VDH: The Addicted, Petty, and Hysterical Left. “Like the deleterious effects of inflation that eventually render a currency worthless, nonstop hectoring, hysterics, pontification, and distortion finally made all such criticisms of Trump mostly as valueless as 1930s German marks.”

FASTER? PLEASE! Trump’s Border Control Blitzkrieg. “Trump is carrying out an executive order blitzkrieg, issuing so many executive orders so quickly to undo the damage of the Biden (and Obama) years. Today I want to highlight just a few related to border security and deporting the millions of unvetted illegal aliens the Biden Administration deliberately let into the country.”

SCOTT PINSKER: Media Cover-Up Unmasked: Guess Which Outlet Buried the Truth About the Bidens?

KICK THE TIRES AND LIGHT THE FIRES: Air Force planes will fly deportation flights under Trump order. “The aircrews and maintainers involved in the deportation flights will be in addition to 1,500 active-duty troops that the Pentagon will deploy to the southern border by the end of the week, the senior defense official said.”

COLD WAR II: Guess Who Is Buying Up U.S. Farmland Now? “With all this talk about the Chinese government infiltrating the United States through TikTok, many have asked: Aren’t the Chinese already doing so through the purchase of U.S. farmland?”

I WONDER WHAT THEY’LL TALK ABOUT: Rubio will visit Central America, including Panama, on first trip abroad as secretary of state.

“This is a serious approach by the secretary to deal with the issues that directly affect our ability to get this nation back on her feet and to deal with why there is such high migration,” Bruce said.

She said the trip “signals something to those countries, it should signal something to Americans and to those who also said that ‘America First’ was an isolationist argument. It is the opposite.”

While migration will be at the top of Rubio’s agenda, the stop in Panama probably will draw the most attention because of Trump’s repeated calls for the United States to retake control of the Panama Canal.

Developing…

WE AREN’T OUT OF THE WEIMAR YEARS YET: Hollywood Nominates a Dude for ‘Best Actress.’

DEI MUST DIE:

New: Janet Petro, the President-Trump-appointed acting director of NASA, has sent a message informing all NASA staff that it is shutting down all DEI offices and DEI contracts.

The message says the agency knows government employees are trying to disguise DEI by using new names… pic.twitter.com/phGm8pc3jF

— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) January 23, 2025

Full text:

Janet Petro, the President-Trump-appointed acting director of NASA, has sent a message informing all NASA staff that it is shutting down all DEI offices and DEI contracts.

The message says the agency knows government employees are trying to disguise DEI by using new names and vague language. (This is documented.) It tells staff to report those violations for investigation.

Fire them all for insubordination, fraud, whatever works.

JUST GO ON AND TAKE THE RED PILL: Charlamagne Tha God Is Starting to Catch on to the Left’s Game.

THE EV BUBBLE CONTINUES TO DEFLATE: EV maker Nikola exploring options including potential sale.

EV maker Nikola is exploring options including selling parts of its business or the entire company as it struggles with a cash crunch, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday.

The company’s shares slumped 28% in late-afternoon trading.

Possibilities under consideration also include bringing on partners or raising new funds, the report said, citing people familiar with the matter.

Nikola did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.

The company has been grappling with high costs related to the production ramp up of its fuel-cell electric truck. Its cash and cash equivalents had fallen sharply to $198.3 million at the end of September, compared with $464.7 million at the end of last year.

Nikola’s shares lost nearly 96% of their value in 2024.

Startups are hard. Startups in the auto industry are much harder. Startups in a segment of the auto industry dependent on subsidies and mandates to overcome market forces… well, there’s more shaking out left to do.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Hallelujah! Trump Continues to Empty Out the Biden/Garland Gulag. “In a perfect world, Merrick Garland would already be behind bars for having targeted innocent people for the last four years, He wasn’t senile, after all. At the very least, he should have already fled the country to be expatriated somewhere that doesn’t have an extradition treaty with the United States. We can still hope — Garland didn’t get a preemptive pardon from Sir Sniffsalot — but he remains free for now.”

MESSAGE SENT AND RECEIVED:

Kevin O'Leary translates Donald Trump's WEF speech for Canada:

"Start spending on security for the northern border. Pay your 2% to NATO. Stop sending fentanyl from China over the border into the United States or you're going to face tariffs." pic.twitter.com/A1Mj0n9CU9

— Stephen Taylor (@stephen_taylor) January 23, 2025

The Canadian government needed no translation, of course. The question is whether they think Trump might be bluffing.

They ought to know better.

REPORT: Trump to Halt Gain-of-Function Viral Research Via Executive Order.

LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY: Trump signs order to declassify files on JFK, RFK and MLK assassinations.

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order to declassify files on the assassinations of former President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert F. Kennedy and civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.

Trump had promised to release the previously-classified documents during his 2024 campaign following decades of speculation and conspiracy theories about the killings.

“Everything will be revealed,” Trump told reporters as he signed the order in the Oval Office of the White House.
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U.S. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., praised the declassification of the JFK files.

“Our government, led by corrupt bureaucrats, has hidden this information from the American people for far too long. Americans deserve to know the truth, whether it makes the government look good or not,” she said in a statement. “As part of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, I want to continue to deliver transparency to Americans. The truth belongs to the people, and we won’t rest until they have it.”

Want to restore trust in the federal government? This is a start.

BIDEN’S CONSTITUENTS: Enraged Haitian Gang Member Arrested by ICE: ‘F**k Trump, Biden Forever!’

MAYBE THEY SHOULD POUR ANOTHER GLASS OF WINE, INSTEAD: Tons of ‘aphrodisiac honey’ seized in France as officials issue health warning.

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT [VIP]: Another Monty Python Joke Just Became Reality in Mississippi.

CHANGE? CNN Boss Warns Star Hosts to Avoid Trashing Trump’s Record.

CNN journalists avoided mentioning the most sordid elements of President Donald Trump’s past—including his felony conviction and two impeachments—during inauguration day broadcasts after the network’s top boss told them to show some deference to the most powerful person on earth.

That’s according to a report in media news publication Status, authored by the well-sourced erstwhile CNN media reporter Oliver Darcy.

During a routine editorial meeting on Sunday, meant to plan the extensive logistics of an inauguration, CNN CEO Mark Thompson told journalists to avoid “pre-judging Trump,” Status reported.

In addition to instructing them to keep an open mind about Trump’s second term—three days in, the president has already launched attacks on birthright citizenship, pardoned violent insurrectionists, and withdrawn from the World Health Organization and Paris climate agreement—Thompson told his journalists he does not want CNN’s “coverage to relitigate the past.”

I’ll believe CNN has changed — maybe — when they ditch Jake Tapper.

AND FOR HOW MANY MILLIONS SPENT? After J6 Pardons, The FBI And DOJ Have Nothing To Show For Four Years Of Ignoring Terrorists And Child Traffickers. “Even after devoting excessive time, resources, and agents to the partisan persecution of the Biden regime’s political enemies, the FBI still can’t answer key questions about what went down on Jan. 6, 2021.”

Not can’t — won’t.

THESE CLIPS NEVER GET OLD: Congressman DESTROYS CNN Live On the Air.

JOANNE JACOBS: How ‘woke’ are schools? “While more than a third of students say they’re taught that ‘America is a fundamentally racist nation,’ and that ‘white people contribute the most to racism in the United States,’ a majority are also taught that “the United States has made a lot of progress toward racial equality over the last 50 years.” Forty-two percent have heard that ‘the United States is a global leader when it comes to ensuring equal rights for all citizens.'”

Not as bad as I’d feared but not nearly as good as it need to be.

WE’D BETTER BE: Nate Silver Asks: ‘Are We Entering a Conservative Golden Age?’

THAT’S NEW:

US Debt Clock now has a DOGE savings indicator. I’m not sure how the total in calculated but DOGE has gotta pump those numbers up. Those are rookie numbers in this racket.

THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX AND THROW AROUND A LOT OF MONEY: Now This Is How You Bring Peace to Gaza. “The United Arab Emirates has entered the peace chat.”

FACE, MEET PALM: Denver Mayor Mike Johnston’s virtue signaling backfires.

Denver Mayor Mike Johnston has a nice warm office. So why instead hold a press conference out in the cold on the violence-ridden 16th Street Mall? Well, for image management, of course.

What better way to show how safe and non-stabby the streets of Denver are than a picture of Mayor Johnston calmly standing on those blood-soaked streets, worry free for his own safety.

I could almost see the mayor’s taxpaid, cocky communications expert saying, “I’ve got it mayor! Do a press conference out on the 16th Street Mall and when people see you’re not getting stabbed or accosted it’ll prove how safe you’ve made the city! They’ll love you even more!”

Brilliant! That is, until the mayor himself got accosted during his own press conference.

I spent more weekends on the 16th Mall than I can count. But that was when Colorado and Denver were still sane, and when the streets didn’t reek of pot and hadn’t been colonized by the psychotic.