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Today's News, January 1-5, 2025
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IN POLITICAL NEWS
1) The big news, which came and went faster than a bean burrito in front of Rosie O'Donnell, is that the Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro, whose election was as suspect as that of Rutabaga, was arrested and teleported out of Venezuela in a perfect operation that came through like clockwork prior to digitization. U.S. forces took out anti-air stations, dropped in some special operators, killed a few bodyguards, and heisted the strongman right out of his presidential palace and to a New York court where he and his lovely wife were indicted on more charges than P. Diddy. He ain't getting out of this, though he may rat on a number of U.S. pols to keep him out of gen pop at Soledad. This operation was planned for weeks, just awaiting as Trump said, the right time. It occurred without a single leak. I must now give Susie Wiles the nickname "Silent Susie," as this is the second very big op (remember Iran's nukes?) that came off without a hitch and without a leak. Now, pump this into your brain and marinate on it: the U.S. has now carried out two operations against enemy targets heavily protected by Russian (and, one would assume, some ChiCom defense systems, disabled them like Harry Bosch picking a lock, and didn't suffer a single enemy hit. What do you think is going on within the ChicCom and Russkie militaries right now? "For sale: 200 anti-aircraft systems, never used, badly abused." Moreover, the military accompanied DOJ officials, who did the actual arrest. Remember ol' Pineapple Face, Panama's Manuel Noriega? Yeah, took weeks to get him. And now Venezuela's top intel officer wants asylum here and is willing to "name names." Hmm. Do any of those names have a "D" after them? Oh, there is not "MAGA fracture" over Venezuela. As Jeff Chliders points out, this is 100% in the Trump Strategic Doctrine released late last year. This is yet another attempt by the Hoax News to create some rift in MAGA.
2) Congrats to Pam Bondi and the Punisher, Pete Hegseth. You can see why they really didn't want him as SecWar. Trump's ability to pull off these incredible surgical strikes without long drawn-out wars has the GOP isolationist wing panicking, for what is there to complain about if we get our foreign policy goals met at virtually no cost? Here is Michael Waller's "Nine Reasons Why Trump's Venezuelan operation is Great for America." Meanwhile, opposition candidate Maria Machado is expected to assume control of the government, while the new interim leader promised to work with the USA.
3) Oh, I guess it wasn't about the oil after all. Oil futures barely moved. Chevron shares moved a little, likely because Chevron and Exxon will end up fixing the dilapidated Venuzuelan facilities.
4) Meanwhile, across the world in Iran, protesters are filling the streets. Many women are protesting the hijabi-beebees, but it remains to be seen if they can force the Ayatollahs of RockandRolla out. Trump has vowed action if any protesters are killed. Wouldn't it be astounding if two of the worst regimes in the world were toppled without violence in less than a month?
5) How does this play politically? DemoKKKrats say their party's response was "weak." Except what response can you have when a perfect operation snags an international criminal, frees millions of people, and moves a country closer into the U.S. orbit?
6) Lib fungalrabbits are really having a bad week. A federal judge nixed Kollyfornia's law against open carry of weapons. Maybe next they'll eliminate open carry of Coors Light?
7) Meanwhile, the Amazing Zohran took office and dove right into lowering housing costs. How did he do that? As Jeff Childers noted in his "Coffee and Covid" for Saturday, he did so by applying old fashioned supply side economics. He is selling public buildings to private developers. Say what?? Is this the "warmth of collectivism" he referred to? I don't know if it will work or not---it all depends on what the private developers do with the properties---but if in fact they build housing and if prices come down, hold the applause. This is Bill Clinton 101. Try to look like a thoughtful moderate before dropping the Islamofascist boom. My guess is he will, if this works, enjoy great credit for Ronald Reagan-type policies so he can look clean and articulate to the American public for his 2028 White House run. And of course the Hoax News media didn't criticism him for doing a 180 on his promises. Oh no. He is "building" on his promises. See how that works? And how about his promise to make things more affordable? He just raised bus and subway fares. What? I thought those were going to be free? Maybe that's became New Kabul (NYC) still hasn't returned to pre-pandemic tourism numbers. And it won't under Amazing Zohran. Who wants to visit Kabul?
8) Remember last Wed. when I told you the Skinny Minny fraud is different because this time the whole government, nearly every agency, is involved in investigating? Now the Small Business Administration just suspended over 7,000 Minny borrowers over China Virus loan fraud.
9) And Shipwreckedcrew argues that the China Virus fraud in Kollyfornia makes the Skinny Minny fraud look like a "rounding error." Told ya. This anti-fraud offensive will hit every blue state and a couple of corrupt red states.
10) J. D. Vance's polling against potential GOP opponents? He's off the charts, ahead of where Trump was in many cases. CNN's Harry Enten was stunned. Meanwhile, it's hard being right so much. I predicted last year when Trump and Elon had their dustup that it was two brothers fighting and that Elon would be back in the fold within months. It's January, and look who is having dinner with the Trump's at Mar-a-Lago. I further predict he will be back for a second run with DOGE.
11) From Seth Keshel: NC saw another net 2000 Rs register, making NC officially a red state. The shift has been incredible. NC was D+175,000 just five years ago. PA is next. 12) Here is a cheap and easily-deployed antidote to drones. I'm sure this will be part of the mix, but I have seen video of electronics warfare causing dozens of drones to just fall out of the sky. I think that will be the major form of defense.
13) The FBI foiled a New Year's Eve terror plot in NC.
IN ILLEGAL CRIMINAL ALIEN NEWS
14) HHS just put new rules in place for soggy snotponds like Minnesota, where Skinnies will no longer be able to just stick their hand out to taxpayers and say "Thank you sir may I have another." Now recipients must submit actual documentation (including photographs of little Mohammed and Mohammedina) to HHS. But we're "no whar nears tarrred" of the Skinny Minny fraud. Here is another: so-called "healthcare" businesses---SIXTY of them---in a single building, many with nothing but a front. Consequently, the Prancing Gheyboy, Tampon Timmy, is already dropping out of the 2028 presidential race. and is also dropping his reelection bid Don't fret, Gheyboy: you were slated to get as many delegates as the Cackler Harris got when she ran.
15) More music to my ears, as Medicaid and ICE are a "ticking clock" for Kollyfornia illegal invaders.
16) The WI judge sentenced to jail for aiding and abetting illegal invaders has resigned.
17) This won't work out well for him. The Washington State AG warned citizen journalists such as Nick Shirley not to investigate Somali fraud in his fine state.
IN CULTURAL NEWS
18) The great Ryan Burge shows that young Mormons may not be quite as conservative as they once were, but they sure aren't DemoKKKrats.
IN ECONOMIC NEWS
19) President Trump canceled the sale of a U.S. chip company to the ChiComs over security issues.
20) The absolute weasels at the Wall Street Urinal are noting that the prices of condos is falling. That's great news right? I mean we have an "affordability" crisis? Oh, not to the Urinal, which laments the poor condo owners. You cannot win with these people. "Trump cures cancer. Million of survivors will have to be fed and housed!"
21) Jack in the Box is closing several restaurants nationwide. You better stay away form my Jack tacos, or lose an arm
22) Here is the sharp decline in federal employment under President Trump.
23) Without the subsidies, Tesla deliveries have plunged.
24) Both Dinobernie and Ron DeSantis are speaking out against AI data centers. There is no question that procedures must be in place that these energy-guzzlers do not get to siphon off existing grids. Pay your own way.
IN INTERNATIONAL NEWS
25) Burkina Faso just issued a travel ban on Americans in retaliation for Trump's ban on travelers from that fine garden spot to America. I was soooo looking forward to my week on Scorpion Ranch followed by up front encounters with Komodo dragons on Burkina Faso.
26) The large protests in Iran are mostly driven by the falling economy, but Iran's international position has been severely reduced by Israeli-US attacks on the Hamas Murder Pirates, Hezbollah, and the Yemen slatherdippers. There is also a yearning for the retun of Shah Pahlavi.
27) Swiss gendarmes said that 40 people were killed and 100 injured in a night club fire and explosion.
28) Remember "Global Warming?" Yeah, good times. Hudson Bay froze solid with the lowest temperatures since the 1970s.
29) Watch the little things: Panama has removed a ChiCom monument. And Green Screen Zelensky just named a new guy to replace Andriy Yermak, who is under corruption charges. The new guy? Yeah, CIA trained.
IN ENTERTAINMENT NEWS
30) Tommy Lee Jones's daughter Victoria found dead in her hotel room at age 34.
31) This is sad. I feel for "Dilbert" creator Scott Adams, who is dying from advanced prostate cancer, and who said he would "Convert to Christianity" before kicking the bucket. Scott, man, it doesn't work that way. Christianity is not a fire insurance policy. It is a relationship built on letting Someone else run your life.
32) Actor Mickey Rourke is now holding fundraisers because he is far behind on payments for his home. Where are those American Express commercials that begin "Remember me?"
33) That didn't take long. The Cleveland Browns fired their head coach Kevin Stefanski after a season in which he resisted playing The Messiah, Shadeur Sanders, at QB. Sanders may be a head case, but their only option is a guy with more sexual harassment suits against him than Harvey Weinstein.
IN MEDICAL NEWS
34) In Spain there were 2.7 million children and teens in 2020, over 81% unvaxxed. How many deaths from "Covid" or the, er, "treatments?" ZERO.
AND FINALLY. . .
35) This tweet speaks for itself. For those of you only listening, KTLA reported that a speeding woman on cocaine killed a drunk driver high on meth in North Las Vegas. Posthumous Darwin Awards were presented to the families.
OLITICAL NEWS
1) In probably the greatest financial scandal in American history---dwarfing the Tweed Ring, the Whiskey Ring, and Teapot Dome, and in amounts rivaling the 2008 financial meltdown---the Skinny Minny Somali "day care" scandal is absolutely gigantic. I wrote about this in my substack yesterday, explaining why almost every major Department in the U.S. government is going to have a stake in exposing and punishing this. It affects the Department of Ag (food centers), Department of Ed ("learning centers," where one of the signs read "Learing Center"), the Department of Homeland Security and DOJ, and, to the extent multi-state fraud was involved, the SEC. If products were shipped in for fraud it could also involve Transportation. In other words, almost every element of the federal government has an interest in crushing this. So far, DOJ has arrested 100, of which 85 were not Amish. Also, as I said, it is not contained to just Minny, as already there are ongoing large investigations into Covid relief funds in IL, health care fraud in OH, A citizen journalist just arrived there to start the open kimono. Even DemoKKKrat ME has shut off payments to a Somali day care chain due to fraud claims. Then we have Medicare fraud in Kollyfornia, and now, it appears, more Somali fraud in Washington state. Aleady in WA state, a legislator who owns a series of day cares has filed legislation to hide them from scrutiny. When I say this "daycare" fraud will expand everywhere, I'm serious. Now HUD is looking at Rutabaga's "rental assistance" paid to the dead and to, ahem, non citizens. Furthermore, ya'll wanted election reform? Now the Skinny Minny fraud saga is being investigated as a front for fraudulent ballots and stolen elections.The Prancing Gheyboy Tampon TImmy is up to his evil little neck in this, and was warned last year of the fraud, but he obstructed investigations. It's so bad even Newsweak can't ignore it. Oh, and now MAGA is looking at crowdfunding hundreds of Nick Shirleys.
2) Wait, say what? Trump over 50% again in a major poll? Meaning he is likely over 55% since they always poll him low.
3) A judge has ordered that transcripts and audio from a closed-door hearing about alleged Charlie Kirk shooter Tyler Robinson must be made public.
4) As Don Henley sang, it's all about "Forgiveness, forgiveness" as an OR city put a murderer who gunned down a teenage girl on its police review board.
5) It looks like Big Firetruck is coming under antitrust heat for price fixing fire fighting trucks.
6) Shipwreckedcrew details in exhaustive fashion how the DOJ works. Try 6,500 assistant attorneys, 3,200 trial attorneys. Tens of thousands of cases per day. All cases still in the pipeline from Trump 1 to Rutabaga still must be pursued. Because of opposition to Trump, turnover has been as high as 2/3 in some departments. Only 31 of 93 U.S. attorneys nominated by Trump have been confirmed so far. And yet Bondi's crew has won almost every single case the toadstools brought against Trump. Meanwhile, it's possible that DOJ was just looking for the right glue to hold everything together, as Bondi has tasked investigators to look into an election-meddling conspiracy.
7) The Traitor Tuppence mirage: why the "right" isn't leaving Trump.
8) DemoKKKrats in trouble financially. Rs have almost an $80m advantage in fundraising.
9) Oh and how about this one? The administration has changed the wording of federal contracts to say that if a company is engaged in DEI it is engaging in fraud. Fed contracts now will require that a contractor NOT be engaging in DEI discrimination or it will violate funding clauses. In other words, companies that work for Uncle Sam may not in any way be involved in DEI or they won't get their cheddar. As Jeff Childers says, once you sign that fed contract, every invoice becomes a certificate of compliance. Who does that affect? Gee, last week Google and Verizon just got requests for docs from the DOJ. Folks, this is titanic, and is the equivalent of the Civil Rights Act of 1965 in what will be its effects on institutions, including colleges.
10) Violent crime arrests double in Trump's first year. Meanwhile, the D.C. pipe bomber confessed and said it wasn't about Trump. "I just snapped." Yeah, we all make bombs when we just snap.
11) A federal court allowed President Trump's block on the use of Medicaid money for Planned Murderhood to stand.
12) President Trump vetoed a water bill for CO until the state ends its "Sanctuary" status and frees Tina Peters. This is how you play hardball.
13) Oh, the other side knows how to play hardball too: the mayor of Groomer City (SF) snuck through a reparations bill that would give each black resident $5 million. If they hand out a single dollar, watch the lawsuits fly faster than a hypersonic missile, and watch them thoroughly bankrupt Groomer City.
IN ILLEGAL CRIMINAL ALIEN NEWS
14) The number of illegal invaders coming into Kollyfornia plummeted in 2025. Uh oh. Combine this with deportations, voter roll purges, and voter registration shifts and it won't be long before the Golden State is no longer a DemoKKKrat dung heap.
15) DOJ has sued VA for subsidizing illegals' college education. Wait, didn't George W. Bush insist "No Juan left behind?" As Jeff Childers notes in his column yesterday, this was beautifully choreographed by DOJ, which got a precedent in the earlier TX victory in this arena.
16) An idiot judge's order to release all ICE detainees was put on hold by a fed judge.
IN TRANSOID NEWS
17) A federal judge in Kollyfornia struck down a state rule that prevented parents from knowing if their kids were being groomed for mutilation.
IN ECONOMIC NEWS
18) NVIDIA acquired a $5 billion stake in Intel, pointing to the chip-maker's ongoing recovery.
19) A watchdog group found that customer service at Social Security improved in Trump's first year.
20) Kollyfornia dropped its legal battle to recover billions of dollars the Trump administration withdrew from the "railroad to nowhere."
21) Pending home sales surged 3%.
22) GM back on top, beating Ford and Tesla in stock performance.
IN INTERNATIONAL NEWS
23) French film icon and a hottie whose poster was on every young man's wall, Brigitte Bardot, dead at 91.
24) The Italian gubment arrested nine people charged with financing the Hamas Murder Pirates.
25) Where are the world's Rare Earth Minerals?
26) The Iranian government is increasingly facing protests and resistance, with giant crowds marching. One thing about giant crowds: secret police can only abduct so many.
27) Talk about a birth dearth: over 4,000 South Korean schools will shut down as student numbers plummet.
28) Japan is restarting its largest nuke reactor.
IN ENTERTAINMENT NEWS
29) Stefan Diggs, New England Patriot's wide receiver, has been accused of assault and strangulation. I'm sure he'll play next week. After all, he didn't call anyone a . . . .
30) The Amazing Zohran, like all DemoKKKrats, wants to end all fun. He has called for removing the carriages from Central Park. As one who has had one of those rides, it was romantic and charming. I support keeping them.
31) Wanna know why songs today all sound the same? Cuz they are.
IN MEDICAL NEWS
32) There are major declines in deaths that the media isn't mentioning: heart attack-related deaths have fallen; drug overdose deaths have dropped; mass killings the lowest in nearly 20 years; teen suicides finally dropping; and overall mortality has recovered to the best since the China Virus.
AND FINALLY . . .
33) I know it's Megxit (Meghan Markle) but I went back and started re-watching "Suits" with a new eye. This was really a fantastic series. It was NOT about the law. It was about the lie. That is, the whole series begins with a lie (that Mike Ross is a Harvard law school grad) then degenerates into one lie after another, not only about that, but within cases. Really is a different show when you look at it that way.
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