The long national nightmare is over for the political prisoners in the DC Gulag.
Day 1, within a few hours of swearing in, President Trump pardons almost every one and commutes the sentences of 14 pending further investigation that may result in full pardons.
It has been a full day’s work and tomorrow I expect the world will be a much better place.
Genuine, heartfelt joy, REAL joy, that is. Look close, Kumala, so’s you’ll always know it when you see it from now on.
‘This Is What Victory Feels Like!’ Musk Gives Epic Victory Speech
Elon Musk delivered a powerful speech following the inauguration of President Donald J. Trump, celebrating the event as a new chapter for both America and the future of human civilization. His words resonated with a sense of purpose and excitement that reflected a vision of progress grounded in core American values. Musk’s speech was a testament to his belief in the power of the people and the transformative potential of technology and innovation.“Yes! This is what victory feels like!” Musk opened with an exuberant declaration, setting the tone for what would be a speech filled with energetic praise for the people who had made this moment possible. “This was no ordinary victory,” he said. “This was a fork in the road of human civilization.”
Musk quickly highlighted the importance of this particular election, emphasizing its unique impact. “You know, there are elections that… come and go,” he noted. “Some elections are, you know, important; some are not. But this one, this one, this one really mattered.”
In a heartfelt moment, in which you could tell Musk was overcome with emotion as he thanked the audience for its role in this pivotal victory, he acknowledged the collective effort that made it happen: “I just want to say thank you for making it happen. Thank you.”
Musk’s vision for the future was centered around a safer, more secure America. “It is thanks to you that the future of civilization is assured,” he told the crowd. “Thanks to you, we’re going to have safe cities, finally! Safe cities, secure borders, sensible spending, basic stuff.”
A moment of humor and excitement followed as Musk announced a bold new goal: taking Dogecoin to Mars. “And we’re going to take DOGE to Mars,” he exclaimed. “I mean, can you imagine how awesome it will be to have American astronauts plant the flag on another planet for the first time? Yeah. How inspiring would that be?”
While Musk acknowledged the inevitable challenges ahead, he stressed the need for inspiration in the face of those obstacles. “There’s always… problems in life. You know, this problem, solved that problem, solved that problem,” he said. “But, you know, there need to be things that inspire you. There needs to be things that make you glad to wake up in the morning and say, ‘I’m looking forward to the future.’”
“And let me tell you, I’m gonna work my a** off for you guys, so. I really will. I really will.”
Elon’s ebullience, his sheer uncontainable enthusiasm, was written all over his face throughout the speech. So naturally the shitlibs couldn’t stop themselves from stepping in to shit all over it, as is their usual wont.
Billionaire Elon Musk gave what appeared to be a fascist salute Monday while making a speech at the post-inauguration celebration for President Donald Trump at the Capital One Arena.
“Some elections are important, some are not. But this one, this one really mattered and I just… pic.twitter.com/K8Fo0sdozL
— PBS News (@NewsHour)
The supposed “fascist salute,” a ludicrous notion on the very face of it, comes in when Elon grabs his chest, yells “My heart goes out to you!” and then makes a gesture to indicate throwing his heart out to the crowd in appreciation of their support. Which leads me to hope that Trump will see his way clear to defunding the Government Television sewer rats, soonest.
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1And it appears to have risen. California burns, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, and Texas lead the way:
Southern states dominate top business rankings
And today, at noon, the rest of the country will get a leader to help them catch up.
Crank it up. Trust me, you’ll be glad you did.
“Every night it’s the same/I feel your heart turn cold as rain…” DAY-UMMM. As perfect an example as can be imagined of how truly powerful a good country-song lyric can be, with that fat baritone guitar riff driving the point home from intro to outro and at all points in between.
Update! How envious I am of my old friend Eddie Angel, who as Emmylou’s lead guitarist for a good few years had the signal honor and privilege of playing this wonderful song onstage all those nights.
At last, a national holiday truly worth celebrating.
Thanks and a grateful tip of Ye Aulde CF Chapeau to Tactical Hermit for the timely reminder, else this noteworthy anniversary would’ve gotten by me completely.
21As y’all know, apart from the link in the Donnybrook I stopped promoting the Eyrie here, intending to find out how my damp-feathered little Substack hatchling would do on its own. But today is gonna be an exception, because the article covered in the Eyrie post is…well, exceptional, actually. With a Kurt Schlichter post as its springboard, this one’s a must-read if ever there was one. My closer:
What could one POSSIBLY add to this pluperfect slice of logic, rationality, and undiluted righteousness? This one was penned by one Kurt Schlichter, and there’s plenty more of it yet, of which you absolutely must read the all. After doing so, I categorically defy you to even TRY to come up with a single word to argue with, up to and including “and” and “the.”
Don’t dare miss a word of it, peeps—meaning both the Eyrie piece and the Schlichter screed to which it refers.
32Riley Gaines pWnZ an exceptionally clueless fucking chump.
Can someone point me in the direction of the MAGA people freaking out about Michelle Obama not attending Trump’s inauguration because I’ve yet to see that https://t.co/6IOndwz3nA
— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_)
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1Guess the “moderate” imam is supposed to be on vacation that day, or something.
What’s Going On? Pro-Hezbollah Imam Set to Give Benediction at Trump’s Inauguration
A deeply antisemitic, pro-Hezbollah imam is set to give a benediction at Trump’s inauguration next Monday, and many Trump supporters who had been happy to see Trump’s repeated affirmations that he would support, not betray, America’s ally Israel are now scratching their heads. What’s going on? Was this just an oversight, a failure to vet the Dearborn Imam Husham al-Husainy properly? Or does it herald a real policy shift in the incoming Trump administration?There are other signs of such a shift, with the chief among them being the fact that Israel and Hamas are close to a ceasefire in Gaza. Back in June 2024, Trump declared: “Let Israel finish the job in Gaza.” Yet back in Oct. 2023, not long after Hamas massacred 1,200 Israelis, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the goal of Israel’s war in Gaza was the “elimination of Hamas.” He has reiterated this more than once since then, making it clear that he will not consider “the job” to be finished until Hamas no longer exists as an organized group. Israel has rejected Biden regime ceasefire demands for the perfectly cogent reason that they would allow Hamas the chance to survive and regroup.
Now, however, Israel seems to have resigned itself to Hamas’ continued existence, as the New York Times reported that “Israel and Hamas are ‘on the brink’ of agreeing to declare a cease-fire in Gaza and release hostages held there, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said on Tuesday.” Not only is Hamas not eliminated, but it might even end up in the government of Gaza again once the war ends, contrary to repeated Israeli declarations that this must not and would not happen.
And now comes al-Husainy to give one of the four benedictions at Trump’s inauguration. Al-Husainy is an open supporter of Hezbollah who, back in 2006 at a Dearborn rally in support of the terrorist group, “held the picture of Hezbollah leader [Hassan] Nasrallah aloft on the stage.” Then in Feb. 2007, al-Husainy appeared on Fox’s Hannity and Colmes, where Sean Hannity asked him: “Will you admit that Hezbollah is a terrorist organization, sir?” Al-Husainy answered: “That is your explanation.” Hannity pressed him: “This is a yes or no. Is Hezbollah a terrorist organization? Yes or no? Is Hezbollah…” Al-Husainy responded: “No.”
If this is what “winning” looks like, then yes, I am in fact tired of all the winning already, and he hasn’t even been sworn in yet.
Funny ‘cause it’s true. Probably true. Believable, at any rate.
Biden Takes Credit For Developing Dementia So Kamala Would Take His Place And Lose To Trump So Hamas Would Release Hostages https://t.co/Db9Aitr4xN pic.twitter.com/HHuzfNrJYV
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee)
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11Says it all, nothing more to add.
The Karens are having a hard time of it today. pic.twitter.com/t6VuiFFSPy
— Ben Kew (@ben_kew)
Via Ace.
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Like Ed says, there’s so much tasty stuff here it’s tough to decide what to excerpt, or how much. In the way of our esteemed colleague John Wilder, to excerpt it is to ruin it. Or, as Salieri said of Mozart’s music in Amadeus: Displace one note and there would be diminishment, displace one phrase and the structure would fall.
The dawn of the anti-woke era
Having rejected the Democrats’ progressivist dogma, the American electorate is undergoing a social and demographic revolution.In late November, a California judge rejected a demand by several women’s volleyball teams to disqualify a transgender player for San Jose State before this year’s tournament. Six opponents have forfeited games against the team this year rather than collude in what they see as cheating. The larger question of transgender athletes in college sports will be decided later, but the judge is defending a lost cause. Fewer than a quarter of Americans (23 per cent) support allowing transgender athletes to play on women’s teams. Teams that do field trans athletes are sometimes booed off the pitch. Such feelings go a long way towards explaining Donald Trump’s resounding win in November’s presidential elections.
Washingtonians are often asked what it feels like to watch the second age of Trump dawn. Oddly, it does not feel much like his first arrival in 2016. It feels more like Barack Obama’s in 2008 or Bill Clinton’s in 1992 – less a political than a social revolution, in which philosophical habits will be broken along with political hierarchies. This particular social revolution owes most of its energy to a revulsion against woke. That is the source of the new era’s promise and danger.
Trump left office only four years ago. Washington rejected him – somatically, as in a botched organ transplant. Having squeaked into power on an anti-establishment platform, he arrived in the capital to find the establishment bloodied but unbowed. Hostile neighbours on Tennyson Street hung rainbow flags in front of the house where his vice-president Mike Pence was staying during the transition. By the CVS drugstore at Connecticut Avenue and McKinley, activists waved signs at honking motorists throughout December. The day after the inauguration in 2017, over 200,000 women, decked out in “pussyhats” and led by establishment celebrities from Scarlett Johansson to Emma Watson, descended on the Mall. It shook the city: it was the largest collection of protest marchers since the Vietnam War, and drew a considerably larger crowd than the inauguration ceremony. The mood was defiant.
There’s none of that now. The mood in Washington’s progressive neighbourhoods is more one of muttered commiseration. (And they are all progressive neighbourhoods: in the capital city, Harris defeated Trump 93 per cent to 7 per cent.)
The result was revolutionary, and not in the way Democrats intended: anyone with a sense of fair play would be tempted to vote for a fellow who had been, as the playwright David Mamet put it, “raided, indicted, convicted, sued, slandered and shot”. But at this point, to do so would be to declare the judicial system corrupt. In the end, half the country did just that: suburbanites wore T-shirts with Trump’s mug shot on them. Grannies danced giddily on TikTok: “Here’s how it feels to vote for a convicted felon!”
The country is floating free of its laws. That is what gives the present its feeling of open-ended promise and peril. If Trump decides to investigate the Biden administration’s connection to these cases, will it be sauce for the gander, or a sign of authoritarian tendencies? Hard to say. Every elected official poses some risk of turning authoritarian. Mostly, we assume it’s one in 100, or one in 1,000. But the more discontented an electorate is, the higher a risk it may run.
There, that ought to be sufficient motivation for y’all to click on over and read the whole thing. Of course, Caldwell throws in some of the usual “Trump lost in 2020 fair and square” bushwa which has become de rigeur for Old Media essayists these days, along with the now-obligatory “baseless” codswallop I railed about last night. All in all, though, it’s a good piece; his brief rundown deriding Trump’s “34 felonies” is especially pungent, and the rest is well-written and quite insightful at the very least.
22Just implemented over in the left sidebar immediately below Ye Aulde CF Blogrolle, something I used to have years back that somehow got lost in the shuffle, what with this, that, and the other: the CF Glossary section, wherein some of the sassy, snappy terminology I use quite a bit around these h’yar parts is explicated and/or defined.
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