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There was a song we used to sing when we were little tykes in elementary school (and always at Junior Girl Scout campouts). It was a sing-song little number about a cannibal king courting his sweetheart. I am kind of tickled to see that, even decades and decades later, it’s not considered so politically incorrect that it can’t be listed on a YMCA camp’s songlist. The melody is so bouncy, and the lyrics are so idiotically simple that everyone learns them in a trice. 

They then spend the rest of the evening going BAH-DOOMP, rather than straightforward answering questions or when you’re doomed to lose the belching contest, as, alas, I always did.

I never once thought that the little ditty of my childhood would spring to mind thanks to a president and vice-president of the United States. 

But here we are, or at least I am.

BAH-DOOMP

For four years, this great country has been subjected to the excruciating humiliation of watching this complete farce of a presidency come close to not only destroying our Republic itself but damn near the world.

And there was nothing – NOTHING – we could do about it while God knows who pulled the geriatric sack of carbon’s strings, ran his X-feed, wrote the White House press releases and edicts that poured forth, and ruled by Executive Order fiat when stymied by the occasional burp in the legislative or legal branch.

Who the HELL HAS BEEN RUNNING THE COUNTRY?

All the while, we were treated to fleeting glimpses and sound bites from the serial fabulist who wore the titular crown and occupied the official residence two or three days a week. As if to assure us the desiccated corpse clomping determinedly across the White House grass to get to Rehoboth by noon was sharp as a tack, all stories of his uncle being eaten by New Guinean cannibals to the contrary.

The Cannibal King, his two functioning brain cells, and whoever the devious, shady eunuchs were behind the curtain have been sitting on a throne of lies and damned lies.

And doesn’t every king have a consort?

Ours does…and lucky us, twice.

Granted, they’re almost always arranged marriages of convenience and political advantage for one side or the other, these things. Some consorts are mere window-dressing, and some are royal Eleanor of Aquitaine-level pains in the ass. Some become partners in ruling as they are partners in life, being of equal stature in intelligence and courage.

Some, like Massagetae Queen Tomyris (my spirit animal) become legends in their own right when thrown epic challenges.

And…alas. 

Some are coconuts.

I’m going to post a video of Kamala Harris and her moronic takes every day until the election.

This is her famous “coconut tree” speech from 2023. pic.twitter.com/Ur32WLtB64

— Sarah Fields (@SarahisCensored) July 28, 2024

BAH-DOOMP

I feel as if I cannot hold my breath a second longer in the worry about reaching the 20th of January with Donald Trump intact.

But then I expel it regularly in fits of swearing so thick the air turns blue and sucks the oxygen from the room – the cats and dog crawling out along the floorboards gasping for breath because Mom has seen something else the Cannibal King has done with an arbitrary wave of his femur wand in the frenzy associated with ‘leaving.’

The Coconut Queen, when she can be found (which isn’t often), giggles vapidly in support.

Student loans gone, hordes of criminals of all stripes commuted and forgiven, etc., etc. etc.

VERY WELL, YOUR MAJESTY

The presidential theater went too far today, and even if it was one of the few undeveloped testicles, Jake Sullivan-like drones left working the social media accounts on the White House X feed before they all get booted back to the Mordor, the kiddies crossed the line with this one.

Today I’m affirming what I have long believed and what three-fourths of the states have ratified:

The 28th Amendment is the law of the land, guaranteeing all Americans equal rights and protections under the law regardless of their sex. pic.twitter.com/oZtS6Q89zG

— President Biden (@POTUS) January 17, 2025

Ed, in his masterful summation of the obvious illegality involved in waving femurs at Constitutional Amendments, was kind enough to link to my NSFW X reaction where I…let me paraphrase here…’pithily’ expressed my opinion that I was over my objection to a Harris presidency. 25th the old sumbitch, I said, and make her president for 3 days. Get him and the puppet masters the HELL out of our house.

Ed ruined even that short-lived remedy for me. Don’t you know the Coconut Queen piped up?

THEY’RE KILLING ME HERE.

I give up

MAKE MIKE JOHNSON PRESIDENT

— tree hugging s*ster 🎃 (@WelbornBeege) January 17, 2025

BAH-DOOMP

This was so outside the pale that even the National Archivist, whose job seemed to be to protect POTATUS and screw Donald Trump at every opportunity, threw the ‘nyet’ flag.

Joe Biden tells one last lie and gets community noted:

The Archivist of the United States, charged with officially publishing ratified amendments, has confirmed that the ERA was not ratified and based that analysis on binding legal precedent.

There is no 28th Amendment.… https://t.co/VbhsSyP5hh

— Aaron 🏃🏼‍♂️✨ (@prattaaron) January 17, 2025

Amazingly, there was also no mention of this little brouhaha on the CBS Evening News tonight.

BAH-DOOMP

This has been the most evil, despicable, mendacious, un-American, duplicitous, authoritarian, fraudulent, ignorant, and flat-out unintelligent group of thieves to ever occupy positions of power across the board in my lifetime. Perhaps ever in the history of this country, the rot is so deep and the perfidy so uniform across the breadth of government and media.

The two sad sacks wearing the Cannibal and Coconut crowns are playing their last scenes in this really bad movie.

I can only thank God – ON MY KNEES – that the stars have aligned in such a way that people’s eyes were opened in enough time to save us.

Donald Trump isn’t perfect. 

But Donald Trump sure as hell isn’t them, and if anyone can pull us out of the hole these two third-rate buffoons have allowed to be dug for us, it will be that man.

If anyone will work to his last breath to do it and do to the best of his ability for the people in this country, it will be that man.

God. The whole thing exercise makes me ill with loathing. 

The only thing saving me is Monday.

BAH-DOOMP

Two days and a wake-up.

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Remember when the Women’s March was a big thing back in 2017? It really was huge that year and pink “pussy hats” were all the rage. And then there were those awkward accusations of anti-Semitism and by 2019 the march wasn’t drawing nearly as many people.

Whether it was stormy weather, reports of controversy or the simple waning of interest over time, the third annual Women’s March events on Saturday attracted much smaller crowds than in years past.

In Washington, in a frigid marble plaza only blocks from the White House, early attendees at first seemed to be outnumbered by barkers hawking T-shirts and buttons.

“I’m disappointed. It’s definitely not the turnout I was looking for,” said Peggy Baron, 53, a lawyer from Dublin, Ohio, who said that the first Washington march two years ago had been “wall-to-wall women.”

And then Biden was elected and the marches went away. But with Trump’s election to a 2nd term, the organizers are trying to bring it back but only after rebranding it as the People’s March.

Organizers say the rebranded and reorganized march has absorbed criticism and moved past the internal tumult that consumed the movement after the hugely successful march eight years ago on the day after Trump’s first inauguration.

Now, with Democratic political leaders across the country searching for ways to reconnect with voters after the party’s devastating election losses last fall, People’s March organizers are hoping to broaden their base, stake out a new direction and move beyond a single day of action to help progressive voters find a political home.

Saturday’s march is expected to draw as many as 50,000 people, far fewer than the Women’s March in 2017. It’s one of several protests, rallies and vigils focused on abortion, rights, immigration rights and the Israel-Hamas war planned in advance of inauguration Monday.

Will 50,000 show up? That’s still a big crowd but Reuters is reporting the number will be more like 25,000.

While the ‘Women’s March’ organization is coordinating another protest this Saturday, it is now dubbed the ‘People’s March’ and just 25,000 are expected in Washington, compared to an estimated 500,000 in 2017. Dozens of cities around the country are also holding demonstrations, but they are expected to be low-key.

Feminist icon Gloria Steinem and musicians Madonna and Alicia Keys were among the 2017 stars, but the Washington People’s March doesn’t have any big headliners. Steinem made the “hard decision” not to attend as the 90-year-old scales back on her travels, a representative said.

The reason for the declining interest isn’t exactly clear but some activists claim the movement is simply exhausted from successive losses and also divided internally.

The crushing defeat of Kamala Harris, the second Democratic woman to challenge Donald Trump to the presidency and lose, has left liberal women exhausted and laid bare racial divides in the women’s rights movements that will take some time to heal, more than a dozen activists and organizers told Reuters…

Rachel Noerdlinger is a senior advisor with Win With Black Women, a group of thousands of Black political advisers, fundraisers and strategists who poured money and organizing muscle into getting Harris elected. She said the women’s movement was fractured: “We’ve got some tough conversations to be had, and we have to recognize we have commonalities and we have differences.”…

Several Black activists told Reuters they felt betrayed by white women.

“They do need to interrogate why they tend to align with the patriarchy, why their allegiance to their race supersedes their allegiance to their gender,” said Amara Enyia, interim co-executive director for the Movement for Black Lives.

It sounds to me like the Women’s March succumbed to the same internal frictions that have been plaguing all left-wing groups for several years. I’ll return again to that Ryan Grim’s 2022 piece for the Intercept about organizations that spend 90% of their time on internal controversies rather than achieving their stated goals.

Wokeism is a double-edged sword. It gave the left a lot of openings to grab power in social, academic and corporate settings but a movement founded on constant racial criticism has also made it nearly impossible for the left to organize itself. Wokeism encourages the formation of factions along racial lines and also places white women at the bottom of a hierarchy of oppression, i.e. the most privileged. There’s no way out of this trap. The criticism aimed at other groups over grievances old and new is effectively endless.

All that to say, I’m not surprised the Women’s March fell apart or that it can’t return to what it once was. But who knows, maybe the People’s March will strike a chord. We’ll have a better idea tomorrow. 

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I was promised that Donald Trump would jail and kill media figures, execute generals, and build re-education camps for liberals. 

It is why I voted for him. 

Sure, Donald Trump never said or even intimated that he would do anything like this, but plenty of Pravda Media figures assured me that this would be so. Donald Trump Jr. would become the next in line to become President-for-life, and Barron would be waiting in the wings should something happen to his brother. 

I mean, more than 99 percent of the country isn’t watching his show so this is literally true https://t.co/hXB0LIEC7W

— Kyle Smith (@rkylesmith) January 17, 2025

Now, I am afraid that none of that will happen. None of these media figures has gone into hiding in some attack somewhere as far as I know, nor have they fled to non-extradition countries. They seem unconcerned about death camps and continue their nonstop attacks on the president-elect as if media free speech and protections still exist. 

Whoopi claims Trump is going to break up interracial marriages and redistribute the white spouses: “He’s going to deport and you put the white guy with someone else”
“The man is out there!” she declares. pic.twitter.com/luXpWjjqC9

— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) October 28, 2024

I’m not so hot on interracial marriages being broken up. My own marriage is a bit racially ambiguous, with a wife named Martín, and I doubt J.D. Vance wants to dump Usha, but perhaps they are on the chopping block, too, for all I know. 

Or not.

We at least need a few of the executions we were told were going to happen. I kept hearing about how they would happen–assured by all the best people that they would–and the American people DID vote for Trump. That means that the executions have a mandate, right?

Harris Senior Advisor Ian Sams: Trump is talking about sending a prominent Republican to the firing squad. Vice President Harris is talking about sending one to her Cabinet https://t.co/0zSFDRbOBM pic.twitter.com/6Eu6doMZum

— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) November 1, 2024

Adam Schiff doesn’t appear to be quaking in his boots about his fate under Trump, although maybe he is packing an AR-15 to shoot it out with Trump’s Praetorian Guard once they come for him. Liz Cheney remains in the country, but perhaps she will hole up in a Wyoming militia camp along with her dad to go out guns blazing. 

It could be a “remember the Alamo” moment. 

If I sound a bit snarky, it’s because I am so damned tired of these liars, knaves, and traitors to the American Spirit. They are among the lowest of the low, doing everything they can to sound the alarm about a non-problem. They are political opportunists who will do anything, say anything, and, in the case of their jihad against Trump, commit actual crimes to retain their power and prestige. 

If any of them committed actual crimes, off to jail with them. But if they haven’t, each and every one of them should lose security clearances, be blackballed from dealing with the federal government, be shunned by all Republicans and people who remain decent of any party, and most of all be ridiculed. 

We should create a clock: Day 365 of Liz Cheney not going before a firing squad… Day 366…Day 367. 

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Fact check: True. And false in another way, or at least incomplete.

The Los Angeles Times may not have gotten to the Dem Demo Dystopia story first; we’ve covered it here from other sources, for instance. However, it takes on more significance in light of the distillation of progressive Democrat governance in the catastrophic wildfires in Los Angeles. People had already begun fleeing California in droves over the last few years, with the Golden State holding U-Haul’s top exit position for five years running. 

The LAT catches up to the political implications for progressives in this Great Migration, or better put, a national flight to sanity:

Texas and Florida are growing rapidly. California, Illinois and New York have been shrinking.

With America’s population shifting to the South, political influence is seeping from reliably Democratic states to areas controlled by Republicans. Coming out of a presidential election where they lost all seven swing states, Democrats are facing a demographic challenge that could reduce their path to winning the U.S. House of Representatives or the White House for the long term.

If current trends hold through the 2030 census, states that voted for Vice President Kamala Harris will lose around a dozen House seats — and Electoral College votes — to states that voted for President-elect Donald Trump. The Democratic path to 270 Electoral College votes, the minimum needed to win the presidency, will get much narrower.

“At the end of the day, Democrats have to be able to win in the South or compete in the South” if they want to control the levers of government, said Michael Li, senior counsel for the Democracy Program at New York University School of Law’s Brennan Center for Justice. “Otherwise, it’s a really uphill battle every time.”

This may become particularly acute in Southern California in the wake of the events of the past two weeks. Many of those who lost their homes in the wildfires may face years of effort to rebuild and return to their homes. If they were fortunate enough to retain their insurance, though, the payout would likely allow them to find much cheaper housing with similar amenities elsewhere — without the incompetent and malevolent progressive bureaucracy that made this disaster exponentially worse. Some of them may not be mobile enough to move away from income streams, but only a fool would fail to look at that option rather than wait until the end of the decade to have a home again. 

One can bet that other Californians who aren’t impacted by the wildfires are thinking the same thing. For one, the destruction of housing on this scale will have the immediate effect of raising property values everywhere else in the Greater Los Angeles Area. Anyone who had been considering an exit to sanity but hadn’t yet pulled the trigger will realize that the financial incentives will never be better, while the political incentives for staying will never be worse. And for that matter, the same is true for the fiscal incentives in the long run, as Calfornia’s progressives will have to soak its residents even more to pay for the damage done by their incompetence as the bills run into the hundreds of billions of dollars. 

Ironically, this will benefit California progressives in one sense, as their political opposition will leave the field to solidify Democrat control at the local and state level. But as the LAT and others have noticed, it will make California a lot less politically relevant at the national level. And given the fiscal woes in Sacramento, for which Newsom and the state legislature will need federal help to resolve since Democrats won’t stop spending money they don’t have, that will be very bad news for progressive California and the other coastal states in the grips of incompetent progressives. Which includes every state on the West Coast and every state north of the Carolinas on the East Coast. 

What does that mean for progressives and these states in Congress and in presidential elections? A doom loop:

The Brennan Center projects that California will lose four seats and New York two in the 2030 census. Illinois, Minnesota, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Wisconsin would lose one seat each. Except for Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, which are swing states, all of those states have consistently backed Democrats for president and sent Democratic majorities to the House.

No GOP strongholds are projected to lose seats.

Overall, the Brennan Center estimates a loss of 12 seats from blue states to red states. The conservative American Redistricting Project estimates it at 11 seats. Either way, the shift in 2030 — assuming it comes to pass — will mean a rightward shift in a near-evenly split of the House. It also portends a subtle rightward shift in the Senate, as a flood of disaffected conservatives flows out of California and New York to states they find more politically palatable. And of course, the Electoral College will begin to tilt significantly to the GOP if Democrats can’t rid themselves of the radical-progressive elite clique that currently controls their party. 

So all of this is true enough, but it still doesn’t tell the whole story. The problem for progressives isn’t just that their conservative residents are migrating. As Gallup’s latest party affiliation data shows, Americans are also migrating to the GOP overall:

Americans’ political party preferences remained closely divided in 2024, with the Republican Party having a slight edge for the third consecutive year. Overall, 46% of Americans identified as Republicans or independents who leaned toward the Republican Party, compared with 45% who identified as Democrats or Democratic-leaning independents. Prior to 2022, Republicans only had a slight edge once before, in 1991.

Without leaners, a plurality of voters identify as independents, still at a record-high 43%. However, when Gallup adds in the leaners, Republicans have gotten the edge for the last three years. That makes the COVID pandemic look like an inflection point, and perhaps that is what finally broke the spell, as the destination states all have the same thing in common — either no lockdowns or very brief restrictions. Americans have a pretty good sense of freedom and dangers to it, and are flocking toward liberty and away from the bureaucrats and progressive incompetents that want to eliminate it. And that may well accelerate as progressives clamp down even harder on whoever is unfortunately unable to escape.

U-Haul had better invest some big money in their outbound California infrastructure, in other words. 

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Last month, Simon Price graduated from the Berklee College of Music in Boston. But his last semester in school turned into an ugly scene after he was assigned a project for a class called “Songwriting and Social Change.” The project was to put together a public event about a social issue the student felt passionate about. White other students did projects about homelessness and eating disorders, Price decided he would talk about his own experience living as a trans person for 3 years before detransitioning.

In middle school, my peers targeted me with homophobic bullying. They called me slurs, threatened me, and made me afraid and uncomfortable in my own body. At 13, I told my parents that I was bisexual. A year later, I declared that I was a girl. I demanded — with the support of my therapist and pediatrician — access to cross-sex hormones…

At 17, I started the long process of desistance and social detransition.

Price went through all the normal steps to complete his assignment. He discussed his plans with his professor. He secured a room to hold the event. He arranged for security and even got funding from the Office of Diversity & Inclusion to fund it. It wasn’t until he took the next step of advertising the event online that things took a turn.

Individuals on Instagram said they were going to throw “expired groceries” at him, demanded that he be kicked out of school, and told him he should be “scared” to host the event. 

Students also got 1,998 signatures for an online petition urging the college to cancel the event, claiming it was “expected to harm the mental well-being of individuals in the transgender community.”

On Oct. 17, Amaya Price met with Berklee Vice President and Executive Director Ron Savage, who recommended postponing the event for safety reasons and promised to help Amaya Price find a different venue. But instead, the Office of Diversity & Inclusion posted to its Instagram that the event “will no longer take place as planned on October 20” and will “not be sponsored” by the Office.

On Oct. 21, Savage indefinitely postponed the event.

Indefinitely postponed but not canceled even as the semester was ending and Price was about to graduate. At this point the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression got involved.

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression sent Berklee a letter on Nov. 1, in which it showed how the school’s decision to indefinitely postpone my event is a breach of the school’s speech code. The college responded nearly a month later, on Nov. 26, with a statement from a lawyer, claiming “it was ultimately postponed due to safety and other logistical concerns.”…

Since Oct. 21, I have heard from countless Berklee students, alumni, and professors who feel that Berklee preferentially protects free speech along lines of identity and political affiliation. The attempts by my classmates and Berklee administration to sweep my event under the rug has, ironically, caused it to receive far more publicity than it would have otherwise. I worked with a number of groups, including Democrats for an Informed Approach to Gender and MIT’s Open Discourse Society, to put my event on at MIT. It took place on Nov. 24, and there were nearly 50 attendees at my event and a small protest, but there were no safety issues. What is Berklee afraid of?

We all know the answer to that last question. The school is afraid of the vicious trans activists who threaten and bully anyone who deviates from their approved ideology. Standing up to them would have take a lot more backbone than the Berklee College of Music has. Instead they cowered behind an indefinite postponement, too afraid to even state plainly what they were doing (canceling the event).

The event he held at MIT was filmed and you can watch it here. He details some of the messages he received from other Berklee students. However, this interview below is a bit easier to listen to. Simon explains that he was miserable in Middle School and after spending time on Google decided he must be trans. He announced this to his family but his father said no and refused to let him make any changes to his body. “I hated him for it at the time, but I’m really happy he did that,” Simon said. He added, “Without him I would be in a much worse place today.”

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Yikes. Senator Richard Blumenthal thought he had a gotch for Kristi Noem, but wound up revealing what an…unsavory…man he is and how disgusting the Democratic Party’s position is on illegal immigration. 

Watch:

RICHARD BLUMENTHAL: “Will you help me reunite children with their parents who were separated by Trump’s family separation policy?”

KRISTI NOEM: “What I’m alarmed by is the over 300,000 children that went missing during the Biden administration.”

BLUMENTHAL: “Let’s put aside the… pic.twitter.com/j13huXJTjE

— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) January 17, 2025

“Let’s put aside…” I mean, really? Forget about those missing children who are being used in slave labor, victims of human trafficking, and some of whom are being sexually trafficked. That happened under Biden, so it’s fine and dandy. 

Instead, let’s focus on something that happened under Trump and about which the Biden administration did nothing for four years. 

This is exactly how progressives think, and they don’t appear to realize that it is demonic. Or, maybe they do and just don’t care. 

Sen. Moreno: Mayorkas let in about 12,000 murderers. How many would you let in?

Gov. Noem: None.

Sen. Moreno: Mayorkas let in 6,000 rapists into this country. How many would you let in?

Gov. Noem: My goal would be none.

Sen. Moreno: Mayorkas let in 600,000 with criminal… pic.twitter.com/mCuHYYFqhV

— Bad Hombre (@joma_gc) January 17, 2025

For years, the Democrats have moved heaven and earth to enable the world’s biggest human trafficking operation and have been shipping at taxpayer expense unaccompanied minors to fake “relatives” who spirit them away to God knows where. They haven’t just let it happen; they have been subsidizing and encouraging it, along with the importation of fentanyl. Their policies have enriched the drug cartels to the tune of billions of dollars, and they are proud of it. 

Incoming Border Czar Tom Homan: Under the Trump administration, we did DNA testing. In El Paso, we found that almost 1/3 of the “families” weren’t even families. The children were victims of trafficking. This administration lost over 340,000 children. pic.twitter.com/rAfJGw0EeV

— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) January 17, 2025

But now that Trump is coming back to office, they want to “put aside” that sorry history and start screaming about “kids in cages” again, and will probably resurrect Obama-era photographs to prove how cruel Republicans are. 

Barf. Will we see more photos of AOC with crocodile tears staring at a parking lot?

This video right here is why Tom Homan is the perfect choice for border czar. pic.twitter.com/IXf80Pon3P

— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) January 17, 2025

At times it seems as if the Democratic Party is a criminal enterprise. That’s not to say that all Democrats are criminals or recognize the evil their party does. They somehow believe the rhetoric barfed out by the propagandists. For God’s sake, most believe Adam Schiff despite the fact that he is the most obvious liar in the world. 

At some level the ignorance is either intentional, or these people have become zombified by propaganda. 

Full story from @MaryMargOlohan: https://t.co/li0xGjvDx1

— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) December 29, 2024

But the people at the top, like Blumenthal? He says with a straight face that 300,000 or more missing children is no problem at all. 

Set aside the biggest human trafficking operation in the world. I wonder how much of the money made off this gross business winds up in the campaign coffers of such people. 

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Next week, temperatures around the country are going to be extremely cold because of a polar vortex.

America is about to get very very cold.

Some are describing it as an unusual double Polar Vortex. pic.twitter.com/p6BOZumzSr

— Concerned Citizen (@BGatesIsaPyscho) January 16, 2025

Temperatures in Washington, DC on Monday are expected to reach a high of 20 degrees and a low of 7 degrees. Strong winds up to 35 mph will make it feel even colder and there’s a possibility of fresh snow the day before. All in all, it would be a frigid mess for people expected to sit outside for several hours. 

So President-elect Trump just made a last-minute change of plans. He announced on Truth Social that the inauguration would be moving inside to the Capitol’s Rotunda.

“I have ordered the Inauguration Address, in addition to prayers and other speeches, to be delivered in the United States Capitol Rotunda, as was used by Ronald Reagan in 1985, also because of very cold weather,” Trump announced on his social media platform, Truth Social. “The various Dignitaries and Guests will be brought into the Capitol. This will be a very beautiful experience for all, and especially for the large TV audience!”

“There is an Arctic blast sweeping the Country. I don’t want to see people hurt, or injured, in any way,” he added. “It is dangerous conditions for the tens of thousands of Law Enforcement, First Responders, Police K9s and even horses, and hundreds of thousands of supporters that will be outside for many hours on the 20th (In any event, if you decide to come, dress warmly!).”

Obviously you can’t fit tens of thousands of people inside the Rotunda so Trump has arranged a backup plan. People will be able to watch a live feed from inside a nearby arena (home to the Capitals hockey team and the Wizards basketball team).

“We will open Capital One Arena on Monday for LIVE viewing of this Historic event, and to host the Presidential Parade,” he posted. “I will join the crowd at Capital One, after my Swearing In.”

Trump had already planned to hold a pre-inauguration rally at the same arena on Sunday.

No doubt people will be disappointed at effectively having to watch the ceremony on a big video screen but there is precedent for this. The last time it was done was in 1985 when the high temperature was 7 degrees. Ronald Reagan’s 2nd inauguration took place in the Capitol Rotunda as well.

Trump’s upcoming inauguration — while frigid — will not be as cold as Reagan’s on Jan. 21, 1985, which was the coldest on record. The temperature in D.C. that morning dropped to minus-4 degrees (a record for the date) and climbed to only 7 degrees at noon. It was so cold that it forced Reagan to take the oath of office indoors, and the inaugural parade was canceled.

CNN reports this will create a last minute mess for law enforcement who have been working on the outdoor security plan for months.

Agencies now have just three days to put together a new security plan that previously took months to plan. The agencies have worked since early 2024 planning for the inauguration — designated by the Department of Homeland Security as a National Special Security Event, which triggers a multi-pronged federal approach.

Trump’s inauguration was expected to be attended by hundreds of thousands of ticketed guests and involve roughly 25,000 law enforcement and military personnel.

As of Friday morning, more than 30 miles of fencing — more than has ever erected for such an event — was still being set up and was meant to filter crowds through security checkpoints in anticipation for Trump’s now-scrapped outdoor inauguration and parade down Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol to the White House.

Officials are worried about the low temperatures being a health risk to attendees and guests — a concern Trump voiced on Friday.

Freezing inauguration temperatures are believed to have led to the death of one US president:

President William Henry Harrison is widely believed to have caught a cold during his 1841 inaugural ceremony, during which he gave a two-hour speech and wore no coat or hat, according to the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. He later contracted pneumonia and died one month after his inauguration.

Again, people will be disappointed but under the circumstances this is the right choice. Here’s the full statement from President-elect Trump.

🚨 Statement from President Donald J. Trump on the Presidential Inauguration pic.twitter.com/cJBBhDkWCU

— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) January 17, 2025

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Oh, you hate to see it…JUST KIDDING.

[Beege Add] 

On Friday, a jury of six in Florida’s 14th Circuit Court in Bay County has found CNN liable for the defamation of Navy veteran Zachary Young and that he was entitled economic and emotional damages, a ruling that proved CNN was not worthy of their moniker “the most trusted name in news.” They also found that CNN’s reporters had demonstrated expressed malice, actual malice, and outrageous behavior, which opened the door for a massive punitive damages judgement.

A jury took eight hours – and one calculator – to decide that CNN had defamed Navy veteran Zachary Young, who had been involved in helping people get the hell out of Afghanistan, as ‘profiting’ from his assistance by ‘preying’ on their desperation.’

…Young alleged that CNN smeared him by implying he illegally profited when helping people flee Afghanistan on the “black market” during the Biden administration’s military withdrawal from the country in 2021. Young believes CNN “destroyed his reputation and business” by branding him an illegal profiteer” who exploited “desperate Afghans” during a November 11, 2021, segment that first aired on CNN’s “The Lead with Jake Tapper.” 

You know what’s even better about the whole situation?

Jake ‘Butter Wouldn’t Melt in His Mouth‘ Tapper is right smack dab in the middle of it.

…Tapper first teased the 2021 segment at the center of the suit by warning CNN viewers of “desperate Afghans still trying to escape the country being preyed on by folks demanding that they pay up big time to get out.”

Later in the show, Tapper reminded viewers that the story on “desperate Afghans” being “preyed upon” was up next. 

Tapper’s teasers ended up being a key part of the trial, as jurors asked to take another look at them during the deliberation process. 

Once the much-hyped segment began, Tapper said Marquardt found “Afghans trying to get out of the country face a black market full of promises, demands of exorbitant fees, and no guarantee of safety or success.”

Tapper tossed to Marquardt, who said “desperate Afghans are being exploited” and need to pay “exorbitant, often impossible amounts” to flee the country.

NewsBusters’ Nick Fondacaro (his X feed here), who has done a gangbuster job following this case and trial, noted that national security correspondent Alex Marquardt, the author of the report and on-screen with Tapper,  was promoted by CNN while the wrangling over the lawsuit raged on.

…Chief national security correspondent Alex Marquardt, who was promoted to that position while the suit was still on going, singled out Young as the face of the people who was “exploit[ing]” “desperate Afghans”:

According to Afghans and activists we’ve spoken with desperate Afghans are being exploited like that young man, told they can get them or their families out if they pay exorbitant often impossible amounts. One LinkedIn user posted messages with Young, where Young said it would be $75,000 for a car to Pakistan. He told another, it would be 14 and a half thousand per person to get to the United Arab Emirates or Albania for another 4,000. Prices well beyond the reach of most Afghans.

Young’s lead counsel Vel Freedman said in his closing that the Marquardt segment ran on 11 different CNN shows both domestically and on CNN International. And, in addition to Marquardt’s defamatory report, it was accompanied by anchors making their own defamatory statements about Young.

I can only assume the network wasn’t terribly worried about the young Navy veteran denting their corporate armor to allow that sort of public pile-on. In fact, that attitude oozes out of the Slack messages, texts, conversations, and correspondence associated with the piece as it was produced and run on CNN.

Discovery proved to be a bear for the network.

…The segment was shared on social media and also repackaged for CNN’s website. The Marquardt report was re-aired Nov. 13 on Jim Acosta’s CNN show and multiple times on CNN International. 

Every second of the segment was picked apart during the trial, with CNN’s legal team insisting Young was not a major element of the story and the plaintiff’s team suggesting the “black market” implication essentially ruined Young’s career as a defense contractor, where that language was specifically mentioned as grounds for termination in a contract he signed. 

Young’s legal team obtained damning CNN internal messages through discovery repeatedly showing staffers expressing overt hostility towards the Navy veteran. Among those presented to the jury include one calling him a “shitbag” an “a–hole” one saying he has a “punchable face.”

Marquardt’s own message telling a colleague “we’re gonna nail this Zachary Young mf—er“ was often cited throughout the trial.

At one point, CNN senior national security editor Thomas Lumley was grilled in court after internal messages showed he was highly skeptical of the “pretty flawed” report. Lumley was called as a witness after internal messages showed he felt the report was “full of holes like Swiss cheese.” 

The network did air an apology.

…CNN issued an on-air apology on March 25, 2022, when substitute anchor Pamela Brown was sitting in Tapper’s chair. However, several CNN staffers who took the witness stand said he didn’t feel the apology was necessary and Adam Levine testified that the apology was only issued for legal purposes. 

It wasn’t sufficient and, at the trial, staffers basically ridiculed it as CYA window dressing.

I’ll bet that made an impression.

CNN’s lawyers did them no favors during the trial, as even the trial judge blasted away at lead attorney David Axelrod (not that one) in court after one particularly egregious incident too far.

Our own John had a terrific post detailing the numerous missteps and unbelievably embarrassing errors committed by CNN’s legal team.

…Judge Henry called for a recess to consider what to do next. When court resumed, the judge told CNN’s attorney he owed an apology to the plaintiff.

“I think an apology from you is clearly in order to Mr. Young for the number of times in front of this court, and streamed around the world, that you called Mr. Young a liar,” the judge continued…

Judge Henry noted that Axelrod previously implied the document was a “smoking gun” in the case but contradicted himself later to suit his argument. 

“Right now, your credibility with me, Mr. Axelrod, is about none,” Judge Henry said.

Axelrod apologized but it’s clear the judge was pretty upset as you can see in this clip.

“This isn’t Kindergarten.” Judge is chewing out the parties. “Right now your credibility with me, Mr. Alexrod, is about none.” #cnndefamationtrial pic.twitter.com/asQaBki8Dw

— Cathy Russon (@cathyrusson) January 15, 2025

The jury started deliberating last night, and this morning, they asked for a calculator.

As Libby Sternberg was kind enough to email, that’s when you knew the jig was up. She also pointed out that CNN brought that on themselves as a witness stand parade of CNN producers and staffers when quizzed about ‘Would you run the story now, knowing what you know?’ all answered ‘Yes.’

It was good to go as far as they were concerned.

The clue to the jury’s thinking probably was when they asked for a calculator this a.m.

Compensatory damages are not super high – around $5 mill. My guess is Young might have gotten more in a settlement.

But now the punitive damages phase begins, and CNN kind of did themselves in on this during the first phase of the trial. 

During that phase, CNN staffers, one after another, all testified that yes, they stood by the story and would even run it again. Some even admitted to not liking the on-air correction.

This was brilliant lawyering on the plaintiff’s side because he used that in his closing — all those “yes” answers in the trial transcript to those questions — to show that CNN would do it again if not punished.

…The jury was given the case late yesterday and started deliberating then. This a.m. when court reconvened, the jury asked for several things to be given to them, and one was a calculator. That’s when you knew what the verdict would be before it was announced. They were clearly calculating compensatory damages.

And so they were. They toted up damage figures of $4M in economic and $1M in emotional that CNN gets to compensate Mr Young with.

BREAKING: CNN has been found liable for defamation of Navy veteran Zachary Young.
They have been ordered to pay $4 million in economic damages and $1 million in emotional damages.
Phase 2 of the trial is happening now for punitive damages. https://t.co/WJVXj4gohK

— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) January 17, 2025

Punitive damages are Phase 2 and already in session at the Panama City courthouse.

Libby believes CNN will cry poverty in an attempt to minimize the bleeding.

 …I think that’s ironic – they’ll essentially have to argue they’re not influential, don’t have a wide audience or the revenues from it.

There’s definitely a message to be sent and pain to be felt, as the testimony of the CNN employees shows they’ve learned nothing and would absolutely act in the same manner again without any reservation.

WHAT TO DO, WHAT TO DO

Mr Young’s attorneys just threw out a number that might make an impression deep enough to change corporate behavior.

Time out – that’s cute.

As poor as CNN is, with all of its 12 viewers, $150M might be close to LIGHTS OUT.

I like it.

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The hottest app out there is a TikTok clone–also from China–called Red Note in English, but the actual name in Chinese is The Little Red Book. 

As in Mao’s Little Red Book. 

In what may be the biggest self-own in world history, the banning of TikTok (of which I, in principle, approve because it is an intelligence operation by the Chinese Communist Party) has sent TikTok refugees fleeing to an even worse app controlled directly by the Chinese Communist Party. 

Liberals are flocking to RedNote, an app controlled by China, to replace TikTok.

Turns out, they ban LGBTQ content, all inappropriate outfits, & only 2 genders. pic.twitter.com/33qOGQNUV1

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) January 14, 2025

And its leftist users are discovering, just as they discovered not so long ago, that Osama bin Laden was a great guy and that China is the best country in the world. 

These are TikTok brainwashed CCP loving American Red-Guards on RedNote platform. https://t.co/vE30bX4zE1

— Xi Van Fleet (@XVanFleet) January 17, 2025

No, I am not joking. It is a thing. 

I’ve been to China. The idea that Americans are less hospitable and kind and that the Chinese have better access to food is laughable.

Imagine being a Zoomer on a Chinese psy-op like RedNote. https://t.co/FgO8CP425k

— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) January 16, 2025

You may recall the rediscovery of Osama’s “Letter to America” and how some deranged Zoomers glommed onto it as a work of genius. It was a more comprehensible manifesto and apparently even more intriguing version of the Unabomber’s manifesto. Now, these same idiots have discovered that China is a paradise.

Banning TikTok will go down in history as one of the worst foreign policy decisions ever made as its users flock to Chinese-owned app RedNote to discover that they’ve been heavily propagandized to by the US establishment media. pic.twitter.com/qbemMDOaoD

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) January 16, 2025

It is a weird twist of irony, both because the US government accidentally created this flight to the Little Red Book, and because the US and state governments created and funds the execrable education system that opened these minds to the wonders of communism in the first place. 

So do you see the problem or is it just me? pic.twitter.com/fcA77sFt8k

— Burt Macklin (@BurtMaclin_FBI) January 17, 2025

Look to the public schools (many of which, you may not know, have taken money from China to fund Mandarin immersion schools) to understand why our younger set is all-in on commiedom. 

REDNOTE: Taylor Lorenz favorite TikTok replacement, RedNote, is controlled by the CCP and tracks user’s location and facial features. Ironically, China is working to prevent Chinese citizens from seeing posts from Americans like Taylor.https://t.co/NAd5mJRvJQ

— @amuse (@amuse) January 17, 2025

For the record, I hate commies. 

Of course, there is a second irony–one that will be as invisible to these commie stooges but just as important: the Chinese want none of the idiotic and dangerous woke idiocy coming to their country. They are scrambling to prevent anybody with Western IPs to be visible to the Chinese people. 

The liberals are having a meltdown on TikTok over the impending ban. Many of them have moved over to communist run app RedNote. What’s really destroying them is the CCP has a zero tolerance policy for any LGBT content and is immediately removing all associated content.…

— Z (@insatiablevine) January 16, 2025

The Queers for Palestine crowd, who not long ago were flocking to convert to Islam, are now finding an even more murderous and hostile regime to idolize. It’s not the ideology that attracts them but the hatred of America and American values. 

Show them a regime or ideology that hates American values, and they flock to celebrate it. 

It’s easy enough to blame the kids–and they do deserve some blame for adopting passionately any social or political opinion without learning a thing about it–but the fact is that our K-12 and higher education systems are even more to blame. They are the equivalent of reeducation camps, and you and I are paying for them. 

All it took was a couple of generations of Woke indoctrination & the 2nd biggest mass murdering psychopath in world history is now rebranded as a cute little app for fun
Xiaohongshu
RedNote
Little Red Book

Take back our schools pic.twitter.com/eDjT0x8XQL

— Jim Hanson (@JimHansonDC) January 17, 2025

China may be our most significant external threat, but the scariest threat to our future is right here at home. If you want to fight the real enemies of America, chances are you can find them at a local public school. 

Defund the schools, not the police. The communist propagandists who live right here in America paid for with our tax dollars, are the biggest threat our country faces.