In Trumpian fashion, I kept my promise. On this morning's edition of Duane's World, my fabulously popular podcast, I turned the trilogy of columns here last week into a top ten segment. Tons of great response came in, but as with all good things in life, there's often a downside.

The recording schedule for the podcast, at least for me on the West Coast, is late afternoon on Thursday. Although I had no problem coming up with a list of ten choice utterances, in fact, I had to cull it down from about 20, by the time I woke up this morning to see how the podcast was doing, there was a fresh layer of stupid like an avalanche in the last few hours. 

The letter of the law, or my executive order as the case may be, is that any cut today cannot count towards next week's list. But prudence would dictate that they not get lost to posterity due to their unfortunate timing. So with that in mind, I bring you the top ten dumbest things, according to me, today.

#10

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez - those damn billionaires that supported us are getting too chummy with Trump.



It's almost as though this Marxist doesn't understand how capital moves and works when freed up. Almost a trillion dollars has been committed from outside and inside investment this week - everything from Stellantis announcing cars and trucks to be built in the Rust Belt that weren't on the table before the election, to an entire infrastructure buildout putting this country on track to be the world's superpower on artificial intelligence. And with all that investment comes jobs - by the hundreds of thousands. 

AOC is beside herself that these billionaires, who read the room for the last four years thinking they had to go woke and implement DEI to survive, now read it a different way, with the majority of the country rejecting it. Target has announced they're done with DEI. The hits just keep on coming. And as for the billionaires, I don't trust them. No one should. But their investment in this country should be very welcome news indeed. With investment comes jobs, with jobs comes economic prosperity and growth. It's almost like what Donald Trump said would happen is happening. If the country hits GDP of 4-5% in the next couple years, I don't think the progressive Democratic rallying cry of, "...but the oligarchs" is going to resonate very well.

#9

Susan Glasser - We're drowning in outrage here.

The New Yorker columnist and spouse of New York Times chief White House correspondent Peter Baker has been seldom seen or heard for the last four years. But like Daniel Dale, the alleged "fact-checker" on CNN, she's all over the place now - on X, in print, and on resistance cable news. She uncorked this to set up her latest essay.

Trump Is Already Drowning Us in Outrages

My new column is up ⁦@NewYorker⁩: https://t.co/8SWsR9Yyoo

— Susan Glasser (@sbg1) January 24, 2025

With the firehose of actions Donald Trump has taken since Noon on Monday, I'm sure we can all find something we don't like. Maybe, we can find a couple. But the overwhelming majority of policy moves, EO's, and statements to press have been more than any conservative could have dreamed. Enter Susan Glasser.

She's pitch perfect when it comes to reflecting the mood of left-wing resistance media. If she thinks Trump is drowning "us", meaning resistance media and those Kamala Harris voters across the country in outrages, seems to me that, as Ed Morrissey quoted from the Kurt Russell-Goldie Hawn movie Overboard on our Week In Review podcast, "It's been a helluva week at sea, sir." 

#8

Tedros Ghebreyesus - putting the who? in WHO

The World Health Organization can't catch a break this week. First, Donald Trump has pulled out taking millions of dollars of funding with him. But to add insult to injury, there is a group of people exercising de facto control of Yemen who have taken UN workers hostage. See if you notice anything missing from his statement. 

This is deeply regrettable news from #Yemen. Detaining @UN staff and humanitarians is not acceptable. @WHO continues to call on de facto authorities to:
- immediately and unconditionally release all detained UN colleagues and other humanitarians;
- stop detaining humanitarians. pic.twitter.com/jW2I8J9k6h

— Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (@DrTedros) January 24, 2025

Who, praytell, is the dastardly villains who took these poor UN stooges, I mean workers, hostage? It's a plum mystery, I tell you. You know if Israel had been behind it, the entire international community would be screaming about the Jews at the top of their lungs. But because the hostages were taken by the Houthis, one of the last remaining semi-functional proxies of Iran, all feckless Tedros can say it let my people go. But he doesn't have the courage to actually stand before Pharaoh and pull the Moses card. He can't even say their name when calling them out.

It's not been a banner week for international elites, whether they be at the United Nations or the World Economic Forum at Davos. There's a new sheriff in town. 

#7

If CNN has lost Joe Walsh, then their audience is literally one person smaller in size

The former Republican may possibly have been broken by Donald Trump into the most pieces. You could counter with Bill Kristol and a whole host of others, but Walsh has few equals or betters in the Never Trump world for derangement. After CNN's new lineup came out sans the stylings of Jim Acosta, that was the last straw for Walsh.

I appear on @CNN quite often. And if saying what I’m about to say means my days at CNN are over, well then fuck it. CNN, what you just did - removing @Acosta from his morning show - is cowardly bullshit. Acosta is one of your most independent, unafraid hosts. To demote him to…

— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) January 23, 2025

Poor CNN. They're not going to have Joe Walsh to kick around anymore. Good thing they unpacked Daniel Dale from mothballs. He's busier than a one-armed paper hanger this week after being all but ready for CNN's yearly In Memoriam reel. Walsh's departure is actually a gift to CNN, whether they appreciate it or not. 

#6

NBC-10 in Boston - We're concerned about these ICE raids

NEW DEVELOPMENTS: There are growing concerns over potential ICE raids in Massachusetts after federal agents were seen entering homes in East Boston on Wednesday and taking multiple people into custody. https://t.co/YB7R3GNY9P

— NBC10 Boston (@NBC10Boston) January 23, 2025

They're entering homes. They're taking away Nana and Meemaw. Who shouldn't be concerned if this kind of abomination is taking place? 

I’m curious what concerns there would be over the following being removed from the streets by ICE Boston yesterday?

Two MS-13 gang members, one of which has an Interpol Red Notice warrant for aggravated murder
Haitian gang member w/ 17 convictions
Multiple alleged rapists,… https://t.co/HQl6GoeAHW

— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) January 24, 2025

Oh. This is who's being picked up? Never mind.

#5

Chief Warren - Defense Secretary has to be there 24/7, 365, not boozing it up.

On MSNBC with Rachel Maddow, the Chief walked into this box canyon about the forthcoming Pete Hegseth confirmation vote, which should squeak by in the Senate very soon.

The last Defense Secretary the Chief voted for was this guy. 

Just a reminder that Pete Hegseth will be your new Secretary of Defense. The last one under Joe Biden, Lloyd Austin went AWOL for a week and nobody even knew, totally unqualified. ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/IN7s4DHEL5

— Savannah (@BasedSavannah) January 24, 2025

He didn't happen to be on station 24/7, 365. In fact, for a few weeks, no one knew where the hell the guy was. He was getting a little work done on the chassis, apparently, and Joe Biden knew even less about his whereabouts than normal. There's a chair over there in the corner, Senator. Might want to sit this one out.


#4

Rev. Al Sharpton - Sure looks like they're profiling a certain black or brown color to deport

From Morning Joe on MSNBC: 



Leave it to Al to start hustling on race, something completely out of character for him (*rolls eyes*), completely overlooking that the only profiling being done under the watchful eye of Border Czar Tom Homan is whether they have a rap sheet and no passport. Again, going back to Bill Melugin's reporting from Fox News, read again who got picked just in the Boston raid alone.

*  Two MS-13 gang members, one of which has an Interpol Red Notice warrant for aggravated murder 
*  Haitian gang member with 17 convictions
*  Multiple alleged rapists, including one who held a gun in woman’s mouth during the crime
*  Dominican charged with assault with a deadly weapon, using a boxcutter & heroin trafficking
*  Salvadoran man charged with rape
*  Haitian man charged with sexual assault

If past is prologue, think of the pain, suffering, and violence Donald Trump just stopped in the future from this lot alone. He's literally making the country safer by the day. Al is trying to make his bank account safer by the day. Big difference.

#3

Keith Olbermann - It's time, California. Quit paying your taxes

Ok it's time. California and its citizens need to cut off all tax money going to this corrupt and broken federal "government." https://t.co/0c815Ad3yf

— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) January 24, 2025

It's such a gloriously stupid idea, I'm game for the Golden State to take him up on it and run with it. I'm sure the Trump administration won't mind. In fact, Democrats here should just recall their two United States Senators and their entire Congressional delegation. Just boycott the whole affair for the next four years. Just imagine what can happen. Oh, sure, the House would lose 9 Republican members, but the Democrats would lose 43. That math adds up to a healthy working majority for the GOP. In the Senate, two fewer Democrats, meaning a majority now is 49 plus the tiebreaker by the Vice-President, would make contentious nominations a whole lot easier. 

My guess is not even Gavin Newsom or Karen Bass are listening to him.

#2 

Newsweek's Jordan King - Can we get comment on these unauthorized citizens?

No doubt about it, Donald Trump is a force of nature when it comes to handling the media. But at the state level, there's no comparison to the media team behind Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. They are a class unto themselves. Newsweek came calling, trying to solicit comment from the Governor about illegal aliens being deported. Except Jordan King couldn't call them what they are. Instead, he came up with this, unaware that everything these days is transparent when lefties pretending to be journalists out themselves as the lefties they are. 

Well, this is a new one.

Newsweek's new term for illegal alien is "unauthorized citizen."

How can that be?

Guess they missed Governor DeSantis shut down similarly absurd terminology yesterday. pic.twitter.com/HHEbMSsXDf

— Julia Friedland (@JuliaFriedland) January 24, 2025

You'd think by now, some of resistance media would have started to learn. But today is not that day.

#1

London Daily Telegraph - We're not calling it the Gulf of America, and you can't make us.

🔴 Britain will not recognise Trump’s new name for Gulf of Mexicohttps://t.co/SmvxpOrK0z

— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) January 23, 2025

Guess who's right at the top of the list of Britons who refuse to accept the new reality? This guy. 

Him 👇 pic.twitter.com/dY3SUPawCR

— Ed (@Ed_1776_Patriot) January 23, 2025

Since Argentina seems to be doing so well under new President Javier Milei, maybe the Falklands should return to them. I think Starmer and the Labour Government have their hands full of problems of their own making without wading into an issue that doesn't concern them, and that no one here will care what they think about it in the first place.  

What a week. Here's hoping the President keeps his foot on the gas. And Democrats, you just keep being you. We'll do the rest.