Scott Adams, Humorist and Rebel, Dies at Age 68 After Long Fight with Prostate Cancer

He's gone to the great Corporate Meeting in the sky.

In more recent years, he became a prolific presence through his books, on social media, through his livestreamed podcasts seven days a week, offering real-time commentary on news and media narratives.

In 2023, newspapers across the United States and abroad dropped Dilbert from syndication, ending a run that had lasted more than three decades, after comments Adams made on his podcast were taken out of context to allege that he was racist. He would later describe this encounter with cancel culture as one of the more liberating moments of his life.

While he lost access to longtime readers of his comic strip in newspapers, he gained a huge following among conservatives, who saw the mercilessness of cancel culture at play with him. Still, he continued to publish Dilbert online.

As a podcaster, he started every livestream with his patented "Simultaneous sip," where he would invite everyone watching and listening to join him in "sipping your favorite beverage. I like coffee." From there he would do a one-man monologue, usually for an hour, on the topics of the day, scientific and technology news, and anything else that interested him. He rarely interviewed guests, and did not play audio or video from other media. He typically would just describe it in low-tech fashion.

But because it was a livestream, he would continually interact directly with his audience in real time, monitoring and reading listener comments. So even though his was the only voice you heard, it felt as if he was having a conversation with his audience.

While Adams resisted calling himself a conservative, his point of view most often reflected the Donald Trump base, though at times, he would challenge that base on some issues.

In late 2025, Adams disclosed that he had earlier been diagnosed with advanced metastatic prostate cancer, and while he continued to undergo a multitude of aggressive treatments under his doctors' supervision, he continued to appear on his podcast seven days a week, for the most part, right up until yesterday.

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The Morning Rant

Weren't we assured by legions of brilliant 26-year-old journalism majors that tariffs would explode the deficit and inflation would skyrocket? Weren't we breathlessly informed that President Trump's economic policies were reckless and would result in recession, high unemployment, rampant homelessness, Americans starving and, probably, hemorrhoids? Weren't we told that his immigration enforcement would leave American businesses without employees, and that our crops would rot in the fields?

Yet none of that has happened, because the analyses by the media and their academic lackeys who lust after appearances on television were catastrophically wrong, and obviously driven by irrational hatred of the president. Oh, we must add rank ignorance and stupidity to the mix...how many "journalists" know anything about basic economic theory?

So what is going on? Tariffs are filling the government coffers at an astonishing rate. Inflation has been tamed. Businesses are relocating manufacturing to America, the administration isn't spending our tax dollars like the maniacs of the last administration, and there is downward pressure on housing because of deportations (both forced and self). All of that conspires to return the economy and inflation to some semblance of rational behavior.

And let us not forget petroleum! oil prices are dropping to levels we haven't seen since...oh...the last Trump administration! That does two things; it improves our economy, and it injures economies that are overly reliant on oil revenue. You know: Russia, Iran, Venezuela, etc!

US Annual Inflation Holds Steady at 2.7 Percent to Finish 2025

The headline says it all! And while the preferred inflation rate of 2% according to the Federal Reserve is still in the future, business can now plan with some reasonable expectation that their costs will not soar in three or six or 12 months. That adds stability to the economy, and to our own finances!

President Trump has chipped away at the deep state and its insane spending, and he has shifted federal revenue away from the taxpayer and onto foreign producers. The shift to tariffs is essentially a consumption tax, but one borne in part by foreign countries, which seems delicious since we have been paying for their defense for the last 80 years!

Of course the judiciary is furious, and has thrown up obstacle after obstacle in the administration's way, but the President and his cabinet have stayed the course, and a gratifying number of their policies have ultimately been upheld. Add in the traitorous senators who are actively supporting the Democrat agenda of obstruction, and it is a wonder that President Trump has gotten anything done, but he has, and the American people see it. Whether that momentum continues into the summer and fall of 2026 is the real question, but if it does, the possibility of an election victory in November will be real, and it will be spectacular!

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

Mars and Rhea Silvia
Peter Paul Rubens

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The Morning Report — 1/13/26

Good morning kids. Starting off with the continued and escalating internal unrest in Iran, here is a very interesting and rather telling development:

Iranian demonstrators set mosques ablaze during heated protests against the country’s Islamic government, according to local video and reports this weekend. Protesters in Iran have set numerous fires since the riots broke out Dec. 28, with Tehran’s fire department claiming as many as 34 mosques were burned, according to multiple outlets. One video verified by NBC News showed a crowd cheering Friday night while a Tehran mosque became engulfed in flames. (RELATED: ‘Death To America’ Radical Complains She Got Detained By Customs After Iran Trip) The mass uprising reportedly began in response to economic woes but follows months of instances of women shedding their mandatory headwear in a statement against the country’s forced Islamic norms. Another video posted by Reuters showed a mob vandalizing the Abuzar Mosque in Tehran on Thursday, scattering furniture and laying incendiary devices. The Iranian regime has massacred hundreds while clamping down on the disorder, the U.S.-based Human Rights Activists in Iran reports, according to The New York Post.

President Donald Trump on Jan. 2 hinted at possible military action if Iran kills protesters, leading to a social media duel with Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei over the following days that involved the ayatollah posting an image of Trump in a coffin. Trump previously bombed multiple Iranian nuclear facilities amid conflict with Israel, marking the most overt U.S. military operation against the regime in years.

So, okay, why do I find this interesting and telling? Considering that Iran is a majority Muslim nation and that its government since 1979 has been a Muslim theocracy based on the strict tenets of Sharia law, that mosques are being torched by the protesters at the very least underscores a disaffection with the aforementioned. And admittedly, here is where I might be stretching things but nevertheless I am going to formulate a bit of an hypothesis and make an assumption.

Remember that the self-styled cognoscenti, elite and thought leaders have unceasingly been hocking a tchainik over our heads here in America and the west that Islam is a religion of peace and to dare even question that would be Islamophobic, bigoted and racist, etc. etc. ad nauseam.

Well then if that is the case then how to explain the Iranian Muslim "street" rising up and torching their own houses of worship if the shibboleths about Islam and Sharia as paragons of peace and moral order are as we have been forced to accept under pain of being labeled a racist xenophobe Islamophobe for defiance of that.

I'm sure the usual excuses will be given that just like the true believers who took down the World Trade Center were "extremists" who bastardized the true meaning of Islam or were Israeli Mossad agents or even Americans sent in by President Trump or both if you're Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens. But that of course is nonsense.

So, here's my take. It tells me that the Persian/Iranian people have taken to the streets not merely to replace the Muallhs with other Mullahs. They recognize it's the entire system that is corrupt, inept, destructive and lethal to their thriving as a functioning and advancing society. Prior to 1979, Iran was a modern, flourishing and western-oriented (politically and culturally) nation. And that is still within living memory of many Iranians and it is something that the younger generations are desperate to return to.

Here's where maybe I'm stretching things a bit and quite possibly wish-casting — Look at Iran's history prior to 1979, the excesses of the Shah and Mossadegh notwithstanding, ask any average Iranian expat and they'll tell you that life under them was paradise compared to what Khomeini and his successors wrought.

Now look at present day Turkey through that lens. A secular, modern, society thanks to Kemal Ataturk and turned into an Islamic thugocracy through the tyrannical rule of Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his AKP since 2002. Could what's happening in Iran spread to Turkey?

On the down side, you'll recall the 2011 "Arab Spring" demonstrations that led to the downfall of a number of Arab Islamic governments primarily in North Africa but instead of resulting in the rise of small "D" democratic forces led to the ascendancy of the Muslim Brotherhood in the region and its malign influence in the ensuing years.

Lest we forget that Afghanistan at one time was also a fairly modern society until the coming of the Taliban and then of course the Soviet Invasion and later our insane Democracy Project in the wake of 9/11 and Gulf War 2. Result, over 3,000 American soldiers dead, Taliban still there and weaponized courtesy of Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants snap bug-out of 2020 with untold numbers of Afghani jihadists here in our country given political asylum.

In any case, the Cliff Notes version of the above is, I suppose, I'm wondering can Islam reform itself? That is is what we are witnessing in Iran a scintilla of hope that we are not doomed for all time to face an existential threat from the followers of Mohammed

Then again, the bitter irony is that as Teheran and Istanbul duke it out over which one gets to be the capital of a global caliphate, or perhaps both turning a new leaf and experiencing an enlightenment and rebirth as paragons of western civilization, Europe and the West become the axis upon which a reenergized and even more virulent Islam rotates. When the #1 baby name in England and other nations is Mohammed, the future doesn't look so bright.

And while mosques may be burning in Iran, Yet another synagogue went up in flames. This time in of all places Jackson, Mississippi:

Federal prosecutors say the man accused of torching Mississippi’s oldest and largest synagogue admitted he selected the building because of its connection to Judaism.

Authorities arrested a suspect, Stephen Spencer Pittman, Saturday night. Investigators said an intentionally set fire gutted Beth Israel Congregation in Jackson, Miss. Federal prosecutors said Monday that the man charged with torching the synagogue admitted he targeted the building because of its “Jewish ties,” after police arrested him at a hospital where he was treated for burn injuries from the early-morning fire, according to The New York Times.

Investigators identified Pittman after his father contacted the FBI and reported that his son had confessed to starting the fire, according to an affidavit filed in federal court Monday. Location data from a tracking app running on Pittman’s cellphone reinforced that account, showing him leaving his home in a Jackson suburb, stopping at a gas station to buy fuel, and then driving directly to the synagogue. . . Prior to this incident, another high-profile attack targeted a synagogue in Manchester, England, where a man killed two people outside the building, highlighting broader security concerns surrounding Jewish houses of worship. The suspect, Jihad al-Shamie, was reportedly free on bail at the time of the synagogue attack after previously facing an alleged rape charge.

Synagogues are connected to Judaism? Wow, I'm shocked. Maybe he should've targeted the Weather Channel for a twofer, after all Jews control the weather and the media, nein?

In all seriousness, where did this bastard get the notion to torch a synagogue and attack Jews? Meh, where did the now deceased Renee Good get it in her head to use her SUV to try and ram ICE agents?

In the immortal lyrics of Rodgers and Hammerstein You've Got To Be Carefully Taught

And mostly in Pittsburgh by Yinzer psychopaths

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• The Heartland Institute will host the World Prosperity Forum January 19 to 23 in Zurich, Switzerland, bringing together international leaders and policymakers to challenge the globalist, leftist agenda advanced each year at the World Economic Forum. 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. . .The Heartland Institute will be streaming LIVE every day from Switzerland five straight days beginning January 19, 2026 Speakers will include former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss and former Czech Republic President Václav Klaus
  World Prosperity Forum Takes on the Globalist-Left’s World Economic Forum

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Daily Tech News 13 January 2026

Top Story

• With support for Windows 10 ending last October, user numbers for Windows 11 climbed to an all time high. Which was only to be expected.
  
  Less expected was that the numbers for Windows 11 have been dropping ever since. (MSN)
  
  Over the last two months Windows 11 has fallen from 53.7% of the PC market to a very slim majority at 50.7%, with Windows 10 growing from 42.7% to 44.7%, and most of the remainder going to Windows 7, which came out all the way back in 2009.
  
  This is not particularly good news for Microsoft.

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Overnight Open Thread [01/12/2026]

Mt. Baldy (Mount San Antonio) is probably 15 miles from Rancho Cucamonga, and one can see the peak from Interstate 15. It's also 10,000 feet high and will kill you without any effort at all!

Like these three knuckleheads: Bodies of three hikers recovered from Mt. Baldy amid harsh weather. Really? Harsh weather in December on a tall mountain? Who knew!

Nature never makes any blunders; when she makes a fool she means it.

-- Josh Billings

It isn't difficult to prepare oneself for most eventualities. Sure, that Chinese missile strike on Los Angeles might put you in a bit of a pickle, or the massive earthquake that shakes half the mountain down on your head will probably cut into your clubbing that night, but for most days? Appropriate footwear, appropriate clothing, water and a bit of food, and a good map in case your phone dies.

Personally, I like being armed, but in California that might get you arrested.

Oh...you might want to check the weather report too!

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Monkey Rampage Cafe

Fukuoka, Japan

Little kitten is probably possessed by a demon.

Who is your dog loyal to?

They tested a dog to see which one it loved more. It was not a close contest.

Taking rescue dogs out for a hike.

A working mom is never off the clock.

Cat decides that four legs are for homos.

Cat plays with his ball.

Rescue donkey loves kisses.

Little dog " " " helps " " ". He's doing his best.

This right ear better not be AI.

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New Nick Shirley Video Said to Expose Fraud "Ten Times Worse" Than Prior Videos
Pro-Terrorism, Pro-Antifa AG Announces Lawsuit to Stop the "INVASION" of Minnesota by the Federal Government

A New Nick Shirley Video Shows Grift That Is 'Ten Times Worse' and Will Cause 'World War III'

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was told over the weekend that a new Nick Shirley video being released soon - maybe even as early as Monday -- is "ten times worse" than the "Quality Learing Center" daycare scam.

In Shirley's previous video, he and his source, David Hoch, who has been investigating this billion-dollar-plus scam for years, discovered multiple daycare centers in one building without children in them for years.

And this is where Hoch says is the heart of the ongoing continuing criminal enterprise.

Hoch says the new video will show that most of these companies are Somali-owned, and his and Shirley's visit to these companies found zero companies.

I think that sentence was glitched.

"What I believe is the core of all this is this non-emergency medical transportation. A search showed that Minnesota recognizes 1,020 NEMT [Non-Emergency Medical Transport] companies. Almost 900 of them are Somali-owned," he told Bessent. Hoch went on, "In the second video, Nick Shirley and I went to 16 of them -- I've actually been to about 70 of them." At this point, he held up his papers and leaned forward to Bessent to emphasize, "THEY DON'T EXIST."

They visited the NEMT companies to find the addresses went to places with "no vehicles." Fronts included, "an apartment building. One of them is a liquor store. Another one is a wire transfer. Another one is totally unrelated -- it's a grocery store. There are no vehicles." He said, "The vast majority of these companies exist on paper only. They are not real."

He said that the average NEMT company in the United States has about "20 vehicles and each vehicle generates about $70,000 a year." He said that if you run those numbers, "800 companies, 20 vehicles, $70,000 a year? It's an enormous sum of money that's going out."

Preview of the video at the link.

Minnesota is launching a lawsuit to stop the "invasion" of Minnesota by... the government of the United States of America.

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Claim: Delta Force Used Some Kind of Secret Sonic Weapon Against Venezuelan/Cuban Security Troops, Disorienting Them, Disabling Them, and Causing Their Noses to Erupt Into Bleeding

I don't know if this is true or not. Karoline Leavitt retweeted this story telling people:
"Stop what you're doing and read this!"

Does that mean it's true? No!

Because I spent the weekend watching videos about the Maduro capture, and I discovered that we are all currently living in a Tom Clancy novel.

Do you remember first reading Hunt for Red October and Red Storm Rising and wondering, Could this bullshit be true? Are we living in a sci-fi world that is being kept secret from us?

And that's how I feel now. I don't know if this directed energy weapon is real or just another deception pushed by the Trump Administration. And I don't mean that in a bad way-- when you're doing covert military ops, you're going push some deceptions on to the world. You have to.

Is Leavitt confirming we really have a directed energy weapon that Delta Force uses to incapacitate people at a distance? Or is she just pushing this story because she wants Iran to think we have it?

So first, the directed energy weapon which may or may not exist, and which Karoline Leavitt may or may not be lying about to sow confusion about what we actually did do in Caracas:

The US used a powerful mystery weapon that brought Venezuelan soldiers to their knees, "bleeding through the nose" and vomiting blood, during the daring raid to capture dictator Nicolas Maduro, according to a witness account posted Saturday on X by the White House press secretary.

...

Moments later, a handful of helicopters appeared -- "barely eight," by his count -- deploying what he estimated were just 20 US troops into the area.

But those few men, he said, came armed with something far more powerful than guns.

"They were technologically very advanced," the guard recalled. "They didn't look like anything we've fought against before."

What ensued, he said, was not a battle but a slaughter.

"We were hundreds, but we had no chance," he said. "They were shooting with such precision and speed; it felt like each soldier was firing 300 rounds per minute."

Well they are among the best-trained shooters in history. And they carry some really good guns. I have a video linked below about that.

Then came the weapon that still haunts him.

"At one point, they launched something; I don't know how to describe it," he said. "It was like a very intense sound wave. Suddenly I felt like my head was exploding from the inside."

The effects were immediate and horrific.

"We all started bleeding from the nose," he said. "Some were vomiting blood. We fell to the ground, unable to move. We couldn't even stand up after that sonic weapon -- or whatever it was."

The White House did not immediately respond to a question regarding whether Karoline Leavitt's sharing of the post -- captioned, "Stop what you are doing and read this..." -- indicated the administration was verifying the veracity of the eyewitness account.

...

The outmatched defenders were helpless as the small US unit wiped them out, the guard said.

"Those 20 men, without a single casualty, killed hundreds of us," he claimed. "We had no way to compete with their technology, with their weapons. I swear, I've never seen anything like it."

The military has had directed energy weapons -- which neutralize targets using focused energy such as microwaves or laser beams -- for years, but this could be the first time it's been used in combat by the US, an ex-US intelligence source told The Post. China reportedly used a microwave weapon in 2020 against Indian soldiers during a border dispute in Ladakh.

This sounds like it might be more powerful variant of the directed energy weapon that Russia is using against US diplomats -- so I'm glad that a bunch of Cuban mercenaries got hit with it.

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Under Pressure by Judicial Watch Lawsuit, Oregon Finally Agrees to Remove 800,000 Ineligible/Fake/Dead Names from Their Voting Rolls
Violent Leftwing Sissyboys Get Knocked TF Out

Gee, why would it take a lawsuit to force this?

Oregon election officials are set to begin removing hundreds of thousands of inactive voters from the state's registration rolls, a move that comes after years of inaction, mounting public pressure, and lawsuits filed against the state in recent months.

Oregon's Democratic Secretary of State Tobias Read, in a press release Friday, outlined two new directives he said will "restart" the "routine cleanup of outdated, inactive voter registration records" in accordance with state law to address the roughly 800,000 inactive voter records that are being maintained by election officials.

The first directive orders counties to immediately cancel long-inactive voter registrations that already met the legal requirements for removal before 2017. These are registrations where election mail was returned as undeliverable, voters failed to respond to official notices, and they did not participate in multiple federal elections. State officials estimate roughly 160,000 registrations fall into this category and should have been removed years ago.

The second directive changes how the state handles inactive voters going forward. It updates the language on voter confirmation cards to clearly warn voters that their registrations will be canceled if they do not respond or vote within the required time frame. State officials say this step restores a process that allows routine cleanup of inactive registrations under federal law.

Together, the directives are designed to address a backlog of inactive records and restart regular voter-roll maintenance after Oregon paused removals in 2017.

"These directives are about cleaning up old data that's no longer in use so Oregonians can be confident that our voter records are up-to-date," Read said. "From day one, our goal was clear: run elections that are secure, fair, and accurate. This move will strengthen our voter rolls and reinforce public trust in our elections."

State officials acknowledge there are about 800,000 inactive registrations total, roughly 20% of Oregon's voter rolls, though they stress multiple times in the press release that inactive voters do not currently receive ballots, saying at one point, "again, none of the individuals associated with these records will receive ballots, and these inactive records have no impact on Oregon elections."

Bullshit!

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Buzz: Tim Walz May Resign From Governorship Today, As Nick Shirley Prepares to Release Video About Walz Threatening Whistleblowers to Protect Somali Fraudsters

I have no idea if this is true. People are claiming it on twitter.

The story goes that, as TheJamesMadison speculated last week, Walz is now a target of the federal fraud investigation. Further, it's claimed that Nick Shirley is dropping a "Part 2" to his fraud investigation and that will be damning to Walz.

But... didn't Shirely already drop a Part 2? I already posted him talking with an investigator revealing that Walz threatened that he would fire any whistleblowers for cause and make sure they never got another government job again, and could not even receive unemployment insurance after their firing.

Is this a Part 2 to that video?

I dunno.

The claims say that he will either resign this week or next week, depending on who's doing the claiming.

Carter Hughes
@itscarterhughes

Jan 10

🚨 BOMBSHELL: Minnesota Governor Tim Walz is set to resign within the next week, according to multiple reports from within the Walz campaign.

This comes after he was referred for a criminal indictment over massive Somali fraud within the state.

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Jeanine Pirro Opens Investigation Into Fed Chair Jerome Powell's Deceptive Congressional Testimony About His Rampant Overspending

He told Congress that he was only spending billions on remodeling the Fed for strictly functional upgrades, like "waterprooofing" the building.

He denied spending billions just to make it a "Taj Mahal" of the Deep State, as Julie Kelly puts it.

The current bill is over $2.5 billion, with $700 million of that overspending not originally budgeted for.

Powell, who oversees the nation's currency, says "Whoops!"

Julie Kelly
@julie_kelly2

18h

This is how it's done:

NYT tonight confirmed DOJ investigation into Fed Reserve chairman Jerome Powell.

"The inquiry, which includes an analysis of Mr. Powell's public statements and an examination of spending records, was approved in November by Jeanine Pirro, a longtime ally of President Trump.

It is not clear whether Ms. Pirro has convened a grand jury or issued subpoenas. But prosecutors in her office have contacted Mr. Powell's staff multiple times to request documents about the renovation project, according to an official with knowledge of the investigation who discussed an open inquiry on the condition of anonymity."

The renovation project is a whopping $700 million over budget.

"A 2021 version of the Fed's proposal described private elevators and dining rooms for top policymakers, water fountains and new marble features, in addition to a rooftop terrace for staff. Pressed at a congressional hearing in June, Mr. Powell denied that many of those features were part of the latest proposal."

Good stuff. More please.

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New White Leftist Female Trend: Set Up a Date So You Can Secret-Camera Record Your Date Defending Nick Shirley's Fraud Reporting

If we want to continue on as an American nation, we have to mainstream marrying foreign women from overseas, and set up companies to facilitate this. The stigma of "mail order brides" must be stripped away and instead valorized.

Leftwing women are literally insane and will not have children, and furthermore, we do not want them to have children.

They are a malignant, toxic, mentally-ill cohort in the country and men must not marry them and should certainly not have children with them.

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Iran Terrorist Group MEK Drives Truck Into Group of Anti-Ayatollah Group Protesting In LA

The terrorist group apparently opposes both the current rule by mullahs as well as the deposed monarchy, which many of these protesters support.

Isn't it great letting the third world into the US so they can fight their perpetual internecine terrorist wars here in our streets?

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It’s Time for a Constitutional Summit Among Leaders of Government's Three Branches to Address Rogue Federal Judges

The federal judiciary is assertively impeding President Trump’s administration of the Executive Branch, but under what constitutional authority is this occurring? President Trump should meet face to face with Chief Justice Roberts and ask him.

There is a constitutional crisis in this country due to the judiciary asserting authority to micro-manage the administration of the Executive Branch. The Constitution, however, is quite explicit about the separation of governmental roles and responsibilities. There is nothing in the Constitution that allows the hundreds of federal judges to serve as overseers of President Trump’s Article II executive powers.

There was hope among constitutional conservatives that Chief Justice John Roberts would eventually assert himself as the leader of the judiciary and put a stop to the judicial activism at the District Court level. Unfortunately, Justice Roberts has shown that he will not do this of his own accord.

Perhaps Justice Roberts just doesn’t have the fortitude to take necessary actions. His appointment as Chief Justice was regrettable if he is unsuited for a leadership position. His resume is quite impressive, but it is full of titles including words such as “Deputy,” “Associate,” and “Special Assistant.” Lacking are terms such as “Head,” “Lead,” or “Chief.” Even if Roberts’ resume warranted a spot on the Supreme Court, it might have been better if an existing justice who had exhibited leadership skills had been elevated to chief justice, with Roberts then being appointed as an associate justice.

Because Justice Roberts will not assert control, there is a growing clamor for President Trump to start ignoring the rulings from federal district judges. That “nuclear option” would necessarily serve as a catalyst for John Roberts and the Supreme Court to finally address the problem of rogue judges.

But before going nuclear, perhaps President Trump might compel a reluctant John Roberts to take action in a more genteel way. Quite simply, the president can organize and host a summit of the leaders of the three branches of government to discuss constitutional roles and responsibilities of the branches of government they lead, and how they constitutionally interact with each other. There should be just four attendees at the summit: President Trump, Chief Justice John Roberts, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, and Senate Majority Leader John Thune.

Before I go further into what should be discussed at a Constitutional Summit, it is worth recalling that Donald Trump has been pleading with Chief Justice Roberts to address the problem of renegade federal judges, especially since it is simply not feasible for the hundreds of stays and injunctions to wend their way through the appeals process to the Supreme Court during the president’s term, nor can the court conceivably hear every appeal.

Shortly after Trump’s inauguration, the judicial resistance to the new president was already in full swing. In March of 2025, as Judge James Boasberg started asserting his authority to veto the president’s executive actions, President Trump implored Roberts to take action, stating “If Justice Roberts and the United States Supreme Court do not fix this toxic and unprecedented situation immediately, our Country is in very serious trouble!"

It's time for President Trump to ask Justice Roberts directly why he is allowing the courts to go rogue.

If such a summit were to occur, it would be wise for the president to have some conservative legal minds prep some questions and discussion topics, but a few that immediately come to my mind would be:

• Ask Roberts, Johnson and Thune their understanding of the role of federal judges, what constitutional powers they have, and why.

• Ask Roberts if he defends the rogue activism of district judges. If so, explain why. If not, advise why it is being allowed.

• Discuss what the Executive and Legislative branch “checks” on the judiciary are in our “checks and balances” system. What powers do Congress and the Executive Branch have to check rogue judges?

• Should there be more balance in the application of checks and balances? Courts are very aggressive about checking other branches’ powers. Why are there no checks being imposed on the judiciary?

• Ask Roberts his opinion on judges who are routinely overruled. Is repeatedly being overruled by appellate courts a sufficient reason for impeachment?

And most importantly…

• How will Chief Justice Roberts respond if/when Trump announces that rogue federal judges have no constitutional authority to manage the executive Branch, and Trump will no longer comply with their rulings.

The summit I am proposing is neither sanctioned by the Constitution nor prohibited, but it would present a direct challenge to the Chief Justice to be part of the solution for a judicial crisis that will otherwise have to be resolved without his involvement.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

Full Moon, Limache, Chile
Alfredo Helsby

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The Morning Report — 1/12/26

Good morning kids. In the lead this morning are the massive anti-regime protests all over Iran that at long last might very well lead to the collapse of this accursed Islamic government that for close to half a century has not only brutally repressed its own people but fomented and exported much of the terrorism that has spilled oceans of blood around the world, including scores of Americans. When they chanted "Death to America" they meant it, and for far too long virtually every administration in this country ignored it and worse, Obama & Biden aided and abetted them, with billions in cash to fuel their nuclear weapons program and as well as their IRGC thugs as well as Hamas, Hezbollah and other proxy groups.

And then came Donald Trump who put a stop to that insanity, and in the wake of the Iranian backed 10/7 attack from Gaza on Israel joined with the Israelis in flattening the Iranian nuclear weapons sites. This, combined with the already collapsing Iranian currency, crumbling fresh water systems and oil refining capacity on top of a disaffected populace that had been on the brink of uprising for years already, is why the Mullahocracy might at long last be on the verge of collapse.

What comes afterwards is of course anyone's guess. Unfortunately, Iran has been a repressive police state and its internal security apparatus along with a very well-armed and no doubt motivated IRGC who will do whatever it deems it must to cling to power as well as save their own skin from an enraged citizenry out for revenge. My gut tells me unless some elements of their armed forces and police back the people or maybe even the son of the Shah if he dares return, then the likelihood of a Moammar Qaddafi or Saddam Hussein coming to power perhaps minus the Islam or the Islamic influence way in the background is a likely scenario.

As for Prsident Trump, there's this item:

The Iranian regime slaughtered upwards of 500 protesters over the weekend, marking one of the bloodiest crackdowns in the Islamic Republic’s history, as President Donald Trump weighs a range of military options that reportedly include precision strikes on regime assets and cyber warfare. . . "Iran is looking at FREEDOM, perhaps like never before," Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Saturday, his most recent comments on the matter. "The USA stands ready to help!!!" A State Department spokesman told the Free Beacon that the Trump administration is closely monitoring the uprising, adding that "the Iranian regime is fully aware of President Trump’s warning and should not test U.S. resolve." Asked about the regime’s threats to activate a global network of terror cells in response to the protests, the State Department said the Islamic Republic "should carefully consider the consequences of its actions and not underestimate the resolve of the United States under President Trump’s leadership."

While it certainly is a good thing to publicly back the Persian people in their struggle for liberation. Military action of course is fraught with problems and I certainly do not want any kind of massive (or even minimal) boots on the ground. If our intelligence and special ops capabilities can blind or otherwise help defang or neutralize any military forces/assets the Mullahs are still in control of, then why not deploy them. We've already pulverized their nuclear sites with absolute impunity so taking out military barracks and other installations should pose much less of a risk. And Iran's air defenses are essentially useless thanks to the Israeli air force obliterating them earlier last year in preparation for the follow-on attack on their nuke sites.

In regards to that bit about the regime's threats to activate a global network of terror actions, this happened over the weekend:

A U-Haul driver allegedly plowed into a massive crowd of protesters at an anti-Iran regime rally in Los Angeles on Sunday — injuring at least two people in a chaotic scene caught on video.

Authorities responded to the scene after the U-Haul truck drove into a sea of an estimated 3,000 people at the large demonstration in Westwood around 3:40 p.m. local time, an LAPD spokesperson told The Post.

The rental truck, which had the words “NO SHAH. NO REGIME. USA: DON’T REPEAT 1953. NO MULLAH” emblazoned on one side, was swarmed by protesters as tensions quickly escalated, according to harrowing footage obtained by KABC.

The truck had both pro-Iranian regime and anti-Iranian regimes on both its sides, police said. It is not immediately clear what pro-regime text was on the U-Haul.

Some of the scrawlings appeared to warn against the US’s involvement in Iran’s anti-regime demonstrations, where nearly 500 protesters have been killed. 

At least two people were injured in the chaos and suffered minor injuries, cops said. Both declined to be transported to the hospital, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.  One man was hit by the U-Haul and was treated for non-significant injuries by an ambulance on the scene, cops said. 

The driver, who has not yet been identified, was taken into custody, police confirmed. 

Officers at the scene were spotted pulling a man into custody from the truck as angered protesters reportedly tried to punch and hit him with flag poles, the outlet reported.

Footage circulating on social media captured protesters punching and shattering the windshield of the U-Haul as others screamed in fear at the speeding truck.

The driver was being treated in the hospital for unspecified injuries and will likely face attempted assault with a deadly weapon charges, officials said at a press conference on Sunday evening, according to KABC. 

Bill Essayli, the First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, wrote on X that the FBI is on the scene and will assist the LAPD in determining the motive of the driver. 

The incident remains under investigation.

As an aside, considering the mass exodus of however many normal people remain in California, I'd think there'd be a severe shortage of U-Haul trucks available . . .

Anyway, vehicles driven by terrorists. Why does that ring a bell? Oh, yeah, of course!

By now, most people have seen about six different angles of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent’s encounter with left-wing radical Renee Nicole Good, proving he was fully justified in using lethal force to stop her from bulldozing over innocent people.

Good was reportedly a member of an insurgency cell called “ICE Watch,” where she received training as a “warrior” to act against ICE agents conducting lawful enforcement operations against illegal aliens. . . But why are we just hearing about this domestic extremist group now? Why does it seem like law enforcement doesn’t know anything about the very active, well-funded, and mobile groups hellbent on obstruction at a minimum, and in many cases, violence? Vice President J.D. Vance addressed some of these concerns in a Thursday press conference, going after corporate media headlines that never mentioned Good’s use of her vehicle as a murder weapon. . .

Good was the mother of a 6-year-old, and the left-wing media will keep regurgitating that she was simply driving through the area after dropping her child off at school. But based on all the evidence, she was there for the sole purpose of obstructing ICE, as part of her duties to her insurgency cell. That reality reveals something more sinister, as Vance argued. . . Vance said something fairly revealing when answering a question about who is behind these terror networks: “It’s one of the things we’re going to have to figure out.” He then added:

When somebody throws a brick at an ICE agent, or somebody tries to run over an ICE agent, who paid for the brick and who told protesters to show up and engage in violent activity against our law enforcement officers? You see just with this most recent terrible incident in Minneapolis, you see friends of this woman’s or other people who are eyewitnesses saying basically that she was there to engage in obstruction of a legitimate law enforcement operation. How did she get there? How did she learn about this? There’s an entire network . . .

I'm not trying to connect the dots between Iran and what happened in Minneapolis. But, then again, look at who and what we are dealing with both abroad and at home. When you hear a chant of DEATH TO AMERICA it could just as easily be coming from the quad of Columbia University as it could from the campus at Teheran U. or 25 years ago from the rooftops of Jersey City as they passed out candy and ululated with orgasmic delight while watching the Twin Towers burn and collapse.

$9 billion Somalian Simoleons grifted from the Minnesota and US treasuries didn't just buy expensive cars, furs, jewelry and homes but much of it likely bought semtex, AK-47s and RPGs back home in Mogadishu that is fueling the anti-Christian bloodbath in the horn of Africa and across the continent. Regardless of whether the Mullahs in Tehran control Boko Haram in Nigeria and Al-Shabab in Somalia, their goals are the same. Global conquest by Jihad in the name of Islam.

It is no coincidence that the anti-American Democrat/Left while trying to beatify the clearly brainwashed woman who got herself killed by attempting to ram ICE agents in Minneapolis are also silent or worse when it comes to the Iranian people in their fight for freedom:

It should come as no surprise to anyone that the western media and western Left are not covering or supporting the Iranian protests for freedom. It is anathema for them to give a helping hand to such an ‘Islamophobic’ nightmare. What is transpiring in Iran is a dreadful nightmare for the Left – because it’s oxygen, blood-supply and identity are rooted in its alliance with communism, Islam and every other adversarial totalitarian monstrous genocidal death-cult.

What is transpiring in Iran is a revolution for individual rights, which the Left reviles and detests. It is a revolution against Islam, which the Left worships and adores – and yearns to submit to.

Iranian women are even burning their hijabs! Oh, the horror of it all. This is a horrifying nightmare for the Left, especially for leftist feminists in the West. Poor Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar and Sunny Hostin, what nightmarish sleepless nights they must be having. . . Beneath the leftist believer’s veneration of the despotic enemy lies one of his most powerful yearnings: to submit his whole being to a totalist entity. This psychological dynamic involves negative identification, whereby a person who has failed to identify positively with his own environment subjugates his individuality to a powerful, authoritarian entity, through which he vicariously experiences a feeling of power and purpose.. .

But wait, I thought Donald Trump was literally Hitler?! . . .

Judd Apatow at Golden Globe Awards: ‘We’re a Dictatorship Now’ . . .“There’s a good chance that some of you in this room voted for Trump. I won’t judge you, I won’t judge you. But God will,” he added.

Funny how Godless heathen Atheists always invoke and take the name of the Lord in vain. But if we truly were a dictatorship, surely Apatow would be sipping his tree bark soup through a straw into his wired shut jaw in the FEMA camp infirmary, nein?

I am so sick to death of these bastards, but cratering box office receipts and TV ratings I'll take as a positive sign that the Apatows of this world are on the wane.

God save the brave Persian people and may they see deliverance from their Islamic tormenters and have at least a chance to establish some sort of ordered and normal society where they can prosper and coexist peacefully (no, not like that cockamamie bumper sticker) with their neighbors and become the thriving nation they once were prior to 1979.

And I hope the brave ICE agent who stood his ground and took out a domestic terrorist is awarded some sort of citation for valor.

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• The driver, who has not yet been identified, was taken into custody, police confirmed.  Officers at the scene were spotted pulling a man into custody from the truck as angered protesters reportedly tried to punch and hit him with flag poles, the outlet reported.Footage circulating on social media captured protesters punching and shattering the windshield of the U-Haul as others screamed in fear at the speeding truck.
  Crowd control U-Haul plows into massive crowd at Iran protest in LA — as demonstrators attack driver, chaotic video shows

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Daily Tech News 12 January 2026

Top Story

• Two of the co-founders of Twitter and Pinterest are working on a new social network cult. (MSN)
  
  A cult with venture capital.

  I have no idea whether they will succeed. But as a columnist writing about how to keep our humanity in the 21st century, I believe it's important to focus on people who are at least trying. Social media, after its promising early days, took a dark turn and is now a deeply alienating force, replacing healthy human interaction and leading us to spend much of our lives looking at our phones.

  That's only partly the fault of the social media companies.
  
  Mostly it's just people.

  Many fear that AI, still in its adolescence, will take us down the same path because of the financial incentives to maximize eyeballs and time online. But it could go either way, and we as a society still have a choice about how we use these powerful tools.

  Fair. Let's see how West Co - the new company in question, is tackling the problem.

  Their bid for redemption is West Co. - the Workshop for Emotional and Spiritual Technology Corporation

  It's the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation all over again.

  - and the platform they're testing is called Tangle, a "purpose discovery tool" that uses AI to help users define their life purposes, then encourages them to set intentions toward achieving those purposes, reminds them periodically and builds a community of supporters to encourage steps toward meeting those intentions.

  Danger, Will Robinson.

  "A lot of people, myself included, have been on autopilot," Stone said. "If all goes well, we'll introduce a lot of people to the concept of turning off autopilot."

  But will all go well?

  Each morning, staffers light the candle at the "ancestor table," with photographs of family members dead and alive and other sources of inspiration: Harvey Milk, Jane Goodall, Saint Francis. The founders participate in a fortnightly "covenant" meeting in which they renew their support for each other. Moments of silence precede meetings. Ceremonies mark the changing of seasons. Employees give one another regular updates on their personal triumphs and struggles. Founders rate their weeks on a zero to 100 "poopy to pleasure" index.

  I have never seen a tech company more likely to earn its own 10-part miniseries on HBO Max after the comet arrives.

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Sunday Overnight Open Thread - January 11, 2026 [Doof]

Sunday night ONT time. So glad you made it. Come on in!

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Gun Thread: Second January Edition!

Howdy, Y'all! Welcome to the wondrously fabulous Gun Thread! As always, I want to thank all of our regulars for being here week in and week out, and also offer a bigly Gun Thread welcome to any newcomers who may be joining us tonight. Howdy and thank you for stopping by! I hope you find our wacky conversation on the subject of guns 'n shooting both enjoyable and informative. You are always welcome to lurk in the shadows of shame, but I'd like to invite you to jump into the conversation, say howdy, and tell us what kind of shooting you like to do!

Holy Shitballs! How in the ever-loving Hell did it get to be the Second January Edition? Not much going on here this week, but I do believe I am out of danger with respect to the cold I had last week, so I have that going for me. How about all y'all? Doing well?

With that, step into the dojo and let's get to the gun stuff below, shall we?

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