ALMOST ANYTHING, REALLY: Here’s What Dems Don’t Want You to Know About the Woman Who Attacked ICE Agents.
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January 8, 2026
TEN YEARS AGO YESTERDAY: Charlie Hebdo offices attacked, 12 dead.
ARE THESE THE SAME EXPERTS WHO HELPED ENGINEER A DECADES-LONG OBESITY CRISIS? RFK Jr. rolls out new dietary guidelines backing more protein and full-fat dairy. “The new recommendations drew mixed reactions from experts, who criticized the emphasis on meat and dairy while praising limits on ultraprocessed foods and added sugars.”
Update: New guidelines just dropped. Eat accordingly.
BREAKING NEWS: Democrats release their own food pyramid in response to RFK's pic.twitter.com/uCfdaQbHti
— Carnivore Aurelius ©🥩 ☀️🦙 (@AlpacaAurelius) January 8, 2026
IT IS ALWAYS THUS:
Days after Europeans denounce US action in Venezuela they anticipate collecting debts from proceeds. https://t.co/kaiOGapaxt
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) January 8, 2026
GOOD LORD:
An important lib thought leader who didn’t want kids because ‘what do you get out of it?’ ended up treating a violent pit bull like his child. The dog bit everyone and caused his divorce.
You can’t make this stuff up. If you did it would be unbelievable. https://t.co/qirB4ive2V
— Coddled Affluent Professional (@feelsdesperate) January 7, 2026
IT’S LIKE IT’S A PLAN:
Yinz guys!!!! Please read this labor of love series #america250 I am doing ever day now until the 2nd of July when the Declaration of Independence was signed! https://t.co/xUEzasa5Pi
— ZitoSalena (@ZitoSalena) January 7, 2026
BEN SHAPIRO: How Trump Finally Buried the Iraq Syndrome.
To understand Iraq syndrome, one has to go back to Vietnam.
In the aftermath of the Vietnam War, America’s foreign-policy establishment fell into disarray. A new conventional wisdom took hold among elites: The war had not been lost because of bad strategy or domestic unrest but because it never should have been fought at all. From this conclusion flowed a much larger claim — that the United States needed to fundamentally rethink its role in the world.
This worldview, later known as the “Vietnam syndrome,” argued that America should abandon assertive foreign policy in favor of restraint or outright withdrawal, lest it stumble into further disasters. Underlying this posture was a thinly veiled anti-Americanism: the belief that the United States was not a force for good but a malign presence on the world stage. As former Princeton professor Richard Falk put it at the time, “I love the Vietnam syndrome because it was the proper redemptive path for American foreign policy to take after the Vietnam defeat.”
In other words, America was guilty — and the appropriate response was retreat.
That retreat carried real costs. A world without strong American leadership proved far worse than its critics anticipated. America’s self-imposed paralysis helped usher in the Cambodian genocide, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and the rise of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
By the mid-1980s, Ronald Reagan decided it was time to move past Vietnam syndrome. In 1983, the United States intervened in Grenada, deposing a Marxist government in a swift operation that cost few American lives and restored democracy to the island. Shortly thereafter, then-Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger articulated six criteria for military intervention: a vital interest at stake, a commitment to victory, clear political and military goals, continuous strategic reassessment, sustained public support, and the exhaustion of nonmilitary options.
Together, the Reagan and George H. W. Bush administrations applied these principles in Panama and during Operation Desert Storm. By 1989, Vietnam syndrome was effectively dead.
Then came Afghanistan and Iraq.
As Daniel Hannan wrote in 2014, “The greatest cultural victory of the Left has been to disregard the Nazi-Soviet Pact:”
To the modern reader, George Orwell’s depiction of how enmity alternates between Eurasia and Eastasia seems far-fetched; but when he published his great novel in 1948, such things were a recent memory. It suited Western Leftists, during and after the War, to argue that Hitler had been uniquely evil, certainly wickeder than Stalin. It was thus necessary to forget the enthusiasm with which the two tyrants had collaborated.
Back in the early 2000s, a similar pivot could be seen on the left’s 180-degree turn on the removal of Saddam Hussain. (George Clooney starred in a 1999 movie excoriating Bush #41 for failing to oust Saddam from power):
After (P)resident Biden set a $25 million bounty on Maduro’s head and after months of “No Kings” protests, the left once again pivoted on a dime over his ouster, including members of the (p)resident’s own administration: Kamala Harris Humiliates Herself Condemning Capture of Maduro.
SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE IS IN THE MIDDLE OF A GIGGLE FIT: Larry Page Leaves Calif. Amid Billionaire Wealth Tax Push.
Page has shifted the registrations of several key entities — including his family office and a flying-car venture — from California to Delaware, according to state filings.
He has also personally relocated out of California ahead of a potential statewide vote on a wealth tax. Page told friends last month he was considering a move to Florida.
The proposed measure would impose a one-time 5% tax on individuals with assets exceeding $1 billion.
5% of nothing is how much?
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ANALYSIS: TRUE. What Separates Tim Walz From Other Democrats Is He Got Caught.
Now, however, Walz is most known as the Minnesota governor who oversaw and enabled a years-long scam in which Somalis occupying large swaths of his state were pocketing hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars with fake child care and health care operations that provided no services to anyone at all. The scheme was uncovered mostly through federal prosecutions, which were then covered by our dying national news media. But most devastating for Walz and the state’s whole government was a 45-minute video produced by a 23-year-old YouTuber who demonstrated just how brazen the fraud was by simply knocking on “child care center” doors — only to be greeted by savage Somalis who spoke next to no English and had no kids inside.
The mass fraud was made possible by obscene welfare programs that Democrats like Walz — especially Walz — champion in order to lock in votes from impoverished foreigners and otherwise ne’er-do-wells who have no interest in working. “We have to make it easier for folks to be able to get into that business and then to make sure that folks are able to pay for that,” Walz said at the vice presidential debate last year. “We were able to do it in Minnesota.”
Read the whole thing, including a lovely use of the word “presumably.”
WHY WOULD ANYONE WANT TO KEEP THEM SECRET? Transparency or threat? UNC policy to make syllabi public draws mixed reactions. “Starting next week, the University of North Carolina System will begin requiring all course syllabi to be made publicly available, joining a growing number of states pushing for greater transparency at taxpayer-funded universities. However, the new policy has received pushback from a number of faculty, who argue the change could open them up to ‘bad-faith critique and extremist threats.'”
Oh, grow up.
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THEY’LL PROBABLY AWARD THE PHOTOG A PULITZER:
A masterclass in propaganda. One photo, zero context. The caption says “terrorized innocent man.” The reality – he grabbed the officer’s weapon moments earlier, and that’s pepper spray, not a firearm. This is how outrage is manufactured. https://t.co/qNLQxw8Dpt
— Chef Andrew Gruel (@ChefGruel) January 8, 2026
DREAM BIG: Trump calls for $1.5T budget for ‘dream military.’
“After long and difficult negotiations with Senators, Congressmen, Secretaries, and other Political Representatives, I have determined that, for the Good of our Country, especially in these very troubled and dangerous times, our Military Budget for the year 2027 should not be $1 Trillion Dollars, but rather $1.5 Trillion Dollars,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Wednesday.
“This will allow us to build the ‘Dream Military’ that we have long been entitled to and, more importantly, that will keep us SAFE and SECURE, regardless of foe,” he said.
Trump said that if it were not for the revenue from his administration’s tariffs on other countries, he would say the budget should be kept at $1 trillion.
$1.5 trillion is 4.84% of GDP, or about 22% smaller in GDP terms than Ronald Reagan’s peak defense budget in 1986.
BRINGING SOME SANITY WITH THE NEW ALCOHOL GUIDELINES:
In a press briefing on Wednesday, Oz claimed that previous drink restrictions on alcohol were not based on any specific scientific evidence of the amount of alcoholic drinks per day to recommend — despite studies that show an increase in health risks from consumption of alcohol. . . .
When asked at the White House press briefing to explain the science behind the new alcohol guidance, Oz said that alcohol was a “social lubricant” that helps bring people together.
“So alcohol is a social lubricant that brings people together. In the best case scenario, I don’t think you should drink alcohol, but it does allow people an excuse to bond and socialize,” Oz said.
“And there’s probably nothing healthier than having a good time with friends in a safe way. If you look at the blue zones, for example, around the world, where people live the longest, alcohol is sometimes part of their diet. Again, small amounts taken very judiciously and usually in a celebratory fashion. So there is alcohol on these dietary guidelines, but the implication is don’t have it for breakfast, right?”
This is consistent with the thrust of Edward Slingerland’s recent book, Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization, which I reviewed here.
CHANGE:
What has changed is that in the past you could always count on the left to keep up the pressure until their foes got tired and became 'reasonable'. Now, through some self sustaining chain reaction the right can stay angry indefinitely. This has not happened before.
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) January 8, 2026
Where else does the far left go if their world is falling apart domestically and internationally but toward some sort of resistance? If shoplifters bolt and people with expired licenses take off high speed what more those who have played for the biggest stakes and lost?
What a…
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) January 8, 2026
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Let’s Hear It for the (Red-Blooded American) Boy! “In Wednesday’s Morning Briefing, our own Kevin Downey, Jr. talked about AWFLs, the affluent white female liberals who are ruining our country. In an effort to be fair and balanced, I’d like to add that behind every one of them is usually some effeminate, affluent, white, liberal ‘man’ who wishes he could menstruate, watches Property Brothers, and secretly wishes his favorite AWFL would paint his toenails to match hers.”
Sarah Anderson is filling in for Kruiser today.
THE COVERUP IS EVIDENCE OF THE CRIME: Minnesota Dems Blocked Auditors from Tackling ‘Avalanche’ of Somali Fraud, Blacklisted Whistleblowers.
SETH BARRETT TILLMAN: Trump and Greenland.
BRITAIN: Young women are radicalising.
The 2024 voting patterns of young women tell a very different story. Nearly one in four (23 per cent) of 18- to 24-year-old women voted for the Green Party at the last general election, compared to just 6.7 per cent of the general population (12 per cent of young men voted for the Greens). Greens performed far better with young women than with any other key demographic (just 10 per cent of 25- to 49-year-old women voted Green, and only 4 per cent of 50- to 64-year-olds). In last year’s general election, young women moved to the populist left considerably more than young men moved to the populist right.
Current voting intention polls show these trends not only persisting but becoming more pronounced. Recent data from More In Common shows that one in three (33 per cent) of young women now say they will vote for the Green Party. Meanwhile, young men, far from being more right wing than the population as a whole, are as likely to vote Green as they are Reform (20 per cent) with Reform still significantly underperforming with under 25 males relative to other age groups.
In fact, the UK is not alone in seeing young women move increasingly to the left. Recent elections in the US, Germany and Portugal all show similar movements between the sexes.
As it says in the subhead, “Britain’s young women are sad, alienated and increasingly left-wing,” and none of these things are on accident — and all three are interrelated.
Meanwhile, in New York:
Go on and laugh, but she'd order you into a cattle car just as soon as look at you. https://t.co/wX2kylTeC6
— Stephen Green (@VodkaPundit) January 7, 2026
Orwell knew.