Yesterday (12/17), House Republican leaders were struggling to cobble together support within their party for a bipartisan stopgap federal spending bill on when, last night at 9:28pm, President-elect Donald Trump weighed in hard against it and imploded the deal.

In a joint statement on X (full text below) with Vice President-elect J.D. Vance, Mr. Trump trashed the 1,500-plus-page legislation that would fund the government until March 14.

The two men called on Republican leaders to reject it and renegotiate a “clean” measure with Democrats that would eliminate a trove of spending and policy extras.

Congress, now back to the drawing board, faces a Friday deadline to pass a stopgap bill to keep the federal government from shuttering.

“Republicans must get smart and tough. If Democrats threaten to shut down the government unless we give them everything they want, THEN CALL THEIR BLUFF,” Mr. Trump and Mr. Vance posted, with several words capitalized for Trumpian emphasis.

[Nigel Farage is the founder-leader of Britain’s Reform UK Party, which he represents as an MP (Member of Parliament) in the House of Commons.  Britain will soon no longer be a two-party Uniparty between Conservative and Labor.  The former did such an awful job under a succession of ridiculous Prime Ministers after jettisoning Boris Johnson, the Brits promptly jumped from the Tory frying pan into the catastrophically Woke Marxist fire of Labor.  Not long ago it would be laughably delusional among Brits that Reform would supplant the Tories and Farage be Prime Minister.  No laughing anymore.

This is a front page essay by Farage in today’s (12/18) London Telegraph, paired with a front-page news report: “Musk Ready To Bankroll Farage With ‘Biggest Donation In British Political History’.” Read them both and you’ll see why Farage may well transform the UK as Trump is doing to the US, both enabled by Elon.] 

A Monday afternoon (12/16) visit to Mar-a-Lago, and boy was it busy. Throughout the day, the world’s biggest tech giants were queuing up to meet Donald Trump, from Kris Marszalek, the head of Crypto.com, to Shou Zi Chew, the chief executive of TikTok.

This transition period was nothing like what I saw in 2016: there is a sense of order, determined calm and above all optimism. Trump’s personal ratings continue to rise in a way that’s not been seen before in an incoming president. And is it any wonder?

This is just one example of the atmosphere in Mar-a-Lago and the increasing aura around President Trump himself. It is no exaggeration to say that there is real excitement in the air and no one doubts that, by the date of the inauguration on Jan 20, the Trump administration is going to hit the ground running.

All of this is in such marked contrast to the doom, gloom and misery that is all-pervading in the United Kingdom at the moment.

Moscow believes that NATO will not accept Ukraine as a member as long as Russia wages war against it and wants the West to exclude Ukraine from NATO in exchange for “peace” with Russia.

Some NATO states are tentatively considering “coalitions-of-the-willing” to provide security for Ukraine outside NATO’s framework. Such suggestions have proven stillborn, there being no substitute for NATO collective guarantees of Ukraine’s government-controlled territory,

Thus, awaiting a “peace settlement” with Russia before accepting Ukraine into NATO would encourage Moscow to continue the war indefinitely. The alliance would need, however, to nail down security guarantees for and with Ukraine in advance of any negotiations with Russia.

Buckle your seatbelts because President-elect Donald Trump has ignited a worldwide revolt against the arrogance of global elites.

We are entering a brand-new era of rebellion -- man against the self-serving, out-of-touch political machines that ignore the will of the governed.

Everywhere. Look around. The world is a mess. Entrenched political leaders and parties are being tumultuously evicted in Europe, South America, the Middle East and Asia.  Syria is this week’s massively disastrous mess.

Britain, France, Germany, South Korea, Japan, Mexico, Canada – all and more are in political chaos. By contrast, way ahead of the pack is Argentina, where the "shock capitalist" President Javier Milei won election a year ago and is an overnight international hero for his chainsaw approach to shrinking big government.

Now is the hour of the entire world's discontent. Why are the dominoes of government tumbling so suddenly?

One word: Trump.

Barack Obama had long been rumored as the catalyst for the 2020 Biden nomination—and thereafter played the whispering puppeteer behind the subsequent lost Biden administration years.

The Obamas ignored or withheld from the public their own firsthand knowledge that Biden was suffering from signs of dementia. Instead, they found Biden’s cognitive decline and his former concocted reputation as workingman’s Joe useful as a veneer for a veritable Obama third-term, “phone it in” administration.

Or as wistful Obama once conditioned his dream of a third term—”If I could make an arrangement where I had a stand-in, a front man or front woman, and they had an earpiece in.”

The Obamaites then got their wish for four years of enacted hard-left directives that they could only have dreamed of while in actual power.  The result: Obama’s ruling radicalism beneath the Biden facade eventually cost the Democrats nearly everything—the presidency, the House, and the Senate.  All gone, and now, so has he.

Whoever would have thought that chopping off the healthy breast tissue of 14-year-old girls could mean you end up in court?

Well, anyone, actually, who has been paying any attention to the gender madness of the last decade. In the US, where the practice of medicine is particularly connected to the practice of law, I predict a deluge of court cases over what has been done to children in the name of “gender affirming care”.

Last week, 20-year-old Clementine Breen filed a medical negligence claim against a Los Angeles-based doctor, Johanna Olson-Kennedy, claiming she was rushed into irreversible treatment when she was 12. Olson-Kennedy is the medical director of the Centre for Transyouth Health and Development at the Children’s Hospital in LA.

This is, after all, the script, isn’t it? That without mutilating the bodies of teenagers, these kids will all kill themselves. That there is no evidence for this doesn’t appear to matter. Until it gets to court and then it does.

This is where Britain and many other European countries are far ahead of America. When evidence of the harmful effects of puberty blockers began to come in via longitudinal studies, the NHS stopped routinely prescribing them to under 18s. Finland, Sweden, Norway and Holland have also stopped prescribing blockers and cross-sex hormones to minors.  Trump’s America has to catch up and fast.

On Monday (12/09), Daniel Penny was found Not Guilty of criminally negligent homicide in the choking death of Jordan Neely.

In May of 2023, Neely boarded a New York City subway train and began to threaten other passengers. Penny and a few others subdued Neely until police arrived. Neely ultimately died, and Penny was charged with second-degree manslaughter in addition to criminally negligent homicide.  For most Americans, Penny was seen as a hero, a good Samaritan jumping in to help his fellow citizens in a dangerous situation.

Of course, like clockwork, Black Lives Matter (BLM) activists, a.k.a. agitators, showed up outside the courthouse, declaring the incident a racial one and demanding "justice." BLM leader Walter “Hawk” Newsome called for “black vigilantes” to enact revenge.

But something is different now. The BLM activists jumped up and down and yelled and screamed about being oppressed and had the prerequisite number of people standing behind them nodding their heads, but you could still hear their voices. Hundreds of other protesters had not drowned them out. Has BLM lost their 2020 black magic?