Archive for 2025
February 21, 2025
AMERICANS: “Do you think Democrats learned anything from their historic loss last November?”
Democrats: Princeton course applies ‘queer’ and ‘trans* theory’ to ‘architectural histories.’
The asterisk is actually part of the class description because of course it is.
WATCH: Marco Rubio Reveals Why the Trump Administration Is So Ticked at Zelensky.
Rubio pick was inspired. Maybe the best messenger in the Cabinet. Nails it every time. https://t.co/k6UO2TOpPB
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) February 21, 2025
Unfortunately, it seems like Zelensky got very used to being able to play the press during the Biden years, to essentially receive blank checks with no real mechanism to ensure Americans are paid back. Believing he could carry over that strategy to the Trump administration was a huge mistake. Donald Trump does not care about pressure from the mainstream media or Europe. He certainly doesn’t have any qualms about having a war of words with Zelensky if the Ukrainian president chooses to make unfortunate comments to the press in an attempt to “hustle” the United States, as Rubio described it.
Not that Zelensky listens to me, but I repeatedly warned this would happen. His mouthing off during the presidential campaign was unnecessary and arrogant. To continue that arrogance by expressing such entitlement after Trump’s election has only made matters worse. I get that some on the right want Trump to be the bigger man here and ignore Zelensky’s sleights, but I’d counter that with this question: Have you ever met Donald Trump? That’s not meant as a criticism but as a recognition of reality. That’s how he operates, and Zelensky should have been smart enough to not push his buttons. Now, everything is up in the air, and no amount of crying to CNN or the EU is going to help.
Fleet Street has been running headlines this week such as “Starmer says Zelensky is no dictator after calling Ukrainian leader in Trump rebuke,” which seems odd, since after Zelensky cancelled elections in 2023, Newsweek reported, “Ukraine Sure Doesn’t Look Like a Democracy Anymore.”
And he continues to do some rather dictator-adjacent things, such as blocking social media Websites: Not Smart: Zelenskyy Just Blocked Truth Social in Ukraine.
Flashback to September: Zelensky joins Putin, campaigning and advocating for Kamala Harris in Pennsylvania.
President Trump was nearly murdered a mere week ago by a dirtbag who proclaimed a fanatical devotion to Ukraine’s war. Now Zelensky has turned up to try to knock President Trump out another way? He should sit this one out. This is nothing if not a bad look. But the irony of it is amazing. Both Zelensky and Putin, locked in a multi-billion-dollar war financed on the Ukraine side by the U.S. are now openly supporting Harris together.
Complete with Zelensky at a WWII-style bomb-signing ceremony with Democrat PA Gov. Josh Shapiro:
To really grind the metaphors hard, the handwriting was very much on the wall for the doomed Harris campaign by then; perhaps Zelensky should have been smart enough not to go all-in on backing it.
UPDATE: No wonder Starmer is praising Zelensky. Game respects game:
OLD AND BUSTED: “Firemen First.”
The New Hotness at the Washington Post? Locksmiths First! Long lines and canceled rentals: Firings bring chaos to national parks.
At California’s Yosemite National Park, the Trump administration fired the only locksmith on staff on Friday. He was the sole employee with the keys and the institutional knowledge needed to rescue visitors from locked restrooms.
The wait to enter Arizona’s Grand Canyon National Park this past weekend was twice as long as usual after the administration let go four employees who worked at the south entrance, where roughly 90 percent of the park’s nearly 5 million annual visitors pass through.
Mary Katharine Ham responds:
Every revelation is basically, “we do things in incredibly effed up ways and this has revealed the incredible effed uppedness of our ways that no private entity could ever withstand, but we can with your money, and the real problem is you have noticed our sacred effed up ways.”
No one’s like “Gee, maybe it’s a problem that a significant number of tourists get stuck bare-assed in our spartan, drafty shitters and have to wait for Todd the ancient locksmith of Yosemite to traverse El Capitan with the one piton that doubles as a skeleton key.”
Maybe THAT’S the problem that should be addressed.
Nonsense. I eagerly await Tom Hanks and Ed Harris starring in Ron Howard’s next movie:
With a cameo appearance from the new Red Adair:
And soundtrack by Lucinda Williams:
Meanwhile, Benjamin Franklin Gates’ next caper writes itself:
NEVER CHANGE, DEMS:
Democrats are about to go to court to force taxpayers to keep paying welfare to illegals.
Gonna be an optics disaster. But they have no choice. Ask yourself why. https://t.co/Shkez5RaHm
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) February 20, 2025
Give them this much credit: Washington Democrats understand who their most important constituents are, and are willing to service them despite fierce public opposition and legality that doesn’t even rise to questionable.
BELMONT CLUB: The Arrival of Kash Patel. “What Rudi Dutschke failed to realize when he advocated the ‘long march through the institutions’ (German: der lange Marsch durch die Institutionen) was that the parasites would kill the institutions themselves.”
IS THERE NOTHING TRUMP CAN’T DO? The Media Wants You to Blame Trump for Team USA’s Defeat.
Seriously?
NOPE, STILL NOT SICK OF ALL THE WINNING: Citi Scraps Diversity Goals, ‘DEI’ Term Under Trump Pressure.
The bank will no longer have “aspirational representation goals” except as required by local law, and abandon a policy for diversity in candidates and interview panels, according to a memo to staff from Chief Executive Officer Jane Fraser seen by Bloomberg News.
It will also rename its “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Talent Management” team to “Talent Management and Engagement”, Fraser said.
“The recent changes in US federal government policy, including new requirements that apply to all federal contractors, call for changes to some of the global strategies and programs we’ve used to attract and support colleagues from various backgrounds,” she said in the memo.
The language in the memo, which fails to accurately describe what DEI is, tells me Citi plans to skirt Trump’s new colorblind requirements.
ENDING DISCRIMINATION: CU Boulder ends ‘underrepresented minority’ med school scholarship after being sued.
JUST SAVAGE: Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller Takes Aim At Reporters*: You ‘Failed To Cover The Fact That’ Biden Was Mentally Incompetent’ (Video).
* Read: Democratic Party operatives with bylines.
AMERICANS: “Do you think Democrats learned anything from their historic loss last November?”
Democrats: Colorado Wants to Prohibit Dead-Naming Dead People.
CHANGE: Trump DOJ Declares Multi-Layered Protections for Administrative Law Judges Unconstitutional, Dismantling Longstanding Shield for Unelected Bureaucrats. “The DOJ’s position aligns with the Supreme Court’s 2010 Free Enterprise Fund v. Public Company Accounting Oversight Bd. decision, which struck down similar ‘multilayer protection from removal’ for executive officers. The Court ruled that such barriers were an unconstitutional infringement on the president’s authority to oversee executive officers.”
This has been coming for a while. If the president can’t remove them they’re not executive officers. If they’re not executive officers, they can’t be in the executive branch.
THIS IS CNN:
Is that the condition we actually leave a rental space in?
— Another X'd Patriot 🇺🇸 (@Dr912) February 20, 2025
DOGE ought to charge them for the cleanup and any required refurbishment.
“INTERNAIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS” WON’T RECOVER, NOR SHOULD IT: “Human rights” NGOs have longed lean left, but in the couples of decades they have shed relatively mainstream liberal views to be propaganda agents and lawfare warriors against the West. This has been clear for a while, but the way these organizations have gone to bat for Hamas since 10/7 should have made it obvious to even the dullest observer.
WHAT IS GOING ON WITH UNITED HEALTHCARE? Billionaire Bill Ackman is over here doing deep dive journalism that the media won’t do. The way United Healthcare is acting about its rep calling a doctor out of surgery to hassle her about coverage is weird, any way you slice it.
COLLEGE CLOSURES: A BLESSING IN DISGUISE? I’d love to see a few conservative billionaires pick up some campuses for cheap. The demand for a place where people can just be “normal,” 80s-90s-type college kids is far greater than the supply.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: JD Vance Keeps Groin-Kicking Dem Sacred Cows. “For far too long, the Republican party has elected people who were more worried about upsetting the editorial board at The New York Times than they were about failing the people who voted for them. President Trump has assembled a team full of people who don’t suffer from that problem. The anti-Romneys, if you will.”
WINNING: Panama says many migrants deported from the US agree to be returned to home countries.
Panama’s security minister said on Tuesday that more than half of the migrants deported from the United States to transit point Panama in recent days had accepted voluntary repatriations to their home countries, largely in Asia or the Middle East.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration deported the migrants on three flights, part of his crackdown on unlawful migration.
The 299 migrants have been staying at a hotel in Panama City under the protection of local authorities and with the financial support of the United States through the International Organization for Migration and the U.N. refugee agency, Security Minister Frank Abrego said.
“Today I can tell you that 171 of the (migrants) have accepted to return voluntarily,” said Abrego, adding that the others will leave gradually when the U.N. provides them with their return transportation.
In the interim, those migrants will likely be transferred to a shelter near the Darien Gap jungle in southern Panama that connects Central America with South America.
The New York Times, of course, had to make “camps” the focus: Migrants, Deported to Panama Under Trump Plan, Detained in Remote Jungle Camp.
Passing through the Darien Gap on your way to the U.S. is a human right but passing through the Darien Gap on your way back home is some kind of torture.
BASED ON PAST PERFORMANCE, I CERTAINLY HOPE NOT: Can Germany rise to the challenge of protecting Europe?
RELIGIOUS ATROCITIES THE WESTERN MEDIA DON’T CARE ABOUT: 70 Christians Beheaded In Congo Church: “We don’t know what to do or how to pray; we’ve had enough of massacres.”
If you’ve had enough, arm yourselves and kill the offenders.
Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) has once again managed to enrage some very annoying people by writing and publishing a collection of words. Almost five years after liberal journalists whined about feeling “unsafe” because the New York Times published Cotton’s op-ed about restoring law and order in American cities, the Republican senator has just released a new book about China that has thoroughly aggravated a handful of Chinese communists and other joyless incels, according to a Washington Free Beacon analysis of book reviews on the Barnes & Noble website.
Dozens of first-time users flocked to the site last month to leave angsty one-star reviews of Cotton’s book, Seven Things You Can’t Say About China, which came out on Tuesday. The vast majority of comments appear to have been written—with the help of artificial intelligence or Google Translate—by goons loyal to the communist regime. Several users didn’t even bother to translate their rants into English. “Tim should not earn any income from this book,” first-time user TikTok Refugee wrote in Mandarin. The poorly translated English reviews were far more colorful and creative.
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“Complete Garbage Don’t Waste Your Money,” wrote Mot Nottoc, who described himself or herself as a casual reader. “Tom can’t even point China out on a globe so I highly doubt he knows anything at all about it, let alone enough to write an actual book. Money is his only concern. He holds greed superior and doesn’t care who he tramples on. One Disgusting human being.” Another aggrieved customer, a “highbrow reader” called Agamidae94 from Baton Rouge, said Cotton’s book was “Worse Than Mein Kampf.”
To borrow a pun from acclaimed Korean War surgeon Dr. Benjamin Franklin Pierce, “Agamidae94 from Baton Rouge” is going to bite his Mao Tse-Tung when he discovers who was really worse than Hitler: Who Killed More: Hitler, Stalin, or Mao?