January 01, 2026

Sunrise over the Great Sand Dunes
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"The Gang Starts Listening to Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens."
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This better not be AI.
One of my favorite parts of movies is -- or was -- the use of models and later CGI to recreate historical cities. Now people are cranking these out at home.Posted by: Ace at 02:50 PM | Comments (226) | Trackbacks (Suck)
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Any day I can say "Madison Cornbread" is a good day.
Madison Cornbread -- government name, Cassidy Hutchinson -- was the low-level sorority sister aide who decided to become a Democrat superstar influencer by peddling a lot of nonsense about what other people supposedly said to her about Trump violently seizing the steering wheel of the presidential limo (from the back seat!) in order to wrest the controls away from the driver and go to the Capitol so he could lead the insurrection. All of her "testimony" was nonsense along the lines of "and then Bill told me something to the effect of" or "and then John told me something to the effect of." She was very proud of the "to the effect of" phrase. She thought it made her sound smaaaaaht. Jack Smith now says that all of her testimony was something to the effect of bullshit nonsense hearsay, and all, by the way, denied by the people she claimed she had heard it from, and that's why he never even considered calling her as a witness.. This brings us back, then, to the strange case of "Madison Cornbread." She became the "star witness" of that Star Chamber charade because she was willing to share mere gossip -- "so-and-so told me that Trump said this" -- in particular claiming that Trump had attempted to physically overpower his limousine driver to force him to drive to the Capitol. Actual witnesses immediately contradicted this testimony, but of course the J6 committee never presented these contradicting witnesses, allowing Cassidy Hutchinson's dubious testimony to become the defining narrative. Naturally, Simon & Schuster gave her a fat advance to write a book, a six-figure payoff for her service to the anti-Trump cause.Of course, another six-figure media payoff. And Republicans continue to permit this.
And now, more than three years after her 15 minutes of fame, we get this ironic coda:Thanks to The Patriarch Tree. I'm not working today, just some open threads and then a Cafe, but I thought you'd like an update on Madison Cornbread. What are your plans? I've got a good one. I haven't been to a restaurant in at least a month but I'm going out for steak. Specifically, a tomahawk ribeye.Game. Set. Match. Here we have the special counsel who got the assignment to put Donald Trump in prison over the 2020 election dispute saying, under oath, that Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony was just gossip. Any first-year law student has to know that hearsay is inadmissable as evidence in a legal proceeding, and Jack Smith couldn't go to court with that stuff.
The House Select January 6th Committee's "star" Cassidy Hutchinson provided "secondhand hearsay" about the 2021 Capitol riot and wasn't considered as a witness in the election interference case brought against President Trump, according to former special counsel Jack Smith. Smith told the House Judiciary Committee in a closed-door deposition on Dec. 17 that Hutchinson -- who testified at the Jan. 6 select panel's made-for-TV hearings in June 2022 -- "certainly" wouldn't have made a "powerful" witness because she couldn't provide "firsthand" testimony. "My recollection with Ms. Hutchinson, at least one of the issues was a number of the things that she gave evidence on were secondhand hearsay, were things that she had heard from other people," the ex-Trump prosecutor testified to the Judiciary lawmakers and staff, the deposition's transcript shows.
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As CBD and I discussed on the final episode of 2025 linked here as well as in the sidebar and available on the outlets listed at the bottom of the post, Donald Trump isn't necessarily a revolutionary as he is or positions himself a "reformer."
As was the case with this Amy Vermin Jackson hack-in-black who illegally blocked his Constitutional authority as Chief executive from running this CFPB politburo (itself a completely anti-Constitunal entity as we discussed yesterday). God bless the President he still has faith that an utterly corrupt institution and those who belong to it that are at the heart of the corruption will act honorably and play by the rules and not act as partisan anti-American internal enemies of the people in advancing their goal to take him down and take America down. That has always been his Achilles heel. He cannot or will not distinguish mere rivals from mortal enemies in the figurative and literal sense. In 2025 there were two assassination attempts on the President and a possible third that was linked to the regime in Tehran. On top of that of course was the assassination of Charlie Kirk, a leading light and voice of American political and societal revival who more than anyone in recent memory was able to reach and steer the youth of this nation away from the siren song of Leftism. For that direct threat to the multi-generational assault on this nation and society by those who continue to seek our destruction and/or subjugation, Kirk had to be taken down. Regardless, TPUSA and its mission continue. How many young people has the late Charlie Kirk inspired or otherwise enlightened and set on the straight and narrow, as President Trump is fond of saying, we'll just have to wait and see. Of course the fallout over the Somali immigrant sacking and looting of the Minnesota and quite likely state treasuries of Ohio and quite a few other blue and sadly red states as well will be the top story as we head into 2026. While the Leftist controlled propaganda machine will do all it can to embargo and bury the truth or otherwise completely distort it as a Trump Hitlerite white supremacist assault on the African Somali immigrant community whose presence on our soil is a blessing and gift from Heaven instead of at least two of the 10 plagues of Passover/Exodus fame. Were it not for the intrepid and wonderful reportage of one Nick Shirley, who at the tender age of 23 to me for this alone is the grand old man of real journalism. For doing what he did, he now likely has a gigantic target on his head
YouTuber Nick Shirley said on “PBD Podcast” on Wednesday that people have been telling him he will be assassinated like Turning Point USA (TPUSA) founder Charlie Kirk after his viral video on alleged Somali fraud. Shirley’s Friday video showed him finding that multiple supposed Minnesota Somali-run daycare centers, including one that reportedly obtained $4 million in taxpayer funds, lacked children. On the podcast, Shirley detailed threats he has received, along with how his family has been affected. (RELATED: Corporate Media Outlets Turn Blind Eye To Somali Fraud Scandal)Considering the players involved, no not just the low-level hoods but the top echelons of the Minnesota and quite likely national Democrat Party as well as Al Shabab ISIS and other terrorist organizations operating in Somalia and elsewhere, do you really think they're going to let someone get away with putting them out of business? Minnesota is likely the tip of the iceberg as it probably goes way beyond Minnesota and the Somali community but other immigrant groups and native -born fraudsters. Already, the usual suspects are preemptively justifying and calling for the assassination of anyone who dares even come near them.
The top legal reporter for Politico.com apparently suggested Tuesday a person can be legally shot for asking questions at the doorsteps of businesses.
Just look to the hell that Project Veritas' James O'Keefe (whose name I just couldn't remember for the life of me when we spoke of this on the podcast) has been put through over the years for his incredible exposés of Leftist graft. And lest we forget the decade of hell the evil fellatrix Kamala Harris as Attorney General of California put David Daleidin and Sandra Merrit through for their explosive exposé of Planned Parenthood's dismembering and selling of of infant body parts. Here's hoping and praying that 2026 sees legions of Charlie Kirks and Nick Shirleys coming forward. Again, as we bemoaned on the podcast President Trump can't be expected to drain the swamp, the size and depth of every ocean on the planet, all by himself. And here's hoping that the prognostications about our youth drifting and even rushing headlong to embrace socialism are somehow off base and missing something that would indicate otherwise. I have the greatest respect and admiration for our dear friend Jim Lakely at heartland.org but every time we talk to him about his polling, vis a vis the aforementioned I want to slit my wrists. Other than that, could the Mullahs in Iran at long last finally be on the ropes and perhaps dangling a la the Ceaucescus from ropes on a Tehran lamp post. We've seen this picture before and sadly the protests fizzled and more accurately were brutally crushed by the IRGC. And lest we forget back in 2009 Barack Obama refused to support the Persian people and threw his full throated support behind the Mullahs with pallets of cash to help the build their nukes and export Islamic terrorism around the globe. But this time is different because the Iranian currency the RIAL is cratering, their water supply is in tatters along with their oil refineries, the people are sicker than ever with the mullahs and their thugs, and Donald J. Trump is in office and no doubt will try and unseat the Mullahocracy if at all possible via sanctions and perhaps other means.
If Iran can be liberated after more than 45 years of ISlamo tyranny, what a blessing for their people and indeed for the world as a whole since they are the #1 with a bullet biggest state sponsor of global terrorism. Have a great day And here's wishing all of you a very happy healthy and prosperous 2026. And lastly, a quick shout-out and a huge thank you for your continued support in hitting our tip jar. It truly is appreciated more than you can know.
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- “The fire started around 1:30 a.m. this morning in a bar called ‘Le Constellation,’” police spokesperson Gaëtan Lathion said. “More than a hundred people were in the building, and we are seeing many injured and many dead.”
‘Several tens’ dead, about 100 injured as fire rips through Swiss Alps ski resort bar during New Year’s celebrations (forgotten fondue or Muslim Lightning? - jjs) - Shirley’s Friday video showed him finding that multiple supposed Minnesota Somali-run daycare centers, including one that reportedly obtained $4 million in taxpayer funds, lacked children. On the podcast, Shirley detailed threats he has received, along with how his family has been affected. (RELATED: Corporate Media Outlets Turn Blind Eye To Somali Fraud Scandal)
Nick Shirley Says People Telling Him He’ll Be ‘Kirked’ After Viral Somali Fraud Video
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- The dumbest things that happened in tech all year, apart from tech journalism. (Tech Crunch)
Not entirely a bad list.
I mean, the list is good. The things that happened were stupid, which makes it a good list of stupid things.
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Disqualify Minnesota's electoral votes. We cannot allow brazen election theft.
A controversial Minnesota election policy that allows a single registered voter to "vouch" for up to eight people seeking same-day registration is under fire amid the state's massive fraud scandal tied to the Somali community there. Under Minnesota law, the registered voter must go with the person or people they are vouching for to the polling place and sign an oath verifying their address, according to the Office of the Minnesota Secretary of State. "A registered voter from your precinct can go with you to the polling place to sign an oath confirming your address. This is known as 'vouching.' A registered voter can vouch for up to eight voters," the website reads.
Those being vouched for still must provide at least one form of identity verification, which includes a valid Minnesota driver's license or learner's permit, a "receipt" for them, or a tribal identification card that includes a photo and signature, according to the rules. Vouching is then used to verify a potential voter's residence in the precinct. As long as the prospective voter can prove they live in the state, proof of ID can include a driver's license or learner's permit from any of the 50 states, a passport, an expired ID, military ID, or high school or college ID. However, critics have noted that Gov. Tim Walz's 2023 "Driver's Licenses for All" bill allows people to obtain licenses regardless of immigration status. Licenses carry no marking indicating citizenship, despite being regularly used to register to vote. "It was made for fraud," Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, declared in on X. US Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) said he believes his SAVE Act (Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility) could throw a wrench into Minnesota's policy. Under the bill, which passed in the House but has stalled in the Senate, voters would be required to provide proof of citizenship to cast their ballots in federal elections. It would establish criminal penalties for election officials who register applicants who have not provided such documentation.
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Jeffrey Epstein wasn't just a frequent visitor to Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The club was also sending spa employees--usually young women--to Epstein's nearby mansion for massages, manicures and other spa services, according to former Mar-a-Lago and Epstein employees. ... The spa occasionally provided house calls for members. Epstein wasn't a dues-paying member of the club, but Trump told staff to treat him like one, the employees said. Epstein had an account at the spa where his companion, Ghislaine Maxwell, booked appointments on his behalf. They came to a halt in 2003, after an 18-year-old beautician returned to the club from a house call to Epstein and reported to managers that he had pressured her for sex, former employees said. A manager sent Trump a fax relaying the employee's allegations and urged him to ban Epstein, some of the former employees said. Trump told the manager it was a good letter and said to kick him out.
Morrissey adds:
The WSJ notes that Mar-a-Lago aestheticians and spa workers had begun warning each other about Epstein previous to this incident. However, all of these employees were "typically licensed," which means they were adults. The young woman in this incident was 18 years old at the time it occurred. Furthermore, this appears to be the first time that the employees raised this concern all the way to Trump himself. As soon as Trump heard about it, he acted to cut off Epstein's access to Mar-a-Lago and stopped socializing with him at the same time.
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Drat -- the racist thieves stole the very documents that would allow the pirates to clear their good piratical names!
Oh, and he slips it in that they tore off checks from the "day care's" checkbook, too. Not the whole checkbook, for some reason, but just certain checks. So if you find any checks from the company going to pay for obviously-personal luxuries -- well, that must have been the racist thieves. So convenient of the thieves. He also -- get this -- claims to be a victim of racism, you Racists.A Somali-run day care in Minneapolis is claiming somebody broke in and stole "important documents" as the national spotlight shines on the unfolding multibillion-dollar fraud scandal involving Minnesota human services. Nasrulah Mohamed, manager of Nakomis Day Care Center, told reporters that a suspect entered through the kitchen at the rear of the facility, damaging a wall and breaking into the building's office, sometime on Tuesday. He said the alleged prowler stole "important documentation" including children's enrollment information, employee documentation and checkbooks.Absolute LOL. Look at that uggo Karen holding her Racists Repent! sign.
Nasrulah Mohamed, manager of Nakomis Day Care Center, at a press conference with other individuals, one of whom holds a sign that reads "Racism Has NO Place in Childcare". ]
Mohamed blamed last week's viral video by YouTuber Nick Shirley, in which he visited nearly a dozen day care facilities looking for evidence of fraud, for the incident.
"This is devastating news, and we don't know why this is targeting our Somali community as one video made by a specific individual made this all happen," he said, claiming they've received "hateful" and "threatening" messages over the last several days. "This is frightening and exhausting," he said, calling Shirley's reporting "false." Nakomis Day Care Center was not one of the facilities featured in Shirley's video, which has been viewed over 110 million times.
At least $1 billion in fraud has been uncovered by authorities in Minneapolis so far, including fraudulent food, housing and child care payments, with warnings from the US Attorney's Office that the true figure could be as high as $9 billion. Ninety-two people have been arrested in connection with the scheme, 80 of whom are Somali immigrants. On Tuesday night, the US Department of Health and Human Services announced it was freezing all child care payments to Minnesota -- which totaled $185 million in 2025 alone -- unless proof is provided that the payments are legitimate.
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Via John Sexton, a citizen journalist went to the listed address of a "daycare" that's received $210,000 in federal funding this year.
But no one sees any kids enter the place, and the people at the address refuse to answer the door.Posted by: Ace at 03:00 PM | Comments (366) | Trackbacks (Suck)
No wonder they loved covid so much.
While we were locked down, they were living the high life, on our dime. We just saw new allegations that illegals and Somali pirates scammed the covid-era loans for businesses program.We're still funding this? And if you think Minnesota fraud is a scandal: Get a load of the massive industrial-scale looting in California.
$5B in 'questionable' rental assistance under Biden revealed -- including to thousands of 'deceased tenants' and non-citizens: HUD report WASHINGTON -- A US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) report found more than $5 billion in taxpayer funds went to "questionable" rental assistance recipients during the final year of the Biden administration -- including around 30,000 "deceased tenants" and "thousands" of potential non-citizens, The Post can reveal. HUD officials said a "large concentration" of the suspicious payments went to New York, California and Washington, DC, with dead recipients getting at least some funds in all 50 states -- in what federal officials are calling widespread abuse of taxpayers' dollars under the Biden administration. "A massive abuse of taxpayer dollars not only occurred under President [Joe] Biden's watch, but was effectively incentivized by his administration's failure to implement strong financial controls resulting in billions worth of potential improper payments," HUD Secretary Scott Turner said in a statement.
... HUD's Office of the Chief Financial Officer uncovered $5.8 billion of the "questionable" payments out of nearly $50 billion in total federal rental assistance to public housing authorities, contractors, landlords and other non-federal entities in fiscal year 2024, the 183-page report disclosed. The around 11% of taxpayer dollars from HUD went to more than 200,000 possibly ineligible tenants -- of whom 29,715 (around 14%) were dead, 9,472 (4%) were non-citizens and 165,393 (82%) were receiving sums that exceeded the threshold for assistance in their geographic region, particularly in New Orleans and other large metro areas. The HUD programs are designed to help low-income residents who wouldn't otherwise be able to afford shelter -- and the possible grift means those truly in need could have been left out in the cold. HUD officials faulted the Biden administration for a directive "to push funding out the door with minimal oversight" as well as rent assistance programs placing "substantial trust and responsibility in these non-federal entities ... to accurately assess tenant eligibility." Now, HUD will have to reach out to the public housing authorities and other entities to confirm the extent of the fraud -- and either pause or revoke funding. Officials will also make criminal referrals when warranted. "HUD is implementing processes and procedures to revoke or pause funding as part of its efforts to hold bad actors accountable," one official said. "Additionally, the Department could make criminal referrals and exercise other enforcement actions once it has confirmed fraud occurred."
A fresh 92-page bombshell from the California State Auditor lays it all out. "This latest report was issued by the state auditor, and that's a nonpartisan position; that state auditor now puts eight state agencies on the high-risk list of agencies to watch out for, for things like fraud and mismanagement as well as waste," Newsmax correspondent Heather Myers revealed last week. "Here's a look at that 92-page report. Newly added to the high-risk list is California's food stamp program. If the state doesn't get the improper payments under control, it could cost an extra $2.5 billion. Also on there is the Department of Finance, which was tasked with giving out COVID relief funds. Critics say $32 billion of that was taken by fraudsters. Then there are infrastructure issues like California's deteriorating dams, and also the high-speed train that's already cost taxpayers 18 billion without a single section of track complete." But wait, there's more! "Other reports cite $24 billion spent on the homeless issue that critics claim the state lost track of. More recently, there's a report that says California cell phone users paid a surcharge for years to upgrade the state's 911 system," she added. Tallied all up, California taxpayers lost $70 billion to fraud.
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Good. The coward is getting a little more courageous. He feels less need to pretend he doesn't believe these things while having on guests who he encourages to say all the things he believes while pretending to be agnostic on these topics.
Now the coward is finally finding his own voice.Harrison BergerA few obvious points: Leftwingers routinely begin counting deaths after 9/11 when they want to prove that White Supremacists kill more people than Islamic terrorists. Good to see that Tucker Carlson is embracing this "in the last twenty-four (not twenty five!) years" method of counting. Apparently Tucker doesn't consider the many, many American soldiers killed by ISIS and Al Qaeda to be victims of radical Muslim violence. Or the American civilians captured by ISIS and beheaded on camera. Oh wait, the did restrict his counting to those killed in the United States. Once again he puts special restrictions on who he will count and who he won't count, like a fucking leftist scumbag propagandist. But he's definitely ignoring the people murdered by the Fort Hood Islamist psychiatrist. I guess he considers that "workplace violence" not radical Muslim terrorism -- once again, like a fucking leftist scumbag propagandist. He ignores the people murdered at the Pulse nightclub, the people murdered by the husband-and-wife Islamist terrorist spree killers in California...
@BergerPosts Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) tells @amconmag that "hate the Muslims," is just another classic Israeli government psyop meant to propagandize Americans to believe that Israel's enemies are their own. "I don't know anyone in the United States in the last 24 years who's been killed by radical Islam. I do know a lot of people who have killed themselves. I know people who've died of drug ODs, more than a few. I know people who can't get jobs. None of the boys in my daughter's class can get jobs, none of those white boys can get jobs. They're being destroyed by Adderall and video games and porn. I see millions of Americans being destroyed, and none of it is at the hands of radical Islam. Is radical Islam more dangerous than OnlyFans? It's not even close. Turning some huge percentage of American women into prostitutes. That's not radical Islam doing that, actually."
The perpetrators, Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, a married couple living in the city of Redlands, targeted a San Bernardino County Department of Public Health training event and Christmas party of about 80 employees in a rented banquet room. Fourteen people were killed and 22 others were seriously injured. Farook was a Muslim and an American-born citizen of Pakistani descent, who worked as a health department employee. Malik was a Muslim and Pakistani-born green card holder. After the shooting, the couple fled in a rented Ford Expedition SUV. Four hours later, police pursued their vehicle and killed them in a shootout, which also left two officers injured....etc., etc., etc. We have at least one or two Muslim terrorist attacks in America every year. But the left won't admit they're terrorist attacks. They vow "the motive may never be known." And now Real Conservative Tucker Carlson joins them. He's America First, you know. Obviously Europe sees people slaughtered on the street or train every few months but that's "not in the United States." Are the Jews running ops in Europe, too? (Of course they are.)
He just pretends all these deaths away. All incidents of workplace violence or shocking, motive-free violence that has nothing at all to do with Islam. Again, he's adopting the hard leftwing position on all the terrorist murder we've suffered through for twenty five grisly years -- it didn't happen, and if it did happen, you're racist for noticing. But he's the Real Conservative, huh? Update: Oh my Lord, I forgot about the Boston Marathon bombing. I also forgot about the jihadi car attacks -- you know, where a jihadi plows his truck into crowds of people, murdering them. And the media blames them on the vehicle. Vehicle kills 14. "America First" Tucker blames the vehicle, too.
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@EFischberger Dec 26 A non-exhaustive list of Islamic terror attacks in the U.S. over the last 25 years: 🔸 Fort Hood shooting -- November 5, 2009 -- 13 killed 🔸 Little Rock recruiting office shooting --June 1, 2009 -- 1 killed 🔸 Boston Marathon bombing -- April 15, 2013 -- 3 killed 🔸 Chattanooga military recruiting center attack -- July 16, 2015 -- 5 killed 🔸 San Bernardino terrorist attack -- December 2, 2015 -- 14 killed 🔸 Pulse nightclub massacre -- June 12, 2016 -- 49 killed 🔸 New York City ISIS truck attack -- October 31, 2017 -- 8 killed 🔸 New Orleans ISIS truck attack -- January 1, 2025 -- 14 killed 🔸 Boulder, Colorado firebombing attack -- June 1, 2025 -- 1 killed
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