New Years Predictions from Victor Davis Hanson

Victor Davis Hanson
@VDHanson

The National Nightmare Is Ending
Après Biden, "L'audace, l'audace, encore l'audace, toujours l'audace"!
To paraphrase mixed French 18th-century memorable quotations: after Biden, follows not the deluge, but now daring, and still more daring, and always more daring.
Why?
A combination of two self-evident truths.
Joe Biden's inept administration proved an ungodly disaster, not just for America but for the West as well, who looked abroad for a stronger America but found it weaker.
And second, Trump Invictus is now liberated--"In the fell clutch of circumstance/I have not winced nor cried aloud,/Under the bludgeonings of chance/My head is bloody, but unbowed."
He is without worry over another election, or a discredited and defanged media ("so doves do peck the falcon's piercing talons"), much less a third Nancy-Pelosi contrived impeachment.
Instead, he stalks indomitable, after failed de-balloting capers, failed lawfare vendettas, and failed two assassination attempts. To quote Shakespeare of his recent visit to Notre Dame and the once hostile Euro crowd who now mobbed him, "He doth bestride the narrow world /Like a Colossus, and we petty men /Walk under his huge legs and peep about /To find ourselves dishonorable graves".
In sum, our weakest president is to be followed by our most audacious.
Biden's bumbling arrogance nearly destroyed the American military in Kabul. It ruined Western deterrence. It showered the creepy Taliban with a multibillion-dollar new windfall arsenal.
His lies, his incompetence, and, yes, his narcissism demoralized Americans and our allies, but at least ensured he would never reach 50 percent approval again.
What immediately followed from the Kabul nightmare was as bad or indeed worse: two theater-wide wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, appeasement of Iran, hammering of Israel, a nonexistent US border, 12 million illegal aliens, the hyperinflation of staples, the weaponization of the executive branch, Third-World lawfare, looting and shoplifting legitimized, spiking crime contextualized, and printing trillions of debased dollars normalized.
Biden sought to turn the once preeminent US military into a cruel cultural woke joke.
The trainwreck of the last four years was force-multiplied by Biden's own feebleness, masked by the most scandalous media-politico conspiracy of suppresson of it in US history.
But now there is a giddy sense that restoration and normalization are not just possible but on the horizon.
The truth now is set free, and it smothers the old lying denials about the origins of COVID, about the truth of diversity/equity/inclusion, about the naked greed of the Biden family syndicate, about the dementia of Joe, about the chauvinism of three sexes, and about the joy and momentum of the fracking, gun-toting, MacDonald's veteran and border hawk Kamala Harris.
No one fears or listens to the now defenestrated frauds and tiring dissimulators: the Bidens, a Fauci, Mayorkas, Garland, Milley, Austin, Jean-Pierre, Comey, Brennan, Clapper, or McCabe--and their old lies that Hunter is brilliant, Biden is fit as a field, no gain-in-function viruses, a bat caused COVID, the border is secure, Chinese army generals are more trustworthy than Trump, the laptop was Russian, Trump is a Putin puppet, and always their nauseating "I can't recall", " I don't remember", "I have no recollection", and "I am not at liberty to say".
Our allies are feeling more confident, our enemies scared.
The idea of an impending deterrent and reliable Trump administration has terrified Iran and helped collapse Syria. Israelis buoyant. Not so Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis.
In anticipation, the dollar reigns, the stock market stays strong.
Even Trump's traditional enemies, whether on Wall Street, Silicon Valley, or in corporate board rooms are whispering that they secretly are delighted with their old nemesis's dream of more and cheaper energy, less government regulation and taxation, and confidence again that everything is now possible when a government says an exhilarant yes to dreams rather than a crabby no to them.
Suddenly the woke bullies are on the run. The porous border really can be closed; illegal alien gangs and criminals will be sent packing.
The Left now invokes no Logan Act. They are instead relieved that the President-elect is now the virtual President--and their guy is gone.
Biden yelps now that his sins were not doubling down on them and sinning even more when he had the chance.
In other words, the recently impossible is not just possible again, but likely!
Each of us, at least for this brief window of opportunity, again feels, "I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul."

In case you missed it -- that's ICYMI, as the kids say -- Justine Bateman had some thoughts on 2025 as well.

Justine Bateman
@JustineBateman
Happy New Year's Eve.
2025 will be the year of the icebreaker ships.
The year systems rigid from greed and selfishness are broken.
The year The New starts to emerge.
The year we stop this fear-of-the-future mode we've been in since Y2K.
The year you wake up every morning and say out loud, like a little kid, "Something wonderful is going to happen today."
The year you fling yourself into the unknown and trust in a remarkable landing.
This is the year we make this happen.
No one can stop us.

I have never bought into the new year being a good year,,, until now.

What about you? Do you feel the "vibe shift"?

Posted by: Ace at 12:00 PM

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1 Stabbing suspect on the run in NYC after knifing man on subway train

https://mol.im/a/14241635

Posted by: Ciampino - Weirdly weird it is at January 01, 2025 12:00 PM (i0xsb)

2 And second, Trump Invictus is now liberated--"In the fell clutch of circumstance/I have not winced nor cried aloud,/Under the bludgeonings of chance/My head is bloody, but unbowed."

Sweet.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 01, 2025 12:01 PM (xCA6C)

3 Justine Bateman is impressive. Keep talking woman. Get that spirit out there!

Posted by: Stating the Obvious (except to the silly Fibbies) at January 01, 2025 12:01 PM (Kh1f2)

4 Good afternoon Ace and everyone

Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2025 12:02 PM (fwDg9)

5 My wish is every Leftist who said they would leave if Trump won just leaves

Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2025 12:02 PM (fwDg9)

6 Imma start using Trump Invictus, just because it's so awesome.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 01, 2025 12:03 PM (xCA6C)

7 Looking at the terrorist's truck in photos, it is a Ford Lightning, base price around $52,000

so terrorist must have had a good job, eh

Posted by: sent at January 01, 2025 12:03 PM (/7KEl)

8 I'm cautiously optimistic

Posted by: It's me donna at January 01, 2025 12:03 PM (VE6XX)

9 A recap including Melbourne yesterday -- Daily Mail

https://tinyurl.com/2hm64sk2

Posted by: Ciampino - Weirdly weird it is at January 01, 2025 12:04 PM (i0xsb)

10 It's too early to tell what awaits. But it appears better than last year.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 01, 2025 12:04 PM (Q4IgG)

11 Suddenly the woke bullies are on the run. The porous border really can be closed; illegal alien gangs and criminals will be sent packing.

“Get 'em skeered and then keep the skeer on 'em”.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 01, 2025 12:05 PM (xCA6C)

12 Ok not on topic, but on what grounds should the fbi over up that flag on the truck with sum dumb sobs coat.

I see on the TV cop shows that that would contaminate it as evidence don't you know, like stomping thru a murder scen with muddy boots.

Reeks of political management of the crime scene first.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 01, 2025 12:05 PM (OA79/)

13 I reckon the left is now where we were in early 2021; a state of shock and fearing for the future.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 01, 2025 12:06 PM (xCA6C)

14 This will be the year I won't be arrested for public indecency.

Posted by: Sassy Fred at January 01, 2025 12:06 PM (RMjVS)

15 8. I'm cautiously optimistic
Posted by: It's me donna

Me, too

Posted by: L - Hook him, book him, cook him. Now! at January 01, 2025 12:06 PM (NFX2v)

16 The delusion is strong with this one:

I'm confident that a century from now, future Americans will look back on the work we’ve done—much as we look at the Hoover Dam—and see how the Biden-Harris Administration's "Big Deal" for infrastructure made big things possible.

-Pete Buttigieg

https://is.gd/EPtO8g

Posted by: Archimedes at January 01, 2025 12:08 PM (xCA6C)

17 I am optimistic for 2025. But not VDH optimistic. His optimism drastically underestimates the power of the armies of ratfuck commies and filth burrowed deep into all organs of government. You can flush the toilet, but these dingleberries will still be clinging to the inside of the bowl in mass numbers.

I hope VDH is right. I don't think he is right.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at January 01, 2025 12:09 PM (iFTx/)

18 The enemy is still The Borg: the unholy alliance of BigGov, Media, Academia, Big Banks and Co-opted Companies, and the Deep State.

Especially because of Inflation and Illegal Immigration, Obama/Biden managed to lose huge support with Non-College people, especially White Non-College Men and Women. If Trump governs well this has the makings of a permanent re-alignment.

But it's not over for The Borg. We can expect ugly responses as they lose power. But it was always a coalition of convenience for the Deep State. For me they're the Wild Card as they have their own agenda and can work in the shadows.

Developing ....

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 01, 2025 12:10 PM (Gqoy+)

19 Well if one wanted to do serious damage, a truck that weights in at 2 tons would work

Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2025 12:10 PM (fwDg9)

20 NOLA.com says terrorist is something something din Jabaar ... carrying an ISIS flag in truck

Posted by: illiniwek at January 01, 2025 12:10 PM (Cus5s)

21 Joe Biden's inept administration proved an ungodly disaster, not just for America but for the West as well

We'll recover. I don't think the Democrat party will. Thank you for that, Joe.

Posted by: t-bird at January 01, 2025 12:10 PM (fDXgc)

22 Let the petty men peep about and be gone

Posted by: kactus at January 01, 2025 12:11 PM (twS2i)

23 Maybe we can bury Carter and Biden's legacy in Lenin's tomb.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 01, 2025 12:11 PM (vBmjk)

24 Not like money is a problem in a Jihad,

Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2025 12:11 PM (fwDg9)

25 We'll recover. I don't think the Democrat party will. Thank you for that, Joe.

If they could survive the Civil War, they can survive this.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 01, 2025 12:11 PM (xCA6C)

26 Please approach the window to collect your winnings if you predicted the NO mass murder was a Muslim piece of shit:

"Shamsud Din Jabbar" was his name.

May Satan rape him eternally in Hell.

Posted by: Sharkman at January 01, 2025 12:12 PM (BRvvM)

27 NOLA.com says terrorist is something something din Jabaar ... carrying an ISIS flag in truck
Posted by: illiniwek at January 01, 2025 12:10 PM (Cus5s)

I'm shocked! Well, not really.

Posted by: Sassy Fred at January 01, 2025 12:12 PM (RMjVS)

28 Robert Spencer at Frontpage Mag has a article on the NO attack, and brief history if Jihadists using vehicles

Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2025 12:13 PM (fwDg9)

29 Nola.com:

The suspect accused of plowing a truck through a crowd on Bourbon Street is named Shamsud Din Jabbar, according to a law enforcement source.

He's 42 years old. Police shot and killed him after the attack.

The source said he was carrying an ISIS flag in the truck.

An obvious MAGA supporter.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 01, 2025 12:13 PM (uxCna)

30 I feel a cautious optimism.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 01, 2025 12:13 PM (CHHv1)

31 In anticipation, the dollar reigns, the stock market stays strong.
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The stock market is frothy and levitating on the backs of absurd interest rates that will likely reverse this year and an AI bubble that might sustain but might not.

The Dollar remains okay so long as it's still "the cleanest dirty shirt" in the hamper.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 01, 2025 12:14 PM (HnUIn)

32 Previously posted:
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Maybe Trump's team does understand what's facing them. All the appointees that need confirmation have been told to stay off social media unless they absolutely need to. And then they need their replies or posts to be approved.

This obviously doesn't apply to the DOGE twins as they're not, technically, part of the administration but more like advisors.

So, apparently there's some discipline being applied this time. And maybe Team Trump understands what OpSec means.

If so, it's a better start than 2018 was.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 01, 2025 12:14 PM (Q4IgG)

33 Much of Biden's malfeasance needs to be undone by establishing once and for all that his "election" was phony, fake and fraudulent. His signature, appointments and edicts null and void.

There are some eggs that cannot be unscrambled, but there are many current situations that are bereft of legality and legitimacy.

The appointment of Jumanji Affirmative Action Jackson.

The pardons.

The laws passed under his signature.

Fraud vitiates everything.

Fraud vitiates everything.

Posted by: Minuteman at January 01, 2025 12:14 PM (oQ1TC)

34 Read the content Sign me up

Posted by: doug at January 01, 2025 12:14 PM (Hy+R4)

35 What about you? Do you feel the "vibe shift"?
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Culturally? Yes.
Economically? No.
Politically? Mixed.

The cultural shift I want to see: no more use of "vibe" in this manner.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 01, 2025 12:15 PM (HnUIn)

36 I’ll say that e we have a very 80s vibe to the coming year. America is back baby.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at January 01, 2025 12:15 PM (17s+e)

37 The delusion is strong with this one:

I'm confident that a century from now, future Americans will look back on the work we’ve done—much as we look at the Hoover Dam—and see how the Biden-Harris Administration's "Big Deal" for infrastructure made big things possible.

-Pete Buttigieg

https://is.gd/EPtO8g
Posted by: Archimedes at January 01, 2025 12:08 PM (xCA6C)
________

Pete is right. Notice he does not define "Big Things." But the infrastructure scam indeed made big things happen. It put big money into the big pockets of big Democrap donors. That was always its intended purpose, and its only purpose. It was never intended to build even a single charging station or other facet of infrastructure. It was intended to enrich Democrap constituencies. On that score, it indeed accomplished big things.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at January 01, 2025 12:15 PM (iFTx/)

38 Please approach the window to collect your winnings if you predicted the NO mass murder was a Muslim piece of shit:

"Shamsud Din Jabbar" was his name.

Sounds Irish.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 01, 2025 12:16 PM (vYDwg)

39 From Karol Markowicz on Twitter:

BREAKING: the man who rammed his car into people in New Orleans last night is named Shamsud Din Jabbar. Born and raised in Texas. Served in the US Army.

Posted by: Mark1971 at January 01, 2025 12:16 PM (szMU5)

40 Driver may be Shamsud Din Jabbar. As I said. Amish.

Posted by: Piper at January 01, 2025 12:16 PM (pZEOD)

41 Din Jabber?

Pro clot shot?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 01, 2025 12:16 PM (vBmjk)

42 What about you? Do you feel the "vibe shift"?

Posted by: Ace at 12:00 PM

Is Mike Johnson still Speaker?

Then no.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 01, 2025 12:16 PM (lH8E4)

43 As to the Deep State, Trump may have an interesting play with the JFK assassination.

I'm not saying to 100% certainty, but I now believe that Allen Dulles and the CIA gave the order. Soviets / Castro had been my #1 pick. Tucker and RFK Jr. have been previewing this.

If true, Trump has the Holy Hand Grenade to blow up Langley.

Developing ...

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 01, 2025 12:16 PM (Gqoy+)

44 Things have changed, but I have a suspicion that its a temporary setback for the left, not a change in direction.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 01, 2025 12:16 PM (RsS92)

45 Ask your doctor if vibeshift is right for you!

Posted by: Pfizer at January 01, 2025 12:17 PM (fs1hN)

46 “Apr�s Biden, "L'audace, l'audace, encore l'audace, toujours l'audace"!”

I know who said that - Patton did! Or maybe it was just George C. Scott.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 01, 2025 12:17 PM (7MHHr)

47 I know what you all are thinking.

Posted by: Kareem Abdul Jabbar at January 01, 2025 12:18 PM (Y1sOo)

48 As for the JFK murder, I fear that it was an unholy combination of evils: communists, mobsters, and intelligence.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 01, 2025 12:18 PM (RsS92)

49 Please approach the window to collect your winnings if you predicted the NO mass murder was a Muslim piece of shit:

"Shamsud Din Jabbar" was his name.

May Satan rape him eternally in Hell.
Posted by: Sharkman at January 01, 2025 12:12 PM (BRvvM)
_________

Sounds like a made-up name for a Disney "Arabian Nights"-type villain

Posted by: Elric The Blade at January 01, 2025 12:18 PM (iFTx/)

50 Surely you jest?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 01, 2025 12:18 PM (vBmjk)

51 47 I know what you all are thinking.
Posted by: Kareem Abdul Jabbar
_____

Stuff it, Kareem.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 01, 2025 12:19 PM (fs1hN)

52 BREAKING: Explosion reportedly heard, smoke seen rising near Trump Tower in Las Vegas.

Posted by: Mark1971 at January 01, 2025 12:19 PM (szMU5)

53 I have ONE New Year’s resolution.. ONE.. be a damned sight more sceptical of what I hear and read from all news sources.. no matter from where on the political spectrum they originate…

Posted by: tubal at January 01, 2025 12:19 PM (PCK5/)

54 BREAKING: the man who rammed his car into people in New Orleans last night is named Shamsud Din Jabbar.

Did they find out what that flag was o his truck that the police rushed to cover up and hide?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 01, 2025 12:19 PM (RsS92)

55
Well, I haz a New Year's sad....

Once again Muh 'Horns have a college playoff game blocked by ESPN.

Booooooo! on such lousy restrictions...buuuut I guess that's the future.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 01, 2025 12:19 PM (iJfKG)

56 Happy New Year, Ace!

Posted by: Bulg at January 01, 2025 12:19 PM (R0g06)

57 Pete is jazzed about the 50 or so charging stations he built for $6 billion.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 01, 2025 12:19 PM (7MHHr)

58 May Satan rape him eternally in Hell.
Posted by: Sharkman at January 01, 2025 12:12 PM (BRvvM)

Gimme a break, will ya! There's only one of me. Find some minor demon for guys like him.

Posted by: Guy with Pitchfork at January 01, 2025 12:20 PM (0eaVi)

59 Even Trump's traditional enemies, whether on Wall Street, Silicon Valley, or in corporate board rooms are whispering that they secretly are delighted with their old nemesis's dream of more and cheaper energy, less government regulation and taxation, and confidence again that everything is now possible when a government says an exhilarant yes to dreams rather than a crabby no to them.
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I think it's different from this. Yeah, profitability is good and paramount and they surely love it.

But Trump and his policy shifts - and the likely upcoming legal defeats in tons of cases at various levels - are going to let the less-retarded board members get out from under the yoke of DEI while pretending they really hate it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 01, 2025 12:20 PM (HnUIn)

60 The source said he was carrying an ISIS flag in the truck.
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An obvious MAGA supporter.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 01, 2025 12:13 PM (uxCna)

We just gave him Syria, what more did he want.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 01, 2025 12:20 PM (lH8E4)

61 I don't want to be a downer, so I'll instead just go on record as detesting the word "vibe" and its usage by youngsters.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 01, 2025 12:20 PM (AUL7F)

62 What about you? Do you feel the "vibe shift"?

Posted by: Ace at 12:00 PM
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Yes. A great spiritual battle has been won, and while there are more to come, the Enemy is now afraid as never before.

If we obsess over petty politics, media hot takes, this is hard to see, precisely because those things are designed to hide the spirit world from us.

But if we understand what is really going on, we understand the sudden joy that touched us in November hasn't stopped. Walking about town, runing errands, people are so damn HAPPY.

I cannot tell you how many complete strangers have just started chatting in the grocery line, oil change, wherever and everyone feels so upbeat that they have to talk about it.

My daughter put it this way: We thought we were outnumbered, that the entire world was against common sense and reality. But now we know that WE are the majoirty, and we have nothing to fear.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2025 12:21 PM (ZOv7s)

63 If this is the same Shamsud Din Jabbar from Texas, he has a YouTube channel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-dqDlgQei0

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 01, 2025 12:21 PM (vYDwg)

64 Do you feel the "vibe shift"?

Me personally? Absolutely. I'm hopeful that things are going to start to turn around. I know we have a LOT of work ahead of us but generally speaking folks seem to be positive about this.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 01, 2025 12:21 PM (lXCUP)

65 The source said he was carrying an ISIS flag in the truck.

Did they explain why the cops felt the need to hide it from the press?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 01, 2025 12:21 PM (RsS92)

66 The perp did a YouTube video for the real estate firm he worked for:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-dqDlgQei0

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 01, 2025 12:21 PM (uxCna)

67 The Dollar remains okay so long as it's still "the cleanest dirty shirt" in the hamper.

Hampster.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at January 01, 2025 12:22 PM (XQuPc)

68 Fit as a field!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 01, 2025 12:22 PM (63Dwl)

69 People are fickle, remember that Ace…

Posted by: tubal at January 01, 2025 12:22 PM (PCK5/)

70 I guessed Mohammed McMohammed

Posted by: Skip at January 01, 2025 12:22 PM (fwDg9)

71 Things have changed, but I have a suspicion that its a temporary setback for the left, not a change in direction.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 01, 2025 12:16 PM (RsS92)
________

The left never changes direction. It can't. I think what will happen is the Democrap old guard will get deposed or just retire/die. The younger guard will take over. There's no current frontrunner for leadership of the party. It will take take for them to sort this all out. But they will. Leftism is nuclear-powered crotch rot. You can't ever get rid of it. You can balm it, you can scratch it, you can sandblast it with flaming blowtorches. But it will always come back. Always.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at January 01, 2025 12:22 PM (iFTx/)

72 I think VDH is smoking some goooood shit. Like Elric said, I hope he's right but I don't think he's right. There is so much rot, corruption, poison, and vilest of vileness that pervades, permeates, dominates and characterizes our systems and power structure that nobody can claim the nightmare is over until it's all been burned out for good. We're looking at the product of over 100 years' worth of work by authoritarians, oligarchs, communists, progressives (same thing), mugs, pugs, thugs, murderers, sadists, perverts, nihilists, criminals, traitors, psychopaths, pedophiles, and Methodists. This election is a step in the right direction but the journey is far from anywhere close to the end.

Posted by: Oh, and happy new year! at January 01, 2025 12:22 PM (ybSPO)

73 NOLA.com says terrorist is something something din Jabaar ... carrying an ISIS flag in truck
——

Who are we to criticize their culture?

Just part of life in the big city, a spark of divinity (they come here out of Love!) a wonderful thread woven into the fabric of our rich, vibrant tapestry of Diversity

Posted by: Common Tater at January 01, 2025 12:23 PM (Tt+ej)

74 Pebble Hills high school: best costumes for showing nize bewbs.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at January 01, 2025 12:23 PM (XQuPc)

75 But Trump and his policy shifts - and the likely upcoming legal defeats in tons of cases at various levels - are going to let the less-retarded board members get out from under the yoke of DEI while pretending they really hate it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 01, 2025 12:20 PM (HnUIn)
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The University of Michigan unilaterally rejected DEI statements a few weeks ago. Gone. The Berkely of the Midwest has fallen.

In coming weeks we will see more defectors and whether they can be trusted is beside the point. The know where the wind is blowing and are adjusting their sails accordingly.

What's remarkable is this is the first time the ratchet has turned the other way.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2025 12:23 PM (ZOv7s)

76 In a lighter vein …

Rose Bowl Parade:
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=Ak1iVAtE1WQ

Posted by: Adriane the Happy Gnu Ears Critic . . . at January 01, 2025 12:23 PM (qz+gL)

77 Afternoon Ace, Happy New Year
I do feel a vibe shift and am optimistic about the new year. We obviously have to get through the next 20 days with this lunatic administration but then the fun starts. Trump starts EOs , Doge starts recommending cuts, leftist are tossed from the government. The bureaucrats will fight rear guard actions and the fall out from Bidens "governance" will be immense but still optimistic

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 01, 2025 12:23 PM (MLa3L)

78 Leftism is nuclear-powered crotch rot. You can't ever get rid of it. You can balm it, you can scratch it, you can sandblast it with flaming blowtorches. But it will always come back. Always.
____

Have you offered the left a maiden yet, perchance?

Posted by: Count Orlok at January 01, 2025 12:23 PM (fs1hN)

79 Guess Din Jabbar didn't make a killing in real estate

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 01, 2025 12:23 PM (vBmjk)

80 Shamsud has a pretty large social media footprint. I wonder how long it will be before it all disappears.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 01, 2025 12:24 PM (vYDwg)

81 I guessed Mohammed McMohammed

For "greatest Islamic names" it's hard to beat Mohammed Mohammed Mohammed, who popped up in an arrest report 20 years ago in Minneapolis. Not sure if his parents thought the Islamic "prophet" followed Beetlejuice rules or what.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 01, 2025 12:24 PM (QZThv)

82 Pete is jazzed about the 50 or so charging stations he built for $6 billion.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Secretary Pete Buttigieg@SecretaryPete
I'm confident that a century from now, future Americans will look back on the work we’ve done—much as we look at the Hoover Dam—and see how the Biden-Harris Administration's "Big Deal" for infrastructure made big things possible.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at January 01, 2025 12:24 PM (L4N5h)

83 All victories are temporary, btw.

The Enemy got kicked in the nuts and is doubled over and stunned, but the war will continue.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2025 12:25 PM (ZOv7s)

84 >>Pebble Hills high school: best costumes for showing nize bewbs.

Why don't you have a seat right over there>>>

Posted by: Chris Hansen at January 01, 2025 12:25 PM (Y1sOo)

85 I know we have a LOT of work ahead of us but generally speaking folks seem to be positive about this.

I know this is a small sample and all but I have noticed that people in general seem more relaxed, happy, and optimistic lately. Certainly the Christmas season felt different; last year I saw very few Christmas lights and displays and many more this year. The shopping seemed a lot more busy as well.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 01, 2025 12:25 PM (RsS92)

86 If true, Trump has the Holy Hand Grenade to blow up Langley.

Developing ...
Posted by: Ignoramus at January 01, 2025 12:16 PM (Gqoy+)

This is why I hold off on optimism. Because the destruction of the CIA (and the FBI) is an absolute pre-requisite to the U.S. returning to the nation it should be.

I know lots of people see the Trump win as a miracle, and the one thing I said long before the election is that IF he wins, it will be that the CIA let him win, and expect to be able to control the flow enough to endure four years of Team Trump.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 01, 2025 12:26 PM (lH8E4)

87 Breaking911 @Breaking911 59m
🚨 🚨 MAJOR BREAKING: Fox News reports that the man who committed the NYE New Orleans terror attack, crossed into the U.S. from Mexico via Eagle Pass TWO DAYS AGO.

BIDEN AND KAMALA HAVE MORE BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS

Breaking911 @Breaking911 39m
CORRECTION: The Truck came through Eagle Pass. No word on who was inside at the time.

Breaking911 @Breaking911 1h
FIRST PHOTO OF THE DEAD TERRORIST: Appears to have a beard, wearing camouflage clothing.

https://tinyurl.com/3rwvhb9k
photo; not too gruesome.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at January 01, 2025 12:26 PM (hovnC)

88 > Do you feel the "vibe shift"?
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Not when I use the clutch.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 01, 2025 12:26 PM (Q4IgG)

89 Certainly the Christmas season felt different; last year I saw very few Christmas lights and displays and many more this year. The shopping seemed a lot more busy as well.

Yup. Lots more "Merry Christmas" and lots less Kwanzaa.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 01, 2025 12:26 PM (QZThv)

90 Is this about us?

Posted by: dingleberries still clinging to the inside of the bowl in mass numbers at January 01, 2025 12:26 PM (dg+HA)

91 Nick Sortor @nicksortor 2m
🚨 JUST IN: Smoke seen rising near Trump Tower in Las Vegas after loud noises heard by witnesses

Circumstances are currently unclear, and emergency services are responding.

https://tinyurl.com/3ux62pne
2:16 minutes

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at January 01, 2025 12:26 PM (hovnC)

92 Things have changed, but I have a suspicion that its a temporary setback for the left, not a change in direction.

They’re counting on a relentless bureaucracy to outlast President Trump. Unless the President can implement reforms within the next two years, I’m concerned that Deep State, Inc. could disrupt the incoming administration. If the GOPe resists, a full blown revolution might be the only way to straighten this country out.

Posted by: Unkaren at January 01, 2025 12:26 PM (Ah6GP)

93 The vibe shift was at about 3 AM this morning in NOLA. First attack on the homeland on the first day of the new year. I don't think it will be the last.

I reference again any podcast with Sarah Adams, ex-CIA targetter.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at January 01, 2025 12:27 PM (MZ+PY)

94 It seems undeniable that a major shift has occurred, like a balloon popping. I get a general sense of relief not just from MAGA but from the country as a whole. We were speeding off the cliff in a clown car of doom being driven by incompetent and evil people and it feels like we turned the car around at the last minute.

The media has been broken. The only people who still listen to the are the far left whack jobs. The Democrat Party is in complete disarray spending most of its time wondering how they could have improved their messaging. They are in massive denial.

Today's terrorist attack by what appear to be an illegal alien is just going to increase support for our side. Yep, the vibe has completely changed.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 01, 2025 12:27 PM (LkLld)

95 LOL.

BREAKING: Bernie Sanders has just stated that he will put forth legislation to cap credit card interest rates at 10%.

Trump also supports this.

Why would anyone not be for this?

Gosh, I wonder what will happen if this goes into effect?

It's a poser!

Prepare yourself for the New York Times' articles whining that poor people can't get credit, due to the evils of Late Capitalism.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 01, 2025 12:27 PM (uxCna)

96 Justine Bateman… only recently realized she’s not woke, maybe even conservative? I only remembered Mallory Keaton…. I think she still looks great

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 01, 2025 12:27 PM (OW907)

97 This election is a step in the right direction but the journey is far from anywhere close to the end.

You are correct, it is only the end of the beginning (I read that somewhere) but it is, in fact, a turning of the tide. It's Midway, it's Stalingrad, it's Bud Light.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 01, 2025 12:27 PM (xCA6C)

98 Yup. Lots more "Merry Christmas" and lots less Kwanzaa.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 01, 2025 12:26 PM (QZThv)

But it'll stay on your calendars!

Posted by: Calendars Be Us at January 01, 2025 12:28 PM (0eaVi)

99 Remarkable that VDH is optimistic ... I listen to his podcast while I'm working my white boy 45 hour work week, and sometimes it drags me so low that I have to turn it off and start listening to Echo and the Bunnymen.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at January 01, 2025 12:28 PM (YIxO9)

100 96 Justine Bateman… only recently realized she’s not woke, maybe even conservative? I only remembered Mallory Keaton…. I think she still looks great
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 01, 2025 12:27 PM (OW907)

She looks like what a pretty 58 year old unmodified woman looks like.

Posted by: tubal at January 01, 2025 12:28 PM (PCK5/)

101 Nick Sortor @nicksortor 1h
🚨 #BREAKING: The truck used in the New Orleans terror attack was rigged with explosives, per WDSU

Why did the FBI initially say this WASN’T a terror attack?!

Nick Sortor @nicksortor 55m
🚨 UPDATE: The New Orleans terrorist used a truck which was rented through Turo, per ABC News

This comes after the revelation it passed into the U.S. through Eagle Pass, TX just two days ago.

This story is getting weirder and weirder.

Nick Sortor @nicksortor 26m
🚨 #BREAKING: At least four suspicious packages have been detonated along Bourbon Street in New Orleans as part of an improvised explosive device investigation, per WWL

It’s also been confirmed that the suspect was wearing FULL body armor.

Nick Sortor @nicksortor 13m
🚨 #BREAKING: The New Orleans attacker has been identified as 42-year-old Shamsud Din Jabbar, who had an ISIS flag, per NOLA

We also know now the rented truck contained explosives, and he was wearing full body armor.

We need to know WHY the FBI originally said this was NOT a terror attack.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at January 01, 2025 12:28 PM (hovnC)

102 CNN says terrorist was US citizen.

Posted by: illiniwek at January 01, 2025 12:29 PM (Cus5s)

103 They call those things floats because they're turds?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at January 01, 2025 12:29 PM (QOVfC)

104 I know lots of people see the Trump win as a miracle, and the one thing I said long before the election is that IF he wins, it will be that the CIA let him win, and expect to be able to control the flow enough to endure four years of Team Trump.

That was my theory long before the election.

I think they're discovering Trump is gonna be *much* harder to control this time. Hopefully that's actually the case.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 01, 2025 12:29 PM (QZThv)

105 The media has been broken. The only people who still listen to the are the far left whack jobs. The Democrat Party is in complete disarray spending most of its time wondering how they could have improved their messaging. They are in massive denial.

Today's terrorist attack by what appear to be an illegal alien is just going to increase support for our side. Yep, the vibe has completely changed.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 01, 2025 12:27 PM (LkLld)
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Trump's biggest asset is his confirmed power to declassify whatever he wants, and he will use this to the fullest.

Lots of secrets thought hidden will come out, because our sins always call us out in the end.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2025 12:30 PM (ZOv7s)

106 We need to know WHY the FBI originally said this was NOT a terror attack.

Because the guy's "on their radar" and/or an asset.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 01, 2025 12:31 PM (QZThv)

107 Even the left feels the vibe shift - that’s why most of them are curled up in a dark room crying. There will always be violent nutters like the one last night, they want to commit suicide and take as many with them as they can.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 01, 2025 12:31 PM (7MHHr)

108 Prepare yourself for the New York Times' articles whining that poor people can't get credit, due to the evils of Late Capitalism.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 01, 2025 12:27 PM (uxCna)

Then they'll just make it illegal to not give anyone a credit card. Then the banks will get congress to backstop all that junk debt because otherwise they'd all have to fold and then no one gets any credit. And then.... ???

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 01, 2025 12:31 PM (y/ZMQ)

109 Vivek complains that native Americans don't have the tiger-mom culture, and explains which 'Saved by the Bell' and 'Boy Meets World' characters they are.

He watched a lot of tv for someone who had to practice violin for 27 hours a day.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 01, 2025 12:31 PM (lhenN)

110 Gosh, I wonder what will happen if this goes into effect?

It's a poser!

Prepare yourself for the New York Times' articles whining that poor people can't get credit, due to the evils of Late Capitalism.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 01, 2025 12:27 PM (uxCna)
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Yup. Credit will dry up for a ton of people. A net positive, probably, but extremely disruptive and lots of people on the margins get caught flat-footed.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 01, 2025 12:31 PM (HnUIn)

111 We need to know WHY the FBI originally said this was NOT a terror attack.

Because it is SOP for the FBI to announce that it wasn't a terror attack, before any investigation is done.

That rule changes if the suspect is a white male.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 01, 2025 12:31 PM (uxCna)

112 You guys on autopilot today? Nothing about the New Orleans terror attack?

Posted by: TimInVirginia at January 01, 2025 12:31 PM (wrG+8)

113 Fraud vitiates everything.

Posted by: Minuteman

Cut.

Jib.

Newsletter.

Posted by: Sharkman at January 01, 2025 12:32 PM (BRvvM)

114 102 CNN says terrorist was US citizen.
Posted by: illiniwek at January 01, 2025 12:29 PM (Cus5s)

So then we know he wasn't a US citizen.

See? CNN can be useful sometimes.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 01, 2025 12:32 PM (y/ZMQ)

115
I don't want to be a downer, so I'll instead just go on record as detesting the word "vibe" and its usage by youngsters.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls

Lionel Hampton agrees.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 01, 2025 12:32 PM (63Dwl)

116 Vivek complains that native Americans don't have the tiger-mom culture, and explains which 'Saved by the Bell' and 'Boy Meets World' characters they are.

He watched a lot of tv for someone who had to practice violin for 27 hours a day.

Indians aren't exactly who's known for the "tiger mom" thing.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 01, 2025 12:32 PM (QZThv)

117 Yup. Credit will dry up for a ton of people. A net positive, probably, but extremely disruptive and lots of people on the margins get caught flat-footed.

I read recently the Great Divide in America - about half of credit cards are paid off in full at the end of the month, and about half aren't.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 01, 2025 12:33 PM (uxCna)

118 $33 trillion dollars in debt with new moochers lining up to get paid every day.

Posted by: The Elephant In The Punch Bowl at January 01, 2025 12:33 PM (R/m4+)

119 The suspect accused of plowing a truck through a crowd on Bourbon Street early Wednesday morning has been identified by a law enforcement source as 42-year-old Shamsud Din Jabbar.

Posted by: Ciampino - Weirdly weird it is at January 01, 2025 12:33 PM (i0xsb)

120 >>I know lots of people see the Trump win as a miracle, and the one thing I said long before the election is that IF he wins, it will be that the CIA let him win, and expect to be able to control the flow enough to endure four years of Team Trump.

Would that be the same CIA that tried to assassinate him? Twice?

Posted by: JackStraw at January 01, 2025 12:33 PM (LkLld)

121 Leftism is nuclear-powered crotch rot. You can't ever get rid of it. You can balm it, you can scratch it, you can sandblast it with flaming blowtorches. But it will always come back. Always.

Yeah, they won't change direction, as you note they cannot. Not only would it be a violent effect on their mental structure and worldview, but it would affect their money and recruiting. Further, a progressive must always keep challenging everything and attacking what exists or they cease to "progress."

But the culture is headed in one direction right now and the left is on their heels -- for now. They will take a bit of time as you note, to figure out what works to start reversing things again.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 01, 2025 12:33 PM (RsS92)

122 When our news sources are known liars it pays to be cautious.

Posted by: tubal at January 01, 2025 12:33 PM (PCK5/)

123 Speaking of "vibes," has anyone ever read Dr. Suess' 1948 "Thidwick, The Big-Hearted Moose"? That has got to be the most thinly-veiled allegory of illegal immigration in a children's book I've ever read. There's even chain migration in it!

Posted by: pookysgirl doesn't want to host a bear either at January 01, 2025 12:33 PM (dtlDP)

124 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 2m
BREAKING: Tesla Cybertruck is on fire near Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas

https://tinyurl.com/29vu7yap
58 seconds; a few minor explosiony sounds but maybe that's an ordinary EV battery fire??
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Alot of suspects then!

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at January 01, 2025 12:33 PM (hovnC)

125 Why would I believe anything CNN says?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 01, 2025 12:33 PM (dg+HA)

126 We need downtown department stores with Scouting counters where a kid can buy a pocketknife. Sears should have the snack bar in the back where you can get a quarter pound of cashews, a hot dog, and a root beer for under a buck. We need a ban on idiots entering the country, and most important running for office. And a ban on idiots running for office in general.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 01, 2025 12:33 PM (gm9Sb)

127 >>We need to know WHY the FBI originally said this was NOT a terror attack.

I was set up to fail by the white males.

Posted by: FBI-DEI special agent Alethea Duncan at January 01, 2025 12:34 PM (Y1sOo)

128 Would that be the same CIA that tried to assassinate him? Twice?

The assassinations were so half-assed they had to be FBI, not CIA.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 01, 2025 12:34 PM (QZThv)

129 I don’t think the CIA “let Trump win”… they tried to kill him through that Routh cutout. No, they had no choice…. Trump’s number of legal votes and actual support made a cheat untenable. They’ll try to “resist” but Trump is much more powerful this time around. Kash Patel will be FBI Director for one thing

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 01, 2025 12:34 PM (OW907)

130
We need to know WHY the FBI originally said this was NOT a terror attack.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at January

Did you see the FBI person?

“There were improvised explosive devices that was found”

She is not their top man.

Posted by: Piper at January 01, 2025 12:34 PM (p4NUW)

131 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 13m
BREAKING - Law enforcement recovers handgun and AR-style rifle after driver killed 10 in New Orleans, official tells AP.
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So probably a machinegun cannon then!

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at January 01, 2025 12:34 PM (hovnC)

132 Interesting comparison of the flag on the New Orleans truck and an ISIS flag: https://x.com/Kikinroks1/status/1874495757870596198/photo/1

Video of police or EMS appearing to perform CPR on the perp, so very early on in the incident shows the flag (if you look carefully) already tied up in the position seen in later, more clear, photos: https://x.com/MadDog_TX/status/1874450201190277126

So probably not accurate to claim cops tied the flag up to hide it.

Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser at January 01, 2025 12:35 PM (Ij2uN)

133 Tesla Cybertruck is on fire near Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas

That sounds like leftist action.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 01, 2025 12:35 PM (QZThv)

134 They’re counting on a relentless bureaucracy to outlast President Trump. Unless the President can implement reforms within the next two years, I’m concerned that Deep State, Inc. could disrupt the incoming administration. If the GOPe resists, a full blown revolution might be the only way to straighten this country out.
Posted by: Unkaren at January 01, 2025 12:26 PM (Ah6GP)
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They're counting on other people they don't know and won't help to do all the heavy lifting for them.

Quite the plan. The worst of the bureaucrats are going to retire rather than fight, especially since they now have to go to an office for the first time since 2020.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2025 12:35 PM (ZOv7s)

135 A Portland "transportation advocate" has figured out the solution to vehicles ramming people:

Even better, we could just limit automobile access in dense neighborhoods and cities all the time, game day or otherwise.

Would limit the number of people killed by cars whether driven by a mass murderer, a drunk driver or just someone on their phone.

Cleaner air and quieter streets too

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 01, 2025 12:35 PM (uxCna)

136
Din didn't.

Posted by: See much of the new year at January 01, 2025 12:35 PM (dg+HA)

137 We need to know WHY the FBI originally said this was NOT a terror attack.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at January 01, 2025 12:28 PM (hovnC)

And the fibs issued that statement after dirty diapers had been briefed in the early morning hours.

Posted by: 7 man at January 01, 2025 12:35 PM (IpGua)

138 I read recently the Great Divide in America - about half of credit cards are paid off in full at the end of the month, and about half aren't.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 01, 2025 12:33 PM (uxCna)
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Two modes: "I use credit because it's convenient" and "I use credit because I must." Fairly little in the middle.

And, because credit is opposite world, the people who pay off in full every month are (or used to be, anyway) referred to as "deadbeats" by the CC companies because they make comparatively little off of them (just transaction fees, no interest or finance charges).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 01, 2025 12:35 PM (HnUIn)

139 And now a cyber truck burning in front of Trump Tower.

Posted by: Piper at January 01, 2025 12:35 PM (p4NUW)

140 109 Vivek complains that native Americans don't have the tiger-mom culture, and explains which 'Saved by the Bell' and 'Boy Meets World' characters they are.

He watched a lot of tv for someone who had to practice violin for 27 hours a day.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 01, 2025 12:31 PM (lhenN)

Indian-American complains about American-Indians not being more like non-American Indians but really he's referring to non American-Indians.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 01, 2025 12:35 PM (y/ZMQ)

141 Got my Social Security notice yesterday. I'll be taking home a tidy $0.92 extra per day in 2025. Break out the Champaign boys - drinks on me.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at January 01, 2025 12:35 PM (Da7Vv)

142 102 CNN says terrorist was US citizen.
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Swedish man stabs 10 in Malmo, yelling 'Allahu Akbar'. Film at eleven.

/sarc; who knows yet?

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at January 01, 2025 12:36 PM (hovnC)

143 Barriers were put in place in the French Quarter after an attack in 86. The barriers can be raised and lowered , but were unfortunately are under repair. They were designed to block cars. Interesting timing

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 01, 2025 12:36 PM (MLa3L)

144 I felt the vibe shift from July(never bought into Kamala surging after she replaced Joe)

Posted by: steevy at January 01, 2025 12:36 PM (KQk9m)

145 Once again Muh 'Horns have a college playoff game blocked by ESPN.
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I've been having pretty good luck with YouTube for games. Sometimes ESPN kills the feed, though.

This link works pretty well, but sometimes has buffering issues:

https://thedaddy.to/stream/stream-44.php

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at January 01, 2025 12:36 PM (paSBy)

146 Would that be the same CIA that tried to assassinate him? Twice?

I'm not gonna speculate on that, but I do have a strong feeling that the CIA is 90% incompetent, based on decades of observation and reading. People tend to assign them a lot more capability and breadth of influence than they really enjoy

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 01, 2025 12:36 PM (RsS92)

147 We need to know WHY the FBI originally said this was NOT a terror attack.

Richard Jewell is under suspicion again and he's been dead for years.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 01, 2025 12:36 PM (vYDwg)

148 An ebullient Hanson, what fun.

***What about you? Do you feel the "vibe shift"?***
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Absolutely. It's going to be a cage fight but we have a champion for a leader (Patton as portrayed in the movie) and he's put together a tough team. What we have to do is not let the commies divide us.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2025 12:37 PM (kLJmv)

149 Maybe the FBI did know about the attack. If he came over from Mexico 2 days ago, who helped him set up? Who arranged for the weapon, the explosives, the AirBnB he rented? Does NO normally take down the steel barriers and replace them with plastic on NYE?
This took coordination

Posted by: long night ending, dawn in January at January 01, 2025 12:37 PM (2NXcZ)

150 Indians aren't exactly who's known for the "tiger mom" thing.
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They were rich enough to hire a Korean woman.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at January 01, 2025 12:37 PM (hovnC)

151 I think they're discovering Trump is gonna be *much* harder to control this time. Hopefully that's actually the case.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 01, 2025 12:29 PM (QZThv)

I hope Trump studies Milei closely - was just reading that not only has Milei been slashing agencies, but he’s been extremely shrewd about dividing and neutralizing all of his political opposition. To the point that now, after a hard year with a lot of difficult choices, Milei is now in an even more powerful position than at the start.
The author of the piece noted that knowing how to manouver politically is one area where libertarians almost always fail.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 01, 2025 12:37 PM (7MHHr)

152 Swedish man stabs 10 in Malmo, yelling 'Allahu Akbar'. Film at eleven.

/sarc; who knows yet?
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at January 01, 2025 12:36 PM (hovnC)

Sven? Is that you?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 01, 2025 12:37 PM (vYDwg)

153 I'm not gonna speculate on that, but I do have a strong feeling that the CIA is 90% incompetent, based on decades of observation and reading. People tend to assign them a lot more capability and breadth of influence than they really enjoy

CIA's very good at color revolutions (here in 2020, Brazil, Ukraine, Syria?). They're less good at everything else.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 01, 2025 12:38 PM (QZThv)

154 They’ll try to “resist” but Trump is much more powerful this time around.

Would you say he's more powerful than they could possibly imagine?

Posted by: Archimedes at January 01, 2025 12:38 PM (xCA6C)

155 I would like to think this will be an audacious year. I think we will know soon.

Will Homan be allowed to deport and will there be punishment for sanctuaries? Will there be consequences for all the past perfidy or will we "move on?" Will venal GOP senators upend the Trump agenda for their own petty personal reasons?

These will be answered by the end of this month.

Posted by: blaster at January 01, 2025 12:38 PM (QfvaV)

156 Capping credit card rates would mean that poor credit risks no longer get credit cards. Which is probably a good thing for everyone.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 01, 2025 12:38 PM (gMpqw)

157 If any agency tries to assassinate Trump it was the SS under Secretary of Global Equity Mayorkas.

Posted by: long night ending, dawn in January at January 01, 2025 12:38 PM (2NXcZ)

158 146 Would that be the same CIA that tried to assassinate him? Twice?

I'm not gonna speculate on that, but I do have a strong feeling that the CIA is 90% incompetent, based on decades of observation and reading. People tend to assign them a lot more capability and breadth of influence than they really enjoy
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 01, 2025 12:36 PM (RsS92)

Due to decades of television and movie propaganda lauding them with virtue and competence… very effective conditioning.

Posted by: tubal at January 01, 2025 12:38 PM (PCK5/)

159 The Federal Bureau of Incompetence

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 01, 2025 12:38 PM (vYDwg)

160 What about you? Do you feel the "vibe shift"?

Absolutely. The people who aren't even awake to the war are noticing something, and that ... 'energy', I guess, is rippling thru the real world.

Posted by: t-bird at January 01, 2025 12:39 PM (QrkKu)

161 Speaking of "vibes," has anyone ever read Dr. Suess' 1948 "Thidwick, The Big-Hearted Moose"? That has got to be the most thinly-veiled allegory of illegal immigration in a children's book I've ever read. There's even chain migration in it!
Posted by: pookysgirl doesn't want to host a bear either at January 01, 2025 12:33 PM (dtlDP)

And the dangers of pathological altruism

Posted by: Self-annihilation is not a virtue at January 01, 2025 12:39 PM (ybSPO)

162 Happy New Year, Ace and all the COBs, commenters, and members of the Horde who make this place so special. Let’s hope we are finally waking up from our long national nightmare.

Posted by: Retired, thank God at January 01, 2025 12:39 PM (9BIt9)

163 In other news the FBI has announced that 9/11 has been re-classified to the "Pranks gone Bad" category.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at January 01, 2025 12:39 PM (Da7Vv)

164 Even better, we could just limit automobile access in dense neighborhoods and cities all the time, game day or otherwise.

Clearly, since the many laws that make it illegal and prohibited to drive into a parade zone and kill people with a car, what we need are EVEN MORE LAWS because every time we increase government power, things get better.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 01, 2025 12:39 PM (RsS92)

165 The Federal Bureau of Incompetence

The Grand Theft Auto video games have called them the "Federal Investigative Bureau", FIB, for well over a decade.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 01, 2025 12:40 PM (QZThv)

166 133 Tesla Cybertruck is on fire near Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas

That sounds like leftist action.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 01, 2025 12:35 PM (QZThv)

If you accept the idea that lithium ion batteries are mostly a leftist piece of tech.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 01, 2025 12:40 PM (7MHHr)

167 My parents do not feel any good vibe at all

they think Trump has already betrayed us with the turnabout on how awesome H1B workers are, that he'll be killed by the deep state before he has a chance to do anything, that Musk is a globalist NWO 33rd degree mason who will influence Trump, that Vance is a compromised stooge controlled by his deep state wife (who is also an agent for India)

they read every single conspiracy theory and believe it all, from the chemtrails controlling the weather to the treasury being emptied before trump gets in

goes on and on, to the point where Im wondering if they would have been less miserable had coconut won

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Now Evaluating the Best Wagshambas of 2024 at January 01, 2025 12:40 PM (HYKHz)

168 "What about you? Do you feel the "vibe shift"?

More like the burning during urination.

Posted by: Kramer at January 01, 2025 12:40 PM (dg+HA)

169 Be prepared to hear ‘terrorist attack’ every few days for the foreseeable future. Our enemies didn’t send them here for nothing.

Posted by: Eromero at January 01, 2025 12:40 PM (LHPAg)

170 A bell curve graph explains that there are 8 million white American geniuses (+135), and 0.25 Indian geniuses. The brahman caste average is 100, and the rest are much lower.

The next Tesla will more-likely be American than any other. Not just by scholastic aptitude but also entrepreneurial attitude.

If it happens that Tesla 2025 arrives in Europe or Asia, he best run his small factory sending for Americans to his country on work visa. Like Hitchcock or the Beetles, prove himself before moving to the US.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 01, 2025 12:40 PM (lhenN)

171 2025: The Year All Diets Work!

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 01, 2025 12:40 PM (Aqu9a)

172 Or perhaps, bring them here.

Posted by: Eromero at January 01, 2025 12:41 PM (LHPAg)

173 >>>And, because credit is opposite world, the people who pay off in full every month are (or used to be, anyway) referred to as "deadbeats" by the CC companies because they make comparatively little off of them (just transaction fees, no interest or finance charges).
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
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At the same time one receives all of their legal protections.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2025 12:41 PM (kLJmv)

174 VIA and Mastercard both have profit rates over 50%. I think the interest rate can come down to 10% and they will still have an abnormal profit rate of 15%. . For producing NOTHING, nothing at all.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at January 01, 2025 12:41 PM (17s+e)

175 171 2025: The Year All Diets Work!
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 01, 2025 12:40 PM (Aqu9a)

Technically.. yes.

Posted by: tubal at January 01, 2025 12:41 PM (PCK5/)

176 Anyone still have Christmas decor up? Can't wait til Monday so I can take them down.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 01, 2025 12:41 PM (0eaVi)

177 If you accept the idea that lithium ion batteries are mostly a leftist piece of tech.

No, I accept that burning one of "President Musk's" cars in front of Trump Tower is exactly the sort of thing you'd expect Antifa to do.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 01, 2025 12:42 PM (QZThv)

178 I'll be taking home a tidy $0.92 extra per day in 2025. Break out the Champaign boys - drinks on me.
Posted by: An Observation

Ah, Valu-Rite Champagne - ginger ale that's sat too long and has fermented.

Posted by: t-bird at January 01, 2025 12:42 PM (QrkKu)

179 164 Even better, we could just limit automobile access in dense neighborhoods and cities all the time, game day or otherwise.

Clearly, since the many laws that make it illegal and prohibited to drive into a parade zone and kill people with a car, what we need are EVEN MORE LAWS because every time we increase government power, things get better.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 01, 2025 12:39 PM (RsS92)
***

Just a hunch but I suspect the solution is NOT more laws and regulations on regular Americans. I am thinking something else...something...more obvious.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 01, 2025 12:42 PM (W/lyH)

180 176 Anyone still have Christmas decor up? Can't wait til Monday so I can take them down.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 01, 2025 12:41 PM (0eaVi)

Mine were down Dec. 26th

Posted by: It's me donna at January 01, 2025 12:42 PM (VE6XX)

181 We need to know WHY the FBI originally said this was NOT a terror attack.

They are probably told to downplay it and not admit terrorism until its forced on them. If nobody admits a crime happened, you can report the crime level as lower.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 01, 2025 12:42 PM (RsS92)

182 >>I'm not gonna speculate on that, but I do have a strong feeling that the CIA is 90% incompetent, based on decades of observation and reading. People tend to assign them a lot more capability and breadth of influence than they really enjoy

If Trump hadn't unexpectedly turned his head at the last second there's a very good chance we would be dealing with our historic first black female president.

The CIA's greatest weapon against us was virtually complete control of the media and social media. They could censor what they wanted and create new narratives.

Losing Twitter was devastating for them.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 01, 2025 12:42 PM (LkLld)

183 Shamsud Din Jabbar?

F#cking Mormons.

Posted by: Dr Spank at January 01, 2025 12:42 PM (UuDzR)

184 And I get cash back from Costco!

Posted by: Paying off the balance every month at January 01, 2025 12:43 PM (dg+HA)

185 VIA and Mastercard both have profit rates over 50%. I think the interest rate can come down to 10% and they will still have an abnormal profit rate of 15%. . For producing NOTHING, nothing at all.

If that were true, people wouldn't use credit cards. They do, because they grease the wheels of commerce and buy that most precious commodity, time.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 01, 2025 12:43 PM (xCA6C)

186 For once I can say "HAPPY New Year!" and actually mean it.

Posted by: zombie at January 01, 2025 12:43 PM (pMi6S)

187 167 My parents do not feel any good vibe at all

they think Trump has already betrayed us with the turnabout on how awesome H1B workers are, that he'll be killed by the deep state before he has a chance to do anything, that Musk is a globalist NWO 33rd degree mason who will influence Trump, that Vance is a compromised stooge controlled by his deep state wife (who is also an agent for India)

they read every single conspiracy theory and believe it all, from the chemtrails controlling the weather to the treasury being emptied before trump gets in

goes on and on, to the point where Im wondering if they would have been less miserable had coconut won
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Now Evaluating the Best Wagshambas of 2024 at January 01, 2025 12:40 PM (HYKHz)

The frogs are getting awfully gay.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 01, 2025 12:43 PM (AUL7F)

188 If Trump hadn't unexpectedly turned his head at the last second there's a very good chance we would be dealing with our historic first black female president.

I actually think if that had happened Vance would be President in an even bigger landslide.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 01, 2025 12:43 PM (QZThv)

189 NOLA.com says terrorist is something something din Jabaar ... carrying an ISIS flag in truck
Posted by: illiniwek at January 01, 2025 12:10 PM (Cus5s)

The basketball player?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2025 12:43 PM (8zz6B)

190 I actually think if that had happened Vance would be President in an even bigger landslide.

Agree.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 01, 2025 12:44 PM (xCA6C)

191 Mine were down Dec. 26th
Posted by: It's me donna at January 01, 2025 12:42 PM (VE6XX)

Wife wants them up until Epiphany.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 01, 2025 12:44 PM (0eaVi)

192 I don't want to be a downer, so I'll instead just go on record as detesting the word "vibe" and its usage by youngsters.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls

Lionel Hampton agrees.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Enough of these negative vibes, Moriarty!
- Sgt. Oddball

Posted by: BifBewalski at January 01, 2025 12:44 PM (MsrgL)

193 You're gonna love how I chop your nuts.

But wait--there's more!

Posted by: Shamsud Din Jabbar at January 01, 2025 12:44 PM (paSBy)

194 190 I actually think if that had happened Vance would be President in an even bigger landslide.

Agree.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 01, 2025 12:44 PM (xCA6C)

Yes.

Posted by: tubal at January 01, 2025 12:44 PM (PCK5/)

195 VIA and Mastercard both have profit rates over 50%. I think the interest rate can come down to 10% and they will still have an abnormal profit rate of 15%. . For producing NOTHING, nothing at all.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at January 01, 2025 12:41 PM (17s+e)

So start your own credit card company and undercut them.

I see no problem with them maximizing profit. And who decides what is "abnormal profit?" The government? That should work really well!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 01, 2025 12:45 PM (d9fT1)

196
Oh, there is a definite positive vibe going on now.

As someone mentioned above, a lot more Merry Christmas this year from store clerks etc.

We definitely have a chance at a much better America than this low-T, low energy, low IQ, low optimism blue-tinged craphole dribbling out its final days as its Senile Avatar, Biden, heads toward the exit.

But...the main thing is exactly what VDH said above
, "...daring, and still more daring, and always more daring."

Trump and his team must steamroll and shock the opposition and keep doing it.

Go for the easy victories right away but don't stop. Keep pushing and at the same time defund the Left, clawback from the Left and send some to jail if their crimes warrant it. (and I'm positive some do).

Surf the Flood of Goodwill in your own lives! Your time of opportunity is here!

Posted by: naturalfake at January 01, 2025 12:45 PM (iJfKG)

197 We need to know WHY the FBI originally said this was NOT a terror attack.

Opsec. We can't let on to everything we know.

Posted by: The FBI at January 01, 2025 12:45 PM (pJkex)

198 R A W S A L E R T S @rawsalerts 36m
🚨#BREAKING: Fox News has since retracted its earlier report claiming the truck crossed the Mexico border two days ago.

The updated report now states that the rental truck used in the New Orleans attack crossed the border on November 16, not December 30, and was not being driven by the suspect at that time.
====
Still, a Mexican border crossing.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at January 01, 2025 12:45 PM (hovnC)

199 Fox News: Samshood Jabar. This is the name of the driver. Not sure of the spelling. Clearly a Mormon.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at January 01, 2025 12:45 PM (Q8Bj8)

200 This is starting to sound like another Nidal Hasan if this guy is really ex-army.

Posted by: fd at January 01, 2025 12:45 PM (uH1zk)

201 I always take a "wait and see" approach to a year...sometimes I feel like this:

https://youtu.be/SJUhlRoBL8M

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 01, 2025 12:46 PM (ynpvh)

202 This busty bikini brunette predicts a great summer spent poolside, and is counting the days until it arrives:
http://tiny.cc/c5p3001

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 01, 2025 12:46 PM (HnUIn)

203 *something something din Jabaar ...*

He was great in Airplane!

Posted by: Part time movie buff at January 01, 2025 12:46 PM (dg+HA)

204 I actually think if that had happened Vance would be President in an even bigger landslide.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 01, 2025 12:43 PM (QZThv)

No. When Butler happened, Trump had not yet named Vance. It would’ve been chaos on a grand scale

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 01, 2025 12:46 PM (+kWhq)

205 goes on and on, to the point where Im wondering if they would have been less miserable had coconut won
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Now Evaluating the Best Wagshambas of 2024 at January 01, 2025 12:40 PM (HYKHz)

Some people truly love to miserable, no matter what happens they will be miserable. The only reasonable answer is “yeah yeah yeah shut your piehole pops.” That’ll make them even more miserable but you’ll be doing them a favor since that’s what they want.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 01, 2025 12:46 PM (7MHHr)

206 For once I can say "HAPPY New Year!" and actually mean it.
Posted by: zombie

Been looking forward to this one since 2018. Going to be a wild ride at the beginning, though!

Posted by: t-bird at January 01, 2025 12:46 PM (Fr3vV)

207 So start your own credit card company and undercut them.

I see no problem with them maximizing profit. And who decides what is "abnormal profit?" The government? That should work really well!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 01, 2025 12:45 PM (d9fT1)

I'm actually surprised that the "Mr. Beast" guy hasn't done that. Does this internet guy really have that much money??

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 01, 2025 12:46 PM (0eaVi)

208 I actually think if that had happened Vance would be President in an even bigger landslide.

Posted by: Ian S.

Was Vance official on July 13th? I thought it was made official the following Monday.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 01, 2025 12:46 PM (gMpqw)

209 Anyone still have Christmas decor up?

**************

Mine are staying up until the inauguration, only difference is the lights are now decorated with US flags and theres a golden wig on top of the tree

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Now Evaluating the Best Wagshambas of 2024 at January 01, 2025 12:46 PM (HYKHz)

210 Is the flaming Cyber Truck at Trump's Vegas casino a message?

Or an EV gone bad?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 01, 2025 12:46 PM (Q4IgG)

211 >>I actually think if that had happened Vance would be President in an even bigger landslide.

I don't.

I like Vance but Trump built the MAGA coalition. I don't think all the new voters Trump has attracted would have automatically shifted to Vance.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 01, 2025 12:47 PM (LkLld)

212 Sears was at one time the largest retailer, by far.

Now, given their wonderful real estate positioning and the rest of it, they *could* have embraced the Internet and maintained their hegemony or whatever. But they didn’t. Wards, K-Mart, Radio Shack, etc.

The Media outlets are the same. They had it all, only game in town, became arrogant and sniffing their own farts.

They are in denial, but the trend will not be reversed, and will get extremely uglier than it is.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 01, 2025 12:47 PM (anZ4T)

213 We need common sense truck control.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at January 01, 2025 12:47 PM (17s+e)

214 The ~~suspect accused of plowing~~ terrorist that plowed a truck through a crowd on Bourbon Street is named Shamsud Din Jabbar, according to a law enforcement source.

He's was 42 years old. Police shot and killed him after the attack.

The source said he was carrying an ISIS flag in the truck.

An obvious MAGA supporter.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 01, 2025 12:13 PM (uxCna)

Fixed it for them. A dead perp cannot be "accused". He's fucking dead.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 01, 2025 12:47 PM (8zz6B)

215 Fox News: Samshood Jabar. This is the name of the driver. Not sure of the spelling. Clearly a Mormon.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at January 01, 2025 12:45 PM (Q8Bj

Of the Upper East Side Jabars?

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 01, 2025 12:47 PM (Aqu9a)

216 Still, a Mexican border crossing.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at January 01, 2025 12:45 PM (hovnC)

I don't have much confidence in Fox. Maybe it made several crossings. Maybe the feds are hiding information.They've made it impossible to trust them

Posted by: long night ending, dawn in January at January 01, 2025 12:47 PM (2NXcZ)

217
Yes to the vibe shift. The left is eating America's dust.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's phone at January 01, 2025 12:48 PM (n7rxJ)

218 >>>The next Tesla will more-likely be American than any other. Not just by scholastic aptitude but also entrepreneurial attitude.
...
Posted by: BourbonChicken
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The next Tesla is here, he's African-American and his name is Musk.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2025 12:48 PM (kLJmv)

219 VDH really knows how to weild classic quotes. I had forgotten how good some of the originals were:

"He doth bestride the narrow world /Like a Colossus, and we petty men /Walk under his huge legs and peep about /To find ourselves dishonorable graves."

"In the fell clutch of circumstance/I have not winced nor cried aloud,/Under the bludgeonings of chance/My head is bloody, but unbowed."

Compare that to the crap passed off as "literature" these days.

Posted by: zombie at January 01, 2025 12:48 PM (pMi6S)

220 BREAKING: Tesla Cybertruck is on fire near Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas

++++

Seriously? Another electric truck? Hmmmm. Will there be a third?

Posted by: Smellslikevictory at January 01, 2025 12:48 PM (jPdyB)

221 I am not saying that the government should set credit card rates. Far from it, it is none of their business. But, if people with lousy credit scores didn't get cards, everyone else would benefit. Those who have good credit are subsidizing those with poor scores.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 01, 2025 12:48 PM (gMpqw)

222 US citizen ex military ?Hard to believe.. I'm gonna give it the 48 hour rule

Posted by: It's me donna at January 01, 2025 12:49 PM (VE6XX)

223 This busty bikini brunette predicts a great summer spent poolside, and is counting the days until it arrives:
http://tiny.cc/c5p3001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 01, 2025 12:46 PM (HnUIn)

She's well rounded.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 01, 2025 12:49 PM (Aqu9a)

224 I'm counting this as part of 2024.

------------

Cruel, but fair.

It was still December 31st in Hawaii ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Eliminate vast bureaucracies of civil servants, no longer servants and no longer civil at January 01, 2025 12:49 PM (z3WOQ)

225 Anyone still have Christmas decor up?

Ours will stay up till Epiphany end of the traditional Christmas season . I enjoy seeing the lights and the ornaments with a long history in the family,

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 01, 2025 12:49 PM (N4yJx)

226 >>This is starting to sound like another Nidal Hasan if this guy is really ex-army.

Roger, workplace violence then. I'll mark it down.

Posted by: FBI crime stats categorization specialist at January 01, 2025 12:49 PM (Y1sOo)

227 210 Is the flaming Cyber Truck at Trump's Vegas casino a message?

Or an EV gone bad?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 01, 2025 12:46 PM (Q4IgG)

Don't fuck with Elon Maximus. Did anyone else see the video on X claiming that Elon told Bibi that he was the "unofficial President"?

Posted by: long night ending, dawn in January at January 01, 2025 12:49 PM (2NXcZ)

228 As some have already stated, the best I can muster is cautious optimism. Trump is still Trump, he may have better advisors this time 'round. He may have a stronger Cabinet this time 'round. He may even have a greater number of allies in Congress this time 'round. But what Obama said of Biden can also be said of the GOPe; don't underestimate their ability to f*ck things up. They've made salvaging defeat from the jaws of victory the hill they'll gladly die upon.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at January 01, 2025 12:49 PM (eAutj)

229 Some people truly love to miserable, no matter what happens they will be miserable. The only reasonable answer is “yeah yeah yeah shut your piehole pops.” That’ll make them even more miserable but you’ll be doing them a favor since that’s what they want.

**************

They're the only family I have left, I thought we would all be rejoicing that Trump won, instead they're reading Laura Loomer on X

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Now Evaluating the Best Wagshambas of 2024 at January 01, 2025 12:49 PM (HYKHz)

230
When did the terrorist rent the truck?
Where did the terrorist rent the truck?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2025 12:50 PM (kLJmv)

231 VISA and Mastercard both have profit rates over 50%. I think the interest rate can come down to 10% and they will still have an abnormal profit rate of 15%. . For producing NOTHING, nothing at all.

At least some of that profit is eaten up by people not paying their credit card bill but yeah. Most of their money actually comes from charging the stores that take these cards for every purchase: its a guaranteed steady, if small individual, income everywhere on earth.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 01, 2025 12:50 PM (RsS92)

232 Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump 2h [Truth Social]

When I said that the criminals coming in are far worse than the criminals we have in our country, that statement was constantly refuted by Democrats and the Fake News Media, but it turned out to be true. The crime rate in our country is at a level that nobody has ever seen before. Our hearts are with all of the innocent victims and their loved ones, including the brave officers of the New Orleans Police Department. The Trump Administration will fully support the City of New Orleans as they investigate and recover from this act of pure evil!

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at January 01, 2025 12:50 PM (hovnC)

233 NOOD NOLA Terrorist Attack

Posted by: ShainS -- Eliminate vast bureaucracies of civil servants, no longer servants and no longer civil at January 01, 2025 12:51 PM (z3WOQ)

234 Fox News: Hamsid din Jabar. Had a Glock and a rifle.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at January 01, 2025 12:51 PM (Q8Bj8)

235 230
When did the terrorist rent the truck?
Where did the terrorist rent the truck?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2025 12:50 PM (kLJmv)

How'd he get funded? Was he involved with CAIR?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 01, 2025 12:51 PM (ynpvh)

236 Ours will stay up till Epiphany end of the traditional Christmas season . I enjoy seeing the lights and the ornaments with a long history in the family,
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 01, 2025 12:49 PM (N4yJx)

Sometimes they just seem forlorn.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 01, 2025 12:51 PM (0eaVi)

237 I don't want to be a downer, so I'll instead just go on record as detesting the word "vibe" and its usage by youngsters.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls

Was watching a game show from the late '70's and they used 'vibe'. Those kooky Kalifornians always came up with the latest fads. Like most fads and fashions, it comes and it goes, then comes back again.

Posted by: haffhowershower at January 01, 2025 12:51 PM (NMT5x)

238 >>>Don't fuck with Elon Maximus. Did anyone else see the video on X claiming that Elon told Bibi that he was the "unofficial President"?
Posted by: long night ending, dawn
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They should be paying you top dollar. You do a pretty good job.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2025 12:52 PM (kLJmv)

239 I'm amazed at all the cars that have become self-aware lately and driven themselves into crowds

I blame global warming

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Now Evaluating the Best Wagshambas of 2024 at January 01, 2025 12:52 PM (HYKHz)

240 hear that? the sound of a thousand shredding machines shredding away with the help of many people who biden will preemptively pardon before he leaves for the land of wilmington where the ice cream always flows and the depends are never empty

Posted by: gnats local 678 at January 01, 2025 12:53 PM (CWTWj)

241 VIA and Mastercard both have profit rates over 50%. I think the interest rate can come down to 10% and they will still have an abnormal profit rate of 15%. . For producing NOTHING, nothing at all.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at January 01, 2025 12:41 PM (17s+e)

So start your own credit card company and undercut them.

I see no problem with them maximizing profit. And who decides what is "abnormal profit?" The government? That should work really well!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 01, 2025 12:45 PM (d9fT1)
_____

I don't disagree, but the credit card market is artificially manipulated by the banks, while the government just sits back and does nothing. Economics teaches that new competitors rush in when existing market participants are making huge profits. Visa and MC surely are. Well, where are the new competitors? There are none. The system is a giant rigged monopoly.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at January 01, 2025 12:53 PM (iFTx/)

242 >>>The updated report now states that the rental truck used in the New Orleans attack crossed the border on November 16, not December 30, and was not being driven by the suspect at that time.
====
Still, a Mexican border crossing.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC
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It's a fucking rent truck.

When did the terrorist rent the truck?
Where did he rent it?
Who did he rent it from?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2025 12:53 PM (kLJmv)

243 Branson mo has a gay and lame musical number complete with rainbow fag flag.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at January 01, 2025 12:53 PM (QOVfC)

244 233 NOOD NOLA Terrorist Attack
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Doesn't ace know we're discussing the credit card duopoly!!!

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at January 01, 2025 12:54 PM (hovnC)

245 234 Fox News: Hamsid din Jabar. Had a Glock and a rifle.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at January 01, 2025 12:51 PM (Q8Bj

With suppressor and optics. Odd armament considering his landing approach. Suppressors in the past are not quickly obtainable.

Posted by: 7 man at January 01, 2025 12:55 PM (IpGua)

246 "What about you? Do you feel the "vibe shift"?"

Meh. But I don't get out much.
politically speaking...
I, personally, am a bit more cautiously optimistic than I was this time last year. But the media still exists. And the progressives and globalists are still collectivist totalitarians and they are still out there...waiting.
At home...
I have a grandson arriving in April, his parents will be installing a house right next door to ours, and my daughter is doing well in college. And I'm losing some weight!
I will have faith in God, trust Trump, and keep my own house in order. I may even plant a veggie garden again.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at January 01, 2025 12:55 PM (4XwPj)

247 The red herring bullshit that always floods the zone during these religion of pieces incidents are so tiresome.
Noobody gives a fuck if the truck came from some border town its irrelevant but it lets leftoids control the "misinformation" narrative.

Posted by: cmonman at January 01, 2025 12:55 PM (wgct4)

248 I fear that people might be getting their hopes up a bit too nhigh re: the Trump administration.

In theory, the president makes a big difference in society.

In reality, history rolls on regardless of who is president, and about 90% of what happens in the world is beyind any president's control.

Japan was gonna bomb PEarl harbor on Dec. 7 1941 regardless of who had won the 1940 election. And even if Wendell Willkie had won he would have had no choice but to declare war on Japan. And the US Navy and Marines would have kicked ass regardless of who was president.

Osama bin Laden planned 9/11 in 1998, and it would have happened regardless of the outcome of the Bush-Gore showdown.

The hippie ethos metastaczied and took over culture in 1969, even though Nixon, the ultimate anti-hippe, won.

Etc.

Trump is human. And history is a bitch.

Posted by: zombie at January 01, 2025 12:55 PM (pMi6S)

249 The cultural shift I want to see: no more use of "vibe" in this manner.

Its one of my less favorite slang terms, yeah. There are worse, like "ick" but its not welcome.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 01, 2025 12:56 PM (RsS92)

250 If you're buying on credit you are over extended.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 01, 2025 12:56 PM (kLJmv)

251 Why should I believe any reporting from Fox?

Posted by: Person who doesn't own a television at January 01, 2025 12:57 PM (dg+HA)

252 75
The University of Michigan unilaterally rejected DEI statements a few weeks ago. Gone. The Berkely of the Midwest has fallen.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 01, 2025 12:23 PM (ZOv7s)
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It's more likely morphed to a differently named entity of the same thing. Already seen that play out at Ohio (U-of or State?). Nobody gets fired except maybe one or two junior administrators.

Posted by: Ciampino - Weirdly weird it is at January 01, 2025 12:58 PM (i0xsb)

253 Would that be the same CIA that tried to assassinate him? Twice?
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The assassinations were so half-assed they had to be FBI, not CIA.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 01, 2025 12:34 PM (QZThv)

I wouldn't want to guess without more evidence, who was behind those attempts, but yeah, the ineptitude suggests it was NOT CIA.

And yes, even if they sanctioned those events, that doesn't mean they were not ALSO prepared to deal with a Trump victory.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 01, 2025 12:59 PM (lH8E4)

254 Someone at FOX now saying 4 to 5 others involved in the terrorist attack.

Kinda makes sense on some counts ... we shall see, maybe.

NY Post saying terrorist was in military for a decade, grew up in TX.

Had Glock and 308 rifle for attack. One other report something about at least one firearm stolen.

Posted by: illiniwek at January 01, 2025 12:59 PM (Cus5s)

255 "...the land of wilmington where the ice cream always flows and the depends are never empty..."

Snort.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 01, 2025 01:00 PM (dg+HA)

256 81

For "greatest Islamic names" it's hard to beat Mohammed Mohammed Mohammed, who popped up in an arrest report 20 years ago in Minneapolis. Not sure if his parents thought the Islamic "prophet" followed Beetlejuice rules or what.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 01, 2025 12:24 PM (QZThv)
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"Look I don't like my first name much, it was my splody uncle the martyr's name. Use my middle name."

Posted by: Ciampino - Weirdly weird it is at January 01, 2025 01:03 PM (i0xsb)

257 How long till the FBI says "he was on our radar"?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 01, 2025 01:04 PM (MLa3L)

258 I felt the vibe start shifting on Nov 6, it's been fulling on ever since

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 01, 2025 01:11 PM (cY18j)

259 He used an electric truck. The gun banners need to in clue banning electric trucks now, Because electric trucks kill people.

Posted by: MacRadDoc at January 01, 2025 01:38 PM (+OjEW)

260 I thought "ICYMI" meant "I see you meant it." This makes a lot more sense.

Ace, always laying down the knowledge.

Posted by: John at January 01, 2025 02:23 PM (WOFR6)

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