TRUTH:
The entire Democrat Party ceases to exist without taxpayer money, election fraud, and the mass importation of foreigners. It’s a 20% Party without those things.
Understand that and you’ll understand why they fight so hard for those things.
Their entire existence is on the line.
— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) January 7, 2026
ROGER KIMBALL: The Case For Annexing Greenland.
Anyway, the talk in Trump world about Greenland has given mouthpieces like Jake Tapper a case of the sads. After Katie Miller’s post, Tapper anxiously pestered her husband Stephen Miller about Greenland. “Can you,” quoth Tapper, “rule out that the US is ever going to try to take Greenland by force?” “Greenland should be part of the United States,” replied Miller. He then offered him a lesson in realpolitik. “We live in a world, in the real world, Jake, that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power,” he said. “These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.” Has Miller been reading his Thucydides (see Book 5.89)? Miller then asked an interesting question: by what right does Denmark have Greenland? Is it because Erik the Red founded a settlement there around AD 1000? I think the Danes will have to do better than that.
And besides, Jake Tapper can rest easy. Trump will not be sending in a Delta Force squadron to seize Greenland. That’s not how things will evolve. How will they evolve? Trump wrote about it in The Art of the Deal. There will be tears and some foot stamping by the Danes and other members of the EU. But Greenland will soon come under the orbit of the United States. Maybe Trump will make the sort of deal that Arthur Guinness struck when, in 1759, he leased St. James’s Gate for his brewery for £45 per year for 9,000 years.
I am sure a tidy sum will change hands over Greenland. Maybe Trump will also extend some face-saving tokens. But Greenland is essential to America’s, and Europe’s, security in the region. Therefore, notwithstanding the Jakes and the Margarets of the world, Greenland will be ours.
My take is that Trump has written off Europe, and expects it to go Islamist, and is fortifying North America against that prospect.
TO BE FAIR, THEY WEREN’T AFRAID HE’D FAIL, THEY WERE AFRAID HE’D SUCCEED: The Experts Were Wrong About Pete Hegseth: Hegseth’s Pentagon delivered where others failed.
CDR SALAMANDER: The Unfortunate Greenland Kerfuffle: We Need A New Approach.
WELL, BYE.
🚨 BREAKING — IT’S OFFICIAL: The Hampton Inn by Hilton Lakeview can NO LONGER be booked through any travel website, and has been NUKED from Hilton’s site
FAFO, clowns.
MASSIVE financial losses incoming! Hope your anti-ICE virtue signaling was worth it! 🤣 https://t.co/XeOUZ1GOsZ pic.twitter.com/qAH6py2d48
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) January 6, 2026
SALENA ZITO:
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
OPEN THREAD: Hump day.
FIXING LAW SCHOOLS: The Long Game in the Legal Academy.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: NASA may be 1 month away from historic Artemis 2 astronaut launch around the moon. Good luck, guys.
TO BE FAIR, THE DAVIDIANS WERE MORE VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE THAN PERPETRATORS:
AWFL Karens are the new Branch Davidians, or something. https://t.co/Wupcj4Osnn
— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) January 8, 2026
IRAN:
TONIGHT:
The citizens of Mashhad are tearing down one of the largest islamic regime flags I've ever seen.
THIS IS THE WAY. pic.twitter.com/XQLv65IBse
— 𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 ♛ ✡︎ (@NiohBerg) January 7, 2026
Tehran. pic.twitter.com/83jT0AvHjM
— 𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 ♛ ✡︎ (@NiohBerg) January 7, 2026
(That’s the old Monarchy’s flag, not the Islamic Republic version.)
PAYBACK IS A BITCH:
Back in 2020, the left systematically tracked down and canceled 15-year-old kids quoting rap lyrics in Snapchat videos.
So no, you guys don’t get a “general amnesty” for being dumbass communists in your 20s and 30s. pic.twitter.com/83E3ikmes6
— Robert Sterling (@RobertMSterling) January 7, 2026
WELL, THAT’S NOT GOOD: A Hidden Ingredient in Processed Foods May Raise Diabetes Risk.
NEWS FROM THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF MINNESOTASTAN: Minneapolis Protester Shot Dead; UPDATE: Car Apparently Hit Agent; Riots Soon? I dunno, but it’s not 2020 and riots won’t play out like they did then.
UPDATE: Walz Threatens Civil War.
I'm simply tired of Minnesota, all-around.
— Jeff Blehar is *BOX OFFICE POISON* (@EsotericCD) January 7, 2026
ANOTHER UPDATE: Tim Walz: Minnesota Is at ‘War’ With the Federal Government, Calls Out National Guard; More Violence? “From everything I can see, Walz and Frey have been egging on the confrontations to distract from the disastrous fraud investigations and have been cooperating with the very people who have been assaulting officers and impeding operations. Mayor Frey, just the other day, threatened violence, and here we have it.”
Insurrection Act time?
Related question: I suppose there’s no chance we could trade Minnesota for Greenland …
I WAS EXPECTING A BARELY AUDIBLE “POP.” Explosion of Silence: ATF Gets 150,000 eForm Submissions On First Day of Zero Dollar Tax Stamps.
COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: Can animals read? Not in the human way.
THAT’S WHY WE HAVE SPACEX, ROCKETLAB, ET AL.: Private equity deal shows just how far America’s legacy rocket industry has fallen: After peaking in the Cold War, the relic of Rocketdyne has changed ownership four times in 20 years.
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