Seeing ppl (incl "MAGA") fret over debt, a little history is in order:

In '12, Romney/Ryan explicitly ran on making difficult & politically unsavory choices to fix longterm debt problem.

America rejected them.

Then Trump & MAGA won in '16 mocking them as RINOs. Elon Musk and his crew mocked the idea you had to touch entitlements in order to fix the debt problem.

Musk promised to cut $2 million through slashing waste, fraud and abuse. He didn't come close, as everyone who knows about the debt problem predicted.

My New Year's resolution last year was to read 52 books in 2022, or a book a week. I clocked in at 57 for the year. My full reading list can by clicking on the link, but I'll go through my favorite 10 in a thread.

goodreads.com/user_challenge… Don't take the numbers for rankings within my top 10 reads of the year.

1) Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master’s Insights on China, United States, and the World by Graham Allison, Robert Blackwill and Ali Wyne.

The interviews with Lee Kwan Yew provided a lot of insight on China.

Sydney Powell is currently alleging on Newsmax that Georgia's Republican governor, Brian Kemp, was paid by Dominion as part of the conspiracy to defeat Donald Trump.

The Newsmax anchor just said everything she is alleging sounds nuts but who knows it could be true. Mark Halperin is also on set. He's asked a couple of decent questions, like why is Donald Trump's DOJ not interested in this vast conspiracy.

So John Bolton is now officially NSA. I have interviewed him many times over the years -- and even hosted him for an off-the-record dinner as part of my Churchill Tommy Gun Society dinners. A few observations. When I asked Bolton in 2011 to define his FP,said the bumper sticker wld be "pro-American,"which seems to fall in line w Trump's rhetoric dailycaller.com/2011/04/27/the…’s-jamie-weinstein-john-bolton-on-birtherism-trump-the-limits-of-democracy-promotion-and-his-presidential-aspirations/