The Most Politically Absurd Things Americans
Had To Endure This Year
Posted By: Mercedes44, 12/25/2024 7:18:10 AM
Let’s face it, there was more than enough stupid to go around this year. If 2024 taught us anything, it’s that there is no bottom in matters of the politically absurd. Remember, somebody thought it was a good idea for Joe Biden to debate Donald Trump. Fani Willis thought her deadbeat paramour Nathan Wade was worth every dime. And Kristi Noem believed her Old Yeller moment would be endearing. But then again someone in the Trump transition team thought the dog-killing South Dakota governor and close personal friend of Corey Lewandowski would make a fine Homeland Security secretary, so clearly there’s no accounting for taste.
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"Dear Bob, Nice fake news network you have there. It would be a shame if anything were to happen to it. Love, Brendan."
That isn't quite what incoming FCC chair Brendan Carr wrote to Disney CEO Bob Iger this week, but it was pretty dang close.
Carr has served on the Federal Communications Commission since 2017 and is President-elect Donald Trump's choice to serve as chairman next year. And he's taking no gruff from Disney-owned ABC News, which just agreed to pay $15 million in damages (and another million in legal fees) for defaming Trump during a "This Week" segment earlier this year.
Six months ago, I was asked my opinion of the Silicon Valley alignment with MAGA. I said at the time I thought it would last around 18 months and finally climax with a large fracture in the political movement around 2026. I had no idea at the time, the group of technocrats would begin publicly advocating for replacing American workers before Trump took office.
For the past several days I have watched Vivek Ramaswamy, David Sacks, Elon Musk and his big tech influencers debating with their followers about the importance for them to continue expanding H-1b visas for foreign tech workers.
NEW: Extensive COVID-19 Origins Cover-Up
Revealed, and the Biden Admin Was Pulling
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It's long been known, at least through basic intuition, that U.S. government officials went to great lengths to cover up the origins of the COVID-19 virus. Former NIAID Director Anthony Fauci infamously spent years publicly deflecting blame from China. Emails would later emerge showing Wuhan Institute of Virology funder Peter Daszak had emailed Fauci to thank him for dismissing the lab leak theory.If you aren't familiar with the entire saga, which is long and winding, be sure to check out Scott Hounsell's extensive reporting on the matter. The level of corruption will blow your mind.
Bronx Rep. Ritchie Torres got it 100% right this month when he slammed progressives for their “perversion of compassion” in allowing vagrants to haunt our transit hubs and streets.
Particularly those who are mentally ill and in need of help.
They make life miserable — and dangerous — for everyone. Including themselves. Progressives think they’re being kind, considerate, compassionate to these troubled people.
Civil libertarians think they’re protecting their freedoms. Many of them truly believe they’re doing the moral thing by letting these people fester.
They’re horribly wrong,
It’s not compassionate to let to someone sleep on the floor of Penn Station or to permit violent ones to attack innocent people.
Let’s face it, there was more than enough stupid to go around this year.
If 2024 taught us anything, it’s that there is no bottom in matters of the politically absurd. Remember, somebody thought it was a good idea for Joe Biden to debate Donald Trump. Fani Willis thought her deadbeat paramour Nathan Wade was worth every dime. And Kristi Noem believed her Old Yeller moment would be endearing. But then again someone in the Trump transition team thought the dog-killing South Dakota governor and close personal friend of Corey Lewandowski would make a fine Homeland Security secretary, so clearly there’s no accounting for taste.
The vicious murder of a woman via immolation on the F train — allegedly by an illegal migrant — has brought New York’s total subway murders to match 2022’s 25-year high, with 10 for the year so far.
That’s terrifying, but seemingly the new normal.
So how does our fearless leader in Albany, Gov. Hochul, react?Well, on Sunday — the very day of the horrific arson-murder — she opted to brag about her supposed progress in reducing subway crime.
“In March, I took action to make our subways safer for the millions of people who take the trains each day,” she tweeted.Now, “crime is going down, and ridership is going up.”
A maniac slashed a man and a woman in separate attacks in the Grand Central-42nd Street Station on Christmas Eve, according to cops and law enforcement sources.
The assailant first knifed a 42-year-old man across the left wrist after the two got into an argument on the stairs of the southbound entrance of the Midtown station around 10:15 p.m., police and the sources said.The suspect then ran up some stairs and got into an argument with the woman, 26, before slashing her on the neck near a turnstile, according to sources.
As one of his final acts as president, Joe Biden is commuting the death sentences of 37 of the federal government’s 40 death row inmates, giving them life sentences instead. These 37 men include some of the most violent killers in the United States.In 2019, Brandon Council was sentenced to death for murdering 59-year-old Donna Major and 36-year-old Katie Skeen in 2017 during a South Carolina bank robbery.
Skeen’s mother, Betty Richardson Davis, told local media that Biden commuting Council’s sentence for murdering her daughter “is an injustice.” Major’s husband, Daniel Major, similarly blasted Biden for the move.
According to Walter Russell Mead’s recent analysis, “One way to read Trump’s second victory in three elections is that the movement for a post-American America with a successor ideology and post-Judeo Christian cultural and ethical foundation aimed at fundamentally changing American society has reached its sell-by date.”
Do not hold your breath.
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Russia scrambled to shoot down claims that exiled dictator Bashar al-Assad’s London-born wife Asma filed for divorce and wants to leave with her children to the UK.
Turkish media dropped a bombshell report on Saturday that Asma al-Assad, 49, was fed up with her asylum in Russia and wanted to build a new life in London. The report claimed she filed for divorce just two weeks after her family fled Syria ahead of a rebel advance into Damascus.
The report suggested Asma was fed up with Russian restrictions that confine her and her three children to the city of Moscow, and that she wanted access to top-quality treatment as she fights leukemia.
An unexpected development following President-elect Trump’s electoral victory last month is the uncharacteristic calm from the normally fire-breathing Democrats who got trounced by the man they swore was Hitler incarnate.
Amazon — founded by Jeff Bezos — and billionaire Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta just donated $1 million each for Trump to have an inauguration party and … nothing. Not a sound from scores of workers at either company who would typically resign, write open letters denouncing their employer, or otherwise whine anonymously to the New York Times or Bezos’ own newspaper, the Washington Post. That’s pretty much been the case nationwide, too.
The United States Postal Service is bleeding red ink. America’s mail carrier lost an astounding $9.5 billion in fiscal 2024 and expects to lose an additional $60 billion to $70 billion by 2030. It certainly hasn’t helped that the agency is spending $9.6 billion on a vehicle procurement plan that includes 66,000 electric vehicles. These vehicles are two to three times more expensive than their conventional counterparts, but that has somehow not deterred the USPS. Agency leadership has even convinced Congress to spend $3 billion of taxpayer money on this nonsensical “deal.”
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California has made a big bet on a technology to meet its self-imposed green energy target. It could work. Maybe. Might happen. If the real world matches the optimism. But there are challenging hurdles ahead.
One, the concept is untried on an industrial scale. Floating offshore wind turbines, which California believes will provide a full quarter of the state’s electric power by 2045, “is largely underdeveloped in the United States,” host Kevin Sliman says in an interview with two Penn State University Institute of Energy and the Environment professors.
“There’s a few kind of like one-off test turbines that are typically much smaller than what you would do on a fixed platform,”
WNBA star Caitlin Clark won The Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year with 35 total votes, and Olympic gold-winning gymnast Simone Biles came in second, but another nominated athlete, who came in third with four votes, is stirring up controversy due to questions about gender.
Imane Khelif is an Olympic gold medalist boxer from Algeria who had failed past gender tests — per the IBA — and was later allegedly proven to be a biological male, according to a French journalist who obtained a medical report, as The Daily Wire previously reported.
IBA President Umar Kremlev said the boxer has “XY chromosomes.” The boxer was allowed by the IOC
Bronx Rep. Ritchie Torres got it 100% right this month when he slammed progressives for their “perversion of compassion” in allowing vagrants to haunt our transit hubs and streets.
Particularly those who are mentally ill and in need of help.
They make life miserable — and dangerous — for everyone. Including themselves. Progressives think they’re being kind, considerate, compassionate to these troubled people.
Civil libertarians think they’re protecting their freedoms. Many of them truly believe they’re doing the moral thing by letting these people fester.
They’re horribly wrong,
It’s not compassionate to let to someone sleep on the floor of Penn Station or to permit violent ones to attack innocent people.
Indiana University (IU) is teaching students that they are inherently "oppressors" because of their race, sex and religion, documents show. According to the school’s website, the course "Understanding Diversity in a Pluralistic Society" prompts students to examine "theories and models" in order to "enhance understanding of our diverse society."The course "provides content about differences and similarities in the experiences, needs, and beliefs of selected minority groups and their relation to the majority group."
New York Governor Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, signed legislation this week that requires major fossil fuel companies to contribute fees to support New York's climate change mitigation efforts. Under the new law, companies with significant greenhouse gas emissions will be required to contribute to a state fund dedicated to infrastructure projects aimed at mitigating future climate change damage and repairing existing impacts. The legislation, approved earlier this year, compels major oil and gas companies to help cover the costs of recovery after extreme weather events. The funds will also support resilience projects, including coastal wetland restoration and upgrades to critical
The Hill has floated a plan to stop Donald Trump from taking office next month and declare Kamala Harris the next president of the United States.
According to an opinion piece by Evan A. Davis and David M. Schulte, who worked as editor-in-chief of the Columbia Law Review and editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal respectively, Congress has the power to block Donald Trump from taking office because he has previously engaged in a so-called “insurrection.”
The piece explains:
The Constitution provides that an oath-breaking insurrectionist is ineligible to be president.
The Bilderberg Group - a secret organization of the global elite - is undergoing a leadership transformation as Donald Trump prepares to retake the White House.
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Founded in 1954, the Bilderberg group has long drawn fascination for its clandestine meetings at exclusive hotels and alpine resorts where attendees hold discussions on international relations, economics and security.
The Biden-Harris White House has wished Americans a “Happy Kwanzaa” — a holiday invented in 1966 by a racist extremist who served prison time for torturing a woman.
Vice President Kamala Harris — who was born just two years before the holiday’s inception — claimed in 2020 that she and her family used to gather around, “across multiple generations,” and discuss Kwanzaa’s “seven principles” — which are identical to the principles of left-wing terrorist organization Symbionese Liberation Army. Harris wrote on X in 2020 that her family’s “Kwanzaa celebrations are one of my favorite childhood memories,” garnering thousands of critical comments pointing out
Trump’s Christmas Day message to death-row
inmates granted clemency by Biden: ‘GO
TO HELL!’ 17 replies
inmates granted clemency by Biden: ‘GO
TO HELL!’ 17 replies
President-elect Donald Trump refused to wish federal death-row inmates granted clemency by President Biden a merry Christmas on Wednesday – telling them to “go to Hell.”
“[T]o the 37 most violent criminals, who killed, raped, and plundered like virtually no one before them, but were just given, incredibly, a pardon by Sleepy Joe Biden,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
“I refuse to wish a Merry Christmas to those lucky ‘souls’ but, instead, will say, GO TO HELL!” he added.
The new $9 toll to drive into Midtown Manhattan could soar another 25% — to $11.25 — on “gridlock alert days’’ starting next year, The Post has learned.
The MTA’s right to jack up the already hotly controversial commuter tax was listed in a footnote in the revised congestion pricing plan filed with the state’s rule-making publication, the New York State Register.
“If whacking hardworking Jersey and New York families with a new, $9 a day Congestion Tax wasn’t enough, the MTA is now pouring extra salt on the wound with a 25 percent extra Uber-style surge pricing tax on so-called ‘Gridlock Alert Days’ —
A few years back, on a sunny Sunday in late May, I was out on my deck with an ice-cold beer and a fine cigar, enjoying a fine, sunny Susitna Valley afternoon. After a bit, I heard a motorcycle stop on the road out in front of the property. Then I heard someone’s voice calling to something and heard him crashing into the brush. So, being the curious sort, I went down to see what was going on. The motorcycle rider had seen a bald eagle with a broken left wing in the brush alongside the road. As near as we could figure,