Monday, January 26, 2026

Tim Walz Caves, Will Work With Trump and Tom Homan. Is This Why?

 The situation in Minnesota is out of control, and finally, happy hands lunatic Tim Walz has chosen reason, deciding to cooperate with Trump officials in the wake of the recent shooting of Alex Pretti by Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis last Saturday. It sparked another round of outrage from the Left, who claim, without evidence, that he was executed. Meanwhile, some conservatives claimed wrongly that he was about to commit mass slaughter before he was shot—Pretti was carrying a firearm at the protest. He didn't have his carry permit, which, before everyone gets huffy about that, is only a $25 fine and is not considered an offense where his gun or his Second Amendment rights would be stripped, as in a domestic violence situation. 

The incident created a total mess on messaging, and now Trump is stepping in to clean up the mess, appointing Tom Homan, who I assume is going to be the point person, not just of the overall operation in the state, but with Walz personally in resolving this matter (via Fox 21/Associated Press): 

Walz’ office said the call was “productive.” 

“The Governor made the case that we need impartial investigations of the Minneapolis shootings involving federal agents, and that we need to reduce the number of federal agents in Minnesota,” his office wrote in a release. 

Renee Good and Alex Pretti, both Minnesota residents and U.S. citizens, were fatally shot and killed by federal immigration officers in separate incidents in Minneapolis. 

Trump agreed to talk to the Department of Homeland Security about ensuring the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is able to conduct an independent investigation, Walz’ office said, and also agreed to look into either reducing the number of federal agents in Minnesota or working with the state “in a more coordinated fashion on immigration enforcement regarding violent criminals.” 

.Why the change of heart, Tim? For days, you’ve been on a psychopathic rant against federal immigration officers, comparing the situation to the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg, making not-so-subtle remarks about being at war with the federal government, and finally saying that what’s happening in your state, which you’ve allowed to devolve into anarchy, is not so dissimilar to the Nazis and Anne Frank. It’s crazy. You’re a crazy person, Tim—and screaming nonsense on a bullhorn atop a metal fence is mental patient antics.  

It’s now led to another person getting shot and killed over your incessant lies. But there could also be the issue of the anti-ICE signal chat being exposed, where some top Minnesota Democrats, who allegedly include Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, might have something to do with it. Reporter Cam Higby posted the contents of this chat over the weekend, showing a vast, coordinated effort to disrupt ICE operations. Some could argue it’s a blueprint on how to commit acts of domestic terrorism. 

They're Scattering: Anti-ICE Leftists Consider Fleeing Country After Signal Chat Got Exposed

 

They got exposed, but that doesn’t mean they’ve gone away or stopped. They’re a roach infestation. These leftists in Minneapolis, causing mayhem for our law enforcement, had their secret Anti-ICE chat on Signal exposed, but new ones have been established, and the older ones nuked from existence. 

Still, the chats revealed a coordinated system from which these psychopaths could engage in targeted harassment and assault of federal law enforcement. Reporter Cam Higby dropped this nuke over the weekend, and now they’re scattering. Some said they’re fleeing the country and going to Cuba, which was amusing:

Here are some of the contents from the initial story Higby dropped over the weekend. RedState broke down the mayhem even further, diving into the funding and who was on it. We know that ‘Flan,’ the alleged codename for Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, was part of this chat, along with Alex Pretti, the latest leftist shot and killed by immigration officers, which led to the second wave of lefty mayhem in the city. Pretti was carrying a firearm, though he didn't have his proper ID with him*, at this protest, but things went awry, and he was killed. Again, interfering with federal law enforcement operations will lead to dire consequences for the agitator. The Left claims this was another execution. The bodycams from the Border Patrol agents involved are being analyzed.  


You’ll notice emojis next to people’s names. Here’s a key for what those emojis mean.   

The highlighted positions are the most crucial. Most are self explanatory. Mobile patrols spend their entire “shift” searching for suspicious vehicles.    

When they find one they send it to the group so that “plate checkers” can compare with their database and see if it’s a known federal vehicle or if the patrol can make the confirmation so that the database can be updated.  

[…]  

A new group chat for each zone is made each day. The chats are dated, and deleted at the end of each day.   

This is likely to avoid detection, record keeping, and consequences.    

My mid-day, the group chats hit maximum capacity (1,000 people)    allowed by signal and people who are not chasing federal agents are asked to leave to create room for those who are.   

The dispatch calls also reach maximum capacity constantly. I believe it’s 50 people maximum. Which means, at any given time in each small zone, there are 50 people chasing agents.  

[…]  

THEY ARE EVERYWHERE AND LOCAL POLICE ARE COOPERATING.   

Here an “observer” calls out a possible agent but says she’s just out walking her dog so can’t continue on.  

Dispatch called for “backup”   

Also below is a message indicating that local PD may get involved if ICE “hinders public safety”


California’s ‘Futureland’ High-Speed Rail Is Still Stuck at the Station

 

In 2008, California voters approved Proposition 1A, giving the green light to start planning a high-speed railway connecting San Francisco to Los Angeles, which would be built by 2020 and cost around $35 billion. Well, it’s 2026, and the Golden State’s “Futureland-esque” project is woefully over-schedule and over-budget, now projected to cost around $135 billion.

“It was Disney’s future land. It was trains that would travel as fast as 220 mph. They would move people from LA to San Francisco in two hours and 40 minutes. LA to San Francisco was supposed to have been finished about five years ago, and as you noted, [cost] $35 billion. The price tag could be as high as $135 billion [today].

“Now the project is woefully over budget—woefully behind schedule. And you know, Jack, in 2019, when Gov. [Gavin] Newsom gave his inaugural speech right after he was elected, he noted the problems that were happening with high-speed rail at that time. And he said, in a very interesting way, we don’t have the money to go from San Francisco to Los Angeles. And the project has been subject to not enough oversight and not enough accountability.

“And he was absolutely correct about that.”

The Anti-ICE Signal Chat in Minneapolis Has Reportedly Been Infiltrated…and *That* Name Looks Familiar

 

Joe wrote about the shooting of Alex Pretti by Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis. It was another incident where Democrats screamed bloody murder, the liberal media repeated the same line, and social media was aflame. We don’t know if this was murder or not. We need an investigation, and the state of Minnesota must start cooperating with federal immigration authorities unless they want to create more situations where people get killed. Pretti was armed with a handgun during the kerfuffle that led to him being shot.  

The city is once again a war zone, but reporter Cam Higby dropped a bombshell last night: the anti-ICE Signal chat that’s been used to coordinate operations against federal immigration agents and officials has been infiltrated and exposed. Higby got inside and learned as much as he could. Pretti was a member of the group, along with an alleged former campaign strategist for Tim Walz. Also, Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan is in the chat, too.

You’ll notice emojis next to people’s names. Here’s a key for what those emojis mean.  

The highlighted positions are the most crucial. Most are self explanatory. Mobile patrols spend their entire “shift” searching for suspicious vehicles.  

When they find one they send it to the group so that “plate checkers” can compare with their database and see if it’s a known federal vehicle or if the patrol can make the confirmation so that the database can be updated. 

[…] 

A new group chat for each zone is made each day. The chats are dated, and deleted at the end of each day.  

This is likely to avoid detection, record keeping, and consequences.  

My mid-day, the group chats hit maximum capacity (1,000 people)   allowed by signal and people who are not chasing federal agents are asked to leave to create room for those who are.  

The dispatch calls also reach maximum capacity constantly. I believe it’s 50 people maximum. Which means, at any given time in each small zone, there are 50 people chasing agents. 

[…] 

THEY ARE EVERYWHERE AND LOCAL POLICE ARE COOPERATING.  

Here an “observer” calls out a possible agent but says she’s just out walking her dog so can’t continue on. 

Dispatch called for “backup”  

Also below is a message indicating that local PD may get involved if ICE “hinders public safety”

There is a home base for this operation, though Higby has yet to determine its location. 

Former President Condemns Trump Administration, Ignores Chaos Erupting in Minnesota

 

ormer President Barack Obama has called on the Trump administration to reconsider its approach to widespread deportations after an armed 37-year-old man was fatally shot at a protest in Minneapolis on Saturday morning. 

The 44th president said that this fatal shooting should be a “wake-up call.” 

“This has to stop. I would hope that after this most recent tragedy, administration officials will reconsider their approach, and start finding ways to work constructively with the Governor [Tim] Walz and Mayor [Jacob] Frey as well as state and local police to avert more chaos and achieve legitimate law enforcement goals.” Federal officials say that local law enforcement won’t work with them to deport violent illegal aliens. 

After the shooting, protestors blocked roads and started fires. Leftists started attacking people whom they assumed were federal agents, including one streamer who filmed someone dragging him out of the car. 

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Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said that the federal government deports 10 times the number of illegals in Texas without fatal shootings and riots because local law enforcement works with the federal government. 

Sunday, January 25, 2026

I got all my EDM albums from Digitally Imported

 

i heard all the ATB, John Digweed, Sasha, Teisto, ferry corsten, Paul Oakenford, Nick Warren, Danny Howells, off Digitally Imported off Winamp in 1997 – 2014 when it was 32 kbps MP3 streams. I used streamripper and have mp3s onto my hard drives. i got viruses, but i did it anyway. I was listening to KQRS, 93x rock music on the radio in my car or in my room. This was different. I also had Gnutella networks and Edonkey going on Windows 98 SE and Windows XP. My first EDM album was 2016 and i kept collecting until 2024 with 100 albums. i had rock albums and country music albums in 1990s. It was pretty good when I played Neverwinter Nights, Unreal Tournament, Diablo 2 Lord of Destruction, Icewind Dale, Quake 3 arena, Half-life, black and white, diablo 1, Warcraft 3, Baldurs Gate 1 and 2 and Guild Wars through 56K in the 2000s with Winamp also open in the background playing hard drive mp3s. I did what people do now on shoutcast about 27 years ago. i didn’t have festival money or vacation money to go anywhere. i used to read reviews off discogs.com

Monday, January 19, 2026

A Wisconsin Mom Was Threatened With a Lawsuit After Speaking Up for Her Disabled Daughter

 

Wisconsin mom Amanda Vogel objected to the way her daughter's school treated the girl, who is wheelchair bound, during a musical program. While the program happened in 2023, Vogel shared the video to social media late last year as the reason why she decided to homeschool.

It's something millions of people do every single day. But the Pittsville School District didn't like that and threatened Vogel with legal action if she didn't remove the video from her social media accounts.


Here's more:

A Wisconsin school district called the local police on a mom who posted a viral TikTok video of her wheelchair-bound daughter being separated from her peers during a choir concert, The Post has learned.

Cops showed up at Amanda Vogel’s home twice last year before the School District of Pittsville, about 130 miles west of Green Bay, sent her a cease-and-desist letter accusing her of defamation in a pressure campaign to get her to remove the viral post.

“Parents don’t surrender their constitutional rights when they speak about their children’s education, and shouldn’t have to respond to law enforcement at their home for a social media post like this,” Cory Brewer, an attorney for the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) representing Vogel, told The Post.

Vogel had recorded her daughter being left on the sidelines while her classmates were given active roles.

While the incident took place in 2023, Vogel posted the video on TikTok this past December to voice disgust at how her daughter was treated by her school.

“Watching her be placed off to the side while her peers stood together, and realizing no one noticed before the concert, was it for us,” Vogel captioned the video. “The solution was so simple. A row on the floor that included her.”

“If something this visible was going unnoticed, what else was being missed when we weren’t around?”

WILL shared the letter that was sent to Vogel from a law firm representing the district. Here's what that letter said:

Please be advised that Renning, Lewis, & Lacy s.c., by the undersigned attorney,represents the School District of Pittsville (“District”). I am writing you on behalfof the District regarding your recent harassing and defamatory post on TikTok,which has resulted in millions of views and thousands of comments – many of themthreatening and disturbing. Your post includes the faces of several staff membersand sufficient information that members of our community have identified you andyour child as residents of the District.

The District has an obligation to maintain the safety of all students, staff, andcommunity members present on our property for legitimate purposes. Indeed, as aWisconsin public school district, we have the responsibility to maintain aneducational atmosphere, to protect educators, support staff, property, and, mostimportant, to preserve the safety and well-being of our students who are present tolearn.

We have reached out to you through local law enforcement to request that youremove the TikTok video. You initially agreed to remove the video, but did notfollowed through until after several hours and a second visit with the Police Chief.

Due to your conduct, the District hereby demands that you cease and desist fromengaging in any additional harassing and intimidating behavior toward Districteducators and support staff.

The District will keep us apprised whether you comply with the above demands. Ifyou ignore these demands, the District will report your conduct to law enforcementand explore pursuing appropriate legal action against you, which includes, but isnot limited to, seeking a court order prohibiting you from continuing to defame theDistrict and recovering damages related thereto.

Be further advised that I have also informed District staff of their right to pursue appropriate legalaction on their own behalf, in regard to your harassment and defamatory comments.


WILL, in turn, sent a letter to the law firm on behalf of Vogel, and here's some of what it says:

We represent Amanda Vogel. She has sent us your letter dated December 19, 2025,which you sent on behalf of the School District of Pittsville. We are sending you thisletter as a rejection of your unlawful demand that Ms. Vogel cease and desist fromexercising her rights under the First Amendment.

First, we find your letter odd as coming from an attorney. You claim in the letter thatMs. Vogel defamed someone, although you don’t say who. You say that words in apost she made on TikTok were defamatory, but you never identify the words. Finally,you do not cite any cases that would show that anything that she said was defamatoryunder Wisconsin law.

Your reticence and ambiguities make your letter hard to respond to, perhapsintentionally so, but we will do our best.

First, let’s deal with the lack of an actual plaintiff. In your letter, you say that yourepresent the School District of Pittsville. We assume you know that under the FirstAmendment, the school district, as a governmental body, cannot make a claim fordefamation. It was recognized in New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254, 299,84 S.Ct. 710, 11 L. Ed. 2d 686 (1964) that “prosecutions for libel on government have (no) place in the American system of jurisprudence.”

In fact, the First Amendment is not only a shield here for Ms. Vogel’s opinions about how the school district treated her daughter (which will be discussed below) but canalso be a sword to defend her right of free speech. As a governmental body, the SchoolDistrict of Pittsville violated her First Amendment rights by sending the police to herdoor to tell her to stop speaking in public about the district (which will also be discussed further below) and by hiring you to send a letter intended to intimidate her.

Second, you have not identified anything that she said in her post that wasdefamatory under Wisconsin law. In her TikTok post, she has a short video of herdaughter sitting in her wheelchair separately from the other children in her classduring a music program, and then she says as follows:

We did not plan to homeschool.

We tried our best to set up a good foundation for her to be successful and included at school. 

Unfortunately, there is only so much parents can do ontheir end. Watching her be placed off to the side while her peers stood together, and realizing no one noticed before the concert, was it for us. If something this visible was going unnoticed, what else was being missed when we weren’t around?

#inclusionmatters #inclusiveeducation #homeschooljourney #parentingmoment

Her post was quite simple. She believes her daughter was excluded from a schoolprogram because her daughter is disabled. In her opinion, that was mean andperhaps indicative of other instances of exclusion of which she was unaware. As a ...result, she was going to consider homeschooling her daughter.

Can you please tell us which of the words in that post you claim to be defamatoryunder Wisconsin law? If you do not, we will assume that you cannot, because none of the words are actually defamatory.


WILL Deputy Counsel Cory Brewer, who was featured in the video, said, "After the mother posted the video and said she was considering homeschooling her daughter because of what happened, police showed up at her doorstep. She was asked to take the video down. And then the district hired an attorney to threaten her with a defamation lawsuit simply for speaking about what happened to her child."

"Parents have the right to speak up for their children. Using legal threats to silence a parent is outrageous," Brewer continued. "That's why the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty is stepping in to defend her First Amendment rights."

The Media Proved How Truly Awful They Are by Posing This Question to Jay Leno

 

Photo by John Salangsang/Invision/AP

Caring for someone with Alzheimer's or other forms of dementia is challenging, on a good day. This writer's uncle spent a decade caring for her aunt with Alzheimer's. She didn't recognize him, or their adult children, nor did she remember that one of their daughters died of cancer in 2013. It was a long road, but one handled with grace and tremendous love.


Comedian, car enthusiast, and former Tonight Show host Jay Leno is facing a similar road. His wife, Mavis, also has advanced dementia, and Leno is her caregiver. The couple has been married for 45 years, having met at the Comedy Store in L.A. in 1976. They married in 1980.

So Leno said he was stunned when a member of the media asked him if he planned on getting a girlfriend while caring for his wife.

Here's more:

As the Tonight Show alum has acted as a caregiver to wife Mavis Leno during her battle with advanced dementia, he’s faced some shocking questions about his personal life.

“My favorite thing was—this is the most Hollywood thing,” Jay recently recalled on Life Above the Noise With Maria Shriver. “A guy said to me, ‘So, are you gonna get a girlfriend now?’”

The question surprised Jay, who responded, “‘Well no, I have a girlfriend. I’m married. Married 45 years.’” 

To which he recalled the other guy saying, “‘Yeah, but you know what I mean.’”

But the comedian emphasized he is not interested in seeing other people. “No, we’re kinda in this together here,” Jay explained about taking care of Mavis through sickness and health, joking, “‘Honey, I’ll be with my girlfriend. I'll be back later.’”

“You take a vow when you get married and people are stunned,” Leno, “they’re so shocked that you live up to it. Why?”

Why? Well, the reporter who asked this question has neither loved nor been loved. If he had, he would know that marriage vows mean "in sickness and health," not "until you have dementia, then I'll find a side piece." Leno is fulfilling the vows he made 


Our media, on the other hand, are absolutely garbage. We need more men like Leno and fewer like whatever reporter asked that question.

The Common Denominator of the Issues Troubling Me Most

 

person 1: We had 16 issues that were troubling, and we had head-to-head battles between them, and we’re down to four issues. And the out I want to give you, Victor, is maybe consider these things like the horsemen of the apocalypse. There are four of them that are riding shoulder-to-shoulder as opposed to one. 

Maybe you don’t want to go that way. Maybe there is one of these—they are the ruin of cities, the destruction of the nuclear family, the ignorance of children following 16 years of education in America, and the growth in secularism or irreligiosity.   https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=THEDAILYSIGNAL5568853728

Maybe there’s one of those issues that you find most troubling, but are they all sort of equal in your eyes? What’s your take on this? 

person 2: They’re all part of the same monster. They’re all components. The lack of education means that things don’t work. And the blue state, blue city ideology politically ensures that they don’t work. And the morality behind that without a divine sanction shows that they’re not going to work. 

We could go on to all 16. It’s all part of a component. It’s like the hind legs, the horns of the Revelation beast, you know what I mean? It’s the tail. And it’s a combination in these blue states where the schools do not train the people. The family is completely destroyed. People are atheist.  

And then the blue city tries to address those pathologies by giving, giving, giving, and taking from somebody else who’s productive and the productive people leave, and so a [Chicago] Mayor [Brandon] Johnson or Gavin Newsom or Jasmine Crockett or Elizabeth Warren they’re just the same person with a thousand faces. They really are.  

They must have a factory somewhere that makes these people because they all are privileged, whether political power or financial power, and they feel that they want to experiment on the body politic like it’s a white rat, we’re lab rats.  

Let’s just try, I know, we’ll mandate mileage, and Ford will have to spend $30 billion on the Ford Lightning, and then we’ll tell them to bill it that it’s a wonderful truck, and then people will buy it.  

They’ll pay $80,000, and then they’ll discover that when they’re out on the trail, and they’re loading it up with camping equipment and pulling a boat, it doesn’t get 300 miles. It gets more like 100. 

And now we’re going to cancel that $33 billion project.  

That’s what they’re going to do. And all of these experiments don’t work. The windmills don’t work. The solar panels are not cost-to-benefit efficiently. 

And maybe fusion nuclear power will save us. Maybe more natural gas. Gavin says now he’s going to give 2000 permits. What good would that do, Gavin, if you pump the oil, if you can’t refine it. Especially if you can’t refine it to your very, very, very specific unique one-out-of-50 state requirements for gas.  

And you’re going to import gas from Japan probably if you shut down these refineries because there won’t be anybody who can make it because no other state makes it because nobody’s state is as crazy as your state.  

And so, all this component we’ve talked to is—I’m not trying to be too depressing on Christmas Eve—but it’s all very worrisome.  

But what is good about this country is still the majority. And there’s an antithesis to that. 

I try to read the letters as many as can from our viewers and they’re just really heartwarming. “Dear Mr. Hanson, my husband and I worked side-by-side in a factory for 40 years. We bought our house. We have 10 grandkids. My son went to the Gulf War. I went to Vietnam. He went to the Gulf War.” 

It’s just really inspirational stories about the people who keep the country going. And it is that model. I think they’re finally saying we’re kind of the proverbial sleeping dragon, and we’ve been poked and poked and poked and poked and ridiculed and made fun of.  

We’re sick of the late-night comics, we’re sick of the deplorables, we’re sick that people call us garbage, we’re sick of being called sexist, racist, nativist. We’re not going to listen, we’re not going to take it anymore. And I think that … 

person 1: Yeah, no more fetal position, yeah. 

person 2: No more fetal positions. Make it all go away. 

And then there’s one other element to all of this. 

[Donald] Trump, whatever people say about him, I’ve said he’s crude and he’s uncouth, but I mean it in a superficial sense because crudity is being mean to people. 

I don’t mean rhetorically. I mean depriving them of economic advantages or getting them blown up in Kabul or not protecting the country’s national interest or a 9.1 inflation rate in one year. That’s cruel. That is cruel. And Trump’s not doing that. And all you have to do is look at the Wall Street Journal and look for the adverb unexpectedly. 

And you will see unexpectedly there’s 4.2 growth. Unexpectedly, the inflation rate went down to 2.7. Unexpectedly, most of the jobs that were gained were for citizens and most of the jobs that were lost were for non-citizens.  

Unexpectedly, there was a record year in military recruitment. Unexpectedly, there is almost no illegal immigration.  

So things are getting very good and I have a feeling that when you combine this calculus of 10 trillion dollars in foreign investment with another 10 trillion in nuclear fusion plants and AI and biotech and all these new technologies that are starting to be reified and the deregulation and tax reductions in the Big Beautiful Bill. 

And [Secretary of Interior] Doug Burgum, gosh, I mean, he’s going full blast. And 14 million barrels almost. They’ll get up to 15. That’s incredible. 

person 1: It’s terrific. 

He put out a great analysis of the BS of the wind power the other day. Just really, really quite impressive and almost sinful that these lefties with these turbines, each turbine itself, whatever power could actually generate is less than the power it takes to make the damn thing. So why make it? 

person 2: We just drove back from Stanford on Pacheco Pass, and they’re the biggest turbines I’ve ever seen. It was winter and not one was moving. There was no wind. Nothing. Nada.

And then I’m out at my farm, and I have 44 [solar] panels, and we have had an inversion layer prior to two weeks with no sun. We didn’t see the sun for two weeks. And now we have four days of rain. 

And I looked, there’s no generation.  

I’m talking to you from the grid and for all the talk about wind and solar, they’re not working in California when it’s an inversion layer and it’s raining.

Right now, we’re dependent on one nuclear plant at Diablo Canyon for 20% and the rest is either imported coal-generated electricity from our neighbors or hydroelectric from Oregon or our own hydroelectric or our own natural gas. That’s it.  

It doesn’t work, and I think people will find that out, I hope. And I think we’re going to have an economic renaissance in the first two quarters of next year. I think we’re going to have economic growth well over 4%. I think inflation will be down below 2%.  

It’s hard to predict, but I think interest rates are going to fall, and we’re going to see a big—a huge—boom. And we saw this in 2019 and then COVID hit.  

And I will guarantee you that the Left will think of something. They’ll either try to shut down the government if they win in the midterm. They’ll try to do something.  

But they will not enjoy the bounty that their fellow citizens will have. 

Art Hasn’t Recovered After Abandoning Human Greatness

 

Greenland, the largest island in the globe, is no longer remote. It is the ice-covered, cold piece of land amid the rapidly warming global strategic competition, mainly between the United States of America, China, and Russia. As the ice melts, the urgency to control its strategic location and the resources beneath it intensifies. Blind selfishness coupled with strategic shortsightedness on the part of the Kingdom of Denmark and the European Union has been destructively unhelpful. On the contrary, these amateurishly emotional reactions have greatly contributed to the increase in the many risk factors present in any attempt to exclusively control the area of the Northern Arctic.

The currently existing legal status of Greenland is as murky as the Danish government’s illusory position at a chaotic intersection of local self-rule, Danish sovereignty, and intensifying global interests in the Northern Arctic. Greenland’s population is smaller than the capacity of a medium-sized football stadium, but its strategic geography is outsized. Politically as well as legally, Greenland is self-governing in most domestic matters, while remaining part of the Kingdom of Denmark, with the latter retaining responsibilities for defense and major aspects of foreign affairs under the Self-Government framework established in 2009. In addition, this framework lays out a legal path to independence, based on Greenlandic decision.

As a result, Greenland’s domestic and foreign policies are dominated by two intertwined questions: how to broaden economic options and how to manage diplomacy and security. Realistically, Denmark is not in a position to fund economic development alone or to defend Greenland against the mounting threats to the island’s independence. Moreover, Denmark has had a grossly abysmal record of treating the island and its population. From total neglect through inhuman discrimination and degradation, the history of Danish overlordship of Greenland will remain a shameful episode in the Kingdom of Denmark’s otherwise civilized existence. Finally, President Trump’s intention to resolve the Greenland issue unambiguously and, if needed, unilaterally raised the stakes within NATO regarding the unity of this multinational military organization.

The good news regarding a possible transatlantic rift is that the United States of America and all other NATO members agree that there is a global strategic threat to the Northern Arctic. Compared to this reality, the core disagreement concerns the relationship between strategic necessity and sovereignty as an overriding principle among NATO member states. From President Trump’s perspective, Greenland is a national security question. Primarily, early warning, space tracking, and North Atlantic access have been embedded in American defense architecture through long-standing agreements and the Pituffik Space Base. More recently, China’s overwhelming military aggression in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, coupled with the Baltic Sea and the Northern Arctic, put the White House on high alert regarding future threats to the American mainland from Alaska to the other 48 states.

From the European perspective, Greenland is mainly a sovereignty question within NATO. President Trump’s declaration that Greenland will be “one way or the other” an integral part of the United States of America, the European member states of NATO hear in this a direct attack on the premise that the organization is a voluntary collective defense pact among sovereign and equal states, not a hierarchy between the United States of America and the rest. Clearly, the European position is not merely rhetorical. In essence, it indicates that if territorial integrity becomes negotiable within NATO, deterrence against external adversaries, particularly the Russian Federation, will become extremely difficult. More importantly, such a conundrum will increase the relevance of Article 5 globally. Finally, Article 42, Section 7 of the Treaty on European Union, with its own mutual defense clause that complements but remains subordinate to Article 5, cannot be ignored legally.

An additional major problem is that Greenland is both “inside” and “outside” of the European continent. The crux of this situation is that NATO was established to deter external aggression. The issue of territorial disagreements among NATO member states has never been addressed within the alliance. Here, the position of the Greenland government cannot be ignored: “We accept allied defense, but not an ownership conversation.” Realistically, however, global strategic considerations must override these legal arguments. Any armed conflict within the alliance would undermine the credibility of unified deterrence.

President Trump’s other offer, namely, buying Greenland like it happened with the Danish West Indies on March 31, 1917, for $25 million, primarily for strategic military reasons during World War I, to prevent German control over the three islands, could be problematic because of the 2009 treaty between the Kingdom of Denmark and the self-governing autonomous island with its rights for self-determination. The situation becomes even more complicated when the opinions of the Greenlanders are researched. According to a 2019 poll, almost 70 percent of locals prefer full independence to the current situation. A more recent poll taken in 2025 was even more unambiguous: 84 percent of Greenlanders professed support for full independence.

Thus, President Trump’s offer of purchasing Greenland is presently the most realistic way to solve the Greenland “problem.” The most compelling reason is that nobody can predict the future, and surely not in the long run. Mainly, the Kingdom of Denmark’s legal claim to Greenland has also been tenuous at best. Additionally, its long-standing neglect and mistreatment of the Greenlanders have demonstrated that the Danish people did not care about Greenland’s present and future. Finally, the Kingdom of Denmark cannot legitimately maintain control over Greenland because Greenlanders want independence.

In conclusion, the best solution would be Greenland’s independence, followed by a referendum on remaining independent or joining the United States of America as the 51st state. Yet, the situation is pressing. Therefore, purchasing Greenland now is the most practical and least controversial decision for all concerned.

Sunday, January 11, 2026

I Like JD Vance So Much That I Want Him Primaried Hard

 

I may be JD Vance’s biggest fan. It’s not just that he’s a fellow Ohioan, though that’s important. It’s not just that he overcame adversity to earn the credentials smug libs treasure and then turned it around and owned said libs. It’s not even that he is cool enough to own his memes and is personable in person – in this gig, I meet a lot of politicians, and far too many of them are mindless automatons who are always spewing clichés and bending with the wind. Not him, and definitely not his wife, who is as bright as she is delightful. It’s not like I pal around with the guy; I’ve met him a couple of times, but he is uniquely impressive. He is impressive enough that I forgive him for being a Marine instead of a veteran of the decisive branch of American military power, the United States Army. And he has been doing an incredible job. He can not only articulate the America First case but prosecute it. That’s why he’s the heir apparent to President Trump – he’s the guy who can take America First to the next level. And this leads me to perhaps the most important reason why I’m such a fan – the media and the Democrats have already started fretting that he’s worse than Donald Trump, that he makes President Trump look like one of the George Bushes.

Sign me up. I want JD Vance to be our nominee in 2028.

But it’s because I am such a JD Vance fanboy, such an unabashed supporter, that I want another quality Republican to primary the hell out of him. I want him to have an opponent who takes off the gloves, gets in the ring, and rumbles with bare knuckles, biting, and hair pulling.

I want JD to head into the convention battered and bloody, tired, and tested. It’s not because I dislike him. It’s because I really like him. And because I really like him, I don’t want a coronation. I want armed combat.

There are some good reasons to avoid a Republican primary and go with a coronation in 2028. It’s less expensive, in some ways it’s less risky, and it unites the party earlier. But there are better reasons to make JD Vance earn the crown.

Remember the last presidential candidate who got handed the nomination? If you look at some of the polls, she’s the most likely to be the nominee for the Democrats in 2028. Kamala Harris got the nod not by going out there and winning it but by being handed it, in part by her own machinations, but also, in part, by Joe Biden’s last manifestation of conscious action, where he decided to hang that Chardonnay-swilling millstone around the neck of the party that had just fit him with cement overshoes. She ran against Donald Trump, who had been on the campaign trail, who had won a primary, and who was tan, rested, and ready to rock. She wasn’t. She was a mess. She didn’t have an effective organization, she didn’t have the relationships, and she didn’t have the practice. She didn’t have the killer instinct honed by months of political combat against Democrats. She wanted to take the presidency the same way she took the nomination, by default, hoping it could be just handed to her by virtue of who she was. And she was surprised when she found out that she was losing because of who she was. She was surprised because she hadn’t been out there with real voters for years and had no clue that she was repellent to a wide range of normal people, including people who had voted Democrat forever.

I don’t want the first time JD Vance comes up against someone coming at him with a knife in the 2028 campaign to be after the nomination. The guy is a fighter, as he proved by slapping the show tunes out of the mouth of Tim Walz. But even Mike Tyson trained. He sparred. He threw punches and took them. You need that before you enter a general election campaign. A candidate needs to work out the kinks during the primary – obviously, Tim Walz’s kinks are quite different from JD’s, but you get the point. You need to get up to speed in March, when you’re tussling against another Republican. You can’t wait for September, when you are in the midst of the general election. You need to figure out what your weaknesses are and work on them and figure out what your strengths are and how best to exploit them.

And it’s not just the candidate, but his organization. You can’t win without a functioning team, and teams take time to build. Some people aren’t going to be able to hack the jobs you give them, and you’re going to have to replace them. All of them have learning curves. Their curves need to be learned well before the home stretch. All cylinders need to be firing when you get that nomination because the clock is ticking, and you must be full steam ahead when facing the general election tsunami of shady foreign billionaire dark money and election fraud, as well as the affluent wine women, race hustlers, welfare cheats, and perverted deviants who are the key constituencies of the Democratic Party.

JD’s strengths are Trump’s track record, his story, and his ability to communicate. His press conference in the wake of the shooting of that poet in Minneapolis was masterful. He demonstrated strength, commitment, and willingness to never play the left’s game. That the regime media hates him is the kind of endorsement any Republican could want. 

But he does have weaknesses. He’s never been an executive, and sorry, being vice president doesn’t count as being an executive. It barely counts as “being” period, though he has managed to do much more than the usual Veep. He’s open to attack because some of his friends have frankly gone nuts, and while his loyalty to people who’ve been loyal to him and his refusal to obey demands that he denounce people – I hate that too; I will choose when and how I address friends and other people I disagree with – have gotten him some negative hits from the right. Some call him an antisemite, which is stupid, but it’s out there and the Democrats – who just discovered Hamas is bad – will hit him on it. He’s got to address that somehow, whether he writes those critics off or reassures them. The Democrats are going to call him a “Nazi” regardless, though they’re going to call everybody a “Nazi.” Still, if in 2028 America is powerful again and the economy is cooking, these weaknesses won’t really matter. He will be the avatar of a golden age, and that is probably a golden ticket to the presidency.

But he still has to get elected, and this is a 50-50 country at the moment. I’d like him to get that primary seasoning, but the question arises of who would challenge the crown prince. After all, everybody is sure that JD is the guy, barring some misfortune that leads to his fall from grace. Anybody risking a race risks exile, because the America First types – being, as they are, the abused women of American politics – are utterly unforgiving of those who fail to meet the MAGA loyalty test. Furthermore, at this point, it looks like a losing battle. The very same things that JD is going to cite to make his case in general, he’s going to cite to make his case in the primary. If the economy is pumping, and America’s enemies are dumping, JD Vance is going to be stumping under the slogan “More of the same, only with fewer tweets about Rosie O’Donnell.” Challengers are always about change; if the Republican general election argument in 2028 is “Don’t Change,” that makes it kind of hard to be a challenger.

That means there can be two kinds of challengers. The first wants to return the party to the rule of the kind of sexually inadequate Bushies whom we long ago repudiated. But hey, if Mike Pence wants to roll the dice, that’s great. Pence isn’t a dumb guy; he’s just an insufferable sissy, Ned Flanders without the edge. He might be able to provide a little pushback to JD, though if JD slaps him, he’ll probably cry. Also, along these lines is Chris Sununu, another moderate/invertebrate. He could probably win in New Hampshire, which is something. Their argument will be, “Sure, America’s enemies fear us, and everybody’s prosperous, but we need to be more sensitive and soft and feminine because reasons, and oh well, I never.” It’s a bad argument, and it won’t get much traction, but it might provide a nice workout for JD as he pummels them into the preferred state of this kind of gooey Republican: submission.

The other kind of challenge would be someone coming from the right. But who could do that? Marjorie Taylor Greene? She’s already at about 47 minutes of her 15 minutes of fame.

The real players probably think this is not their year and will sit it out. Even if Marco Rubio, who has been born again hard after his tragic dalliance with amnesty a decade ago, thought he had a shot this go-round, he’s a key part of this administration, so what’s he going to criticize? Ron DeSantis is a great governor. He might be able to go in arguing that he’s as tough as JD, but that he has extensive executive experience compared to the vice president. I’m not sure how much that’ll matter. And then there’s Ted Cruz. We’ve heard noises that he might think this is his year because he absolutely wants to be president someday. I’ve supported him in the past with money, which is a huge commitment for a guy like me, considering I’m part Scottish. He’s right on policy, though he’s off-putting to a lot of people who confuse politicians with pals. His argument would have to be that he’s going to do what Trump did, but more so. That’s a risky argument because it would allow JD to move to the center of the GOP spectrum, gathering votes from the kind of old-school Republicans who get nervous when people are firm and tough. Yet imagine JD Vance going up against Rubio, DeSantis, and/or Cruz. This would not be iron sharpening iron. This would be diamonds sharpening diamonds. Any of these guys would be an absolute home run as president, and some of them are definitely going to run in the cycles that will follow 2028. 

So, who might jump in and challenge JD this time? Who knows? Regardless, right now the race looks like it’s his to lose, and he will take it by default.

The fact is that there’s going to be a huge temptation within JD’s camp to try to clear the field. There are certainly advantages to doing so. Not being challenged in the primary is not necessarily a recipe for defeat; the lack of testing and tempering, however, is a real concern. There are ways to compensate for it, like practicing fighting the regime media as Veep as he has been, but none are as good as a real primary.

He probably won’t get one. It’s not clear that anyone is going to put up a fight, and less clear that any of them could defeat him. He’s just too dominant. In meme terms, think of a beach ball-headed JD Vance with a sword and a loincloth, on a hill made of the skulls of his foes, flexing as Conan the Presumptive Nominee.

Talking Heads Are Missing Labor Market Strength

 

“America’s Job Market Has Entered the Slow Lane,” reads a recent Wall Street Journal headline. Most of the mainstream media echoes this interpretation, but the reality is much better than the headlines suggest. Indeed, the latest employment data is robust, with jobs going to Americans in the private sector and wages rising faster than prices.

There’s a lot to celebrate in the Labor Department’s monthly jobs report for December, from who is getting jobs to the kinds of jobs being created, as well as how much people are getting paid.

For example, native-born employment rose by more than two million in 2025, while the number of foreign-born workers with jobs increased by less than 400,000. This was the best December on record for the number of native-born Americans with jobs. It’s especially important that we’re seeing this positive change from where we were trending previously.

During nearly the entire final year of the Biden administration, the annual change in native-born employment was negative, meaning Americans were losing jobs. All the supposed job growth during that time was going to foreign-born workers, a category which even the Biden Labor Department had to admit contained an unknown number of illegal aliens.

It’s no exaggeration to say that President Donald Trump is returning the American labor market to the American people.

In terms of the number of jobs added in December, the monthly survey of businesses showed an increase of just 50,000, but the survey of households showed the number of people employed jumped by 232,000. There’s an explanation for this difference if we dig further into the report, and it indicates a very positive development in the labor market.

The number of multiple jobholders plunged by 444,000 last month, the second-largest drop since the government-imposed Covid lockdowns. Simultaneously in December, the number of part-time jobs declined by 740,000 while full-time employment shot up by 890,000.

A holistic view of these various labor market data paints a positive picture. People were exchanging multiple part-time gigs for a single full-time job in December. It may not show up in certain aggregate figures, but individuals were improving.

Let’s say someone quits three of those part-time jobs and replaces them all with a single full-time one. That’s a net reduction of two payrolls, so it reduces the headline jobs number even though the person is better off. This is very likely the dynamic that was at play last month, hence the number of people employed rose more than four times faster than the number of jobs.

It’s the opposite of what happened in many months during the Biden years. When inflation spawned a cost-of-living crisis, many Americans had to take on a second, or even a third, job to make ends meet. That increased the headline jobs figure, all while folks’ finances deteriorated.

There’s more good news in terms of where jobs are being created. All the net job growth in 2025 came from the productive private sector, while government jobs declined, due entirely to federal layoffs. It’s a positive development, but it drags down the headline jobs number.

The job cuts to the bureaucracy in Washington, DC, resulted in a net decrease of 277,000 payrolls from January of 2025, when Mr. Trump took office, through December. This is the smallest the federal workforce has been since 2014, which is great for America. People are moving out of the unproductive public sector and into the productive private sector -- the opposite of the Biden years.

Lastly, there’s good news on the wage front, where earnings are rising faster than prices. That’s important because it means not only are people’s paychecks getting bigger, but that those paychecks can buy more. Inflation-adjusted (real) weekly paychecks are up about 1.5 percent under Mr. Trump’s second term, after they fell 4 percent under Joe Biden.

So, despite all the naysayers, Trump’s first year back at the helm saw a labor market undergo badly needed structural changes that are making Americans better off. The damage left by the Biden administration isn’t all gone, but we’re heading in the right direction.

The Decline of Christanity Is More Worrisome Than the Rise of Artificial Intelligence

 

person 1:  we’re going to talk one more dust-off here before we take a break and that would be the worrisome competition between rampant, growing, irreligiosity versus artificial intelligence.  

Are you worried about either one of these or which one worries you more? And I just heard you talk about your religiosity on a piece of wood in Libya. But go ahead, Victor.  

person 2: You mean the decline of religiosity.   https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=THEDAILYSIGNAL2712590858

person 1: Yes, the decline of religiosity. 

person 2: I’m more worried about it. In “The End of Everything,” I looked at a popular account, as I said, of an AI simulation the Pentagon ran where they programmed self-survival into an intercontinental ballistic missile and put it on a computer simulation. 

And it was headed toward our enemy, and then they pushed the kill button, and on its own the thing circled back and was going to hit the Pentagon, and they couldn’t stop it.  

In other words, in that process of giving self-preservation prompts, electronic prompts to this AI, it went on beyond that and said anybody who tries to blow me up, I’m going to go back and get. So they cancelled that. 

So, I am worried about that. But I’ll give you another example. I got a pathology report. I couldn’t understand anything. Anything. It was the TBGA 168, my gene is heterogeneous for this particular adenoma, all this stuff.  

I just typed “Grok,” and I cut and pasted it. You know what I mean? And I could not believe it. This has scanned 421 scientific articles. Two minutes later, it gave me the most clear, succinct explanation of exactly what percentage this is, what would happen here.  

I had never used it really before. But I’ve been using it the last month. It’s amazing.  

The only thing I’m worried about is … Stupid Victor is so stupid. He doesn’t even know what’s going on. I’ve been teaching at a certain place, and I had noticed that some students were writing beautiful stuff.  So just as an example I thought, “Well, I’d like to write a book about Epaminondas the Great,” and I just said, “Could you please write an essay on what were the chief achievements of Epaminondas?”  

And it started coming out. And I remember it had the style and prose and syntax of some of the people that I had in class. And my wife taught class, she’s a PhD at a community college, and she is far more schooled than I am. And she said, “Well, Victor, you know, there are programs that can spot that.”  

So that is a danger. But I think, all in all, AI will be valuable if carefully controlled. Not regulated to the point of death but monitored. 

But I am very worried about secularism, atheism. If you don’t believe in any transcendence then it affects your … humanism that says that you’re only here and now, there’s no mystery anymore. I mean, you don’t know why you’re here. 

And the neoplatonism of the early church. When the words of Jesus Christ were recorded both orally and later in the ensuing century by the four gospels, they needed an architecture for a church. They were very learned people for the next 400 years, Jerome, Augustine, et cetera. So, they did look at neoplatonism.  

And you know, in Plato, it’s very clear that your soul is immortal and your body is not, and the metaphors that Socrates uses are the lyre, what we would call the harp. 

Say you’re playing “Old Lang Syne” on the harp, and then you destroy the harp, does the song disappear? No. It only becomes reified when it has a body, an instrument. And in their way, theirs is not a Christian, but it’s a transmigration of soul. 

So, you die, and then your soul was either dented or ruined by your appetites, and you’re given a reincarnated body until you get it right.  

Finally, you don’t have to go through this process of memory, losing memory, who you were, new identity.  

But the point I’m making is even the pagans believed that there had to be some transcendence. It’s imprinted on our brain. And for people to say there’s not, it’s just a nihilistic creed in my view.  

And yeah. It’s very valuable. I don’t want to get into what particular creed you are. I’m just saying that the Judeo-Christian tradition … 

And by the way, Jack, you pointed out that we’re very confused in America why we have suddenly substituted the Judeo part, the Old Testament. I was listening to Steve. 

person 1: We talked about that on a recent podcast. Yes, go ahead. 

person 2: I knew Steve Bannon. I like Steve Bannon. But he was giving a talk. And he just said, we’re going to Christianize the country. And I thought, you mean you’re going to re-emphasize the Judeo-Christian creed. And he didn’t say Judeo-Christian tradition, which would include the Old Testament and the contributions of Jewish culture to Christianity, or the fact that Jesus was Jewish himself. 

I think it’s very important that you have a Judeo-Christian dominant tradition with exceptions that you are tolerant of Buddhists and Muslims and other people without diluting the main tradition that affected the Founders. It’s essential. 

person 1  Right. To act like the Founders were blasé, not ignorant, but uncaring about the Old Testament and Moses and the gang is just a lie. 

person 2: My grandmother was a devout Methodist and took me to church. My parents were not devout. They were Christians. They had grown up in kind of a very rigid religious environment, so they kind of rebelled, I think. But they made it clear they believed in Christianity to me, and they felt that.

But my grandmother would take me, and she would give me 20 cents for each poem I [recited]: 

“Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray my Lord the soul to keep me. If I should die before I wake, I pray my Lord the soul to keep If I should live for other ways, I pray the Lord to guide my ways.” 

25 cents, 1959. 

person 2: That’s a lot of money! 

person 1: So, I remembered them all. Yeah. I think Christianity’s done a wonderful thing. The country will not survive without it. 

Jan. 6, 5 Years Later—Were We Played?

 

I wanna return to the Jan. 6 demonstration that turned into a riot. Everything that we’ve been told by that narrative from the Left seems inaccurate. They told us it was an organized insurrection. They used the word insurrection.

Remember, in the second impeachment, indictment of Donald Trump, and the trial, remember, was held after he left office and he was acquitted by the Senate, but the word was insurrection. And we know that special counsel Jack Smith wanted to use that term, insurrection, but he felt that since no one had been charged with insurrection for a hundred years, he dare not do it.

But we were told that it was a pre-planned armed takeover, a coup, but there was always something wrong about the left-wing narrative of Jan. 6 because we knew there was a massive demonstration. We knew it turned violent outside. And we knew that people were sort of invited in maybe because they, the guards inside the Rotunda and the Capitol, had no other alternative.

But everything after that was too clear-cut. The Democrats had the Jan. 6 committee, and then we know that some of the tapes and testimonies were not kept safely, they’re not accessible. Now, some of the witnesses were kind of berated. Then we also learned that Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s nominations were not accepted for the first time in House history.

And the only way you could get on the committee, if you were Republican, were if you either had no political future, like Adam Kinzinger, or you were doomed to defeat in your next election, like Liz Cheney.

So, there was something weird about—now we’re hearing more weird things. They just arrested the so-called pipe bomber, and this was very strange because we were told by the Biden Justice Department they didn’t know who he was, there was no information, but he was probably a, you know, a participant in the right-wing terrorist activities that day. So, it was to their political advantage, apparently, not to really pursue the investigation.

A new administration comes in and they just start tracing the cellphone imprint of various people and they look at their sales records where they bought this particular item in the pipe bomb, and they came up with a Brian Cole Jr.

He’s a young African American man from a middle-class family. He says he’s an anarchist. Initial reports seem to suggest he was on the left and had empathies with Black Lives Matter and Antifa, but the evidence is so fragmentary, we’re not sure. He had four hours of testimony in which he purportedly today confessed. And now he says he thought Trump was robbed of the election.

So, we don’t know exactly what his empathies were, but it was, apparently, incumbent upon the Biden administration not to investigate who this pipe bomber was and to leave it out there as if he was a part of a violent resistance. And that is consistent with the misinformation that we had and the fake news about the entire day.

Remember, Kamala Harris, when running for president, she said Jan. 6 is the same thing, it rests with, it’s parallel to, it’s comparable to Pearl Harbor, 2,400 dead, or 9/11, 3,000 people dead. And of course, how many people died? Well, we know five people died, but how many people died violently? That’s the key.

The key thing to remember, that the violent deaths were one, maybe two—a Trump protester that was caught in the scramble and the pressure between the crowd and the police. but really one, Ashli Babbitt, a 14-year veteran who was unarmed and was committing a misdemeanor of entering a broken window.

She was shot by Officer Byrd lethally, and then, all of a sudden, we never really knew who Officer Byrd was, we were told it was a justified shooting. We never learned that he had a checkered record, that he was, you know, clumsy, lazy with his gun, that he was—had left it and people had found it in a Capitol restroom.

So, they wanted to suppress the information and suggest that she was an insurgent. That was complete misinformation. Then we were told there wasn’t really any FBI informants, and then-FBI Director Christopher Wray said he didn’t know. And only with a change of administrations did FBI records come out that there was probably somewhere between 250 and 275 actual FBI agents or informants in the crowd.

And remember that Matthew Rosenberg, the Pulitzer Prize reporter for The New York Times, had told us at the time, in an ambush interview by Project Veritas, when he nonchalantly was talking to someone he didn’t know was associated with Operation Veritas, he said there was a ton of informants there and he knew them.

And then, of course, Donald Trump said assemble peacefully and patriotically to the Capitol. Not like Kamala Harris, who, in the year before, 2020, had told people that the George Floyd riots should not stop, they will not stop. She called them demonstrations, but they were riots. And she said nor should they stop, they’re gonna go onto the election.

Add it all up, and the latest revelations that there is a pipe bomber and he was angry at the Democrats because he left something at the Democratic Party, a Republican, we don’t know. We don’t know whether his anarchist sympathies mean he is on the left. It’s very improbable to think that they would be on the right, even though he thinks Donald Trump got robbed of the elections.

But maybe he wants to pose as a right-wing person and confirm the predestined narrative that this man must be a right-wing, violent person, and he thinks maybe the Left will be go easy on him, or maybe he thinks that Donald Trump will pardon him. I don’t know. But the whole thing is mysterious.

And to sum up everything we’ve been told about Jan. 6 from the congressional committee to Kamala Harris’ description of it, to comparisons with the four-month, $2 billion, 35 dead, 1,500 police officers, prior riots, arson attacks on courthouses, police precincts that was never really mentioned as a comparable crisis in the republic, all of these things, a number of FBI informants, a number of FBI agents, any effort to find the pipe bomber, the treatment of the January—it was all never transparent. We never got the honest story.

So, that begs the question, why? Why didn’t they just come out and say, “Here’s all the information”?

And the reason is, they wanted to cement a narrative in everybody’s mind that a reckless demonstration that turned into a riot was a pre-planned insurrection by Donald Trump, who ordered it, and therefore, should forfeit his political career, and he should never be allowed to run for office. And they impeached him and they wanted that narrative to stick. And it was a complete fabrication.

There was a demonstration, there was a riot. It was wrong. But everything else was a Democratic narrative, as we’re seeing most recently with a strange case of Brian Cole that suddenly, suddenly, after four years of Biden DOJ in action, within 10 months, the Trump FBI found out who he was, and that he confessed to that crime of leaving pipe bombs at the DNC in the RNC headquarters.

Minnesota Somali Fraud, Illegal Trucking Scandals Share One Thing: DEI


We’ve talked in the past about the problems with diversity, equity, and inclusion. That’s the rubric for what, I guess, we could call mandated equality of result, rather than of opportunity. But it’s been in the news lately because there’s a common denominator between the $9 to $10 billion, and climbing, fraud among the Somali community—some of them—in Minnesota.

in California, we’re looking at $60 to $70 billion fraud, involving everything from homeless funds that were misspent through corruption, wasted, and unemployment insurance, etc., etc. We have the problem with the truck drivers. We had 17,000 licenses given to illegal aliens in California and put many of us in danger who drive frequently on the California freeways. That’s true nationwide as well.

And then, of course, the unknown number, it’s in the several millions, somewhere between 8 and 12 million, who came in under the Biden administration.

But they were all given exemptions, is what I’m trying to say. And the exemptions were subtle and insidious, but they were characterized that they were DEI. In other words, all of these different groups were categorized by officials as on the victimized, oppressed side of the lecture. And therefore, they were not completely audited. Because, if they had been audited, the cries of racism, nativism, etc., prejudice, bias would’ve been voiced. And people didn’t want to be exposed to that.

What happens, then, when you have DEI, there is no deterrence. The particular groups that are favored on non-meritocratic grounds feel that if the society, at large, does not audit them the way—whether that’s immigration audits or welfare audits, or unemployment audits—then why would they audit them under further circumstances? So, that creates a self-perpetuating, almost a self-motion machine that they will continue to engage in activity for which they don’t feel there will be any consequences. And deterrence is lost.

More importantly, if you are a DEI beneficiary—in other words, you applied to college and your SAT scores or your grade did not otherwise qualify you, or you’re a professor who plagiarized but was given a pass because of DEI grounds—then what happens is you must continually make the case that you are a victim because that alone will explain why you got this position, why you got this admission, when you did not have otherwise standard meritocratic qualifications. And that means you’re always going to be on the hunt for victimization.

If you’re Joy Reid and you can’t do a podcast without spouting racist nonsense, and your audience is crumbling and eroding, then you say that you’re constantly a victim of racism. If you’re on “The View,” and you have a one-dimensional view of race, and you’re boring, and you’re losing market share, you say it’s because of yet another incident of racism that you felt.

The other thing that’s a problem with DEI, there are no qualifications now. Once you destroy meritocracy for one group, then all groups feel, well, these people were given particular advantages. So, why don’t we get them?

And you know, the funny thing about it is we did have a kind of DEI for very wealthy people, very connected people, the children of billionaires, the children of college deans, who were given admission advantages or were hired in what we call the old-boy network. But meritocracy was supposed to be the antidote.

So, DEI was, in a very strange, ironic way, just the twin of the old-boy network, substituting race for money and influence that the old-boy network exercised. That was the fuel that drove that.

Finally, there’s a couple of final things. It’s costly because once you add layer under layer under layer of nonproductive people, who are not teaching in the university, they’re not doing research, but they’re monitoring everybody’s syllabus, they’re looking for DEI owes among applicants, they are perched on hiring committees, they have a huge bureaucracy, and they’re nonproductive.

They’re very similar to the commissar system in the Soviet Union that was very, not just a sin of commission, that they were wasting resources and causing a lot of problems and killing people, but a sin of omission, that by funding the commissars, you were not funding science or you were not funding meritocratic military schools. You were appointing military officers in World War II on the basis of their ideology rather than on their proven excellence on the battlefield. So, it doesn’t have a good history—DEI.

And one thing that we’re watching now, as the Trump administration makes a very persuasive case that DEI violated the civil rights laws of the 1960s, specifically ’64 and ’65, and the Supreme Court ruling of 2023, there is no moral, legal support for it anymore. And yet, we have this vast, top-heavy infrastructure—this ossified, calcified, DEI apparat—and it’s not legally or morally justified.

So, it’s gonna be very interesting to see what happens to the DEI complex. But let’s hope that it dies on the vine, at last.

What I Fear Worse Than Socialist Democratic Government

 

person 1 We’re going to look at another dust up, and let’s pick the growth and spread of radical Islam—that’s one side that’ll keep you awake at night, keeps me awake— versus socialist democratic government, which seems to be in some ways an ascendancy, at least in some places in America. 

Maybe it’s overstated because it’s always on the front page of the New York Post. But socialist democratic government versus the growth and spread of radical Islam: Victor, which is the worst of those two? 

person 2: I’m far more worried about radicalism for two reasons, negative and positive. Why did [Zohran] Mamdani get elected, and why do we have these socialist candidates in blue states, and why now? 

You’ve got to remember that Barack Obama was a socialist, and when he left office, he lost the House, and he lost the Senate, and he lost 1400 state and local offices that were Democrats. He destroyed the Democratic Party. essentially. He did. He made it possible for [Donald] Trump to win. 

What happened that resulted in this phenomenon? We’ve to remember that [former New York Mayor] Bill de Blasio was just a dull form of Mamdani. I thought he was, you know it better in New York. He was a socialist. He wasn’t as bold, but he was a socialist. He was just more incompetent. But we don’t know how incompetent Mondami is. He’s slick. 

What I’m getting at is these socialists are a phenomenon of the last largely four years in Obama years, but especially the last four years when we borrowed eight trillion dollars, we had an aggregate inflation rate of 21%, 5.25% a year, and more importantly the things that count—insurance, electricity bills, natural gas bills, gasoline at the pump, cars to buy, eggs, staple foods—that was up about 25 to 30% over four years. 

And we did not get over 2.5, 3% [growth]. We didn’t get the growth that would have increased wages. Real wages went down. And housing went way up over 30%. So that was a reaction to the Biden [administration]. 

So, the corrective is 4%, 4.2% in the third quarter? And that is despite the shutdown? 

I won’t be surprised, Jack, that in January when the fourth quarter [is announced], because the third was belated because of the shutdown, the fourth quarter could be 4.5% and the first quarter next year could be 5.5%. And so, if the economy’s growing and inflation is going down, that socialist argument will have less resonance is what I’m saying.

And you know, Insider Advantage—they make fun of it like Rasmussen and Trefalgar. They’re all excellent polls— and today it had Trump at 50%, 42. And it had a better record in 2024 than Harvard, Harris, than all the rest, Gallup, everyone. So, I’m not worried.

But radical Islam, we have a quarter million students from the Middle East. And it’s open season on Jews. They kill them at museums. They kill Jews at museums. Harvard and Yale don’t want to do anything about it. 

Where I am at Stanford, I watched them tear down the Jewish hostage posters. I saw their encampment, radical Islamic pro-Hamas encampment, for four months on campus. I was on campus when they ransacked the president’s office, 12 of them did, pro-Palestinian protesters.

Going back to Major [Nidal] Hassan, “Allah al-Akbar,” killed 13 soldiers. The San Bernardino slaughter. What we saw in Bondi Beach, slaughter. I don’t know what the Brown [University] shooter’s motivation, the Portuguese guy, we’ll find out—probably not—but there were initial reports not substantiated that he might have yelled something like “Allah akbar,” but we don’t know [whether] he was just an outlier.

But that’s going to increase because The West in Europe where they’re getting up to about 15 to 16% illegal alien, non-native born immigrants; illegal, poor, angry and not assimilating in Germany, in France, in Britain, not 16 in Britain but getting on that trajectory in Spain, in Italy. [Italian Prime Minister Georgia] Meloni just deported some imam.

And they’re emboldened, and they do things like behead the head of a priest, or they make the French cower and cancel their Champs-Elysees Christmas parade. They do it in Germany.

Here in the United States, you can’t say antisemitism without “Islamophobia.” [Minnesota Gov. Tim] Walz says that they’re picking on Somalia. So, here you have the Somali community. It has a large number of people here illegally. Their representative, Ilhan Omar, most certainly, almost certainly married her brother and committed immigration fraud. 

She’s a multimillionaire. How she did that, I don’t know. And they have embezzled somewhere between two and nine billion dollars right under the nose of Tim Walz and [Minnesota Attorney General Keith] Ellison. And anybody who explains this in a rational fashion is an Islamophobe, racist, et cetera.

Radical Islam thinks that we are decadent, leisured, and they want to come over here, and they want to create enclaves that are not assimilating or integrating, and they feel that demographically they’re going to enlarge. And their first targets are Jewish Americans which are about 6% of the population. They think they’re already at three or four and they’re going to …

Put it this way. And I’ll shut up.

Ten years ago, [imagine] if Tucker Carlson wanted to give a talk at Charlie Kirk’s then nascent organization and he said, “Why are we picking on Muslims? Why are we picking on Muslims? I don’t understand that.” Well, Tucker, we’re not picking on Muslims. I mean, why would you say that right after Australia? Or why would you say that after what we’ve seen on campuses? Why?

But he wouldn’t have said that 10 years ago.

He said it now because the Gulf money is much more emboldened in funding things in the United States. Al Jazeera is even more powerful. There’s a quarter million students. Many of them stay on.

It used to be unthinkable that somebody would openly root or wear a green Hamas headband or flag. You see it on campus all the time. So, it’s changing, and that’s dangerous. It really is.

I think the worst is what we’re seeing in Britain, where you have grooming and mass rape of young native-born English women, teenagers by Pakistani immigrants for the most part. And no one indicted, prosecuted, convicted and jailed them. And they’re a protected group. And they will censor your speech if you disagree. That’s where we are. 

person 1: Do you see the videos of the mayor of London where he meets with the council and some of the members of the Conservative Party, and they say essentially what the h—‘s happening here with these grooming gangs?

And he will sit there and go, I don’t know what you’re talking about. Could you please define what you’re talking about? He plays this dumb game, but he’s not dumb when he’s doing it. He’s being very calculated and very condescending. And to think that that great city is in the hands of this … I’m not going to say the bad word.

person 2: Let’s be more blunt. The two greatest cities in Western civilization and Christendom, historically in population, are New York and London. And they’re both going to be run by overt Islamicists, I think. And Mamdani, one of his first appointments, had to bow out because she had a history of wretched antisemitism in her social media account. 

He’s just hired a California exile who oversaw multi-billion-dollar fraud in California and the State Department of Labor.

So yeah, that scares me a lot more. 

Sunday, January 04, 2026

Why Would California Bureaucrats Want to Blow Up Dams and Take Water From 600K?

 

person 2: There’s a disturbing article on this website UNWON. We’ve talked once or twice in the past about some articles they’ve done, but they’ve been covering things that happened to rural America.

We’ve talked about water and dams in the past, but I think this is worth knowing because even if you don’t live there, Victor, there are people who rely on rural California dams and the water it produces that goes to farms that we eat the product of all across America and all across the world. 

So, there’s this story. I suggest people check it out. It’s titled Round Valley. Indian Tribes Attorney Says ‘Two-Basin Solution’ Water Diversions to Sonoma and Mendocino Will Stop.” What does that mean? That’s a mouthful of a headline, but it comes down to the continuing desire and not only desire, but the actuality of California bureaucrats blowing up dams.

The PG&E, the power company out there, which has some rights with these dams, wanting them blown up because they’re tired of being sued by “Trouts are people too” nonprofits and other kinds of wacko Left entities. 

So, folks still need the water, and there’s some talk, “Well, we’re going to blow up these dams. They’ll still be able to get this water source that goes through this Round Valley Indian tribe land.” Now, at a recent hearing, the Round Valley Indian tribe lawyer says, that’s not going to happen. 

So, at some point, if all these things go forward, Victor, 600,000 people, a huge amount of people, 600,000 people are going to be without water because of bureaucrats in California who get a thrill out of sticking it to rural America. That’s my take.

Anyway, Victor, I think this is worth your commentary on before we get to some questions. 

person 1: I didn’t vote for him. Nobody voted for these people.

The larger picture is that California has been so rich naturally and so rich with its legacy of very brilliant people that were here that built Los Angeles, built the California water project, built the dams, built the infrastructure, the aqueduct, that it had a margin of error

And so, our generation—I’m a baby boomer born in 1950—we haven’t contributed very much. We’re parasitical. So we sue, we take land out of production, we do all of this, and then we don’t ever ask ourselves, “Well, who’s going to pay for all this?” 

So, the actual diversions from the Eel River, except in the winter, are only about 2% or 3%. So, it’s not like they’re taking water from indigenous people. They’re honoring pretty old water contracts. 

And so, the environmentalist lawyers are saying that existing contracts—and California does not have a very long lineage. It’s not Massachusetts. Basically, people didn’t come here until about 1840s. Jedidiah Smith, people before that, and then the Gold Rush in 1849 started that, and then there was statehood early in ’51, I think.

And then you had a whole corpus of water law. And they’re saying that they can vitiate that, invalidate it, because of ancestral hunting grounds. They did that with the Klamath [River]. Four dams they blew up and said that they obstructed salmon runs.

And I understand that we want to have social justice, but the whole indigenous land is such a volatile issue. Anybody who challenges this idea that this land belongs to Indigenous people is called a racist or a white racist. 

It’s hard to talk about, but the fact of the matter is land changes all the time. The Americans came. They fought indigenous people. Indigenous people before they came had fought the Mexican government in California. The Mexican government came after fighting the Spanish government. The Spanish government came after fighting Indigenous people. The Indigenous people fought with other constantly.

If you want to talk about an imperialist project, look at the history of the Comanches or the Lakota Sioux or the Blackfoot, I mean, they were merciless to other Indigenous people and they created empires by taking lands and hunting grounds.

So, that’s the human side of things.

The other thing is that these reservations and everything, these lawyers, they don’t live in a vacuum. So, when they’re saying we have rights to go back to pre-civilization and have our ancestral land free of the so-called settlers who came in and made these dams and water diversions and made the Napa Valley …

Napa Valley is very dry. Anybody who goes up in drives from Healdsburg to Napa or Santa Rosa or any of those, it’s a paradise. 

It looks like a valley in Italy, or Provence or something in France. It’s just beautiful and they did that by their own skill, and they created the world’s most lucrative, successful and best wine place in the world. And they came after there had been cattle ranchers, apple growers in the 19th century.

That’s why everybody wants to go there. Everybody in California, if you wake up on a Saturday morning or Sunday morning and you happen to, unfortunately, be on 101 going north from San Francisco, it’s a bottleneck. 

And I’ve done that and that’s because all of these San Francisco and South Bay people, their idea of a beautiful Saturday afternoon, or Sunday, is “Let’s go drive up to the wine country.” And they drive up, and they drive around, and they see these beautiful terraced hills, there’s Lombardi poplars, there’s cypress tree driveways. It’s just sculpted. It looks like a picture of Tuscany.

And then you see these beautiful wineries, these beautiful restaurants. All of that came from water. Not very much. They were very good about water, but the Eel River was one, Russian River’s another. They had some diversions and further north to cattle and stuff.

But my point is this: No Indigenous people—and it’s very hard to find somebody who is entirely indigenous. My former mother-in-law had a name Tawana, and they were from Oklahoma. They had Cherokee, and I once asked her, and she said almost everybody that they knew had Cherokee heritage.

But we ended up with the 116th rule in the United States, so that if you wanted to go to a reservation you were 116th or one-eighth or something.

But it was very hard to find people that you could define someone with a Cherokee name or an indigenous name that had not been assimilated.

And then we tried to make up for that with the reservation system—fraught with corruption, yes—but still the reservations in total are larger than many states—their land. And then, more importantly, we went into the gaming, and some of these tribes are fabulously wealthy. 

But the point I’m making is this: This environmental law firm says we’re going to stop the diversions of 2% or 3%. It’s not going to hurt. It’s not going to get a lot of water back to the Indigenous. It’s a symbolic act to punish civilization and hurt people, 600,000 people in this case