Posts on Sunday, December 29, 2024
The Cult of the ‘Hot Assassin’
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Now we can add to that fictional list of grotesqueries a few not-at-all fictional categories which not long ago would have been regarded as quite simply unthinkable.
After the hell on earth that descended upon innocent Israeli families in their homes and young people attending a music rally on October 7, 2023, and the sickening campus protests in support of the Hamas animals who conducted the slaughter:
Barbarity is heroism.
After the true heroism of Daniel Penny in that subway car in May 2023,
Pretty counts, and pretty girls know from the time they’re two years old that prettiness has power. Brains count, and pretty girls with brains are quite thrilled when they realize––about age four or five––that they’ve been doubly blessed. Pretty brainy Black girls who were born into the right era came of age during the Obama regime. But sometimes those pretty brainy Black girls realized that if they wanted to get noticed, they could never join the poor-me, I’m-a-victim, racist mantra of Obama’s Democrat Party. They knew they would have to distinguish themselves in an original and unexpected way, sort of like the hooker Gypsy Rose Lee in the Broadway musical “Gypsy,”
Representative Mike Lawler (R-NY) said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) will be reelected Speaker of the House because no member of the Freedom Caucus could not get the 218 votes needed.
Partial transcript as follows:
JONATHAN KARL: First of all, let’s start right there with Mike Johnson. Does he get re-elected speaker of the House? Should he be?
LAWLER: Yes, and yes. The fact is that Mike Johnson inherited a disaster when Matt Gaetz and several of my colleagues teamed up with 208 Democrats to remove Kevin McCarthy, which will go down as the single stupidest thing I’ve ever seen
ATLANTA, Ga. - Over a year ago when former President Jimmy Carter entered hospice care, President Joe Biden said he planned to deliver the eulogy at the funeral. “He asked me to do his eulogy,” Biden said, before stopping himself from saying more. “Excuse me, I shouldn’t say that.” Carter’s death was announced Sunday, and it’s not clear whether Biden’s plans are the same as when he announced them. “I spent time with Jimmy Carter and it’s finally caught up with him, but they found a way to keep him going for a lot longer than they anticipated because they
CNN’s resident conservative commentator Scott Jennings heartily dismissed rosy predictions from his liberal colleagues about President Biden’s legacy, contending the 82-year-old will end his presidency “in disgrace,” during a lively panel debate.
Fellow panelist, Democrat Karen Finney, got Jennings going on Sunday by positing that Biden’s record and accomplishments will “stand the test of time,” despite legitimate issues with his mental acuity.
“It was very disturbing to learn late in the year about just how bad, how poor his health has become. And like many, I did not realize that it had gotten to that point,” Finney insisted on a CNN “State of the Union” panel Sunday.
In the weeks before the 2016 Trump Electoral College victory, Donald Trump was polling between 35% and 40%.
He would average only about 41% approval over his tumultuous four-year tenure.
No one knows what lies ahead over the next four years. But for now, Trump already polls well over 50% approval. His inauguration in a few weeks will likely not resemble Trump’s 2016 ceremony.
In the 2016-7 transition, Democratic-affiliated interests ran commercials urging electors to become “faithless,” and thus illegally to reject their states’ popular votes and instead elect the loser, Hillary Clinton. Massive demonstrations met Trump on Inauguration Day.
In less than four months after assuming the presidency,
When Donald Trump won the election, Elon Musk captured the shifting media landscape perfectly. In a post on X, Musk declared, “You are the media now.”
His words were met with outrage from legacy media, but time has proven him right. Traditional media, once trusted to hold power accountable, has devolved into little more than a PR wing for the Democratic Party—and Joe Biden in particular. The past week proved it.
The National Archives recently released damning photographs showing Joe Biden meeting with Hunter Biden’s Chinese business associates. This directly contradicts Biden’s long-standing claim that he had no involvement in his son’s foreign business dealings.
As we reported the other day, Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) dropped some big truth bombs on CNN host Abby Phillip over Joe Biden and money from Chinese nationals. The biggest problem was her confessed cluelessness when it came to the question.
“I’m still waiting to see the proof of Joe Biden enriching himself. I take his brother and his son, perhaps,” CNN host Abby Phillip said. Then as I noted, Lawler did lay out a direct line. The tweet continues:
Two Laptops: FBI Flaunts Ulbricht's Laptop
Before Trump's Clemency; Free Man Hunter
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Before Trump's Clemency; Free Man Hunter
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A cocky FBI decided to taunt President-elect Donald J. Trump with an X-post of Ross William Ulbricht’s laptop less than a month before Trump returns to the White House and has the authority to keep his promise to commute Ulbricht’s double life sentences with a 40-year kicker without parole following his Feb. 5, 2015, conviction. On the Silk Road, a darknet site run by American cybercriminal Ross William Ulbricht, bargaining for illegal goods and services was as easy as clicking a button. #FBI investigators seized Ulbricht's laptop and took down his criminal enterprise,” said the FBI’s X-post,
Jeju Air passenger’s haunting final
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A passenger aboard the doomed Jeju Air flight texted a relative with a final message moments before the plane slammed into a concrete barrier and burst into flames in South Korea, killing 179 people.
One of the passengers aboard the jet, which flew from Thailand to Muan International Airport Sunday morning, texted a relative that a bird was stuck in the plane’s wing, according to News1 agency.
“Should I say my last words?” the passenger texted their relative, according to the outlet.
(Photo) Video captured the horrifying moment the twin-engine Boeing 737-800 skidded down the runway with no working landing gear and slammed into a wall in a fiery explosion.
It’s another game of catch-up for the media and yet another painful reminder for them why scores of Americans are flocking to other sources for news because they cannot be trusted. It’s why some media heads are ranting about the 2024 election, Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter, and the proliferation of streamers and podcasts. They’re losing control, and they know it. Even Kamala Harris’ operatives admitted that legacy media isn’t what it used to be regarding voter reach and influence. Also, the pervasive lying the media does to cover for Democrats, specifically Joe Biden, has been one of the overt operations in recent memory.
Whether it is using schools, hospitals and other public buildings that are supposed to be afforded immunity in conflict under international law, or simply using Palestinian civilians as human shields, Hamas terrorists have consistently jeopardised the well-being of those they purport to defend.
Another area where Hamas deliberately intensifies the suffering of Palestinian civilians as a means of pressuring Israel to end its military offensive is by denying Palestinian families access to much-needed aid supplies. When the Gazans, for whom the aid is intended, try to approach it, there have been reports of Hamas operatives shooting them.
Breaking News: Jimmy Carter dead at 100:
Former US President passes away in his
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Former US President passes away in his
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Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has died at the age of 100, almost two years after announcing he would spend his final days in hospice care.
The Democrat former peanut farmer, who served one term in the White House and dedicated the rest of his life to charity, decided against more medical treatment in February after a string of hospital stays.
The Nobel Peace Prize winner lived out his final months in Plains, Georgia. He had beloved wife of 77 years Rosalynn by his side until her passing on November 19, 2023 at the age of 96.
Guardian Angels resume NYC subway patrols
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The Guardian Angels are resuming their patrols of the Big Apple’s subways as if it were crime-riddled Gotham in 1979, after the horrifying arson murder of a sleeping straphanger on a train last week, founder Curtis Sliwa said Sunday.
The red-beret-wearing volunteer vigilante squad is beefing up its ranks to its level 45 years ago, Sliwa said.
“We’re going to have to increase our numbers, increase the training and increase our presence as we did back in 1979,” Sliwa said at the Stillwell Avenue-Coney Island station in Brooklyn where the woman was killed.
- In the 1960s, the left-wing radicalism of college students drove massive changes in American politics. The primary issue was the war in Vietnam, but there was more bubbling and churning beneath the surface than just anti-war sentiment. Racial issues had been forced fully into the open. The women's liberation movement was set to explode. Class divisions were heightened as inflation took hold and unemployment began to rise.At the same time that students were protesting in America, they were also marching in France, Germany, Great Britain, and most of Western Europe. The status quo was out. Progressivism (liberalism) was in. This was the beginning of the progressive era in America and
As we prepare to enter the new year, we’re taking you back to some of The Daily Wire’s best reporting from 2024. This article was originally published on November 30.
President-elect Donald Trump has promised to eliminate the Department of Education, an ambitious goal that comes amid backlash to what critics say is the agency’s runaway spending and focus on “woke” indoctrination as American children’s grades decline.
“I say it all the time, I’m dying to get back to do this. We will ultimately eliminate the federal Department of Education,” Trump said during a September rally in Wisconsin. “We will drain the government education swamp and stop the abuse
If you took about a hundred dumpsters, all on fire, loaded them on a train full of burning porta-potties, and crashed the whole thing into a giant pile of the stuff one normally finds under the south end of a northbound horse, that would be the Biden presidency. Befuddled and confused, inarticulate, showing flashes of unfounded anger and creepy whispering, Joe Biden will go down in history as one of the worst presidents in the history of the republic.
We can take some comfort in knowing that Joe Biden will be vacating the White House on January 20th. But he's not going quietly into that good night; instead,
Transvestite: noun
Someone who adopts the dress or manner or sexual role of the opposite sex.
Transvestism: The practice of dressing in a manner traditionally associated with the opposite sex.
When did transvestites become transexuals? And why? During the fifties here in America, transvestites (remember Christine Jorgensen?) were the stuff of snide jokes. They were laughed at as misfit men trying to be women. Later, there was Bruce Jenner, who also was a transvestite and who later named himself Caitlin Jenner and demanded everyone else call him by that name. Jenner is still a cross-dressing man in women’s clothing. How did Americans get so afraid of calling them transvestites?
** Who hid these photos from the American public showing likely criminal activity by the Biden Crime Family?
** Why are these government officials, with the CIA, IRS, FBI and NARA still walking free after concealing this likely criminal activity from the American people?
Rep. James Comer (R-KY), the Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, joined Jason Chaffetz on Sunday Morning Futures this morning to discuss the incriminating photos released by America First Legal that were published last week of Joe and Hunter Biden meeting with their Chinese business associates while Joe Biden was in China representing the United States government.
The 2024 election marked a significant shift in political dynamics. Democrats, who have long had an advantage on social issues, continued to double down on the most radical of positions, ceding the advantage to Republicans and allowing them to go on the offensive rather than being defensive. For example, the Trump campaign managed to successively use Kamala’s radical positions on gender against her, telling voters, "Kamala is for they/them, President Trump is for you."
It’s no secret that Democrats now have to reassess their agenda if they want to win back mainstream voters, particularly working-class Americans. These voters, who make up the majority of the electorate, have increasingly become alienated
The Israeli Health Ministry has compiled a report, detailing the horrific conditions hostages in Gaza have faced at the hands of their Hamas captors, and it's about as gruesome as you can imagine. Israel plans to submit the report to the United Nations this week. The information is based on interviews with the personnel who provided medical and other types of care to many of the hostages who were freed in late November 2023. According to the Jerusalem Post, the report uses pseudonyms to protect their identities.
Warning: Graphic Content Ahead
Men, women, and children were all subjected to both physical and psychological abuse
The Washington Post and the New York Times have a (mostly second or third-hand) write-up of what is supposedly going on inside Biden’s head as he heads towards the exit.
According to the Times, Biden is spending a lot of time getting to know Pope Francis.
Mr. Biden is also going to the Holy See to seek solace and “relief” as he exits the world stage. [SNIP] They are both elderly leftists best known for speaking in word salads and wrecking formerly respected institutions. Maybe they can trade jobs for a week. No one will even notice.
If an election were held today, the governing left-wing Labour Party would lose its majority and nearly 200 seats in parliament in large part due to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK, an analysis has found.
Despite sweeping to a landslide victory less than six months ago, analysis conducted by the More in Common think tank has found that support for Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party has dwindled to such an extent that it would lose at least 183 seats in the House of Commons and therefore lose its majority in the parliament.
The so-called “mega-poll” conducted on behalf of London’s Sunday Times
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will undergo prostate removal surgery on Sunday after being diagnosed with a urinary tract infection last week.
Netanyahu’s office announced the surgery on Saturday, describing the infection as “stemming from a benign enlargement of his prostate.”
The surgery comes as Netanyahu, 75, leads Israel in multiple conflicts across the Middle East against Iran and its proxy terrorist groups.
Just this week, the IDF launched a series of airstrikes against the Houthi rebels in Yemen, targeting Sana’a International Airport, among other locations.
Is President Joe Biden making any decisions anymore? Who knows? Probably not. Heck, it was debatable from day one whether he was the one actually in charge of his administration. Well, now he’s made it crystal clear that he’s utterly disconnected from reality.
According to White House insiders, Biden is reportedly lamenting his decision to to drop out of the presidential election, and—try not to laugh—he still believes he could have easily defeated Donald Trump had he stayed in the race.
Joe Biden regrets having pulled out of this year’s presidential race and believes he would have defeated Donald Trump in last month’s election –
The Capital Is Like Brigadoon
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I don’t know if you’re old enough to remember the musical Brigadoon. It was about a Scottish village that disappears in the mists and only reappears once every hundred years. The District of Columbia and its federal components often remind me of that. On a local level (perhaps a tradition from pre-air conditioning days) the place is somnolent for all practical purposes in the summer and even through much of the spring. Then, just before Thanksgiving, the courts suddenly schedule hearings on cases that have been moldering for months in the clerks’ offices and Congress starts to hustle to get a continuing resolution --
OTTAWA—Every day, just before sunset, 33-year-old Ryan Hemsley heads to Clover Point, a scenic stretch along the southern coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada’s westernmost province. When the weather is clear, he can look across the Strait of Juan de Fuca and see the Olympic Mountains in Washington State.
“Subconsciously, there’s something that keeps bringing me here every day,” Hemsley told me. Watching the Seattle ferry return to the U.S., his thoughts drift to an unlikely fantasy.
“How can I be a stowaway so I can be an American?” he said.
Charles Dolan, the billionaire founder of HBO and Cablevision, whose family owns Madison Square Garden, has died at age 98, his family said Saturday.
Dolan passed away of natural causes surrounded by his loved ones, according to a statement.
“It is with deep sorrow that we announce the passing of our beloved father and patriarch, Charles Dolan, the visionary founder of HBO and Cablevision,” the statement reads. Dolan’s career began in New York City in 1952 when he was just 26 years old. Dolan — the father of New York Knicks Executive Chairman James Dolan — founded Sterling Manhattan Cable in 1962, which had exclusive agreements with New York pro-sports teams,
Throughout the 2024 campaign, Democrats insisted that we simply had to vote for Kamala Harris or else the nation would descend into the fascist rule of Bad Orange Man, the most dangerous enemy of “our democracy” since the reigns of terror of his good friends and role models Adolf Hitler and Genghis Khan. It was all bunkum, of course, and an extended use of the old tactic of accusing the enemy of what they were guilty of doing, as it was the Biden-Harris regime that took actual steps to criminalize opposition to its policies. And now, even after their disastrous electoral defeat,
At first glance, the story seemed distressingly familiar: back in June 2023, a Syrian asylum seeker went on a stabbing spree at a playground in the French city of Annecy, stabbing four toddlers and two adults. There have been numerous incidents in recent years of Muslim migrants in France stabbing people in random attacks, often while screaming “Allahu akbar.” In this case, however, the attacker shouted “In the name of Jesus Christ” as he did his stabbing and claimed to be a Christian. It seemed as if the left had at last the Christian terrorist that looms so large in its mythmaking but has been so elusive in real life.
As we previously reported, a recent interim report from the Committee on House Administration's Subcommittee on Oversight found that the events of Jan. 6 were preventable. It also dropped some bombshell allegations against former Republican Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney including that she may have tampered with a witness, Cassidy Hutchinson. The report said "numerous federal laws were likely broken" by Cheney, the Vice Chair of the Jan. 6 Committee and recommended that they be investigated by the FBI. Cheney did not handle the report well, tossing a bit of a fit. She went on and on about the pages of the report:
As RedState previously reported, President Joe Biden decided to drop an unwelcome Christmas surprise on the families of murder victims whose killers were on federal death row by commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 inmates to life in prison without the possibility of parole. "... guided by my conscience and my experience as a public defender, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Vice President, and now President, I am more convinced than ever that we must stop the use of the death penalty at the federal level," Biden's said in a statement posted to the White House website Monday.
Despite New York Post Phone Call, Question
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and Answer, Donald Trump Companies Do
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When I read the New York Post article proclaiming that President Trump supports the fraudulent system known as H1B visa hiring, I knew something was amiss because we previously looked at Trump’s various business hires and use of the visa process. Apparently, the NY Post called President Trump to get him to weigh in on the controversial subject that has been triggered by Elon Musk saying he would “go to war on this issue” to maintain the H1B visa system -and subsequent foreign employment for tech skilled workers- his various companies depend upon.
President-elect Donald Trump says he has “always been in favor” of the H-1B visa program that imports hundreds of thousands of foreign workers, primarily from India, to take white-collar American jobs.
“I’ve always liked the visas, I have always been in favor of the visas,” Trump told the New York Post of the H-1B visa program. “That’s why we have them.” “I have many H-1B visas on my properties. I’ve been a believer in H-1B,” Trump continued. “I have used it many times. It’s a great program.”
Previously unseen photos of Joe and Hunter Biden meeting with both Chinese President Xi Jinping and many of Hunter's business partners has put new heat on the troubled First Son.
Joe Biden and his oldest living child have dominated the news cycles post-election after the president gave Hunter a blanket pardon on gun and tax fraud charges that dated back to 2013.
The newly released snaps from the National Archives show Biden during his vice presidency on a visit to China.
Vice President-elect JD Vance is the runaway frontrunner for the Republicans’ 2028 presidential pick, according to an AmericaFest straw poll taken at the event.
In one question, the straw poll took a look beyond President-elect Donald Trump’s second term, asking attendees who they would like to see as the 2028 Republican presidential nominee.The majority, 58 percent, want to see Vance as the presidential nominee in 2028. In a distant second place is Donald Trump Jr., with 17 percent. Another six percent said they want to see Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as the presidential nominee in 2028, and 11 percent remain undecided.
On the reverse side,
JACKSON, Miss. – Just days after tornadoes ripped across parts of the South, a deadly and “particularly dangerous” tornado watch affecting millions of people was underway in the Gulf states through Saturday night.
One person died Saturday as a result of multiple tornadoes that slammed Texas earlier in the day, Manvel Mayor Dan Davis said in a post on X.
The victim was killed in Brazoria County, located less than an hour outside of Houston, where multiple homes were destroyed and four other people were injured, according to KHOU.
Three other tornadoes were reported in Waller, Montgomery and Chambers counties in Texas, the outlet reported.
The heated debate over H-1B visa workers obscures the far greater inflows of other foreign workers into the white-collar jobs needed by American college graduates.
The federal government issues about 130,000 new H-1B visas each year — plus another 650,000 visas or work permits to other white-collar migrants each year.
Many of these non-immigrant workers are allowed to stay for five, six, or seven years. The multi-year visas create a resident population of at least 1.5 million white-collar workers.
That growing population is almost twenty times larger than the H-1B program’s inflow of 85,000 new foreign workers every year that the media is focusing on.
A Jeju Air flight drove off the runway in South Korea and collided with a fence, leaving at least 96 passengers dead, the Associated Press reported.
The Yonhap News Agency attributed the devastating crash to malfunctioning landing gear.
Jeju Air, a low-cost airline in South Korea, was carrying 175 passengers and six crew members in the Boeing 737-800 when the incident occurred Sunday morning local time at Muan International Airport in Muan County, South Jeolla Province, roughly 180 miles south of Seoul. The plane landed at 9:07 a.m. local time at the airport when the incident happened.
According to the Associated Press, the passenger plane slammed into a concrete fence
Civil War In MAGA-Land?
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Liberal news outlets are gleefully reporting that the MAGA coalition is falling apart over–surprisingly–immigration. Thus, Axios writes:
A virtual right-wing civil war has broken out over race, class, immigration and the future of President-elect Trump’s movement, and [Elon] Musk is increasingly at odds with Trump’s historic base.
The schism may force Trump to ultimately take sides between the largely white, working-class supporters who first made MAGA succeed, and the techno-libertarian billionaires like Musk who are at the center of his new administration.
The Left would love to see that, of course. Is there any reason why it should happen?
The issue is the H-1B visa program. Forbes summarizes the schism:
Europe now has no more corrupt country than Ukraine. For the third consecutive year, the country has been grappling with the repercussions of an ongoing war, seeking ways to sustain and operate all governmental institutions while relying heavily on international aid. [Snip] Donald Trump, who wonders why Washington should sponsor the Ukrainian war, will insist that Ukraine promote American interests. Ukraine’s chronic problems of corruption and nepotism, along with politicians’ and bureaucrats’ focus on their own well-being, rather than that of the state for which they work, suggest that continued US-Ukraine cooperation will bring nothing but financial losses to America.