THIS IS WHY TRUMP SHOULDN’T GIVE THEM AN INCH: Yup, Democrats Will Stall Trump’s Nominees at Every Turn.
January 6, 2025
ANTISEMITISM IS BIG AT KENT STATE: Kent State Prof says “The Children of Israel will be so Humiliated” by The Arab World.
The humiliation seems to have been significantly delayed.
LIMITED TIME DEAL: Etekcity Upgraded Smart Scale for Body Weight. #CommissionEarned
VOTING WITH THEIR FEET RENTAL TRUCKS:
U-Haul saw their largest loss with California customers with massive numbers of one-way customers LEAVING the State.
California ranked LAST in U-Haul growth.
The Gavin Newsom effectpic.twitter.com/vpHOLIRBnz
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 5, 2025
California’s tiny net population increase this year and last was due to foreign-born immigrants, although it’s difficult to determine how many are there legally.
HE’S ANGRY AND BITTER AND I KNOW I SHOULDN’T BUT I CAN’T STOP LAUGHING: Old Man Shouts at Cloud on Way out of White House. “HE’S FINE, according to people who appear on MSNBC, hosts of The View, and the shrinking numbers of permanent pants-wetters who still watch them.”
THAT WILL BE DEVASTATING: Florida plans to examine return on investment of Women and Gender Studies in higher education.
CHANGE: The end of an era: Russia loses its gas grip on Europe.
Claims that Asia could replace Europe as Russia’s primary gas market ignore several crucial realities. The Asian market remains a distinctly inferior alternative, even as a stopgap measure. Several factors make this evident:
Logistics heavily favor Europe – most existing infrastructure points westward, making European delivery both cheaper and faster than Asian alternatives. European market dynamics historically yielded higher prices, as competition and environmental regulations made Russian imports particularly attractive. Russia’s self-inflicted reputation damage through political manipulation and warfare has severely limited its negotiating position for long-term contracts in both Europe and Asia. Asia enjoys abundant alternatives with shorter supply routes – China, the prime potential customer for Russian gas, has diverse options from Qatar to Turkmenistan, Iran to Southeast Asia and Africa.
Heckuva job, Vlad, losing gas revenue Moscow had enjoyed even during some of the tensest years of the Cold War.
IN A NUTSHELL:
One of the main reasons behind the political alignment we’re seeing in the West is that the working & middle classes finally woke up to the fact that the Left hates them.
— Rita Panahi (@RitaPanahi) January 5, 2025
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: It’s a Shame Trump Can’t Deport Liz Cheney. “Despite their resounding defeat last November, Democrats still fail to grasp that the public is no longer in the market for their false narratives. Nobody outside of The New York Times Opinion section and the Biden White House thinks that Liz Cheney is a principled person. She’s a vile backstabber who only looks out for Liz Cheney. Republican voters in a state that has almost no Democrats sent her to a shameful primary defeat that the Dems have tried to spin as proof that she’s a — drumroll please — respected Republican.”
To be fair, Wyoming voters basically deported her from the state.
LIMITED TIME DEAL: G Gradual Men’s Sweatpants with Zipper. #CommissionEarned
OF COURSE THEY ARE, IT’S GOING TO TURN OUT THAT HALF OF THEM ARE COMPLICIT IN THE RAPING: British Elite Seem Angrier at Elon Musk than About Migrant R@pe Gangs.
Looking at this case, the Diddy stuff, Harvey Weinstein, Epstein’s Island, etc., and Andrew Breitbart’s demand of the left, “Stop raping people!” seems prophetic.
HERO:
This is Brother Mohan Singh
He started the fight in Britain against grooming gangs , way before anyone else.
He helped relocate girls who were abused and groomed to different countries , away from groomers.
He did this despite threats to personal safety.
He had no help from… pic.twitter.com/cPMhR8wa9l
— Vic Singh – #BrownMunday 🇬🇧⚒️☬ (@vicsinghb) January 3, 2025
I had no luck at all finding any news stories about Singh in the mainstream media.
DISPATCHES FROM WEIMAR AMERICA: Mentally Ill Man Kills Postal Worker; Media Lies About His Gender.
NOT THIS BULLSHIT AGAIN: Violence Words: Sen Chris Murphy Says RFK Jr ‘Wants to Kill Our Kids.’
BUT AL GORE TOLD ME THEY WERE GETTING WORSE: New Evidence Reveals 30 Year Global Drop in Hurricane Frequency and Power.
Reality rarely gets much of a look-in these days when fanatical Net Zero activism is afoot, but the paper, written by a group of Chinese meteorologists, makes its case by considering the facts and the data. The scientists apply a “power dissipation index” (PDI) which they consider superior to single measure indicators since it combines storm intensity, duration and frequency.
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Downward trends in the cumulative PDI can be seen in a number of Pacific regions, while the trend holds steady in the North Atlantic. The southern Indian ocean downward trend is particularly pronounced while the overall global line is also heading in a similar direction.So why does all this scientific twaddle get written by the green activists in mainstream media? Much of it arises from the new pseudoscience that claims it can tie individual weather events to human-caused climate change. Press releases peddling climate Armageddon are issued days after a natural disaster and are eagerly reprinted by activist journalists promoting the Net Zero fantasy. The distinguished science writer Roger Pielke Jr. is a fierce critic of this new pseudoscience, which he calls weather attribution alchemy. In a recent Substack post in the aftermath of Chido, he noted that the WWA at Imperial College simply assumes the conclusion that it seeks to prove by accepting that every storm is made stronger because of warmer oceans. Using this explanation, continues Pielke, it is straightforward to conclude that the storm was made more likely due to climate change. Or as Imperial states: “The difference in the storm intensity and likelihood of this storm intensity between the counterfactual climate and today’s climate can be attributed to climate change.”
As the new Chinese paper shows, the matter is not quite so simple.
Much more at the link.
MATT TAIBBI: Gaslit Nation: From drones to terrorists, authorities are having a laugh at the public’s expense.
To be fair, they’re laughing, but they’re also laughable.
ICYMI: PREFERENCE FALSIFICATION REVEALED.
It looks like Good Morning Britain's @GMB poll blew up in their face.
Nearly two-thirds of Brits welcome @elonmusk's involvement in UK politics. pic.twitter.com/P98dPgl62R
— David Atherton (@DaveAtherton20) January 4, 2025
FAREED ZAKARIA: “Why Is the Left Flailing? Look at New York vs. Florida.”
ON SUNDAY I RUN A PROMO POST FOR (MOSTLY) INDY AUTHORS AND ALSO A FUN VIGNETTE CHALLENGE: Book Promo And Vignettes By Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike.
KEVIN DOWNEY JR PRESENTS KDJ’s Bourbon-Inspired Predictions for 2025: Buckle up, Islam. “The ‘bourbon-inspired’ predictions are every bit as accurate as Sister Rita-Mary’s eraser-throwing arm as I learned at Saints Peter and Paul Elementary School in Detroit when I was experiencing what would later be called petit mal seizures.”
YES: “Encouraging Debate, Not Settling It”: Bret Stephens Interviews Vanderbilt Chancellor Daniel Diermeier. I serve on the board of the Institute of American Civics with Diermeier and I’ve been very impressed with his work there.
BUT DID THEY HIT ANYTHING? Impressive video shows Navy fire missiles from Red Sea at Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen.