Kids get a break from school over the holidays. Much to the dismay of many parents, the two-week break from school is often full of mayhem and mischief. For mom Alisha Gambrell, one day into Christmas break has already stressed her beyond her limits. From its appearance, the singing began before she finished her morning coffee. @alisha.gambrell Lord help me #roadto5k #momssupportingmoms #fyp #christmasbreak ♬ original sound – PA_mike_ For teachers, it is an entirely different story. They are celebrating having made it this far into the school year. @theycallmemrscowan We made it! #christmasbreak #winterbreak #teacher #teachers #elementaryschool #teachersoftiktok #teacherfyp #fyp ♬ sonido original – jesus Santana It isn’t just the young kids that invade their parent’s spaces. Sometimes, it’s the college daughter coming home with a ton of laundry and just as much drama. @mac_whittaker Sorry mom and dad #foryoupage #tennesseecheerleader #university #foryou #college #fyp #universityoftennessee #freshmanyear #utk #dorm #christmas ♬ dźwięk oryginalny – zoosja The soundtrack of the season is children singing, “Santa Claus is coming up your butt…” We have no clue where the original of this annoying background track comes from. “Butt” has always been one of those words that kids love and parents hate. Maybe just roll with it? As annoying as it may be for adults, the kids enjoy using the taboo word. It’s pretty innocent when you think of what they could be singing. If you’re a parent, you understand the frustration of a mom being done with Christmas break on the first day. There is no such thing as a midday nap. The screaming, crying, and fighting never seem to stop. And, of course, the incessant singing before morning coffee. @christi.mich The next 12 days are going to be grrreatttt!!! #kids #holidays #relatable #christmasbreak #winterbreak #fyp #moms #momsbelike #funny #christmas ♬ original sound – PA_mike_ No children were harmed while making these video clips. We cannot make the same claim for the parents. Hopefully, they have an adequate supply of Tylenol and maybe some earplugs available. If you’re a mom or dad who has lived through a Christmas break, we know you understand! Please share the pain of the parents who are currently suffering. You can find the source of this story’s featured image here. The post Defeated Mom Gives Peek Into How It’s Going “One Day Into Christmas Break” appeared first on InspireMore.

In the weeks before the 2016 Trump Electoral College victory, Donald Trump was polling between 35 and 40%. He would average only about 41% approval over his tumultuous four-year tenure. No one knows what lies ahead over the next four years. But for now, Trump already polls well over 50% approval. His inauguration in a few weeks will likely not resemble Trump’s 2016 ceremony. In the 2016-7 transition, Democratic-affiliated interests ran commercials urging electors to become “faithless,” and thus illegally to reject their states’ popular votes and instead elect the loser, Hillary Clinton. Massive demonstrations met Trump on Inauguration Day. In less than four months after assuming the presidency, Special Counsel Robert Mueller was appointed to investigate the hoax of Russian collusion. That wasted 22-month, $40 million investigation found no collusion, but did derail the first two Trump years. What followed the collusion ruse was a consistent effort to undermine the Trump presidency—two subsequent impeachments, the laptop “disinformation” hoax, the COVID-19 nationwide lockdown, and news suppression of any mention of the Chinese lab origin of the virus or questioning the closing of schools. In the Trump administration’s last summer of 2020, 120 days of riot, arson, looting, assault, and murder followed, with the denouement of the January 6 turmoil. In contrast, the 2024-5 Trump transition has all but assumed the presidency. Over 100 foreign leaders have elbowed each other to be invited to Mar-a-Lago or to phone in their congratulations to the newly elected Trump. Remember that in 2016 the Left screamed “Logan Act” if a Trump transition appointee even talked with foreign officials. So why is newly elected Trump a veritable cultural hero in 2024 in a fashion unimaginable eight years ago when the media had rendered him a near demon? One, Trump is seen now as a welcome relief. A departing and unpopular President Joe Biden leaves with about a 36% approval rating. The prior Biden years are now seen as abnormal. The Left’s cultural revolution championed fringe policies never quite seen before: destroying the border, welcoming in 12 million illegal aliens, nihilist critical race and legal theories, institutionalizing a third sex, and mandating woke/DEI quotas and indoctrination sessions. Yet Biden had inherited from Trump a secure border, an economy rebounding after the COVID quarantines, 1.23% inflation, no wars abroad, and cheap energy. Four years later, the outgoing Biden administration is widely unpopular. Almost every one of its policies polls before 50%. In reaction, Trump promises not just to restore his first-term success, but to expand it. Two, Trump personally remains transparent and energetic—eager to talk and meet anyone, anytime, and just about anywhere. His energy offers a sharp contrast with the non-compos-mentis Biden. The change is welcomed by an electorate exhausted by the past four years of presidential stumbling, wandering, incoherence, mind-freezes, and angry, “get-off-my-grass” aged fragility. Three, Trump is grudgingly admired, now even by some of his enemies who once sought but failed to destroy him. He endured two impeachments, five civil and criminal court indictments, incessant lawfare, a 95% negative media coverage, attempts to remove him from states’ ballots, and two assassination attempts. Yet all these unprecedented hostile efforts to end Trump may only have made him stronger—and more empathetic when seen as a target of increasingly fanatical enemies. Four, Trump has expanded his MAGA base and permanently branded it as an ecumenical movement that welcomes shared class interests rather than the tired old tribal racial and ethnic chauvinism. Trump also brought in disaffected Democrats, independents, and minorities in a way the Democrats could not with the evaporating “Never Trump” dead enders. Trump’s veritable campaign menagerie of RFK, Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, Elon Musk, Joe Rogan, Dana White, and Kid Rock made it impossible for the Left to demonize MAGA Republicans as right-wing aristocrats or laissez-fair capitalists. Fifth, the endorsements of the Biden-Harris legacy media, calcified Hollywood endorsers, blowhard university faculties, and tech barons proved vastly overrated. It was trumped by more popular and dynamic Internet influencers, podcasters, bloggers, and maverick entrepreneurs. Sixth and finally, Trump himself proved more experienced, and more measured and reflective than in 2016. His team too was more disciplined and street smart, led by savvy chief of staff Susan Wiles. The past year has seen truly pivotal moments of Trump as an everyman—posing for a mugshot after being railroaded by a weaponized lawfare indictment, serving MacDonald’s drive-up customers, riding in a garbage truck cab, raising his fist and yelling “fight, fight, fight”—and after nearing have his head blown off by a would-be assassin. Add all of these once unimaginables up, and the people trusted more—and liked better—the Trump reboot than grouchy Biden or inane and inauthentic Vice President Kamala Harris, as well as their shared extremist agendas. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. (C) 2024 Tribune Content Agency, LLC. The post What Was So Different This Time About Trump’s Election? appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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Biden's move is believed to have been driven in part by the incoming Trump administration and an expected hard-line policy shift on federal executions. Following all this closely is Robin Maher. She's the executive director of the nonpartisan Death Penalty Information Center.… Robin Maher: ….This is an historic decision. This is the largest mass clemency grant of death-sentenced people by any U.S. president since Lincoln, and the first in the modern death penalty era. There are 40 people on death row; 37 of them now will receive new sentences of life without the possibility of parole. And, of course, there are about 2,100 people on state death rows throughout the country whose death sentences will not be affected by this decision. But part of the motivation for President Biden today was recognizing the racial bias and the unfairness of some of these federal death sentences…. (NBC News outclassed PBS and the other networks by actually delivering details about the spared killers: “Among those whose sentence was commuted: Kaboni Savage, a drug dealer involved in organized crime, convicted of murdering 12 people, four of them children, during a firebombing incident at a house of a federal witness.”) Brangham offered not a single challenging question to his liberal guest, only invitations to clarify. Brangham: Who are those 37, broadly speaking? I know it's a big group, but, like, roughly speaking, who are those people whose sentences were commuted today? Maher: Yes, all of the men who will benefit from President Biden's decision today were sentenced to death decades ago, really in a very different era in our nation's history. This was a time of overzealous prosecutions and very harsh criminal justice penalties and policies that sent dozens of people to federal death rows for crimes they would not be federally prosecuted for today, so a very, very different time….” Brangham portrayed Biden as a former law-and-order politician doing penance for his previous "infamous" views on crime. Brangham: ….President Biden has a very complicated history with the criminal justice system. He was principally responsible for the infamous crime bill back in the 1990s that many critics have said led to mass incarceration. He wanted to do more on the death penalty during his administration, but was not able to until today…. "Not able to"? Or "too risky"? Brangham quoted Biden’s statement on the commutations, which Maher used to bash the first Trump administration’s insistence on applying the death penalty to murderers. "Nonpartisan"? Maher: President Biden was once a very strong supporter of the death penalty, but his change of heart about this really began several years ago, during the 2020 presidential campaign. You will remember at that time we had just come out of this breathtaking execution spree, where President Trump executed 12 men and one women -- one woman in just six months’ time. So we were still reeling from that event. And I think he recognized at that point that the federal death penalty deserved his closer examination. I think he's looked at his conscience. I think he's looked at his own faith. And he most especially listened to the calls of many thousands of people who were asking him to make that decision, most important of which were victims' family members, some of whom had lost loved ones to the men on the federal death row, crimes they committed, which was really incredibly powerful. What PBS didn’t look at, save by an online link to an Associated Press story: The “calls” of many of the victim's family members against Biden's move. So much for balance on PBS. In contrast, another contentious “life” issue, abortion, gets only favorable treatment at the News Hour. This segment was brought to you in part by BNSF Railway. A transcript is available, click “Expand.” PBS News Hour 12/23/24 7:07:16 p.m. (ET) William Brangham: In one of the most significant moves against capital punishment, President Joe Biden has commuted the sentence of 37 of the 40 prisoners on federal death row. They will stay in prison for life, but will not be subject to execution. Biden's move is believed to have been driven in part by the incoming Trump administration and an expected hard-line policy shift on federal executions. Following all this closely is Robin Maher. She's the executive director of the nonpartisan Death Penalty Information Center. Robin Maher, so nice to have you here. Robin Maher, Executive Director, Death Penalty Information Center: It's great to be here. William Brangham: This is a pretty significant move, I mean, one of the most significant by a president with regards to federal death row inmates What is the — what do these commutations mean for death penalty cases overall? Robin Maher: Well, you're right. This is an historic decision. This is the largest mass clemency grant of death-sentenced people by any U.S. president since Lincoln, and the first in the modern death penalty era. There are 40 people on death row; 37 of them now will receive new sentences of life without the possibility of parole. And, of course, there are about 2,100 people on state death rows throughout the country whose death sentences will not be affected by this decision. But part of the motivation for President Biden today was recognizing the racial bias and the unfairness of some of these federal death sentences. And many of those criticisms ring true for the men and women on state death rows as well. William Brangham: Who are those 37, broadly speaking? I know it's a big group, but, like, roughly speaking, who are those people whose sentences were commuted today? Robin Maher: Yes, all of the men who will benefit from President Biden's decision today were sentenced to death decades ago, really in a very different era in our nation's history. This was a time of overzealous prosecutions and very harsh criminal justice penalties and policies that sent dozens of people to federal death rows for crimes they would not be federally prosecuted for today, so a very, very different time. And the Department of Justice has recently looked at these policies and made some real changes to its prosecution policies, but none of those changes benefited the men on the federal death row. So that's why President Biden needed to make the decision he made today. William Brangham: As I said, it's almost all, 37 of 40. That leaves three behind. Who are those three that did not get their sentences commuted? Robin Maher: Yes, the three that did not get sentencing relief today were convicted of federal hate crimes or terrorism offenses. And they include Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who was convicted of the Boston Marathon bombing, Dylann Roof, who was convicted of the hate crime of shooting in the Charleston church many years ago, and, most recently, Robert Bowers, who was convicted of targeting people at a Pittsburgh synagogue. All three of those men were convicted of crimes within the last 10 years. All three of them will remain on death row. The remaining 37 men will never be released from federal prison, but they will not be executed. William Brangham: As you well know, President Biden has a very complicated history with the criminal justice system. He was principally responsible for the infamous crime bill back in the 1990s that many critics have said led to mass incarceration. He wanted to do more on the death penalty during his administration, but was not able to until today. Today, he said this. I just want to read a quote that he said: "I am more convinced than ever that we must stop the use of the death penalty at the federal level. In good conscience, I cannot stand back and let a new administration resume executions that I halted." Is that your sense that that's principally what's driving this? Robin Maher: Yes, well, President Biden was once a very strong supporter of the death penalty, but his change of heart about this really began several years ago during the 2020 presidential campaign. You will remember at that time we had just come out of this breathtaking execution spree, where President Trump executed 12 men and one women — one woman in just six months time. So we were still reeling from that event. And I think he recognized at that point that the federal death penalty deserved his closer examination. I think he's looked at his conscience. I think he's looked at his own faith. And he most especially listened to the calls of many thousands of people who were asking him to make that decision, most important of which were victims' family members, some of whom had lost loved ones to the men on the federal death row, crimes they committed, which was really incredibly powerful. William Brangham: I know we can't predict what a future president would do, but is it your sense that, when President Trump returns to the White House, that he would take up federal executions, meaning, is — does it make sense in some way that Biden took this step today? Robin Maher: I think some of what motivated President Biden was the urgency of this moment and the danger that those men were in. President Trump has promised to use the federal death penalty to expand its use and to resume federal executions. But what I hope is that this President Trump will not just simply repeat the mistakes of the past. As President Biden has shown us today, we can all learn from our mistakes and make better decisions in the future. And that's what I'm hoping for. William Brangham: All right, Robin Maher of the Death Penalty Information Center, thank you so much for being here. Robin Maher: My pleasure.

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