I never heard of Pete Hegseth, Trump’s pick for Secretary of Defense. I went to investigate and discovered that he speaks exactly like me:

Pete Hegseth calls Putin a war criminal and says Biden has been a weak president. We should have sent Ukraine double the weapons and faster so this war would be over sooner with a victory for Ukraine.

https://x.com/AdamLowisz/status/1856513285274657046?t=CKeKX7TYlr3tIdTR1cx7bQ&s=19

This is just a small quote. The actual video is much better.

I’m very happy with Trump’s nominations so far. He’s putting people exactly where they should be. Vivek, for instance, would be horrid at foreign policy because he’s gauche and doesn’t understand it. But on cutting government waste he’d be great. He has exactly the personality for it.

Zelensky’s statement that implied Biden had blocked 90% of the weapons assistance that congress allocated seems to be 100% true.

Biden has totally fucked Ukraine. Still $9 billion sitting unused that could have been saving lives and destroying Russians.

https://x.com/JayinKyiv/status/1856432624509583779?t=zxeOt_kAA_VgRxb0txik2A&s=19

And I’m supposed to bemoan that Trump won… why, exactly? If somebody openly says, “the US can only give these 10% and that’s it”, that’s helpful because we can discuss it with Europe and see what they can do. But with the mythical 61 million that Congress authorized and Biden refused to deliver, we are stuck because Europe and everybody else says, “well, if you can’t win with these enormous amounts of aid, then why should we even bother?”

It’s a very interesting question where those allocated and undelivered 51 million actually went. I’d love to hear about that.

We are grateful for any help we get but just say it honestly. These lies are killing us.

I was late to the DEI meeting of the week, and when I came in, people were introducing themselves as, “I’m a flower, I’m a tree, I’m a branch.”

I had no idea what they were in about, so I said I’m Chair of Foreign Languages. Which I am. I don’t know what need to happens for me to say “I’m a flower” in the workplace.

I’m so tired of this corporate crap, I can’t tell you.

Maybe I didn’t bomb all that badly on election night because the owner of the channel where I bombed wants to give me a weekly show before – and I quote – “you get snapped up by all the other people who will be lining up for you.”

I’ve started making a list of the outfits I wear to my appearances to keep track and not repeat too often.

Tulsi Gabbard threw her lot in with Trump, portraying him as the anti-war candidate. Gabbard denounced Marco Rubio as part of the “neocon warmongering establishment” months ago, and now Trump has appointed him as Secretary of State, a position she sought.

https://x.com/dancohen3000/status/1856157375163425083?t=yr1xmBEbdaGbLHKRST0iCQ&s=19

Trump used her and threw her away like a dirty, torn Kleenex. It’s a beauty to behold.

You can’t be “anti-war” while shilling for warmongers. Tulsi despises the US and should be shunned.

Remember that research retreat for faculty of color I was upset about? The one where people were excluded based on race for purposes of inclusivity? The good news is that I’m not upset anymore because it turned out to be a scheme aimed at tricking these poor faculty of color into relinquishing their course materials to underpaid “visiting lecturers.” After giving up their courses, the faculty of color were supposed to be shipped to the plantation outside of the university for onerous assignments that would effectively prevent them from doing research.

In short, go to a research retreat to help you publish more and end up with your courses stolen and unable to publish.

The bad news is that it took me a mountain of effort to free my two faculty of color who got trapped into this scheme. They are fortunate that they have me who is willing to go to the bat for them and liberate them. The faculty of color who have less combative and less feared department heads are still trapped.

There’s an old propaganda trick where you falsify a concept by attaching a series of misleading images to it and changing people’s perception.

We can observe how it works using the example of how illegal migration is discussed in the wake of Trump’s win. All of a sudden, there’s a large number of stories about immigrants who came in 30 years ago and have been having children and paying taxes in this country. Deportations that Trump promised are linked to the image of a sweet grandma who came over in 1963 and has become completely integrated into the American society since then.

Thus our mental picture of who will be targeted by deportations and what mass migration actually looks like is falsified. It’s never mentioned in these manipulative stories that this month several thousand migrants entered the country illegally. Since January this year, at least 1,5 million – MILLION – entered the country illegally. This is vaunted as a massive achievement of the Biden administration because it represents a drop from 2,2 million in 2022. These are only the recorded cases, mind you.

Since September, more than 300,000 people came in illegally. Remember September? That was a short time ago. These hundreds of thousands of people haven’t had time to contribute to the economy. Have you experienced any great change to the economy since then? I definitely haven’t. Asking these people to leave will already constitute a mass deportation. And the money currently spent on transporting, housing and feeding them can be used for something else. Today, tomorrow and the day after there will be thousands more coming in because Biden is still president. And instead of discussing that, we have been hoodwinked into talking about the unfairness of deporting the 1963 grandma. Our brains have been hacked and an entirely erroneous picture of what mass deportations will mean was installed there.

It’s extraordinary to have somebody with a functioning brain in this position. An excellent pick by Trump.

At least, they aren’t doing the “resistance” thing this time around. There’s hope for them yet.

That was one of the cringiest cosplays in history. Adult people made absolute clowns out of themselves. But they’ve learned! This is very good news.

WSJ reports that Trump has chosen Rep. Mike Waltz as his new National Security Adviser.

Waltz is a former Green Beret who has been very vocal about NATO allies having to significantly increase their defense spending if the alliance is to survive.

Oh God, I can’t believe it, Mike Walz instead of the weaselly Putinoid Jake Sullivan. What is this, Christmas?

It’s a happy, happy day. Mike Waltz is a serious person with a real vision. Strong, decisive, and real.