Bill and Hillary Clinton: We Won't Testify, But If One Single Congessman Comes to NY, Bill Alone Will Sit For Some Questions, as Long as There Is No Recording and No Transcript

Comer rejected the "counter-offer."

Apparently decrepit alcoholic lesbian Hillary Clinton really doesn't want to be asked about her visits to Pedo Island.

"Facing contempt of Congress, the Clintons' lawyers made an untenable offer: that I travel to New York for a conversation with President Clinton only," Comer revealed in a post on X. The conditions only got worse from there. "No official transcript would be recorded and other Members of Congress would be barred from participating. I have rejected the Clintons' ridiculous offer."

Comer added, "The Clintons' latest demands make clear they believe their last name entitles them to special treatment."

Comer pointed out that the subpoenas came from a bipartisan House Oversight Committee and required sworn, transcribed depositions, and an informal, off-the-record chat fails to meet even the lowest standard of oversight. "Former President Clinton has a documented history of parsing language to evade questions, responded falsely under oath, and was impeached and suspended from the practice of law as a result," Comer said.

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"The absence of an official transcript is an indefensible demand that is insulting to the American people who demand answers about Epstein's crimes," he said.

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Of course, Hillary Clinton also remains squarely in the committee's sights. Comer laid out why her testimony matters and why a closed-door, casual conversation fails to satisfy the committee's responsibility. "Former Secretary Clinton's on-the-record testimony is necessary for the Committee's investigation given her knowledge from her time as Secretary of State of the federal government's work to counter international sex-tracking rings, her personal knowledge of Ms. Maxwell, and her family's relationship with Mr. Epstein," he said.

The Committee will now hold hearings on whether or not to refer the Clintons to the DOJ for prosecution. I sure hope it's a short hearing.

Hello! And welcome to the mid-week!

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Wednesday Morning Rant

Make 'N' Great Again

There is perhaps no greater misnomer in modern English than "Non-Governmental Organization," or "NGO." NGOs very rarely are actually non-governmental. Vast quantities of taxpayer money are sluiced through the NGO complex, and many if not most NGOs are anything but "non-governmental." There are almost no true NGOs, and tons of taxpayer money is involved with these non-NGOs.

The appropriateness of government sponsorship of ostensible charity notwithstanding, the last few months have underscored yet another problem with the idea of government-supported NGOs: accountability. There appears to be none. Enormous quantities of money are being stolen through the NGO complex. Even where it isn't outright stolen, it is likely money poorly spent. Our pseudo-NGOs are out agitating for all things awful, working against the interests of the Republic - and using the Republic's money and various allies in the political and bureaucratic complexes to do it.

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

Still Life—Violin and Music
William Michael Harnett

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The Morning Report — 1/21/26

Good morning kids. Let's switch things up a bit and hone in on another aspect of our national dissolution. Yes she's an abject disgrace and has absolutely no business inside a courthouse, let alone the highest court in the land, unless in an orange jumpsuit or with a bucket and a mop. And even then, given this latest pearl of wisdom maybe that's too much of a stretch.

Yes gentle reader, I give you associate justice Kentanji Brown Jackson:

Supreme Court Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson used legislation passed as part of the post-Civil War “Jim Crow” laws Tuesday to justify a Hawaii gun control law. The Supreme Court heard a case challenging legislation passed by the Hawaii state Legislature after the Supreme Court’s June 2022 ruling in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen. Jackson questioned United States Principal Deputy Solicitor General Sarah Harris regarding the constitutionality of a law that prohibited concealed carry permit holders from carrying a firearm on private property without permission. . . “So I guess I really don’t understand your response to Justice Gorsuch on the Black Codes,” Jackson, a Biden appointee, told Harris. “I mean, I thought the Black Codes were being offered here under the Bruen test to determine the constitutionality of this regulation. And it’s because we have a test that asks us to look at the history and tradition.” “The fact that the Black Codes were, at some later point, determined themselves to be unconstitutional doesn’t seem to me to be relevant to the assessment that Bruin is asking us to make. So, can you say more about that?” Jackson continued.

“Things I didn’t have on my bingo card today: Justice Jackson defending the racist Black Codes as precedent for what we should consider constitutional,” Carrie Severino of the Judicial Crisis Network posted on X.

A complete and utter debasement of anyone and everyone who ever suffered under the Democrat Jim Crow laws. Of course the bitter irony of this, to anyone with a conscience and an iota of moral rectitude is that it comes close on the heels of the birthday of Dr. Martin Lather King Jr. (yes I am well aware of Dr. King's failings as a man and his ties to communism, yet his beliefs and words are what matter most, especially in light of the fact that the racialist-Left are now embracing anti-white/American/Judeo-Christian evil as a means of destroying this nation and attaining absolute power, but I digress). And how does this square with Michelle Obama demanding a boycott of white-owned businesses? I'm so confused!

Yes, Kentanji Brown-25 is indeed an intellectual lightweight if not a dolt whose career achievements are based solely on the content of her melanin and XX chromosomes, certainly not her brain case. But this is not stupidity on her part. This is pure political expediency on her part. She will debase herself if it helps put a torpedo into one of the key pillars of the Bill of Rights. She knows enough to know that because she's black and female, and that she has a propaganda machine fully in her corner, no one will dare question her lest they be labeled racist and sexist. In fact, I'm waiting for the usual suspects to call her citing of Jim Crow laws as some sort of brilliant judicial masterstroke.

Chuckle-worthy that the case in question comes out of Hawaii, insofar as we are always quoting noted Hawaiian justices Buch M. Danno, Moe Loki and Mac A. Damia, who no doubt will be weighing in on this next item to give Kristi Noem a whack on the knuckles.

Arrests are coming soon in the investigation into an anti-ICE mob that crashed a Sunday morning service at Cities Church in St. Paul, according to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. Noem appeared on Newsmax on Tuesday evening and said that arrests would begin “in the next several hours.” The secretary also said that ex-CNN host turned YouTuber Don Lemon could face charges for his involvement in the church protest as well.

“There will be arrests tied to that, and people will be brought to justice for how they violated the law in that situation,” said Noem.

Noem suggested that Lemon’s claim to have only been a bystander and journalist during the incident at Cities Church is belied by the foreknowledge he had of the demonstration and relationships has with activists involved. “The fact that ahead of time, before this even happened, he said that he had conducted some surveillance before they went into this church, he identified individuals that were going in with him that were activists in the work that they had done in the past, the fact that this entire situation was then posted on the Black Lives Matter website, all of that is something that they’re going to be responsible for,” said Noem.

While the left yawns if not applauds Brown-25 Jackson invoking Jim Crow laws to dismantle the Second Amendment, Their heads will explode when Noem goes after the terrorists who invaded that Minneapolis Church with the FaceAct and anti-Klan laws! Oh how delicious!

Let's face it, it was an act of terrorism straight up. The terrorists themselves even crow (not Jim) about making people feel uncomfortable, about ICE or whatever the issue du jour may be. Let's take it a step further — what if one or more of the scum were armed? If Renee Good could use her SUV as a weapon and if a transexual could shoot up a Catholic school and mow down innocent children, then that Church in Minneapolis could've been the sight of bloody carnage. And given who and what we are dealing with, it may yet happen. What happens when the Einsatz-Groupies of Hamas along with Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants' untold number of Afghan/Taliban asylum-seekers join forces with the Anti-ICE crowd and waltz into another church or synagogue in the Twin Cities to raise a few pulses?!

Speaking of terrorists and those who give them aid, comfort and support:

Minnesota attorney general Keith Ellison (D.) defended the group of anti-ICE agitators who stormed a St. Paul church on Sunday, telling former CNN host Don Lemon—who accompanied the agitators and boasted of conducting "reconnaissance" ahead of the stunt—that critics of the incident were "getting tender about a church service."

Ellison appeared on Lemon's YouTube show on Monday to discuss the protest, in which Lemon accompanied Minneapolis attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong, St. Paul school board member Chauntyll Allen, and other activists on "Operation Pull Up," the Washington Free Beacon reported. The group disrupted services at Cities Church in St. Paul based on the belief that a pastor there works for ICE, shouting "ICE Out" and other slogans.

The only thing that should be tender, is the skin on Ellison's neck after he's been sent to GITMO for an extended waterboarding session. This evil bastard. That's all I'll say.

Elsewhere, Air Force One was forced to turn back to Andrews AFB due to some potential electrical system snafu, while on its way to Davos for that WEF conference. Feh.

FYI, our good friend and director of communications at the Heartland Institute Jim Lakely invites you all to watch Heartland's alternative to the WEF, their World Prosperity Forum. Catch it linked here or on their YouTube channel

A Global Alternative to Davos
The Heartland Institute hosts the World Prosperity Forum January 19–23 in Zurich, Switzerland, bringing together international leaders and policymakers to challenge the globalist, leftist agenda advanced each year at the World Economic Forum. While the World Economic Forum promotes a centralized, top-down vision for the global economy, the World Prosperity Forum advances a prosperity-focused, freedom-focused vision rooted in free markets, individual liberty, and rising living standards. The World Prosperity Forum will coincide with, and present a clear alternative to, the World Economic Forum taking place on those same dates in Davos, Switzerland.

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Daily Tech News 21 January 2026

Top Story

• Micron has bought a 300,000 square foot factory in Taiwan from Powerchip for $1.8 billion. (MSN)
  
  Powerchip manufactures DRAM, but is much smaller than Micron or even Taiwanese competitor Nanya. Micron is valued at $400 billion - the largest pure-play memory company in the world. Nanya's market cap is now around $25 billion, and Powerchip is around a third of that.
  
  The new site is expected to be producing DRAM in volume by the second half of next year.

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Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - January 20, 2026 [Doof]

Howdy Hordelings! Appreciate your attendance here at the Tuesday night ONT. Grab a snack and a beverage. Skim the content. Solve the musical theme. Drop something poignant in the gray boxes. Lurkers - will this be your night to delurk??

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Tuesday Cafe

Snowy night in Tokyo
by @Omicram_Box

The creepiest of all dance moves.

Cute little puppy sneaks in for a bashful kiss.

Dog makes friends with some donkeys.

Big cat combat crawl.

Cat brings her kitten to snuggle with her human.

Watchcat on duty.

Sneaky single mother cat tricked a poor dog into thinking he's the father.

Attention-seeker.

Ping pong rope-a-dope.

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In Socialist Grifter Millionaire Paradise of Davos, Gavin Newsom Calls Upon World Leaders to Oppose the United States

Before getting to that: The EU is very bothered about Trump's drive to take Greenland.

Trump has threatened punishing tariffs against the EU for opposing his takeover of Greenland.

The European Union's top official did not hold back in her warnings about President Donald Trump's threat to impose fresh tariffs on countries opposing his push for the U.S. to acquire Greenland, a semiautonomous Danish territory.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen called Trump's threats "a mistake" and questioned U.S. trustworthiness, saying that the EU-U.S. trade deal from July had to "mean something."

"Arctic security can only be achieved together. This is why the proposed additional tariffs are a mistake, especially between long-standing allies. The EU and U.S. have agreed to a trade deal last July. And in politics as in business -- a deal is a deal. And when friends shake hands, it must mean something," Von der Leyen said.

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This woman routinely attempts to impose European anti-speech controls on US citizens by shellacking Elon Musk with fines.

We're not friends.

French President Emmanuel Macron also addressed the issue at Davos, saying the tariffs could force the EU to use its anti-coercion mechanism against the U.S. "for the very first time," The Associated Press reported.

All you do is coerce the US.

The outlet noted that he argued that allied countries should be focused on bringing peace to Ukraine and ending the nearly four-year war with Russia.

Then stop buying Russian oil.

Trump announced on Saturday that starting on Feb. 1, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the U.K., the Netherlands and Finland would face a 10% tariff on all goods imported to the U.S. The rate will then increase to 25% on June 1. The president added that "this tariff will be due and payable until such time as a deal is reached for the complete and total purchase of Greenland."

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Some European nations recently tried to flex their muscles with a brief troop deployment to Greenland. France, Germany, Sweden and Norway participated in a two-day exercise to bolster the Danish territory's defenses amid Trump's threats. Germany deployed a reconnaissance team of 13 personnel, France sent 15 mountain specialists and Sweden, Norway and Britain sent three, two and one officers, respectively, according to Reuters.

I continue not understanding Trump's fascination with Greenland. But when I hear our ungrateful EU enemies shrieking, my opposition to Trump's takeover decreases.

About that Russian oil the Europeans keep buying while pretending to support the Ukraine:

Scott Bessent wants to know why Europeans claim they're supporting Ukraine while they're arming Russia by buying Russian oil.

Barron Trump
@BarronTNews_

4h

🚨 HOLY CRAP! Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent just went straight at Europe to their faces in Davos.

"Let's be clear. Europe is STILL buying Russian oil. Still. Four years later."

"They are literally financing the war against themselves."

Trump blasted the "foolish fortune-tellers" forever prophesizing climate doom.

Commerce Secretary Harold Luthwick blasts the WEF: "Globalism has failed." He assails the organization for endlessly pushing companies to "off-shore" and "far-shore" all of a country's jobs to foreign nations.

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Of Course: Jihadist Muslim Antifa AG Keith Ellison Prosecuted Christians for Protesting Outside a Mosque Under the FACE Act, but Insists His Left-Wing Antifa Thug Buddies Have an Inviolable Right to Storm Christian Churches

Chuck Ross
@ChuckRossDC

ABOUT FACE:

Minnesota AG Keith Ellison has called for the use of the FACE Act to prosecute protests at mosques, according to @FreeBeacon
review.

Now, Ellison insists the FACE Act shouldn't apply to Don Lemon and comrades' storming of a church.

I should mention: the two mosque cases involved protesters *outside* the mosques.

Don Lemon and friends did their thing *inside* the church.

Chuck Ross at the Free Beacon:

'They're Getting Tender About a Church Service': Minnesota AG Keith Ellison Defends Left-Wing Agitators Who Stormed Minnesota Church

'None of us are immune from the voice of the public,' Ellison said in an interview with Don Lemon, who accompanied the agitators and boasted of conducting 'reconnaissance'

By saying he took the military action of "reconnaissance" before an action, Don Lemon again confesses to being a part of the church invasion, not just a disinterested "journalist" who just happened to have been there.

Minnesota attorney general Keith Ellison (D.) defended the group of anti-ICE agitators who stormed a St. Paul church on Sunday, telling former CNN host Don Lemon--who accompanied the agitators and boasted of conducting "reconnaissance" ahead of the stunt--that critics of the incident were "getting tender about a church service."

Oh we're "tender"? We're pussies?

Well we'll see what happens when we storm a mosque. We'll see who's "tender" then.

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The incident sparked a federal civil rights investigation and calls to arrest Lemon for his role in the ordeal. A defiant Lemon mocked the churchgoers on Monday, saying they had a sense of "entitlement" that stems from "a white supremacy." He also insisted he was at the protest as a journalist and not an activist, and that disrupting a church service is protected by the First Amendment.

Ellison agreed.

"I think that protest is fundamental to American society. You know, it's freedom of expression. People have a right to lift up their voices and make their peace. And none of us are immune from the voice of the public," Ellison told Lemon.

"They're getting tender about a church service now," added Ellison, who is Muslim.

Unrelated: The Bulwark -- created, allegedly, to "conserve conservatism" -- is having a banner day.

Bill Kristol says he can answer the question "Can a man become a woman?" easily -- yes they can, and he knows many trannies he considers to be women.

Extravagantly queer Tim Miller says that women shouldn't be bothered to see dicks in their locker rooms because he, too, sometimes sees dicks in locker rooms that he has no interest in. (Citation needed.)

And Mona Charen says that any NeverTrumpers who chose to support Trump anyway because elections are binary choices and the left is worse just have difficulty with thinking.

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Trump's One Year Anniversary: Many Successes, Many Promises Kept

Trump took office one year ago, January 20, 2025.

Amanda Head of Just the News notes some of the big success.

Tuesday marks the one-year anniversary of President Donald Trump's return to office for his second term, and the country is nearly unrecognizable from the way it looked under his predecessor, former President Joe Biden.

The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate right now is at roughly 6.02%, down from about 7.04% a year ago in January, when Biden was still in office. However, that's three-quarters of a point down from the rate in October of 2023, when the 30-year fixed mortgage rate reached 7.79%. Average rates were roughly 2.5 times higher than when Biden took over following Trump's first term.

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Gas prices cratering

As of January 2026, the national average price for regular gasoline is roughly $2.82 a gallon, down from around $3.08 in January 2025 under the end of the Biden administration.

The highest national average gas price during the Biden presidency skyrocketed to roughly $5.02 a gallon in June 2022, driven largely by self-inflicted refining capacity constraints.

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Egg-cellent prices

Right now, the national average retail price for a dozen Grade A large eggs is about $2.71, down from around $4.15 in January 2025 at the end of the Biden administration.

The highest egg prices under Biden hit roughly $4.82 per dozen, in early 2023, and spiked again in 2025 (reaching $8.17 in some retail locations in March) mainly due to avian flu outbreaks that forced massive flock culling.

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Bidenflation no more

The annual U.S. inflation rate (taken from the federal government's monthly Consumer Price Index report) now sits at 2.7% for the 12 months ending December 2025, unchanged from the prior month and down from around 3% at the end of Biden's term in January 2025.

In what came to be known as Bidenflation, the highest rate during the Biden presidency peaked at 9.1% year-over-year in June 2022, the highest in over 40 years, with cumulative inflation totaling a staggering 21.5%.

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GDP growth

The latest BEA (Bureau of Economic Analysis) numbers show real domestic Gross Domestic Product grew at a solid 4.3% annualized pace in the third quarter of 2025 (July--September), and the Atlanta Fed's GDPNow is now pointing to roughly 5.3% for the fourth quarter of 2025 -- up substantially from the roughly 2.4% annualized growth in fourth-quarter 2024 toward the end of the Biden administration.

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Trump closes out his first year with border crossings down 95%.

This drop includes the illegal-alien population, which fell by an estimated 576,000 amid over 622,000 reported deportations and reports of 1.9 million self-deportations.

Under Biden's administration, the foreign-born population grew to a peak of 53.3 million by January 2025. The illegal-alien population reached a record 14 million in 2023 before beginning to stabilize or slightly decline in late 2024, contrasting with the sharp contraction in 2025 as Biden-era deportations focused more on border encounters rather than interior enforcement.

More at the link, including the peace deals.

Which brings me to a point of dissatisfaction: Trump might just have decided that Obama Was Right to Spare the Mullahs and Protect the Ayatollah.

I don't know if this is true -- the USS Abraham Lincoln is still four days away (I think) from Iran -- but it looks like he's selling out the Iranian protesters he urged to take to the streets and "TAKE OVER YOUR INSTITUTIONS!"

If [leftwing critics]had been right this time [that Trump is a warmonger], we'd now be hearing Trump give the command for "bombs away" over Tehran.

Instead, there he was on the White House lawn Friday afternoon, pointedly thanking the mullahs for not following through on their vow to execute hundreds of political prisoners rounded up in the protests.

"Iran canceled the hanging of over 800 people," Trump said, adding that he "greatly respected" the move.

To those with an honest and open mind, the week's roller coaster ride illustrated how Trump's fondness for talking about America's military might is often purposeful sword-rattling.

The bluster, this time and often, serves as an invitation to negotiations or is so persuasive that he gets most of what he wants without having to fire a shot.

'I convinced myself'

As the week began, the scenes in Iran looked like a five-alarm fire.

With the mullahs slaughtering their own citizens for the crime of protesting a collapsing economy, the calls for America to stop it grew louder, and Trump was game.

He gave every indication that our military was locked, loaded and ready to go.

In a bristling Tuesday post on Truth Social, he sounded prepared to take action with his promise to the brave demonstrators that "help is on its way."

"KEEP PROTESTING -- TAKE OVER YOUR INSTITUTIONS!!!."

He urged those in the streets, adding, "Save the names of the killers and abusers. They will pay a big price."

Within 24 hours, he pulled back and explained the move by saying "very important sources" told him Iran had stopped killing protesters and was not moving forward with mass executions.

It's not clear where he got that information, but so far it has been largely accurate.

Additionally, reports surfaced that Trump was hearing warnings from our regional allies, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman and Turkey, that hitting Iran could ignite a much bigger war because of counterattacks by Iran and its heavily armed terror allies, such as Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen.

Some warnings raised the possibility of an Iranian civil war that could unleash a flood of refugees.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also asked Trump to postpone any attack so Israel would have more time to prepare for the likelihood that it would be a target of Iranian retaliation.

On Friday, Trump rebuffed the chatter that pressure from foreign leaders led him to pull back.

"Nobody convinced me. I convinced myself," he told reporters.

He also added that the regime's canceling of executions "had a big impact" on his decision.

The Wall Street Journal added two other factors.

First, military advisers told the president the US must beef up its resources in the region to carry out a significant attack and also protect our troops and allies.

The second reason was that Trump was told that a military attack probably would not topple the Islamic regime but would result in stepped-up brutality against demonstrators.

The upshot is that Trump's decision to hold off on a military strike was clearly the right and prudent call, at least for now.

Another reason? He keeps meeting with the sinister Islamist Tucker Carlson.

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Surprising Few, Ohio Immigration Judges Can Be Bribed

You don't say.

In exclusive footage obtained by Townhall, evidence has emerged suggesting that migrants from the West African nation of Mauritania are exploiting the U.S. immigration and asylum system in Lockland, Ohio, raising serious questions about the integrity and oversight of the process.
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The footage includes allegations that some migrants are being coached on how to navigate the asylum system, encouraged to fabricate claims to meet legal thresholds, and informed -- according to sources on the ground -- that favorable rulings can be secured through illicit means. These claims point to systemic vulnerabilities that make the immigration system susceptible to abuse and corruption.

At the center of the operation is Patricia Golder, who, according to the footage, has turned the alleged manipulation of the asylum process into her business. Golder says she takes a portion of the pay given to the Mauritanian migrants in exchange for helping them navigate the system, and she claims she can bribe judges to rule in the migrants' favor. The footage also suggests that many of the migrants involved neither embrace nor intend to adopt core American values, even as they access public resources designed to protect legitimate asylum seekers.

In the 26-minute video, the undercover reporter is introduced to Golder by one of Golder's friends, identified as Cindy Reis, who says Golder helps Mauritanian migrants get their papers.

"She gets them their papers. She does," Reis says before introducing the reporter to Golder. "He knows about Mulberry Street."

"I try to work with them the best I can," Golder says.

"You know, we were talking about maybe getting them some work," the reporter tells Golder

"Yeah, that's what I'm going to do," Golder replies.

"And then the question is, do they have papers or not?" the reporter asks.

"Some of them have papers, some don't," Golder says. For those that don't have paperwork, Golder adds, "we pay them cash."

"And then, we can make an authorization where you say they volunteer, and you pay them," Golder says.<

Golder says that to get migrants work at big companies, she has to sign for them. But Golder declines to name the companies.

"I have to say I can't do that...that's because of the threat of ICE, so they don't want me to leak, because ICE would go there and take them away. ICE don't play," Golder says.

Golder and Reis know they're working with illegals.

"You gotta work under the radar," Reis tells the reporter.

Video of these admissions at the link.

We are importing rampant third-world corruption to our country for no reason, except to assuage leftwing white woman guilt.

This happens all the time.

2 plead guilty in scheme to bribe DMV employees to issue commercial driver's licenses -- 4 others charged
DMV employees altered records to show individuals had passed driving tests

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Two defendants, including a California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) employee, pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges stemming from a scheme to sell commercial driver's licenses (CDLs) to buyers who never took the required tests.

In addition to Tuesday's guilty pleas, four more individuals, including two other DMV workers, were charged in a 17‑count indictment unsealed Friday. The charges stem from separate but related probes conducted by the FBI, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), and the California Department of Motor Vehicles' Investigations Division, Office of Internal Affairs.

Google AI's digest:

Numerous cases of illegal alien driver's license bribe schemes involving DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles) employees have been exposed across the United States. Recent investigations in states like Kentucky and Florida in 2025 highlight that this is an ongoing issue involving corruption, bribery, and the fraudulent issuance of identification documents.

Details of the Schemes

Bribery: DMV employees and third parties (like driving schools or immigration services companies) have been found to accept cash payments in exchange for illegally processing driver's licenses. Bribes have reportedly ranged from a couple of hundred dollars to several thousands of dollars per license.

Bypassing Requirements: In many cases, the fraudulent schemes involved bypassing essential requirements such as written tests, driving exams, vision tests, and necessary immigration status screenings. Employees would falsify records or use shared logins to process applications without the proper documentation or procedures.

Targeting: The individuals seeking the fraudulent licenses were often undocumented immigrants who needed valid identification for employment or other purposes.

Widespread Impact: These schemes have resulted in hundreds, sometimes thousands, of fraudulent licenses being issued.

Consequences: The schemes have led to numerous arrests and convictions of both DMV employees and the individuals who paid for the fraudulent licenses. Those involved face serious federal felony charges, including bribery, conspiracy, identity theft, and forgery, with potential prison sentences and substantial fines. Licenses issued fraudulently are subject to revocation.

Recent Investigations (2025)

Kentucky: Whistleblower lawsuits and investigations revealed an alleged scheme where temporary workers in regional offices were selling licenses for around $200 each to undocumented immigrants, often bypassing the Homeland Security screening process.

Florida: Eight individuals, including two DMV employees, were arrested in Bay County for a "driver's license for cash" scheme. Investigators seized over $120,000 in illicit proceeds and believe hundreds or more fraudulent licenses were issued over a two-year period.

New York: Multiple DMV employees and a driving school were implicated in a scheme to sell fraudulent licenses, sometimes for up to $2,000, to Chinese immigrants who were not required to take or pass the necessary tests.

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Jonathan Turley: Gay Sexual Assaulter Don Lemon Is Talking Himself Into a Prison Sentence

A lot of crimes turn on mental state -- "intent." James Comey can tell you all about that. He reads "intent" requirements into laws that don't have it, like the Espionage Act.

Many times, you can take prohibited actions but not be chargeable with a crime because you didn't have the specified mental state.

Don Lemon obviously did invade a church. The question is: Did he intend to traumatize them? Did he intend to impede their civil rights through threat or force?

Did he show animus against their religion?

Don Lemon is yet another 70 IQ DEI disaster, like Candace Owens, who thinks he's smart because he's been awarded Participation Trophy after Participation Trophy.

Legal analyst Jonathan Turley urges him to shut his mouth, because he's on a media tour in which he satisfies each and every requirement of the crime out of his own cocksucker.

Jonathan Turley
@JonathanTurley

Don Lemon did his best to perfect the case against the protesters in the Minneapolis Church as targeting the congregants over their faith. In what sounds like a pitch for prosecution under the FACE Act, Lemon zeroed in on the religious values of the congregants in a new tirade...

In other words, he makes it clear he is targeting the church because he hates their religious views. Not just intent, but animus.

Jonathan Turley
@JonathanTurley

16h

...The former CNN host dismissed criticism for storming a church gathering, explaining "I think people who are, you know, in the religious groups like that, it's not the type of Christianity that I practice, but I think that they're entitled, and that entitlement comes from a supremacy, a White supremacy"...

Jonathan Turley
@JonathanTurley

16h

...This follows organizer Nekima Levy Armstrong, who leads the local Racial Justice Network, is declaring that the churchgoers "need to check their theology and the need to check their hearts."...

Jonathan Turley
@JonathanTurley

16h

...Lemon and Armstrong are playing directly into the language of the FACE Act, which "prohibits the use or threat of force and physical obstruction that injures, intimidates, or interferes with a person seeking to ... exercise the First Amendment right of religious freedom at a place of religious worship."

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Minnesota Democrat Lawmaker (and Transgender): The Church Invasion That Resulted in Children Fleeing in Fear Is "Essential," "Must Continue"

They want the shooting to start.

Anti-ICE mob storming church 'essential' and 'must continue,' Democrat state lawmaker says

The mob screamed at women and children and harassed a young family that was trying to drive away in their vehicle.

By Hayley Feland

State Rep. Leigh Finke, a Democrat from St. Paul, posted on Facebook following an anti-ICE mob storming a local church service, calling the incident "essential" and saying that it "must continue."

"Actions like this--nonviolent resistance in the face of government inaction or oppression--are essential," Finke wrote in a Facebook post. "And they must continue until I.C.E. is out of our state, the administration is out of the White House, and dignity and humanity for all of our neighbors is achieved."

On Sunday, about 20 individuals stormed into Cities Church in St. Paul and shut down their morning worship service. The mob screamed at women and children and harassed a young family that was trying to drive away in their vehicle. People in the church were left traumatized, which former CNN reporter Don Lemon said is "what protesting is about."

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In the past, Finke has defended rioting and called for abolishing the police. "So I'm here to tell you that there will be more riots. We remember Stonewall as a riot and we know now that it was necessary. The next riots will be necessary too," Finke said during a speech in 2022.

We might start violently disrupting your gatherings. And won't that be fun.

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The Morning Rant: Violence Is Being Normalized

The existential conceit of the modern West is that our concept of civilization has been the steady state throughout history. Sure, we know that there have been paroxysms of violence on a regular basis, but those are deviations from the baseline. Peace is the ultimate goal of everyone!

And that can't be further from reality. The history of Man is violence. Every day... every week... every year... every century! The rule of law has limited that violence, but only marginally, and only where that law is respected, or feared.

Our current situation in a mostly law-abiding country is becoming increasingly murky. The calls to violence from the hard left is axiomatic, but it has expanded into the soft left, the useful idiots who shriek nonsense at protests, blockade streets, and now assault law enforcement. That they are unfamiliar with the realities of attacking men with guns doesn't prevent them from obeying the directives of their puppet masters, and it is only the restraint of law enforcement and the indecision of our political leaders that has minimized bloodshed.

But that has emboldened the left, and the calls for violence are becoming more clear, have expanded even into the politicians of the left, and may very well precipitate a political crisis, which is of course the goal; they want an overreaction to the violent protests that they are planning in blue cities so that the American public sours on ICE's efforts to deport criminals.

And this is in spite of widespread support for the federal government's efforts to rein in illegal entry into America, and start to deport those who are already here illegally.

But that means nothing to the left, which has spent the last 100 years assiduously breaking down the rule of law, respect for our institutions, and the very concept of a moral people. They have also enlisted the latest crop of ignorant, arrogant, entitled suburban women into their battle with traditional culture. These are people who have never encountered violence, but feel morally superior and in high dudgeon in every way when confronted by rational limits on protest. Add to that the expectation that their womanhood will be a powerful shield against a response to their own violence, and we have the unfortunate but unsurprising outcome that we saw in Minneapolis two weeks ago.

Until the American people unequivocally demand a robust response to these violent protests, they will continue. Until we see the American people take a much more active role in the fight against leftist violence, it will continue.

Perhaps Minnesota is entirely populated by beta males, which might explain the cowardly and weak response to roving bands of leftist agitators stopping random people to demand their bona fides against the entirely legal efforts of the federal government to root out violent illegals in our midst!

How would that play out in Florida or Texas or Montana? Perhaps it is time to find out.

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

Approaching Thunder Storm
Martin Johnson Heade

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The Morning Report — 1/20/26

Good morning kids. Yesterday I took quite a bit of flak in the comments about my asking what is PresidentTrump's "fixation" about Greenland. I also made it perfectly clear, or perhaps not! That I do indeed recognize the geographical and geopolitical importance of Greenland vis a vis its proximity to America as well as our foreign adversaries'/enemies' obvious interest in having a base on that island or total control over it and indeed the Arctic itself as a means of hemming us in if not outright crippling us economically and militarily in the event of some future hot confrontation. Also, as I thought I clearly stated yesterday, the President's foreign policy initiatives have been nothing short of brilliant in securing our interests and that of our allies and moving the world in a better direction all-around. In that regard he has been more successful than perhaps any president I can think of.

Yet that said, there is an actual hot confrontation happening right now and it is with our nation's most dangerous enemy of all — the anti-American Left and its political epicenter the Democrat Party. Collectively they have, as Abraham Lincoln so eloquently put it long before he became President in the wake of the Democrats touching off the Civil War, the reverberations of which we are still suffering from over 160 years later as a result of permitting the Democrat Party and what it eventually mutated/metastasized into. The anti-American communist beachhead has been here all this time, Greenland or no Greenland. The Democrats are rotting away at the vitals of our nation.

Unless and until Don Lemon, jasmine Crockett, Tim Walz, Jacob Frey and everyone who invaded and Terrorized that Minneapolis church are sitting down to have dinner with Renee Good somewhere in the Infernal Reaches, we shall never know a moment's peace. As I said yesterday, either this ends now or ultimately it ends us.

Democrats are playing with fire, but it’s the whole country that’s likely to get burned.
For a democratic republic to function, you need certain key elements. 
First, elections must be generally regarded as honest. 
Second, candidates and their supporters have to abide by the results of those elections when they occur.
Third, winners of elections must not behave in a way that makes losing the contest a matter of life and death (or lifetime imprisonment).

Democrats are undermining — or just outright wrecking — all three.
Ellen DeGeneres draws criticism for comments on Minneapolis protests
Don Lemon blasts Minnesota churchgoers harassed by anti-ICE protesters for ‘entitlement’ and ‘white supremacy’

On the electoral trustworthiness front, Democrats are standing united against measures to ensure that only legitimate voters can cast votes, and that the votes cast are counted honestly and transparently.
When it comes to abiding by elections, the Democrats have treated President Donald Trump’s victories in both 2016 and 2024 as illegitimate. (In fairness, he did the same in 2020 — but accepted Joe Biden’s presidency after Inauguration Day.)
In Trump’s first term, Democrats formed a “resistance” movement — as if the administration of a duly elected president was analogous to a German occupation government in World War II — and pushed the patently false claim that his victory was a “hacked election” or the product of (nonexistent) “Russian collusion.” 
In his second term the “resistance” is expanding, with suggestions that Trump is ruling as a “king” — and now with the often violent protests aiming to block the legitimate enforcement of duly enacted immigration laws. 
Democratic governors and mayors in Minnesota, Oregon and Illinois have gone so far as to actively enable the chaos by withdrawing police protection.  
Finally, winners of elections must not pose an existential threat to the losers; they can’t carry out, or even hint at, mass imprisonment or blanket prosecution. Finally, winners of elections must not pose an existential threat to the losers; they can’t carry out, or even hint at, mass imprisonment or blanket prosecution.  
Take a lesson from history: Julius Caesar led his army across the Rubicon to seize power in Rome because his political enemies were plotting to subject him to political prosecutions that could have led to his death or exile.  
Caesar saved himself (for a while) — but his action, and the behavior of his opponents that triggered it, killed off the Roman Republic.
Historically in American politics, electoral losers have accepted the results, however grudgingly, and concentrated on winning the next election. 
This new trend of treating Republican electoral victories as inherently illegitimate is a departure — and very dangerous.
It’s made more dangerous by widespread threats from important Democratic figures to prosecute not only Trump and his administration, but lower-level officials — and now, even federal law-enforcement agents. 
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has been raising this specter for months, and other prominent leftists are following his lead.
In September, Jeffries said that Democrats would prosecute members of Trump’s Justice Department once they regain power: “Donald Trump and this toxic administration will be long gone, but there will still be accountability to be had.”
In December, he issued a message on X to “all these GOP extremists and [Trump] sycophants . . . the statute of limitations is 5 years! It will be well beyond the end of the Trump admin.”
We’ve heard similar statements from Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett, Democratic consultant James Carville and ex-CNN gadfly Jim Acosta.  This month, the drumbeat got louder amid stepped-up immigration-enforcement operations in Minneapolis, Minn.
Leftist commentator Jennifer Welch recently used her podcast to push “relentless” prosecutions of Trump, Elon Musk, Stephen Miller and other Republicans if Democrats regain power, arguing it would be necessary for “true national reconciliation.”

And just last week Jeffries was back warning rank-and-file ICE officers to expect a Democratic administration to prosecute them for any crimes it could discover (or perhaps, given the history of efforts to prosecute Trump in the past, invent).
“Every single one of these people who we see brutalizing the American people, they’re gonna be held accountable,” Jeffries said of ICE agents. “And the statute of limitations . . . is five years.”
As Caesar’s experience demonstrates, you can’t have a democratic republic if every election is an existential struggle in which the loser risks extinction. 
People don’t want to be rendered extinct, and they can be expected to take steps to prevent it.
If Democrats keep up this thuggery, Republicans will be all but forced to respond in their own defense — and any action they may take could destabilize the nation even further.
The last time such a breach happened in the United States was in 1860, where pro-slavery Democrats seceded from the country rather than abide by the results of a presidential election.  That resulted in a Civil War that killed hundreds of thousands of Americans and devastated much of the nation — a war driven by Southern “fire-eater” rhetoric that’s not unlike what we’re hearing from some Democrats today.
It needs to stop, or the consequences might be much worse this time around.

Have a great day.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
• With more than 50 consulates in the U.S. today, Schweizer writes, the Mexican government “is blatantly interfering in our domestic politics, working with American political advisors to turn legal and illegal migrants inside the US into a political force to wield for their benefit.” In particular, Schweizer writes, the Mexican government sends about a million textbooks to American schools every year to teach its version of U.S. history, among other subjects.
  MEXICO’S ELECTION PLOT UNMASKED: How Mexico’s 50+ Consulates Are Running Shadow Campaign to Sway U.S. Elections (Screw Greenland, maybe annexing Mexico would do infinitely more for our national security - jjs)

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Daily Tech News 20 January 2026

Top Story

• Two things to clarify from yesterday. First, that quote at the top of the post explaining the DRAM Apocalypse was from Jatin Malik, an engineer at Atlassian.
  
  Second, brains are computers.
  
  
  
• Agent psychosis: Are we going insane? (Armin Ronacher)
  
  Apparently, yes:

  You can use Polecats without the Refinery and even without the Witness or Deacon. Just tell the Mayor to shut down the rig and sling work to the polecats with the message that they are to merge to main directly. Or the polecats can submit MRs and then the Mayor can merge them manually. It's really up to you. The Refineries are useful if you have done a LOT of up-front specification work, and you have huge piles of Beads to churn through with long convoys.

  That's from the Gas Town Emergency User Manual which would be a great name for a work of surrealist speculative fiction but is quite literally a user manual.

  Looking at Gas Town (and Beads) from the outside, it looks like a Mad Max cult. What are polecats, refineries, mayors, beads, convoys doing in an agentic coding system? If the maintainer is in the loop, and the whole community is in on this mad ride, then everyone and their daemons just throw more slop up. As an external observer the whole project looks like an insane psychosis or a complete mad art project. Except, it's real? Or is it not? Apparently a reason for slowdown in Gas Town is contention on figuring out the version of Beads, which takes 7 subprocess spawns. Or using the doctor command times out completely. Beads keeps growing and growing in complexity and people who are using it, are realizing that it's almost impossible to uninstall. And they might not even work well together even though one apparently depends on the other.

  What is Beads?
  
  Beads is a quarter of a million lines of code to manage Markdown files in Git repositories.
  
  I have written entire enterprise systems with paying customers and decade-long track records that are no larger than that.
  
  But I didn't have agentic AI to help me, so they actually worked.
  
  There's a term in programming called technical debt, which measures the cost of a quick fix that you know you will have to rip out and fix properly one day.
  
  Vibe coding is the technical debt singularity.

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Monday Overnight Open Thread (01/19/2026)

*****

The Quotes of The Day

Quote I

As someone whose political views have changed over the years, I have always marveled at the one big, gaping chasm of uncommon ground between the right and the left: liberals can't seem to understand that their actions are 100% related to the unstoppable boot of consequences headed toward their non-binary crotches — and that boot has a steel toe. Kevin Downey, Jr.

Quote II

“The sad truth is, for way too long, antisemitism has been allowed to grow unchecked in this country. Too many institutions have abdicated their moral responsibility to speak up. Too many so-called leaders have stayed quiet. Actions have consequences and inaction has consequences, too,” US Attorney General Pam Bleach Bondi

Quote III

I, for one, can’t afford the nuanced opinions and delicate sensibilities of my more liberal neighbors. Bill Glahn

And finally Dr. Thomas Sowell nails it when looking at the AWFLs ..................

Quote IV

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Zoomies Cafe

North Yorkshire

Dog massage.

Hear no evil, hear all evil, hear half evil.

The Furgitive.

It's not old, it's Classic (TM): Golden birthday party.

Wilford the Bear makes himself a bed-hole.

Making pumpkin salad with the hot new kitchen tool, an M60 grenade.

Bringing your bull to Starbucks for a pup cup. No I mean a Hereford bull, not a David French Craigslist bull.

Tractor trailer zoomies.

Highland zoomies.

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Quick Hits

Democrats are dodging the question, "Can a man become a woman?"

They won't say yes. They won't say no. They just won't answer.

"True Conservative" and professional homosexual Tim Miller of the Bulwark (of course) is having a sissyfit over anyone in the media even asking this "bullshit question." Quién es más sassy?

Transgender nosering is, get this, a mentally-ill violent extremist.

Tomorrow, leftists will be "Walking out of work" -- well, let's say they're walking out of the place that gives them paychecks for sitting on their asses and scrolling TikTok videos all day -- to "peacefully demand" that everyone in the Trump administration be impeached.

Don Lemon asked for "likes and subscribes" as he violated the KKK Act.

Mentally-ill leftwing women love firing up the cellphone and taking narcissistic video of themselves emoting and sobbing.

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