Lunch video-----Reason Magazine - Why did insurance companies pull out of California right before the wildfires?

Another factor underlying the rising costs and risks for insurance companies has been the lack of effective forest and water management. The rising costs and insurers leaving the state were a market signal of unmanaged risk.:

 

noon-toon

 

Trump State Department reportedly tells embassies: Scrap the LGBT and BLM activist flags. Only Old Glory flies. | Blaze Media

Trump State Department reportedly tells embassies: Scrap the LGBT and BLM activist flags. Only Old Glory flies. | Blaze Media: 

Under the Biden administration, the non-straight activist flag and the colors of the identitarian leftist group Black Lives Matter were routinely hoisted above American embassies and consulates, both suggesting Old Glory needed the banner equivalent of addendums and insinuating the nation was torn between competing allegiances. The Trump State Department reportedly issued a "One Flag" policy on Monday, bringing this shameful practice to an end.

Sorta sad, they do deserve to stick together "til death does them part".

 

Javier Milei Breaks Out VERBAL Chainsaws on WEF Over Trans Indoctrination and DAMN It's Glorious (Watch)

Remember when all we could do was watch Javie Milei being a total bada*s while our own president was busy eating ice cream on the beach?  - Sam J.

How we could only wish our president was as freedom-loving and fearless as Milei?
Welp, we've got that now with Trump (who, incidentally also whooped up on the WEF) but that doesn't mean we can't still enjoy watching Milei eviscerating the World Economic Forum for their woke push for the trans indoctrination of our kids.

• This is of course pretty damn epic.

Watch:

Translated portion of his speech:

"From these forums, the LGBT agenda is promoted, wanting to impose on us that women are men and men are women, just if they self-perceive as such, and nothing is said when a man disguises himself as a woman and kills his rival in a boxing ring, or when a prisoner claims to be a woman and ends up raping every woman he comes across in prison. Not long ago, the case of two homosexual Americans made headlines worldwide; they raised the flag of sexual diversity and were sentenced to 100 years in prison for abusing and filming their adoptive children for over two years. I want to be clear that when I say abuse, it is not a euphemism, because in its most extreme versions, gender ideology is outright child abuse—they are pedophiles. Therefore, I want to know who endorses these behaviors.

Why are American dollars going to Fauci so he can fund Communist China's Wuhan weapons?

 

Gotta see this!-----Laura Ingraham @IngrahamAngle -Trump’s Davos message: 'Your schemes to control us are over.' The globalists are officially on notice.

The Green New Deal wasn’t about saving the planet—it was about controlling YOUR life. 

Trump called it out as the scam it is.

#1 This day 1981-----The Tide Is High

Must read!-----Government by Hysteria: The Climate and Covid Hobgoblins Begin to Fade

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary - From THE DAILY SCEPTIC - by Tilak Doshi 

In serving those needs for safety, governments are more likely to get re-elected. 

Government by hysteria in other words, where fear and alarm are cultivated, then weaponised, for political ends...
The Climate Hobgoblins...
The threatening features of this genre of hobgoblins went through several permutations. 

• It started with Paul Ehrlich’s famine and war through over-population and the Club of Rome’s prediction of inevitable resource scarcity. 
• It then morphed into global cooling during the 1970s, 
• before finally settling for global warming (now called ‘climate change’) due to effects of greenhouse gases. The focus is on the trace gas carbon dioxide mainly emitted by humans combusting fuels for industry, cooking, heating, cooling and transport...

The story is that the CO2 hobgoblins are the control knob of climate and, by extension, our cataclysmic future, a theory spread via the panic of a Swedish school drop-out who deleted her predictive tweet about the end of the world by 2023...

"Merit" is their fear!

Tom Homan reveals how many illegal immigrants were picked up by ICE on first day of Trump administration | Blaze Media

Tom Homan reveals how many illegal immigrants were picked up by ICE on first day of Trump administration | Blaze Media: 

Homan went on to repeat that while all illegal immigrants are once again subject to deportation, the Trump administration is going to direct the current resources on hand to go after public safety threats.

"And just yesterday, in the last 24 hours, ICE arrested over 308 serious criminals. Some of them were murderers. Some of them were rapists. Some of them raped a child. Some were a sexual assault of a child. So ICE is doing their job, and they’re prioritizing just as the president said they would. So ICE is performing excellent right now out in the field. And they’re going to continue every day," he continued.

Trump can fix biased, bloated bureaucracy — by abolishing the civil service By Glenn H. Reynolds

A new broom sweeps clean, goes the old saying, but President Trump needs to approach the federal bureaucracy with more than just a broom. -Glenn H. Reynolds

Maybe something like a bulldozer.

• With an imminent budget crisis — on her way out the door, Biden Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen informed us that, oh by the way, the federal government was out of cash...

And there’s another move that Trump should take, one that will not only save money and improve efficiency, but also return the United States to the Founders’ intent: He should abandon the bloated, unconstitutional federal civil-service system...

• Under our “professional” civil service, though, no one is really in charge.
• Presidents can’t fire the government’s many middle, and even fairly senior, managers without a lot of hassle.

The thought was that this would give us an efficient, well-run government staffed by politically neutral, expert bureaucrats. We don’t have those.

• They’re not neutral, for one thing; they’re Democratic apparatchiks who can’t be fired by a Republican president — or a Democratic one, for that matter...
• A recent poll by Scott Rasmussen’s Napolitan Institute found that huge numbers of federal managers — 42% — would do their best to resist the Trump administration’s initiatives, something we saw occurring during Trump’s first term.
• Not only that, they’re not experts, either: I defy anyone to examine the record of the federal bureaucracy over the past decade and suggest that it reeks of expertise.
• It just plain reeks...

AM Fruitcake - Too funny. Hollywood gals complaining about paucity of jobs in film. Fervently support guys putting on a skirt to skirt the barriers!😂😅🤣🤣😍

 

History for January 25

History for January 25 - On-This-Day.com

Eduard Shevardnadze 1928 - President of Georgia

• 1858 - Mendelssohn’s "Wedding March" was presented for the first time at the wedding of the daughter of Queen Victoria and the Crown Prince of Prussia.
• 1924 - The 1st Winter Olympic Games were inaugurated in Chamonix in the French Alps.
• 1950 - A federal jury in New York City found former State Department official Alger Hiss guilty of perjury.
• 1959 - In the U.S., American Airlines had the first scheduled transcontinental flight of a Boeing 707.
• 1961 - John F. Kennedy presented the first live presidential news conference from Washington, DC. The event was carried on radio and television.
• 1981 - The 52 Americans held hostage by Iran for 444 days arrived in the United States and were reunited with their families.
• 1999 - In Louisville, KY, man received the first hand transplant in the United States.

Trump DOJ Set to Crack Down on State and Local Officials Who Oppose Deportation Efforts: Memo

Trump DOJ Set to Crack Down on State and Local Officials Who Oppose Deportation Efforts: Memo: 

he administration of President Donald Trump, clearly expecting pushback to immigration enforcement from Democrat-run states and cities, has issued a new memo meant to ensure their compliance.

Emil Bove, acting deputy attorney general at the Justice Department, wrote in a memo to staffers Tuesday that the supremacy clause of the Constitution requires “state and local actors to comply with the Executive Branch’s immigration enforcement initiatives,” according to a copy of the memo obtained by The Washington Post.

“Federal law prohibits state and local actors from resisting, obstructing, and otherwise failing to comply with lawful immigration-related commands,” Bove wrote.

The way we were-----1961 Plymouths: Why These Represented The Beginning of the End for Plymouth

Class Action Where 98% of the Class Chose NOT to Take the Cash

Already gone!-----After These Details, the Antioch High School Shooting Is Going to Get Suffocated by the Media

black Nazis cannot be weaponized to attack Trump or push a gun control narrative, so expect this story to once again be buried by the media. - Matt Vespa
A lot has happened, which is why it got buried, but the media is bound to truly suffocate since it’s a school shooting that cannot be weaponized against Republicans...

The "Science" is filled with greedy fraudsters!-----Medical Journals as Gatekeepers: A Broken System

Research challenging the safety of Covid-19 vaccines is being silenced by medical journals, stifling critical debate. - Maryanne Demasi, PhD 

Medical journals are increasingly acting as gatekeepers, promoting established narratives while sidelining research that challenges the status quo.

• Studies questioning the safety of Covid-19 vaccines, for example, are often dismissed outright, denied the opportunity to undergo peer review.

In some instances, even studies that pass rigorous peer review are later retracted due to external pressures.

• One such example involves a study on adverse events following the Covaxin vaccine, which was retracted after the journal faced pressure from the vaccine manufacturer. The authors were subsequently sued for defamation.
• Similarly, a narrative review examining lessons learned from the global roll-out of the Covid-19 vaccine campaign was retracted post-peer review, with no clear explanation provided...

The lawman returns as Tom Homan takes the border by storm | Blaze Media

The lawman returns as Tom Homan takes the border by storm | Blaze Media: 

Donald Trump’s new border czar draws on decades of law enforcement experience and a John Wayne-style zeal.

There’s something quintessentially American about a lawman.

He is the ever-present hero in our mythology, a figure buried deep in our national psyche — like the Pledge of Allegiance or apple pie.

The Wildfire Fallout: Is the Insurance Industry on the Brink?

Watch an Anti-Trump Clown Get Obliterated by One Tweet

She, like the rest of liberal America, has zero grasp of history, which was brutally exposed with that post. Dustin Grange responded in kind to nuke her from orbit:

Lunch video-----Negative vaccine efficacy

"A higher percentage of participants who contracted COVID-19 had received at least one dose of the vaccine

Odds of contracting COVID-19 increased with the number of vaccine doses: 

Noon-toon

 

Glenn Beck recalls the exact moment he knew that Trump was truly for the people | Blaze Media

Glenn Beck recalls the exact moment he knew that Trump was truly for the people | Blaze Media: 

Glenn Beck keenly recalls the day he visited with President Donald Trump a few months after the 2020 election.

“He had a moment of humility and a moment that changed my understanding of him in a much deeper way,” he reflects.

Let us not forget!

 

Yes!!-----Trump proposes eliminating federal funding for PBS, NPR

“The Budget proposes to eliminate Federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) over a two year period,” according to the proposal. 

“CPB grants represent a small share of the total funding for the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and National Public Radio (NPR), which primarily rely on private donations to fund their operations,” it continues...
...CPB President Patricia Harrison said...“The elimination of federal funding to CPB would initially devastate and ultimately destroy public media’s role in early childhood education, public safety, connecting citizens to our history, and promoting civil discussions — all for Americans in both rural and urban communities.”...

Sanctuary cities are murder cities!

 

SNOPES KNOWS ELON MUSK DIDN’T GIVE NAZI SALUTE, WON’T DEBUNK HOAX:

Instapundit - Even Snopes, which fancies itself an objective fact-checker, refused to debunk the claim that Musk gave a Nazi salute. 

"During his brief speech — available in full on YouTube — Musk said to the crowd gathered in honor of Trump’s victory, “And I just want to say thank you for making it happen. Thank you.” He then briskly extended his right hand from his heart to the crowd in front of him. He repeated the gesture for the people behind him. Then, in a moment omitted from the users’ videos, he said, placing his hand over his heart, “Thank you. My heart goes out to you. It is thanks to you that the future of civilization is assured, thanks to you.”[…]
We emphasize that as of this writing, Musk has not explained the gesture, nor can we read his mind to learn precisely what he intended by it. It’s possible it was a purposeful Nazi salute; it could also have been entirely innocent. The available evidence is too scant to draw a solid conclusion."

It’s really sick that at a time when the mainstream media has been raising alarm bells about disinformation, they continue to actively engage in it to serve their agenda.

• Snopes will get around to debunking this hoax sometime at the tail end of JD Vance’s first term in the Oval Office — that’s how long it took them to debunk the “fine people on both sides” hoax from 2017.
• In the meantime, as Kurt Schlichter writes: Elon Musk Needs to Sue Everybody. - Ed Driscoll

#1 This day 1978-----Player - Baby Come Back