March 7, 2025

ONLY WATCHABLE TALKING HEAD ON CNN TO RECEIVE WELL-DESERVED RAISE: CNN to hand pro-Trump pundit Scott Jennings big pay raise as part of new deal: report.

CNN is on the verge of finalizing a lucrative new contract for conservative commentator Scott Jennings, a move that demonstrates the left-leaning network’s recognition of his growing influence and appeal among supporters of President Trump, according to a report.

Jennings, a veteran political strategist and respected voice in Republican circles whose analysis serves as a counterweight to the network’s often left-leaning discussions, is set to receive a substantial pay increase, according to the Status newsletter.

Specific terms of Jennings’ reported compensation boost couldn’t immediately be learned.

The new contract for Jennings, who has been mentioned as a possible candidate to succeed retiring Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), is testament to his growing popularity among Trump supporters on social media who routinely post clips of his contentious interactions with co-panelists.

As Charles Krauthammer famously remarked about Fox News, “the genius of Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes was to have discovered a niche market in American broadcasting — half the American people.” Why is CNN shocked when someone comes along who speaks for them — and routinely wins the argument — on their network?

 

Posted at 2:35 pm by Ed Driscoll 12

MATTHEW CONTINETTI: The Democrats’ Identity Crisis.

The Democratic Party has a split personality. It was on full display Tuesday night.

Face one: wacky, ideologically fevered, performatively outraged. Face two: collected, reassuring, conventional—and utterly misleading.

The split reflects a deeper problem. Democrats have no power, no leader, no role, no identity. Their presidential candidate lost every swing state and the popular vote. Their reputation is at its lowest level in decades. They are divided: Go wild, or stick with the old playbook?

The House Democrats chose derangement. As President Trump delivered his address to Congress, my eyes remained fixed on the House floor. There was no escaping the Democrats’ hysterical display.

It was a mass psychic breakdown—the political equivalent of the airline steward who, after his flight had landed, announced to the cabin that he was quitting his job, guzzled two beers, opened the emergency exit, and slid to the tarmac on the evacuation chute.

The theatrics began when Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D., N.M.) held a small card that read “This is not normal” above President Trump’s shoulder as he walked down the aisle to the House rostrum. She might as well have held bunny ears behind him. What was she thinking? Voters are used to Trump. They’ve elected him twice. What isn’t normal is Stansbury’s stunt.

Her colleagues were even less restrained. Rep. Al Green (D., Texas) was ejected from the chamber—and subsequently censured by the House—for heckling Trump at the speech’s outset. The image of the 77-year-old Green screaming and shaking his cane at the president was partly disturbing but mostly pathetic. He embodied the “old man yells at cloud” meme.

Speaking of memes, this was the video the Democrats released the following day: Uh Oh! Even Jimmy Kimmel is Mocking the Democrats’ Cringe-Tastic Behavior.

Meanwhile, Rosa DeLauro (D-Gotham City) continues her quest to appear like a Batman supervillian:

How bad are the above videos They’re so bad that they easily make Donald Trump appear to be the grownup in Washington: Fixed It for You! Trump’s WH Responds to Democrat’s Cringe ‘Fighter’ Video and It’s Perfection (Watch).

Finally, regarding the left’s current identity crisis: Tim Walz stumped with blank stare when questioned on who leads the Democratic Party.

Posted at 2:22 pm by Ed Driscoll 61

YOU CAN BARELY TELL THE PLAYERS APART EVEN WITH A SCORECARD: Another Day, Another Democratic Activist Scam Artist. “As Democratic activists never tire of reminding us while they lose election after election, not only are they smarter and better education that those inbred Trump-voting freaks of JesusLand, they’re simply better people than those greedy, money-grubbing peasants they look down on. Yet somehow, despite those giant piles of moral superiority, time and time again it turns out that they’re the ones committing fraud.”

Posted at 1:48 pm by Stephen Green 13

JIM TREACHER: A Few Other Ways Gavin Newsom Can Pretend to Be Normal.

This week Newsom debuted a podcast, where he promises to talk to people who disagree with him. His first guest was Charlie Kirk, so obviously he meant it. And during their conversation, Newsom finally admitted it’s wrong to make girls compete against boys in sports.

Finally, a prominent Democrat is willing to say the obvious out loud.

Clearly, this is just the opening salvo of a Newsom presidential campaign in 2028. He’s pivoting to the center, as the pundits say.

So here are some fake images of the greasy-haired Adonis pretending to be a normal American, now that he realizes the entire Democrat agenda is electoral poison and his political career is over if he doesn’t start trying to act normal, pronto.

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Minding His Own Damn Business

This last one is my favorite. Can you even imagine a politician just leaving you alone and not telling you how to live your life? I can dream, can’t I?

AI artwork is pretty astonishing, but it doesn’t yet have the level of science fiction required to get me to think of Gavin Newsom and Calvin Coolidge as being part of the same species, let alone in the same sentence.

Posted at 1:35 pm by Ed Driscoll 62

TYLER O’NEIL: Blue State’s ‘Domestic Extremism’ Task Force Stacked With Leftist Groups, Critics Fear.

Washington state has launched a domestic extremism task force, and conservatives are sounding the alarm about task force members’ ties to an organization notorious for branding mainstream conservative and Christian organizations as “hate groups.”

State Senate Bill 5950, signed by then-Gov. Jay Inslee, a Democrat, on April 1, 2024, established a “Domestic Extremism and Mass Violence Task Force,” which will recommend changes to state law.

The task force includes many left-wing groups with ties to the Southern Poverty Law Center, a nonprofit law firm that sued KKK chapters into bankruptcy and now publishes a “hate map” that includes parental rights groups such as Moms for Liberty, law firms such as Alliance Defending Freedom, and Christian groups such as the Family Research Council alongside Klan chapters. The SPLC’s accusation against the Family Research Council inspired a domestic terrorism attack in 2012.

“It’s self-evident how this entity is very dangerous to people of faith, to institutions that have a conservative worldview,” Brad Dacus, president and founder of the Pacific Justice Institute, told The Daily Signal in an interview Tuesday. The SPLC brands Pacific Justice Institute an “anti-LGBTQ+ hate group” because it opposes the LGBTQ agenda.

Read the whole thing.

 

Posted at 1:22 pm by Ed Driscoll 38

IT’S ALWAYS FUNNY WHEN LEFTISTS PRETEND TO BE THE SMART ONES.

Posted at 12:59 pm by Glenn Reynolds 182

SAY ANYTHING: Jasmine Crockett Says Trump Is Going After Illegals So He Can Send Black People ‘Back to the Fields.’

Crockett’s comments surfaced during a segment for a “24-Hour State of the People Marathon,” which was a protest event designed to counter the president’s address to Congress earlier this week.

The livestream featured a never-ending assembly line of guests providing racially charged and provocative commentary. Crockett did not disappoint.

“As they have decided to go after immigrants and these — and things like that, and they’ve said, ‘Oh, they’ve taken your black job, they’ve taken your black jobs,'” she told viewers. “Not really, they are obviously jobs that they want us to go back to, such as work in the fields, alright?”

“Those immigrants that come into our country, they work the fields, something that we ain’t done in a long time,” added Crockett. “And clearly, he is trying to make us go back to the fields.”

Crockett was last seen working TikTok, not Congress.

Posted at 12:46 pm by Stephen Green 190

GET READY FOR THE DEMOCRATIC RETREAT ON TRANS ATHLETES:

Newsom has been governor of California for six years, two months, and one day. At no point in that six-year-and-change span did Newsom express even a peep of objection to that law or policy — right up until the moment Newsom sat down for the inaugural edition of his podcast with Charlie Kirk. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, the California governor claimed that for years, he had thought the policy was unfair to women athletes:

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Based on Newsom’s sudden about-face, it’s entirely possible that five years from now, Democrats will act like they’ve always opposed transgender athletes participating in women’s sports. These days you don’t find many Democrats arguing that Covid lockdowns were awesome, that keeping kids out of school for at least a year was harmless, that people ought to be fired if they don’t take the Covid vaccine, or that the lab leak was a crazy xenophobic conspiracy theory. When Democrats abandon a position, they count on mass amnesia over their old stances and often get away with it.

Exit quote: “This never happened. It will shock you how much it never happened.”

Posted at 12:00 pm by Ed Driscoll 96

PRIORITIES:

More:

2022 LAFD Honorary Fire Chief, Paul Scrivano “We are nothing more now than the homeless Transport service”

“The biggest reason why the fire department will continue to fail is because we are nothing more now than the homeless Transport service in in the city of Los Angeles. We don’t need more stations. We don’t need more ambulances. We don’t need more paramedics. We need to stop transporting 1200 -1500 bums to the hospital every day. 2000 calls a day, 75%, 1500 calls a day are homeless related for homeless.”

Exit quote: “If the problem goes away, the money goes away.”

Posted at 11:58 am by Stephen Green 76

SAVINGS YOU CAN BELIEVE IN: Elon Musk’s DOGE Cancels Lease at Obama Library Site.

Since taking office on January 20, President Donald Trump has pledged to reduce federal costs dramatically and shrink the government workforce. The lease termination is part of a broader wave of DOGE contract cancellations and federal cost-cutting efforts.

The lease cancelation is expected to have minimal impact on the library. Federal officials said in 2024 that the library would close later this year and move to a new location.

DOGE said on its website that the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), which controls official presidential libraries and records, has terminated its $1.48 million annual lease with the Obama Presidential Library. DOGE claims this will result in total savings of $740,457.

The rent’s too damn high.

Posted at 11:44 am by Stephen Green 59

BURNIN’ FOR YOU: Now Karen Bass’s Pants Are on Fire, Too. “Oh, Karen. Did you really think you’d get away with pretending you knew nothing about the off-the-charts, crazy windstorm predictions before you left the country and the fires broke out?”

Posted at 11:13 am by Stephen Green 79

THAT’S OK: SpaceX Starship Test Flight 8 Went Half-Kablooey. “The race to radically reduce launch costs and pave the way to Mars and back to the moon — with the world’s most powerful and first fully reusable rocket — took one more small step forward yesterday with Starship’s eighth flight test.”

Some people just don’t get it, however:

I’m not convinced Ali is actually the dumbest motherf***** on X but only because the competition is so fierce and the field is so wide.

Posted at 10:11 am by Stephen Green 210