Larry Schweikart’s take on news, links to articles at site. I disagree with his apparent trust in polls. Trump’s numbers obviously are much higher. Even regular Demsheviks hate Pedo Joe. Link has entertainment news.
https://www.wildworldofpolitics.com/post/today-s-news-january-12-2024
IN POLITICAL NEWS
1) More polling, as President Trump leads Rutabaga in Rasmussen by 8, again, closing on 50%.
2) Rutabaga’s Valley Forge speech was straight out of the Reichstag.
3) President Trump’s attorneys have filed a motion to dismiss the Georgia case on the basis of immunity. Again and again, the Supes are gonna have to get his immunity issue done quick, fast, and in a hurry.
4) Interesting: Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, whom I always took as a globalist, scathingly describes U.S. foreign policy as a “scam built on corruption.”
5) Fat Fani Willis was sleeping with the prosecutor she named in the Trump case. Unethical, illegal, and grounds to dismiss. Now evidence shows she started her horizontal mambo before she appointed this snickerdoodle.
6) Did China crack Apple’s Airdrop encryption to track senders?
7) Yikes! United Air found loose bolts on their 737 max. I just flew on United-—my first ever on the palatial 777 first class.
8) Ryan Burge: Evidence shows that liberals had worse mental health than conservatives, girls worse than boys, non-religious worse than religious. When you combine these factors, liberal non-religious girls had the worst mental health of all Americans. Gee, wonder why?
9) Cankles was named in the last batch of Jeffrey (he-didn’t-kill-himself) Epstein documents.
10) A federal judge shut down an attempt in Wyoming to keep President Trump off the ballot. Pretty good track record on these so far.
11) Cancer is striking more young people and doctors are “baffled.” Well, #1 the ol vax and #2, growing homosexual sex. I think that explains most of it.
12) A Brooklyn public school omitted Israel from a Qatari-funded map, calling the area “Palestine.”
13) . . . while Benghazi-by-the-Lake’s public schools reported $23 million in tech devices “lost or stolen” post pandemic.
14) The U.S. Army saw a 6% drop in white recruits, all according to plan.
15) Well, this is good news. The Ohio House Rs voted to override Gov. DeWeenie’s veto of the ban on sex changes for kiddos. Senate to vote next week.
16) The family of an Alabama inmate who died said the body was returned with missing organs-—the second family to claim this. I could see Rutabaga’s family making this claim about his body, bereft of heart or brain.
17) Well, I think this is an outlier, but the general result is right: this MI poll says only 17% of Michiganders say Rutabaga deserves reelection, and has President Trump beating him by 8 there.
18) The latest in my “Two Civil Wars for the DemoKKKrats” theme: Brooklyn parents protest after students were forced into remote classes because illegal criminal aliens were being housed in the school. I wonder: will Rutabaga’s Department of INJustice call these parents “terrorists” like they did “Moms for Liberty?”
19) An Oregon gun control bill was permanently blocked by a judge.
20) It took this long, but finally Texas Governor Abbott sent the Texas National Guard to block a busy border crossing, blocking fed troops.
21) In today’s most gross, satanic, and disgusting story, seven Texas men filmed themselves having sex with children in the bathroom of Houston’s Galleria Mall.
[Now I’ll have to look up “Bretton-Woods”.]
22) Well, my favorite lib, Noah Smith agrees with Peter Zeihan: the end of Bretton-Woods is upon us, the U.S. Navy won’t be around to project lots of power or protect sea lanes, and global trade will collapse. That’s pretty good news for the USA, because we rely very little on trade and have the best internal shipping and transport networks in the world.
23) Nick Knack Paddywhack give a Uke a Bomb now tops DeSoros in Iowa.
24) In a throwback to the forward swept wing X-39, the new X-65 by Boeing features “active flight control” actuators, i.e., the plane is unstable and is flown by computers.
25) Murderer Capitol Hill cop Michael Byrd falsely reported gunfire coming at him from the Ashli Babbitt shooting.
IN CULTURAL NEWS
26) The great Ryan Burge notes that while 65% of atheists are obsessed with “climate change,” only 17% of evangelical protestants are. It’s a small sample, but just 5% of young Republican evangelicals are concerned with climate change. Guess they figure if God created the place He can manage to keep it runnin’.
27) Good suggestions from Christopher Rufo on “New Right” activism. Not sure that I agree institutions can be “recaptured” by new government, faculties, etc. I don’t think the structures will permit it. I think they must be brought down entirely first, then rebuilt.
28) Education in Benghazi-by-the-Lake and New Calcutta is hopeless. No repair possible.
29) OK, listen up. seldom do I find papers “seminal,” as in they affect everything. But my favorite lib, Noah Smith, has a piece on the collapse of education. Significance? It shows that even well-intended liberals are fed up with the fraud that is college in America. Bottom line: despite massive federal cash infusions in universities, research productivity has been going down, and in large part dropping because of feces-ridden, pus-inflated wokeism like a recent claim that British iron techniques were first developed by the brilliant Jamaican natives. This is too much even for libs to stomach.
IN ECONOMIC NEWS
30) Chesapeake bought Southwestern to create a shale gas powerhouse. Nuthin’ green about this.
32) The WashingtonCompost is facing a financial buzzsaw. Good.
33) Rutabaga’s economy not great as 38% of US companies plan layoffs next year and office vacancies hit 20%.
34) Meanwhile here are seven charts showing how bad things are under Rutabaga.
35) Hertz to sell off its fleet of 20,000 EVs cuz people don’t like them.
IN INTERNATIONAL NEWS
36) Germany is using less electricity today than in 1978.
37) No we don’t want a war with China. Yes, we must be realistic and be prepared. They certainly are, building a nuke/missile arsenal easily th equivalent of the one the Soviets had.
38) So-called “Kickstreamer” Johnny Somali, who does obnoxious things to provoke responses from normal people, tried this in Japan and was fined $1000 and booted from Japan for five years as a “convict.”
39) More of what we already knew, that the ChiComs’ geopolitical weapon, the Belt-and-Road, is failing.
40) Rutabaga is trying to get us into a war in Yemen, ordering airstrikes without consulting Congress.
41) Crown Prince Frederick will ascend to the Danish throne after his mother unexpectedly abdicated.
IN CHINA VIRUS NEWS
49) Another Congressional hearing on the China Virus, more lies by Dr. Fallacy.
50) The great Steve Kirsch with a summary against the China Virus vaxxes.
[His fall back lie. We know it was INENTIONAL!]
51) The evil ferret-like Dr. Fallacy said that the “lab leak” was not a conspiracy.
5) Fat Fani Willis was sleeping with the prosecutor she named in the Trump case. Unethical, illegal, and grounds to dismiss. Now evidence shows she started her horizontal mambo before she appointed this snickerdoodle
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Quid pro pole?
Wow great stuff thanks so much LJ! Larry is a real go getter. I look forward to his FR mail. He covers a lot of ground.
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Another interesting take on Bretton Woods.
It may be that neither the premise (end of B-W) nor the conclusion (good for USA) is correct, but the topic is certainly worthy of consideration.
B-W helped establish supremacy of US Dollar, as well as the American "Empire." But the globalist money power--not subject to U.S. control--is its current operator.
If B-W collapses, the immediate effect will be much higher prices and shortages for a lot of things in America. Hopefully Trump and America First politics will have a chance to take root, bringing back domestic manufacturing and reliance on domestic markets, before this occurs.
A perfect (if not ironic) example of this is what is happening in the Red Sea, with U.S. Navy solving a major problem for China.