CHANGE (IT BACK): Trump to rename Denali to Mount McKinley after Obama changed it. “It was known as Mount McKinley from 1917 until 2015 and Trump vowed Sunday at the Turning Point USA AmFest conference in Phoenix that the mountain will once again honor America’s 25th president, a hugely popular Republican candidate who successfully won the office twice but was assassinated in 1901.”

MY NEW YORK POST CHRISTMAS COLUMN: In a Christmas season of renewal, Trump’s boldness is bringing hopeful change.

PETA’S AGITPROP NEEDS SOME WORK: PETA Goes for the Gross When It Comes to Santa Claus.

AS A MATTER OF FACT, I WOULD LIKE PEACE: You Want Peace? This Is How You Get Peace.

GET IN SHAPE: ZELUS Weighted Vest. #CommissionEarned

WELL, GOOD: Trump vows to stop ‘transgender lunacy’ and make two genders official US policy.

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:

How it started for Jaguar:

How it’s going:

Exit quote: “You can’t rule out the possibility that beneath the elaborately constructed veneer of a blithering idiot lurks a blithering idiot.”

That’s from Boris Johnson in the above 2003 episode of Top Gear, long before living out that quote as prime minister in 2020, but it could also apply to Jag, today.

But will there be a tomorrow for them? Jaguar Rebrand Called ‘Disastrous’ as Focus on Diversity Comes Under Fire.

THE DEMAND FOR HATE CRIMES IN AMERICA EXCEEDS THE SUPPLY: Illinois State U. omits key facts on why it closed LGBT ‘hate crime’ case.

The alleged victim of an anti-gay “hate crime” at Illinois State University is not even homosexual – and he changed his story multiple times, according to a police report obtained by The College Fix via a public records request.

Though the police and university left the community with the impression the case was closed because of a lack of suspects and that the unnamed individual was “knocked” off a scooter and “punched,” the official report from the incident four months ago tells a different story.

“Although this was reported as a possible Hate Crime, I was unable to establish the elements of the offense,” Detective Matthew Hice wrote at the end of the police report about the Aug. 24 incident.

One reason is, according to Hice’s recounting, the alleged victim, “could not recall [his attacker’s] height, weight, clothing details, or any unique features. He stated he would not recognize them if he saw them again.”

The event led to LGBT marches and a response from ISU President Aondover Tarhule.

Event, non-event, whatever.

CONQUEST’S SECOND LAW OF POLITICS REMAINS UNDEFEATED:

Wikipedia’s annual budget report from 2023—2024 reveals that they spent over $50 million of their total $177 million budget on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Stop donating to Wokepedia pic.twitter.com/bGYsCIzy9L

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) December 23, 2024

OUCH:

And speaking of those grandfathers who “roasted to death in a tank at Kursk,” earlier: Christmas in Nazi Germany: How Nazis Stole Christmas and Turned Adolf Hitler into Messiah (Video).

And: The National Socialists Fought the Original War on Christmas.

Who knew? Other than everyone who read Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism in 2008, or this London Daily Mail article the following year. But it’s good to see this sort of thing in the Smithsonian’s house organ. Or as author Dave Shiflett quipped in 2002 at NRO, “A shocking story has been revealed: Adolf Hitler was not a Christian after all. Instead, he hoped to destroy Christianity.”

To borrow a line from another 19th-century born socialist God killer, as a reminder of the first time as tragedy and the second time as farce — while killing time before engineering the next tragedy — I found that above quote in a post of mine from right around this time in 2012. A few years before Angela Merkel turned the lights out on 21st Germany, Yahoo was reporting that “A minister in Angela Merkel’s government has sparked a pre-Christmas row among Germany’s ruling parties by suggesting God be referred to with the neutral article ‘das’ instead of the masculine ‘der.’”

But then, political correctness is what governments do in order to ignore their nation’s real, structural problems.

Related: Nazi Caroling: The Extremes Hitler Wanted to Go To in Order to Replace Christianity with the “Religion” of National Socialism).

And in the adjacent world of International Socialism, Peter Hitchens: The last Noël in the USSR.

I HAD BEEN ASSURED BY ALL THE VERY BEST PEOPLE THAT THE SCIENCE WAS SETTLED: Recent Studies Freeze Climate Alarmist Claims.

SCRAPPED: Biden administration throws out proposed Title IX transgender sports rule: The Biden administration has scrapped plans to prohibit states from banning transgender athletes from participating in school sports.

DISPATCHES FROM WEIMAR AMERICA:

INSANITY: California judge rules a man who allegedly raped women in prison must be referred to as ‘she/her’ during trial because he 'deserves dignity' pic.twitter.com/lISInd1xc4

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) December 23, 2024

The victim, not so much.

LIGHTNING DEAL: TRAVANDO Mens Slim Wallet with Money Clip AUSTIN RFID Blocking. #CommissionEarned

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Greenland Seems Like a Wonderful Stocking-Stuffer. “Trump’s big Greenland tease during his first term was a real palate cleanser in the midst of all of the turmoil back then. It was also impossible to tell back then if he was serious, but who cares? The entertainment value is in the swagger. That whole, ‘Maybe I’ll just buy it,’ attitude reminds of of Rodney Dangerfield’s Al Czervik character in ‘Caddyshack.'”

THEY HAPPILY DUG IT THEMSELVES: New research shows the massive hole Dems are in.

In a trio of focus groups, even voters who previously backed Democrats cast the party as weak and overly focused on diversity and elites, according to research by the progressive group Navigator Research.

When asked to compare the Democratic Party to an animal, one participant compared the party to an ostrich because “they’ve got their heads in the sand and are absolutely committed to their own ideas, even when they’re failing.” Another likened them to koalas, who “are complacent and lazy about getting policy wins that we really need.” Democrats, another said, are “not a friend of the working class anymore.”

The focus group research, shared first with POLITICO, represents the latest troubling pulse check for a party still sorting through the wreckage of its November losses and looking for a path to rebuild. Without a clear party leader and with losses across nearly every demographic in November, Democrats are walking into a second Trump presidency without a unified strategy to improve their electoral prospects. And while some Democrats blame Biden, others blame inflation and still others blame “losing hold of culture,” the feedback from the focus groups found Democrats’ problems are even more widespread and potentially long-lasting than a single election cycle.

More:

“I think what the Democratic elites and their politicians believe is often very different from what the average Democratic voter is,” said a Georgia man who voted for Biden in 2020 but Trump in 2024.

Living in a mainstream media/social media bubble will do that.

CHANGE:

"Bitch, new laws."

A looting suspect in Seal Beach, Orange County, CA expressed disbelief to an alleged co-conspirator that they were facing a felony theft charge.

Prop 36, which passed through a referendum, increases penalties for repeat & group thieves.pic.twitter.com/zJsxdN72UD

— Andy Ngo 🏳️‍🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) December 23, 2024

Incentives matter, and California voters changed them.

LIFE IN 2024: Joe Biden, Kay Granger, and a senile gerontocracy.

JOHN LUCAS: Three Strong Men.

I’M NOT GETTING MY HOPES UP BUT I AM ENJOYING THE SHOW: Don’t Look Now, but Iran’s Islamist Theocrats Are in Deep Doo-Doo.

OF COURSE THEY DO: Democrats Block Tom Cotton Resolution To Condemn Biden’s Commutation for ‘Kids for Cash’ Judge: Sen. Dick Durbin says Biden clemency recipients, which include a triple murderer, ‘demonstrated a commitment to rehabilitation.’

CHANGE? Starmer handed horrifying early Christmas present as petition demanding ‘immediate’ General Election FINALLY exceeds 3 million signatures.

The petition initially went viral on social media after a number of high-profile politicians shared it with their followers, including Reform UK leader Nigel Farage and Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick.

However, a recent burst of energy from disgruntled voters helped tip the petition past the three million milestone.

Despite going to the polls five times in the last decade, millions of voters want another opportunity to elect MPs to the House of Commons.

I can’t imagine why:

Wow. Seriously?

Christmas in London 🇬🇧 📍

A mob tearing through the city on bikes under the Christmas lights putting up Palestinian flags 🇵🇸

How and why is this happening? pic.twitter.com/uQkxOgsxnP

— Kosher🎗🧡 (@koshercockney) December 23, 2024

JOHN HINDERAKER: The Fight for America’s Past. “One of the most important contemporary battles is the war over America’s history. The Left is trying to seize control over our country’s future by trashing its past. In Minnesota, my organization is fighting a years-long battle against the Tim Walz administration’s attempt to turn K-12 public education into an endless course in anti-Americanism.”

PROBABLY NOT: Cotton: Can’t We Reverse Biden’s Despicable Clemencies Over Incompetency?

ROBERT SPENCER: Canada, the Panama Canal, and Now Greenland. What’s Behind Trump’s Expansionist Rhetoric? “The left’s propaganda arm, also known as the mainstream media, loves to portray Trump and his supporters as angry, bitter, ignorant people lashing out against the people who know better what’s good for them. Trump has never gotten credit for his sense of humor, despite the fact that he is easily the funniest man to occupy the White House since Ronald Reagan, and may even surpass the Gipper.”

Make imperialism fun again!

The Trumpire shall extend from Greenland to Panama. Then Imperator Barron will press toward Tierra del Fuego. https://t.co/18vTTUmGV9

— Jon Gabriel (@exjon) December 23, 2024