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TheAntiPanicanLearingCenter says

Cool, we're the superpower, multipolarity is retarded and will end up with us having to really fight at some point, not drop a few bombs or send in the Delta Force for 15 minutes.

You think it's cool and powerful to drop bombs on people? Or to kidnap foreigners? That's some fucking dark shit.

A lot more than 50 if you include the human and child sacrifices of the Oklahoma bombing false flag (blowing up all the evidence against Clintons).

itsAllBullshit says

You think it's cool and powerful to drop bombs on people? Or to kidnap foreigners? That's some fucking dark shit.

Yep. What's wrong with kidnapping a Cartel Bigwig AND 30 Cuban Communists AND a few score more Narcothugs?

That's like some Chuck Norris shit, very cool.

Much better than being a wimpy cuck .

I'll never forget my 6th Grade teacher telling us all we had to get along with the USSR because they'd be around forever - in 1988.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/revolutionary-wednesday-january-7

But second, and completely missing the profound irony, Edsall and his coterie of collectivist commentators described something they called “deeply unusual,” which was that Trump’s federal agencies are working together to achieve the President’s priorities. Behold this remarkable admission, which described the federal government working _effectively_:

If you look at the assault on higher education, for example, it
involves coordinated action by the Office of Management and
Budget, the Department of Education, the Department of Justice,
the Department of State (which oversees visas for foreign
students), the National Science Foundation and the Department
of Health and Human Services, the National Science Foundation
(which houses the National Institutes of Health and the National
Institute of Aging), the Department of Energy, the Department of
Agriculture and the newly formed Department of Government
Efficiency. They had to work together to ensure a consistent
response.
Such coordinated efforts across agencies are normally
difficult to organize; it reflects shared ideological goals, and a
White House prioritization of those goals. Seemingly every part
of the government was on board. That is deeply unusual.

Superficially, it’s more welcome confirmation of Swamp-draining. And it’s especially delightful in progressive surprise that Trump could have drained the federal swamp so quickly. But the deeper irony was the explicit admission that “coordinated efforts across agencies are normally difficult to organize.”

That, dear reader, is a statement of government dysfunction as the default, which progressives apparently view as a feature rather than as a problem. Either way, it was also an implied admission that Trump has successfully accomplished something that is “normally difficult” and “deeply unusual.” We accept the praise, however grudgingly it was offered.

That long paragraph I quoted above literally describes textbook effective public administration. It’s what good governance looks like. It describes competence. And it shocked Edsall and his progressive cronies. It also reveals a deeply cynical progressive point of view: Government should be inefficient when implementing policies we oppose. Had they described the same coordination for Biden’s vaccine mandates —OMB, OSHA, DOD, VA, CMS, DOJ all working in concert— they’d likely praise it as “whole-of-government” public health response.

President Trump swings his stick at the Defense Contractors.

ICE shoots Karen Car Rammer
https://patrick.net/post/1386475/2026-01-07-woke-karen-car-rammer-shot-by-ice

Booger says

They'll still issue the loans. No criminal penalties.

Most of the worst ones are towards the end

TheAntiPanicanLearingCenter says

Sec. 2. Organizations from Which the United States Shall Withdraw. (a) Non-United Nations Organizations:

(i) 24/7 Carbon-Free Energy Compact;

(ii) Colombo Plan Council;

(iii) Commission for Environmental Cooperation;

(iv) Education Cannot Wait;

(v) European Centre of Excellence for Countering

Hybrid Threats;

(vi) Forum of European National Highway Research Laboratories;

(vii) Freedom Online Coalition;

(viii) Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund;

(ix) Global Counterterrorism Forum;

(x) Global Forum on Cyber Expertise;

(xi) Global Forum on Migration and Development;

(xii) Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research;

(xiii) Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals, and Sustainable Development;

(xiv) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change;

(xv) Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services;

(xvi) International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property;

(xvii) International Cotton Advisory Committee;

(xviii) International Development Law Organization;

(xix) International Energy Forum;

(xx) International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies;

(xxi) International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance;

(xxii) International Institute for Justice and the Rule of Law;

(xxiii) International Lead and Zinc Study Group;

(xxiv) International Renewable Energy Agency;

(xxv) International Solar Alliance;

(xxvi) International Tropical Timber Organization;

(xxvii) International Union for Conservation of Nature;

(xxviii) Pan American Institute of Geography and History;

(xxix) Partnership for Atlantic Cooperation;

(xxx) Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combatting Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships in Asia;

(xxxi) Regional Cooperation Council;

(xxxii) Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century;

(xxxiii) Science and Technology Center in Ukraine;

(xxxiv) Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme; and

(xxxv) Venice Commission of the Council of Europe.

(b) United Nations (UN) Organizations:

(i) Department of Economic and Social Affairs;

(ii) UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) — Economic Commission for Africa;

(iii) ECOSOC — Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean;

(iv) ECOSOC — Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific;

(v) ECOSOC — Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia;

(vi) International Law Commission;

(vii) International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals;

(viii) International Trade Centre;

(ix) Office of the Special Adviser on Africa;

(x) Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary General for Children in Armed Conflict;

(xi) Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict;

(xii) Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence Against Children;

(xiii) Peacebuilding Commission;

(xiv) Peacebuilding Fund;

(xv) Permanent Forum on People of African Descent;

(xvi) UN Alliance of Civilizations;

(xvii) UN Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries;

(xviii) UN Conference on Trade and Development;

(xix) UN Democracy Fund;

(xx) UN Energy;

(xxi) UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women;

(xxii) UN Framework Convention on Climate Change;

(xxiii) UN Human Settlements Programme;

(xxiv) UN Institute for Training and Research;

(xxv) UN Oceans;

(xxvi) UN Population Fund;

(xxvii) UN Register of Conventional Arms;

(xxviii) UN System Chief Executives Board for Coordination;

(xxix) UN System Staff College;

(xxx) UN Water; and

(xxxi) UN University.

The "Eat like a feed lot pig, sponsored by Archer-Daniels-Midland and Kellog's" diet is finally gone!

https://realfood.gov/

Food Pyramid/South Park starring RFK Jr



https://x.com/SecKennedy/status/2009030101426426219?s=20

Those geniuses forgot that the base of the pyramid is coffee.

MolotovCocktail says

National Association for Gun Rights
@gunrights

BREAKING NEWS!

Under the direction of President Trump, the United States has officially withdrawn from the UN Register of Conventional Arms.

UNROCA works closely with the UN Arms Trade Treaty and requires participating countries to submit detailed import and export reports. These reports include small arms and civilian market firearms.

The U.S. withdrawal from this program delivers a major blow to UN efforts to impose global gun control schemes on American gun owners.

NAGR, backed by committed members like you, has spent years raising the alarm about the UN’s gun-grabbing agenda.

The work is paying off, and this marks yet another clear defeat for the UN.
https://x.com/gunrights/status/2009362044596744408?s=20

https://www.irishstar.com/news/politics/smithsonian-updates-trump-portrait-removes-36532020

Smithsonian updates Trump portrait, removes text about double impeachment

The president and the White House posted on social media Friday and Saturday to reveal the updated portrait in the “America’s Presidents” exhibition

Excellent!

The whole impeachment fiasco was 100% TDS bullshit. It belongs in a museum of Democrat corruption, which would be a very large museum.

Patrick says

Excellent!

The whole impeachment fiasco was 100% TDS bullshit. It belongs in a museum of Democrat corruption, which would be a very large museum.

If the Dems take the House, he'll be impeached again. More than once, too.

Impeachment doesn't seem to matter much, since they did it twice during Trump's first term, and he simply remained in office.

https://x.com/StateDept/status/2010740549469557010

MolotovCocktail says

https://x.com/StateDept/status/2010740549469557010

Sadly, it's nothing:

https://x.com/VladTheInflator/status/2010757645549076604

55 million people globally hold active U.S. visas.

3.6 million temporary visa holders were living in the U.S. in 2024.

8:55 AM · Jan 12, 2026

Our economy grew strongly and inflation was well under 3%... looks like the Fed and the Wise RINO Neoliberals were wrong on tariffs

From another thread:
MolotovCocktail says

Defunding PBS begins to make a return on lack of taxpayer investment.

ABC: 2025 first year of US net out migration in 50 years

https://abcnews.go.com/US/us-1st-time-50-years-experienced-negative-net/story?id=129175522&utm_sf_cserv_ref=28785486&utm_sf_post_ref=650942010&cid=social_twitter_abcn

Also, this is how good things are getting:

Supreme Court rules DHS has full discretion to revoke immigration visas. The justices unanimously ruled that the Department of Homeland Security has full discretion to revoke visa petitions without review by a judge.

Trump has been doing so many things right my mind almost can't comprehend it, and my mood is so elevated I may have a total body orgasm (that may sound gay).

The Supreme Court could be a big buzzkill on tariff ruling this month.

My industry suffered a bit when tariffs were first implemented last year, but most of us have adjusted to a new baseline and are fine. Would be very difficult to unwind if we have to pay back tariffs collected etc.

Rubio stops all Visa processing for the following countries:

Full list: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Bhutan, Bosnia, Brazil, Burma, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Colombia, Cote d’Ivoire, Cuba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dominica, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Haiti, Iran, Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Republic of the Congo, Russia, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Uruguay, Uzbekistan and Yemen

https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/2011461601929380035?s=20

Some may laugh at Uruguay but quite a few Obama-Biden Judges were made after just a few years of arriving in the USA and are notoriously left wing.

Trump finally says the 'Insurrection Act' word.

Nothing is happening.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/over-heated-saturday-january-17-2026

A quick check-up on quality-of-living, in a handful of headlines and charts. First, inflation is falling fast. So fast that it threatens an “overheated” economy. Yesterday’s inflation chart from Truflation showed improvements in the key affordability areas of housing, food, and household items:




Meanwhile, auto prices didn’t just benefit from reduced inflation. Auto prices are actually falling. At the same time —and paradoxically— autoworker wages are going up. You would think automakers stressed by lower prices would be cutting workers’ wages, not increasing them.




U.S. corporate media’s economic headlines are relentlessly stingy; we must travel to international media to find the good economic news. Consider this headline from India’s International Business Times, Thursday:

US Economy 'Rocketing'; Factories Running 24/7: Trump
Says Manufacturing Boom, Robotics Are Reshaping Jobs
President Donald Trump highlighted a surge in US manufacturing, citing expanded production at major auto plants
as evidence of economic strength. He defended rolling back electric vehicle mandates, emphasising consumer
choice, and noted that labor shortages in manufacturing signal a vibrant economy.

In a CBS interview at a Ford plant this week, President Trump announced that the automaker has started running its production around the clock, twenty-four hours a day. That’s in spite of lower auto prices. And it’s not just Ford. “This is a Ford plant, but GM’s the same, Stellantis is the same,” the President told reporters.

“They’re enlarging every plant in this country,” President Trump said. “We’re building more plants in the country than we’ve ever built.” (Hilariously, he also said layoffs in the federal workforce were helping push those workers into higher-paying private sector jobs. “Those workers are being retrained to go into the private sector at a much higher salary,” the President quipped.)

Remember how European automakers are closing their carmaking plants? It’s quite a difference, isn’t it? I wonder what could account for it.

Ibid:

The article reported on a study published last week, on January 8, in the journal Science. Experts from the University of Maryland, University of Chicago, and Stanford University concluded that opioid death declines were driven by a major disruption in the global supply of illicit fentanyl. Somebody remind me: who’s been harping on fentanyl supplies since he was inaugurated last year?