Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: Send In The Clowns

Around the time dipshit billionaire Mark Zuckerberg overhauled Meta's fact-checking team and dismantled the company's DEI programs, Zuckerberg sat down with Joe Rogan, where the robotic/alien-looking CEO, who usually dons bizarre 4th-grade style haircuts complete with bratty bangs, suggested that more corporations should embrace their "masculine energy." You could feel that MAGA stink dripping off of his stupid face. As it happens, Zuck may have been influenced by Donald's adviser, Stephen Miller, who used to drink the tears of migrant children at the border. The New Republic reports: According to The New York Times, Zuckerberg met with Trump adviser Stephen Miller in late November and was told by Miller that he could help America, but on Trump's terms.

On this day in 1980, Pink Floyd’s 11th studio album, The Wall, began a 15-week run at the top of the Billboard 200. Pink Floyd - In The Flesh / Run Like Hell / Waiting For The Worms Krugman wonks out: Voodoo, MAGA Style. Joe. My. God.: Homan: I’ll Deputize Citizens To Turn In Migrant Kids. All Hat No Cattle: Panama Canal Officials Respond to Trump’s Threats to Retake It On CNN: ‘We Get To Keep Everything’. Attention science fiction nerds!

Trump is saying he’s moving the inauguration because of frigid temperatures. But even The New York Times seems skeptical: President-elect Donald J. Trump said Friday that his inauguration would be moved inside the Capitol Rotunda because of a frigid weather forecast, the first time in 40 years that a presidential swearing-in will be held indoors. The change for Monday’s inauguration means that far fewer people will be able to watch in person as Mr.

Sigh. The last day of the Biden Administration. The entire country will miss him, whether they know it now, or not. How are you spending this Sunday? Open thread read more

“Gov. Gavin Newsom has been an omnipresent figure as fires have burned across the nation’s most populous county. He surveyed damage with emergency officials, peppered network and cable television with interviews, and pushed a blizzard of state actions meant to ease the path for victims — often evincing a more moderate approach than his liberal reputation suggests,” the Washington Post reports. “For Newsom, the stakes are not only the survival and recovery of his troubled state, but also of his ambitions, including the odds of securing the Democratic nomination for president in 2028.” “More broadly for his party, the vast destruction marks the first opportunity for a nationally known Democrat to demonstrate competence to solve issues directly affecting constituents’ lives, rebuffing criticism that was brutally leveled before the November elections in which Republicans gained united control of Washington, in part by luring dissatisfied Democratic voters.”

Politico: “It was one of many instances over his final weeks in office — a period Biden and his staff hoped to use to burnish his political legacy — that drove home the limitations of even a president’s power to control the agenda. The heightened air of futility punctuated a four-year term that, for everything accomplished legislatively, is ending where it began — with Donald Trump in the White House.” “Biden’s team struggled in the final days and weeks of his term, as it did for four years, to drive a message that might capture the country’s attention and bolster a battered legacy.”