Brandon Gill Trounces Jack Smith and Leaves Him in the Dust During Epic Grilling

RedState 

As we've already reported, the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing to grill former Special Counsel Jack Smith over his investigation into President Donald Trump. 

Committee Chair, Republican Rep. Jim Jordan (OH-04) ripped into Smith for weaponizing his investigation, saying it was always about politics. Jordan brought up how Smith got phone records of the then-GOP Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy (CA-20), 16 days after he assumed the position, for the two-month period of time between Election Day, Nov. 2020, to Jan. 7, 2021. 

Republican Rep. Brandon Gill (TX-26) then went full bore on that with Smith, noting he was going after the toll records of the highest-ranking Republican at the time. 

"You were collecting months' worth of phone data on the Republican Speaker of the House, leader of the opposition, right after he got sworn in as Speaker, all around the time of a major vote," Gill stated, saying he thought it was a flagrant violation of the Speech and Debate Clause. 

Gill explained how, on top of that, because Smith obtained a non-disclosure order, the fact that he got the records was not allowed to be revealed to McCarthy or the public. Gill questioned Smith on the notation in the non-disclosure order that part of the reason was "flight risk." Gill hammered him over the contention that the Speaker of the House could be a "flight right" so as to justify the order. Smith tried to say it didn't only apply to the subscriber of the phone. 

But Gill just skewered him, "You were using clearly false information to secure a non-disclosure order to hide from Speaker McCarthy and the American people the fact that you were spying on his toll records!"

McCarthy weighed in, and he was not happy. He pointed out how his location was known 24/7, so it was ridiculous if anyone tried to paint him as a flight risk. 

Gill also pointed out that it wasn't only McCarthy, but also went after the toll records for nine Senators and one House Representative in May of 2023, and that those also had non-disclosure orders. 

Gill pointed out how Smith did this despite concerns about violating the Speech and Debate clause, and despite the fact that it was never contemplated to charge these people. Gill contended that Smith walked all over their rights.

The questioning and Smith's actions reveal how bad things were. Good on Gill for laying it all out. That did not go well for Smith; he looked awful while trying to answer the questions. Gill just left him in the dust. 

The Stupidity of Davos Explained Using an Example of Their Own Creation

Conservative  Treehouse 

It’s around lunchtime and I’ve spent so much time deep in the weeds of an issue that I need a break.  So, here’s a little funny story from my real-world travels in the past few years that given the current Davos meeting topics you might find interesting.

I went to Russia in 2024, because what I was hearing in western media about the sanctions did not align with what I was seeing from reports inside Russia.  Before I went into Russia, I spent several weeks in Northern and Eastern Europe visiting various institutions, reading material and checking to see how systems in Europe were engaging with commerce given the Russian sanctions.  It wasn’t very exciting work, and sometimes I literally just sat in the lobbies of banks listening to conversations.

When I went into Russia (April, May, June and July ’24) I noticed many of the “Uber cars” were BYD brand, Chinese electric vehicles.  It made sense given two years of existing sanctions and few cars from Europe or America available except under costly brokerage fees for acquisition.  They like the Geely brand better, but BYDs are much cheaper.  A brand new BYD costs around $5,000 to $10,000 USD, in some places even less.

Then later I noticed even more of these BYD cars in Europe.  I started to pay attention to them and saw them everywhere.

When I went back into Russia a year later in 2025, there was a very noticeable increase in BYD cars.  It was crazy, they were everywhere.

My travels also took me to southeast Asia and again those damned BYD’s were all over the place.  In Thailand, Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam, these BYD’s were everywhere, maybe even 30% of total vehicle traffic at times – most certainly well over 50% of all EVs – and there are digital billboards for “Build Your Dream” (BYD) all over the place throughout Asia.

Australia is stocked full of those things, and the middle east, yup, even there too.  It became increasingly weird to notice.  So many were visible I was wondering how the heck China can mass produce and ship this many cheap EVs so fast.

Then as serendipity would have it, I ran into a Chinese guy, professionally an actuary, in a hotel restaurant.  He explained to me that China produces the BYD not to make money from the automobile, but rather to sell the carbon credits the automobile generates within the auto industry.

The actual value to Beijing is in selling the carbon credit worthiness to various automakers who are fined or penalized by their government for producing gasoline powered vehicles.

BYD is, in essence, not a car per se’, but a mechanism to generate a carbon credit certificate that can be sold to other car companies. It’s the carbon credit certificate that generates the revenue, not the sale of the vehicle.  As my dinner guest explained, the auto insurance industry was having fits about this because the actuaries couldn’t accurately put a correct figure on the cost of the insurance warrantee within the industry (that’s another story).

The bottom line is that China is manufacturing a product to create a carbon credit certificate in response to the demand for carbon credits from all the world auto-makers.  Any nation that has a penalty or fine attached to their climate goals is a customer. Those are nations with fines or quotas associated with the production of gasoline powered engines if the auto company doesn’t hit the legislated target for sales of electric vehicles.

In essence, EU/AU/CA/RU/ASEAN car companies buy Chinese car company carbon credits, to avoid the EU/AU/CA/RU/ASEAN fines.  The Chinese then use the carbon credit revenue to subsidize even lower priced Chinese EVs to the EU/AU/CA/RU/ASEAN car markets, thereby undercutting the EU/AU/CA/RU/ASEAN car companies that also produce EVs.

Big Panda brilliantly exploits the ridiculous pontificating climate scam and has an interest in perpetuating -even emphasizing- the need for the EU/AU/RU/ASEAN countries to keep pushing their climate agenda.  China even goes so far as to fund alarmism research about climate change because they are making money selling carbon credit certificates on the back end of the scam to the western fear mongers.  This is friggin’ brilliant.

My dinner buddy was in the business of identifying the cost/benefit equation between the climate change fines and the prices Big Panda could charge for the carbon credit certificates.   If, as an example, Brussels dropped the quotas for EVs, China would need to lower the price for the carbon credit certificates.  So, Beijing wants Brussels to make sure they don’t drop the quotas.  See how that works?

The climate change alarmists are helping China’s economy by pushing ever escalating fear of climate change.  You just cannot make this stuff up.

What does the outcome look like?

Well, in this example we see thousands of unsold BYDs piling up in countries that emphasize climate regulations with no restrictions on the import of EVs (which most don’t even manufacture), which is almost every country.  Big Panda doesn’t care about the car itself; they care about generating the carbon credit certificate to sell in the various carbon exchanges.

Put this context to the recent announcement by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney about his new trade deal with China to accept 49,000 EVs this year.

Prime Minister Carney bragged about getting the Chinese to agree to only super low prices for the Canadian market.  Mark Carney was very proud of his accomplishment to get much lower priced vehicles for Canadian EV purchasers.   No doubt Big Panda left the room laughing as soon as Carney made his grand announcement.

1. China sells EV’s in Canada, creating credits available on the carbon exchange scheme. Europe et al will purchase the carbon credits because Bussels has fines against EU car companies.

2. With a foothold already established in Europe, China will then take the money generated by the carbon credit purchases and lower the prices of the Chinese EV cars sold in Canada.

It’s gets funnier.

3. Carney bragged about forcing China to only sell low price EV’s as part of the trade agreement. The low price of the EV’s in Canada will be subsidized by Europe. China doesn’t pay or lose a dime.

But wait….

4. Carney can’t do anything about the scheme he has just enmeshed Canada into, because Canada has a Carbon Credit exchange in law. 

Big Panda wins again.

[…] In a statement published Thursday, BYD said sales of its battery-powered cars rose nearly 28% to 2.26 million units.

Musk openly laughed at the mention of BYD while being interviewed on Bloomberg TV in October 2011. He said he did not see the company as a competitor to Tesla, adding: “I don’t think they have a great product.” Meanwhile, Tesla said Friday it delivered 1.64 million vehicles in 2025. [SOURCE]

Elon thinks BYD are building cars.  They aren’t.

WEF Finance/Banking Panel – If Independent National Economies Continue Rising, Global Trade Drops and We Lose Control

Conservative Treehouse 

This is one of those conversations that hints around the edges of what the collapse of globalism actually entails.  As noted in the beginning of the WEF panel discussion by Christine Legarde, the construct of global economics was built upon a foundation of interdependent trade dependencies.  If nations are no longer reliant upon other nations for sourcing of goods and services, the global construct of banking and finance then begins to collapse.

Globalism in its economic construct is a series of dependencies. If those dependencies are severed, if each country has the ability to feed, produce and innovate independently, then the entire dependency model around globalism collapses.

Within the globalism model that was historically created there was a group of people, western nations, banks, finance and various government leaders, who controlled the organization and rules of the trade dependencies.  The action being taken for self-sufficiency, in combination with the approach promoted by President Trump that each nation state should generate their own needs, then the rules-based order that has existed for global trade will collapse.

If nations are no longer dependent, they become sovereign – able to exist without the need for support from other nations and systems. If nations are indeed sovereign, then globalism is no longer needed and a threat of the unknown rises. How will nations engage with each other if there is no governing body of western elites to make the rules for engagement?  The need for control is a reaction to fear, and it is the fear of self-reliance that permeates the elitist class within the control structures.

Global trade is now beyond goods and services and into the world of automated artificial intelligence. Legarde notes the tech sector wants/needs access to more global data in order to create the control systems of tomorrow. However, again the problem arises when sovereign nations refuse to dump their independent data into the bucket of data dependency.

If each nation of the world is operating according to its individual best interests, the position of Donald Trump, then what happens to the governing elite who set up the system of interdependencies. This is the core of their fear.

If each nation can suddenly grow tea, what happens to the East India Tea Company.  Who then sets the price for the tea, and worse still an entire distribution system (ships, ports, exchanges, banks, etc.) becomes functionally obsolescent.

In very real and actionable terms, some nations may sell cars without seatbelts, cultures might be different, even trans rights might not be recognized.

Yes Alice, in this independent and sovereign world they are talking about, things will be very different.

Freedom is that pesky thing to be managed. OMG! The horror of it. GASP!

“Those pesky proles might even barter with one another. Then what happens”?

Anti-ICE Agitator Who Dared Bondi to Come Get Him Finds Out That Was a Bad Idea

RedState 

We reported earlier on the arrests of two people allegedly involved in disrupting the service at the Cities Church in St. Paul last Sunday. They chanted Renee Good's name and "Hands up, don't shoot!" among other things, as they shouted in the church. 

One was Nekima Levy Armstrong, who Bondi alleged played a key organizing role. 

We will share more updates as they become available. 

Listen loud and clear: WE DO NOT TOLERATE ATTACKS ON PLACES OF WORSHIP.

They also arrested Chauntyll Louisa Allen, according to Bondi. 

Now they've got a third person, and he was one of the people who was very vocal during the action at the church, an agitator named William Kelly.

UPDATE:  William Kelly is now in custody.  

Our nation was settled and founded by people fleeing religious persecution. Religious freedom is the bedrock of this country.

We will protect our pastors. We will protect our churches. We will protect Americans of faith.

Kelly had challenged Bondi about bringing charges against him, saying, "So be it." He posted a video showing some of his actions at the church, referring to the people as "pretend Christians" and "comfortable white people." In his later comment, he called them "white supremacists." 

Bondi posted a portion of his video and said, "Ok," in response to the challenge to get him. 

Warning for graphic language: 

Fox News' Bill Melugin reported that Kelly had previously told Bondi in a video, "Come and get me, you traitorous bitch." 

We're in the "find out" stage right about now, and it's been a good day. 

None of these people helped themselves with their comments during and after the event. Armstrong tried to downplay the action, arguing they didn't "rush into the church," but that they "participated in the service." I think they're going to have a tough time with that kind of an argument, given the videos. 

I'm thinking that with these new developments, Kelly might now be realizing that playing the tough guy wasn't such a good idea.

Exhausted White Liberal Women Clock In For Another Long Day Protecting Migrant Sex Offenders

Babylon Bee🐝 

MINNEAPOLIS, MN — Another long day of work was on the docket, as white liberal women clocked in for another long day of protesting the arrest of migrant sex offenders.

Progressive women emerged from their homes and headed into work for a full day of yelling at ICE agents and obstructing law enforcement who would be out working to arrest sex offenders and other violent criminals here in the country illegally.

"It's honest work," Amanda Hanks posted on Instagram. "I'm out here every day protecting innocent pedophiles, rapists, and sex offenders, but it's exhausting. I'd love a day off, but these Nazi ICE agents just won't stop arresting these undocumented predators. I just can't sit at home resting while these fascists use their authoritarian mandate to take dangerous people off the streets. Our communities are better when we let criminals roam free."

Hordes of white liberal women have been out protesting ICE raids in Minneapolis and around the country in an effort they hope will curtail the out-of-control crackdown on criminals who don't belong in the United States.

"Diversity is our strength!" Hanks's Instagram post continued. "ICE agents are domestic terrorists. Illegal immigrants should be free to come here and commit as many crimes as they like in peace without the fear of consequences. Also, can someone explain to me what the word ‘consequence' means? I actually have no idea."

At publishing time, America's white women took a break from protecting rapists to take their kids to the gender clinic to restock on sterilization pills.