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Blow Up Washington By moving federal agencies out of D.C., Donald Trump can put the government back in touch with the people it serves while spreading federal dollars more equally, to places that need them by Sergiu Klainerman and John Londregan FTA: Let’s disperse the government agencies away from the gridlocked highways and overpriced real estate of the Washington, D.C., area to the economically depressed regions of the country they serve, recycling the federal budget back to the economy from which it came. A physically decentralized government will do more for the nation. It will also cost less—a lot less, if coupled with a reduction in the size of the bureaucracy. https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/moving-federal-agencies-washington

FEMA seems to be very confused about why #WNC residents receiving the "maximum" payout are still upset. Let me explain: a) You're living in your retirement home in Chimney Rock at age 68 with your wife, you both saved up forever for this home. b) Helene comes in and carries that home down into the lake below, your whole life savings along with it. c) You barely escape with your life and a few weeks later submit a "housing assistance" form on FEMA's website. d) FEMA shows up and takes a look at where your home used to be and says, "Yep, that sucks, you qualify!" e) You feel lucky, many of your neighbors didn't qualify so you wait on FEMA to get back to you. f) A few days later you receive a payout into your bank account of $42,500. g) You turn to your wife and say... wait a minute, we still have $120,000 left on our mortgage, but we don't have a house! h) You call FEMA and say, "Hey, I'm grateful for the $42,500, but I don't have a home and I still owe 6 figures on the one that doesn't exist. What do I do now?" i) FEMA says, totally get it, we can put you up in a hotel for 31 days. j) You say, I don't need a hotel, I need a plan to rebuild my home and get my life back together! k) FEMA says, "Oh right, about that... you can't actually build on the land your house once existed on because it's in a flood plain now." l) You sit there in silence. Finally you respond, "So my home is in a lake, I only have $42,500 to my name, I owe $120,000 on my mortgage, and the land I currently own, I can't even build on?" m) FEMA goes, "That's correct, here's a 31 day hotel voucher.

Israel confirms attack on Syrian naval fleet Jacqueline Howard Israel has confirmed it carried out attacks on Syria's naval fleet, as part of its efforts to neutralise military assets in the country after the fall of the Assad regime. In a statement, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said its ships struck the ports at Al-Bayda and Latakia on Monday night, where 15 vessels were docked. The BBC has verified videos showing blasts at the port of Latakia, with footage appearing to show extensive damage to ships and parts of the port. The IDF also said its warplanes had conducted more than 350 air strikes on targets across Syria, while moving ground forces into the demilitarised buffer zone between Syria and the occupied Golan Heights. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqx808q7lrno

They aren't having a beer because the "dude is dead". But because a miscarriage of justice was avoided

So, we still almost next to nothing about the Butler shooter of President Trump And in 24 hours, they are already showing the back X-Ray of Luigi What a surprise. .

This is the way.

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To Move Forward, Democrats Must Oust Obama. By John Kass Obama honors himself at every opportunity. But he is America’s one-eyed jack. And we’ve seen the other side of his face. But who would lead the attack against Obama and risk the enmity of the well-heeled Democrat interest groups? Most importantly, who in the Democrat Party can play the iconoclast and take on the party’s neo-Marxist creed of racial and other grievances? Obama pretends to rise above grievance, but he’s reliant upon it like an addict, like the “Revs” Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, though far silkier and smoother. Remember just weeks ago when Obama was lecturing young black men who weren’t enthralled with the presidential candidacy of Kamala Harris. Bitter and angry, he harangued them on what he could only understand as the sexism of the great unwashed. It was a rap he had used before. And it had treated him so well in the past. It reverberated in the halls of his many mansions. Perhaps even in that mansion on liberal Martha’s Vineyard, the vacation paradise for the immensely wealthy that was off limits to impoverished illegal migrants who’d crossed the border on Democrat invitation. Yet those young men who he tried to shame didn’t live among the elites of Martha’s Vineyard or the Gold Coast of Chicago. And they weren’t insulated from the poor economy and pressure from the illegals. Instead, Obama was revealed by his own mouth to be be a complete and utter phony. You could almost hear regular people, those who had been Democrats, shouting “F You Barack” from every corner in every swing state. Perhaps Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro could take on Obama. Maybe Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer would do it, or even that supremely, obviously ambitious Californian with the greasy hair, Gov. Gavin Newsom. But do any of them really want to challenge? Not just Obama but his acolytes, his proselytizers, his disciples, his praetorians. Obama’s third term was brutal for America — but given what we’re seeing at the moment from today’s left, who are busy attacking Israel and egging on assassins of CEOs, would an updated version of 1968’s “Clean for Gene” or the Democratic Leadership Council that championed a centrist-appearing Bill Clinton in 1992 even succeed among Democrats? (Trump’s she’s “for they/them, President Trump is for you” commercial was made all the more devastating with the footage of Kamala personally championing sex changes for prisoners and illegal immigrants, because she thought that’s what it took pander to the Democratic Party base in 2020.) https://johnkassnews.com/to-move-forward-democrats-must-first-deal-with-obama/

REPORT: FBI Director Christopher Wray preparing to resign. Mr. Wray is calling it quits because he doesn’t want to get fired by President-elect Donald Trump, according to sources inside the bureau who are familiar with the director’s thinking. “He’s going to be gone at the inauguration. On or before the inauguration,” a source said. https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/dec/9/christopher-wray-fbi-director-preparing-resign/ Wray very wisely wants to be nowhere near the blast radius: Donald Trump Is About to Go Nuclear on the FBI. https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/11/27/donald-trump-is-about-to-go-nuclear-on-the-fbi-n4934668

Well now he's just "trolling" the left TRUMP REPORTEDLY MULLING BORDER HAWK KARI LAKE AS AMBASSADOR TO MEXICO. https://www.mediaite.com/trump/trump-reportedly-mulling-border-hawk-kari-lake-as-ambassador-to-mexico/

Inconvenient Truth. Tulsi served in the military and knows the price of war, so she doesn't want America sending its treasure off to fight other people's wars.

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Hatred Born Out of Delusion David Strom Liberals keep accusing conservatives of being inherently violent, yet somehow, it is the left that always celebrates political violence. The latest example is the reaction to the assassination of UnitedHealth Group's CEO Brian Thompson. If you spent any time over the past few days on social media, you would have been treated to a chorus of celebration, mostly from leftists, over the murder of a corporate CEO. There were more than a few people who recoiled at the glee, but far too many put the assassination video on loop and chuckled at his death. Ostensibly, this was because Thompson was a Very Bad Man, responsible for the death of thousands because UnitedHealth is in the business of profiting off people's suffering. There is a great deal of overlap between the class of people who celebrated Hamas' attack on Israel and the assassination of a CEO. Both are driven by a resentment of people who wrongly consider themselves oppressed despite being among the most privileged people in the world. Almost all of them are college-educated, gleefully sure of their moral superiority, and for the most part, they feel like they don't get the power, prestige, and financial rewards that are their due. They are members of an elite class, but generally speaking, they are the losers in the race to the top of the elite. They have degrees in all sorts of useless "studies" for which they paid an outrageous amount and will never get any return on their investment. More at the link: https://hotair.com/david-strom/2024/12/09/hatred-born-out-of-delusion-n3797711 .

Argle Bargle REEE! Here Are Some of the WORST Freak-Outs (X AND Bluesky) Over Daniel Penny's Acquittal https://twitchy.com/samj/2024/12/09/here-are-some-of-the-worst-freak-outs-over-daniel-pennys-acquittal-n2404920

Other names on TIME’s list include Joe Rogan, Kate Middleton, Elon Musk, Yulia Navalnaya, Benjamin Netanyahu, Jerome Powell, Claudia Sheinbaum, Donald Trump and Mark Zuckerberg.