January 16, 2026
The Frozen South
Timothy Birdnow
Didn't they tell us snow was a thing of the past? Isn't global warming supposed to mean less snow, not more?
Isn't this just more proof that the whole thing is a gigantic scam?
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January 15, 2026
Torie Crack-up
Timothy Birdnow
The "Conservative" Party in Britain (aka the Tories) is
imploding because it is about as conservative as The Nation publication which is reporting this, and the public in Great Britain is reaching the boiling point at the overrunning of the country by radicalism and aliens.
Nigerian leader of the Tories - Olukemi "Kemi” Badenoch - just sacked Robert Jenrick, the "shadow minister of Justice" for allegedly "plotting" to quit the Conservative Party and join with Nigel Farange and UKIP (or whatever it's called now, the reform party).
Seems Badenoff, er, Badenoch couldn't take the risk of the Tories turning against his peeps oversees.
The party, which talks a good game but is a meetoo to Labour, is dropping faster than a bottle of scotch on an Edinburgh golf course Membership is dropping precipitously, officials are leaving to join the reformers, and they have terrible numbers at the polls. That is because, when they had the opportunity, they kept the floodgates open and continued to promote the radical left agenda. They are doing so even now, refusing to attempt to stop the Labor Party from radicalizing the whole country.
UKIP is the only hope for Britain.
Farage is our kind of guy; he would be MAGA if he were an American.
Friends of Jerick say he had no plans to defect but the libs in the CP simply want to take him out. No doubt he's a bit too far to the right for their tastes. He has moved to the right; he had opposed Brexit when his party did, but has recently adopted strong anti-immigrant policies after seeing what the Torie policies have caused.
It's time for the Reform Party. The Conservatives need to exit stage left.
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Migod! Brit politicians are really a mess these days. Winston Churchill and Maggie Thatcher are only a distant dream.
But I suppose I have no right to carp when I look at ours. Take Mr. Trump off the list and we have few decent ones ourselves.
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Truer words were never spoken Dana. British politics is f, er, screwed and without Trump America would follow lsuit.
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Republican Quisling Knife's Trump in Back Over Greenland
Timothy Birdnow
A Republican rep. from Nebraska - Don Bacon -hams it up with the Omaha World Herald but winds up with egg on his face.
Bacon says he'd vote for impeaching President Trump if Trump invaded Greenland.
Why would he even answer such a hypothetical question in the first place? There is zero evidence Trump plans on an unauthorized invasion of Greenland and this dimwit has to know that. All of the troops being sent there by Denmark and from other Euroweenie countries are just for show, to try to puff out their chests against a non-threat. It's easy to be tough when there isn't anything to be tough about.
The point is just because you are asked a question like that doesn't mean you answer it. He should simply have said "I won't deal with hypotheticals" and that would have been that.
Breakfast meathead announced he is retiring so feels free to knife Trump in the back now. Trump should take steps to squeeze him, to wreck any lobbying posts he's seeking or whatnot. This is the kind of thing that needs to be answered.
"I’ll be candid with you. There’s so many Republicans mad about this,” Bacon told the paper. "If he went through with the threats, I think it would be the end of his presidency.”
Uh, name them. They should be proud to be named publicly. Also, WHY exactly are they angry? He doesn't explain that at all. Is it because Trump is somehow circumventing Congress? IT HASN'T COME TO ANY OVERT ACTION yet so there is nothing to be angry about. Do they not want a greater influence over Greenland? Are they content letting the Chinese sniff around it? If they are angry is it because Trump wants to exploit the natural resources of the huge island? Why exactly are they angry?
Trump said as much when the media harangued him over this. He said "you don't know what I plan to do".
Seems to me if there are Republicans angry about it it's because they are mad Trump and MAGA are doing something that limits their power. The Establishment GOP has been angry about THAT since Trump walked down that escalator years ago. He shows them to be do-nothing sycophants to the media and the Demo-left.
Trump needs to mete out some sort of punishment. No doubt this guy is going to get a job at CNN or as a lobbyist; Trump should take steps to squash any income this guy plans to raise off his Trump Derangement Syndrome. We have got to stop pussyfooting around with these sorts of creeps. They are the very reason America is in such bad shape; for decades a bunch of self-seeking scoundrels in the GOP have gone along with the Democrats in systemaatically raping the American People. And they have sabotaged every effort to clean this system up thereby making a near disaster. This guy needs to become radioactive, needs to have everyone terrified of having anything to do with him. That's what the Left would do to a turncoat of their own.
Unfortunately we don't do things that way. But we probably should.
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Who's ever heard of this Bacon character, until he popped up with this remark? Now it's out of the pan, into the fire for him. Quick, give him five minutes of fame, he doesn't need fifteen.
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Agreed. No doubt he wanted to go out with a bang so he would improve his employment prospects after leaving Congress. That's why we need to make sure he doesn't profit from this.
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This Greenland thing presents an interesting challenge for me. Russia did not have the right to annex Crimea, but we have the right to annex Greenland. The difference is unclear to me.
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Walz Goes Full John C. Breckenridge
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Y'all best be getting outta our sovereign state, ya hear!
Curtis Houck
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CNN's
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Todd on Tim Walz: "Well, wait a minute. Wait a minute. Tim Walz said it was a federal occupation. He put the National Guard on notice. he's everything short of Fort Sumter right now."
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All I'll say at this point are two things, and I've probably said them before: 1. Trump was right when he called Walz "retarded," and 2. Walz is probably making all this noise to try to detract from all the fuss about the fraud (and that seems to be working).
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Right on both counts Dana. In the end he wouldn't dare use the state national guard to resist the Feds. If Trump invokes the Insurrection Act he'll be going to prison.
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She Fought the Law and the Law Won
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The father of Renee Good told DNN "I don't blame anybody".
While I'm sure the man is sad he probably knows his daughter well enough to know she provoked it.
This is what happens when you fight the Law As the Bible says, the King is "given the power of the sword" to "punish evildoers" and you mess with that at your peril.
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Not one of your better metaphors, Timothy. Trump, and in fact the government, does not have the powers of a king. The founders, in fact, made that specification very explicitly.
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Statehood for Greenland
Timothy Birdnow
A Republican Congressman introduced a bill to make Greenland the 51st state.
With just 57,000 people spread over an area of 836,330 mi² Greenland cannot even function as a local government on it's own, which is why it's been part of Denmark for so long. I would add more people attended the Super Bowl last year than live i the entire subcontinent of Greenland (61,629 people packed into Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas last year to watch the game).
From a political standpoint the Greenlanders are very poor and will almost certainly vote Democrat once they are given citizenship. That means the Senate flips to the Democrats and the House may possibly as well (although Greenland would probably only have one Representative). The only way Greenland becomes Republican is if it is flooded with American military personnel and the more conservative business types, until they overwhelm the aboriginal population.
The average income for Greenlanders at present is 332,500 DKK, or about $3,800 U.S. so the whole country would become a drag on U.S. assistance programs.
Taking control of Greenland is fine but it must be done gradually, and it should be a protectorate in the fashion of Puerto Rico, not brought in as a state immediately. The People of Greenland need to decide too.
It took Arizona 49 years to achieve statehood, for example, the longest wait of any former territory. Greenland should be moved on that cautiously.
But there is no reason it can't be a U.S. territory.
We need to think this through before jumping into something that might bite us in the frostbitten posterior.
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Hold on a minute, boys and girls. Denmark has a few things to say about it. We can't just yank Greenland away from them. Trump knows that, so we have to "wait and see" what everybody can do here.
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You're right and I am sure Trump at least knows that. But the Greenlanders themselves can vote to separate from Denmark and join the U.S. if they so choose. That's the path we have to take to obtain the island.
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Just Say No to the Superflu
Timothy Birdnow
So they are going back to an oldie but goodie.
I suspect the media is trying to revive the pandemic scare, and I do mean scare, in order to make people turn over Congress. The hope is people will remember Trump was in office when the country was shut down the first time and are hoping they will associate the flu season with Trump and be more amenable to voting Democrat.
I doubt it will work because I suspect most people remember it was Joe Biden who wouldn't let it end, and it was the Democrats who shut down society in their states. I suspect if this issue doesn't gain them much traction they will drop it. They will REALLY drop it if polling shows a negative reaction.
Are we having a bad flu season? I'm sure we are; people who were locked down for years have now gotten back out, with their immune systems weakened by the enforced isolation of the pandemic and the Covid shot. But is it a "superflu" as they are putting it? I seriously doubt it. Just a normal flu bug that is having a nastier effect than usual on weakened immune systems.
We'll develop herd immunity soon enough if we don't go into a panic. That panic is the fondest hope of the media and the Democrats, I might add.
Like we were told with drugs, we should JUST SAY NO!
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Just Say No to the Superflu
Timothy Birdnow
So they are going back to an oldie but goodie.
I suspect the media is trying to revive the pandemic scare, and I do mean scare, in order to make people turn over Congress. The hope is people will remember Trump was in office when the country was shut down the first time and are hoping they will associate the flu season with Trump and be more amenable to voting Democrat.
I doubt it will work because I suspect most people remember it was Joe Biden who wouldn't let it end, and it was the Democrats who shut down society in their states. I suspect if this issue doesn't gain them much traction they will drop it. They will REALLY drop it if polling shows a negative reaction.
Are we having a bad flu season? I'm sure we are; people who were locked down for years have now gotten back out, with their immune systems weakened by the enforced isolation of the pandemic and the Covid shot. But is it a "superflu" as they are putting it? I seriously doubt it. Just a normal flu bug that is having a nastier effect than usual on weakened immune systems.
We'll develop herd immunity soon enough if we don't go into a panic. That panic is the fondest hope of the media and the Democrats, I might add.
Like we were told with drugs, we should JUST SAY N!
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It Does a Body Good
Timothy Birdnow
Whole milk is
coming back to schools as President Trump has repealed an Obama-era Executive Order forcing kids to drink the weak stuff.
When I was young it was understood growing bodies needed more butter fat and the extra nutrition provided by whole milk and we were all encouraged to drink the strong stuff. That had gone on a long time, well before the rise in obesity among American children. Yet American children got hugely fat, mostly because of the food pyramid government foisted on the country which emphasized eating lots of grain products and less meat and dairy. As always the government made the problem in the first place, then doubled down on the problem as the solution.
Michelle Obama, the busybody with the body of a man, imposed this on American children. Kids were hungry all day because of her "healthy" diet. Parents were sending food to schools with the kids so they weren't starving and the schools were searching the kids for snacks and taking them away. And they wouldn't even let the little tykes drink whole milk.
If they had had whole milk they wouldn't have needed snacks in the first place.
In 2012 Congress passed a law restricting whole milk in schools to codify the Obama EO.
Sadly, while this bill makes milk not counted towards the 10% limit on saturated fat, it leaves the limit in place, a ridiculous overreach by government in the first place Government should be getting out of the food business entirely. I suppose if it's a subsidized meal program they have some say, but it really is none of their business what kids eat at a government school where the youths are mandated to attend.
Dietary restrictions by government is as onerously paternalistic as can be imagined A free society has the right to choose what food it wants
At any rate this is a welcome development It's too bad Congress didn't go farther.
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Vance Leaker is a Late Arrival Immigrant
Timothy Birdnow
Well, well, well.
Shouldn't we be a little choosier about who we let have such information?
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Justified
Timothy Birdnow
Hey, Mike Waltz said it was!
Well, well, well…Look what Tim Walz signed into law in 2020:
MN law §609.066: Officers can use deadly force if a driver accelerates toward them, creating immediate life-threatening danger. No need to wait for impact—they can act based on apparent intent & proximity.
JUSTIFIED.
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So the Man who Shot Good had Internal Bleeding
Timothy Birdnow
This blows the victim narrative right out of the water in Minneapolis.
BREAKING: The ICE agent who fatally shot Renee Good on Jan. 7 in Minneapolis, Jonathan Ross, suffered internal bleeding to the torso following the incident, according to two U.S. officials briefed on his medical condition.
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Net Drop in Immigrants
Timothy Birdnow
According to the very liberal Brookings Institute we had between minus ten thousand and minus two hundred thousand fewer immigrants in the U.S. as we did last year when Biden was leaving office.
This is likely an underestimation too as Brookings has no love for Donald Trump and would be eager to not admit what he is doing is working.
Laws only work when they are enforced. For decades neither party has wanted to enforce immigration laws and then have asked for NEW laws because they claim the old ones don't work. But they do - they just need to be enforced. Trump has proven the utter bankruptcy of the open borders arguments.
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January 14, 2026
Climate Models Wrong
This from James Doogue
All Of The 39 Climate Models Used By Scientists Have Predicted Greater Warming 1979-2025 Compared To Actual Temperature Observations.
It shouldn't surprise anyone that the warmest of the climate models are used to create climate alarmism.
This includes climate scientists who want to keep their funding and grants coming, as well as the media who know that disaster scenarios get more viewers and readers compared to story lines which have no dramatic scenarios.
Dr Roy Spencer shows in his post at the URL below, that all 39 climate models run up to 3 times the warming rate of actual temperature observations 1979-2025.
Looking at the graphs shown below, which are taken from the linked post by Dr Spencer we can see:
1. All climate models run hotter than the actual temperature, right up to 300% of actual observations.
2. If we average all 39 climate models, we can see they collectively show a warming rate of double the actual observations.
‘I find it ironic that climate models are claimed to be based upon fundamental "physical principles”. If that were true, then all models would have the same climate sensitivity to increasing GHGs [green house gases].
Dr Spencer further states:
‘Climate models range over a factor of three in climate sensitivity, a disparity that has remained for over 30 years of the climate modeling enterprise.’
‘Much of global warming alarmism arises from scientific publications biased toward (1) the models that produce the most warming, and (2) the excessive GHG increases ("SSP scenarios") they assume for the most dire climate change projections. Those scenarios are now known to be excessive compared to observed rates of global GHG emissions….’
So why do climate scientists continue to use climate models they know are not producing correct results? I believe it's because:
1. They want to keep their jobs. Convincing the government and benefactors that there's an emergency is more likely to keep their grants and funding flowing.
3. They jumped on the catastrophic global warming gravy train a long time ago. They don't want to admit they were wrong all these years.
Note: 1979 is used as the starting time on the graphs because that's the first year satellite temperature observations became available.
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Dr. Spencer is definitely knowledgeable about all this. But there are two things I'd like to see him address that he hasn't.
First, from many things I've read, we are very haphazard about our "climate measuring," in that we are very careless about collecting lots of our data from places where temperatures are contaminated by buildings, pavements and other things that artificially affect them. I would think that real honest-to-God
scientists would be very finicky about making sure their measurements were taken from places where there as few as possible factors that could create "noise" to contaminate their data; but it is obvious that they aren't.
Another thing is that it seems to me that we are dealing with timeframes that are, in the long run, too short to matter a great deal. When you consider that something like the Medieval Warm period lasted around four hundred or more years, you need to take into account that it was significant to the people who lived during it -- very significant indeed -- but was it really significant if you are going to take measurements from some point in time during the middle of it and start saying "Wow, the world is warming, we'd better tell Al Gore?" For that, you'd want to know temperatures before the start and after the end and see how they stack up.
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Excellent points both Dana.
On the first, Dr. Spencer is aware of the problems with temperature data; he's quite chummy with AnthonyWatts, who did the survey on the surface stations to begin with. But remember Spencer runs the UAH satellite division and his data comes primarily from satellite surveillance rather than the surface stations most warmists rely on so heavily. The satellite data is far superior because it is not dependent on it's siting and whatnot.
Watts survey can be found at www.surfacestations.org and it's a hoot to look at the photos provided; stations wedged between two huge air conditioning compressors, cited next to steaming wastewater treatment plants, on blacktops in parking lots, etc.
I would add Dr. Spencer wrote a paper a while back where he concluded it is just this sort of temperature bias in the data that accounts for ALL modern time climate warming we've observed - even the satellite data, because it is waste heat being observed from industrial facilities and from blacktops and deforestation rather than from co2. Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. always argued this was the case (he was monomaniacal on the subject) and I had some long conversation with Pielks when he had his website. He was professor emeritus at UC Boulder.
Your second point is also spot on. A single point in time tells us nothing, nor do even a couple of decades. It's the long-term trends you have to look at. For instance if we were to start our temperature graph with the Little Ice Age we'd see an enormous spike in temperatures - if we start after the Dalton Minimum we would see a far gentler increase. In no way would we understand it if we didn't know we were coming out of a cold period in an interglacial.
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Winning
Timothy Birdnow
Wages
are up, inflation
is down, and America is feared if not respected around the world.
Tired of winning yet?
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Not I. But this is why the goons in, say, Minneapolis are so desperate to find distractions. "Oh look over there: a squirrel!" And so they send in the crazy ladies to hinder ICE, and if one of 'em gets killed, they're happy. Oh yes, they are. The leftists don't care about the Rachel Goods of the world.
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Amen. No, they do not care about the foolish like Good. She was a necessary loss in the battle to acquire and hold power, nothing more - a pawn.
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A Fool and His MOney
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Inflation is caused by loose monetary policy and nothing more. How did this guy get to be a CEO of a major financial institution like this without understanding that?
As CEO of a big international bank (JPMorgan Chase)Dimon is beholden to the ruling class and is opposed to MAGA. Also, a guy like this is old buddies with Jerome Powell and anyone else at the Fed as a business necessity and will work to cement that relationship; administrations come and go but the Fed and the bureaucracy are eternal. And no doubt Dimon would like a cushy seat on the board of the Federal Reserve himself some day.
Remember Morgan Chase was deep in the DEI stuff. They were at the vanguard of the debanking business a few years ago, for example. So anything this man says is suspect.
Inflation is almost always a monetary issue; the Federal Reserve prints too much money, floods the economy with dollars that have no backing and thus it takes more of them to buy stuff. Yes, prices can sometimes go up without inflation, such as when there is a a temporary shortage, as in when, say, an oil refinery blows up, but it is not something across the board by and large. Across the board inflation is a direct result of too much money chasing too few goods and services and that is caused by injecting too much cash into the economy. Dimon knows this, or should.
I so often wonder how such mediocre people wind up in such positions of high authority. But that's what happens when you have government with it's enormous thumb on the scales all the time. Government invariably breeds mediocrity.
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Clintons Refuse to Testify
Timothy Birdnow
Did anyone expect anything else?
The thing is the Clintons are framing this as a DEFENSE OF LIBERTY and acting as if this is a way of resisting The MAN.
The Jews invented the word Chutzpah with these two in mind.
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Count up all the other donkeys who have ignored subpeonas. The list is long. Any of 'em that you know of ever get more than a hand-slap?
No, I didn't think so.
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Yep. Time for that to change. It is especially important for the Clintons, who have openly gotten away with this crap for years, to face some sort of justice now.
Equality before the law is the hallmark of a free society. We haven't had that for a long time
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Racketeering in North Carolina (that's Sheriff Buck, uh, with a B)
Timothy Birdnow
Wouldn't this be a crime?
From the DAily Caller:
North Carolina State Rep. Carla Cunningham, a Charlotte Democrat with a well-established independent streak, was intensely pressured by her party to vote against a July 2025 override of Democratic Gov. Josh Stein’s veto of House Bill 318, legislation requiring sheriffs to honor ICE detainers. She is now alleging that the sheriff of Mecklenburg County attempted extortion when he suggested that she’d "get hurt” if she helped Republicans pass the bill.
"One of the first things he said was that the citizens of Mecklenburg County would come at me,” Cunningham told the Daily Caller News Foundation, speaking about her phone call with Sheriff Garry McFadden, a Democrat who has long opposed working with ICE agents.
Methinks perhaps the Department of Justice should "come at" Mr. McFadden.
14-16.7. Threats against executive, legislative, or court officers.
(a) Any person who knowingly and willfully makes any threat to inflict serious bodily injury upon or to kill any legislative officer, executive officer, or court officer, or who knowingly and willfully makes any threat to inflict serious bodily injury upon or kill any other person as retaliation against any legislative officer, executive officer, or court officer because of the exercise of that officer's duties, shall be guilty of a felony and shall be punished as a Class I felon.
(b) Any person who knowingly and willfully deposits for conveyance in the mail any letter, writing, or other document containing a threat to commit an offense described in subsection (a) of this section shall be guilty of a felony and shall be punished as a Class I felon. (1981, c. 822, s. 1; 1993, c. 539, s. 1126; 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 24, s. 14(c); 1999-398, s. 1; 2014-119, s. 6(b).)
That's why
Sheriff Lucas Buck here couched it the way he did - so he couldn't be accused of making an overt threat, but anyone who knows anything about, say, racketeering, knows what this guy meant.
Remember this is a DEMOCRAT making the allegations.
Util serious punishment is doled out for these crimes they will not just keep happening but will increase in size and number.
I caught Jesse Kelly last night and he was saying that about the Bill/Hillary Clinton refusal to testify before Congress. As Kelly pointed out the Left does this stuff with impunity because they always get away with it. It's time for that to change. Kelly was right; if they get away with it when we are in power they are going to go hog wild, punishing our side ruthlessly, when back in. The only way to stop stuff like this is to stop them at the beginning like they should have stopped Hitler at Nuremberg (a little Godfather quote).
So this sheriff needs to be put through the ringer over this. You can't be using your position to make veiled threats to force state legislators to vote the way you want. That is racketeering.
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January 13, 2026
Powell Criminally Referred
Timothy Birdnow
Jerome Powell has been
referred for criminal prosecution by Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna for lying to Congress about renovations to their palatial office building under construction at present.
The article gives Mr. Powell's reaction:
"This new threat is not about my testimony last June or about the renovation of the Federal Reserve buildings. It is not about Congress’s oversight role; the Fed through testimony and other public disclosures made every effort to keep Congress informed about the renovation project. Those are pretexts,” Powell said.
"The threat of criminal charges is a consequence of the Federal Reserve setting interest rates based on our best assessment of what will serve the public, rather than following the preferences of the President. This is about whether the Fed will be able to continue to set interest rates based on evidence and economic conditions — or whether instead monetary policy will be directed by political pressure or intimidation,” he added.
"I have served at the Federal Reserve under four administrations, Republicans and Democrats alike. In every case, I have carried out my duties without political fear or favor, focused solely on our mandate of price stability and maximum employment. Public service sometimes requires standing firm in the face of threats. I will continue to do the job the Senate confirmed me to do, with integrity and a commitment to serving the American people,” he said.
Interesting; Powell's term of office is almost up, so why would the Trump Administration want to pick this fight now, when it hands the Democrats a political weapon? It doesn't make any sense if you assume Powell's argument is correct.
A good sized number of Republicans
joined the chorus of complainers, including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
The assumption by the media and so many of these Republicans (including John Kennedy of Louisiana) is that this was a political move, and not an anti-corruption action. But the fact is the Federal Reserve has been a tool for the Democrats for a long time and has not been non-partisan as claimed but has actively taken steps to protect the Ruling Class all alone. Just look at how Powell waited to cut rates until after the election of 2020 for instance; he clearly was manipulating the public to the best of his ability to remove Donald Trump.
Powell is dirty and that's why there is so much screaming, even from the GOP, about this. Washington itself is a filthy, filthy place.
Increasingly this reminds me of the feud between Andrew Jackson and Nicholas Biddle, President of the Second Bank of the United States. Jackson wanted to close the BOUS and Biddle was horrified he might lose his power, so he purposely tried to crash the U.S. economy to hurt Jackson's re-election chances. He didn't; Jackson won and took out the corrupt and useless Bank of the United States. We were free of that particular economic tyranny for several generations, until they created the Federal Reserve (note they didn't call the Fed a bank when they did it, knowing the distaste the public still had for central banks). Now we are supposed to believe the Fed is some purely neutral organization, laboring selflessly to give us all a better life. But have they? Since their inception they caused the Great Depression and a series of lesser depression aka recessions and have bankrupted the country by printing too much money. Inflation is almost entirely on them, for instance, and since they print all the money Congress can want it frees our representatives to be completely dissolute in their spending habits.
So now we are being told lying to Congress and wasting a couple of billion bucks is fine if it is the Fed doing it.
Time to rein that corrupt body in, if you ask me.
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How can the Fed be anything but corrupt when its very existence is a violation of the constitution? That document clearly states that only the government can create money, and yet the Fed takes great pride in controlling the economy by means of creating money itself. They call it "quantative easing."
Posted by: Bill H at January 13, 2026 09:39 AM (FRG6e)
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Excellent point Bll. That pesky Constitution is getting in the way of a good time had by all (at least all in Washington).
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at January 15, 2026 08:24 AM (umJ+Y)
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