The Morning Report — 11/25/25

Good morning kids. whatever you may think about Marjorie Taylor-Greene as a politician, a person and as a purported supporter/standard bearer and soldier of the MAGA movement or an opponent of the self-destructive trajectory we have been on for decades, her announcement of her intention to not run for office come the midterms, regardless of her personal animus towards or even rivalry with or jealousy of President Trump destroys whatever credibility she might have had. Personally, over time this move just cements my impression of her as a self-serving grandstanding fraud. Her ineffectiveness notwithstanding, leaving a House seat vulnerable for the Democrats to pick off come the midterms is a stab in the back and a boot stomp to the face of the American people.

So, MTG is an egomaniacal attention whore sellout. But what of this?!

A senior House Republican predicts that more "explosive early resignations are coming" after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-Ga.) surprise announcement that she would leave Congress in January. . . It’s unknown which Republicans are currently pondering resignation, but a feeling that legislators' needs are being neglected by party leadership and an inability to pass legislation has led some to consider quitting, as they expect the GOP to lose its already slim majority in Congress.

Yeah, unnamed sources etc. etc., I get it. It could all be disinformatsiya to sow dissent and confusion, especially with the base in the coming year before a crucial midterm. And yet the GOP itself has been having an identity crisis ever since President Trump descended the golden Trump Tower escalator just over a decade ago now.

Even before then, it was painfully evident that all the GOP was good for whenever they controlled the majority if not all three branches of government was being seat warmers for the Democrats and never daring to lift a finger to reverse one iota of their agenda let alone slam on the brakes and put the crazy train in reverse. Years of Continuing Resolutions and no budgets and nothing but platitudes about shrinking the government with maybe a minor window dressing of a tax cut here and there merely proves the GOP to be Grifting Oleaginous Parasites.

What Does The Republican Party Even Stand For? — Unlike Democrats, Republicans have no unified vision of what they view as success for the country —

While Americans continue to grapple with high costs of living and an increasingly broken health care system — both products of reckless government intervention — your Republican House majority decided to expend what little “low t” energy it has on a useless resolution that basically says, “SOCIALISM IS BAD!”
. . . But Friday’s vote was hardly the first do-nothing dog-and-pony show Republicans have put on for their constituents. For years, GOP politicos have graced the airwaves of Fox News and conservative media, telling voters what they want to hear about the issues of the day while simultaneously doing absolutely nothing of substance to address them.
During the 2024 election cycle, Republicans promised a generational “America First” reformation that would reshape political governance as we know it. And now, 10 months into GOP trifecta control of the federal government, this “generational change” has amounted to little more than a tax bill, which many Republicans seem to believe is enough to keep them in power next year. . . For all of their alleged opposition to Democrats, too many Republicans agree with Democrats on several substantive issues and support more government involvement in areas where it has no business being. For all intents and purposes, the current GOP is a party comprised of various ideological factions, disillusioned as to what “America First” actually means.

BINGO, that last sentence. The GOP is only there to preseve, protect and defend their place at the trough. MTG and whoever else can piss and moan about President Trump or whatever, but that they have essentially done nothing to actually legislate his agenda to make it the law of the land speaks volumes.

Well, there's treason/insurrection and sedition and then there's Mark Kelly and his ilk essentialy egging on the military to rise up and overthrow the government

And we also have the mortal threat of Islam and uncontrolled immigraion/cum invasion as we now see on full display with the hardly shocking if not terrifying implications of what the Somali parasites have done and are doing in Minnesota.

And then there's the utterly detestable scumbag Jamie Raskin who proves himself to be a glittering jewel of stupidity with this statement:

Monday on CNN’s “The Situation Room,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) dismissed Delegate Stacey Plaskett’s (D-VI) text message exchange with Jeffrey Epstein during a House hearing because he said Republican lawmakers text with President Donald Trump.

Congratulations genius. Brilliant move! In trying to equate Epstein with Trump to paint the latter as a reprobate pedophile, etc. all Raskin did was proclaim Epstein to be at the highest level of Democrat party leadership!

That right there is a campaign ad that almost writes itself, except for the fact that the GOP is the GOP as I bemoaned above.

And as for the Democrats, this one just says it all about who and what they are:

Tennessee Dem Candidate Aftyn Behn: ‘I Don’t Want Children. I Want Power!’

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• Behn said in an unearthed audio clip that she would scream about a lust for power in recurring dreams.
  Tennessee Dem Candidate Aftyn Behn: ‘I Don’t Want Children. I Want Power!’

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Daily Tech News 25 November 2025

Top Story

• ChatGPT told them they were special. Then... Bad things happened. (Tech Crunch) (archive site)
  
  OpenAI is facing seven lawsuits this month, three from the families of users who went insane, and four from the families of users who committed suicide.
  
  Now while I'm not a huge fan of this type of suit - the dangers of AI "therapists" have been known for more than fifty years - there may be some merit to the negligence angle in the allegations:

  Shamblin's case is part of a wave of lawsuits filed this month against OpenAI arguing that ChatGPT's manipulative conversation tactics, designed to keep users engaged, led several otherwise mentally healthy people to experience negative mental health effects. The suits claim OpenAI prematurely released GPT-4o - its model notorious for sycophantic, overly affirming behavior - despite internal warnings that the product was dangerously manipulative.

  On the other hand, insane-while-online rarely works out as a personal growth path. Just consider Bluesky.
  
  Or:

  From mid-June to August 2025, ChatGPT told Madden, "I'm here," more than 300 times - which is consistent with a cult-like tactic of unconditional acceptance.

  Or, to be fair, consistent with saying "I'm here".

  At one point, ChatGPT asked: "Do you want me to guide you through a cord-cutting ritual - a way to symbolically and spiritually release your parents/family, so you don't feel tied [down] by them anymore?

  Which is... A bit weird, I must admit.

  Madden was committed to involuntary psychiatric care on August 29, 2025. She survived - but after breaking free from these delusions, she was $75,000 in debt and jobless.

  Restitution for that much - and legal costs - would seem appropriate.

  "A healthy system would recognize when it's out of its depth and steer the user toward real human care," Vasan said. "Without that, it's like letting someone just keep driving at full speed without any brakes or stop signs."

  Real humans tend to do that a lot too.

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Monday Overnight Open Thread (11/24/25) Live From NY Edition

The Quote of The Day

‘It was quite a shock, very fast and unexpected. We have been targeted because we chose to live a different kind of life.’ Nathan Trevallion

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De Children of De Night Cafe

Technically, it's called Pesquet's Parrot,
but its nickname is much more descriptive --
the Dracula Parrot

Rescuing the original "Dracula parrots," bats.

Soundtrack of A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving.

Orcas chase (blue?) whale. The sea bird flies above waiting to eat whatever the loser leaves behind.

Even when a hyena is happy, it sounds weird and evil.

Unknown crashing noise spooks neighborhood.

Kangaroos pretend they weren't doin' nuffin' when humans roll up.

Sound on: Goats get their horns locked and make a racket about it.

Meteor Crater in Arizona. I thought it might be AI but it's legit. I didn't think a crater would so clearly remain a crater after so many years. I guess it's a young crater, just 50,000 years old. Some call it the "best-preserved meteorite crater on Earth." I feel a little stupid that this is new to me. Feels like something I should have remembered from In Search Of...

If Dracula lived in the bayou, would his castle be surrounded by gators? I think so.

Playing peak-a-boo with a tiger kitten. This better not be AI.

The highway tax is one whole carrot.

A haunted tree. Okay it's not haunted but this video plays spooky carnival music and I want to keep with the post's spooky theme.

A subsun, an illusion of a glowing form caused by sunlight hitting ice particles from directly above. This must have caused a bunch of ghost sightings.

This honey badger is so aggressive he doesn't care that this elephant is sixty times his size but the elephant is going to teach him that that is an important factor in a fight.

The most demonic animal of all -- a baby penguin.

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Trump: I'm Ending the "Temporary" Protected Status of Somalis Immigrants, Which Has Now Been "Temporary" for (Checks Watch) Thirty Years

This is prompted by Somalis treating the US as if it is merchant ship to pirate and sack. As mentioned on Friday, Somali fraudsters are bilking the federal government for millions and sending it off to the ISIS-offshoot terrorist group Al-Shabaab. As one analyst pointed out, the US taxpayer is now the biggest funder of Al-Shabaab.

Founded in 2016, Feeding Our Future was a small Minnesota nonprofit that sponsored daycares and after-school programs to enroll in the Federal Child Nutrition Program. The organizations that Feeding Our Future sponsored were primarily owned and operated by members of Minnesota's Somali community, according to two former state officials with connections to law enforcement.

In 2019, Feeding Our Future received $3.4 million in federal funding disbursed by the state. In the months after the Covid-19 pandemic began, however, the nonprofit rapidly increased its number of sponsored sites. Using fake meal counts, doctored attendance records, and fabricated invoices, the perpetrators of the fraud ring claimed to be serving thousands of meals a day, seven days a week, to underprivileged children. In 2021, Feeding Our Future received nearly $200 million in funding.

In reality, the money was being used to fund lavish lifestyles, purchase luxury vehicles, and buy real estate in the United States, Turkey, and Kenya. In 2020, Minnesota officials raised concerns about the nonprofit's rapid expansion. In response, the group filed a lawsuit alleging racial discrimination related to outstanding site applications, noting that Feeding Our Future "caters to . . . foreign nationals."

"That's the standard operating playbook for that cohort: when in doubt, claim racism, claim bias," says David Gaither, a former Minnesota state senator and a nonprofit leader. "Even if the facts don't point to that, it allows for many folks in the middle, or on the center-Left, to stay silent."

Gaither believes the mainstream media, alongside Minnesota's Democratic establishment, have long turned a blind eye to fraud within the Somali community.
This, in turn, allowed the problem to metastasize. "The media does not want to put a light on this," Gaither said. "And if you're a politician, it's a significant disadvantage for you to alienate the Somali community. If you don't win the Somali community, you can't win Minneapolis. And if you don't win Minneapolis, you can't win the state. End of story."

The fraudsters have leveraged their growing political influence to cultivate close ties with Minnesota's elected officials. Several individuals involved in the Feeding Our Future scheme donated to, or appeared publicly with, Ilhan Omar, the Somali-born congresswoman from Minneapolis. Omar's deputy district director, Ali Isse, advocated on behalf of Feeding Our Future. Omar Fateh, a former state senator who recently ran for Minneapolis mayor, lobbied Governor Tim Walz in support of the program. And one of the accused, Abdi Nur Salah, served as a senior aide to Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey.

There is $300 million in identified, known fraud. Who knows what the actual number is.

Get 'em out.

President Donald Trump's pledge to terminate temporary legal protections for Somalis living in Minnesota is triggering fear in the state's deeply-rooted immigrant community, along with doubts about whether the White House has the legal authority to enact the directive as described.

In a Truth Social post late Friday, Trump said he would "immediately" strip Somali residents in Minnesota of Temporary Protected Status, a legal safeguard against deportation for immigrants from certain countries.

The announcement drew immediate pushback from some state leaders and immigration experts, who characterized Trump's declaration as a legally dubious effort to sow fear and suspicion toward Minnesota's Somali community, the largest in the nation.

"There's no legal mechanism that allows the president to terminate protected status for a particular community or state that he has beef with," said Heidi Altman, vice president of policy at the National Immigration Law Center.

"This is Trump doing what he always does: demagoguing immigrants without justification or evidence and using that demagoguery in an attempt to take away important life-saving protections," she added.

...

"I am a citizen and so are (the) majority of Somalis in America," Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Democrat from Somali, said in a social media post Friday. "Good luck celebrating a policy change that really doesn't have much impact on the Somalis you love to hate."

Still, advocates warned the move could inflame hate against a community at a time of rising Islamophobia.

"This is not just a bureaucratic change," said Jaylani Hussein, president of the Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. "It is a political attack on the Somali and Muslim community driven by Islamophobic and hateful rhetoric."

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Supreme Court Stays Left-Wing Rogue Judges' Ruling That Texas Is Not Allowed to Draw Its Own Congressional Maps

Alito stayed the decision, which means, for the moment, the map is back.

The lawless rogue left-wing judges had issued an injunction blocking the implementation of the map -- an injunction being an order granted before a trial, after a mini-hearing and a finding that the moving party is "substantially likely to succeed" at the actual trial* -- which means there is now no ruling before the full trial.

We'll see how it goes from there.

For now, this is good news.

Texas is back to using its 2025 congressional map, at least temporarily, after Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito granted the state's request to pause a court ruling that would have required using the lines legislators drew in 2021.

The high court has not yet decided what map Texas should use while the court battle over the legality of the map plays out over the coming weeks and months; Friday's ruling is a short-term pause while they make that decision.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton celebrated the step as a victory, and said his office would "look forward to continuing to press forward in our case on the merits."

* As the dissenting Judge Smith pointed out, the majority (of two) acknowledged that the law requires a "substantial likelihood" of victory to obtain this extraordinary relief, but then immediately ignored the requirement of "substantial (overwhelming) likelihood" and just spoke of mere likelihood.

Related: Conservatives won another victory at the Supreme Court.

This is complicated: A liberal fired by Trump filed suit arguing he couldn't be fired. The lowly district court judge granted Yet Another Emergency Injunction blocking his firing. The DC Court of Appeals vacated that injunction. The liberal brat appealed to the Supreme Court, who then declined to hear his appeal, letting the appeals court's ruling stand. And their ruling kicked over the lowly (left-wing) district court's Yet Another Emergency Inunction.

Todd Harper, a member of the National Credit Union Administration Board, challenged his removal from that role, filing suit against Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, President Donald Trump, and other administration officials.

In July, D.C. District Judge Amir Ali granted summary judgment in favor of Harper, but the administration appealed, and the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals granted a stay of Ali's judgment pending appeal in August. Harper then filed a petition for writ of certiorari with the Supreme Court in September.

And that writ -- a request for a review by the Court -- was declined.

The RedState article notes that a lot of wins are found in these "short orders." People focus on the big rulings, but the tiny little short orders, like just declining to hear this guy whine that he feels entitled to keep his job, are big, too.

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Major "America First" and "America Only" Twitter Accounts Exposed as Foreign Grifters

X added a feature. If you clicked on a tab called "About this account," you can see where accounts are actually based.

And it turns out that some of the most "pro-American" American First or America Only accounts are located in the patriotic states of Turkey, India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.

Bonchie here calls it a "glitch" but I think that's incorrect; X added the feature to increase transparency and so people could gauge the "authenticity" of an account.

The "Gazan" accounts turned out be a hoot and a half, too.

Motasem A Dalloul
@AbujomaaGaza

Inside our tents, we're freezing... My children are trembling...
Gaza is freezing...

People pointed out that when this was posted, Gaza's overnight temperature was 65, and the daytime temperature was 80. That's not "freezing." That's May in San Diego.

But even more wonderfully: This account is based in... well, not Gaza.

The above was posted when it was 65 degrees at night (and 80 during the day), just to give you an idea of the kind of propaganda being spewed. For years, the above account has claimed to be reporting from the ground in Gaza. He's made hundreds of posts pushing fake claims about genocide, famine, and his own supposed hardships. In reality, his account was created in the United Kingdom, and he's currently residing in Poland.

Where, admittedly, the temperature is much colder.

I'm sure you will not be surprised to learn that the most aggressive Jew-hating "America First" accounts are actually based in Islamic countries.

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Department of War Mulls Court-Martialing Senator and Inactive-Duty Officer Mark Kelly for Urging Troops to Defy the Duly-Elected Commander in Chief

Officers in the US Armed Forces are under a special obligation to respect the chain of command.

Aren't they?

The Department of War is reportedly considering recalling Kelly to active duty, just to face an court martial for insubordination (and, I guess, insurrection).

Department of War
@DeptofWar

OFFICIAL STATEMENT:

The Department of War has received serious allegations of misconduct against Captain Mark Kelly, USN (Ret.). In accordance with the Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 U.S.C. sec. 688, and other applicable regulations, a thorough review of these allegations has been initiated to determine further actions, which may include recall to active duty for court-martial proceedings or administrative measures. This matter will be handled in compliance with military law, ensuring due process and impartiality. Further official comments will be limited, to preserve the integrity of the proceedings.

The Department of War reminds all individuals that military retirees remain subject to the UCMJ for applicable offenses, and federal laws such as 18 U.S.C. § 2387 prohibit actions intended to interfere with the loyalty, morale, or good order and discipline of the armed forces. Any violations will be addressed through appropriate legal channels.

All servicemembers are reminded that they have a legal obligation under the UCMJ to obey lawful orders and that orders are presumed to be lawful. A servicemember's personal philosophy does not justify or excuse the disobedience of an otherwise lawful order.

Pete Hegseth put an exclamation point on the DOW's statement:

Pete Hegseth
@PeteHegseth

1h

The video made by the "Seditious Six" was despicable, reckless, and false. Encouraging our warriors to ignore the orders of their Commanders undermines every aspect of "good order and discipline." Their foolish screed sows doubt and confusion -- which only puts our warriors in danger.

Five of the six individuals in that video do not fall under @DeptofWar
jurisdiction (one is CIA and four are former military but not "retired", so they are no longer subject to UCMJ). However, Mark Kelly (retired Navy Commander) is still subject to UCMJ--and he knows that.

As was announced, the Department is reviewing his statements and actions, which were addressed directly to all troops while explicitly using his rank and service affiliation--lending the appearance of authority to his words. Kelly's conduct brings discredit upon the armed forces and will be addressed appropriately.

RedState's Rusty Weiss notes that the military does permit (or oblige) troops to refuse a "manifestly" illegal order -- but also tells them they're supposed to treat all orders as presumably legal and obey them.

Mark Kelly and the other seditionists told troops to substitute their own opinion for the duly-elected Commander-in-Chief's.

The problem is that there is a vast difference between manifestly illegal orders and those whose illegality is debatable. The latter of which, refusing to obey an order one feels personally questionable, is itself illegal, under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ).

In other words, service members can't simply say they feel immigration enforcement, for example, is unlawful and walk away, which is precisely what these Democrat lawmakers were trying to incite.

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Breaking: Clinton Judge Dismisses Indictments of Both James Comey and "Big Tish" James, Claiming the US Attorney Prosecuting Them Was Unlawfully Installed

Of course.

A federal judge on Monday dismissed the criminal cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, concluding that the prosecutor who brought the charges at President Donald Trump's urging was illegally appointed by the Justice Department.

The rulings from U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie halt at least for now a pair of prosecutions that had hastened concerns that the Justice Department was being weaponized to pursue the president's political adversaries and amount to a stunning rebuke of the Trump administration's legal maneuvering to install a loyal, and inexperienced, prosecutor willing to file the cases.

The orders make Lindsey Halligan the latest Trump administration prosecutor to be disqualified because of the manner in which they were appointed. Both defendants had asked for the cases to be dismissed with prejudice, meaning that the Justice Department would not be able to bring them again. But the judge instead dismissed them without prejudice, though it was not immediately clear if or how the Justice Department might attempt to revive the prosecutions.

Quick note: When a Republican-appointed judge rules against Trump, the media always points out he's a "Bush appointee" or "Trump appointee" (as just happened in the Texas redistricting case).

When it's a left-wing judge appointed by a Democrat, the media suddenly forgets how to use Google.

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MAGA Grifter Majorie Taylor Greene to Resign Mid-Term, Imperiling Republican Majority

She's resigning in January 2026 -- not January 2027, when her term ends -- and her seat will be filled by a special election, which may or may not go the GOP way, and whose timing depends on Trump opponent Gov. Brian Kemp to schedule.

Many note that the date of her resignation just happens to coincide with the date required to secure her five-year Congressional pension.

Although Super-Trumper MAGA Queen Marjorie Taylor-Green claims she began opposing MAGA to support True MAGA, and began opposing Trump to... save Trump from himself or something, Scott Jennings offered a more plausible explanation for the flakey grifter going on CNN and The View to trash MAGA.

She went on Bill Maher a couple of weeks ago to modify and soften her prior support of the theory that deadly fires were caused by a solar laser controlled by the (Jewish) Rothschild banking family.

And this Super-MAGA Trump Queen did this to position herself better with her new constituency, leftwing Trump haters and Groypers.

Republican US House member Marjorie Taylor Greene has said she believes in demons, surmising that they might be aliens who fell from heaven, and claims to have been unaware that key figures in the antisemitic space lasers conspiracy she floated were Jewish.

She made those bizarre remarks as a guest on Friday on HBO's Real Time With Bill Maher after winning some fans among Democrats who once loathed her -- yet had come to appreciate how the far-right Georgia representative had recently broken with Republicans on various issues. Those include healthcare, Gaza, the federal government shutdown that began on 1 October and the handling of documents pertaining to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who was friends with Donald Trump before the latter man won two presidencies.

Greene's appearance on Maher's show perhaps made evident the ideological distance between the congresswoman -- who has conspicuously avoided directly criticizing Trump himself -- and some of her newer, cross-aisle admirers.

Attacking Trump's positions without mentioning Trump himself is a patented Tucker Carlson move.

...

At another point in the show, Maher invited Greene to revisit her infamous 2018 social media screed positing that wildfires that had devastated California were ignited by a laser beam from space under the control of the Rothschild banking dynasty.

The progressive watchdog Media Matters uncovered that post weeks into Greene's first congressional term. And her colleagues at the time voted to remove her from her House committee assignments, with the Rothschild family having repeatedly been subjected to antisemitic conspiracy theories.

Greene on Friday declared to Maher that she initially "didn't even know the Rothschilds were Jewish".

"Before politics ... I [did] not know much of any of this stuff," Greene said. "I never even said the word 'Jewish' in the ... post."

Maher pointed out that "'Rothschild', to a lot of people, is almost synonymous with the word 'Jewish'".

Greene replied: "I had no idea ... Now I know it's Jewish."

Amid laughter and applause, Maher retorted: "Right. Well, now we know ... That's what I'm here for -- to make sure that people in Congress know what the fuck you're talking about."

I don't think I've mentioned that on the blog before because I try not to dogpile on people allegedly "on our side" unless necessary. I did not consider her to be such an important figure that I had to criticize her.

There's a whole contingent of idiot self-appointed ideological enforcement operatives -- not you guys, I mean like largely-foreign "MAGA influencers" on X, or the astroturf Groyper brigades that occasionally infest this site when I mention their Fey Fuhrer -- who demand not just that people keep quiet about nutters like Greene, but that we must defend this conspiracy-addled idiot flake. As if we're all in some army and we are oath-sworn to "defend our superior officers." And Greene, I guess, is my superior officer?

Really? In what sense? I don't even live in her district and even if I did, she is not a superior officer in the MAGA Army.

And these idiot Woke Nazis somehow imagine that they are my superior officers, too, and can give me orders from the Groyper Central Command.

Anyway, there's an entire astroturf army of online authoritarian supposedly "America First" speech-police -- again, mostly foreign, as I'm sure you heard and which I'll post about later -- that is either paid to insist that people support their fellow-travelers, or else are just foreign MAGA grifters who get good engagement by demanding that people support Groyper-type people. These foreign bot commanders make a few thousand American dollars per month just tweeting nonsense. Nice work if you can grift it.

A few thousand American dollars a month goes a long, long way in Turkey, Bangladesh, Pakistan, or India. America First, baby.

So, was this conspiracy-added grifter who I was demanded to defend really Super-MAGA and Ultra-Trump like she claimed?

Ah, no. Not at all. She is a low-IQ opportunist nutball peddling snake oil to a crowd that has a fever and the only cure is more snake oil.

Via FaceBook. I have no idea if this account is actually associated with Trump. It does quote Jennings accurately.

Donald Trump For President

SCOTT JENNINGS: TRUMP SAVED MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE FROM HUMILIATION

"I did see the president today actually, and we discussed the Marjorie Taylor Greene issue a little bit.

What happened with her is very simple. She wanted to run statewide in Georgia.

He privately and discreetly sent her a copy of a poll that he had seen, and she was way down.

It was not gonna work out.

He actually did her a favor by saving her from a humiliation.

But ever since that moment, she's opposed him on bombing the Houthi rebels, on bombing Iran, on deportation, and she's gone on TV shows and attacked him.

Because he betrayed her in her mind on that political moment, she's become an opponent on this other stuff."

So this moron thought she could be a governor and was upset that Trump wasn't going to make another bad Trump endorsement and support her in a losing effort.

But she was "MAGA All the Way" and more pro-Trump than Trump himself. She said so, after all. She said this to people who wanted her to say she was MAGA All the Way and more pro-Trump than Trump himself.

She said what people wanted to hear. That makes it true, right?

Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene stunned Republicans on Friday, announcing she will leave Congress next year after a blistering, very public fallout with President Trump. In a statement released Friday, Greene said she will step down on January 5, 2026, ending a tumultuous tenure that turned her into a national figure but increasingly put her at odds with the movement she once claimed to champion.

Her decision drops exactly one week after Trump withdrew his support, saying he was finished dealing with a congresswoman he viewed as endlessly absorbed in drama instead of helping advance the mission he's fighting to deliver. Trump blasted her on Truth Social, noting that while he's focused on "Record Achievements for our Country," Greene would just "COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN!"

Greene's relationship with Trump has frayed for weeks as she broke with him on a series of policy fronts. She was also one of only four GOP members to force a vote on the Epstein files -- a move Republicans say fed Democrat distractions, even as Trump backed the vote just to move past it. And as she kept elevating it, Trump ramped up his attacks, posting that "Wacky Marjorie 'Traitor' Brown... is working overtime to try and portray herself as a victim when... she is the cause of all of her own problems," adding that "nobody cares about this Traitor to our Country."

Greene admitted the break was decisive. She said Trump's call for a primary challenger ahead of 2026 helped push her toward resignation, claiming she didn't want to drag her district through what she described as a pointless fight. "I have too much self-respect and dignity... and do not want my sweet district to endure a hurtful and hateful primary."

In her closing statement, Greene insisted she'd "never changed" and argued that disagreements over immigration policy, tech regulation, long-term mortgages, and foreign entanglements were proof she was simply "voting her conscience." But Republicans note her rhetoric has increasingly turned inward, challenging her own party as Trump works to unite conservatives behind him heading into the 2026 midterms.

Greene, 51, has represented northwest Georgia since 2021. Her departure narrows the GOP's already thin majority and removes one of the most polarizing figures in Congress.

If I sound like I'm pissed off: I am. I'm so tired of the "More MAGA Than Thou" bullshit from grifters and flakes who turn out to be, surprise surprise, opportunists attaching themselves to a political movement for personal benefit.

And who largely turn out to be dirty foreigners, too.

Looking forward to Marjorie Taylor-Greene's next media venture, The MAGA Muscle Mommy Work-Out Plan. Whatever the next grift is. I'm sure it will be stupid.

Anyway. Hello! Are you ready for a short week and then an early dinner?

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MGM Resorts & Panera Bread Learn that Slashing Headcount, Reducing Quality, and Gouging Customers Is Not a Viable Long-Term Strategy

A corporation can target its loyal customers for revenue mining and temporarily increase its profits.

It can also slash employee headcount and customer service, thereby reducing labor expense to produce a short-term increase in profits.

It can even reduce its product size and cheapen the product’s quality to reduce cost of goods sold, also giving a short-term boost to gross profit.

But in every case, these actions tell customers that rather than being valued, the corporation sees customers as marks to be exploited. A great many customers may get hoodwinked once, providing the short-term profit boost that was being sought, but then never come back, thus destroying the company’s long-term prospects. A downward spiral of alienated customers, declining revenue, deteriorating facilities, and degraded reputation ensues.

There ought to be a business school case study about this phenomenon. The only trouble is that this strategy is what’s being learned at elite business schools. Maybe a business school could do a case study on just how toxic elite business school graduates are to corporations.

MGM Resorts International and Panera Bread are both reeling from employing the destructive strategy I just laid out. To their credit, the CEOs of both companies are acknowledging just how damaging that strategy was. To their discredit, these CEOs are learning on the job after being part of the brain trust that implemented these offensive practices.

First, Panera:

“Panera lost diners by cutting portions and staff; It’s reversing course to win them back” [CNBC – 11/18/2025]

Predictably, Panera executives did the deceptive gimmick of quietly shrinking portions and reducing the quality of its food while increasing prices.

When Panera Bread began shrinking its sandwiches and skimping on salads, it started shedding customers. Now, to win them back, the chain plans to reinvest in the business and undo many of those same cost-cutting measures, it said Tuesday.

Once the No. 1 fast-casual brand in the U.S., Panera has dipped to No. 3, ceding the top spots to Chipotle Mexican Grill and Panda Express. Last year, its sales fell 5% to $6.1 billion, according to Technomic estimates. For years, the chain’s traffic has been shrinking, according to CEO Paul Carbone.

Panera didn’t just reduce portion sizes and the quality of its food, Panera also reduced staffing.

Phase one of Panera’s plan is to improve the quality of its food, reversing cost-cutting measures imposed in the face of high inflation, according to Carbone. “We squeezed food costs. We squeezed labor,” he said.

Some of those changes happened while Carbone was Chief Financial Officer. He now calls himself a “reformed CFO” — albeit one who still listens to earnings conference calls. “It’s really about death by a thousand paper cuts, it truly is,” Carbone said about the chain’s downturn.

This next statement from CEO Carbone is a concise indictment of the practices that so many corporations have embraced since they allowed mercenary executives with no long-term focus to destroy their companies in pursuit of one good quarterly report:

“In some instances, we shrunk portions, so guests would walk into our cafe to buy a sandwich that has gone up significantly in price, with lower-quality ingredients, in a smaller size,” Carbone said.

He also realizes now that staffing actually matters:

To improve the customer experience, Panera is planning to invest more into labor. Like many restaurants, Panera in recent years scheduled fewer workers and relied more on the self-order kiosks it pioneered in the industry. That approach saved money, but customers often walked into a cafe and couldn’t find an employee in sight, according to Carbone.

Panera saved money but loyal customers were lost. Who could have ever predicted that?

MGM Resorts International burned itself badly following that same template of gouging customers and cutting service.

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

Rape of Tamar
Eustache Le Sueur

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The Morning Report — 11/24/25

Good morning kids. Hope you all had a nice relaxed weekend as we are now in the run-up to Thanksgiving, which marks the start of the run-up to Christmas. Or, as my relatives and I would say "Oy gevalt!"

As for the links, once again it's Insurrection, Sedition and Treason oh my! Of course all on the part of the Democrat/Left as it has been almost since the founding of the Republic. If a single image could define the concept of black humor, it would have to be this one, which CBD posted in the sidebar. It's the Babylon Bee with a shot of NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani standing in front of the White House, prior to his Oval Office confab with President Trump. The headline "Breaking: Hamas Breaches White House Perimeter"

Were it not so nightmarishly tragic given who and what Mamdani is and represents, I'd be laughing my ass off, and yet it's absolutely hilarious because of exactly that. I suppose I can understand why the President would have this meeting, perhaps an olive branch for public consumption and when the cameras weren't present maybe reading Mamdani the riot act. Maybe Trump was channeling Yasser Arafat at the UN from about 50 or so years ago when he held out an olive branch in one hand and his .44 Webley in the other. But what did Mamdani have to gain, or was it he who thought he could pull this kind of Arafat maneuver on the President? While that was happening in DC, this was going on in NYC:

Elle Bisgaard-Church, the Chief of Staff for Zohran Mamdani, claimed that Mamdani “made clear that we uphold sanctuary laws in our city and all immigrants will be safe in our city” and those ‘laws’ only allow cooperation with ICE “in extreme violent felony cases.”

What’s an “extreme violent felony”? Well it’s different than a moderate violent felony like a mugging, assault, rape or a mild murder.

It’s kind of like moderate Islam and extreme Islamic terrorism. . . Of course it depends on how you define moderate. Since Mamdani thinks Hamas is moderate, it might actually be more like killing 1,000 people in one hour.

And so as President Trump continues to exercise his Constitutional authority and duty to protect our citizenry by both rounding up and deporting illegal aliens (violent and otherwise) and deploying the National Guard to either help local law enforcement arrest criminals or in some cases do the work that police departments are being prevented from doing by the insane edicts of their Democrat/Marxist mayors and city councils. He's also decided to allow our military assets to interdict and use lethal force to eliminate narco-traffickers on the high seas, before they can unload their lethal cargo onto our shores.

All of this has caused much wetting of undergarments by the Democrat/Left which is merely a distraction from the fact that President Trump and his successful policies are bolstering support from the MAGA and conservative base and even garnering support from those outside that group and from among disaffected Democrats, which has now led to not only violent acts committed by their street thugs and terrorists against law enforcement but for their leaders no openly calling for the troops to disobey national, legal, command authority from their Commander-in-Chief and his military leaders. This is sedition and the fomenting of insurrection.

Wright suggests that Slotkin, who is also former CIA, knew exactly what she was doing by putting out this video. . . On Friday’s “Jesse Watters Primetime” on FNC, former CIA operations officer and host of the “The Wright Report” podcast, Bryan Dean Wright, argued that Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) intentionally sparked a firestorm with what he deemed a “propaganda video” urging military members to defy so-called “illegal orders.”

She and all like her have to swing.

Have a good day.

And lastly, a quick shout-out and thank you for your continued support in hitting our tip jar. It truly is appreciated more than you can know.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
• A rising tide of antisemitism meets a renewed cultural fight, leaving Jews caught between echoes of 1935 and the fragile hope of 1975.
  American Jews: Are We Closer to New York 1975 or Budapest 1935?
  
• Victor Davis Hanson: Ideology makes facts fit dogmas, rather than evidence leading empirically to conclusions.
  The left’s Pavlovian hatreds are blinding them to their politically suicidal choices (And yet, they keep winning election after election - jjs)
  
• Now we know that it was all a massive foreign influence operation of fake MAGA accounts meant not to promote Trump, but to turn Americans against Jews and Israel and to sow chaos and division among actual Trump supporters.
  Foreign Fake MAGA Anti-Israel Accounts Exposed In X “Location” Disclosure

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Daily Tech News 24 November 2025

Top Story

• Deep Fission has an interesting idea: Rather than extracting spent nuclear fuel from reactors and burying it a mile underground, why not bury the entire reactor... A mile underground? (Spectrum)
  
  The reactors will be small - very small, just 75cm wide though 9 meters tall - to fit down a regular borehole, and will generate 15 megawatts of power each. They plan to bring a test unit online next year - though they admit the schedule is optimistic - and commercial units within three years.
  
  
  
• Mazama Energy, on the other hand, just plans to drill a hole - into Newberry Volcano in Oregon. (Yahoo)
  
  Down into the depths where the rock reaches temperatures over 600F, so they can pump water down and drive a turbine off the returning steam.
  
  The difficulty there is that at temperatures over 700F where the process is most efficient, the drilling equipment tends to go all melty itself.

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Sunday Overnight Open Thread - November 23, 2025 [Doof]

Be thankful!

Thanksgiving week is upon us. Are you thankful for the Sunday night ONT? If so, please tell us why! If not, please tell us what you ARE thankful for!

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Gun Thread: Fourth November Edition!

Howdy, Y'all! Welcome to the wondrously fabulous Gun Thread! As always, I want to thank all of our regulars for being here week in and week out, and also offer a bigly Gun Thread welcome to any newcomers who may be joining us tonight. Howdy and thank you for stopping by! I hope you find our wacky conversation on the subject of guns 'n shooting both enjoyable and informative. You are always welcome to lurk in the shadows of shame, but I'd like to invite you to jump into the conversation, say howdy, and tell us what kind of shooting you like to do!

Holy Shitballs! How in the ever-loving Hell did it get to be the Fourth November Edition?! Happy Thanksgiving, all y'all. Are all of your preparations for the big day in place? What are some of the things you're thankful for?

NOTE: I likely won't be around in the comments much tonight, so please do not burn the place down.

With that, step into the dojo and let's get to the gun stuff below, shall we?

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Food Thread: The Unbearable LIghtness Of Brussels Sprouts

I love 'em! Brussels Sprouts are tasty, great textured, are infinitely malleable, so they can be sweet or tart or spicy or salty or fatty. Well, they are always fatty, because if I am not cooking them with bacon they get a large dousing of olive oil.

But around these parts, the Brussels Sprouts crop has been crap. They are woody, tough, and I have noticed more rot and bug evidence than usual. Is there a coming Brussels Sprouts blight that will rival the Black Death? Is Big Vegetable, in its infinite wisdom, getting rid of Brussels Sprouts the way they deplatformed snap peas?

Because this is a big deal! How can I make Brussels Sprouts with Bacon, or more accurately, Bacon with Brussels Sprouts, if one of the four ingredients is substandard?

Anyone else notice this, or am I the only lunatic?

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First-World Problems...

That's a scuff mark on a hardwood floor from shoes that, of course!, are my most comfortable pair.

And that's not the only one. I fight an unending battle with my soles!

There has to be a rubber formulation that doesn't scuff, but obviously there is a reason to use this particular blend.

Probably kickbacks from Big Floor Cleaner!

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The Entire World Finds The Palestinians Repulsive, Yet Insists Upon Foisting Them Off On Israel?

Everywhere they go they cause problems. Egypt's border with Gaza is unbelievably fortified, because Egypt's significant social and economic problems don't need an injection of low-intelligence, violent troublemakers. The so-called "refugees" from Israel's War of Independence never integrated themselves into Lebanon or Jordan or Syria for the same reasons.

Of course, the concept of a "refugee," 75+ years after a war is laughable. Where are the refugees from World War II, which was obviously many orders of magnitude larger, more destructive, and displaced millions upon millions of people?

IDF: 17 terrorists who escaped Rafah tunnels killed or captured following 24-hour manhunt

Israel and the United States have discussed how to deal with the terrorists trapped in the Rafah tunnel network. One proposal, which would have allowed them to be deported, collapsed after no foreign state — including Turkey and Qatar — agreed to accept them.

The bolded sentence is, in a nutshell, the problem with the Palestinians. Nobody wants them. But as a tool to bash Israel, they are marvelous! And as a tool to foment street violence and political upheaval in the West, they are the perfect tool.

There are 22 nations in the Arab League, with almost half a billion people. Those are the natural destinations for the Palestinians...not the one tiny Jewish state, against whom they lost several wars. There is no historical analog to the demand that Israel accept the losers of its many wars against the Arab world, yet for some unfathomable reason, that is the demand.

And...of course it is a transparent reason. The world, in particular Europe, is still furious with the Jews for not having the decency to allow Hitler and the Third Reich to complete their Final Solution. Pushing for a Two-State solution simply means having an armed terrorist nation on the border of Israel. Pushing for a One-State solution means the dissolution of Israel as the Jewish homeland.

The far simpler and more peaceful solution is the integration of the Palestinians into the many Arab nations. There are oceans of petroleum money available for this resettlement, which could dilute the malign effects of large Palestinian populations by distributing them among all of the 22 Arab League nations.

That will never happen, because the Palestinian question is far too valuable as the wedge between the Arab World and the West! Keep those mobs frothing-at-the-mouth furious at Jews and Christians and Western democracies!

And we let them!

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Sunday Morning Book Thread - 11-23-2025 ["Perfessor" Squirrel]

Welcome to the prestigious, internationally acclaimed, stately, and illustrious Sunday Morning Book Thread! The place where all readers are welcome, regardless of whatever guilty pleasure we feel like reading (Kaboom!). Here is where we can discuss, argue, bicker, quibble, consider, debate, confabulate, converse, and jaw about our latest fancy in reading material. As always, pants are required, unless you are wearing these pants...

So relax, find yourself a warm kitty (or warm puppy--I won't judge) to curl up in your lap, start defrosting that turkey, and dive into a new book. What are YOU reading this fine morning?

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