders of FBI Special Agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams.”

“This last-second, disgraceful act by then-President Biden, which does not change Peltier’s guilt but does release him from prison, is cowardly and lacks accountability. It is a cruel betrayal to the families and colleagues of these fallen Agents and is a slap in the face of law enforcement,” it said.

Funny but I don't remember the FBI agents association getting exercised when Merrick Garland and Christopher Wray went after grandmothers protesting at abortion abbatoirs or parents at school board meetings, and certainly not Donald Trump, based on evidence faked by their compatriot traitor Christopher Steele at the behest of Hillary Clinton.

And when the 2020 election was stolen, there were several dozen FBI agents in plain clothes and/or MAGA gear among the so-called "rioters" and "insurrectionists" who invaded the Capitol building by cleverly having Pelosi-controlloed Capitol PD goons open the doors for them and escort them inside.

True to his word, Donald Trump issued a mass pardon to the long suffering denizens of the Garland Archipelago:

President Trump issued pardons Monday night to hundreds of participants in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot — staying true to his promise to grant clemency to people involved in halting the counting of Electoral College votes that day. Trump, 78, said he issued “approximately 1,500” pardons after returning to the White House from a day of inaugural festivities, telling reporters present that “I hope they come out tonight.” The newly sworn-in 47th president signed a document commuting 14 prison sentences and offering “a full, complete and unconditional pardon to all other individuals convicted of offenses related to events that occurred at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021.” “I will say this, they’ve been in jail for a long time already. I see murderers in this country get two years, one year and maybe no time. So they’ve already been in jail for a long time. These people have been destroyed,” Trump said in the Oval Office when asked if any beneficiaries had assaulted police. “What they’ve done to these people is outrageous. Even people that were aggressive, and in many cases, I believe they happen to be outside agitators. But what do I know? But I think they were. I think they were outside agitators. They were outside agitators. And obviously, the FBI was involved.” The Justice Department criminally charged 1,583 people in connection with the riot, which broke out after Trump, while serving the final days of his first term, told thousands of supporters that the 2020 election was being “stolen” from him. . . The orders require the Federal Bureau of Prisons to immediately release the inmates.

Yet, Kurt Schlichter correctly notes:

All of the J6 prosecutions are illegitimate, not because the actions of the J6 defendants are all pristine – the vast majority are guilty only of thinking that as part of the People, they had a right to walk through the People’s House – but because they were not treated exactly the same way as those politically aligned with the people persecuting them. And there is no way to undo the taint of the two-tier justice system. There are reports that President Trump will commute sentences to get people out of prison, then follow up with a pardon “process” to evaluate each conviction. No, no, no. Every conviction – every single one, including those by people forced to plead guilty (and they were forced) – is tainted by the actions of the DOJ, the actions of biased judges, and the fact that the venue in DC was manifestly unjust. No J6 conviction can stand. Every conviction was unfair and unjust. . .
. . . The savage cruelty and maliciousness of the corrupt Department of Justice and FBI must be repudiated. President Donald Trump must pardon every single one of their victims. There is no other alternative. There is no compromise. Anything less than a total repudiation of this pogrom validates the unspeakable evil perpetrated upon these patriotic citizens. And that’s not all. President Trump should also apologize to them on behalf of the American people and government, as well as direct the Department of Justice to settle their multimillion-dollar civil rights claims without litigation. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. It all starts with pardoning every single one of them on Day One of the Trump 2.0 administration. Not commuting – commuting implies some validity to the convictions – but pardoning, because prosecutions that are unjust cannot stand in whole or part, and every single one in those kangaroo courts was unjust.

Leonard Peltier was and remains a terrorist, but as Schlichter correctly notes: "Hey, did you hear about that Trump-loving J6 couple who threw a bomb and permanently injured a cop? He got five years. His wife got no years. Yeah, those J6ers really got off easy. Oh, wait, my mistake. They were not J6 defendants. They were a couple of Antifa scumbags who were mad because conservative commentator Michael Knowles was going to speak about transgender baloney. Instead of being treated with the same scorn and harshness that the J6 defendants have been, this federal judge actually said they were something along the lines of very fine people. How many years do you think a J6 defendant would get if he permanently injured a cop with a bomb? About a million. But there’s a vital difference. The Biden Administration (sic) likes Antifa terrorists and hates patriots."

Mumia Abu Jamal, the evil fiend who murdered a Philadelphia cop remains behind bars and will hopefully die there because he did not commit a federal crime. Had it been Federal, I have no doubt he'd be free as a bird and probably running to primary John Fetterman, who is giving Democrats fits for being the unlikely voice of reason opposing quite a bit of their madness, BUT for the unforgivable crime of treating Trump with relative respect and willing to at least listen to him.

In any case all the right/wrong heads are exploding not only because of what Trump said but because this time around they and we get the sense that he will do everything he can to make sure he delivers on cleansing the nation of the rot, criminality and degeneracy that have laid us so low these past four years and really a lot longer than that.

As the SUN RISES, a glorious long awaited sunburst definitely indicates that it is once again morning in America. While the sundowning debasement of Biden is re-interred in its crypt of a Rehoboth DE basement, never to return. But as we all know, evil never rests and in one form or another it too will return. We must be ever vigilant to guard against it. And that means protecting future generations from hearing the siren song of paradise on earth if only they surrender their souls.

Well, the torch has been passed, and no its not from a Guatemalan illegal alien savage who immolated a sleeping subway rider. Please God, we have seen the last of those nightmare scenes.

Oh happy day. God bless the United States of America, Godspeed to President Donald J. Trump, his staff, advisers and all of us who kept the faith. May the black hearts of the Democrats, Globalists, RINOs et al finally feel the warmth of truth and justice that they are willfully or otherwise blind to and be redeemed. If not, then may they know only defeat and despair for all time.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• Biden leaves as much destruction in his wake as possible.
  Burning Down the House

DONALD TRUMP SWORN IN AS POTUS 47
• As Trump spoke to Americans, with the people who orchestrated the many attempts to ruin his life sitting behind him, he called out their “radical and corrupt establishment” agenda hell-bent on destroying our country.
  Trump Sticks Knife Into Architects Of America’s Decline – Right To Their Faces
  
• He’s getting a second chance to make a first impression. (Meh, his first first impression was damned incredible IMHO, some of his errors notwithstanding. - jjs)
  It’s Morning In America, Again
  
• His wife, First Lady Melania Trump, accompanied him to be joined later by Vice President-elect JD Vance and his wife, Usha, per the New York Post.
  WATCH: President-Elect Trump Attends Prayer Service at Historic St. John’s Church in D.C. Before Inauguration
  
• Winston Churchill once famously observed: “You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.” Fortunately, Donald Trump did not let the legion of barking dogs deter him. Instead, the obstacles were turned into opportunities. A life lesson for an America that will benefit from one man’s steadfast resilient refusal to let even outsized obstacles stand in his way.
  The Biggest Lesson To Take Away From Trump’s Inauguration
  
• Two Rallies—35 Years Apart
  Trump’s Victory Rally “reminded me of a rally I attended in 1990, on the eve of Bulgaria’s first free elections after the fall of the Berlin Wall”
  
• Through Trump's plans, he seeks to bring America back to its glory...
  A new golden age starts with Trump's inauguration
  
• Most importantly, Trump told the American people, “My proudest legacy will be that of a peacemaker and a unifier.” (Harris was a humidifier, and Clinton was a humidor - jjs)
  ‘I Was Saved by God to Make America Great Again’ — Trump’s Inaugural Address in Full.
  
• The 29-minute speech (neither too short nor too long) was a balanced combination of practical steps toward American greatness and soaring rhetoric.
  President Trump’s inaugural speech was excellent
  
• President Trump entered the Commander-in-Chief ball with first lady Melania Trump to a thunderous ovation as the inaugural events continued late into the night on Monday. 
  BLISSFUL BALL: Trump, Melania take the stage to massive ovation for Commander in Chief ball, share dance as they celebrate inauguration
  
• Editor's note: it got even better at the inaugural balls: 
  The Trump and Vance Women WOW at Inaugural Festivities

  LOS ANGELES WILDFIRES

• How many emergency vehicles could have been serviced had Mayor Karen Bass chosen to spare the taxpayers her expenses and used the funds instead for lifesaving services?
  Smoke Clears to Reveal LA’s DEI Follies
  
• If they're serious about making changes then this is their lucky day. 
  An Architect Lays Out a Plan to Rebuild L.A., But Do California Democrats Have the Guts to Do It?

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

• Daniel Greenfield: The ceasefire deal means spending $50 billion to rebuild Gaza. (we can put tacky drapes on the gates of Hell just by confiscating Jill Biden's wardrobe - jjs)
  Trump Should Pull Out of Gaza Nation Building

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• The Islamist who murdered three young girls in the town of Southport, England, last year has pleaded guilty in court. Axel Rudakubana, 18, who was reportedly born in Wales to Rwandan migrants, appeared in Liverpool Crown Court on Monday, January 20, after being charged with 16 separate offenses, including three counts of murder.Along with admitting to stabbing Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, to death at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class, Rudakubana also admitted to attempting to create the deadly poison ricin.
  Islamist Killer Pleads Guilty to Child Murder Spree.

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

• Kurt Schlichter: Every single one.
  Pardon Every Single J6 Political Prisoner
  
• In an epic move, President Donald Trump has turned the tables on the Department of Justice (DOJ) for its abuses after Trump left office in 2021. In an executive order signed Monday evening, Trump has directed his own government to investigate the agency for its misconduct in the aftermath of the January 6th events. 
  Trump Makes an Epic Move Against the Department of Justice

• “I will say this, they’ve been in jail for a long time already. I see murderers in this country get two years, one year and maybe no time. So they’ve already been in jail for a long time. These people have been destroyed,” Trump said in the Oval Office when asked if any beneficiaries had assaulted police. “What they’ve done to these people is outrageous. Even people that were aggressive, and in many cases, I believe they happen to be outside agitators. But what do I know? But I think they were. I think they were outside agitators. They were outside agitators. And obviously, the FBI was involved.”
  Trump issues 1,500 pardons for Jan. 6 defendants: ‘Going to release our great hostages’

• Leave it to communists to bring execution devices to Washington D.C. on the day of an inauguration conveniently of a new president who doesn’t put up with their BS. The funny part is that it’s all performative theater because none of them have the stones to get into an actual physical conflict with people who would most likely handle them.
  Ooo, Scary! Masked Coward Brings Guillotine to D.C. Ahead of Trump's Inauguration
  
• “This last-second, disgraceful act by then-President Biden, which does not change Peltier’s guilt but does release him from prison, is cowardly and lacks accountability. It is a cruel betrayal to the families and colleagues of these fallen Agents and is a slap in the face of law enforcement,” it said. (Where was the Agents Association when American cities were torched in 2020 and Wray & Garland filled the prisons with Trump supporters and nearly railroaded Trump? - jjs
  FBI Agents Association ‘Outraged’ by Biden Granting Clemency to Leonard Peltier

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

• Biden paroled hundreds of thousands of migrants into the U.S. at designated ports of entry through CBP One appointments or flew them directly to the U.S. through the related CHNV (Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela) Parole Program. Vetting of CBP One migrants has been poor, with a Haitian double murderer among those who used it to enter the U.S.
  CLOSED: Open Borders CBP One App Shuts Down, Migrants Waiting to Be Paroled Into U.S. Turned Away.
  
• They include deploying the military to the border, ending Joe Biden’s parole policies, and designating cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO).
  Report: Three of Trump’s Executive Orders Targets Biden Border Crisis
  
• Chicago Alderman Raymond Lopez says he is taking heat from the more liberal wing of his party for not demonizing President-elect Donald Trump for political gain and trying to find solutions to immigration enforcement that, he argues, better protects the city’s immigrant community. His comments come after his attempt to amend Chicago’s Welcoming City Ordinance fell flat with fellow lawmakers.
  Democrat Says ‘Left’ Is Out For Blood After He Criticized Chicago’s Shielding Of Illegal Migrants From ICE
  
• Last week, foreign ministers and representatives of Belize, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, and Venezuela gathered in Mexico City for a “Meeting on Human Mobility on the Northern Route of the Continent,” a joint initiative of the far-left Presidents of Mexico Claudia Sheinbaum and Honduras’s Xiomara Castro.
  Leftist Latin American Governments Panic over Potential Trump Deportations

  BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS

• “My family has been subjected to unrelenting attacks and threats, motivated solely by a desire to hurt me — the worst kind of partisan politics,” Biden wrote in a statement. “Unfortunately, I have no reason to believe these attacks will end.”
  Joe Biden Pardons 5 Family Members Involved in Family Business
  
• Attorney Alan Dershowitz said Monday that former [so-called quote-unquote] President Joe Biden opened his family to potential jeopardy with the sweeping pardons that he issued shortly before his term of office ended.
  Biden’s Sweeping Last-Minute Pardons Could Come Back To Haunt His Family, Alan Dershowitz Says

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

• Lizzy Cheney got her preemptive pardon.
  Biden Issues Preemptive Pardons for Milley, Fauci, J6 Committee, and Others
  
• None of the people on this list have been charged for the awful ways they harmed people in their official capacities.
  Mentally Incompetent Biden Confirms Guilt Of J6 Committee, Fauci, Milley With Last-Minute Pardons
  
• Robert Spencer: John Bonifaz is the kind of guy who could have answered a casting call for “lunatic leftist who will attempt to resurrect the left’s failed strategies against Trump on his first day back in office.” He says he is the “Co-Founder and President of Free Speech For People,” as well as a “constitutional attorney,” all of which sounds impressive enough if you’re the type who gets impressed by that sort of thing, but which in reality simply confirms that what we have here is someone who has abjectly failed to read the room, and to realize that the fact that Trump has been impeached twice and has just become president again should tell him that his approach won’t work. Bonifaz also demonstrates that the left hasn’t thought of anything new to do. Its response to Trump 2.0 will be more of the same.
  The Left Never Learns: 'Constitutional Attorney' Is First to Call for Trump’s Impeachment (Again) (NB: This fool is a 'Constitutional Attorney' just like Hmmler learned Yiddish and Hebrew in order to better facilitate the genocide of the Jews - jjs)

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

• In the new spirit of taking no prisoners, Trump needs to treat AOC the way he treated George Stephanopoulos and ABC.
  Titty-Caca AOC has laid the foundation for Trump to sue her for defamation
  
• Donald Trump’s acting Homeland Security chief has ordered the dismantling of all the department’s advisory boards to guard against “misuse of resources” after the Biden administration’s disastrous attempt to create a Big Brother-style “Disinformation Governance Board,” The Post has learned.
  Trump DHS dissolves advisory boards after Biden ‘disinformation’ fiasco
  
• How do we know CNNLOL’s revenue plummeted by $400 million in a mere three years? Well, just when you think this story cannot get any better… The information became public during a defamation suit against CNN filed by Navy veteran Zachary Young, in which Young triumphed. Last week, a jury found CNN liable for defamation and awarded Young $5 million in damages. The punitive phase of the trial is next, which is why we know the jury-confirmed liars at CNN lost $400 million in revenue over three years.
  Far-Left CNN’s Revenue Dropped $400 Million in Three Years
  
• Most people don’t know who Curtis Yarvin is. So why did The New York Times decide to mainline him right into their readers’ veins?
  Biggest Right-Wing Influencer You’ve Never Heard Of Breaks Through To Legacy Media
  
• A self-serving bid to stay relevant?
  Meta’s Free Speech U-Turn

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• It is time to set the record straight on Trump and tariffs. 
  Trump’s Critics Only Oppose His Tariffs Because They Oppose Him
  
• It’s time to start thinking about the constitutional ideals that can put the nation’s finances on sound footing.
  How Washington Can Finally Get Back to Fiscal Sanity

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

• The junta of outgoing Rotting vegetable Joe Biden had prioritized funding and support for offshore wind projects during its four years in power, including major wind farm subsidies in the so-called “Inflation Reduction Act” and relying on leftist governors in New Jersey, New York, and Massachusetts to back the projects. The projects attracted loud opposition from local tourism industries and environmentalists, who noted a significant increase in the number of washed-up whale carcasses along the shoreline as sonar work began off the Northeast coast.
  Trump Saves the Whales: Plans End to Disastrous Northeast Offshore Wind Farms
  
• Donald Trump’s inauguration was moved inside due to the bitter cold weather in Washington. Of course the same people who swear the Arctic blast was caused by global warming are part of the axis of fanatics that claims that humans’ fossil fuel habits caused 2024 to be the hottest year or record. There’s so much wrong with the klimate klowns’ klaims.
  More Cold Truth About Global Warming
  
• The mistakes of the U.K. and Germany this winter serve as a wakeup call for policymakers worldwide as they consider their own energy policies.
  The dark side of Europe's energy devolution

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

• Lloyd Billingsley: Sealing Fauci’s fate as “the architect, author, and godfather of the pandemic.”
  Biden Pardons Dr. Doom

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• At every turn, Cardona sold American students down the river while advancing sexual and racial activism.
  Miguel Cardona’s Tenure As Education Secretary Was A Masterclass In Failure

  ABORTION

• Richards, daughter of former Texas Gov. Ann Richards (D),  revealed in January of 2024 she was living with brain cancer, but vowed to continue her fight for abortion while battling her illness. She had been diagnosed in mid-2023 with an incurable and aggressive ailment called glioblastoma.
  Former Abortion Giant Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards Dies After Battling Brain Cancer

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY

• “There are a lot of good billionaires out there that have been with Democrats, who share our values, and we will take their money. But we’re not taking money from those bad billionaires,” he pledged.
  DNC Chair Candidate Ken Martin Promises Party Will Only Take Money From ‘Good Billionaires’ Going Forward

• Which of these political developments generates more concern: Learning - and just a day before the 46th puppet-vegetable/President leaves office - that Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) says he saw Joe Biden completely forget that he signed an Executive Order banning natural gas exports, meaning that Biden, again, showed memory problems? The fact that Johnson witnessed this glaring example of Biden’s troubles in January of 2024, and said nothing? Or the fact that Johnson not only said nothing about the memory problems, he disregarded his oath to the Constitution by not opposing the unconstitutional Biden action, in the first place? All of these questions and more arise when reading one of the big news items of the weekend
  Too Late: Johnson Reveals Biden Forgot Order Banning LNG Exports

  POLITICS

• McKinley delivered for the workingman and elevated the U.S. to global power status. Donald Trump plans to do the same thing today.
  Will Trump be a Titan Worthy of McKinley?

• Ramaswamy previously characterized a run for Ohio's governor as "not a bad idea."
  Ramaswamy To Leave DOGE Ahead Of Run For Ohio Governor
  
• Donald Trump's political dominance exposes a frustrated America, where the ruling class remains out of touch, and the youth, especially on the right, demand real change instead of empty lectures.
  Bootstraps are Not Enough
  
• Yes, the Democrats have an image problem. Yes, they’re increasingly seen as smug, pompous, corrupt, elitists. And obviously, the last-minute flurry of Biden pardons will only add to the perception that the Democratic Party is an insular club of fat cats, limousine liberals, and privileged party bosses. Furthermore, the Democrats will almost certainly handle the situation like it was merely an image problem: They’ll seek a new flagbearer. They’ll develop new talking points. They’ll popularize new catchphrases.
  The Bidenization of the Democrat Party Is [Checks Watch] Now Complete
  
• A political party that denies reality, is philosophically incoherent and contradictory, and will not even respond to overwhelming voter sentiments is a sick political party.
  The Democrat party is an unsalvageable dumpster fire
  
• As he leaves office, Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. appears to have amassed a strong case that he deserves the title of “worst American president.”
  Seven Reasons Biden Was One Of Our Worst Presidents
  
• As President Trump once more assumes the presidency, and the failed educated class starts to face the end of its regime of top-down administration of everything.
  Biden Handlers Announce New Regime

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• The U.S. Senate confirmed Rubio in a 99-0 vote, with his former colleagues voicing no opposition to the appointment. The vote came one week after Rubio appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, where he previously served as a senior member. Sen. Jim Risch (R-ID) said that Rubio had a “flawless” performance before the committee. During the hearing, Rubio set his sights on China, calling the regime the “most potent and dangerous near-peer adversary this nation has ever confronted,” urging the United States to push back more heavily on China’s global influence.
  First Trump Cabinet Pick Approved: Senate Confirms Marco Rubio as Secretary of State
  
• The Art of the Deal: A review of the Compact of Free Association that could make everyone happy.
  Denmark Says Greenland Should Determine its Own Independence in Call to Trump
  
• Trump’s bold vision to reclaim America’s dominance in the Western Hemisphere challenges outdated alliances and redefines strategic priorities for an era of fierce global competition.
  Geography’s Revenge
  
  
• Some observations from a former congressional staffer about how practically and viably this could be done.
  The U.S. Should Claim Territory in Antarctica

• But were such an arrangement possible, a not insignificant number of Canadians, especially among the younger cohort, age 18-34, would likely endorse it, in particular if their assets were converted to U.S. dollars. And why not? According to Julius Ruechel, Canada has become little more than “a tax and regulatory system that is plundering us at every turn.” A good friend of considerable political astuteness writes that he would like to see the country's political system evolving from an increasingly undemocratic parliamentary democracy into a much freer constitutional republic, as in the U.S.
  The 51st State?
  
• “Trump seems to be signaling a revival of older foreign-policy principles. . . Manifest Destiny was the unofficial corollary to the Monroe Doctrine.”
  The Return of American Exuberance
  
• As Trump was seen signing the executive order, he spoke about how under his first term, the U.S. “paid $500 million” to the W.H.O., adding that China was paying less money to the W.H.O. Trump said he felt that it “seemed a little unfair.”
  Trump Signs Executive Order Withdrawing U.S. from World Health Organization
  
• The two far-left officials appear to have left their post just after Trump was inaugurated as the 47th president
  State Department LGBT, Racial Equity Envoy Profiles Scrubbed After Trump Takes Office

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• Trump's pick cleared key hurdle through a party-line vote.
  Senate Advances Pete Hegseth’s Nomination To Become Defense Secretary

• TikTok and its Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-owned parent company, ByteDance, remains a serious national security threat despite a renewed push to force the social media video app’s divestment from the United States’s foreign adversary. President Donald J. Trump has signaled he is willing to give TikTok and ByteDance 90 more days to negotiate a possible sale to an American company—though it isn’t clear if the CCP and their proxies at ByteDance have warmed to the idea of parting with the app and its valuable content algorithm.
  TikTok Is Still a CCP-Owned National Security Risk, For Now.
  
• How is it TikTok can reach an amazing number of people with diarrhea issues with videos sent at the exact same time when they're straining on the toilet?
  My unlikely TikTok stardom and America's national security

• Milley has been criticized for the withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021. He and other officials were accused of inadequate preparation and a failure to anticipate such a swift resurgence of the Taliban. (and being a Lloyd Austin boot-licking DEI butt-boy - jjs)
  Authorities Remove Retired General Mark "Vanilli" Milley’s Portrait From Pentagon 10 Days After Its Unveiling

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

• Deanne Criswell had faced criticism over her handling of recent hurricanes.
  Embattled FEMA Director Steps Aside As Trump Takes Office

• Margot Cleveland: The TikTok case is only one of several that will be impacted by the incoming Trump Administration.
  Trump’s Return To The White House Will Impact These Five Major Court Cases

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• Feeling a natural attachment towards the child you’re carrying does nothing to benefit the 14-billion-dollar baby-commodifying industry.
  By Decriminalizing Paid Surrogacy, Michigan Is The Final State To Commercialize Babies

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

• The order will require only male or female designations on passports.
  Trump To Sign Executive Order Defining Gender As ‘Male And Female’
  
• Daniel Greenfield: Allowing men to compete against women is a civil rights violation.
  Transgender Exec Order Should Be Followed by a Dept of Ed Letter to Schools

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• Robert Spencer: With no help on the way.
  Charles Barkley Slams ‘Rat-Infested’ San Francisco
  
• “Our politics are inflamed, and social media only adds to the anxiety,” the ADL said.  The New York-based group essentially argued that people on both sides of the aisle need to relax before jumping to conclusions.  
  ADL defends Elon Musk over ‘awkward gesture’ at Trump inauguration: ‘Not a Nazi salute’ 
  
• Christain Toto: Alex Winter rages on Bluesky about X founder, says social media is no longer safe
  ‘Bill and Ted’ Star: Elon Musk Did a Nazi Salute (the more irrelevant the has-been, the louder and shriller the geschrei - jjs)

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