Just checking to see if you're reading or just word-picture glancing.

Early Quick Hits, just because this is the only thing I have ready and would like to turn the page on the Trump/DeSantis feuding.

George Deek
@GeorgeDeek

How the Arab world talks about the Holocaust: the Holocaust never happened, and the Jews deserved it. Hitler was a hero, and the Jews are the real Hitler.

How many in the West are talking about Oct7: 7/10 never really happened, and the Jews deserved it. Hamas are the heroes, and the Jews are the real terrorists.

Christina Buttons
@buttonslives

Dear Democrats, you can't bully me into voting for Biden again. I was promised he would be a moderate candidate, but that turned out to be a lie.

I won't vote unless there's a candidate I actually like.

The narrative that "not voting for Biden is a vote for Trump" isn't going to work anymore; you've cried wolf too many times.

The world didn't end when Trump was president the first time, and it's not going to end if he's elected again.

So just stop with the hysterics and produce a worthwhile candidate.

Thank you,
A Registered Independent Voter

From John Sexton: Elon Musk hosted an "X Spaces" dialogue with Bill Ackman (the megadonor fighting Harvard) and Dean Philips (the Democrat fighting a lonely campaign against Biden to be the nominee).

His thoughts on immigration are interesting. After having established his own pro-immigrant credentials (he is one), he then offered:

"[We"e cannot have, not merely an open border but a border where the federal government is facilitating the transfers of vast numbers of people into the country. Even when, say, Texas tries to take action to enforce the law the federal government is trying to stop them from doing so. There's literally a federal lawsuit to stop Texas from actually enforcing the illegal immigration laws.

"It's important to bear in mind the United States is only 4 to 5 percent of the world population so it's very easy for the United States to get swamped by illegal immigration, just absolutely swamped. If you're somewhere else and you say there's going to get free money and housing and medical care to illegal immigrants and that exceeds the standard of living in half the world then why doesn't half the world just move here?

"As Bill [Ackman] said a moment ago, incentives drive behavior, obviously. It would be strange if they didn't. And so what we're seeing is that word is getting out. It's going viral basically. Illegal immigration through the southern border is going viral. This is not a Mexico thing. Almost none of the people coming across are Mexican."

After a brief interruption by the host, Musk continued, "Just look at the graphs of the rate of growth of illegal immigration. It is going exponential. To use a rocketship analogy, it is a rocketship of growth of illegal immigration. Because of social media, everyone on earth knows this. It is now an industry."

More at the link, including an edited audio recap of the discussion.

Relatedly, Greg Abbott says he will not stop busing illegals to sanctuary cities until Biden closes the border.

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Greg Abbott
@GregAbbott_TX

Jan 9

Texas has transported over 100,000 migrants to sanctuary cities to relieve overwhelmed border towns.

Until Biden reverses course on his open border policies, Texas will continue transporting migrants to these cities.

We will not back down on our efforts to secure the border.

To which Elon Musk responded:

Open borders will kill America

Speaking of Bill Ackman: He says he's about to launch a major lawsuit against Business Insider for running that defamatory hit-piece against his wife.

Hot Air says that the suit will probably not prevail, given that the wife did some of the things alleged, like... not citing Wikipedia. I mean, that's a bullshit charge, but it's not factually false to say she didn't cite Wikipedia.

And I don't think the suit will function well even as a nuisance suit -- based on my own experiences with leftwing corrupt Regime judges, they will bend over backwards to claim that every defamatory falsehood uttered by a leftwinger is mere "opinion" and "fair comment," while twisting the law to permit conservative to be sued for quoting the very man they allegedly "defamed."

One possible upside -- if the leftwing judge doesn't throw the case out immediately -- is finding out who fed Business Insider this hit piece. (Business Insider isn't the kind of "journalistic" operation that does its own homework. They are just a clearinghouse for hit pieces written by their allies on the left. It's basically an AI version of Vice Story Pitches.)

I've heard others speculate (was it Megyn Kelly?) that it was probably MIT itself that leaked the hit piece material on its former professor. It would be illuminating to see how this disgusting game is played by the self-declared Thought Leaders.