WITH TODAY’S MEDIA AND POLITICAL ELITES, THERE’S ALWAYS THE CHANCE THAT THEY’RE COMPLICIT.

Shame on you @NewYorker

The question is not why does @elonmusk care about *on going* industrial scale rape and torture gangs in Britain.

The question is – why don’t you? https://t.co/uFfUdVS4Y3

— Winston Marshall (@MrWinMarshall) January 10, 2025

ZUT ALORS! Pakistan Airlines advert shows plane flying into Eiffel Tower:

Pakistan’s national airline has come under fire for a “tone deaf” advert that appears to show a plane flying into the Eiffel Tower.

Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), which was banned from flying to the UK, US and EU in 2020 amid safety concerns, on Friday announced it had resumed flights to Europe after the ban was lifted.

In a post on social media, the airline published an image showing a plane and the Eiffel Tower against the French tricolour flag, accompanied by the caption: “Paris, we’re coming today.”

But critics pointed out that the advert appeared to show the plane heading straight for the Paris landmark.

Whoops:

GO ON AND TAKE THE RED PILL: Charlamagne Tha God Finally Discovers That Obama Is a Phony and a Hypocrite.

LEAVE WHATEVER YOU WANT, JUSTIN, JUST LEAVE ALREADY: Trudeau Leaves A Legacy Of Failure And Electoral Discontent In Canada.

DON’T MESS WITH TEXAS: Texas Lawmakers Double Down on Bills to Secure Its Border With Mexico. “With the state’s 89th legislative session convening on Jan. 14, notable Texas border bills include renewed attempts to create a Texas Division of Homeland Security, a Texas Border Protection Unit, and bills aiding the incoming president’s efforts to secure the border.”

“CONVICTED FELON.”

Trump is on the verge of having a net-positive favorable rating — something he never had in his first term.

(via @FiveThirtyEight) pic.twitter.com/Sh2uq9ALCP

— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) January 9, 2025

Meanwhile, a friend texts: “Gotta say I like the historical position the lawfare faction is setting itself up for with this petty, petulant sentencing kabuki, off convoluted ham sandwich indictment tried before a partisan judge. All those years, all those millions of dollars, this is all they got. Then he’s president again. You go, lefties! Never stop leftin’!!! Their biggest moment is lawfare’s epitaph and punchline.”

IT WOULD ALSO MAKE GREAT PAY-PER-VIEW: People Who Blame All Natural Disasters on Climate Change Should Be Clubbed Like Baby Seals.

BREAKING: Trump Sentenced. What’s Next?

FROM A FRIEND: “Liberalism is when you have a fire department with 69 genders but zero working fire hydrants.”

RICHARD FERNANDEZ:

Looked at the other way Putin is being paid back in his own coin. Greenland is Trump's countermove to Russia’s own expansionist aims and ambitions to restore former Soviet territories, such as the Baltics, to its own sphere of influence and power.

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) January 9, 2025

As a real estate developer, Trump knows the value of location, location, location.

POLLS SHOW THAT WORD IS OFFENSIVE TO LATINOS. THEY SHOULD BE CANCELED. University of South Florida to feature art exhibit on the word ‘Latinx.’

No, not really. But it’s a dumb word, invented for dumb purposes.

VICTORIA TAFT: Don’t Be a B-A** Like Karen.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass could take some lessons from Donald Trump. When a reporter asked a question at Thursday’s back-patting fire presser about why the city wasn’t prepared for the fire even though there was warning, she didn’t answer. She clumsily attempted to ignore and elide la pregunta.

But as they also say in Spanish, a language Bass knows because of her undying devotion to her El Jefe Fidel Castro, (yeah, she’s a commie as I report nearby), if you el answer-o las preguntas you can el-leavo the presser más rápido.

She didn’t do that.

Filled with hubris, with her system still filled with undigested Ghanaian food, the California Democrat couldn’t explain why she left town, faked that she was in town on X, and couldn’t explain herself.

Read the whole thing.

LEARN TO COOK: Professional Meat Thermometer for Oven – Large Display Digital Thermometer. #CommissionEarned

THE WORLD IS FULL OF ANNOYING SCOLDS, WHO SHOULD BE IGNORED. HBCU marching band scolded for accepting invitation to Trump’s inauguration.

GODSPEED: A taller, heavier, smarter version of SpaceX’s Starship is almost ready to fly.

An upsized version of SpaceX’s Starship mega-rocket rolled to the launch pad early Thursday in preparation for liftoff on a test flight next week.

The two-mile transfer moved the bullet-shaped spaceship one step closer to launch Monday from SpaceX’s Starbase test site in South Texas. The launch window opens at 5 pm EST (4 pm CST; 2200 UTC). This will be the seventh full-scale test flight of SpaceX’s Super Heavy booster and Starship spacecraft and the first of 2025.

In the coming days, SpaceX technicians will lift the ship on top of the Super Heavy booster already emplaced on the launch mount. Then, teams will complete the final tests and preparations for the countdown on Monday.

“The upcoming flight test will launch a new generation ship with significant upgrades, attempt Starship’s first payload deployment test, fly multiple reentry experiments geared towards ship catch and reuse, and launch and return the Super Heavy booster,” SpaceX officials wrote in a mission overview posted on the company’s website.

More details here.

THE TIMES THEY ARE A’CHANGING: Has ADL president Jonathan Greenblatt been red-pilled?

Since the 1950s, mainstream Jewish organizations have adopted a “community relations” strategy. To oversimplify, this meant allying with liberal groups on public policy matters even when (as in the case of affirmative action, for example) it conflicted with the immediate interests of the Jewish community. The basic idea was that if Jewish organizations supported progressive causes, progressive groups would in turn be sensitive to issues important to the Jewish community.

Under Abe Foxman, the ADL took this position, but would still occasionally dissent from progressive orthodoxy, especially when antisemitism was at play. When Greenblatt took over, however, he announced that the younger ADL donor base was no longer especially interested in antisemitism, and that the ADL would pivot strongly in the social justice activism direction. This led the ADL to go full woke during the Trump years, including endorsing the Black Lives Matter movement, even though it was rife with antisemitism.

With that in mind, check out Greenblatt’s recent statement about combatting antisemitism in the post-Oct. 7 landscape:

I think if you’re not stepping back and rethinking, considering the facts, just the facts — how so many allies fled, or at least didn’t stand by us in the way you would have thought — just the fact that in the younger demographic there’s a higher prevalence of antisemitic attitudes than in the older segments of the population,” Greenblatt explained. “If you start to think about the fact that the Jewish community has been very supportive of diversity initiatives, and yet these initiatives, which are supposed to promote inclusion, actually result in the exclusion of Jews. So all of this, and the moment we’re in, leads me to say we have to step back and rethink and reconsider and have the humility to acknowledge it all wasn’t working the way that we hoped.

This marks a remarkable shift for both Greenblatt himself and presumably his donor base, who have collectively recognized that putting their eggs in the DEI basket was a huge error. More generally, this may be indicative of a paradigm shift in how mainstream Jewish organizations (and their donors) approach politics. Better late than never.

ORWELLIAN DOUBLESPEAK: The leftist Lemkin Institute for the Prevention of Genocide tweets that “one can have different views about the definition of genocide, but one may not use definitional disputes to deny genocide.” Exactly how one can dispute the Institute’s preposterous claim that Israel is committing genocide without first properly defining genocide is unclear. Of course, that’s the entire point, to make a preposterous claim and then try to create debate rules that make it impossible to dispute that claim.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Biden Quick to Aid Lib California After Ignoring NC and FL Hurricane Victims. “Once again, President LOLEightyonemillion looks to the Treasury Department’s printing press to address a problem. Monopoly money is this administration’s bread and butter, after all.”

I LOVE HOW THE PEOPLE WHO MADE GEORGE FLOYD A SAINT NOW THINK “CONVICTED FELON” IS SOMETHING AWFUL WHEN APPLIED TO TRUMP.

…It will not happen. Today, we will see the ignoble end to a raw form of lawfare. What critics will get is the labeling of Trump as a convicted felon, a fact that will then be repeated like a mantra by the media. Merchan can be expected to add to that rhetoric with punishment…

— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) January 10, 2025

In reality, it’s the reputation and legitimacy of the justice system, not of Trump, that will suffer. And rightly so.

OUT: TWO-TIER JUSTICE. IN: TWO-TIER GOVERNMENT.

The Biden Administration has now promised to cover 100% of recovery costs for Los Angeles for six months.

But they gave 3500 homeless Appalachian families another 24 hours before they kick them out into a winter storm so it’s fine. https://t.co/Q6mxvXVHB7

— Emily Zanotti 🦝 (@emzanotti) January 10, 2025

OF COURSE THEY DO, IT’S JUST THE PRESS AND POLITICIANS TRYING TO GASLIGHT THEM INTO BELIEVING THIS IS A “FAR RIGHT” POSITION.

BREAKING. 76% of British people want a national inquiry into the rape gangs and 77% want to deport dual nationals who are convicted of grooming children

YouGov/GB News

— Matt Goodwin (@GoodwinMJ) January 9, 2025

BAN ALL THE THINGS: The Dangerous Precedent of CDFA’s Ban on Poultry and Dairy Cattle Exhibitions.

Here we go again.

The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) has imposed a sweeping ban on poultry and dairy cattle exhibitions, this time citing fears of H5N1 avian influenza. If this feels like déjà vu, that’s because we’ve seen this playbook before.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the government shut down businesses it arbitrarily deemed “nonessential,” crippling livelihoods and communities under the guise of public safety.

Now, they are targeting farmers, youth organizations, and small-scale agricultural exhibitors.

This isn’t just about bird flu—it’s about a growing pattern of overreach where freedom is sacrificed for an illusion of security. We’re watching a replay, folks, and as Benjamin Franklin once warned, “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” It’s time to stand up and challenge this dangerous precedent.

The precedent was set in 2020. Now Sacramento is just flexing it against groups that trend conservative.

YAY: Huge Bipartisan Majority Able To Overcome Far-Left Filibuster on Laken Riley Act.

HARD TO SAY. SOMETIMES THEY’RE COMPETENT. Is LA Mayor Karen Bass Still a Communist?

YIKES: The Tense and Awkward Moments at Jimmy Carter’s Funeral.