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🚨 HOLY CRAP! Scott Bessent just PUMMELED Gavin Newsom in Davos "He's here this week with his billionaire sugar daddy, Alex Soros!" 🔥 "I think it's very, very ironic that Newsom — who strikes me as Patrick Bateman meets Sparkle Beach Ben — may be the only Californian who knows less about economics than Kamala Harris!" BOOM!

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia’s latest drone and missile attacks had left more than one million consumers without electricity in Kyiv, with thousands of apartment blocks also losing heating during freezing winter temperatures. In a rare wartime admission, Zelenskyy criticised the performance of Ukraine’s air force against Russian Shahed drones, despite the availability of Western-supplied interceptors and F-16 fighter jets. Moscow has escalated strikes on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, while Kyiv has urged Western allies to urgently deliver air defense missiles and military support.

Analysts including Sanjay Sakhrani of KBW have said it is unlikely that a card bill will have enough bipartisan support to become law. Lawmakers from Trump's own Republican Party, including House Speaker Mike Johnson, have expressed caution when it comes to card price controls.

Poor ManBearPig. No matter how loudly and often Al Gore screams that the planet is going to end ANY DAY NOW unless we raise everyone's taxes and destroy the world's economies for his green new scam, he's just not making any progress anymore. Even Greta Thunberg has moved on from being the insufferable Weather PotatoTM to being the insufferable Hamas supporter, riding in boats. (Or whatever it is that she's doing.) Maybe it has something to do with the fact that none of Gore's apocalyptic predictions have even remotely come to pass over recent decades. Whatever the reason, even in...

"Governor Newsom, who strikes me as Patrick Bateman meets Sparkle Beach Ken, may be the only Californian who knows less about economics than Kamala Harris. He's here this week with his billionaire sugar daddy, Alex Soros, and Davos is a perfect place for a man who, when everyone else is on lockdown, when he was having people arrested for going to church," Bessent said. "Shame on him. He is too smug, too self-absorbed, and too economically illiterate to know anything." He also told Lawrence, "Let me know if you need any further clarification."

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, at the completion of the first year of Trump's second term as president, the number of federal employees has declined by 271,000. "We campaigned on cutting back the bloated bureaucracy and we have made considerable progress," Trump boasted. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) disagreed, saying "this isn't something I would be bragging about. More than 200,000 folks have lost the financial security that only government employment can offer. Just think about it. These folks have been cast out of the warmth of the collective and into the frigid private sector where competition...

During a speech at the World Economic Forum (WEF) summit in Davos, Switzerland, President Donald J. Trump asserted that the conflict in Ukraine would not have occurred if he had remained in office in 2022. He attributed the war to the alleged rigging of the 2020 U.S. Presidential election.(snip)The America First leader went on to say that legal action over election rigging is imminent, warning, “People will soon be prosecuted for what they did, that’s probably breaking news.”

There are just two basic ideologies: Right-wing individualism and left-wing collectivism, and only one works; the other kills people. John Stossel's latest video exposes the false promise of "the warmth of collectivism" from New York's new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, by simply examining its failures over the centuries. CLICK ABOVE ARTICLE LINK FOR THE VIDEO This is important because it always seems like young leftists harbor the rather bizarre belief that no one has thought of this idea before, that making things 'fair' would simply entail redistributing the wealth, and everyone would live happily ever after. That the basic concepts of...

In a blow to liberals everywhere, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to bring back insane asylums and mental institutions. President Donald Trump revealed that he had signed an Executive Order to bring back mental institutions and mental asylums, stressing the importance of getting 'people off the streets.' During a press briefing on Tuesday, Trump highlighted the accomplishments of his administration. '[I] Signed an executive order to bring back mental institutions and insane asylums,' Trump said. 'We're going to have to bring them back. Hate to build those suckers, but you've got to get the people off the streets.'

For forty-seven years, a shadow has stretched across the Plateau, cast by a regime that traded the brilliance of a thousand-year civilization for the darkness of a medieval theocracy. As the currency collapses and the cries of “Woman, Life, Freedom” echo from the Alborz mountains to the shores of the Persian Gulf, a singular truth has emerged from the chaos: The time for half-measures is over. Iran’s chains do not need “reform”; they need breaking. And in this terminal hour, Reza Pahlavi stands not merely as a figure of history, but as the only bridge to a future.For the Iranian...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Democratic lawmakers once again called on the Department of Justice to reign in ICE officers, fearful that mass deportations will make illegals afraid to vote. "I am afraid that if we don't end these ICE raids soon, illegal aliens will be too afraid to illegally vote in our elections," Senator Chuck Schumer said. "That's why I'm calling on our president to step in and do the right thing by no longer executing the law." According to sources, undocumented migrants are much less likely to vote as a result of ongoing ICE arrests and may not even bother...

A new edition of Tucker Carlson’s newsletter is drawing sharp backlash after he argued that an Iranian nuclear weapon could ultimately be a stabilizing force in the Middle East, prompting critics to accuse him of echoing narratives friendly to the Islamic Republic. In the essay, Carlson reportedly contends that the chances Tehran would ever launch a nuclear strike are effectively zero, describing the use of such a weapon as “suicidal” for any regime. He contrasts that with the United States, noting it is the only country to have used nuclear weapons in war, and suggests Washington treats that history as...

Donald Trump's youngest son Barron saved the life of a woman in London by phoning the police when he witnessed her being beaten up over a videocall, a court heard. Barron Trump spoke directly with police call handlers after calling 999 when he heard what he thought was Russian national Matvei Rumiantsev repeatedly punching his friend in his London flat. Rumiantsev, 22, was jealous of Mr Trump’s relationship with the woman and flew into a rage when the American tried to phone her earlier that evening, prosecutors said. He then answered a videocall from the President’s son to the woman’s...

On a March 2023 afternoon in Caracas, the corridors of power in Venezuela’s government were shifting beneath the surface. Tareck El Aissami, once the regime’s top power broker and a man long accused by Washington of narcotics trafficking, had vanished from public view. His fall created a dangerous void in the structure that sustained Venezuela’s authoritarian system. Into that vacuum stepped Delcy Rodríguez, the country’s vice president, former foreign minister and a central figure in the regime’s inner family circle... Rodríguez quietly assumed control of the networks El Aissami once managed—networks that U.S. officials and investigative reports have linked to...

In a brilliant stroke of genius, President Donald Trump has just disguised himself as a Muslim migrant so that Europe now has to let him invade Greenland. Analysts say this could be the covert operation of the century, as European countries now have no real way to criticize Trump's plans to take over Greenland from within. "I'm going to immigrate to Greenland for a better life and then put the country under the fattest fatwa you've ever seen," a kufi and thawb-clad Trump told a group of dismayed European diplomats. "We're talking setting up my special Trump-brand mosques, maybe a...

@RepJamesComer Facing contempt of Congress, the Clintons’ lawyers made an untenable offer: that I travel to New York for a conversation with President Clinton only. No official transcript would be recorded and other Members of Congress would be barred from participating. I have rejected the Clintons’ ridiculous offer. The Clintons’ latest demands make clear they believe their last name entitles them to special treatment. The House Oversight Committee’s bipartisan subpoenas require the Clintons to appear for depositions that are under oath and transcribed. Former President Clinton has a documented history of parsing language to evade questions, responded falsely under oath,...

Leo XIV Appoints 19 Consultors – Pachamama Worshipper, Yoga Lover and Abu-Dhabi ActivistPope Leo XIV appointed today 19 people as consultors of the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue. The names are completely in line with Francis’ appointments. Examples:Emilce Cuda (Pontifical Commission for Latin America)In 2022, she criticized the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade (legal abortion in the USA), warning that many Catholics “confuse defense of life with defense of ideological positions.” She stressed that human dignity goes beyond abortion and euthanasia to include “‘in-between’ issues.” (NcrOnline.org)Mónica Santamarina (World Union of Catholic Women’s Organizations)She advocates expanded roles for women in...

When the Bush Administration created the Department of Homeland Security in 2003, they made a mistake in not giving the new Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which used to the the I.N.S. (or Immigration and Naturalization Service) an official agency letter for its acronym of I.C.E. The result is that people can’t think of I.C.E. as an “Agency”, an “Administration, a “Bureau”, a “Department” or even a “Service” - in other words an official group of government people with rules and protocols. I.C.E. is “Enforcement” If I.C.E. had an official agency designation like the ones above, it would be a little...

Bribery “Diplomacy” Is OverSending truckloads of money with abandon is over.Since the end of the Cold War, the United States has attempted to hold Pax Americana together with a simple, deeply flawed strategy: pay everyone off and hope they behave. Allies, adversaries, neutrals—it didn’t matter. Subsidies, aid, trade asymmetries, security guarantees, sanctions waivers, and diplomatic indulgences were handed out on the assumption that gratitude would follow. It didn’t—entitlement did.Bribery diplomacy rests on a childlike premise: if you keep paying, people will stay in line. In reality, when money flows freely and consequences never arrive, it stops being leverage and becomes...

[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal Zen says consistory was ‘hijacked’ by Pope Francis ‘henchmen’'They did their utmost to prevent the cardinals from voicing their opinions. Isn't this the exact opposite of Pope Leo's purpose in convening the consistory?' Cardinal Zen wrote. Cardinal Joseph Zen said he was “deeply grateful” for this month’s extraordinary consistory while also claiming it was “hijacked” by allies of the late Pope Francis.On Tuesday, the 94-year-old Chinese cardinal published his reflections on the consistory called by Pope Leo XIV, the first of his papacy. Zen wrote that he came away “grateful” for the opportunity to gather with his...