Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
January 13, 2025
NO GOOD DECISION WAS EVER MADE IN A SWIVEL CHAIR: So, We’re Going to Screw up DDG(X) too? “In the last 15-months in the Red Sea have shown over and over that the US 5” and allies’ 76mm dual-use guns were essential to success. The Royal Navy is not all that happy that they decided to save money with their Type 45 destroyers by killing the anti-air capability of their 4.5” main gun.”
WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA: Barefoot children in the winter in the mountains.
THAT WOULD HELP:
12. Call Governor DeSantis to learn how to prepare for a disaster prior, during and after.
— Nate J (@NatJ65FL) January 12, 2025
DON SURBER: Thank FJB for the acceptance of Trump this time.
As President Trump returns to power, the commies on the left capitulate and resign themselves to their defeat. After four years of Biden, America and the rest world chant FJB because the world has seen the disaster that was the Biden presidency. The comparison between the presidencies of the two men is clear.
The media may be in denial but young Americans saw his surrender of Afghanistan as the sniveling cowardice it was. A month later, the FJB chants began in the student sections of college football games.
FJB carried over to NASCAR races where NBC led and said the chant was “Let’s Go Brandon.” All that did was make the chant G-rated.
On the world stage, Biden became an international joke—a bungling, fumbling old man whose small brain was going haywire.
He reeked of corruption. The New York Times and the FBI may have buried Hunter’s laptop but the world saw it for what it was: political whoring.
The lawfare against Trump blew up in the faces of Wile E. Democrats and their poodles in the press.
They’re so awful.
JOHN LUCAS: Judge Merchan’s Potemkin sentencing hearing: A continuation of the judicial warfare against Donald Trump and American voters. “Judge Juan Merchan’s sentencing hearing for President Trump on Thursday confirmed the political nature of the judicial warfare in which he and hundreds of others have collaborated in an effort to bring down Donald Trump. Both Merchan and the prosecutor treated the sentencing hearing as if its purpose was to make a rational and fair determination of what sentence the court should impose. That was a fraud and deception. The hearing’s purpose was not to make a rational and fair decision about anything. Merchan had already decided and announced the “sentence” he intended to hand down. The purpose of the phony hearing was to give the prosecutor a soapbox from which he could pontificate and continue their joint efforts to weaken President Trump, just eleven days before his inauguration.”
Well, yes.
TO THE RESCUE:
Musk is using these Cybertrucks to help augment the communication in Los Angeles that’s been damaged by the fires.
He’s also using them to deliver water and food.
Great gesture!
— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) January 13, 2025
JOHN HINDERAKER: A Brewing Constitutional Crisis in Minnesota.
Minnesota is a purple state, balanced on a knife’s edge, as the 2024 election showed. There are 134 Minnesota House districts, and when the returns were in, it looked like Republicans had gained enough seats so that the House would be tied, 67-67. But then it came to light that one of the Democrats’ candidates had cheated: in House District 40B, Democrat Curtis Johnson falsely claimed to reside in the district, a constitutional requirement.
His Republican opponent filed an election contest, which was successful, as the evidence against the Democrat was overwhelming. A district court issued an injunction barring Johnson from taking that seat. A special election will be held to fill the seat at some time in the future; the exact schedule is now the subject of litigation. So currently there are 133 elected representatives holding election certificates: 67 Republicans and 66 Democrats. Republicans hold a majority, brought about by the fact that Democrats cheated and got caught.
Democrats are panicked over the prospect that they will lose control over one house of Minnesota’s legislature, and they have determined on a desperate strategy. The 2024 legislative session begins on Tuesday, and all 66 Democrats are going to refuse to show up for work. Their theory is that by hiding out, they will prevent the establishment of a quorum, and thereby disable Minnesota’s House (effectively, the entire legislature) from doing any business. They hope that at some point in the future, they will win a special election in 40B, at which time they say they will go back to work. Meanwhile, they intend to continue drawing their pay as legislators.
Have you noticed how Democratic state legislatures are always trying to pull something like this? But read the whole thing. I do believe Hinderaker’s legal analysis is correct.
YES.
Gavin Newsom admitting that California’s excessive permits and bureaucratic red tape can be removed overnight and they just choose to make their citizen’s lives more difficult and expensive. https://t.co/okVulaDCTb
— Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) January 12, 2025
ICYMI: WHEN THERE’S A DISASTER, LOOK WHO’S ALWAYS THERE BEFORE FEMA NOW:
We are going to position Cybertrucks with Starlinks and free WiFi in a grid pattern in the areas that most need it in the greater LA/Malibu area https://t.co/oWilgDyVh5
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 12, 2025
UPDATE: From the comments: “Compare and contrast with ‘I don’t know how the water gets to the hydrants.'”
ANOTHER UPDATE:
Tesla & SpaceX personnel are driving around areas in greater LA/Malibu that are in tough shape with free WiFi, drinks & snacks https://t.co/304vjlXSoc
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 13, 2025
LESLIE EASTMAN: Climate Crisis Policies Destructive to Los Angles Area Environment and Harmful to Wildlife.
I have touched on several disastrous decisions made by local and state leaders already, and blog space is limited. There will be a whole catalog of failures to analyze, and thanks to X.com, the elite media can no longer protect its preferred bureaucrats.
In this piece, I would like to note how all of these climate-cult choices have utterly ruined the natural environment and wildlife habitats in the Greater Los Angeles area.
To begin with, California has been leading the charge on electrical vehicle mandates and ending the use of fossil fuels, because human emissions of carbon dioxide (a life-essential trace gas found in trace amounts within the atmosphere) are supposedly causing “global warming”.
Instead of focusing on water infrastructure, revising forest management choices, or funding fire departments, bureaucrats focused on nanny-state rules. As a result, millions of metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent have been released into the atmosphere.
I would like to share some numbers to put it in perspective: The 2020 California fire season released approximately 127 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent.
Those fires completely wiped away any emissions savings.
Read the whole thing.
January 12, 2025
#EVIL:
This should serve as evidence to you that once Trump is in office, there is nothing they will not hang on him regardless of the truth. Which is why critical thinking matters. https://t.co/IG5vyN3Hs3
— Lara Logan (@laralogan) January 12, 2025
IN CASE YOU HAD FORGOTTTEN ABOUT KOREA: Impeachment Crisis Splits Koreans: As supporters rally to prevent arrest, economy shows signs of stress.
Koreans need to be making babies, not politics. And I suspect the Chinese have a hand in stirring some of this up.
OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.
I JUST WANT TO TELL YOU GUYS GOOD LUCK — WE’RE ALL COUNTING ON YOU. Watch Blue Origin launch its 1st New Glenn rocket early Monday in a free livestream.
FIRE SAFETY IN BUILDING DESIGN: A THREAD.
Beginners Guide to Fire Rated Building Design:
I'm a professional engineer that has designed and built buildings all over the country, and around the world. The first critical fire design was in California🧵 pic.twitter.com/1IYwzktQvI
— Matthew Chang (@matthewachang) January 11, 2025
AT CHICAGOBOYZ, SOME THOUGHTS: People of the State of New York v. Donald J. Trump. He was convicted, but of what, exactly?
WHATEVER THE NOMINAL LEFTY CAUSE IS, IT’S ALWAYS ACTUALLY ABOUT COMMUNISM: LGBT activists go mask off against free speech.
BECOMING THE INDUSTRY STANDARD: Mercedes-Benz Joins Tesla’s Supercharger Network.
WHEN THERE’S A DISASTER, LOOK WHO’S ALWAYS THERE BEFORE FEMA NOW:
We are going to position Cybertrucks with Starlinks and free WiFi in a grid pattern in the areas that most need it in the greater LA/Malibu area https://t.co/oWilgDyVh5
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 12, 2025
UPDATE: From the comments: “Compare and contrast with ‘I don’t know how the water gets to the hydrants.'”
OBVIOUSLY, EVERYTHING THAT HAS HAPPENED IN LOS ANGELES IS THE FAULT OF REPUBLICANS:
BIDEN: current U.S. President (DEM).
NEWSOM: Governor of CALIF (DEM).
Majority of State Senate (over 2/3 DEM).
Majority of State House (over 2/3 DEM).
BASS: Mayor of LA (DEM).
City Council of LA (14 of 15 DEM).— Seth Barrett Tillman (@SethBTillman) January 12, 2025