Trump Files Lawsuit Against BBC for Defamatory J6 Edit

Another $10 billion lawsuit.

The odds of winning in court, with a left-wing anti-American judge and left-wing anti-American, are zero, unfortunately.

Note that all left-wingers are anti-patriots who despise their country... but hate America more, and turn into jingoistic nationalists if the Great Satan America is in a conflict with their countries.

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) said early Tuesday it plans to fight back against President Donald Trump's $10 billion lawsuit.

The BBC has come under intense scrutiny over a 2024 "Panorama" documentary about Trump's Jan. 6, 2021, speech delivered before the riot at the U.S. Capitol. Critics claim the documentary was misleading because it omitted Trump's call for supporters to protest peacefully.

Trump sued the BBC on Monday for both defamation and for a violation of Florida's Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act for $5 billion apiece, seeking $10 billion total. The suit, filed in the Southern District of Florida Federal Court, was filed in a personal capacity and names BBC and BBC Studios Productions as defendants. While ABC and CBS have both settled with Trump in recent memory, the BBC plans to fight the case.

"As we have made clear previously, we will be defending this case. We are not going to make further comment on ongoing legal proceedings," a BBC spokesperson told Fox News Digital.

Trump's legal team, made up of attorneys Alejandro Brito, Edward Paltzik and Daniel Epstein, believes the British outlet serves a liberal political agenda.

"The formerly respected and now disgraced BBC defamed President Trump by intentionally, maliciously, and deceptively doctoring his speech in a brazen attempt to interfere in the 2024 Presidential Election. The BBC has a long pattern of deceiving its audience in coverage of President Trump, all in service of its own leftist political agenda. President Trump's powerhouse lawsuit is holding the BBC accountable for its defamation and reckless election interference just as he has held other fake news mainstream media responsible for their wrongdoing," a spokesperson for Trump's legal team told Fox News Digital.

The BBC previously issued an apology for the erroneous edit and said it had pulled the program from its platforms, but a spokesperson for the broadcaster added, "While the BBC sincerely regrets the manner in which the video clip was edited, we strongly disagree there is a basis for a defamation claim."

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Trump's legal team suggested the defendants "timed the publication of the Panorama Documentary to be close in time to the 2024 Presidential Election" and the value of the president's "personal brand alone is reasonably estimated to be worth tens of billions of dollars."

I wish there was some chance this lawsuit could prevail. But it won't.

We'll just have to take solace in the fact that the BBC is losing billions because more and more Britons are refusing to pay the mandatory "license fee" to watch the shithole state media.

BBC loses 1.1 billion pounds as more viewers cancel or evade TV licence fee

The publishing of the report comes after a number of scandals at the BBC in recent months

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PAC chair Conservative MP Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown described the BBC as "an organisation under severe pressure".

Among several findings, the report said the BBC is not doing enough to enforce collection of the licence fee, which it described as unfair to the vast majority of households that do pay for a licence.

It said licence fee evasion and households not purchasing a licence together represented more than 1.1 billion pounds in potential lost income in 2024/25.

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It also highlighted how the BBC is behind target in developing new intellectual property (IP), "which in turn will limit sustainable long-term revenue streams".

Well you had Doctor Who, but you decided to torch that IP.

The report said the BBC's mission to "serve all audiences" is at risk, with just 51% of younger people feeling the BBC reflects them, while their overall use of BBC services -- including TV, radio or online -- is significantly lower than other age groups.

One good thing about Millennials and Zellennials is their rejecting of the media. They're absolutely killing the media by tuning out.

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Mark Halperin: I'm Hearing, But Can't Confirm, That the Family of Ella Cook -- Murdered by the Brown University Terrorist -- Has Been Informed That She Was the Target In the Attack

Edited: I have rewritten the headline and the post to reflect that Halperin is only floating this as something he is "hearing," not something he can confirm. Apologies for stating it too strongly when I first posted.

Ella Cook was one of the very few conservative activists at the leftwing shithole Brown University. I saw someone do some quick calculations and figure that, based on how few conservative activists are permitted to exist at Brown, the chances of a conservative activist randomly being among the only two people killed was 0.8%.

I didn't post that because it seemed pretty suggestive, but not conclusive. And I figured that if there was any truth to it, we'd know about it soon enough.

I didn't want to be Demonic Nazi Grifter like Candace Owens.

Also, there is no math on this blog.

Ella Cook was of course beautiful and said to always offer people a bright smile.

She was the Vice President of the College Republican Club.

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The Morning Rant: No American Soldiers In Eastern Europe!

Repeat after me: "We are not the world's policeman."

To paraphrase Otto von Bismarck, "Ukraine is not worth the bones of a single United States Marine." So the idea of some security agreement with Ukraine that mirrors NATO's Article 5 is essentially allowing Ukraine into NATO without all of that pesky cooperation and standardization and massive bureaucracy and, by the way, no equal commitment from the rest of the members.

And that's exactly what they want! France and Germany don't want their soldiers to get chewed up and spit out in Donetsk. They want American soldiers to do their dirty work, so they can enjoy some strudel and a good Eiswein, or a lovely croissant and a couple of espressos while they read the news of American blood and treasure being spent once again in Europe.

Stay out of Eastern Europe's territorial disputes. They have been going on for a very long time, and most of them have been nasty wars that expose the curious lack of interest in the lives of those who are fighting them. Both Ukraine and Russia are churning through soldiers at an astounding rate, and the idea that America should provide some ironclad security in the event of another border clash is batshit crazy.

Kyiv's Top Negotiator Hails 'Real Progress' During 2nd Day of Peace Talks in Berlin

Ahead of the first meeting, Zelenskyy said on Dec. 14 that Kyiv is open to dropping its NATO ambitions in exchange for Western security guarantees.

“Thus, today, bilateral security guarantees between Ukraine and the US, Article 5-like guarantees for us from the US, and security guarantees from European colleagues, as well as other countries — Canada, Japan — are an opportunity to prevent another Russian invasion,” Zelenskyy said in a WhatsApp chat with reporters.

It remains unclear how discussions have progressed on that and other issues, such as territorial concessions, which have been key sticking points in the process.

The Kremlin said on Dec. 15 that Ukraine agreeing not to join NATO was fundamental to the peace settlement.

This war is going to end only when Ukraine and its European cheerleaders admit that they have lost territory that will probably never be returned. Yes, that's not fair. And it wasn't fair that I didn't get the GI Joe with the Kung-Fu grip when I was eight years old, but that's the way of the world!

Russia has been exposed as a paper tiger, and the insulting argument that Ukraine is only the first step in its drive to the Channel is thoroughly debunked by the facts on the ground. Russia couldn't conquer Ukraine in three and a half years? That is a shocking realization for Putin and his generals, and no amount of obfuscation on their part will change that.

Here's my plan. Guarantee a certain level of access to American weapons, paid for in cash. Guarantee a certain level of intelligence cooperation. Guarantee support in the United Nations (remember that?) for a just peace. Continue support for Poland's military buildup, which is a wonderful buffer against any Russian intransigence.

And no American soldiers anywhere near the current battlefields or anywhere near a hypothetical future conflict. Until Western Europe decides that their culture is worth defending, what possible future benefit is there for America to enter a war that is merely a distraction from the real conflict: Islam vs. the West?

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

The Seeress of Prevorst
Gabriel von Max

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The Morning Report — 12/16/25

Good morning kids. Frankly, the less said about a certain celebrity, who along with his wife was brutally slain at the hands of their own son, the better.

Unfortunately President Trump decided to give his opinion about the victim and, despite his not being in the wrong in his opinion, was this really appropriate, or beneficial to him and the MAGA cause, when there are so many other crucial matters that need to be spoken of in the most open and frank manner possible, not offering a personal opinion about a critic in the wake of their horrific death, regardless of how accurate the opinion might be.

Meanwhile considering what unfolded in Australia a few days ago which is not a one-off but merely the latest in a long line of incidents that has spilled oceans of innocent blood for close to a millennium and a half. Vickie Paladino, a lesser-known GOP pol mostly because she is somehow holding on in deepest, darkest, bluest New York City.

Queens Republican Councilwoman Vickie Paladino is facing a firestorm from Democrats over social media posts she made calling for the “expulsion of Muslims” in the wake of the Bondi Beach terrorist attack in Australia.

Paladino took down the posts in question after facing outrage from fellow local elected officials, including Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, who ripped the comments as Islamophobic.

“We’re in the midst of a global jihad the likes of which the world has never seen, and we cannot ignore it,” Paladino had written on X after 15 people were killed and 40 others injured at a celebration of the Jewish Hannukah holiday on Sunday.

“We need to take very seriously the need to begin the expulsion of Muslims from western nations, or at the very least the severe sanction of them within western borders,” the posts said, adding that action needed to be taken to prevent “another 9/11 or worse.”

. . . ncoming City Council Speaker Julie Menin, who is Jewish, said she asked Paladino to take down the post, which had been removed by Monday afternoon.

“Rhetoric that vilifies an entire community only serves to inflame tensions at a moment when New Yorkers must come together to address our shared challenges,” Menin also wrote on X. “This is a time to uplift all communities, not sow divisions.”. . . “It’s been clear for a while that progressives don’t value freedom of speech, but I find it very funny that they’re so apocalyptic about this tweet, while their own social media accounts and those of their leftist allies in the DSA spew some of the most toxic, violent, and anti-American rhetoric on a daily basis,” she said in a statement. “Once again progressives are acting like the PR wing and defense attorneys for radical Islam after a wave of terror attacks, and the West is going to have to deal with this dangerous reality soon enough.”

Well Ms. Menin, have you cracked a copy of the Koran lately? In it you will see not only references to Jews as the descendants of Apes and Pigs but that in order to truly be a follower of Mohammed it is one's duty to kill all Jews and infidels who refuse to submit to Islam. this is what is preached on a daily basis and taught to Muslim children in every mosque and Madrassa on the planet.

My only criticism of Ms. Paladino is that this is the crucial context, beyond the body count in Bondi Beach and elsewhere, that undergirds her very spot on assertion. Islam and its adherents are incompatible with the free and open and dare I say it "diverse" society that Leftists are constantly yammering on about. Of course, they themselves do not want diversity. They use that as the weapon to impose conformity to their will on a truly free society.

Instead of hurling the inflammatory call for expulsion of Muslims, justified though it is, the more effective rhetorical and political weapon would be to call on all Muslims to reject the aspects/teachings/words of the Koran and Islam I tied above. Force them to publicly reject those words, and watch them squirm as they attempt to avoid doing so or otherwise lying about what their teachings are. Public shaming and exposure would be a far more effective than feeding into the Leftist meme of white supremacy/xenophobia/islamophobia etc. Seek out the so-called "Moderate" Muslims and hold some sort of public press event in which you shove this garbage in their face and make them deny it on camera.

"Do you renounce these words?" of course they can't since they are the alleged words of their false god Allah and the pedohile prophet Mohammed. Meh, the concept of Taqqiya, gives them the out they need I guess. But Still. Words do matter but more crucially its what words you use and how you use them in order to get the points across to the public at large.

It's why Vickie Paladino and President Trump need to have someone like a Robert Spencer as an adviser/coach in this issue. Both of them for sure understand what we all do, in the self-evident truth that not all societies are equal and that some indeed are not only inferior but dangerously toxic.

In a not unrelated story, we have the continuation of the now openly and getting bloodier and more violent by the day, insurrection against We the People:

Human Events Daily host Jack Posobiec spoke with The Post Millennial's Editor-at-Large Andy Ngo on Monday about recent federal terrorism cases involving far-left extremists, warning that leftist political group violence is escalating and often ignored by the public and downplayed by the media. Posobiec framed the discussion by pointing to recent prosecutions and prior warnings raised during the Trump administration roundtable on far-left violence. “This is another example, Andy, I think, that in this country — and you and I, of course, both participated in President Trump’s roundtable on far-left violence — the left is getting more violent, aren’t they?” Posobiec asked.

Ngo responded by citing multiple recent federal convictions tied to extremist activity. “This allegation from the federal government," Ngo said, referring to the foiled terror attack planned by the Turtle Island Liberation Front, "comes on the heels of at least seven people in Texas being federally convicted for providing material support for terrorists in an Antifa shooting ambush attack that happened on an ICE facility early this year,” Ngo said. He added that in California, “there was another Antifa associate in the Berkeley area who was convicted and sentenced to 19 years for a number of bombings that he carried out on the Cal campus and around it.”

When the institutional Left eventually does finally link up with the organized Islamic terrorists no doubt in our midst, and they probably already have, shit is going to get more real than we had thought possible. It is a nightmare scenario in the making. Plus with the institutional corruption in government, media, the private sector and perhaps at some level in our military, Yikes. I mean Mark Kelly et al were actively fomenting mutiny in the ranks. I don't want to contemplate the consequences to us if his and his evil co-conspirators' poisonous entreaties to evil are taken to heart by even a fraction of our troops. . .

This is bloody revolution, period. Unless the conspirators as well as and most especially their political and financial backers are all rounded up and then publicly executed, we have failed. The rule of law, as we have seen with Donald Trump, the J-6 political prisoners and others is now a farce. The rubicon has been crossed. We cannot restore or begin to restore our society unless the cancer within is excised with extreme prejudice.

It's not pretty, but there it is. I call it as I see it, my friends.

Have a good day.

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• “We’re in the midst of a global jihad the likes of which the world has never seen, and we cannot ignore it,” Paladino had written on X after 15 people were killed and 40 others injured at a celebration of the Jewish Hannukah holiday on Sunday.
  NYC GOP Councilwoman Vickie Paladino faces firestorm after calling for ‘expulsion of Muslims’ in light of Bondi Beach terrorist attack

• The long march through the institutions: From Trotskyist entryism to civilizational conquest of Europe by the Muslim Brotherhood.
  The Patient Strategy of Entryism

  
  

• Timing is everything, I guess - JJS!
  Obamas planned to meet with Rob Reiner and wife the night couple was killed

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Daily Tech News 16 December 2025

Top Story

• Merriam Webster names "slop" the word of the year. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Good work, dictionary. Have a cookie.

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Overnight Open Thread [12/15/2025]

[Sorry the ONT is so early today...]

Topographic prominence is different than height, and Mt. McKinley is the clear winner in America. Then comes Mauna Kea, which didn't surprise me at all (I thought it was going to be #1), then Mt. Rainier in Washington, although it is rapidly crumbling into insignificance because it no longer has a spine. Then come a bunch of Alaskan peaks nobody has ever heard of, then my personal favorite slides in at #9: Mount Whitney! Mt. Shasta is #11, which is also in my favorites list, mostly because you can see it from miles and miles away. Hell, you can see it from Highway 5!

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The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for fuckoffs and misfits -- a false doorway to the backside of life, a filthy piss-ridden little hole nailed off by the building inspector, but just deep enough for a wino to curl up from the sidewalk and masturbate like a chimp in a zoo-cage.

-- Hunter S. Thompson

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.

-- W.C. Fields

Fewer men would have turned to stone if Medusa had bigger boobs.

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Pupper Pizza Cafe

by Garrick

Cat believes Christmas is for cats. But cats believe that about everything.

Pigs on the run.

Bear discovers that Cats are asshoe.

Sharing lunch with a donkey.

Cruising the strip.

Bear cub plays at the beach.

Sharing is for saps.

Massaging the hamster, if you know what I mean.

Final gunfight of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, as interpreted by cats.

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Quick Hits

Candace Owens proves that terrorism works. She's bullied Erika Kirk into a private meeting, in which Candace Owens' demonic evil narcissism won't be exposed to the public, and about which Owens can say whatever she likes.

Erika Kirk
@MrsErikaKirk

Candace Owens and I are meeting for a private, in-person discussion on Monday, December 15. @RealCandaceO and I have agreed that public discussions, livestreams, and tweets are on hold until after this meeting. I look forward to a productive conversation. Thank you.
8:01 PM · Dec 14, 2025

Frank McCormick | Educator
@CBHeresy

Here is how this will play out:

1. They will come to an agreement; one that Candace will not honor, but Erika will be temporarily relieved.

2. Candace will say both she and Erika had a productive conversation and that they "both want justice for Charlie"-- immediately elevating herself to Erika's level.

3. Candace will do a brief pause of her show-- entirely for optics.

4. Eventually she will come back and claim that she has received new information she cannot ignore.

5. When Candace returns to her "investigation," she will argue she is fulfilling the promise she made to Erika during the private conversation to help her seek justice for Charlie.

Everything she does after will be framed as the fulfillment of an agreement- which she will purposefully be vague about under the auspices of "privacy"- she will claim to have made with Erika.

And what will she do if Erika pushes back after this?

A tactic that all of the Nazis are deploying is claiming that they were all great friends with Charlie Kirk and know how much he secretly hated the Jews. After they spent years publicly attacking him, they claim that he was a friend that shared with them his secret Nazi leanings. Now that he's not around to contradict him.

Meanwhile, the diseased pervert Milo is claiming Charlie Kirk paid the "Faggot" -- Tyler Robinson -- to kill him to get away from Erika Kirk.

Yes, this is a "joke," not a serious assertion. (I guess.) But if this "joke" proves popular among the Nazis, I'm pretty sure Milo will endorse it as a serious theory for clicks.

Tucker Carlson had on Milo last week, by the way.

Judge Boasberg has been delayed in his lawless attempt to hold Trump officials in "contempt" for out-of-courtroom behavior.

A panel of judges on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has delayed proceedings in U.S. District Judge James Boasberg's contempt inquiry until 2026, instructing the litigants to opine on the authority of the court to pursue contempt at all.

Boasberg has overseen a challenge involving the Trump administration's invocation of the Alien Enemies Act to deport members of Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua. Boasberg had planned contempt hearings this week, though the Department of Justice appealed to the upper court and even moved to boot him from the case altogether.

In the Monday order, the judges set a Jan. 5, 2026 deadline for responses addressing the question of the court's authority to pursue so-called "indirect contempt."

The matter of the actual deportations has already reached the Supreme Court, which permitted the administration to invoke the Alien Enemies Act.

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Australian PM: In Aftermath of Two ISIS-Connected Pakistanis Shooting Up Hannukah Celebration, We Now Turn to the Real Threat, "Right Wing Extremist Groups" and Guns In the Hands of Native Australians

Of course.

The only problematic thing about the latest Muslim slaughter of non-Muslims is the claim that Muslim violence will lead to anti-Muslim backlash.

Many point out that while Australia banned a tennis player from entering the country -- because he wouldn't take the clot shot -- they let in Known Wolf terrorists in no problem.

Not an immediate threat, Australian "anti-terror" police decided.

@emilykschrader

As more information is revealed about the terrorists, the police have confirmed that Naveed was known to the Australian security services for his connections to ISIS, but they did not believe he posed an immediate threat. Reports indicate he and his father were radicalized at their mosque, the Al-Murad Islamic center in Sydney. The police also found explosives in their vehicle and an ISIS flag.

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Antifa-Style Pro-Palestinian Terrorist Group Arrested, Stopped from Planned New Years Even Attacks in LA

Attorney General Pamela Bondi
@AGPamBondi

After an intense investigation, the Department of Justice, working with our @FBI
, prevented what would have been a massive and horrific terror plot in the Central District of California (Orange County and Los Angeles).

The Turtle Island Liberation Front--a far-left, pro-Palestine, anti-government, and anti-capitalist group--was preparing to conduct a series of bombings against multiple targets in California beginning on New Year's Eve. The group also planned to target ICE agents and vehicles.

This was an incredible effort by our U.S. Attorneys' Offices and the @FBI
to ensure Americans can live in peace. We will continue to pursue these terror groups and bring them to justice.

Gunther Eagleman
@GuntherEagleman

🚨 BREAKING: FBI just held a press conference announcing they FOILED a massive New Year's Eve terror bombing plot in Southern California by far-left radicals!

The four arrested "Turtle Island Liberation Front" (TILF) members -- all from the LA area:

- Audrey Caroll, 30 (leader who organized the even more extreme "Order of the Black Lotus" faction)
- Zachary Aaron Page, 32
- Donte Gaffield, 24
- Tina Le, 41

They were caught red-handed in the Mojave Desert last Friday unloading bomb-making materials to assemble and test IEDs.

Plot details from the complaint:

- Planned to bomb 5+ locations in LA/Orange County on NYE
- Explicitly called it a "terrorist act"
- Follow-up attacks targeting ICE agents/vehicles with pipe bombs to "take some of them out and scare the rest"
- Found "Death to America," "Long live Turtle Island and Palestine," and "Death to ICE" posters in their homes

The media will probably bury this because it's not the "narrative" they want... but THIS is domestic FAR LEFT terrorism.

The NY Post:

FBI stops planned New Year's Eve Los Angeles bombing by 'anti-capitalist,' anti-ICE terror cell

WASHINGTON -- The FBI arrested five members of an "anti-capitalist, anti-government" extremist group on Friday and charged them with an alleged plot to carry out coordinated bombings in and around Los Angeles on New Year's Eve, according to officials and a criminal complaint.

The "credible, imminent terrorist threat" to five unidentified companies' logistics centers in Southern California came from radical members of an offshoot of the left-wing Turtle Island Liberation Front (TILF), FBI Director Kash Patel and other law enforcement officials revealed Monday.

The splinter group called themselves the Order of the Black Lotus and passed along an "eight-page, handwritten document titled 'OPERATION MIDNIGHT SUN'" that laid out the bombing plot to a confidential FBI source, according to a criminal complaint filed Saturday in Los Angeles federal court.

Four of the suspects were collared in Lucerne Valley in the Mojave Desert, where they were captured on video attempting to test improvised explosive devices (IEDs), Los Angeles first assistant US Attorney Bill Essayli told reporters at a news conference.

The arrests were first reported by Fox News.

The quartet -- Audrey Ilene Carroll, 30; Zachary Aaron Page, 32; Dante Gaffield, 24; and Tina Lai, 41 -- have been charged with conspiracy and possession of an unregistered destructive device. A fifth unidentified suspect was arrested in New Orleans while planning a separate attack.

Carroll and Page led the group and convened a private Signal chat where they used codenames, with Carroll identified as "Asiginaak," Page identified as "Ash Kerrigan" or "cthulu's daughter," Gaffield as "Nomad" and Lai as "Kickwhere."

The group had begun assembling the "complex pipe bombs" with "homemade gunpowder" in the desert when FBI agents arrested them on Dec. 12.

"Carroll's bomb plot was explicit," Essayli said. "It included step-by step instructions to build IEDs, or improvised explosive devices, and listed multiple targets across Orange County and Los Angeles. Carroll also made clear her desires. She said, 'What we are doing will be considered a terrorist act.'"

The sophisticated criminal scheme involved each participant wearing so-called "BlacBloc" clothing, using burner phones, wearing gloves, concealing their hair, paying for black powder pipe bomb materials in cash and even "placing a small pebble in a shoe to alter natural gait to obfuscate their identification," the complaint stated.

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House Report: DC Police Chief Demanded Cops Falisify Crime Records to Cook the Stats "By Any Means Necessary"

Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh

🚨 BREAKING: A JAW-DROPPING report from the House just confirmed the left-wing D.C. police chief FALSIFIED crime statistics, "cooking the books" to make the city seem MUCH safer than it was.

- Chief Smith PUNISHED and RETLIATED if they tried to report rising crime data, BERATING them
- Chief Pam Smith PRESSURED commanders to lower crime stats "by any means necessary"
- Chief Smith pushed for lesser-pursued charges EVEN for serious crimes
- Required certain crimes to be reviewed by her office

WOW.

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Charles Grassley: New Evidence Proves Obama Stopped FBI Agents from Investigating the Clinton Foundation

Paul Sperry

@paulsperry_

2h

BREAKING: Just-declassified FBI docs reveal that Andrew McCabe throttled the investigation of the Clinton Foundation in 2016, denying field agents evidence from Weiner laptop. HQ warned: "[Avoid creating] any impression we are investigating the Clinton Foundation or the Clintons"

Bruce Forman

@Brucenewsreview

5h

NEW🚨: Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley released a detailed FBI investigative timeline to Just the News this weekend, documenting repeated political obstructions faced by agents probing potential pay-to-play corruption in Hillary Clinton's family foundation from 2016 through early 2020.

The newly disclosed records, provided by FBI Director Kash Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi, reveal agents' frustrations with barriers from FBI headquarters and the Justice Department, including orders from then-Deputy Director Andrew McCabe to halt overt steps without his approval and demands from then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates to "shut it down."

The timeline highlights early 2016 directives limiting investigations across New York, Little Rock, and Washington field offices, despite evidence of foreign donations potentially influencing State Department actions during Clinton's tenure.

It extends beyond a shorter 2017 timeline, showing post-election delays, statute of limitations concerns raised by DOJ officials, and reluctance from U.S. attorneys to pursue leads, even after Trump administration encouragement.

Grassley stated: "The mainstream media smeared any investigation into Hillary Clinton as unfounded nonsense, but in reality, line agents and federal prosecutors seeking to follow up on legitimate leads were sidelined by partisan leadership looking to save Clinton's reputation. That's a night-and-day departure from how the Biden Justice Department handled the Arctic Frost investigation against President Trump."

The documents underscore agents' reports of being told "NO" by FBI HQ when attempting to expand probes, including interviews with Clinton aides like Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin, which were never authorized.

Special Counsel John Durham previously contrasted this cautious approach with the rapid full investigation into Trump's campaign, noting the Clinton inquiries were hampered despite predication based on source reporting of foreign contributions for favorable treatment.

Grassley's report here.

Department of Justice (DOJ) records provided to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) offer a behind-the-scenes look at how top leadership during the Obama-Biden administration repeatedly interfered to prevent DOJ prosecutors and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents from investigating the Clinton Foundation's financial dealings.

"The mainstream media smeared any investigation into Hillary Clinton as unfounded nonsense, but in reality, line agents and federal prosecutors seeking to follow up on legitimate leads were sidelined by partisan leadership looking to save Clinton's reputation. That's a night-and-day departure from how the Biden Justice Department handled the Arctic Frost investigation against President Trump," Grassley said. "For too long, our Justice Department has chosen winners and losers instead of enforcing the law without regard to power, party or privilege. That must never happen again. I thank Attorney General Bondi and Director Patel for turning over these records, so the American people finally know how their Justice Department failed in the Clinton investigations."

The records, including internal emails and an investigatory timeline, were provided to Grassley in response to his oversight request and whistleblower allegations. Per the records:

On July 20, 2016--111 days before the 2016 election--an agent with the FBI's Criminal Investigative Division ordered that, "based on the sensitivities surrounding the Clinton Foundation," agents were prohibited from issuing subpoenas, conducting interviews or sharing information related to the case with other offices so as to avoid "[creating] any impression we are investigating the Clinton Foundation or the Clintons."

In November 2016, FBI Headquarters, while under the leadership of then-Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, stepped in to block the Clinton Foundation investigative team from accessing potentially incriminating evidence located on the laptop of Anthony Weiner, the husband of Hillary Clinton's political aide, Huma Abedin. McCabe, among others, recommended the information instead be routed to the FBI's "Midyear" investigative team.

After the investigation was reopened in 2017, Main Justice holdovers from the previous administration allegedly provided prosecutors in the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Arkansas (EDAR) with documents that omitted information regarding DOJ and FBI leadership's interference. Additional requests the EDAR made to the FBI in 2018 "ruffled some feathers" and didn't result in a response.

An EDAR prosecutor concluded "there appear to be conflicts of interest for the leadership [at Main Justice, including the Public Integrity Section,] related to the 2016 [Clinton] investigations that undermine any confidence we might normally have in looking to them for assistance."

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Rob Reiner's Mentally-Ill Son Arrested for Double Murder, Held on $4 Million Bail

As I'm sure you know, director/actor Rob Reiner and his wife were stabbed to death in their LA home.

Police questioned Reiner's son Nick, who reportedly had a history of mental illness.

Nick Reiner has now been arrested for the double murder of his father and mother.

Police have arrested Nick Reiner, the son of Rob Reiner, on a charge of murder following the death of the acclaimed Hollywood director and his wife, Michele Singer.

Nick Reiner, a 32-year-old screenwriter and the middle child of Rob Reiner and Singer, was taken into custody on Sunday, Dec. 14, and booked on Monday, according to Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department records reviewed by USA TODAY. He is being held on $4 million bail.

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Reiner has been the most forward-facing of the Reiner siblings. The writer has opened up extensively about his battles with drug addiction as well as homelessness, telling People in a 2016 interview that his struggles began as a teen.

He told the magazine he made his first visit to rehab at 15, and would return 17 times. His 2015 film "Being Charlie," which he cowrote, is loosely based on the experience. His dad directed the film.

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THE MORNING RANT: “Financialization of All the Things” is Parasitism, not Capitalism

Friend-of-the-blog Alexandria Brown offered up a recent X/tweet addressing the financialization of, well, everything in business and commerce, and how it should be viewed in relation to the ideal of capitalism. Specifically, Alex wrote: ”Here's a fun question to which I have not made up my mind even a little bit: is the financialization of All The Things a form of capitalism which is at least tolerable or is it so reductive of human life and endeavors as to be past a limitation on acceptable commercial behavior?”

Those of us who advocate for free markets understand that capitalism also presents an opportunity for bad actors to misbehave within the system. Be it 20th century snake oil salesmen peddling patent medicines, or 21st century Wall Street investment bankers selling pools of subprime mortgages as high-quality securities, there have always been bad actors exploiting the opportunities within a free market.

But just because we conservatives endorse capitalism doesn’t mean we must endorse – or even tolerate - the worst practices that occur therein.

In my opinion, the “financialization-of-all-the-things” is a form of parasitism that does not create wealth, rather it serves to extract the accumulated wealth from entities where wealth has previously been created. Those engaging in “financialism” are the corporate world’s version of tapeworms and ticks.

If you have been reading my essays on corporations treating employees as a pestilence and customers as prey, I am unambiguous in my revulsion at the management strategy of using financial manipulations to provide short-term gains, irrespective of long-term damage to the enterprise.

In one recent piece I discussed the mess MGM Resorts and Panera Bread have found themselves in, with both having to apologize for bad corporate behavior. They are now trying to win back disaffected customers after employing the modern management gimmicks of:

• Revenue-mining customers with new and outrageous charges that produced a short-term boost in sales.
• Slashing headcount and customer service to reduce labor expense, giving a short-term boost to operating profit.
• Cheapening their product with reductions in quality and/or size, producing a short-term boost in 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.

These business practices were parasitic. The future cash flow of the loyal customers of MGM and Panera were represented in how those businesses were valued, be it the goodwill asset on the balance sheet or the market capitalization of the stock. But the fallout from those practices devalued the worth of MGM and Panera. When the dust settled from all the financial gimmickry and lost customers, the end result was little different than if those companies’ executives had simply pulled equity out of their companies.

Another recent essay of mine, “Sherwin Williams Eliminates 401k Match Amidst Stock Buybacks and Increased CEO Compensation,” discussed an even more stark example of how financialization is a form of parasitism. To conserve $165 million in cash, Sherwin Williams suspended its 401(k) match for employees, but this was right as it was also flushing away about $900 million in cash for stock buybacks, for the purpose of propping up the stock price. Coincidentally, much of the compensation of Sherwin executives is based on stock price and in the form of stock bonuses.

A stock repurchase is a very simple act of distributing the existing wealth of a corporation. Cash is depleted to buy back stock, and the company’s capitalization decreases accordingly. The money might otherwise be used for capital improvements, debt reduction, etc., but Sherwin executives decided to use the company’s capital to try to enrich themselves.

[Disclaimer - there are valid circumstances when it makes good sense for a cash-flush corporation to engage in stock buybacks, but a company that is eliminating its employees’ 401(k) match to conserve cash is not one of them.]

Sadly, the financial practices of executives at Sherwin Williams, Panera Bread, and MGM Resorts are not isolated. They are emblematic of a prevailing management philosophy that is being learned at elite business schools.

The world of private equity has even more abuses, with takeover targets such as Joann Fabrics getting loaded with debt to enrich their acquirers, with all the above-mentioned financial gimmickry then applied. This often leads to bankruptcy and dissolution of the company, as happened to Joann.

Companies will necessarily fail in the “creative destruction” of capitalism. But strip mining a company of its assets and loading it up with debt isn’t creative destruction, it’s parasitic destruction.

Those of us who support free market capitalism must not be afraid to condemn those who harm its reputation. Just as I can advocate for hunting while simultaneously condemning poachers, I can also advocate for capitalism while condemning those who enrich themselves by engaging in parasitic “financialism.”

Financialization of all things strikes me as a form of parasitism, effectively serving to extract accumulated wealth. While equity may not be distributed, an org’s equity and goodwill is depleted by financial machinations that bring s/t profit gain & long term loss of customers.

— Buck Throckmorton (@BuckThrockmort) December 10, 2025

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

Battle Of Vienna
Pauwel Casteels

Venimus, vidimus et Deus Vicit

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The Morning Report — 12/15/25

Good morning kids. I'm absolutely sick to my stomach over the Bondi Beach massacre. That was horrible enough but the callous indifference of much of the world and in some circles the glee at yet more Jewish blood being spilled is the twisting of the knife. Coming as it does at the beginning of Chanukah, the festival of lights commemorating a miracle of God bestowed upon the Jewish people and representative of their victory over the literal and figurative forces of darkness millennia ago, is typical of how Muslims who plan, execute and the majority who don't but nevertheless celebrate them.

Islam is a cancer that will consume the entire world. That is the goal. The Jews are merely the first target.

Civilizational erasure, as it relates to Europe, has been in the news lately, with the renewed and scaled up predations of Islam once again commanding center stage.

Islam’s resurgence has been a full century in the making, enabled in large part by Western ignorance and enforced taboos against discussing Islam’s highly relevant 1,400-year history of mass bloodshed and conquest.

Indeed, that history is whitewashed by Western academics, whether pseudo-historians like the late Edward Said or execrable and ahistorical oikophobes like Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky.  Wikipedia, Google, and artificial intelligence also play outsized roles in the academic and historical whitewash. . .

. . . Many Christmas markets in Europe are now closed due to “uncontrolled vehicles” and related Islamist threats while church bells and caroling fall silent in order to avoid offending Muslims.  Meanwhile, the Muslim muezzin sounds triumphantly throughout Western Europe and even in American cities of the Upper Midwest.  Islamic supremacism is on the march, its triumphalism augmented by its alliance with Western progressives who denounce any reminders of Christianity, including celebrations of Christmas. Burn a Koran or post a meme mocking Islam, and go to prison for a hate crime.  Burn a Bible, and hey, you’re bravely speaking truth to power.  Citizens of the West all know the drill by now. Will the governments of the Anglosphere learn their lesson from the Western European canary that dropped dead in the coal mine?  Events in locales as varied as Minnesota and the United Kingdom (it appears as if all of Albion is bent over and grabbing its ankles, undergoing a government cavity search) suggest that the answer is probably no.  To paraphrase the otherwise cartoonish James Carville, it’s the demography, stupid.

If Aussie PM Albanese and this dimwit asshole in Pennsylvania think they're going to ride the tiger and not be eaten or perhaps nibbled on last, oh to be there when the head-choppers have the rusty hacksaw at their throats.

Dem House Candidate Offers Condolences to Australia’s Jewish Community —Only To Delete the Statement and Replace It With a Message That Omits Jews.. Pennsylvania's Bob Brooks, a former firefighter who started a lawn care business, has been endorsed by Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Ro Khanna, among others

Members of the ‘devil’s party’ don’t create: they take what someone else made, and invert it.

Understand that simple reality and you will understand the macro and the micro struggles all around us. When Muslim terrorists hijacked planes and flew them into buildings, they weren’t creating anything, but they also weren’t just destroying things, they were inverting them.

What evil does isn’t mindless destruction, that’s savagery, instead evil takes the building blocks of civilization, physical, spiritual, intellectual or moral, and turns them inside out whether these building blocks are governments, universities or ideas so that they become tools of destruction.

Representative governments become unrepresentative. Educational systems inculcate ignorance. The infrastructure of civilian life, buses, planes, trucks, become weapons. And the infrastructure of ideas and morality are inverted the same way to become their opposites.

Ideological inversion is everywhere and it’s the dominant form of political discourse.

Brooks et al are Democrat/Leftists. This is who and what they are. And so, to obtain and maintain power, they'll stay silent or otherwise nod and a wink if not give a standing ovation when Jews are slaughtered, so as not to alienate if not to ingratiate themselves to Muslims and fellow anti-Semites who vote them into office.

On that cold shot of reality, I do want to wish my fellow Jews and all of you a Happy Hanukkah in spite of the horror over the weekend and take comfort in that the lights of the season should and must inspire our faith that we will ultimately be delivered from darkness and that the evil we face will be defeated.

May the Lord bless the memories of the victims, comfort their loved ones and keep all of you safe as the Christmas season begins.

Have a good day.

On a personal note, a shout out to commenter AVIATOR, for your advice and insights, they're most helpful. I'll reach out to you a little later and many thanks again.

And lastly, a quick shout-out and a huge 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
• Post sources confirmed the bodies discovered were the longtime couple, who married in 1989. The couple’s 32-year-old son and screenwriter Nick Reiner is a person of interest in the deadly stabbing, the sources added.
  Legendary director Rob Reiner, wife found stabbed to death in LA home, son eyed as person of interest
  
• Daniel Greenfield: Evil tries to convince us that the world we live in is evil. And destroying it is good.
  Evil Can’t Create, It Can Only Invert
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  BONDI BEACH CHANUKAH BLOODBATH

• The attack, the deadliest in nearly three decades in Australia, has sparked worldwide condemnation and calls for increased security and action against rising antisemitism.
  11 Dead in Anti-Semitic Sydney Terror Shooting.
  
• A Chanukah by the Sea event with upwards of 1,000 attendees was scheduled to take place near a children’s playground from 5pm and had begun when the attack began at the iconic beach.
  12 People, Including One Gunman, Shot Dead at Sydney’s Bondi Beach: Jewish Community Targeted in ‘Terror Attack’
  
• Ahmed al-Ahmad, a 43-year-old father and fruit shop owner, tackled a gunman during the Bondi Beach attack.
  WATCH: Civilian Ambushes Terrorist At Bondi Beach, Wrestles Rifle Away
  
• At the time of the shooting, hundreds had gathered at Bondi Beach to celebrate the start of Hanukkah in an area known as Chanukah by the Sea, PBS reported. Emergency services began responding to Campbell Parade in Bondi around 6:45 p.m. local time after reports of shots being fired, according to The Associated Press.
  Twelve Killed In Shooting Targeting Jewish Community At Australia’s Bondi Beach, Police Say
  
• This is a special time for Christians, Jews and for the Muslims trying to kill them.
  A Chanukah Terrorist Attack in Australia
  
• Prime Minister Anthony Albanese failed to heed multiple warnings about the rising tide of hate — including from human-rights lawyer Arsen Ostrovsky (himself wounded Sunday), who spoke out Dec. 1 after graffiti reading “F–k Zionist Israel,” and “Israel has blood on their hands,” appeared on Bondi Beach overnight. And Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu wrote Albanese months ago, thundering that his call to recognize a Palestinian state “pours fuel on the antisemitic fire” and “emboldens those who menace Australian Jews and encourages the Jew hatred now stalking your streets.”
  Australia’s government failed its Jews in the long runup to Bondi Beach attack
  
• Antisemitic attacks in Australia have reportedly been rising, with the worst mass shooting in nearly 30 years occurring Saturday. A video previously posted by the Australian Jewish Association on Oct. 9, 2023 shows a large group of people waving various Palestinian flags and chanting obscenities against Jews from the steps of Sydney’s Opera House.
  FLASHBACK: Islamists Gathered To Chant ‘F*ck The Jews’ After Oct. 7 Just Minutes From Beach Shooting Site
  
• Both U.S. and Israeli officials warned that recognizing a 'Palestinian' state—which Albanese did in September—would embolden anti-Semites
  Australian PM Anthony Albanese Omits Jews in Statement on Hanukkah Massacre
  
• Pennsylvania's Bob Brooks, a former firefighter who started a lawn care business, has been endorsed by Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Ro Khanna, among others (Brooks et al should only be 6 feet under a lawn as worm food - jjs)
  Dem House Candidate Offers Condolences to Australia’s Jewish Community—Only To Delete the Statement and Replace It With a Message That Omits Jews

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Daily Tech News 15 December 2025

Top Story

• After Amazon was blocked from buying Roomba maker iRobot last year by US and European regulators, the company has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and will be sold off to Shenzhen PICEA Robotics Co. (Bloomberg / MSN)
  
  Guess they'll have to... Suck it up.
  
  Oh, and good fucking work on the regulations there. You really protected competition, huh?

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Sunday Overnight Open Thread - December 14, 2025 [Doof]

Howdy Hordelings! Welcome to the Sunday night ONT. Cold and snowy in my neck of the woods today. How about yours? How's the holiday season coming along for you? What's on your mind tonight? Check out the content, then jump on in to the gray boxes.

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Gun Thread: Second December 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 Second December Edition? Only 11 Days until Christmas! Have you done all of your shopping for shooting stuff or are there still some things on your list? Do tell.

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

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