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January 21, 2026

THE WHINING IS THIS IS DELIGHTFUL. HECK, YEAH, I VOTED FOR THIS:  Damon Linker on Why Trump 2.0 Is More Destructive Than Anyone Expected. Yascha Mounk and Damon Linker explore how this administration has surpassed even the pessimists’ predictions. (Video).

It’s weird right? It’s like the man didn’t take being sued, unjustly persecuted, slandered and shot at calmly. Who knew?  Also, please remember to drink your liberal tears responsibly. We’re not responsible for what you do or who you shock while rolling on the floor laughing.

Posted at 12:28 am by Sarah Hoyt on Jan 21st, 2026

January 20, 2026

HARSH BUT FAIR:

Posted at 9:33 pm by Glenn Reynolds on Jan 20th, 2026

OPEN THREAD: Tuesday’s groovy.

Posted at 9:30 pm by Glenn Reynolds on Jan 20th, 2026

WINNING HEARTS AND MINDS:  AWFLs and Boomers Protest ICE by Buying Salt at Target and Then Immediately Returning It.

So what does this do but make life difficult for the employees and customers with legitimate reasons to use the customer service desk?

Shades of 2011’s Occupy Wall Street terrorizing minimum wage New York bank tellers for kicks and grins:

24 protesters were arrested when a mob stormed a LaGuardia Place Citibank and shouted slogans as two demonstrators closed their bank accounts in protest just after 2 p.m.

“[The protesters] all went in a big flash mob to close their accounts,” said Adrielle Slaugh,a 24-year-old office manager who saw the clash. “There were about 30 of them. They were screaming and chanting while they were going in. Security told them to leave, but they didn’t. They stood in a group chanting things to the tellers. There were locked in, and then they were taken away.”

She said when they were locked inside, they were “pressing on the door — you could see them banging on the glass.”

Meanwhile, at America’s Newspaper of Record:

Posted at 9:15 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jan 20th, 2026

QUESTION ASKED: Amelia Rockwell — Can an AI Chick Save England?

Someone on X, presumably having the latest free-speech suppressing actions in Great Britain in mind, even posted a tremendous adaptation of a Normal Rockwell painting (hence the title of this piece, “Amelia Rockwell”):

Why is this significant?

Let us harken back to (revolutionary) Saul Alinsky and his Rules for Radicals. You know, the revolutionaries’ guide whose Introduction includes a hat-tip to Lucifer (no clue there).

[Whenever I mention Alinsky I feel obligated to remind that Hillary Rodham-Clinton was an acolyte of Alinsky – he even offered her a position – and Alinsky invented the “occupation” of “community organizer.” Which, not coincidentally, was the pre-political office “occupation” admitted-to by one B. Hussein Obama. But I digress …]

Alinsky developed the “Rules” (as much techniques or tactics as rules) because they are effective. And if the evildoers have developed effective tactics, should we not “repurpose” them on the side of good?

Two of the “Rules” are applicable to the Amelia phenomenon:

RULE 5: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions. (Pretty crude, rude and mean, huh? They want to create anger and fear.)

RULE 6: “A good tactic is one your people enjoy.” They’ll keep doing it without urging and come back to do more. They’re doing their thing, and will even suggest better ones. (Radical activists, in this sense, are no different than any other human being. We all avoid “un-fun” activities, and but we revel at and enjoy the ones that work and bring results.)

Knowingly or not, whoever created the patriotic Amelia effectively repurposed those two “Rules” – ridiculing the government and in an enjoyable way (at least for us patriots on both sides of the pond).

Can Amelia save England? Not singlehandedly of course, but it’s a battle well worth fighting: 

Earlier: Two Tier Keir Has a Problem Called ‘Waifu Amelia’ and It Is Screamingly Funny.

UPDATE:

Posted at 8:45 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jan 20th, 2026

IN SOCIALIST GRIFTER MILLIONAIRE PARADISE OF DAVOS, GAVIN NEWSOM CALLS UPON WORLD LEADERS TO OPPOSE THE UNITED STATES:

Speaking of knee pads being required: The Boss and His Employee Gavin Newsom Confer at Globalist Conference.

Posted at 8:30 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jan 20th, 2026

DISPATCHES FROM THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF RICHMOND:

Posted at 8:14 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jan 20th, 2026

SASHA STONE: Springsteen Lashes Out After Biopic Flops.

Who is the movie for? Springsteen fans? Nope, he alienated most of them with his Trump Derangement Syndrome-fueled rants*. Wine moms and resistance libs? Nope, they stopped going to the movies during COVID. Gen-Z would not even know who he was.

His friendship and alliance with Barack Obama and the Democrats meant that he was now part of the ruling class, not the working class, so who was he now? The Democrats took ownership of him, and he did nothing but scream about Trump, even knowing that most of his loyal fans probably voted for Trump. Did he care? Nope.

Not only did Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere flop harder than a wet noodle, but so far, in the awards race, it has all but disappeared. Maybe it will come in with a Best Sound nomination. That’s the best bet at this point.

Read the whole thing, which goes on to discuss Springsteen’s onstage anti-ICE rant during Saturday gig in Red Bank, NJ. This from the Bruce who sang in 1984, “They’re closing down the textile mill ‘cross the railroad tracks. Foreman says, ‘These jobs are going, boys, and they ain’t coming back,’ to your hometown.” As Stone concludes, “Springsteen, more than any other artist, rescued the desperate who had nothing else. He pretended he was one of them, those invisible working-class stiffs no one in American culture really cared about. Now, Trump’s the hero for many of them, and Springsteen is just another screeching lib trapped inside the Doomsday Cult.”

* Miami Steve Van Zandt told the London Times in 2024, “‘When Bruce got vocal behind the Democrats, we probably lost half the audience. There’s nowhere we can’t do business.’ But some places feel like enemy territory now? ‘A little bit, yeah. We’re ten times bigger in Europe. We might play six stadiums in America and sixty in Europe.’”

Not that Van Zandt is eager to mend fences with the Boss’s former base: Steven Van Zandt Is Bruce Springsteen’s Guitarist. He Hates You. He Wants You Dead.

UPDATE: Celebrities Can’t Stop Lying About Renee Good.

Posted at 6:14 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jan 20th, 2026

ANALYSIS: TRUE.

Evergreen:

Posted at 6:13 pm by Stephen Green on Jan 20th, 2026

GEORGE MF WASHINGTON: Seen The Lights Go Out On Sunset.

I suppose you can still catch a rock show on a Saturday night, it just won’t be Van Halen. And you can grab a drink in one of the Sunset Strip clubs that are still hanging on. But you won’t have any trouble finding parking. And you might be surprised by how empty the streets feel when you stumble out of the club after the show is over in the graveyard hours of the night… those witching hours when, back in the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s, the real fun was just beginning.

In the end the two erstwhile parents of the Sunset Strip were both mortally wounded by the same monster… a monster called streaming which came disguised, as devils always do, as something that would be “better” for us. That it turned out to be more difficult to stream video than audio was nothing more than a technological stroke of luck which gave Hollywood an extra thirty years or so to figure out a solution which, I’m sorry to say friends and neighbors, we never really did. Quite the contrary, Hollywood has actually been complicit in its own streaming decline. A fact of which I was reminded as Robin and I stood on the empty boulevard outside The Rainbow hugging out our goodbyes.

Looking down at me from a billboard across the street were the faces of Ben Affleck and Matt Damon advertising the imminent release of their new movie “The Rip” along with a big red “N” and the words which, for may of us on the theatrical motion picture side of Hollywood, have become something like a muttered curse… “exclusively on Netflix.” With only two weeks to go, this was the first marketing I had seen for the movie despite the fact that it features one of the best-known and most-popular movie star pairings of the current movie star era, and a director (Joe Carnahan) who has made some really good movies.

But there has been no hype for this movie… there is no buzz at all.

Read the whole thing.

UPDATE: John Nolte: Newsom Fail – Film and TV Production Drops 20% in Democrat-Run California. “Imagine what it takes to move your production to another state — all the inconvenience and expense. But California is such a disaster, nearly twice as many productions are now shot outside California. Things are so bad in the former Golden State that studios are building permanent production facilities in places like New Jersey and Georgia. They obviously want all the way out.”

Posted at 5:50 pm by Ed Driscoll on Jan 20th, 2026
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