Archive for 2025
February 18, 2025
STACY MCCAIN is currently at the Allegheny County Courthouse for the arraignment hearing of the “Zizian” Transgender cult terrorists. He texts: “‘Ziz’ Lakota ordered held without bond; same for suspect Daniel Blank. 3rd suspect, Zajiko, will be heard in a while. They’re going in alphabetical order.”
UPDATE: He has a full report posted now.
PLAY THE “LONE RANGER” MUSIC: Sorry Libs, Voters Love How Fast Trump Is Moving.
SEE BS: Clown Margaret Brennan Claims Free Speech Caused The Holocaust.
J.D. Vance, who tangled with Margaret Brennan during the vice presidential debate, and already helped create a meme regarding an interview he had with her not that long ago, weighed in on Brennan’s ignorance via X.
This is a crazy exchange.
Does the media really think the holocaust was caused by free speech? https://t.co/EBUKx75Wfm
— JD Vance (@JDVance) February 16, 2025
Given the track record of the media after October 7th, I’d say that Vance is probably correct. But Margaret Brennan is simply parroting in what is called the “Weimar fallacy.” The idea that the post-World War I Weimar Republic of Germany collapsed due to free speech – allowing the Holocaust to take place – is just historically wrong, especially when it came to censoring the Nazi Party.
Nazi publications were frequently banned during the Weimar years. The Nazi party newspaper, the Völkischer Beobachter, was temporarily suspended many times for anti-Semitic excesses in the early 1920s. After Hitler’s failed coup attempt in 1923 both the Nazi party and its newspaper were banned until 1925. Most German states also banned him from speaking publicly between 1925 and 1927. But in retrospect Hitler concluded that on balance the ban was a benefit as it boosted his fame and popularity.
Two other newspapers, Joseph Goebbels’ Der Angriff (the attack) and Julian Streicher’s virulently anti-Semitic Der Stürmer (the striker) were also subject to what today would be called anti hate speech laws. The former had Bernhard Weiss, the Jewish vice president of the Berlin police force, as one of its favourite targets. But his attempts at legal action helped Goebbels portray the paper as the victim of a Jewish conspiracy to enslave the German people.
The censorship ended up making Adolf Hitler a “political martyr” – and paved the way for his election in 1933.
Former ACLU President and @TheFIREorg Senior Fellow on the “Weimar fallacy.”
Nadine’s father was a Holocaust survivor.pic.twitter.com/atmo8qPjTR
— Nico Perrino (@NicoPerrino) February 16, 2025
And once the Nazis came to power, there was no more pretense at “freedom of speech.”
Indeed. As Ezra Levant wrote in 2012: Censoring Hitler — and the past.
If every Jew in Europe had a firearm, do you think Hitler could have killed six million of them so easily?
He might still have been able to kill them. But not without a fight. Not like lambs to the slaughter.
Lucky for Hitler, the Jews in Germany had been disarmed by do-gooders long before he took power. It actually was part of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles that ended the First World War.
These same liberals brought in censorship laws, too — under which Hitler himself was prosecuted.
So when Hitler took power in 1933, much of his work was done for him — civil liberties had already been limited, by the “good guys.”
According to the great journalist and historian George Jonas, when Hitler started limiting personal freedom, a left-wing legislator stood up in the Reichstag to complain about it.
And here’s what Hitler said: “Late you come, but still you come. You should have recognized the value of criticism during the years we were in opposition (when) our press was forbidden, our meetings were forbidden, and we were forbidden to speak for years on end.”
It’s a terrifying reminder that laws that destroy our civil liberties are dangerous no matter who passes them, and no matter what good intentions accompanied them.
The lesson is, don’t let the government take away your rights.
At the start of President Trump’s first term, some of the “#resistance” left had flashbacks to the White Rose movement in Nazi Germany: Trump win sprouts ‘white roses’ in spirit of anti-Nazi youth.
Analogies between Adolf Hitler’s regime and the impending presidency of Donald Trump were made during an exhibition on Nazi Germany’s youth resistance movement on Tuesday night.
Hosted by Hebrew College, the exhibition focuses on the clandestine student publishers of six anti-Nazi leaflets that were distributed throughout Germany. Apart from several botched attempts on Hitler’s life, the self-labelled “White Rose” group’s activities are recalled as the most daring anti-regime efforts undertaken in Nazi Germany.
Although the exhibition in New England was planned several months ago, widespread emotional unrest following Trump’s election victory made Tuesday’s opening event particularly poignant, said organizers.
“Many, if not most people under pressure, do not stand up,” said Germany’s consul-general to New England, Dr. Ralf Horlemann.
In his remarks, Horlemann paid homage to Sophie Scholl, who along with brother Hans Scholl are most closely associated with the White Rose group. At 21-years-old, Scholl was sent to the guillotine for her role in publishing two of the leaflets.
That doesn’t sound like a nation with an excess of free speech to me. Incidentally, this is all basic History 101 stuff; is Brennan deliberately distorting past world events, or did CBS actually put someone on air who doesn’t know the history of WWII?
Or as Mark Steyn asks, “Too Stupid Even for CBS News?” “Late you come, but still you come. I did not think it was possible to despise the ‘mainstream’ media more than I already did. In a society thoroughly moronized by Brain-Dead Brennan and her ilk, Hitler is the sole remaining historical figure anybody’s heard of. And they can’t even get that right. ‘Weaponising’ free speech? What does that even mean? In Germany, tweets get you gaoled but rape is just part of your ‘cultural tradition’. And CBS News knows which side it’s on.”
NEVER TRUST A “FEMINIST MAN:” Ex-Argentine President Charged With Beating First Lady While in Office: Alberto Fernández, who called himself the country’s first feminist leader, allegedly battered his partner for years.
The charges, made public Monday after a seven-month investigation by Judge Julián Ercolini, charged Fernández with aggravated serious assault as part of gender-based violence, several counts of aggravated minor assault and coercive threats.
Fernández and his lawyer didn’t respond to a request for comment. In a recent court appearance, Fernández said, “If anyone in the relationship was assaulted, it was me. If anyone had to endure insults and mistreatment, it was me.”
The case, which Yáñez has discussed publicly, has led to an uproar in Argentina, with both opponents of Fernández and his onetime allies in the leftist Peronist movement calling the case horrific.
As president, Fernández called himself the “first feminist” of Argentina and created the Ministry of Women to crack down on batterers.
The more they talk, the worse they are.
I HAD BEEN ASSURED HE WAS THE FUTURE OF THE PARTY: Some Dems already turning on Hogg two weeks into DNC vice chair gig.
Hogg has already ruffled some feathers within the DNC for using the committee’s contact list to solicit donations for his own political action committee (PAC), Leaders We Deserve, according to a report from the New York Post.
“David Hogg here: I was just elected DNC Vice Chair! This is a huge win for our movement to make the Democratic Party more reflective of our base: youthful, energetic, and ready to win,” reads one of eight texts, which include solicitation links to “Leaders We Deserve,” sent out to a DNC database of phone numbers, according to the report.
The texts aren’t sitting well with some DNC insiders, who believe the committee’s vast database of numbers and donors should be used to help the future of the party, not a member’s individual PAC.
“David Hogg – talk about living up to your name. A trough of DNC dollars all for him and he doesn’t seem to give an oink,” one top Democrat told the Post.
When you’re too much of a grifter for top Democrats…
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS: Former RNC Chair Who Now Works for MSNBC Has Total On-Air Meltdown About Elon Musk and DOGE (Video).
MSNBC’s Michael Steele unloaded on Democrats during a rant on Saturday, demanding they start to show they care about people “losing their jobs” and President Donald Trump’s early actions as president.
“I’d just like you to show that you give a damn!” Steele, a former RNC Chair turned MSNBC host, said. “That you get a little emotional about the fact that people are losing their jobs indiscriminately! That this individual sitting down at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue has given absolute power to one man, who brings his son into the Oval Office, whose son says to him, ‘you’re not the president! You shouldn’t be in that chair!’ Now, where did he get that from? He got it from his daddy! Because that’s what his daddy thinks of the man who brought him into the Oval Office.”…
“They’re in your bedrooms!” Steele continued. “They’re in your living rooms! They’re in your businesses! They’ve got they got your data, dumb a–! They got all your stuff! Elon Musk has his tentacles in everything you’re doing! Not just off of X, but he’s in the Treasury Department! He’s in the Labor Department! He’s in Department of Homeland Security!”
How odd that Steele is so very, very angry about Musk’s efforts to trim the size of government, when in 2010, while chairman of the GOP, he was shouting: “Fire Pelosi!”
Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele hit the road in a big red bus Wednesday. And not because some in the GOP would like to see the back of him as their party’s chief spokesman (although that’s also true).
No, Steele’s latest ploy to rev up his party as it tries to figure out what to do about the “tea party” movement is the “Fire Pelosi Bus Tour.” Over the next six weeks, the bus will cover 14,000 miles, visiting more than 100 cities and towns in its quest to help oust House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D) of California. And oh yes, Steele hopes, raise a lot of money along the way through its special website.
“The next six weeks will be entirely devoted to firing Nancy Pelosi, standing up to the Democrat’s big-government agenda, and diving into the trenches to do the hard work of turning out the vote and winning races up and down the ballot,” he said in a statement.
So was Steele lying then about “standing up to the Democrat’s big-government agenda?” Or is he lying now to keep the Comcast-MSNBC bucks flowing? If it’s the former, then a cynical man might conclude:
UPDATE: Absolutely perfect:
I SEE . . . DEAD PEOPLE:
🚨Karoline Leavitt says Elon Musk and DOGE have been sent to investigate DEAD PEOPLE receiving Social Security payments:
“They suspect that there are tens of millions of deceased people receiving fraudulent Social Security payments.”
pic.twitter.com/Esz9wFPXlo— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) February 18, 2025
I wonder how many of these 120 to 150-year-olds also voted? https://t.co/rTUhD7hGVq
— Kari Lake (@KariLake) February 18, 2025
TDS IS REAL AND IT IS SPECTACULARLY FUNNY: Disney Fan Site Tries to Tie Changes at Epcot to Donald Trump and Fails Spectacularly.
UNEXPECTEDLY! How COVID Pushed a Generation of Young People to the Right.
For decades, America’s young voters have been deeply—and famously—progressive. In 2008, a youthquake sent Barack Obama to the White House. In 2016, voters ages 18 to 29 broke for Hillary Clinton by 18 points. In 2020, they voted for Joe Biden by 24 points. In 2024, Donald Trump closed most of the gap, losing voters under 30 by a 51–47 margin. In one recent CBS poll, Americans under 30 weren’t just evenly split between the parties. They were even more pro-Trump than Boomers over 65.
Precisely polling teens and 20-somethings is a fraught business; some surveys suggest that Trump’s advantage among young people might already be fading. But young people’s apparent lurch right is not an American-only trend.
“Far-right parties are surging across Europe—and young voters are buying in,” the journalist Hanne Cokelaere wrote for Politico last year. In France, Germany, Finland, and beyond, young voters are swinging their support toward anti-establishment far-right parties “in numbers equal to and even exceeding older voters.” In Germany, a 2024 survey of 2,000 people showed that young people have adopted a relatively new “gloomy outlook” on the future. No surprise, then, that the far-right Alternative für Deutschland has become the most popular party among Germans under 30. Like most interesting phenomena, this one even has a German name: Rechtsruck, or rightward shift.
What’s driving this global Rechtsruck? It’s hard to say for sure. Maybe the entire world is casting a protest vote after several years of inflation. Last year was the largest wipeout for political incumbents in the developed world since the end of the Second World War. One level deeper, it wasn’t inflation on its own, but rather the combination of weak real economic growth and record immigration that tilled the soil for far-right upstarts, who can criticize progressive governments on both sides of the Atlantic for their failure to look out for their own citizens first.
There is another potential driver of the global right turn: the pandemic.
Pandemics might not initially seem to cash out in any particular political direction. After all, in the spring of 2020, one possible implication of the pandemic seemed to be that it would unite people behind a vision of collective sacrifice—or, at least, collective appreciation for health professionals, or for the effect of vaccines to reduce severe illness among adults. But political science suggests that pandemics are more likely to reduce rather than build trust in scientific authorities.
Yes, why could that be?
And then in June, after the public went along with the lockdowns because of that message being constantly hammered home by Fauci, Birx, videos of celebrities singing “Imagine” from their mansions and yachts, and the somber repetitive “We’re all in this together” television commercials, the entire health care profession did a 180 that was worthy of Oceania:
As Greenwald writes in his follow-up tweet, “That episode single-handedly destroyed trust in public health officials, proving they’d politicize their expertise when convenient. Corporate media celebrated a douchebag-lawyer shaming families at deserted beaches, then — overnight! — cheered densely packed street protests.”
After spending the previous four years gaslighting about Trump and imaginary Russian collusions, 2020 was also the year the media fully imploded as well:
So will the left use this period in the wilderness to reflect on what wrong for them, and how insane they became starting in 2016, and then really firing the afterburners in 2020? No of course not: Democrats Keep Convincing Themselves Their Problem Is Podcasts (It’s Their Policies).
Over the next month, The New York Times is running conversations with Democrat leaders on one of its podcasts about how the party will “win back the voters who moved toward” Donald Trump. I’ll just go ahead and summarize what each subject is likely to say, which is some variation of “We need better messaging and media strategy, and regarding our policies, no changes necessary.”
Such was the series’ inaugural episode, in which freshly sworn-in Democrat Senator Ruben Gallego of Arizona did the same dance his party has been doing since November. On the one hand, he claimed that Democrats failed to “meet the moment,” and on the other, he didn’t name a single one of his party’s policies that voters rejected.
Like every other Democrat leader, Gallego hung the party’s defeat on everything but its grotesque policies that directly ignited wild inflation, flooded the country with millions of destitute migrants, and sparked two foreign hot wars that are sucking enormous U.S. attention and resources.
My favorite parts of the interview were when Gallego, who won his election by less than 100,000 votes (against Kari Lake), theorized on the best ways for his party to speak with voters — which is always described by Democrats as if they’re trying to learn how to communicate with nonverbal prehistoric tribesmen. “I mean, so one of the things I did is I would host morning tacos at work sites, right, during the election,” he said. “So I would go set up, knowing when the 5:30 a.m. shift was coming off, and I’d set up tacos. And I’d hand out tacos to the dudes, and I’d talk to them about life. And we have to understand where they are. We have to understand what they’re hearing.”
Some employees of ABC News aren’t even willing to go that far: Whoopi Goes Full ‘Basket Of Deplorables,’ Says She Can’t Even Talk To Trump Supporters.
AMERICANS: “Do you think Democrats learned anything from their historic losses last November?”
Democrats: Washington State Dems Want To Remove George Washington’s Image From State Flag.
Granted, it is an ugly flag and a redesign — by sane people with taste — might be worth looking into. But removing Washington from the state named after him? It’s really because he’s one of those dead white guys, isn’t it?
THAT’S PRETTY FUNNY, COMING FROM A GUY WHO JUST GOT BOYCOTTED BY HIS FORMER EMPLOYERS AT CNN:
NEW: Former CNN host Jim Acosta is calling on the media to come together and boycott the Trump administration.
The call comes in response to the White House's decision to ban the Associated Press.
"News outlets then must rally to the cause, by offering supportive statements to… pic.twitter.com/uRr11xuO86
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) February 17, 2025
Sorry, that isn’t pretty funny — it’s hysterically funny.
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: How to Kill NATO With This 1 Weird Trick (and it Isn’t Trump’s).
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CRUEL, BUT FAIR:
All it took for Pete Buttigieg to finally take an interest in transportation was for him to no longer be the Secretary of Transportation.
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) February 18, 2025
Previously:
'Pete Buttigieg is so bad at his job people actually know who the Secretary of Transportation is.'
(can't remember who said it.) https://t.co/eXSQw3sqXo
— John Ringo SF Author (@Jringo1508) February 17, 2025
The only reason I remember the name of the current Transportation Secretary — Sean Duffy, right? — is the last one left him such a mess to clean up.
HMM: The Coming Democratic Baby Bust.
A few years ago, Gordon Dahl, an economist at UC San Diego, set out to measure how Trump’s 2016 victory might have affected conception rates in the years following. And he and his colleagues found a clear effect: Starting after Trump’s election, through the end of 2018, 38,000 fewer babies than would otherwise be expected were conceived in Democratic counties. By contrast, 7,000 more than expected were conceived in Republican counties in that same period. (The study, published in 2022, was conducted before data on the rest of Trump’s term were available.) Over the past three decades, Republicans have generally given birth to more kids than Democrats have. But during those first years of the first Trump administration, the partisan birth gap widened by 17 percent. “You see a clear and undeniable shift in who’s having babies,” Dahl told me.
That isn’t to say 38,000 couples took one look at President Trump and decided, Nope, no baby for us! But the correlation that Dahl’s team found was clear and strong. The researchers also hypothesized that George W. Bush’s win in 2000, another close election, would have had a noticeable effect on fertility rates. And they found that after that election, too, the partisan fertility gap widened, although less dramatically than after the 2016 election. According to experts I spoke with, as the ideological distance between Democrats and Republicans has grown, so has the influence of politics on fertility. In Trump’s second term, America may be staring down another Democratic baby bust.
The future belongs to those who show up.
CATHERINE SALGADO: Remembering Rush Limbaugh, America’s Anchorman.
YOU KNOW, I KNEW WE HAD AN UPHILL BATTLE IN THE CREATION OF ALTERNATIVE MEDIA, BUT AT THE TIME I HAD NO IDEA JUST HOW UPHILL:
The Left not only controlled the media infrastructure for decades, they used our money to maintain that control.
The Right responded with the rise of citizen journalism and now the Left is angry they’ve lost the ability to lie without recourse. https://t.co/Ds2WegyIAR
— Jeff Carlson (@themarketswork) February 18, 2025
THE ENEMY WITHIN: New bill targets private universities’ financial ties to China and Iran.
LOL, TIM KAINE:
This is inaccurate. The referenced “classified information” is actually public FedScope data, posted publicly by OPM (Office of Personnel Management) in March 2024. https://t.co/VjECnq2KKj https://t.co/AHwLx3jmfu
— Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE) February 17, 2025
WORTH FOLLOWING, BUT…: DOGE sets up IRS, SEC accounts on X.
…despite the headline, this report from The Hill is just a hit-piece on Musk and DOGE, and contains no links to the new X accounts.
So here’s a link to DOGE IRS and another to DOGE SEC.
Meanwhile, this is kind of a big deal:
The Treasury Access Symbol (TAS) is an identification code linking a Treasury payment to a budget line item (standard financial process).
In the Federal Government, the TAS field was optional for ~$4.7 Trillion in payments and was often left blank, making traceability almost…
— Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE) February 17, 2025