TODAY'S NEWS, December 17-18, 2024

Dec 18, 20245 min read

The News of Today is the History of Tomorrow

IN POLITICAL NEWS

1) There are three major civil wars

the DemoKKKrat Party right now, but so far the DemoKKKrats are mostly oblivious. They are still fighting on the surface, trying to figure out how Cackles lost so badly. Now they are blaming Obama as a "grifter" and saying the whole campaign was a "circle of lies."

2) This is really good too: President Trump is set to "obliterate" Kollyfornia's greenie nutjob laws.

3) Having beaten little George Snuffulupagus like a short red-headed stepchild over his slander, Trump now is suing pollster Ann Selzer, who released a totally flawed and hoaxified Iowa poll (off by a mere 16 points) for deliberate election interference.

4) As expected the corrupt judge Juan Merchan in the Boast 'n' Bragg trial said Trump does not have immunity in that case. This is just one more reason Americans' trust in the court system has reached a record low.

5) President Trump has broad support for his agenda items. Maybe that's why in just the latest CEO to make the pilgrimage to Mar-a-Lago, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos will meet with President Trump. As Politico notes, Trump is the "colossus of Rhodes" right now. As Jim McLaughlin observed, whether at Notre Dame or the Army-Navy game, "There’s a new sheriff in town, and I think the American people like what they’re seeing.” Grudgingly the New York Slimes agrees: "He has enjoyed a steady stream of vanquished opponents and critics and business leaders who once spurned him arriving to pay respects, seek jobs or simply watch him press “play” on the iPad that he uses to control the music from the patio during the dinner hours because Trump has bent the Republican Party to his will. And he has payback on his mind, . . ." It's on our mind, too.

6) The Drone Wars continue as the White House says they are "legally and lawfully" operated, but won't say what they are or how they can "legally and lawfully" shut down major military bases and airfields.

7) SC Senator Linda Grahamnesty now says he'll vote for Pete Hegseth. I think Pete now is only 2 votes away. New York DemoKKKrat Kirsten "Gills" Gillebrand signals she'll vote for RFK, Jr. (I would be he also gets Fetterman Massacre, the Human Ox).

8) "Goooooooood." Liz "Clusterbomb" Cheney has been referred to the DoINJustice for witness tampering. I bet they can't make it go away before Biondi gets in.

9) Luigi Mangione has been indicted for the murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. This as 41% of young voters think his death was justifiable. This is what you get from the two decades of the Great Contraction and the China Virus: not trust in, or sympathy for, CEOs or health care "experts.

10) According to insiders, Rutabaga is so far gone he can't even finish a sentence.

11) Oh, and remember the Hillary Clinton emails? It was Rutabaga too.

12) Christopher Caldwell argues that Trump developed a "post-oratorical" means of communication that created "safe spaces" at his rallies.

13) Seth Keshel argues that the DemoKKKrats are the new Whigs. Can't disagree.

14) Congress is trying to ram through a 1,500 page spending bill as a continuing resolution.

15) A new report shows D.C. is still a ghost town after the China Virus. Breaks my heart.

16) Derek Chauvin has filed an appeal to overturn his conviction.

IN ILLEGAL CRIMINAL ALIEN NEWS

17) Virginia's governor Glenn Youngkin will defund any "sanctuary cities" that refuse to cooperate with ICE.

18) You aren't going to like this, but lawyer Daniel Street becomes the third on our side to say President Trump likely cannot undo "birthright citizenship." President Trump can, and likely will, employ a definition of the law that will send this concept to the Supes. Street, as have Zen Master and Robert Barnes, all argued that the legal rationale will retain current birthright citizenship interpretations of the 14th Amendment. I won't go against the legal reasoning of those three.

IN TRANSOID NEWS

19) A school shooting at a Christian school in Wisconsin that left at least three dead, including the shooter. This article outs the transoid.

20) The Senate had Charlie Baker, the head of the NCAA giving testimony and read him the riot act over the NCAA's transoid policies: "Why don't you go to Amazon and buy a spine?" asked one senator. Baker also said the onus was on female athletes to find other accomodations if they didn't want to shower with transoids.

IN ECONOMIC NEWS

21) Are we entering a housing bubble crash? Employment in mortgage lenders suggests so. It has fallen 35% since June.

22) Rutabaga just gave Reuters $100 million in Pentagram, er, Pentagon contracts.

23) For AI and data centers, the near future is natural gas, the longer term future nukes.

IN INTERNATIONAL NEWS

24) As Irana Slav shows, Europe is at the end of the line with its useless wind infatuation. Last year new energy from wind was 4%, down 50% from the previous year and 40% from each year prior to that. The sound you here are the wind turbine blades falling off across Europe.

25) A UK Court said that police can take over $3 million from Andrew Tate in a tax dispute. Of couse they did. When did a court rule that the gubment can NOT take individuals' money?

26) A week after the Ukes claimed that the head of the Russkie nuclear defense forces was engaged in banned chemical weapons, he was assassinated by a scooter drive-by shooter.