FLASHBACK: Why Not A Waiting Period for Laws? “I’d like to propose a ‘waiting period’ for legislation. No bill should be voted on without hearings, debate and a final text that’s available online for at least a week. (A month would be better. How many bills really couldn’t wait a month?). And if the bill is advertised as addressing a ‘tragedy’ or named after a dead child, this period should double.”

GOOD:  Protecting children from chemical and surgical mutilation.

IT’S COME TO THIS. TO PUT OUT FIRES, LA RELIES ON THE WEATHER:  Winter Storm Essentially Extinguishes Greater Los Angeles Wildfires.

GOOD:  Trump Suspends As Many As 60 Senior Bureaucrats for Trying to Evade His Executive Orders.

LOTS OF FUNDING FOR DOGE TO CUT HERE: Ok, there has been much stupidity revealed today but taxpayer dollars going to vegan soul food physically hurts in the chest.

And for those without x.

AND OF COURSE REMOVING THEM INVOLVED ABSOLUTELY NO MALICIOUS COMPLIANCE. I BELIEVE THAT, DON’T YOU?   Air Force reinstates course with Tuskegee Airmen video after outcry.

AFTER 3 YEARS OF RUSSIA/UKRAINE WAR, EUROPE REMAINS UNSERIOUS:  The German political establishment has no idea what war looks like today—and doesn’t want to know.

SKULLDUGGERY IN THE HIGH SEAS:  ITF: Seafarer Abandonments Skyrocket in 2024 to Record Highs.

TURNS OUT WOMEN ARE HUMAN:  This is the face of evil.

STILL NOT TIRED OF WINNING:  CIA Nukes ‘Affinity Groups,’ Bans Rainbow Lanyards, and Guess Which ‘History Month’ Just Got Axed – Report.

I’M GLAD OF OF THE PARDONS. THESE THINGS CALL TO THE HEAVENS FOR VENGEANCE:  This is Rasha Abual-Ragheb story. Another Jan 6er that the corrupt Biden DOJ used coercion against to obtain a plea deal. Rasha, being a Proud American citizen, and single mom of three attended the Jan 6 Rally in DC because she felt like her voice wasn’t being heard.

And here’s for those without x.

FIRST COLUMBIA, NOW WEST TAIWAN:  China promises to take back illegal migrants after Trump’s Colombia threats.

YEAH, UNFORTUNATELY:  No Irish Products Need Apply.

WHAT I THINK IS THAT WE SHOULD ALL BUY POPCORN FUTURES:  Considering Media Teflon.

SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED:  Gavin Newsom’s Bay Area ravaged by surging crime as LA burns: ‘It’s a war zone!’

ABOUT TIME:  Pushback: The left discovers it doesn’t have the right to break the law.

WE ALL KNEW THIS, BUT NOW WE HAVE THE RECEIPTS:  Louis Galarowicz and I have acquired a trove of records from University of Colorado, Boulder, that show how the entire university coordinated to advance a system of brazen race-based hiring.

And a link for those without x.

OPEN THREAD: Tuesday’s groovy.

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Trump is following through with unprecedented and swift action to begin his presidency – which has reset the national mood.

BRENDAN O’NEILL: Holocaust Envy.

One of the most striking things in the aftermath of 7 October was the silence of the fascism-spotters. You know these people. They’re the centrists and liberals who see fascism everywhere. Who think everything is ‘like the 1930s’. The vote for Brexit, Donald Trump, the rise of populist parties in Europe – all of it reminds them of the Nazi years. And yet when the Islamofascists of Hamas stormed the Jewish State and butchered a thousand Jews, suddenly they went quiet. No more Nazi talk. No more trembling warnings of a return to ‘the dark days of the 1930s’. No more handwringing over ‘new Hitlers’. It seems that to a certain kind of liberal, everything is fascism except fascism.

These are the people who lapped up Guardian articles with headlines like ‘The reich stuff’, exploring the supposed ‘comparisons between Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler’. They’re the people who will have nodded in vigorous agreement when a spokesperson for Joe Biden slammed Trump for parroting ‘the autocratic language of Adolf Hitler’. They’re the folk who no doubt permitted themselves a chuckle when it was revealed that Biden staffers refer to Trump as ‘Hitler pig’ behind closed doors. They’re the self-styled ‘vigilant’ members of respectable society who will have cheered when Biden described Trumpism as a ‘semi-fascism’ that threatens the ‘soul’ of the free world.

They’re the pro-EU middle classes who fretted over the vote for Brexit, viewing it as a ‘return to the 1930s’. They’re the broadsheet readers who will have murmured in agreement with headlines saying there are ‘terrifying parallels between Brexit and the appeasement of Hitler’. They’re the royalty-sceptics who will have found themselves in agreement with princes for once when Charles, then Prince of Wales, said populism has ‘deeply disturbing echoes of the dark days of the 1930s’. They’re the weekend marchers who will have attended anti-Trump demos at which people waved placards showing Trump with a Hitler tache, and anti-Brexit protests at which speakers issued dire warnings about our descent into Hitlerite mania.

There was a time when you couldn’t open a newspaper or peruse social media without seeing some pained liberal hold forth on how populism will drag us back to the death camps. Fascism panic was the fashion of the day. And then it stopped. In the wake of the 7 October pogrom – the worst act of slaughter against the Jews since that period of the mid-20th century these people love talking about – their fascism chatter evaporated. In fact, they started warning people not to use Nazi analogies. Not to compare 7 October to the 1930s. Not to engage in the very fascism fretting that had been the bread and butter of their own political commentary for years.

Just two weeks after the pogrom, the Guardian published a piece denouncing Israel for ‘weaponising the Holocaust’ in its response to Hamas’s assault. It is an outrage, it argued, that Israeli leaders are likening Hamas to fascist Germany and thus portraying Israel as ‘powerless Jews in a struggle against Nazis’. This is the same Guardian that had been namedropping the Holocaust for years. Which ran pieces asking ‘Are we living through another 1930s?’ after the vote for Brexit. Which published columns saying that, thanks to Trump, ‘the world could be heading back to the 1930s’. Yet when Israelis suggested that the slaughter of a thousand Jews by fascistic men with knives, guns and rocket launchers was somewhat reminiscent of the 1930s, the Guardian essentially tut-tutted.

Related: Watch: You Are NOT Going to Believe Who ITV Sidelined on Holocaust Remembrance Day. Except that by now, you likely know what’s coming:

“Six million people were killed in concentration camps during the Second World War, as well as millions of others because they were Polish, disabled, gay, or belonged to another ethnic group.”

Jews. The word you’re looking for is ‘Jews’, not ‘people’. This truly beggars belief.… pic.twitter.com/Sm0vLvMT01

— Campaign Against Antisemitism (@antisemitism) January 27, 2025

Europe will never forgive the Jews for the Holocaust.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China’s lunar agenda – a heightened warning.

QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED: Will 2025 Be A Year Of Marvel Flops? New video by the Critical Drinker:

Well, Captain America: Brave New World’s fate may have just been sealed:

The political timing on making a statement like this right now is just jaw-dropping. https://t.co/ALe1cx9ldV

— John Ekdahl (@JohnEkdahl) January 28, 2025

UPDATE: Disney’s New Captain America Just Decided to Set His Box Office Prospects on Fire.

MORE: Somebody just got a stern talking to from management:

Anthony Mackie clarifies his previous comment about what Captain America means to him:

“I'm a proud American and taking on the shield of a hero like Cap is the honor of a lifetime. I have the utmost respect for those who serve and have served our country” pic.twitter.com/P6sWvlmBxa

— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) January 29, 2025

JIM GERAGHTY: America’s Artificial Intelligence ‘Sputnik Moment?’

I find myself wondering about some of the boasts behind DeepSeek’s announcement.

• How certain are we that it really only cost $5.6 million to develop? Who’s in a position to verify that number? How do we know this really only took two months to get “trained”?
• In a world where nefarious actors can smuggle whole tankers full of oil in defiance of trade sanctions, it’s not that hard to smuggle small flat computer equipment. How do we know that DeepSeek is running on a bunch of lower-rated Nvidia H-800 chips and not some of these advanced H-100s?
• How certain are we that DeepSeek didn’t get some help from the Chinese government along the way? As with most Chinese companies, where does the company stop and the regime start?

Now, I don’t know about you, but when something allegedly amazing comes along for free from a mysterious Chinese company, the last thing I would want to do is download it onto my phone. Alas, not everyone else sees it that way; this week, DeepSeek is the most downloaded phone application on the Apple app store.

And oh, by the way, if you thought TikTok was a security risk on your phone, DeepSeek “collects your IP [address], keystroke patterns, device information and stores it in China, where all that data is vulnerable to arbitrary requisition from the Chinese government.”

Many of our fellow citizens have learned nothing from the experiences of recent years.

As Steve noted yesterday: Commies Gonna Commie.

HAHAHA:

Didn’t Biden just pardon you for treason?

Maybe sit this one out, Benedict. https://t.co/NIMkQfMPJr

— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) January 29, 2025

THEY’D JUST WIND UP A CHINESE SATRAPY, WHICH PROBABLY MEANS CHINA IS BEHIND THIS: Next CA Plan: Declare Independence.