SCIENTIST STUNNED by vole-hunting predatory squirrels.

My cats have been observed eating the multitudenous squirrels in and around our house. Perhaps I should stop them to prevent being overrun by voles (except for the fact that the cats eat voles, too).

BIDEN'S ENIVRONMENTAL 'PROTECTION' AGENCY just rubber-stamped a California ban on new gasoline-powered autos after 2035.

Will Trump reverse the ban? Probably, but there is an argument for not banning it. Read the whole thing.

ELEPHANTS DON'T FORGET: Elon Musk issues ominous threat to any member who votes for the 'cramnibus'.

Good on him. I also like the term 'cramnibus'.

OBAMACARE is killing people.

I’VE FIGURED OUT TRUMP’S ENDGAME WITH TIKTOK. It’s brilliant.

HOUSE MINORITY LEADER WAILS ABOUT GOP KILLING THE CONTINUING RESOLUTION. Elon Musk floors him with reality.

The Democrats' government is on life support; let help it die.

THIS IS WHY I quit using a calculator for basic math. I was losing the ability to do it in my head.

Same here.

AND THE AWARD for the state with the worst drivers in the nation goes to ... Massachusetts.

Yep. When I was working we had a contractor in New Hampshire requiring me to land in Boston and drive north. Boston drivers are so bad that if you give them an inch they'll try to park in it.

Also yep. D.C. has the lowest speeding rate. I commuted to Arlington, next to D.C., for 11 years. The reason for the lowest speeding rate is that the roads are so congested that you cannot possibly even hit the speed limit, much less exceed it.

Read the rest.

STILL GRIFTING: Crazy Joe’s Discount Pardon Warehouse.

DRILL, BABY, DRILL: Alaska governor calls on Trump to roll back drilling restrictions.

NEARLY EVERYTHING: What was so different this time about Trump’s election?

TRUMP'S CAMPAIGN FIRSTS: "the first candidate for presidential history to beat two Democrat nominees in the same damn election."

LIZ CHENEY throws a hissy fit after accusations against her.

I'll be curious to see if her name is in the next round of Biden pardons....

ELON MUSK: Yesterday's continuing resolution; today's continuing resolution.

Heh.

Update: even this bill hasn't passed the House.

THE HOUSE ETHICS COMMITTEE has apparently decided to release former Rep. Matt Gaetz's [R-FL] ethics report. Gaetz responded aggressively.

Someone suggested the following plan to him:

1. Show up 1/3/2025 to congress
2. Participate in Speaker election (I was elected to the 119th Congress, after all…)
3. Take the oath
4. File a privileged motion to expose every “me too” settlement paid using public funds (even of former members)
5. Resign and start my @OANN program on January 6, 2025.

I'm no fan of Gaetz, but I certainly respect his aggressiveness. Republicans desperately need to show more of that fighting spirit.

Fight on....

MORE THAN ENOUGH: How much voter fraud in 2020?

HERE'S A CHRISTMAS PRESENT

for U.S. Postal Service CEO Louis DeJoy.

REP. VICTORIA SPARTZ [R-IN], an immigrant from Ukraine, announces she's going to DOGE.

Good for her.

NEW ZEALAND DOES SOMETHING RIGHT: Quit funding social studies research.

THIS DOESN'T SURPRISE ME. Ivy League professor addresses UnitedHealthcare murder suspect's possible radicalization in college.

REVOLT OF THE PUBLIC: "The failure of the Biden-Harris experiment in governance has brought elites to the edge of a stark ideological wilderness, where the only justification for power is the will to attain it."

'Will for power' is the sole justification for the Democrat party. It seeks power for the purpose of having power, not for accomplishing anything of significance. Read the whole article.

CRIB NOTES VERSION of 'Why I Hate the CR' aka 'Shut It Down'.

Read the whole thing to understand that they really, really hate us.

VIVEK RAMASWAMY EXPLAINS why the House continuing resolution must fail.

I wanted to read the full 1,500+ page bill & speak with key leaders before forming an opinion. Having done that, here's my view: it's full of excessive spending, special interest giveaways & pork barrel politics. If Congress wants to get serious about government efficiency, they should VOTE NO.

Keeping the government open until March 14 will cost ~$380BN by itself, but the true cost of this omnibus CR is far greater due to new spending. Renewing the Farm Bill for an extra year: ~$130BN. Disaster relief: $100BN. Stimulus for farmers: $10BN. The Francis Scott Key Bridge replacement: $8BN. The proposal adds at least 65 cents of new spending for every dollar of continued discretionary spending.

The legislation will end up hurting many of the people it purports to help. Debt-fueled spending sprees may "feel good" today, but it's like showering cocaine on an addict: it's not compassion, it's cruelty. Farmers will see more land sold to foreign buyers when taxes inevitably rise to meet our obligations. Our children will be saddled with crippling debt. Interest payments will be the largest item in our national budget.

Congress has known about this deadline since they created it in late September. There's no reason why this couldn't have gone through the standard process, instead of being rushed to a vote right before Congressmen want to go home for the holidays. The urgency is 100% manufactured & designed to avoid serious public debate.

The bill could have easily been under 20 pages. Instead, there are dozens of unrelated policy items crammed into the 1,547 pages of this bill. There's no legitimate reason for them to be voted on as a package deal by a lame-duck Congress. 72 pages worth of “Pandemic Preparedness and Response” policy; renewal of the much-criticized "Global Engagement Center," a key player in the federal censorship state; 17 different pieces of Commerce legislation; paving the way for a new football stadium in D.C.; a pay raise for Congressmen & Senators and making them eligible for Federal Employee Health Benefits. It's indefensible to ram these measures through at the last second without debate.

We're grateful for DOGE's warm reception on Capitol Hill. Nearly everyone agrees we need a smaller & more streamlined federal government, but actions speak louder than words. This is an early test. The bill should fail.

Which explains my contacting my congresscritters.

I'M WITH ELON MUSK: If you want to remain in office, I want either a clean continuing resolution or a complete government shutdown through Jan. 20, 2025.

Sent to all my congresscritters this morning.

OH, YES, AND IT DOES SEEMS FISHY: The November 5th presidential elections have finally been counted.

ARE THERE ANY ADULTS LEFT IN THE DEMOCRAT PARTY? Anti-gun activist David Hogg to run for DNC vice chair.

RANDOM THOUGHT: 'Woke' is the new useless idiot.

KURT SCHLICHTER: Tulsi Gabbard's iconoclasm is exactly why we need her.

NEW YORK MAYOR ERIC ADAMS: “I’m seeing our bench is hating the team [America], and we better start acknowledging and focusing on that.”

Democrats not happy....

POST-POSTMODERN AMERICA: The Woke Revolution depends on its advocates never having to experience firsthand any of the nonsense they inflict on others.

STOP THE PRESSES! We have the lie of the year.

Don't forget P'Nut the squirrel.

POWERLINE'S DAILY CHART: Blue media blues.

Since Fox News has been pissing me off by insisting I give them my email address to read their posts, I'd kinda like seeing the before/after for Newsmax.

KILL THE CONTINUING RESOLUTION: However much contempt you have for Congress, it isn’t enough.

It has the addeded benefit of shutting down the U.S. government, hopefully until Trump's inauguration....

Update: Elon Musk tweeted "don't do it" and today's vote has apparently been delayed (cancelled?).

ISRAEL IS BUSY saving the world.

IF YOU’RE IN A FAIR FIGHT, you’re doing it wrong.

Instapundit is coming around to my point of view....

KELLYANNE CONWAY Needed only two words to explain why more women didn't turn out for Kamala Harris.

THE REESE’S PEANUT BUTTER CUP APPROACH: Why not put the Palestinian homeland in Syria?

Fill a failed state with failed people. And use it as a transfer point for our indigenous antisemites....

NUKE IT FROM ORBIT WOULD BE MY SOLUTION: How Congress can end DC’s lawfare and one-party federal bias.

I'M SURE RFK WILL BE HAPPY TO LISTEN TO HER EXPERTISE: San Francisco Health Department hires 'fat positivity' expert.

GOING, GOING, (IF WE'RE LUCKY) GONE: The evaporation of the Obama mystique.

FORMER GOOGLE CEO: Computers could soon make their own decisions.

Remember HAL 9000? We should be ready to pull the plug at a moment's notice....

BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY to provide 'gender affirming' haircuts.

Is high & tight gender affirming?

TRUMP CONSIDERS privatizing the U.S. Postal Service.

At a minimum fire the idiot running it.

I am sick to death of having to waste hours of my time on the telephone getting late fees recinded when my checks have been delayed in the mail by 20-30 days (and more!) by Joe Biden's postal service. It never happened -- not once -- when Trump was in office.

AS I'M WONT TO SAY, "NO,SHIT, SHERLOCK": More than three weeks after dozens of mysterious drones began popping up in the New Jersey night sky, the public has still been offered no clear insight on what the phenomenon could be.

I think it's relatively obvious by now that the government is, and has been, lying to us.

Maybe we'll find out after January 20th, but frankly, I doubt it.

NO, IT'S NOT THE EDIBLES; it's really UFOs. This UFO report from the West coast is interesting:

Two medevac pilots in a fixed-wing plane were confronted with a bevy of three or four unidentified flying objects "moving at hypersonic speeds" over the night skies along the Oregon Coast on Saturday night.

Listen to the pilots ask air traffic control how to proceed around the aircraft, which were red circular craft that could zip up to 50,000 feet at "extreme speeds." At one point, a Horizon pilot came on comms to inquire about the UFO chatter and asked the air traffic controllers to share any video they got of the bizarre activity.

At least two sets of pilots, one a Horizon Air (United affiliated) flight and an emergency medevac fixed-wing aircraft, saw the objects.

Pilot 1: We're seeing three or four targets, they're all altitudes. It's pretty crazy. There was [sic] at 30 probably [thousand feet]; they're shootin' up to the 50s [thousand feet] it looks like.

Pilot 2: Is air traffic actually out about at our 2 to 3 o'clock, I don't know, 20-30 miles?

Air Traffic Control: No. Is that the uh, four different lights going up and down? I'm getting a few reports, but. you're seeing it right in front of you now?

Pilot 2: Uh, it's 2-3 o'clock off of, from our position. It's about 20 miles. Going in circles.

Air Traffic Control: Yeah, we're not seeing anything. Gettin' lots of different reports out there. Some at 30. Some up to 50,000 [feet]...about 3 or 4 different lights. Does it look like they're around your altitude now?

Pilot 2: Uh, no, there's one waay up high and one about my altitude. Uh, moving, like a circle, like a corkscrew pattern. Alright I'm, I visually have eyes on what looks like an aircraft strobe at my 2 o'clock and 22 miles at my altitude and I'm actually showing them on TCS. Do you see them?

Air Traffic Control: I do not —

Pilot 2: He, uh, it looks like it's moving toward the north. Like I said 22 and a half miles off my right wing. Just had another one show up about my 1 o'clock at about 1,000 feet high zipping towards us and then back out towards the ocean. And red, red in color...moving at extreme speeds, uh, I don't know even know how to describe how fast it's moving, 661 Lima Foxtrot.

Air Traffic Controller 2: 661 Lima Foxtrot, Roger. You are cleared to maneuver as necessary left and right to avoid the UFO out there.

Pilot 2: It's weird, it's a red circular shape and it keeps zipping out towards the ocean and then coming back in about 20 miles or closer to us and then zips back out over the ocean and we can't see it.

At one point Air Traffic Controller 2 asked if the pilots could film any of the craziness. "We're trying right now," Pilot 2 says to the tower. He adds that his "med crew in the back" is trying to film the UFOs too. The air traffic controller said he was trying to get the Coast Guard to go out and take a look.

An alert reader DM'd ... to give me some insight on the New Jersey drone activity. I've been writing about the drones here and here. His observations:

The reader is a drone hobbyist and knows that the New Jersey area has a drone proving ground nearby. He believes all of the drone activity is part of some secret squirrel operation and I tend to agree, having been in Southern California when all the stealth bombers and fighter "UFOs" were being tested and spotted (some in the daytime).

I also know that Pendleton, Ore., has a drone proving ground.

We may finally be getting somewhere with this.

It's not clear from the excerpt above whether this conversation is from both aircraft or just the one medevac aircraft. There is more at the link.

What is most interesting is this comment at the end of the post:

[The commenter] believes all of the drone activity is part of some secret squirrel operation and I tend to agree, having been in Southern California when all the stealth bombers and fighter "UFOs" were being tested and spotted (some in the daytime).

It's obvious that there is more going than meets the eye.

MAKE ROOM. MAKE ROOM. For the homeless.

Another way California just found to make life hell for its citizens....

TACTICS, TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES to keep deep state bureaucrats from obstructing Donald Trump’s agenda.

Three words: fast and furious.

I'VE NOTICED from the television commercials I'm seeing that the Canadian state of Ontario is lobbying to become our 51st state.

WASHINGTON DC RESTAURANT WORKERS plan to sabotage Trump administration personnel.

And I'll clap and cheer when they get laid off.

FRED FLINTSTONE WAS AHEAD OF HIS TIME: By 2035, all California vehicles to be replaced by Little Tikes Cozy Coupes.

The Babylon Bee is reporting news again....

THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IS ROTTING FROM WITHIN: Democracy dies with the progressive monopoly on education.

HEH: The Left’s infatuation explained.

WHERE'S THE DOWNSIDE? 'Thousands' of Federal employees may resign before January.

FUN? FACT: More US Representatives have been injured at the Capitol by attacks from violent LGBTQ activists than from people on January 6th.

Via Libs of TikTok, Nancy Mace post-attack.

A PERFECT ENCAPSULATION OF GOVERNMENT: Citizens are resources to be farmed for fun and profit.

RANDOM THOUGHT: Republicans and conservatives tend to believe that rules are for everyone; Democrats, liberals, and especially progressives, tend to believe that rules are for everyone else.

ACT FAST; ACT DECISIVELY: Open letter to the Trump administration.

THE SUICIDE OF THE ISRAEL HATERS: They tried to destroy the Jewish State and will end up destroying themselves.

DON'T LET THE DOOR HIT YOU IN THE BUTT AS YOU SCUTTLE OUT: Los Angeles Times columnist quits amid owner's Trump support.

DON'T TEST US! Incoming border czar warns sanctuary city mayors 'Get the hell out of the way' or be prosecuted.

Frankly, I hope they don't. Jail time wonderfully concentrates the mind....

THE CLOCK STRIKES THIRTEEN and the Establishment gets washed away by a preference cascade.

A well-deserved preference cascade.

HISTORY DOESN'T ISSUE PREEMPTIVE PARDONS; only Presidents do.

HUBRIS LEADS TO NEMESIS: San Francisco liberal who wants to defund the police now demands they help her recover her stolen stuff.

Too stupid for words ... I hope she stays in San Franciso; it deserves her.

LET DEMOCRATS HAVE THEIR BLANKET PARDONS: In the end they'll still lose.

FORTY-SEVEN YEARS LATER: The final goodbye coming soon.

Following my Master's degree I worked briefly at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory on the Voyager telecommunications system before returning to finish up my doctorate. My dissertation is based on some of the work I did there.

It's still hard to believe that I have since retired and the Voyager spacecraft have not.

ENJOY YOUR STAY: Welcome to Cloud Cuckoo Land.

IT'S NOT SATIRE, it's common sense.

THE 80/20 RULE (PARETO PRINCIPLE) STRIKES AGAIN: Speaker Mike Johnson, backed by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, is plotting to eliminate 75% of federal government agencies.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Pretty soon there will be so many satellites in low earth orbit that the Earth will be in shadow and global warming will no longer be a problem.

Instead global cooling will....

THE INTERREGNUM HAS BEGUN:

Perhaps that's why the UFOs are flying around theTrump National Golf Club in Bedminister -- they're looking for a real President.

DIFFERENTIAL TUITION: Should English majors pay less?

No, they should pay more. From the comments: "Do we really need to push people into majors that will give them impaired thinking, make them impoverished, miserable, and ripe to become faithful Democrats?"

There are others who disagree -- scroll through the comments and make up your own mind.

KURT SCHLICHTER: Trump needs to pardon all the J6 political prisoners on Day One.

MORE FROM POWERLINE'S Week in Pictures. My favorite:

Now go see the rest.

GOOD ADVICE: Fire your whiny employees too upset over the election to do their work.

Better yet, don't hire them in the first place.

OUTGOING DNC CHAIR defends 'identity politics'.

"When I wake up in the morning, when I look in the mirror, when I step out the door, I can't rub this off," he said, waving his hand in front of his face. "This is who I am. This is how the world perceives me.

What chutzpah. Just because he sees himself as black, and thus a victim, doesn't mean othere see the same thing. Maybe he should quit looking at himself in the mirror.

ANOTHER DEMOCRAT defects.

MORE: Yet another Democrat defects.

Is this the beginning of another preference cascade?

CHANGE: The California bar will consider campus protests in moral character review for lawyer licensing. The unanswered question is whether it will be a positive or negative change. I'm betting negative.

DEMOCRATS HAVE 'CONCERNS' about Elon Musk saying stuff they don't like. Let the hand-wringing begin.

And ignore them.

HE LOOKED IN THE MIRROR: Sanctimonious Obama warns 'one side' is going to 'rig elections and weaponize the justice system.'

THANK UNIONIZATION: America's stone age ports.

EXCELLENT ADVICE: Be hard to kill and dangerous to attack.

AMERICA'S FUTURE depends on Trump's promise to punish woke universities.

WILL DEMOCRATS REDISCOVER THE CONSTITUTION? Probably not.

The only things they are capable of 'discovering' are victims.

MORE PARDONS TO COME? If Biden is going to issue blanket pardons he should pardon all Democrats for the crime of voting for him.

WELL, HE IS PRESIDENT ALREADY: Just go ahead and take the ‘elect’ out of ‘President-elect Trump’.

THE KINDNESS OF STRANGERS: A different kind of adventure in the mountains.

This happened in my neck of the woods (my wife and I have been to the Jacks River Fields Campground) and I'm pleased to report that most of my neighbors are that kind.

THAT MEANS 94% ARE SUPERFLUOUS: Only 6 percent of federal workers show up in person every day.

The fish are in the barrel for Elon and Vivek to shoot....

THEY FAIL, we pay.

WHAT'S NEXT IN IDIOCY? Customized bottled water.

IT WAS NEVER ABOUT HUNTER. It's always been about Joe.

GLENN REYNOLDS ON SUBSTACK: Worried about experts, and their dubious performance and questionable actual expertise? Read on:

Leaving aside the undemocratic nature of technocracy, technocracy has failed the ultimate in technocratic tests: It doesn’t work. Putting “smart” – which turns out to mean “credentialed” – people in charge of everything, and letting them run things with no real constraints except the blinkered and self-serving opinions of other members of their social class, has turned out not to work very well. Whether in agriculture or in governance, monocultures are unstable, and our ruling class monoculture has been a narrow and increasingly incestuous one. Its performance has failed to justify its existence.

Reynolds' earlier substack thoughts on our 'expert' monoculture is here.

BEHIND THE BLACK: The real proof that the American political scene is about to experience a new revolution.

MINIMIZING THE STATE as co-parent.

The post is about micro-schooling, but the scene depicted in the opening paragraph happened in Mineral Bluff, Georgia, about 2 miles from my home.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Universities have a 2025 rendezvous with reality.

I hope it hurts.

FROM POWERLINE'S Week in Pictures, my favorite:

Now go see the rest.

THE 'SECESSION' WORD appears again and has a venerable tradition in American history.

Kurt Schlichter's People's Republic book series considers the possibilities in modern America. They're not positive.

COULD [MORE OF THE SAME] turn out to be the Democrats' most viable candidate for 2028?

[I]t’s quite clear from each and every name touted for 2028 that the Democrats are quite clear about one thing they want for 2028: more of the same.

The party of Jackson, Truman and JFK has gone all-in on America-Last internationalism, contempt for ordinary people, the fetishization of deviance and fantasy, and the forcible impoverishment of American citizens through inflation and mass migration, and there’s no turning back now. Not a single Democrat hopeful for 2028 at this point is articulating any pathway back to sanity, patriotism, or sound economic and immigration policies. And so while a slim majority of Americans may have chosen not to commit national suicide in 2024, the Dems can always hope they’ll vote for a civilizational slashing of the wrists in 2028.

Attila the Hun is their logical successor ... or AOC, his female equivalent.

THAT'S THE DIVIDE? Big versus Little.

It's an interesting article (read it all) but I'm not sure I agree it's big versus little. To me it's about choice -- individual choice versus group choice (in other words, control).

THE FBI GOVERNMENT is a font of misinformation.

I struck out FBI because it's not just the FBI, it's true for the Deep State as a whole.

ABSOLUTELY: Should Liz Cheney and Bennie Thompson be in jail for trying to frame Trump for 'insurrection'?

They will skate ... unfortunately.

IMPRIMIS: Populist conservatism and constitutional order.

RANDOM THOUGHT: Useful idiots remain idiots when their 'sell by' dates expire.

TECH BILLIONAIRE tells Joe Rogan the government plan ‘to control AI’ is why he left a White House meeting and endorsed Trump.

The Left is always about control -- their control.

MORE LIES FROM THE LEFT: 'MAGA' supporters are the ones threatening Democrats.

And Democrat supporters are simply angels....

LOOKS LIKE IT TO ME: Insurrection at the DoD?

The new Trump administration must, repeat must, adopt a take-no-prisioners approach with recalcitrant Deep Staters.

MORE: Pearl Harbor remembered.

AMERICA'S DAY OF INFAMY WAS 83 YEARS AGO TODAY.

REMEMBERING PEARL HARBOR: John Finn, Medal of Honor winner.

LESSONS STILL UNLEARNED: Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1944.

DECEMBER 7TH 2024: Only the teenagers are left.

And I've seen almost no remembrance on the mainstream media (with the exception of the Fox News cable channel). For the MSM to relegate what is perhaps one of the most important events in American history to the dustbin is, well, just disgusting.

America needs to be reminded. Every year. From now until the United States of America ceases to exist.

IMPRIMIS: Drain the swamp.

It may become possible to restore constitutional government in place of the administrative or bureaucratic state that has almost overtaken it. That is the issue that matters the most. The worst evils stem from it. The strongest resistance guards its entrenchment.

We must replace 'may become' with the single word 'was'.

DENVER MAYOR WHO THREATENED TO STOP DEPORTATIONS folds like a (cheap) lawn chair after Tom Homan threat.

Democrats are all performance art; none of these so-called progressives have the courage of their 'convictions'.

THE ESTABLISHMENT’S SCANDAL SCAM TACTICS won’t work anymore.

AT LEAST IT'S NOT IN THE UNITED STATES: Guess which city is the antisemitism capitol of North America.

ALSO: a Canadian town is facing a fine of $10,000 for refusing to participate in Pride Month and fly the "LGBTQ2 rainbow flag" outside its municipal building.

THE THIRD TURKEY finally got pardoned.

OH.MY.GOD. Hydrosexuals, queer theory, and the posthumanities’ descent into madness.

To quote Beege Wellborn: "They are all barking mad."

YOU THOUGHT THEY COULDN'T DIG DEEPER: New York Times hammered for article referring to biological women as ‘non-transgender women’.

Zealots and idiots. Notice I've used the healing power of 'and'....

P'NUT THE SQUIRREL MUST BE AVENGED! Couple takes action against nasty government overreach.

Reinforcements are arriving....

DENVER MAYOR WHO THREATENED TO STOP DEPORTATIONS folds like a (cheap) lawn chair after Tom Homan threat.

It's all performance art; none of these progressives have the courage of their 'convictions'.

GO PRIVATE: How to stop transanity in women's sports.

FROM RETALIATION TO REFORM: A case study for correcting higher education.

Linked from Instapundit.

60 MINUTES IS SHOCKED: People might go to college to have their minds expanded and learn from people they disagree with?

It helps to get out of the progressive bubble occasionally. Why the university was put in Austin, Texas, though, is beyond me. I left years ago, when I decided Austin was irredeemable.

IT WOULD BE WELL DESERVED: A fifth President on Mount Rushmore?

HE'S ONLY ALLOWED to pardon two turkeys on Thanksgiving.

IT HASN'T EVEN [OFFICIALLY] STARTED YET: White House reporters already ‘exhausted’ by second Trump administration.

NAME THEM, shame them. If someone must be terrified, better it be the government 'leadership' and its apparatchiks than the people.

WHAT POLITICAL GROUP is best represented by this definition?

Fascism: A system of government marked by (a) centralization of authority under a dictator, (b) a capitalist economy subject to stringent governmental controls, (c) violent suppression of the opposition, (d) a policy of belligerent nationalism and (e) racism.

Progressive Democrats or MAGA Republicans?

KIM JUNG UN'S [SELF-APPOINTED] NORTH KOREAN AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED STATES: Professor praises North Korea, argues country advances socialist revolution.

NOT MUCH: What's left of the Democrats.

Look at the charts and try to tell me that all that remains of Democrats isn't self-entitled rich kids....

WOKE IS DEAD: "[T]he country is tired of wokeness and having it shoved down our throats."

Or at the very least, dying. Well deserved.

AND MUSK WILL WIN: California declares war on Elon Musk.

To the betterment of California.

THANKSGIVING, the holiday founded on freedom and gratitude.

THANKSGIVING FINALE:

Happy Thanksgiving to all, including to the Radical Left Lunatics who have worked so hard to destroy our Country, but who have miserably failed, and will always fail, because their ideas and policies are so hopelessly bad that the great people of our Nation just gave a landslide…

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)

Linked from X/Twitter here.

IS THANKSGIVING a national day of mourning?

Short answer, no.

DON'T LET THE DOOR HIT YOU ON YOUR WAY OUT: Leftists ditch Thanksgiving with conservative relatives.

THANKSGIVING YOU, property rights!

A REMINDER: Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Day proclamation.

That was 161 years ago and sadly, we still need to be reminded.

A THANKSGIVING REMNANT OF WOKENESS: Washington University in St. Louis event teaches students about ‘decolonizing’ Thanksgiving.

WHAT A TURKEY. Remember when Barack Obama tried to ruin Thanksgiving?

He succeded. And Joe Biden doubled down.

THE ‘TURKEY OF THE YEAR’ AWARD goes to ... ???

Three guesses; the first two don't count.

IS INTELLIGENT ADVERTISING AN OXYMORON? Jaguar and the death of intelligent advertising.

It's been dead for years. Finally someone -- other than me -- noticed.

SHE'S BEEN LOOKING IN THE MIRROR: Sharon Stone chastises 'ignorant, arrogant' Americans in rant against fascism.

DYING LEGACY MEDIA LASHES OUT AT ELON AND X: "You’re not the media."

No, we're better (I've joined).

A CLEAN PLATE AT EVERY MEAL? What exactly did Stacey Abrams accomplish?

ACCORDING TO HOYT: A moment of opportunity in space.

Longish, but excellent. Elon and Vivek should take notice.

HOW PEANUT THE SQUIRREL might get revenge on New York’s gun control laws.

Let's change 'might' to 'will'.

NICE WILL NOT CUT IT: Congress has to be tough.

SALENA ZITO: Biden was the fluke in 2020; not Trump in 2016.

In 2024, it was Kamala Harris (You're my voter) versus Donald Trump (I'm your President).

Not surprisingly, Trump won.

POWERLINE: Lessons from losers.

The Democrat party hasn't learned, but its voters are learning. Slowly.

AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE: The Democrats have a woman problem. I suspect it's reversed -- the Democrats have problem women.

Longish, but read it anyway.

IF CALIFORNIA WAS A SWING STATE, this would never be tolerated.

I doubt it; I suspect it would be worse -- much worse.

BILL MAHER TO NEIL DeGRASSE TYSON: On scientific bias you are part of the problem.

Stick to science, not politics.

POWERLINE'S Week in Pictures has many good ones this week. My favorite:

Now go see the rest.

THE TRUMP COUNTER-REVOLUTION is a return to sanity.

DANIEL PENNY'S CHOKEHOLD did not cause the death of Jordan Neely.

What truly offends me about this 'trial' is that Neely was threatening everyone in a closed subway car and Penny was the only one to take him on. And they're going to try a good samaritan for defending those people?

SECRETARY OF DEFENSE PETE HEGSETH will be a welcome injection of vitamin I (Infantry).

TRUMP APPOINTMENTS have electrified the West.

And terrified the Deep State....

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON on Trump, and a chance to return to normalcy.

FOX'S JUAN WILLIAMS names his politician of the year.

Well, he's right if he meant 'worst' politician of the year....

TOM HOMAN RESPONDS TO DENVER MAYOR: "He's willing to go to jail, I'm willing to put him in jail".

So am I; let's do it.

TOO MUCH IS NEVER ENOUGH: the big lie about education spending.

It's the administrative bloat, created by the Department of Education.

Abolish it and use the building to hold illegals until they can be deported. Then raze the building after deportation is complete. -

NEW YORK TIMES WONDERS: Has MSNBC’s audience fled to Fox?

I don't think MSNBC's audience is that smart.

THE NEW SENATE MAJORITY LEADER must muzzle Adam Schiff.

Is there a committee in charge of cleaning toilets?

I HOPE THIS IS AN EXAGGERATION: Obama-compliant military threatens the nation.

But if not, Trump's next Secretary of Defense must clean house throughout the Pentagon.

HOW DUMB ARE OUR SENATORS? This dumb.

About as dumb as our Representatives -- remember Hank Johnson?

What worries me is that 'dumb' constitutes a significant fraction of our (university educated) voting population....

CARVILLE ON KAMALA’S PROGRESSIVE STAFFERS: "I’d fire them, then fire who hired them."

Democrats, please don't take his advice.

I HOPE MY KITTEN PERCIVAL never sees this.

ME TOO: "I’m a make-the-rubble-bounce kinda guy, so yeah."

ONLY FIVE? Five things California Democrats still don't get.

LEFTOVER CARTOONS IV: Some leftovers from the post-election trauma.

I'm still laughing.

IT'S STILL TOO MUCH: Elon waiting for Black Friday half-off sale so he can buy MSNBC for just $30.

Manhattan sold for just $24 in beads and trinkets....

BEST USE OF PLANNED PARENTHOOD YET: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/3240150/vasectomies-spike-trump-reelection/Vasectomies spike by 1,200% after Trump reelection.

Keep them from reproducing....

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON is an ignoramus.

Even though I too have a PhD, Tyson is the reason why I rarely acknowledge it.

REFUSE TO FUND THEM: What can we do about our corrupted universities?

Students, refuse to attend them. And for businesses, refuse to hire their graduates.

UNREPORTED TRUTHS: On the deep crisis in American medicine.

Unreported, maybe, but increasingly with obvious every Medicare statement I get.

ELON MUSK wants to save the world -- and more.

As a Robert Heinlein fan since childhood, I'm impressed.

THE BABYLON BEE ON X: "Post-menopausal lesbians flee America over concerns about forced pregnancies.

DOGE (DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY) is already on the path to shrinking government.

It's increasingly obvious that the last two months of the Biden administration are really the first two months of the new Trump administration.

GET RID OF THIS GUY. Postal chief brags of 100% union ‘comrades’ as bankruptcy nears.

I don't know about anywhere else, but in my neck of the woods (north Georgia) the Biden administration's Postal Service has gone from merely inefficient to grossly incompetent.

'CENTERIST' DEMOCRATS: "I don't want to be the freak show party."

You have been for 3-1/2 years. What changed?

THE UNITED NATIONS RELIEF AND WORKS AGENCY FOR PALESTINE REFUGEES (UNRWA): Nearly 100 Gaza aid trucks 'violently looted'.

By whom? Hamas?

REMEMBER THOSE 51 HUNTER BIDEN LAPTOP DENIERS? They may lose their security clearances.

Well deserved. They shouldn't have had them in the first place.

HEH: NASA staff ask Elon to ‘clean house’.

I'm sure Elon and Vivek will be happy to oblige....

LEFTIST CLOWNS FOR HITLER: Do any of these clowns know what Hitler really did?

THIS WEEK'S WINNER from PowerLine's Week in Pictures:

They're gonna need more than one. Now go see the rest (I also liked Kamala's Venn diagram; it so perfectly describes the 2024 election.)

EXPLAINING WOKENESS -- the Cult of Self.

Read it all.

AND HE'S NOT EVEN PRESIDENT YET: Trump is shrinking government already!

HEH: Only one person in this picture is happy.

Found on X here.

THIS COULD CHANGE THE ENTIRE REGULATORY ENVIRONMENT: Federal court upends decades of environmental regulations.

I'm not sure what the difference is between a 'guideline' and a 'regulation' but I am sure this will eventually wind up at the Supreme Court.

I'D PREFER A TRUSTWORTHY DOJ: Bring back the internal security committees.

But given today's political environment, maybe a second opinion is necessary.

POLYMARKET PREDICTED TRUMP’S VICTORY, and now the FBI has raided its CEO’s home.

This is, after all, the left we’re talking about here. These are the people who think that they can remake reality just by declaring it to be the way they want it to be. They think that if a man grows out his hair, takes some pills, and maybe has some surgery, he will be a woman. They think that they can force businesses to hire unqualified minorities solely in order to show off their “diversity” and that the quality of their product will not suffer. So does the leftist FBI assume that if Polymarket had called the election for Harris instead of reporting accurately on electoral trends, she would have won? Why not? Once you’ve decided that Rachel Levine is a woman, nothing else is as much of a stretch.

'Shark Tank' investor Kevin O'Leary disagrees with the political retribution theory; he suggests it's an online gambling rules violation. We shall see, probably sooner than later.

WHO ARE YOU? Voter ID law and election integrity should be top priority in new Congress.

Otherwise our future could be considerably different.

FEDERAL EMPLOYEES FEELING ‘DREAD,’ experiencing ‘PTSD’ over Trump return to the White House: "We are in a dystopian hellscape."

Poor babies. By the way, the 'P' in PTSD above is for 'pre', meaning the traumatic stress they will incur in having to find a new job in the real world....

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT, this is the horror that occurs when mental illness combines with extreme leftist propaganda.

IT'S NOT PARALLEL; IT'S ORTHOGONAL: The Left's parallel universe.

Any resemblance to our universe is purely coincidental.

THERE'S MORE THAN THE B-WORD when it comes to defining Nancy Pelosi.

Ugly and vindictive comes to mind. She's 84 years old, three years older than Joe Biden (81), and six years older than Donald Trump (78), and has just been reelected to another 2-year term in the House of Representatives. Moreover, she's just set the stage to run again in 2026, mostly I suspect to continue to harass President Trump throughout his term in office.

If the Democrats were smart (they're not), they'd put her on a back -- far back -- bench and duct tape her mouth shut.

REGAIN PERSPECTIVE: Take a walk in the woods.

I did; I feel much better.

THIS AIN'T PRESIDENT BIDEN'S ADMINISTRATION: It's President-elect Trump's.

I remember him saying that the Trump administration began Nov 6th. He's proving it by finishing President Biden's first term....

DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY (DOGE) identifies 535 government workers who haven't done any work for years.

I see the Babylon Bee has given up satire and gone to straight news reporting.

I'D BELIEVE THE SUN RISES IN THE WEST BEFORE I'D BELIEVE THAT WOMAN: Whoopi Goldberg claims bakery refused her service over her leftist views.

Apparently I'm not the only one.

MUST BE A COINCIDENCE: "Nearly all of the states that chose Vice President Kamala Harris were ones that have no voter ID on the books."

BERNIE SANDERS: "It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them."

Heh.

STEVEN HAYWARD: Some observations as the post-election settles.

BACK TO THE FUTURE: Trump must make America the 80's again.

TRUMP WINS, so California punishes voters and slaps on massive new gas tax.

The beatings will continue until morale improves....

NO. NEXT QUESTION? Is the Left worth saving?

At least not in its present form.

THEY'RE NUTS? The psychological reason why Democrats keep calling Trump Hitler.

TRUMP’S TO-DO LIST: How he can restore justice in his first days.

TOXIC EMPATHY UNMASKED: A blueprint for defeating Democrat deception.

TIM WALZ'S election woes.

Heh.

THIS IS NEWS? Pentagon officials are already conspiring against Donald Trump.

THIS IS RICH: Clintons call on Trump to 'govern for all of us'.

The Democrats didn't do it when they were in power. Why should we be different?

‘RESISTANCE’ LAWFARE ABUSERS must be held accountable.

Trump “can unify the nation, he can unify communities, but these nasty, malicious people who abused our prosecutorial system, who abused their public office, who engaged in what amounted to extortion against Republicans and Trump supporters, they need to be held to account.”

Linked from Instapundit.

JONATHAN TURLEY calls Matt Gaetz nomination the ‘100,000-volt option’.

I have to admit being a bit skeptical about Gaetz's nomination, but on the other hand total incineration of the Department of Justice is not necessarily a bad thing.

DEMOCRATS QUITTING X will be missed by someone ... probably.

Minor quibble: 'probably' should be replaced by 'maybe'.

NO, THANKS: Melania declined White House meeting with Jill Biden.

THE BIDEN-HARRIS STATE DEPARTMENT holds therapy session after Trump win.

Get a list of attendees and send it to Elon and Vivek....

NOTHING NEW HERE: Democrats became the party of controlling scolds, intolerance -- and lost.

They lost. Finally....

GOOD RIDDANCE. It’s the end of the Obama era in America.

If I never hear or read the name Obama again, it'll still be too soon.

AMMO GRRRLL REPORTS: Trump wins! Trump wins!

FBI EMPLOYEES terrified of being fired when Trump arrives.

As long as it starts with the 7th floor senior management, I'm okay with it.

DEMOCRATS HAVE LEARNED NOTHING; maybe they're too stupid to learn.

Maybe is not an option....

HOPEFULLY THAT WILL STOP IN JANUARY: The government has created more jobs than the economy.

FEEL-GOOD FRIDAY: Hero dogs and a rescued cat represent America's renewal.

A BIT LATE. I forgot to post these on Monday.

POWER LINE has Veterans Day footnotes.

THE ‘SLAVES OF LIBERTY’: Veterans Day and the price of freedom.

My apologies....

MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNOR MAURA HEALEY vows to use ‘executive power’ to resist Trump deportation orders to 'protect residents'.

I wonder how those residents will feel when Trump closes the federal purse to Massachusetts.

HERE'S POWERLINE'S Week in Pictures. My favorite:

Go see the rest.

RANDOM THOUGHT: Why do Progressives hate America? For the same reason dogs lick their butts -- because they can.

DEAR PANICKING REDDIT USER,

Hi, I’m part of the transition team that will help you navigate the massive changes that will be taking place under part two of the Trump administration.

I understand that you have been led to believe that you will all be sent to concentration camps…(well those of you who aren’t deported…JK) but the truth is a lot more boring.

So, first of all, none of you are going to be arrested, fined, jailed, have your property confiscated or sold into slavery. I know your gender studies professor has been claiming otherwise since March, but the only people actually in danger of anything bad happening to them are those who actually break the law, and they will still get due process. Well them and the excess government bureaucrats who are about to lose their tax payer supported jobs, but even they will probably get a nice severance.

You on the other hand will be able to pretty much continue life as normal.

Censorship is no longer the currency of the realm, so feel free to continue melting down on Reddit without fear of retribution from the government.

You’re free to hate Donald Trump, me, the founders, the color white, math, working out, guns your parents and everyone ignoring you on Tinder. You won’t be censored, de platformed or have trumped up (pun intended) charges brought against you for disagreeing with the government.

Now, on the other hand you won’t be getting your school loans paid for by the taxes of the hard working plumber you think you’re better than, but other than that, you are free to live in your mothers basement while you wait for that job that pays you “what you deserve” for all that education you received in lesbian dance theory.

Also, good news. Your taxes are going to be reduced, which probably doesn’t matter a whole lot to you because you don’t pay any, but your parents are really going to appreciate it!

Also there will almost certainly be a lot more job opportunities and a much better environment to start a business. Which again…probably won’t matter to you immediately, but you will appreciate the additional access to goods and services due to increased capital investment, which you no doubt dream about one day seizing just as soon as the Democratic Socialists of America figure out which pronouns to use on their call to arms.

Also, if you do plan to step outside and touch grass, you will be significantly less likely to get mugged or step on a hypodermic needle. (Unless you live in San Francisco…we’ll try to clean it up but the 10th amendment says they’re allowed to live in filth if they so choose.)

If you have any questions, our number can be found on the back of any job application, so this may be the last time we will communicate.

Thanks again, welcome back to America!

Posted in entirity from Twitter/X here.

EXPLAINING WHY SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN IS NO LONGER SCIENTIFIC: Scientific American editor blasts 'f---ing fascists' who elected Donald Trump.

POWERLINE: What alternative reality looks like.

Defeat....

IF THEY AREN'T CRYING we aren't trying.

HEH. Like Dave defeated the HAL9000, Trump will defeat the Deep State.

I'M FINALLY [MOSTLY] OVER MY RAGE at the jackbooted bureaucratic goons who kidnapped and executed Peanut the squirrel.

From here. And linked from this Instapundit post.

But I'm still pissed off that some anonymous Karen (and Karens can be 'men' too) can call for the 'assassination' of two pets who bring so much joy.

Herewith are some additional thoughts:

WHY PEANUT THE SQUIRREL matters.

Rightfully so. Pet Lives Matter.

GOVERNMENT OVERREACH RUN AMOK: NY state kills Peanut the squirrel.

Squirrels may not have Second Amendment rights -- but I do. Anyone who tries to harm any of my pets will face the pointy end of an AR-15. And at my age, life in prison is not much of a deterrent....

Instapundit has more.

UPDATE: I HOPE HE WINS BIGLY! Peanut owner Mark Longo is filing a "very big" lawsuit and demanding answers about why his animals were seized and euthanized. The state needs to suffer.

On the bright side, Peanut just elected Donald J. Trump as the next President of the United States.

BIG ENDORSEMENT FOR MATT GAETZ: Disgraced deep stater and former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe Says Gaetz ‘couldn’t get hired by the FBI’.

High praise indeed....

LEFTOVER CARTOONS III: I need a break.

Probably you do as well.

REST IN PEACE, WANDA [? - 11/11/2024].

Wanda came to us after the death of her first owner, who had named her Wonda ("I wonda how she came here"). She lived with us for about 2 years, until finally succumbing to a cancerous tumor today.

We'll miss her.

FALLING LEAVES 2024 WEEK 8: This will be the final week of this year's series. Normally I go about 10 weeks, but that hard freeze we had a few weeks shortened this series significantly. What's funny this year is that except for winds, the last 2-3 weeks have been very mild. Lows in the low 50's and highs in the mid 70's.

That said, here are the three usuals:

In all three pictures, the leaves are gone. Even the ground cover (brush, flowers, etc.) has mostly gone. Only a couple of flowers have survived, and I suspect that's only because they were brought in at night during the freeze.

Finally, here are two pictures taken down at the pond. It's sunny, and very calm, so the pond surface is mirror-like:

There are no leaves at all on the deciduous trees, and the slope in the second photo is all leaves; the brush is completely gone.

Until next spring then, when winter ends. -

DUMBER THAN DIRT: Democrats push Sotomayor to resign from Supreme Court.

With only 2-1/2 months left in the Biden administration, do they seriously think they can find a candidate and confirm him/her/it before the Trump takes office? If so, they're seriously deluded.

IMPRIMIS: A Blast from the Past -- The dangers of price controls.

Progressives never learn -- even after being hit in the head with a 2x4. Their skulls are that thick.

THESE ARE OUR SO-CALLED 'ELITES'? What a bunch of losers.

KAMALA --> HILLARY 2.0: The similarities of how Kamala and Hillary's campaigns ended election night are uncanny.

Not really. It's what a loser does.

JUST VISIT ANY DEMOCRAT STRONGHOLD: What alternative reality looks like.

RANDOM THOUGHT: Trump's win on Election Day added 3-1/2% to my retirement savings.

Thank you, DJT.

INSTAPUNDIT IN THE NEW YORK POST: The rich and powerful thrived as the rest of us suffered in the year of lockdowns.

IT MAY NOT [YET] BE MORNING IN AMERICA, but dawn is here.

Linked from here.

WHAT TO EXPECT: With Trump victory in sight, Democrat election denialism commences.

As expected....

DONALD J.TRUMP will be the next President of the United States. Pennsylvania was called for Trump at 1:30 am this morning, making his electoral total 267. He needs 270 to make his win official, but that means he only has to win one of the undecided states; Harris needs to win them all.

Let the progressive riots begin....