BAN ALL THE THINGS: The Dangerous Precedent of CDFA’s Ban on Poultry and Dairy Cattle Exhibitions.

Here we go again.

The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) has imposed a sweeping ban on poultry and dairy cattle exhibitions, this time citing fears of H5N1 avian influenza. If this feels like déjà vu, that’s because we’ve seen this playbook before.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the government shut down businesses it arbitrarily deemed “nonessential,” crippling livelihoods and communities under the guise of public safety.

Now, they are targeting farmers, youth organizations, and small-scale agricultural exhibitors.

This isn’t just about bird flu—it’s about a growing pattern of overreach where freedom is sacrificed for an illusion of security. We’re watching a replay, folks, and as Benjamin Franklin once warned, “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” It’s time to stand up and challenge this dangerous precedent.

The precedent was set in 2020. Now Sacramento is just flexing it against groups that trend conservative.

YIKES: The Tense and Awkward Moments at Jimmy Carter’s Funeral.

NOT A GOOD LOOK, LAFD, ON AT LEAST A COUPLE DIFFERENT LEVELS:

LAFD Asst. Fire Chief Kristine Larson

“You couldn’t carry my husband out of a fire. He got himself in the wrong place.”

wtf pic.twitter.com/bd7Wd0R4tZ

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) January 9, 2025

“Screw that little kid who fell down the well, too, because our firefighters aren’t fit enough to get down there.”

Mostly though, it seems as though DEI-controlled institutions actually enjoy rubbing your face in their inability to perform.

Exit Question: Ever heard of anyone declining to be pulled out of a burning building because the firefighter didn’t look enough like them?

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT [VIP]: The Great Unmanning of Britain. “We need to discuss some unpleasantries today.”

VIP members asked for longer pieces and I’ve been happy to oblige.

GOOD LORD: Oregon sending crews to help battle Los Angeles-area wildfires.

That sounds great until you know… the rest of the story:

Those 60 engines sent yesterday to the Cali fires are not on the fire lines…yet.https://t.co/FmQ9jYQc8C
They've been ordered to submit to a DOT inspection in Sacramento that's scheduled for 4:30 pm today.
If they clear the inspection, they'll THEN be able to drive 400 miles to…

— Lars Ultra MAGA Larson (@LarsLarsonShow) January 9, 2025

“You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.” —Thomas Sowell.

AI IS GETTING TO BE PRETTY FUN, ACTUALLY:

STOP IT!!!🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/JZ2whR2YID

— il Donaldo Trumpo (@PapiTrumpo) January 9, 2025

Sometimes even a deep fake comedy clip can reveal a deeper truth.

FLORIDA DOESN’T HAVE THIS PROBLEM:

Mass looting has broken out in #LosAngeles #PalisadesFire #SunsetFire #EatonFire #Pasadena #Altadena #Hollywood #LosAngeles #SanDiego #looting #arson pic.twitter.com/3ZzORxOTOL

— CAL WIRE (@calwireupdates) January 9, 2025

Flashback: Ron DeSantis warns Milton looters could meet shooters in ‘Second Amendment state.’

EXCLUSIVE: Mike Waltz to Clean Out Deep Staters from National Security Council: ‘We’re Taking Resignations at 12:01’ on January 20.

Incoming National Security Advisor Mike Waltz told Breitbart News exclusively that every intelligence official from the various departments and agencies across the federal government currently detailed to the National Security Council (NSC) at the White House under outgoing President Joe Biden will be expected to vacate the premises by 12:01 p.m. Eastern on Inauguration Day when President-elect Donald Trump is inaugurated again.

Waltz, in a phone interview earlier this week, told Breitbart News that he is making sure everyone understands that it’s “crystal clear what the agenda is.”

“Everybody is going to resign at 12:01 on January 20,” Waltz said. “We’re working through our process to get everybody their clearances and through the transition process now. Our folks know who we want out in the agencies, we’re putting those requests in, and in terms of the detailees they’re all going to go back.”

Much more at the link, all of it good.

CALIFORNIANS ARE FED UP:

WOW. This woman literally ran up to Gavin Newsom on the street and demanded answers on his disastrous wildfires response — and she was NOT taking no for an answer. Good for her. pic.twitter.com/GNjUATtKXt

— Jake Schneider (@jacobkschneider) January 9, 2025

It’s impossible to tell whether Newsom was actually trying to reach Biden or whether he had cell service… but I wouldn’t bet on either.

STRATEGERY:

If I'm following correctly, the British government:
1. Gave up an island it owned for no reason other than woke virtue signaling
2. Realized it needed the military base on that island
3. Is now desperate to buy a lease from the new owners to operate that base, at any price,… https://t.co/gigAyBrhXj

— Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry (@pegobry_en) January 9, 2025

Britain is a madhouse.

FLORIDA, MAN: As Los Angeles Burns, DeSantis Shows Leadership That Newsom Can’t Match.

FINGERS CROSSED: Colorado group files ballot measure to repeal wolf reintroduction in 2026.

PRIORITIES:

New: California lawmakers in the Assembly have gaveled into the special legislative session to help the state prepare for legal battles with the incoming Trump administration.

Democrats moved forward with the bill to get $25m to CADOJ—-will have budget hearing Monday.

— Ashley Zavala (@ZavalaA) January 9, 2025

Not even a peek at rebuilding some of the state’s water infrastructure?

THIS IS CNN? Joe Biden ‘Flat-Out Bonkers’ for Thinking He Could Have Beaten Trump.

HMM: Why Is Diet Root Beer Up 131% Even Though Aluminum Is Down? “This may count as an ‘old man yells at cloud’ moment, but before the Flu Manchu lockdowns and the resultant supply chain breakage, HEB’s house brand of Diet Root Beer went for $2.25 a 12-pack. Now, here in early 2025, it’s going for $5.20. I calculate that as a 131% inflation rate over five years, considerably above the official 21.9% phony baloney ‘let’s lie for Biden’ rate. So what gives?”

ALL WE ARE SAYING IS GIVE LONG A CHANCE:

You have zero experience being a Native American but were the first tenured Native American at Harvard, give him a chance.

— The Redheaded libertarian (@TRHLofficial) January 9, 2025

Well played.

IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA: Nancy Pelosi’s Stock Portfolio Crushes the S&P 500 by Nearly 200%.

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Adam Carolla’s DEI Firefighter Story Goes Viral. “I graduated North Hollywood High with a 1.7 GPA and could not find a job. I walked to a fire station. I was 19 and living in the garage of my family home and my mom was on welfare and food stamps. I said, ‘Can I get a job as a fireman?’ and they said, ‘No, because you’re not black, Hispanic or a woman and we’ll see you in about seven years.’”

Related (From Ed): If you haven’t seen it yet, don’t miss Carolla’s epic rant on the near-term future of southern California:

Epic Adam Carolla rant from a hotel after the LA wildfires forced to evacuate from his home, where he predicts Hollywood leftists will be so frustrated by the rebuild effort that they will not vote Democrat:
"You guys all voted for Karen Bass, the mayor of Los Angeles. You all… pic.twitter.com/YhNqBnJJR9

— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) January 9, 2025

I’m much more doubtful that the fires will transform southern California into a hotbed of Republicanism than Carolla (see also: Californians’ willingness to go along with indefinite Covid madness), but it will fascinating to watch the repercussions of the fires play out. Including, as Duane Patterson speculated, “in the future, what do you think Democrats in Sacramento think of the land opportunities now that everyone’s been burned out? Do you think they’re going to rush in and permit exact rebuilding promptly when there’s all sorts of acreage now available for low-income, high-density housing?”

YOU’RE GONNA NEED A MUCH BIGGER BLOG: So I Just Discovered Another way California Sucks.

WINNING:

🚨BREAKING: Massive Title 9 victory:

Virginia's suit against the Biden Administration (together w. 5 other states) has resulted in suspension of illegal Title IX rule across the country. This is the 1st clear nationwide injunction against a re-write of decades-old civil rights… pic.twitter.com/nUr1DiJ4N4

— Sarah Parshall Perry (@SarahPPerry) January 9, 2025

More to come…

BIDEN’S CHICKENS COMING HOME TO ROOST: Consumer Credit Card Debt Unexpectedly Plummets At Rate Signaling Deep Recession.

We have repeatedly warned that with their savings – and especially “emergency covid savings” – gone or nearly gone, Biden admin savings data manipulation notwithstanding… US consumers had no choice but to max out their credit cards in order to “extend and pretend” their moment of purchasing greatness, or as we called one month ago, their last hurrah (see In “Last Hurrah”, Credit Card Debt Explodes Higher Despite Record High APRs As Savings Rate Craters), a hurrah that would last very briefly as it was only a matter of months if not weeks before said cards were denied.

Well, it appears that said denial hit much sooner than expected, and according to the Fed’s latest consumer credit data, in November consumer credit across US households tumbled by $7.5 billion to $5.102 trillion, a 1.8% annual rate of contraction and usually something one only sees in the middle of recessions (or worse).

What is remarkable is that as shown on the chart above, while non-revolving debt (i.e. student and auto loans) rose modestly, it was revolving, or credit card debt, that cratered by a whopping $13.8 billion the biggest drop since the covid crash shut down the economy and the prospect of future income for millions of Americans (hence the collapse in spending). In fact, it is safe to say that any and every time revolving credit has collapsed this much, the US was on the cusp of, if not already in a recession.

We’ve been in a jobs recession for years, something the Biden cabal papered over with massive federal spending and data manipulation.

But even multitrillion-dollar deficits and a partisan bureaucracy can paper over only so much.

HA-HA, NO: Did the Crusades Spoil ‘Five Centuries of Peaceful Coexistence’ With Islam?

This is an excellent podcast from Raymond Ibrahim.

ELIZABETH SCALIA: ‘Shut up,’ they said; British MP’s vote against gangrape inquiry.

I’ve been wondering for a while why, in all of this, we have not heard from the pop stars who can usually be relied upon to comment-with-alacrity about the social or political outrages of the day — or at least the ones they know they can safely shout about and be called “brave.” I mean, where is Bono? I’m a fan, and he’s usually pretty fast with his mouth. Where is he? Where is Elton? Where are Adele? Where is Madonna? Where is Sting? McCartney?

For that matter, where are members of the Royal Family, working or non, hither and yon? They’ve got no thoughts on all this?

I’m not surprised, really. All the “courageous” voices only pipe up when they know the cool kids in the cafeteria will have their backs. Mock insult the churches (and quite justly, says I) for their abuses, their cover-ups, their reluctance to do the right thing? Easy as pie; safe as swaddling clothes. But discuss what the secular side of abuse, coverups and refusal has done?

Crickets.

I had been assured by the purveyors of various lefty causes that silence is complicity.

ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Where’s the Water, Gavin?

PUTINFLATION:

According to media reports, the russian Central Bank is considering the possibility of "freezing" deposits of individuals as an alternative to raising the key rate.

According to insiders, the head of the Central Bank, Elvira Nabiullina, appointed a special commission to assess… pic.twitter.com/IcdXR3Vn9p

— Jürgen Nauditt 🇩🇪🇺🇦 (@jurgen_nauditt) January 8, 2025

Reminds me a bit of FDR’s “bank holiday” and I suspect it would do just as much damage to Russia’s business climate (not to mention consumer sentiment) as FDR did.