I GUESS YOU COULD SAY THE DEMOCRATS TRIED TO MAKE HIM INTO BRETT KAVANAUGH — AND SUCCEEDED. Pete Hegseth Will Be Confirmed.

Well, Kavanaugh was confirmed, too, so maybe this was a bad strategy.

YOU MIGHT ALMOST SAY IT’S MORNING IN AMERICA: My New York Post column: National mood shift since Trump’s win is reviving America’s lost vigor.

BROUGHT TO YOU BE THE SAME PEOPLE WHO WON’T STOP YAMMERING ABOUT SUSTAINABILITY:

This is bad: after just two months into fiscal 2025, the US has already raked in a $624BN budget deficit.

This is the worst start to a year on record pic.twitter.com/Oeta4diK5Q

— zerohedge (@zerohedge) December 11, 2024

Something that can’t go on forever will stop.

WOULD YOU? Ouch: Just 32% of Democrats want Kamala Harris to run again.

LIGHTNING DEAL: Power Bank 50000mAh 22.5W Fast Charging Portable Charger with Flashlight. #CommissionEarned

DISPATCHES FROM WEIMAR AMERICA: Sickening ‘Wanted’ Posters Targeting Corporate Execs Pop Up Across NYC.

THAT’S BECAUSE YOU’RE ALL MORONS. Tony Blinken Tells Congress ‘No One Anticipated’ Taliban Takeover of Afghanistan.

HILLARITY ENSUED: What Happened When Oxford Anti-Semites Were Exposed to Facts.

The point here is not just the behavior of anti-Israel maniacs at the union or the fact that Sacerdoti, representative of the pro-Israel side of the public debate more broadly, showed grace and respect while standing his ground. It’s that the parts that drove the crowd to the brink of insanity were merely Sacerdoti’s reciting of statistics—i.e., facts. The mob’s contact with reality produced a chemical reaction that ought to be studied for decades to come.

About eight minutes in, Sacerdoti notes, in objection to the idea that Israel is purposely starving Gazans: “Israel has provided 700,000 tons of food to Gaza during this war. That is a daily average of 3,200 calories per person.”

To which a woman in the audience yelled: “You sick motherf***er!”

I don’t know if I’ve seen an exchange that so perfectly encapsulates the public debate over this Israel-Hamas war.

In the official Oxford Union video, you don’t get to hear that response at all. That is when the sound is cut out for 110 seconds, the length of time it takes the presiding official to regain order and allow Sacerdoti to continue.

This eruption was not caused by Sacerdoti saying something provocative or even delivering his opinion. It was his recital of statistics that sent the crowd into convulsions of fury.

You can watch the unedited video on X, naturally.

CLASS CONFLICT IN AMERICA:

Brian Thompson went from Jewell, Iowa (population 1,200) to leading 140,000 employees and overseeing $280B of revenue at one of the world’s most important companies. His mom worked as a beautician, his dad at a grain elevator—they were probably really proud when he graduated… pic.twitter.com/vX6JT2N30j

— Robert Sterling (@RobertMSterling) December 11, 2024

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Joel Kotkin: The American university is rotting from within: The modern academy is a threat to reason, liberty and Western civilisation.

EXCLUSIVE: FBI Whistleblowers Say Resigning Director Wray Was a ‘Failure’ in His Role.

AGAIN, DON’T RAGE AT INSURANCE. RAGE AT THE GOVERNMENT:   The Daily Chart: The Failure of Obamacare.

Second, the dirty secret of health policy since the failure of Hillarycare in 1994 is that the government demands that private health insurance systems do cost containment, so that they, and not the government, will take the heat. One of the superficial claims you hear from the left is that Medicare has something like a 1% administrative cost, while private insurance has something like a 25 to 30% administrative cost, the lesson being “See, government health care is cheaper!”

AS THE OLD MEDIA COLLAPSES, THEIR HELP IS LESS USEFUL: It’s Becoming Clearer By the Day That Gun Controllers Just Can’t Stop the Signal Any More.

THESE GIRLS HAVE A SPINE:  150 California high school students punished for wearing “Save Girls’ Sports” shirts.

WELL, WHAT IS ALL THE IMPORTING OF HUMANS FOR, IF NOT TO HAVE SOME SLAVE LABOR?  Another company investigated for child labor violations tied to border crisis.

THIS PART I THOROUGHLY AGREE WITH:  Part 2 of 2: De-emphasize a fast Moon landing and build a real American space industry instead.

MORE ON FEMA FROM O’KEEFE:  OMG INVESTIGATES FEMA – Part 1: “FEMA Doesn’t Want These People”: North Carolina Residents Still Stranded as FEMA Fails to Deliver Aid After Hurricane Helene.

AND:  OMG Investigates FEMA – Part 2: O’Keefe Calls FEMA’s Mysterious ‘HAL’ Robot-Like Representative for Answers on Disaster Relief Response.

CHASER TO MUSK’S POLL:  29 House Republicans want Trump to scrap the IRS’s free direct tax filing tool on day one of his presidency.

DEAR SANTA, I’VE BEEN A VERY GOOD GIRL THIS YEAR, AND I THINK I DESERVE SOMETHING NICE:  Elon Musk asks if the IRS should be ‘deleted’ after agency  begs for $20 billion – here’s how X users responded.

SURPRISE, SURPRISE, SURPRISE. NOT!  Government Funneled Unprecedented Amount Of Money To Criminal Gangs Through COVID Relief, Oversight Report Finds.

BEHOLD MY SHOCKED FACE:  Pfizer hid vaccine deaths, research team alleges.

THE HATRED AT HEALTH INSURANCE WOULD BE BEST DIRECTED AT GOVERNMENT THAT MAKES US USE INSURANCE AT ALL AND MAKES HEALTHCARE PROHIBITIVE:  Vigilante Assassination May Be OK.  United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson is not necessarily a good example though.

THIS IS JUST THE FIRST STEP …  Patagonia Hit With FEC Complaint Alleging Straw Donor Operation That Funneled More Than $1 Million to Democrats.

JUSTICE WILL FIND HIM, SOONER OR LATER:  Adam Schiff: New Senator, Same Old Hypocrite.

NO CREDIT, JUST KASH:  FBI Director Christopher Wray Will Step Down Early January.