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First, we are not playing Jeopardy!, today so I will not tell you the question that elicited this answer, posted on Instagram by one Isabella Maria DeLuca:
“I’m not a marriage counselor but have you tried being quiet and cooking your husband a steak?”
Then DeLuca shares the reactions that the comment elicited:
The video is at 5M views and my comments are filled with women telling to shoot myself in the head, slit my wrists vertically, slit my throat, and hang myself. What kind of mental illness has plagued modern women?
Good question.
Second, Spike Cohen recommends that the new Trump administration follow the example set by Argentinian president Javier Millei:
If you want to make America great again, do what @JMilei is doing to make Argentina great again: Slash the size of government. Eliminate entire agencies. Massively reduce regulations and taxes. Reign in the central bank. Anything that falls short of this will fail. Afuera!
Third, here is more evidence that transmania is damaging to schoolgirls. This time, in British Columbia:
Retired teacher KPSS posted this on Twitter:
Girls are having to "hold it" all day to avoid peeing with boys at this BC school. 'Holding' urination causes bladder weakening over time so school political policies are medically damaging Canadian young women and girls. Look it up.
Fourth, among the important moves made by the new Trump administration was this: firing the Commandant of the Coast Guard:
Admiral Linda Fagan, who oversaw the US Coast Guard, has been terminated for operational failure and misdirecting all of the organization’s resources away from training, retention, and border security over to Diversity, Equity and Inclusivity (DEI) initiatives within the USCG.
Fifth, you recall the Supreme Court decision last week upholding the TikTok ban. About the unanimous decision, famed legal scholar Alan Dershowitz said this:
Attorney Alan Dershowitz appeared on Newsmax Friday to criticize the U.S. Supreme Court’s unanimous decision to uphold the TikTok ban, calling it “a B-minus” effort that “looks like a first draft written by a law clerk.”
“It [the Supreme Court’s decision] was rushed through. It goes through all the standards that you have to apply, and it got it all wrong,” Dershowitz said. “I don’t like TikTok. I wish it were defeated in the marketplace of ideas. But the idea of preventing 170 million people from having access to it on speculative assumptions about national security, this is not going to have one bit of a positive impact on protecting America’s national security.”
Sixth, remember the New Orleans terror attack? Remember the FBI agent who stepped before the microphones to explain that it was not terrorism. Well, she has been reassigned:
The Daily Mail has the story:
An FBI agent who claimed the New Year's Day attack in New Orleans was 'not a terrorist event' has been reassigned, sources said.
Assistant Special Agent in Charge, Alethea Duncan, has been temporarily reassigned, multiple sources told Fox News.
It is unclear where she has been reassigned to, but she is still employed with the FBI, according to Fox.
Her reassignment came after she said at a press conference that Shamsud-Din Jabbar driving a truck into a crowd wasn't related to terrorism.
'This is not a terrorist event,' she said just hours after the event. 'What it is right now is improvised explosive devices that was found and we're working to confirm if it's a viable device or not.'
Seventh, the NBA All Star game will be played this year in San Francisco.
But the great Charles Barkeley will not be in attendance. He just declared that San Francisco was “rat infested.”
Eighth, meanwhile Campus Reform reports that the IQs of young Americans is declining. They attribute the IQ loss to inferior education:
A recent study suggests that, for the first time in nearly 100 years, Americans’ average intelligence quotient (IQ) is declining.
The professors who authored the study theorize that the quality of education could play a role in reversing the IQ gains enjoyed by previous generations.
The study, published in a spring 2023 edition of Intelligence, measures IQ test results among 18- to 60-year-olds to examine the phenomenon first observed by philosopher James Flynn.
Professors from Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., and the University of Oregon in Eugene explain the Flynn effect: starting in 1932, average IQ scores increased roughly three to five points per decade. In other words, “younger generations are expected to have higher IQ scores than the previous cohort.”
Data from the sample of U.S. adults, however, imply that there is a reverse Flynn effect. From 2006 to 2018, the age groups measured generally saw declines in the IQ test used by the study, the International Cognitive Ability Resource (ICAR).
Exposure to education, including through obtaining a four-year degree, generally lessened the blow to IQ points. The study suggests, however, that this is less so for younger participants.
“[E]xposure to education may only be protective for certain age groups,” according to the authors.
They continue to theorize that “a change of quality or content of education and test-taking skills” could explain the difference education makes in the IQ of younger versus older Americans.
Millennials–the main age group completing their K-12 and college education during the study–have experienced vast changes in the education system. These include students learning to read from an influential but defective curriculum and students receiving inflated grades from their professors. Grade inflation, as Campus Reform noted, is a possible response to the idea that all students–no matter their ability or preparedness–must attend college.
Reading inferior authors and receiving inflated grades makes you stupid. I trust that you suspected as much. I did. But now we have some evidence.
Ninth, who is the biggest winner in the current Middle East conflict. Aside from Benjamin Netanyahu, of course.
The answer is: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salmann:
Shortly after Lebanon’s army chief Joseph Aoun was chosen this month as its next president, giant banners of him and Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman were unfurled on a building’s façade in the northern province of Akkar, hailing Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler as the “leader of the Arabs.”
The oil-rich kingdom and its 39-year-old leader — who backed Aoun to get the presidency — are emerging as one of the biggest winners in the fallout of the 15-month conflict in Gaza, which has tilted the balance of power in the Middle East against its longtime rival Iran. As a fragile ceasefire deal came into effect on Sunday, Tehran’s influence has been crippled, for now: its proxies in Lebanon and the Palestinian territories decimated, its Syrian ally Bashar al-Assad deposed and its enemy Israel emboldened. Saudi Arabia is wasting no time filling the void.
"This is a clash between an ambitious young man who realizes the world is changing and an elderly cleric clinging to an outdated ideology that brought him to power," says Mustafa Fahs, a Beirut-based commentator who hails from a clerical family critical of the Islamic Republic, referring to the Saudi crown prince and Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, respectively.
Considering that Saudi Arabia is on the verge of extending the Abraham Accords with Israel, this is good news indeed. Keep in mind, and I will call it an inference, the Abraham Accords would not have happened without the approval of MBS.
Tenth, Jon Levine reports in the New York Post that President Trump has been hiring a considerable number of prominent gay Americans. That no one is paying it much mind must count as a good thing.
President Trump is assembling an administration stocked with prominent gay and lesbian Americans — defying hysterical Democratic rhetoric.
“When it comes to whether you’re gay or straight, black or white and all those markers others calculate — President Trump is decision blind. He bases his decision on the kind of job he knows you will do, period,” said Bill White, a top Trump fundraiser — who was tapped to serve as the US ambassador to Belgium.
Among the picks:
Scott Bessent, 62, treasury secretary. If confirmed, the hedge fund manager would be the highest-ranking openly gay official in US history.
Ric Grenell, 58, presidential envoy for special missions. He was Trump’s director of national intelligence during his first term.
Tammy Bruce, 62, the new State Department spokesperson was a Fox News contributor.
Jacob Helberg, 35, undersecretary of state for economic growth, energy, and the environment.
Bill White, 57, ambassador to Belgium.
Art Fisher, 49, ambassador to Austria.
Obviously, this runs counter to the hysterical narrative wherein the Trump administration is going to put gay people into camps.
Levine continues:
Trump’s appointments fly in face of dire warnings from Democratic LGBT activists during the 2024 race.
In January, the Philadelphia Inquirer quoted an anonymous gay man who said he was buying guns for fear of being “put in concentration camps.”
The “freedom to love who you love openly and with pride” is at stake, warned Vice President Harris.
“As horrific as the first Trump presidency was for LGBTQ+ Americans, a second term would be even worse,” said Cathryn Oakley, senior director of legal policy at the Human Rights Campaign.
In the spirit of generosity I will spare you my opinion about the Episcopal Bishop of Washington, Mariann Budde, a woman who has no sense of decorum.
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