DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

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After the majority of Americans voted for the economy over abortion, furious feminists have announced that they will no longer date, marry or have children.

Call it slow motion misery and mass suicide.

In the past, Americans protested by refusing to pay taxes, now leftists are protesting by refusing to have children because of their frustrated eagerness to kill those same children in the womb.

What began as a last minute election gimmick by the Kamala campaign, which decided that its best strategy for winning the election was dividing us by sex, is now poisoning our culture, and further ruining relationships between men and women. And the media is spreading the poison.

From an evolutionary perspective, this is a win. The worst elements of our modern political culture are voluntarily removing themselves from the gene pool. We ought to encourage them to do so.

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“It is now clear that the Cop is no longer fit for purpose. We need a shift from negotiation to implementation,” they wrote.

“We need strict eligibility criteria to exclude countries who do not support the phase-out/transition away from fossil energy. Host countries must demonstrate their high level of ambition to uphold the goals of the Paris agreement,” they said.

We need to exclude those who don’t agree with us, and start cracking heads.

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Eco-activists sued the federal government to stop activity they didn’t like, but a bombshell Tuesday ruling in that case from a federal appeals court may end up weakening a regulatory system that has served environmentalists well for years.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled in Marin Audubon Society v. Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) that the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) does not have the legal authority to issue National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) rules.

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President-elect Trump has barely announced his selections for various Cabinet posts and the liberal media starts firing journalistic broadsides at them.

Four Trump picks in particular have riled the so-called “mainstream” journos.

The nominee who drew instant wrath was Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz, nominated as Attorney General.

Mind you, it is the Biden Department of Justice and Attorney General Merrick Garland that stand accused by Republicans of using the DOJ to weaponize the law and target both President-elect Trump and various members of his first administration. One Gaetz task will surely be to clean up the mess.

Following on the heels of Gaetz as a media target are three others – Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth, Director of National Security nominee Tulsi Gabbard and Department of Health and Human Services nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

The Register.

Google has decided the European Union’s Regulation on Transparency and Targeting of Political Advertising will be so hard to comply with it’s better off not trying.

The search and ads giant on Thursday announced that it will stop serving political advertising in the EU sometime before October 2025 – when the Regulation (TTPA) comes into force.

Annette Kroeber-Riel, the big G’s veep for government affairs and public policy in Europe, wrote that the TTPA “unfortunately introduces significant new operational challenges and legal uncertainties for political advertisers and platforms.”

“For example, the TTPA defines political advertising so broadly that it could cover ads related to an extremely wide range of issues that would be difficult to reliably identify at scale,” she wrote. Another concern is the “lack of reliable local election data permitting consistent and accurate identification of all ads related to any local, regional or national election across any of 27 EU Member States.”

Trump trolls GOP with Cabinet picks: The point is to bring Republicans to heel – but it may backfire (Amanda Marcotte/Salon)

Trump Pentagon pick had been flagged by fellow service member as possible ‘Insider Threat’ (Associated Press)

Muslims who voted for Trump upset by his pro-Israel cabinet picks (Andrea Shalal/Reuters)  What did they expect? They didn’t vote for Trump; they voted against Harris.

Trump allies lobby him to fire FBI director early and install loyalist Kash Patel (CNN)

Exclusive: Woman told House Ethics panel she witnessed Gaetz having sex with minor, lawyer says (Will Steakin/ABC News) The new Anita Hill.

Washington’s lobbyists are stunned Trump chose RFK Jr. (Daniel Payne/Politico)  I bet they are.

What to Do Before the Trump Administration Takes Office in January (Brittney McNamara/Teen Vogue)  Yeah, Teen Vogue is everyone’s go-to source for how to deal with Trump.

Under the Chandelier at Mar-a-Lago, Trump Makes Picks at Breakneck Speed (New York Times)

Trump’s Victory Could Mean End of Inquiry Into N.Y.P.D. Sex Crimes Unit (Ashley Southall/New York Times)  Why?

MSNBC Attacks Hegseth For His Allegedly ‘White Supremacist And Extremist Tattoos’

Trump Picks Man Who Helped Him Get Away With Crimes to Run the Courts (Edith Olmsted/New Republic)

The Trump Lawyer Who Wields Outsize Influence on the Next White House (New York Times)

The ‘team of vipers’ is back – Cliff Sims wrote the definitive tale of Trump administration infighting. (Rachael Bade/Politico)

MAGA Hats Top Amazon Best Sellers List 

MSNBC’s Maddow Claims Trump Is Trying To “Destroy The US Government” With Cabinet Picks

Democrats Draw Up an Entirely New Anti-Trump Battle Plan (New York Times)  Entirely new? Please … Democrats have only one playbook, and if it doesn’t work, the fault is in you, not them.

Trump Allies Were Told to Stop Saying They’ll Put Migrants in ‘Camps’ (Rolling Stone)

When Will Democrats Learn to Say No? – When Donald Trump held a rally in the Bronx in May … (Adam Jentleson/New York Times)

MSNBC Claims Trump’s Election Shows ‘China Might Have Passed America’ On Climate

Shocking Footage of TEACHER’S TRUMP MELTDOWN Goes Viral (YouTube)

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The cinematic Avengers assembled for Team Harris late in the election cycle. Stars Scarlett Johansson, Chris Evans, Don Cheadle, Robert Downey, Jr, Mark Ruffalo, Danai Gurira and Paul Bettany starred in a cheeky video supporting Harris’ campaign.

Many of the stars did the same in 2016 to prevent Donald Trump from defeating Hillary Clinton. This time, the messaging proved more comic, less angry.

Neither worked. Did the stars get a payday from their collective endorsements? It’s a fair question to ask given Harris’ donation to Winfrey’s Harpo Productions.

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Some writers are unjustly known for one book, no matter how many excellent works they may have written. Such has been the case—in the Anglosphere at least—for the prolific French novelist, travel writer, and explorer Jean Raspail (1925-2020) who had a fifty-year literary career, producing about forty books. That said, five of Raspail’s books have been translated into English over the past sixty years, which is probably a better average than most contemporary French writers.

The one book for which Raspail is known is, of course, his 1973 dystopian novel The Camp of the Saints, which first appeared in English in 1975 and which has become a kind of ideological sounding board (an appreciation by Robin Harris of Camp of the Saints and Raspail appeared in the Winter 2024 print edition of The European Conservative). There is talk of a new edition of this novel, featuring a fresh English translation, appearing in the near future. Usually falsely derided as a racist work, Saints great fault today seems to be that it was eerily prescient, not only that mass, uncontrolled migration would come to the West from the Global South—not much of a prediction there—but that the powers that be in the West would either welcome this invasion or that they would prove to be morally, technically, and politically incapable of stopping this from happening. Nevertheless, Raspail’s most notorious book is but a small part of his legacy.

Public Notice.

Black women have long had to navigate being twice as good to get half the amount of credit. Kamala Harris’s presidential run was evidence of this.

Despite the stark difference in the tenor of each candidate’s campaign and the the quality of their policy proposals, many still questioned whether they could trust Harris’s leadership and opted for her opponent. Ultimately, an overwhelming majority of white voters voted Republican.

National exit polls showed that for white voters, their choice was largely a product educational attainment. Fifty-seven percent of college-educated white women voted for Harris, while 63 percent of non-college white women voted for Donald Trump. For white men, regardless of educational level, a majority voted for Trump. Contrast that with the 77 percent of Black men and 91 percent of Black women who voted for Kamala Harris.

The majority of the Black electorate, regardless of educational level, voted for Harris. But it wasn’t enough. The outcome reminded me of the Glass Cliff and the double standards for Black leaders that come along with it.

It wasn’t that she was totally unqualified, oh no. It wasn’t that she dropped the ball every time it was given to her, oh no. It wasn’t that she had never had a Real Job in her life, oh no. IT WAS WAYCISM, PURE AND SIMPLE.

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The “social justice” keyboard warriors are waging war on their latest target: A forthcoming biblical drama.

Why? Because its Jewish main character is being played by… a Jew. Shocker!

Netflix just released its trailer for the new series, “Mary,” depicting the Virgin Mary’s “journey to give birth to Jesus.” This has set off the Jew-hating Left, which is campaigning to “cancel” the show because the mother of Jesus is being played by an Israeli actress, Noa Cohen.

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Last year, the FBI official who oversaw the initial investigation into who planted the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Hill pipe bombs told Congress that cell phone data from that probe was “corrupted.”

“We have complete data. Not complete, because there’s some data that was corrupted by one of the providers—not purposely by them, right,” former FBI official Steven D’Antuono told the House Judiciary Committee in a transcribed interview.

“It’s just unusual circumstances that we have corrupt data from one of the providers. I can’t remember right now which one. But for that day, which is awful because we don’t have that information to search.”

It turns out, D’Antuono—who oversaw the FBI’s 2020 Gov. Whitmer kidnap case before being transferred to Washington DC just in time for Jan. 6—may have perjured himself.

The House Oversight Subcommittee said Thursday that it has found no evidence to support the claims from D’Antuono, who is now retired.

Steve Graham.

RFK Jr. is about to become the head of the Department of Health and Human Services, a department which sounds leftist when you say its name. What conservative would use the phrase “human services”? It’s idiotic. It doesn’t mean anything. It’s too broad. I’m a human. When I hire someone to look at my AC system, it must be a human service. But HHS doesn’t send out air conditioner repairmen.

We had better department names when we had fewer departments. The Department of Defense was the Department of War. No apologies. Truthful. Trumpish.

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Okay, okay. We do need someone to keep really awful drugs off the market. I mean, if we didn’t have a government agency doing that, some company might put out untested vaccines that cause blood clots and myocarditis, leading to an epidemic of excess deaths among young people, which the government’s unofficial department, the MSM, would have to tell us did not exist.

All right. All right. We do need the FDA. I think. Even though it keeps Americans from receiving excellent medications used everywhere else in the world. Look up Rowachol. I got COVID recently, and the pharmacist in Rome gave me two well-regarded drugs, neither of which had I ever heard of. Thanks to the FDA.

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The German Interior Ministry has discovered that the number of Jew-hating crimes has doubled in the past year. And cultural enrichment has been a major factor in those crimes — who would have guessed?

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Adolph would be so proud.

Thank God for the First Amendment.

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Research led by scientists at Emory University in Atlanta found that while tetanus and influenza vaccines prompt the body to produce long-lived plasma cells that generate antibodies, COVID-19 vaccines do not.

The mRNA vaccines cause the body to produce short-lived plasma cells that can only generate antibodies for a period of time before dying off.

Vaccines like tetanus give long-lasting immunity, with antibodies persisting in the body for up to 10 years. COVID-19 antibodies rapidly wane three to six months after vaccination, often resulting in breakthrough infections.

The Hill.

The Pentagon on Friday failed its seventh audit in a row, with the nation’s largest government agency still unable to fully account for its more than $824 billion budget, though officials stress they are making good progress toward a clean audit in 2028.

The Department of Defense technically earned a disclaimer of opinion, meaning it failed to provide sufficient information to auditors to form an accurate opinion.

The goal is to earn an unmodified audit opinion, or a clean audit that says the financial statements are accurate. A qualified opinion says there are omissions and concerns but the finances are generally reliable.

Detroit Free Press. a Voice of the Crust.

Yet another female ‘journalist’ on the hunt for heretics and sinners.

A right-wing provocateur testifying against legislation expanding a firearms ban to lawmakers’ offices used a racial slur during a Senate committee hearing Thursday as he falsely accused lawmakers of attacking the gun rights of white people in the wake of President-elect Donald Trump’s victory.

His actions drew strong condemnation from lawmakers.

Avi Rachlin of Detroit spoke at the Senate Committee on Civil Rights, Judiciary, and Public Safety representing “Groypers for America,” an apparent reference to a network of white supremacists.

Note that she doesn’t so much tell you what happened as she tells you what you ought to think about what happened. All hail the Narrative!

The Guadian.

Oh noes!

hen we walked into school on the morning of 6 November, we exchanged quick glances with the other girls in our social circle – looks filled with uncertainty and dread about the future. Because we are applying to colleges all around the country and about to leave our homes in the Hudson Valley, political issues suddenly have begun to feel a lot more personal.

Access to abortion and contraception, protection of the environment, and the growing hate and violence toward marginalized groups all have the potential to greatly impact our lives. We had only brief conversations about why Trump’s victory felt so defeating, but our shared disappointment stuck with us as we walked to our first period classes.

But as we sat down at our desks, we noticed a very different attitude among our male peers. Subtle high-fives were exchanged and remarks about the impending success of the next four years were whispered around. It didn’t make much sense. We live in a mostly liberal town in the Hudson Valley where Harris-Walz signs were posted outside of most of our friends’ houses. This is not to say that families with dissenting opinions don’t live in our town. But the boys that were the most vocal in their enthusiasm about the election results have progressive parents just like ours.

By an anonymous female from a female-centric point of view, as everything is nowadays.

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House Democrats are frustrated with former House speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) for her public comments on her party’s campaign failures, saying she’s undermining the leadership of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D., N.Y.), Axios reported.

“She needs to take a seat,” a senior Democratic lawmaker told Axios.

A member of the Congressional Black Caucus said Pelosi is not being “respectful” of Jeffries even though the minority leader “has been tremendously graceful and respectful of her.”

“I understand that this is a difficult transition for her, not being the leader, but she is not,” the lawmaker continued. “She needs to understand what her new role is.”

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The Department of Homeland Security is rolling back progressive internal policies in anticipation of a second Trump presidency, according to internal agency documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

One example, described as “superfluous signaling” by one senior career staff member, is a memo entitled “Commitment to Nondiscrimination in Department of Homeland Security Activities.” That memo, which will no longer be released, largely focused on behavior that is already outlawed in the federal government, such as forbidding any “reliance on generalized stereotypes involving any individual characteristic.”

“It’s not clear why this memo was ever even written,” said one senior DHS official who spoke on the condition of anonymity. “We can’t discriminate against anyone, but I guess this is what they prefer we do instead of deportations. But now I guess they don’t want to piss anyone off.”

RFK Jr condemned as ‘clear and present danger’ after Trump nomination (The Guardian)

Democratic Colorado governor commends Trump for nominating RFK Jr. as HHS secretary (Fox)

RFK Jr.’s to-do list to make America ‘healthy’ has health experts worried (CNN)

10 RFK Jr. conspiracy theories and false claims, in his own words (Washington Poop)

The Sanewashing of RFK Jr. (The Atlantic)

Jennings Goes to Battle in CNN’s Thunderdome Over Trump Picking RFK Jr. For HHS

Trump Officially Gives RFK Jr. Chance to Destroy Country’s Health (The New Republic)

Eva Longoria says her family no longer lives in ‘dystopian’ US (BBC)  Trump for the win.

Hollywood actress despondent over Trump victory feels ‘anxiety’ for people stuck in America (Fox)

Eva Longoria opens up about choosing to live abroad (CNN)

Eva Longoria, who stumped for Kamala Harris, reveals she moved her family out of ‘dystopian’ US (New York Post)

The WRONG Way to Escape the USA (Nomad Capitalist)

‘Snow White’ Actress Goes Wicked Witch: Wishes Harm On Trump & All His Supporters

CNN’s Hunt, Foster Fret Over Huckabee’s Pro-Israel Views

Rand Paul has plans to kneecap the nation’s cyber agency (Maggie Miller/Politico)

Trump’s Pick to Lead U.S. Military Has Tattoos Linked to White Supremacists and Nazis (Democracy Now)  “Linked” by proglodytes, of course.

Los Angeles Mayor Pushes For Official Sanctuary City Status Before Trump Assumes Office

The Biden economy is about to get a new salesman: Donald Trump (Sam Sutton/Politico)  I guess this is The New Narrative.

Trump moves to burn down the rule of law (Lisa Needham/Public Notice)

Trump Transition Live Updates: Some in G.O.P. Balk at Choice of Gaetz for Attorney General (New York Times)  According to the Times.

Playbook: Trump floods the zone with new appointees (Politico)  Unlike Democrats, he learns from his mistakes.

Pay Close Attention to Your Credit Card Balance Under Trump 2.0 (Erin Lowry/Bloomberg) FUD from the Narrative Media.

This Is the Dark, Unspoken Promise of Trump’s Return (M. Gessen/New York Times)  There’s the Left’s favorite word, ‘dark’.

Trump’s team skips FBI background checks for some Cabinet picks (CNN)  Why give the minions of the Deep State time to make something up? Russia Collusion Hoax, anyone?

Trump is already testing Republicans, and they seem unwilling to defy him (Washington Post)

Vaccine Stocks Slide Further After Trump Taps RFK Jr. To Lead HHS; CNN Outraged

‘ROTTEN TO A CORE’: 5-Year FEMA Veteran Reveals Woke Bias at Disaster Relief Agency

Why the Gaetz Announcement Is Already Destroying the Government (Franklin Foer/The Atlantic)

Focus group: Swing voters wary of Musk-Trump relationship (Erin Doherty/Axios)  “Swing voters”? Is there an election coming?

REGIME PROPAGANDA: NBC News Hides The REAL Reasons Behind The Left’s Latest X-odus Tantrum

Inside the Republican false-flag effort to turn off Kamala Harris voters (Washington Post)

Trump’s Extreme Hires Are About Showing Republicans Who’s Boss (Rolling Stone) Extreme!

Scientific American Editor-in-Chief Resigns After Calling Trump Voters ‘F****** Fascists’

Putting RFK Jr. in charge of health breaks the first rule of medicine (New York Post) Yeah. “Doctors don’t get paid for curing diseases; doctors get paid for treating diseases.”

Trump’s New Oligarchy Is About to Unleash Unimaginable Corruption (Greg Sargent/New Republic)  Biden set a pretty high bar.

Republican Election Sweep Emboldens Trump’s Tax Cut Dreams (Bloomberg)  His and everybody’s else’s.

All The Right People Hate Trump’s Cabinet Picks

Mar-a-Lago intrigue rises as Trump eyes treasury secretary pick (Washington Post)  Intrigue!

Iran Told U.S. It Wouldn’t Try to Kill Trump (Wall Street Journal)  Imagine how peaceful the world would be if the Religion of Peace didn’t exist.

Influential Conservative Journalist Unleashes On ‘Vile Sex Pest’ Matt Gaetz (Sara Boboltz/HuffPost)

Decapitation Strike – Preserving America from Trump’s Appointments (Timothy Snyder/Thinking about)

Trump Supporter Trolls Californian Leftists By Selling Fluoridated Drinking Water

CBS Frets Palestinians Are Scared of Trump’s Israeli Ambassador Pick Huckabee

Lost in Translation: Swing Voters’ Misperceptions of Harris And Late Turn To Trump (Ben/Blueprint)

Pete Hegseth, Trump’s pick for defense secretary, was investigated for alleged sexual assault in 2017 (James Laporta/CBS News)  Much like Trump.

Navarro Asks Adams If He Will ‘Let’ Trump Conduct Mass Deportations In New York

Vaccine Politics and American Decadence (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark)  Welcome to the new Narrative.

Of Misogyny, Musk, and Men (Clara Jeffery/Mother Jones)

Transgender-rights advocates say the election of Trump and his allies marks a major setback (David Crary/Associated Press) I certainly hope so.

Pete Hegseth, Trump’s pick for defense secretary, faced sex assault allegation (Corky Siemaszko/NBC News)  Much like Trump.

House GOP Moves to Ram Through Bill That Gives Trump Unilateral Power to Kill Nonprofits (Noah Hurowitz/The Intercept)

WATCH: Howard Prof Once Floated as Biden Supreme Court Pick Says Pete Hegseth ‘Is Known To Be a White Supremacist’

John Fetterman says Democrats need to stop ‘freaking out’ over everything Trump does (Allan Smith/NBC News)  Uncle Fester speaks.

Dem Rep. Says Tulsi Gabbard Is ‘Likely a Russian Asset’ (Liam Archacki/The Daily Beast)

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en. Bob Casey (D., Pa.) urged voters to “reject extremism at the ballot box” last year by electing fellow Democrat Diane Ellis-Marseglia for Bucks County commissioner. Now, Ellis-Marseglia is openly defying Pennsylvania law to count illegal votes, part of an eyebrow-raising maneuver to help Casey in his longshot recount against Republican Dave McCormick.

On Thursday, Ellis-Marseglia voted to count mail-in ballots that lacked signatures in defiance of a Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling that such votes are invalid. Ellis-Marseglia acknowledged that the votes were invalid but said she wanted to count them anyway to force a court challenge.

“I think we all know that precedent by a court doesn’t matter anymore in this country,” Ellis-Marseglia said at a commission meeting. “People violate laws any time they want,” she said. “So, for me, if I violate this law, it’s because I want a court to pay attention.”

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My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

Wall Street Journal.

From the dense jungle connecting Panama and Colombia to the banks of the Rio Grande, human smugglers are spreading a message to U.S.-bound migrants: Hurry up and sneak in before President-elect Donald Trump takes office.

Trump’s second term is creating an incentive for migrants to try to reach U.S. soil before the Jan. 20 inauguration, because many anticipate the president-elect will dismantle legal pathways to entry. Those paths include a U.S. government app that allows people to apply for U.S. asylum while in Mexico and then cross legally when they have an appointment—a system created last year that some migrants think will be upended by Trump.

Beatriz Fuentes, who manages the Casa Fuente shelter for women and children in Mexico City, said her shelter began emptying out even before the election. “They were told to hurry up in case of a possible change,” she said.

The Bulwark, a Voice of the Crust.

IN THIS CRUCIAL PERIOD between the election and the inauguration, opponents of the president-elect need to use every feasible lever of power to defeat Trump’s movement, lest the country fail.

In this, they would be correcting a past mistake. The original response to Donald Trump’s rise was based on a strategic error. His critics and opponents thought he was an aberration, not a phenomenon—a recipe for quietism.

In the context of culture, we had Michelle Obama’s initial response: “When they go low, we go high.” The comforting conceit was that if Trump’s opponents continued to hold the moral high ground, Americans would eventually tire of the man’s shenanigans and return to their better natures. If you get down in the mud with a pig, the saying goes, you only get dirty.

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The number has grown each year, and represents 6 to 7 percent of ICE detainers issued in those years. Each declined detainer represednts a deportable criminal alien who was released back into the community and given the opportunity to prey on more victims. The number reported by ICE include detainers declined by the law enforcement agency with custody of the alien, cases in which the local law enforcement agency provided insufficient notice to ICE to arrive before the alien’s release, and early releases of aliens despite a detainer.

Mattnew Continetti.

Donald Trump’s visit to Washington on Wednesday had all the hallmarks of his first term. There was the cable-news pageantry of Trump Force One’s arrival in and departure from D.C. There was a cordial and reassuring meeting in the Oval Office between Trump and President Biden. There was the reelection of Speaker Mike Johnson within the House GOP and an orderly transfer of leadership to a new generation of Senate Republicans. And there was mounting shock, disbelief, and alarm within the bipartisan political class at Trump’s selections for secretary of defense, director of national intelligence, attorney general, and secretary of health and human services.

Four years of the somnolent, garbled, and often out-of-sight Joe Biden, accompanied by the vacant and aloof Kamala Harris, had dulled the senses. By dawn Thursday, some of us were beginning to recall the unrelenting nature of Trump’s first administration: a near-constant gale of news, hot takes, controversies, scandals, policies, personalities, and surprises. Reporters, commentators, wonks, bureaucrats, and elected officials are left searching for ballast. The situation is unlikely to change in the coming months. Why? Because the Trump whirlwind has returned.

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In the history of the social sciences, no other field of study has attracted so great a level of hostility as the science of economics. Since the inception of the science, the onslaught against it has been on the rise, extending across individuals and groups. And the outlook for a favorable reception of the science is bleak, given that a significant number of people are incapable of following through the extended chains of reasoning required for comprehending economic arguments.

Economics takes ends and goals of action as a given and—in matters of value judgments—it assumes neutrality (i.e., non-normativity), which is characteristic of a science. However, questions of suitability of means and various policies adopted to attain chosen ends are not beyond the scope of economic analysis.

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Here’s another way to look at why Republicans swept the 2024 elections: It’s the fault, only partly, of course, of the gerontocracy of the Democratic Party. Going back through history, it’s hard to find a time when a party’s leadership was so far along in years. The founder presidents retired in their mid-sixties. Andrew Jackson retired at 69, Abraham Lincoln was murdered at 56, and Ulysses S. Grant retired at 54. Theodore Roosevelt died at age 60, Franklin Roosevelt at 63.

Funny–he doesn’t look like Kamala Harris….

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The Welsh government has been advised to create dog free spaces in outdoor public areas after an ‘anti-racist’ group asserted it is making black Africans ‘feel unsafe’.

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As Americans voted decisively for a candidate who explicitly rejects nearly everything that Bernie Sanders advocates, Vermont’s senior senator insists that the Democratic Party just wasn’t liberal enough. The mindset of the far left seems to be that the working class just needs more of what they just voted against. For Bernie, the answer is always, “more cowbell.”

The Foundry.

Conservatives know that when the American Left wants us to “have a conversation” about an issue, it means they get to talk incessantly until we agree with them.

To progressives, there is one, approved view on a given issue and all others are atavistic throwbacks to an era before “progress.”

Observe that humans (and all mammals) come in two sexes, and you are a “transphobe.”

Suggest it is unfair for males to compete against females in sports and unsafe for men to share prison cells with women, and it is “hate speech.”

Declare that America is about equal opportunity, not equal outcomes, and uphold merit over race- and sex-based discrimination, and you are racist and misogynistic.

Argue against mass illegal immigration, and you are xenophobic at best, racist at worst.

David Brooks.

i’ve spent much of my adult life attending or teaching at elite universities. They are impressive institutions filled with impressive people. But they remain stuck in the apparatus that Conant and his peers put in place before 1950. In fact, all of us are trapped in this vast sorting system. Parents can’t unilaterally disarm, lest their children get surpassed by the children of the tiger mom down the street. Teachers can’t teach what they love, because the system is built around teaching to standardized tests. Students can’t focus on the academic subjects they’re passionate about, because the gods of the grade point average demand that they get straight A’s. Even being a well-rounded kid with multiple interests can be self-defeating, because admissions officers are seeking the proverbial “spiky” kids—the ones who stand out for having cultivated some highly distinct skill or identity. All of this militates against a childhood full of curiosity and exploration.

Most admissions officers at elite universities genuinely want to see each candidate as a whole person. They genuinely want to build a campus with a diverse community and a strong learning environment. But they, like the rest of us, are enmeshed in the mechanism that segregates not by what we personally admire, but by what the system, typified by the U.S. News & World Report college rankings, demands. (In one survey, 87 percent of admissions officers and high-school college counselors said the U.S. News rankings force schools to take measures that are “counterproductive” to their educational mission.)

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The whole meritocracy is a system of segregation. Segregate your family into a fancy school district. If you’re a valedictorian in Ohio, don’t go to Ohio State; go to one of the coastal elite schools where all the smart rich kids are.

Pete Hegseth Was Removed from Biden’s Inauguration, Labeled ‘Extremist’ (James Bickerton/Newsweek)

Democrat Governors, City Leaders Pledge to Shield Illegal Aliens From Trump  Trump be da boogeyman.

No Matter How Bad You Think an Attorney General Matt Gaetz Would Be, He’ll Be Worse (Mark Joseph Stern/Slate)

A Foul Fireside Chat (Maureen Dowd/New York Times)

Senate Republicans Alarmed by Gaetz Pick as Attorney General Nominee (Karoun Demirjian/New York Times)

Justice Dept. employees stunned at Trump’s ‘insane,’ ‘unbelievable’ choice of Matt Gaetz for attorney general (NBC News)

Exclusive: Trump’s team drawing up list of Pentagon officers to fire, sources say (Reuters)  Good.

Tulsi Gabbard’s Nomination Is a National-Security Risk (Tom Nichols/The Atlantic)

Matt Gaetz just resigned from Congress, ending a probe into sexual misconduct and drug use (Associated Press)

Trump’s pick for top intel job has been accused of ‘traitorous’ parroting of Russian propaganda (Dan De Luce/NBC News)  Russian collusion! Russian collusion! Russian collusion!

House Democrat to introduce resolution reiterating Trump can serve only two terms as president (NBC News)

House Ethics Panel Was Set to Vote to Release Report Critical of Matt Gaetz (New York Times)

Bolton calls for FBI investigations before Gaetz, Gabbard confirmations (Sarah Fortinsky/The Hill)

Despite Victory and GOP Trifecta, Trump’s Fight Has Just Begun

Energy Department Quadruples Lending Budget in Rush To Approve ‘Green Energy’ Loans Before Trump Takes Office

Why Trump is trying to outrage Washington with his controversial Cabinet picks (Stephen Collinson/CNN)

Trump Plans to Install His Book Publisher as Head of Personnel (New York Times)

The Trump Doctrine

Matt Gaetz is emerging as the Trump pick Republicans are prepared to dunk on (Joshua Nelken-Zitser/Business Insider)

Federal Judge Reverses Retirement Plan So Trump Can’t Fill Seat

NYC delivery workers filing wage theft claims seek protection from deportation under Trump  I guess they must be illegal aliens. What did they expect? A supportive Democrat?

Matt Gaetz Cannot Be Allowed to Become Attorney General (Jeffrey Blehar/National Review)

Leftists Melt Down As Biden Is Nice To Trump During White House Welcome

Matt Gaetz Is a Bad Choice for Attorney General (Wall Street Journal)

Klepper After Hegseth Nomination: Women ‘Have to Get Pregnant’ to Risk Life

NY Times Shepherds Radical Anti-Male Feminists Broken by Trump Victory

‘Left turn and off the bridge’: Trump’s spy pick stuns intel world (John Sakellariadis/Politico)

FBI seizes Polymarket CEO’s phone, electronics after betting platform predicts Trump win: source (Taylor Herzlich/New York Post)

Fox News host Pete Hegseth as defense secretary: Perfect symbol of phony MAGA masculinity (Amanda Marcotte/Salon)

OH SHUT UP: Chicago Tribune Columnist Cries Trump Didn’t Win Election, ‘Disinformation Did’

Trump’s Shock, Mock, and Roll ‘Em Strategy (William Kristol/The Bulwark)

Trump’s Immigration Plans Could Bring an Economic Toll (Lydia DePillis/New York Times)

Trump pick resurfaces questions about Tulsi Gabbard’s 2017 Syria visit (Bryan Pietsch/Washington Post)

What Trump Can (And Probably Can’t) Do With His Trifecta (Russell Berman/The Atlantic)

Eva Longoria reveals she has fled ‘dystopian’ America with her family and is now living in Mexico and Spain (Natasha Anderson/Daily Mail)  Good riddance.

‘These Are Such Vital Years’: Weir Demands EPA ‘Hold The Line’ Against Trump

The Curious Case of Tulsi Gabbard: Is She a Russian Asset or a Dupe? (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark)

Playbook PM: Ethics probe hangs over Gaetz (Eli Okun/Politico)

MSNBC’s Mitchell Doubles Down On Fake News About Hegseth, Women Pilots

Republican Leaders Are More Afraid of Trump Than Ever (Jonathan Chait/The Atlantic)

Fla. AG Takes FEMA to Court for Civil Rights Violations

Food prices worried most voters, but Trump’s plans likely won’t lower their grocery bills (Dee-Ann Durbin/Associated Press)

Nichols Loses His Noodle Over Conservative Telling Him to Give Gabbard a Chance

Go bags, passports, foreign assets: Preparing to be a target of Trump’s revenge (Washington Post)

House Oversight Committee Investigates Biden-Harris ‘Scientific Integrity’ Guidelines Meant To Thwart Trump’s Agenda

Matt Gaetz is a Vile Sex Pest and Any Senator Who Votes For Him Owns That (Ben Domenech/The Transom)

Trump’s intelligence chief pick Tulsi Gabbard is ‘Russia’s girlfriend’ (Marc Bennetts/The Times)

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President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team is preparing to eliminate the Biden administration’s $7,500 electric vehicle tax credit as part of its broader tax reform plan, Reuters reported Thursday.

Trump’s energy-policy team, led by oil magnate Harold Hamm and North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum (R.), has held several meetings to discuss repealing the EV subsidy, a cornerstone of President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, sources told Reuters.

Trump plans to use savings from ending the tax credit to help fund the extension of his 2017 tax cuts, which are set to expire at the end of 2025, Reuters reported. With the GOP retaining control of the House, congressional Republicans plan to make broader tax reform a top priority.

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ABC top brass is scrambling to bring in pro-Trump hosts for “The View” and other top shows, the New York Post reports.

The American Mind.

One of the worst decisions in Supreme Court history might finally be overturned.

Filed in January 2024, John Ream v. U.S. Department of the Treasury could cast aside Wickard v. Filburn (1942) could put an end to the Court’s rampant abuse of the Constitution’s Commerce Clause to justify whatever Congress wants to do.

The plaintiff is asking for declaratory and injunctive relief to overturn the current federal ban on distilling alcoholic beverages at home for personal and family consumption. Mr. Ream wants to produce rye and bourbon and has no plans to sell or offer it to the public. He believes that this prohibition exceeds the powers of Congress under both Article I and the 10th Amendment.

Although current statutes expressly authorize the home production of both beer and wine, 26 U.S.C.§ 5601(a)(6) prohibits home distilling of whiskey. Interestingly enough, 26 U.S.C. § 5181 allows for personal production of ethanol to produce fuel for farm use—and the same distilling process can also be used to produce whiskey.

The complaint in John Ream correctly notes, “If Congress can prohibit home distilling, it can prohibit home bread baking, sewing, vegetable gardening, and practically anything else.” How did Congress get the authority to regulate virtually anything under the auspices of commerce?

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When the director of the local Jewish federation first saw the hundreds of red, white and black posters plastered around the University of Rochester’s campus last weekend, an eerie comparison came to her mind.

They “looked a little bit like the ‘Kidnapped’ posters,” recalled Meredith Dragon of the Jewish Federation of Greater Rochester, referring to the flyers for Israeli hostages being held by Hamas in Gaza that became prominent in the weeks after Oct. 7, 2023. “I wonder if they were designed that way in particular.”

But the Rochester posters were something else entirely. Instead of promoting visibility for Israeli victims, these posters — marked with large “WANTED” lettering — targeted members of the university community who, the unnamed protesters alleged, had some form of ties to Israel. They stood accused of crimes ranging from “genocide” to “racism” and “intimidation.”

James Lileks: “Maybe it’s just me, but the older I get, the less I need to know everything now about everything.”

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A top Democrat in Rep. Seth Moulton’s (D.) hometown said she would find someone to challenge and replace the Massachusetts congressman for saying he doesn’t want his daughters “getting run over” by transgender athletes.

Last week, Moulton told the New York Times that he has “two little girls” and doesn’t “want them ge??tting run over on a playing field by a male or formerly male athlete, but as a Democrat, I’m supposed to be afraid to say that.” In response, Salem Democratic City Committee chair Liz Bradt condemned Moulton while making her threat.

“We will not stop advocating for people from all walks of life and all identities. He can take on the far right words ‘identity politics’ to degrade our work. We will find someone to run against him and win,” Bradt said in a statement obtained by the Boston Globe. “Salem Democratic leadership issued a letter to all our members in opposition to his statements. Our membership will be voting on endorsing the letter at our meeting Thursday night.”

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My, what a surprise.

The Department of Justice violated its own internal policies when it sent a letter—which ended up in the New York Times—warning Elon Musk’s political action committee against its $1 million voter registration giveaway in swing states, the chairman of the Federal Election Commission alleges in a letter obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

On Oct. 23, less than two weeks before the presidential election, the Times reported that the DOJ’s Public Integrity Section sent a “warning letter” to America PAC, Musk’s political group, that a $1 million giveaway for newly registered voters might violate the law. Both the letter and the leak appear to violate DOJ policies, FEC chairman Sean Cooksey argued in a letter to DOJ inspector general Michael Horowitz.

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Two days after the election, a federal court in Texas ruled against President Joe Biden’s latest unauthorized scheme to subvert immigration law: “parole in place” for illegal aliens who are the spouses of U.S. citizens.

In a 73-page decision, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas upheld a challenge by 16 states to the Department of Homeland Security’s attempt to create the parole program by administrative rule.

Introduced by Biden back in June, “parole in place” for spouses was built on a legal house of cards, as my BorderLine column explained at the time. In promulgating the order, Biden’s government created another administrative runaround to dodge the lawful visa process.

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MSNBC’s reliably liberal audience has tuned out the anti-Trump network since Election Day with a staggering 54% drop in primetime viewership.

MSNBC averaged 1.1 million viewers during the month of October but plummeted to an average audience of 736,000 on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of last week following President-elect Donald Trump’s historic landslide victory over Vice President Kamala Harris. MSNBC’s remarkable 31% drop comes as Fox News Channel’s viewership grew by 61% over the same time period.

MSNBC also shed 26% of its year-to-date totals, but things got even worse in primetime.

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Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD), the infamous anti-Israel student group, protested Veterans Day by hosting a “Martyrs Day” event honoring “those martyred by the Israel-US war machine.”

In an Instagram post, CUAD, which has celebrated Hamas terrorists and praised attacks on Israelis, welcomed attendees to “read a martyr’s story and plant a poppy in their memory.” About 80 people attended the event.

Trump’s defense choice stuns the Pentagon and raises questions about the Fox News host’s experience (Associated Press) Questions they never raised about Kamala.

Pete Hegseth Appointment Sparks Military Fury: ‘Beyond Stupid’ (Newsweek) I’d have picked Eric Prince.

‘We are in a new place’: Bernstein reacts to Hegseth’s comments about women in combat roles (CNN) Trotting out Carl Bernstein again? Scraaaaaaape that barrel….

Russia Attempts to Collect Its Winnings (emptywheel)  The new Russia Collusion Hoax. An oldie but a goodie.

THE TWO DONALD TRUMPS (The Atlantic)

SNL Pretends To Support Trump To Stay Off ‘List Of Your Enemies’

Protests Break Out Across US in Response to Trump Winning the Election

Hostin Supports Axing Holidays With Trump-Voting Family, ‘Moral Issue’

US Senate Democrats rush to confirm judges before Trump takes office (Nate Raymond/Reuters)

Republicans Probing FEMA for Denying Hurricane Relief to Trump Backers

Rubio news triggers MAGA backlash (Politico)  MAGA is the New Nazi.

Uniparty Establishment War On MAHA Heats Up

CNN’s Whitfield Touts Clyburn’s ‘Jim Crow 2.0’ Fearmongering Over Election

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Reveals Plans to Fire 600 Federal Health Workers (Anna Merlan/Mother Jones)

Judge in Arizona election case against Trump allies is accused of anti-Trump bias (Politico)

Putin Aide Issues Ominous Warning About Trump’s New “Obligations” (Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling/New Republic)

Trump pledged to close the Education Department. What would that mean? (Washington Post)  A lot of money saved, a lot of Federal leeches unemployed, a lot of kids not perverted.

Fired FEMA Supervisor Claims Avoiding Trump Homes Was A Widespread Practice Due To ‘Political Hostility’

CNN’s Hunt Questions Trump Pick of ‘Little Marco’: Doug Heye Has Great Comeback

‘Who the f–k is this guy?’: Defense world reacts to Trump’s surprise Pentagon pick (Politico)

Trump’s First Executive Order May Be a Military Purge (Malcolm Ferguson/New Republic)  Speed the day.

Once They Were Neocons. Now Trump’s Foreign Policy Picks Are All ‘America First.’ (New York Times)  Trump’s a learner.

CNN’s Scott Jennings SCHOOLS Panel Over Hegseth Pick as Secretary of Defense

Newsom Assures Californians They Will Be Safe From All The Trump Administration’s Prosperity, Safety, Lower Prices  Babylon Bee.

Port Authority races to secure funds for Midtown bus terminal before Trump takes office

Playbook: Elon wears out his welcome (Politico)

Trump demands Senate recess to install Star Wars Bar (Liz Dye/Public Notice)

Special counsel Jack Smith and his team to resign before Trump takes office (NBC News)  The first fruits of the Trump victory.

YouTuber Applauds as Families Divorce & Dissolve over Election

Trump Called His Win a ‘Historic Realignment’ of U.S. Politics. We Have Our Doubts. (New York Times)  Of course you do.

Why Is PBS Allowed to Be Mangle-MAGA TV?

Pritzker, Colo. Gov. Polis launch governors’ coalition to protect against ‘threats of autocracy’ under Trump (Tina Sfondeles/Chicago Sun Times)

Newsom Visits Washington To Shield California From Trump Policies

CNN’s Zakaria Admits Dems Lost Due to Ignoring Border and Anti-Trump Lawfare

Trump Puts Allies on Alert by Handing Pentagon to Fox News Host (Bloomberg)

Europe must build resilience against Trump’s America – and welcome those desperate to flee it (Alexander Hurst/The Guardian)

Former DC Officer Fanone Hunkers Down In Blue Ridge Mountains; “Fully Expects” Shootout With Trump Agents

In Trump’s mass deportation plan, the private prison industry sees a lucrative opportunity (ABC News)

Trump May Usher In Massive TV Station Land Grab (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)

Carl Bernstein: Putin, Netanyahu, China benefiting from Trump picks (Juliann Ventura/The Hill)

No, women aren’t likely to “boycott” men – but here’s why the idea matters (Amanda Marcotte/Salon)

Lawmakers Reject Bill That Would Let Trump Destroy Nonprofits (Noah Hurowitz/The Intercept)

The Guardian Throws Tantrum Over Trump Victory, Says “No Longer Posting On X”

Don’t Give Up on the Truth – Striking out against injustice is always right; it always matters. (Peter Wehner/The Atlantic)

Transcript: Paul Krugman on How Badly Trump Voters Have Been Scammed (New Republic)

Mitchell Spreads Fake News About SECDEF Nominee Hegseth, Female Pilots

ABC, CBS Pitch Hissy Fits Over Trump Joking About Staying in WH After 2028

Trump Makes Chilling Joke About Staying in Power Forever (Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling/New Republic)

U.S. Left Loses It As Trump Reaches Outside D.C. Bubble for Cabinet Nominees

Democrat Moves to Clarify the 22nd Amendment After Trump Refers to Running for Third Term (Annie Karni/New York Times)

Republicans “stunned and disgusted” as Trump taps Matt Gaetz for AG (Axios)

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Recently, legacy outlets Politico and The Washington Post reported on, and appeared to sympathize with, an amendment co-sponsored by Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) that would continue the work of an anti-free speech State Department program, the Global Engagement Center (GEC). In response, the Media Research Center relentlessly sought answers from the potential Senate majority leader candidates. The Media Research Center reached out to Cornyn, Thune and Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL).

The GEC, for its part, was shown to have aggressively worked to censor free speech on social media platforms, including targeting users of platforms as being a part of foreign influence campaigns. For example, Twitter Files journalist Matt Taibbi has reported that the GEC has smeared Twitter users by accusing them of acting on behalf of the People’s Republic of China. The GEC gave Twitter a list of “5500 names” that included CNN employees and “multiple Western government accounts.” The GEC has also been caught working with, and even giving $100,000 to, the George Soros-funded anti-free speech Global Disinformation Index (GDI). In Feb. 2023, Washington Examiner Investigative Reporter Gabe Kaminsky exposed the GDI for seeking to “defund conservative media” by cutting them off from their advertising funding.

The Media Research Center called Cornyn’s D.C. and district offices 12 times, in addition to sending two emails and a text message to Cornyn Press Secretary Tatum Wallace about the amendment. At no point did any Cornyn staffer address the amendment or even agree to speak on the phone. A staffer from Sen. Thune’s office informed the Media Research Center that Sen. Thune did not have a comment on the amendment. The Media Research Center also passed on concerns about the amendment to a staffer at one of Sen. Scott’s regional offices.

I believe I shall vote against Senator Cornyn if it runs again.