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The Morning Report — 12/22/25

Good morning kids. Let's start off with a couple of positive items that surprisingly come from a judiciary that over the years, and especially during and as a direct result of the dawning of the Donald Trump era has devolved into a direct threat to the very foundations of American government and the stability and security of our society.

The Milwaukee County judge on trial for helping a violent illegal immigrant elude federal law enforcement authorities has been convicted on one of the two charges against her.
A jury late Thursday found Judge Hannah Dugan guilty of felony obstruction but determined there wasn’t enough evidence to convict her on a misdemeanor charge of concealing an individual from arrest. Her attorney told reporters that Dugan will appeal the conviction, a verdict that should serve as a wake-up call to judges who disregard laws they don’t like in the furtherance of judicial activism.

Well of course she'll appeal, since despite my seeing this as a positive sign, given the nature of who occupies far too many a judge's seat in far too many an American courtroom, she might have a shot at winning an appeal. And yet she lost in a Wisconsin court which as we all know, thanks to Madison and Milwaukee is not the conservative bastion that it seemingly ought to be, especially in the eyes of a NYC transplant like me. But be that as it may, here's hoping this criminal is disbarred, disrobed and never gets within 1000 miles of a judges bench except as a defendant, and ultimately serves a lengthy stretch in a federal lockup.

And, speaking of Wisconsin, this decision came down from that state's highest court, that, given its current far-leftist majority is a pleasant surprise:

Earlier this year, on June 5, 2025, the Supreme Court rendered a major victory for religious freedom in Catholic Charities Bureau v. Wisconsin Labor & Industry Review Commission.  In a unanimous judgment authored by Justice Sotomayor, the Court reversed an earlier order in favor of Wisconsin.  The justices reasoned that Wisconsin violated Catholic Charities’ First Amendment rights in denying it a tax exemption because it thought the services provided were not primarily religious insofar as its employees “‘do not proselytize or serve only Catholics’ in the course of performing charitable work.”
On remand, Wisconsin officials ignored the Supreme Court, again denying Catholic Charities’ request for an exemption.  However, on December 15, 2025, in Catholic Charities Bureau v. Wisconsin Labor and Industry Review Commission, on appeal, the state’s high court summarily ruled that Catholic Charities is entitled to the requested exemption from unemployment taxation.  As such, this column reviews Catholic Charities’ judicial history before reflecting on its impact on religious freedom. . .
. . . On December 15, 2025, in Catholic Charities Bureau, Inc. v. Wisconsin Labor and Industry Review Commission, Wisconsin’s highest court summarily ruled that “[i]n light of the Supreme Court’s holding that this court ‘impose[d] a denominational preference’ that does not survive strict scrutiny…we determine that Catholic Charities [and its sub-entities are] eligible for the religious purposes exemption to [state] unemployment taxation. . .
. . . Catholic Charities is noteworthy because members of the Supreme Court, including separationists Justice Sotomayor, author of its unanimous opinion, with fellow separationist Justice Jackson penning a separate concurrence, put aside their ideological differences in rectifying Wisconsin’s having trammeled Catholic Charities’ First Amendment rights. . . In sum, Wisconsin’s Supreme Court finally applied precedent properly in protecting Catholic Charities’ religious freedom rights.  In so doing, Wisconsin’s judges acknowledged that because secular jurists lack the authority, and expertise, to interpret what qualifies as being at the heart of the Catholic Church’s or any other church’s mission, they must defer to the judgments of religious leaders who define their missions.

So smacking down a rogue justice who interfered with federal law enforcement and actually aided and abetted a cviolent criminal evade apprehension and a decision that upholds religious liberty, we are given a couple of things to keep hope alive.

And yet elsewhere in the world as lurker extraordinaire Prof. Victor Davis Hanson notes it is indeed open season on Jews. For sure the ongoing 1,500-year bloody war of genocide waged by Islam is a war on Jews. But there is also a rhetorical war being waged against The Jews which sadly has its roots in racial/religious bigotry that predates the founding of this nation and even way before Islam.

Just a few years ago, it used to be that anti-Semitism was mostly on the left and repugnantly identifiable and condemnable by most. . . The right used to be a unified corrective to left-wing anti-Semitism. It still polls nearly 70 percent in favor of Israel. For a while longer, it is far more likely to condemn anti-Semitic violence than the left. But recently, its own base, in varying degrees, has come full circle and joined the left in its distaste for Israel and Jews in general. . . One hallmark of the new right-wing furor against Jews and Israel is the strange symbiosis they employ. Formerly edgy podcasters become vicarious hosts of virulent anti-Semites. The partnerships are a way of not directly owning up to their toxicity but just “putting it out there.”
. . .Candace Owens initially championed Kanye West (“I’m a bit sleepy tonight but when I wake up, I’m going death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE."). Then she graduated to expressing her own old anti-Semitic tropes: “There is just a very small ring of specific people who are using the fact that they are Jewish to shield themselves from any criticism. … All Americans should want answers because this appears to be something that is quite sinister.”
Tucker Carlson hosted critics of the U.S. effort against Hitler in World War II and Israel-behind-it conspiracists before escalating to inviting Nick Fuentes on in a mostly friendly manner—which might be attributed to his interview format, except he has attacked fellow conservatives far more than has odious Fuentes.

I have no idea how Carlson and Owens were brought up or arrived at their beliefs about "Jews" or "The Jews?" I assume that both have either inherited/absorbed the beliefs of their parents and families which have been passed on for generations. It's not the world's oldest hatred for no reason. Or, even worse, maybe they engage in this merely for personal gain.

It's a very short walk from Charlie Kirk and 9/11, to the Deicide trope and even believing that Jews use the blood of Christian children to make Passover matzohs.

And that's that, my friends.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS

Victor Davis Hanson: As leaders equivocate and extremists unite left and right, open season on Jews spreads across the West—unchecked, unnamed, and certain to grow deadlier.
Slouching Toward Open Season on Jews

CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION

“Democrat leaders are now vying to outdo each other in such violent ideations. They are fueling a rage addiction to achieve political power. It is a dangerous game…”
Michigan Senate Candidate Says She’d Hurl Beers at Conservative SCOTUS Justices if She Saw Them
Leftists excuse perpetrators and vilify victims.
Leftism Promotes Psychological Abuse

"DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY, NEWSOM/DEMOCRAT VIOLENT INSURRECTION RIOTS
‘Judges are not above the law. Their core function is to respect the rule of law, not to undermine it,’ attorney Daniel Suhr said. (Shouldn't she be stripped of her law license before serving a lengthy prison sentence?
Court Finds Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan Guilty Of Obstructing ICE
'Sanctuary cities' for assaults on federal law enforcement personnel.
LA Legalizes Assaulting ICE Agents and Stealing Their Vehicle
The real question is how many illegals are on Medicaid?
California Dem Officials Urge Illegals to Sign Up for Medicaid by Dec 31

WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
Robert Spencer: The real reason some Americans are suspicious of Islam.
Tucker Carlson Demands That Americans Stop Doing This — But Who’s Doing It?
A scary agenda, paid for by taxpayers, and ignored by the Canadian government.
Canada: Federal ‘Islamophobia’ Watchdog Hid $80,000 Pro-'Palestine' Grant From Taxpayers
Can you guess what her punishment was?
In Austria, Muslima Thief Claims Stealing from Non-Muslims is Permitted
“Islam will conquer Europe without firing a shot.”
The Demographic Lesson of Lebanon
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
Wisconsin’s judges thought Catholic Charities was not Catholic enough to get a tax exemption. The U.S. Supreme Court weighed in, 9-0.
Catholic or Not? SCOTUS Smacks Down Lower Court
BONDI BEACH CHANUKAH BLOODBATH
From Tehran’s diplomats to online threats, years of ignored warnings culminated in an Iran-linked jihadist attack on Jewish celebrants at Bondi Beach.
Did Iran Play a Role in the Chanukah Mass Murder in Australia?
Bondi Beach shattered the lie that antisemitism is merely anti-Israel politics, revealing an older, eliminationist hatred aimed at Jews as Jews, far from any battlefield.
Blood on the Sand: Australian Massacre Exposes Hollow Core of Anti-Zionism
Grim-faced Albanese and his wife were further jeered with one man yelling out “blood on your hands” joined by a second who cried, “you are not welcome.” Other hecklers could be heard yelling out, “you don’t represent Australia” as he refused a call to apologise to members of the Australian Jewish community for his inaction.
‘Shame’ — Leftist Australian PM Anthony Albanese Booed at Bondi Terror Attack Vigil
Proposed restrictions include limiting firearms ownership, stricter licensing, and a mass firearm collection and destruction initiative.
Australian PM Targets Law-Abiding Gun Owners Following ISIS-Inspired Beach Massacre.
NATIONAL GUARDSMEN GUNNED DOWN IN DC, by Biden-Imported Islamic Savage
Rahmanullah Lakanwal, a 29-year-old Afghan national who previously worked with a CIA-backed partner force in Kandahar and entered the U.S. in 2021 through the Biden administration’s Operation Allies Welcome, has been arraigned and is facing charges in the Thanksgiving-week ambush-style shooting that left 20-year-old Spc. Sarah Beckstrom dead and critically injured 24-year-old Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe.
George W. Bush Institute Urges Americans to Sympathize with Afghans After D.C. National Guard Attack
SHAMPEACHMENTS, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
His "goods" on Trump haven't stood up to the slightest scrutiny.
Jack Smith is Clinging to These False Claims to the Bitter End
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
The power failure left a large swath of the northern part of the city in the dark, beginning with the Richmond and Presidio neighborhoods and areas around Golden Gate Park in the early afternoon before growing in scope and size, the Independent reports.
Massive San Francisco Power Outage Leaves 130,000 Homes, Businesses in the Dark
It’s judges like Hannah Dugan who have badly damaged the reputation of our justice system.
The Dugan conviction is a first step back to judicial sanity
Vermont is heading toward a doom spiral in which tax increases reduce government revenues. Other states should take notice.
Vermont Drifts Toward a Property-Tax Doom Spiral
Efficient rail moves goods faster, cheaper, and with less environmental strain than trucking, freeing up highways and reducing road maintenance costs for taxpayers.
Powering America’s new golden age with rail
NYC is in for a world of hurt.
Hochul Gives Mamdani a Big Boost in His Quest to Drive New York City to Destruction
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
As many have noticed, America isn’t as safe as it used to be, but each of us can create our own zone of relative safety by staying aware and acting smart.
Why America Must Relearn Situational Awareness
“So I’m going to the Bible when I say to my haters, [dramatic pause] F you.”
‘To My Haters, F YOU!’: DC Police Chief’s Stunning Resignation Speech (another miserable you-know-what Courveh - jjs)
Brady lists give officers a scarlet letter with no opportunity to appeal.
States Are Denying Cops’ Due-Process Rights
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
Much of the mainstream news this week has been partisan or devoted to less-than-significant matters.
This Week’s Underreported News
The decision comes amid a massive network shakeup under Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss, who was chosen to lead CBS News in October after CBS parent company Paramount Skydance acquired the online publication she founded, The Free Press.
CBS abruptly pulls ‘60 Minutes’ segment on deportees in El Salvador’s CECOT prison as correspondent blasts Bari Weiss
Roger Kimball: As the media frets over Trump’s “fatigue,” he dominates the world stage, confronts woke institutions like the Smithsonian, and proves once again that reality keeps wrecking the anti-Trump narrative.
Trump Never Sleeps—But the Media Keeps Dreaming
New York Times columnist and PBS News Hour talking head David Brooks loves himself some Stalin and Mao analogies. Back in May, he compared Elon Musk and DOGE to the murderous dictators. This Friday, he compared President Trump, the renaming of the Kennedy Center to the Trump-Kennedy Center, and “gigantic portraits” of Trump to the communist tyrants and claimed it reminded him of the “Stalin era.”
Brooks Claims 'Gigantic Portraits' Of Trump Remind Him Of 'The Stalin Era' (But Obama's pants crease soiled his panty liner - jjs)
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
We are not living through a mass extinction.
The Eco-Zealots Were Wrong Again
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
The win at the circuit level comes after the district court sided with the school.
9th Circuit Protects Professor’s First Amendment Right To Make Fun Of Land Acknowledgments
Block claims to just want to protect children from abuse and neglect, but his nebulous ideas of what that means would put all homeschoolers at risk of being unjustly targeted by government officials.
Contrary To The New York Times, Homeschooling Is Still A Much Better Alternative To Public Schools
56% overhead rate funds college administrators under the guise of science grants.
How Universities Divert Federal Science Grants To DEI And Administrative Bloat
Beth Rivkah High School in Brooklyn exemplifies family values and academic rigor.
An Educational Jewel in Crown Heights (Don't let Sharpton see this! - jjs)
SECOND AMENDMENT
The 32-year-old grandson of President John F. Kennedy is running for the 12th Congressional District seat being vacated by Rep. Jerry Nadler. His proposal, dubbed the “Ricochet Rule,” would impose financial penalties on states that fail to conduct strong background checks for gun buyers, the New York Post reported.
JFK Grandson Wants To Fine States If Their Guns End Up At NYC Crime Scenes

THE 2020 and SUBSEQUENT ELECTION HEISTS , SHENANIGANS/FRAUD and AFTERMATH
There should be no excuse why Americans cannot return to a national electoral snapshot, with appropriate procedural guardrails in place, on one day.
Let’s Return to Election Day
L'AFFAIRE EPSTEIN
These pictures show why Epstein was able to make headway into the Clinton inner circle.
Epstein Photos Show What We Always Knew About Bill Clinton
A rep claimed Bill Clinton was being scapegoated by the Trump administration.
Bill Clinton Responds To Shocking Photos In Epstein File Dump
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
After the 2023 Lewiston shooting in Maine, people donated $6.6 million to a charity that then diverted $1.9 million to NGOs, many with Somali connections.
A Maine charity diverted shooting victim funds to shady, often Somali NGOs
Politics is all about rewarding your supporters for helping you get elected -- with other peoples’ money.
Somali Fraud equals DEI Hypocrisy equals Climate Scam
POLITICS
The DNC buried its 2024 autopsy not because it learned nothing, but because the truth is fatal: Democrats lost by doubling down on the unpopular issues they care about most.
The Democrats Hide Their Failures, Choosing Instead to Repeat Them
Imagine a Democrat — any Democrat — walking onto a college campus and telling students, “Donald Trump is an existential threat to our democracy. Prove me wrong.”
The Fatal Flaw in Democrats’ Plan to Create a Left-Wing Turning Point USA
ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS . . . AND LEFTISTS
NBC News: “Israeli officials … preparing to brief President Donald Trump about options for attacking” Iran’s ballistic missile program.
Netanyahu Expected to Brief Trump on Possible Iran Missile Strike During Visit
Why would we spend a dime, let alone $60 billion "to take Gaza residents from tents to penthouses"?
U.S. to Spend $60B Turning Gaza into ‘High-Tech Metropolis’
Jihad by injection.
How a Hamas Doctor Murdered Noa Marciano
The longer Western “experts” ignore the fact that Palestinian authorities routinely repeat that this is a religious war, the longer they will continue to recommend solutions, such as the vaunted two-state solution, that are not solutions at all. If you’ve been misdiagnosed, the medication you’ve been prescribed will not heal you. And that’s the situation today regarding Israel and the Palestinians.
Gaza Imam Reveals the Key to Understanding the Entire Israeli-'Palestinian' Conflict
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
Heightened tensions between Russia, Ukraine, and the West, with the EU agreeing on a $100 billion aid package for Kiev, and Russia vowing retaliation for attacks on its tanker fleet.
Putin Claims Ukraine Unready for Peace as Kiev Strikes Tanker in Mediterranean.
“Investigators are pursuing numerous lines of enquiry regarding the murder. One of these is that the crime was orchestrated by Ukrainian intelligence services,” Petrenko said.
Russian general Fanil Sarvarov killed by bomb under his car in Moscow
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem released a video on social media showing a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter landing on the deck of an oil tanker in international waters off the coast of Venezuela. Earlier this month, President Donald Trump declared the government of Venezuela to be a Foreign Terrorist Organization and ordered the complete naval blockade of the country.
U.S. Snatches Venezuela Oil Tanker in Dark‑Hour Strike on Narco‑Terror Funding
He's done evil acts like this before.
Cornered rat: Venezuela's dictator reportedly offering a 'bounty' to cartels for a hit on President Trump
And falsely blames President Trump for “starving thousands.”
UN Fakes a Famine in Kenya to Save USAID
Thirty-nine prisoners languish, and no one seems to care.
A Race against Time in Iran’s Secret Cells
The ongoing collapse of the German chemical sector signals a political crisis -- one that will not end until this new socialist experiment has completely failed.
A Collapse in Germany’s Chemical Sector Is a Bad Omen
Cllr Asghar now sits as an Independent on the council, amidst ongoing inquiries into alleged modern slavery.
UK Politician Resigns Far-Left Green Party Whip After Slavery Arrest.
The China Matrix exposes how America’s China lobby enriched itself, empowered the CCP, and fought Trump’s bid to break a decades-long elite pact against the republic.
A Servant of Truth Who Knows America’s Enemies: A Review of Lee Smith’s The China Matrix
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
The message is not complicated. Anthem’s profits are rising because your costs are. And unless policymakers, providers, and the public push back, this model will only spread. Patients will have fewer choices, doctors will have less autonomy, and families will continue to pay more for less.
This BIG Insurer Is Now Punishing Hospitals for Putting Patients First.
Trump should rethink his support for weed. Increasing the normalization and legalization of pot will only increase our nation’s problems.
Trump’s Marijuana Executive Order Is Woefully Half-Baked
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
“Ensuring American Space Superiority” includes a push for Golden Dome missile defense and developing nuclear power deployment capabilities.
Set Course for 2028, Maximum Impulse: Trump Space Order Targets Artemis Moon Landing and More
“The bulk of STEM funding is not of this nature. . .No one viewed this as working for free. . .An environment of reduced research funding is here to stay.”
How to Reform Science Funding
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have detected a bright object in the debris disk that surrounds the nearby star Fomalhaut that wasn’t there previously, suggesting it is a glowing cloud of material left over from the collision of two asteroids.
Scientists think they have detected a collision in the debris disk surrounding the star Fomalhaut
Its main purpose is as a demonstration project to attract a bigger round of new investment capital, from universities like the ones listed above, for launching a larger private telescope with greater capabilities.
A new commercial smallsat space telescope is now operational and offering its data to scientists
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
PBS: You Need a Medical Degree to Claim Men Can't Become Women
The PBS News Hour doubled down on its advocacy for transgender surgery for minors on Thursday evening, reacting with condescension and alarm to President Trump’s move to restrict so-called “gender-affirming medical care for minors.” This time PBS paired up with its (former) taxpayer-funded outlet National Public Radio. Co-anchor Amna Nawaz: "The Trump administration today took its most significant moves yet in a wide-ranging effort to restrict gender-affirming medical care for minors."(PBS = Pubic Bullshit - jjs)
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
"You can't wake up and think about people who are just determined to stay mad," Minaj said of her detractors.
Erika Kirk Brings House Down, Interviews Rapper Nicki Minaj Onstage At AmFest
Christian Toto:'SNL' alum picks up where Ben Shapiro left off at AmFest conservative gathering
Rob Schneider Roasts ‘Grifter’ Candace Owens
He speaks among people as equals, openly sharing the daily struggles that come with being human in this world.
Scott Adams is America's patriot
At Christmas, sentiment rings hollow when policies shrink families, erase unborn children, and protect failing schools—because a nation’s future is measured by how it treats its kids.
A Christmas Present for the Children of America
Parents aren’t banning books—they’re pushing back against librarians and the ALA placing explicit sexual content in kids’ hands without consent, then hiding it behind slogans about “freedom to read.”
Wake Up, Parents: American Library Association Is (Still) Grooming Our Kids
During America’s bicentennial, seven million Americans visited John Wayne’s ‘Freedom Train’ exhibit to celebrate America — but for America’s 250th, legal hurdles threaten to stop the Freedom Train in its tracks.
Will Amtrak Let The American Freedom Train Roll?
No woke deed goes unpunished.
Minorities Sue American Airlines for Providing Them With Affirmative Action
HITHER & YON
Rob Reiner did for Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) what Ray Kroc did for hamburgers, what Henry Ford did for the automobile, and what Genghis Khan may have done for sexually transmitted diseases; he brought it to the masses. Reiner's tweets weren't informative, clever, or funny; they were over-the-top insulting and, more importantly, accusatory, so much so that an acne-besotted incel from Butler, Penn., might want to take a shot at Trump.
. . .Was Rob Reiner a Deep State Spook? Roll the Tape...
REVIEW: 'Resurrection' by Leo Tolstoy
Tolstoy's Last Novel

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Comments

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1 Thank you, JJ!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 22, 2025 07:20 AM (Cjt/F)

2 Hope this week brings you joy!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 22, 2025 07:20 AM (Cjt/F)

3 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 07:20 AM (dAOkg)

4 And the same to everyone in the Horde!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 22, 2025 07:20 AM (Cjt/F)

5 Corgis called.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 07:21 AM (dAOkg)

6 Greetings and Happy Monday! I only have a two day work week so I'm in a semi decent mood today. Hopefully that sticks around after I read the articles.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 22, 2025 07:22 AM (OPGS/)

7 And yet elsewhere in the world as lurker extraordinaire Prof. Victor Davis Hanson notes it is indeed open season on Jews.
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Wabbi season!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 22, 2025 07:22 AM (E+OH8)

8 And in other news, that RINO prick Massie is out there bragging about building a 'bipartisan coalition' to try and impeach Bondi.

It still breaks my brain idiots think he's 'principled'.

Funny how he never tried to impeach Garland. Where were his 'principles' then.

Posted by: DudeAbiding at December 22, 2025 07:22 AM (lCHt6)

9 Playing by the left's rules is a sucker's game. Saying that "we are better than that" is just a way for losers to lose.

Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 07:22 AM (vFG9F)

10 Deck the halls with Commie corpses
Fa la la la la la la la la
'Tis the time to be remorseless
Fa la la la la la la la la
Wield we now are sharp stiletti
Fa la la la la la la la la
Carve the pinks into confetti
Fa la la la la la la la la

Posted by: Eeyore at December 22, 2025 07:22 AM (s0JqF)

11 Happy Monday

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 22, 2025 07:22 AM (gbOdA)

12 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 22, 2025 07:23 AM (NwnyJ)

13 There's probably a real "court of public opinion" angle to consider. What is Justice when it's exactly these sorts of mutants meting it out? Conviction and sentencing isn't our best option to take for a victory condition, mostly because it will never happen. Public opinion is far more important. The big story isn't about one or two scumbags here and there evading justice. The big story is that justice itself is being dispensed by scumbags.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 22, 2025 07:24 AM (06Hmj)

14 Deck the halls with Commie corpses
Fa la la la la la la la la
'Tis the time to be remorseless
Fa la la la la la la la la
Wield we now are sharp stiletti
Fa la la la la la la la la
Carve the pinks into confetti
Fa la la la la la la la la

Posted by: Eeyore

Golf clap

Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 07:24 AM (dAOkg)

15 Georgia's State Secretary should have shut up:

https://tinyurl.com/e55u75cb

Here's hoping that he needs to lawyer up at a minimum.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 22, 2025 07:25 AM (E+OH8)

16 "And in other news, that RINO prick Massie is out there bragging about building a 'bipartisan coalition' to try and impeach Bondi."

If she can't figure out how to body slam these assholes then good riddance.

Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 07:27 AM (vFG9F)

17 Let’s Return to Election Day
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Good idea, but how to get there from here?

Posted by: Eeyore at December 22, 2025 07:28 AM (s0JqF)

18 In so doing, Wisconsin’s judges acknowledged that because secular jurists lack the authority, and expertise, to interpret what qualifies as being at the heart of the Catholic Church’s or any other church’s mission, they must defer to the judgments of religious leaders who define their missions.
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Great. Outsource it to a star chamber of carefully selected "religious leaders" like Al Sharpton and some acolyte of Yassir Arafat. This will not be an improvement, I fear. Time will tell, I suppose.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 07:29 AM (avHHk)

19 "defrocked?"

C'mon JJ, she isn't an ordained minister.

Posted by: no one at December 22, 2025 07:29 AM (qFwJc)

20 eorgia's State Secretary should have shut up:

https://tinyurl.com/e55u75cb

Here's hoping that he needs to lawyer up at a minimum.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 22, 2025 07:25 AM (E+OH

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Some prior history:

https://tinyurl.com/muz3bx4u

And yet 1000s of these criminal politicians across the entire United States are still walking free as a bird out on the streets.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 22, 2025 07:29 AM (E+OH8)

21 Apparently Trump has removed 29 career diplomats from ambassadorial positions. I sense a disturbance to the graft flow.

Posted by: davidt at December 22, 2025 07:30 AM (Q+gd/)

22 We can b!ame Ratshitburger for Trump "losing" in 2020, and we can credit him with Trump getting a more effective second term four years later.

Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 07:30 AM (vFG9F)

23 19 "defrocked?"

C'mon JJ, she isn't an ordained minister.
Posted by: no one at December 22, 2025 07:29 AM (qFwJc)

I meant her judges robes.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 22, 2025 07:31 AM (x0n13)

24 Cornered rat: Venezuela's dictator reportedly offering a 'bounty' to cartels for a hit on President Trump

That's not going to end very well. But I'm sure we have enough people in this country that would aid the cartels in carrying it out.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 22, 2025 07:32 AM (OPGS/)

25

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at December 22, 2025 07:32 AM (DDJSl)

26 Vermont Drifts Toward a Property-Tax Doom Spiral
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That gives a 404. And searching American Thinker didn't find it. Puzzling.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 22, 2025 07:34 AM (s0JqF)

27 Face it. She's frocked.

Posted by: Frick, frack, frock. at December 22, 2025 07:34 AM (2Ez/1)

28 And even more on Georgia from Rasmussen:

https://tinyurl.com/57899j46

That's the night that the lights went out.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 22, 2025 07:34 AM (E+OH8)

29 Let’s Return to Election Day
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Good idea, but how to get there from here?
Posted by: Eeyore

Announce at noon today, "Election day is Tuesday, November 3rd, 2026 ONLY. You are adults. You have ten months to figure out how you will be there on time or you will miss voting which will be entirely your fault."

Thank you for adulting.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 07:35 AM (dAOkg)

30 Good morning JJ and horde

Posted by: Skip at December 22, 2025 07:35 AM (D4Iav)

31 Willowed:

"Obama and Biden could get away with ignoring many of the rules and procedures because Democrats spent the last 30 years recruiting thousands of political judges and political DA’s. Conservatives have never done that and do not have resources like that to call on. The situation sucks but that’s the truth.
Posted by: Tom Servo "

That's another way of saying the GOP is a worthless pile of dog squit.

Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 07:36 AM (vFG9F)

32 We can b!ame Ratshitburger for Trump "losing" in 2020, and we can credit him with Trump getting a more effective second term four years later.

Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 07:30 AM (vFG9F)
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Don't care. Don't trust his motives either.

If he did the crime, he needs to do the time. All of them.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 22, 2025 07:36 AM (E+OH8)

33 Imagine a Democrat — any Democrat — walking onto a college campus and telling students, “Donald Trump is an existential threat to our democracy. Prove me wrong.”

Walks up to table.

"You're not dead."

Walks away from table.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 22, 2025 07:38 AM (uQesX)

34 "You have ten months to figure out how you will be there on time or you will miss voting which will be entirely your fault."

Thank you for adulting."

###
This is about us, isn't it?

Posted by: Grossly overweight females walking around Walmart in pajamas and fuzzy slippers at December 22, 2025 07:39 AM (2Ez/1)

35 I enjoyed the lesbian police chief preaching to the low IQ folks in washington dc. They were hopping up and down and cheering like they was at an old tyme Darktown Strutters Ball.

Posted by: Zombie Lou Monte at December 22, 2025 07:39 AM (m8zKa)

36 26 Vermont Drifts Toward a Property-Tax Doom Spiral
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That gives a 404. And searching American Thinker didn't find it. Puzzling.
Posted by: Eeyore at December 22, 2025 07:34 AM (s0JqF)

It's in its archives but I also get a 404 note.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 22, 2025 07:39 AM (x0n13)

37 Bill Clinton no longer is seen in public, for fear of getting the Andrew, formerly known as "Prince", treatment. The Epstein photos and docs are the modern age in miniature: salacious, political, banal, and ultimately unjust. No trial will result, no one wins, and so many reputations gone. Good job Massie and Khanna.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 22, 2025 07:39 AM (rPFFq)

38 Imagine a Democrat — any Democrat — walking onto a college campus and telling students, “Donald Trump is an existential threat to our democracy. Prove me wrong.”

Walks up to table.

"You're not dead."

Walks away from table.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

Boom!

And they still wouldn't understand.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 07:40 AM (dAOkg)

39 > Catholic Charities Bureau v. Wisconsin Labor & Industry Review Commission
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Never heard of a "Catholic Charities Bureau" before. Is it somehow related to the ubiquitous "Catholic Charities" that has been known to be involved in human trafficking and facilitating the migration of South and Central Americans to the US?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 22, 2025 07:41 AM (NwnyJ)

40 Trump should rethink his support for weed. Increasing the normalization and legalization of pot will only increase our nation’s problems.

Why must I be assaulted daily almost everywhere with the stench of skunk?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 22, 2025 07:41 AM (uQesX)

41 Last week was a horrible week for Trump
SOROS has offered a Christmas week armistice

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 22, 2025 07:36 AM (RC8wk)
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3+ more years.

Hold your breath, Bozo.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 22, 2025 07:42 AM (E+OH8)

42 "Don't care. Don't trust his motives either.

If he did the crime, he needs to do the time. All of them.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey,"

His motive was certainly not to get Trump elected again. The best I can tell his motivation is sucking GA GOP dick while letting the Dems have their way with his pooter.

Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 07:42 AM (vFG9F)

43 And they still wouldn't understand.
Posted by: rickb223

Exactly. But they will feel good which counts.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 22, 2025 07:42 AM (OPGS/)

44 It takes a village to satisfy my husband.

Posted by: Old Lady Rodham at December 22, 2025 07:43 AM (2Ez/1)

45 C'mon JJ, she isn't an ordained minister.
——

It’s fair, because that’s how a lot of them view themselves, I’d wager. High priests and priestesses of the Church of “Social Justice”.

They are apostate, to take the analogy further? They don’t belong in those positions. Saboteurs for lack of a better term, the way I see it.

Their oath of office is to preserve, protect, and defend the constitution, to uphold our laws, and they set about to subvert it, and pervert it. And they are quite honest about that.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 22, 2025 07:43 AM (7NvEU)

46 Old Joe Biden won Georgia by nearly 12,000 votes, which means that the Georgia state election could have been stolen from Trump with 303,000 to spare. And that’s just Georgia.

Instead of asking to find 12k votes to Raffensberger Trump should have asked him to throw out the 300k fake votes.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 22, 2025 07:43 AM (gbOdA)

47 Never heard of a "Catholic Charities Bureau" before. Is it somehow related to the ubiquitous "Catholic Charities" that has been known to be involved in human trafficking and facilitating the migration of South and Central Americans to the US?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 22, 2025 07:41 AM (NwnyJ)

Catholic Charities Bureau comes with matching Night Stand and Chest of Drawers.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 22, 2025 07:44 AM (gbOdA)

48 45 It takes a village to satisfy my husband.
Posted by: Old Lady Rodham at December 22, 2025 07:43 AM (2Ez/1)

Judges would have accepted 8th Grade Girls Volleyball Team.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 22, 2025 07:45 AM (gbOdA)

49 I meant her judges robes.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 22, 2025 07:31 AM (x0n13)
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That is "disrobed."

I wish there was a better term for it, but it is what it is.
Clergy are defrocked.
Lawyers are disbarred.
Judges are disrobed.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 07:46 AM (avHHk)

50 But there is also a rhetorical war being waged against The Jews which sadly has its roots in racial/religious bigotry that predates the founding of this nation and even way before Islam.
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Big resignation at Heritage Foundation:

https://t.co/Tn5eNM6Nr9

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 22, 2025 07:46 AM (E+OH8)

51 Catholic Charities Bureau comes with matching Night Stand and Chest of Drawers.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 22, 2025 07:44 AM (gbOdA)
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Do all of them ship with third-world savages packed in with them?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 07:47 AM (avHHk)

52 "Judges are disrobed."

Hubba hubba.

Posted by: Grandpa Simpson at December 22, 2025 07:47 AM (2Ez/1)

53 I really regret Trump turning on Stephanik. As much as I respect Trump's instincts, she is a young, aggressive, successful politician and his refusal to endorse her stinks. I detest Hochul and Stephanik had a great chance to kick her butt out of Albany.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 22, 2025 07:47 AM (A1VDq)

54 50 I meant her judges robes.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 22, 2025 07:31 AM (x0n13)
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That is "disrobed."

I wish there was a better term for it, but it is what it is.
Clergy are defrocked.
Lawyers are disbarred.
Judges are disrobed.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 07:46 AM (avHHk)

Thanks!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 22, 2025 07:48 AM (x0n13)

55 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at December 22, 2025 07:48 AM (53oGX)

56 >“So I’m going to the Bible when I say to my haters, [dramatic pause] F you.”
‘To My Haters, F YOU!’: DC Police Chief’s Stunning Resignation Speech (another miserable you-know-what Courveh - jjs)
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District of Columbia government is basically a jobs program for non-whites

Posted by: Don Black at December 22, 2025 07:50 AM (ZxPkt)

57 >> I have no idea how Carlson and Owens were brought up or arrived at their beliefs about "Jews" or "The Jews?"

Thank you JJ. I have no idea myself… having been raised as a Baptist preacher’s kid from my earliest memories I heard the Bible including the Abrahamic Covenant in Genesis 12: I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse.

In my experience, Bible-based Protestants (that’s what I know best) are naturally resistant to antisemitism because we take the Bible very seriously… TuCa and CO just make me shake my head in disbelief.

This notion that the Jews killed God is ludicrous; again from the Scripture (Isaiah 53): Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him (it was the will of God the Father that Jesus die… it was the divine plan)

I’m rambling now. Anyway… Merry Christmas, all

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 22, 2025 07:51 AM (/iXAp)

58 >“So I’m going to the Bible when I say to my haters, [dramatic pause] F you.”
‘To My Haters, F YOU!’: DC Police Chief’s Stunning Resignation Speech

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Curiously, I can't find "F you" in my Bible.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 22, 2025 07:53 AM (qBdHI)

59 *District of Columbia government is basically a jobs program for non-whites.*

Da bish set me up.

Posted by: Marion Barry at December 22, 2025 07:54 AM (2Ez/1)

60 Linus, very well.put.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 22, 2025 07:54 AM (sDNVV)

61 "Traffic jammed the streets as a result as autonomous vehicles ground to a halt. "

This is how the world ends.

Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 07:54 AM (vFG9F)

62 I detest Hochul and Stephanik had a great chance to kick her butt out of Albany.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 22, 2025 07:47 AM (A1VDq)

I know we don't need to believe polls, especially this far from an election, but weren't both Rs trailing the witch?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 22, 2025 07:56 AM (uQesX)

63 > "Traffic jammed the streets as a result as autonomous vehicles ground to a halt."
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I can only think of a few, blue shitholes where a headline like this would even appear.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 22, 2025 07:57 AM (NwnyJ)

64 59'“So I’m going to the Bible when I say to my haters, [dramatic pause] F you.”
‘To My Haters, F YOU!’: DC Police Chief’s Stunning Resignation Speech

Curiously, I can't find "F you" in my Bible.'

You won't find "Be incompetent, lying trash" in the Bibe either but she did that too.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 22, 2025 07:57 AM (fd80v)

65 ... Thank you JJ. I have no idea myself… having been raised as a Baptist preacher’s kid from my earliest memories I heard the Bible including the Abrahamic Covenant in Genesis 12: I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse.

In my experience, Bible-based Protestants (that’s what I know best) are naturally resistant to antisemitism because we take the Bible very seriously… TuCa and CO just make me shake my head in disbelief. ...
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 22, 2025 07:51 AM (/iXAp)
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In my experience, I have *not* found default anti-Jewish positions among most evangelical Christians, Mormons or Catholics. Historically, the Catholics used to have default - and even very well-developed - anti-Jewish positions, but I came up in John Paul II's world and his influence was titanic. I never have never experienced it as a default operational mode among Catholics.

I have met individual bigots of all stripes, of course, but there *are* groups where I write it off as something I need to potentially worry about.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 07:58 AM (avHHk)

66 “So I’m going to the Bible when I say to my haters, [dramatic pause] F you.”
‘To My Haters, F YOU!’: DC Police Chief’s Stunning Resignation Speech

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Curiously, I can't find "F you" in my Bible.
Posted by: Lady in Black

It's right next to Sister Bertha BetterThanYou.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 07:58 AM (dAOkg)

67 I’m not a fan of Joe Biden, for many reasons, but I’m quite certain it has absolutely nothing to do with his (purported) Catholicism. Leftists generally like to try and hide behind religious or ethnic identifiers.

Or the classic “You just hate women” as the reason nobody wanted to elect Mrs. Clinton for the presidency.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 22, 2025 07:58 AM (7NvEU)

68 "Traffic jammed the streets as a result as autonomous vehicles ground to a halt. "

This is how the world ends.
Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 07:54 AM (vFG9F)
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Which story is that?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 07:58 AM (avHHk)

69 I have met individual bigots of all stripes, of course, but there *are* groups where I write it off as something I need to potentially worry about.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

I.e. Dearborn

Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 07:59 AM (dAOkg)

70 Restitution and justice is needed. Many examples. Here's a famous one:

https://tinyurl.com/4x6eusdb

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 22, 2025 07:59 AM (E+OH8)

71 Which story is that?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)"

"Massive San Francisco Power Outage Leaves 130,000 Homes, Businesses in the Dark"

Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 07:59 AM (vFG9F)

72 Or the classic “You just hate women” as the reason nobody wanted to elect Mrs. Clinton for the presidency.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 22, 2025 07:58 AM (7NvEU)
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Always loved that one, and its opposite of "I voted for her because she's a woman."

Not at all. She's no more a woman than John McCain was a man. These are sexless creatures of power.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 08:00 AM (avHHk)

73 "There goes the Robert E. Lee."

Posted by: no one at December 22, 2025 08:01 AM (qFwJc)

74 "Massive San Francisco Power Outage Leaves 130,000 Homes, Businesses in the Dark"
Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 07:59 AM (vFG9F)
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Thanks.

Not so "autonomous," are they? They can't operate in a vacuum. Without the radio, they can't work. Internet outages absent a power failure would have the same effect.

One of many reasons to *always* have some cash on hand. Systems are broadly reliable, but those outages are a bitch and a half. Anyone advocating for total, continuous reliance on them without even short-term (i.e., "a day or two") ability to function during an outage is either a fool or a monster.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 08:03 AM (avHHk)

75 Which story is that?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 07:58 AM (avHHk)
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Waymos in SF. However:

https://tinyurl.com/3nzmcabj

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 22, 2025 08:03 AM (E+OH8)

76 When the power goes out, my silver will be priceless.

Posted by: no one at December 22, 2025 08:04 AM (qFwJc)

77 "There goes the Robert E. Lee."
Posted by: no one at December 22, 2025 08:01 AM (qFwJc)
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It always amused me that one of the greatest modern songs about that war came from Canada.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 08:04 AM (avHHk)

78 "Was Rob Reiner a Deep State Spook? Roll the Tape..."

Hollywood Meathead of the first order.

Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 08:05 AM (vFG9F)

79 "Father, what did we use to make light before candles?"

"We had electricity."

Posted by: no one at December 22, 2025 08:05 AM (qFwJc)

80 Victor Davis Hanson: As leaders equivocate and extremists unite left and right, open season on Jews spreads across the West—unchecked, unnamed, and certain to grow deadlier.

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In her 30-minute speech at TPUSA's AmericaFest, DNI Tulsi Gabbard -- whom the GloboHomo Deep State has been trying to take down (along with Pete Hegseth since their Cabinet appointments) named names, especially the threat of Islamist Death Cult Terrorist Groups like "Al-Qaeda, ISIS, Al-Shabaab Hamas, Boko Haram, and others."

Additionally: "If we don't take action TO IDENTIFY THIS THREAT, TO DEFINE IT, TO CALL IT OUT FOR WHAT IT IS, AND TAKE ACTION TO DEFEAT IT, we'll find ourselves in a place where many European countries -- and countries like Australia -- have found themselves."

\youtube.com/watch?
v=TBQjq1VGuc4&t=73s

Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 08:05 AM (21Usy)

81 Waymos in SF. However:

https://tinyurl.com/3nzmcabj
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 22, 2025 08:03 AM (E+OH

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A couple of weeks ago, multiple Waymo vehicles deadlocked and blocked traffic after being unable to resolve a minor collision involving two Waymo vehicles executing multi-point turns to get out of a dead-end street.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 08:06 AM (avHHk)

82 Not so "autonomous," are they? They can't operate in a vacuum. Without the radio, they can't work. Internet outages absent a power failure would have the same effect.

One of many reasons to *always* have some cash on hand. Systems are broadly reliable, but those outages are a bitch and a half. Anyone advocating for total, continuous reliance on them without even short-term (i.e., "a day or two") ability to function during an outage is either a fool or a monster.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

Stick a mannequin in the street. They can't differentiate between fake and human so they stop.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 08:07 AM (dAOkg)

83 ... and what Genghis Khan may have done for sexually transmitted diseases.

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"I feel his pain."

/Bubba "BJ" Clinton

Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 08:07 AM (21Usy)

84 U.S. to Spend $60B Turning Gaza into ‘High-Tech Metropolis’

Which will be destroyed in the first week, the building materials will be repurposed for weapons and the buildings that remain standing will be Hamas bases.

But hey; we can show that we Did Something to Help because we Care So Hard.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 22, 2025 08:08 AM (OPGS/)

85 San Francisco is the Waymo disaster capitol of the world.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 22, 2025 08:08 AM (NwnyJ)

86 That Waymo traffic jam in SF is hilarious. Imagine if Steve McQueen had to deal with that?

Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 08:09 AM (vFG9F)

87 How much new construction is there in the part of San Francisco hit by the power outage? Natural gas is illegal in new construction there, so the new stuff is left with *nothing* when the power goes down. No cooking or hot water.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 08:09 AM (avHHk)

88 A couple of weeks ago, multiple Waymo vehicles deadlocked and blocked traffic after being unable to resolve a minor collision involving two Waymo vehicles executing multi-point turns to get out of a dead-end street.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 08:06 AM (avHHk)
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Obligatory movie clip:

https://youtu.be/-TwBaNrk9XE

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 22, 2025 08:09 AM (E+OH8)

89 I know we don't need to believe polls, especially this far from an election, but weren't both Rs trailing the witch?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 22, 2025 07:56 AM (uQesX)

On polls…. There’s a great series of Peanuts comic strips where Lucy convinces Linus to run for school president (with Charlie Brown as his VP). She’s taking her own personal polls of the student body (by yelling threateningly “who you gonna vote for! Well you better!)… and on the eve of the election she tells Linus “according to my polls you have the election in the bag… you have the whiplash vote, the eyelash, etc etc… as long as you don’t do anything stupid you’re guaranteed to win.

So Linus gives his last speech before the election and talks about… the Great Pumpkin… and gets laughed off the stage and blows the election. Charlie Brown is staring at him. He says: “You’re looking at me like I’m crazy.” Charlie Brown says “No, I’m looking at you like I coulda been VP.”

Never believe polls LoL

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 22, 2025 08:09 AM (/iXAp)

90 Waymos in SF. However:

https://tinyurl.com/3nzmcabj
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey

There was an end of the world movie that mirrored that. Teslas all received the same instructions and then kept piling up on a road.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 08:11 AM (dAOkg)

91 Morning JJ and the Horde. Spot on about the Judges. They all think they are untouchable no matter, federal, State or local.

That is why it is so important to to get the Bush 1 and 2 Judges to retire also, many are no better than Dem appointments

Posted by: Jonah at December 22, 2025 08:12 AM (YCxFk)

92 U.S. to Spend $60B Turning Gaza into ‘High-Tech Metropolis’

Posted by: NR Pax at December 22, 2025 08:08 AM (OPGS/)
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FYI, the other day the WH said that claims that the money is coming from the US Gov are fake news.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 22, 2025 08:12 AM (E+OH8)

93 I submit that islam HAS already conquered western Europe.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at December 22, 2025 08:12 AM (xvV+O)

94 (Shouldn't she be stripped of her law license before serving a lengthy prison sentence?)

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Can she be stripped of her citizenship and exiled to CECOT in El Salvador?

/Damn 14th Amendment ...

Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 08:13 AM (21Usy)

95 Never believe polls LoL
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 22, 2025 08:09 AM (/iXAp)

If Hoc is that hated, any semi-decent R should be able to take her out. Wouldn't just be Stefanik who could do it. Besides, Trump said he liked her and the other potential candidate. Did she drop out because Trump didn't name her as the one? Maybe she quit because of something else?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 22, 2025 08:13 AM (uQesX)

96 If I knew how to do it, I would get AI to do the Bullitt chase scene with Waymo taxis blocking everything.

Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 08:13 AM (vFG9F)

97 Which story is that?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 07:58 AM (avHHk)
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"The Machine Stops" by E.M. Forster. A classic.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 22, 2025 08:14 AM (ESVrU)

98 What conservative voter answers a unknown number on his cell phone to participate in a poll in the first place?

Posted by: Jonah at December 22, 2025 08:14 AM (YCxFk)

99 Finally, a mention of Judge Dugan's smackdown. I think it's an extremely important story, and I was surprised Ace didn't comment on it much.

And yet she lost in a Wisconsin court which as we all know, thanks to Madison and Milwaukee is not the conservative bastion that it seemingly ought to be...

That's where Trump/Bondi have an edge. These charges are from Federal court, so they pull from a very large area, including lots of very red rural area. You get good jury screening to weed out the far Left Bluesky activists, and you, at worst, might have a jury of LIV normies.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 22, 2025 08:15 AM (ycI94)

100 "The Machine Stops" by E.M. Forster. A classic.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 22, 2025 08:14 AM (ESVrU)
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Heh, that it is.

"There Will Come Soft Rains" by Bradbury is sort of its opposite - the machine keeps going to the best of its ability absent man's influence.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 08:15 AM (avHHk)

101 I am completely against the disrobing of Judge Dugan.
She ugly.

Posted by: Arbiter of Beauty And Taste! at December 22, 2025 08:15 AM (oftw2)

102 U.S. to Spend $60B Turning Gaza into ‘High-Tech Metropolis’

Posted by: NR Pax

I wish we'd have spent $60 B turning Gaza into Glowing Land.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 08:15 AM (dAOkg)

103 I looked for the Sun Unconquered today but it is drizzling.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 08:15 AM (jc0TO)

104 "I never have never experienced it as a default operational mode among Catholics."

Wait, wut?

Posted by: Duble Neg at December 22, 2025 08:16 AM (2Ez/1)

105 Mornin’ All. Happy Christmas Eve Eve Eve.

Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 08:16 AM (77rzZ)

106 "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Bradbury is sort of its opposite - the machine keeps going to the best of its ability absent man's influence.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 08:15 AM (avHHk)
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Possibly one of the most depressing stories ever written.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 22, 2025 08:16 AM (ESVrU)

107 Wisconsin’s judges thought Catholic Charities was not Catholic enough to get a tax exemption. The U.S. Supreme Court weighed in, 9-0.

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Are the Democrat-Communists bleating that six of those Justices identify as Catholics and should have recused themselves?

/When was that last time we had a 3-0 SCOTUS ruling?

Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 08:17 AM (21Usy)

108 Conservative catholic blogger one day posted that there are 15 white catholic Dem men in the US Senate, and they all support infanticide or late term abortion.

We did get rid of one of them in Bob Casey last year

Posted by: Jonah at December 22, 2025 08:17 AM (YCxFk)

109 U.S. to Spend $60B Turning Gaza into ‘High-Tech Metropolis’

At this point the politicians and banksters are doing nothing but going from stateroom to stateroom stealing all of the valuables on the Titanic.

Explain why I should continue to pay taxes when the game is plunder and fraud without restriction.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 08:17 AM (nAS9C)

110 Today Is National Date Nut Bread.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 22, 2025 08:17 AM (NpAcC)

111 If Hoc is that hated, any semi-decent R should be able to take her out. Wouldn't just be Stefanik who could do it. Besides, Trump said he liked her and the other potential candidate. Did she drop out because Trump didn't name her as the one? Maybe she quit because of something else?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 22, 2025 08:13 AM (uQesX)

The only thing I heard is that Trump declined to endorse because the other R in the race is close to Trump and he didn’t want to choose… said something like “they’re both great so it’s difficult for me”…. I speculate Stefanik didn’t want a bruising primary; maybe she’s tired of politics so she dropped out. At least she didn’t pull an MTG and leave Congress immediately. I know nothing about NY state politics but if it’s like CA I’m not optimistic… back in 2021 Gavin Newsom was hated it seemed by all and we got a recall on the ballot and mysteriously he beat it by a landslide. I think cheating with mail-ins…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 22, 2025 08:19 AM (/iXAp)

112 Was it here that someone posted a link to X, where a user over there laid out how Tesla is the "proving ground" for Musk's "AI Robot Revolution."

It was an interesting, speculative post.

TL ; DR - The same self-driving logic that is being developed for Tesla cars is very similar to what is being used in Musk's robots under development. IOW how they'd navigate around a warehouse, factory, hospital, your house, etc.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 22, 2025 08:20 AM (NwnyJ)

113 The thing about the blood libel... it doesn't make sense. It's obviously from someone who has never baked bread. Blood would just be blecch in matza. It persists because of magical thinking.

Also, do you really think the homeless would exist if they were doing that? The streets would be clean in no time.

/eyeroll/ I cannot even....

Posted by: GWB at December 22, 2025 08:20 AM (9Q9Z4)

114 Explain why I should continue to pay taxes when the game is plunder and fraud without restriction.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 08:17 AM (nAS9C)
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Comment 93 and inhale.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 22, 2025 08:20 AM (E+OH8)

115 Stefanik dropped out, but she got a tough primary opponent, and wanted a clear path and endorsement from Trump.

Posted by: Jonah at December 22, 2025 08:20 AM (YCxFk)

116 Date nut bread? Who’s even heard of that?

Sounds disgusting.

Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 08:20 AM (77rzZ)

117 Gaza appears to be a massive stalemate, and while Trump succeeded in getting the hostages released, I can’t see any other steps from his plan ever being accomplished. Of course this was easy to predict the moment it was announced; but as I said at least it got the hostages back, as Israel had allowed itself to become paralyzed for fear of hurting them.
So what happens next? Looks like nothing happens next. Hamas continues to consolidate power in the parts of Gaza they still control; Israel consolidates power in the half they control. There will be peacekeeping force because no one will go in to face off with Hamas, and there will be no rebuilding of Gaza. The whole mess will just go on, and on, and on.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 08:21 AM (trsuh)

118 I am completely against the disrobing of Judge Dugan.
She ugly.
Posted by: Arbiter of Beauty And Taste! at December 22, 2025 08:15 AM (oftw2)

Bend them over, they are all the same.

Posted by: Billy Jeff, Rapist and Pervert at December 22, 2025 08:21 AM (m8zKa)

119 Good morning, friends! Thank you all who shared your Christmas tree stories. I loved reading about them. Definitely brought joy!

Posted by: Piper at December 22, 2025 08:21 AM (Wmg4n)

120 Good morning Horde, happy Monday. Thx JJ.
Agree that Scott Adams is an American patriot. Unfortunately he doesn't have long to live. May God protect and keep him

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 08:21 AM (MoRvC)

121 So sad to me about Tucker. I was a big fan of him and MTG.

Does everybody in the spotlight have to be a grifter?

Posted by: Jonah at December 22, 2025 08:22 AM (YCxFk)

122 U.S. to Spend $60B Turning Gaza into ‘High-Tech Metropolis’

Really? and exactly where are they going to find this labor force that can build this "high-tech metropolis"?

$60B doesn't even cover the State Department's vig before the first architectural meeting takes place.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 08:22 AM (U4c/V)

123 Also, do you really think the homeless would exist if they were doing that? The streets would be clean in no time.

Posted by: GWB at December 22, 2025 08:20 AM (9Q9Z4)
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THAT'S ALOTTA MATZAH!!!!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 22, 2025 08:22 AM (E+OH8)

124
g'mornin' again, rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 22, 2025 08:22 AM (tljrc)

125 FYI, the other day the WH said that claims that the money is coming from the US Gov are fake news.

I truly hope so.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 22, 2025 08:22 AM (OPGS/)

126 121. Well said Glove

Posted by: Jonah at December 22, 2025 08:22 AM (YCxFk)

127 I think cheating with mail-ins…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 22, 2025 08:19 AM (/iXAp)

So, Hoc probably wins again no matter who runs. Frauding their way into rule. Vote fraud should be a capital offense.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 22, 2025 08:22 AM (uQesX)

128 Today Is National Date Nut Bread.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 22, 2025 08:17 AM (NpAcC)
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I suppose that's better than National Date Nuts Day, when Rule #1 is no longer in effect.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 22, 2025 08:22 AM (ESVrU)

129 It’s a Mississippi case about whether a state may accept mail-in ballots received after election day. The Magnolia State counts ballots that arrive up to five days after the election. (They must be postmarked by election day).

The new USPS system to collect mail locally at smaller stations and then centrally process (postmark) invalidates all forms of mail-in voting.
With there present system the local PO postmarks the mail usually within a day of drop off.
The central system could mean a piece of mail dropped off in Friday may not hit a process center until Tuesday.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 22, 2025 08:23 AM (gbOdA)

130 Turning Gaza into a high tech metropolis is a fantasy. High tech metropoli can't be populated by murderous nitwits

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 08:23 AM (MoRvC)

131 Levy's Rye Bread also has a secret blood base to it.

Posted by: Mrs. Choate's Marble Rye at December 22, 2025 08:23 AM (oftw2)

132 Possibly one of the most depressing stories ever written.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 22, 2025 08:16 AM (ESVrU)
++++
Bradbury was good at bleak. "The Veldt" is bleak AF, too.

There was a good radio dramatization of "There Will Come Soft Rains" back in the 50s. IIRC, it was on "Dimension X," but it could have been "Exploring Tomorrow" or another.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 08:23 AM (avHHk)

133 "$60B doesn't even cover the State Department's vig before the first architectural meeting takes place."
***

What's a vig?

Posted by: Ok, I'll ask at December 22, 2025 08:24 AM (2Ez/1)

134 So what happens next? Looks like nothing happens next. Hamas continues to consolidate power in the parts of Gaza they still control; Israel consolidates power in the half they control. There will be peacekeeping force because no one will go in to face off with Hamas, and there will be no rebuilding of Gaza. The whole mess will just go on, and on, and on.

-----------------

Is the end result the slow elimination of Gaza & Hamas. Let's assume you are right about Hamas and Gaza. They are consolidating power in a smaller area. Are we bound to repeat the past few years again and again until one day when Israel has total control over Gaza? Its a problem that no one really wants to deal with because no one wants the Palestinians.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 22, 2025 08:24 AM (sX1BW)

135 “So I’m going to the Bible when I say to my haters, [dramatic pause] F you.”

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So who translated the Bible into Ebonics?

/Samuel L. Jackson?

Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 08:24 AM (21Usy)

136 I was a big fan of him and MTG.

Does everybody in the spotlight have to be a grifter?

Posted by: Jonah at December 22, 2025 08:22 AM (YCxFk)
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Apparently so:

https://tinyurl.com/pe9mut2p

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 22, 2025 08:24 AM (E+OH8)

137 I'm curious to see how things go with Carlson, now, since he's reached the point of telling people they should embrace Islam.

Is this the end of his grift? I kinda think "no." I would hope making common cause with the Muslims would be a bridge too far for anyone on the Right, but I'm betting most of his followers will rationalize it.

Something along the lines of "you know, we share a lot of values with these cousin-fucking savages, after all, and they're a damn sight better than the Jews. Their hummus is better, too."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 22, 2025 08:25 AM (BI5O2)

138 @122 Jonah, i think in a lot of cases it's cause and effect. The people who seek the spotlight end up showing their true nature.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 08:25 AM (MoRvC)

139 Rob Schneider Roasts ‘Grifter’ Candace Owens
And it was glorious!

Posted by: redridinghood at December 22, 2025 08:25 AM (NpAcC)

140 What's a vig?

Posted by: Ok, I'll ask at December 22, 2025 08:24 AM (2Ez/1)
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Same as in town.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 22, 2025 08:25 AM (E+OH8)

141 What's a vig?

short for "vigorish" - a commission or fee that a bookmaker charges for taking a bet.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 08:26 AM (U4c/V)

142 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 08:26 AM (Zz0t1)

143 Stefanik dropped out, but she got a tough primary opponent, and wanted a clear path and endorsement from Trump.

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Someone closer the situation will have to explain it to me. From afar, it does not look like a good sign at all.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 22, 2025 08:26 AM (sX1BW)

144 What's a vig?

Posted by: Ok, I'll ask at December 22, 2025 08:24 AM (2Ez/1)

A man who lives to be older than dirt, a.k.a. an Abe Vigoda

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 08:27 AM (Zz0t1)

145 Levy's Rye Bread also has a secret blood base to it.

Posted by: Mrs. Choate's Marble Rye at December 22, 2025 08:23 AM (oftw2)
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Relax. That's only Asian and native American Indian blood.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 22, 2025 08:27 AM (E+OH8)

146 Efficient rail moves goods faster, cheaper, and with less environmental strain than trucking, freeing up highways and reducing road maintenance costs for taxpayers.

There are thousands of miles of abandoned right of way that the railroads will never get back.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 08:27 AM (jc0TO)

147 > I'm curious to see how things go with Carlson, now, since he's reached the point of telling people they should embrace Islam.
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If one were to presume Tucker was always a leftist, this begins to make some sort of sense.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 22, 2025 08:27 AM (NwnyJ)

148 When he was doing Deuce Bigelow would anyone have believed that Rob Schneider is a voice of reason and sanity?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 08:27 AM (MoRvC)

149 What's a vig?

Posted by: Ok, I'll ask at December 22, 2025 08:24 AM (2Ez/1)
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Responding on behalf of JJ: A sheitel.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 22, 2025 08:28 AM (E+OH8)

150 It's also...
Mathematics Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 22, 2025 08:28 AM (NpAcC)

151 9 Playing by the left's rules is a sucker's game. Saying that "we are better than that" is just a way for losers to lose.
Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 07:22 AM (vFG9F)

The Left doesn't play by any rules.

They just expect YOU too.

Alinsky Rule #4.

EVERY SINGLE THING THE LEFT DOES FLOWS FROM ALINSKY #4.

Posted by: XTC at December 22, 2025 08:28 AM (UnA8+)

152 142 What's a vig?

short for "vigorish" - a commission or fee that a bookmaker charges for taking a bet.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 22, 2025 08:26 AM
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Hunh. I did not know that.

Posted by: In my best Johnny Carson voice at December 22, 2025 08:29 AM (2Ez/1)

153 So sad to me about Tucker. I was a big fan of him and MTG.

Does everybody in the spotlight have to be a grifter?
Posted by: Jonah at December 22, 2025 08:22 AM (YCxFk)

Yes.

You're in America, bruh. Every single important institution has been carefully retrofitted into a filter funnel that ensures no other kind of person makes it down the spout.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 22, 2025 08:29 AM (BI5O2)

154 "When he was doing Deuce Bigelow would anyone have believed that Rob Schneider is a voice of reason and sanity?
Posted by: Smell the Glove "

Nope.

Posted by: Micky Ninja at December 22, 2025 08:29 AM (vFG9F)

155 Bring us a viggy pudding.

Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 08:29 AM (77rzZ)

156 I would hope making common cause with the Muslims would be a bridge too far for anyone on the Right, but I'm betting most of his followers will rationalize it.

Something along the lines of "you know, we share a lot of values with these cousin-fucking savages, after all, and they're a damn sight better than the Jews. Their hummus is better, too."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 22, 2025 08:25 AM

They are, after all, natural conservatives.

Posted by: toby928(c) at December 22, 2025 08:29 AM (jc0TO)

157 National Youth Coordinated Table, which he will chair. The DNC envisions the NYCT as a left-wing version of Turning Point and hopes to emulate its success with young voters.

The NYCT will include “the Young Democrats of America, the College Democrats of America, the High School Democrats of America, and an array of left-leaning organizing groups.”

Hitler Youth was already trademarked.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 22, 2025 08:29 AM (gbOdA)

158 No word on groundbreaking for The Biden Presidential Lieberry?

Posted by: Need A Job at December 22, 2025 08:30 AM (oftw2)

159 It's also...
Mathematics Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 22, 2025 08:28 AM (NpAcC)
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/insert looping batman slaps robin animated gif

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 22, 2025 08:30 AM (E+OH8)

160 138 I'm curious to see how things go with Carlson, now, since he's reached the point of telling people they should embrace Islam.

Is this the end of his grift? I kinda think "no." I would hope making common cause with the Muslims would be a bridge too far for anyone on the Right, but I'm betting most of his followers will rationalize it.

Something along the lines of "you know, we share a lot of values with these cousin-fucking savages, after all, and they're a damn sight better than the Jews. Their hummus is better, too."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 22, 2025 08:25 AM (BI5O2)

That's more likely with the Under-25 crowd than any of us would like it to be.

Posted by: XTC at December 22, 2025 08:30 AM (UnA8+)

161 Mathematics Day?

Uh-oh.

Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 08:30 AM (77rzZ)

162 156 Bring us a viggy pudding.
Posted by: Bulg

We won't go until we get some...

Posted by: Bill Cosby, Pudding Spokesmodel at December 22, 2025 08:32 AM (oftw2)

163 Last day in paradise. I think I'll do nothing but sit at the beach.

Posted by: Lincolntf at December 22, 2025 08:32 AM (O6icp)

164 GA was the key to the 2020 steal.

1) a deep-red state that went for Biden = social "proof" Trump was unpopular with everyone, including Republicans
2) via deep-blue--and very black--Atlanta; extremely eager to commit fraud and they could fall back on racism cries to kill any investigation, if started
3) while dirty and corrupt state-level "Republicans" certify the steal.
4) If GA was "opened" up to honest audit, the fraud--and manner of fraud--there would force and justify a re-open of AZ, WI and MI.
And flip those to Trump.
That's why they went all-out--and are still committing crimes--to cover up the fraud in 2020.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 22, 2025 08:32 AM (HXT0k)

165 Bring us a viggy pudding.
Posted by: Bulg

We won't go until we get some...

Posted by: Bill Cosby, Pudding Spokesmodel at December 22, 2025 08:32 AM (oftw2)
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There's always room for Jailo.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 22, 2025 08:33 AM (E+OH8)

166 162 Mathematics Day?

Uh-oh.

++++

Twelve. Twenty two. Twenty. Twenty five.
Set. Hut!

Posted by: Omaha at December 22, 2025 08:34 AM (2Ez/1)

167 Twelve. Twenty two. Twenty. Twenty five.
Set. Hut!
Posted by: Omaha at December 22, 2025 08:34 AM (2Ez/1)
++++
LOL

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 08:34 AM (avHHk)

168 Candace Owens is anti semitic because she’s a Cluster B personality disorder and those people will say anything.

Tucker Carlson is antisemitic because he’s being paid by Arab states.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at December 22, 2025 08:34 AM (jYRYu)

169
159 No word on groundbreaking for The Biden Presidential Lieberry?
Posted by: Need A Job at December 22, 2025 08:30 AM (oftw2)

Looks like it’s gonna be. Bookmobile based in s van parked down by the river.

I think it would be hilarious for Trump to put up one of those My Little Library stands on the White House Lawn with a Biden presidential library sign over it. You can speculate which books should be stocked.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 22, 2025 08:34 AM (trsuh)

170 Even as a kid I’d say to myself “figgy pudding sounds gross!”

But not, I have to say, nearly as gross as disrobing that fat ugly convicted judge… ugh ugh

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 22, 2025 08:35 AM (/iXAp)

171 Jim Beam halts production at main distillery for a year.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 08:35 AM (dAOkg)

172 Jim Beam halts production at main distillery for a year.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 08:35 AM (dAOkg)
++++
Why?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 08:36 AM (avHHk)

173
Western Lensman
@WesternLensman

Unhinged Jasmine Crockett responds to JD Vance’s remarks at TPUSA:

“The only reason you're the vice president is because the current president tried to have his last president k*lled."

What??

https://tinyurl.com/mwfvpe9d

Posted by: redridinghood at December 22, 2025 08:36 AM (NpAcC)

174
"The Corn Pop Chronicles."

Posted by: The Joe Biden My Little Library at December 22, 2025 08:37 AM (2Ez/1)

175 Trump names Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry as special envoy to Greenland

Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 08:37 AM (dAOkg)

176 High tech metropoli can't be populated by murderous nitwits
Posted by: Smell the Glove

I have a suggestion to address that problem!

Posted by: NR Pax at December 22, 2025 08:37 AM (OPGS/)

177 You know you're getting old when you watch an episode of Barney Miller and Abe Vigoda looks young to you.

Similar thing happened yesterday. Was watching a Youtube of a live Hot Tuna performance from 1973 and Papa John Creech looked like a whippersnapper.

Posted by: Old Man Noll at December 22, 2025 08:37 AM (oftw2)

178 162 Mathematics Day?

Uh-oh.

++++

Twelve. Twenty two. Twenty. Twenty five.
Set. Hut!
Posted by: Omaha at December 22, 2025 08:34 AM (2Ez/1)

Three six nine… twelve fifteen eighteen… twenty-one twenty-four twenty-seven… THIRTY! Three, it’s a magic number 🎶

Love schoolhouse rock!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 22, 2025 08:37 AM (/iXAp)

179 I saw a comment over the weekend that Ticket Carlson attacked the family of the Furry English Cigarette who murdered Charlie Kirk for turning him in, but I can't find anything about it online. Anybody know what he said?

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 22, 2025 08:38 AM (JheLn)

180 I wish there was a better term for it, but it is what it is.
Clergy are defrocked.
Lawyers are disbarred.
Judges are disrobed.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

Cops are unholstered, and truckers
just get a new Peterbilt.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 22, 2025 08:39 AM (zdLoL)

181 Somebody needs to tell the Hags on the view, that MTG still identifies as a Pro Lifer, just like Liz Cheney

Posted by: Jonah at December 22, 2025 08:39 AM (YCxFk)

182 176 Trump names Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry as special envoy to Greenland
Posted by: rickb223

All part of the plan.

Posted by: The Merry Marching Penguin Majority at December 22, 2025 08:39 AM (oftw2)

183 Jim Beam halts production at main distillery for a year.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 08:35 AM (dAOkg)
++++
Why?

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The press' answer is tariffs. That may be part of it, but the long answer is probably more complicated and the tariffs may have just been the proverbial straw. But Jim Beam is now just a brand owned by a big foreign conglomerate.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 22, 2025 08:39 AM (sX1BW)

184 It always amused me that one of the greatest modern songs about that war came from Canada.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 08:04 AM (avHHk)
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It may have been written by a Canadian Indian, but he spent his adult life in America. Hard to say the song "came from Canada".

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 22, 2025 08:39 AM (e87dM)

185 Trump names Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry as special envoy to Greenland
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 08:37 AM (dAOkg)

I thought he was too busy meddling in the LSU football program but maybe he has time now that Lane Kiffin is onboard

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 22, 2025 08:39 AM (/iXAp)

186 Massie has put more work into the last 6 months to help Democrats than he ever has, in his whole career combined, to help Americans.

Tucker has made a more vigorous defense of Islam in the last few weeks than he's ever made of Christianity.

The people who own the bot farms that were propping up Tucker, Owen, Fuentes, et al., are attempting a soft "re-launch" of them.
As if the X location feature doesn't exist, so we can see who is really supporting them.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 22, 2025 08:40 AM (HXT0k)

187 176 Trump names Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry as special envoy to Greenland
Posted by: rickb223

All part of the plan.

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May be a bit cold for the Cajun Navy, but they are a resourceful bunch.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 22, 2025 08:40 AM (sX1BW)

188 Why?
Posted by: Joe Mannix

The distillery will stay closed while the firm takes "the opportunity to invest in site enhancements," it told to the BBC in a statement on Sunday.

Distillers in Kentucky - famous for its bourbon - face uncertainty, in part, due to US President Donald Trump's trade policies.

In October, the Kentucky Distillers' Association (KDA) trade body said the amount of bourbon in warehouses across the state was at a record high of more than 16 million barrels.

According to the association, the barrels of bourbon, which are taxed by the state, have cost distillers "a crushing" $75m (£56m) this year.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 08:40 AM (dAOkg)

189 > Jim Beam halts production at main distillery for a year.
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Takeaway.... the word "main" in that headline.

They're looking to boost prices by shorting supply of the spirts distilled at Happy Hollow in Clermont, KY.

Bourbon sales to Canada are down 60 percent due to tariffs. A reason given by some distillers around here.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 22, 2025 08:40 AM (NwnyJ)

190

Good Morning Morons and Ettes!

Merry Day Before the Day Before the Night Before Christmas!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at December 22, 2025 08:41 AM (iJfKG)

191
“The only reason you're the vice president is because the current president tried to have his last president k*lled."

What??

https://tinyurl.com/mwfvpe9d
Posted by: redridinghood at December 22, 2025 08:36 AM (NpAcC)

The left's bench is loaded with pathological lying flamethrowers.

Gaslighting. It's what's for dinner.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 08:41 AM (Zz0t1)

192 I would like to start off by acknowledging that this land I am on was legitimately taken in war from the Mexicans.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 22, 2025 08:41 AM (0U5gm)

193 In October, the Kentucky Distillers' Association (KDA) trade body said the amount of bourbon in warehouses across the state was at a record high of more than 16 million barrels.

According to the association, the barrels of bourbon, which are taxed by the state, have cost distillers "a crushing" $75m (£56m) this year.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 08:40 AM (dAOkg)

Maybe people just aren't drinking as much hard liquor as before?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 22, 2025 08:41 AM (uQesX)

194 Anybody know what he said?
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 22, 2025 08:38 AM (JheLn)
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Carlson should go back to worrying about alien invasions; that was more entertaining.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 22, 2025 08:41 AM (e87dM)

195 So where's the green part?

Posted by: Jeff Landry at December 22, 2025 08:42 AM (2Ez/1)

196 The press' answer is tariffs. That may be part of it, but the long answer is probably more complicated and the tariffs may have just been the proverbial straw. But Jim Beam is now just a brand owned by a big foreign conglomerate.
Posted by: SH

The big answer is cannabis. Young adults aren't drinking as much. They are smoking or eating gummies. Bars have completely priced themselves out of a market.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 08:42 AM (dAOkg)

197 Out West in the Rockies (and I mean the whole region), we are having a Commiefornia Christmas (speaking only of the weather and high temps). Even lawns are slightly greening up again. And the ski corps are losing their crap. Truth is, the Colorado river/basin is in serious trouble and threat status. Is a thing of serious concern, it is.

Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bastards & lunatic pundits at December 22, 2025 08:42 AM (HeR4S)

198 165. Agreed, but the early AZ call by the deep state at Fox, started the ball rolling. I got rid of cable the day after the 2020 election, and have not watched FOX news since.

Posted by: Jonah at December 22, 2025 08:42 AM (YCxFk)

199
“The only reason you're the vice president is because the current president tried to have his last president k*lled."

What??

https://tinyurl.com/mwfvpe9d
Posted by: redridinghood at December 22, 2025 08:36 AM (NpAcC)

The only reason Vance is VP is because Trump tried to have Biden killed?

WTF? Do you even know what you're talking about?

TRUMP had 2 assassination attempts. Not Biden. Biden shit his pants. In front of the Pope. No one shot at him. No one plotted to kill him. No one even attempted to "take him behind the gym."

OMG we're such an embarrassment of clusterf*cks......WHAT HAPPENED TO AMERICA?!?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 08:43 AM (Zz0t1)

200 "I have no idea how Carlson and Owens were brought up or arrived at their beliefs about "Jews" or "The Jews?" I assume that both have either inherited/absorbed the beliefs of their parents and families which have been passed on for generations. It's not the world's oldest hatred for no reason. Or, even worse, maybe they engage in this merely for personal gain."

Charlie Kirk was far more important to the movement than I ever realized. He was not only introducing hundreds of thousands of college-aged youth to conservatism, but was almost singlehandedly fending off the grifters that are now trying to atomize MAGA.

The Left probably celebrates Kirk's death every day. It's like their Archduke Ferdinand moment.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 22, 2025 08:43 AM (0CU3H)

201 Maybe people just aren't drinking as much hard liquor as before?
Posted by: OrangeEnt

They aren't.
Bars have priced themselves out of the market & big cannabis swooped in.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 08:43 AM (dAOkg)

202 Are you at risk of living in a bourbon desert?

Posted by: Whiny media a year from now at December 22, 2025 08:43 AM (2Ez/1)

203 So where's the green part?

Posted by: Jeff Landry at December 22, 2025 08:42 AM (2Ez/1)

This is how you call the big green dildo to a thread.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 08:44 AM (Zz0t1)

204 Bars have completely priced themselves out of a market.

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All true, but bars didn't just price themselves out of the market. The costs for operating a bar have priced themselves out.

I'd say it is cannabis and iphones since people don't need to go out to socialize and connect.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 22, 2025 08:44 AM (sX1BW)

205 Well local law enforcement and gubmints, upset about Jim Beam. Revenue will go down due to less DUI'S

Posted by: Jonah at December 22, 2025 08:44 AM (YCxFk)

206 > The big answer is cannabis. Young adults aren't drinking as much. They are smoking or eating gummies. Bars have completely priced themselves out of a market.
Posted by: rickb223
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This

None of my kids drink. None of their friends drink. They either vape or consume edibles.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 22, 2025 08:44 AM (NwnyJ)

207 How is it that the R's in congress haven't voted to censure that lying racist twat Crockett?

Put her comments on record for the world to see for eternity.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 08:45 AM (Zz0t1)

208 >>Well of course she'll appeal, since despite my seeing this as a positive sign, given the nature of who occupies far too many a judge's seat in far too many an American courtroom, she might have a shot at winning an appeal.

Ya know, it's actually ok to be happy when we get a win.

Monty doesn't live here anymore.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 08:45 AM (viF8m)

209 There were more than twice as many homicides per manufactured firearms traced as there were homicides for privately made firearms (PMF) traced.

Posted by: SMOD at December 22, 2025 08:45 AM (GITLP)

210
Imagination exercise.

- The Palestinians are evacuated from Gaza for 5 years.
- During that time, developed countries transform Gaza with state of the art infrastructure: roads, sanitation, water, electricity, housing, etc. Plus the economic assets to sustain them.
- The Palestinians are moved back into the new, improved Gaza.

10 years after, what does the place look like?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 22, 2025 08:46 AM (tgvbd)

211 This

None of my kids drink. None of their friends drink. They either vape or consume edibles.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 22, 2025 08:44 AM (NwnyJ)

This is not the First Daughter or her boyfriend. They drink, mostly socially, but they don't eat gummies or smoke anything.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 08:46 AM (Zz0t1)

212 I haven't watched Fox since 2010, or so. Haven't missed it.

Posted by: MAGA Mutt at December 22, 2025 08:46 AM (oftw2)

213 Does everybody in the spotlight have to be a grifter?

Posted by: Jonah at December 22, 2025 08:22 AM (YCxFk)
-

Apparently so:

https://tinyurl.com/pe9mut2p
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 22, 2025 08:24 AM (E+OH

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Great idea. Audit them and expose how every one of them made millions. Ayanna Pressley and Ilhan Omar first, please.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 22, 2025 08:46 AM (nyjNu)

214 More cannabis consumption than booze consumption? That cannot be good.

Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 08:46 AM (77rzZ)

215 134 "$60B doesn't even cover the State Department's vig before the first architectural meeting takes place."
***

What's a vig?
Posted by: Ok, I'll ask at December 22, 2025 08:24 AM (2Ez/1)

$20, etc, etc, etc.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 22, 2025 08:46 AM (0CU3H)

216 Bourbon sales to Canada are down 60 percent due to tariffs. "

Oh no! Canucks aren't the top bourbon market, so...

*quietly, so called spoke folk will admit demand has been dropping since end of '23

Posted by: man at December 22, 2025 08:47 AM (XuXeR)

217 How is it that the R's in congress haven't voted to censure that lying racist twat Crockett?
__________________________

Black Democraticum Armor. Protecting corrupt politicians since 1964.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 22, 2025 08:47 AM (JheLn)

218 10 years after, what does the place look like?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 22, 2025 08:46 AM (tgvbd)

Minneapolis

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 22, 2025 08:47 AM (06Hmj)

219
More cannabis consumption than booze consumption? That cannot be good.
Posted by: Bulg at December 22, 2025 08:46 AM (77rzZ)

Pot is the Universal Medicine. Haven't you heard?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 22, 2025 08:47 AM (tgvbd)

220 More cannabis consumption than booze consumption? That cannot be good.

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Cannibas and pocket gambling. How did the Libertarians win? Because the small L libertarians did not.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 22, 2025 08:48 AM (sX1BW)

221 213 I haven't watched Fox since 2010, or so. Haven't missed it.
Posted by: MAGA Mutt

Nobody watches TV anymore.

Posted by: Breaking News at December 22, 2025 08:48 AM (2Ez/1)

222 174
Western Lensman
@WesternLensman

Unhinged Jasmine Crockett responds to JD Vance’s remarks at TPUSA:

“The only reason you're the vice president is because the current president tried to have his last president k*lled."

What??

https://tinyurl.com/mwfvpe9d
Posted by: redridinghood at December 22, 2025 08:36 AM (NpAcC)

She means Mike Pence. Because of the "Hang Mike Pence" chants around J6.

But because she has to pretend she can't speak English so Democrats will think she's Black Enough", she said "President" instead of "Vice-President".

Posted by: XTC at December 22, 2025 08:48 AM (UnA8+)

223
All true, but bars didn't just price themselves out of the market. The costs for operating a bar have priced themselves out.

I'd say it is cannabis and iphones since people don't need to go out to socialize and connect.
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 22, 2025 08:44 AM (sX1BW)

Last I heard, at least in the state of Texas, it was $50k for a liquor license. Not sure if that's annually or a one time fee with a renewal fee every year. And that's for hard liquor. Not sure what it is if you only sell beer and wine. But not sure there's many places other than grocery stores that only sell beer and wine. I haven't been to one.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 08:48 AM (Zz0t1)

224 218 How is it that the R's in congress haven't voted to censure that lying racist twat Crockett?
__________________________

Black Democraticum Armor. Protecting corrupt politicians since 1964.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 22, 2025 08:47 AM (JheLn)

Same reason they settled on Somalis to run their fleecing of Minnesota, and not Hungarians or Tibetans.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 22, 2025 08:48 AM (06Hmj)

225 213 I haven't watched Fox since 2010, or so. Haven't missed it.
Posted by: MAGA Mutt at December 22, 2025 08:46 AM (oftw2)

I haven't watched FOX since Bill O'Reilly whiffed on his highly-touted Obama interview during Super Bowl halftime. Probably around the same time that the Mutt stopped watching.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 22, 2025 08:49 AM (0CU3H)

226 Crockett, the more she speaks, is demonstrating that she is a dim bulb. John Kennedy saying "Operation: let the speak" is spot on

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 08:49 AM (MoRvC)

227 > More cannabis consumption than booze consumption? That cannot be good.
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I don't think it's "more." I think more kids today opt for vaping or edibles if they indulge in anything. Those are marketed towards a younger set anyway. Booze is an "old man's" vice.

In their eyes.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 22, 2025 08:49 AM (NwnyJ)

228 I've done my best for bourbon distillers this week, as a patriotic duty.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 22, 2025 08:49 AM (nyjNu)

229 >>Pot is the Universal Medicine. Haven't you heard?

Not here. It's bourbon.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 08:49 AM (viF8m)

230 Distillers in Kentucky - famous for its bourbon - face uncertainty, in part, due to US President Donald Trump's trade policies.
...
According to the association, the barrels of bourbon, which are taxed by the state, have cost distillers "a crushing" $75m (£56m) this year.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 08:40 AM (dAOkg)
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Soooooooo which is it? Bourbon is a domestic product. We export it, so are Trump's trade policies in play because foreign countries are imposing tariffs on *us* as a response to those policies? Or is the problem state-level taxes, which have dick-all to do with Trump's trade policies?

Or is the problem demand and production being dislocated, causing an inventory overhang? And if so, what is the cause dislocation? Too much production or too little demand (e.g., market shift)?

Oy, what a mess that quote is.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 08:49 AM (avHHk)

231 I read a few articles about the Jim Beam thing. Obligatory digs at Trump before acknowledging down turns in the industry which started before he took office again in 2025.

Foreign demand had put a lot of great American whiskey, both bourbon and rye, out of reach for many here in the States. I'm already seeing a lot of stuff more readily available at MSRP or close to it. There was definitely a bourbon boom for quite a while. Beam rode that wave for sure. Like other industries, things are cyclical.

Posted by: Doof at December 22, 2025 08:50 AM (QMAsf)

232 In all honesty, I'm curious as to what effect the Covid shutdowns had on drinking in this country. Short term it increased it, but I wonder if long term it will have a significant negative effect on it.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 22, 2025 08:50 AM (sX1BW)

233 BREAKING: The Trump administration is now TRIPLING its exit bonus for illegal alien self-deportations, from $1,000 to $3,000, through December 31st

GET OUT!

Take the $3K. Americans don't want you here!

NOEM: "It's home for the holidays season! Not only are we returning kids to their families. We're saying if you voluntarily want to go back, we'll give you $3K through the holidays!"

https://tinyurl.com/34w7625r

Posted by: redridinghood at December 22, 2025 08:50 AM (NpAcC)

234 Bourbon sales to Canada are down 60 percent due to tariffs. A reason given by some distillers around here.
____

So now Canadians can only afford Canadian Club, Black Velvet and Crown Royal? Quality of Life has gone down severely. But at least they can use these for varnishing.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 22, 2025 08:50 AM (Dv3i1)

235 https://tinyurl.com/mwfvpe9d
Posted by: redridinghood at December 22, 2025 08:36 AM (NpAcC)

She means Mike Pence. Because of the "Hang Mike Pence" chants around J6.

Posted by: XTC at December 22, 2025 08:48 AM (UnA8+)

He didn't 'try to have him killed' you stupid c*nt. He wanted him to do the right thing and not certify the stolen election and called for investigation. Trump was NEVER going to bring Pence back after that debacle of a clusterf*ck election in 2020, aided by Pence and his receiving of the corruption coin from Pelosi.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 08:50 AM (Zz0t1)

236 >>I've done my best for bourbon distillers this week, as a patriotic duty.

See?

Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 08:50 AM (viF8m)

237 I'm sitting right here.

Posted by: Canadian Mist at December 22, 2025 08:51 AM (2Ez/1)

238 194 In October, the Kentucky Distillers' Association (KDA) trade body said the amount of bourbon in warehouses across the state was at a record high of more than 16 million barrels.

According to the association, the barrels of bourbon, which are taxed by the state, have cost distillers "a crushing" $75m (£56m) this year.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 08:40 AM (dAOkg)

Maybe people just aren't drinking as much hard liquor as before?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 22, 2025 08:41 AM (uQesX)

That is 100% true of the younger gen...a combo of money and health reasons...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 22, 2025 08:51 AM (tOcjL)

239 This might come as a surprise to some in the industry, but alcohol demands vary over time. So called "brown liquors" were considered a dead category in the 80s and early 90s, as "white liquors " (rum, vodka, etc) ruled the marketplace...

Posted by: man at December 22, 2025 08:51 AM (XuXeR)

240 236 He didn't 'try to have him killed' you stupid c*nt. He wanted him to do the right thing and not certify the stolen election and called for investigation. Trump was NEVER going to bring Pence back after that debacle of a clusterf*ck election in 2020, aided by Pence and his receiving of the corruption coin from Pelosi.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 08:50 AM (Zz0t1)

I know this.

Democrats don't. And even if they do know it, it's not what they want to hear, so they're going to stick with the BS.

Posted by: XTC at December 22, 2025 08:52 AM (UnA8+)

241 Take the $3K. Americans don't want you here!

NOEM: "It's home for the holidays season! Not only are we returning kids to their families. We're saying if you voluntarily want to go back, we'll give you $3K through the holidays!"

https://tinyurl.com/34w7625r
Posted by: redridinghood at December 22, 2025 08:50 AM (NpAcC)

Why is my hard earned, government stolen money being given to assholes that broke my countries laws? Where's MY $3000 for being a law abiding AMERICAN citizen?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 08:52 AM (Zz0t1)

242 >>I've done my best for bourbon distillers this week, as a patriotic duty.

See?

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You can't have eggnog without bourbon.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 22, 2025 08:52 AM (sX1BW)

243 Chimpy McBushHitler running his mouth again?

Posted by: mr tmz at December 22, 2025 08:53 AM (rJ48h)

244 Bourbon was a thing for a while. So, distillers expanded capacity. Bourbon is no longer a thing, and there is excess capacity. It's just how consumerism works

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 22, 2025 08:53 AM (JheLn)

245 239 That is 100% true of the younger gen...a combo of money and health reasons...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 22, 2025 08:51 AM (tOcjL)

Appearance reasons.

You read enough message boards or see enough social media, they'll constantly be talking about how Alcohol will prematurely age their face and make their looks fade.

Posted by: XTC at December 22, 2025 08:53 AM (UnA8+)

246 > Bourbon sales to Canada are down 60 percent due to tariffs. A reason given by some distillers around here.
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It's a quote from a industry mouthpiece in Louisville. Someone with a case of TDS.

I should have noted that.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 22, 2025 08:53 AM (NwnyJ)

247 229 I've done my best for bourbon distillers this week, as a patriotic duty.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Please give me a little break. You can't shoulder the entire burden alone.

Posted by: Huck's Dessicated Liver at December 22, 2025 08:53 AM (oftw2)

248 Appearance reasons.

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Ozempic is definitely decreasing America's drinking appetite.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 22, 2025 08:54 AM (sX1BW)

249 Trump should sue Crockett for slander.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 08:54 AM (Zz0t1)

250 That is 100% true of the younger gen."

And when the demographic cliff really hits, demand will continue to decline...

Posted by: man at December 22, 2025 08:54 AM (XuXeR)

251 In October, the Kentucky Distillers' Association (KDA) trade body said the amount of bourbon in warehouses across the state was at a record high of more than 16 million barrels.

According to the association, the barrels of bourbon, which are taxed by the state, have cost distillers "a crushing" $75m (£56m) this year.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 08:40 AM (dAOkg)

Maybe people just aren't drinking as much hard liquor as before?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 22, 2025 08:41 AM (uQesX)
——

Massive over-production during the booze boom of the last few years. They were printing money for years, jacking up prices, and laughing all the way to the bank. Now the party is over and the industry has a hangover.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 22, 2025 08:54 AM (/v/85)

252 There are thousands of miles of abandoned right of way that the railroads will never get back.

We had a lot of commissions devoted to giving them away, and converting them to bike paths and parks so they could not be re-tracked.

But the biggest loss was sidings that served individual businesses. Big cities had "night rail" networks in the back alleys, on which supply and finished goods cars were shunted when traffic was light -- sometimes with horse power. Trains were made up of all those cars. Now, all that first and last mile transport has to be by truck, and across a different kind of dedicated dock. Once you have loaded a truck, there is a certain economy to leaving your freight on a truck.

Remember "piggy-backs"? That was a photogenic era.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 22, 2025 08:54 AM (zdLoL)

253 BREAKING: The Trump administration is now TRIPLING its exit bonus for illegal alien self-deportations, from $1,000 to $3,000, through December 31st

GET OUT!

Take the $3K. Americans don't want you here!

NOEM: "It's home for the holidays season! Not only are we returning kids to their families. We're saying if you voluntarily want to go back, we'll give you $3K through the holidays!"

https://tinyurl.com/34w7625r

===

They are counting on either 2026 em-peachment, or 2028 Precident AOC. When they can flock back in.

Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 08:54 AM (g47mK)

254
Ozempic is definitely decreasing America's drinking appetite.
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 22, 2025 08:54 AM (sX1BW)

So instead of "alcohol face" you get Ozempic face

Posted by: It's me donna at December 22, 2025 08:55 AM (VE6XX)

255 Why is my hard earned, government stolen money being given to assholes that broke my countries laws? Where's MY $3000 for being a law abiding AMERICAN citizen?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 08:52 AM (Zz0t1)

They're a drag on our wallets one way or another. Either we're giving an extra ICE agent $3k a month in salary, or we're bribing the assholes to leave on their own, directly. Doesn't matter how the problem gets solved, it's going to cost us money either way. Probably both ways.

But yeah, it rankles.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 22, 2025 08:55 AM (06Hmj)

256 Bourbon is no longer a thing, and there is excess capacity"

Noooo!

*see video game crash*

Posted by: man at December 22, 2025 08:55 AM (XuXeR)

257
Ozempic is definitely decreasing America's drinking appetite.
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 22, 2025 08:54 AM (sX1BW)

It's also killing Americans off at a faster rate, so there's that.

Saw a commercial yesterday that claimed 1 in 3 Americans will have cancer.

ONE in THREE.

Tell me you're causing massive amounts of cancer in the name of greed and profits without telling me you're in the business of causing and treating cancer for profit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 08:55 AM (Zz0t1)

258 Bourbon was a thing for a while. So, distillers expanded capacity. Bourbon is no longer a thing, and there is excess capacity. It's just how consumerism works
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 22, 2025 08:53 AM (JheLn)
++++
Bourbon is still a thing at my house!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 08:55 AM (avHHk)

259 251 That is 100% true of the younger gen."

And when the demographic cliff really hits, demand will continue to decline...
Posted by: man at December 22, 2025 08:54 AM (XuXeR)

Unless more studies come out demonizing pot from a health perspective...and thus, it becomes a negative thing. Young people want something they shouldn't have = the entire vice industry is focused on making it their thing...and that does change (anyone remember Zima?)...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 22, 2025 08:56 AM (tOcjL)

260 The Tucker clip some seem to be looking for:

https://tinyurl.com/2d25cp43

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 22, 2025 08:56 AM (E+OH8)

261 "Alcohol use in the U.S. has been in decline since the late 1970s—54% of U.S. adults today say they consume alcohol—the lowest number in nearly 90 years and a 13% drop since just 2022. Fifty-three percent say moderate drinking, or “one or two drinks a day,” is bad for a person’s health; that number is even higher—66%—among young adults ages 18 to 34. "

Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 08:56 AM (g47mK)

262 Ozempic is definitely decreasing America's drinking appetite.
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 22, 2025 08:54 AM (sX1BW)

It's also killing Americans off at a faster rate, so there's that.

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Wait until you see the long term effect of the vaccine + ozempic ... see happy fun ball.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 22, 2025 08:56 AM (sX1BW)

263 "The rate of drinking among young adults has dropped from almost 60% to 50% since 2023, according to Gallup, and the Monitoring the Future survey, an annual national poll tracking substance use, has shown a marked decline in young people’s drinking over the last decade.

“Overall, this [younger] generation seems to be more selective about how, when, and why they drink, and alcohol seems to play a smaller role than it did in previous generations,” "

Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 08:56 AM (g47mK)

264 There are also scads of small distillers.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 22, 2025 08:57 AM (sDNVV)

265 *see video game crash*

Lots of DDOS attacks on Final Fantasy this weekend.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 22, 2025 08:57 AM (JheLn)

266 You read enough message boards or see enough social media, they'll constantly be talking about how Alcohol will prematurely age their face and make their looks fade.
Posted by: XTC at December 22, 2025 08:53 AM (UnA8+)

Unlike those paragons of graceful aging, Tommy Chong and Keith Richards.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 22, 2025 08:57 AM (06Hmj)

267 Massive over-production during the booze boom of the last few years. They were printing money for years, jacking up prices, and laughing all the way to the bank. Now the party is over and the industry has a hangover"

SEE - it's Drumphs fault! Reeeeeeee!

*spokesidiot

Posted by: man at December 22, 2025 08:57 AM (XuXeR)

268 All true, but bars didn't just price themselves out of the market. The costs for operating a bar have priced themselves out.

I'd say it is cannabis and iphones since people don't need to go out to socialize and connect.
Posted by: SH

What stopped me from drinking "out & about"?

.08 Possibly two drinks.

I'm not risking my concealed carry license over a mixed drink and possibly faulty breathalyzer test.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 08:57 AM (dAOkg)

269 >>You can't have eggnog without bourbon.

My dad used to make great eggnog every Christmas. One batch for the adults and one for the kids.

What Santa didn't see didn't hurt anyone.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 22, 2025 08:57 AM (viF8m)

270 Noem should say "take the $3k by 1/31, or we deputize a million US citizens as bounty hunters to remove you" By any means necessary

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 08:58 AM (MoRvC)

271 That's why they went all-out--and are still committing crimes--to cover up the fraud in 2020.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 22, 2025 08:32 AM (HXT0k)

So that also mean Senator Bishop Holier than Thou Warnock was illegally elected.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 22, 2025 08:58 AM (gbOdA)

272
It's also killing Americans off at a faster rate, so there's that.

Saw a commercial yesterday that claimed 1 in 3 Americans will have cancer.

ONE in THREE.

Tell me you're causing massive amounts of cancer in the name of greed and profits without telling me you're in the business of causing and treating cancer for profit.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 08:55 AM (Zz0t1)

The longer you live, the more your cells have a chance to mutate. Add in some of the chemical and environmental effects we oopsied over the last few decades, and if you have a longer life span, of course, you're getting more cancer patients.

Posted by: Nova Local at December 22, 2025 08:58 AM (tOcjL)

273 Massive over-production during the booze boom of the last few years. They were printing money for years, jacking up prices, and laughing all the way to the bank. Now the party is over and the industry has a hangover"

SEE - it's Drumphs fault! Reeeeeeee!

*spokesidiot
Posted by: man

Sitting on 16 million barrels just at Jim Beam will do that.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 08:59 AM (dAOkg)

274 "Alcohol use in the U.S. has been in decline since the late 1970s—54% of U.S. adults today say they consume alcohol—the lowest number in nearly 90 years and a 13% drop since just 2022. Fifty-three percent say moderate drinking, or “one or two drinks a day,” is bad for a person’s health; that number is even higher—66%—among young adults ages 18 to 34. "

Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 08:56 AM (g47mK)

My grandmother used to drink her day drink (vodka and Squirt) and her night cap (Beam and cola) every day for decades.

She died of an infection from a cat bite at 99 years old and was only taking a shot of Flonase in each nostril every morning and just started a Tylenol regimen for arthritis.

F*ck off with your "alcohol is bad for you" bullshit. I've lost all respect for the medical community at large and will eat and drink whatever the f*ck I want for the rest of my days.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 08:59 AM (Zz0t1)

275 Why is my hard earned, government stolen money being given to assholes that broke my countries laws? Where's MY $3000 for being a law abiding AMERICAN citizen?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 08:52 AM (Zz0t1)
******
It's somewhat of an incentive to leave because it's almost impossible to get rid of the over 15 million illegals that Biden and the Democrat party let in.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 22, 2025 08:59 AM (NpAcC)

276 Cucker Tarlson: "If my brother went on a drug related murder spree, I wouldn't denounce him because he's my brother."

A very Mohammedan "shame society" attitude

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 22, 2025 08:59 AM (JheLn)

277 Bourbon is still a thing at my house!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 08:55 AM (avHHk)
-

Was recently gifted with 2 bottles from Wild Turkey:

1. Rare Breed Barrel Proof Bourbon.

2. Rare Breed Barrel Proof Rye.

Not at all enthused by the bourbon. But the rye is superb - and I've been negative about rye in general until now.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 22, 2025 09:00 AM (E+OH8)

278 The longer you live, the more your cells have a chance to mutate. Add in some of the chemical and environmental effects we oopsied over the last few decades, and if you have a longer life span, of course, you're getting more cancer patients.

Posted by: Nova Local at December 22, 2025 08:58 AM (tOcjL)

We've also gotten a lot better at detecting cancers. That "1 in 3" guesstimate may very well have been accurate give-or-take a bit since we were drawing antelopes on the living room wall with charcoal.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 22, 2025 09:00 AM (06Hmj)

279
The longer you live, the more your cells have a chance to mutate. Add in some of the chemical and environmental effects we oopsied over the last few decades, and if you have a longer life span, of course, you're getting more cancer patients.

Posted by: Nova Local at December 22, 2025 08:58 AM (tOcjL)

Then explain the Amish.

They don't do vaccines. They don't do most medicines. They don't do hospitals in most cases.

Yet they're the most healthy people on the PLANET and don't have such issues.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 09:00 AM (Zz0t1)

280 I really regret Trump turning on Stephanik. As much as I respect Trump's instincts, she is a young, aggressive, successful politician and his refusal to endorse her stinks.
--
She has the stink of quiter on her now regardless.

Idk what it was, but I detect a whiff of "I supported you, you owe me the endorsement (so I can easily win the nomination)" that caused her to quit.
(a la MTG, or, to put it another way "he didn't position them for success")

You can't trust the media, but Trump has always been pretty selective about who he endorses. With a lot being guaranteed wins already.
And he rarely endorses in contested primaries. I can't recall which race, but there was a clown-show recently where both were claiming Trump endorsed them.

Posit:
a) She approached Trump and asked for the UN job; cashed in her favor. He obliged.
b) Trump feels, wrong or right, she burned him, when that blew up.
c) she wanted a do-over favor with his endorsement

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 22, 2025 09:01 AM (HXT0k)

281 ******
It's somewhat of an incentive to leave because it's almost impossible to get rid of the over 15 million illegals that Biden and the Democrat party let in.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 22, 2025 08:59 AM (NpAcC)

They're digging in like ticks because of the sanctuary cities States...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 22, 2025 09:01 AM (VE6XX)

282 “ In his days Judah will be saved
and Israel will live in safety.
This is the name by which he will be called:
The Lord Our Righteous Savior.”

Jeremiah 23:6

Posted by: Marcus T at December 22, 2025 09:01 AM (zfkPG)

283 Sitting on 16 million barrels"

"Well boys, we've a man's work ahead of us this day*

*what movie

Posted by: man at December 22, 2025 09:01 AM (XuXeR)

284 >>You can't have eggnog without bourbon.

My dad used to make great eggnog every Christmas. One batch for the adults and one for the kids.

What Santa didn't see didn't hurt anyone.
Posted by: JackStraw

Ex m-i-l used to make homemade eggnog with Wild Turkey 101 & heavy whipping cream.
It was damn good. Damn good.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 09:01 AM (dAOkg)

285 I love eggnog.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 22, 2025 09:01 AM (K7yvy)

286 Cucker Tarlson: "If my brother went on a drug related murder spree, I wouldn't denounce him because he's my brother."

A very Mohammedan "shame society" attitude

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 22, 2025 08:59 AM (JheLn)
-

At least if it was his sister, an honor killing is the way to go.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 22, 2025 09:01 AM (E+OH8)

287 Cucker Tarlson: "If my brother went on a drug related murder spree, I wouldn't denounce him because he's my brother."

A very Mohammedan "shame society" attitude
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 22, 2025 08:59 AM (JheLn)

Then you're a selfish asshole. My brother goes on a drug fueled murder spree, I'm arresting him myself. I will stand by his side during his trial and help where I can, but f*cking MURDER? Yeah, I'm kinda against that, Biblically.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 09:02 AM (Zz0t1)

288 It's somewhat of an incentive to leave because it's almost impossible to get rid of the over 15 million illegals that Biden and the Democrat party let in.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 22, 2025 08:59 AM (NpAcC)

They're digging in like ticks because of the sanctuary cities States...
Posted by: It's me donna

Stop the transfer of federal funds. Let Hochul & Pritzker & Newsome pay wetbacks outta their own broke state budgets.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 09:03 AM (dAOkg)

289 I don't think we've even begun to see the death toll from COVID. The vaccines weren't tested enough and the medical industrial complex is still downplaying the death toll. Vids I watch about China and their increasing population crash is one example

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 09:03 AM (MoRvC)

290 Yeah, buddy. *I'm* the problem one. Sure.

Posted by: Tucker Carlson's Brother at December 22, 2025 09:03 AM (06Hmj)

291 280
The longer you live, the more your cells have a chance to mutate. Add in some of the chemical and environmental effects we oopsied over the last few decades, and if you have a longer life span, of course, you're getting more cancer patients.

Posted by: Nova Local at December 22, 2025 08:58 AM (tOcjL)

Then explain the Amish.

They don't do vaccines. They don't do most medicines. They don't do hospitals in most cases.

Yet they're the most healthy people on the PLANET and don't have such issues.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 09:00 AM (Zz0t1)

Absolute clean diet.
Almost nil for chemical and environmental oopsies.
Amazing physical activity per day.
No looking for mutations, so they just tend to die of them at the same life span we live (they have dropped back to ours).
And most do vaccinate and use health services to help live a longer life - that's not widely known but they use healths services to their advantage.

Posted by: Nova Local at December 22, 2025 09:03 AM (tOcjL)

292 Most commercial nog is garbage. Home made is the way to go...

Posted by: man at December 22, 2025 09:03 AM (XuXeR)

293 Not at all enthused by the bourbon. But the rye is superb - and I've been negative about rye in general until now.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 22, 2025 09:00 AM (E+OH

I actually have become a fan of the rye bourbons. Finished a bottle of George Dickel Green Label just last week.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 09:04 AM (Zz0t1)

294 I really regret Trump turning on Stephanik. As much as I respect Trump's instincts, she is a young, aggressive, successful politician and his refusal to endorse her stinks.

==

Whoa! He did not! She probably can have any job in his administration. The candidate that they agreed would have a better chance in getting to the NY gov mansion is the dude he endorsed. And he is right.

Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 09:04 AM (g47mK)

295 Stop the transfer of federal funds. Let Hochul & Pritzker & Newsome pay wetbacks outta their own broke state budgets.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 09:03 AM (dAOkg)

Overruled !

Posted by: Hawaiian Judge at December 22, 2025 09:04 AM (VE6XX)

296 Then explain the Amish.

They don't do vaccines. They don't do most medicines. They don't do hospitals in most cases.

Yet they're the most healthy people on the PLANET and don't have such issues.
Posted by: Sponge

They don't do processed foods.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 09:04 AM (dAOkg)

297 As a Christian, the decision about which other faith I am more comfortable with associating with is easy. The one(s) that do not actively slaughter me. This is not hard to grasp.

Posted by: tubal at December 22, 2025 09:04 AM (pDt9x)

298 Whoa! He did not! She probably can have any job in his administration. The candidate that they agreed would have a better chance in getting to the NY gov mansion is the dude he endorsed. And he is right.
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 09:04 AM (g47mK)

I thought he said nice stuff about her it's Greene he said bad stuff...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 22, 2025 09:05 AM (VE6XX)

299 Nothing says love of family like accessory to murder.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 09:05 AM (Zz0t1)

300 As a Christian, the decision about which other faith I am more comfortable with associating with is easy. The one(s) that do not actively slaughter me. This is not hard to grasp.
Posted by: tubal

The ones that don't spontaneously blow up.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 09:05 AM (dAOkg)

301
They don't do processed foods.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 09:04 AM (dAOkg)

Soon........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 09:05 AM (Zz0t1)

302 They don't do processed foods.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 09:04 AM (dAOkg)

And they all grow their own tobacco, too.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 22, 2025 09:06 AM (06Hmj)

303 My grandmother used to drink her day drink (vodka and Squirt) and her night cap (Beam and cola) every day for decades.
Posted by Sponge

Grandma might have been an outlier. I didn't get away with it.

Posted by: Lovely Actress Gail Russell at December 22, 2025 09:06 AM (oftw2)

304 295 I really regret Trump turning on Stephanik. As much as I respect Trump's instincts, she is a young, aggressive, successful politician and his refusal to endorse her stinks.

==

Whoa! He did not! She probably can have any job in his administration. The candidate that they agreed would have a better chance in getting to the NY gov mansion is the dude he endorsed. And he is right.
Posted by: runner at December

Yes, that sounds likely. She did the right thing, and noticeably seems not distraught.

Posted by: tubal at December 22, 2025 09:06 AM (pDt9x)

305 California’s last nuclear plant clears major hurdle to power on

- California’s last nuclear power plant received permission to operate for at least 5 more years in exchange for conserving thousands of acres of land in San Luis Obispo County.
- The agreement between The California Coastal Commission and Pacific Gas & Electric seeks to balance damage to the marine environment going forward.
- Some stakeholders in the region celebrated the deal while others, including a Native tribe, were disappointed.

Posted by: SMOD at December 22, 2025 09:06 AM (GITLP)

306 211 Imagination exercise.
- The Palestinians are evacuated from Gaza for 5 years.
- During that time, developed countries transform Gaza with state of the art infrastructure: roads, sanitation, water, electricity, housing, etc. Plus the economic assets to sustain them.
- The Palestinians are moved back into the new, improved Gaza.
10 years after, what does the place look like?

A: The Klingon Homeworld.
Gaza is NOT Pandora and Palestinians are NOT the Na'vi and James Cameron is sad shadow of his former self, and (gr)Avatar wry 'omage to the LIB's forever war which leads to the 'just' extinction of the human race.

https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-RememberThisWell There will be NO PEACE as long as Charlie Kirk is remembered -- Klingon Ambassador LIBBING Out.

Why?

https://tinyurl.com/EvilsAdvantageOverConscience
the more brazen and relentless one’s acts of brutality, the more likely it is that one will be allowed a second chance, and find even powerful men of conscience coming to one’s door offering to forget, to forgive, and to give forgiveness a bad name.

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at December 22, 2025 09:07 AM (Ujfi+)

307 Ex m-i-l used to make homemade eggnog with Wild Turkey 101 & heavy whipping cream.
It was damn good. Damn good.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 09:01 AM (dAOkg)

WT101 may be the most underrated bottle out there. $20 for an outstanding cocktail mixer and an above average daily sipper.

Posted by: Doof at December 22, 2025 09:07 AM (QMAsf)

308 Imagination exercise.
- The Palestinians are evacuated from Gaza for 5 years.
- During that time, developed countries transform Gaza with state of the art infrastructure: roads, sanitation, water, electricity, housing, etc. Plus the economic assets to sustain them.
- The Palestinians are moved back into the new, improved Gaza.
10 years after, what does the place look like?

A: The Klingon Homeworld.
Gaza is NOT Pandora and Palestinians are NOT the Na'vi and James Cameron is sad shadow of his former self, and (gr)Avatar wry 'omage to the LIB's forever war which leads to the 'just' extinction of the human race.

https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-RememberThisWell There will be NO PEACE as long as Charlie Kirk is remembered -- Klingon Ambassador LIBBING Out.

Why?

Sub 80 IQ?

Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 09:08 AM (dAOkg)

309 290 I don't think we've even begun to see the death toll from COVID. The vaccines weren't tested enough and the medical industrial complex is still downplaying the death toll. Vids I watch about China and their increasing population crash is one example
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 09:03 AM (MoRvC)

I had a relative who suddenly got cancer and died very quickly about a year ago. They got all the covid shots and boosters. Now it’s not like they were young; they were not young. But always healthy and I would’ve thought another 10 years of life at least would be reasonable to expect. But no cancer comes out of the blue and death happened in just 2 weeks after detection. I can’t prove it but it smells like something covid shot related to me

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 22, 2025 09:08 AM (YobFY)

310 234 BREAKING: The Trump administration is now TRIPLING its exit bonus for illegal alien self-deportations, from $1,000 to $3,000, through December 31st
____

Take advantage of the offer now!

*One offer per customer. Cannot be combined with any other offer, coupon or senior citizen discount. ICE reserves the right to modify or cancel this promotion at any time without notice. Valid through 12/31/2025. Use promo code TRUMP47

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 22, 2025 09:08 AM (Dv3i1)

311 - California’s last nuclear power plant received permission to operate for at least 5 more years in exchange for conserving thousands of acres of land in San Luis Obispo County.
- The agreement between The California Coastal Commission and Pacific Gas & Electric seeks to balance damage to the marine environment going forward.
- Some stakeholders in the region celebrated the deal while others, including a Native tribe, were disappointed.

Posted by: SMOD at December 22, 2025 09:06 AM (GITLP)

Diablo Canyon will be online till 2050 and beyond. Cali can't survive without it.

They have no coal or gas burning plants left, so nuke and hydro is all they have. Solar and wind can't maintain 1/4 of their need.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 09:08 AM (Zz0t1)

312 Not at all enthused by the bourbon. But the rye is superb - and I've been negative about rye in general until now.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 22, 2025 09:00 AM (E+OH

I actually have become a fan of the rye bourbons. Finished a bottle of George Dickel Green Label just last week.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 09:04 AM (Zz0t1)
*******
Thanks for reminding me. I need to get eggnog for Christmas Eve dinner.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 22, 2025 09:08 AM (NpAcC)

313 It’s things like the LA jury mentioned above, why I gave less than zero fucks about the LA fires. The entire city could burn for a year and I’d shrug.

Fuck you, war.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 09:08 AM (UJWr0)

314 - Some stakeholders in the region celebrated the deal while others, including a Native tribe, were disappointed."

And of course, all the tribe members think exactly the same way...

/

Posted by: man at December 22, 2025 09:09 AM (XuXeR)

315 A typical illegal gets $50k in benefits yearly. Why would he leave for a one time payment of $3k? It’s silly.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 09:09 AM (UJWr0)

316 Most of the people I knew who drank egg nog used brandy instead of bourbon.

Posted by: XTC at December 22, 2025 09:10 AM (UnA8+)

317 And of course, all the tribe members think exactly the same way...

/
Posted by: man at December 22, 2025 09:09 AM (XuXeR)

They think how they're told to think after the payola...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 22, 2025 09:10 AM (VE6XX)

318 *One offer per customer. Cannot be combined with any other offer, coupon or senior citizen discount. ICE reserves the right to modify or cancel this promotion at any time without notice. Valid through 12/31/2025. Use promo code TRUMP47
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 22, 2025 09:08 AM (Dv3i1)
******
The first 25 will get a free Trump watch and some Trump cologne.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 22, 2025 09:10 AM (NpAcC)

319 Most of the people I knew who drank egg nog used brandy instead of bourbon.

--------------

Both are acceptable, and a good host will have both available.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 22, 2025 09:10 AM (sX1BW)

320 316 A typical illegal gets $50k in benefits yearly. Why would he leave for a one time payment of $3k? It’s silly.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 09:09 AM (UJWr0)

Could he be playing for the Optics?

Posted by: tubal at December 22, 2025 09:10 AM (pDt9x)

321 NY is a lost cause, they elected Hocul, I don't think a Republican can win that state any longer.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 22, 2025 09:10 AM (XV/Pl)

322 > WT101 may be the most underrated bottle out there. $20 for an outstanding cocktail mixer and an above average daily sipper.
--------
I've a bit of an affinity for Old Forester. Almost as many variations as WT.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 22, 2025 09:10 AM (NwnyJ)

323 317 Most of the people I knew who drank egg nog used brandy instead of bourbon.
Posted by: XTC at December 22, 2025 09:10 AM (UnA8+)

That would be me...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 22, 2025 09:11 AM (VE6XX)

324 The Saudis were prepared to spend nine trillion petrodollars on their scifi dystopia walk city. Let them pay for a high tech Palestinian city-state.

We will kick in for the wall and minefield to keep them inside of it.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 22, 2025 09:11 AM (JheLn)

325 Most of the people I knew who drank egg nog used brandy instead of bourbon.
Posted by: XTC at December 22, 2025 09:10 AM (UnA8+)
******
We've always had bourbon is brandy better?

Posted by: redridinghood at December 22, 2025 09:11 AM (NpAcC)

326 Now I know that Bruce Blakeman's (R candidate and Trump's friend) ex-wife is current Lady McCartney.

Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 09:12 AM (g47mK)

327 293 Most commercial nog is garbage. Home made is the way to go...
____

Buffalo Trace makes one that is available at my local grocery store. I forget how it is branded, but the fine print on the label identifies the distiller. Pretty good.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 22, 2025 09:12 AM (Dv3i1)

328 NY is one of the highest taxed states in the nation. 7 of the highest paying property tax counties are in the top ten.
NY has one of the highest energy costs in the nation. It’s the direct result of the governor and legislatures policies. Period.
NY permits abortion right up until birth. They rewrote the law so that could happen for any reason without penalty. They moved abortion into the health law to make sure there would not be an criminal repercussions
NY was one of the worst states during Covid. Not only did the lock down the populace, but the forced the elderly into situations that killed them.
NY’s schools are failing and have some of the lowest graduation rates. National studies are finding grade inflation is rampant and even though kids have “graduated” many cant read or wrote at grade level
NY’s governor and legislature are now going to put assisted suicide on the books.
NY election fraud is rampant and their voter roles and processes are operating in violation of federal law
NY healthcare system is in serious decline. It is being overwhelmed by illegal aliens who are costing the state billions and stealing care from citizens
I could go on…

Posted by: Marcus T at December 22, 2025 09:13 AM (zfkPG)

329 *no one is talking about Glühwein....

Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 09:13 AM (g47mK)

330 They got all the covid shots and boosters"

Sore spot there. And yes, I know...anecdotes not data, but I'm caretaker and only "healthy" one of and entire family cohort who went all in on vacs - dementia, cancer, cardiac problems, more cancers.... now all have one cancer or another. It's beyond bad luck...

Posted by: man at December 22, 2025 09:13 AM (XuXeR)

331 Here's the deal: Canadian whisky is dogshit whisky. I'm no purist, either. I prefer bourbon, but Scotch is great, and I'll even drink some Irish, though it's just ok.

Canadian whisky is just nasty, and while I'm sure tariffs would increase its relative demand to some degree, all else being equal, most whisky drinkers would continue paying the markup for a bottle of bourbon. You can't just have the Canadian around. It's the moped of whiskies.

I suspect, if sales of bourbon are down big time in Canada, that's more on Trump than his tariffs. He's engendered a certain amount of ill-will among the Leafs.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 22, 2025 09:13 AM (BI5O2)

332 325 The Saudis were prepared to spend nine trillion petrodollars on their scifi dystopia walk city
-

That was all vaporware it was never going to happen .

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 09:13 AM (UJWr0)

333 Absolute clean diet.
Almost nil for chemical and environmental oopsies.
Amazing physical activity per day.
No looking for mutations, so they just tend to die of them at the same life span we live (they have dropped back to ours).
And most do vaccinate and use health services to help live a longer life - that's not widely known but they use healths services to their advantage.
Posted by: Nova Local at December 22, 2025 09:03 AM (tOcjL)

The Amish eat a shizzle ton of sugar. But they exercise like nobodies business, as you noted. They do see doctors, just not for check ups, etc. mainly because that is viewed as a needless expense. When sick, they do seek medical care. They do get vaccinated, but not on the cdc schedule. When there have been outbreaks like measles, they have gotten vaccinated as a community. They don’t smoke much at all, etc. Their average lifespan is 71 years. Oh, and there is genetic factors in play, too.

Posted by: Piper at December 22, 2025 09:14 AM (OoFl2)

334 The Saudis were prepared to spend nine trillion petrodollars on their scifi dystopia walk city. Let them pay for a high tech Palestinian city-state.

We will kick in for the wall and minefield to keep them inside of it.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 22, 2025 09:11 AM (JheLn)

Ah yes. The unmitigated clusterf*ck if excess and corruption known as NEOM. My company went all in on that bullshit and have suddenly stopped talking about it altogether.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 09:14 AM (Zz0t1)

335 @310 Linus , had a lot of similar things with people I know. Had an aunt pass after a battle with cancer . Treatment vnit successful then went quickly. A friends father who was 75 but real healthy was diagnosed and died within a month. Several other folks I know, including people younger than me have gone also

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 09:14 AM (MoRvC)

336 >> Buffalo Trace makes one that is available at my local grocery store.

I hate you. lol.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 22, 2025 09:14 AM (zfkPG)

337 (anyone remember Zima?)...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 22, 2025 08:56 AM (tOcjL)

***

Love love LOVE Zima...

Posted by: Pete Bootyjuice at December 22, 2025 09:14 AM (Bo9Yf)

338 NY is shithole. As is CA and IL. And people keep voting for more of it. I give zero fucks. You guys want to live in misery, have at it. Why do I care?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 09:15 AM (UJWr0)

339 236 He didn't 'try to have him killed' you stupid c*nt. He wanted him to do the right thing and not certify the stolen election and called for investigation.
___

Someone has to fill the enormous void in crazy TDS takes now that Reiner is no longer here.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 22, 2025 09:15 AM (Dv3i1)

340 332 Canadian whisky is just nasty, and while I'm sure tariffs would increase its relative demand to some degree, all else being equal, most whisky drinkers would continue paying the markup for a bottle of bourbon. You can't just have the Canadian around. It's the moped of whiskies.

I suspect, if sales of bourbon are down big time in Canada, that's more on Trump than his tariffs. He's engendered a certain amount of ill-will among the Leafs.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 22, 2025 09:13 AM (BI5O2)

Ah, but you're forgetting one demographic :

The Terminal Cheapskates.

Posted by: XTC at December 22, 2025 09:15 AM (UnA8+)

341 Buffalo Trace makes one that is available at my local grocery store."

Benchmark. Also no HFCS...

Posted by: man at December 22, 2025 09:15 AM (XuXeR)

342 The Saudis were prepared to spend nine trillion petrodollars on their scifi dystopia walk city. Let them pay for a high tech Palestinian city-state.

We will kick in for the wall and minefield to keep them inside of it.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 22, 2025 09:11 AM (JheLn)
++++
The Saudi strip city sounds like hell on earth, even in the shiny marketing. Even if it works exactly as promised (it won't, because it can't), it will still be a totalitarian hellscape full of subhuman slaves masquerading in a milieu of ersatz humanity.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 09:16 AM (avHHk)

343 A Monday morning booze thread. I love the HQ.

Posted by: tubal at December 22, 2025 09:16 AM (pDt9x)

344 >> Buffalo Trace makes one that is available at my local grocery store.

I hate you. lol.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 22, 2025 09:14 AM (zfkPG)

Ditto.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 09:16 AM (Zz0t1)

345
Whiskey
Sandwiches

Posted by: Sign at that little joint outside Pensacola when I was a kid at December 22, 2025 09:16 AM (2Ez/1)

346 You guys want to live in misery, have at it. Why do I care?

==

you don't, just stop the yammering about how you don't care about XYZ, every time the subject of something that is further than 5 miles form dwelling house comes up

Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 09:16 AM (g47mK)

347 > Someone has to fill the enormous void in crazy TDS takes now that Reiner is no longer here.
====
I'm up for it.

Posted by: Rosie O'Donnell at December 22, 2025 09:17 AM (NwnyJ)

348 Saudi might as well Have announced plans to build a colony on Neptune. It was a realistic as building the line city. I can’t believe anyone seriously believed that shit was feasible.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 09:17 AM (UJWr0)

349 "A Monday morning booze thread. I love the HQ."

Just in time for the holidays.

Posted by: You're welcome at December 22, 2025 09:18 AM (2Ez/1)

350 A Monday morning booze thread. I love the HQ.

==

Economics !

Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 09:18 AM (g47mK)

351 The Saudi strip city sounds like hell on earth, even in the shiny marketing. Even if it works exactly as promised (it won't, because it can't), it will still be a totalitarian hellscape full of subhuman slaves masquerading in a milieu of ersatz humanity.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 09:16 AM (avHHk)

You could have just said "Dubai".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 22, 2025 09:18 AM (06Hmj)

352 Western Lensman
@WesternLensman

Unhinged Jasmine Crockett responds to JD Vance’s remarks at TPUSA:

“The only reason you're the vice president is because the current president tried to have his last president k*lled."

What??

https://tinyurl.com/mwfvpe9d
Posted by: redridinghood at December 22, 2025 08:36 AM (NpAcC)

Vance needs to file a huge lawsuit against that POS. Maybe she needs to be "talked to". Privately.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 22, 2025 09:18 AM (5xuJ/)

353 They don't do processed foods.

This shit again. I have got news for you.
They practically invented processed food.

Time to move the goal posts again.
You all sashay in here and say stuff you'd never get away with in a bar.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 22, 2025 09:18 AM (zdLoL)

354 The Amish have a couple serious genetic conditions unknown to other tribes, as a result of in breeding. Jews also, with Tay Sachs and others. It's why I married outside the family.

Posted by: Strange Brew at December 22, 2025 09:18 AM (oftw2)

355 Saudi might as well Have announced plans to build a colony on Neptune. It was a realistic as building the line city. I can’t believe anyone seriously believed that shit was feasible.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 09:17 AM (UJWr0)
++++
I still can't quite decide whether or not it was a joke to rook investors. It's the kind of thing the WEF types really believe in and would desperately want, but it's also very obviously insane and stupid.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 09:18 AM (avHHk)

356 all Gulf cities are a mirage in the sand!

Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 09:19 AM (g47mK)

357 you don't, just stop the yammering about how you don't care about XYZ, every time the subject of something that is further than 5 miles form dwelling house comes up
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 09:16 AM (g47mK)

Why spend all this energy worrying about what people do that don’t affect you? Nobody in NY gives a fuck about you. Why do you give fucks about them? It’s like a reverse TDS.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 09:19 AM (UJWr0)

358 "Court Finds Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan Guilty Of Obstructing ICE"

Reader will note that I refrained from commenting on that one.

Posted by: Guy who always says "Nothing will happen" and is usually right at December 22, 2025 09:19 AM (vFG9F)

359 I wonder what genetic disorders the Palis have??

Posted by: tubal at December 22, 2025 09:19 AM (pDt9x)

360 Saw a video yesterday.

Vietnamese guy is violently ill on a passenger train. Waiter comes in and the guy points to the bowl of soup as he gags uncontrollably. The waiter tastes the soup and immediately starts gagging and barfing. A chef comes in and the waiter points to the soup, which he tastes and immediately starts gagging. The waiter apologizes and tells the guy he'll take the soup and get him a new one.

The guy says "No, it's fine. I'm drunk and I threw up in it."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 09:20 AM (Zz0t1)

361 Ah, but you're forgetting one demographic :

The Terminal Cheapskates.
Posted by: XTC at December 22, 2025

Oh, certainly. During times I've been broke, I've bought the Canadian stuff. But always with a twinge of shame.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 22, 2025 09:20 AM (BI5O2)

362 > Unhinged Jasmine Crockett responds to JD Vance’s remarks at TPUSA
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Her campaign for Senate is going to be LAF

Something "quotable" every damn day I bet.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 22, 2025 09:20 AM (NwnyJ)

363 "Unhinged Jasmine Crockett"

What other kind is there?

Posted by: Zing at December 22, 2025 09:20 AM (2Ez/1)

364 358 Why spend all this energy worrying about what people do that don’t affect you? Nobody in NY gives a fuck about you. Why do you give fucks about them? It’s like a reverse TDS.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 09:19 AM (UJWr0)

Containment.

Some of us are stuck in neighboring states and don't want NY escapees coming here and trying to make where we are exact copies of NY.

Posted by: XTC at December 22, 2025 09:20 AM (UnA8+)

365 If Judge Dugan’s a convicted felon now, is she going to run for president?

This is absurd. I legitimately don't think it's possible for a judge to be "obstructing" in her own court room and if an appeals court doesn't agree it will be the judiciary continuing to undermine itself..

Peiple think the appeals process will be interesting to follow? Yeah I’m on the edge of my seat wondering how the MAGA SCOTUS is gonna rule on this one 🙄

Jury just got played and handed Trump a major win here. Absolutely shameful

Innocent until proven guilty. Someone going through the judicial process should be allowed to do so without needing to worry that doing the right thing and showing up at court will get them deported.

It's absolutely disgusting, and completely against all logic and morality for letting actual justice happen

We need a more universal education in jury nullification. This is a sad day for America and for people who stand against repression.

Leftists try not defending women abusing pieces of shit, challenge impossible.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 22, 2025 09:20 AM (JCZqz)

366 An NPR analysis shows a skyrocketing number of 'no-shows' in immigration court

No shit Sherlock

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 22, 2025 09:21 AM (gbOdA)

367 , if sales of bourbon are down big time in Canada"

They're switching to cannabis and seltzers. Liquor and beer sales have been declining since 03. And Canada isn't even a top 5 buyer of bourbon...

Posted by: man at December 22, 2025 09:21 AM (XuXeR)

368 I live in NYs mid Hudson valley and the leftists who live here and have moved here are as delusional as ever.
I've mentioned previously that the powers that be are proposing a battery storage plant about a mile and a half from me. Any opposition is met with screeching. Well a battery plant just went up in flames in Orange County , just south of here, last night. You'd think that would change people's minds but we'll see

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 09:21 AM (MoRvC)

369 Not only are we returning kids to their families. We're saying if you voluntarily want to go back, we'll give you $3K through the holidays!"

That's serious money south of our border

Posted by: NR Pax at December 22, 2025 09:21 AM (OPGS/)

370 I still can't quite decide whether or not it was a joke to rook investors. It's the kind of thing the WEF types really believe in and would desperately want, but it's also very obviously insane and stupid.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 09:18 AM (avHHk)

Classic case of embrace the power of and. 😃

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 09:21 AM (UJWr0)

371 Saw a story over the weekend bemoaning some 600 employee trucking company out of Laredo was shutting down.

All the lefties trying to blame Trump's tariffs "see, they can't ship from Mexico anymore!!"
And trying to spin it up as a major warning sign, "if they're failing in Dec, which is a high shipping volume month, bad things are coming."

With a quite aside about how mile rates have fallen over the last few years.

And I'm over here, "maybe if they all hadn't been hiring all the dirka-dirkas and Aladdins illegally, rates wouldn't have cratered."

There has been no bigger theft of good-paying, American jobs than what happened in trucking.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 22, 2025 09:21 AM (HXT0k)

372
Vance needs to file a huge lawsuit against that POS. Maybe she needs to be "talked to". Privately.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 22, 2025 09:18 AM (5xuJ/)

She's accusing Trump. Trump should immediately file a $250m lawsuit against her for slander.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 09:21 AM (Zz0t1)

373 , if sales of bourbon are down big time in Canada"

They're switching to cannabis and seltzers. Liquor and beer sales have been declining since 03. And Canada isn't even a top 5 buyer of bourbon...

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Isn't Canada filling up with Muslims?

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 22, 2025 09:22 AM (sX1BW)

374 An NPR analysis shows a skyrocketing number of 'no-shows' in immigration court

No shit Sherlock
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 22, 2025 09:21 AM (gbOdA)
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Does "no show" without notice (people *do* get sick or stuck in traffic, etc.) result in an immediate deportation order? If not, why not?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 09:22 AM (avHHk)

375 can someone explain to that self centered prick that there are topics other than him and his narrow interests that people want to talk about ? thank you

Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 09:22 AM (g47mK)

376 Good Morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear into the heart of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 22, 2025 09:22 AM (u82oZ)

377 Vance needs to file a huge lawsuit against that POS"

Nah. Let her rant. It's entertaining

Posted by: man at December 22, 2025 09:23 AM (XuXeR)

378 There has been no bigger theft of good-paying, American jobs than what happened in trucking.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 22, 2025 09:21 AM (HXT0k)

Once upon a time, "Trucker" was a quintessentially American job. Other places had Hauliers or Drivers. Not us. We had the Trucker.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 22, 2025 09:23 AM (06Hmj)

379 *That's serious money south of our border.*

Hooch and smokes.

Posted by: Pedro at December 22, 2025 09:23 AM (2Ez/1)

380
Peiple think the appeals process will be interesting to follow? Yeah I’m on the edge of my seat wondering how the MAGA SCOTUS is gonna rule on this one 🙄

An appeal of a federal case automatically hits the Supreme Court?

These people really are almost functionally retarded, aren't they.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 09:23 AM (Zz0t1)

381 376 can someone explain to that self centered prick that there are topics other than him and his narrow interests that people want to talk about ? thank you
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 09:22 AM (g47mK)

(Dozens of HQ commenters nervously pull their collars)

Posted by: tubal at December 22, 2025 09:23 AM (pDt9x)

382 374 Isn't Canada filling up with Muslims?
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 22, 2025 09:22 AM (sX1BW)

Vancouver is mostly Sikhs, I think.

Posted by: XTC at December 22, 2025 09:23 AM (UnA8+)

383 every time some commenter comes up with , "you voted for it, blah , blah , blah"..dude! this is a politics centered blog! people talk about politics of voting for troubling things! geez

Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 09:24 AM (g47mK)

384 We even have our own style of hat.

Posted by: Truckers at December 22, 2025 09:24 AM (2Ez/1)

385 376 can someone explain to that self centered prick that there are topics other than him and his narrow interests that people want to talk about ? thank you
Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 09:22 AM (g47mK)

(Dozens of HQ commenters nervously pull their collars)

Posted by: tubal

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TJM isn't even on this thread.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 22, 2025 09:24 AM (sX1BW)

386 There has been no bigger theft of good-paying, American jobs than what happened in trucking.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 22, 2025 09:21 AM (HXT0k)

Once upon a time, "Trucker" was a quintessentially American job. Other places had Hauliers or Drivers. Not us. We had the Trucker.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 22, 2025 09:23 AM (06Hmj)

You asked for it.......

https://youtu.be/0U-ermF-tQA

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 09:24 AM (Zz0t1)

387 Does "no show" without notice (people *do* get sick or stuck in traffic, etc.) result in an immediate deportation order? If not, why not?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 22, 2025 09:22 AM (avHHk)

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If a CongressCritter can be wheeled in on a hospital bed to cast a vote ...

Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 22, 2025 09:25 AM (b8koU)

388 If Vance replies back to DJ Jazzy Crocket she’s just getting what she wants.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 09:25 AM (UJWr0)

389
Wait until you see the long term effect of the vaccine + ozempic ... see happy fun ball.
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 22,

One of my instructors was joking to her husband (a doctor) that she wanted to go on this for a month to get into the inevitable class action lawsuit. He said the award will be like .25 cents a person, but agrees it will happen. The effect on muscle is incredible- and this includes your heart, as well as bone density. I know losing weight is hard first hand. It’s not fun. And everyone, including me, wants an easy way to do it. This diet, that diet, this pill, that shot. Truth is, eating less and better, while exercising is the answer. It’s slow going, but that is how you lose it and keep it off.

Posted by: Piper at December 22, 2025 09:25 AM (OoFl2)

390 What do you sikh?

Posted by: People of Vancouver at December 22, 2025 09:25 AM (2Ez/1)

391 Personally, I think the trucking industry was always controlled by the once popular Mafia.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 22, 2025 09:26 AM (NwnyJ)

392 https://youtu.be/0U-ermF-tQA
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 09:24 AM (Zz0t1)

Not Waylon?

Respect.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 22, 2025 09:26 AM (06Hmj)

393 You could have just said "Dubai".
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Dubai - the city for people who find Law Vegas too tasteful and restrained.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 22, 2025 09:26 AM (j4WDO)

394 Saw a story over the weekend bemoaning some 600 employee trucking company out of Laredo was shutting down."

They're an illegal haven. Supposedly hit with nearly 100 drivers unable to speak English.

Posted by: man at December 22, 2025 09:26 AM (XuXeR)

395 JD Vance offers damning message to racist Nick Fuentes for revolting attacks on wife Usha: ‘Eat shit

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 22, 2025 09:26 AM (gbOdA)

396 Elections have consequences. NYers have voted left for 50 years. Fuck em.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 22, 2025 09:26 AM (UJWr0)

397 The reason you should care about NY, Cali, Ill etc is that the shitholes quickly expand beyond their borders

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 22, 2025 09:26 AM (MoRvC)

398 stop talking about Democrats XYZ state voted for !11!! then , what the fk are we going to talk about ? your pet peeves? Taylor Swift ??

Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 09:26 AM (g47mK)

399 The Amish have a couple serious genetic conditions unknown to other tribes, as a result of in breeding. Jews also, with Tay Sachs and others. It's why I married outside the family.

Posted by: Strange Brew at December 22, 2025 09:18 AM (oftw2)
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Here in Israel, there's a genetic disease screen exam for engaged couples. Our pups all took it.

Also, we've had such a variety of ingathering from around the world that we've shuffled to gene pool.

We have pups married to spouses who families come from a mix of countries, including Iraq, Iran, Syria, Morocco, Egypt, and a variety of western and eastern European countries.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 22, 2025 09:27 AM (E+OH8)

400 How easy is it to eat six eggs when you've run out of bacon?

Damn easy.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 09:27 AM (dAOkg)

401 Pennsylvania school bus driver fired over a sign asking students to speak English out of respect for others.

"Out of respect to English-only students, there will be no speaking Spanish on this bus."

https://tinyurl.com/2vdjny3h

Posted by: redridinghood at December 22, 2025 09:27 AM (NpAcC)

402 394 Saw a story over the weekend bemoaning some 600 employee trucking company out of Laredo was shutting down."

They're an illegal haven. Supposedly hit with nearly 100 drivers unable to speak English.
Posted by: man at December 22, 2025 09:26 AM (XuXeR)

I hear Cal is just going to reissue the 17k fake licenses.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 22, 2025 09:27 AM (gbOdA)

403
Not Waylon?

Respect.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 22, 2025 09:26 AM (06Hmj)

I figured an 87 mph change up was in order.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 09:27 AM (Zz0t1)

404 Know who else quickly expanded beyond their borders?

Posted by: Obligatory at December 22, 2025 09:28 AM (2Ez/1)

405 Here in Israel, there's a genetic disease screen exam for engaged couples. Our pups all took it.

==

That's pretty advanced. PGD ? Is it standard for all couples ?

Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 09:28 AM (g47mK)

406 One of my instructors was joking to her husband (a doctor) that she wanted to go on this for a month to get into the inevitable class action lawsuit. He said the award will be like .25 cents a person, but agrees it will happen.

I signed up to one of those 3M military earplug compensation ads I saw a few years ago. Took probably over a year, but I think i got around $7,000 or so. And I was on the the lower tier of compensation: served and used 3am earplugs during the time period, had self-reported claims of tinnitus or hearing loss, but no documentation.

Posted by: Military Moron at December 22, 2025 09:28 AM (JCZqz)

407 Or, no, PDG is something else.

Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 09:28 AM (g47mK)

408 JD Vance offers damning message to racist Nick Fuentes for revolting attacks on wife Usha: ‘Eat shit

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This reminds me that I thought Jeb should have walked over and slugged Trump during the debate because of what he said about his brother. People would have respected him a lot more if he had.

JD can say whatever he wants to someone who talks shit about his wife. And if he beats someone senseless for it, he will be tough to beat.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at December 22, 2025 09:28 AM (sX1BW)

409 PGD ? anyway..good for them

Posted by: runner at December 22, 2025 09:29 AM (g47mK)

410 316 A typical illegal gets $50k in benefits yearly. Why would he leave for a one time payment of $3k? It’s silly.
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$50k? Haha! Sure, go with that number, stupid yankee.

Posted by: Somalian at December 22, 2025 09:29 AM (Dv3i1)

411 404 Know who else quickly expanded beyond their borders?
Posted by: Obligatory at December 22, 2025 09:28 AM (2Ez/1)

The Hittites!

....

No?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 22, 2025 09:29 AM (06Hmj)

412 Dubai - the city for people who find Law Vegas too tasteful and restrained.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 22, 2025 09:26 AM (j4WDO)
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No drunks, junkies, garbage piles and people who treat you kindly. So people who have visited tell me.

I have no interest personally to visit but Las Vegas it ain't!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 22, 2025 09:29 AM (E+OH8)

413 Happy Monday!

In before the Art thread?

Posted by: Lizzy at December 22, 2025 09:29 AM (NuV6c)

414 395 JD Vance offers damning message to racist Nick Fuentes for revolting attacks on wife Usha: ‘Eat shit
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 22, 2025 09:26 AM (gbOdA)

That's all well and good, JD.

Now punch him in his stupid face.

Posted by: XTC at December 22, 2025 09:29 AM (UnA8+)

415 Saw a story over the weekend bemoaning some 600 employee trucking company out of Laredo was shutting down."

They're an illegal haven. Supposedly hit with nearly 100 drivers unable to speak English.
Posted by: man at December 22, 2025 09:26 AM (XuXeR)

I hear Cal is just going to reissue the 17k fake licenses.
Posted by: rhennigantx

Sit outside the state lines and pull every truck over. Arrest those that you need to.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 22, 2025 09:30 AM (dAOkg)

416 My daughter got the gene test (because of an already diagnosed disorder). They have the regular one, and regular + a special Ashkenazi panel.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 22, 2025 09:30 AM (BI5O2)

417 Commander Cody and His Lost planet Airmen had the most trucking songs in a typical concert.

Posted by: Took Three Bennies, And My Semi-trick Won't Start at December 22, 2025 09:30 AM (oftw2)

418 395 JD Vance offers damning message to racist Nick Fuentes for revolting attacks on wife Usha: ‘Eat shit
Posted by: rhennigantx

I think this needs to be the standard behavior towards folks like that.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 22, 2025 09:30 AM (OPGS/)

419
No drunks, junkies, garbage piles and people who treat you kindly. So people who have visited tell me.

I have no interest personally to visit but Las Vegas it ain't!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 22, 2025 09:29 AM (E+OH8

And only costs you about 3x anything in Vegas, so you dearly pay for the treatment.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)

420
A
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Posted by: rhennigantx at December 22, 2025 09:31 AM (gbOdA)

421 I would never want genetic screening for all couples in the US. Between our laws and our culture, it would immediately become a mass-euthanadia program.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 22, 2025 09:31 AM (BI5O2)

422 " Know who else quickly expanded beyond their borders?
Posted by: Obligatory"

Mr Creosote?

Posted by: fd at December 22, 2025 09:32 AM (vFG9F)

423 No drunks, junkies, garbage piles and people who treat you kindly. So people who have visited tell me.

I have no interest personally to visit but Las Vegas it ain't!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at

The parts you see. It’s really, really a have and have not place. Where the servants live (being nice here) is awful, like a step up from cardboard box. But yes, there is no crime, no junkies, etc. If you break the law, they do NOT play around.

Posted by: Piper at December 22, 2025 09:33 AM (OoFl2)

424 And only costs you about 3x anything in Vegas, so you dearly pay for the treatment.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)
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Neither LV nor Dubai interest me. But if I had to choose, LV would be one of the last places I'd choose to go to.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 22, 2025 09:34 AM (E+OH8)

425 It’s a Mississippi case about whether a state may accept mail-in ballots received after election day. The Magnolia State counts ballots that arrive up to five days after the election. (They must be postmarked by election day).

The new USPS system to collect mail locally at smaller stations and then centrally process (postmark) invalidates all forms of mail-in voting.
With there present system the local PO postmarks the mail usually within a day of drop off.
The central system could mean a piece of mail dropped off in Friday may not hit a process center until Tuesday.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 22, 2025 08:23 AM (gbOdA)

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The idea of relying on the USPS to deliver ballots is wrong from the start.

If one can't show a chain of custody, it screws up any potential court case.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 22, 2025 09:34 AM (Vh9CX)

426 She's accusing Trump. Trump should immediately file a $250m lawsuit against her for slander.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 09:21 AM (Zz0t1)

Or, he being a Queens boy, have that "little talk" with the insolent bitch. She needs to live the rest of her miserable existence in fear. Damn....the Magyar in me is rearing its head again. I denounce myself. A little. Maybe.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 22, 2025 09:35 AM (5xuJ/)

427 423 The parts you see. It’s really, really a have and have not place. Where the servants live (being nice here) is awful, like a step up from cardboard box. But yes, there is no crime, no junkies, etc. If you break the law, they do NOT play around.
Posted by: Piper at December 22, 2025 09:33 AM (OoFl2)

They confiscate the passports of the migrant workers (slaves), then threaten to kill their families.

Posted by: XTC at December 22, 2025 09:36 AM (UnA8+)

428 They confiscate the passports of the migrant workers (slaves), then threaten to kill their families.

Posted by: XTC at December 22, 2025 09:36 AM (UnA8+)
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So I asked Grok. Nah.

https://tinyurl.com/yenxdaz9

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 22, 2025 09:39 AM (E+OH8)

429 The Amish eat a shizzle ton of sugar. But they exercise like nobodies business, as you noted.
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What? When was the last time you saw a hook & eye out jogging? Or at the Gym? LOL

No, the Amish work like nobody’s business.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 22, 2025 09:39 AM (3hjQC)

430 >>I would never want genetic screening for all couples in the US. Between our laws and our culture, it would immediately become a mass-euthanadia program.

G A T T A C A

Posted by: Lizzy at December 22, 2025 09:39 AM (NuV6c)

431 397 The reason you should care about NY, Cali, Ill etc is that the shitholes quickly expand beyond their borders

Doesn't the Democratic Socialists (DSA) rise the the level of the NSS? What about their member-NEPOlibs whose moral and physical vandalism allows their parents and families to buy up businesses and properties devalued, corrupted and defiled by their actions?

Release, indeed, FREE AND SPONSOR! the HUNTER BIDEN's, the NICK REINER's, the ever now, and future present Epstein's, Clinton's, Soros', the John Walker/American Taliban's, the James Fergie Chambers (Cox Heir and professional revolutionaries) who will proudly do unto their own people PRECISELY what they forbid us to do to our Adversaries.

" I Wish There Could Be A National System To Alert Us "We Have Solved" The Problem That Is Trump" ctHILLARY, 2025 -

I tried to represent a better America when I was president. But now I don't have to... -- Bill Clinton'06 while still celebrating with Jeffmas-prime

Who's the real deplorable? and why?

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at December 22, 2025 09:43 AM (qk3lp)

432
Not Waylon?

Respect.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 22, 2025 09:26 AM

I figured an 87 mph change up was in order.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 22, 2025 09:27 AM

I done 'splained the whole "truckin' bidness"

youtube.com/watch?v=MjtWaOPTYmU

Posted by: Zombie Merle Haggard at December 22, 2025 09:45 AM (tljrc)

433 Merry Day Before the Day Before the Night Before Christmas!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at December 22, 2025 08:41 AM

It's Festivus Eve.

It's the day spent writing up lists of grievances to air tomorrow as well as doing last minute workouts to be ready for the feats of strength.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 22, 2025 10:01 AM (P5BPp)

434 I saw a comment over the weekend that Ticket Carlson attacked the family of the Furry English Cigarette who murdered Charlie Kirk for turning him in, but I can't find anything about it online. Anybody know what he said?

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 22, 2025 08:38 AM

Via Grok:

Over the December 20-21 weekend, Tucker Carlson spoke at Turning Point USA's (TPUSA) AmericaFest event in Phoenix, Arizona — an organization founded by Kirk. During his speech, Carlson addressed a hypothetical scenario involving a family member committing murder, which many interpreted as an implicit criticism of Robinson's family for turning him in. Here's the key excerpt from his remarks, based on video and eyewitness accounts shared widely on X:

"If my brother went on a drug-induced murder spree, I'd defend him. I'd say, 'That's my brother, I love him.' I wouldn't condemn him. I'd try to get him out of the country if I could. Family loyalty comes first."

The statement drew backlash online for its timing and venue, with commenters noting the insensitivity given that Robinson's father had turned him in just months after Kirk's killing.

Grok full answer: https://bit.ly/3KJ3FTt

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 22, 2025 10:11 AM (P5BPp)

435 Good morning, all, and thanks, J.J.

Candace Owens - Four very young children and a husband, George Farmer, the son of Lord Michael Farmer from the U.K. House of Lords & British-American businessman. It seems Farmer is well known for involved in free speech/anti-censorship advocacy, and also leading right-wing groups like Turning Point UK and tech platforms like Parler, where he was formerly the CEO.

Reportedly Tucker grew up "waspy," attending St. George's School, part of the esteemed "St. Grottlesex" group of New England prep schools. There, he met his wife, married and, much later, some of their (4) children attended.

He sold his ownership stake in the The Daily Caller and departed 2020, joining Fox. He was among the hosts named in the 2021 Dominion Voting Systems v. Fox News Network defamation lawsuit, and in April 2023, Fox News canceled Tucker Carlson Tonight.

Both were always 'wonky' individuals. But when they woke and realize it's no longer a game - they weren't in control - they were going to protect whatever they have the best they can, likely with whatever family help and guidance they're open to. They can't step away yet. They're narcissists.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 22, 2025 10:14 AM (NFX2v)

436 Did the Waymos start honking at each other? Nothing like a Robot trying to annoy another Robot.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 22, 2025 10:18 AM (Da7Vv)

437 I haven't watched Fox since 2010, or so. Haven't missed it.

Posted by: MAGA Mutt at December 22, 2025 08:46 AM

I started watching Fox News Channel on 09/11/2001. I stopped watching during the summer of the 2004 Presidential campaign when Bill O'Reilly planted himself firmly on the fence post during his commentary on the John Kerry Swift Boat Veterans situation. I realized then that no one on TV was principled and everyone was just putting on a show.

At that point, I had been listening to Rush Limbaugh for years, so I kept up with politics listening to his show every day at work. And then that year was when political blogs and military blogs started up. I've been getting my news from blogs (and then Twitter/X) ever since. Have not watched any TV "news" in 20+ years.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 22, 2025 10:29 AM (P5BPp)

438 The German Chemical Industry collapse link via American Thinker didn’t work for me: here’s an alternative source -

https://is.gd/rWmvlX

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 22, 2025 10:52 AM (E0Kkk)

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