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New York City Is Decadent and Depraved

Posted on | January 7, 2026 | Comments Off on New York City Is Decadent and Depraved

If it is your misfortune to live in New York City, my advice is leave now, in the kind of haste with which Lot fled Sodom. As I said after Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor, New Yorkers have forgotten how bad it could be, and Mamdani’s tenure at Gracie Mansion is likely to be worse even than the David Dinkins era. Mamdani’s appointment of Cea Weaver as Director of the Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants is an omen of doom for the city. Who is Cea Weaver? Her mother was the co-founder of the Susan B. Anthony Center for Women’s Leadership at the University of Rochester. It is scarcely an exaggeration to call Cea Weaver a Communist:

An affiliate of the US Communist Party has been playing an outsized role in the debate over “good cause” eviction currently roiling state budget negotiations.
Housing Justice For All, an advocacy organization at the heart of the fight and with deep ties to far-left lawmakers like Comptroller Brad Lander, Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, is an “active partner” of the New York Young Communist League. . . .
Cea Weaver, a campaign coordinator for Housing Justice For All, has spent years publicly advocating unabashed Marxism on her personal Twitter account.
“Elect more Communists,” she posted in a tweet from December 2017. “Seize private property,” she added in June 2018.
“Private property including and kind of ESPECIALLY homeownership is a weapon of white supremacy,” Weaver wrote in August 2019. . . .
Housing Justice For All for all began in 2017 and has been in cahoots with the state Communist party since at least 2018, social media postings show. . . .
The group has developed years-long financial ties with far-left billionaire financier George Soros.
Housing Justice For All is a statewide campaign of the Upstate/Downstate Housing Alliance, which in turn is “fiscally sponsored” by the nonprofit VOCAL-NY.
That nonprofit has received eight grants worth more than $1.1 million from Soros’ Open Society Foundations between 2017 and 2021, according to its website.
At least one $100,000 cash infusion went directly to Housing Justice For All, according to the grant description.
Despite their openly Communist ties, Weaver and Housing Justice for All have made deep inroads among the city’s most powerful progressives.

That New York Post article is from April 2023. Mamdani has now made Weaver the de facto Housing Commissar of New York City. She openly advocates for the abolition of private property:

In a 2021 op-ed, she argued the state can “further de-commodify housing and land” by cancelling rents and shuttering eviction courts.
“And, as landlords exit the market, using state action to acquire properties and leverage disinvestment to convert thousands of homes into publicly and democratically controlled land/housing,” she wrote in the New Labor Forum.

As omens of doom go, this is the raven croaking “Nevermore.”

Get out now, and don’t look back.



 

Category: New York

In The Mailbox: 01.06.26 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | January 6, 2026 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 01.06.26 (Morning Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Whipping this out before I head for Las Vegas; should be back Thursday. We’ll see how much posting I get done.
Silicon Valley et Hamas delenda sunt.

Modified from a wonderfully dark cartoon by @CenturiiC on X

OVER THE TRANSOM
Director Blue: A Day At The Boston Tea Party 1773, States With No Voter ID Pay 16 Times More Welfare For Illegals, and The Great Molasses Flood of 1919, 
357 Magnum: Which Is More Disturbing, A Deliberate Attack or Crumbling Infrastructure? also More Than 1,000 Cars Burned in France
EBL: Americana, Poor Man’s Lobster, Venezuelans Celebrate Maduro Arrest, The “Biological Cost” of Ozempic and Mounjaro, and “As with gladness men of old”
Twitchy: Gov. Hochul & Mayor Mamdani Literally Chased Off After YMCA Press Conference, We’ve Got Mamdani’s Tenant Director’s Old Tweets And YIKES, and Harmeet Dhillion Officially Puts Mamdani On Notice Regarding Discrimination
Louder With Crowder: AWFL TikToker melts down over Trump’s Venezuela “war”, Tampon Tim Walz drops out 0f Governor’s race, says it’s all Trump and a YouTuber’s fault, Republicans seize on Margaret Brennan’s face as she barely hides her disdain for Marco Rubio, Tom Cotton, and Mamdani’s new housing executive demands private property be seized, calls home ownership “white supremacy”
Vox Popoli: The Five Sigmas, Another Year, Another War, About the KOKORO Translation, A Novel and Vital Contribution, and The EU is Monitoring
L’Ombre de L’Olivier: Maduro Adios?, also, Yes It Is (Partly) About The Oil
Cedar Sanderson: Forensics For Writers Part 4, also, Noise Pollution
Stoic Observations: Whose Hemisphere? Not Worrying About China, and The Limits of Principle
Postcards From Barsoom: The Domes of Calrathia
Upstream Reviews: Herd Immunity
Ammo.com: Why Do Americans Own Guns?
The Abbey of Misrule: Going Under & Coming Up

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: The Venezuelan Raid – On Midrats, also, The Maduro Raid – Early Reports & Cautions
Dana Loesch: Starting 2026 With A Bang, also, Trump Invades Venezuela & Captures Maduro
Don Surber: The Three Hour War In Venezuela, also, Enjoying The Three Hour War
Elizabeth Nickson: Remigration NOW
Glenn Reynolds: Trump, Maduro, & What’s Next
Matt Taibbi: Note on a Lawsuit
STUMP: The New Year In Meep!

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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.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

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.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

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
A View From The Beach
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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.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

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.



 

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