The Morning Report

The Morning Report — 12/31/25

Good morning kids. The big story, on this New Year's Eve, at least in the real world and not the Potemkin Village holographic illusion projected by the Democrat/Leftist Propaganda complex is the massive multi-billion dollar swindle perpetrated on the American people by Somali immigrants (invaders) and their Democrat Party protectors in Minnesota and elsewhere. No doubt that a not insignificant amount of the loot wound up in the pockets of credibly suspected pederast Tim Walz, incest practitioner and immigration fraudster Bro-Fo Omar, Jacob Frey and other local state and national Democrats from Minnesota as well as the coffers of the despicable anti-American Commie front group known as the Democrat Farm Labor Party, and the equally evil Islamic terror groups in Somallia that are now spilling rivers of blood in the horn of Africa and likely helping their compatriots slaughter Nigerian Christians and others in Central Africa.

It's the Brinks Job of Great Train Robberies of Teapot Domes. It's bigger than that and considering the transnational nature of the graft, it would not surprise me in the least and I fully expect that the Clintons have more than few drops of moisture on their beaks via the Clinton Global Initiative and massage parlor. As my mother of blessed memory observed way back when in '92 when these bastards came to prominence, that they had goniffed the entire state of Arkansas, and then from their lair in the West Wing somehow swindled millions in aid money that was supposed to go to Haiti in the wake of a hurricane. Epstein is small potatoes, The Minnesota strip is where the action is.

Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services Jim O’Neill announced the agency has paused child care payments in Minnesota due to alleged child daycare fraud. . . 1. I have activated our defend the spend system for all ACF payments. Starting today, all ACF payments across America will require a justification and a receipt or photo evidence before we send money to a state.
2. Alex Adams and I have identified the individuals in @nickshirleyy’s excellent work. I have demanded from @GovTimWalz a comprehensive audit of these centers. This includes attendance records, licenses, complaints, investigations, and inspections.
3. We have launched a dedicated fraud-reporting hotline and email address at https://childcare.gov Whether you are a parent, provider, or member of the general public, we want to hear from you.

It's probably safe to assume that judges Buch M. Danno and Moe Loki from the Banzai Pipeline court of appeals will have a restraining order issued by the time this posts.

And speaking of which . . .

The White House cannot lapse in its funding of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a federal district court judge ruled on Tuesday, only days before funds at the bureau would have likely run out and the consumer finance agency would have no money to pay its employees. Judge Amy Berman ruled that the CFPB should continue to get its funds from the Federal Reserve, despite the Fed operating at a loss, and that the White House’s new legal argument about how the CFPB gets its funds is not valid.At the heart of this case is whether Russell Vought, President Donald Trump’s budget director and the acting director of the CFPB, can effectively shut down the agency and lay off all of the bureau’s employees. The CFPB has largely been inoperable since President Trump has sworn into office nearly a year ago. Its employees are mostly forbidden from doing any work, and most of the bureau’s operations this year has been to unwind the work it did under [so-called quote-unquote] President Biden and even under Trump’s first term.

First of all, Amy Vermin Berman Jackson is a tyrannical commie thug in a judge's robe as you can see from her long and revolting rap sheet courtesy of the invaluable DiscovertheNetworks.

As you can see she has been singularly focused on destroying President Trump and anyone and everyone who supports him, including anyone who was even thinking that 2020 was stolen, let alone who showed up to DC to actually protest on 1/6/21.

The CFPB is an utterly illegal anti-constitutional politburo that as it was established has no congressional oversight, can directly fund itself without approval or any check on it by Congress and as such wields unprecedented power over the economy and therefore over the individual rights of the citizenry. In the words of President Trump almost from day one of his second term:

CFPB Isn’t a Wall Street Regulator, It’s a Main Street Regulator — The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) — the brainchild of Sen. Elizabeth Warren — has long functioned as another woke, weaponized arm of the bureaucracy that leverages its power against certain industries and individuals disfavored by so-called “elites.”
For example:
CFPB used its slush fund — collected from targeting financial institutions — to support radical advocacy groups. One such group is the Soros-backed Mississippi Center for Justice, which advocates for “racial and economic justice,” targets religious liberty, and assists illegal immigrants seeking to skirt our nation’s laws. Another is The Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia, whose board features senior left-wing officials and has lobbied hundreds of times for more welfare spending. -- CFBP threatened banks for refusing to lend to illegal immigrants. --CFPB targeted a Chicago small business after it complained about the city’s rampant crime. -- CFPB was accused of mining American citizens’ personal financial information — with a 2017 inspector general’s report raising significant concerns about its data security. -- CFPB granted itself broad new powers in the waning hours of the lame duck Biden administration. Described as classic “government overreach,” the agency gave itself the authority to regulate Americans’ checking accounts by dictating government price controls and unilaterally buried $50 billion in medical debt.

And Mr. President, please forget about this new fleet of battleships and instead expand ICE by a factor of at least 10, with a grand fleet of paddy wagons and Pinochet airliners to Deport the illegal aliens.

PS, Eric Swalwell cannot Fang-Fang himself off this planet fast enough to suit me.

So if the president is going to send ICE agents to chase immigrants through the fields where they work, what I’m going to do is make sure that they take off their masks and show their faces, that they show their identification. And if they commit crimes that they’re going to be charged with crimes, if it’s falsely imprisoning people, if it’s kidnapping, if it’s assault battery, they’re going to be held accountable. I also think if the governor has the ability to issue driver’s licenses to people in California, if you’re going to wear a mask and not identify yourself, you’re not going to be eligible to drive a vehicle in California. There’s a lot you can do, but most importantly, you have to go on offense. Otherwise, the most vulnerable in our community will always be on defense.”

This filthy piece of shit needs to be ______________ you complete the sentence, just be discreet!

Have a great day and stay safe and enjoy the celebrations this New Year's eve!
I for one will be watching Jack Benny and Alexis Smith in The Horn Blows At Midnight. If I could only flip between that and Guy Lombardo and Dick Clark, I could recreate my childhood New Year's Eve ritual!

And here's wishing all of you a very happy healthy and prosperous 2026.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS

From the ‘Maryland man’ to that ‘misleading edit,’ liberals flooded the zone with falsities aimed again at stopping Trump. They failed.
The Left’s Top 25 Lies Of 2025
“Measles symptoms include a high fever, cough, runny nose, watery red eyes, and a rash that usually appears between three and five days after symptoms begin,” the release says.
World’s most contagious virus detected at 2 major US airports amid peak holiday traffic

"DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY, NEWSOM/DEMOCRAT VIOLENT INSURRECTION RIOTS

The ruling allows ICE officials to access personal data of Medicaid enrollees to track illegal migrants, with the decision limited to migrants known to be in the country illegally.
Court Approves ICE Access to Migrant Medicaid Info.
So if the president is going to send ICE agents to chase immigrants through the fields where they work, what I’m going to do is make sure that they take off their masks and show their faces, that they show their identification. And if they commit crimes that they’re going to be charged with crimes, if it’s falsely imprisoning people, if it’s kidnapping, if it’s assault battery, they’re going to be held accountable. I also think if the governor has the ability to issue driver’s licenses to people in California, if you’re going to wear a mask and not identify yourself, you’re not going to be eligible to drive a vehicle in California. There’s a lot you can do, but most importantly, you have to go on offense. Otherwise, the most vulnerable in our community will always be on defense.”
Swalwell: As CA Gov I Will Charge ICE Agents, Take Away Their Drivers License This filthy piece of shit needs to be ______________ you complete the sentence - jjs

DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
The White House cannot lapse in its funding of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a federal district court judge ruled on Tuesday, only days before funds at the bureau would have likely run out and the consumer finance agency would have no money to pay its employees. Judge Amy Berman ruled that the CFPB should continue to get its funds from the Federal Reserve, despite the Fed operating at a loss, and that the White House’s new legal argument about how the CFPB gets its funds is not valid. At the heart of this case is whether Russell Vought, President Donald Trump’s budget director and the acting director of the CFPB, can effectively shut down the agency and lay off all of the bureau’s employees. The CFPB has largely been inoperable since President Trump has sworn into office nearly a year ago. Its employees are mostly forbidden from doing any work, and most of the bureau’s operations this year has been to unwind the work it did under President Biden and even under Trump’s first term.
Judge blocks White House’s attempt to defund the CFPB, ensuring employees get paid
"We have turned off the money spigot and we are finding the fraud."
Trump Admin Freezes ‘All Child Care Payments’ To Minnesota Amid Daycare Fraud Scandal
During a debate with then-Republican vice presidential candidate and now-Vice President JD Vance in 2024, Walz spoke about the subject of childcare and how Minnesota “passed a paid family and medical leave” that allows people to stay home for a certain amount of time after having a baby. Walz added that this “gets the child off to a better start” and that the “family works better.” Walz continued to advocate for a “paid family medical leave program.” (Families of clit-clippers, Islamikaze bombers and taqqiya sunrisers, I prefer a Corleone-style family- jjs)
WATCH: Tim Walz Brags in 2024 Debate that Minnesota Made ‘It Easier’ to Get into Daycare Business
“I have three words regarding Somalis who have committed fraud against American taxpayers: Send them home." (Suddenly Emmer changes his tune - jjs)
Top GOP Lawmaker Calls For ‘Deportation Of Every Somali’ Fraudster In Minnesota
Watching Walz squirm under the headlamps of rampant Somali fraud has been at least as much fun as watching him waffle on national television during a debate with JD Vance.
Someone Forgot To Send Tim Walz The Memo. Blaming Whitey Doesn’t Work Anymore
Federal investigators have intensified investigations into alleged large-scale fraud schemes, with potential immigration consequences for those involved, following an investigation by citizen journalist Nick Shirley.
Ex-Agent Accuses Prosecutors of Burying Minnesota Daycare Fraud Investigation.
The agency accused the Biden junta of pushing out the funds “with minimal oversight” and just trusting the people who received the money.
HUD: Biden-Era Rental Assistance Payments Went to Deceased Tenants, Noncitizens
Another "cultural enricher" talks about how Somalis are entitled to Americans' hard-earned tax dollars because of some promise that they just made up. What a fraud! (See what I did there?)
Entitled Somali Talks About Americans' Property Being Rightfully Theirs
Around 14% or 30,000 were dead and receiving tenant assistance. (and they all voted Democrat at least two or three times - jjs)
$5 Billion in HUD Fraud in 1 Year of Biden
49% picked “cut government spending in other areas instead”; 13% went for “raise payroll taxes”; 6% preferred “raise the retirement age”; another 6% leaned toward “reduce benefits for future retirees”; and 9% selected “no changes are needed.” A hefty 17% said they were “not sure.”
Americans Still Jittery Over Fate Of Social Security, But Can’t Agree On How To Fix It: I&I/TIPP Poll
From national referenda to merit-based public servants, an agenda for reform (Pie meet sky - jjs)
Fixing Government’s “Back-of-House” Problem
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
Carlson and Owens have become leading Western apologists for Islam.
The Masks Are Off
The West has to be preserved, as well as its Christian foundation.
Trump's precision strike in Nigeria is a triumph for Christian conservatism
Dr. Mahmoud al-Zahar gets a global pass as a respected Muslim dignitary.
Hamas Co-Founder and ‘Expert on Jewish Affairs’ Uses Qur’an to Justify Killing of Jews(I seem to recall a man by the name of Adolf EICHMANN also had a title and position as an Expert on Jewish Affairs for some other guy named Adolph? - jjs)
BONDI BEACH CHANUKAH BLOODBATH
Sydney residents Sajid Akram, 50, and his 24-year-old son Naveed Akram spent most of November in Davao City in the southern Philippines, Australian Federal Police Commissioner Krissy Barrett said.
Australian Police Claim No Evidence For Broader Terrorist Involvement in Islamist Bondi Beach Attack
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
U.S. gasoline prices have declined in most states, with some stations dropping below $2 per gallon.
Gas Prices Hitting New Low for New Year’s Eve.
"Some states start with federal taxable income, so most of the new deductions flow through automatically unless lawmakers opt out."
Two Blue States Scramble To Block Citizens From Cashing In On Trump Tax Cuts

CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
The agency published another 230 pages of the mass shooter's writings.
The Covenant School Killer Hated ‘Religion’ And ‘White People,’ FBI Files Reveal
just about breaking systems anymore. It’s about breaking people.
The Front Line of the Code War
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
Draper wrote that Greene’s “disillusionment with Trump” went “beyond the Epstein files.” … “I was so naïve,” she said.
MTG’s Exit Interview with The NY Times: Scorn, Self-Pity, and a Rewrite of History
Christian Toto: Oscar winner attacks Bari Weiss after silence over real journalistic crimes
George Clooney Takes Bold Stand Against Journalism

* * * * *
AI may disrupt entry-level work and automate tasks, but it cannot replace human curiosity, judgment, or creativity—the very forces that drive new jobs, art, and discovery.
Rebuttals and Responses to Lingering Gloom About AI

RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
State policies turned a tiny, containable brush blaze into Los Angeles’s worst urban wildfire catastrophe.
Firefighters Could Have Prevented the L.A. Wildfires, but California Rules Made Them Save Plants Instead
THE 2020 and SUBSEQUENT ELECTION HEISTS , SHENANIGANS/FRAUD and AFTERMATH
Registration via “vouching” in the land of 10,000 lakes.
In Minnesota, they also steal votes
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
Questions persist about Omar’s financial dealings, though no wrongdoing has been proven or formal investigations announced.
BRO-FO Omar’s Net Worth Under Scrutiny Amid MN Fraud Scandal.
"College-educated, affluent suburban women — that’s who I am." (aka AWFL cvnt - jjs)
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene: Shameless Political Chameleon
POLITICS
With government funding drying up, grotesque corruption exposed, and conservative states figuring out jerrymandering, are the Democrats done?
The Democrats’ ‘party’ may finally be over (but the evil that defines it goes on and on and on - jjs)
ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS . . . AND LEFTISTS
Israeli officials have identified Kahlout in the past and published photos of the face he kept hidden beneath a red keffiyeh scarf, but Monday was the first time Hamas has published images of him.
Hamas Confirms Deaths of Five Leaders During Gaza War
And not just with Israel alone.
Islamic Republic of Iran Says it’s in a ‘Total War’

FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
The student action came after Monday’s protests in central Tehran by shop-owners and a day ahead of the temporary closure of banks, schools and businesses in the capital and in most provinces to save energy during the bitterly cold weather. The Iranian rial has dropped against the dollar and other world currencies — when the protests erupted on Sunday, the US dollar was trading at around 1.42 million rials, compared to 820,000 rials a year ago — forcing up import prices and hurting retail traders.
Students join Iran demonstrations after shopkeepers protest
Why the world's powers-that-be can't allow it.
Iran: A Population Overthrowing an Islamic Tyranny?
On Hamas: “If they say they’re not going to disarm those same countries will go and wipe them out. They don’t even need Israel. You know, we have many countries, 59 countries, that are in agreement.”
Trump Gives Okay to Attack Iran if It Continues Nuclear, Missile Programs
The sanctions aim to further isolate Iran’s military-industrial complex and curb weapons proliferation in the region.
Trump Hits Iran, Venezuela With New Sanctions.
A Dutch social scientist who is described as the top migration expert in Germany, Ruud Koopmans, has warned of the massive implications for the makeup of German society that chain migration represents. He argued that the government should consider whether it is the interest of the country to grant citizenship to the near million supposed refugees from Syria.
Germany Facing ‘Demographic Time Bomb’ From Syrian Chain Migration, Expert Warns
Given expected savings for American taxpayers of “nearly $1.9 billion dollars” compared to the way the United States sent money to the U.N. in the past, the State Department announced an extra $2 billion funding commitment to be offered directly to countries in need that the administration of President Donald Trump trusts to spend appropriately.
State Dept Revamps U.N. Funding: ‘More Lives Saved for Fewer Taxpayers Dollars’
“Tales of regime change. Iraq, the war that rewired the world. And to be clear, this is the reason that the world is the way it is.”
TALES OF REGIME CHANGE: Iraq is the war that began the migrant crisis and rewired the world
“The architects of European integration saw things differently. . .The ultimate terms of the rivalry are geoeconomic.”
Why Transatlantic Relations Broke Down
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
The first Iron Beam unit just reached operational status, and it's kind of a big deal.
FINALLY, Jewish Space Lasers

ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
The tales of rocket startups are often fraught with ups and downs of all kinds, often traveling in circles that no one can ever predict. This is one such tale.
The up and down tale of two rocket startups, Vector and Phantom
In optical wavelengths the gossamer lines of structure would be lost, overwhelmed by the light of each galaxy’s stars.
Colliding galaxies, as seen in the infrared and X-rays (zombie George Pal ponders a sequel - jjs)
New NASA administrator Jared Isaacman launches ambitious plans for America’s return to the lunar surface.
NASA Chief Vows U.S. Moon Base as Centerpiece of New NASA Agenda (John Koenig tanned, rested and ready - jjs)
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
Terrorism, racism and taxpayer money.
How California Colleges Created Kwanzaa and Destroyed America
Cancellations have had minimal impact as the performers involved had low ticket sales and niche followings.
Humiliating Truth Emerges in Trump-Kennedy Center ‘Cancellations’ Saga…
A woke new thesis claiming that the U.S. is a blank slate of origins and defined by different ethnic groups, is nonsense.
A Nation of Englishmen, Actually

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1 Nooded.

Posted by: Nazdar at December 31, 2025 07:01 AM (NcvvS)

2 Happy New Year's Eve, everyone!

Posted by: NR Pax at December 31, 2025 07:02 AM (svLOV)

3 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 31, 2025 07:02 AM (ExV1e)

4
Wow, this is early. Happy birthday, J.J.

Good morning, everyone. Off to the content.

Oh... the MN fraud finally broke the local news media blackout this morning.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 31, 2025 07:04 AM (QVmho)

5 Almost 26. Morning JJ and various all.

Posted by: Eromero at December 31, 2025 07:04 AM (Slgjz)

6 This filthy piece of shit needs to be salted and boxed.

Posted by: Salted and boxed penguins at December 31, 2025 07:05 AM (vFG9F)

7 Its Hump Day

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 31, 2025 07:06 AM (gbOdA)

8 Hookem Horns

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 31, 2025 07:06 AM (gbOdA)

9 Bravo JJ!

Happy New Year!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 31, 2025 07:07 AM (Cjt/F)

10 Paraphrasing a great quote I saw yesterday:

If the government can lose billions of dollars to fraud and not be aware of it, you are paying too much in taxes.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 31, 2025 07:07 AM (svLOV)

11 Good morning dear morons and happy birthday JJ

Happy Horde New Year !

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 31, 2025 07:08 AM (RIvkX)

12 It's ok to be discrete.
Just do so discreetly.

Posted by: Grammar Gestapo at December 31, 2025 07:09 AM (2Ez/1)

13 This filthy piece of shit needs to be ______________ you complete the sentence, just be discrete!
-

GPT, fill in the blank.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 31, 2025 07:10 AM (bU1Ea)

14 12 It's ok to be discrete.
Just do so discreetly.
Posted by: Grammar Gestapo at December 31, 2025 07:09 AM (2Ez/1)

Oops. corrected

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 31, 2025 07:11 AM (x0n13)

15 "If the government can lose billions of dollars to fraud and not be aware of it, you are paying too much in taxes.
Posted by: NR Pax "

They are not making it any easier to write that f'n check knowing that it will be pissed away in microseconds.

Posted by: fd at December 31, 2025 07:11 AM (vFG9F)

16 If I could only flip between that and Guy Lombardo and Dick Clark, I could recreate my childhood New Year's Eve ritual!

I bet it is on youtube JJs

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 31, 2025 07:12 AM (gbOdA)

17 Just a spectator waiting for something to happen to these criminals. Come to AOS every morning to check to see if anyone is being prosecuted and going to prison. Hopefully three more years of the Trump administration will produce something along these lines. Keep me posted JJ (shrugging shoulders).......

Posted by: JROD at December 31, 2025 07:12 AM (IlL6s)

18 I wonder what removing every improper recipient from the Social Security recipient list would do to the overall health of the Social Security system.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 31, 2025 07:12 AM (iMotb)

19 From the Front Page article:

The same California university system that helped give us Kwanzaa, Angela Davis, Barack Obama and Kamala Harris wrecked the state and the country. And it isn’t done yet.

Imagine if we stopped funding it.

It's possible but you need a strong police presence to make it clear that riots were not going to happen.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 31, 2025 07:12 AM (svLOV)

20 and the equally evil Islamic terror groups in Somallia that are now spilling rivers of blood in the horn of Africa and likely helping their compatriots slaughter Nigerian Christians and others in Central Africa.

I think it is totally on brand for the UN that starting tomorrow, Somalia heads the Security Council.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 31, 2025 07:13 AM (a4flb)

21 It's getting to the point that I just look at the headlines and don't read most of the stories. Seems nothing is getting done against the evildoers in our government. Just have to get used to it, I guess.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 31, 2025 07:14 AM (uQesX)

22 How many more Minnesota daycare centers are going to suffer break-ins in the next 96 hours?

Can't rule out fires, which would destroy business records, either.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 31, 2025 07:14 AM (iMotb)

23 That colliding galaxies link is 404.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 31, 2025 07:14 AM (uQesX)

24 The young lady in the “stronger than Viagra” ads actually looks nicer in the photo where she is leaning over and smiling in her yet-untorn top.
I wonder about her right hand position with her thumb extended and fingers gently curled.

Posted by: Fenderbender at December 31, 2025 07:14 AM (1FEc1)

25 I wonder what removing every improper recipient from the Social Security recipient list would do to the overall health of the Social Security system.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

+++
Let's start with SNAP and see where it leads.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 31, 2025 07:14 AM (2Ez/1)

26 If the government can lose billions of dollars to fraud and not be aware of it, you are paying too much in taxes.

Taxes are not used to fund anything, they are in place to punish you and rub uncle sugar's nutsack in your face.

The federal criminals borrow the money they spend, which will never be paid back. Ever.

Posted by: Stop The Madness at December 31, 2025 07:15 AM (LwmOS)

27 49% picked “cut government spending in other areas instead”; 13% went for “raise payroll taxes”; 6% preferred “raise the retirement age”; another 6% leaned toward “reduce benefits for future retirees”; and 9% selected “no changes are needed.” A hefty 17% said they were “not sure.”
Americans Still Jittery Over Fate Of Social Security, But Can’t Agree On How To Fix It: I&I/TIPP Poll

I would say...

- Cut spending in other areas.
- Slowly begin the process of raising the retirement age, cutting benefits for future retirees, and LOWERING the payroll tax.
- Unify the rules surrounding retirement accounts so that everyone gets the same deal, everyone has their own, and it actually belongs to them.

The goal should be to end social security rather than periodically screwing over younger generations.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 31, 2025 07:17 AM (ExV1e)

28 F*ck Smellwell.

ICE agents need to start wearing burqas. That'll fix him.

Posted by: p-squared at December 31, 2025 07:17 AM (0prFs)

29
Judge blocks White House’s attempt to defund the CFPB, ensuring employees get paid
====

If Trump continues to subordinate the Executive branch, and work within the "system," it will sooner rather than later destroy him and us.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 31, 2025 07:17 AM (RIvkX)

30 There’s a lot you can do, but most importantly, you have to go on offense. Otherwise, the most vulnerable in our community will always be on defense.”

Swalwell just admitted there may be a million Illegal Voters in CA.

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 31, 2025 07:17 AM (gbOdA)

31 A woke new thesis claiming that the U.S. is a blank slate of origins and defined by different ethnic groups, is nonsense.
A Nation of Englishmen, Actually
___________

We owe almost everything good to our English heritage. It all flows from the rule of law and property rights, and England was at the forefront in both. Our revolution was about restoring the rights of Englishmen.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 31, 2025 07:18 AM (XvL8K)

32 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 31, 2025 07:18 AM (NwnyJ)

33 Uncle Sugar's Nutsack opened for Five Finger Deathpunch a few years ago.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 31, 2025 07:18 AM (dsKJl)

34 @21 OrangeEnt- I just hope that something is going to be done and they're in the process of building ironclad cases against these people and my patience will pay off.

Posted by: JROD at December 31, 2025 07:18 AM (IlL6s)

35 The goal should be to end social security rather than periodically screwing over younger generations.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 31, 2025 07:17 AM (ExV1e)

Bushs plan in 2005 would have millions of people now with 20 years of their OWN money.

If you invested $100 in the S&P 500 at the beginning of 2005, you would have about $797.82 at the end of 2025, assuming you reinvested all dividends. This is a return on investment of 697.82%, or 10.62% per year.

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 31, 2025 07:20 AM (gbOdA)

36 Just a spectator waiting for something to happen to these criminals.

As you may know, I head the Black Pilled Chapter of AoSHQ, holding out exactly zero hope that Western Civilization survives into 2028, but the timing of all of this interests me.

The arrests, prosecutions and dismissals in one case, and convictions in others happened BEFORE Nick's 100M+ view iPhone Documentary.

The locals knew this years before DOGE picked it up, and Otto Pen Era DOJ was already on it. Nick sensationalized it and got prominent placement on the talk show and White House platforms.

Now the social media world is in Rage Mode (at least until the next squirrel) I'm sort of wondering if there is coördination now, due to the 80/20 Rule where Trump wants to put his opponents in the 20 box before he makes sweeping administrative moves like stopping all payments to States which he couldn't do politically before until the 80% demanded it.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 31, 2025 07:20 AM (a4flb)

37 "Uncle Sugar's Nutsack opened for Five Finger Deathpunch a few years ago."

That was their garage band name before they began calling themselves The Sex Pistols.

Posted by: Music nerd at December 31, 2025 07:21 AM (2Ez/1)

38
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 31, 2025 07:21 AM (tljrc)

39 29
Judge blocks White House’s attempt to defund the CFPB, ensuring employees get paid
====

If Trump continues to subordinate the Executive branch, and work within the "system," it will sooner rather than later destroy him and us.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 31, 2025 07:17 AM (RIvkX)

You have precisely identified the problem. Trump et al are strictly coloring within the lines in order to avoid the Impeachment Circus that would follow with his defying the court system. This is one hell of a dilemma.

Posted by: tubal at December 31, 2025 07:21 AM (f6ii3)

40 I think it is totally on brand for the UN that starting tomorrow, Somalia heads the Security Council.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 31, 2025 07:13 AM (a4flb)
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How about Saudi Arabia heading the UN Women's Rights Commission?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 31, 2025 07:22 AM (RIvkX)

41 OrangeEnt- I just hope that something is going to be done and they're in the process of building ironclad cases against these people and my patience will pay off.
Posted by: JROD at December 31, 2025 07:18 AM (IlL6s)

"They" say things are getting prepared. Who knows? I know it's not a five second thing to get charges pressed. But, we know from recent experience, that blue areas will not indict the open criminals.

We will not split. If we did, then our power to thwart bad actor countries will be gone, and a new dark period will result. It's either going to be the good destroying the power of the evil, or the good saying, have it your way, and the worst will start to happen. And there will be no refuge from tyranny.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 31, 2025 07:23 AM (uQesX)

42 This filthy piece of shit needs to be jettisoned from my undergarments because he's soiling my comfort zone like a unexpected shart. you complete the sentence, just be discrete!

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 31, 2025 07:23 AM (nljXp)

43 "Just a spectator waiting for something to happen to these criminals."

+++++++

Nothing will happen.

Posted by: The person who always says that at December 31, 2025 07:24 AM (2Ez/1)

44 My office, ACF, provides Minnesota $185 million in child care funds each year. That money should be helping 19,000 American children, including toddlers and infants.

10k per kid? So that mean the Somali Pirate Daycare with a 99 license were printing a million a year!!!!

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 31, 2025 07:24 AM (gbOdA)

45 23 That colliding galaxies link is 404.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 31, 2025 07:14 AM (uQesX)

Should be fixed

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 31, 2025 07:25 AM (x0n13)

46 If the government can lose billions of dollars to fraud and not be aware of it, you are paying too much in taxes.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 31, 2025 07:07 AM (svLOV)

And if millions of citizens can not care that the government lost billions of dollars to fraud, too many people are off the tax rolls.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 31, 2025 07:25 AM (ExV1e)

47 10k per kid? So that mean the Somali Pirate Daycare with a 99 license were printing a million a year!!!!
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 31, 2025 07:24 AM (gbOdA)

There are over 600 of these Somali Pirate Daycares in Dakota County.

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 31, 2025 07:25 AM (gbOdA)

48 Measles is no joke. My brother and I got it when I was 7 and it made us sick for weeks. Plus it permanently destroyed our eyesight and we both have had to wear glasses since then.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 31, 2025 07:26 AM (0N4FZ)

49 You have precisely identified the problem. Trump et al are strictly coloring within the lines in order to avoid the Impeachment Circus that would follow with his defying the court system. This is one hell of a dilemma.
Posted by: tubal at December 31, 2025 07:21 AM (f6ii3)

Right. But, if he did what I believe he's constitutionally allowed to do, the GOPe would join with the Ds and he - and Vance, I have no doubt - would be removed from office. Then the GOPe could surrender gracefully and let the commies have control of the government. (which they desperately want to do anyway)

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 31, 2025 07:26 AM (uQesX)

50 They are not making it any easier to write that f'n check knowing that it will be pissed away in microseconds.
Posted by: fd at December 31, 2025 07:11 AM (vFG9F)

Does it make you feel any better that it was pissed away years ago?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 31, 2025 07:27 AM (ExV1e)

51 45 23 That colliding galaxies link is 404.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 31, 2025 07:14 AM (uQesX)

Should be fixed
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 31, 2025 07:25 AM (x0n13)

Unfortunately the problem is on not on my end but on the BtB website's end. You have to just scroll down to read the article

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 31, 2025 07:27 AM (x0n13)

52 The CFPB has largely been inoperable since President Trump has sworn into office nearly a year ago. Its employees are mostly forbidden from doing any work, and most of the bureau’s operations this year has been to unwind the work it did under President Biden and even under Trump’s first term.

Reassign them into going over Somalian business receipts.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 31, 2025 07:27 AM (a4flb)

53 Entitled Somali Talks About Americans' Property Being Rightfully Theirs

---
"Jizya."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 31, 2025 07:27 AM (ESVrU)

54
"My office, ACF, provides Minnesota $185 million in child care funds each year."

And just where does your office get that money?
Hmmmmm?

Posted by: The taxpayers at December 31, 2025 07:28 AM (2Ez/1)

55 And, we have to make it easier for folks to be able to get into that business and then to make sure that folks are able to pay for that.”

“We were able to do it in Minnesota, and I’m still telling you this, we were listed as the best state.

There is a blue haired fat ho sitting in a state office that is typing up the Somali Pirate Daycare paperwork.

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 31, 2025 07:28 AM (gbOdA)

56 May all the blessings of the Lord be yours in abundance in the New Year
Isaiah 43:13

Happy New Year Morning People

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 31, 2025 07:28 AM (bLAch)

57 That colliding galaxies link is 404.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

Should be fixed
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 31, 2025 07:25 AM (x0n13)

Thanks. That's the only story I want to click on today. Most of the others would just get me angry.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 31, 2025 07:28 AM (uQesX)

58 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at December 31, 2025 07:29 AM (QGRvm)

59 “I have three words regarding Somalis who have committed fraud against American taxpayers: ~~Send them home.~~ ADIOS MUTHA FUCKRS"

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 31, 2025 07:29 AM (gbOdA)

60 Just a spectator waiting for something to happen to these criminals. Come to AOS every morning to check to see if anyone is being prosecuted and going to prison. Hopefully three more years of the Trump administration will produce something along these lines. Keep me posted JJ (shrugging shoulders).......
Posted by: JROD at December 31, 2025 07:12 AM (IlL6s)

@shipwreckedcrew

"So, yes the Biden DOJ did file charges against 73 Somalis, but it didn't publicize anything about the fraud via press release after March 2023 that included 57 defendants to that date.

The Trump DOJ has been indicting Somalis since Aug. 2025 in connection with Feeding Our Future and other fraud schemes, including 8 in December involving the Housing assistance fraud scheme.

The US Attorney who announced those charges called them the first in a "wave" of coming indictments."

H/T TJM

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 31, 2025 07:29 AM (ExV1e)

61 Also let me take this opportunity to say

Au revoir, New York City! Au revoir les enfants!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 31, 2025 07:30 AM (RIvkX)

62
This filthy piece of shit needs to be encased in concrete you complete the sentence, just be discrete!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at December 31, 2025 07:31 AM (xG4kz)

63 61 Also let me take this opportunity to say

Au revoir, New York City! Au revoir les enfants!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 31, 2025 07:30 AM (RIvkX)

New York and London, so very similar, or soon to be, at any rate.

Posted by: tubal at December 31, 2025 07:32 AM (f6ii3)

64 I wonder what removing every improper recipient from the Social Security recipient list would do to the overall health of the Social Security system.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 31, 2025 07:12 AM (iMotb)

I thought that, during the DOGE audit, they found that there weren't that many fraudulent recipients on the Social Security list but that their inclusion allowed for fraud to be perpetrated elsewhere in the system.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 31, 2025 07:32 AM (ExV1e)

65 Unfortunately the problem is on not on my end but on the BtB website's end. You have to just scroll down to read the article
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 31, 2025 07:27 AM (x0n13)

I just saw the 404 the first time. The second time the story was on top. (after his beg, of course)

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 31, 2025 07:32 AM (uQesX)

66 So far it's worked out, judges wise, in Trump's favor.
Seems everytime a judge is shut down for a stupid rule they use that ruling again.

Trump's working through all of the nullifications nullifying them. When he's finished the judges will have no rulings to make.
Or they'll be on a pike.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 31, 2025 07:32 AM (bLAch)

67 Good morning JJ and horde
And Happy New Years Eve everyone

Posted by: Skip at December 31, 2025 07:33 AM (leiJl)

68 After several months of effort, Christenson stated that the Obama-era probe suddenly vanished without explanation. “All of a sudden it just evaporated, just went away into thin air. No idea whatever happened with the case,” he added.

haha It be in Obama lieberry.

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 31, 2025 07:33 AM (gbOdA)

69 The first Iron Beam unit just reached operational status, and it's kind of a big deal.
FINALLY, Jewish Space Lasers
========================
If, like me, you are hoping for a mention of Mossad's shark lasers in this article will not be disappointed.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 31, 2025 07:35 AM (CgfUU)

70 We owe almost everything good to our English heritage. It all flows from the rule of law and property rights, and England was at the forefront in both. Our revolution was about restoring the rights of Englishmen.

What a seriously warped and twisted revisionist history.

Did you ever read the Declaration of Independence? The entire documents is a point by point rejection of the British System - so horrible and corrupt that God Himself rebuked it and to make the universe right again, it required the colonies to separate by any means necessary.

Did you know that British are subjects not citizens?
That instead of the monarchy, they decided to start off with a completely different pattern that they believed was pleasing to the Creator and elevated man's inalienable Rights bestowed on to him by the Creator rather than privileges granted by the king?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 31, 2025 07:35 AM (a4flb)

71 I put over $400k into SS.
Just cut me a check for $200k and I will walk away.

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 31, 2025 07:36 AM (gbOdA)

72 "And, we have to make it easier for folks to be able to get into that business and then to make sure that folks are able to pay for that.”

For any of you that are new to the world of PoliticalSpeak the word "folks" is always a tell that you're listening to a lying corrupt weasel. (See Obama, Brock)

Posted by: The More You Know at December 31, 2025 07:36 AM (2Ez/1)

73 Happy New Year's Eve to all my gray box friends!

Posted by: Grammie Wingers' ipad at December 31, 2025 07:37 AM (SfhV1)

74 73 Happy New Year's Eve to all my gray box friends!
Posted by: Grammie Wingers' ipad at December 31, 2025 07:37 AM (SfhV1)

Happy New Year grammie. May you be blessed.

Posted by: tubal at December 31, 2025 07:37 AM (f6ii3)

75 Bushs plan in 2005 would have millions of people now with 20 years of their OWN money.

If you invested $100 in the S&P 500 at the beginning of 2005, you would have about $797.82 at the end of 2025, assuming you reinvested all dividends. This is a return on investment of 697.82%, or 10.62% per year.
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 31, 2025 07:20 AM (gbOdA)

And I supported that plan wholeheartedly. Despite the fact that I will be, technically, eligible to receive social security in a few months, I am doubtful that it will survive my lifetime. I've always known that it was a trainwreck in the making and a way to fuck over millions in the process.

Sadly, too many people can't see beyond the fearmongering.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 31, 2025 07:38 AM (ExV1e)

76 {grammie}

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 31, 2025 07:38 AM (RIvkX)

77 The first Iron Beam unit just reached operational status, and it's kind of a big deal.
FINALLY, Jewish Space Lasers
========================
If, like me, you are hoping for a mention of Mossad's shark lasers in this article will not be disappointed.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

If they can't zap individuals like ants and a magnifying glass, it's useless.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 31, 2025 07:38 AM (QGRvm)

78 Good morning Horde, thx JJ. A happy last day of this year to all.
The CFPB should have disappeared long ago but for the courts, including Roberts. As I understand it the CFPB rules and refs were made inseparable when sponsored and passed by Chief Warren. This meant that if one thing was found unconstitutional the rest of the agency was dead. The courts have already found the funding was unconstitutional and also the appointment of the head of the agency. The courts have not followed through on finding the whole things being unconstitutional. Oh and the Congress sits there with their thumbs up their asses

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 31, 2025 07:39 AM (zNwXb)

79 Just cut me a check for $200k and I will walk away.
Posted by: r hennigantx

I'd hold out for 250 but you have a good idea. Of course, the government would never let anyone just walk away.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 31, 2025 07:39 AM (svLOV)

80 They returned on a flight from Manila on Nov. 29. Two weeks later, they are accused of killing 15 and wounding another 40 in a mass shooting that targeted a Hannukah festival at Bondi Beach.

I know the Aussies dont have the balls but I hope Mossad traces down every last person that worked with killers and drowns them in a toilet.

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 31, 2025 07:41 AM (gbOdA)

81 Of course, the government would never let anyone just walk away.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 31, 2025 07:39 AM (svLOV)

Yes that is what they hated about the Bush plan is that at some point you had bought yourself out of slavery.

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 31, 2025 07:42 AM (gbOdA)

82 Right. But, if he did what I believe he's constitutionally allowed to do, the GOPe would join with the Ds and he - and Vance, I have no doubt - would be removed from office. Then the GOPe could surrender gracefully and let the commies have control of the government. (which they desperately want to do anyway)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 31, 2025 07:26 AM (uQesX)

I don't know that impeachment would be successful but it would, absolutely, be the case that stopping "Lawless Trump" would be the issue that every single Dem would run on in 2026. And far too many of our fellow citizens would fall into that story.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 31, 2025 07:43 AM (ExV1e)

83 Americans Still Jittery Over Fate Of Social Security, But Can’t Agree On How To Fix It: I&I/TIPP Poll

I can't believe that this bullshit is even a discussion point.

Here, while we importing literally tens of millions of complete deadweight and vile parasites and granting them trillions of dollars, some asshole has the temerity to suggest that we cut off American Citizens who busted their asses their entire working career to watch nearly 15% of the income robbed from them pay check after paycheck then be told to go piss up a rope because we need the money for moar foreigners, moar wars, moar Ukraines, moar Climate Change, moar School Loan forgiveness, moar junk food for the obese, moar worthless bureaucrats devoted to regulating us to death, moar $10000 toilets, moar railroads to nowhere, moar free and unlimited healthcare to illegals, moar free abortions and genital mutilations, moar money to the teacher unions....

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 31, 2025 07:43 AM (a4flb)

84 I know the Aussies dont have the balls but I hope Mossad traces down every last person that worked with killers and drowns them in a toilet.
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 31, 2025 07:41 AM (gbOdA)
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I presume you are referring to the current Australian government. The people seems ready to act.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 31, 2025 07:43 AM (RIvkX)

85
I put over $400k into SS.
Just cut me a check for $200k and I will walk away.
Posted by: r hennigantx

I don't want to add mine up, I've maxxed out every year since 1992. I'll cheerfully walk away with zero if it got fixed tonight as I've never once thought I'd see a dime of it and invested heavily for my own retirement with my own after taxes money. We've lived so far below what we could have for the last fourty years, to ensure our own retirement, that the MN fraud stuff makes me want to do *types deletes* things.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 31, 2025 07:43 AM (QVmho)

86 I put over $400k into SS.
Just cut me a check for $200k and I will walk away.

No! That's not how this works! Listen, stay in and I promise you will get $198.79 a month for the rest of your life once you hit 67! Great huh? Even better, get a doc to label you disabled now and I can send you $2800.00 a month right now! And don't forget to sign up for Medicaid since your all crippled up.

Posted by: Somali Joe Ponzi, SSA Clerk at December 31, 2025 07:43 AM (LwmOS)

87 Reassign them into going over Somalian business receipts.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 31, 2025 07:27 AM (a4flb)

And, when they find no fraud, fire them for cause.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 31, 2025 07:44 AM (ExV1e)

88 The rain will start here in an hour or two and won't stop for days.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 31, 2025 07:45 AM (RIvkX)

89 In news for peace in 2026: Somalia is scheduled to lead the UN Security Council in January. Their motto is said to be "Some out there may die but we are gonna get rich, rich, rich!"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 31, 2025 07:45 AM (ooNHr)

90
Merry New Year!

https://youtu.be/og6flYWMPWI?si=VCqg8GBmmLnmY8Zp

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at December 31, 2025 07:45 AM (xG4kz)

91 People routinely refer to some unknown time in the future when Social Security runs out of money.

And yet no one seems to worry about when SNAP, WiC, and AFDC will run out of money.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 31, 2025 07:46 AM (2Ez/1)

92 Hey, Grammie, good to see you. Happy New Year.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 31, 2025 07:46 AM (bLAch)

93 I put over $400k into SS.
Just cut me a check for $200k and I will walk away.

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 31, 2025 07:36 AM

The thing with social security is they are paying you with wildly inflated dollars when you put in real dollars 20-30 years ago.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 31, 2025 07:46 AM (0N4FZ)

94 82 Right. But, if he did what I believe he's constitutionally allowed to do, the GOPe would join with the Ds and he - and Vance, I have no doubt - would be removed from office. Then the GOPe could surrender gracefully and let the commies have control of the government. (which they desperately want to do anyway)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 31, 2025 07:26 AM (uQesX)

I don't know that impeachment would be successful but it would, absolutely, be the case that stopping "Lawless Trump" would be the issue that every single Dem would run on in 2026. And far too many of our fellow citizens would fall into that story.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 31, 2025 07:43 AM (ExV1e)

Yes. Just a moment’s consideration of what went on before the 24 election regarding Trump and the Lawfare aimed at him should show anyone what would happen if he stepped over the line in defying the Fed judges. He has weak party support. If it were a chess game, he is put in check continually.

Posted by: tubal at December 31, 2025 07:46 AM (f6ii3)

95 Yes that is what they hated about the Bush plan is that at some point you had bought yourself out of slavery.
Posted by: r hennigantx

Mind you, they phrase it as "But people will die without this! Why are you so meeeeean?"

And my response: "Because you treat me with contempt and I am returning the favor."

Posted by: NR Pax at December 31, 2025 07:47 AM (svLOV)

96 Is there any marked sane relationship to what they spend versus what they they take in tax revenue?

It’s just mountains of phony baloney confetti-bucks now. The only reason is because “reserve currency”, near as I can tell. Any other countries out there running $38 Trillion in the hole and not subject to IMF “austerity measures”?

Sex change operation for illegal aliens on death row, billions for fraudulent “day care” Somalians, they sure are having a good time while running their bust out operations.

Isn’t it about time for another ill-advised overseas war some place nobody can find on a map? Gotta be something or somewhere the gubbmint can spread “freedom and democracy” ain’t there?

Spin the globe with a blindfold on, see where yer finger lands, c’mon guys!

Posted by: Common Tater at December 31, 2025 07:47 AM (b9poi)

97 Sadly, too many people can't see beyond the fearmongering.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 31, 2025 07:38 AM (ExV1e)
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Which also explains Democrat electoral success in large cities.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 31, 2025 07:48 AM (ooNHr)

98
hunnert

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at December 31, 2025 07:49 AM (xG4kz)

99 91 People routinely refer to some unknown time in the future when Social Security runs out of money.

And yet no one seems to worry about when SNAP, WiC, and AFDC will run out of money.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty
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Right. People paid for SS, Snap and that other crap is commie freebies. They don't worry, Uncle Sam's got them under his arm.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 31, 2025 07:49 AM (bLAch)

100 Trump et al are strictly coloring within the lines in order to avoid the Impeachment Circus that would follow with his defying the court system. This is one hell of a dilemma.
Posted by: tubal at December 31, 2025 07:21 AM (f6ii3)
**
So the crucible can be confronted or not. You can fear another impeachment process (the fourth?) or take action to save your country. The onus of leadership. Decisions that define it.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 31, 2025 07:49 AM (t+TFX)

101 Tampon Timmy, as a white guy, needs to be in prison for not adequately positioning the Somalis for their fraud.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 31, 2025 07:49 AM (3630A)

102

hunnert

or not

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at December 31, 2025 07:49 AM (xG4kz)

103 Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 31, 2025 07:43 AM (a4flb)

Just shows you that many Americans do not like America First Ideas.

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 31, 2025 07:50 AM (gbOdA)

104 Americans Still Jittery Over Fate Of Social Security, But Can’t Agree On How To Fix It: I&I/TIPP Poll

Start by cutting off the lavish guaranteed defined benefit pensions given to every gold brick that puts in 25 years.

Government employees' lavish and care free pensions are so holy and sacred that some states actually make it Constitutional to plunder the working class to keep the damned parasites regular stream secure despite crashing economies and deep public debt. The streets go unpaved and the fire stations close before one dime of pension is cut - and it is unlawful still to not pay that dime - float another bond or loan.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 31, 2025 07:50 AM (a4flb)

105 The thing with social security is they are paying you with wildly inflated dollars when you put in real dollars 20-30 years ago.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 31, 2025 07:46 AM (0N4FZ)
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Benefits are supposed to "increase" with inflation every year. In fact COLAs to government transfer payments are a significant driver of inflation.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 31, 2025 07:50 AM (RIvkX)

106 73 Happy New Year's Eve to all my gray box friends!
Posted by: Grammie Wingers' ipad at December 31, 2025 07:37 AM (SfhV1)

Been thinking about and praying for you! Lost your e-mail address so send me a note when you can.

Happy and above all HEALTHY new year my friend.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 31, 2025 07:50 AM (x0n13)

107 The thing that aggravates me about the judicial coup is this; a judge issues a TRO on case X. It goes through the legal motions and eventually overturned.

Then, another TRO is issued on case Y, which is just like X. And we go through the motions again.

And again. And again.

To use the "coloring within the lines" metaphor... the administration needs to start tearing out some pages of that coloring book.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 31, 2025 07:51 AM (NwnyJ)

108 The rain will start here in an hour or two and won't stop for days.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 31, 2025 07:45 AM (RIvkX)

Our current forecast says that it will never rain again in central Texas. Oddly enough, we're only classified as being in a severe drought. I thought it would be worse than that.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 31, 2025 07:51 AM (ExV1e)

109
And to think that, one year ago, Pam Bondi had yet to unleash the colossal flustercuck of the Epstein documents' release.

She ought to have been fired immediately upon starting that fiasco.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at December 31, 2025 07:53 AM (xG4kz)

110 As an old fart Boomer, i used to give 2 shits about the federal budget and all the vote buying freebies and other programs designed to enslave. After years and years of worrying and expressing solutions blah blah blah I finally said fuck it.

I mooch as much as possible now and will until I croak. When I get a few years older I will max out evey credit card too and blow it on hookers and blow and ain't paying shit back. No heirs so fuck them too.

Posted by: Old Fart Boomer at December 31, 2025 07:54 AM (LwmOS)

111 Thank you JJ I will try to do that later today. 6 hours of chemo yesterday so I am a little wobbly.

I don't know how in the world you managed The Morning Report while in treatment. What a warrior you are.

Posted by: Grammie Wingers' ipad at December 31, 2025 07:55 AM (SfhV1)

112 People routinely refer to some unknown time in the future when Social Security runs out of money.

And yet no one seems to worry about when SNAP, WiC, and AFDC will run out of money.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 31, 2025 07:46 AM (2Ez/1)

SS is, officially, separately funded. As long as the taxes are collected it won't "run out of money" but it will be unable to pay the entire promised benefit without getting additional money from the regular tax base.

The other things cannot run out of money because Congress said that people are 'entitled' to those benefits. Dems will cut spending on absolutely everything else (except, of course, pay and bennies for feds) before they stop paying those things.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 31, 2025 07:55 AM (ExV1e)

113 MEASLES

Not just in Jerseey and Boston airports. Denver International Airport had an infectious measles passenger earlier this month.

https://is.gd/7ZesLU

Posted by: muldoon at December 31, 2025 07:55 AM (/iMjX)

114 In New York and Illinois, where static conformity laws would have caused the tax cuts to automatically transfer into the state tax code, the states are requiring an “add-back” for any deductions related to taxes on tips or overtime in order to protect revenue streams.

Ever notice that the People (D) running on we are For the People never miss an opportunity to stick it to the people.

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 31, 2025 07:55 AM (gbOdA)

115 Mornin’, All. Happy New Year’s Eve.

Posted by: Bulg at December 31, 2025 07:56 AM (77rzZ)

116 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at December 31, 2025 07:56 AM (53oGX)

117 This country was founded by a bunch of dudes so pissed off at getting taxed an extra $0.00001 on their tea bags and forever stamps that they ran out into a field with the family muzzleloader and picked a fight with the world's biggest and deadliest military empire.

And then, somehow, inexplicably, the act of beating the everloving cabbage farts out of Germany twice in one lifetime, and dropping a small star on Japan on the side for funsies, made everyone so pissed off at the thought ever having to fight anyone, anywhere, over anything, ever again, that we all agreed to construct a National Rope, to rival the space elevators in every sci fi novelist's fever dream, up which to piss every penny of wealth we could possibly generate.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 31, 2025 07:56 AM (06Hmj)

118 Mind you, they phrase it as "But people will die without this! Why are you so meeeeean?"

And my response: "Because you treat me with contempt and I am returning the favor."
Posted by: NR Pax at December 31, 2025 07:47 AM (svLOV)

I find it sadly amusing the number of people who reach SS age only to find out that "SS was never intended to entirely fund retirement" and that, having saved nothing over their working years, they're not in a good place.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 31, 2025 07:57 AM (ExV1e)

119 Eric Swallwell strikes me as the ultimate jackass.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 31, 2025 07:57 AM (xeLtb)

120 Tampon Timmy, as a white guy, needs to be in prison for not adequately positioning the Somalis for their fraud.

The tampons in the boy's restrooms is to staunch the bleeding of the victims anally raped in MN's schools.

So see, Timmy really cares.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 31, 2025 07:57 AM (a4flb)

121 So the crucible can be confronted or not. You can fear another impeachment process (the fourth?) or take action to save your country. The onus of leadership. Decisions that define it.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 31, 2025 07:49 AM (t+TFX)

Easy to say when you're not the one who'll pay the price.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 31, 2025 07:58 AM (ExV1e)

122 Is there any marked sane relationship to what they spend versus what they they take in tax revenue?
====

Not at all. Tax policy is purely social policy and has no element of fiscal policy.

Revenues are not, but should be, considered when planning spending. The reality is that spending also has no relationship to fiscal policy.

The difference is funded by borrowing and by inflating the money supply.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 31, 2025 07:58 AM (RIvkX)

123
I find it sadly amusing the number of people who reach SS age only to find out that "SS was never intended to entirely fund retirement" and that, having saved nothing over their working years, they're not in a good place.

Posted by: I used to have a different ni

"Call 'A Place for Doofuses' at your local Somali daycare center! Operators are standing by!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at December 31, 2025 07:59 AM (xG4kz)

124 Start by cutting off the lavish guaranteed defined benefit pensions given to every gold brick that puts in 25 years.

I don't think that the federal government has that anymore. What states do is states problem. The rest of us shouldn't bail them out, though.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 31, 2025 08:00 AM (ExV1e)

125 >>>INGERSOLL: Someone Forgot To Send Tim Walz The Memo. Blaming Whitey Doesn’t Work Anymore

You know you're over a target very important to the Democrats, when all DNC Flak Divisionen are firing Race Card Flak shells at you as fast as the Democrat-Media Complex troops can load and fire their TV, YouTube, and Internet guns!

JJ, thank you for your terrific work for us in 2025! Wishing you a Happy and Healthy 2026!

Posted by: Gref at December 31, 2025 08:00 AM (5rh/l)

126 I find it sadly amusing the number of people who reach SS age only to find out that "SS was never intended to entirely fund retirement" and that, having saved nothing over their working years, they're not in a good place.

That is why there are myriads of other programs out there. Didn't save for your retirement? Pissed it all away on drugs and tattoos? Don't worry, we'll rob your neighbor so we can cut your utility bills and give you a free phone and data plan. Lets move you into free housing and get you on Medicaid so that you don't have any medical bills. Hungry? We got you covered, pick a plan, they will all allow you to scam your way into morbid obesity and diabetes and have money left over for cigarettes and pr0n.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 31, 2025 08:01 AM (a4flb)

127
That's Command Sergeant Major Walz to you, peasant!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at December 31, 2025 08:02 AM (xG4kz)

128 I find it amusing that people worry about SS. It will continue as along as America continues. On the other hand Snap and that crap will be discontinued; able bodied persons will have to put there Doritoes down and go to work. When that happens a lot of things will change for the better.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 31, 2025 08:02 AM (bLAch)

129 Ever notice that the People (D) running on we are For the People never miss an opportunity to stick it to the people.
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 31, 2025 07:55 AM (gbOdA)

And, yet, most of those people getting stuck will likely vote Democrat.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 31, 2025 08:02 AM (ExV1e)

130 Start by cutting off the lavish guaranteed defined benefit pensions given to every gold brick that puts in 25 years.

I don't think that the federal government has that anymore. What states do is states problem.

The rest of us shouldn't bail them out, though.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

And there in lies the problem. States know the feral government WILL bail them out.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 31, 2025 08:05 AM (QGRvm)

131 Later, another employee replied, “Can you make sure no suppression impacts at skull rock please”—a spot along the Temescal Ridge Trail near the fire’s point of origin. In another exchange, the employee voiced concern about “isolated astragalus scattered about on some rock outcrops along that south portion of the trail.”

In a just world these people would be named and shamed for picking plants over people.

And isn't astragalus non-native species?

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 31, 2025 08:05 AM (gbOdA)

132 Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 31, 2025 07:56 AM (06Hmj)

Great summation in pure poetry

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 31, 2025 08:05 AM (3Ope8)

133 Will 2026 be the year The Gods of the Copybook Headings return?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 31, 2025 08:06 AM (zNwXb)

134 And, yet, most of those people getting stuck will likely vote Democrat.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 31, 2025 08:02 AM (ExV1e)

- We'll give you everything you want for free
- Ohhh, sorry, we'd love to but we can't because your greedy asshole neighbor spent all the money in the world on a mid-sized sedan to get to work and on their awful straight, white kids.
- Don't you just hate that bastard, though? Seriously, someone should do something.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 31, 2025 08:06 AM (06Hmj)

135 It's getting to the point that I just look at the headlines and don't read most of the stories. Seems nothing is getting done against the evildoers in our government. Just have to get used to it, I guess.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 31, 2025 07:14 AM (uQesX)

Same here. I often wonder why I bother coming on AoS during the week at all, when I always end up even more depressed and angry than usual. Which is not the fault of Ace, the cob-loggers or the Horde; it's my sure and certain knowledge that there is no bottom and no point at which the American public will finally revolt.

From my admittedly limited POV, Trump seems to think that a roaring economy will cure all ills. But all it will do is give the left a bigger pot of gold to plunder. I would gladly pay $10/gallon gas if I could see Comey, Scankles, Swallwell, MConnell, &c. given the Ceaucescu treatment.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 31, 2025 08:06 AM (ufSfZ)

136
I do hope that April Walz has another year of filming her opinions worthy of sharing with us over a heaping bowl of Sponge Bob mac-n-cheese. She's found her niche.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at December 31, 2025 08:06 AM (xG4kz)

137 I mooch as much as possible now and will until I croak. When I get a few years older I will max out evey credit card too and blow it on hookers and blow and ain't paying shit back. No heirs so fuck them too.

Seems reasonable, especially since the Mills and Z demand I pay off their individual six figure college debt.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 31, 2025 08:07 AM (a4flb)

138 Where my EBT card? I need me some mo Doritos, HoHos and grape Nehi.

Posted by: LaQuisha at December 31, 2025 08:07 AM (2Ez/1)

139 Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 31, 2025 07:35 AM
___________

C'mon. The Declaration of Independence is a list of grievances against George III for trampling on the rights of Englishmen enjoyed in their home country. Edmund Burke, the father of modern conservatism, was at the time defending our revolution in Parliament largely on those grounds.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 31, 2025 08:07 AM (XvL8K)

140 I would gladly pay $10/gallon gas if I could see Comey, Scankles, Swallwell, MConnell, &c. given the Ceaucescu treatment.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

Make it a Pay Per View event and our budget problems would be solved.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 31, 2025 08:08 AM (svLOV)

141 The rain will start here in an hour or two and won't stop for days.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 31, 2025 07:45 AM (RIvkX)

See! I told you. I just had the date wrong. Can I keep your money?

Posted by: Nigerian Profit at December 31, 2025 08:08 AM (uQesX)

142 >>> it's my sure and certain knowledge that there is no bottom and no point at which the American public will finally revolt.
----

We're all going to die.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 31, 2025 08:08 AM (bLAch)

143 it's my sure and certain knowledge that there is no bottom and no point at which the American public will finally revolt.

Hold on there, I'm not giving up my role as President of the AoSHQ Black Pilled Chapter so easily.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 31, 2025 08:08 AM (a4flb)

144 This filthy piece of shit needs to be ______________ you complete the sentence, just be discreet!

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... trebucheted over The Great Wall of China and into the prison camp known as North Korea. Either that or hang-hanged ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Lustration Great Again! at December 31, 2025 08:09 AM (QbCrG)

145 Happy New Year's Eve to all my gray box friends!
Posted by: Grammie Wingers' ipad at December 31, 2025 07:37 AM (SfhV1)
*******
Happy New Year's Eve, grammie.
Been praying for you!

Posted by: redridinghood at December 31, 2025 08:09 AM (NpAcC)

146 I find it amusing that people worry about SS. It will continue as along as America continues. On the other hand Snap and that crap will be discontinued
——-

You’re smoking your socks if you think they won’t inflate away the purchasing power. Or put another way they can save the dollar or they can save the markets. They can’t save both.

Put yet even another way, if it comes down to it, they will also throw Social Security recipients under the bus. Mainly because they are too old to riot. Think about it. They have already set the stage, we’re just waiting for the show to begin.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 31, 2025 08:10 AM (b9poi)

147 On the other hand Snap and that crap will be discontinued; able bodied persons will have to put there Doritoes down and go to work. When that happens a lot of things will change for the better.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 31, 2025 08:02 AM (bLAch)

Seems to me a big old reconciliation bill with 364 day limits with 60 day cooling off to reapply would help.

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 31, 2025 08:10 AM (gbOdA)

148 I wandered over to utube and got stuck watching an F47 video, because I am a sucker for F47 videos. Airplanes are looking more like science fiction inventions all the time.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 31, 2025 08:13 AM (yiwg4)

149 C'mon. The Declaration of Independence is a list of grievances against George III for trampling on the rights of Englishmen enjoyed in their home country. Edmund Burke, the father of modern conservatism, was at the time defending our revolution in Parliament largely on those grounds.

OK, so you are also totally unfamiliar with:

Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine and their disagreements as chronicled in "Reflections" and "Rights of Man".

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 31, 2025 08:13 AM (a4flb)

150 We're all going to die.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 31, 2025 08:08 AM (bLAch)

Eventually.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 31, 2025 08:13 AM (ExV1e)

151 "The Masks Are Off
Carlson and Owens have become leading Western apologists for Islam."

"Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene: Shameless Political Chameleon
"College-educated, affluent suburban women — that’s who I am."

I haven't even rung in the New Year with champagne and I already want to puke.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 31, 2025 08:13 AM (NpAcC)

152 Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey seems like even more of an effeminate weirdo fey loser than Tim Walz. He makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 31, 2025 08:16 AM (8CIFn)

153
Lord, the pitiful screams
Of all them college-educated women...
Boy, he'd just be tyin' 'em up
They'd be all bound down!
Just be pumpin' every one of 'em up with all the bag fulla

The Illinois Enema Bandit Juice

Posted by: Guy who relates everything to a Zappa song at December 31, 2025 08:16 AM (vFG9F)

154 “College-educated, affluent suburban women — that’s who I am”
——

Democracy, Universal Suffrage - a huge mistake

Posted by: Common Tater at December 31, 2025 08:16 AM (b9poi)

155 I am an anal fistula.

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 31, 2025 08:17 AM (C4wQ6)

156 I mooch as much as possible now and will until I croak. When I get a few years older I will max out evey credit card too and blow it on hookers and blow and ain't paying shit back. No heirs so fuck them too.

Seems reasonable, especially since the Mills and Z demand I pay off their individual six figure college debt.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 31, 2025 08:07 AM (a4flb)

Is it immoral to take every benefit the government offers? I don't think so. Therefore I have no qualms about qualifying for the EIC because of our lower income and still dependent kid. Did you know if you're retired and taking SS, any dependent child under 18 gets a check too? (it doesn't come out of their future benefits, either) So, I take them. Had you let me have my own money, I could have saved or not and sold the house and hied to the Philippines and lived on a lot less.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 31, 2025 08:17 AM (uQesX)

157 Eric Swallwell strikes me as the ultimate jackass.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 31, 2025 07:57 AM (xeLtb)
========================
A nominee certainly. Maybe today Ace can sort out which Congress critter is the biggest jackass, or at least guide us towards a better appreciation for "how insane and stupid got so rich".

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 31, 2025 08:17 AM (yiwg4)

158 Today is also, National Champagne Day. 🍾🥂

Posted by: redridinghood at December 31, 2025 08:18 AM (NpAcC)

159 I know one must face reality but I find I'm happier when I ignore Tucker and Candy. Has Candy accused herself of murdering Charlie Kirk yet?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 31, 2025 08:18 AM (8CIFn)

160 Swallwell is too much of a non-entity to ever be the ultimate anything.

He might be the penultimate jackass, though.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 31, 2025 08:18 AM (06Hmj)

161 "Today is also, National Champagne Day."

I'll drink to that!

Posted by: Guy who will drink to anything at December 31, 2025 08:19 AM (vFG9F)

162 Islamic Republic of Iran Says it’s in a ‘Total War’

Islamic Republic of Iran Says it’s in a ‘Overall War’

Islamic Republic of Iran Says it’s in a ‘Unlimited War’

I should go to Iran as a copywriter as there are much stronger adjectives than Total.

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 31, 2025 08:19 AM (gbOdA)

163 The ASS guide to making hallucinogens in Mom's basement is going to be a publishing hit.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 31, 2025 08:19 AM (+GEEr)

164 I would gladly pay $10/gallon gas if I could see Comey, Scankles, Swallwell, MConnell, &c. given the Ceaucescu treatment.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 31, 2025 08:06 AM (ufSfZ)

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Trump is 0 for 4 on AG picks thus far in his two terms (including Gaetz, who might have been the best of the sorry lot).

I think someone like former Missouri Attorney General (and current US Senator) Eric Schmitt or maybe Ken Paxton out of Texas may have been fearless & effective -- or even someone who was personally f*cked by the Deep State (with a chip on their shoulder) like Rudy Giuliani, but what do I know?

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Lustration Great Again! at December 31, 2025 08:20 AM (QbCrG)

165 OK, so you are also totally unfamiliar with:

Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine and their disagreements as chronicled in "Reflections" and "Rights of Man".
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure
__________

Paine was defending the French Revolution, not ours. And he was obviously wrong in that.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 31, 2025 08:20 AM (XvL8K)

166 Got a laugh out of the article about Bari Weiss where George Clooney says "he's concerned for his country" . He and his anti Semite wife have become French citizens and moved there permanently. Le fuck off George

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 31, 2025 08:20 AM (zNwXb)

167 >>>The Illinois Enema Bandit Juice

Posted by: Guy who relates everything to a Zappa song

>Now do Yoko Ono.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 31, 2025 08:20 AM (nljXp)

168 Overall War? Dickies vs Carhartt?

Posted by: fd at December 31, 2025 08:20 AM (vFG9F)

169 111 Thank you JJ I will try to do that later today. 6 hours of chemo yesterday so I am a little wobbly.

I don't know how in the world you managed The Morning Report while in treatment. What a warrior you are.
Posted by: Grammie Wingers' ipad at December 31, 2025 07:55 AM (SfhV1)

God bless and keep you!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 31, 2025 08:21 AM (x0n13)

170 ">Now do Yoko Ono.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone"

Not even with John Lennon's zombie dick

Posted by: fd at December 31, 2025 08:21 AM (vFG9F)

171 Hoping 2026 is the year that sees the religious fascists in Tehran swept away and the Iranian people freed.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 31, 2025 08:21 AM (RIvkX)

172 Swallwell is too much of a non-entity to ever be the ultimate anything.

He might be the penultimate jackass, though.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 31, 2025 08:18 AM (06Hmj)

Or the antepenultimate, even.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 31, 2025 08:21 AM (uQesX)

173 164 Hasn’t Giuliani become an alcoholic?

Posted by: Bulg at December 31, 2025 08:22 AM (77rzZ)

174 168 Overall War? Dickies vs Carhartt?
Posted by: fd at December 31, 2025 08:20 AM (vFG9F)

It's just a little spat.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 31, 2025 08:22 AM (06Hmj)

175 If you want to claim "the economy sucks," explain how it was different a year ago than it is today. That is, did it NOT suck a year ago, or did it just suck worse (therefore has improved).

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 31, 2025 08:22 AM (t+TFX)

176 Overall War? Dickies vs Carhartt?
Posted by: fd at December 31, 2025 08:20 AM (vFG9F)

It's just a little spat.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 31, 2025 08:22 AM (06Hmj)

Just had to shoehorn that in there, didn't you?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 31, 2025 08:23 AM (uQesX)

177 Easy to say when you're not the one who'll pay the price.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 31, 2025 07:58 AM (ExV1e)

Sure, but beside the point. It's true or it isn't true.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 31, 2025 08:24 AM (t+TFX)

178 Overall War? Dickies vs Carhartt?
Posted by: fd

Carhartt > Dickies

Duluth Trading > Carhartt

Posted by: rickb223 at December 31, 2025 08:24 AM (QGRvm)

179 What's all this about the horn gets blown at midnight?

Posted by: Captain Horatio Hornblower at December 31, 2025 08:24 AM (wVcYX)

180 No JJ the economy sucks and ordinary working Americans know it.
===

What are you complaining about, you just made 50 cents.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 31, 2025 08:24 AM (RIvkX)

181 People are not fleeing for nothing – either because their countries are economically dysfunctional, because there is war or because of oppression. These are dysfunctional states, and the people who come from these states usually do not have the education, knowledge and experience necessary to be successful on the German labor market. This explains why these groups are so overrepresented in social assistance statistics,”

I have heard this story from another country.

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 31, 2025 08:25 AM (gbOdA)

182 If you want to claim "the economy sucks," explain how it was different a year ago than it is today. That is, did it NOT suck a year ago, or did it just suck worse (therefore has improved).
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 31, 2025 08:22 AM (t+TFX)

Blow jobs under the bridge only pay $15 now. So, his economy is worse than last year.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 31, 2025 08:25 AM (uQesX)

183 171 Hoping 2026 is the year that sees the religious fascists in Tehran swept away and the Iranian people freed.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 31, 2025 08:21 AM (RIvkX)

Indeed! What comes after is still a big mystery but if the Mullahocracy is swept aside, that would be a pretty big deal.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 31, 2025 08:25 AM (x0n13)

184 Trump is a Reformer not a Revolutionary. Our side does not have Revolutionaries.

Posted by: tubal at December 31, 2025 08:25 AM (f6ii3)

185 ThePersistence
@ScottPresler
“Did you know that in 2008 more than 500,000 voters

— or nearly 19% of all voters in Minnesota —

registered on Election Day?

Did you know that former Senator Al Franken was elected by 312 votes?”

https://tinyurl.com/564swv3w

Posted by: redridinghood at December 31, 2025 08:26 AM (NpAcC)

186 “ When you pass through the waters,
I will be with you;
and when you pass through the rivers,
they will not sweep over you.
When you walk through the fire,
you will not be burned;
the flames will not set you ablaze.”

Isaiah 43:2

Posted by: Marcus T at December 31, 2025 08:26 AM (Jl/ju)

187 From my admittedly limited POV, Trump seems to think that a roaring economy will cure all ills. But all it will do is give the left a bigger pot of gold to plunder.

Trump clearly is not a linear thinker.

While stimulating as much productivity into the system, he is very aware and actively working to defund the Left leaving the monsters who plunder the system without the means to rule pretending to be a majority when they are not.

Other miracles are occurring too:

For one, much to RFK's chagrin, the massive increase in Autism isn't from vaccines and Tylenol, but Somalian-styled fraud.

Yeeting Somalians from the welfare rolls and physically from this country also reduces foreign wars and terrorism while saving us tens of billions!

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 31, 2025 08:26 AM (a4flb)

188 "Today is also, National Champagne Day."

I'm out of champagne and I expect all the liquor stores around me are, too. But I would give nearly anything to share a bottle of Veuve Cliquot with a lovely lady to make me forget myself and start the new year off right.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 31, 2025 08:26 AM (ufSfZ)

189 I'm staunchly propenultimate.

Posted by: It's like a Greek Yogurt at December 31, 2025 08:26 AM (2Ez/1)

190 My folks always watched Guy Lombardo on New Year’s Eve.

Posted by: Bulg at December 31, 2025 08:26 AM (77rzZ)

191 The American Economy is, and has been for a while, like a Ferrari that was commandeered by a village full of idiots to be the town car, and some asshole put the emergency brake on and broke the handle off, but no one cares because it ain't theirs so screw it, just rev it harder, it'll keep going. Don't worry about the smell.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 31, 2025 08:26 AM (06Hmj)

192 Tried to post a picture of Clara Bow in a negligee with that last, but tinyurl isn't working for me today.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 31, 2025 08:26 AM (ufSfZ)

193 t's just a little spat.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 31, 2025 08:22 AM (06Hmj)

Just had to shoehorn that in there, didn't you?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 31, 2025 08:23 AM (uQesX)

It's not that black and white.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 31, 2025 08:27 AM (3Ope8)

194 Speaking of moving to France, the English TV series starring Clive Owen about a retired Sam Spade moving to the south of France, is decent. He was married and then widowed, and then goes about solving a local mystery. It's called "Monsieur Spade".

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 31, 2025 08:27 AM (vyvuF)

195 No JJ the economy sucks and ordinary working Americans know it.
====

You really need to be better. Your trolling sucks.

No passion.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 31, 2025 08:28 AM (RIvkX)

196 My folks always watched Guy Lombardo on New Year’s Eve.
Posted by: Bulg at December 31, 2025 08:26 AM (77rzZ)

Used to watch The Tonight Show on NYE. There's nothing good to do anymore.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 31, 2025 08:28 AM (uQesX)

197 That's so meaningful Marcus T. Thank you for that powerful passage. Happp New Year !

Posted by: Grammie Wingers' ipad at December 31, 2025 08:28 AM (SfhV1)

198 Happy New Year's Eve to all my gray box friends!
Posted by: Grammie Wingers' ipad at December 31, 2025 07:37 AM (SfhV1)

So very good to see you, Grammie! Happy New Year's Eve to you and the Rev as well.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 31, 2025 08:28 AM (wVcYX)

199 I've blown a few horns at midnight.

Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at December 31, 2025 08:28 AM (2Ez/1)

200 No passion.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

He knows that he's going to be mocked and his statements edited. Hard to stay passionate with trolling knowing that.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 31, 2025 08:29 AM (svLOV)

201 With a few exceptions, the AG spot at DoJ is a political one. Bondi's a politician, not a law enforcement officer. She doesn't even really try to be one.

There are some people who'll say they support her efforts to reform the DoJ. I'd like to know, specifically, what those efforts are and whether they are being successful. An on the cuff analysis seems to be mixed.

If, as some suggest, the DoJ is as corrupt as they say, then perhaps someone with a more forceful personality would be a better fit at Justice. I think Bondi's timid. A politician in a cut-throat position who's having some difficulty reigning in her charge.

There are other women in the administration that don't seem to be having the same issues in their respective positions.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 31, 2025 08:30 AM (NwnyJ)

202 Thank you Count. I hope 2026 is good to you

Posted by: Grammie Wingers' ipad at December 31, 2025 08:30 AM (SfhV1)

203 Amen Grammie. Amen. God is good. New Years blessings to all. Never give up. Never quit.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 31, 2025 08:30 AM (Jl/ju)

204 It's just a little spat.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 31, 2025 08:22 AM (06Hmj)

Just had to shoehorn that in there, didn't you?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 31, 2025 08:23 AM (uQesX)

It's not that black and white.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 31, 2025 08:27 AM (3Ope

And that buttons it all up.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 31, 2025 08:30 AM (uQesX)

205 Sam Spade license # 137596

Posted by: Common Tater at December 31, 2025 08:31 AM (b9poi)

206 I've blown a few horns at midnight.
Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at December 31, 2025 08:28 AM (2Ez/1)
====================
A tip of the Follywood cap to that outstanding post.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 31, 2025 08:31 AM (vyvuF)

207 Overall War? Dickies vs Carhartt?
Posted by: fd

*********

Sound the battle cry:

"Remember Oshkosh, B'Gosh!"

Posted by: muldoon at December 31, 2025 08:31 AM (/iMjX)

208 Great to see you grammie!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 31, 2025 08:32 AM (vyvuF)

209 Marcus - I have that quote on a tote bag.

Off I go - morning nap. God bless you all

Posted by: Grammie Wingers' ipad at December 31, 2025 08:32 AM (SfhV1)

210 He knows that he's going to be mocked and his statements edited. Hard to stay passionate with trolling knowing that.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 31, 2025 08:29 AM (svLOV)

I just wonder if he stays around to read any replies? It's got to fry him, if he does, when he finds himself with a mouthful of shit pebbles.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 31, 2025 08:32 AM (uQesX)

211 It's just a little spat.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 31, 2025 08:22 AM

Just had to shoehorn that in there, didn't you?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 31, 2025 08:23 AM

+++

Sock it to me.

Posted by: Goldie Hawn at December 31, 2025 08:32 AM (2Ez/1)

212 "the economy sucks and ordinary working Americans know it."

Somalians, however....

Posted by: fd at December 31, 2025 08:33 AM (vFG9F)

213 It's just a little spat.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 31, 2025 08:22 AM

Just had to shoehorn that in there, didn't you?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 31, 2025 08:23 AM

+++

Sock it to me.
Posted by: Goldie Hawn at December 31, 2025 08:32 AM (2Ez/1)

Verrrry interrrrresting.

Posted by: Artie Johnson at December 31, 2025 08:34 AM (wVcYX)

214 Sock it to me.
Posted by: Goldie Hawn at December 31, 2025 08:32 AM (2Ez/1)

Sock it to me?*

*Fun fact: Rowan and Martin were Nixon supporters.

Posted by: Richard Nixon at December 31, 2025 08:35 AM (uQesX)

215 New Year's Eve is a hollowed-out husk since 1977 when Guy Lombardo passed away.

Thank you JJ, for another year of Morning Reports. Starts my weekdays off on the right foot. Which then gets ruined by mostly bad "Art".

Posted by: Lenny's Clam Bar at December 31, 2025 08:36 AM (oftw2)

216 Paine was defending the French Revolution, not ours. And he was obviously wrong in that.

Paine's pamphlets contributed mightily to the creation of this nation's charter. Starting with "Common Sense" that was pivotal in the rallying support for independence and that the government should derive its authority from the people not monarchy or hereditary privilege.

Though he did whine a bit about the 1787 Constitution for being too conservative and elitist.

I also would not want him on the SCOTUS because he rejected "originalism". We have enough "living document" types on the bench now.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 31, 2025 08:36 AM (a4flb)

217 Speaking of moving to France, the English TV series starring Clive Owen about a retired Sam Spade moving to the south of France, is decent. He was married and then widowed, and then goes about solving a local mystery. It's called "Monsieur Spade".
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 31, 2025

***
That sounds imaginative. Will the idea support multiple episodes, though? I expect there aren't 22, but maybe 6 or 7?

Spade's main adventure, Maltese Falcon, was published in '29, so probably set in '28. This series, I guess, would be in the Thirties, before the war?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 31, 2025 08:36 AM (wzUl9)

218 Beautiful downtown Burbank

Posted by: Bulg at December 31, 2025 08:36 AM (77rzZ)

219 Girl F. sending video of New Year's fireworks in Sydney. They are spectacular!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 31, 2025 08:37 AM (RIvkX)

220 >>Americans Still Jittery Over Fate Of Social Security, But Can’t Agree On How To Fix It:

Social Security started to become illiquid when Congress allowed illegal aliens, and aliens with temporary status access to the funds. They also allowed immigrants the ability to put people like their sick parents on SSDI. Take a look at the legislation Congress passed, the look at the chart of solvency.

SSDI is also a huge fraud vector. When someone finally digs down on that scam it’s going to be trillions. There are doctors and fake medical establishments who funnel people into that system.

So you want to know how to make SS solvent? There you go. Pretty easy, even an internet guy can do it.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 31, 2025 08:37 AM (Jl/ju)

221 There's always watching the ball drop. Might have more significance this year.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 31, 2025 08:38 AM (sDNVV)

222 Good morning! Ready to say goodbye to 2025, altho for me it was pretty great overall, I know for many it was trying.

2026 LET'S GOOOOOO

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 31, 2025 08:38 AM (emBoF)

223 Let the record show: I was not a crook.

Posted by: Tricky Dick at December 31, 2025 08:38 AM (2Ez/1)

224 737 and thru da links

Today, December 31, 2025, is the sixth day of Kwanzaa
Ima get me a pimp cup of VSOP.

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 31, 2025 08:38 AM (gbOdA)

225 >>Yeeting Somalians from the welfare rolls and physically from this country also reduces foreign wars and terrorism while saving us tens of billions!
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure
---

Tell that to Nicole Shanahan whose child developed autism within a week of being vaccinated.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 31, 2025 08:38 AM (bLAch)

226 I just made some sausage gravy so thick you can stand a spoon in it. I may need to thin it a bit. Biscuits built into the mix.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 31, 2025 08:39 AM (nljXp)

227 Grammie, that’s great. Take care of yourself.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 31, 2025 08:39 AM (Jl/ju)

228 Spade's main adventure, Maltese Falcon, was published in '29, so probably set in '28. This series, I guess, would be in the Thirties, before the war?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 31, 2025 08:36 AM (wzUl9)

And, after being run out of Europe by Poirot, changed his name to Rick, and took up residence in Caseblanca.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 31, 2025 08:39 AM (uQesX)

229 Speaking of moving to France, the English TV series starring Clive Owen about a retired Sam Spade moving to the south of France, is decent. He was married and then widowed, and then goes about solving a local mystery. It's called "Monsieur Spade".
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 31, 2025

***
Oh, no, I see it's set in 1963, and Spade is now sixty. That sounds about right; he would have been around twenty-five at the time of the Falcon adventure.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 31, 2025 08:39 AM (wzUl9)

230 CBS News conducted its own analysis of nearly a dozen day care centers mentioned by Shirley: all but two have active licenses, according to state records, and all active locations were visited by state regulators within the last six months. CBS News' review also found dozens of citations related to safety, cleanliness, equipment, and staff training, among other violations, but there was no recorded evidence of fraud.

.. the memes write themselves

Posted by: SMOD at December 31, 2025 08:39 AM (RHGPo)

231 207 Overall War? Dickies vs Carhartt?
Posted by: fd

Liberty Overalls was a long-time sponsor of Hee-Haw. Most of the cast wore them. Buck Owens usually wore his backwards, which must have been a challenge to pee in.

Posted by: Button Fly Bobby at December 31, 2025 08:40 AM (oftw2)

232 ...make me forget myself and start the new year off right.

With a hangover?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 31, 2025 08:40 AM (a4flb)

233 My folks always watched Guy Lombardo on New Year’s Eve.

Guy Lombardo was a hydroplane racer, and once held the world water speed record -- although the Lake Saint Clair Roostertail crowd say he was a little overcautious in race traffic.

He was a major racetrack investor on Long Island when there were such things, and helped put together the financing for the speedway at Daytona. Auld Lang Syne was very good to him.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 31, 2025 08:41 AM (zdLoL)

234 Trump Admin Freezes All Childcare Payments To Minnesota As Somali Daycare Scandal Goes Viral

And yes the left is absolutely dying on this hill

Posted by: SMOD at December 31, 2025 08:41 AM (RHGPo)

235
Democrat Farm Labor Party

__________

Soon to be Democrat Peasant Workers Party

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 31, 2025 08:41 AM (tgvbd)

236 There's always watching the ball drop. Might have more significance this year.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 31, 2025 08:38 AM (sDNVV)
====

When it hits bottom it will turn red and display a hammer & sickle.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 31, 2025 08:41 AM (RIvkX)

237 The first Iron Beam unit just reached operational status, and it's kind of a big deal.
FINALLY, Jewish Space Lasers

We all know JJ has one in space already that he uses to make CBD's brisket get overdone.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 31, 2025 08:42 AM (3ha+O)

238
221 There's always watching the ball drop. Might have more significance this year.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 31, 2025 08:38 AM

Or a Moon Pie:

https://tinyurl.com/58mcdwdn

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 31, 2025 08:42 AM (2Ez/1)

239

Happy Schvanzaa.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 31, 2025 08:43 AM (x0n13)

240 This is just sad.
Republicans are just not getting out to vote.
The midterms could be really ugly.

Iowa Democrat wins state Senate seat, blocking GOP from regaining supermajority in state legislature

https://tinyurl.com/5a66nh5h

Posted by: redridinghood at December 31, 2025 08:43 AM (NpAcC)

241 Somalians, however....
Posted by: fd at December 31, 2025 08:33 AM (vFG9F)

It is kid of a jarring juxtaposition, isn't it?

America, and the West in general more or less, has this weird, nearly mystical obsession with this strange, abstract thing we call "The Economy", as if it were a self contained object with its own intensive and extensive properties, and lives and breathes on its own to be poked and prodded and studied and manipulated like it were an elephant or a bridge. The legacy of Adam Smith I assume.

A Somali has pretty much no conception of such a creature. You have stuff. You suck at protecting your stuff. He takes your stuff. Now he has stuff. You go out and make more stuff. You suck at protecting that stuff, too. He takes your stuff again. Now he has more stuff.

There's no "Economy" to talk about in any of that, it's just a bunch of making and taking with no coherence or internal structure of any kind.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 31, 2025 08:43 AM (06Hmj)

242
The Democrats/Commies big defense of the Somali mega-fraud is-

*said with soy-based vocal cords*

"But, but, but, white people commit fraud too."

Welp, I agree.

Lock-up all the white Minnesoturds involved in the fraud as well,

Maybe a close look at Tampon Tim is in order...

Posted by: naturalfake at December 31, 2025 08:43 AM (iJfKG)

243 Oh, no, I see it's set in 1963, and Spade is now sixty. That sounds about right; he would have been around twenty-five at the time of the Falcon adventure.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 31, 2025 08:39 AM (wzUl9)
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The sixties are a good choice as a decade for a world-weary California detective, as it allows both period piece French backgrounds and some skinny dipping in the same series.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 31, 2025 08:43 AM (vyvuF)

244 Hard to get a fed indictment thru a grand jury uns blue state, unless the target is a conservative

Posted by: Jonah at December 31, 2025 08:43 AM (YCxFk)

245 When it hits bottom it will turn red and display a hammer & sickle.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 31, 2025 08:41 AM (RIvkX)

Maybe the new mayor's friends will make it explode?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 31, 2025 08:43 AM (uQesX)

246 Source: Bloomberg

The 'no hire, no fire, no quits' labor market continues.

Posted by: SMOD at December 31, 2025 08:43 AM (RHGPo)

247 Soon to be Democrat Peasant ~~Workers~~ Slaves Party
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 31, 2025 08:41 AM (tgvbd)

fixed it

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 31, 2025 08:43 AM (gbOdA)

248 TCM is running Marx Brothers movies all day.

Posted by: Sanity Clause at December 31, 2025 08:44 AM (oftw2)

249 btw tomorrow is a very important day

big parade around here!

lol I have a good feeling about this year's Mummers I dunno

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 31, 2025 08:44 AM (emBoF)

250 Happy Schvanzaa.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 31, 2025 08:43 AM (x0n13)
================
Laughing over here.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 31, 2025 08:44 AM (vyvuF)

251 Outside of Paxton in TX, what GOP state Ag or states attorney ever goes after a Dem? That is pathetic

Posted by: Jonah at December 31, 2025 08:44 AM (YCxFk)

252 If, as some suggest, the DoJ is as corrupt as they say, then perhaps someone with a more forceful personality would be a better fit at Justice.

We seen some of the clowns in the DOJ, they are getting arrested for interfering in ICE operations.

They look like they are best suited for demeaning scut work and should be assigned some of the most menial and humiliating tasks that have near zero influence on society.

Then go ahead and contract out to law firms and PI agencies that could provide based talent to go do the things that do matter.

If we are pissing away tens of billions on Quality Leaning, and have already made the argument for outsourcing (eg. H1B) we can certainly afford to rent outside DOJ skill positions on a performance metric and start tearing down the Left's institutions.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 31, 2025 08:45 AM (a4flb)

253 lol I have a good feeling about this year's Mummers I dunno
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 31, 2025 08:44 AM (emBoF)

Quietest damn parade you've ever seen!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 31, 2025 08:45 AM (uQesX)

254
Sarah Hoyt keeps asking there DOGE question, as should we all, esp. when talking with progtards:

"What if the deficit is all fraud?"

Posted by: naturalfake at December 31, 2025 08:46 AM (iJfKG)

255 My wife wants to go to a party tonight. How am I going to do that when some idiot TV guy scheduled OSU and Miami for 7:30 PM tonight?

This is a real problem.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 31, 2025 08:46 AM (vyvuF)

256 Spin the globe with a blindfold on, see where yer finger lands, c’mon guys!"

Hey, what's another $38 T between friends?

Posted by: man at December 31, 2025 08:47 AM (XuXeR)

257 250 Happy Schvanzaa.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 31, 2025 08:43 AM (x0n13)
================
Laughing over here.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 31, 2025 08:44 AM (vyvuF)

Momma of blessed memory coined that phrase.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 31, 2025 08:47 AM (x0n13)

258 Richards X Feed:

@BernieSanders
says he’ll be introducing a national wealth tax to emulate California’s

What do you call this type of dancing? (ghey dudes ass to dick dancing)

Unrealized gains should be taxed Because of the debt loophole; ( I have study this and do not understand how the debt loophole works)

and

So the New York Times has reported that one if the Venezuelan boats has finally washed up on shore and it wasn’t filled with Fentanyl or Cocaine! It had Marijuana

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 31, 2025 08:47 AM (gbOdA)

259 255 My wife wants to go to a party tonight. How am I going to do that when some idiot TV guy scheduled OSU and Miami for 7:30 PM tonight?

This is a real problem.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

###
I'm sitting right here.

Posted by: The DVR at December 31, 2025 08:48 AM (2Ez/1)

260 This is a real problem.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 31, 2025 08:46 AM (vyvuF)

Won't every dude there be watching?

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 31, 2025 08:48 AM (gbOdA)

261 I'm sitting right here.
Posted by: The DVR at December 31, 2025 08:48 AM (2Ez/1)

(wiggles phonephinger)

Call me.

Posted by: Uber/Lyft at December 31, 2025 08:49 AM (uQesX)

262 It's 5 o'clock somewhere...

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 31, 2025 08:49 AM (3Ope8)

263 Sock it to me.
Posted by: Goldie Hawn at December 31, 2025 08:32 AM (2Ez/1)

Sock it to me?*

*Fun fact: Rowan and Martin were Nixon supporters.
Posted by: Richard Nixon at December 31, 2025 08:35 AM (uQesX)

For a season, at least, another R&M catchphrase was "Blow in my ear and I'll follow you anywhere." I've seen Nixon saying that in a clip where he was doing a campaign event with Rowan and Martin.

And I know Judy Carne and Goldie Hawn were the designated hotties on the show, but I had a thing for Jo Ann Worley.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 31, 2025 08:49 AM (ufSfZ)

264 For one, much to RFK's chagrin, the massive increase in Autism isn't from vaccines and Tylenol, but Somalian-styled fraud.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 31, 2025 08:26 AM (a4flb)

It actually can be both (and then even more as well)...and probably is...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 31, 2025 08:49 AM (tOcjL)

265 Kumala has started a "Fight For The People PAC". Please give 'til it hurts!

Posted by: Here's My Donation at December 31, 2025 08:50 AM (oftw2)

266 "But, but, but, white people commit fraud too."

Unfortunately they are mono variable equation "thinkers" who feel that the only path to success is to avoid the low level criminals and only seek the biggest fish - who have an army of lawyers, prosecutors, judges, and shadowy wet workers who make convictions impossible.

That is, don't waste time getting the low hanging fruit, every prosecution should be Mars launches using Right Now resources.

Failure thinking from failure minds.

Go get them all. Use black hoods and white vans to get the big fish who are Too Big To Jail.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 31, 2025 08:50 AM (a4flb)

267 You know who else had a single ball drop?

Posted by: Artie Johnson at December 31, 2025 08:50 AM (wVcYX)

268 The sixties are a good choice as a decade for a world-weary California detective, as it allows both period piece French backgrounds and some skinny dipping in the same series.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 31, 2025

***
And Owen has some of the physical traits Hammett described. Nice that they don't pretend the actor is still thirty-something. I'll have to look for this at the library. They have a slew of TV series on DVD as well as movies.

There was only one Spade novel, and a very few short stories. The latter were written as Hammett slid into his "not writing any more" period. His last novel was The Thin Man -- which is nowhere near the funny charming romp of the Powell-Loy movie or its sequels. As with Falcon, I got bored with TTM the novel early on and took two or three tries to finish it. Maybe I'd appreciate it more now.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 31, 2025 08:50 AM (wzUl9)

269

Blow jobs under the bridge only pay $15 now. So, his economy is worse than last year.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

So, deflation as represented in the post BJ bliss as well as the lower price point for a BJ under the bridge.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 31, 2025 08:50 AM (QVmho)

270 >>>Sarah Hoyt keeps asking there DOGE question, as should we all, esp. when talking with progtards:

"What if the deficit is all fraud?"

Posted by: naturalfake

>Here's one: The economy is all a fraud. BOHICA.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 31, 2025 08:50 AM (nljXp)

271 There's no "Economy" to talk about in any of that, it's just a bunch of making and taking with no coherence or internal structure of any kind.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 31, 2025 08:43 AM (06Hmj)

It is called the Shit Hole Economy. Used by about 55% of the so-called countries today.

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 31, 2025 08:51 AM (gbOdA)

272 And I know Judy Carne and Goldie Hawn were the designated hotties on the show, but I had a thing for Jo Ann Worley.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 31, 2025 08:49 AM (ufSfZ)

Sadly, MP4, she wouldn't have the hots for you. Or any guy, really.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 31, 2025 08:51 AM (uQesX)

273 Odious Debt

That’ll be great. I can see the “What You Need To Know” headlines already.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 31, 2025 08:51 AM (b9poi)

274

Morgo the Friendly Drelm...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 31, 2025 08:51 AM (x0n13)

275 252 If, as some suggest, the DoJ is as corrupt as they say, then perhaps someone with a more forceful personality would be a better fit at Justice.

We seen some of the clowns in the DOJ, they are getting arrested for interfering in ICE operations.

They look like they are best suited for demeaning scut work and should be assigned some of the most menial and humiliating tasks that have near zero influence on society.

Then go ahead and contract out to law firms and PI agencies that could provide based talent to go do the things that do matter.

If we are pissing away tens of billions on Quality Leaning, and have already made the argument for outsourcing (eg. H1B) we can certainly afford to rent outside DOJ skill positions on a performance metric and start tearing down the Left's institutions.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 31, 2025 08:45 AM (a4flb)

Feds can't pay enough to the outsourced attorneys.

Harmeet is taking as huge a pay cut as Bongino probably was doing her job now...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 31, 2025 08:51 AM (tOcjL)

276 go OSU

Posted by: Jonah at December 31, 2025 08:51 AM (YCxFk)

277 265 Kumala has started a "Fight For The People PAC". Please give 'til it hurts!
Posted by: Here's My Donation at December 31, 2025 08:50 AM (oftw2)

The blown out old slag should just call it "The Human Fund" for crying out loud.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 31, 2025 08:52 AM (06Hmj)

278 And I know Judy Carne and Goldie Hawn were the designated hotties on the show, but I had a thing for Jo Ann Worley.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 31, 2025 08:49 AM

----
Hey big boy!

Posted by: Ruth Buzzi at December 31, 2025 08:52 AM (2Ez/1)

279 This is just sad.
Republicans are just not getting out to vote.
The midterms could be really ugly.

Iowa Democrat wins state Senate seat, blocking GOP from regaining supermajority in state legislature

https://tinyurl.com/5a66nh5h
Posted by: redridinghood at December 31, 2025 08:43 AM (NpAcC)

That seat was held by a prog that died. It's in the most heavily prog area of the state. It's nothing surprising.

Get ahold of yerself. eeyore.

Posted by: 5 miles to nowhere at December 31, 2025 08:52 AM (G+z4C)

280 That seat was held by a prog that died. It's in the most heavily prog area of the state. It's nothing surprising.

Get ahold of yerself. eeyore.
Posted by: 5 miles to nowhere at December 31, 2025 08:52 AM (G+z4C)

You talking to Masturbatin' Pete? He already does.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 31, 2025 08:54 AM (uQesX)

281
Tried to post a picture of Clara Bow in a negligee with that last, but tinyurl isn't working for me today.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression)

She was smokin hot. Link goes to duck duck go image search results that are sfw. https://is.gd/yILcBR

Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 31, 2025 08:54 AM (QVmho)

282 You know who else had a single ball drop?"

Well, not poor old Goebbels...

Posted by: man at December 31, 2025 08:54 AM (XuXeR)

283 And yes the left is absolutely dying on this hill
Posted by: SMOD

As long as they die die, I'm good with that.

Imagine a world without democrats.
Go on, you can do it!

Posted by: rickb223 at December 31, 2025 08:54 AM (QGRvm)

284 The economy is all a fraud.

FFS the government can't even identify all it's accounts, let alone reconcile them. Yeah, its all fraud.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 31, 2025 08:54 AM (3Ope8)

285 Worley was a lesbo?

Posted by: Bulg at December 31, 2025 08:54 AM (77rzZ)

286 go OSU"

Let's Go Mets!

Er...

Posted by: man at December 31, 2025 08:55 AM (XuXeR)

287 God Bless Grammie. Happy New Year!!

Posted by: Jonah at December 31, 2025 08:55 AM (YCxFk)

288 Chevron is paying a billion dollar fine to shut down its California refinery early, which produces eight percent of the state's gasoline. Imagine the scenario where it is cheaper to shut down a refinery six months early and pay a billion dollars.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 31, 2025 08:55 AM (0U5gm)

289
It actually can be both (and then even more as well)...and probably is...
Posted by: Nova Local
----------

He should go to Nicole Shanahan's site and read her story.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 31, 2025 08:55 AM (bLAch)

290 The whole economy is fraud? A year ago I would not even begin to entertain the notion.

But now....

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 31, 2025 08:55 AM (NwnyJ)

291 And I know Judy Carne and Goldie Hawn were the designated hotties on the show, but I had a thing for Jo Ann Worley.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 31, 2025 08:49 AM

----
Hey big boy!
Posted by: Ruth Buzzi at December 31, 2025 08:52 AM (2Ez/1)

Is this the party to whom I'm speaking?

Posted by: Ernestine at December 31, 2025 08:55 AM (wVcYX)

292 You know who else had a single ball drop?"

Well, not poor old Goebbels...
Posted by: man

Lance Armstrong.

Speaking of Lance Armstrong, do you know who won the first Tour de France?

The 7th German Panzer Division.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 31, 2025 08:55 AM (QGRvm)

293 Worley was a lesbo?
Posted by: Bulg at December 31, 2025 08:54 AM (77rzZ)

I had heard that somewhere, but she was married for a time. Maybe, maybe not.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 31, 2025 08:55 AM (uQesX)

294 Myrna Loy and Theresa Wright were hotties

Posted by: Jonah at December 31, 2025 08:56 AM (YCxFk)

295 Nice to see a football mention here. All is not lost.

Posted by: Don Black at December 31, 2025 08:56 AM (ZxPkt)

296 Myrna Loy and Theresa Wright were hotties
Posted by: Jonah at December 31, 2025 08:56 AM (YCxFk)

You mean Louise Brooks, right?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 31, 2025 08:57 AM (uQesX)

297
Clara Bow?

Hubba hubba.

https://tinyurl.com/4vzb55pd

Posted by: Grandpa Simpson at December 31, 2025 08:57 AM (2Ez/1)

298 NYC just passed the COPA law, and it’s chilling. The city now gives government approved nonprofits first dibs when property owners try to sell

I hope Somali Pirates end up owning 25% of NYC in the next 4 years.

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 31, 2025 08:57 AM (gbOdA)

299 Worley played Jerry Stiller's wife in movie "The Ritz".

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 31, 2025 08:57 AM (bLAch)

300 Myrna Loy had a cute face, but she was too flat-chested.

Posted by: Bulg at December 31, 2025 08:58 AM (77rzZ)

301 Sadly, MP4, she wouldn't have the hots for you. Or any guy, really.

Story of my life.

But Ruth Buzzi was cute when she wasn't done up as Gladys Ormphby.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 31, 2025 08:58 AM (ufSfZ)

302 Football? Pffft... Stars play at 2000. Nothing is lost.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 31, 2025 08:58 AM (3Ope8)

303 Posted by: Don Black at December 31, 2025 08:56 AM (ZxPkt)

See #8

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 31, 2025 08:58 AM (gbOdA)

304 Harmeet is taking as huge a pay cut as Bongino probably was doing her job now...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 31, 2025 08:51 AM (tOcjL)
====

On Andy Ngo's substack he was bragging about a cap she had knitted for Andy.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 31, 2025 08:58 AM (RIvkX)

305 One ringy dingy...

Posted by: Ruth at December 31, 2025 08:59 AM (2Ez/1)

306 Worley had that cheek dimple thing going on.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 31, 2025 08:59 AM (wVcYX)

307 Forget about that party-interferin' OSU/Miami game and watch the glorious

UT VS Michigan game today at 2 pm CST.

Your brain will be glad you did.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 31, 2025 08:59 AM (iJfKG)

308 Sadly, MP4, she wouldn't have the hots for you. Or any guy, really.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

Worley was married to Roger Perry for many years, until Joyce Bulifant stole him away from her. Bulifant had four Hollywood husbands, including James MacArthur. Joyce wrote a book about having Helen Hayes as a MIL.

Posted by: Hollywood Hystery at December 31, 2025 08:59 AM (oftw2)

309 Worley was a lesbo?
Posted by: Bulg at December 31, 2025 08:54 AM (77rzZ)

I had heard that somewhere, but she was married for a time. Maybe, maybe not.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

She was married to Roger Perry for 25 years. But that doesn't mean squat. Anyway, she's still with us. Born 09-06-1937.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 31, 2025 08:59 AM (QGRvm)

310 Clara Bow had an affair with Bela Lugosi.

Posted by: Bulg at December 31, 2025 08:59 AM (77rzZ)

311 Is this the party to whom I'm speaking?

Posted by: Ernestine at December 31, 2025 08:55 AM (wVcYX)
-

You bet your sweet bippy!!!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 31, 2025 09:00 AM (bU1Ea)

312 300 Myrna Loy had a cute face, but she was too flat-chested.
Posted by: Bulg at December 31, 2025 08:58 AM

Wait, wut?

Posted by: Brie Larson at December 31, 2025 09:00 AM (2Ez/1)

313 Kumala has started a "Fight For The People PAC". Please give 'til it hurts!

Should be called the "My Career in Politics is Over, So Fund My Lifestyle For Me PAC."

Posted by: Delurker at December 31, 2025 09:00 AM (xNHSX)

314 Today's birthdays-
Anthony Hopkins, Donna Summer, John Denver, Val Kilmer, Henri Matisse, Donald Trump Jr.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 31, 2025 09:00 AM (NpAcC)

315 Sadly, MP4, she wouldn't have the hots for you. Or any guy, really.

Wiki indicates that she was married to a dude for 25 years.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 31, 2025 09:00 AM (ExV1e)

316 >>Feds can't pay enough to the outsourced attorneys.

>>Harmeet is taking as huge a pay cut as Bongino probably was doing her job now...

Then there's the not so small problem of the left and the courts suing to stop any move like that and at best holding it up for months.

Trumps US Attorney for Minnesota wasn't even sworn in until October 10th because Democrats in Congress have been holding nominations. The DOJ has still managed to charge nearly 100 people in Minnesota and counting.

The problem is not at the DOJ. The problem is with the Senate that refuses to play tough with Democrats and get rid of archaic and abused rules like blue slips. And get rid of the filibuster while they are at it.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 31, 2025 09:00 AM (viF8m)

317 Should be called the "My Career in Politics is Over, So Fund My Lifestyle For Me PAC."

That's Beto's gig!

Posted by: man at December 31, 2025 09:01 AM (XuXeR)

318 Thank you JJ

Up late today. Have a very Happy New Year, all

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 31, 2025 09:02 AM (xT8gx)

319 Lily Tomlin did it better

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 31, 2025 09:02 AM (RIvkX)

320 play tough with Democrats and get rid of archaic and abused rules like blue slips. And get rid of the filibuster while they are at it."

"That's not who we are! "

/whimpers

Posted by: man at December 31, 2025 09:02 AM (XuXeR)

321 288 Chevron is paying a billion dollar fine to shut down its California refinery early, which produces eight percent of the state's gasoline. Imagine the scenario where it is cheaper to shut down a refinery six months early and pay a billion dollars.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 31, 2025 08:55 AM (0U5gm)

The incomprehensible rules about you must store as much finished product as you will make during a shutdown is literally impossible to follow.

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 31, 2025 09:02 AM (gbOdA)

322 And if they commit crimes that they’re going to be charged with crimes, if it’s falsely imprisoning people, if it’s kidnapping, if it’s assault battery, they’re going to be held accountable.

Again, how do we think FDR would have dealt with an elected official/judge that said something like this about the "Japanese Undocumented Workers" in Alaska during WWII?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 31, 2025 09:03 AM (sKqQm)

323 Chevron is paying a billion dollar fine to shut down its California refinery early, which produces eight percent of the state's gasoline. Imagine the scenario where it is cheaper to shut down a refinery six months early and pay a billion dollars.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 31, 2025 08:55 AM (0U5gm)

What's California's plan again?

To be a big, fat, leech-like, Energy Parasite on the rest of the nation?

Or, just go straight 3rd world poverty and burning sticks for light at night?

Posted by: naturalfake at December 31, 2025 09:03 AM (iJfKG)

324 A right-wing Grifter PAC would be called something like:

Stand Up, America!
Rise Up, America!
Sit Down, America!
Touch Your Toes, America!
I Did Not Say Simon Says, America!

Posted by: Delurker at December 31, 2025 09:03 AM (xNHSX)

325 > NYC just passed the COPA law, and it’s chilling. The city now gives government approved nonprofits first dibs when property owners try to sell
----------
I would imagine it will be contested. The legality of it is... questionable at best. But, it's NYC so who knows.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 31, 2025 09:03 AM (NwnyJ)

326 318 You too, Linus.

Posted by: Bulg at December 31, 2025 09:04 AM (77rzZ)

327 So is Walz's role in this scandal the reason he was "chosen" for VP? Was it a signal to certain patrons that access was about to get a whole lot better??

Posted by: ... at December 31, 2025 09:04 AM (2fdLC)

328 So all the women are throwing themselves at Benny? I guess it is true ladies love a man that knows how to use his horn...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 31, 2025 09:04 AM (sKqQm)

329
The problem is not at the DOJ. The problem is with the Senate that refuses to play tough with Democrats and get rid of archaic and abused rules like blue slips. And get rid of the filibuster while they are at it.
Posted by: JackStraw
----------

Thune just needs the proper motivation. It hasn't been applied yet.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 31, 2025 09:04 AM (bLAch)

330 I used to be a thing.
I might become a thing again.

Posted by: Whale oil at December 31, 2025 09:04 AM (2Ez/1)

331 Blow jobs under the bridge only pay $15 now. So, his economy is worse than last year.
Posted by: OrangeEnt
==========================
Which explains why ASS has taken up trolling as a profession

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 31, 2025 09:05 AM (eK/uX)

332 A couple days old, but male ranked 671 beat No. 1 female in tennis, even with the court being of reduced size on her end. McEnroe got shit a few years ago for saying Serena Williams, when she was No. 1, would be around 700 in men's rankings.

https://tinyurl.com/3a8jd57e

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 31, 2025 09:05 AM (XvL8K)

333 Or, just go straight 3rd world poverty and burning sticks for light at night?
Posted by: naturalfake at December 31, 2025 09:03 AM (iJfKG)

They'll get a bunch of silicone filled mutants to quack out manically edited twenty second videos about this Awesome New Life Hack they just discovered of heating up a can of beans on a small fire made out of one of your dining room table legs.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 31, 2025 09:05 AM (06Hmj)

334 I'm sure that if BJ's are only $15 ASS can make it up for it in volume

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 31, 2025 09:06 AM (zNwXb)

335 Feds can't pay enough to the outsourced attorneys.

But can afford to give hundreds of billions out to railroads to nowhere, Ukraine, day care centers, tuition forgiveness, SBA grants, Climate Change initiatives, IMF and UN fiascos, and a myriad of other scams.

What is it worth to save the country and possibly the world by not allowing the demons to plunge us into a Thousand Years of Darkness

We have a trillion dollars budgeted to support EU's socialism and to sink drug boats but nothing to actually defend the nation?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 31, 2025 09:06 AM (a4flb)

336 2:18 of CNN defending the Somali Pirate Daycare

https://x.com/WesternLensman/status/
2006218067441840422

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 31, 2025 09:06 AM (gbOdA)

337 Economy = free markets + grift + taxes + money laundering

Everything is built into the equation.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 31, 2025 09:07 AM (nljXp)

338 Have all of CFPB reassigned to investigating the judges finances. 24-7

Posted by: banana Dream at December 31, 2025 09:07 AM (tfRlN)

339 CNN? LOL!

Posted by: Most people at December 31, 2025 09:07 AM (2Ez/1)

340 Walz allowed that money to be stolen with full knowledge of what was happening. The only question is how indirect his kick back was.

So far I've seen that the fraud recipients were giving money to the state Dem party. I assume shortly the feds will have evidence of willful negligence on MN's part. That should be enough to start charging some of Walz's minions...but Walz himself should be the ultimate target here.

And not only because he is guilty as sin, but because if a big name Dem goes to prison for fraud and graft we will finally see the Dems (and GOPe) start to see limits to how much they can steal.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 31, 2025 09:07 AM (sKqQm)

341 Anthony Cumia pointed out, when you import people from a country whose economy is based on piracy, what do you expect?

Posted by: Delurker at December 31, 2025 09:08 AM (xNHSX)

342 And I know Judy Carne and Goldie Hawn were the designated hotties on the show, but I had a thing for Jo Ann Worley.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 31, 2025

***
I remember seeing Jo Ann gleefully clowning on The Merv Griffin Show, the old Westinghouse syndicated program from NYC, about a year before Laugh-In burst on the scene. Merv had a lot of rising comics and performing eccentrics on his show: Rodney Dangerfield, Richard Pryor (when he was still working clean), Tom Patchett & Jay Tarses, and Dick Clair & Jenna McMahon.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 31, 2025 09:08 AM (wzUl9)

343 What's California's plan again?

To be a big, fat, leech-like, Energy Parasite on the rest of the nation?

Or, just go straight 3rd world poverty and burning sticks for light at night?
Posted by: naturalfake at December 31, 2025 09:03 AM (iJfKG)

You think you're tough for eating beans every day? There's half a million scarecrows in LA who'd give anything for one mouthful of what you got. They've been under siege for about three months. They live on rats and sawdust bread and sometimes... on each other. At night, the pyres for the dead light up the sky. It's medieval.

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 31, 2025 09:09 AM (gbOdA)

344 Abby Phillip: Uncritically pushes MN gov statements claiming no fraud at these facilities as evidence Shirley is wrong.

This is the same script from the Haitians eating wildlife in OH - get the local authorities to claim nothing wrong happened and then just quote them endlessly.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 31, 2025 09:09 AM (sKqQm)

345 Or, just go straight 3rd world poverty and burning sticks for light at night?
Posted by: naturalfake at December 31, 2025

***
"Daddy, what did people use for light at night before candles?"

"Electricity."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 31, 2025 09:09 AM (wzUl9)

346 I think it's kind of entertaining to see Don Rickles has come back to life as a politician.

Posted by: But that's just me at December 31, 2025 09:09 AM (2Ez/1)

347 Thune just needs the proper motivation. It hasn't been applied yet.

Has he named his price? I'm sure that we can get a GoFundMe in place to raise the ransom money.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 31, 2025 09:10 AM (a4flb)

348 >>>Thune just needs the proper motivation. It hasn't been applied yet.
~~~~~

It's not just the blue slips and filibuster, Thune is still following McConnell's playbook and refusing to go into recess. Very aggravating, and I'm not sure why it's not talked about more--especially by Trump.

Posted by: IrishEi at December 31, 2025 09:11 AM (3ImbR)

349 >>>Thune just needs the proper motivation. It hasn't been applied yet.
~~~~~

It's not just the blue slips and filibuster, Thune is still following McConnell's playbook and refusing to go into recess. Very aggravating, and I'm not sure why it's not talked about more--especially by Trump.

Posted by: IrishEi at December 31, 2025 09:11 AM (3ImbR)

350 At night, the pyres for the dead light up the sky. It's medieval.

That is one way to deal with an immigration problem.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 31, 2025 09:12 AM (a4flb)

351 You think you're tough for eating beans every day? There's half a million scarecrows in LA who'd give anything for one mouthful of what you got. They've been under siege for about three months. They live on rats and sawdust bread and sometimes... on each other. At night, the pyres for the dead light up the sky. It's medieval.
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 31, 2025

***
"The Small World of Lewis Stillman" by William F. Nolan has entered the chat. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 31, 2025 09:12 AM (wzUl9)

352 I remember seeing Jo Ann gleefully clowning on The Merv Griffin Show, the old Westinghouse syndicated program from NYC, about a year before Laugh-In burst on the scene. Merv had a lot of rising comics and performing eccentrics on his show: Rodney Dangerfield, Richard Pryor (when he was still working clean), Tom Patchett & Jay Tarses, and Dick Clair & Jenna McMahon.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 31, 2025 09:08 AM (wzUl9)

You know who salvaged the set of the Merv Griffin Show from a dumpster and rebuilt it in his apartment?

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 31, 2025 09:12 AM (wVcYX)

353 Has he named his price? I'm sure that we can get a GoFundMe in place to raise the ransom money.

In the short term I think it is a fine strategy to find ways to bribe GOPers but only if we see actual results first.

At the very least getting GOPe grifters to have an adversarial relationship with Dem grifters would be a positive

Posted by: 18-1 at December 31, 2025 09:12 AM (sKqQm)

354 A comment so great the HQ posted it twice!

Posted by: IrishEi at December 31, 2025 09:12 AM (3ImbR)

355 So all the women are throwing themselves at Benny? I guess it is true ladies love a man that knows how to use his horn...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 31, 2025

***
They all know he has money. The challenge is getting him to part with any of it!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 31, 2025 09:13 AM (wzUl9)

356 And not only because he is guilty as sin, but because if a big name Dem goes to prison for fraud and graft we will finally see the Dems (and GOPe) start to see limits to how much they can steal.

That is the Glass Is Half Full case.

What is more likely is that the GOPe will double down on their commitment with the Demons to make sure that DOJ never has the resources to go after protected Party Members.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 31, 2025 09:14 AM (a4flb)

357 We have a trillion dollars budgeted to support EU's socialism and to sink drug boats but nothing to actually defend the nation?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 31, 2025 09:06 AM (a4flb)
===========

You can thank Congress for the allocation of money.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 31, 2025 09:14 AM (bLAch)

358
You know who salvaged the set of the Merv Griffin Show from a dumpster and rebuilt it in his apartment?
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 31, 2025

***
I think Kramer grabbed off the later set, when Merv was on CBS.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 31, 2025 09:14 AM (wzUl9)

359 There are so many Somalians living in Minnesomalia, outnumbering other ethnicities, that Mayor Frey now addresses them in the Somali language.

Please Jesus let me live long enough for Minnesomalia to become a real place.

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 31, 2025 09:15 AM (gbOdA)

360 A whole lot of funny, crazy people went through the Laugh-In cast in the five years it was on. 1968-73.

Posted by: You Bet Your Bippy! at December 31, 2025 09:15 AM (oftw2)

361 "At night, the pyres for the dead light up the sky. It's medieval."

Random bursts of gunfire in the distance. Somewhere a dog barks, and a baby cries. And the smell. The SMELL.

Posted by: E. Hemingway at December 31, 2025 09:15 AM (2Ez/1)

362 >>That should be enough to start charging some of Walz's minions...but Walz himself should be the ultimate target here.

I'd aim higher. There has been obvious coordination with this scam on a national level. Somalians in states like Washington, Maine, Ohio, etc., are all running the same scam and in some cases sending money to each other. Mass immigration into the US was an enormous money laundering and wealth transfer operation, it was just a bunch of Somalis with the combined brainpower of a bag of donuts. Our wealth was systematically given to 3rd world trash.

This was all NGO and globalist (UN for one) run.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 31, 2025 09:16 AM (viF8m)

363 Trump is 0 for 4 on AG picks thus far in his two terms (including Gaetz, who might have been the best of the sorry lot).

I think someone like former Missouri Attorney General (and current US Senator) Eric Schmitt or maybe Ken Paxton out of Texas may have been fearless & effective -- or even someone who was personally f*cked by the Deep State (with a chip on their shoulder) like Rudy Giuliani, but what do I know?
Posted by: ShainS -- Make Lustration Great Again! at December 31, 2025 08:20 AM (QbCrG)

And none of them would have been approved. THAT'S the problem.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 31, 2025 09:16 AM (5xuJ/)

364 Any big successful country will always have its share of parasites. The problem we're facing is that all the parasites have died off and been replaced by out and out predators.

It's lazy. It's greedy. It's arrogant. You ought to have to play the game and learn how to fleece the sheep without the shepherd noticing. You can't just murder the bastard and drag off his whole flock in broad daylight. That's just cheating.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 31, 2025 09:16 AM (06Hmj)

365 Worley was a lesbo?
Posted by: Bulg at December 31, 2025 08:54 AM (77rzZ)

***

Next you'll be telling me that Charles Nelson Reilly was ghey...

Posted by: Truck Monkey at December 31, 2025 09:16 AM (Bo9Yf)

366 "The Small World of Lewis Stillman" by William F. Nolan has entered the chat. . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 31, 2025 09:12 AM (wzUl9)

or Red Dawn

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 31, 2025 09:16 AM (gbOdA)

367 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 31, 2025 09:08 AM (wzUl9)
------------

Pete Barbuti, you forgot Pete.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 31, 2025 09:16 AM (bLAch)

368 There are so many Somalians living in Minnesomalia, outnumbering other ethnicities, that Mayor Frey now addresses them in the Somali language.

Please Jesus let me live long enough for Minnesomalia to become a real place.
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 31, 2025 09:15 AM (gbOdA)

Londonistan is already a real place.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 31, 2025 09:17 AM (wVcYX)

369 A whole lot of funny, crazy people went through the Laugh-In cast in the five years it was on. 1968-73.
Posted by: You Bet Your Bippy! at December 31, 2025

***
During the Sniffle Scare, I got to see a lot of the first couple of years of it on the Decades Channel. Often very funny stuff. My favorite:

Col. Sanders: "Here, chicky, chicky, chicky --"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 31, 2025 09:17 AM (wzUl9)

370 Random bursts of gunfire in the distance. Somewhere a dog barks, and a baby cries. And the smell. The SMELL.
Posted by: E. Hemingway at December 31, 2025 09:15 AM (2Ez/1)

ooo ooo that smell
the smell of mess around you

Posted by: R V Zant at December 31, 2025 09:18 AM (gbOdA)

371 365 Worley was a lesbo?
Posted by: Bulg at December 31, 2025 08:54 AM (77rzZ)

***

Next you'll be telling me that Charles Nelson Reilly was ghey...
Posted by: Truck Monkey at December 31, 2025 09:16 AM

+++
Well, I never!

Posted by: Paul Lynde at December 31, 2025 09:19 AM (2Ez/1)

372 "The Horn Blows at Midnight"

And a 1:00 a.m., and at 2:00 a.m., and at ...

The Paolo's work is, how you say, never done.

Posted by: Paolo at December 31, 2025 09:19 AM (0sNs1)

373 Irish Ei

The comment so nice, it posted twice!

Posted by: muldoon at December 31, 2025 09:19 AM (/iMjX)

374 Pete Barbuti, you forgot Pete.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 31, 2025

***
That's right! He looked sort of like Pete Fountain, didn't he?

And there was some husband-and-wife celebrity pair, an older man named "Jack" something and his Japanese wife ("Reiko"?). Even at my generally-accepting age of twelve or thirteen, I found them boring.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 31, 2025 09:19 AM (wzUl9)

375 I'd aim higher. There has been obvious coordination with this scam on a national level.

Totally beyond the DOJ's capabilities, no matter the composition of the DOJ - unless the DOJ had a branch of Mitch Rapps and Scot Havaths.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 31, 2025 09:19 AM (a4flb)

376
Finally!!!

"Snakes on a Plane" is being released in 4K!

Posted by: naturalfake at December 31, 2025 09:19 AM (iJfKG)

377
Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh

BREAKING: It's been exposed that a network of "assisted living facilities" are STILL getting MILLIONS of taxpayer dollars from Minnesota despite the owner being an indicted FRAUDSTER

The media went up to the door, and they PANICKED!

"How is he still collecting checks, running these assisted living centers?!"

They're getting tens of MILLIONS.

REP. ROBBINS: "In this case, and in others, they didn't [stop the funds]!"

"This person owns assisted living facilities, and his wife runs the service provider part of it. He owns the property, one was purchased with the same shell company he used to money launder in Feeding Our Future. Now, that same shell company has been used to buy a new assisted living facility property!"

This is unbelievable. CUT IT OFF, NOW.

https://tinyurl.com/4x93bhy5

Posted by: redridinghood at December 31, 2025 09:20 AM (NpAcC)

378 I really want a Quality Learing Center t shirt

Posted by: R V Zant at December 31, 2025 09:20 AM (gbOdA)

379 "At night, the pyres for the dead light up the sky. It's medieval."

Random bursts of gunfire in the distance. Somewhere a dog barks, and a baby cries. And the smell. The SMELL.
Posted by: E. Hemingway

Leave nothing for anyone else.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 31, 2025 09:20 AM (QGRvm)

380 Challenge accepted

This filthy piece of shit needs to be ______________

Pegged by Fang Fang

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at December 31, 2025 09:20 AM (b8J4P)

381 off sox

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 31, 2025 09:20 AM (gbOdA)

382 I think Kramer grabbed off the later set, when Merv was on CBS.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

I did some work in the CBS warehouse facility around 60th Street, near the Hudson. Had sets, flats, from a large number of shows there. Remember Marshall Efron's Sunday School?

Posted by: Carpenter's Local 257 at December 31, 2025 09:20 AM (oftw2)

383 The first Iron Beam unit just reached operational status, and it's kind of a big deal.

FINALLY, Jewish Space Lasers

If, like me, you are hoping for a mention of Mossad's shark lasers in this article will not be disappointed.

Posted by: Huck Follywood

If they can't zap individuals like ants and a magnifying glass, it's useless.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 31, 2025 07:38 AM

So that's who they were designing the laser for in "Real Genius".

Glad to see Chris Knight's work finally put to good use.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 31, 2025 09:21 AM (P5BPp)

384 Tried to post a picture of Clara Bow in a negligee with that last, but tinyurl isn't working for me today.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 31, 2025 08:26 AM (ufSfZ)

This one?
https://tinyurl.com/3jcua2kz

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 31, 2025 09:21 AM (5xuJ/)

385 Heh.

"Feeding Our Future".

Feet first, apparently, is implied.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 31, 2025 09:21 AM (06Hmj)

386 "Fraud is an entitlement. Enjoined. Release the funding."

----- Da Judge

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 31, 2025 09:21 AM (BI5O2)

387 376
Finally!!!

"Snakes on a Plane" is being released in 4K!

Posted by: naturalfake at December 31, 2025 09:19 AM (iJfKG)

With 20% more mutha fuckr lines.

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 31, 2025 09:22 AM (gbOdA)

388 I did some work in the CBS warehouse facility around 60th Street, near the Hudson. Had sets, flats, from a large number of shows there. Remember Marshall Efron's Sunday School?
Posted by: Carpenter's Local 257 at December 31, 2025

***
No, but I recall the kids' series Discovery nn where nn = '65 or '66 (the years I was aware of it).

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 31, 2025 09:22 AM (wzUl9)

389 You know who salvaged the set of the Merv Griffin Show from a dumpster and rebuilt it in his apartment?
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 31, 2025

He had Jim Fowler as a guest who thought it was a real show (but got suspicious when he couldn’t see any cameras)… brought a peregrine falcon which promptly attacked George’s bionic squirrel (which George had paid to create to appease his animal loving girlfriend who was mad at George because the pigeons reneged on their deal and didn’t get out of the way of his car)…. How’d the writers write these plots then read what they’d written and say “yeah, that’ll work” 😂

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 31, 2025 09:22 AM (xT8gx)

390 From the Dem's perspective this MN grift is the POINT of government. They are going to fight to protect this tooth and nail because this is filling many of their rice bowls

Posted by: 18-1 at December 31, 2025 09:23 AM (sKqQm)

391 Clara Bow. In a negligee.

https://tinyurl.com/mrxxub6p

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 31, 2025 09:23 AM (5xuJ/)

392 I want to start a tar and feather company to address the source of problems in this country. Hopefully there’s enough of a demand.

Posted by: Cray Cray at December 31, 2025 09:23 AM (LXBOB)

393 You can thank Congress for the allocation of money.

Given this Congress, I won't be surprised when the Big Beautiful Battleships will be handed over to Somalian pirates.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 31, 2025 09:23 AM (a4flb)

394 390 From the Dem's perspective this MN grift is the POINT of government. They are going to fight to protect this tooth and nail because this is filling many of their rice bowls
Posted by: 18-1 at December 31, 2025 09:23 AM (sKqQm)

Corruption Is The System

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 31, 2025 09:23 AM (06Hmj)

395 Given this Congress, I won't be surprised when the Big Beautiful Battleships will be handed over to Somalian pirates.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 31, 2025 09:23 AM (a4flb)

Which they will cutup and scrap to make nails.

Posted by: r hennigantx at December 31, 2025 09:24 AM (gbOdA)

396 Kramer and the Merv Griffin set:

https://youtu.be/pys47zaxZ90

Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at December 31, 2025 09:24 AM (2Ez/1)

397 >>>I did some work in the CBS warehouse facility around 60th Street, near the Hudson. Had sets, flats, from a large number of shows there. Remember Marshall Efron's Sunday School?
Posted by: Carpenter's Local 257 a
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Watched carpenters build a set for a running live production. They were not house framers that's for sure.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 31, 2025 09:24 AM (bLAch)

398 364 — Thanks Bulg. Happy New Year to you and yours

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 31, 2025 09:24 AM (xT8gx)

399 390 From the Dem's perspective this MN grift is the POINT of government. They are going to fight to protect this tooth and nail because this is filling many of their rice bowls
Posted by: 18-1 at December 31, 2025 09:23 AM (sKqQm)

Corruption Is The System
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 31, 2025 09:23 AM (06Hmj)

Also, the Purpose of a system is what it Does.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 31, 2025 09:26 AM (wVcYX)

400 Tried to post a picture of Clara Bow in a negligee with that last, but tinyurl isn't working for me today.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 31, 2025 08:26 AM (ufSfZ)

This one?
https://tinyurl.com/3jcua2kz
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 31, 2025 09:21 AM (5xuJ/)

That's the outfit, but not the picture.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 31, 2025 09:27 AM (ufSfZ)

401 The comment so nice, it posted twice!
Posted by: muldoon at December 31, 2025 09:19 AM (/iMjX)
~~~~~

Muldoon always with a better way with words. :-)

Posted by: IrishEi at December 31, 2025 09:27 AM (3ImbR)

402 those battle ships will never happen

Posted by: Don Black at December 31, 2025 09:27 AM (ZxPkt)

403 How’d the writers write these [Seinfeld] plots then read what they’d written and say “yeah, that’ll work”
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 31, 2025

***
Seinfeld, like Get Smart before it, set up its own little loony world and then explored it. And we loved it.

It was also a show about rules of social behavior and what happens when you violate them. Remember George scooping up food atop a kitchen trash bin? "Adjacent to refuse IS refuse!" Or recall the bit about Jerry being icked-out that the restaurant owner hadn't washed his hands after using the bathroom and before handling food? I'll venture to say a lot of viewers started washing their hands "after," once they'd seen that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 31, 2025 09:28 AM (wzUl9)

404 Corruption Is The System
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 31, 2025 09:23 AM (06Hmj)

My full saying goes "Our problem isn't that the system is corrupt. It's that corruption is the system."

Learn it, love it.

Every time I say it to someone, I can see it hits. An "aha moment."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 31, 2025 09:28 AM (BI5O2)

405 Should auld acquaintances be forgot?

In some cases,damned right .

Posted by: Ben Had at December 31, 2025 09:29 AM (sDNVV)

406 The last Morning Report of a tumultuous year. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 31, 2025 09:29 AM (wzUl9)

407 .
NOOD

Final Art of 2025 is up.

NOOD!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 31, 2025 09:31 AM (O7YUW)

408 Criminals--our most vunerable community

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 31, 2025 09:31 AM (+mUZM)

409 Ars gratia artis

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 31, 2025 09:31 AM (wzUl9)

410 Might as well be willowed on the last day of the year….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 31, 2025 09:32 AM (xT8gx)

411 Good morning! Getting new hair today. New look for the new year!

Posted by: Piper at December 31, 2025 09:33 AM (Wmg4n)

412 307 Forget about that party-interferin' OSU/Miami game and watch the glorious

UT VS Michigan game today at 2 pm CST.

Your brain will be glad you did.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 31, 2025 08:59 AM

Go Utes! Whose (now former) coach will be Michigan's coach next year.

Posted by: Paolo at December 31, 2025 09:33 AM (0sNs1)

413 George Clooney might attack Bari Weiss but, as PT Barnum sort of said, any publicity (including criticism from ageing movie stars) is better than no publicity.

I am presently listening to her year end podcast, because I like to hear what mainstream liberals are thinking about as we enter 2026.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 31, 2025 09:35 AM (7aioM)

414 Shoes for Industry!

Posted by: George Tyrebyter at December 31, 2025 09:39 AM (Rmqfl)

415 California officials quietly crossed a line that almost never gets crossed in civilian energy markets.
Behind closed doors, emergency discussions surfaced around using extraordinary authority to force refineries to stay online if fuel supply conditions deteriorate further. This video breaks down what triggered those talks, why normal policy tools were no longer considered enough, and what it means when governments start preparing for asset control instead of market cooperation.
The concern wasn’t pump prices. It was refinery behavior, outage risk, and the realization that private operators cannot be compelled to produce fuel once confidence breaks. Internal projections showed that even partial withdrawal by multiple refiners could trigger supply failures the state would be unable to control in time.
This is not speculation or political rhetoric. It’s a look at how severe conditions have become behind the scenes — and why contingency planning moved into territory usually reserved for national emergencies.

Posted by: SMOD at December 31, 2025 09:49 AM (RHGPo)

416
I know one must face reality but I find I'm happier when I ignore Tucker and Candy. Has Candy accused herself of murdering Charlie Kirk yet?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA

Ditto. Megyn Kelly moved to being adjacent to those two as well.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at December 31, 2025 09:50 AM (xG4kz)

417 Good morning, all, and thank you, J.J.

Obama/Holder, always.

Obama President Barack Obama referred to Elizabeth Warren as the "architect" of the new bureau & appointed her to the role of special adviser to help set up and launch the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).
Reportedly, in 2007, Warren, than a Harvard Law School professor, came up with the idea for the independent agency. 🙄
In July 2010, Congress passed and President Obama signed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. The law – often referred to as the Dodd-Frank Act – created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (the CFPB).
President Obama urged Congress to give the consumer agency the same "accountability and independence" that the other banking agencies have and sufficient funding so it could ensure that financial companies would comply with consumer laws.
In September 2010, President Obama officially named Warren as an Assistant to the President and Special Adviser to the Secretary of the Treasury, tasking her with
overseeing all aspects of the bureau's initial creation; working to staff the new agency, and get it up and running.

But that's not all.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 31, 2025 09:51 AM (NFX2v)

418 Warren's daughter, Amelia Warren Tyagi, was on the Demos Board of Trustees starting at least as early as 2009. By 2011, she was the Chairman of the Board for Demos.

Demos, a highly progressive think tank, was a major supporter of Amelia's mother, Elizabeth Warren, during that period, presenting her with awards and promoting her work. Amelia Tyagi is now a trustee emeritus of the organization. (See demos org, board of trustees.)

Amelia Warren Tyagi currently serves on the Board of Directors for FUSE Corps, a non-profit that places professionals in local government. ("FUSE is a national nonprofit dedicated to increasing the capacity of local governments to engage communities and work more effectively for everyone.") FUSE is involved in a number of cities across the country including Brooklyn Center & Minneapolis, MN and, of course, Allegheny County & Philadelphia, PA.

(BTW, Warren Tyagi also co-founded HealthAllies with other McKinsey alumni. HealthAllies was a venture capital-backed health benefits firm that was acquired by UnitedHealth Group in the early 2000s.)

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 31, 2025 09:51 AM (NFX2v)

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