If I had to guess, I’d say Pete Hegseth will get the job as DoD head after all. It looks like there aren’t enough Senate Republicans with the guts to block him. We’re bleeped.

I am not watching the confirmation hearings, because it’s pointless. The fix is in. All the Democrats can do is lay down markers for the future — this candidate is a pile of bleep — so they can slam Republicans with their bad judgment in the 2026 midterms. At least maybe — maybe — they’ll nix Tulsi Gabbard. But I bet all the rest of the flying monkeys will be confirmed.

From Jennifer Rubin’s new Contrarian substack column:

Watching Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth demonstrate his appalling lack of credentials, knowledge, and character for the job for which he was nominated I am compelled to ask: Is the Trump administration running a DEI program for incompetent, unqualified, and/or ethically compromised Whites?

Heh.

Here’s a story from yesterday that really should have gotten more attention: Reuters reports that Trump says he will create new agency to collect revenue from foreign sources.

Donald Trump said on Tuesday he will create a new government agency called the External Revenue Service “to collect tariffs, duties, and all revenue” from foreign sources as he readies new import tariffs ahead of his inauguration next week.

Trump said in a social media post he would create the department on Jan. 20, the day he takes office as president for a second term, adding that Americans have been taxed for too long by the Internal Revenue Service.

This reinforces what I’ve long believed, that Trump really doesn’t understand what tariffs are. His campaign talk about collecting money from China wasn’t just talk for the rubes. He thinks that’s how tariffs work. Of course, the U.S. has long had a very efficient method of collecting tariffs and duties, which has been handled in our ports by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency since 1789.

Trump is such a moron. We are so bleeped.