IF ONE RESPIRATORY VIRUS DOESN’T SCARE US BACK IN LINE, HOW ABOUT FOUR? Welcome to the year of the ‘Quad-demic’.
Yes, they really are that stupid. LOL.
IF ONE RESPIRATORY VIRUS DOESN’T SCARE US BACK IN LINE, HOW ABOUT FOUR? Welcome to the year of the ‘Quad-demic’.
Yes, they really are that stupid. LOL.
THIS ISN’T BRITAIN (YET): Missing LI teen ‘safe’ and ‘alive’ after dad ‘busted’ in to save her — thanks to tipsters and cops.
NEVER-THE-LESS, IT REEKS: The UK grooming gang scandal is a Galileo moment.
WAITING IN LINE IS FOR PEASANTS: Queuing: the last bastion of British tradition battered by Starmer.
THEY CAN’T WIN, BUT DO THEY KNOW THAT? PRC’s Hyper-Aggression Foreshadows Conflict with Taiwan and U.S.
WE NEED TO BEHEAD FASTER: The Hydra of Government: How the Global Engagement Center Lives On Through Rebranding.
THE AMAZING THING IS THAT THE MOP TALKS. YOU CAN’T EXPECT IT TO BE GOOD: KJP And Team ARE The Worst In The Business.
ANTHROPOGENIC COOLING ANTHROPOGENIC WARMING, WHATEVER! IT IS JUST HUBRIS. IT’S A BIG PLANET AND WE DON’T CONTROL IT: ‘Mystery Volcano’ that Lowered Global Temperatures Nearly 2 degrees Fahrenheit in 1831 Identified.
WHAT DO THEY EXPECT WHEN THEY KEEP APPEASING THE BAD GUYS? Blinken Admits Hamas Hardened Hostage Position Due to U.S. Public Pressure on Israel.
OUR MEMORY IS NOT THAT BAD: Meet the Deflection: Schumer Denies Democrats Misled on Biden’s Decline.
OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.
THE CRITICAL DRINKER: Star Trek Discovery Dies…To Thunderous Apathy (Video).
JUST NBC THE MEMORY HOLE! NBC’s Kristen Welker Pretends Media Had No Role in Hiding Biden’s Cognitive Decline.
The tell here with Welker is that she did not interrupt Schumer as he proceeded to respond to her question on Biden’s mental decline and Schumer’s own furtherance of the phony “sharp as a tack” narrative. Schumer was allowed to deflect and kill time undisturbed. No “to put a fine point on it” or “but that’s not what I asked”, as is her modus operandi with Republicans.
More importantly, Schumer was confronted only with his own statement. Welker did not bring up the devastating Wall Street Journal exposé (which specifically mentions Schumer’s visit with Biden in Delaware ahead of his dropping out of the presidential race) that confirms what we all suspected when it comes to Biden’s decline- that his fast fade was deliberately hidden from the American public. Welker offered no followup and moved to her next question.
The subsequent panel addressed Schumer’s remarks. Of note, former Biden campaign spokesperson and MSNBC host Symone Sanders-Townsend was allowed to run out the clock by quadrupling down on “sharp as a tack”, and running Trump whataboutism (click “expand” to view transcript):
Hey, remember when NBC and MSNBC anchors had a collective temper tantrum in March when NBC hired former GOP chairwoman Ronna McDaniel to be a fellow talking head? Good times, good times: NBC’s Chuck Todd Blasts Network as Backlash to Hiring Ex-RNC Chief Grows.
The tensions at NBC News demonstrate how tricky it can be for news networks to hire former politicians and Washington insiders as contributors—a common practice. While many hires provide insights into the inner workings of the government, there has been concern about the revolving door between news channels and politicos as well as partisan politics that creeps into analysis.
As Nick Arama wrote in March at RedState, “It’s pretty hilarious that any of these folks are upset about McDaniel, but they’re cool with the things like Russia collusion that MSNBC has spewed out over the years.”
And the burying of Biden’s mental decline by virtually the entire DNC-MSM. Will there be any reconning over their collective attempt to hide the decline?
EMPEROR ZOOLANDER TO FINALLY ABDICATE?
BREAKING: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to announce resignation this week, according to the Globe and Mail
— BNO News Live (@BNODesk) January 6, 2025
Will we finally see the Washington Free Beacon’s 2024 Man of the Year Pierre Poilievre in action?
UPDATE: Article here: Trudeau expected to announce resignation before national caucus meeting Wednesday.
Justin Trudeau is expected to announce as early as Monday that he will resign as Liberal Party Leader, three sources said Sunday, as the Prime Minister faces a caucus revolt and dismal public opinion polls that show his party will likely be swept out of power by Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives in a landslide victory.
The sources stressed that they don’t know definitely when Mr. Trudeau will announce his plans to leave but said they expect it will happen before a key national caucus meeting on Wednesday. The Globe and Mail is not identifying the sources because they were not authorized to discuss internal party matters.
One of the sources, who spoke recently to the Prime Minister, said Mr. Trudeau realizes he needs to make an announcement before he meets the Liberal caucus so it doesn’t look like he was forced out by his own MPs.
The three sources said they are unsure about what the Liberal Party national executive plans to do to replace Mr. Trudeau as leader. They said it remains unclear whether he will leave immediately or stay on as Prime Minister until a new leader is selected. The Liberal Party national executive, which decides on leadership issues, plans to meet this week, likely after the caucus session.
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THE NEW SPACE RACE: Will 2025 be the year of Starship? SpaceX’s megarocket is growing up.
If everything goes perfectly, I think SpaceX will send as many as 5 unmanned Starships to land on Mars. They will then manufacture methane fuel from the Martian atmosphere as they wait for (possibly manned) Starships to arrive two years later. It’s basically a variation on Bob Zubrin’s old Mars Direct architecture taking advantage of much better rockets than were around, or expectable, back in 1990.
DOMINIC GREEN: The Biggest Peacetime Crime—and Cover-up—in British History.
Social workers were intimidated into silence. Local police ignored, excused, and even abetted pedophile rapists across dozens of cities. Senior police and Home Office officials deliberately avoided action in the name of maintaining what they called “community relations.” Local councilors and Members of Parliament rejected pleas for help from the parents of raped children. Charities, NGOs, and Labour MPs accused those who discussed the scandal of racism and Islamophobia. The media mostly ignored or downplayed the biggest story of their lifetimes. Zealous in their incuriosity, much of Britain’s media elite remained barnacled to the bubble of Westminster politics and its self-serving priorities.
They did this to defend a failed model of multiculturalism, and to avoid asking hard questions about failures of immigration policy and assimilation. They did this because they were afraid of being called racist or Islamophobic. They did this because Britain’s traditional class snobbery had fused with the new snobbery of political correctness.
All of which is why no one knows precisely how many thousands of young girls were raped in how many towns across Britain since the 1970s.
What we do know is that the epicenter was the postindustrial mill towns of England’s north and Midlands, where immigrants from Pakistan and Bangladesh settled in the 1960s. White locals say the grooming and rapes began soon after. In Rotherham, the rundown Yorkshire city where the scandal first broke, local police and councilors were notified about systematic grooming and sex abuse by 2001. The first convictions did not occur until 2010, when five men of Pakistani background were jailed for multiple offenses against girls as young as 12 years of age.
These men targeted the most vulnerable girls—the poor and the fatherless, children in care homes—with candy, food, taxi rides, and drugs. They raped the girls, passed them around family and friendship networks, pimped them into similar networks in other cities, then discarded them as they reached the age of consent.
This pattern was repeated in as many as 50 cities across the country, including in leafy Oxford and liberal Bristol. A 2014 inquiry estimated that 1,400 girls had been serially raped in Rotherham alone.
The details are established beyond doubt in the small number of prosecutions that eventually made it to court. The suffering described in the court papers is sickening to read: The girls were drugged, beaten, sodomized, gang-raped, trafficked, and tortured.
One night in Oldham in 2006, for example, a 12-year-old girl named “Sophie” entered a police station and reported that she had just been molested in a graveyard by a man named “Ali.” A desk officer told her to come back with an adult when she was sober. Two men accosted her in the police station. Joined by a third, they raped her in their car. When they dumped her on the street, she asked a man named Sarwar Ali for directions. He took her to his home, raped her, and gave her money for bus fare home. A man named Shakil Chowdhury pulled up in his car and offered to take her home. He abducted her and took her to a house where he and four other men repeatedly raped her.
Earlier: UK Home Office Refuses To Publish Groomer Deportations Data.
“INTERSECTIONAL GRIEVANCE MATRIX:”
The vast majority of Democrats voting against a bill to deport child molestors and rapists makes perfect sense once you realize the following:
“Woke” is not “hypersensitivity to bigotry.” It’s an inherently marxist worldview that assigns guilt, not based on the facts of a…
— Nick Freitas (@NickJFreitas) January 5, 2025
CLAY TRAVIS: From Bush’s First Pitch After 9/11 To Epic Fail At Sugar Bowl, ESPN’s Collapse Came Fast.
[I]n the fall of 2015, ESPN made a 30 for 30 documentary entitled simply, “First Pitch,” about the impact of that George W. Bush first pitch for sports fans.
I thought about that movie, even went back and watched it, this Saturday morning as I was contemplating how a sports network like ESPN could have failed to cover the national anthem and the moment of silence in New Orleans the day after the Sugar Bowl was postponed in the wake of a deadly terrorist attack on Bourbon Street.
Even though it was just nine years ago, it feels like a totally different era at ESPN, a time when the sports network existed to unite sports fans of all races, sexes, ethnicities, and, yes, political beliefs in common love of competition, before the network became infested with identity politics, before woke sports destroyed the ESPN brand.
How in the space of less than a decade did ESPN go from making a documentary about the importance of a first pitch in the wake of a terror attack to not even acknowledging a moment of silence the day after a terror attack that required the very game it was covering in that city itself to be moved by a day?
And, in so doing, how much does this decade represent a lost unity, the collapse of sports as something that brought us together, and became instead yet another political wedge of divisiveness?
If you haven’t heard about it, on Thursday afternoon in the S