Friday Morning I’ve Fallen And I Can’t Get Up Links

by | Dec 12, 2025 | Daily Links | 234 comments

Global warming has not taken effect here- it’s been single digit (F) temperatures all week with unceasing snowfall. Much snow (we’ve had about two feet in aggregate so far this month) and ice (a perfect medium to keep under the snow to maximize hazards), much slipping and sliding here in Glibs Gulch. I have some impressive bruising from the inevitable results of gravity on my fat ass combined with a remarkably low coefficient of friction. I need to seek medical help immediately, but unfortunately, that will have to wait until tomorrow when I go up to see Prime. My poor car couldn’t make it up the hill to get me home, so I had to drift back into a parking lot and trudge home. The dogs have been in heaven, but Rosie managed to ditch her collar somewhere in the yard, buried under at least a foot of the white stuff.

Today’s birthdays include a guy who inspired the phrase, “Norman, coordinate!”; an actor who was a guarantee that a movie wouldn’t completely suck; a singer you did NOT fuck with; an actually better singer; a guy who’s the reason you’re reading this site; a triple threat pianist, composer, and arranger; the masturbatory queen of 12-14 year old me; and truly annoying chick who does amazingly annoying commercials on YouTube.

Let’s have some annoying Links.

We haven’t had a good war since Hillary left the State Department. I hope this is making her smile. (Non-paywall version)

Although if she is still alive by then, this will gladden her heart. I mean, what could be better than a war between nuclear states?

This is a surprise to no-one except the Loony Left. Who will just ignore it because slogans are better.

I have a great idea: let’s let the dude with Parkinson’s handle the picrates! The molecules have undergone DEI training. This might seriously be the very dumbest thing that the “professional” chemical societies have advocated for. A lab is no place for the physically weak and infirm.

Sloopy has been doing a Snoopy Dance. It’s a perfect Christmas for him.

I probably disagree with 95% of the shit Trump does. Here’s something in the 5%, assuming he doesn’t fuck it up. Not far enough, but at least the right direction. Archive version.

He’s an idiot goofball with a massive sense of self importance. And still an improvement on who they already have.

But of course, they have to qualify this by the usual “genocide” blather. Because lying is in their DNA- you can’t say something true without counterbalancing it.

Public employee unions are the most evil and corrosive part of American society.

No good deed goes unpunished.

I’ll put this in the 5% basket I mentioned before.

The last line of this story confirms that it’s bullshit. I think the unaccounted variable is that the Green Bay fans were too shitfaced to respond to the survey.

The Old Guy got implicit bias training. So to get revenge, today I bring you implicit Byas training. Don Byas and Slam Stewart were an absolutely magic pairing. I can only wonder why current generations have almost forgotten those pioneers. Saw-and-Jaw bass with impeccable timing and swing, fabulously fluid bebop sax lines. If you don’t know and revere Don Byas, you don’t know jazz.

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Old Man With Candy

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234 Comments

  1. Ownbestenemy

    Im torn on the whole Venezuelan adventure but actually adding teeth to sanctions is refreshing in a way.

    Somali pitates only wish they had the firepower the US is bringing to the game.

    • Drake

      Our piracy is totally legit and legal because… sorry, I got nothing,

      • (((Jarflax

        Sovereignty. At the end of the day that is what sovereign power is.

      • Drake

        Sovereign pirates?

      • juris imprudent

        Sovereignty – the power to get away with shit without being held to account.

      • Fourscore

        “War” used to be a card game little kids could play. Rarely did anyone ever get hurt

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        If the feds can steal from a sovereign government then they can steal from you. They already do of course but this further normalizes it.

      • juris imprudent

        That’s the thing here – what sovereign country is being robbed? Does the ship have a real jurisdiction in which it is registered/operated? Doesn’t appear it does.

    • R C Dean

      I’m reading that the tanker was unflagged/claimed a false flag, which means this wasn’t technically piracy and is actually the sort of thing that is done pretty routinely.

      Complain all you want (and I’m sure you will) about how stupid sanctions are, how stupid drug laws are, why can’t the Venezuelans kill their own dictator already, blah blah, but the whole seized tanker thing is pretty much by the book.

      • Nephilium

        I’ve read the same, but I haven’t seen confirmation.

        But I’d say if it was falsely flagged, and the country who’s flag the ship was flying isn’t bothered, sounds like it was proper to me.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Hence why I am glad we are following up on sanctions in place. Running AIS/GPS spoofing, ship-to-ship transfers in the highseas, swapping flags…all have gone on like a parent threatening restriction and never following through

      • Not Adahn

        The forms have been obeyed!

        Just like FISA warrants.

  2. Ted S.

    the masturbatory queen of 12-14 year old me;

    Happy birthday Thelma Ritter!

    • Rat on a train

      I know its not the birthday of the girl from my math class.

      • Ted S.

        Nancy Kulp.

      • Chafed

        Paulina was fantastic!

      • Bobarian LMD

        Ric Okasek sold his soul and got the best deal ever.

    • ron73440

      Happy Birthday Lynda Carter!

  3. juris imprudent

    the masturbatory queen of 12-14 year old me

    Well the Greta thing makes a whole lot more sense now.

  4. Shpip

    Authoritarian Trumpism got a little more zany on Thursday when Mike Lindell, the MyPillow guy known for his antics trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election, announced he was running for governor of Minnesota.

    How is one guy tossing his hat in the ring have anything to do with “authoritarian Trumpism,” whatever that is?

    If he wins the GOP primary, he’ll face off against Gov. Tim Walz.

    There has to be one sensible, capable Republican out there that voters can choose to replace Governor ‘Tard, should they want to (this is not a given). Lindell thinking he can parachute in and win on name recognition alone seems like a long shot.

    • juris imprudent

      one sensible, capable Republican out there

      There is one, and only one – sorta like The Highlander. The Congressman from Kentucky.

      • robc

        The Senate is in congress, so there are two from KY.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Paul is trying too hard not to be his father IMO. But still head and shoulders better than everyone else.

    • Nephilium

      Well, it looks like the retard may win.

    • R C Dean

      There’s gotta be a joke in there about the MyPillow guy running against the pillow-biter governor.

      • Tonio

        What’s the difference between Lindell and Walz? One makes the pillow, the other bites it.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Lindell said this election should be a heck of a horse race, Walz replied that he wasn’t that thirsty.

    • rhywun

      The reincarnated spirit of one of my dead cats should be able to beat that crook Walz.

      The guy is toast. Even the NYT could not sweep the massive corruption under the rug.

      • juris imprudent

        Newly elected Virginia AG Jay Jones smiles a cheshire grin at you.

      • Fourscore

        C’mon, man, Walz didn’t know.

        Never underestimate the 7 county metro area. Ilham is a shoo-in, Walz on her coattails.

      • WTF

        Walz is in a state that would vote for a bag of rocks if it had a “D” after its name.

      • The Last American Hero

        All you need is a low key guy who doesn’t talk like a lunatic. Unfortunately, Team Red is too fucking dumb to have even one guy like that on the bench.

      • rhywun

        Team Red is too fucking dumb to have even one guy like that on the bench

        The city and state of New York nod in agreement.

      • kinnath

        All you need is a low key guy who doesn’t talk like a lunatic.

        We grow those in Iowa, but no one gives a shit about Iowa.

  5. (((Jarflax

    The drinking rankings are based on flawed methodology. Bengals and Browns fans are badly under reported due to the study only counting drinks pregame and during the game. We do our heavy drinking post game.

    • Nephilium

      From personal experience, Packers fans were an impressive lot. Vikings fans slotted in a bit behind them. Cinci and the Yinzers can both hold their own.

      • (((Jarflax

        I can’t find the story now, and AI is insisting I am mistaken, but I recall an incident years ago where a bunch of fans at one of the riverfront bars decided it was a good idea to let their blind, but sober friend drive.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Back in the ’90s, when I lived in KC area, during a home game, the entire town shut down for Red Friday and the drinking started then.

  6. juris imprudent

    Sloopy has been doing a Snoopy Dance.

    Yeah, you should only fire a coach for slugging an opposition player that came near your sideline.

    • dbleagle

      Frank Kush gets a call back!

      • juris imprudent

        I was going more for Woody Hayes.

  7. juris imprudent

    Sure Russia could attack NATO in 5 years, they ought to be done with Ukraine by then, maybe.

    That shows how desperate NATO is to play the Russian bogeyman card. How can ANYONE seriously intone the danger of the mighty Russian army now? Sure, if he launched a nuke at Paris, then I could see the rest of you crumbling, but other than that? The Fulda Gap has never been as secure as it is now.

    • (((Jarflax

      That is what has most annoyed me about this whole thing. The Eurotrash screeching about how scary Putin is and comparing him to Hitler, and anyone not all in on the war to Chamberlain. Yeah, Putin invading Ukraine is like Hitler invading the Sudetenland, except it’s like it if 40 months into that invasion half the Wehrmacht was dead, the Luftwaffe had lost 2/3 of its planes, and Czechoslovakia was still fighting back.

      I think Poland is fairly safe this time around, and much as I would love to see an invasion of Belgium, it’s right out.

      • The Last American Hero

        They don’t believe it. If they did, they would easily exceed NATO commitments and half the countries would be conscripting young men or preparing to. Schools would begin emphasizing physical fitness, and there would be national efforts to reinvigorate things like Scouts and shooting clubs in case things get real.

    • Drake

      The problem is that that, after the Russians and the U.S., Ukraine had the biggest and best army in Europe.

      • juris imprudent

        The Russians couldn’t even manage the logistics NEXT DOOR. Remember the 40 mile convoy early on? If the rest of Europe is an even bigger paper maché tiger then they deserve what they get.

      • Drake

        I agree with you – the Russians aren’t invading Western Europe.

        But the rest of Europe with the exception of Poland has joke militaries.

      • WTF

        The Polish army is no joke, and the Russians would somehow have to get through Poland first.

      • DrOtto

        Now do the Polish navy.

      • Nephilium

        DrOtto:

        Did they run out of screen doors?

      • juris imprudent

        Now do the Polish navy.

        Strange euphemism.

      • The Last American Hero

        Polish Navy is well stocked on FlexSeal, so take that haters!

    • Tonio

      “Sure, if he launched a nuke at Paris, then I could see the rest of you crumbling, but other than that?”

      I am on the record (yesterday’s PM links) as supporting US withdrawal from NATO. However, I also support us honoring our treaty obligations.

      “launched a nuke at Paris” is interesting phrasing, particularly in light of recent Israeli developments in laser defense systems to counter anything in the air. It also is a statement made devoid of context. There’s a big difference between Putin just randomly launching a nuke, and Putin doing so as a response to French troops on Russian soil, to define the endpoints. But that circles back to why we need out of NATO since our so-called allies may deliberately provoke a Russian response that obligates our involvement.

      • juris imprudent

        My point being that a nuclear launch is the only credible threat to Europe from Russia.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        The biggest threat to Europe is the insanity of the European leaders. Short of nukes they’re doing a better job of destroying Europe than Russia ever could.

    • rhywun

      Russia could attack a Nato country within the next five years

      Or they “could not”.

      These people are not serious. All warmongers crawling out from under their rocks.

      • Bobarian LMD

        If we pulled out of NATO and then Team Euro decided to let Ukraine or Georgia replace us, then I could see it happening.

        Otherwise, no fucking way.

      • juris imprudent

        We pull out of NATO, NATO stops playing stupid games.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      While I too think the argument is BS, I will note that Russia borders the Nato counties of Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia, so they wouldn’t have to march very far to invade. There are Russian minorities in those countries which could give Putin a pretext to invade. The enclave of Kaliningrad also borders on Poland, though I think invading Poland would be a lot less likely.

  8. Ownbestenemy

    We got the low end of the snow estimates with what looks like 2″. Another 2-4 though is looking likely tomorrow.

    • Threedoor

      No snow for me yet.
      I’m glad of that.

  9. Shpip

    Hirsch added that terror groups deliberately exploit journalistic status.

    Journalist, jihadist… what’s the difference?

    • Ownbestenemy

      Jihadist have principles?

      • juris imprudent

        Jihadist is at least willing to die for what he believes in, versus being a simpering coward.

  10. juris imprudent

    Speaking of public unions and collective bargaining, the House passed a bill to restore such by annulling Trump’s EO. Here are the Republicans who voted YEA.

    • WTF

      Doesn’t matter, even if it passes the senate they don’t have the votes to override Trump’s veto.

      • juris imprudent

        20 Republicans voted for the bill. I think that matters even if it is deader than Ulysses S. Grant.

      • kinnath

        Could very well just be positioning themselves for the next election. Voting for a “popular” law that they know isn’t going to make it into the lawbooks.

      • juris imprudent

        And there you have it, give kinnath the kewpie doll! The fucking voters in this country.

      • WTF

        20 Republicans voted for the bill. I think that matters even if it is deader than Ulysses S. Grant.

        It matters as further illustration that Republicans are worthless shits.

  11. Tonio

    “The Old Guy got implicit bias training.”

    Ugh. Sorry for you and anyone else who has had to endure that.

    I had exactly one of those bullshit mandatory trainings before I retired. Predictably, it did not go well. I did however enjoy making the instructor squirm (much to the dismay of my fellow employees) without even having to reveal that I was one of the people the training was seeking to “protect.”

    • Ted S.

      To be fair, you need to examine your implicit bias against twinks. :-p

    • Rat on a train

      I’m explicit in my bias.

  12. Shpip

    Global warming has not taken effect here- it’s been single digit (F) temperatures all week with unceasing snowfall.

    Thirty-eight go-to-the-moon degrees here in sunny Florida, and the New Guy is coping the only way he knows how.

    • Threedoor

      Cutie.
      My extra toes beastly got out and spent two nights in a row ghosting us. At least she came back. Had the kids worried. It was high 50s here in north central Idaho.

      I think the three year old let her out. https://ibb.co/KcsQtMB1

      • ron73440

        I had a male cat that would escape every chance he got.

        He would always come back 3 days later and sleep for a day straight.

        One time he came back with what looked like hawk talon cuts on his side.

        He never ran away again.

  13. Ted S.

    an actor who was a guarantee that a movie wouldn’t completely suck

    Happy birthday Robert Shaw!

  14. juris imprudent

    Here’s one of those 95% things for you OM.

    Working Americans are going to get “very large refunds” of $1,000 to $2,000 per household early in the new year, according to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
    .
    The checks will come in the first quarter of 2026 as a result of tax cuts in President Trump’s sweeping, budget-focused One Big Beautiful Bill Act, he said.

    • (((Jarflax

      Budget-focused? I don’t care about Venezuelan drug runners. I don’t even care much about us enforcing sanctions by blockade. But trying to spin anything in the spending as usual Big Beautiful Bill as budget-focused enrages me.

      • Fourscore

        Goodness, it makes the Covid Bonuses look trivial. If Biden would have seriously stepped up to the plate he’d still be president.

    • WTF

      Fuck you, cut spending.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Just make sure to squirrel away that very large amount of $2K as a hedge against the resultant inflation and you’re golden.

      • Bobarian LMD

        That couple of weeks worth of groceries could make you King of the Neighborhood when it all collapses.

    • kinnath

      Is this going to be means tested again so that high income families don’t get the payment?

    • Drake

      So the national debt is paid off already?

      • Fourscore

        At this point what differ…….

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      It is a good thing but these are agency policy decisions that aren’t enshrined in law because the Reps in congress are feckless weasels who suck ass.

      So, yes, a good thing until the day the left gets back in power.

      • juris imprudent

        The larger point is that shit science will still get funded. The real win would be shutting down the spigot entirely.

  15. Fourscore

    Be careful, OM and everyone else. Slipping on ice can be a life changing experience.

    /Experienced

  16. Grumbletarian

    Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday that seeks to halt any laws limiting artificial intelligence and block states from regulating the rapidly emerging technology. The order also creates a federal taskforce that will have the “sole responsibility” of challenging states’ AI laws.

    Why is this a good thing? What section of the Constitution gives this power to the federal government?

  17. Common Tater

    Today, in huge boobs:

    “Former AT&T model Milana Vayntrub raises $500K selling ‘tastefully risqué’ pictures for LA wildfire victims”

    https://nypost.com/2025/12/12/lifestyle/former-att-model-milana-vayntrub-raises-500k-selling-flirty-photos-on-only-philanthropy-for-la-wildfire-victims/

    “Sydney Sweeney reveals truth about her breasts during lie detector test with Amanda Seyfried”

    https://pagesix.com/2025/12/11/celebrity-news/sydney-sweeney-reveals-truth-about-her-breasts-during-lie-detector-test/

    • Ownbestenemy

      Milana Vayntrub can’t make up her mind apparently but it seems she has learned sexual grift > male gaze.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Sweeney over the AT&T girl, especially with those bangs.

      • DEG

        Threesome.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Porque no los quatros?

    • The Other Kevin

      I fully support hot women using their boobs for good.

  18. WTF

    What section of the Constitution gives this power to the federal government?

    *invokes the Holy and All Powerful Commerce Clause*

    It’s truly magical.

    • Threedoor

      And 100% wrongly interpreted.
      Intentionally.

  19. Common Tater

    “‘This Has Gone Way Too Far’: Videos Show Bizarre Sexual Ceremony That Elite Amherst College Pushes All First Year Students To Attend

    The event, ‘Voices of Amherst,’ is paid for by the administration and takes place in the school’s chapel

    Amherst College was founded over two centuries ago to prepare young Christian men for the ministry. Today, however, the prestigious college has become a hotbed of administratively sanctioned sex performances and “sexual skills” programs, with a focus on “queer” and transgender students and on free-sex practices such as polyamory. The graphic nature of school-sanctioned sex events has made many current Amherst students deeply uncomfortable, according to students who spoke to the Washington Free Beacon.”

    https://freebeacon.com/campus/this-has-gone-way-too-far-videos-show-bizarre-sexual-ceremony-that-elite-amherst-college-pushes-all-first-year-students-to-attend/

    I remember when a drunk guy was expelled for receiving a blow job from a sober girl.

    • Common Tater

      “On the chapel’s chancel, students performed mock sex acts including oral sex, masturbation, and group sex. A young woman bent over while another student pretended to penetrate her from behind. Others pretended to do drugs and shared their “high thoughts.””

      • EvilSheldon

        Back in my day, the kids didn’t *pretend* to get high and fuck…

    • Common Tater

      “Materials promoted by the Queer Resource Center aimed to teach students different types of healthy non-monogamous relationships, listing sexual scenarios such as “open relationships,” “threesomes,” and “swinging,” as well as newer sex concepts like “relationship anarchy,” and “polyfidelity.” The Amherst communication office categorized “Beyond Monogamy” as part of its sexual health education programming.”

      relationship anarchy?

      • Ted S.

        Sex with libertarians?

        (Ayn Rand, of course was not a libertarian.)

      • robc

        Ayn Rand especially despised libertarians.

      • Common Tater

        At that price it better be.

      • juris imprudent

        Roughly the same as Oberlin.

        Expensive doesn’t always mean better.

      • Threedoor

        In education the rule seems to be that cost is inversely proportional to quality.

    • The Other Kevin

      Guess we all have egg on our faces. It seems elite universities actually do prepare their students for what they will encounter in life after graduation.

    • rhywun

      I’m not exactly a square but this is just ridiculous. At a chapel even?

      A lot of people would have even less kind words than I about that trash.

      Materials promoted by the Queer Resource Center aimed to…

      …destroy the family, cause maximum confusion and chaos, smash the system – take your pick.

      All Marxist claptrap straight from the playbook.

  20. DEG

    In August, Trump confirmed a Wall Street Journal report that he was considering reclassifying marijuana as a Schedule III drug, meaning that it would have low abuse potential. As it currently stands, pot is a Schedule I drug, meaning that it has a high potential for abuse and has no accepted medical use.

    I’ve long said it would be a Republican that re-legalizes marijuana at the Federal level.

    Given this is Trump, I’ll believe he does it when I see it.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Yeah, Trump often runs off at the mouth and then backs down based on pushback. It would be a positive development though.

      • R.J.

        Maybe this time…
        It is a great way to own Cocaine Mitch.

    • Common Tater

      Where muh quaaludes?

      • Not Adahn

        Quatloos?

  21. Evan from Evansville

    Speaking of Indiana.. going back in after Break 1. Normally I’d be mid-lunch. Not how I feel about this so far.

    But last night and this morning we’re fantastic. I work early tomorrow again, but I’ll enjoy it while I can. Pity crush isn’t here to run her nose in it.
    Oh, dear. I wouldn’t do that. Not never.

    Roads were mostly clean. Good job, Hamilton County.

  22. Timeloose

    OMWC pick up some Yaktrax for your shoes. Snow chains for your feet. While you are at it, the canuks make great cable chains that are easy to put on. https://a.co/d/j1KXMNG

    Looks like they are made in China now, what a surprise. The design is good and can get you out of a bind.

    • rhywun

      Yaktrax for your shoes

      Holy Toledo that is genius.

      Wishlisting. I was slip-sliding around just yesterday. I do NOT want to fall down and break something.

      • Timeloose

        Mrs. Time walks Waffles several times a day and she really likes them. They are easy to put on and provide plenty of traction on ice.

      • Not Adahn

        Stabil brand is good.

    • Old Man With Candy

      I bought a pair of those a few years back. Definitely helpful, but no match for the pull of my dog team.

  23. Common Tater

    “The executive director of the Black Lives Matter chapter in Oklahoma City was indicted for allegedly siphoning off more than $3 million in grants to bankroll luxury vacations, shopping sprees, groceries, a car, and six properties over five years, federal prosecutors announced Thursday.

    Tashella Sheri Amore Dickerson, 52, was slapped with 20 wire fraud counts and five money laundering charges for funneling $3.15 million meant for the group’s bail fund and social justice programs into her own accounts between June 2020 and October 2025, according to the Department of Justice.”

    https://nypost.com/2025/12/11/us-news/oklahoma-city-blm-leader-charged-with-wire-fraud-money-laundering-in-alleged-3-15m-embezzlement-scheme/

    Totally not a grift.

    • The Other Kevin

      Say it with me folks, “The thing that never happens, happened again.”

  24. Common Tater

    “Common appliance in a third of US homes is increasing your risk of lung cancer and diabetes — as New York considers ban

    A new study out of Stanford University suggests that an everyday household appliance accounts for a staggering amount of exposure to nitrogen dioxide, which is known to irritate airways, worsen asthma and even potentially lead to lung cancer and diabetes.

    Gas and propane stoves account for one-fourth of indoor and outdoor long-term nitrogen dioxide exposure for those who cook with them at home, according to the study. Indoor exposure jumps to more than half of their total if they use their stove often….

    These stoves also release benzene, a dangerous chemical linked to leukemia and other blood disorders.

    Another analysis from Stanford suggested that children’s lifetime cancer risk from benzene emitted by gas stoves can be up to 1.85 times higher than adults.”

    https://nypost.com/2025/12/11/health/common-appliance-increasing-risk-of-lung-cancer-and-diabetes/

    Health bullshit, for the children, to push climate change.

    • Common Tater

      “People can apply for federal tax credits for making some energy-efficient home improvements, including the installation of biomass stoves.”

      How the fuck is biomass cleaner than methane?

      • Timeloose

        Dung burning is the new hotness.

      • rhywun

        Because shut up.

        Buy this thing and we will steal money from other taxpayers to “help” you.

    • Nephilium

      No one is coming for your gas stoves!

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Jesus tapdancing Christ, they’re dusting off this horseshit again?

      • juris imprudent

        They don’t even give it enough time for dust to gather.

    • The Other Kevin

      There are like 10 stolen bases in just the paragraphs you quoted. I do have to hand it to them, they have raised dishonesty to an art form.

      • juris imprudent

        Give me that old-time religion!

  25. Timeloose

    I don’t like that the US is essentially blockading a Sovern nation based on some bullshit sanctions. I do feel this is more transparent then what we did in the past; fund a insurrection and topple the government using the CIA along with some tin pot dictator. Unfortunately I feel trump’s puppet masters are likely doing both.

  26. Common Tater

    “Meet Newsom’s trans godson Nats Getty, the clothing designer heir to a billionaire’s fortune

    The oil heir and designer was married to the beauty YouTuber Gigi Gorgeous, aka Giselle Loren Lazzarato, in 2019 in an extravagant beachfront wedding in Montecito. According to People, Lazzarato donned a silk August Getty gown while Getty wore a chic jumpsuit. Newsom delivered a toast at their wedding, per Vanity Fair. The pair filed for divorce in July.”

    https://nypost.com/2025/12/11/us-news/meet-newsoms-trans-godson-nats-getty/

    Straight with extra steps?

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Yeah, IVF is a bad idea.

    • rhywun

      Who the hell knows anymore.

      I am done wasting time on “guessing the sex”.

      • Common Tater

        A MTF (Gigi) married a FTM (Getty).

      • rhywun

        OFFS I could not care less about these narcissists.

        I did get a kick out of Greaseball standing up for his “trans godson” in the face of Donald’s cruelty. 🙄

        I didn’t know it was the Getty family friends – his entry into elite circles. Man of the people, that one is.

      • Suthenboy

        “A MTF (Gigi) married a FTM (Getty).”

        So, a hetero-couple.

      • Common Tater

        But Gavin grew up a poor black child.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      A few bug bombs in the crawlspace would probably clear it right out.

      • Suthenboy

        Nah, that is better than a guard dog. Get him a spiked collar and lace some dog food with NexGuard.

  27. The Late P Brooks

    Might makes right.

    • The Other Kevin

      Life imitates Seinfeld.

      • Sensei

        Jimmy loves the Hyperboot!

      • ron73440

        “George is getting upset!”

        Last year my wife and I watched the entire run of Seinfeld.

        I was surprised that George only said that line once, it has been one of my favorite quotes forever to yell at my wife when she was bugging me and somehow I had thought he said it quite often.

  28. Common Tater

    “I checked out the SomaliSpot story online through the Minnesota Official Marriage System. Inputting Omar’s name, I found that the two marriages cited in the SomaliSpot post checked out as indicated. The site reflected Omar’s 2002 marriage to her advertised husband, Ahmed Aden (later Ahmed Hirsi), and her 2009 marriage to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi identified in the SomaliSpot post as Omar’s brother. As it turned out, Omar and Hirsi had only applied for a marriage license in 2002 but never followed through with a legal marriage….

    What I said in 2016 remains true today. In 2019, however, the state campaign finance board released its investigative file on Omar’s 2016 campaign finance violations. The file was full of interesting documents bearing on the 2016 campaign controversy. Among them were Omar’s 2014 and 2015 tax returns filed jointly with Ahmed Hirsi, whom she had never legally married, while she was still legally married to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi.”

    https://freebeacon.com/democrats/yes-ilhan-omar-married-her-brother/

    And nothing else happened?

    • juris imprudent

      In a state where Somalis steal billions of dollars with impunity?

      We Glibs may know the only sane Minnesotans.

    • Suthenboy

      She is not being deported because…….?

      Rhetorical question is rhetorical.

      • Threedoor

        “Statute of limitations”

  29. The Last American Hero

    So vaccine guy gets fired for joining the administration because his employer “was flooded with complaints”. Hmmm, did the employer bother to vet the source of the complaints? Or was it a left-wing info op where a bunch of people who don’t live in the community and couldn’t tell you the name of the employer flooded the phonelines?

    • Common Tater

      Could be the maker of the Hep B vaccine.

  30. Suthenboy

    There are various versions of the five rules for tyrants but they all include intimidation. One needs a thug army to intimidate. To pay that thug army one needs a source of income. Taxes won’t do the trick because impoverishing the population is also on the list of rules. So an outside source of revenue is needed. It almost always comes in the form of something illegitimate….drugs, black market this or that. In the case of Iran and Venezuela it is black market oil. Thus, sanctions have been put on both countries.
    Normally these sanctions are just theater. Along comes a guy who says “Nah, not theater. We are going to enforce the sanctions.” and suddenly everyone loses their fucking minds.
    My suggestion to people criticizing Trump over seizing the black market Venezuelan oil: STFU. You are embarrassing yourself.

    • Suthenboy

      Oh…same for the drug boats. I am suspicious that they keep sending the boats because we are only getting a fraction of them. They need to up the game. Surely we know where the drugs are being mixed up. Blow the factories up before they get to the boat stage.
      They are waging war against us. Don’t go half-assed. Wage war back…bring the shit hammer of God down on them.

  31. PieInTheSky

    There was not much interst in my fitness post i had 2 more In the pipeline but now i am not sure…

    • kinnath

      I found it quite helpful even if I didn’t participate in the discussion.

    • The Other Kevin

      I had fun reading it.

    • ron73440

      I thought it was a great article.

    • EvilSheldon

      I found it quite interesting, but I feel like, “I broadly agree with everything that you’re saying,” isn’t really useful feedback.

      I’ve been getting more into kettlebell training lately, so I’d be interested to hear your opinions on that.

      • The Other Kevin

        I’m not sure if I expressed this very well yesterday, but taking a subject where there are hundreds of differing opinions and distilling it down into something we all pretty much agreed on was impressive and useful.

      • PieInTheSky

        I have no opinion on kettlebells besides decent cardio which you can load like e.g. a prowler which no gym in romania has

      • EvilSheldon

        Loaded cardio is best cardio.

    • Grumbletarian

      I disagree. I enjoyed it. Just read it at work on my lunch break is all.

    • Aloysious

      You should send munny to Chafed; you know, wooden groats or whatever Vampyres use as currency. Glibfit is his Intellectual Property.

      Or maybe you could call your excellent articles something like, “How to Stay Healthy Even When You are Undead. Drink Low Carb Blood.” That way your product won’t infringe on the thing. Anyway, thanks for the article. I liked it.

    • Not Adahn

      I didn’t have any questions, complaints, or cheap shots to take, so I didn’t comment.

      I did enjoy it though.

  32. PieInTheSky

    Do Kwan, the co-founder of Terraform Labs, was sentenced Thursday to 15 years in U.S. federal prison after pleading guilty to fraud related to the collapse of the TerraUSD (UST) stablecoin and the Luna token, which collectively wiped out approximately $40 billion in investor funds.

    The 34-year-old pleaded guilty in August to wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire, securities, and commodities fraud.

    This is anti korean racism

      • Sensei

        African or European?

      • Raven Nation

        @Sensei: polite golf clap

  33. Common Tater

    “Indiana Republicans rejected an effort to redraw the state’s congressional map on Thursday, a stunning and blunt rebuke of Donald Trump and Republican efforts to reconfigure the state’s congressional districts to add two more Republican-friendly seats.

    The measure failed 19-31, with 21 Republicans joining 10 Democrats in rejecting the new maps.”

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/11/indiana-republicans-redistricting

    There must be more to this story.

    • rhywun

      Aww, let the Guardian do their little happy dance.

      • rhywun

        And no, you’re not going to get an honest explanation from that outfit.

    • juris imprudent

      The current districts (7-2 for Republicans) are actually pretty clean looking. To get a 9-0, Indianapolis had to be parceled out and the rest of the map took on a less compact district structure.

      • The Other Kevin

        Thank you. I live in Indiana, and I was pretty confused by the whole thing. My friend’s father-in-law is a state senator who voted against it. I usually like the way he votes. So like Tater, I get the feeling there’s a lot more to this.

      • rhywun

        lol They were going for 9-0? Yeah, that’s ridiculous.

        OTOH the GOP is completely shut out in numerous blue states so turnabout is fair play?

      • juris imprudent

        California is 43-9 Democrat and that isn’t good enough for them. I’m surprised that the Democrats in Sacramento don’t just outlaw the Republican party, like the Germans with AfD.

  34. Common Tater

    “An ongoing FBI investigation into a Belarusian woman accused of smuggling US aviation parts and electronics to Russia is teetering on the brink of collapse after being caught in what one judge called a “Kafkaesque” case brought on by the Trump administration’s attempts to deport her before she faces trial.

    Federal prosecutors had worked for over a year to secure the extradition of Yana Leonova, who faces multiple charges including fraud, conspiracy, and money laundering. But their efforts unraveled when immigration officials abruptly issued an order to detain and deport her soon after she was flown into the US last month, a move that plunged the case into legal chaos.

    “Indeed, it is both preposterous and offensive for the government to bring someone into the United States against their will and then turn around and seek ICE detention because that person is here ‘illegally,’” magistrate judge Zia M Faruqui said in a written order.”

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/11/ice-fbi-legal-chaos

    WTF??

    • EvilSheldon

      ‘Offended’ by government incompetence? Where have you been for the last hundred years?

  35. The Late P Brooks

    They’ve got him now

    Nearly 100,000 photos obtained by House Democrats from the estate of notorious sex predator Jeffrey Epstein include images of President Donald Trump, former President Bill Clinton, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, film director Woody Allen, and former Trump White House advisor Steve Bannon and others in social settings.

    One image among a batch of photos released Friday morning shows Trump standing in the middle of a row of six women, whose faces were covered over by the Democrats before release. Some of the women are wearing Hawaiian leis around their necks.

    Was he grabbing their pussies?

    • Common Tater

      “whose faces were covered”

      This shit needs to stop.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Standing with womenz? Oh noez! And the lei is such important detail that it really nails him the cross

      • Ownbestenemy

        Also..
        Dems sure quickly figured out what a woman was

    • Suthenboy

      “…in social settings…”

      And?

      • The Other Kevin

        That stood out to me too. I think most of us here have gotten trained to see the dishonestly. It’s so obvious and it makes me sick. They start with a “bombshell” headline, and later completely nullify it with statements like this. The photos were all in a public setting and nothing was compromising.

    • juris imprudent

      Source: Democrats on the House Oversight Committee.

      CNBC isn’t even pretending, is it?

  36. Common Tater

    “School board members sue NY AG James over letter on public transgender debate they find threatening

    Not dissuaded by poor track record in court on regulating speech, the attorney general warned school board members they risk removal for not cutting off speech that questions gender identity, criticizes policies that prioritize it over sex.

    New York Attorney General Letitia James has repeatedly run afoul of federal judges in her quest to regulate the speech of pro-life pregnancy centers, but that hasn’t dissuaded her from trying to control speech on other polarizing issues in which courts have rebuked censors.

    School board members and parents are now suing the AG and New York Education Commissioner Betty Rosa for allegedly threatening to remove the former from office for “publicly supporting sex-separated interscholastic sports and school facilities” or “using pronouns that correspond to biological sex” at board meetings, or even for letting the latter say the same things.”

    https://justthenews.com/nation/free-speech/new-yorks-letitia-james-sued-threatening-school-board-members-who-allow

    CWAC

      • Not Adahn

        New York voters. There’s a difference.

      • juris imprudent

        Virginia voters elected Jay Jones.

      • EvilSheldon

        The eternal failure of democracy, given a name and a face.

  37. Suthenboy

    On the states and AI laws….how exactly would that work? In what way could a state limit AI in their jurisdiction? AI is not located in a place.

    • Nephilium

      The same way the states are regulating access to social media, gambling, porn, and other sites?

    • The Other Kevin

      Suthen, let me introduce you to a place called “California”.

    • Suthenboy

      I am not saying they can’t pass laws. I am asking how in hell would they enforce them? You can legislate weather all you want, it is still going to rain on weekends.

    • Raven Nation

      We have access to AI in some of the tech we use in teaching. If the state started regulating it, I could see usage being restricted or even banned.

    • The Other Kevin

      I’m still in the market for a replacement vehicle. Liquidate that inventory at $10k apiece and I’m in.

    • ron73440

      I love my old truck, but even when it was new Dodge had issues.

      The newer Rams seem really nice, especially with a Cummins, but the emissions equipment hurts their reliability.

      Add in the $100K cost and it’s hard to justify when you could buy a nice older one and fix it into like new condition for less.

  38. The Late P Brooks

    “Images also include thousands of photographs of women and Epstein properties,” the statement said. “Committee Democrats are reviewing the full set of photos and will continue to release photos to the public in the days and weeks ahead. Committee Democrats are committed to protecting the identities of the survivors.”

    6th amendment be damned. Uncorroborated innuendo is good enough for government work.

    • Common Tater

      “Committee Democrats are committed to protecting the identities of the survivors”

      Protecting them from what?

    • Ownbestenemy

      The selective redactions are a chefs kiss as it implies that any woman nearby him was victimized.

    • Mad Scientist

      Committee Democrats are committed to protecting the identities of the survivors.

      That explains why Epstein isn’t redacted, but Trump definitely survived.

  39. The Late P Brooks

    Rep. Robert Garcia of California, the ranking Democrat on the committee, in a statement said, “It is time to end this White House cover-up and bring justice to the survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and his powerful friends.”

    “These disturbing photos raise even more questions about Epstein and his relationships with some of the most powerful men in the world. We will not rest until the American people get the truth. The Department of Justice must release all the files, NOW.”

    Be vewwy vewwy quiet. We’we hunting witches.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Selective truths

  40. Bobarian LMD

    a singer you did NOT fuck with;

    Mia Farrow said “Hold my beer, Woody.”

  41. The Late P Brooks

    “Some of the other photos that we did not put out today are incredibly disturbing,” Garcia added

    Unimagineable depravity. The sort of stuff not even Larry Flint would publish. Tune in next week, same bat time, same bat channel.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Dems: why you hiding info!
      Also Dems: we cant release all the photos

  42. Common Tater

    “Ex-MSNBC host Joy Reid, who has been working independently with her own show as of late, shared a video this week that claimed, “Jingle Bells” was written to “make fun of black people” and is rooted in racism. She shared the video on her Instagram to her 1.3 million followers.

    The video, originally posted by user “Know Your Caribbean,” shows a man in a sweater in Medford, Massachusetts, at a plaque where it is believed that James Lord Pierpont wrote the song in 1850. The caption in the video then reads, “This is where a racist Confederate soldier wrote ‘Jingle Bells’ to make fun of black people, and has its origins in bigoted minstrel shows that were popular at the time.”

    https://thepostmillennial.com/joy-reid-spreads-claim-jingle-bells-is-racist

    Is there anything that isn’t racist?

    • The Other Kevin

      I’m still hearing “Baby it’s Cold Outside” so I think this is going to fall flat too.

    • Grumbletarian

      Well we know black people can’t ever be racist.

      • ron73440

        Well we know black people can’t ever be racist.

        Is there a more vacuous statement the progs make that they think is profound?

        I know there are quite a few in the running for it, but that one is my favorite.

        I remember when Trump said that he was the least racist person on the stage and the response was shrieking “How could he say that?!?” “There was a black woman on the stage with them!”

      • Common Tater

        How do we know they’re black if they don’t have ID’s?

  43. The Late P Brooks

    There was not much interst in my fitness post i had 2 more In the pipeline but now i am not sure…

    Off course you should.

    • Not Adahn

      I personally write a column that gets almost zero engagement but it is vital that it exists to prevent the links posts from bumping into each other.

  44. The Late P Brooks

    Racism

    “We’re the only great country that lets other people just come in without vetting them and deciding whether they’re really going to help the economy of America,” Lutnick said Thursday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”

    “Let’s bring in the top of the best,” he said. “Let’s help them grow America and build America. Why should we take people who are below average? It just doesn’t make any sense.”

    That’s just crazy.

  45. The Late P Brooks

    Lutnick said an immigrant’s willingness to shell out the $1 million can “prove” they are worthy of having an expedited application.

    “We should be bringing in the best and the brightest,” Lutnick said. “That’s what Donald Trump is changing about our immigration system.”

    Pardon my ignorance, but are they saying these people are going to write a check to the Treasury Dept for a million bucks on arrival?

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