The House will anoint McCarthy in the dead of night and the public will look forward to watching football on Sunday.

We have the government we deserve.

This thread is good reading.

I know some 9-5ers who have become jealous of entrepreneurs. But I know many more entrepreneurs who have become jealous of 9-5ers.

https://twitter.com/p8stie/status/1611440229193289741?s=20

I used to think that Trump would have handled the Ukraine situation very differently than Biden has.

But then I remembered that Trump was the President who escalated the situation by taking the unprecedented step of sending lethal aid to Ukraine, at the insistence of the deep state. He boasted about it endlessly, to prove to the NYT journalists that he regularly dined with that he wasn’t a Russian agent.

Trump also took no for an answer when he ordered the generals to withdraw all American forces from Afghanistan.

This is all speculation, but I posit that if Trump were in the same position as Biden with Ukraine facing invasion from Russia, he would have handled the situation more or less in the same way that Biden has.

When Trump arrived at the White House on January 20th of 2017, he desperately wanted to be accepted by the Washington establishment. The spooks, the journalists, the academics and especially the generals in military uniforms adorned with shiny medals.

Just about every misstep of the Trump Presidency was rooted in Trump’s deep desire to be accepted, and even celebrated, by the people he found himself surrounded with when he arrived in Washington DC.

The solution of course was to remake the establishment in his image by firing every Schedule C appointee on day 1 and replacing them with true ideological loyalists (as Presidents normally do). But he didn’t have the wherewithal to do that.

The CIA briefer who leaked the Ukraine call never should have been anywhere near the Oval Office.

McCarthy certainly wouldn’t be my choice for Speaker of the House, but he is set to be confirmed in the next few hours and any further opposition is an exercise in futility.

Be grateful to the congressmen who extracted important concessions through their opposition to McCarthy in the last several days.

This sort of thing happens to young men just as often as it happens to young women in DC.

https://nypost.com/2023/01/06/matt-schlapp-accused-of-groping-male-campaign-staffer/

It’s hard to believe that George Santos is in Congress until you look into 10 other congressmen at random.

Half of these people have totally confabulated backstories.

Matt Schlapp tried to touch me, too, at his offices in 2016/17 when we were negotiating my headliner spot at CPAC. I recoiled, made a joke about him being the wrong skin color, and added that if he tried it again I would slap him and go public. Maybe that had something to do with him colluding to wreck my career, I don’t know.

It turns out that Trump had used this phrase long before the 2015 GOP debate

It still seems possible that older people with comorbidities received some benefit from the COVID vaccines. But the data is so messy that we’ll never know for sure.

The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals struck down Trump’s bump stock ban.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-appeals-court-strikes-down-ban-bump-stocks-2023-01-07/

What should I discuss on tomorrow’s episode of The Jacob Wohl Show?

20 years ago, these same men would have been cavorting with STD-ridden streetwalkers who worked for thuggish pimps. They'd call them "johns" or "tricks." Today they're sending Western Union transfers to one of Andrew Tate's girlfriends.

Welcome to the world of vice. Of course, it isn't pleasant to gaze upon. But it's also not at all worthy of getting bent out of shape over.

https://twitter.com/crabcrawler1/status/1611846081490427908?s=20&t=-y4KTzB0URBxs1C7TG05Ig

Would you live in a house full of a few dozen Eastern European whores with the job of maintaining order if you were paid a few million dollars a month?

If you read that question and thought "yes," don't be so sure. Can you even imagine the levels of total and complete chaos that you'd have to endure? Your lavish life would be one giant, unrelenting headache.

If she was ever a webcam girl at all, she was "ruined" as a wife well before she ever met Andrew Tate. For that, you can usually thank her father.

https://vxtwitter.com/partisangirl/status/1611998197223948290?s=12&t=R2g5uYzWZpc53TSCajkgHQ

This is really worth a listen.

Peter Zeihan succinctly debunks so many of the widely believed talking points pushed by partisans on either side. For example “China’s on a 50 year plan!” and “legalizing drugs will put the cartels out of business!”