UGH: 10 Days From Natl Elections, Another ‘Immigrant’ Drives Another Car Into a German Crowd.

Ten days are left to the national elections for the Bundestag, called in the wake of a no-confidence vote after the collapse of Olaf Scholz’s ruling coalition last November.

There is a lot on German plates right now and a ton of anxiety on the part of formerly comfortable centrist/center-left parties for whom elections were basically perfunctory exercises.

A rising populism in response to their decades of indulgence in the most extreme and radical versions of progressive schemes from NetZero to unfettered immigration without assimilation has knee-capped the once mighty German industrial state, devastated economic growth, and endangered its citizens while destroying their standard of living.

More and more, as events unfold, Germans are signaling they want not just their country back but their Germany back, even as the ruling elites who have brought them to this state chastise and warn them of the dangers of feeling like Germans.

Fueling much of the resentment has been the waves of immigrants who have flooded unhindered into the country and the ‘cultural differences’ they have brought with them that have impacted the lives of everyday Germans adversely across the country.

Much more at the link, including the attacker’s “mental illness.”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Screw Seed Oils, I’m Giving RFK Jr. a Chance. “Let us pause for a moment to enjoy the political theater going on here. Donald Trump, Republican Destroyer of Worlds, Orange Man Bad, and Literally Hitler has a Kennedy in his Cabinet. And it’s not one of those Kennedy cousins we only hear about when he or she goes to rehab.”

WELL, BYE: Roughly 75,000 federal employees agree to Trump’s buyout offer.

Roughly 75,000 federal employees have accepted President Donald Trump’s deferred resignation program, after the U.S. Office of Personnel Management offered more than two million federal civilian employees buyouts in January to leave their jobs or be forced to return to work in person.

Employees who accepted the so-called “fork in the road” offer will retain all pay and benefits and be exempt from in-person work until Sept. 30, a move that’s part of a broader attempt by the Trump administration to downsize the federal government.

“We have too many people,” Trump told reporters Tuesday in a press briefing. “We have office spaces occupied by 4% — nobody showing up to work because they were told not to.”

The White House confirmed to Fox News Digital that numbers had climbed to 75,000 as of Thursday morning.

You gotta pump those numbers up. Those are rookie numbers.

ALMOST SOON ENOUGH: Trump Calls Education Department a ‘Con Job,’ Wants It Closed ‘Immediately.’

APPROVE HER ALREADY: Trump Nominee For Education Sec. Goes All In On Protecting Girls, Title IX.

“We are really back to what Title IX was originally established to do, and that was to protect [against] sexual discrimination,” McMahon said. “And women should feel safe in their locker rooms. They should feel safe in their spaces. They shouldn’t have to be exposed to men undressing in front of them — I think I heard one person the other day say, ‘Well, the guys should hold a shower curtain in front of them so that they aren’t exposing themselves.’”

“I mean, really, that’s just not what we should be doing,” she continued. “We want to make sure Title IX, which is the law, is enforced.”

Former President Joe Biden attempted to unilaterally rewrite Title IX to hinge on gender identity rather than biological sex, but his changes were rejected in court.

They were rejected by the American people, too.

I DUNNO, I’M A FAN OF BOTH: Defunding the UN’s Woke Organizations Would Be Better Than Leaving the International Body Altogether.

HEADLINE OF THE DAY, 1982: Moo, Moo, Moo, Blah, Blah, Blah, Is All I Want to Say to You.

YOU’D THINK THIS WOULD BE A BIGGER STORY BUT… NO, YOU WOULDN’T:

Did you know about the anti-Trump gunman who tried a mass sh—ting in Milwaukee on Feb. 12? Of course not!

There's a reason the MSM didn't cover this extensively. Up until the shooting, Isaiah Stott urged his followers to "stay woke" & he also ranted in support of trans issues. pic.twitter.com/H1577I4Jbo

— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) February 13, 2025

TOO MUCH TIME IN YOUR HANDS: Ban phones: Teens spend a quarter of the school day on their phones, says study.

GOODER AND HARDER, CALIFORNIA: L.A. Puts Pronouns Ahead of Fire Recovery.

COLORADO: RTD’s institutional racism on display with subsidized transit ‘equity.’

If there is such a thing as systemic racism, governments like Colorado’s Regional Transportation District are the greatest oppressors. They build systems designed to guarantee people with money are free to go places where the least among us can’t follow.

Without mobility to bring you where you need to be, when you need be there, you will forever be a second-class citizen. You won’t have the opportunities for employment, housing and education someone with the most run-down car will have. You’ll be forced to live and work on a bus route, and you better have your family, friends, medical care and churches on that route, too.

Don’t believe me? Go a month without a car.

If RTD’s elected board of directors weren’t the racists they are, if they weren’t beholden to crony business interests, if they cared more for the transit dependent they were entrusted to serve than their own empire-building, they would immediately take their 95% tax subsidy and give it directly to the transit-dependent poor in the form of mobility vouchers.

Let them ride taxis, Ubers, have a friend drive them or, heaven forbid, buy their own used car.

But they don’t wish to give the poor real transit equity. They wish to force the poor to live as they dictate.

It’s an expensive proposition, too: “‘Free’ rides don’t improve ridership because RTD is already nearly free, 95% government subsidized. Said differently, a $5.50 ‘all day’ ticket actually costs $110 in expenses, with taxpayers picking up the difference.”

I knew it was bad but I didn’t know it was that bad.

AND THE HITS JUST KEEP COMING:

🚨 #BREAKING: DOGE officials have just entered the IRS building in DC to begin their investigation into the agency

This comes after 𝕏 users OVERWHELMINGLY voted for DOGE to dig into the IRS just days ago.

WE THE PEOPLE are in charge of our government again! 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/8SFS9CwMss

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) February 13, 2025

Take the side of the IRS, Dems.

BOWDLERIZED: Hollywood, Media Silent as ‘Crocodile Dundee’ Gets Censored.

Hollywood and the entertainment press are worried that President Donald Trump will spark a censorship tsunami.

Deadline’s Peter Bart suggested Trump 2.0 may lead to a new Hollywood blacklist. The stars of “The Apprentice,” the anti-Trump hit piece, warned of a free speech chill when their film struggled to find a distributor.

Spoiler Alert: It eventually did, and the film flopped.

Meanwhile, both Hollywood and the reporters who cover the industry looked the other way as sensitivity readers censored classic books, movies got erased by major streaming services and trigger warnings greeted everything from “Peter Pan” to “Goodfellas.”

No outrage. Often silence.

The latest censorship attack is drawing crickets from the usual suspects.

Buy your favorites on DVD, Blu-Ray, or UHD, and make digital copies.

IT’S MY THURSDAY ESSAY FOR PJ’S VIP MEMBERS: The End of Other People’s Money.

Members asked for more long-form pieces, and I’ve been happy to oblige.

INSURRECTION BARBIE: “Matt Perna went inside the capital amidst of a giant crowd. He had no weapons. He entered through an open door in the middle of a large crowd on 2:20 and he left at 2:58. He stayed within the velvet ropes. He touched nothing. He broke nothing. He hurt no one. He took nothing.”

More:

He was informed by a friend there was a wanted picture of him on an FBI website. He CALLED his local FBI office and turned himself in.

He was initially charged with two misdemeanors (1) knowingly entering a restrictive ground or building (2) disorderly conduct on capital grounds. This was his first encounter with the law.

He was arrested. Facebook and Instagram disabled his accounts, have they disabled Diddy’s yet? The media ran hit piece after hit piece. He was smeared, bullied and defamed every single day.

On January 22, 2021, he was charged with an additional felony which was obstruction of an official proceeding. A change the DOJ knew they couldn’t prove. A statute that didn’t apply. This was ultimately thrown out by the Supreme Court.

His girlfriend left him. After that Matt was depressed and anxious. The DOJ cancelled hearings, they kept delaying and searching for more evidence. Month after the month the prosecution continued to stall, they continued to say they were looking for more evidence and Judge Bates allowed it.

The DOJ came back and offered Matt Perna 6-12 months and he entered into a guilty plea. Judge Bates set the sentencing hearing out two more months. As time continued Matt got more and more depressed and anxious and afraid.

Right before the 7 year anniversary of his mother’s death, his lawyer called and said they are adding a terrorism enhancement which would make his sentence end up being 41-72 months.

Three days later he hung himself.

Read the whole thing.

C.A. SKEET: The Real Reason the Elites Were So Taken Aback by Taylor Swift Getting Booed. “A libel has been committed, and it has been done with the purpose of manipulating a narrative. This particular narrative is that any vocal criticism against a leftist female political activist, especially by males, is self-evident proof of ‘misogyny.’ The goal behind pushing this narrative is to shame or cancel the dissenters into no longer dissenting, lest they be branded a misogynist or any other of the Left’s favorite scare words.”

That ploy no longer works.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: After Putin sacked Russia’s space chief, the rumor mill is running red-hot. “In the wake of Borisov’s seemingly sudden removal—there was no readily apparent public controversy, and he was still fairly early into his tenure—the real question is why Borisov was dismissed. Ars, working with a translator named Rob Mitchell, has been combing through Russian news reports and Telegram channels to try to determine what happened. Although we don’t have absolute answers, there is plenty of intrigue.”

The mystery might never be solved but this is the sad part:

It is also possible that Borisov was simply fired because of the generally poor state of affairs at Roscosmos, which is saddled with myriad problems, including: corruption, a lack of investment, low wages and poor employee morale, Russia’s war against Ukraine draining talent, a reliance on technology half a century old, and shrinking commercial markets.

The bottom line is that Russia simply does not have the state budget to support significant investments in its space programs, and the country’s technical efforts are bent on weapons rather than spaceflight. It also has virtually no commercial space market, as everything is controlled by Roscosmos or its state-owned subsidiaries.

The Ukraine war has exacerbated Russia’s decline in space. The country’s space program survived the breakup of the Soviet Union a quarter of a century ago by partnering with the West. It formed the coalition of nations that built the International Space Station, with NASA providing significant financial support. European companies bought launches on the Soyuz rocket. American launch companies bought Russian rocket engines. But most of that is over now, and the future looks fairly bleak, with Europe closing off its markets to Russian markets and NASA and Roscosmos likely ending their space station partnership by 2030.

That’s quite a decline from the Soviet glory days or even from just a few years ago.

BREAKING:

Carrier USS HARRY S TRUMAN CVN75 has been in collision with merchant bulker BESIKTAS-M in the eastern Mediterranean Sea near Port Said, Egypt, US Navy said ca 1130 EST 13 Feb. No word on extent of damage but no reports of flooding or damage and propulsion plants are unaffected pic.twitter.com/P20cyVXndf

— Chris Cavas (@CavasShips) February 13, 2025

More to come, I’m sure.

I KEEP REMINDING PEOPLE THERE’S PLENTY MORE BIDENFLATION STIL BAKED INTO THE SYSTEM: Inflation Heats Up in January as Powell’s Disastrous Interest Rate Policy Is Exposed.

Related:

I'm gonna try to talk about this a little more.
This week, the idiot with $7 Trillion of Government bonds he bought with printed money, told us we're not doing well on inflation.
He literally chose to finance all the spending that caused inflation. No one even got to vote for it. pic.twitter.com/y0WOPC5f0r

— Frog Capital (@FrogNews) February 13, 2025

More: “Treasury market yields and auctions telling the story. Problem: Treasuries translate to residential and commercial credit pricing. As of today, 30 yr hangs around 7. We need to see 5% to reintroduce activity in the home market.”

AMERICANS: Do you think the Democrats learned anything from their historic losses in November?

Democrats:

A Democrat rep just claimed "manufacturing" is a sexist term because it has "man" in it.

We just might win the next few elections if they keep this dumb sht up. pic.twitter.com/mqoeow1FYj

— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) February 12, 2025

Also Democrats:

This is the person Congressional Democrats just put in charge of their rapid response task force.

No, I'm not kidding. pic.twitter.com/eFb9qj1uDo

— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) February 12, 2025

I hope you went long on popcorn futures.

MUST-SEE TV: Karoline Leavitt Is My Political Valentine After Smacking Down CNN Hack Kaitlan Collins. “The always prepared Leavitt will continue to remind the Dem lapdogs in the press pool that she’s the cheerful buzzsaw that they might want to be more careful around.”

IT TAKES GUTS TO TELL THESE STORIES IN A COUNTRY WHERE THE ANTISEMITES ARE EMPOWERED:

They knew. A healthcare worker tried to warn about antisemitism in Sydney hospitals shortly after October 7 over a year ago. You won't believe what happened to her. pic.twitter.com/hMsF0at9aD

— Daniel (@VoteLewko) February 12, 2025

Background: “Sharon Stoliar is an Australian midwife, author, and academic known for her work in maternal health and advocacy against birth trauma. She holds a Bachelor of Nursing (2006) and a Graduate Diploma in Midwifery (2008) from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). Furthering her education, she earned a Master of Public Health and a Master of International Public Health from the University of New South Wales in 2013. Currently, she is pursuing a PhD at Western Sydney University, focusing on the personal pregnancy and birthing experiences of midwives.”

SPORTSMANSHIP: Taylor Swift Fans Threaten Eagles Star’s Parents’ Business.

THEY’RE FLAILING: House Dems reintroduce reparations legislation: ‘We refuse to be silent.’

House Democrats on Wednesday reintroduced legislation that aims to find ways to deliver reparations to Black Americans who are descendants of slaves.

Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., is co-leading the reintroduction of H.R.40, or the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act, to Congress with Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J.

Pressley, a progressive member of the Squad, said during a news conference that “reparations are a necessary step in achieving justice.”

“We are in a moment of anti-Blackness on steroids and we refuse to be silent,” Pressley said. “We will not back down in our pursuit of racial justice.”

That’s a strange way to say “other people’s money.”

Democrats had four years’ worth of opportunities to pursue reparations, 2009 through 2010 and 2021 through 2022. They didn’t because they know it’s political suicide. This news is just a desperate attempt to change the subject from Trump’s early successes.

But one day the Crazy/Back-in-Power circles might overlap enough that they’ll finally go and do it — and break the country.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Strap In Dems — Republican Women Are Here to Manhandle You. “Letitia James is soon going find out that she’s way out of her league after baiting Pam Bondi into a legal street fight. I can’t pinpoint what James is thinking here. Even she can’t be stupid enough to think that the Department of Justice was bluffing about how it would go about dealing with Democrats who tried to interfere with Trump’s immigration agenda. She’s probably just so used to being able to play mini-tyrant in New York that she’s begun to think that she is untouchable. This isn’t going to go well for her.”