Posts on Monday, December 23, 2024
New Yorkers were up in arms Monday one day after an illegal Guatemalan immigrant allegedly burned a sleeping straphanger to death aboard a Brooklyn subway train — while bystanders did nothing.
Horrifying video footage of the incident shows at least three gawkers — one of them seen filming the shocking fatal blaze on his phone — and an NYPD cop standing outside the subway car as flames engulfed the unidentified victim after the Sunday morning attack.“Nobody came to her aid,” said Guardian Angels founder and community activist Curtis Sliwa. “There’s no doubt that people don’t want to get involved. It’s the Daniel Penny factor. It’s frozen people.
President-elect Donald Trump said he wants the US to own and control Greenland — a desire he made known during his first presidential term — as he announced his pick for US ambassador to Denmark on Sunday.
“For purposes of National Security and Freedom throughout the World, the United States of America feels that the ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity,” Trump said in a statement on Truth Social.
His comments on Greenland came in the same statement Trump used to announce he has selected PayPal co-founder Ken Howery for the ambassadorship to Denmark.
Border czar-designate Tom Homan on Monday criticized Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York after a woman died Sunday after a migrant allegedly lit her on fire while on the New York City subway.
Sebastin Zapeta, a 33-year-old Guatemalan illegal immigrant previously deported by the Trump administration, was arrested Sunday by the New York Police Department in connection with the incident, Fox News reported. Homan ripped Hochul, who touted the subway’s safety after the killing, about the incident.
Johnson allies urge Trump to intervene
as messy speaker battle threatens to delay
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as messy speaker battle threatens to delay
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Allies of Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., are urging President-elect Trump to publicly reaffirm support for the House GOP leader to avoid a messy, protracted battle that could delay the certification of his own victory. "If we have some kind of protracted fight where we can’t elect a speaker — the speaker’s not elected; we’re not sworn in. And if we’re not sworn in, we can’t certify the election," Rep. Carlos Gimenez, R-Fla., told Fox News Digital.
"I would hope that President Trump would chime in and talk to those who are maybe a little hesitant, and say, ‘We’ve got to get going. We don’t have time.’"
Remove him. Now.
It's been sold by Democrats as a mercy to allow disgraced President Joe Biden to ride out his term. How much harm can he do?, they ask.
A lot, it turns out. An ungodly amount.Devastating, unjust, dangerous harms — all exacted by a president we now know, thanks to blockbuster exposés last week, has been cognitively impaired since before Day One.
If the Democratic Party has a shred of self-preservation left, if its leaders hold any hope for rebounding in 2028 as the self-appointed guardians of decency, moral uprightness, and democracy itself, they must remove this dishonorable president immediately.
Early Monday morning, Biden commuted the death sentences
More white-on-black racism that didn’t happen to prove how rampant white-on-black racism is, from a story out of Tennessee:
An open meeting on campus culture is being held Wednesday night at Rhodes College.
The meeting was called after racist messaging targeting Black students was found on campus.
The vandalism was strewn across the National Panhellenic Council Plaza, which is the only space on campus to pay tribute to the historically Black sororities and fraternities.
Another false flag—one of the few political strategies the deceitful and crooked left actually has at their disposal—add it to the list.
Jussie Smollett and his “this is MAGA country” claim, Bubba Wallace and the “noose” garage pull,
Firebrand former Rep. Matt Gaetz on Sunday teased that he might run for US Senate — even as he faces renewed scrutiny over accusations of sexual misconduct.
Gaetz (R-Fla.), speaking at a conservative event in Arizona, noted how senators essentially tanked his brief bid to become US attorney general.
“It seems I may not have had enough support in the United States Senate. Maybe I’ll just run for Marco Rubio’s vacant seat in the United States Senate and join some of those folks,” Gaetz quipped at the Turning Point Action’s AmericaFest event in Phoenix. (Photo) Rubio, a Florida senator, has been tapped by President-elect Donald Trump as his secretary of state-designee.
‘DOGE Before DOGE Was Cool’: Rand
Paul Unveils Annual ‘Festivus Report’
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Paul Unveils Annual ‘Festivus Report’
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On Monday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) released the latest edition of his annual “Festivus Report,” pitching it this year as being not just a precursor for the incoming Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), but also a useful guide for anyone looking to cut down on federal spending.
The 2024 report highlights more than $1 trillion of “government waste,” including a Florida man stealing $8 million in COVID-19 relief funds and using the money to buy an island and more, “ice-skating drag queens,” a $12 million Las Vegas pickleball complex, $4,840,082 on Ukrainian influencers, $32,596.12 for breakdancing, and the U.S. Navy being “set to waste almost $90 billion on ineffective Navy vessels.”
Colombian President Gustavo Petro has slammed Donald Trump’s proposal to retake the Panama Canal.
Petro, a former Marxist guerilla and vocal supporter of Joe Biden, wrote in a post on the X platform that the number of illegal migrants crossing heading to the southern border would increase by “millions” unless Trump recognized the canal belongs to Panama.
He wrote:
Until the last consequences I will be on the side of Panama and the defense of its sovereignty.
If the new US government wants to talk business, we will talk business, face to face, and for the benefit of our people, but dignity will never be negotiated.
President-elect Donald Trump’s no-nonsense border czar Tom Homan slammed New York Gov. Kathy Hochul for boasting on X that she had improved subway safety just hours after an illegal migrant allegedly burned a sleeping passenger to death on an F train.
The accused killer was once deported back to his native Guatemala but later sneaked back into the US and availed himself of the shelter system in the Big Apple, where sanctuary status is the law of the land.
“Governor Hochul, shame on you. There’s nothing you can say that’s going to make this right in New York,” Homan said on “Fox & Friends” Monday morning as he ripped Hochul for
Kamala Harris Campaign Advisor Lindy Li
Quits Democrat Party: ‘It’s Like Leaving
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Quits Democrat Party: ‘It’s Like Leaving
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Democrat mega-donor Lindy Li, who served as the Women’s Co-Chair and Mid-Atlantic Regional Chair at the Democratic National Committee, announced she is leaving the Democrat party.
Li has come under fire from leftists after recent appearances criticizing Democrats.
She appeared on Fox News to discuss how Barack and Michelle Obama’s delay in endorsing Harris was “the silence heard around the world.”
She also expressed support for Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, telling Fox, “I actually think he’s been a pretty good guy.”
Those of us gray-haired folks who were around and watching politics in the '90s remember Bill Clinton, the first Baby Boomer president, as a young chief executive. Clinton was the third-youngest president to assume office at 46 years old, beaten in that record only by John F. Kennedy and Theodore Roosevelt. But time marches on for us all; now former President Clinton is 78 years old and has had some health issues. On Monday, he was admitted to MedStar Georgetown University Hospital for testing after developing a fever.. Clinton, 78, "has been admitted to MedStar Georgetown University Hospital for testing and observation after developing a fever," said Angel Ureña,
Then-Vice President Joe Biden introduced his son, Hunter Biden, to Chinese premier Xi Jinping, on an official visit in 2013, new photos show. Vice President Biden also met Hunter’s business associates in China, despite later denials.
The photos — only a partial archive — were released in response to a lawsuit filed by Stephen Miller’s America First Legal foundation against the National Archives and Records Administration in 2022.They shed new light on the Biden family’s history of influence-peddling, which dates back to the Obama administration, and which Democrats denied as they impeached President Donald Trump and claimed Hunter’s laptop was Russian “disinformation.” (X)
NYT Never Trumper Repents
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Brett Stephens, one of the Never Trump Republicans at the New York Times, has had an epiphany: Donald Trump is a person, not a demon, and his supporters are Americans who are tired of the transnational elite's destruction of America. It only took nine years to see things more or less as they are. I would say that counts as lightning fast on the Never Trump scale, and as stunning and brave when published in The New York Times.
It’s been more than nine years since I first denounced Donald Trump as a “loudmouth vulgarian appealing to quieter vulgarians.” I’ve called myself
Iran, the ninth-largest oil producer in the world, doesn't have enough energy to keep the lights on or the factories humming — and that's just one element of the country's growing polycrisis.
"The country was virtually shut down to save energy" for most of last week, according to a weekend report in the New York Times. Even President Masoud Pezeshkian can't hide the scope of the country's energy troubles. "We are facing very dire imbalances in gas, electricity, energy, water, money, and environment," he admitted in a live TV address this month. "All of them are at a level that could turn into a crisis."
"Businesses, schools, universities, police stations,
Early Monday morning President Joe Biden, or someone on his staff, announced he is wiping away the death penalty for 37 federal inmates currently on death row. They include child rapists and murderers, but Biden framed the decision as just.
"Today, President Biden announced that he is commuting the sentences of 37 individuals on federal death row. Those individuals will have their sentences reclassified from execution to life without the possibility of parole," the White House released in a statement. "The President has issued more commutations at this point in his presidency than any of his recent predecessors at the same point in their first terms.
Proof They Don't Get Us
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The New York Times and the Democrats believe they have found the secret sauce.
If only they could find the right "bro" as an alternative to Joe Rogan, they could seduce young men back into the Democratic Party fold.
It's all about the messaging and the messenger. Line up all the right celebrities, throw a couple of million at Oprah, get Taylor Swift to make a half-hearted endorsement in between shots at NFL games, and the election would be in the bag.
First, President-elect Donald Trump tweaked Canada’s far-left Prime Minister Justin Trudeau about becoming governor of the 51st state of the United States of America. Then he said that the Panama Canal should once again come under American control. Make that the 52nd state. And now, are you ready for a 53rd state? On Sunday, Trump renewed a call he made during his first term: that the United States should buy Greenland from Denmark. Could the man possibly be serious?
Maybe not. The left’s propaganda arm, also known as the mainstream media, loves to portray Trump and his supporters as angry, bitter, ignorant people lashing out
When he takes office four weeks from today, President Trump will have four short years to fulfill his America First agenda of fixing Washington institutions and making the federal government work once again for the American people, not vice versa.That’s a tall order of business to accomplish in a short timeframe, and President Trump knows it. Unlike in his first term, he has zero time to waste on Cabinet choices that are not aligned 100 percent with his plan and purpose.
For that reason, in selecting his team of leaders for his administration since the election, President Trump has placed a premium on three characteristics:
President Joe Biden's 11th hour commutations for 37 federal death row inmates, many of them who raped and murdered children, are not going over well.
"37 murders are spared the death sentence in yet another desperate act of outgoing president Joe Biden trying to get some media and left-wing approval. They include some of the most heinous of double and triple murders," Democratic pollster Mark Penn posted on X. "Would he have done this with an election pending? Of course not. He had four years to do this if believed it was the right thing to do as crime and murders spiked from before Covid.
President-elect Donald Trump said he would rename North America's tallest mountain reversing a change made by former President Obama while he was in office.
Speaking at a conservative TurningPoints USA conference in Phoenix, the 78-year-old said he would rename Alaska's Mount Denali to Mount McKinley after the 25th president.
'They took his name off Mount McKinley,' Trump told supporters on Sunday. He praised McKinley as a 'great president' and said his administration would bring back the name Mount McKinley 'because I think he deserves it.'
It comes after Obama sided with the state of Alaska in the long-running dispute over the highest mountain peak's name in 2015 and had it changed
An unidentified woman who was flying from Los Angeles to Philadelphia was flagged at the security checkpoint during a routine X-ray screening on December 15, after an officer noticed what appeared to be several prohibited items in her carry-on, the agency announced.
When the officer then opened the bag in front of the traveler, he was shocked to find 82 fireworks, three knives, two replica firearms and a cannister of pepper spray - all of which are prohibited in carry-on luggage, the agency announced.'The sheer number of prohibited items discovered in a single carry-on bag is extremely concerning,' LAX TSA Federal Security Director Jason Pantages said.
Rounding up gang members is never a bad idea. When those gang members are part of a horrendous Venezuelan prison gang, Tren de Aragua, and are in the United States illegally, it's an even better idea. Finally, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) seems to be taking this matter seriously. On Monday, as an early Christmas present to the American people, we see that ICE has carried out operations in Colorado and New York that have resulted in the arrest of "dozens" of Tren de Aragua goblins. U.S. authorities arrested dozens of members of the Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua during recent operations in two major American cities.
President-elect Donald Trump has reignited his ambition for U.S. ownership and control of Greenland, declaring it an “absolute necessity” for national security and global freedom.
This renewed interest, first expressed during his initial term, was announced alongside his selection of PayPal co-founder Ken Howery as the U.S. ambassador to Denmark.
In a statement released on Truth Social, Trump wrote:
I am pleased to announce Ken Howery as my choice for United States Ambassador to the Kingdom of Denmark. Ken is a World renowned entrepreneur, investor, and public servant, who served our Nation brilliantly during my First Term as U.S. Ambassador to Sweden,
After the inauguration of President George W. Bush on January 20, 2001, many new White House aides excitedly showed up for work the next day only to find their office spaces vandalized and trashed. [Snip] Perhaps because nobody held the Democrats responsible for undermining the peaceful transfer of power in 2001, Democrats were emboldened to do even worse in 2017. [Snip] Twenty-four years ago, the Clintons left the White House shamefully. Sixteen years later, Obama framed his successor as a Russian spy and laid the groundwork for a coup d’état. Now Biden is itching for nuclear war. Democrats don’t transfer power with any semblance of peace.
Ethics Committee Final Report: 'Substantial
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This is what's known as the "other shoe dropping."
Matt Gaetz had hoped to avoid public disclosure of the results of the House Ethics Committee investigation into numerous allegations of corruption and wrongdoing. His successful attack on Kevin McCarthy's Speakership came in part because McCarthy refused to quash the probe. Gaetz clearly intended to use the strange sequence this past month where Gaetz resigned his office just after winning another House term in order to force the committee to seal the results. Instead, the Ethics Committee voted to publish its final report on Gaetz. Before they could do that, though, it leaked to a number of news outlets this morning
America is just coming-to after a near-death experience. We came within a hair’s breadth of ceasing to be America. [Snip] You see, we Americans pray. Not every one of us; it’s not required for citizenship, but millions of us have been addressing the God of the Bible and He answers prayers. [Snip] And as we come out of our national coma, we’re starting to see what evil looks like. [Snip] We are waiting here on the banks of the Red Sea...God has a plan and it’s obviously not to let us drown...Why go to the lengths He has just to let us collapse now?
Someone acting for the president just made a decision that only a president can make and commuted the sentences of 37 of the 40 murderers on federal death row out of a sense of someone's moral imperative.
The Office of the President of the United States of America announced the commutations early Monday morning of Christmas week. A statement issued by the White House said the president was "guided by my conscience" to commute the death penalties for some of the worst of the worst offenders in America.
It begs the question of how consciously Joe Biden does anything these days
Two US Navy pilots were shot down over the Red Sea early Sunday in “an apparent case of friendly fire,” the US military said.
Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels said later on Sunday they had “targeted” the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman a day earlier in an operation that led to “shooting down an F-18 aircraft” and thwarting “American-British aggression” against Yemen.
United States Central Command said late on Saturday that both US pilots were recovered alive but “initial assessments indicate that one of the crew members sustained minor injuries.”
Musk Derangement Syndrome
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Move over, Trump Derangement Syndrome! It is time to make room for the latest pathology: Musk Derangement Syndrome.
The hysteria has been building for some time. It wasn’t so long ago that Elon Musk enjoyed enviable street cred among the brotherhood of snotty, self-congratulating elites. A green energy guru, he made the hearts of the Sierra Club Sultans go pit-a-pat with his talk of “sustainable transport” and solar roofs.
Then Musk made several missteps. The first was buying Twitter and restoring open discourse to a platform that was started to encourage, well, open discourse but had become a headquarters of government surveillance and censorship during the first Trump administration.
For a little bit, it looked like things were getting grim for Pete Hegseth’s nomination to be our next secretary of defense. Trump already lost Matt Gaetz’s attorney general nomination, as there weren’t enough votes for confirmation. Then, reports trickled in that Ron DeSantis might be tapped as Hegseth’s replacement. I don’t doubt that contingency plans were made, but Trump isn’t going to abandon Hegseth. Gaetz withdrew when the writing was on the wall, but Hegseth appears to have the support, though it will still be a rocky and likely humiliating road to the defense secretary’s office. The Democrats and the media will recycle and likely manufacture fake news
They weren’t run over by a reindeer.
President Biden on Monday commuted the sentences of 37 of 40 men on federal death row — a list that includes at least five child killers and several mass murderers — in a stunning act of clemency just two days before Christmas.
Biden, 82, gave the reprieve to the nation’s most violent murderers — nine of whom were found too dangerous to live after butchering fellow inmates — as part of his effort at “ensuring a fair and effective justice system,” the White House said.
Samidoun ("Steadfast"), a "Vancouver-based terrorist group," was founded in 2012 -- ostensibly to "assist Palestinian prisoners" -- by members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a designated terrorist organization in the United States, European Union and Canada. In practice, Samidoun is a front for the PFLP.
Who funds this terrorist-supporting madness? Samidoun, which does not publish any donor information, has a financial sponsor in the US, the Alliance for Global Justice, a registered 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization that reportedly works to bring about a communist revolution through building coalitions of organizations, many involved in pro-Hamas activity, and, according to its own website:
Soon-to-be President Donald Trump has talked about getting rid of the U.S. income tax and replacing it with a system of tariffs. He has come under heavy criticism from Democrats and many economists. But average Americans appear to like the idea, with a plurality favoring Trump’s idea, the latest I&I/TIPP Poll shows.
The December online I&I/TIPP Poll asked 1,441 adults across the country the following question: “President Trump has talked about replacing the income tax with tariffs (taxes on selected imports). Would you support or oppose such a move?” The poll has a margin error of +/-2.6 percentage points.
New Jersey is now subject to nonstop and often sensational civilian reports of swarms of nocturnal drones crossing city skies and violating the airspace of airports and military bases.
Terrified thousands demand to know what these drones are doing and to whom they belong.
In response, the Biden administration had initially kept mum Then, under mounting public pressure, it assured the public to be calm, given that most of the drones were likely launched by hobbyists and private citizens. When that narrative failed to convince many, spokespeople pivoted to claims of mass hysteria and mistaken identity.
Amateur sightseers, they inferred, were subject to panic and hallucinations -
Drones at a Christmas show in Florida collided in mid-air and were sent careening to the crowd below at high speed resulting in several reported injuries — including a young boy whose mothers say is clinging to life.
The Orlando Fire Department told News 6 that one person suffered a minor injury in the mishap, however, two mothers claim their son — who was apparently struck in the face by a rogue drone — was left “fighting for his life in the ER.”
Startling video shows the holiday display gone wrong play out, complete with shocked gasps from the audience and cries of frightened children.
At the 2024 AmFest in PHX AZ, President Donald Trump proclaimed in front of an electrified crowd that the “Golden Age of America is upon us,” suggesting a new era of prosperity and optimism under his leadership. He emphasized a strong stance on immigration, stating intentions to prevent the U.S. from becoming a “dumping ground” for other countries. Trump also promised to fulfill his campaign pledges with the motto “promises made, promises kept,” indicating a focus on policy follow-through. Additionally, he outlined plans for mass deportations and addressing issues like avoiding WW3 and the Panama Canal, reflecting his agenda for his next term.
One of the first appointments President Trump announced after his shellacking of Democrats and the absolute repudiation of Democrat politics in the 2024 election was former ICE Director Tom Homan as the nation’s new “Border Czar.”
Homan, a steadfast supporter of strong border policies and seasoned law enforcement leader, will be tasked with overseeing all aspects of U.S. border security, extending beyond the southern and northern land borders to include maritime and aviation domains.
Homan will lead all deportation efforts, enforcing strict policies to remove illegal aliens from the country, and he has not been shy about his intentions. He has put Sanctuary cities on notice that
It’s good news that Stephen Miran has been nominated by Donald Trump to be the chairman of the CEA. The president-elect notes that: Steve was a Senior Advisor for Economic Policy at the Treasury Department during my First Term and received his Ph.D. In Economics from Harvard University. Oddly, Trump does not mention that Miran wrote a few times for National Review Capital Matters, which by itself makes Miran a splendid choice for this role, once held by Kevin Hassett, who will himself be serving as the director of the National Economic Council (NEC). In its biography of Miran, the Manhattan Institute describes him as both a fellow there and a senior