WE CAN'T JUST LET THE PEASANTS JUST REBUILD WHAT THEY LOST: Goodbye Pacific Palisades, hello full communism.

THIS IS NEWS? Tim Walz is insane.

That can be said of the entire Democrat party....

KASH PATEL TO SEN. DICK DURBIN [D-IL]: Oh, you want to play the pardon game?

GOOD FOR HIM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu orders buses bearing (to be) exchanged terrorists back to prison after sick Hamas display.

It's time to resume the war and eradicate Hamas from the face of the earth.

SO WHAT IS YOUR JOB? According to Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson it's not his job to protect Chicagoans from criminals.

ADDERALL SHORTAGE sparks scramble for ADHD medication alternatives.

Now that Biden's left office, the shortage should disappear....

MOSTLY BECAUSE THEY MAKE THEM UP: The Left never runs out of reasons to complain.

UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO LAW PROFESSOR: Trump ‘serves wealthy white American men’.

I'm getting rather tired of the progressive/democrat cant that everything is racist.

THE ONLY WAY THEY'LL EVER LEARN: Prosecute the architects of Trump Lawfare for election interference. I wouldn't mind seeing those mayors and governors refusing to cooperate with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) put in handcuffs and dragged off to jail as well.

SOME THOUGHTS on birthright citizenship.

RANDOM THOUGHT: Anything you see, read, or hear that contains the words 'experts say' is almost certainly wrong.

THE ONE THING TRUMP CAN'T DO: guarantee you a more successful life.

Democrats have tried that already; they failed.

This time it's up to you.

NEVER FORGET WHO DEMOCRATS ARE and hold them to their own standards.

Make lawfare great again....

THE MOST DISCRIMINATED ETHNIC GROUP in America is ... Asian women?

JD VANCE EXPLAINS executive orders, energy, economics, and more to 'Face the Nation' host.

AMMO GRRRLL is giddy; there's so much to build:

Anybody involved in the construction business should be popping the champagne with the inauguration of Donald J. Trump. Soooo much to build!

There’s The Wall, of course, which should, at a minimum, be three stories high, have alligator-filled moats, and random, intermittent dumps of boiling oil. Then there’s a yuge opportunity for a boom in small businesses which should probably thrive like never before. We MIGHT even need more prisons now that “crime” is a thing again. But, maybe when we deport the thousands of criminal illegals currently clogging up our prisons sufficient space will open up.

And, oh yeah, we need to build mile after mile of drab Soviet-style internment camps to house the many narcissistic celebrities and terrified Professional Victims in Protected Categories who are certain they are destined to reside there. Many late-night “comedians” and has-been Hollywood personalities are CONFIDENT that THEY are so important that Trump will have no choice but to shut them up and lock them down. Oh, for Pete’s sake, grow up!

Now go finish her post.

NEWSMAX: Trump Executive Order aims to develop artificial intelligence 'free from ideological bias'.

That's unlikely (impossible?) since I have yet to meet an unbiased human....

I THINK NOT. Joe Biden forever!.

THE TOP TEN dumb things said last week. And I'm sure there will be at least 10 more this week.

WHO REALLY RAND BIDEN'S DISASTEROUS WHITE HOUSE? Five likely choices.

THE BUCKSHOT PRESIDENCY: President Donald Trump is executing his Presidential agenda faster, harder, and smarter than people thought he he could.

It's hard for Democrats to respond when they're busy ducking....

WHAT TO DO with unemployed DEI 'experts'? They can join their clients on welfare.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The addicted, petty, and hysterical Left 'achievements'.

TRUMP CAN FIX THE BIASED AND BLOATED BUREAUCRACY — by abolishing the civil service.

DEI IS DOA and the media is hysterical.

TDS-INDUCED BRAIN ROT leads Axios founder to float bizarre theory about Trump's 2028 plans.

HE DOESN'T NEED THE MONEY, but I'm sure he will spend it well.

DEMOCRATS SCRAMBLE FOR A SCALP: "People don’t trust Democrats anymore, nor should they."

WATCHING HANNITY last week as he hosted a town hall with the Republican members of both houses of Congress it was notable that with his every question the response was uniformly 'we will all support our president'.

That reminded me of this quote attributed to Ben Franklin in the context of signing the Declaration of Independence: Gentlemen, we must hang together or we will [surely] hang separately.

They did so for our first president; the question is will they do so this time around?

NO MEDIA HONEYMOON FOR TRUMP: The hoax machine is already up and running.

THE LAMENTATIONS OF THEIR WOMEN: The liberal media meltdown begins....

Hat tip to Instapundit for its lede.

Note even the cat looks surprised.

IT'S ALL THEY HAVE. Why won’t the ‘Nazi’ slur die?

THOMAS SOWELL

describes America's progressives.

WE LIVE IN INTERESTING TIMES. Only Trump could go to China.

'THE VIEW' CO-HOST SUNNY HOSTIN calls President Trump a 'DEI hire'.

Um, if he's a 'DEI hire', why did he issue an executive order purging the federal government of all DEI offices?

HERE'S WHEN I KNEW Biden wasn't running anything.

IVANKA TRUMP: "I love policy and impact. I hate politics."

Let's put policy aside for a moment because Ivanka is not exactly a conservative, but I wish we had more people like her. This nation's institutions and civic health would be in much better shape if we only had these two things:

More public figures who hate politics and don't want to serve.
The power to draft them into public service.

I'm not even half kidding.

Maybe it's time to reinstitute some sort of 'public service' draft...

YES, PLEASE: Does the new DOJ go after the Three Stooges?

Note that Biden pointedly didn't pardon them in his final pardon flurry. Revenge?

SPACEX DID AMAZING THINGS during 7th Starship launch. Mechazilla caught the booster right on schedule, but the Starship had a "rapid unscheduled disassembly" -- it blew up -- during the ascent phase. The 'meteor shower' from the 'disassembled' spacecraft was caught on video and was truly spectacular.

SIX WAYS THE MEDIA will war with Trump once again.

Not surprised....

AMMO GRRLL ASKS AN OBVIOUS QUESTION: Are people really just more stupid than they used to be?

I think the answer, unfortunately, is 'Yes'. I blame federal government intervention.

“THE WOKETOPUS:” How Biden’s administration became a national nightmare.

PEOPLE FLEEING DEMOCRAT-CONTROLLED STATES may be a problem for Progressives when their states go bankrupt.

And I doubt any progressives fleeing will get a warm welcome unless they disavow any progressive views enroute.

WELL, THE JOB HAS STARTED.

And the Trump administration, when confirmed, has the wherewithal to to finish it.

AND THE PARDONS FOR THE BIDEN CRIME FAMILY? Sen. Chuck Schumer [D-NY] calls the Trump Jan. 6 pardons 'un-American'.

HEH: The Heritage Foundation launches a $1 million ad campaign in support of Tulsi Gabbard as the next Director of National Intelligence.

GAVIN NEWSOM: Can someone get him to stop talking?

Then again, maybe we shouldn't. Every time he opens his mouth, conservatives rejoice.

HEH: What DeSantis did to the Duval county teacher's union.

Keep it up, Ron.

WHAT HAMAS GAVE THE THREE RELEASED FEMALE HOSTAGES will make your skin crawl and your anger boil over.

A CLEAR FAVORITE from PowerLine's Week in Pictures (Inauguration Edition).

Now go see the rest.

MAGA GOES GLOBAL: How the Left lost the public relations war.

A BLIVIT: Biden's valediction is sheer projection.

AN OPEN LETTER: President Trump, will you come to Alaska?

UNDOING THE DISASTER that is Joe Biden:

Just when you thought everything related to the Biden administration could not get any worse, Joe Biden finds a new way to be destructive to the country. Aside from the incoherent babble that comes out of his mouth, nothing he does can be chalked up to anything other than seeking to be as damaging to the economy and the country going forward – long after he’s gone, so Donald Trump can be blamed. Undoing these malicious mistakes needs to be a priority for President Trump.

"They will lose in the end, but they can cause a lot of damage and stir up a lot of anger and resentment in the meantime."

COINCIDENCE? OR NO? At 12:01 pm, the delivery truck arrived to refill our propane tank.

We were getting very low.

IT'S 12:01 PM: Our long national nightmare is over!

BIDEN'S LEGACY includes spending more than $5.5 trillion that didn't accomplish anything.

HE'S ALREADY LEFT. [PJMedia VIP post] Will the sane Democrats please stand up?

TIME TO EXPAND THE HATCH ACT to cover contributions?

No, but it is time to shut down Civil Service. (From what I've seen of Trump's executive orders, he's already planning to severly limit it.)

A FITTING LAST ACT for the Cannibal King and His Coconut Queen.

FBI’S MAJOR REVERSAL ON DEI before Trump returns to White House.

I'm pleased that the FBI has closed it's DEI office, but what about these?

[T]here are numerous other groups within the FBI aside from the DEI office, including the American Indian and Alaska Native Advisory Committee, Asian Pacific American Advisory Committee, Black Affairs Diversity Committee, Bureau Equality, Hispanic Advisory Board, Near and Middle East Advisory Committee, Persons with Disabilities Advisory Committee, Veterans Affairs Advisory Committee, and the Women's Advisory Committee.

[T]he bureau also has numerous resource groups, including Blacks in Government, FBI African American Millennials, FBI Family, FBI Jewish Americans, FBI Latinos for Empowerment Advancement and Development, FBI Pride, Federal Asian Pacific American Counsel, Federally Employed Women, From Boots to Suits and the Toastmasters Club.

DEI is still alive in the Deep State; it will take time and concerted effort to kill it.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: What was so different this time about Trump's election.

SHE SHOULD BE GRATEFUL HE'S ALLOWING HER TO KEEP HER TIKTOK TWITS: AOC launches series of explosive Instagram rants on eve of inauguration.

Her 15 minutes of fame are over as she fades into oblivion....

INSTAPUNDIT: Happy DJT Day.

THE FIRST TERMS OF THREE PRESIDENTS:

Taken from the Rasmussen Presidential Approval Index over the three terms.

PRESIDENT TRUMP'S FIRST EXECUTIVE ORDER should be to immediately fire any of the government employees pardoned by FORMER President Biden, remove their retirement benefits, and forever ban them any government service.

It may not be legal, but do it anyway and let them sue....

COMING SOON: Inauguration Day

My favorite, linked from PowerLine's Week in Pictures.

Go see the rest.

NO, YOU'RE JUST IDIOTS. CNN's Jim Acosta says 'we are not the enemy of the people' in shot at Trump as he returns to office.

WOKE PROFESSOR gives lecture on ‘trans ghosts and nonbinary magical realism’.

Let’s hope the Trump administration cuts off all federal funding to universities with such moronic lectures as “trans ghosts and nonbinary magical realism,” and instead encourages education in Vergil, Shakespeare, Keats, Longfellow, Irving, Euclid, plumbing, and agriculture. It’s time to make American universities sane again.

Read the whole thing.

VAMPIRES CAN'T SEE THEMSELVES IN A MIRROR EITHER: The five biggest losers from Team Trump's confirmation hearings.

Just sayin'....

BUT IT'S STILL A PIG: Biden keeps smearing lipstick on his pig of a presidency.

'CAP & TRADE' RETURNS: New York plans to force Big Oil to invest in green idiocy.

Nationally, 'Cap & Trade' first entered the American lexicon during the 2008 presidential campaign, when then-Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., wooed environmentalists with the idea of taxing entities that release greenhouse gases and affect the atmosphere.

It's time to retire Barack Obama from any further public life.

IT'S ALWAYS TRUMP'S FAULT: Democrat Sen. Ed Markey [D-MA] blames Trump for California wildfires.

Democrats are always dumb.

U.S. TAXPAYERS, NO. Should U.S. taxpayers foot the bill to rebuild Los Angeles?

Democrats, yes.

PRESIDENT-ELECT DONALD TRUMP will issue “a blizzard of executive orders” as soon as he is inaugurated Jan. 20th.

FIRE THE FIREMAN? The death of competency.

NEVER LET A CRISIS GO TO WASTE: Wildfire ActBlue 'donation' scandal explodes.

HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL: Don't buy into brain supplements.

Especially if you're of the Left; there's nothing to supplement.

YOUR CYBERTRUCK DELIVERY MAY BE DELAYED: Elon Musk to provide Wi-Fi to wildfire-stricken areas using Starlink and Cybertrucks.

SUPERMAN PREDICTS California could become a purple state.

I'm sympathetic, but the only way California can become purple is for Los Angeles and San Francisco break off and be washed out to sea....

RULES ARE FOR YOU, NOT FOR ME: Disgraced NYC COVID Czar: 'I Shouldn't Have Been Shamed for My Pandemic Sex Parties'.

WILDFIRES and the hoary hoax of a burning planet.

Read it all.

REP. MAXINE WATERS [D-CA]: I'm not into the blame game but ... the rich aren't paying their fair share.

BTW, Waters doesn't live in the district she represents in Congress....

FORMER LTC ALEXANDER VINDMAN HAS THE SADS: Future National Security Advisor Mike Waltz pledges to purge the National Security Council of deep staters.

IT'S ALWAYS SOMEONE ELSE'S FAULT. Newsom responds to those angry over wildfire response by pointing finger.

AS CALIFORNIA BURNS, we can help stop the next disaster by lending a hand.

A bit late for me personally, but ....

CALIFORNIA IS UNDERGOING A CRISIS OF COMPETENCE. Can it afford its luxury beliefs after this?

I don't think so....

THE DAILY CHART: A saga of fire and water.

NEPA stands for the National Environmental Policy Act.

LINCOLN BROWN: a story about 'human-caused' fires.

IT AIN'T REPUBLICANS: Which is the authoritarian party?

NEUROSURGEON: BOOZE IS BAD. America: another round, please.

IT'S HARD TO AVOID THE RECORD: What started the Los Angeles firestorms?

EXPLAINING INFLATION in two minutes.

Linked from Instapundit here.

A LONG WINDED WAY OF SAYING 'KAMALA FAILED': Now Leftists say Trump didn't win the popular vote.

CLUELESS: We Democrats lost elections because Americans didn't realize how much we had done.

No, they lost the elections because we did realize how much they had done.

EXPLAINING WHY public education is getting worse and worse.

IT TAKES A LOT OF MONEY to buy elite government incompetence.

MORE: Incompetence pays well among California officials as thousands of homes burn to the ground.

DO SOMETHING, DAMMIT: The most disgraceful scandal in America today.

ANOTHER REASON WHY DEMOCRATS SHOULD BE TURNED OUT TO PASTURE -- IN THE SAHARA DESERT (without water): Trump will be criminally sentenced by New York judge on January 10th.

RIDICULOUS: Senator Chris Murphy [D-CT)] says Trump's second term will be an 'oligarchy' in service of Elon Musk.

Murphy, of course, is a long-standing member of the Democrat Dumb party, but I have to wonder if even he's stupid enough to believe that crap.

PJMEDIA'S KEVIN DOWNEY JR revisits his 2024 predictions and looks into his shot glass to see what 2025 will bring.

“DISINFORMATION EXPERTS” are grifters selling snake oil.

POWERLINE'S WEEK IN PICTURES: 2025 awaits.

Now go see the rest.

A MODEST PROPOSAL FOR IMPROVING HIGHER EDUCATION: "Five years of manual labor, or working with the public in retail or food service, would do wonders for most academics."

IF ANY IS REALLY NEEDED: Here’s proof that environmentalism doesn't motivate the ‘green energy’ industry.

TURNAROUND IS FAIR PLAY: Eric Swalwell [D-CA] Skates Straight Into Brick Wall in Swipe at Sen. John Kennedy [R-LA].

Kennedy is a great, honorable man, leader, and national treasure. Swalwell, on the other hand, well, in the interests of keeping this piece family-friendly, I'll leave it to readers to debate who and what he is.

Needless to say, it didn't go well for Swalwell.

WARNING: Trump's life is in danger.

I think the lede's a bit over the top, but "without the benefit of hindsight, we mistake aberrations for trends, fads with classics, and anomalies as the new status quo."

Read it all.

IT HAD TO BE HOMOPHOBIA, RIGHT? RIGHT? Seattle closed the door on the subminimum wage for people who work for small businesses, earn tips, or enjoy medical benefits under a punishing new minimum wage law.

"I hate to close a safe space for queer people at this time," Bebop Waffle Shop owner Corina Luckenbach explained on Instagram, "but the money just isn’t there after the minimum wage increase (which I fully support)."

In honor of Occam's Razor, stupidity is a better option....

ANOTHER REASON why we no longer live in Virginia.

AMMO GRRRLL We are finally able to see 2024 in the rearview mirror.

WHAT YOU MEAN “WE,” KEMO SABE? Allstate presents as yet another example of woke corporate stupidity.

Yeah, just pay the bills you contracted for and leave me the hell alone otherwise. I don't need -- or want -- your 'advice'.

HEH: The world's largest flying Pez dispenser will make the first trillionaire.

I'll welcome that.

NEW YEAR, same as the old year.

Well, maybe not. We'll see.

[PJMedia VIP site] CUSTOMER SERVICE IS IN DECLINE: Are these companies just too big to care?

Too true. The "you've gotta login to your acccount on our website to to 'talk' to our computer's chatbot" makes customer service a contradiction in in terms. I've closed several store credit accounts in the past and just cut up the credit cards for another account that I've held for nearly 50 years. The company responded almost immediately with a letter a giving me the number of their website chatbot. Needless to say, I haven't responded....

FIVE PREDICTIONS for higher education in 2025.

A shake-up at the Education Department. Closing it is the better option.

Artificial Intelligence will continue to provide new opportunities — and frustrations. My suspicion is that frustration will come to the fore during the next few years. AI is fast but not intelligent. That will become more evident as time passes.

DEI programs will continue to take a hit. As above with education, vanish is the better option.

A ban on men in women’s sports. Absolutely. Chromosomes matter.

Campus culture wars will continue. Probably, but violence should be cause for immediate expulsion of students and firing of faculty/staff. Tenure is well past its expiration date and adults should be put in charge of course offerings.

I'm optimistic that at least some of this will happen during the Trump administration.

I CAN BREATHE AGAIN: Rep. Mike Johnson [R-LA] has been re-elected as Speaker of the House.

RANDOM THOUGHT: What happened to all those drones that were swarming over New Jersey and parts Northeast before Christmas?

HEH: Tesla Cybertruck voted 'worst vehicle' by National Association of Terrorist Car Bombers.

HAPPENSTANCE, COINCIDENCE, OR ...: Las Vegas cybertruck explosion suspect ID'd as an Army veteran who served at same base as the Bourbon Street attacker.

From Ian Fleming's Goldfinger: "Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action." I'm leaning toward enemy action.

Expect more.

EPIC FAIL: The bomber "tried to send a message by using a Tesla, but it ended up saving lives instead."

RANDOM THOUGHT: Can we just have an interim President and Cabinet until January 20th?

JANUARY 20TH can't come soon enough.

More.

BEST DEFINITION OF DEI EVER: It is about what their co-confessionals in the Diversity Industry are all about; finding jobs for otherwise highly credentialed but unemployable people in the productive economy and increasing their unearned bureaucratic power.

THANK YOU, BARACK AND JOE: For the first time since FDR and the Great Depression, voters who identify as Republicans outnumber Democrats by a significant margin.

THE SQUATTER HUNTER: The 2024 Washington Free Beacon Man of the Year.

IMPRIMIS: Drain the swamp.

IF I OWNED A FORD, I WOULD SELL IT: Ford Motor Co's X account posts 'Israel is a terrorist state,' calls to 'Free Palestine'.

To a progressive, of course.

HE'S UNEMPLOYED; TRUMP IS NOT. Former CNN host Don Lemon calls Trump supporters ‘dumb f---ing idiots’.

CLASS DISMISSED: Colleges expected to close as enrollment numbers tank.

Expect more....

RACHEL MADDOW thought people would be more unnerved by JD Vance.

Both of her viewers agree....

LIBERAL FIRES: Time to put them out.

If the government can't -- or won't -- do it, vigilantes will.

In New York city, the Guardian Angels are already redeploying....

WITH PREJUDICE: Blackball them all.

Fire every single Biden appointee, then ensure that they are never again in shouting distance of any federal office.