‘MURICA:

And just like that airlines are already catching on 🤣🔥

“Ladies and Gentlemen if you look out the right side of the aircraft, you will see the GULF OF AMERICA”

Incredible.
pic.twitter.com/ZSoRyc7brB

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) January 27, 2025

Sure, it’s a private jet, and, sure, it’s staged. But the vibe is real — and that kind of energy does tend to go viral.

Let’s see if Gulf of America catches on.

POSTMODERN IRON RICE BOWLS: Death to DEI: This Is the Real Reason White Lefties Are Panicking.

A BILLION HERE AND A BILLION THERE…: U.S. made $161.8 billion in improper payments in 2024, enough to buy almost 2,000 military choppers.

Improper payments have been a significant issue for the federal government, with executive branches reporting an estimated $2.8 trillion worth since 2003, according to a report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office.

The report found a total of $161.8 billion in improper payments in 2024 alone. That figure is likely an undercount because not all federal agencies follow reporting guidelines.

Under the Payment Integrity Information Act, agencies are required to manage payments by identifying risks, taking corrective measures, and reporting on their efforts. However, the GAO found that some agencies are not fully following the required guidelines for reporting data annually.

Clearly.

The cost of last year’s improper payments alone would have gone a long way over a few years toward correcting our naval and air force deficiencies.

YES: Prosecute The Architects Of Trump Lawfare For Election Interference.

In his second inaugural address, President Donald Trump declared that the “weaponization of our Justice Department and our government will end” and that he would “re-balance” the scales of justice. He now faces an important decision: whether to investigate the founders of the lawfare campaigns against him — beginning with New York Attorney General Letitia James and New York City District Attorney Alvin Bragg. He would have at his disposal the same legal theory that the Biden Justice Department constructed just for him: interfering with the presidential election deprived Americans of their constitutional rights to run for office and vote.

Special Counsel Jack Smith announced this unprecedented theory by charging Trump with depriving all Americans of their voting rights by challenging the outcome of the 2020 election.

The demise of independent counsels, which had a very low threshold to trigger appointment, illustrates how Democrats respond when feeling the sting of onerous investigations. Democrats loved the 1978 Independent Counsel Act, which was used five times against the Reagan administration and twice against George H.W. Bush. It was “good government” until it wasn’t. When the Clinton administration got hit with seven independent counsels, enough was enough. Democrats cheered its expiration in 1999, having discovered it was too costly.

Turning lawfare on its creators is not about revenge. It will serve as a deterrent to prevent future abuse and will restore public confidence that justice is even-handed. Individuals who have carried out lawfare have not only destroyed faith in our legal system but also may have violated the law. A federal statute, 18 U.S.C. 241, prohibits conspiring to “injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate” a person exercising constitutional rights or privileges. Clearly President Donald J. Trump had constitutional rights and privileges to run for office and govern, not to be imprisoned for contrived crimes, and not to be deprived of property based on abuse of federal and state justice systems. According to the Biden administration’s own theory, preventing a candidate from running and assuming office also deprives supporters of their rights to vote.

Read the whole thing and, remember, this is the only way they’ll learn.

ROBERT SPENCER: ESPN Leftist Stephen A. Smith Sorry He Voted for Kamala, Explains Why Trump Won.

FAIL, BRITANNIA: Asylum seekers loitering outside school is ‘cultural’ issue, say police.

Migrants have been staying in a hotel outside the village for around three years and are among thousands living in temporary accommodation across the country.

However, in recent months there has been increasing concern over young men loitering near Deanshanger Primary School, including claims of filming.

Following concerns, Sgt Lorna Clarke from the neighbourhood policing team issued an update to residents in which she confirmed the force had received “several calls” from people “concerned about males hanging around the primary school at drop-off and pick-up”.

She said that there had been several posts on social media and WhatsApp and that she had personally spoken to those concerned and the school.

Sgt Clarke said that after speaking to people directly and having her officers “attend the hotel”, they had not identified a risk to anyone and “there is no evidence to support that any offences had taken place”.

She added: “While I fully appreciate the community’s concerns, I ask that people don’t take this matter into their own hands, but continue to speak to the police about any incidents they witness or any concerns they have. We are well linked in with the hotel and can deliver some work there around appropriate behaviours and different cultural expectations.”

In a letter to parents last month, the school said it had been made aware of “some men hanging around outside the school during drop-off and pick-up times” and it was “taking this matter seriously”.

Asking migrants nicely to follow “cultural expectations” about children that they clearly have no intention of following does not amount to “taking this matter seriously.”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Trump 47, Week One — The Democrats Don’t Know What Hit Them. “The Democrats and their flying monkeys in the mainstream media have so wrapped themselves in delusion that they have not at all grasped that things have changed and are still changing rapidly in this country. They’re clinging to their old ‘Everybody Hates Trump’ playbook, which only worked for them when they coupled it with a global pandemic and questionable ballot-counting practices in swing states.”

METAPHOR ALERT:

Olympic Medals are rusting because the varnish used to prevent oxidation was defective.

The coating was weakened after the mint changed it to conform to recent EU regulations banning the use of chromium trioxide, a toxic chemical used to prevent metal from rusting. pic.twitter.com/aNAttP7FCS

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) January 26, 2025

This one’s so on point that if anyone used it in a book or a movie, critics would complain that it was just too obvious.

EXCLUSIVE: J6er Speaks Out on Pardoned Prisoners Still in Jail.

YOU DON’T SAY: CIA now says Covid-19 is more likely to have originated from a lab leak.

The Central Intelligence Agency said Saturday that it’s more likely a lab leak caused the Covid-19 pandemic than an infected animal that spread the virus to people, changing the agency’s yearslong stance that it couldn’t conclude with certainty where the pandemic started.

The agency made its new assessment public two days after former Republican lawmaker John Ratcliffe was sworn in as its new leader.

“We have low confidence in this judgement and will continue to evaluate any available credible new intelligence reporting or open-source information that could change CIA’s assessment,” an unnamed CIA spokesperson wrote in an email sent to reporters Saturday.
The statement didn’t include any additional details about what led the agency to change its assessment and whether it had intelligence that would add weight to the theory that the virus had leaked from a research lab in Wuhan, China.

What Politico’s Carmen Paun and John Sakellariadis left out of their report is that while Washington remains divided on COVID’s origins, Washington and crap outfits like Politico once mocked and silenced anyone with questions.

AND ANOTHER ONE: Florida Democrat Official Arrested for the Most Disgusting Reasons.

GANGSTER, REDEFINED:

The fact that President Trump just owned Colombia WHILE GOLFING just makes the whole story so much better 🤣pic.twitter.com/XbMWIYgVFj

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 26, 2025

Does he ever slow down?

UPDATE (FROM GLENN):

The tariffs were issued from the 3rd hole and Colombia caved by the 8th hole. https://t.co/FYnL0RLhax

— Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) January 26, 2025

UPDATE (From Ed):

BREAKING: Is Republican Thom Tillis Trying to Tank Hegseth’s Nomination?

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Fearing US ‘hostility,’ Russia could ‘escalate early’ in a space conflict.

The key problem, the study finds, is that Moscow’s hyper-suspicious view of US military intentions in space are driving Russia’s military to a more aggressive and hair-trigger stance, but also raising barriers to bilateral communications aimed at ratcheting down conflict risks and/or finding ways to de-escalate once a crisis is underway.

“Russia’s fears about U.S. incentives for early escalation in the space domain and perceptions of U.S. hostility heighten the potential for misperceptions of U.S. actions in space. Russia’s emerging approach to escalation management—a cost-imposition strategy based on the belief that escalation can be controlled—might further reinforce perceived incentives to escalate early,” the study states.

Indeed, there is a school of thought among Russian analysts that is highly concerned about US threats to the space-based elements of Moscow’s nuclear deterrent and the possibility that Washington plans to use space to conduct a disarming attack to deprive Russia of its retaliatory capability, the study adds.

Given the atrophied condition of Russia’s launch capabilities, any space offensive would likely be a short one.

HAVE YOU TRIED NOT ELECTING COMMIES? Let’s Go, Brandon: Chicago Is Tired of Illegals.

MAYBE IT’S TIME TO PUT VEGGIES BACK ON THE MENU: Florida man eats diet of butter, cheese, beef; cholesterol oozes from his body.

The man, said to be in his 40s, told doctors that he had adopted a “carnivore diet” eight months prior. His diet included between 6 lbs and 9 lbs of cheese, sticks of butter, and daily hamburgers that had additional fat incorporated into them. Since taking on this brow-raising food plan, he claimed his weight dropped, his energy levels increased, and his “mental clarity” improved.

Meanwhile, his total cholesterol level exceeded 1,000 mg/dL. For context, an optimal total cholesterol level is under 200 mg/dL, while 240 mg/dL is considered the threshold for ‘high.’ Cardiologists noted that prior to going on his fatty diet, his cholesterol had been between 210 mg/dL to 300 mg/dL.

The cardiologists diagnosed the man with xanthelasma, a condition in which excess blood lipids ooze from blood vessels and form localized lipid deposits. The escaped lipids would normally be taken up by roaming white blood cells called macrophages. But, in cases with xanthelasma, the amount of lipids is too large for the macrophages, which turn into foam cells with the excess cholesterol, leading to visible deposits.

Balance is good.

FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: There Were Drugs in Her Not a Bag Full of Drugs. “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week we have a bag full of lies (and drugs), the guy you don’t cut in front of at the buffet, and Colorado Man’s ill-fated visit to Mar-a-Lago.”

COLLECTOR’S ITEMS: Miami Beach woman says she and her husband found pieces of SpaceX rocket while vacationing in Caribbean.

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.’