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January 25, 2025
BRAWNDO HAS WHAT PLANTS CRAVE: Electrolyte Drinks Can Make Things Worse When You’re Sick. Here’s Why.
21ST CENTURY PARENTING: Octomom Nadya Suleman’s kids speak out for the first time: ‘She had to sacrifice so much.’
LONG-TERM TEST: Our Long-Term Toyota Grand Highlander Dons Its Snowshoes.
CHANGE: Six New Shotguns for 2025.
IT’S NOT EASY TO BE A MAN: Alpha male baboons’ obsession with females stresses them out.
DO NOT TRUST THE “INTERNET OF THINGS.” Millions of Subarus could be remotely unlocked, tracked due to security flaws.
ALL THE BEST PEOPLE ASSURED ME THAT MEDICAL MARIJUANA WAS ENTIRELY BENIGN, AND THAT MARIJUANA ISN’T ADDICTIVE: Medical marijuana users can become addicted to pot, study says.
IT’S WHATEVER THE NARRATIVE DEMANDS AT THE MOMENT! DUH.
I was reliably informed Haiti was a paradise on Earth: https://t.co/Q0UZMPq7Qf pic.twitter.com/S00Pg2NT2b
— RIP (@Marshal_Dov) January 24, 2025
KRISTI NOEM CONFIRMED as Homeland Security Secretary.
SEGREGATION NOW, SEGREGATION TOMORROW, SEGREGATION FOREVER: Albion grant to recruit black students in robotics raises questions about discrimination.
K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: K-12 education is mediocre because teaching colleges set mediocre standards. And hire mediocre faculty (at best) to teach mediocre (at best) students.
IT’S ALL THEY KNOW: Liberal Media Scream: CBS sucks up to Biden to the end: ‘Did deliver.’ He delivered for the Chinese and the Iranians, certainly.
I know that sounds odd. A year ago, Trump was finished. The swank people who tell us what to think had written him off. There he was, staggering under scores of indictments in at least four separate jurisdictions. Would he not be bankrupted, incarcerated, swept ignominiously into the dustbin of history?
Somehow, Trump not only survived but thrived. Did he merely ride the cresting wave of the Zeitgeist or also help define it? The same question might be asked of Caesar, Napoleon, FDR, or Ronald Reagan.
There are still some flaccid, hand-ringing mutterers who can’t absorb the reality of what Donald Trump represents. He represents beneficent change. The anti-Trump whiners congregate in their faculty lounges, their DEI workshops, their climate-change seminars in Aspen. Here and there one finds pods of sad people like Chris Mayes, the Attorney General of Arizona, who has vowed to resist aspects of Trump’s immigration efforts. One might as well vow to resist a tornado.
Thomas Carlyle would have been impressed by Donald Trump. The author of On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (1841) thought that history organised itself around great men the way that iron filings form patterns in a magnetic field.
The eighteenth century, Carlyle thought, had lost its moral elasticity and spiritual tautness. He prophesied that his own time would be a crucible of renewal in which “the world will once more become … a heroic world”.
Over the last year, Donald Trump has emerged as a Carlylean figure, an historic man of action who, having triumphed over extraordinary adversity, has become a totem of the age, a man through whom the highest ambitions of the country find expression.
I know that sounds odd. A year ago, Trump was finished. The swank people who tell us what to think had written him off. There he was, staggering under scores of indictments in at least four separate jurisdictions. Would he not be bankrupted, incarcerated, swept ignominiously into the dustbin of history?
Somehow, Trump not only survived but thrived. Did he merely ride the cresting wave of the Zeitgeist or also help define it? The same question might be asked of Caesar, Napoleon, FDR, or Ronald Reagan.
There are still some flaccid, hand-ringing mutterers who can’t absorb the reality of what Donald Trump represents. He represents beneficent change. The anti-Trump whiners congregate in their faculty lounges, their DEI workshops, their climate-change seminars in Aspen. Here and there one finds pods of sad people like Chris Mayes, the Attorney General of Arizona, who has vowed to resist aspects of Trump’s immigration efforts. One might as well vow to resist a tornado.
Elsewhere, in the real world, what had been an anti-Trump consensus is disintegrating. Even Politico has absorbed an inkling of the truth. Trump is, a recent column tells us, “someone with an ability to perceive opportunities that most politicians do not and forge powerful, sustained connections with large swaths of people in ways that no contemporary can match. In other words: He is a force of history.”
He is a powerful figure, but he is also a vehicle for the Normals, at home and abroad, who have finally had enough.
Related: Trump Inaugurates a New Era.
MATTHEW CONTINETTI: How to Make Trump’s ‘Golden Age’ a Reality.
SPANK THEM HARD:
Oh my goodness this is NOT an emergency management meeting, this is a spanking for Democrat officials who’ve failed citizens.
This is just fantastic. Happy for LA residents. pic.twitter.com/UHzSF0CEir
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) January 25, 2025
#JOURNALISM:
Fauci’s security detail was a two-year deal. It expired in December 2024 – while Biden was still president.
CNN can’t even do the most basic reporting in their quest to “get” Trump.https://t.co/IKorYRm8mf https://t.co/Dgh1nm4ki8
— Jeff Carlson (@themarketswork) January 24, 2025
THIS ISN’T WRONG:
“These people are unemployable. They're toxic, bad energy, team-killers, and walking lawsuits.”
— Peter St Onge, Ph.D. (@profstonge) January 24, 2025
IT’S NOT LIKE WE DIDN’T WARN THEM:
Political violence was excused when Biden's DOJ decided January 6 rioters who didn't kill people should get longer jail sentences than BLM rioters who did kill people. Everything else is downstream from that. Here we are. https://t.co/TTWq86jfoR
— Varad Mehta (@varadmehta) January 24, 2025