America’s Real Drug Problem

Comedian and social commentator Jimmy Carr observed that Americans’ biggest addiction is attention. - Peter Venetoklis

He offered three forms:

• Fame is mostly benign...
• Infamy is a problem. It inspires the malevolent and the mentally ill...
• Victimhood - However, since being an actual victim requires things like enduring harm, injustice (which includes bigotry), privation, or the like, we get three forms of “victim-adjacent” behaviors that require none of the above.

The fake-victims, such as those who complain about subconscious micro-aggressions. The suffering they endure is all in their heads.
The white knights. Who don’t have to actually be white, but often are. Their greatest concentration seems to be the AWFULs (Affluent White Female Urban Leftists), but you can find white knights in enough varieties to fill a Benetton ad.
The grifters, who are overtly dishonest and scheming rather than engaging in self-delusion. For them, victimhood is a tool to be used for self-enrichment, and the rest is just window dressing...

#1 This day 1963-----Walk Right In - The Rooftop Singers

The shot of his parents, his Mom has MS. What a story!-----FERNANDO. MENDOZA. AN UNREAL PLAY ON 4TH DOWN.

FERNANDO. MENDOZA. - The Athletic@TheAthletic

Why not?

 

How Islam is conquering America through FOOD | Blaze Media

How Islam is conquering America through FOOD | Blaze Media: 

In a man-on-the-street-style clip Gonzales shares from the account Muckracker on X, a young man stops to talk to a group of Muslims in Ohio who happen to be Somali.

“America will become a Muslim state,” one man yells.

“Our goal is to make America Islam,” he yells again.

“That’s not a conspiracy theory. … No, they’re actually saying it very loudly and proudly,” Gonzales says on “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered.”

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

The Media Proved How Truly Awful They Are by Posing This Question to Jay Leno - Amy Curtis
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...

• 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...

AM Fruitcake

 

History for January 20

History for January 20 - On-This-Day.com 

George Burns 1896

• 1841 - The island of Hong Kong was ceded to Great Britain. It returned to Chinese control in July 1997.
• 1885 - The roller coaster was patented by L.A. Thompson.
• 1942 - Nazi officials held the Wannsee conference, during which they arrived at their "final solution" that called for exterminating Europe's Jews.
• 1944 - The British RAF dropped 2,300 tons of bombs on Berlin.
• 1981 - Iran released 52 Americans that had been held hostage for 444 days. The hostages were flown to Algeria and then to a U.S. base in Wiesbaden, West Germany. The release occurred minutes after the U.S. presidency had passed from Jimmy Carter to Ronald Reagan.

Why exactly are they protesting? * WorldNetDaily * by Jerry Rogers, Real Clear Wire

Why exactly are they protesting? * WorldNetDaily * by Jerry Rogers, Real Clear Wire: 

There's been a lot of sound and fury over the deadly encounter in Minneapolis between an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent and a woman named Renee Good. But what exactly are these protests about — and why do so many seem to be marching against the rule of law rather than for justice?

Let's get a few facts straight.

The way we were-----Zeppelins - Majestic and Deadly Airships of WW1

Cambridge University was once a centre for scientific research, but Islam is changing that.

Chinese Solar Manufacturers Report Major Financial Losses

Has President Trump’s withdrawal of Biden era renewable subsidies killed the Chinese economy? - Eric Worrall

• But there are deeper issues with the Chinese economy – a lot of private Chinese companies appear to be borrowing unsustainable amounts of money to cover losses, in an apparent effort to maintain market share at any cost.
• China debt overhang leads to rising share of ‘zombie’ firms

There is mounting evidence of “zombie lending” in China, banks rolling over bad loans to unprofitable firms and allowing the status quo to continue rather than recognize losses...

Sheriff Grady just dropped the truth: 76% of illegals detained in his county have criminal charges. The other 24%? Riding with the criminals.

He explains exactly why ICE is flooding Minneapolis, LA, and other sanctuary cities and how easy it is to stop. - Kim "Katie" USA@KimKatieUSA

Hegseth 'taking a sledgehammer' to costly DEI program you've likely never heard of * WorldNetDaily * by Mariane Angela, Daily Caller News Foundation

Hegseth 'taking a sledgehammer' to costly DEI program you've likely never heard of * WorldNetDaily * by Mariane Angela, Daily Caller News Foundation: 

"When President Trump appointed me as your Secretary of War, I made you a series of promises. I promised that every single one of your taxpayer dollars would go toward one thing, and one thing only. Building the most lethal fighting force on the planet," Hegseth said. "And I promised we would gut the corruptive, unconstitutional, non-merit based DEI programs that have weakened our military and distracted us from our primary mission."

'This isn't by accident': Attorney explains the root cause of fraud in Minnesota, and a solution.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Greenland...

...Welker zeroed in on Greenland, noting that both Denmark and Greenland insist it's not for sale, and asking: "What makes President Trump think it is?" Bessent emphasized its strategic value. - Susie Moore

BESSENT: Kristen, if we look for years, for over a century, American presidents have wanted to acquire Greenland. And what we can see is that Greenland is essential to the U.S. national security -- we`re building the golden dome, the missile system.

Lunch video-----Are You F**king Kidding Me?

Noon-toon

 

Google's new plan: To learn everything about you from your online shopping | Blaze Media

Google's new plan: To learn everything about you from your online shopping | Blaze Media: 

The company's 'universal commerce protocol' aims to gobble up all our internet commerce data.

At some point, Google went from “don’t be evil” to “never mind.” The evidence is in its latest, duplicitous, and deceptive set of control mechanisms over online commerce.

Exhausting!

 

NYC Commission on Racial Equity giving grants to study reparations: '$200,000 boondoggle' | New York Post

The taxpayer dough will be steered to select organizations who’ll collaborate with the NYC Commission on Racial Equity to develop “recommendations for repair, collect truth testimony from New Yorkers, and work with researchers leading a NYC Study on Reparations,” 160 years after the Civil War ended. - Rich Calder 

• “The launch of this application represents another major step in the fight for reparations here in New York City,” gushed CORE Chair and Executive Director Linda Tigani Thursday in announcing the launch of the “city’s first-ever government supported Reparations Community Organizing Network.”
• “Community must be at the table and be provided the necessary resources to ensure that reparations study and action is community-informed,” she added...

#1 Movie this week 1992-----The Hand that Rocks the Cradle - Trailer

I’m watching these ICE protests and I’m gonna say what a lot of normal working people are thinking: this “24/7 outrage” shit is not real life.

Most Americans have jobs, families, bills, and responsibilities — we don’t have time to stand around all day screaming at cops like it’s a hobby. - Luke Bongman 
And let’s get something straight: peaceful protest is a right. 

But the second it turns into threats, harassment, intimidation, vandalism, or calls for violence against law enforcement, it stops being “activism” and becomes criminal behavior. 

• Normal people want safety.
•  Adults want rules. 
• Mobs want excuses. 
• Which one are you?

#1 This day 1961-----Wonderland by Night/Bert Kaempfert