Trump leans into the shutdown fight, canceling $2.1B in Chicago funds while Democrats face heat over illegal healthcare spending. Virginia’s Hung Cao is confirmed Navy undersecretary, NYC pledges $100M to fight deportations, Pam Bondi targets Comey, and Florida trends redder by the day. Media trust craters, NJ’s governor race tightens, and ICE cracks down with 800 arrests while Texas indicts antifa attackers. Cultural battles rage—Harvard hires a drag queen professor, Mississippi tops Minnesota in reading, and emails show youth gender-transition providers hiding practices. On the economy, Buffett bets $9.7B on construction, EV demand stalls, climate lawsuits face a key ruling, Musk builds “Grokipedia,” and green stocks slide. Internationally, Zambia sues China over toxic spills, Europe doubles down on carbon taxes, and the UN eyes redefining GDP. Entertainment sees Jon Gruden’s NFL lawsuit move forward, and in lighter news, the Marshall Islands’ wildlife is thriving after invasive rats were removed.
1) What if they gave a Gubment Shutdown and nobody cared? That's the message today. Trump is trolling leftists by saying he will shut down "Democrat agencies." The New York Slimes is screaming, "Trump will use the shutdown to Maximize Pain and Punish Political Foes," but then admits in a subsequent story it's the DemoKKKrats' fault. My reaction is, first, gooooooood. Second, didn't Slick Willie use the shutdown to "punish political foes" in 1995? Why, yes, I believe he did. So, Trump canceled $2.1 billion in "infrastructure" money for Porky Pritzker's Benghazi-by-the-Lake (Chicago). Meanwhile, numerous DemoKKKrats are being caught in the lies of funding illegal healthcare, the most recent being James Brown (Maxine Waters).
2) And when even Yertle says you're wrong, well the shutdown was a sombrero-level act of stupidity.
3) Hung Cao, a great candidate in Virginia politics, was confirmed as undersecretary of the Navy.
4) The Amazing Zohran pledges $100 million of NYC taxpayers' money to fight deportations.
5) AG Pam Bondi says the indictment against Scrotumtoter Comey is just the beginning. Cue Leonid and Friends covering "Beginnings" by Chicago.
6) People get upset with "The Punisher" Pete Hegseth who demands fitness from members of the military, then you see this: an SS agent fell asleep at the UN, leaving his rifle unguarded.
7) FL just gets redder and redder. Now Jacksonville, one of the few D areas left (D+.08) is about to flip, as is Palm Beach Co. (D+1.96). Right now, Ds only lead in 6 of 67 counties after Hillsborough (now R+2.3) and Miami-Dade (R+3) have flipped. Meanwhile, there were very small changes in DE and RI, but Rs gained in each (net 789 in RI and 811 in DE). See Seth Keshel's review.
8) The way the Hoax News Media is covering the shutdown shows why only 28% of Americans trust the media, but only 9% of Rs. And 62% of Rs have "No trust at all" in the Hoax News Media. Correctomundo. By the way, of course, this is an all time low. Even among the Party of Terror, the DemoKKKrats, trust in the media has falled 19% since the China Virus.
9) Jeff Childers argues that even by previous legal standards, the "war" on drugs is an acceptable term and that the ChiComs are waging asymmetrical war on the U.S. via the cartels. And not just cartels, as the ChiComs are behind the latest sim farm that is staging attacks on American data. This was an attempt to cripple every cell tower. Better watch it, lil Red Dragon Hood. At some point, 'Merica is gonna say, "enough" and you'll get the Midway Treatment (if lucky) or the Hiroshima treatment if unlucky.
10) David Hogglet, you know, Lil' Hitler (What a Scamp!), had a PAC that spent millions on fitness classes, ads, and consultants. None of which has made him or his demonic cause one iota better. Meanwhile, enjoy Lil' Hitler's latest video.
11) Now Gruesome is threatening Kollyfornia universities that fall in line with federal regulations, saying they will lose state funding. Lessee, who has more money? Probably, for a university, the state. But withholding fed money would inflict a major wound on the universities. (Goooooood!)
12) The FBI has cut ties with the Anti-Defamation League, then, with the Southern Poverty Law Center.. There never should have been "ties" to these highly partisan group to begin with.
13) Is an upset brewing in the NJ governor's race? Rs are returning ballots at a rate 6% higher than in 2024. The D firewall is shrinking, and is now down to 57,000, so we'll see.
14) DemoKKKrat Ro Khanna of Kollylfornia admitted that, in fact, illegals are getting Medicaid money (Sombrero Spewmore lied and said no illegals were getting it). They have already lost on this issue. So first it was "They aren't getting any Medicaid money." Now it's, "But it's not much." Next it will be, "Yeah, but so what?"
15) ICE arrested 800 in an IL crackdown. I thought Porky Pritzker was going to prevent that? What's that Porkster? Couldn't get out of your chair?
16) Apple has been forced to remove ICE tracking apps from devices and phones.
17) This is the way: A TX grand jury is indicting fascist antifa terrorists who attacked an ICE facility by the bushel.
18) The great Ryan Burge shows that it is a myth that people who do not go to church "watch online." Nope. Online church is a very minor phenomenon. Only 7% of all churchgoers (which is less than half of Americans) even attend online services "seldom." Some 23% say never, and 15% say seldom. Most of those who livestream usually go in person. We fit that category. If, for health or other reasons we can't go, we will catch the service online.
19) Harvard should not get another dime of federal money after hiring this drag queen as a visiting prof.
20) Remember how leftoids used to bash southern states for their education systems? Yeah. Good times. Now Mississippi has higher reading scores than Minnesota, probably because Mississippi actually tests kids in English, not Arabic.
21) Red counties have the highest birth rates. Blue counties are dying because of liberal fecalistic mentalities, abortion, and homosexuality/transoidism. The sooner they depopulate themselves, the better.
22) Emails show that "gender transition" providers (no such thing) for youts hid what they were doing. Hmm. If it's so noble, so righteous, why would you do that?
23) Warren Buffet is expecting a construction boom. Berkshire Hathaway has just invested $9.7 billion in OxyChem, a company that provides raw materials for construction products.
24) David Blackmon, the Rush Limbaugh of Energy, notes that the EV surge is about to dry up as subsidies disappear. He asks the key question: if EV makers haven't addressed the ongoing perplexing problems of range anxiety, unreliability, and lack of infrastructure in an industry this old, can they ever? Blackmon also notes that nuke startups are having trouble. They are overvalued. Demand, so far, has not caught up to startups.
25) Climate lawfare will hit a key inflection point in the Maryland Supreme Court following a lower court's ruling that climate whackos cannot sue companies for "climate change."
26) Elon Musk is building a (one would hope, honest) competitor to Wikipedia, Grokipedia.
27) The CEO of a big renewables company is chagrined to see the stock market turn against green. Suck it, Charlie.
28) Cracker Barrel fired the marketing firm that came up with the disastrous change, but has not yet fired the woke CEO who approved it.
29) Zambian farmers are seeking over $200 million in damages from Chy-na, who, they say, damaged their land with a toxic spill.
30) Euro economies, which are already in trouble, are about to make it worse with a carbon-credit "border tax."
31) The UN wants to redefine "GDP" to include mushmanure like levels of green commitment. Seems to me we already did this in America. The GDP from 1800-recently was improperly measured too low. and as Robert Gordon in his Rise and Fall of American Growth showed, it was way under-measured by then-traditional statistics. What's amazing is that when it comes to the present, Gordon makes the same mistakes. Bottom line is that the UN sees American prosperity on the horizon, and wants to define it away.
32) Jon Gruden's lawsuit against the NFL advances.
33) The Marshall Islands experienced a boom in wildlife after removing invasive rats. See that? DemoKKKrats are bad even in the Marshall Islands.
