2022 FLASHBACK:

AND AGAIN, TOMORROW’S NEWS TODAY:  By 2035, All California Vehicles To Be Replaced By Little Tikes Cozy Coupes.

ISN’T IT AMAZING HOW MUCH WE’RE FINDING OUT ABOUT OTHER WORLDS?  Io’s volcanoes get their lava from separate magma chambers, not a global underground ocean of magma.

MORE IMPORTANTLY, DOESN’T WANT YOU TO HEAR:  Testimony on children and the vaccine that Hallett does not want to hear.

A PARDON MEANS HE HAS NO CRIMINAL EXPOSURE AND HIS ONLY RISK IS PERJURY – THE FACTS ARE SUFFICIENTLY DAMNING THAT CRIMINAL PUNISHMENT IS UNNECESSARY:  A pardon for Fauci? The covid cover-up is in full swing.

IF THE SCIENCE WAS VALID THEY WOULDN’T HAVE TO FIDDLE THE DATA:  The climate scaremongers: Met Office fiddles the figures over Storm Darragh.

COMPLIANCE IS THE OBJECTIVE:  They’ll stop at nothing to get you jabbed.

SO STUPID PEOPLE FIGHT OVER LE BON MOT TO DESCRIBE HER STUPIDITY:  Kamala’s Total Incompetence Explained to the French; RIF Member’s Comparison Is “Borrowed” by a Le Pen Family Member.

CAN THEY BOTH LOSE:  Swamp Fight – Nancy Pelosi Tries To Keep AOC Under Control.

AGREED:  Trump is Right: America Must Stay Out of the Crisis in Syria.

MUCH, MUCH TOO LATE:  Woman Who Accused Three Duke Lacrosse Players of Rape Admits She Lied, Seeks Forgiveness.

TOO LATE:  Elizabeth Warren Tries to Walk Back Horrendous Comments on Murder of Healthcare CEO.

WHAT? AGAIN?   Déjà Vu – DC Restaurant Workers Plan To Sabotage Trump Admin Personnel.

IT MUST BE SAID:  In Defense of Telework.

OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.

A MOON-SHATTERING KABOOM: Meteor strikes on the moon! Astronomer captures possible Geminid lunar impacts.

THE DEMOCRATS ARE NOT MENTALLY WELL: Incoming West Virginia state representative charged with threatening to kill GOP lawmakers.

THEY TRIED. ProPublica Almost Succeeded in Smearing Pete Hegseth.

Still waiting to hear if anyone at West Point has been fired.

THE DANGERS OF BINGE DRINKING: ‘Holiday Heart’ Is a Serious Medical Issue Triggered by Festive Booze.

THE FIRST OF TWO SPACEX LAUNCHES TONIGHT WENT WELL:

Falcon 9 completes our 100th droneship landing of the year! pic.twitter.com/O5J25bw1ca

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) December 13, 2024

The next is scheduled for about half an hour from now.

SPACE: Astronauts Launch Bold Experiments and Gear Up for Critical Spacewalk.

MAKE THEM PAY: UCLA student sues California doctors, says she was ‘fast-tracked’ into transgender surgery.

HMM: Why Hasn’t Trump Said Anything About All the Drones? Weird, No?

UPDATE: You ask, Trump answers. “Can this really be happening without our government’s knowledge. I don’t think so! Let the public know, and now. Otherwise, shoot them down!!!”

BURIED LEDE: KATIE COURIC ACTUALLY GOT A STORY RIGHT! ‘Smartest Thing They Ever Did:’ Katie Couric, Jessica Tarlov Admit GOP Leaders Sending Migrants North Was Game Changer.

Katie Couric and Jessica Tarlov admit Republicans sending illegals to blue cities worked. Call it the “smartest thing they ever did.”

Correct. The only way to make left-wingers change is to have them suffer the results of their own policies.

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— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) December 13, 2024

Journalist Katie Couric and Democratic Fox News co-host Jessica Tarlov credited Republican governors for their strategy of transporting illegal immigrants to northern states.

Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and former Republican Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey in 2022 sent illegal immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts and Washington, D.C. Tarlov, on “Next Question with Katie Couric,” described DeSantis’ decision to relocate migrants to Martha’s Vineyard as remarkably intelligent, while Couric shared that her Florida-based friend believed the move effectively raised awareness about immigration issues.

“On the immigration front, there was a tendency amongst Democrats, and especially Democrats who were discussing the issue, so people who do interviews or are part of the media, to minimize it over the first two and a half years when there were a lot of people coming in here,” Tarlov said. “And I thought that it was a stunt when they started busing migrants … to Martha’s Vineyard. It was the smartest thing they ever did.”

“Well, it’s interesting ’cause I have a friend who lives in Florida, and I said, ‘What did you think of Ron DeSantis and Greg Abbott taking some of these immigrants and moving them to northern states?’ And she said, ‘I thought it was great because nobody really was paying attention before that.’ And I do think that this untold story was the strain on social services and communities, particularly along the border, this huge influx of immigrants was having,” Couric responded. “And I think the mainstream media, however you define that these days, kind of ignored that story to its peril.”

Flashback: Sanctuary Cities Seethe as Illegal Immigrants Actually Arrive.

The surest sign that public policies are simply virtue signals is when the messages don’t cost anything. The easiest way to tell when that signal starts to fail is to watch politicians flounder as the costs start to rise and voters demand relief.

It was free—and meaningless—for progressive churches to post banners calling themselves “nuclear free zones” during the Reagan era. Their dwindling congregations loved it. It was free, after George Floyd‘s murder, to post woke catechism signs on your front lawn, proclaiming “In this house, we believe: Black Lives Matter, women’s rights are human rights, no human is illegal” and so on. Maybe the neighbors gave you high-fives. And for years it has been free for deep-blue cities to proclaim themselves “sanctuaries” for illegal immigrants. That’s changing now that voters want some sanctuary for themselves.

Changes like this happen when voters realize the old virtue signals actually entail serious costs—and that they will have to pay them. That is exactly what’s happening in New York City and Washington D.C. now that Texas governor Greg Abbott is sending those cities a few busloads of illegal immigrants from his state.

These progressive bastions were silent when the Biden administration flew planeloads of illegal immigrants to suburban airports in the middle of the night. TV coverage was prohibited, and the arrivals were secretly dispersed. Abbott’s buses, by contrast, arrive downtown greeted by local TV crews. Now you can hear the politicians screech.

The ghost of Saul Alinsky smiles: “Make opponents live up to their own book of rules. ‘You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.’”

FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: Stole a Rolls, Made His Own Drive-Thru. “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week, we have the man who really missed the Checkers drive-thru, how not to order sex on the beach, and Virginia Man shoplifting in front of 50 cops.”