Wednesday Morning Rant

Hidden Costs

Last week, the New York Post ran an article on an obviously predatory activity with a major online grocery ordering platform - and managed to seriously miss the real point. The article is about a recent study of Instacart, which exposed wildly different pricing for the same items at the same stores at the same time, depending on who did the ordering. Per the study, prices varied by an average of 13% and as much as 23%. That's a huge range.

Too bad the Post misses the problem entirely in its coverage of the story and misinterprets the underlying issue. As the paper put it:

It's the latest example of so-called "dynamic pricing" -- the hated practice introduced more than a decade ago by Uber and Lyft, hiking prices for rides during rainstorms -- that is nickel-and-diming consumers, even as relentless inflation has sparked an affordability crisis.

Not at all. These are entirely different things, and they should not be conflated.

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

Aeneas Tells Dido the Misfortunes of the Trojan City
Pierre-Narcisse Guerin

I once dated a lovely young lady named Dido!

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The Morning Report — 12/17/25

Good morning kids. From friend and co-blogger CBD's excellent Morning Rant essay yesterday on potential US involvement in Ukraine.

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.

I read that and then I remembered a link from yesterday which takes the expression "batshit crazy" to a whole new level.

Communist dictator Kim Jong-un of North Korea held a welcome back ceremony for soldiers serving in the battlefield of the Russian invasion of Ukraine this weekend, acknowledging a regiment believed to have been helping clear landmines in which at least nine soldiers died.

So the Norks are clearing mines for Putin. And what would happen if suppose there was an encounter with US troops and a firefight broke out? Despite the armistice of 1953, the North Korean regimes under successive generations of the Kim dynasty still consider themselves in a state of war with the USA and have maintained their goal of retaking and absorbing South Korea. Yeah, batshit crazy but what if Ukraine somehow devolved into a second front of the ongoing Korean "conflict?" Considering the bizarre and often testy relationship between President Trump and "Rocket Man" Kim . . . again, batshit crazy indeed.

Elsewhere in the world, we have an incident involving the USA and North Korea's prime ally:

A US special operations team in the Indian Ocean raided a ship headed to Iran from China last month and seized military-related articles, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing US officials.

The cargo consisted of components potentially useful for Iran’s conventional weapons, one official said, adding the shipment had been destroyed.

US forces boarded the ship several hundred miles off the coast of Sri Lanka, according to the newspaper, which added the vessel was later allowed to proceed….. The report cited an American official as saying US intelligence indicated the shipment was headed for Iranian companies known to be intermediaries for the country’s missile development efforts.

The action was part of a campaign by the US Defense Department to cut off Iran’s covert arms supply networks….The Iran-China relationship is a cause for concern, but is also unpredictable, since according to analysts across the board, China does not want Iran to acquire nuclear weapons.

The incident of American commandos raiding the ship that was heading from China to Iran was “part of a campaign by the US Defense Department to cut off Iran’s covert arms supply networks.”
Nonetheless, in the global arena, the red-green alliance is growing stronger and expanding strategically, which isn’t good news for American interests.

It should be noted that Iran and North Korea have also had and likely still have a very close relationship due to their mutual animosity and hatred of the USA and now more than ever with Trump as President. Over the years they have collaborated on both nuclear weapons and missile technology. Iran and China have made inroads in our own backyard, most especially in Venezuela first with Chavez and now Maduro, as well as some of the other Commie dictators in the region. It's why the recent elections in Chile and elsewhere installing more American aligned leaders and a rejection of the Leftists are most welcome and gratifying.

The most welcome IMHO and vocal and strident reassertion by this President of the Monroe doctrine could not come at a more crucial time in geopolitics both in this hemisphere and with repercussions that go far beyond it. That said, given the nature of the players in Beijing, Pyongyang, Tehran and Caracas as well as Moscow the word RISK takes on a meaning well beyond that of a mere old time kids' board game.

Yet with all this going on in the world, the greatest risk to America and of our way of life still remains the enemy within.

Here are but two items from the links wherein greasy greaseball Gavin Newsom

and Nazi-afficionado and fanboi Graham Platner are primed and ready to seize vast tracts of land from the citizenry for the most heinous of politicized reasons.

And where does this insanity begin? Kindergarten!

Do you know what a “neopronoun” or a “xeopronoun” is?
The teachers’ unions want to make sure your little kids do. . .Got it?
No?
But our kids are being force-fed this garbage in America’s public schools.
The NEA touts over 3 million members, many of them teachers in our schools.
The union steeps the teachers in this leftist brain rot, and the teachers spread it at schools across the country.
It’s not just the gender bunk that was presented at the conference, either.
The NEA is not entirely sure this whole “America” thing is going to stick, so they refer to it as “what we know as the United States of America” and “What we now call the United States of America” in multiple slides.
Apparently xeopronouns are rock-solid but a 249-year-old country might just be a fad.
Also, sorry gay people, but “homosexual” is a no-no term now, according to the NEA. . . Also, sorry gay people, but “homosexual” is a no-no term now, according to the NEA.
Why?
Because “this term comes across as clinical and dog whistle-y.”
Well, yes, it sounds clinical because it’s a biological term and not a word made up by some TikTok influencer to describe the gender identity of the moment.
How can the NEA still be prioritizing this foolishness in the year 2025?
And why does an openly political special interest group continue to have so much sway over our kids?
Why? How much longer can groups like this, pushing a crazy agenda, have access to our kids and their schools?
Parents need to remain on guard from this asininity oozing into their kids’ classrooms.

Unless and until we wrest control over the Education of our chlldren from the sick, twisted power-mad fiends, we as a nation and society are doomed. Well, there's batshit crazy and then there's the above.

Have a good day.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
• Iran desperately seeking out allies, shifts to China for support.
  US Commandos Raid Ship Carrying Military Items to Iran From China

• Karol Markowicz: Do you know what a “neopronoun” or a “xeopronoun” is? The teachers’ unions want to make sure your little kids do.
  Teachers union pushes ‘neopronouns’ but claims name ‘America’ is a problem

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Daily Tech News 17 December 2025

Top Story

• Coupang - South Korea's equivalent to Amazon - got hacked. (WSJ) (archive site)
  
  Initial disclosure indicated that 4500 customers were affected.
  
  This number has since been updated to 34 million.
  
  
  
• Speaking of which, Midjourney is alemwjsl. (Aadill Pickle)
  
  Me: That's someone typing the local name for Midjourney on a CJKV keyboard with the language accidentally set to English.
  
  Article: Uh... Yes. Korean.

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Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - December 16, 2025 [Doof]

Howdy Hordelings! Tuesday night ONT time. Glad you're here. Single digit number of days left until Christmas. Have you bought your gifts for your favorite ONT host? There's still time!

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Goat Lover Cafe

Buck Moon over Northumberland,
by Jim Scott Photography

Yield.

Triple dog stare.

Dog knows better than to screw around with the kitten when the mama's around.

Hangry dogs need you to know it's feeding time.

Duncanthrax's nightmare job.

Cat thinks Christmas is all staged for him. When in reality, it's all for the alpacas.

Dogs hate the media too and they must be right because they're very good boys.

Kind of a rude Benny-Hill style sight gag.

River otter, being evil.

It's getting hard to find real content because people are now posting fake AI slop. It's getting annoying.

China opens a new electricity plant.

Charge by an adult rhino.

I hope this isn't AI slop.

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Federal Investigators Believed the Clintons May Have Committed a Crime in Taking Money from Russia and Then Approving the Sale of a Uranium Company to Russia, But the DOJ and FBI Let the Statute of Limitations Run

That pattern keeps occurring, huh?

Whoops, the statute of limitations ran out again. We just lost track of the dates!

If you don't remember the case: the Clinton's worldwide bribery and graft organization, the Clinton Funding Machine, I mean the Clinton Foundation, took money from a Russian-government controlled company. Then Hillary Clinton's State Department turned around and repaid the bribe by approving the sale of a uranium company to the same Russian-government controlled company.

The statute of limitations expired during Trump's first term, but Just the News reports that the DOJ and FBI gave investigators the run-around in arguing that the statute of limitations expired at the earliest possible time, rather than looking at arguments that the statute ran later (due to Clinton continuing the conspiracy).

Hillary Clinton's own Russia scandal: FBI memos detail how Uranium One probe thwarted

Running out the clock: The FBI and DOJ slow-walked their investigation into the Clinton Foundation and the sale of Uranium One to Russia-backed interests. As a result of roadblocks, the statute of limitations was allowed to lapse on any prosecution.

By Jerry Dunleavy

Federal investigators believed there was significant evidence worth pursuing related to possible criminality involving the Clinton Foundation and the State Department's approval of the sale of Uranium One to Russian state-owned interests, but delays by the Justice Department and FBI led the inquiry to whither and die because of statute of limitations issues.

The sale of the Canada-based Uranium One to the Russian state-owned Rosatom was the focus of great controversy and scrutiny from Republicans and others who argued that then-Secretary of State Clinton helped approve the deal and that the Clinton Foundation may have stood to benefit from it.

Career agents and line prosecutors at the FBI and DOJ also believed the saga may have been a criminal one, but orders from DOJ leaders such as then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates and then-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe slow-walked and stonewalled the inquiry to the point where it could no longer be pursued.

FBI agents and DOJ prosecutors in Little Rock, Arkansas and elsewhere closely scrutinized the scandal -- but were largely blocked from serious investigative action due to leadership delays and, following those delays, arguments that the statute of limitations had run out.

Jonathan Ross, then the First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, argued in a 2018 email that "there is no legal barrier in continuing the present investigation" into the Clinton Foundation and Uranium One. Ross has served as U.S. Attorney in Arkansas since 2022, including during Trump's second term.

Then-U.S. Attorney Cody Hiland of Arkansas also sent a 2018 email to then-U.S. Attorney John Huber of Utah, largely summarizing Ross's arguments, stressing that "we do not believe the prosecution is time-barred by a statute of limitations" in part "because payments from the subjects of the investigation to the Foundation were made continuously from 2007 through 2014."

A newly-declassified internal FBI investigative timeline also argued that claims that the statute of limitations had run out on the Uranium One inquiry "failed to include whether Acts of Concealment such as deleting emails in 2015 and making additional statements and representations about those deletions would have extended the statute of limitations" and also pointed to possible federal criminal statutes such as the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, major fraud against the United States, and bank fraud.

The timeline also argued that 18 U.S. Code § 3287 -- Wartime Suspension of Statute of Limitations Act -- should have extended the statute of limitations for this alleged criminality as well.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, made the records produced to him by FBI Director Kash Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi available to Just the News this past weekend.

Looks like they gave Trump the run-around, and then he dropped the ball. In fairness to Trump -- the entire Deep State had gotten his chosen AG to step down and the DOJ was being run by a Deep State plant, Ron Rosenstein. Maybe this was the whole point of the RussiaGate op, tying Trump down while the statute of limitations ran.

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NYPost: Candace Owens Leaves a Trail of Enemies, and Lawsuits, Everywhere She Goes

This barely scratches the surface.

Candace Owens' attacks on Erika Kirk are fueled by her own jealousy and bitterness at being pushed out of Turning Point USA, sources claim to The Post.

The independent broadcaster, 36, described as "sadistic and dangerous" by insiders, didn't hold back from spreading baseless conspiracy theories about the grieving widow and her husband, activist Charlie Kirk, after he was assassinated on Sept. 10.

For those who have crossed her path, Owens' disregard for the truth, pursuit of attention and reckless behavior are all calculated.

Those who spoke to The Post claim Owens was loathed by staff when she worked at the Daily Wire, guests on her podcast doubt she believes her own lies and her pattern of inflammatory behavior can be traced all the way back to high school.

"Everything she is doing right now is because she wants to destroy Charlie's legacy and the organization he built because he threw her out of TPUSA," alleged one insider.

Influential voices on the right have become more and more conspiratorial in recent years -- and now, the paranoia is being wielded against its own: Erika Kirk in the wake of her husband Charlie's assassination.

For those of you who say "what does it matter," 1, she's trying to destroy the most effective youth-outreach conservative activist group because they fired her grifter ass, and 2, we're all being branded as insane conspiracy-theorist Nazi Jew-haters because we're trying to make friends with these people instead of just casting them out.

I'm so tired of hearing "Why don't you just stop talking about it." I'll offer you a deal: You start posting in Candace Owens' comments asking her to stop accusing Erika Kirk of murdering her husband. Report back to me what she says. If she stops, then I'll stop talking about her. Deal?

I'm so tired of these claims that criticism of Nazis like Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens who are attempting -- successfully -- to destroy the right if out-of-line while they're allowed to continue demolishing everything good and true on the right.

Why is it that only Carlson's and Owens' critics have to duty to be silent for the sake of Unity? (Unity with Nazis, by the way.) Why don't they have a similar duty?

If you're a Nazi and you like this Nazi propaganda, don't be a coward, just say so. Stop with this bullshit that critics of Owens and Carlson have to remain silent while they're free to drop defamation after defamation on all of their many, many enemies on the right.

Owens worked for TPUSA as a communications director between 2017 and 2019.

"Charlie pushed her out because she was going a little bit nuts," a source close to TPUSA brass claimed to The Post, but noted "he would still text her to keep the friendship going."

False. She started off nuts. This deranged black Nazi has been a degenerate narcissist fame-chaser since high school.

She's also always been very litigious:

She is a graduate of Stamford High School in Connecticut.[7] In 2007, while a 17-year-old senior at Stamford High School, Owens received three racist death threat voicemail messages, totaling two minutes, from a group of white male classmates which included the son of then-mayor and future Democratic governor Dannel Malloy.[8][9][10][11] Joshua Starr, the city's superintendent of schools, listened to the voicemail messages and said that they were "horrendous".[11] Owens's family sued the Stamford Board of Education in federal court, alleging that the city did not protect her rights, resulting in a $37,500 settlement in January 2008.[7][12]

I'm just going to say it: I don't believe those were real. If she can make snap conclusions based on who she likes and who she doesn't like, then so can I. Charges were dropped against the accused kids.

After Charlie started dating Erika in 2018, the source added: "[Owens] was feeling usurped. Who is this interloper, who knew nothing, taking over?" The source claimed.

"She wasn't invited to Charlie's [2021] wedding. That was really telling."

Owens and Erika agreed on a truce over the weekend and were set to meet Monday to hash out their differences.

Conspiracies that Owens has spread about Charlie's murder include the involvement of Israeli Mossad agents, the US military, Egyptian planes and the French government -- despite it having occurred in public and been captured on video. The alleged assassin is in custody awaiting trial.

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StopAntisemitism named Owens "Antisemite of the Year" in 2024, citing her statement that Judaism is a "pedophile-centric religion that believes in demons [and] child sacrifice," and spreading untrue conspiracies such as Israel was involved in 9/11 and a secret group of Jews in Hollywood was involved in the death of Michael Jackson.

Owen has also promoted the "blood libel" conspiracy, that Jewish people murder Christians to use their blood in ceremonies.

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Owens is also facing a huge reckoning in court when Bridgette Macron's defamation lawsuit against her comes to trial, expected next year.

Macron filed a 220-page lawsuit in July 2025 alleging 22 counts of defamation and a "campaign of global humiliation" for financial gain against her.

The lawsuit claims Owens continued to repeat false allegations that the French first lady was born a man even after her attorneys were provided with extensive documentation -- including birth records, childhood photos and pregnancy records from her three children -- all demonstrating Macron was born female.

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"She's about to be in serious financial difficulty" if the Macrons succeed in their lawsuit, a source claimed to The Post.

"She really is on the line for a huge sum of money. I think she probably realizes that now."

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Sources said if Lord Farmer cuts off his son, George Farmer, and Owens, they would face further financial complications.

A source who knows the family said George "has never had a real job" and is mostly known for his lackluster attempt to launch a right-wing Twitter alternative called Parler, which is still active, but has a dwindling number of users.

Owens and her husband now live in Nashville, where she broadcasts her show, which is very lucrative, according to Fortune magazine, which estimated this month her company "generates up to $10 million" a year.

That's a large turnaround from her more humble beginnings in Connecticut. There, in 2017, she owed six months in back rent on her $3,500-a-month, two-bedroom luxury apartment in Stamford.

Faced with eviction, she instead filed a lawsuit against her landlord, Three Harbor Point Square, claiming the apartment had mold and seeking $15,000 in damages for "systemic yeast infections," "impacted cerumen [earwax] in the left ear," and "emotional distress."

She lost the case and instead had to pay the landlord $20,000 in damages and legal expenses.

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After leaving TPUSA, Owens moved on to the Daily Wire, and insiders claim she grated with other people who worked there from the start.

One source said that in her first week, she threw her car keys at a producer and expected them to park her car. She is also said to have expected others to conduct her research, demanded a huge studio to film in and attempted to use the company's publicity arm to push herself, questioning why she hadn't been placed on the cover of People magazine.

"She was one of the worst people I've ever worked with," said one source.

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Secretary of Education Linda McMahon Blasts Tim Walz, Now Accusing Him of Turning a Blind Eye to Somalis Stealing Student Aid By Registering as "Ghost Students" Who Don't Attend School and Don't Even Exist

Last time it turned out that he was enabling mass fraud of welfare money by Somali pirates (and Democrat voters, legal or not), Walz claimed that if he had any fault, it was just of being too "generous" during covid. He wanted to protect people's health, you know.

What's the excuse for allowing fraud on an industrial scale in student aid?

Via Twitchy, McMahon explained the scam to the retard allowing it:

A "ghost student" is a fraudulent application or enrollment created by scammers using fake or stolen identities to steal financial aid and other resources from colleges and universities. The "students" never actually attend classes, or use AI to simulate minimal engagement, before disappearing with the funds.

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Emails: FBI Agents Repeatedly Warned Biden's DOJ That There Was No Probable Cause for the Mar-a-Lago Raid

Weird how we never heard warnings about the need for the DOJ to be independent of the president when Biden's thugs were raiding his rival's home.

Just the News:

The FBI in summer 2022 raised repeated objections to raiding Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home in Florida, warning agents did not believe the Biden Justice Department had enough evidence to establish "probable cause" that the then-former president had broken the law in handling classified documents, according to bombshell memos turned over Tuesday to Congress.

"WFO [FBI's Washington Field Office] has conducted approximately [Redacted] interviews related to this matter. Very little has been developed related to who might be culpable for mishandling the documents," a June 1, 2022 FBI memo declared. "From the interviews, WFO has gathered information suggesting that there may be additional boxes (presumably of the same type as were sent back to NARA [National Archives] in January) at Mar-a-Lago."

"WFO has been drafting a Search Warrant affidavit related to these potential boxes, but has some concerns that the information is single source, has not been corroborated, and may be dated. DOJ CES [Counterintelligence and Export Control Section] opines, however, that the SWs [search warrants] meet the probable cause standard," that memo read.

The independent straight-shooters of the FBI found no probable cause, but Biden's political leadership of the DOJ found there was.

I'm sure Jake Tapper will get right on this.

Over a month later, FBI agents raised more concerns, including about the legality of searching Trump's personal residence at the Mar-a-Lago residence, the memos show.

"DOJ has inquired as to an Ops Plan for a SW of MAL [Mar-a-Lago]. and that we already had an Ops Plan in place that will [sic] can be quickly updated between FBI/MM [Miami Field Office] and FBI/WF [Washington Field Office]," a redacted FBI agent in the nation's capital wrote in a July 12, 2022 email. "However, WF-[Redacted] does not believe we have PC for the 45 Office or the bedroom due to recency and issues of boxes versus classified information. Therefore, as Mv

Just the News obtained a copy of the memos after Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel declassified them and turned them over to Congress.

"Received shocking new docs 2day from DOJ & FBI showing FBI DID NOT BELIEVE IT HAD PROBABLE CAUSE to raid Pres[ident] Trump's Mar-a-Lago home, but Biden DOJ pushed for it anyway," Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley tweeted on Tuesday afternoon. "Based on the records, Mar-a-Lago raid was a miscarriage of justice."

The emails were turned over to the Senate and House Judiciary committees, ahead of a planned deposition Wednesday from ex-special prosecutor Jack Smith, who inherited the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case just months after the August 2022 raid of Trump's home that rocked the political world ahead of the 2024 election.

It has long been rumored that some FBI agents disagreed with the decision to raid Trump's home to look for classified documents at the request of the National Archives.

But the declassified emails chronicle the specific concerns that DOJ under President Joe Biden had not met the standard for a search warrant, but proceeded anyway, officials said.

Jay Bratt, at the time the chief of the DOJ's CES and a future member of future special counsel Jack Smith's team, was key in pushing for the Mar-a-Lago raid. An FBI official sent an email on June 2, 2022 stating that "we learned from Jay Bratt that he did not intend to 'negotiate' with [Trump lawyer Evan] Corcoran, or have any further discussions with him."

Brett Reynolds, a trial attorney at CES, appeared to send a draft of a search warrant on July 8, 2022. Michael Thacker, an assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of Florida, appeared to send another draft version of a search warrant on July 13, 2022.

"We haven't generated any new facts, but keep being given draft after draft after draft. Absent a witness coming forward with recent information about classified on site, at what point is it fair to table this? It is time consuming for the team, and not productive if there are no new facts supporting PC?" an FBI official wrote in a July 13, 2022 email.

"As everyone is tracking, WFO does not believe (and has articulated to DOJ CES) that we have established probable cause for the search warrant for classified documents at Mar-a-Lago," an FBI official wrote in another email dated July 20, 2022.

Put them in prison. G-pop.

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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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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
• “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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