Crash over the Potomac

When they say they don't want a three year investigation into the crash over the Potomac, based on this amateur video assessment, it doesn't seem like they need three years. 

She says this while living in the U.S.

This woman might be the dumbest person on the internet. "Stay in your country"? Wow.

So there

Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has started off amazingly. And how can you argue against the first amendment? Except if you are in the mainstream media, in which case, you don't really want free speech.

This is really happening?

The Gulf of America soon?

Is Nevada now a red state?

I like optimism. But I also don't like to count my chickens before they hatch.  While this is good news, to claim Nevada is now a red state, may be a bit premature. I hope he's right longer term:

All you need to know about John Bolton

Suddenly the supposed conservative is going on MSNBC. Why? A personal gripe about president Trump. That's all you need to know about this opportunistic snake. By the way, the same holds true for MSNBC, who vilified Bolton when he worked under Bush. Politics makes strange bedfellows.

'You're Going To Be Called Crazy'

Trump to Colombia: FAFO

Colombia refuse the military transport planes returning Columbian illegal immigrants into America back to the country. Trump did not pull any punches in response, and it resulted in a quick re-think on the part of the Colombian. The explicit phrase FAFO applies well here.

By the way, this was summarized more succinctly on a popular reaction channel on YouTube than on any major news network's social media I could find. That too is telling.

Sunday verse

 

Pete Hegseth confirmed as Sec. of Defense, and...

You have probably already heard that Pete Hegseth has been confirmed as Secretary of Defense. You probably have heard that JD Vance had to cast the deciding vote after the senate was tied 50-50. But did you know Mitch McConnell voted against Pete Hegseth? Why?

Common sense defeats climate activism

The activist refuses to recognize reality. And that's really the problem, isn't it? They claim we don't recognize their 'reality', and they are clearly committed to zero compromise. In that case the backlash will be doubly strong.  It's especially so when the science really isn't on their side. Common sense prevails.

The Panama Canal issue is really about China

It's about countering the communist Chinese.

Shock: Democrat defends work from home government

In an unhinged, often erroneous, and over-the-top rhetorically few minutes, New Mexico congressional Democrat tries hard to argue for inefficient government.

He's mastered the art of answering questions

Pierre Poilievre is going to be Canada's next prime minister (Justin Trudeau's parliamentary delays and tricks aside). No small part of the reason is that he's mastered the art of answering questions and handling woke reporters. Masterfully.

Disgusting

Unlike the last post, I am unhappy with this foolish interpretation.

ICE ICE baby!

Not unhappy with this.

There's just too much to keep up!

The level of activity so far has been awesome! Tired of winning? Not by a long shot. Keep it up Mr. president.

Paris Climate Accords; 

Border wall;

AI investment;

DEI shut down;

He certainly hit the ground running!

President Trump purportedly had 100 or 200 executive orders to sign on Day 1. He didn't get there but it has been a crazy busy first couple of days. Nevertheless, he has clearly hit the ground running:

Danielle Smith, another great Canadian politician

It's not only Pierre Poilievre in Canada that is making sense.  Danielle Smith is the premier (governor) of the Canadian province of Alberta. Alberta is the Texas of Canada. She's a conservative and has been to see then president-elect Trump at Mar-a-Lago and was at the president's inauguration yesterday.

She's a very vocal critic of Justin Trudeau and his abject failures on many fronts. She's also been rightly critical of fellow conservative and premier of Ontario Doug Ford, who is a conservative in the RINO mold. She's someone who is going to be able to work with president Trump in a mutually beneficial way for both Alberta and the United States.  

Lawfare resumed

The left is going after DOGE, via lawfare, on hour one. Sickening, self-serving, garbage.

Tech oligarchs have not seen the light

I agree with Steve Bannon, tech oligarchs have not surrendered, they are simply doing what they need to do to maintain favorable operating conditions. They are still acting like oligarchs. They have not "seen the light". They are suddenly siding with president Trump in a go-along-to-get-along (for now). If suddenly voters lose favor with the Trump administration they'll turn on a dime in a second.   And it's not just that, they are ideologically on the other side of the political spectrum. That has not changed.

Tim Pool expands on this:

Jim Acosta is no Walter Cronkite

That Jim Acosta is still employed somewhere, anywhere, is baffling. That he mentions Walter Cronkite in this clip is stunning because while Walter Cronkite was still biased towards the left, he was at least no propagandist. Jim Acosta has the propaganda bona fides to march in a Soviet parade.

He should not have Walter Cronkite's name in his mouth ever. He should instead be referencing Joseph Goebbels.

Push polling in Canada too

Allow me to preface this with an explainer.  

A lot of people think of push polling as a poll with a result that is designed to influence public opinion, which is technically not correct but still substantially correct. In reality, a push poll is an ostensible opinion poll in which the true objective is to sway voters using loaded or manipulative questions. In other words, it uses misleading questions to sway voter opinions. The misleading part is they skew the poll results by framing the question in a way that manipulates those polled. Those being polled may themselves change opinion based on the framing of the question.  Inevitably the poll result is skewed and publishing it further skews public opinion (or attempts to do so).

All that said, ultimately the public sees polls that could be very different from what the reality of public opinion is. People may question their own opinions as a result. It's a way to manipulate voters, and/or public opinion, plain and simple. But it's not real polling, it's an agenda driven exercise in propaganda.

Okay, on to Canada.

Pierre Poilievre, Canada's common sense conservative candidate has been decimating the Liberal party in polls. This of course is in large part due to Justin Trudeau's stench of putrid leadership and governance.  That's not hyperbole by the way. But it is also not entirely on Trudeau; his ineptitude, narcissism and tyrannical approach to governance merely opened the door. Trudeau, despite that, has defeated other conservative leaders prior to Pierre Poilievre.  Pierre Poilievre is different. He's changed. The Liberals have not. 

Justin Trudeau stepping aside as leader and using parliamentary tricks to stall the forcing of an election was supposed to help the Liberal party recover from its long, unimproved disastrous polling. It appears it did and Canadians are dumb enough to vote Liberal party again. But... push polling:

It turns out, the poll showing a Liberal recovery minus Trudeau, was a push poll.

It's happening (Part 2)

 It's Inauguration Day.  It's happening.

Let's Go Brandon pardons every American

In his last hours in office, Let's Go Brandon extended more ridiculous pardons:

Preemptively pardoning the J6 committee seems quite suspicious. They seem just as innocent as Hunter Biden now...

It's happening (Part 1)

A change is happening:

Looks like an insurrection to me...

Sunday verse

 

Kristy Noem on the hot seat, flips the script

Trump nominee for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem flipped the script on lefty Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) when he peddled a false narrative about the prior Trump administration purposely separating the families of illegal immigrants trying to enter the United States.

CNN gets caught, sued, and loses

I doubt this will straighten them up, but at least it's holding them to account.

Friday Musical Interlude - Hamster Wheel

Last summer I started playing with A.I. music creation. It's become a bit of a hobby. So I've brought back the Friday Musical Interlude for a while as a shameless bit of self-promotion for my young YouTube channel, to help give it some legs.  

I've created quite a few songs in multiple genres. Today I'm sharing Hamster Wheel, by the "band" Wonderman Alaska. It's a fun, retro-80s style, semi-auto-biographical take on the 9-5 grind.

Not to be overlooked

This likely won't amount to much but Gavin Newsom is facing a recall election over the L.A. wildfires. He is the worst in a prodigious string of horrible California governors and deserves to be recalled for countless issues. Even though it likely won't happen (successfully), it's worth noting how terrible he is, since he's likely planning a presidential run in 2028.

Pam Bondi, smooth as glass. Democrats, not so much

Pam Bondi comported herself well during her confirmation hearings for Attorney General, unlike some people in the room. You know who looked like idiots during Pam Bondi's senate confirmation hearings? Democrat senators.

Here's the entire hearing session, unfiltered for reference.

Cultural pulse check

Via Nerdrotic, a reasonable, well-thought out and entertaining assessment of Hollywood and the mainstream media:

Sam Harris, conspiracy theorist

Conspiracy theorist, conspiracy theorist, conspiracy theorist. And Sam Harris is supposedly part of the left's intellectual elite. 

Trump nominee senate hearings: Pete Hegseth

President (and currently president-elect) Trump has made numerous nominations for roles within his administration. Yesterday the senate hearings for his nomination confirmations began. The first high profile hearing was for the Secretary of Defense position, with nominee Pete Hegseth.  The Democrats thought they could torpedo his nomination with some half-baked gotcha style questioning. 

Boy were they wrong:

Democrats laundering wildfire donations through ActBlue

I'm sharing this from Tim Pool because it's really important that you know the truth about how Democrats skim donations to fight the California wildfires.  Guaranteed it is not an isolated case.

And it's criminal. The Democrat party acts like the mafia; they look at every single transaction and think to themselves "how can we get a piece of that?" That's criminal thinking.

CNN is still Climate-Change-Crazy

Extreme weather has been around for millennia, but  CNN is still pushing climate change hysteria. What's interesting is the analyst sharing the details is clearly just coping with the American people finally getting wise to their hype.  He isn't saying people are no longer believing the climate change hype, he's positing that they have given up in the belief that they can no longer do anything to help fight climate change. They are resigned to it being beyond their control, is what he's saying.  

This level of copium is what shows me, CNN at least has not learned their lessons from the Trump win; they are not self-reflecting. They are instead attributing the change to something other than themselves. It can't be them, it's the stupid people. 

It's going to be a long slog to an on-going conservative dominance in politics, but this sort of blinkered view by the likes of CNN can only help their own demise, and the rise of conservative dominance.

L.A.: Battling through it's worst mayor in history

Yeah, the fires are horrific, but here's the real problem; the mayor.

California's dreaming

Well at least the leaders are.  Instead of dealing with the L.A. fires, they're worried about what they perceive as the real threat to citizens of the state: Donald Trump.  I kid you not:

Sunday verse

 

Trudeau does not speak for Canada

Americans, please remember this - Trudeau only speaks for himself.

He says what many are thinking

The Rageholic shares his thoughts on the L.A. wildfires. It's funny but also largely correct.

More on that confrontation with Newsom

The woman who confronted California governor Gavin Newsom talks about the interaction.

California: Waking up from woke?

Unafraid (to confront)? Unimpressed (by his title)? Maybe both. Regardless, people in California are clearly no long as uninformed as they used to be. Gavin Newsome is a fool. People in California are perhaps waking up from 'woke'.

Sunny Hostin rats on her husband, and more

The View's Sunny Hostin is a one woman train wreck. She recently exposed her husband's insurance fraud, live on the air.

She compared January 6, 2020 (J6) to the holocaust, slavery and WWII:

Both of those things within the last week!  and who can forget the repetitive need to read legal notices because of her inflammatory extremist rhetoric. This was not an isolated incident:

California wildfires are a human-made mess

This reflects poorly on the governor (Gavin Newsome), the L.A. mayor and the Fire Chief. They are all the bigger disaster. Here's why:

Zuckerberg is a coward, not a hero

Mark Zuckerberg surprisingly announced recently he's moving some positions from uber-left California to Texas. He also announced that Facebook/Meta was forced into censorship by the Biden administration and they were wrong to comply. He was no victim; Facebook was doing this before the election. How could Let's Go Brandon have forced the Hunter Biden laptop story suppression when he was only a candidate at the time? Zuckerberg was a willing and eager participant.

That doesn't make Mark Zuckerberg a hero. He's a coward. He went to Trump and was told something that he is now complying with. If Harris had won the election, there would be 0% chance you'd be hearing the same from Zuckerberg now. He's doing this because he has no choice. He's trying to stealthily mitigate what he sees as a bad situation (the Trump win). The same is true for Amazon. The same is true for Disney. And Joe Scarborough. The list of examples goes on.  These people are not suddenly converted to the right. They are covering their asses from a conservative backlash and a Trump lawsuit after years of woke garbage they tried to shove down our throats. They just want to ride it out for four years and they expect another Trump term to be followed by a Democrat win, and they will go back to business as usual. All of them.

Most American people have come back to common sense, that does not include the woke, DEI, media elite crowd. As disgusting and horrible as the over-the-hill hens at The View are, at least they are consistent in their hatred. You can count on their far leftism. Anyone who falls for this Zuckerberg stuff is way too naive.

 

Trump still needs your support

Continued leftist pressure on president Trump is inevitable and just because he won, doesn't mean we can let up in our support for him. The left , unsuccessful in all their attempts to stop him, will not abate.

Newt Gingrich opines:

Trump didn't destroy Trudeau's career

Let's get a few things straight here.  First and foremost president Trump (what an awesome feeling to be able to say that in the present tense) did not cause Justin Trudeau's resignation, unlike what a lot of Americans are saying. I'll explain more in a minute.  Secondly, as much as I'd personally be tickled pink with it, Canada is not becoming the 51st state at least not any time soon.

Trump didn't destroy Trudeau's reign in Canada, Trudeau managed that all on his own. He was destined to be absolutely destroyed in the next election in October 2025 and he accomplished that all on his own. His polling has been abysmal for about two years now. His coalition government was already falling apart too, and he may not have made it to October anyway. 

However, it's certainly fair to say that president (elect) Trump helped accelerate the downfall. Many, many Canadians can appreciate him for that. Some of us will appreciate him for a lot more.

As far as Canada becoming the 51st state, I understand that it's just very effective trolling but not only shouldn't it be taken seriously, there are a few reasons it's likely impossible.  Firstly, while a lot of Canadians would be thrilled at that, far more Canadians want Canada to be Canada; even the ones who like Trump and love the U.S. 

Secondly, if there is a 51st state wouldn't it be Greenland? It's more likely Greenland, should it be actually on the table, would become a protectorate and not a state. But if we are talking states, that's more likely a primary objective than Canada. Then there's Panama. Strategically Canada is less important than either of those other two. If anything, Canada seems more like the 52nd state. Or maybe even joined to Alaska as part of the 50th state instead. That's all geographical semantics though.

Thirdly, Canada is so geographically vast, it would require more than just one state. It also makes sense to break that up; Alberta for example is reliably conservative and basically Texas north. Do you as a conservative American want to add a single state that has enough population to gain approximately 50 electoral college votes and tends to lean left? It would make more sense do break that up.  While the mood in Canada is currently pro-conservative, that is not universally true. A split Canada into multiple states is definitely more balanced electorally.

All that aside, Trump's handling of Trudeau has been masterful, purposeful and did help achieve it's intended effect. My greatest hope as  a Canadian, is that Pierre Poilievre is elected as soon as possible and he and Trump develop a terrific working relationship. They are predominantly aligned on political philosophy and an economic union could be something that works out even better than a 51st state. 

Two of the smartest men in Canada discuss inflation

I know a lot of people find economics boring, but they are vitally important to your daily life. Below is a conversation between two of the smartest men in Canada; Jordan Peterson talks with Pierre Poilievre about economics, and while these things are specific to Canada, there is a universality to the points that Poilievre is making that everyone needs to hear.

This is a short excerpt from the lengthy conversation that I would urge anyone to check out in its entirety.

Let's Go Brandon's middle finger to America on the way out

Let's Go Brandon is only an environmentalists as far as it benefitted his pocketbook and/or power. He doesn't care about it, and clearly he doesn't care about America or average Americans. This is a middle finger to the entire country. Either that or some environmentalist(s) on his staff  did this in his stead because he can't even tell which we he's walking.

Energy independence? Screw it.  Affordable living? Screw it. Let's just make it as hard as possible for Trump to fix America.

Inside scoop on the Trudeau exit

Michelle Rempel Garner is the conservative Member of Parliament for Calgary Nose Hill, Canada. She's expecting, and is being corroborated by news stories, Trudeau will resign on Wednesday. But it's not all good news.

This is not the video to start your year

Wow. Unbelievable.

Sunday verse

 

It's a Wonderful Life

Every Christmas season I watch It's a Wonderful Life. It's a heartwarming story with a moral lesson that I have never really related to capitalism vs. communism per se. It is about a more spiritual point.  Nevertheless, capitalism and altruism are not mutually exclusive. Indeed, as is explained quite well in this video I stumbled across this week, communism and altruism do not mesh as well as is possible in a capitalist system. 

So this is in progress...

Floor vote for GOP House leader in progress, more sure to follow.

Trump just got out-trolled

Pierre Poilievre may have just outdone Trump for trolling.  This is an amazing must-see trolling of Justin Trudeau and his cadre of fools: