KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Team Trump Packed a Month’s Worth of Work Into Its First 2 ½ Days. “It sure is weird having a president who shows up to work every day and can stay awake past 4 PM, isn’t it? I’m not going to double check this, but I think that Joe Biden had taken three vacations by Wednesday of his first week in office.”
Author Archive: Stephen Green
January 23, 2025
BEHIND THE CURVE: Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins defends DEI.
Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins defended DEI initiatives during an Axios interview on Wednesday in Davos, Switzerland.
Why it matters: Robbins also serves as chair of the Business Roundtable, one of America’s most powerful corporate trade organizations.
The big picture: Corporate DEI has become a political flashpoint, with President Trump on Tuesday encouraging the private sector to eliminate such programs.He did so in an executive order that dismantled DEI policies at federal government agencies and set the stage for DEI-focused government employees to be laid off.
What Robbins said: “I think the pendulum swings a little wide in both directions. And for us, it’s about finding the equilibrium … You cannot argue with the fact that a diverse workforce is better. There’s too much business value …”
Business value, eh? Over the last five years, shares in Cisco have underperformed the S&P, with an overall return of 42%. The S&P 500 grew 82% in that same period.
WELL, IT IS: It’s Morning in America… Again
WHEN THE TRAGEDY OF GUN CONTROL DESCENDS INTO FARCE: Tougher checks on knife sales fast-tracked after Southport attack.
People trying to buy knives online will face tougher measures to prove their age under new restrictions being brought forward in the wake of the Southport knife attack.
Axel Rudakubana, who has admitted murdering three young girls last July, bought a knife from Amazon when he was just 17, despite existing laws which prohibit the sale of most knives to under-18s.
Online retailers will be forced to ask anyone buying a knife for two types of identification under government plans, with buyers asked to submit an identity document, such as a passport, and record a live video to prove their age.
Amazon has said it takes its “responsibility around the sale of all age-restricted items – including bladed products – extremely seriously” and has launched an investigation.
In an opinion piece for The Sun newspaper, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer wrote that it “remains shockingly easy for our children to get their hands on deadly knives”.
“The lessons of this case could not be clearer,” he said.
“Time and again, as a child, the Southport murderer carried knives. Time and again, he showed clear intent to use them.
Huh, you think maybe there’s more to that last part than to Britain’s failed attempts at knife control?
January 22, 2025
CHRISTIAN TOTO: The Crazy Reason ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ Rejected Tyler Fischer.
“We don’t want you because of the things you say, you can’t joke about this,” Fischer said of the industry’s take on his talents.
He still sought out mainstream Hollywood earlier in his career.
“I’ve definitely tried to get on ‘The Tonight Show,’ Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel,” Fischer told the podcast. “Jimmy Kimmel’s booker said I can’t do impressions in my stand-up on the show because Jimmy’s friends with the celebrities and he might get upset.
“That’s actually what she said,” Fisher added. “Once you start adding these things up, I’m not really welcome there, which is fine.”
Read the whole thing.
WELL, WHEN YOU PUT IT LIKE THAT…
The same people who…
Shut down your business
Yelled at your kids for not wearing masks
Wouldn’t let you visit your dying parents
Kicked out soldiers for refusing a vaccine
Lied about the origins of Covid
Tried to enact a nationwide vaccine mandate
Censored us on social media…— Robert Sterling (@RobertMSterling) January 22, 2025
To be fair, not everything the Left does is projection. Some of it is corruption.
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: It’s Morning in America… Again.
INDEED:
The reason I went with DeSantis in the primary was that he understood how to use executive power.
Trump never used his power, but instead listened to all the wrong people who convinced him POTUS couldn't really do anything because they wanted to rein him in.
Not anymore.
Trump…
— John Cardillo (@johncardillo) January 22, 2025
The Left will come to regret the day they cheated Trump out of a second consecutive term that likely would have been less effective than the first. In fact, they probably already have.
“WE ARE THE MEDIA.”
NYT silence.
Washington Post silence. https://t.co/A0DvPWrWWz
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) January 22, 2025
The mainstream media is Gollum, deep inside Mount Doom and unwilling to let go of its precious narratives, even as the fiery pit they launched themselves into burns them alive.
THERE WERE AMERICAN PIONEERS: NASA Will Remember Its Fallen Heroes on January 23.
PROMISE DELIVERED: There He Goes AGAIN: Trump Nukes LBJ Affirmative Action Order.
YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: Correcting Progressive Errors About Why Trump Won.
Some Harris supporters, especially among the D.C. professional class, attribute Harris’ loss to Trump voters’ gullibility or malice. They say that America is thriving, crime is down, employment is low, and Biden passed major legislation to combat inflation and enhance America’s ability to compete with China. Therefore, only a public that fell for right-wing misinformation or backs Trump’s authoritarian dispositions could have elected him president. Among other things, this assessment overlooks that inflation, which surged during Biden’s presidency, battered working-class voters who form the core of Trump’s support, and that declining inflation does not mean that prices have returned to pre-inflation levels. It also underestimates the impact of lawless borders on middle-class and working-class voters. It avoids consideration of the consequences of mainstream-media gaslighting of Americans about Biden’s declining cognitive capabilities. And it ignores the electoral significance of Harris’ inability to distinguish herself from the Biden administration – known early on as the Biden-Harris administration – and to separate herself from the hard-left positions she took in 2019 in pursuit of her party’s presidential nomination and as a senator from, and attorney general of, California.
Other Harris supporters blame her loss on racism and sexism. They maintain that the American people’s bigotry foiled the election of an African-American woman to the highest office in the land. Well-known facts undercut this accusation. In 2008, then-Sen. Barack Obama defeated John McCain – a center-right, white war hero – to become the first black person elected president of the United States. Following his January 2009 inauguration, President Obama enjoyed sky-high approval ratings that cut across party lines. Obama coasted to reelection in 2012 against Mitt Romney – a center-right, white, former businessman and former Massachusetts governor. And former President Obama and his African-American wife, former first lady Michelle Obama, remain popular. Moreover, though losing to Trump in 2016 in the Electoral College, Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, demonstrating that a majority of Americans can prefer a woman in the White House.
In early January in the New York Times, James Carville took a crack at explaining Harris’ loss. He, too, offered an implausible, one-dimensional account.
Let them keep their delusions for many more election cycles.
WHAT HAS GLENN BEEN SAYING LATELY ABOUT THE PREFERENCE CASCADE HAVING CASCADED?
YouGov – President Trump's favorability rating among ages 18-29
January 2017
🟢 Favorable: 30% (-27)
🔴 Unfavorable: 57%January 2025
🟢 Favorable: 53% (+11)
🔴 Unfavorable: 42% https://t.co/5fLYLSoUcs pic.twitter.com/9tfBf4QsfF— InteractivePolls (@IAPolls2022) January 22, 2025
Those aren’t quite Reagan’s youth numbers but, oddly enough, Trump is only getting started in his second term — when most presidents are fading.
‘MURICA, F*** YEAH! Marco Rubio Just Put the MURICA! Back into the American State Department.
SKYNET FROWNS: Altman Tells ChatGPT Fans To Stop The Hype On AGI & Superintelligence.
Achieving AGI (artificial general intelligence, another name for superintelligence) is the driving mission of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI. The accomplishment represents the holy grail in the world of machine learning, and it is a priority for tech giants like Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft. In a recent post on X, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman tried to quell rumors and crush the hype surrounding superintelligence and AGI (artificial general intelligence), where fans and enthusiasts are saying it’s already here. The attempt to quiet the noise went viral, receiving 3.1 million views (as of this writing).
Fortune reports that rumors of AGI, which is a type of artificial intelligence that can understand, learn and perform intellectual tasks like a human, has been gaining publicity and posts. Is the hype warranted, or a wish, from ChatGPT enthusiasts? Altman said in a recent blog post that the company behind ChatGPT knows “how to build AGI as we have traditionally understood it”. He went on to say, “We are beginning to turn our aim beyond that, to superintelligence in the true sense of the word. We love our current products, but we are here for the glorious future. With superintelligence, we can do anything else.”
“We are not gonna [sic] deploy AGI next month, nor have we built it,” Altman declared.
Then do they really understand how to build it?
I’M NOT AS CONFIDENT ABOUT THE LEGAL CHALLENGES, BUT IT IS ANOTHER PROMISED DELIVERED: Trump Ended Birthright Citizenship, but Legal Challenges Are Doomed to Fail.
TEACH WOMEN NOT TO LIE ABOUT RAPE: Woman admits she made up rape claims that put innocent man in jail and reveals she targeted him over his ‘creepy’ looks.
Anjela Borisova Urumova is now facing jail time herself after pleading guilty to charges that she fabricated the sexual assault outside a local supermarket, the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office said.
Urumova claimed a 41-year-old man attacked her from behind outside a Redner’s supermarket on April 16, cooking up a story that the assailant pulled her pants down and smacked her, leaving a bruise on her face.
The phony victim, who had a cut lip at the time, fingered Daniel Person as her attacker, Law & Crime said.
She later confessed to cops that she got the cut on her lip from an object her grandmother, who suffers from dementia, threw at her when she walked into their home prior to the fake attack.
Urumova told cops she “specifically targeted” Pierson because she had seen him and his blue Ford F-150 pickup truck in the area before, and thought he was “creepy,” Law & Crime reported.
The sentence for a fake accusation of a crime should be identical to the sentence for the actual crime.
THE LAMENTATIONS OF THEIR WOMEN: And So the Liberal Media Meltdown Begins… “One of the first things I do every morning before I start working is sort through the day’s headlines from a couple of dozen different news sources to see what’s going on in the world. For some reason, I let myself believe that the liberal media wouldn’t start out this second Donald Trump term with breathless hysteria, reporting every time he so much as blinked, but here we are. Some things never change.”
THERE’S A NEW SHERIFF IN TOWN: India to take back 18k citizens residing illegally from US to placate Trump. “Like several other nations, India is working behind the scenes to appease the Trump administration and avoid the brunt of its trade threats. The crackdown on illegal migration has been a signature campaign pledge for Trump. Within hours of his inauguration Monday, the new president moved to fulfill that pledge as he pushed to end birthright citizenship and mobilize troops on the US-Mexico border.”
Right up there with compound interest is the power of the American consumer. Trump is willing to wield that power to get results from previously intractable foreign governments.
PROMISE DELIVERED: Trump Signs D.C.’s DEI Death Warrant. “It’s the end of the world, at least to hear the Washington Post tell it, but it helps to think of WaPo as a corporate rag in one of those 19th-century company towns with interests as parochial as they are corrupt.”
“WE ARE THE MEDIA”:
The reason that the inauguration has the lowest ratings on Legacy media of any other inauguration is because in 2024 legacy media died.
70 million people watched the inauguration on X. And then it got replayed another 35 million times.
And 5 million on YouTube.
And that is… pic.twitter.com/ROtgXajMDm
— Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) January 22, 2025
The death throes of the corrupt legacy media aren’t pretty but, Dear Lord, are they fun to watch.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: The Democrats Are Horrible People — Let’s Crush Them While We Can. “Did I just liken Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, and their Democratic colleagues to a serial killer? Yes, yes I did. They may not come at your physical body, but they want to shove a knife in the heart of any number of freedoms that the Constitution of the United States has promised us. The modern Democratic Party’s philosophy is antithetical to all that this country has held sacred since its founding.”
THE MOST CORRUPT PRESIDENT IN HISTORY, NO CONTEST:
🚨🚨 New bank accounts belonging to the Biden family have recently been found which were used for receiving money that was laundered from China, Romania, & Russia while Biden was VP, with over $240K in checks being directly wired to Biden with no explanation. 🚨🚨 pic.twitter.com/PEgKvWUYu4
— JOSH DUNLAP (@JDunlap1974) January 21, 2025
Under the new rules established during the Biden regime, the Trump DOJ should go after Joe Biden with both barrels.