How to Burn a Bridge By the Dumbest White House Staffer

If one could imagine a more self-serving egomaniac, one could only envision Karine Jean-Pierre. In her final press gaggle (thank God) she decided to make it all about herself. Vainglorious Dumb@$$.

As reported in this afternoon’s New York Post, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan personally asked for his top spokesman, John Kirby, a former press secretary at both the Pentagon and State Department, to take the lectern moments after Biden announced the long-sought deal and cast it as a signature achievement of his team.

Sullivan made the request of White House chief of staff Jeff Zients, but Jean-Pierre refused to allow it, citing her own prearranged plans to celebrate herself, two sources revealed.

“She basically said it was her goodbye party,” one person recounted.

This was breaking news about two Americans about to be released from captivity by Hamas as part of the deal and this idiot refused to allow reporters to question her or anyone else about it. In the end, she showed she had no interest in serving Joe Biden or cared about anyone but her own purposes. The whole time she was Press Secretary.

She is a worthless failure to her position and should be held in contempt by the reporters she spoke to daily in the briefing room. But, of course, she will probably get a lucrative position at the failing cable news channel, MSNBC, where tens of people watch it each day.

So, good riddance to a non-entity who failed at her job and was forced to throw herself her own going away party. Because no one really cared she was leaving.

Oh… and good luck on those future job references, Karine, as Ralph Kramden said when Norton was looking for a credit reference, “the applicant is a bum.”

Ruling For Free Speech vs a Congressional Law

A ruling may come down today at 10AM over the whole  TikTok issue.  USA Today is reporting that, while the Supreme Court generally does not make bench rulings on Fridays, it is rumored we could see an electronic decision  in its place.

The Justices are up against a Sunday deadline the Congress set last year when passing a law requiring TikTok to cut ties with China. If you recall, last year, the Congress gave a one-year reprieve for this to happen, rather than block TikTok from its operations without benefit to divest from its Chinese-owned parent, ByteDance. This would have caused potentially financial harm, and could have violated users’ free speech considerations.

Several weeks ago, knowing the clock was fast approaching the January 19 Congressional deadline, the Court took up the case in an emergency situation. It is still unclear what some justices could decide.

The high court could put the law on hold, could decline to intervene for now or could definitively rule on whether the law is constitutional. It seemed, during the hearing, that most of the Justices were inclined to uphold the law, based on comments they offered during the proceedings.

Free speech is an important idea and belief of our Bill of Rights, and it is immoral to deny this to anyone for any reason. That is why it is part of the First Amendment. To quote: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

But the Congress has the authority to decide whether a foreign-owned company, one who is owned by an adversary, should have the freedom to operate without restrictions.

Several people, including The Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary, have indicated they may be interested in purchasing TikTok from its current owners, and house the company in the United States as an American-owning parent. That may be a workable solution to this problem.

Perhaps the Supremes could make that a condition to extend the deadline, for a reasonable period from Sunday, and give a purchaser/investor an opportunity to raise funds and complete the transaction to everyone’s satisfaction.

After all, it is only free speech at risk here. Isn’t that something worth considering?

I am sure the Founders would agree.

How Real Leaders Lead

The more I listen to Senator John Fetterman, the more I believe he is really an Independent, wrapped in a Democrat blanket. He must have joined the Democrat Party when it was still a sane, normal, America-loving Party, before it went off the rails after the beginning of the twenty-first century. You know, before Schumer and Pelosi and Sanders and Obama took the reins.

He is a reasonable politician, more so than Manchin or Sinema, who also fought for American ideals. They may have been center-left, but compromised when they saw it was better to get some of the fresh bread rather than demand the whole loaf, at the cost of getting the stale bread that nobody wanted.

On January 10, I wrote a commentary called Fetterman Speaks His Mind - Again, where I praised his ability to see the bigger picture and state what he felt on several issues. I have written about his openness to negotiate and compromise several other times, as well, standing against the wishes of his Party “leaders”.

Shortly after meeting with President-Elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago, as reported in The Hill today, Trump lavished Fetterman with praise, calling him “a fascinating man,” distinguishing him from most Democrats who are still keeping their distance.

In the same article, it was reported by other Democrats and Democrat strategists the obvious changes about Senator Fetterman which are causing so many such consternation.

“There’s no telling with any certainty what Fetterman’s motivations are. I do political analysis, not psychoanalysis,” said Norman Solomon, a progressive strategist and founder of the activist network RootsAction. “But clearly, he has been moving rightward.”

It is refreshing to see any politician buck the system and stand up for what he believes. Maybe that is why so many Republicans and Democrats also don’t get or like Trump.

He, too, rebelled against the norm. And that is why Trump sees him as someone he can work with, as a kindred spirit. And Fetterman seems to gravitate to Trump’s personality very well.

In the end, isn’t THAT what real leaders do? Find the common ground to get things done for ALL of us?

These two leaders are showing us in modern day what the Founders envisioned. Not the petty party politics which dominate our lives.

But rather, respecting differences of opinion, and to work for the common good for all of us. THAT is what LEADERS do.

Thank you, John Fetterman and Donald Trump for showing us how leaders lead.

Good Riddance, You Incompetent Fool

The bitter and angry old man gave his farewell speech last night. He lambasted everything and everyone who stood to gain from him leaving after only one term.

 

Biden found fault with social media and some in the legacy media. Ironically, these entities supported his election four years ago, pushed his agenda ad nauseum over his term and assisted in hiding his dementia. Until it couldn’t.

He compared the current Tech Industry to the Military Industrial Complex from the Eienhower farewell sixty-four years ago. And called those same Tech leaders “oligarchs”. He badly tried to link them like a small wealthy ruling class, similar to that found in Putin's Russia.

While he was free in using the justice system to prosecute his enemies, he demanded that Americans “respect the courts”. He called on everyone to “pay their fair share of taxes”, while his son sat in the room, and knowing he didn’t.

And speaking of his son, he admonished us all that if you do the crime, you should do the time. But he pardoned Hunter from any jail time for any crimes committed for the last eleven years. And said it was about “family”.

There was more, but you get the point. He will be gone in about 100 hours or so. And it still can’t come fast enough.

So good-bye, Joe. And good riddance. Don’t let he door hit you and your corrupt family in the @$$.

You incompetent, angry old fool.

How Many More Acts of Sabotage Must We Endure?

One would think the most recent action by the Biden regime was to send a message on the day before Senator Marco Rubio, a respected Cuban-American, is to testify before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. And you would be right.

 

It is an insult to the dignity of Senator Rubio's heritage that the demented Joe Biden, with less than five days, less than 120 hours from now as this is written, would decide to remove the designation, state sponsor of terrorism from Cuba.

Why now? Why didn’t he do this in January, 2021? Did the Cuban regime magically find God?

No. This was done to intimidate Rubio as he was about to sit for his nomination hearing. But the sycophants which serve the Demented One decided it was appropriate to send a big “f-you” to the nominee as he finalized his preparations.

As Newsmax and others reported, they pushed out someone to reveal this decision, and attributed it to Biden.

“We view this as an opportune moment to do so, given the important dialogue that is taking place between Cuba and the Catholic Church with respect to political prisoners,” a Biden administration official told reporters.

The official added that “we determined that there is a sufficient basis for the president to certify to Congress that Cuba has not provided any support for international terrorism during the preceding six-month period, which is what the statutory requirement is for this decision.”

While Rubio maintained his silence, pretty much, Senator Ted Cruz, another prominent Cuban-American, was very vocal as he voiced his displeasure.

“Today's decision is unacceptable on its merits," Cruz said in a news release. "The terrorism advanced by the Cuban regime has not ceased. I will work with President Trump and my colleagues to immediately reverse and limit the damage from the decision."

Cruz wasn’t finished as he continued, “Obama-Biden officials are continuing their legacy of closing out administrations with rank appeasement of the Cuban regime," Cruz said. "They push these policies both because they believe in them and to undermine the incoming Trump administration and Republican Congress."

For a man who promised to make this transition transparent and easy for Donald Trump, and said so in the presence of so many media outlets back in November, he has proven to be a liar and a sneak as he, or someone in his name, continues to undermine the next administration.

You can be sure this latest act of betrayal and sabotage, along with many others, will be reversed within days, if not hours, after President Trump takes office.

A Bad Deal About To Be Put Into Effect

As much as anyone would want to see an end to the hostilities in Gaza, the deal as negotiated by Biden and Blinken, as reported in Tuesday's late edition of Newsmax, is so filled with holes, it must have been written by someone with dementia. There is no way that this deal is beneficial to Israel.

 

And it does not comply with President-Elect Trump's demand that it must be resolved before January 20.

As with any “prisoner” exchange, all must be done simultaneously, at the same time, on the same day, with no chance to cheat. This will, undoubtedly, not work in Israel's best interests.

Neither Hamas nor its benefactor, Iran, have ever proven trustworthy. So why should any sane leader trust them now? To get a deal done? A true Biden feck up, for sure.

He doesn’t really give a crap. He thinks this makes every move he made during his four years all part of his plan to settle the peace in the Middle East. And have something good to write about in his memoir.

As for Blinken, he can’t wait to wash his hands of the whole process. He is the modern day Pontius Pilate, dressed in a $1,000 suit rather than a toga.

“I believe we will get a ceasefire,” the soon-to-be-former US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said during a speech Tuesday, asserting it was up to Hamas. “It’s right on the brink. It’s closer than it’s ever been before,” and word could come within hours, or days.

At least Biden and Blinken will no longer be held accountable. But they WILL BE responsible when it goes sideways. Which, as the withdrawal from Afghanistan proved, it surely will. And they will be gone, leaving it up to Trump to fix.

This is a disaster about to explode. Hamas is chomping on the bit, ready to claim it won. And it certainly appears they got the better end of this negotiation.

But in Jerusalem, hundreds of hardliners marched against a deal, some chanting, “You don’t make a deal with the devil,” a reference to Hamas.

And every sane person in the world will agree with that sentiment.

O'Leary Speaks - People Should Listen

On Monday, Speaker Mike Johnson raised the possibility to tie disaster relief for California's recovery from the wildfires to raising the debt ceiling. That certainly is a reasonable possibility.

The current, outgoing Biden regime has already, on Thursday, announced the federal government would cover 100% of costs for the initial disaster response to the Los Angeles wildfires.

Meeting with federal officials at the White House, Biden said the funds would go toward debris removal, temporary shelters, salaries for first responders and more for 180 days.

 But it is clearly not enough. The current estimated damage is approaching $60BB. Oh, and it was announced that the current regime will give $770 to each victim.

Big whoop. Like the $750 to each victim for hurricane relief after Helene and Milton. How is that working out?

Each day, it seems, it is getting worse. But the problems still remain.

Kevin O’Leary was on with Fox Business’ Stuart Varney on Tuesday and made the following statement, which, when you think about it for a moment, it makes a lot of sense.

"I think every taxpayer in America, including those in California, would like to tie this aid to removing Newsom and Bass. Now. Gone,” O’Leary said.

"Part of the deal would be, and I know Trump likes new ideas, here's one: not a dime until those two are whacked from their jobs immediately," he continued. "They are so incompetent, and all of the decisions they've made led to this, and they're still making mistakes. They're horrific managers. Whack them."

Not a penny for Newsom to steal from the rest of Anerica for his socialist woke programs. And still tie it to eliminate the debt ceiling, because the losses will certainly exceed $100BB or more if the fires were put out in total by tomorrow.

And that isn’t happening.

As for the Olympics which is scheduled for 2028, O’Leary said, "I even think the Olympics are in jeopardy [due to] the infrastructure. I think these homes, people have to realize, were built with pine timber back in the 50s and 60s, some of them as inexpensive as $15,000 now worth $4 million. They were dry. They basically melted," O’Leary explained.

"That looks like Hiroshima. But [with] the infrastructure and the policies, it's going to be difficult in terms of building them back."

But the first order of business is to dump Newsom and Bass.