Archive for 2025
January 14, 2025
THAT DIDN’T TAKE LONG: Bye-Bye, Baby? Recall Efforts Begin Against Newsom & Bass.
WHO’S IN CHARGE HERE, ANYWAY? Nearly Half of Federal Employees in the Swamp Plan to Resist Trump, Poll Finds.
The poll found that many Americans are willing to support the new administration, even among the elites and even among those who voted for Harris.
The survey asked, “Looking ahead to the next four years, will your political efforts be primarily to support the Trump administration or resist the Trump administration?”
Most Main Street Americans (59%) said they would support the new administration, while only 28% said they would resist it. Even the Elite 1% proved more likely to say they would support (48%) than resist (39%) the administration.
Even some of those who said they voted for Harris in November said they would support the new administration. Twelve percent of Harris voters said they will work to at least somewhat support the new administration.
On Election Day, 64% of the Elite 1% voted for Harris while only 34% voted for Trump. Yet among the Elite 1% who voted for Harris, a quarter (26%) said they are working to support the new administration.
Federal Government Managers, however, proved evenly split, with only 44% saying they would support the administration and 42% saying they would resist it.
Let them resist from the unemployment line.
LIVE BLOG: Trump’s Cabinet Confirmation Hearings Begin.
LIGHTNING DEAL: Portable Power Station 99.9Wh Power Bank for Camping Essentials Small Electric Generator. #CommissionEarned
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: The Great American Political Divide Is Just Going to Get Bigger Now. “Democrats who believe that their politics make them permanent residents of the moral high ground are particularly galling. While I truly would like to get along better, I can’t muster any patience to indulge delusions like that. Political beliefs don’t make one a good person, being a good person makes one a good person.”
PRIORITIES:
So basically Pete Hegseth wants a military that can SAVE Private Ryan and the Democrats want a military that can Transition him. Gotta go team Pete here.
— Jimmy Failla (@jimmyfailla) January 14, 2025
CONSCIOUSNESS OF GUILT:
🚨 BREAKING: Labour’s Head of Operations, Sophia Patel, has deleted her LinkedIn profile and locked her Twitter after explosive allegations surfaced that she organized 100 Labour staffers to meddle in the 2024 US election—allegedly to prevent Donald… pic.twitter.com/Z1xUxhw6nz
— Jim Ferguson (@JimFergusonUK) January 14, 2025
FAIL, BRITANNIA:
Labour Pedos, 50 of them.
Wanna bet there are a lot more?
Of course there is, it will be endemic. pic.twitter.com/Q4B5wXRwg3
— Darren of Plymouth (@wolsned) January 12, 2025
“Wow,” as Elon Musk said in his repost, and not in a good way, of course.
More here from Amuse:
Did a little fact checking on the Labour members accused of sexual crimes. I was able to corroborate the list with online sources confirming:
Brian Gate was involved in a scandal related to child pornography as a Labour Councillor and School Governor.
Graham Pearson, Richard…
— @amuse (@amuse) January 12, 2025
The Tories’ silence when they were in charge speaks volumes, too.
THEY MADE GEORGE FLOYD A SAINT BUT NOW SUDDENLY BEING A FELON IS BAD? Liberal Media Scream: PBS delights that Trump will forever be a ‘convicted felon.’
FINALLY, REUTERS UNCOVERS THE MOST TERRIFYING ASPECT OF THE L.A. FIRES:
Questions about California's preparedness and response to the massive fires have rendered its Democratic leaders vulnerable to escalating attacks from the right, in a possible prelude to the politicization of disaster response under President-elect Trump https://t.co/38Lsmb5BHA
— Reuters (@Reuters) January 14, 2025
IMAGINE HOW MUCH DAMAGE SHE COULD CAUSE FULL-TIME: Karen Bass: Part-Time Mayor.
HARSH BUT FAIR:
What's the difference between fact-checkers and fire departments?
Democrats will fund fact-checkers. https://t.co/bAj6RbIZoG
— Tony Kinnett (@TheTonus) January 13, 2025
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Although it’s “insane” to try to land New Glenn, Bezos says it’s important to try.
I asked what his expectations were for the launch of New Glenn, which has a three-hour window that opens at 1 am ET (06:00 UTC) on Monday, January 13. The launch pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Base lay several miles away from the factory where we conducted the interview.
“We would certainly like to achieve orbit, and get the Blue Ring Pathfinder into orbit,” Bezos said. “Landing the booster would be gravy on top of that. It’s kind of insane to try and land the booster. A more sane approach would probably be to try to land it in the ocean. But we’re gonna go for it.”
Blue Origin has built a considerable amount of infrastructure on a drone ship, Jacklyn, that will be waiting offshore for the rocket to land upon. Was Bezos not concerned about putting that hardware at risk?
“I’m worried about everything,” he admitted. However, the rocket has been programmed to divert from the ship if the avionics on board the vehicle sense that anything is off-nominal.
And there is, of course, a pretty good chance of that happening.
“We’ve done a lot of work, we’ve done a lot of testing, but there are some things that can only be tested in flight,” Bezos said. “And you can’t be overconfident in these things. You have to be realistic. The reality is, there are a lot of things that go wrong, and you have to accept that, if something goes wrong, we’ll pick ourselves up and get busy for the second flight.”
You get the feeling that Blue Origin might be a lot further along by now if Bezos had embraced “insane” earlier on. But that’s water under the bridge and here’s to hoping for a successful launch and recovery when New Glenn does fly.
IS THE MORE OF THE “JOY” OR “BRAT” VIBE? Harris declines to invite Vance for courtesy visit to vice president’s residence before inauguration.
ENFORCE THE LAW:
Breaking: 🚨 Labour Staffers Could Face U.S. Charges for Election Meddling! 🚨
The 100 Labour Party staffers who traveled to the U.S. to campaign against Donald Trump and in support of Kamala Harris may face serious legal consequences under the Foreign Agents Registration Act… pic.twitter.com/1b6SQwnZmy
— Jim Ferguson (@JimFergusonUK) January 13, 2025
AND THEY DON’T NEED TO BE: Greenland to Trump: ‘We Don’t Want to Be American:’ Prime Minister Múte Egede says his country plans to seek closer defense and business ties to the U.S.
Egede said Monday that his country has no desire to do business with Russia. He also said the country needs to be “more prepared” to manage security in the Arctic, but didn’t give details of how. Denmark said last month, before Trump’s comments, that it would increase military spending to enhance its presence in Greenland.
Greenland’s resources have been talked about excitedly for years, but opportunities in its mining industry haven’t materialized because it has been difficult to persuade investors to risk the capital necessary to get projects off the ground. Greenland also lacks a large number of people who could work in mining, meaning that the country would have to rely on large-scale immigration to staff the industry.
With a COFA you can get all that without becoming Americans.
CORN, POPPED: Trump’s Trolling Will Rise to Another Level During the Inaugural Parade. “According to reports, the same garbage truck that Trump rode in during the campaign, provided by the company Loadmaster, will be featured in his inaugural parade.”
THINK OF UNIVERSITIES AS INTELLECTUAL WUHAN LABS, DOING GAIN-OF-FUNCTION WORK ON DANGEROUS IDEAS:
The lesson of the past two decades is that it's important to reject pious bullshit issuing from the academy. The consequence of failing to do so include turning some of the wealthiest cities in the world into zombie apocalypses, thousands of children placed on a conveyor to a…
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) January 13, 2025
WONDER HOW THIS LINKS WITH THE DENMARK THING? The Systematic Destruction of Denmark’s Military Over 30 Years: “Ships that cannot sail; Planes that cannot fly; And cannons that cannot fire — Everything is missing”.
NOT IF HE CAN HELP IT: Will the rape-gang scandal be Starmer’s nemesis?