THEY ARE BOTH ECONOMICALLY AND NUTRITIONALLY UN-VIABLE:  2025: The Year the Market for Fake Meat and Insect Products Began to Collapse.

Like everything the socialists try to cram down our throats.

THE GUILTY SELF-IDENTIFY:  China, Russia, Iran Condemn Capture of Venezuela’s Maduro; Hezbollah Decries ‘American Arrogance’.

And that’s not counting South Africa who has flung itself on the floor throwing a fit and banging hands and feet with gusto while screaming for mommy UN to protect them. Like that old prostitute can protect anyone!

LET HIM HATE, SO LONG AS HE FEARS:  Maduro Arrives In Big Apple as Mayor Mamdani Fumes (Update: Perp Walk Video).

SO MANY OF THEM. TRULY, WE’VE BEEN BLESSED WITH BOUNTY:  The Nicolas Maduro Memes Are Already Here.

THE FLAK PROVES HE’S OVER THE TARGET:  If the Media Is Saying This About the YouTuber Who Exposed Somali Fraud in MN, Then He Nailed It.

WE KNEW THAT:  Reactions to the flawless Venezuela operation demonstrates that a lot of the “America First” talking points are just third-world anti-American propaganda in a skin suit.

And for the x-cancelled.

FLAWLESSLY, THAT’S HOW:  How the US Military Executed the Venezuela Attack.  For adversaries watching from Moscow, Beijing, or Tehran, this operation should be unsettling.

TERRIFYING:  “Fumbling towards bicameralism”.

WE NEED ALL OF THOSE WE CAN GET:  Eighth Circuit’s compelled speech decision on DEI is a win for First Amendment.

IN THE END, THE US IS THE ONLY GRANTOR OF INTERNATIONAL ORDER:  Since there’s a lot of screaming about the legality of black-bagging Nicolas Maduro going on, let’s talk about the game theory of international law. Before I do that, though, I’m going to acknowledge that the Trump administration’s legal posture doesn’t even implicate international law significantly. Their theory is that Maduro stole an election, is not the legitimate head of state of Venezuela, and is a criminal drug-cartel leader; universal jurisdiction applies.

Because all law — except natural law, and even then — depends on force to enforce it. And right now we seem to be the only ones who can project force. I hope we use it advisedly and for our interests. I’m sick and tired of the leftist notion that the US should only intervene militarily when it’s not in our best interests to.

AND FOR THE: X-iled.

DOWN THE PATH THE LEFT TRIED TO CHASE US INTO:  Britain’s government – a modern-day Ship of Fools.

BEHOLD MY SHOCKED FACE:  Minnesota government whistleblowers claim they were ‘electronically surveilled,’ had promotions denied.

MR. PRESIDENT, HELP THE IRANIANS:  The situation in Iran, brought to you from the front lines. On X, and almost nowhere else.

GOOD:  Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi To Meet With Trump In America.

AND EVENTUALLY FROM THE DECOMPOSITION OF BODIES. THAT’S COMMUNISM FOR YOU:  The Warmth Comes from the Fire of Gunpowder and/or Ovens.

GOTTA PROTECT THE GRIFT:  Somali Embassy in Serbia Loses It as Fraud Reporting Hits Home.

FAST AND GOOD:  Maduro Adios?  Venezuela Insta-analysis.

JOHN LUCAS: American Credibility Restored (Again). “The undeniable and unmatched military competence, combined with the maintenance of no-leak operational security, resulted in ZERO U.S. fatalities and ZERO aircraft lost. . . . The contrast between Trump’s decisive action and the empty words, inaction, and incompetence of prior Administrations was inescapable.”

OPEN THREAD: Party on.

TUNE IN AGAIN NEXT WEEK!

Aides Tell Disappointed Trump That Maduro And Mamdani Are Different People https://t.co/LuvOngElMi pic.twitter.com/uGwFCd9axJ

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) January 3, 2026

THERE’S AN EMERGENCY MEME POST, BECAUSE WHO KNOWS WHAT TOMORROW WILL BRING?  Emergency, Special Edition Meme Post.

“WE’RE IN JEN RUBIN’S WORLD:”

We’re in Jen Rubin’s world. She famously supported moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem and opposed it the moment Trump did what she wanted. Same with bombing Iran. All these people wanted Maduro gone, they just didn’t want Trump being the one to do it.

— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) January 3, 2026

I can’t believe what I’m seeing…

Every Leftist on X is crying about Maduro being removed from power…

…and every single Venezuelan is celebrating it like there’s no tomorrow

This has been one of the most eye-opening days.

— Matt Van Swol (@mattvanswol) January 3, 2026

Not much of a trick, really… pic.twitter.com/JdtsMhb771

— Agent Provocateur (@jesterstick4) January 3, 2026

UPDATE:

It must be exhausting being a liberal.

One day you’re defending Somali daycare fraudsters.

The next day you’re defending a narco-terrorist communist dictator.

And it’s all driven by one thing:
their hatred of Donald Trump.

— TMK (@TheMagaKing2_0) January 3, 2026

TIM GRAHAM: Who Can’t Handle the Truth? Crabby Clooney Rants Bari Weiss Is ‘Dismantling’ the Bias of CBS News.

[George] Clooney has energetically pushed the leftist myth of CBS News standing up against McCarthyism under Edward R. Murrow, and constantly comparing that hackneyed leftist crusade to the present day, and who cares if the Soviet Union actually infiltrated the country with spies after World War II? Who cares about The Truth again? Not Clooney. He’s naturally pissed at Bari Weiss for daring to move CBS one inch toward the center.

“Bari Weiss is dismantling CBS News as we speak,” Clooney says. “I’m worried about how we inform ourselves and how we’re going to discern reality without a functioning press.”

For her part, Weiss handled Clooney by inviting him in, sending Variety this statement: “Bonjour, Mr. Clooney! Big fan of your work. It sounds like you’d like to learn more about ours. This is an open invitation to visit The CBS Broadcast Center, where I’m spending the holidays working to relaunch the Evening News with my colleagues. Tune in January 5.”

To the Clooneys, a “functioning press” means going Full Jim Acosta all the time. It’s in the pose and in the lunge at The Right-Wing Enemy, not in the facts. Clooney thinks the Glory Days at CBS apparently include Dan Rather’s Fake News about George W. Bush’s National Guard record, not to mention Rather screaming at his father about Iran-Contra. But he let Robert Redford embarrass himself with the Fake News Movie on that front. 

Why does George Clooney have such a virulent case of Bari Derangement Syndrome? As they say in Clooney’s newly adopted nation, perhaps it’s a case of cherchez la femme:

Amal Clooney is closely tied to the Muslim Brotherhood and her uncle is an arms dealer who sells weapons to Hezbollah.

No wonder George is trying to destroy the reputation of a brave Jewish woman who speaks against the Radical Islamist Terrorists his wife props up… https://t.co/sZu523XEyO

— The Persian Jewess (@persianjewess) December 30, 2025

ONE DOUBTS THE VENEZUELAN SOLDIERY IS HIGHLY MOTIVATED.

Someone told me once that air forces are not made up of planes and missiles. They are made up of people. Had that stuff been in the hands of the Israeli air force it might have worked.

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) January 4, 2026

UPDATE: Heh.

INSIDE OPERATION ABSOLUTE RESOLVE: How US forces captured Venezuela’s Maduro — after months of secret planning.