AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:

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— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) February 9, 2025

‘STAY THE F*** OUT:’ MSNBC’s Chris Hayes Urges Dems To Double Down On Transitioning Children.

MSNBC’s Chris Hayes took his book tour to HBO and Friday’s episode of Real Time with Bill Maher, where he urged Democrats to double down on telling Republicans to “just stay the fuck out of their business” when it comes to parents wanting to give their children gender-altering “health care.”

Maher had just finished lamenting that the recent forum for the DNC chair election, complete with a land acknowledgment and other progressive cringe-inducing antics, showed the party hasn’t learned anything when Hayes replied, “I think that, I don’t think there’s anyone who hasn’t had a moment across the political spectrum of some form of progressive communication that’s either left them bewildered or a little like ‘Eh, I don’t know about that,’ but at the same time, there is a message of what I would call common sense patriotic pluralism. That is a majority message.”

The first example he reached for was, “If some father and mother have health care for their kid lined up, who is trans, just stay the f**k out of their business. Like, and let them make that decision. That’s their decision to make. You don’t have to make that for your family. I’m not going to tell you what to do with your family.”

Maher pushed back, “I mean, but the argument is whether the child should make the decision.”

Hayes strained credibility to add, “But the child is never making the decision. The parents are always making the decision. Parents consent to medical care.”

Eventually, Maher would add, “They would say it’s disfiguring a child.”

Hayes was unmoved, “I think they should mind their business; I really do. I think they should mind their business, and I think that’s true about a lot of things.”

But this appears to be somewhat of a reversal in policy for MSNBC. In 2013 the network ran ads that their parent company Comcast-signed off in which the message was explicitly stated that “your kids are not your own.” Last year, Kamala chose a veep, who, as the Daily Caller noted, “Greenlit Law Allowing State To Take Child Custody From Parents Who Oppose Sex-Change Surgeries.” Now that there’s a Republican in the White House who doesn’t want to see them mutilated before they can consent as an adult to procedures that could permanently alter them, Hayes responds, “just stay the f**k out of [the parents’] business!” Past performance, etc.

OLD AND BUSTED: Ayahuasca Retreats.

The New Hotness? Retreat from the Ayahuasca! “The New York Jets and Aaron Rodgers appear to be on course for a split. FOX Sports reported hours before Super Bowl LIX on Sunday that the Jets told the four-time MVP they want to move on. It’s unclear how that will happen – whether it’s an outright cut or they trade him.”

SOMEBODY SET UP US THE BOMB: Trump inflamed George Floyd row to ‘distract from Covid’, Lammy claimed.

[UK Labour foreign secretary] David Lammy accused Donald Trump of inflaming tensions following the death of George Floyd to distract from Covid, The Telegraph can reveal.

Speaking to Lord Hermer, the Attorney General, on a podcast in 2020, David Lammy – then the shadow secretary of state for justice – accused Trump of attempting to “stoke the fire” of Black Lives Matter protests and marches both in support of and against the police.

The protests were sparked after Derek Chauvin, a former police officer, knelt on 46-year-old Mr Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes on a street in Minneapolis despite the dying man’s pleas.

Asked by Lord Hermer why the world had woken up to “systemic racism”, Mr Lammy pointed to two factors “that lay on top of where we are”.

“One is Donald Trump, and Donald Trump’s attempts, frankly, to stoke the fire.”

Mr Lammy said: “Donald Trump is a populist nationalist leader, and frankly, politically, I think it’s very, very clear that he would actually prefer the headlines in the United States not to be about the Coronavirus, which I think worldwide opinion is he’s dealt with incredibly badly.

Trump was initially furious when red states such as Georgia began to open up in late April of 2020. In sharp contrast, the American medical profession declared Coronavirus all but over at the beginning of June:

JOANNE JACOBS: You may have a few dings, but you’re not ‘broken.’

School curricula and culture “seem nearly to revel in the bad and the broken,” wrote Robert Pondiscio in The Unbearable Bleakness of American Schooling in Commentary in 2022. Children are told they’ve been born into “a country that is racist to its core” and a world that’s doomed to burn to a crisp.

Educators see “this pedagogy of the depressed — America the Problematic — . . . as a mark of seriousness and sophistication,” he writes. They think they’re inspiring children to “set the world right.” But, mostly, they are “creating a generation of overwhelmed young people paralyzed into learned helplessness.”

Related: How the ‘trauma’ cult took over mental health.

You may have noticed over the last decade a steady increase in the promiscuous use of the word “trauma.” A word that once referred exclusively to grievous injuries of body and mind (gunshot wounds, PTSD, that sort of thing) can now describe virtually anything. Psychotherapists and clinical psychologists are the main super-spreaders of this hyperbolic virus, though educators, politicians and of course celebrities are now getting in on the act.

But trauma is more than just an annoying buzz word. Its inexorable creep into common parlance is the culmination of a sustained campaign to politicize healthcare that has been going on for thirty years. Along the way it has resurrected some of Sigmund Freud’s more bizarre theories about childhood development, and married them with social justice concerns to become what is effectively a secular religion.

Anyone who is familiar with the work of Sigmund Freud knows that his psycho-sexual theories developed in two distinct stages. The first posited that people who were mentally or emotionally unwell had repressed traumatic memories (almost always of sexual abuse in their childhood). He eventually gave up on this theory. In its stead he developed his equally infamous theory of infantile sexuality, in which children experienced sexual feelings through different erogenous zones during distinct stages of their development. It may surprise and horrify you to learn that both theories are alive and well in the current mental healthcare establishment, where they have been rebranded into a pseudoscientific theory about childhood trauma that leads to brain damage, addiction, and disease.

The result, as Mark Manson wrote in his 2016 book, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, is a nation of adults who have internalized the following beliefs:

The deeper the pain, the more helpless we feel against our problems, and the more entitlement we adopt to compensate for those problems. This entitlement plays out in one of two ways:

1. I’m awesome and the rest of you all suck, so I deserve special treatment.
2. I suck and the rest of you are all awesome, so I deserve special treatment.

Opposite mindset on the outside, but the same selfish creamy core in the middle. In fact, you will often see entitled people flip back and forth between the two. Either they’re on top of the world or the world is on top of them, depending on the day of the week, or how well they’re doing with their particular addiction at that moment…What most people don’t correctly identify as entitlement are those people who perpetually feel as though they’re inferior and unworthy of the world.

Of course, all of the above was written before the ultimate victims in life’s lottery identified themselves:

TRUMP TRACES NIXON’S PATH: President Trump. Now More Than Ever?

Most presidents want to start with a bang. Donald Trump is looking to outdo them all. Over the weekend, the administration made important progress in the Western Hemisphere, bringing hostages back from Venezuela and driving Panama out of China’s Belt and Road Initiative. On Monday, Mexico and Canada barely avoided hefty tariffs by launching new border security initiatives. Trump then sent Elon Musk to launch a hostile takeover of the United States Agency for International Development, restarted the maximum pressure campaign on Iran, and, flanked by Benjamin Netanyahu, announced his plan to seize and rebuild Gaza.

Not for the first time, Trump has astonished and confused friends and foes alike. Just weeks ago he denounced the Biden administration for giving “unlimited funding to the defense of foreign borders.” Now, he is talking about making Canada the 51st state and adding Gaza, Greenland, and the Panama Canal to America’s overseas possessions. America seems to be contracting its international commitments while also expanding.

Trump is not, however, the first president to befuddle observers by talking about retrenchment and acting boldly: Although they hail from the opposite sides of the country and grew up in very different circumstances, Trump is walking in Richard Nixon’s path.

Except that Watergate was cooked up by left after Nixon’s 49-state reelection sweep in 1972. In contrast, Democrats threw everything they could at Trump during his first four years in office – and his four years out of office. To mix gaming metaphors here, in badly overplaying their hand, he’s clearly seen how their playbook works, and in his whirlwind first two weeks in office, is reacting accordingly.

Question: like Nixon, when will Trump begin to garner the proverbial “strange new respect” from the left who once professed to despise him?

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Emilia Perez and the Greatest Hollywood Awards-Season Story Ever Told.

I don’t think it’s activist protesters who are going to take Perez down, even though “the Groups” have been out in force complaining about the film as early as November of last year. (GLAAD: “How dare you associate transgenderism with Mexican drug lords?” Mexicans: “How dare you associate Mexican drug lords with transgenderism?”) But Hollywood is still the same industry that patted itself on the back for Crash and Green Book; months of whinging and activist pressure wasn’t enough to prevent them from nominating this farce 13 times over.

No, the real problem is that it turns out lead Karla Sofía Gascón — the first-ever transgender Best Actress nominee, another woke Hollywood “milestone” — has been uh, hilariously unwoke. Back during worldwide Covid lockdown, Gascón was tweeting in Spanish about how George Floyd was “a drug addict and a hustler” and denying that all police were murderers. Years before that, Gascón was arguing that “Islam is becoming a hotbed of infection for humanity that urgently needs to be cured.” Gascón doesn’t understand why world opinion disfavors Hitler, it turns out. But nothing beats this take on 2021’s Oscar winners: “I didn’t know if I was watching an Afro-Korean festival, a Black Lives Matter demonstration or the 8-M.”

Well, maybe Gascón has a future writing opinion columns  on Substack. But probably not as the Best Actress winner, because the publicity tour for Emilia Pérez has predictably gone to hell now that sleuths (read: paid opposition researchers from rival studios) dumped Gascón’s past words onto a liberal Hollywood ecosystem already torn by how best to demonstrate Resistance to resurgent Trumpism. “By awarding a statue to someone who speaks a lot like a Trump voter” is apparently one possible answer.

Exit quote: “It’s downright athletic how Emilia Pérez presses nearly every single woke button imaginable, almost suspiciously so, as if created in a lab to play to critically fashionable political ephemera.”

HOW IT STARTED: In Adam Carolla’s epic rant from a hotel room on January 8th as the Pacific Palisades Fire was rampaging through Los Angeles, he predicted:

You guys all voted for Karen Bass, the mayor of Los Angeles. You all voted for Gavin Newsom, and now you fucking get what you get. now that your house is on fire. So here’s what’s going to happen. All these people who are deep blue Democrats are now going to have to pull a permit to rebuild, and they’re going to get the 28 year old bitch from the Coastal Commission telling them to go f*** off and then they’re going to vote for Trump or whoever’s Trumpian next. When they start getting the regulation, they’re going to go nuts. And when they start running into the bureaucracy and the red tape, they’re going to start going nuts and they’re going to vote for Rick Caruso next time.

How it’s going:

He's such a poor leader. https://t.co/MQag62kNnk

— Adam Housley (@adamhousley) February 9, 2025

In his emailed daily Commentary newsletter on Thursday, Abe Greenwald noted:

Part of the fun of getting into conservative thought (particularly if you’re moving away from liberalism) is discovering that counterintuitive ideas can be morally sound and effective. For former liberals, this can strike with the force of epiphany. To take a basic example: reducing or reforming welfare. The intuitive approach is to provide those in need directly with the means to purchase goods and services. What you learn, however, is that this kind of assistance has the unintended consequence of creating a class of dependents who don’t find work or meaning in their lives. So the counterintuitive approach—reducing welfare and incentivizing productivity and responsibility—turns out actually to help people.

There many circumstances in which conservatives can make the case that counterintuitive policies have been or should be vindicated. Lowering taxes on high-income earners can increase tax revenues, giving excess foreign aid can hurt poorly governed countries, affirmative action can harm minority students, and so on.

It’s gripping when you first realize that doing the obvious thing isn’t the same as doing the right thing. But there’s a downside to embracing this two-step thinking: It’s a hard sell. You need to convince people to take an intellectual leap and forgo the quick fix.

* * * * * * * *

If you want to know why, for the first time in 30 years, more Americans identify as Republican than Democrat, it’s because Republicans have been given the easy task of asserting intuitive common sense in a country whose leaders got high on reality-altering theories. It’s now liberals who have to explain why, even though every instinct tells you its monstrous, its ultimately good to toy with children’s gender. Why your daughter should face-off against a boy on the playing field. Why, even though, we have a massive illegal-immigration crisis, it’s ultimately good to keep criminals in the country that they entered illegally. Why, it’s ultimately good to spend your money on a Peruvian transgender comic book.

If it was hard for conservatives to argue for worthy counterintuitive ideas, think how hard it is for liberals to argue for ruinous ones. Watching them try is as fun as discovering conservatism all over again.

Homeowners in Los Angeles looking to rebuild are really going to get it gooder and harder from Newsom, a reactionary environmentalist who hates all brands of Big Oil except Brylcreem. Will they continue to toe the party line? (If San Francisco over the last half century is any indication, of course they will. But 2025 is a reminder that there is an alternative.)

QUESTION ASKED: What’s so ‘cruel’ about dressing up and having a good time?

A group of young, attractive, well-dressed men and women. Smiling. Laughing. Drinking. Talking. Stark light exaggerating every detail. It feels like some kind of paparazzi photo. It’s an evocative shot, and there has been no shortage of commentary on it.
Online left-wingers claim the photo is ugly. The bright flash, blown-out faces, high contrast, and excited laughter are unflattering and make the individuals look menacing. If conservatives don’t realize this, it’s because they don’t understand aesthetics.

Conservatives, on the other hand, just see a bunch of well-dressed young people having fun.

Anti-aesthetics

For the left, the best kind of aesthetics are those that make people look vulnerable or fatalistically defiant. And if vulnerable or fatalistically defiant isn’t possible because the individual is just too attractive and confident, wonky will have to do.
Weirdly slouching posture. Slightly depressed face. A rough, brutalist scene will be fine. Or a cutesy one can work too. Something that feels jarring and disorienting, weird and wacky. If pity is impossible, hidden irony is the next best thing. These are some aesthetic values of left-wingers today.

Confident happiness, without any ironic subtext, is just not something in their aesthetic lexicon.

Earlier, from Matt Walsh: This New York Magazine Cover Goes Viral For All The Right Reasons (Video).

NOW WE KNOW WHO WAS RUNNING THE COUNTRY FOR JOE BIDEN:

Time Magazine’s latest issue has joined the fray, featuring Musk seated confidently at the Resolute Desk—a symbolic jab suggesting he’s really the one in charge. The outrage is ironic, considering the same voices now wailing about Musk’s alleged control were silent while Joe Biden spent four years clearly not running the White House.

Why does this matter? Well, we now have fresh allegations from Lindy Li, a former Democratic National Committee (DNC) insider, about who was running the White House for Joe Biden.

And it’s quite terrifying.

Once a proud fundraiser for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, Li has turned into an insider spilling the Democratic Party’s most closely held secrets—and, boy, does she have stories.

Her revelations pull back the curtain on what has been described as a chaotic and delusional 2024 campaign for the Democrats, which spectacularly collapsed under the weight of its own hubris. Li has revealed intriguing insider details about how Joe Biden was ultimately ousted, and what Pelosi and Obama really think of Kamala. Back in December, she revealed new dirt on Joe Biden’s mental decline. “The president has not been cognitively fit to assume the duties of the Oval Office for a number of years now,” she told Fox News. “And it breaks my heart because I know President Biden and I love the man, but he is in no shape or form able to carry out the duties that the Commander in Chief requires, and it’s just devastating.”

But it’s her revelations about what happened in the White House in the aftermath of Biden’s devastating performance in his June debate on CNN with Trump that are truly jaw-dropping.

Read the whole thing.

Flashback: The ‘cabal’ that bragged of foisting Joe Biden on us must answer for his failed presidency.

IT’S COME TO THIS: Her son died ‘surfing’ BART trains. Now she’s suing the agency.

Daniel Baran graduated from Lowell High School and was a history student at Skyline College. He died Jan. 29 after climbing out of the BART train and falling on the tracks around Balboa Park Station.

Marina Baran previously told The Standard that her son was last seen climbing between the two rubber spacers where the train carriages meet.

“The spacers allowed and encouraged riders to contact the train’s exterior, and to climb the spacers to the train’s roof,” the lawsuit states. “Indeed, before Daniel’s death, riders had used spacers to climb to the top of BART trains, a practice called ‘train surfing.’”

The lawsuit says the trains should be “equipped with monitors, sensors, or alarms” to prevent passengers from accessing the exterior.

I’m so old, I can remember when railroad passengers – even in the Bay Area – instinctively knew that climbing onto the roof of a train had an extremely high probability of not ending very well.

RIP: Tony Roberts dead at 85: Woody Allen collaborator who shot to fame in Annie Hall passes away in NYC.

Annie Hall and Serpico actor Tony Roberts has died aged 85.

The Tony Award nominated star and frequent Woody Allen collaborator died from lung cancer on Friday, February 7, with his death announced by his daughter Nicole Burley to the New York Times.

His marriage to Jennifer Lyons ended in divorce. He is survived by his daughter.

He originated roles in Broadway musicals including How Now, Dow Jones (1967); Sugar (1972), an adaptation of the movie Some Like It Hot, and Victor/Victoria (1995), in which he co-starred with Julie Andrews when she returned to Broadway in the stage version of her popular film.

He also was in the campy, roller-disco Xanadu in 2007 and The Royal Family in 2009.

He first met Allen backstage when he was starring in Barefoot in the Park, having replaced Robert Redford.

Roberts had unsuccessfully auditioned four times for Allen’s first Broadway play, Don’t Drink the Water.

After seeing Roberts perform in Barefoot in the Park, Allen changed his mind and cast him.

According to his memoir, Allen told him: ‘You were great. How come you’re such a lousy auditioner?’

He  appeared on Broadway in the 1966  Allen comedy Don’t Drink the Water, repeating his role in the film version, and in Allen’s Play It Again, Sam (1969), for which he also made the movie.

A close friend of Allen’s and often playing his best friend on screen, Roberts is known for his turn in 1977 hit Annie Hall as Alvy Singer’s best friend Rob.

As James Lileks has noted, Roberts was the only character having fun, blissfully free of obvious neuroses, during his multiple co-starring roles in Woody’s movies.

THE SAD SAGA OF BUD LIGHT:

As you enjoy the Super Bowl on Sunday, pay special attention to one of the 30-second ads that will be airing during the time-outs.

The ad, which features Shane Gillis, Post Malone, and NFL great Peyton Manning having fun at a wild barbecue, fueled by bright-blue cans of Bud Light beer, is no ordinary TV commercial. With its almost cartoonish celebration of masculine excess, the spot communicates two conventional beer-commercial messages: Bud Light is fun, and Bud Light is for guys. What makes it notable, though, is a third point, one it communicates only by implication: Bud Light is really, really sorry.

Bud Light is still trying to make up with the customer base it alienated on April 1, 2023. On that day, a brand that had been the top-selling beer in America for over two decades launched a social media campaign that would rock its customers, and not in a good way. Starring a transgender activist, Dylan Mulvaney, it celebrated Mulvaney’s first year of “girlhood.” Bud Light even sent Mulvaney a personalized can to mark this milestone date in Mulvaney’s transition from biological male to transgender woman, which millions had already followed on Instagram and TikTok.

This was not an April Fools’ Day prank as some believed, but a serious effort by the world’s largest beer company, Anheuser-Busch InBev, to “rebrand” its product.

For Bud Light, the consequences were no laughing matter. Consumers immediately recoiled and targeted the beer with one of the largest boycotts in recent history. Bud Light sales declined 11 percent that week compared to the previous year. By April 15, 2023, sales were down 21 percent. In the ensuing months, the company shed billions of dollars of shareholder value, laid off hundreds of employees across the Anheuser-Busch ecosystem, damaged its reputation, and plunked itself in the middle of a highly contentious political issue. Almost every Anheuser-Busch stakeholder—wholesalers, employees, customers, and shareholders—lost trust in the company.

Data would later confirm that, although conservatives were most outspoken about the Mulvaney campaign—Kid Rock posted a video of himself shooting cases of Bud Light with a rifle—millions of consumers from across the political spectrum were offended by it, too. Nearly two years later, Bud Light has yet to win beer lovers back; sales remain roughly 40 percent below where they were before the boycott began. Some analysts say the beer might never recover.

I don’t drink very much beer these days, and I was never Bud Light’s target demographic, but it seems like going from Mulvaney to a another freakshow – a guy with a face full of hideous tattoos – may be overcompensating just a little bit for their previous error. Or perhaps choosing Malone as a spokesman may be a would-be Don Draper’s idea of continuing the intense loathing that Ivy League execs at Bud Light still harbor for their core customers.

Related: Will the Super Bowl Ads Be Woke? “We might yet see a resurgence of woke. That coalition is down — but probably not totally defeated. I do, however, think that most advertisers know the winds have changed, at least for now. But mark my words: I’d bet on at least one major company stepping on a rake. Someone is going to Jaguar themselves on Sunday night.”

THE DIRTY SECRET OF DOGE: Dems Built It.

Petards, hoisting, some assembly required. By Democrats.

For the past three weeks, Democrats have screamed about how an unelected multi-billionaire has gained access to the levers of federal spending, mainly to pull them to the OFF position. At first they claimed that Elon Musk had no authority to operate his DOGE project or access government information, until it turns out … he did.

As attorney Tom Renz explained in a lengthy Twitter/X thread, Trump took an agency launched by Barack Obama in 2014 called the US Digital Service and renamed it the US DOGE Service, and made Musk a special adviser to it. Trump then installed Musk’s team as US DOGE Service staff and retasked the agency to find and expose all government spending in the executive branch.

How was Trump able to do this? The Daily Wire’s Luke Rosiak did a deep dive of his own and discovered that Trump has Joe Biden to thank. Trump largely ignored the previous iteration of USDS, assuming its work revolved around its ostensible mission of improving exec-branch information technology. Instead, it became a beehive for left-wing activists, and Biden reversed Trump’s action to protect it from political interference once in office.

Oh, and even better — it has an ObamaCare angle, too! Emphasis mine:

DOGE took over the U.S. Digital Service, a 300-person technology office President Barack Obama set up inside the Executive Office of the President in 2014 to fix his beleaguered HealthCare.gov. Bureaucrats had bungled the site, so USDS sought out Silicon Valley innovators, and was authorized to circumvent federal hiring procedures to get them. Hiring young people from the tech world and putting them together to work for Obama, unmoored from the stuffy rules of a typical government building, led to an environment of overt left-wing advocacy.

And thus:

THE POWER LINE WEEK IN PICTURES: Mar-a-Gaza Edition.

MEGYN KELLY INTERVIEWS VDH: Super Bowl Ads For Carl’s Jr. and Bud Light Shows American Culture is Returning to Normal (Video).

OUT ON A LIMB: ‘If you genuinely think Trump is a fascist, go and have a lie down.’

Anyone who genuinely thinks that Trump’s America – whatever else you might think of the man or his policies – can be mentioned in the same breath as fascist Italy or Nazi Germany needs to get a grip.

Because let’s be clear about what we are talking about here. Fascism, and especially its Nazi incarnation, was an evil the like of which the world had never seen before. Or, thankfully, since.

Totalitarian control. Messianic dictatorship. A cult of racial superiority. Paramilitaries crushing the left at home. A Darwinian military struggle for supremacy abroad. The worship of war and violence. The mechanised attempt to murder all of Europe’s Jews.

TRUMP REVOKES BIDEN’S SECURITY CLEARANCE, ACCESS TO DAILY INTELLIGENCE BRIEFINGS:

Trump stated there is no need for Biden to continue receiving access to classified information and that his administration cited Biden’s ‘poor memory”.

Trump, 78, argued that the former president set the precedent when he barred him from receiving access to the same briefings four years ago, citing Trump’s “erratic behavior.”

“There is no need for Joe Biden to continue receiving access to classified information,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social Post.

“Therefore, we are immediately revoking Joe Biden’s Security Clearances, and stopping his daily Intelligence Briefings,” the president continued.

That’s truly shocking — where would Trump get such an idea?! Oh wait:

Hey Joe,

Thanks for setting this precedent. pic.twitter.com/75S0LKqQlp

— MAZE (@mazemoore) February 7, 2025

GRAY LADY DIVES FOR FAINTING COUCH:

The poor New York Times is pushing its Trump Derangement Syndrome meltdown well past eleven. Here are just a few opinion section headlines from the last couple days:

Those are just a few Times headlines that Steve Hayward of Power Line has collated; click over for the rest. If your friends or relatives get all/most of their news from the Gray Lady, you might want to do a wellness check-in.

Not the WaPo is much better, of course:

SURE, WHY NOT? Make the Arts Great Again: Trump Names Self as Chairman of Kennedy Center and Ends Drag Shows for Kids.

HOLLYWOOD, INTERRUPTED:

Munchausen by Proxy has become a cancer in leftist culture. Mass hysteria no different than the Salem witch trials.

I am speaking of the cultural zeitgeist in generaI.

I have no specific knowledge of this tweety bird and her flock of “transgenders.” https://t.co/N3mbXr9nva

— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) February 7, 2025

Charlize Theron is a horrible mother. pic.twitter.com/tft3qyALNt

— Dr. Clown, PhD (@DrClownPhD) February 7, 2025

MAKE THE RUBBLE BOUNCE:

Unburdened by what has been. pic.twitter.com/NK2bcK3hlH

— Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE) February 7, 2025

CHANGE: Transportation Department Halts Plan to Build Thousands of EV Charger Stations.

DISPATCHES FROM THE RELIGION OF PEACE: Video: CAIR-Kentucky Director In Anti-Semitic Incident Involving Chasidic Jew in NYC.

Noora Shalash, the Director of Government Affairs for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in Kentucky, has been accused of involvement in a disturbing incident in New York City, where she allegedly engaged in an antisemitic altercation with a Chasidic Jewish man.

A video posted on social media today shows a woman, identified as Shalash, in a heated exchange where she can be heard shouting, “I demand Jihad” at the man. The video quickly spread across social media platforms, with many users expressing shock and outrage over her words and actions.

Shalash, who was born in Amman, Jordan, and raised in Lexington, Kentucky, is a prominent advocate for the civil rights of Muslims through her role at CAIR, an organization dedicated to defending and promoting the civil rights of American Muslims. She holds a degree from the University of Kentucky and has worked with CAIR for several years, making significant contributions to its work on legislative affairs.

Merriam-Webster’s secondary definition of “jihad” is, “a personal struggle in devotion to Islam especially involving spiritual discipline,” so I’m sure that’s all this is:

🚨Meet Noora Shalash, Director of Government Affairs for CAIR-Kentucky.

She really let the mask slip that this is a harmless civil rights organization when she yells “I demand Jihad, I want ISIS to kill all of you.”

Great job @jewhatedb 💪 pic.twitter.com/fRxGLpW7Zx

— Jason Curtis Anderson (@JCAndersonNYC) February 7, 2025

HOW TRUMP IS LIBERATING THE US FROM THE TRANSGENDER MADNESS:

I thought Donald Trump was a woman-hater? The Guardian told us he’s a “far-right misogynist” whose return to the White House would strike “visceral horror” into the hearts of women everywhere. He’s the “misogynist in chief,” said CNN. Perhaps someone could explain, then, why he just signed an executive order in favor of women’s rights while surrounded by a joyous throng of beaming girls?

The scenes in the White House yesterday were extraordinary. Trump signed an order titled “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports.” It commands every educational institution and athletic association that receives federal funding to keep men, however they identify, away from female sports. A swarm of sportswomen and giddy schoolgirls watched as Trump put pen to paper. They whooped and cheered. Their glee was infectious.

The order is searingly feminist. It’s a manifesto against misogyny. Allowing biological males to compete against women is “demeaning, unfair and dangerous,” it says. It robs women and girls of the “equal opportunity” to “excel in competitive sports.” This madness ends right now, Trump decreed. No longer will the women and girls of America suffer such “endangerment, humiliation and silencing.”

They’ve even noticed the change in Australia — ‘Thank You, President Trump:’ Women celebrate exec order keeping men out of women’s sports*.

* Offer not valid in California, at least for now: California plans to continue allowing trans athletes to compete in girls’ sports despite Trump executive order.

The State of California and its public school athletics association has indicated it will not fall in line with President Donald Trump’s latest executive order to keep trans athletes out of girls’ and women’s sports.

The California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) said it will continue to follow the state’s law that allows athletes to participate as whichever gender they identify as, according to The San Francisco Chronicle.

California Family Council Outreach Director Sophia Lorey told Fox News Digital that her state’s intent to defy Trump’s executive order has made her feel “disgusted.”

“I am disgusted that CIF is disregarding yesterday’s executive order and instead doubling down on policies that are not only unfair, but dangerous for young women across California. By prioritizing their idol of transgender ideology over the safety and rights of female athletes, they are knowingly exposing high school girls to unsafe competition and stripping them of opportunities guaranteed for them under Title IX,” Lorey told Fox News Digital.

Gavin – here’s a top tip: When we’ve run the Mencken-inspired “Gooder and harder, California” headlines over the past few years, we didn’t intend for the meme to literally apply to your state’s teenage girls.