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Crazy People Are Dangerous: Psycho Vandalizes J.D. Vance’s Ohio Home

Posted on | January 6, 2026 | Comments Off on Crazy People Are Dangerous: Psycho Vandalizes J.D. Vance’s Ohio Home

William (or is it ‘Julia’?) DeFoor

Among the facts I was able to ascertain about William DeFoor was that in 2018, he was named a National Merit Scholar finalist his senior year at a prestigious Catholic school, Summit Country Day School. However, I’m still skeptical of reports that DeFoor is transgender and goes by the name “Julia,” because these reports appear to be based on very thin online evidence. Transgender or not, though, DeFoor is definitely crazy:

The deranged hammer-wielding vandal who busted several windows at Vice President JD Vance’s home in Cincinnati is allegedly the son of a prominent millionaire family — and appears to have been going by “Julia” in recent weeks.
William DeFoor, 26, was arrested early Monday after allegedly shattering four windows at Vance’s home. Police said that DeFoor was attempting to break into the home around midnight.
The Vances, who moved into the vice president’s official residence in Washington, DC, after the inauguration, were not in Ohio at the time.
It’s unclear whether DeFoor identifies as transgender or nonbinary, but he recently appeared to be posting under the name Julia DeFoor. Cops listed the suspect’s name as William, and his gender as male.
In his mugshot, DeFoor has an unkempt, matted mullet – and a dead-eyed stare.
DeFoor’s father, also named William, is a successful Harvard University graduate.
He boasts a decades-long history as a pediatric urologist in Cincinnati and works as a professor at the University of Cincinnati’s College of Medicine.
The family lives in a $1.3 million house in the city’s wealthy Hyde Park neighborhood.
The elder DeFoor donated thousands to Kamala Harris’ failed presidential campaign in 2024 after years of small contributions to a PAC that lobbied for urologists, according to federal records.
He is also a longtime Democratic supporter, according to his public contributions. He donated upwards of $5,000 to former President Joe Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris’ respective campaigns in 2020 and 2024.
He also previously backed a federal assault weapons ban in the wake of the Uvalde Elementary School shooting, according to his Facebook.
The younger DeFoor appeared to have a fall from grace after graduating from the Summit Country Day School in 2018, where he was hailed as a candidate for the US Presidential Scholars Program.
He had a brief two-year stint at the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music, but appeared to drop out in 2020, according to his Facebook. He said earlier this year he was attending Cincinnati State Technical and Community College.
The alleged vandal has a tricky mental health history, including a 2024 sentence for two counts of vandalism at a local interior design company.
Instead of a standard conviction, DeFoor was sentenced to two years of mandatory mental health treatment, which is still ongoing, according to court documents . . .
In April 2023, DeFoor was charged with trespassing at the UC Health psychiatric and emergency services. He was originally held on a $10,000 bond — but a judge determined he was not mentally competent to stand trial and the counts were dismissed in a Nov. 8 filing that year.
DeFoor is charged with obstructing official business, criminal damaging or endangering, criminal trespass, and vandalism, according to Hamilton County jail records.
His first court appearance is scheduled for Tuesday.

So, it “appears” that DeFoor has been using the online alias “Julia” lately, but we don’t know much more than that. What we do know is that DeFoor was a top achiever in high school, but dropped out around age 20 and has since been arrested at least twice and, in one of those cases, was found to be mentally incompetent to stand trial. Going to score that as transgender, maybe; crazy, for sure. And I’m sure regular readers don’t need to be reminded that Crazy People Are Dangerous.



 

Category: Crime, J.D. Vance, Ohio

Rule 5 Sunday: Old Trucks & Young Girls

Posted on | January 5, 2026 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: Old Trucks & Young Girls

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Another fine young lady thanks to @kbdabear on X. I’m occasionally tempted to run the trucks by Iowahawk, but I don’t think they’re old enough to interest him.
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ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Animal’s Friday Announcement

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, MAGA Iran Protests, “Auld Lang Syne”, Tournament of Roses Parade Royalty, One Battle After Another, A New Year’s Eve Imagined In The 1960s, Zooey Deschanel, “Mambo Italiano”, Giulia Falcone, Frankenstein, 6-7, RIP Brigitte Bardot, and “Last Christmas”

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Marona Tanner, Fish Pic Friday – Yulla’s Life on the Bank, Happy New Year!, The Wednesday Wetness, Tuesday Tanlines, The Monday Morning Stimulus, RIP: Brigitte Bardot, In the News Dessert, and Palm Sunday 

BACON TIME: Rule Five – Butt It’s Friday

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

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FMJRA 2.0: On An Even Keel

Posted on | January 4, 2026 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: On An Even Keel

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Well, it could have been worse – we could have spent another week in the ruts. As it was, we lost two of three to the Angels in Anaheim, one of them a heartbreaking 7-3 loss in which Charlie Hough blew the lead and the game by horking up six runs in the bottom of the eighth. Then we came home and bested the Royals; it would have been a sweep but the bats weren’t swinging for Jim Kaat in Game Two, and the Nats went down 5-3. So that leaves us at 3-3 for the week, 28-38 on the season, three games behind the Brewers and six games out of first. Next up, we’re facing the Cardinals (38-25) on Tuesday followed by the Tribe (34-32) on Friday. This will be our first tilt against St. Louis; we lost our previous series against Cleveland, but that was back at the beginning of the season when nothing was working.
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FMJRA 2.0: Stuck In The Ruts
A View From The Beach
EBL
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Rule 5 Sunday: Probably Not Mrs. Santa
Animal Magnetism
A View From The Beach
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Game of the Year!
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In The Mailbox: 12.30.25 (Afternoon Edition)
A View From The Beach
EBL
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In The Mailbox: 12.30.25 (Evening Edition)
A View From The Beach
EBL
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‘Madison Cornbread’ Update
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In The Mailbox: 01.02.26
A View From The Beach
EBL
357 Magnum

Thanks to everyone for all the links!

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BREAKING: U.S. Strikes Venezuela UPDATE: Maduro Captured, Trump Says

Posted on | January 3, 2026 | Comments Off on BREAKING: U.S. Strikes Venezuela UPDATE: Maduro Captured, Trump Says

UPDATE 5 a.m. ET: BIG BIG BIG NEWS:

The U.S. has struck Venezuela and captured its President Nicolas Maduro, who has been taken out of the country, President Donald Trump said on Saturday. . . .
“The United States of America has successfully carried out a large scale strike against Venezuela and its leader, President Nicolas Maduro, who has been, along with his wife, captured and flown out of the country,” Trump said in a Truth Social post.

Wow. The regime is over in Venezuela.

UPDATE 5:27 a.m. ET: Not to pat myself on the back or anything, but my very first post noted claims that there were U.S. ground forces involved — i.e., this wasn’t just air strikes — and now officials have confirmed to CBS News that Maduro was captured by elite Delta commandos of U.S. Army Special Forces.

UPDATE 8 a.m. ET: “Proof of life,” as they say:

*** PREVIOUSLY ***

Went to bed early Friday, woke up at 3 a.m. and checked my phone to discover that the U.S. military is striking Venezuela:

The U.S. military is conducting strikes against Venezuela, U.S. officials confirmed to Fox News Saturday morning.
At least seven explosions could be heard in Venezuela’s capital city of Caracas early Saturday morning, according to reports.
Low-flying aircraft were seen flying over Caracas at about 2 a.m. local time on Saturday, according to The Associated Press.
The Federal Aviation Administration issued a Notice to Air Missions at 1 a.m. EST on Saturday prohibiting all U.S. aircraft from operating “at all altitudes within Venezuelan airspace.”
The report comes as the U.S. military has been targeting alleged drug-smuggling boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific.
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said Thursday that his government was open to negotiating an agreement with the United States after months of American military pressure targeting drug trafficking networks tied to his government.

Very few confirmed details at this point — “fog of war” and all that — but there are some claims that there are actually U.S. ground forces involved.

UPDATE 4 a.m. ET: Reuters reports:

The U.S. has carried out strikes inside Venezuela, a U.S. official said, as explosions rocked the capital Caracas following months of threats by President Donald Trump against Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro.
The Venezuelan government said attacks also took place in the states of Miranda, Aragua and La Guaira, prompting Maduro to declare a national emergency and mobilize defense forces.
Blasts, aircraft and black smoke could be seen across Caracas from about 2 a.m. (0600 GMT) for roughly 90 minutes, according to Reuters witnesses and images circulating on social media.
Across the city, Venezuelans expressed shock and fear as they captured video of billowing smoke and bright orange flashes in the sky. “My love, oh no, look at that,” said one woman in a video, gasping at blasts in the distance.
A power outage affected the southern area of the city, near a major military base, witnesses said.
Trump has repeatedly promised land operations in the South American oil producer, which Maduro has led since 2013.
The U.S., Venezuela’s opposition and various other nations say Maduro rigged an election last year to stay in power.
Trump has not publicly detailed his aims but has privately pressured Maduro to flee the nation, Reuters has reported. Trump said on Monday it would be “smart” for Maduro to leave power.
The Pentagon referred questions to the White House, which declined to comment.
The Venezuelan government in its statement said the goal of the attack is for the United States to take possession of the country’s oil and minerals. It added that the United States “will not succeed” in taking the resources.
The U.S. has made a major military buildup in the region, including an aircraft carrier, warships and advanced fighter jets stationed in the Caribbean.
Trump has sought a “blockade” of Venezuelan oil, expanded sanctions against the Maduro government and staged more than two dozen strikes on vessels the U.S. alleges were involved in trafficking drugs in the Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea.
Last week, Trump said the United States had hit an area in Venezuela where boats are loaded with drugs, marking the first known time Washington has carried out land operations in Venezuela since the pressure campaign began.
He did not say whether those strikes were carried out by the CIA or not. Other media outlets have reported that the spy agency was behind them.
Trump has accused Venezuela of flooding the U.S. with drugs, and his administration has for months been bombing boats originating in South America that it alleges were carrying drugs. Many nations have condemned the attacks as extrajudicial killings and Maduro’s government has always denied any involvement with drug trafficking.

UPDATE 4:25 a.m. ET: Notice the helicopters visible in this video:

Are those missile-launching Apaches? Or are they carrying U.S. Special Forces commandos? Meanwhile, good work by CBS News:

President Trump gave the U.S. military the green light to conduct land strikes in Venezuela days before the actual operation occurred, according to two U.S. officials who spoke to CBS News under condition of anonymity to discuss national security matters.
Military officials discussed conducting the mission on Christmas Day, but U.S. airstrikes in Nigeria against ISIS targets took precedence, the sources said.
The days following Christmas opened more potential strike windows to U.S. military officials but the operation was held due to weather conditions. The officials said the U.S. military wanted weather conditions that were advantageous to mission success. . . .
Maduro, 63, has maintained his grip on power in Venezuela since 2013, when he became president following the death of longtime leader Hugo Chávez.
Maduro has survived several serious threats to his hold on the presidency, most recently in 2024, when he stood for election for a third term. The Venezuelan government declared Maduro the victor, a result that was denounced by opposition leaders and international observers, who accused the regime of stealing votes.
The U.S. recognized the opposition candidate, Edmundo González, as the winner, and imposed sanctions against elections officials for allegedly rigging the outcome.
Despite the global outcry, Maduro was sworn in for his third term in January. . . .
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado told CBS News in mid-December she was “absolutely” supportive of President Trump’s strategy in the country.
“We, the Venezuelan people, are very grateful to him and to his administration, because I believe he is a champion of freedom in this hemisphere,” Machado said on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan.”
At the time, the president’s strategy was limited to attacks on suspected drug boats, the seizure of an oil tanker and economic and diplomatic pressure, but not land strikes.
Asked if she’d welcome U.S. military action in Venezuela, Machado did not rule it out, saying: “I will welcome more and more pressure so that Maduro understands that he has to go.”
A former lawmaker who was disqualified from running in Venezuela’s 2024 presidential election, Machado was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize this year, and collected the prize in Norway after a risky waterborne exit from Venezuela. She dedicated the prize to Mr. Trump. . . .

Read the whole thing.

UPDATE 4:40 a.m. ET: The beauty of secondary explosions:



 

Category: Military, Venezuela

In The Mailbox: 01.02.26

Posted on | January 3, 2026 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.02.26

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
As I suppose you all know by now, we had a problem with Cloudflare and its DNS servers yesterday, which meant I picked a bad week to slough off on New Year’s Eve. Spent the afternoon paying bills instead of catching up, so here we are. Thanks to everyone who bought stuff through my Amazon links in December.
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OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: A Day With The Continental Army’s Secret Weapon – 1776, Top 20 Attacks On Nick Shirley To Shield Democrat Fraud, and A 2001-2026 Political Retrospective
357 Magnum: 2025 Self-Defense Shootings in the News, More Self-Defense in California, also Hollywood in 2025
EBL: Driftboat vs. Fishmonger Filet, The Ridiculously Extreme Lives of Swordfish, How The Swiss Fire In Crans-Montana Took Hold, Soup made with the rest of the fish, and Tournament of Roses Parade Royalty
Twitchy: Mamdani’s Non-Photo Op Photo Op, On Today’s Episode of “That’s Not How Money Works”, and Former Tea Partier Joe Walsh Wakes up In 2026 To Realize He’s Joined The Communist Party
Vox Popoli: The Lesson of Scott Adams, Taiwan > Okinawa, The Hallmark of Bad Writing, Replacement 3.0, and Welcome to 2026
According To Hoyt: Spit Out The Black Pill, Happy New Year, Attention in the Audience, Please, Bounce, and For This?
Cedar Sanderson: It Is Something, also, The Undaunted Phoenix
Stoic Observations: 3013 1/2

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Trump’s Iran Threats Endanger His Presidency and Movement, also, Two Cheers for Bari Weiss
American Greatness: DOJ Official Harmeet Dhillon Demands Docs From Minnesota’s Sec. of State on ‘Hinky’ Same Day Voting Registrations, House Oversight Committee Will Call Minnesota Reps, Governor, AG to Testify, Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani Sworn in on Quran at Midnight, Washington State AG Warns Citizen Journalists to Stop Investigating Somali Daycares, and HHS Says It’s Freezing Child Care Payments to Minnesota After Fraud Allegations
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News, Animal’s Red Thursday News, and Animal’s Friday Announcement
BattleSwarm: Railroaded APD Officer’s Conviction Overturned, Spielberg Schindler’s List Foundation Now Funds Anti-Israel Groups, Is Dan Crenshaw Pussing Out On Shawn Ryan? and LinkSwarm for January 2
Behind The Black: Many Martian mysteries in one spot, SpaceX doing trial runs of specialized barge for transporting Starship/Superheavy from Boca Chica to Florida, ESA funds Danish lunar orbiter, SpaceX to do a major orbital reconfiguration of its Starlink constellation, and Peter Schickele performs Schickele and P.D.Q. Bach
Cafe Hayek: Protectionism Is Economically Destructive, The Complexities Are Always Greater Than They Initially Seem, ‘We Support Free Trade, But….’, Perhaps Xi Has God-like Powers that Mao Didn’t, and There Ain’t No Such Thing As Free Expansion of Automobile Production
CDR Salamander: Who’s Planning For War And Who’s Preparing For The Next POM Cycle?, A New Year, A “New” Weapon, & An Old Tale, and Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: Derek Chauvin Appeal, New Year’s Eve 2025, and An Army of Shirleys
Da Tech Guy: DaTechGuy 2025 Year in Review, also, January Indulgence Calendar & the last six days of double Plenary Indulgences
Don Surber: A reply to NYT, Shah back in 2026? and Reviewing the “year in review” stories
Gates Of Vienna: No Sharia in Austria, Laughing into 2026, Radical Extremism, or, Those Dastardly Political Islamists, and Culture-Enriching Ruction in the Piazza Duomo
The Geller Report: President Trump Warns Iran – Kill Protesters and America Will Strike, DAY SIX: IRANIANS FLOOD THE STREETS AS FREEDOM REVOLUTION SPREADS DESPITE AYATOLLAH REGIME’S LIVE FIRE, Communist NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani Declares War on Individualism, FBI Foils Another New Year’s Eve Islamic Terror Attack — in North Carolina, and How Will the Iranian Regime Collapse?
Glenn Reynolds: UBI For Me But Not For Thee
Hollywood In Toto: Veteran Actor Shares Horrors of Hollywood Blacklist 2.0, Sentimental Value Features Four Oscar-Worthy Turns, Late Night Won’t Touch Somali Scandal, Why George Clooney (and Hollywood) Should Fear Bari Weiss, and MCU Ditches Woke … for Fatherhood?
Legal Insurrection: Alberta’s Independence Push Continues as 2026 Referendum Drive Kicks into Gear, Legal Insurrection AI-Generated Covers for the New Year’s Fantasy Magazine Rack, Florida Legislation Would Expand Number of People Who Can Carry Guns on College Campuses, New Ohio Law Banning DEI Goes Into Effect in June, and Finnish Police Detain Russian Crew After Suspected Sabotage of Baltic Undersea Cable
Matt Taibbi: Five Craziest Things About The Epstein Case Part 2, also, Let’s Make A Happy New Year
Nebraska Energy Observer: Peace Through Strength, New Year thoughts, and The Beef Cartel
Outkick: “Why Not Us?”, Alabama Never Should Have Been In The Playoff; Rose Bowl Loss Hurts ESPN, SEC’s Reputation, Team USA GM Bill Guerin Explains His Reasoning Behind Head-Scratching Roster Decisions, Lane Kiffin Brutally Roasted After Ole Miss Stuns Georgia, and Tom Brady’s Firecracker New Girlfriend Stuns America, Kay Adams Takes A Bath & Lane Kiffin Is Just The Worst
Power Line: A Dose of Reality on the Minnesota Frauds, Men of the year, Shirley you jest, Today in Minnesota fraud, and Why Was 2023 So Warm?
Shark Tank: DeSantis Keeps Up The Hype As Miami Hurricanes Advance To CFB Semifinals
Shot In The Dark: Campaign 2026, also, The Minnesota Way
STUMP: Top Five STUMP Posts For 2025!, 
The Political Hat: Happy New Year!
This Ain’t Hell: Valor Friday, New Toys for the New Year, Good News for Vets in LA, Dem mayors in action, and California’s desire for increasing taxes on the rich would backfire
Transterrestrial Musings: Happy New Year To All, The Energy Infrastructure, What To Watch For In Space This Year, and Islamism
Victory Girls: Mamdani: Rugged Individualism OUT, Huggable Socialist Collectivism IN, also, America Is Trading Its Roots for Something Very Different
Watts Up With That: Surprise! A $600 Million Insect Protein Animal Feed Business Just Went Bankrupt, Trump Shook Up Energy Policy In 2025. Disaster Could Still Strike In 2026, They called me the “anti-Greta” so I was targeted, Met Office Blowing Hot & Cold, and Hochul must reveal the “ruinous cost” of the Climate Act
The Federalist: Here Are The 10 Biggest Media Hoaxes Of 2025, The Federalist Staff’s 2025 Winners And Losers Of The Year, It’s Time To Cancel Our Subscription Culture Once And For All, It’s Not Just Minnesota. The Vast Majority Of Daycare Is A Scam, and Here Are The Top Six Takeaways From Jack Smith’s Preposterous White-Hat Posturing
Mark Steyn: Welcome to 2026, End Game, Partying on the Precipice (cont), and “What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve?”

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‘Madison Cornbread’ Update

Posted on | January 1, 2026 | Comments Off on ‘Madison Cornbread’ Update

June 2022: ‘Madison Cornbread’ gets her 15 minutes of fame

It was Ace of Spades who hung the sobriquet “Madison Cornbread” on former White House staffer Cassidy Hutchinson. In case you forgot, Hutchinson was an assistant to chief of staff Mark Meadows who became a so-called “star witness” when she testified in June 2022 before the J6 “insurrection” committee. That committee was not properly constituted, because Nancy Pelosi would not permit the Republicans to appoint members of their own choosing; instead Pelosi herself chose Lynn Cheney and Adam Kinzinger as the “Republican” committee members. There was never any skeptical cross-examination of witnesses, no exculpatory evidence introduced, nothing like an honest effort to provide a fair hearing. The illegitimate nature of the J6 committee is, of course, a perfect analogy for the 2020 election. No intelligent person now believes that Joe Biden actually got 81 million votes in 2020, and scarcely a day goes by now without new reason to believe that Trump really won that election, e.g., officials in Georgia belatedly admitting that more than 300,000 ballots in Fulton County lacked proper verification.

Excuse me for playing conspiracy theorist here, but this is crucial to the whole narrative around the J6 “insurrection.” If you take the anti-Trump view of what happened at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, it was an attempt to “overturn” the 2020 election — a threat to Our Democracy. On the other hand, if you have doubts about the integrity of the 2020 election, then the mob who stormed the Capitol had a legitimate grievance, and it was a Mostly Peaceful Protest that got a bit rowdy.

The real purpose of Nancy Pelosi’s J6 witch-hunt committee was to demonize anyone who raised doubts about Joe Biden’s 81 million votes, essentially making it a crime to suggest Democrats stole the election.

In effect, the J6 committee was about continuing the work of the self-described “cabal” that worked to make sure Joe Biden “won” in 2020. The committee was not an “investigation,” it was a cover-up.

As such, no self-respecting Republican should have cooperated with the J6 committee or, if compelled by subpoena to testify, their cooperation should be limited by strictly meeting legal requirements. This brings us back, then, to the strange case of “Madison Cornbread.” She became the “star witness” of that Star Chamber charade because she was willing to share mere gossip — “so-and-so told me that Trump said this” — in particular claiming that Trump had attempted to physically overpower his limousine driver to force him to drive to the Capitol. Actual witnesses immediately contradicted this testimony, but of course the J6 committee never presented these contradicting witnesses, allowing Cassidy Hutchinson’s dubious testimony to become the defining narrative.

Naturally, Simon & Schuster gave her a fat advance to write a book, a six-figure payoff for her service to the anti-Trump cause. And now, more than three years after her 15 minutes of fame, we get this ironic coda:

The House Select January 6th Committee’s “star” Cassidy Hutchinson provided “secondhand hearsay” about the 2021 Capitol riot and wasn’t considered as a witness in the election interference case brought against President Trump, according to former special counsel Jack Smith.
Smith told the House Judiciary Committee in a closed-door deposition on Dec. 17 that Hutchinson — who testified at the Jan. 6 select panel’s made-for-TV hearings in June 2022 — “certainly” wouldn’t have made a “powerful” witness because she couldn’t provide “firsthand” testimony.
“My recollection with Ms. Hutchinson, at least one of the issues was a number of the things that she gave evidence on were secondhand hearsay, were things that she had heard from other people,” the ex-Trump prosecutor testified to the Judiciary lawmakers and staff, the deposition’s transcript shows.

Game. Set. Match.

Here we have the special counsel who got the assignment to put Donald Trump in prison over the 2020 election dispute saying, under oath, that Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony was just gossip. Any first-year law student has to know that hearsay is inadmissable as evidence in a legal proceeding, and Jack Smith couldn’t go to court with that stuff.

We have lived through years of lies about all this — the 2020 election, the Capitol riot, the various “investigations” of Trump — and some people have unfortunately lost their minds in the process. Not naming names, but if certain prominent podcasters have slid over the edge into the kook fringe, isn’t that somewhat understandable, given how much gaslighting we have all endured? EIGHTY-ONE MILLION VOTES!

Maintaining one’s sanity amid the howling madness can be difficult when we are expected to believe the testimony of “Madison Cornbread.”

Thank God I was never that crazy, except for maybe during that psilocybin-induced psychosis in 1979, but why bring that up now?

UPDATE: “The Last Refuge” on X:

The predicate for Jack Smith to prosecute President Trump for his efforts to “interfere in the 2020 election” and thereby “challenge all democratic norms” essentially boils down to Jack Smith accusing President Trump of participating in a fraud when he challenged the outcome of the 2020 election.
To get beyond President Trump’s first amendment right to free speech, Jack Smith claims Trump knowingly understood that Joe Biden had won the election; President Trump was told by senior Republican advisors that Biden had legitimately won the 2020 election; President Trump rejected the reality of the “truthful information” presented to him, and instead chose to launch a psychological operation against the American people, i.e. “fraud.”

In other words, the entire raison d’être of Smith’s investigation was the hope that he could somehow prove that Trump himself believed that Joe Biden actually won the 2020 election. Not enough psilocybin in the world to convince me that this was a legitimate investigation.



 

Category: Conspiracy Theories, Election

In The Mailbox: 12.30.25 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | December 31, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 12.30.25 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Incensepunk magazine is calling for flash fiction submissions
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: The Feminist Revolution In Iran
EBL: Stone Crab Claws, Brigitte Bardot – “Mambo Italiano”, and Nothin’ New for New Year
Twitchy: Tim Walz’ Worst Nightmare – A Roundup Of Somali Fraud Memes, “Finally, Something Not Infuriating!”, and CNN Laments That “MAGA Journalist” Nick Shirley Had No Guardrails
Louder With Crowder: CNN’s Abby Phillips dismisses Nick Shirley’s reporting because “The Somali community is under attack”, “When is someone going to jail for the rampant fraud?”, Surveillance Video From 2018 Proves Somali Fraud Has Been Going On For Years in Minnesota, and “Learing” Center at heart of Somali fraud scandal caught busing in kids… while government claims they shut center down?
Vox Popoli: The Logic Holds, The Junior Classics 9 & 10 Ebooks, Never Buy In to Netflix, Too Doggone Funny, and Did Chase Just Go Down?
Mazelit’s Corner: Dentist Who Wished For “More Dead Zionists” Still Practicing In Swanky Hollywood Office
Ammo.com: Stray Bullet Death Statistics

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: The Danish Immigration Lesson, also, American Militarism Is the Missing Element in the Creed–Nation Debate
American Greatness: FBI Director Says Minnesota Fraud Cases Are ‘Tip of a Very Big Iceberg’, The Pence Mirage: Why the Right Isn’t Leaving Trump, DHS Agents on the Ground in Minneapolis Investigating Somali-Owned Businesses As Fraud Allegations Swirl, Judge Rules Trump Administration May Share Illegal Alien Medicaid Data With ICE, and Trump Administration Sues Virginia Over In-State Tuition for Illegal Immigrants
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
BattleSwarm: Richard Hammond And Stirling Moss Discuss Their Brain Injuries, Russia vs. NATO Video Roundup, Musk Backs Wilco GOP Chair In Tranny Bathroom Wars, and Why Are Producers Making Subprime Meltdown 2 When No One Liked The Original?
Behind The Black: China launches two satellites for “new technology verification for space target detection”, President Trump and NASA administrator Isaacman: Please take the crew off of Artemis-2, The up and down tale of two rocket startups, Vector and Phantom, Colliding galaxies, as seen in the infrared and X-rays, and Russia’s early warning satellite constellation is apparently no longer functioning
Cafe Hayek: Noah Smith Is Mistaken About Trade Deficits, Michael Pettis Is a Very Poor Trade Economist, The Terms of Protectionism, and The Condition of My Support for a Policy of Free Trade
CDR Salamander: Understanding Japan’s Military Expansion
Chicago Boyz: We Have CRM. Maybe We Need AIM, also, Another Merry Minnesota Walz
Da Tech Guy: Two Bad Christmas Jokes, One Old One New, also, Five Christmas Season Thoughts Under the Fedora
Don Surber: Sadly, Bardot was right
Elizabeth Nickson: How Demented Is The Demented Dominion?
First Street Journal: When a raging anti-Semite feels comfortable enough to go on a tirade
Gates Of Vienna: Fundraising for Hamas in Genoa, Ratcheteering, Sanae Takaichi Says “We Must Reconsider This Policy of Continuing to Bring Them In”, and “Foreigners Should Not Vote in Swedish Elections”
The Geller Report: MULLAHS UNDER SIEGE: Massive Nationwide Strikes Shut Down Grand Bazaar as Iran Regime Faces Spreading Revolt, Historic First: Donald Trump First Non-Israeli to Receive Israel Prize for Special Contribution to the Jewish People, Iran Claims They’re in ‘All-Out War’ With US, Europe and Israel, Trump Promises Hamas Will Have “HELL TO PAY” If Terror Group Does Not Disarm, and ELECTION JIHAD: Niqab-Clad Lifelong Democrat Enters NC Republican Primary, With No Other GOP Candidates Filed
Hollywood In Toto: In Defense of ‘Landman’s’ Blonde Beauties, Why French Connection II Was a Minor Miracle, ‘Nuremberg’ Should Crush TDS Once and for All, George Clooney Takes Bold Stand Against Journalism, and Is Hollywood Finally Getting What It Voted For?
Legal Insurrection: NASA Chief Vows U.S. Moon Base as Centerpiece of New NASA Agenda, HHS Freezes Child Care Payments to Minnesota Amid Daycare Fraud Allegations, MTG’s Exit Interview with The NY Times: Scorn, Self-Pity, and a Rewrite of History, HUD: Biden-Era Rental Assistance Payments Went to Deceased Tenants, Noncitizens, and Politico Reporter Implies Somali Daycare Center Owners Could Justifiably Shoot People for Asking Questions
Outkick: Falcons Have Ruined The NFL’s Winner-Take-All Hopes For The NFC South. Stefon Diggs Facing Felony Charges He ‘Categorically Denies’ While Working To Pay Off Alleged Victim. Steve Sarkisian Blasts Unqualified NIL Agents, And Roommates, Ahead Of Transfer Portal Chaos. ‘We’ve Got No Rules’: John Calipari Rips A College Basketball System Gone Wild. and Elizabeth Banks Has Her Legs Ready For 2026
Power Line: The ordeal of Romi Gonen, Today in Minnesota fraud, On Strategic Minerals, the Left Is Catching On, and Desperately Defending Timmy
Shark Tank: Byron Donalds Rips Tampon Timmy Over Day Care Fraud Allegations
Shot In The Dark: Civics
STUMP: Top Five Mortality With Meep Posts From 2025
The Political Hat: Blogroll Cleanup 2025
This Ain’t Hell: WWII vet identified, Operation Cowboy, President Trump details success indicators that did not go as critics predicted, US slashes UN humanitarian aid from $17 billion to $2 billion, and Convicted killer appointed to police oversight panel in Oregon city
Transterrestrial Musings: The Early Days Of Computing
Victory Girls: Tim Waltz, Fraud King Of The Somali Pirates, also, MN Fraud: Daycare With No Kids And Misspelled Sign Raked In Millions
Watts Up With That: Miliband Claims High Energy Bills Due To Fossil Fuels, The Trump Administration’s Fight To Fund Scientists, Hybrid Horror – You are 3x More Likely to Die in a Hybrid Vehicle than a Gasoline Vehicle, Shropshire Sinkhole? Blame It On Climate Change! and Climate activists v. the U.S. energy industry: Cases to watch in 2026
The Federalist: Minneapolis Daycare Scandal Reveals The Trajectory Of Blue Zone Fraud Culture, The Left’s Top 25 Lies Of 2025, Top Attorney For Special Counsel Jack Smith Previously Spiked Clinton Foundation Investigation, Let’s Leave Trump Impressions Behind With 2025, and Before You Make Any Lofty New Year’s Resolutions, Go Clean Your Room
Mark Steyn: On the Town: A Very Good Year, Last Rites: John Huston, James Joyce and The Dead, Auld Lang Syne, Posterity and Propositions, and The “Blessings of Public Funding”

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In The Mailbox: 12.30.25 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | December 30, 2025 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 12.30.25 (Afternoon Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Maybe it’s time for Trump and Hegseth to raise a few brigades of MPs.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

Caveman catgirl brings knowledge to the ignorant. (h/t Sensurround on X)

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: More Guns, Less Crime
Director Blue: A Day With A California Gold Prospector In 1849, A Winter Day At Valley Forge In 1778, Tim Walz & The Somalis, and A Day With Lewis & Clark & Sacajawea
EBL: Training New Cutters, Frankenstein, Brigitte Bardot : RIP, Tourists Favorite Fish, and Did Democrats murder Melissa Hortman over her vote against fraud in Minnesota?
Twitchy: Commies of a Feather, Texas Man Busted For Handing Bomb-Making Material To Fed Posing As ISIS, and Amazon’s Drone Nightmare Hits Dallas
Louder With Crowder: Parents are demanding answers after Democrat-controlled school district surveyed 11-year-olds on their sexual preferences, YouTuber who exposed Somali fraud SHREDS Tampon Tim Walz over accusations of “white supremacy”, Injured male tennis player outside of the Top 600 still able to defeat the best female player in the world, “She is not our friend”, and Female comedian pledges she’ll never stop fighting to trans the kids while lashing out at RFK Jr
Vox Popoli: Russia Moves On Odessa, HARDCODED, The Inevitable Arrives, More Bass More Better, and Giving Them a Chance
Upstream Reviews: January New Releases
Dr. Mauser: Whose Safety?
The Bugscuffle Gazette: When you import the Third World
Ammo.com: Gun Ownership In America By Year
Stoic Observations: The Ultimate Punk
Cedar Sanderson: Forensics for Writers Part 3, also, The Color of Winter

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: China Develops World’s Oldest Warship
Don Surber: Running reporters ragged
Elizabeth Nickson: An Extractive Brutalist Amoral Class Is Being Deposed
STUMP: Seasonal Warnings – Beware Of Falls and Shoveling Snow!

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