Stop the Presses – We Have the ‘Lie of the Year’

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There are all sorts of lies in this world. Little white lies all the way to Bernie Madoff-sized piles of them.

Some lies don’t hurt at all, some lies only affect one or two people, and some lies cover vast swaths of lives.

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There are deadly serious lies with equally awful consequences, and then there are hilarious lies that only get funnier the more desperate they get.

Then there are the lies in politics, which are both, to a certain degree, expected and potentially devastating.

That’s why the self-anointed, “unbiased” truth sniffers class, like some of the bigger ‘fact checkers,’ are “supposed” to be so important.

They root out the truth, protecting justice and the American way for all the non-savvy believers of everything they read types.

The most august in reputation of these used to be Snopes before a spectacular progressive flameout – plagiarism, coke, and prostitutes, (wheee!) – brought it down off the pinnacle in a fiery ball like a satellite returning to Earth.

The gold standard “Snopes-checked” is now met with snickers or “Who?”

So we are left with industry-leading – you’ll notice I didn’t mention quality – Politifact, another organization with whom one could take up any number of questionable issues.

But every year, it is sort of entertaining to see what the progressives who run the site decide what the “Lie of the Year” will be after magnanimously calling for suggestions from the public. The Politifact staff then spends countless hours reportedly agonizing over choices during the waning weeks of the year.

This year is no different although I would say as far as big fat whoppers go, there has been a wealth of material to choose from.

Right off the top of my head is one repeated by everyone from the Vice President of the United States on down: that this obvious vegetative mass is ‘sharp as a tack.’

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Just pick a name and put “Lie of the Year” next to their quote. It’s a target-rich environment in a single article alone and there are dozens.

“…And I’m telling you, this guy is tough. He’s smart. He’s on his game,” Landrieu said.”

…Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas offered a similar defense, calling Biden “sharp.”

“The most difficult part about a meeting with President Biden is preparing for it because he is sharp, intensely probing and detail-oriented and focused,” Mayorkas told “Meet the Press.”

That’s the most obvious big fat one, affecting the entire world.

The most recent whopper in the public eye is also pretty obvious and caused a whale of a brouhaha. Weirdly, it didn’t even rate a ‘false’ from Politifact, much less mind one of their iconic screaming “Pants on Fire” Truth-O-Meter readings.

You remember – that one about Biden not pardoning Hunter? And then he did?

To the non-biased fact-checkers at Politifact, that was a ‘flop,’ not a ‘lie.’

HOLY SMOKING DOPE

GTFO of here with that, ya bums.

So if Biden’s absolute mental incapacity with testimony to the contrary is not the biggest whopper of the year, and his pardoning of the crack-addicted, tax-ducking, prostitute banging bad boy doesn’t even rate a “lie” label, then I guess claiming to work at McDonald’s, being an Iraq war veteran/firing a weapon in war, and ‘the border is secure’ are off the table as far as finalists go.

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I mean, you have to ask yourself what in the Sam hell could be worse than any of those?

Well, what’s worse is you’d also have to think like a progressive Democratic operative.

ONLY THEN you could come up with this as the LIE OF THE YEAR winner.

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ABSURD! CONSEQUENTIAL!

I’ll give Politifact both of those adjectives but not how they mean them.

The Trump memes and music videos were pure gold absurdity. 

All free. All viral.

Talk about consequential! 

Nothing the Harris campaign blew through almost two billion dollars for came close.

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It also flipped the national discussion back to immigration. Focused it like a laser beam.

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That’s probably what pissed Politifact off more than the rumored gruesome demise of any domesticated house pets.

I swear, with this mentality, the entire staff must still live with their retired parents – they are such petty, fractious children.

I think the Politifact fact-checkers rate a big fat whopper award for lying about the story so they could throw a tantrum.

I’ll think of something right after I get done boppin’ away here…

The idiots should have left well enough alone.

BEEGE UPDATE: I had to share this one. David sent it to me after this had already been published. 

These adolescent tools are such MAH-ROONS

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RFK Jr. Wants to MAHA; San Francisco Pushes Fat Acceptance as Public Health

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I keep hammering on the fact that Progressivism is about nothing more than destroying the foundations of Western Civilization by upending our basic understanding of reality. 

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If you can get people to disbelieve the evidence of their eyes, ears, and the rational capacity to think clearly about what really is, you can get people to believe and do almost anything. 

Alphabet ideology, “Critical” studies, COVID hysteria, and “fat acceptance” all share an underlying root: breaking the bonds that keep reality and our perception of it tightly together. If you can get people to deny reality, you can then groom them to embrace ideas that are, on their face, absurd. 

Totalitarian ideologies all embrace this tactic. 

As most Americans are waking up from the nightmare of the past eight years (or more) of gaslighting by progressives, the “Critical” theorists are doubling down on their propaganda in hopes that they can still prevail through brainwashing kids in particular. That, I believe, is one of the main reasons why San Francisco’s PUBLIC HEALTH agency is partnering with a “Fat activist” to preach health at any size. 

How bats**t crazy are her ideas? She believes that she is anorexic. 

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It is one thing to see activists like her on the fringe–there are always crazies with weird ideas, and fat activism is no weirder than Gwyneth Paltrow’s faith that shoving rocks into her vajayjay brings health. What makes this significant is that public health officials are partnering with her to promote this critical ideology to the masses. 

Fat activism is a very mainstream phenomenon on the cultural left and has been embraced widely in the Pravda media. Tess Holliday, a famous fat activist and model, simultaneously glorifies overindulgence in unhealthy foods and claims that she, too, struggles with anorexia.

If this were just her delusion, I would feel a great deal of empathy with her and wish her all the best in finding peace and better health. But she and all the fat activists are evangelists for a truly sick and destructive ideology that is literally killing people and fueling an obesity crisis that is behind much of the chronic disease in our country. 

I, by the way, am significantly overweight and personally sympathize with the struggles people have with weight. I’m not in their weight class by any means, but I need to lose at least 40 pounds and move more. I am not hostile to fat people–I am hostile to fat promotion because it is a lie that you can be “healthy at any size.” 

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Which gets me back to my point: this has nothing to do with public health, embracing diversity, being compassionate to people struggling with weight or other problems, or any of the claptrap we are fed. Everybody I know and many I don’t cheer on people who struggle with weight when they are fighting to regain health. 

We shouldn’t despise people for being fat–we all have weaknesses and all deserve grace. But it is perfectly appropriate to despise people for recruiting others into unhealthy behavior and especially for those in the “healing professions” who are engaged in defrauding their charges by encouraging unhealthy behavior. 

It’s not about helping people–it’s about undermining our sense of reality and ultimately enslaving us in their totalitarian fantasy. Whether consciously or not, these people are all tools of those who are working to undermine our society by undermining our grasp of reality. 

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Ukraine Assassinated a Russian General in Moscow

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Ukraine’s security service assassinated a Russian general on the street in Moscow. Igor Kirillov was the general in charge of nuclear, chemical and biological defense. He and one of his assistants were killed when a bomb placed in a scooter blew up.

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The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) was behind the detonation of an explosive device planted in a scooter next to the entrance of an apartment building in Moscow, according to a Ukrainian source briefed on the matter who was granted anonymity because they’re not authorized to speak publicly about sensitive operations.

The blast on Tuesday morning killed Kirillov and his assistant, who was not identified, according to Russian officials.

According to Ukraine, Kirillov was responsible for the use of banned chemical weapons in Ukraine. In October the UK sanctioned Russia him the use of these weapons.

Russian forces have openly admitted to using hazardous chemical weapons on the battlefield, with widespread use of riot control agents and multiple reports of the use of the toxic choking agent chloropicrin – first deployed on the battlefields of WW1…

Among those sanctioned today are the Radiological, Chemical and Biological Defence Troops of the Russian Armed Forces and its leader Igor Kirillov, responsible for helping deploy these barbaric weapons. 

Kirillov also played a significant role in Russian propaganda against Ukraine, trying to justify the invasion on the grounds that Ukraine was manufacturing chemical weapons for western countries.

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General Kirillov, who once headed a Russian military academy, was also prominent in Russia’s propaganda campaign against Ukraine and the West, frequently addressing the news media and appearing on television with unfounded claims. In 2023, for instance, he said that the United States was planning to use drones “designed to spread infected mosquitoes.”

General Kirillov also claimed that Russian forces had uncovered a Ukrainian chemical weapons production laboratory near Avdiivka, a Ukrainian city that Moscow’s troops captured in February. Part of the buildup to the war was an effort by Russia to portray Ukraine, without evidence, as a hub for producing weapons of mass destruction at the behest of the West.

Ukraine’s security services recorded the assassination using a camera set up in a car across the street.

He is not the first person assassinated in Moscow by Ukrainian forces but he is the most high profile person targeted so far. Last month, Ukraine killed a Russian naval officer in Crimea using a car bomb.

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An official in Ukraine’s security services told the Ukrainian Pravda outlet that the agency had orchestrated the car bomb attack in the Russian-controlled port city of Sevastopol that killed Valery Trankovsky, the chief of staff of the 41st Missile Brigade of the Russian navy’s Black Sea fleet.

The official said Trankovsky was “a war criminal” who had ordered missile strikes from the Black Sea at civilian targets in Ukraine. Russia has used warships from its Black Sea fleet, as well as strategic bombers, to conduct missile strikes on targets across Ukraine that have led to hundreds of civilian casualties…

Russian media reported that the explosion tore off Trankovsky’s legs and he died from blood loss.

Ukraine is also believed to be behind the killing of a Russian submarine commander who was shot in the city Krasnodar while out jogging.

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Full Media Freakout Over ABC Settlement with Trump

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Donald Trump sued ABC News and George Stephanopoulos over the “This Week” host’s lies about the judgment against Donald Trump in the E. Jean Carroll case. 

ABC agreed to a $15 million settlement and a $1 million payment to Trump’s lawyers. At issue in the case was Stephanopoulos’ insistence that Donald Trump was found liable for raping Carroll–which was not the case. 

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Here is the exchange that started it all. 

We can argue about how insane the case itself was–only a New York jury would have found Trump liable for something this absurd–but even assuming the verdict was reasonable, the jury specifically said that Trump did not rape Carroll. In other words, Georgie boy kept insisting something that was false was true. 

And you can’t claim that saying somebody is a rapist is not slanderous. 

ABC settled just before George Stephanopoulos was set to testify under subpoena in the case, and many people, including me suspect that the real reason they settled had less to do with concern that they would lose the case than that they would be subject to discovery that showed that the news organization was maliciously focused on destroying Donald Trump. 

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In other words, the real liability they faced was public shaming, not financial exposure. $16 million was a small price to pay compared to the exposure of their vendetta against Trump, which would have destroyed the news organization utterly. Imagine what the emails and text messages would have shown!

The rest of the news media is freaking out, claiming that ABC is “bending the knee” to Trump and that the settlement will send a chill through the industry. It is creeping totalitarianism!

Who will “speak Truth to power?!” Or rather, who will lie without consequence?

The media likes to pretend that they are objective and are laser-focused on telling the truth, but the fact is that every one of the media figures whining about this settlement are actually worried that the days of slandering Republicans without consequence are in the rear-view mirror. 

New York Times vs. Sullivan is still the law, and it is unlikely that Trump would have won the case–although this one may actually have had a chance because Stephanopoulos kept repeating his lie with glee and intent. What really scares them is that these lawsuits threaten the zone of impunity they have enjoyed. 

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The money is not the issue–Trump doesn’t need it and the ABC settlement is going to his future Presidential library–but rather the fact that discovery will give Trump (and us) a window into the behind-the-scenes discussions at these news agencies. They have a lot to hide in their deliberations and off-the-cuff comments, and will open their wallets to close the discussion.

The settlement will, indeed, have a chilling effect, but not on actual news coverage. It will, rather, force the media to become much more careful about the casual slanders they engage in. For years, they have lied about Trump and the Republicans, secure in the knowledge that winning defamation cases against news organizations is almost impossible. 

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But Trump doesn’t have to win to hurt them. He is nearly immune to slander after a decade of smears, and these companies have already lost so much credibility that they can’t afford to be exposed even more. 

The business model of the Pravda media is collapsing. People have lost trust in them, and every new exposure of their tactics threatens to bring the Jenga tower down. 

Trump’s lawsuits are aimed at doing just that. He doesn’t want or need their money. He wants their heads mounted on the wall behind him as trophies. 

Good. 

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Stunning! Brave! Climate Defiance Protestors Tackle the Department of Energy

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I haven’t done a good Green Weenie protest story in a while, and this one has all the elements of a classic.

Villains! Virtue Signaling Trendy Young Things! Protests! Arrests! Surprise Ending! 

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All I need is the guy who does the voice-overs for movie trailers, but I can’t afford that based on what they pay me here. Maybe next year.

Anyway, a bit of background about our actors in this drama. Climate Defiance is a relative newcomer on the climate protest stage, emerging as a registered NGO in 2023 as a ‘new breed’ of climate activists primarily bent on making life miserable for powerful Democrats.

I’m assuming they, like Democrats themselves, figured the Democratic Party would be in power forever from POTATUS forward, so why waste time on the GOP.

A new group called Climate Defiance aims to make investment in fossil fuels unpopular with the public and politically toxic. And their members aren’t afraid to shout about it.

During Climate Week events in New York City in September 2023, Climate Defiance members chased down Deputy Secretary of the Interior Tommy Beaudreau, heckling him on the street and disrupting a speaking event over his role in approving the massive Willow Project, an oil-drilling venture on federal land in Alaska that would generate 9.2 million metric tons of heat-trapping carbon pollution a year.

…Climate Defiance members want the Democratic Party to do more, and sooner, for the climate. While acknowledging that Democrats have come far on climate policy — the Democrat-led Senate passed its first-ever major climate bill in 2022 — the group is pushing the party to support a total end to fossil fuels.

In a world where politicians and companies often refer to “all-of-the-above” energy strategies, a commitment to ditching fossil fuels would represent a major shift in the Overton window — the range of policy ideas that are popular and acceptable.

Climate Defiance participants say that activist tactics, including direct action, can push Democrats and the public to make that shift.

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That there’s going to be a new sheriff in town hasn’t kept this feisty faction of fervent freedom from fossil fuel fighters from facing down the titans at the top of the Biden administration. Oh, no.

In the waning days of POTATUS at the top, his cabinet secretaries are still on Climate Defiance’s active action agenda, and, when these green goblins strike?

They do so boldly…as the Department of Energy found out.

In a targeted – and professionally documented – swarm of fuzzy faces, watch caps, and carefully memorized angry argle-bargle, Climate Defiance made its move right in the middle of the nation’s capital.

TAKE THAT, EE-VILLE DoE PARKING GARAGE!! WE ARE IN YO….

Well – technically, blocking the outside so no one can get in.

NONE SHALL PASS

I mean, the drama! 

As one would expect, with a parking garage at one of the bigger departments in the cabinet, there was a potential for vehicular catastrophe – perhaps even an outbreak of physical violence due to fisticuffs from a frustrated DoE worker attempting to get to his desk and being foiled by these truants. So, D.C. police moved in to break up the protest.

Climate activists were arrested at a protest at the Energy Department’s Washington headquarters Thursday, the group Climate Defiance announced.

Thirteen people were arrested during the protest as activists sought to blockade the department, the group’s founder Michael Greenberg said Thursday. The climate group is pressing the Biden administration’s Energy Department to cancel pending authorizations for new liquefied natural gas export terminals.

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said last month that the Biden administration will meet its self-imposed deadline to release a long-awaited study on liquefied natural gas exports this year. President-elect Donald Trump has pushed for a resumption of gas export approvals that were halted under President Joe Biden.

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I’m not quite sure why it’s a surprise to some of these petulant, destructive children when they do wind up arrested. But it always is a giggle reading what the shock does to their system.

It also helps illuminate just how out to lunch they are as far as reality goes.

The above whiny screed over having faced consequences for action that devolves into…whatever that is…should be a wake-up call to anyone who might possibly be swayed by some of these lunatics’ emotional arguments.

These are who these people are – you surely do not want to follow along nor take the rest of us with you.

Especially since, not only do they not have any rational thought processes to work from, they’re big fat fakes on top of it.

Poseurs of the pretentious, preaching, perfidious sort.

That boldly blocked parking garage they “shut DOWN”  the Dept of Energy with?

Like…not so much. Our surprise ending.

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That entrance is locked up tighter than a drum. They could have stayed there all day and never impeded a single soul. 

In protest against LNG export permits, Climate Defiance blocks unused entrance to DOE garage

The group didn’t provide any information on why they were blocking an unused entrance to the agency’s garage.

…Andrew Follett, senior analyst at Club for Growth and former DOE contractor, said the group was actually blocking an unused entrance to a parking garage.

“That’s the entrance to a closed parking garage you notwithstanding nitwit! The entrance is around the other side!” Follett said in a comment on Climate Defiance’s post.

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I am assuming they only made sure they were just annoying enough to get some killer videos for propaganda Instagrams.

There’s another issue with them blocking an already blocked garage entrance in that particular building while protesting fossil fuels. There’s no one in that building to inconvenience or annoy with their childish gibberish.

The phony, baloney climate crusader surprises keep coming.

It turns out that the DoE is one of the biggest offenders when it comes to wasting fossil fuels and energy itself, exemplified by that very building. Built for a capacity of almost 4900 people every day with nearly a million square feet of usable square footage, the average daily number of folks utilizing that massive structure in 2023 was?

8

As in eight.

…The Department of Energy is the least utilized building, with just eight employees counted for the daily average in 2023, though office management reportedly refuted the attendance estimate. Other agencies with the emptiest office spaces include the Agency for Global Media, the US Department of Agriculture, Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Environmental Protection Agency.

The only thing these poltroons didn’t do was glue themselves to something, but that might have indicated they were serious instead of merely being out for a day unchaperoned.

In the best spirit of the revolution, they also claimed their non-action at the closed garage entrance of an empty building forced the hand of the Energy Secretary on an issue she’d already announced a month ago she’d have an answer for.

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Gosh. 

It’s amazing how many wins losers can pile up when they’re delusional, to begin with.

This is your brain on Green.

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Canadian Government Collapsing Before Our Eyes

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The long-awaited collapse of the Canadian government appears to be arriving. 

Rumors are swirling around that Justin Trudeau is hours away from resigning, although all indications are that he is working furiously to save his spot at the top of the Liberal party and isn’t giving up without a fight. 

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Cabinet members are resigning, calls for snap elections are gaining momentum, and Trudeau’s pathetic attempt to go toe-to-toe with Donald Trump has caused such a backlash that it is difficult to see how his Prime Ministership can survive. 

It may seem fanciful to think that Trudeau’s decision to go to war with Donald Trump was the trigger for his political collapse, but actually, it sure looks like it was the straw that broke the camel’s back. His Finance Minister, in explaining her resignation from the Cabinet, specifically refers to Trudeau’s relationship with Trump as one of her reasons for leaving the government.

But more than that, the spat highlights just how weak and feminized Trudeau’s leadership has been. 

Trudeau has been leader of the Liberal Party for 11 years and Prime Minister for 9, so he has had a long, if not good, run, and his resignation would not necessarily require immediate elections. Theoretically, the Liberal Party could elect a new leader and hang on for another nine months–the latest time parliamentary elections could be held, but that seems unlikely. given how shaky the coalition holding the government together is. 

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The NDP Party’s leader, Jagmeet Singh, has called on Trudeau to resign, although he seems hesitant to call for a no-confidence vote that would bring down the government. 

To give you an idea of how much confidence you should have in politicians, the speculation is that Singh is holding out for a March election because his pension will not be locked in until then. 

This, my friends, is what public “service” really means. The public serves the politicians. 

We usually think of politics in terms of the big issues that drive public debate, determine the health of the economy and society, and set the direction of a country. But the truth is that just as often as ideological differences determine outcomes, the interests of the people in power are the driving factors. 

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Justin Trudeau’s ego is one of those things. Personal relationships with Donald Trump another. Friendships developed over the years and alliances developed over decades can have as much impact as a ballooning deficit or an economic crisis. And a $2.3 million pension may mean the difference between a new government now and one in nine months, once a lot more damage is done to Canada. 

One way or another, Trudeau’s days are numbered, and I would be surprised if he were Prime Minister when Donald Trump is sworn in. He may weather today’s crisis, but there are more to come soon enough. 

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Donald Trump’s Remarkably Normal Press Conference

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At Mar-A-Lago yesterday, Donald Trump introduced Howard Lutnick, his pick to run the Commerce Department, and SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son, who has pledged a $100 billion dollar investment in a tech-focused project that could see the hiring of 100,000 new American jobs. After Trump’s comments on the economic future he foresees once he officially takes office on January 20th, he did something the American President has not been able to do for four years – conduct a press conference where the questions and questioners were not pre-selected by a very nervous White House Press Office. 

Trump’s appearance lasted a little over an hour, with the the last 40 minutes or so consisting of back and forth with the traveling press corps. And despite media’s attempt to focus on the stuff they believe to be topics to bait Trump into saying something crazy, the President-Elect was thoughtful, forthcoming where he could, and non-committal where it made sense to be so. Normalcy is right around the corner. 

The plurality of questions focused on vaccines, trying to pin Trump down on whether or not his nominee to run the Health and Human Services Department, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., would ban all vaccines. Here’s one exchange on whether he’s worried that RFK, Jr. will be too radical on vaccines.

Garrett Haake of NBC News cannot stand Donald Trump. That much has been crystal clear in his reporting all year long, and he immediately went for the most controversial Trump nominee to conservatives in order to exploit a rift. Trump didn’t buy into his premise at all.

On the Marco Rubio selection to be Secretary of State, and the Senate seat that now becomes an appointment for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to fill, the President-Elect stayed above the fray and chose not to pick whom he prefers. He praised DeSantis, praised Rubio, and had good things to say about the job Lara Trump did at the RNC this past cycle. But he stopped short of issuing threats and edicts. 

When it comes to the slate of nominees that are currently making the rounds in the Senate with one-on-one meetings, he refused to take the bait from another reporter on whether no votes on his nominees should get them primaried. 

He’s not going to get directly involved in primarying Republican Senators. But if they are a no on a nominee out of spite or stupidity rather than over a legitimate concern, he thinks the process will generate a primary challenge. That is exactly the right answer. 

On Syria, and the rise of Turkey as a problematic actor in the region to say the least, Trump navigated the issue to give people a sense for how he’s thinking about it. 

Ask yourself if Joe Biden could have talked extemporaneously on Syria for over four minutes. Ask yourself if Kamala Harris could have. 

On the mysterious drones flying over New Jersey, including his club at Bedminster, this is how Trump answered it.

Trump knows what’s going on. He’s obviously been briefed. He knows the Pentagon and White House knows what’s behind all this, but he is questioning their decision to not be transparent with the American public. When asked directly if he’s been briefed, the President-Elect does not fall for the bait. 

By not wanting to comment on it, he signals that yes, he’s in the loop, disagrees with the way they’re handling it currently, and it’s on his list of things to fix beginning in 34 days. 

Regime media still wants there to be a fight amongst conservatives in Trump’s base about RFK, Jr. and vaccines, so they went back there again. And they asked virtually the same question – aren’t you worried he’ll revoke vaccines? Trump calmly, rationally, rejected the premise, and explained what will change at HHS, which sound awfully good. 

On the assassination of Brian Thompson, the UnitedHealthcare CEO, Trump resonated the viewpoint of virtually the entire country that’s not part of the fever swamp on the left. 

Similarly, on the Duke lacrosse players who were falsely accused of rape, Donald Trump reminded people that it seemed like a hoax to him years ago. 

On his successful settlement with ABC News and George Stephanopoulos, regime media didn’t expect how he responded to the question.

Donald Trump wants a robust, but fair media. A healthy republic depends on it. We do not have that right now, and Trump will continue picking apart the bias and the corruption where and when he can. 

By the way, if you want to see everything wrong with regime media that needs fixing, watch the gaggle chase down RFK, Jr. the moment he entered the Senate office building on his way to an appointment with South Carolina Senator Tim Scott. 

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On what Day One will look like on January 20th, Trump outlined some of the executive actions and other things that are at the very top of his to-do list, including Israel and Hamas, Apple, and a lot more.

There were some parts of his press conference that I took issue with on a policy standpoint. After generating record support with the 18-30 year-old crowd, Trump has had a change of heart on banning TikTok, being that it helped him immensely in bypassing regime media. I disagree. I still believe the social media platform is a tool of the Chinese Communist Party to collect data and sow societal decay here. I am all for the tech behind TikTok, but believe it’s in our national security interest to force the sale by the CCP to an American company to run instead of having all the data go back to Beijing. Trump is waffling on the national security concerns, but he’s doing it because he just saw how powerful a tool it was during this election cycle. But regardless of the topic, Trump had an informed point of view, and was in full command of his faculties. 

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It is reassuring that competence is coming. Now by contrast, to our north, incompetence may indeed be on the way out as Fidelito, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, is reportedly considering resigning from office. And you thought you’d get tired of all the winning.

Our dear friend John Ondrasik, the creative force that is Five For Fighting, has had it up to here with this French-speaking, tin horn wannabe dictator, and wrote an ode to Justin Trudeau. Here you go. 

The next prime minister of Canada, Pierre Poilievre, seized and/or pounced. 

Germany Chancellor Olaf Scholz lost a no-confidence vote, and elections are forthcoming. Germany will almost certainly move rightward in response to immigration and other economic issues compounding due to green energy policies. 

We are watching Canada’s Liberals falling apart in real time. In the U.K, Britons have found out after f’ing around with a resounding vote for Keir Starmer to lead a Labour government. 61% now disapprove of Starmer, 65% think the British economy is going to get worse in 2025, and 70% think the government is on the wrong track. And that’s saying something being Starmer’s government is literally only 5 months old. 

Meanwhile, Donald Trump is rolling. He’s at 55% approval, and he’s accomplishing that by following through on the most radical things possible – a dramatic return to Constitutional government, fiscal discipline in the Executive Branch, and a foreign policy that gets us out of protracted conflicts while supporting our allies. In other words, Trump’s radicalism is what conservatives used to call normal.

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Democrat Senators Pushing to Restore Pentagon Funding for Puberty Blockers

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The Alphabet ideology balloon may have popped in the wider culture, but the progressives are still 100% committed to what they call the civil rights issue of our times: sterilizing and mutilating as many children as possible. 

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In the National Defense Authorization Act passed by the House of Representatives, the funding of puberty blockers for the children of servicemembers was banned. Fourteen Democrat Senators are pushing to reinstate the funding despite the clear evidence that children are harmed by their use. 

Alphabet ideology has nothing to do with the well-being of children, medicine, or civil rights–it has to do with the promotion of a neo-Marxist Critical Gender theory that aims to undermine the connection between physical reality and internal thoughts and perceptions. Hence, the denial that sex has anything to do with biology; it is an internal state of mind. 

Democratic senators plan an effort Monday evening to use taxpayer money to pay for minors’ sex changes.

According to a report on NBC News, 14 party lawmakers plan to bring to the floor an amendment that would remove from the massive defense-spending bill a ban on such use of Pentagon money.

The provision would bar “medical treatment for military dependents under the age of 18 who are diagnosed with gender dysphoria” under the military’s health care program, Tricare.

This is what amounts to a religio-political movement–the same kind of post-Christian search for meaning and grasping for power that underlies CRT, BLM, intersectional theory, and now the “Kill the CEO movement.” They are all deeply connected by an intellectual thread that animates progressivism–the desire to overturn the current moral, cultural, and political order and replace it with one dominated by the left. 

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There is no real medical dispute, although the debate is often framed in medical terms. That is all a smokescreen. It is about brainwashing the next generation into something that falls within the overarching term “Queer,” which is less a sexual preference than an identity predicated on a rejection of Bourgeois culture. 

In an ironic twist, just days after Great Britain–which is now governed by the near-socialist Labour Party–recently banned the use of puberty blockers on children entirely, Dame Hillary Cass, the now-famous author of the Cass Review, answered questions in the House of Lords on this issue. 

It may be true that some Democrats mistakenly believe that there is a genuine medical dispute or even that the “science is settled” on these matters. But the people pushing Alphabet ideology know exactly what they are doing. This is nothing other than yet another tool in the neo-Marxist toolbox to undermine the family, destroy Judeo-Christian values, and foster a cult similar to the one that Mao built during the Cultural Revolution. 

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Non-progressive Democrats are having none of it, but I expect that politically the tail will wag the dog. There are too many true believers for this issue to go away, and it will plague the Democrats for years to come. 

Most of these Senators are merely useful idiots, but useful idiots who choose the side of evil remain agents of evil. Every single one of these Senators deserves any bit of backlash we can give them. 

In the meantime, it is our duty to ensure that the American people, who are turning their back on this ideology in disgust, know that the Democrats are foursquare behind it even after the election. Tammy Baldwin, one of the ringleaders pushing this amendment, won by only 30,000 votes. Republicans need to hang this around her neck during the next election. 

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Monday’s Final Word

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Closing the tabs …

Islamist rebel leader Abu Mohammed al-Jawlani swapped out his military fatigues for a suit on Monday, positioning himself as a statesman who can unite Syria and responsibly manage relations with its neighbors.

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Sitting in the cabinet building of the capital his forces seized this month, Jawlani told foreign journalists that Syria’s new government plans to launch a process to overhaul the country’s constitution and institutions. He cautioned, however, that it would take time.

“People have big ambitions, but today we must think realistically, because Syria has many problems, and they won’t be solved with a magic wand,” Jawlani said. “It needs patience.”

Ed: Well, we’ll see. Lots of revolutionaries begin by promising rational government and justice. They end up being the same as the old boss. Ask the Cubans about that, at least once you can get them out of Cuba. Or the Iranians. Or the Afghanis. 

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When the rebels conquered Aleppo late last month, followed by Homs and ultimately the capital Damascus, they distributed bread and children’s gifts in Christian neighborhoods, telling residents they had nothing to fear.

Yet, in a sign of their sense of foreboding, some Christian store owners are refraining from selling alcohol, which Islamists consider sinful, or are doing so discreetly. Residents of Homs say armed men tried to shut liquor stores and remove crosses from Christians’ cars. Those appear to be isolated incidents so far, and contrary to the stated policy of the country’s newly empowered leaders.

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“We are still in the province of promises,” an Armenian Christian businessman from Aleppo said. “Is what’s happening just propaganda to gain trust abroad and maybe later it changes, or is this something real? We need time.”

Ed: I predict that it will not go well for Christians under an Islamist-oriented rule. It’s not impossible, but Islamists act to suppress all other points of view. Having Jawlani don a suit rather than robes is not much of a basis for hope of religious tolerance. 

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Ed: The Druze communities near the Israeli border want to be annexed into Israel. If the Jawlani government is willing to abide by its claims today, perhaps it would be better to allow the Druze to control the territory nearest Israel as a reliable buffer. But that’s only if Jawlani is serious about leaving Israel alone. 

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Arab countries had for years been moving toward normalizing relations with Mr. al-Assad, despite his brutal treatment of his people, and Western countries, while hitting him with heavy sanctions, had grudgingly come to accept that he was there to stay. His overthrow scrambled that calculus, forcing foreign powers to decide how to deal with a largely unknown quantity that many of them had shunned as extremists for years.

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Many of those powers, including the United States, European countries and Turkey, say they want to see a stable, unified Syria with an inclusive government that respects the rights of Syria’s minorities, including Shiite Muslims, Druse, Christians of various sects and Alawites, the Shiite offshoot sect that the Assad family and many of its strongest supporters belongs to.

Foreign countries have the leverage to push Syria’s new leadership toward that vision. To unlock greater flows of humanitarian aid, get suffocating economic sanctions lifted and earn international legitimacy — all required for a crippled, impoverished Syria to stabilize and rebuild — Hayat Tahrir al-Sham will need other countries to remove its designation as a terrorist group.

Ed: Either that or they can hold free and fair elections, although that may take a while. HTS has a bad track record, bad enough to where they need to prove that they’re serious about governance rather than terrorism in the long run. Any money that flows right now will send the wrong message. 

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Toppled Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad airlifted $250m in cash to Moscow between 2018-19, the Financial Times (FT) reported on Dec. 15.

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Quoting financial records seen by the newspaper, the FT said Syria’s central bank flew nearly two tonnes of $100 bills and €500 notes into the country, which were then deposited in sanctioned Russian banks.

The outlet said the transfers occurred at a time when Syria was heavily indebted to Russia for its military support, and while Assad’s relatives were buying up assets in Russia including luxury apartments.

Ed: Looks like a wise investment now!

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Ed: Trump also advised that the Syrians need to look forward rather than backward and forget about Assad in Moscow. But how long can they afford to do that if Assad starts working to return?

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O’Keefe: NSC Employee on Hidden Camera Describes Biden’s Decline

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If you take a look at X right now, “Joe Biden is Dead” is a trending topic. No, nothing has happened to the president. The trend is a reference to a new James O’Keefe hidden camera sting in which a National Security Council employee named Henry Appel spills dirt on Joe Biden’s mental decline.

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Appel describes receiving a call from the president at the NSC while Biden was on a trip. “And I was like ‘Hello, Mr. President. It’s Henry.’ And he was like ‘Is Jake [Sullivan] there?” Appel then had to inform Biden that Jake Sullivan was not in the White House because he was on the same European trip.

In another similar instance, Biden called the NSC office to ask for Jake Sullivan and Appel informed him that Sullivan had left the office for the day but promised to track him down for the president and the call ended. Ten seconds later, the phone rang again. It was Biden again asking for Jake Sullivan. He apparently didn’t realize he had called the same number or that the person who answered was the same person he’d just spoken with seconds earlier.

Summing up the president’s condition, Appel said “Joe Biden is, like, dead.” He continued, “Not literally. He like can’t say a sentence.” There are some cuts in the clip but Appel adds that “Everybody recognizes it” and says “I can’t believe it wasn’t a bigger scandal earlier.” Yes, it really is amazing how the biggest story in the country wasn’t a story for nearly two years thanks to a compliant media.

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O’Keefe has more coming including the moment he confronted Appel when he thought he was meeting the same woman for a second date. Looks like we’ll have to wait until tomorrow for that. Meanwhile, here’s the full clip.

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