Pete Hegseth is doing very well. His support is strong and deep, much more so than the Fake News would have you believe. He was a great student – Princeton/Harvard educated – with a Military state of mind. He will be a fantastic, high energy, Secretary of Defense Defense, one who leads with charisma and skill. Pete is a WINNER, and there is nothing that can be done to change that!!!

Vance republished Trump’s endorsement and added notes of his own:

Led by President Trump, we’re fighting for Pete Hegseth. And we’re doing so because Pete Hegseth wil fight for our troops.

For too long, the Pentagon has been led by people who lose wars. Pete Hegseth is a man who fought in those wars.

We’ve got his back.

As I recently noted on my show, it’s incumbent on President Trump to say he’s backing his guy and RINOs that are subverting his nomination need to stand down. I got half of my wish.

Unless a GOP Senator can present compelling evidence that Hegseth is not qualified or capable, thye need to stand down and get in line.

"Trump Needs to Tell GOP Senators to Stop Derailing America's Team" pic.twitter.com/pbcU3nXX4h

— JD Rucker (@JDRucker) December 5, 2024

Rumors continue to circulate on legacy media that there are as many as 10 Republican Senators opposed to Hegseth. But outside of Senator Joni Ernst, none of these alleged dissenters have come out public to oppose his confirmation. As Trump would say, the attacks on Hegseth amounts to purely fake news.

It seems like anyone who doubted the “Trump Effect” on Bitcoin was wrong, at least in these early days after the election and before he’s even inaugurated. Bitcoin soared to over $100,000 for the first time on Wednesday.

According to Breitbart:

The digital asset peaked around its previous 2022 record of $73,000 in March 2024, weeks after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved several exchange-traded funds (ETFs) for investors seeking to acquire it, according to data from CoinMarketCap.com. At the end of October, Bitcoin came close to that $73,000 record before retreating in the 60,000s range, then rocketing to a new all-time high of $75,000 before the end of the first week of November. Since then, BTC has sailed past new price benchmarks, first selling for $90,000 on November 13.

In the course of an hour, BTC surged from roughly $98,500 to $103,000 Wednesday evening, smashing a six-figure price barrier that felt unthinkable a decade ago, when the asset spent an entire year under $1,000.

Several factors may have contributed to the past month’s price action; investors may have been energized by President-elect Donald Trump’s victory over Kamala Harris (Trump vowed to create a BTC “strategic reserve” and appealed directly to Bitcoiners on the campaign trail) and the announcement that Gary Gensler — a villain in the eyes of many cryptocurrency fans — would step down from the SEC once Trump takes office.

But one of the key elements in Bitcoin’s perennial rise is its “halving” — a 50% reduction in its issuance of new “coin” units — that occurs every four years, making the “mining” that secures the network that records the ledger of BTC transactions more competitive and costly. The latest Bitcoin halving occurred in April 2024. Just as it did in 2012, 2016, and 2020, BTC appears to be entering price discovery roughly five months after the latest halving.

Historically, Bitcoin has grown in cycles of parabolic ascent and “crashes” down to prices far above the previous cycle’s highs.

Will Bitcoin go to $150,000? $200.000? $1,000,000? With Donald Trump in the White House, anything is possible.

According to WJAT:

Twenty years after closing all of its locations due to bankruptcy and a foodborne illness outbreak, a popular Mexican restaurant is looking to make a comeback.

Hormel Foods, who owns the trademark, worked out a deal to bring Chi-Chi’s back to life after every location closed in 2004. The company initially closed its doors after a bankruptcy which coincided with a foodborne illness outbreak that was linked back to them.

The son of the founder of Chi-Chi’s, Michael McDermott, said in a release that he hopes to honor his family’s legacy by combining the classic Mexican restaurant with modern influence.

It would NEVER be admitted by anyone at Hormel or the original Chi-Chi’s team that the 2024 election results played a role in their decision to reopen… but it definitely did.

We’re back, baby!

It would NEVER be admitted by anyone at Hormel or the original Chi-Chi's team that the 2024 election results played a role in their decision to reopen… but it definitely did.

"Trump Effect: Popular Mexican Restaurant Set to Return 20 Years After Closing All US Locations" pic.twitter.com/1BYHO5B8iW

— JD Rucker (@JDRucker) December 5, 2024

According to WJAT:

Twenty years after closing all of its locations due to bankruptcy and a foodborne illness outbreak, a popular Mexican restaurant is looking to make a comeback.

Hormel Foods, who owns the trademark, worked out a deal to bring Chi-Chi’s back to life after every location closed in 2004. The company initially closed its doors after a bankruptcy which coincided with a foodborne illness outbreak that was linked back to them.

The son of the founder of Chi-Chi’s, Michael McDermott, said in a release that he hopes to honor his family’s legacy by combining the classic Mexican restaurant with modern influence.

It would NEVER be admitted by anyone at Hormel or the original Chi-Chi’s team that the 2024 election results played a role in their decision to reopen… but it definitely did.

We’re back, baby!

It would NEVER be admitted by anyone at Hormel or the original Chi-Chi's team that the 2024 election results played a role in their decision to reopen… but it definitely did.

"Trump Effect: Popular Mexican Restaurant Set to Return 20 Years After Closing All US Locations" pic.twitter.com/1BYHO5B8iW

— JD Rucker (@JDRucker) December 5, 2024

But Hegseth also represents a less-interventionist approach to our national defense and that’s a non-starter for the NeoCons. This is why some Republicans, led by Senator Lindsey Graham, are latching onto ridiculous claims by NBC News that he’s a drunk.

As Libs of TikTok noted on X:

Current and former co-workers of Pete Hegseth are defending him saying the newest hoax the Democrats are spreading about him is complete bull****

Current and former co-workers of Pete Hegseth are defending him saying the newest hoax the Democrats are spreading about him is complete bullshit pic.twitter.com/kbdKhGsSX4

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) December 4, 2024

Here’s Graham responding to the report, which only cites anonymous sources:

. @LindseyGrahamSC who wouldn’t blink twice before sending your child to go fight in Ukraine find the unsubstantiated allegations that are being slung in the media about Pete Hegseth to be very disturbing.

For some reason, he doesn’t find disturbing the fact that Lloyd Austin,… pic.twitter.com/pRd0zu3m9a

— Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) December 4, 2024

According to spectacular independent journalist Nick Sortor, Graham is the driving force behind the push to upend his appointment:

JUST IN: Capitol Hill sources tell me Lindsey Graham is the leading force to DERAIL Pete Hegseth’s nomination for Secretary of Defense

WHY ARE WE ALLOWING LADY GRAHAM TO DICTATE OUR ADMINISTRATION?

Put him in his place!

https://twitter.com/nicksortor/status/1864166503005778289

Conservatives have been coming out in full force to support Hegseth and denounce reports that at least six Republican Senators are against his confirmation:

If you stand with Pete Hegseth repost this and let’s show the fake news that Americans wants him as Secretary of Defense.

Every GOP Senator should vote to confirm his nomination. pic.twitter.com/ONPdLkzWGc

— Gunther Eagleman (@GuntherEagleman) December 4, 2024

NEW: NBC claims that Pete Hegseth had a drinking problem during his time at FOX, citing anonymous employees.

FOX employees who worked with Hegseth for years immediately call the story false.

The legacy media's frequent use of anonymous sources to smear Trump and his allies is… pic.twitter.com/68YWtPfgTx

— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) December 4, 2024

You know Pete Hegseth is a legitimate threat to the establishment and military industrial complex by the orchestrated campaign being implemented to take him down. pic.twitter.com/fcU6J0xYjy

— Mostly Peaceful Memes (@MostlyPeacefull) December 4, 2024

"PETE HEGSETH IS A HERO, HE'S NOT A DRUNK!" @damonroberts is sick and tired of Republicans like Lindsey Graham, who work with the Democrats to destroy Hegseth's reputation. "This is crap!" @slickricksports @rickdelgadorad @lfs6b pic.twitter.com/kg2vsYl81K

— Real America's Voice (RAV) (@RealAmVoice) December 4, 2024

Fox goes to bat for Pete Hegseth- the Dems using the tired playbook of giving Pete the Kavanaugh treatment pic.twitter.com/vKtWcBU4io

— Karli Bonne’ (@KarluskaP) December 4, 2024

I’ve been on set with Pete Hegseth for Fox and Friends and at various events for Fox Nation. I’ve been with him in the green room. He’s been on my show a half dozen times.

That he’s some problematic drunk is laughable — but there’s nothing funny about these coordinated smears. pic.twitter.com/a8oRKwuMvl

— Jason Rantz on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) December 4, 2024

Legacy media does not get to choose who President Trump has in his cabinet. And while the U.S. Senate has the power to advise and consent, they do not have the ability to make the pick, either. That means it’s up to President Trump and Pete Hegseth to decide if they will move forward.

Patriotic Americans across this nation support Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense. It would be a huge mistake for President Trump to back away now and it would be an even worse mistake for Republican Senators to withhold their support.

So, in the op-ed pages of the failing New York Times and during the prime-time group therapy sessions broadcast from the bankrupt studios of CNN and MSNBC, Democrat operatives tiptoe around many taboo subjects while suggesting to their fellow congregants that the Democrat party must atone for its loss of earthly power.  Influential clergymen from Barack Obama’s own “woke” order have even gone so far as to publicly confess the commission of what is by far the gravest Democrat sin: “We’re losing the culture war.”

Egad!  That’s the one war Democrats are unwilling to lose!  They must be perceived as the “cool” ones at all times.  So imperiling is the prospect of surrendering their reputation for being hip and trendy that Democrats will do anything to remain relevant.  Smug pretentiousness doesn’t look sexy when you’re constantly being depantsed in viral videos and on social media.  Glib aloofness looks a lot like stupidity when ignorant celebrities can’t hide behind their pop-culture mystiques and glamour shots.

If Democrats aren’t in charge of the culture, they can’t be in charge of anything else for long either.  Without a monopoly over the haute couture of fame and public adulation, they are no more than an odd collection of doomsayers, snake oil salesmen, carnival barkers, streetwalkers, has-beens, pseudo-intellectuals, hormone-raging adolescents, and empty suits.  If the public sees them as they actually are, they will never be allowed to hold power again.  It’s never good policy to let the inmates run the asylum.  It’s downright deadly to give the inmates nuclear weapons and control over the economy.

Understandably, Democrats are freaking out about their loss of social prestige.  They expected the public to defer to the wishes of noted climatologist (snark!) Greta Thunberg as she dictates to farmers across the globe what they can and cannot do with their private lands.  They expected fearful citizens to obey the pandemic-loving Anthony Fauci’s every command.  They expected women to vote for Kamala Harris because Taylor Swift endorsed her from a pyrotechnic-lit stage.  They expected blue-collar workers to reject President Trump’s “America First” agenda because Robert De Niro wasted the last eight years playing an angry, old man with a single line: “F*ck Trump!”  They expected Green Day’s hatred for MAGA voters to keep the “cool kids” caged on the Democrats’ soul-crushing plantation.  Celebrities flooded the 2024 pop-culture space with anti-Trump histrionics, cringeworthy temper-tantrums, and a glut of Democrat party endorsements.  The public tuned out all the noise and voted for Trump anyway.

You mean the Hollyweirdos, fake scientists, lip-syncing twerkers, aging rock stars, and teenaged “influencers” have lost control over the mind-melded masses?  Gaia forfend!  Quick, call in the liposuction plumbers, the botox brigades, and the lighting specialists: we must remind Americans that the celebrity class is filled with bona fide stars!  Who do the folks living in the lowlands of the Missouri Bootheel think they are?  When Bob De Niro, the queen of Swifties, and boy bands who are old enough to qualify for senior citizen discounts tell you to vote for Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, or Kamala Harris, you better hop to it!  Being rich and famous entitles dumb people to tell working-class people what to do.

Or…just spitballing here…maybe Americans have grown tired of caring about the opinions of a bunch of California communists who pal around with sexual predators, debaucherous drug enthusiasts, habitual rehab guests, angry narcissists, profligate poobahs, and intellectual poseurs who can barely read.  Perhaps Americans finally see Hollywood’s undeservedly rich and famous as the dimwitted, morally vacuous cretins and reprobates they’ve always been.  Could that be why “woke” Disney, late night scolds posing as comedians, and politics-pushing actors have lost their influence over the American people?  There’s no question that Hollywood’s stars have dimmed.  Even aw-shucks “everyman” Tom Hanks now suffers at the box-office after pimping for the Democrats’ favorite flavors of socialism the last few years.  (Spoiler alert: all the flavors of socialism taste like dirt because socialism always leads to murder, starvation, and mass graves.)

Americans have definitely seen through the celebrity class’s layers of plastic surgery and recognized Hollywood for what it is: a feeding ground for lost and damaged souls.  Voters have rejected the political pablum of Rob Reiner, Rosie O’Donnell, Oprah Winfrey, George Clooney, Mark Ruffalo, and other Tinseltown snobs because their opinions hold no weight.  Americans can think for themselves.  The good people of “flyover country” have nothing to learn from the vain pontifications of coastal “elites.”

There is a more salient reason why Americans of all backgrounds now avoid the Democrat party’s army of celebrity influencers as if their opinions were as malodorous as spoiled milk sitting under an Arizona sun: there is absolutely nothing “cool” about being a Democrat these days.  If you want to get a stern lecture, you hang out with Democrats.  If you want to have a good time with other happy people, you go to a Trump rally.  If you scrutinize all jokes for their compliance with the tenets of “political correctness,” then you vote Democrat.  If you make jokes without worrying about “triggering” somebody, then Democrat operatives are most likely censoring whatever you say online.  Nobody likes being censored.  And as shocking as this must be to Deep State Democrats, censorship isn’t “cool.”

Over Thanksgiving, President Trump released a Christmas Vacation parody in which he comically roasted his Democrat rivals.  Vice President-elect Vance shared Norman Rockwell’s iconic Freedom from Want oil painting of Thanksgiving dinner and photoshopped the father and mother figures with Trump and Vance serving their family a beautiful map of Republican-voting America.  Both posts were hilarious holiday treats that millions of Americans enjoyed seeing.  Democrats, however, found the light humor terribly disturbing.  After all, they’ve decried Donald Trump as “literally Hitler” for eight long years, and Americans should not be amused when “Hitler” trolls the political opposition with funny Internet memes.  Haven’t Americans been listening to Democrats’ stern lectures: “Democracy” is at stake!

Democrats are not the party of “live and let live.”  They are not the party of individualism, intellectual open-mindedness, or rebellion against the status quo.  They are not the party of free speech or free expression.

They are the party of rules, regulations, and intrusive laws.  They are the party of mandates, de-banking, social “cancellation,” and dogmatic beliefs.  They are the thought police.

If you want to be told what you can and cannot do, you vote for Democrats.  If you want to make your own decisions, you never vote for Democrats.  The Democrat party has become nothing but a religious cult intent on punishing Americans for their heretical transgressions.  It is no wonder, then, why Americans are running away from leftism and towards President Trump’s MAGA coalition.  As Elon Musk’s mom recently observed, President Trump seems to be “having fun.”  Happy Americans want to have fun, too.  They voted accordingly.

With Joe Biden pardoning his son, Hunter, or Sunday, MTG took the opportunity to go off on the President. She also warned about the future; having a President with nothing to lose can be a very dangerous time for America.

Here’s her post on 𝕏:

The FBI didn’t raid Hunter Biden’s bedroom, they raided Barron’s bedroom.

Just think about that.

That’s how morally corrupt all of these people are.

Joe did not pardon Hunter because he is a father who loved his son like the mockingbird media and Democrat liars are saying.

Joe pardoned Hunter all the way back to 2014 when Hunter started bio labs in Ukraine, started with Burisma, and began money laundering through dozens of LLC shell companies through business deals in many foreign countries including China.

Hunter is not just Joe’s son, he is his business partner, and Hunter sold his Dad’s power and influence for millions while Joe was VP and beyond.

That’s why the wide sweeping pardon from 2014 to now.

It covers VP to 4 yrs running for president to 4 yrs being president – 11 years of all kinds of crimes.

But the bigger crimes are all the people in the FBI, DOJ, State Department, CIA, and other agencies that all knew about the Biden family corrupt business and crimes yet stayed quiet, provided cover, lied about it all, but instead went after their political enemies.

The 51 intel officials who signed their name to a lie that Hunter’s laptop, with all the evidence, wasn’t real.

They all abused their power in order to create the illusion that Trump, not Biden, was the criminal.

All of these people lying today saying “Joe is a father who loves his son” are clinging to the lies and will gladly abuse power and weaponize the government against all of us if they are ever in charge again.

How many more pardons are coming for Biden family members and others?

It’s a long time to Jan 20th.

The FBI didn’t raid Hunter Biden’s bedroom, they raided Barron’s bedroom.

Just think about that.

That’s how morally corrupt all of these people are.

Joe did not pardon Hunter because he is a father who loved his son like the mockingbird media and Democrat liars are saying.…

— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) December 2, 2024

Nothing she said was wrong.

Unfortunately for him, he’s also a dedicated partisan hack who has fully embraced his role as constant Democrat cheerleader, defender, and propagandist. His kind is going out of style very quickly and he took a personal blow to his credibility with the resurfacing of a proclamation he made on 𝕏:

people who insist Biden will pardon Hunter after specifically ruling it out are telling on themselves

they can’t imagine someone acting on principle and keeping his word

people who insist Biden will pardon Hunter after specifically ruling it out are telling on themselves

they can't imagine someone acting on principle and keeping his word

— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) June 13, 2024

In case he deletes the post, here’s a version from DefiantLs:

Might be my favorite one so far. pic.twitter.com/LiuKXNLrcP

— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) December 2, 2024

Many journalists declared their belief that Joe Biden would not pardon his son, but Harwood took it a few notches higher by inserting a backhanded insults against Donald Trump and his supporters.

A community note was added to his original post from June:

President Biden did pardon his son Hunter, with a blanket pardon covering nearly 11 years of potential federal crimes, as President Biden’s term neared its conclusion.

Thankfully, legacy media is dying. “We are the media now,” as Elon Musk often says. It’s true and it couldn’t have happened at a more important time in American history.

Original post.

Two years ago, she told “The View” that she wouldn’t delete her account because surrendering is pathetic.

Alyssa Milano just deleted her account. She previously said she isn't leaving X because surrendering is pathetic. pic.twitter.com/RFtXEubMy9

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) December 1, 2024

She has an account on Bluesky but hasn’t posted much to it. In fact, she hasn’t posted anything there in a week. Perhaps that will change now that her popular 𝕏 account is gone.

Kash Patel will have the power to release documents and present evidence that would implicate thousands of powerful or connected people. From the Epstein list to the Russiagate inquiry to the classified J6 truth, people in and out of DC will be in grave jeopardy.

They are going after him now. They have to. If he’s allowed to control the vast powers of the FBI and access the insane amount of “dirt” they have in their vaults, then many Deep State collaborators will be exposed.

Their first recourse will be to try to turn him through blackmail. They will dig through his past, his family’s history, his finances, and anything else they can access. If would be their ideal scenario to have someone in there who is perceived as a “good guy” by the people but who they actually have compromised and now control.

If they can’t blackmail him, they will get very desperate. This is the part that I hesitate to spell out but it needs to be said if only ambiguously. Will they manufacture dirt to discredit him? Possibly. It wouldn’t be shocking to see a sex scandal of some sort pop up if they can find another Christine Blasey Ford.

Will they engage in activities that are far worse? Possibly. They tried to smear, jail, and assassinate a presidential candidate. It seems like nothing is off the table when the Deep State gets desperate enough.

This is an extremely important position and the right man was chosen for the job. We have to hope they cannot compromise him in any way. Then, we must hope that they don’t do something far worse.

He has indicated he wants the release of the Epstein client list. We can assume the same is true for the Diddy party list.

He has said he wants full transparency about the FBI’s involvement in sparking the J6 protests. That has been one of the best kept secrets in Washington for four years with multiple Deep State assets bending over backwards to keep us in the dark.

The Nashville Shooter’s manifesto is currently being withheld from the public by Christopher Wray and his successor wants it released.

As for RussiaGate, he has mentioned over 10,000 man-hours were put into exposing the abuse of power committed by so many members of government, oftentimes against other members of government. He says this information has been largely withheld and that he wants it all released.

Perhaps worst of all for the Deep State, he says he wants to make FBI agents actually go out there and enforce the law. They have operated largely as the government’s jackboots for so long that taking them out of the intimidation industry and making them fight crime would upend many of the Deep State’s machinations.

We must pray for him. He needs God’s protection from all of the shenanigans they are going to try to use against him because the forces behind them are desperate. They know what he can do as FBI Director and it gravely concerns them, so they’ll be willing to do anything just as they were willing to do anything to stop President Trump.

God protected Trump and we must hope and pray it is God’s Will to protect Kash Patel as well.