The Heartland drafted its naughty and nice list for Santa, and no one should be surprised at the organizations and individual progressives receiving a faux lump of coal this Christmas. The real stuff is too valuable to waste on North Pole political optics. However, Middle America is known to forgive (even if they rarely forget) bad decisions by those we have put our trust in. Bill Clinton would be a fine former example: We forgave his Oval Office shenanigans and regretted that decision in perpetuity. The nice list is quite small in comparison, but it should make the people of the US proud to be Americans.
A few examples follow.
Naughty and Confused or Corrupt?
Outgoing DC Police Chief Pamela A. Smith’s last day is December 31, and no one seems to give a hoot. Smith came into the position in 2023 and was so lost that she became a media sensation for DEI hires. She committed the original sin of officials everywhere by admitting she did not understand just who her superior officer was. Well, a thin skin has Smith now seeking a vacation from politics.
During her bizarre resignation speech, Smith proclaimed she had a record in DC of doing good: “I don’t have to talk about what I’ve done in this city. May the work I’ve done speak for me.”
Smith was appointed as chief of police in 2023 amid a crime spike in the District. That year, the city saw 274 homicides. In 2024, the number dropped to 182. To date this year, there have been 126 homicides. Well, that looks good on paper, but those crime stats are under investigation for fudging. Sigh. One faux lump. But wait, there is more with the unorthodox soon-to-be former DC police chief: She managed to slip in a bit of Old Testament with the New.
“I’m going to the Bible when I say this, to my haters: F you… I FORGIVE you.” How naughty!
Alice Brown St. Clair in Cleveland, NC, had to express her dismay: “Going out with class.” And in Austin, MN, Robert Tschida queried: “Which Bible did you get that from?”
Coal for Congress
Obamacare got a brief respite on its way to the dumpster out back as four naughty Republicans crossed the aisle. Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Mike Lawler (R-NY), Rob Bresnahan (R-PA), and Ryan Mackenzie (R-PA) gave Democrats the four signatures they needed to meet the majority threshold of 218 members to force the bill out of committee and bypass leadership. The discharge petition to force a vote on an extension of enhanced Obamacare subsidies is left unscathed.
Andy McKinney in Rome, GA, scolded Congressional GOP: “I’m a republican through and through, but until republicans figure out something better, they should extend the subsidies, not for 3 years just 1 year at a time. By this time next year, they should’ve been able to come up with something better, I mean can it really be that hard?” More coal, it seems.
The Nice List
Charlie Kirk was right about a lot of things, and just a couple of months before he was assassinated, he predicted Trump and Elon Musk would kiss and make up. “It might seem as if this is irreconcilable,” Kirk said in July, adding, “But President Trump has a rather dramatic and telling track record of being able to reconcile and work with people that were otherwise considered to be sworn enemies of MAGA.”
Musk is financing several GOP candidates – some of whom are challenging lawmakers commonly referred to as RINOs. Some heartlanders believed the breakup was staged to take the heat off Elon and Tesla to begin with, but regardless of the reasons, it would appear Kirk nailed his prediction, discounting what the hit-and-run media designated a “tumultuous summer” for the billionaire pair.
Glenn Kluthe in Wisconsin had to weigh in: “There was no ‘tumultuous’ summer except in the ‘hate Donald Trump and Elon Musk’ media.” And Jay Milliner in Pikeville, TN, really didn’t care if they were buds or not – he wants to see some progress in the party: “As long as he funds the new primary person throw the other bums out.”
It looks like real coal is on the way.
And rounding out this first part from the heartlanders’ list is Pennsylvania’s own Senator John Fetterman. The moderate Democrat continues to push back against the progressive-menace attacks, instead preferring thoughtful American representation. Fetterman has stood for the Jewish people – American and abroad – and hasn’t caved to the pro-Hamas nonsense being spewed by the crazy progressives.
Fetterman also stood for Trump and the policing of Venezuelan oil tankers and allowing Obamacare extensions to expire. As he put it:“I’d like to remind, it’s like, this was our bill, Obamacare. Not a single Republican voted for that, not one. And now, these extensions [were] through COVID, and that was designed by — designed to expire at the end of this year. That wasn’t like a Republican thing. It was like that was the way it was designed, and now here it is.”
And as for Cartel boat strikes? Yeah, he says he is confident that the president knows what he is doing.
Fetterman can expect some real stuff in that large stocking.
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